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someguyinc · 4 months

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Ooooh what are your story ideas and meta in the works?

ahh !! i have a good handful,, most of them are merlin related so forgive me spn mutuals ;-; but i'm just going to list them off bc i fear if i give an in depth response this post would be one of those long ones that make your app glitch and phone burn to a crisp in your hands

bbc merlin:

meta:

- gwaine being more observant than he's given credit for pulling a classic "oh i just drink and make jokes" silly guy move as a cover

- arthur, merlin, and mordred and their roles in the prophecy/ties to the old religion and triple goddess

- destiny in bbc merlin being a living breathing entity that lives through feeding off of tragedy

- gwen and her flower motif !!

- morgana and merlin being two sides of the same coin

- the different sects of the old religion and those that believe in the once and future king vs those who don't

- magic and its relation to gender throughout the entire series and how it is often a punishment for the women in the series

- gwen and lancelot being foils for each other

- gwen and elyan's sibling relationship (this one is mostly head canons based off the scraps we get throughout the series)

- more in-depth exploration of the main 4's character thesis

- difference between merlin and emrys and where the line blurs

- druids and their expectations of merlin

fic ideas:

- key trials: merlin and arthur have to enter the kingdom of the sidhe and stop the ever growing plague that has begun destroying all the crops and causing an abundance of monsters in albion,, this one investigates the double standard merlin holds for arthur vs himself, the lies they've told themselves and arthur internal bias from being raised anti-magic, as well as merlin being a liar

(i've stated writing a few chapters but lost motivation n school n work once again took over my life)

- dragon's ire: heavy political intrigue, prince merlin au, focuses heavily on the reality of merlin and morgana's ill-fated friendship and how merlin telling morgana about his magic could've definitely made things worse in the long run, kingdoms at war and gives more background to the knights as well as blacksmith!gwen who i hold close to my heart

- fae circle fic: really just guilty pleasure of seeing genderbent morgana and gwen if i'm being honest,, silly fun :3

- elwaine fic idea: moments where traveling blacksmith elyan meets gwaine multiple times but working with him as a knight gets a bit more difficult from there prolly just smth short n fun :)

spn:

meta:

- sam and dean and hoodoo/voodoo in spn and how many times they should've died after using it... i do not know how to stress that not only are these practices closed off to non-black folk but then also like,, even black people that do not have practitioners in their bloodlines do not fuck with these practices because the repercussions are just that !! bad !! 😭😭 (ofc ik the 'god favor' and more realistically this is bc there were probably no black writers in the room but DAMN,, it's just insane)

- probably low hanging fruit but,, song genres relating to each member of tfw and their arc in the story

- i'm sure someone has done this before too but bela/dean parallels and similarities

fic idea:

- jock!castiel... that's all i got 😭😭 i've only recently gotten into spn and castiel is very close to my heart,, but i keep seeing fics where he is a gardner/knitter and while i think he'd be interested i think he'd also drop them very quickly bc he strikes me as a person(?) that likes the idea of taking things slow but when it comes down to it much rather would prefer things get done immediately or at least he can move his body and feel like something is getting accomplished,, he's also incredibly charismatic and i would love to see him leading a team in something without feeling like it could become a cult

it's kind of just a guilty pleasure lol not too much backing

anyways thanks for the ask hope any of this is interesting 😭🫡

#some guy talking #bbc merlin #spn posting #bbc merlin meta #spn meta #bbc merlin fic ideas #spn fic ideas

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unalivejournal · 3 years

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u mentioned only reading kripke era fic do you have a reclist 👀👀👀and if not could you link some of ur faves cuz the stuff that gets circulated the most right now is all like late late seasons fic and kripke era is my favorite too but im having trouble finding that many fics for it or even seasons 6-10 era which im fine with also. its just that like. the last five seasons were so bad that it makes fic generally worse too because people have to jump off of just Thee stupidest plot choices no matter how good their prose skills might be. but anyway yea if u have recs that would be awesome :)

hi anon i was thinking abt making a reclist and u just gave me the perfect excuse thank u

jess adamilligan’s kripke era fic recs

from making this ive learned that i never bookmark ANYTHING. sorry all of these r like….. 10k and under. i DO read longer fic but i don’t have any kripke era longfics bookmarked & tbh i prefer short oneshots

season one gen

disclaimer because it’s unfortunately needed: NONE of these are w*ncest! they’re all completely tagged as gen and i did not read them with the intent of consuming ship content.

Coaster Park by fogsrollingin, 10.4k, G, gen

Coaster Park had been experiencing an unusually high frequency of technical difficulties. Dean wouldn't have pulled a shift treating nauseated, heat-stroked, or dehydrated park-goers for that if he could've helped it, but when 'technical difficulties' were accompanied by rumors of things moving and stopping on their own in front of the operators' eyes, Dean had to throw down.

No historical tragedies or disasters in the area, ectoplasm, or EMF. Dean's only lead was a battered-looking kid that'd been coming to the park every day since it'd all started.

really interesting au fic! slightly ‘it’s a terrible life’. dean winchester is a hunter/EMT and sam wesson is a college kid destined to die on a roller coaster ride.

two basic motivating forces by sahwen, 7.8k, T, gen

He can’t cry, it’s not allowed; even as a child he was hushed into silence, whether his tears were from a long car ride or a late night or a raging fever. It’s never been an option, it’s never been an available outlet, and it’s not about to start being one just because he’s having an emotional breakdown on the bathroom floor.

Sam isn't only afraid of clowns.

BIG emetophobia tw (both for graphic depictions of nausea/vomiting and for the fact that this fic is about sam suffering from emetophobia) for this one but it’s my favorite sickfic. portrays anxiety over getting sick really well and is a fascinating examination of the different ways that sam’s fear of loss of control can manifest itself. also has lovely brothers content <3

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning (Remix of Just as Easy as 123) by nwspaprtaxis, 4k, T, gen

Dean’s functionally illiterate and Sam’s determined to remedy it...

PLEASE READ THIS ONE god it’s so sweet. dean never learned how to read properly due to his nomadic childhood and sam teaches him how.

dean/cas

Broadway Musical by Griftings, 9k, M, m/m

This is the day that marked the Holy and Blessed Union of Dean Winchester and Jo Harvelle.

The merging of prominent bloodlines is always a grand occurrence, but breeding pedigree hunter families like Winchester and Harvelle is something to be rejoiced. It is also something to be meticulously planned, which thankfully the Host is very good at.

Or, the romantic comedy where Dean Winchester and Jo Harvelle are destined to get married, Castiel is given the task of playing matchmaker and fails terribly, the entire Heavenly Host becomes a sitcom audience, God warns against male pregnancy, and Jimmy Novak is incredibly unimpressed with angels in general.

somewhat of a fandom classic and the humor holds up wonderfully. a very silly fic completed with commentary from angel radio throughout the entire thing.

Sappiest Season by dollsome, 2.7k, G, m/m

In which Dean and Cas have to stop an evil Christmas tree (like you do), and it requires a little fake couple action.

hilarious little s5ish fic. one of the first i read when getting back into spn. i don’t want to spoil anything but this is my favorite pick me up and i still giggle randomly whenever i think about it

The (Mostly Accidental) Courtship of Dean Winchester by tuesday

Angelic marriage rites were never intended to go quite like this.

another fandom classic. ik this one is recced a lot but how could i NOT include it. dean and cas get married (mostly by accident) and they’re huge cunts about it

the one thing in the galaxy god didn't have his eyes on by prufrock, 2.4k, T, gen + m/m

“Wait,” Dean says. “Let me get this right. You can fly, right—you can teleport—but you can’t drive a car?”

or, after the events of S5E03 "Free to Be You and Me," Dean teaches Cas to drive. Cas finds it stressful

im always a sucker for a good ftbyam fic. also i can’t drive so. resonation

So Says The Sword by komodobits, 85k, E, m/m

The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’

Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.

NO introduction neede. i think everyone on spntumblr has read this already but still. if you haven’t then i am demanding that you read it NOW. tbh i’m just adding this one so that i have at least one long fic here 😭

the weight by @myaimistrue, 3.5k, T, gen + m/m

“Do you…” Bobby sighs. “Listen, Dean, do you have something you wanna tell me?”

It’s the conversational equivalent of being punched in the stomach.

Or, Dean works through some things with Bobby's help.

WHEN I SAW THE USERNAME I GASPED I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS U. anyway i Love coming out fics idk why i just do. the world is ending and dean comes out to bobby

canticles by 2street2car, 10.3k, T, m/m

“But you know something? If I couldn’t get you laid, at least I gave you a good first date.”

feat: footsies at a Ruby Tuesday, stargazing, the recreation of an iconic "Dirty Dancing" scene (no, not that one—the other one), and practicing for When You're With A Girl.

another ftbyam fic that skepticalfrog (i believe?) recommended a while back. made me feel at least 28 new emotions

Epilogue by JayneL, 28k, E, m/m

Bobby is here, swearing somewhere above and behind him; and Dean is here, talking about 2014 like it's a foreign country; and Sam is here, and is not Lucifer. Which means-- Bobby is here, swearing somewhere above and behind him; and Dean is here, talking about 2014 like it's a foreign country; and Sam is here, and is not Lucifer. Which means--

Cas is no longer when he was. Lucifer sent him back.

Coda to 'The End'.

2014 cas gets sent back to 2009, feelings ensue etc. i don’t remember all the details of this one bc it’s been a while but it’s really good

bonus

currently reading

Fragile As We Lie by perilously, 11k, E, f/f

Dragging Bela Talbot out of perdition isn't so much a decision as it is a frantic choice based on gut instinct. Her soul is bright, if fractured, and Anna yearns to do good again after the perversion of free will that immediately preceded her death.

Bela's no ordinary human, though; she's prickly and damaged and beautiful, and Anna doesn't want to leave her side. So maybe they can figure out how to navigate post-resurrection, post-Apocalypse-that-wasn't Earth together.

#sorry i took a few days to answer this haha #asks #anon #fic recs

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septiembrre · 4 years

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Rio Headcanons

Tagged by the wonderful @foxmagpie

What are your headcanons about Rio’s family? Siblings? Parents? Lifestyle growing up?

I really love the idea of Rio having been raised by a supportive, healthy, loving, beautiful nuclear family. I personally have imagined him with siblings -- sisters! Cousins! I think his respect for women and their power has to come from somewhere and it’s probably a matriarch. He has a strong handle on parenting and I think he must be modeling his own caregivers...

But, @foxmagpie pointed out the black & white vintage photos in his closet... Obviously, I had seen them but I just understood them to be like my family’s own old photographs. I had thought -- they’re just his ancestors, probably his grandparents or bisabuelos. But, then I realized there’s no sign of sisters, any siblings or of his parents in his apartment. The Good Girls set design team loves a ridiculously terrible photo prop (hello old Dean/Beth family photos) and you know they would have been down to make the same thing for Rio... but alas. All we have are those photos of Rio + Marcus, an ambiguous baby picture and the black & white photo and it’s probably intentional.

I come from a small, atypical Mexican-American family structure myself, but I feel for him. I always headcanoned that he had a dad who had died when he was a kid or a teenager and that maybe his mom was still around and involved in his & Marcus’ life. But, quizas no?

I’m curious about how much Beth knows now about Rio’s family structure from Rhea. She knows Rhea’s a single mom, and her co-parent was out of the picture for a spell. But, I think Rhea would have also mentioned involvement or support from Marcus’s other set of abuelos/her former in-laws?

So... who were Rio’s caregivers? His grandparents? No sisters??? We should all collectively DM Manny and ask him to share his own Rio backstory headcanons. Haha, watch -- the show is totally going to ret-con this in Season 4.

It’s interesting overall how the writer’s deploy family world-building for the characters. Dean’s mom is the only one on-screen -- and Dean’s parents overall have gotten more build out than any other family history combined (wild!). I know that’s influenced by them casting Jessica Walter who is phenom, but expanding out the family histories is such a rich area for the show creators to play in if they choose to go there. All of our main protagonists have deceased parents. I think it’s been a choice on the show to play into a lack of safety net and support for the women. For better or for worse, Beth, Ruby & Annie are at a point where they are it for their children.

That being said -- I would love to meet Stan’s parents! And I would love to get information about Rio’s coming-into-crime especially as a parallel to Beth’s experience. It’s the parallel we would all want and the parallel we deserve. (Dear show, Stop with the Boland family parallels, PLEASE! If I have to hear about Dean’s scummy dad one more time--).

But, yes, I’m very invested in Beth & Annie’s, Ruby’s, Stan’s, and, of course, Rio’s families and hope we get to see more characterization unfold over the next seasons.

What are your headcanons for Rio and Rhea’s relationship? How do you think they met, at what point did Rhea learn about his work, was Rio in love with her, etc.?

I’m so curious about what attracts Rio to people/his love interests. It’s becoming clear what attracts him to Beth... But, I wonder about has attracted him to others.

While Beth & Rhea are both moms (haha, and beautiful, and well-endowed with the boobs), that’s in the present time on the show -- Rio was attracted to Rhea before she was a mom. I wonder what he looks for? What did he see in Dylan?

Hmmm.

What are your headcanons about Rio’s and Mick’s relationship? Did they meet through crime? Are they lifelong friends?

I want them to be childhood friends!!!! I want that so badddddd!!!

Oh, god, can you imagine a flashback to them young in crime?! Like late teens or early 20s? Ha, as a parallel to the Beth + Ruby scene/origin story? I would die. DIE.

Do you think Rio’s been arrested before Beth got him arrested in 1.10? When, and what for?

Ha, I don’t think he’s been arrested for anything significant. He’s plenty sanctimonious about keeping his name out of everything.

If Rio weren’t a crime boss, what jobs do you think he’d be good at? Why?

I mean he’s probably great a math, phenom at managing a huge team/multiple business ventures, and super charismatic. What couldn’t he do?

I think he was probably pushed to crime because of lack of opportunity for MOC and the need for money. This does make me think he came up poor. But, I think he stayed in crime because he’s so good at it, and likes the flexibility, the creativity, the $$$, and the power.

I think he could go legit and still be pulling in decent buck with all of his business fronts but he doesn’t choose to.

What are Rio’s hobbies outside of work and Marcus? What do you think he’d get up to on a day with absolutely no responsibilities?

He’s obviously an art heaux. The real question is WHAT’S HIS MEDIUM???? If he actually produces art like the abstract stuff up in his house, I would scream. I can see him being into photography when the mood strikes him and he has time. #hipster

I like the idea of Rio taking cooking classes in some sort of exclusive, foodie way (1:1 with a chef, or a compa who is a fly line cook).

We know he plays tennis and I also imagine he boxes and works out at the type of high-end gym I could only dream of. It probably never smells of sweat, and all the machines are top-end, brand new. I mentioned in a post a while ago that I wasn’t sure if I wanted Rio to be my boyfriend, my bff, or to adopt me -- and I stand by it.

Who do you think Dylan is to Rio (a friend, an associate, someone he was dating?) and why?

I do lean towards friend/associate/some one he’s fucked. Rio was very handsy with Dylan’s person. Obviously, in real life Manny & Adelfa are married, and I think they were leaning heavily on that intimacy in the scene.

But Rio also didn’t kiss Dylan? Which leads me back to -- damn, Rio. You were fronting so hard. Like... that was high-school-level showmanship.

What do you think Rio’s goals for the future are?

I think he wants to be his own boss, I think he likes being at the top of the food chain, and I think he wants to stay in crime because he still sees opportunities.

I’m so curious as to what his $$$ bench marks are?

Beth’s are current financial security and probably college for all of her little ones. So what it for Rio?

- College for Marcus?

- Inheritance for Marcus?

- Inheritance for all of his (nonexistent) family?

It has to be more than that. He’s already hit these benchmarks based off of the status symbols in the show (the G-Wagon, the quality of furniture in his loft, Rhea’s offer of maybe like a $5-10k check to Beth. Beth’s not family!).

What do you think Rio is bad at (cooking, dancing, singing, etc.)? How come?

I don’t think he can bake.

I also don’t seem him being good at boldly lying to people? It’s definitely not his style. He’s more of a lying by omission type of person. I don’t see him being able to spin a tale like Beth, but he also doesn’t have her white privilege/whole suburban mom aesthetic.

Hm, I haven’t rewatched the show in a minute but I think the only time we’ve seen him boldly lie is to Beth -- when he lies about the nature of their relationship. Haha, and he’s really bad at it. Maybe this isn’t the fairest thing to judge him on. But, I think his lying relies on purposeful silence.

Why do you think Rio is drawn to Beth?

I think Rio was drawn to Beth because she’s a survivor, she’s scrappy and she’s smart. I think he’s drawn to how quick she is on her feet. Beth has limited awareness but she can be really good at navigating what’s going for her and leveraging it for her gain (and Rio’s). I think he’s also been drawn to her because she’s a parent, and she can be really brave (I would say reckless!! Beth, stop endangering yourself!).

Beth’s also like absurdly beautiful. Christina is ethereal and they try to make her ... frumpy or something in the show. But... we have eyes. And Rio certainly has eyes for her figure, and her face, and like all the attributes and isn’t shy about letting her know.

Why do you think Rio didn’t kill Beth? Was it their past, his present feelings for her, because he needed her business? Some combination?

I think Rio sees a kindred spirit in Beth and at this point (post-Season 3), she’s in his life now. Despite all that she’s done to him, he seems completely unable to extricate himself from her. I think this due to his present past feelings for her. The business is a bonus, a front if you will.

In Season 2, there were these questions for Beth about whether all of it was real -- if she meant something to Rio, if Beth could walk back all of her crimes so far and retreat into anonymity. In Season 3, we know that Beth can’t let go of crime, and that she’s capable of the same dark deeds as Rio, and we know that Rio did care for her, cares for her still apparently because he’s very much in his feelings. Those Season 3 picnic table scenes? Wow.

Ah, can you believe these two are going to like... have some sort of development in their relationship again? Obviously, it will be full of strife and conflict. But isn’t it wild that we have another Brio sex scene in store for us one day? Jenna Ban’s comment, “You don't go from having the hottest sex of your life to wanting someone dead without conflicted feelings” is just the BIGGEST TEASE. How are our bbs going to be intimate with each other again?

OKAY THIS ENDED UP BEING SUPER LONG. Jeez... If you’ve gotten this far, thank you for engaging with my headcanons. Lmk what you think :-)

#ggweek2020 #rio

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cheatdeathsarchive · 3 years

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@apogeaned sent: hyacinth, lavender, poppy, and zinnia

hyacinth : is your muse athletic ? does it come naturally to them , or have they had to work for their physique and/or skill ?

her in game stats that would apply are:

strength: 1, endurance: 3, and agility: 5

she is decent when it comes to reflexes and being limber and quick, but athleticism is not in her wheelhouse. she tries her best if the need arises, but six oftentimes puts herself into a situation where she does not have to do things that require strength. not without trying -- if like boone ( @tread-the-bear ) or another companion is working out then she tries too, but it is a sad display of mistakes.

lavender : how easy is it to gain your muse’s trust ? once their trust is broken , how might one go about mending it ?

for all that she is friendly, earning her trust is highly unlikely. trusting people means being emotionally vulnerable, honest, and sharing all facets of oneself. six would sooner never drink sunset sarsaparilla again.

she will be friendly, get to know someone, take a vested interest in them, but they will still never not see her doing her best or being her best if she has any say in the matter. she likes to stay well guarded. the times someone does by some rare accident do and they do not hold it against her or treat her any different does great things to make it past her barriers. that is where trust begins for her. if she is able to piece together who someone is and they are authentic inside and out it helps bring her out of the carefully crafted persona she always wears and encourages her to be honest with them.

as quick as she is to forgive about most things, earning her trust back after a betrayal is oftentimes not easy if not outright impossible. it really depends on the context of the betrayal and what kind of relationship had been cultivated up until that point.

poppy : what comforts your muse ?

feeling loved. a lot of physical touch. reassurances, verbal and otherwise, that she is still worth something.

zinnia : how has the loss of fallen comrades and/or loved ones affected your muse ? has it taught them anything or given them any new perspectives ?

this is such a good one and i’m so excited to answer it ala you have my whole life i hope you know that. i’ll go by each one that i can currently think of!! most others who have died are like... idk not really her comrades/loved ones/friends so i’m not counting them. there are probably more but i’m forgetful lol

yes man: she felt really guilty shutting off yes man. though he saw it coming, he couldn’t really stop her considering the way benny and emily set him up. she felt like a huge asshole. his ‘death’ made her have to come to terms with who she had become thanks to benny and the strip’s influence on her.

veronica: this is the very, very big one. veronica shattered all of the confidence in herself she had developed over her work on making things better. she had talked her way all across the mojave, done some pretty spectacular things. to have someone who she thought liked her as much as she liked her not listen and in fact try to kill her was... hard to cope with, so she didn’t really cope at all -- partying, drugs, drinking. she really lived it up on the strip in defiance to house and to numb her grief. with veronica dead, she had no reason not to blow up the bunker, but she just... couldn’t. she was in too much pain.

it was one of these nights where she was drunkenly playing with her radio that she found the sierra madre broadcast. the promise of forgetting it all and letting go was too great a temptation. she just needed to get away from it all, feeling the weight of her failure too greatly.

dog/god: though not technically dead, losing him was painful. for all that everyone trapped in the sierra madre was generally unpleasant, six still formed an emotional bond with all of them because really, they were dependent on each other and in stressful traumatic moments like that it’s hard not to. helping dog/god consolidate the two parts of them, no longer making him dependent on elijah as a master or whatever else was the right thing to do, but it still hurt not being remembered after the fact. it happened so soon after veronica which made it feel a lot worse, and it was actually losing god/dog that really set her off after elijah stepped foot into the vault with her.

she thought about them first. that bled into thoughts about christine, and dean, and above all else veronica. she buried all her grief with his corpse. she had planned on sparing his life, finding something ironic in him being locked in the place that he wanted to get into so badly, but she saw him and knew that wasn’t her call to make.

god/dog and the entirety of the sierra madre made her realize that she just... could not call the shots. she couldn’t trust herself to do right by anyone. to think she could run the strip herself would have been irresponsible.

#bless u!!!!!!!!!!#( ooc. ) now loading.#( answered ask. ) new note added.#( hc. ) can’t be bothered by the mistakes she has made.#( meta. ) i’m a helpless soul with a hopeless hand.

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queen-of-deans-booty · 4 years

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Free to Be You and Me: Part One

Pairing: Dean x Reader

Word Count: 1,604

Warnings: typical supernatural violence, language, angst, blood, you know the usual

Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Supernatural. All credit goes to their respective owners. Any and all comments on these are appreciated. I really want to hear what you guys think about this one!

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Life wasn’t the same without Sam. It was just you and Dean now, but you could sense a part of your boyfriend wanted his brother back. They haven’t been separated from each other not once in their whole lives. They learned to lean on one another, to depend on each other when they couldn’t depend on someone else. You couldn’t speak for Sam, but Dean was wreck. He took you on back to back hunts, and you knew it was to keep himself from thinking about where Sam was, what he was doing, and who he was with.

Where you and Dean wore professional clothing for FBI interviews, Sam was probably in something casual. Where you and Dean utilized your FBI badges, you can only imagine Sam burning his or burying them deep into the ground. Where you and Dean take down monsters, and slicing heads off vampires, you can only imagine Sam is in the kitchen, slicing fruits and vegetables as he tries to live the high life. Where you and Dean would be smearing blood off your faces and cleaning the goo off your bodies, Sam is probably wiping sweat off his brow from the jogs he does every morning. Where you and Dean wash Baby, Sam is out there wiping down a counter as he cleans his messes.

Where you and Dean are, you know for a fact it’s where Sam isn’t.

Life without Sam was hard, but you managed to go on. Grabbing the gun you always used with your left hand, you used the clean dish rag in your right to wipe down your gun and make sure everything was working properly. While you were sitting on the closed toilet seat, Dean was standing in front of the mirror as he cleaned his leather jacket with a damp washcloth. The silence between you two was comfortable until you heard a flap of wings. Looking up, you and Dean were both startled by the only angel in your life.

“God,” Dean thumped the sink in surprise, “don’t do that.”

“Hello, Dean. Y/N,” the angel said. Dean turned around to face the angel, but he was really close and personal to your boyfriend. Looking between the two men, you watched as Dean searched Castiel’s face for any kind of sign that he regretted being this close to him.

“Cas, we've talked about this. Personal space?”

“My apologies,” he cleared his throat before moving away from him. Dean grabbed his jacket and walked towards the bed, but you stayed right where you were.

“How'd you find us? I thought we were flying below the angel radar,” you said as you rubbed your ribs to illustrate the point you were trying to make.

“You are. Your father told me where you are,” he said as he looked around the room to see if he could find a sign of Sam.

“Where is Sam?”

“Us and Sam are taking separate vacations for a while. So,” Dean trailed off as he slipped on his jacket.

“Which is code for him and Sam. I think we need Sam just as much as he needs us,” you added.

“You find God yet? More importantly, can I have my damn necklace back, please?” Dean asked as he changed the subject.

“No, I haven't found him. That's why I'm here. I need your help.”

“With what? God hunt? Not interested.”

“It's not God. It's someone else.”

“Who?” you wondered.

“An Archangel. The one who killed me. His name is Raphael.”

“You were wasted by a teenage mutant ninja angel?” Dean snickered as you finished cleaning your gun.

“I've heard whispers that he's walking the earth. This is a rare opportunity.”

“For what? Revenge?” you asked.

“Information,” Castiel corrected. Dean walked back over to the sink before picking up one of his knives and the washcloth before starting to clean it.

“So, what, you think you can find this dude and he's just gonna spill God's address?”

“Yes, because we are gonna trap him and interrogate him.”

“You’re serious about this,” you noticed.

“Give us one good reason why we should do this.”

“Because you're Michael's vessel and no angel will dare harm you. And Y/N is Amara’s vessel, and no matter how hard they refuse to believe in her, they won’t harm you in fear of what you might be able to do.”

“It’s not like I’d give them a chance,” you chuckled.

“Oh, so we’re your bullet shield.”

“I need your help because you two are the only ones who'll help me. Please.”

“Of course, we’ll help. Where is he?”

“Maine. Let’s go,” the angel said before reaching out to you and Dean with two fingers. Teleporting wasn’t an issue for you, but somehow it was for Dean. So, when he saw the fingers head his way, he leaned away from them.

“Whoa.”

“What?” Castiel asked as he dropped his hand.

“Last time you zapped me someplace I didn't poop for a week. We're driving.”

“And we're here why?” Dean asked as he got out of the car. Castiel told him where to go, and that led you three to be in Waterville, Maine right outside of a sheriff’s station.

“A deputy sheriff laid eyes on the archangel.”

“And he still has eyes? Alright, what's the plan?” you asked.

“We'll... tell the officer that he witnessed an angel of the Lord, and the officer will tell us where the angel is.”

“You seriously want to walk in there and tell him the truth?” you scoffed.

“Why not?”

“Because we're humans,” Dean explains as he pulled out a spare FBI badge and stashed it inside Castiel’s coat. He fixed the appearance of the coat and tie as he continued talking, “and when humans want something really, really bad, we lie.”

“Why?”

“Because that's how you become President,” he said sarcastically before the three of you headed inside.

“Deputy Framingham?” you spoke, catching the older man’s attention. Both you and Dean pulled out your FBI badges to flash to the man.

“Hi. Alonzo Mosely, FBI. This is my partner, Eddie Moscone and Emily Braxton,” Dean introduced you three. Looking over to Castiel, he stood there and did nothing with a blank face.

“Also, FBI,” you urged.

Castiel still stood there and did nothing until he caught your eyes. He quickly reached into his coat and pulled out the badge that Dean stashed there and opened it. He had a terrified and stiff look on his face, and his badge was upside down. Dean did a double take before he rolled his eyes with a sigh. He reached over and fixed it so that it was right side up.

“He's, uh, he's new. Mind if we ask you a few questions?” Dean asked as Castiel looked curiously at the badge.

“Yeah, sure. Talk here, though,” the sheriff said as he indicated to his right ear. He led you three to his office before shutting the door and taking a seat at his desk. “Hearing's all blown to hell in this one.”

“That happen recently?” you asked.

“Yeah. Gas station. Why you're here, isn't it?”

“Yes, it is. You mind just, uh, running us through what happened?”

“A call came in. Something about a disturbance out at the Pump and Go on Route 4.”

“What kind of disturbance?” Dean asked.

“Would not have believed my eyes if I hadn't seen it myself. We're talking a riot. Full scale.”

“How many?”

“Thirty, forty, in all-out kill-or-be-killed combat?”

“Any idea what set them off?” you asked.

“It's angels and demons, probably,” Castiel spoke. Sheriff Framingham looked at Castiel with a weird look, and you snapped your eyes to the angel. “They're skirmishing all over the globe.”

“Come again? What did he just say?”

“Nothing.”

“Demons,” Castiel said at the same time as Dean spoke. Reaching over, you slapped Castiel in the chest harshly before giving a glare that said, “shut the hell up”.

“Demons, you know, drink, adultery. We all have our demons, Walt,” Dean saved your asses.

“I guess.”

“Anyway, what happened next?”

“Fucking explosion, that's what. They said it was one of those underground gas tanks, but, uh, I don't think so.”

“Why not?” you asked.

“Wasn't your usual fireball. It was, um—”

“Pure white,” Castiel finished for him.

“Yeah. Gas station was leveled. Everyone was... it was just horrible. And I see this one guy, kneeling, real focused-like, not a damn scratch on him.”

“You know him?”

“Donnie Finneman. Mechanic there.”

“Let me guess, he just, uh, vanished into thin air?” Dean chuckled.

“Uh, no, Kolchak. He's down at Saint Pete's.”

“Saint Pete’s,” Castiel repeated with a frown.

“Thank you for your time,” you smiled as the three of you left the office to head straight to the hospital. Why an Archangel be here, you didn’t know, but when you walked into Donne’s room, you understood everything by the sight of him. He was sitting in a wheelchair, catatonic. Approaching him, you looked at his face which didn’t register that you were even in the room.

“I take it that's not Raphael anymore,” you said.

“Just an empty vessel,” Castiel sighed.

“So, is this what I'm looking at if Michael jumps in my bones?”

“Or if I let Amara in?” you also wondered.

“No, not at all. Michael is much more powerful, and Amara even more so. It'll be far worse for you two,” the angel spoke the truth. Sighing, you looked away from the man in sadness.

“So, what do we do to contact Raphael? If he’s gone, then how do we find him?” you asked.

“We prepare.”

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Daydreaming

An Endless Maiden voyage

Chapter Four

Pairing: Dean x y/n

Word Count: 2358

Summary: During a fight with a djinn you get sent into your dreams. Soon finding out Dean and Sam are stuck in your dream as well you have to find a way out of your dream before it becomes your worst nightmare.

Warnings: Angst, violence, death

And more thanks to @amanda-teaches for being my beta <3

The night leading to the 13th was peaceful. Most of the passengers had gone off to bed, a few of them stayed up through the night, played cards or chattered amongst themselves. You found you were perfectly happy to sit at the end of the grand staircase and watch people walk about.

Your mind was focused on the sky outside, how dark it was, how cold it would become, how blackness would be the last thing so many people aboard would see. It twisted your heart, and part of you wondered if perhaps this really was a dream, as you might have a chance to keep it from happening.

However, it was as simple as the fact that you knew it was all in your mind. You couldn’t stop the Titanic from sinking, nor would you want to. You learned better after that nasty bit with Balthazar and the Fate.

Saving these 1500 people would upset everything, and, as much as you hated it, as much as you ached to stop it and give the children who would die a life, to allow the women to continue raising their children with their husbands, or go on to do who knows what else, to give many of the brave men just a few more happy years, whatever may come.

But it couldn’t be, even if the Titanic could be saved, it shouldn’t be. This, for better or worse, was a tragedy cemented in history by the loss of not just 1500 people, but also the lives that were changed when those 1500 passed.

They aren’t a number. You scolded yourself.

You had a habit of referring to the dead by the great mass of death, but just because there were 1500, doesn’t mean they were just 1500. Just because they died together didn’t mean they should be any less than they were, each individual person. Unfortunately, the tragedy adds up to the number and that simply becomes the sum of it.

“Daydreaming?” you heard a questioning voice ask.

You looked up to see Dean approaching you. A smile threatened to spread across your lips, but you wouldn’t let it.

“More like Nightmaring,” you responded, earning a chuckle from him. “I thought you officers stayed in your cabins and kept to yourselves. Don’t you have duties to perform or wheels to turn somewhere? I mean, since you’re so devoted to your character.”

Dean simply shook his head and sat down beside you. He nodded his head toward the window, and you followed his cue to look, turning and seeing light begin to sneak up from the horizon.

“One of these days you should get some sleep,” he told you.

“I slept yesterday,” you defended.

“After giving your husband half a scare that you’d managed to jump ship and get yourself killed,” Dean retorted. “He came to find me last night because he searched everywhere, couldn’t manage to figure out where you’d gone. He thought since we’d been talking I might’ve had an idea.”

“I suppose you must’ve. He found me while I was asleep in the library and carried me back to our room.”

“Yes I know, I was with him when he did. Helped him put your books away. Interesting choices by the way. But, that’s not the point, is it? You seem so bothered by the idea that the ship will sink.”

“Wouldn’t you be?” you asked. “If you thought hundreds of people would die in a way that most people considered impossible, and no one believed you, wouldn’t you be bothered? Or frustrated? I can’t stop the ship from sinking, but I can stop this dream and bring you back to me. That’s all I want.”

Dean shook his head. “You’re really certain of this dream aren’t you?”

You looked up at him, his green eyes watching you. “I’m absolutely positive of it,” you assured him.

He looked away, nodding slightly as his gaze crossed over the room. “Would you like to see the bridge? I believe Captain Smith’s entertaining hours aren’t until later, so no first-class passengers should be up there.”

You turned to him excitedly and nodded. Dean simply grinned, standing up he offered you a hand. You gratefully accepted it and allowed him to escort you out to where the bridge was.

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Dean spent most of the day entertaining you, explaining he had his shift later that night. You accepted every word and enjoyed every second.

You were shown the controls of the ship, met a few of the officers and came rather close to meeting Captain Smith, but, unfortunately, it seemed he was with some of the first class passengers.

The highlight was getting to meet Officer Lowe, who manned one of the 2 lifeboats that returned to the mass of floating bodies in search of survivors. First Officer Murdoch was also more than a pleasure. Both men were incredible, and, all your life in knowing of the story, you’d regarded them as good, brave men.

Now you stood on the forward well deck, looking out over the ocean as you stood beside Dean. Sam had found you earlier in the day and joined you just after meeting the other officers, as he and Dean got along pretty well.

The difference in the way they regarded each other now, between how they treated each other in real life, was almost laughable, and there were many times where you had to suppress your chuckles.

You were actually happy. Honestly and completely happy.

You’d spent the day forgetting that this was a doomed ship, that you were in a dream, and just forced yourself to enjoy it, knowing if you hadn’t found something to enjoy you may go mad.

You found yourself growing tired, as you had stayed up all through the night before.

Dean seemed to notice this as Sam was distracted once a young man came over and got him to talking.

“I told you you should have slept,” Dean informed you.

“Meh, who needs sleep when there’s a ship to see?” you asked him.

“Well, you do, apparently, those bags under your eyes could carry my spare change.”

“Oh, so what, you’re rich now?”

Dean chuckled at your retort, the sound of his laugh setting you at ease.

“You know I wonder something, have you met Thomas Andrews?” you inquired.

The man shook his head at you. “Not properly, no. I’ve seen him come up to speak with Captain Smith but I’ve never been introduced. Why?”

“I’d absolutely love to meet him.”

“Well, I think I might be able to get you there.”

You turned to him, eyes wide and full of excitement. “Please tell me that isn’t a joke, because if you’re telling the truth I might burst.”

“Well, don’t burst,” Dean laughed. “Come with me. I know where his cabin is, and he’s a kind man. I’m sure he’d be pleased to meet an admirer of his work.”

You nodded, reaching out and taking Sam gently by the arm. “We’re going to meet Mr. Andrews, the ship's designer. Are you coming?”

Sam leaned over to you. “No, go on. I’ll see you for dinner,” he responded.

You nodded at him before chasing after Dean, who’d walked away before realizing you hadn’t immediately followed.

Dean held out his arm for you as you approached and you cheerfully laced your arm through his, allowing him to escort you to Mr. Andrews cabin.

“So, I suppose I should thank you for keeping me from jumping on our first day,” you said to him.

“You suppose?” he asked.

“I mean, it seems like it makes sense, although if I’d been allowed to jump, this nightmare would be over, however right now it’s more of a dream. And, I’ve never actually seen you more refined than now. You almost seem like a gentleman.”

“Miss, I am not a gentleman. I am an officer.”

“I’ll make sure to mention that to your fellow officers.”

“You’re determined to make trouble, aren’t you?”

“I think I get it from spending far too much time with you,” you answered him, a satisfied smile dressing your face as Dean walked you down a corridor.

He stopped at a door and knocked.

Excitement welled up inside you, and you looked up at him before turning back to the door as it was opened.

A man opened the door, who you recognized to be Thomas Andrews.

At this point, the fact that this was a dream, and this was simply your perception of them who you were meeting, was all gone. You didn’t care if this wasn’t real if it was all just a dream because it was a dream come true. So much so, that you were massively confused by the intentions of the djinn who trapped you here.

“Hello, officer,” Andrews spoke, his eyes scanning over the both of you.

“Mr. Andrews,” Dean greeted. “I have a young woman here who is an admirer of your work who’d like to meet you. If you’re busy we can come back another time.”

“Not at all,” Andrews responded, turning to you. “It’s a pleasure, miss.”

You were pretty much struggling to breathe at this point. This was him… Thomas Andrews.

In your mind, this man was practically God of the Titanic. You were in complete disbelief, so much that you felt you couldn’t breathe from excitement.

“Oh, my, golly… hi,” you squeaked out, extending your hand.

The man smiled and accepted it, shaking your hand.

“I’m sorry I’m so flustered I just, I never thought I’d have the pleasure. Your work on the ship is marvelous, and you’ve put so much thought into every little detail. If I were to do something like that, I fear I’d lose my mind in a week.”

Thomas chuckled at your words. “Well, it certainly takes dedication and much patience, but when you see it come out like this, it truly is all worth it.”

You told yourself not to ask about the lifeboats, or the sinking, or anything about the possibility of the ship going under, but you couldn’t help it.

“I wonder… what, what might happen if the ship did get a fatal wound?”

“Well,” Mr. Andrews said, taking a moment to ponder your question. “I would like to be able to quote our captain, in his faith that the ship couldn’t possibly sink in any circumstance, although it’s true I can’t really think of anything actually damaging the ship so terribly it would sink. Please don’t worry about that though, this is a strong ship, the Titanic is, she’ll hold. She’ll take good care of you.”

You smiled at his answer, even though you knew what would happen, his words had calmed you, made you believe the ship was nearly sentient like a seaworthy Knight Rider, that would protect you. You wanted him to be correct, but you knew better. And soon, so would he.

“Well, thank you so very much for your time sir, it really was such an honor to meet you,” you told him.

“Oh, it’s my pleasure. Lovely to make your acquaintance. Have a lovely day.”

Mr. Andrews disappeared back into his room as Dean escorted you back outside.

As you walked out of the superstructure, you found the sunset beautifully coloring the sky.

“You’re really worried, aren’t you?” he asked, as you looked out at the open sea. As the day was coming to a close, the sense of doom became more and more present. Fear was clouding your moments.

You looked up at him, opening your mouth to speak but holding back, turning away again.

“I know what happens to this ship, I’ve learned all about it, I’ve watched every movie, documentary that still exists, read every book I could find. What will happen, it hurts me, knowing that nothing can be done. Because I’ve seen a world where these people are saved, and it’s not much better, it just messes things up more.” You sighed, finally looking up at him again, staring into his eyes “I know you don’t believe me, you think I’m crazy, you think what I say isn’t possible, but I know it, what’s going to happen, and I just ask that when it does, you promise to stick with me and Sam. I need you both when it happens.”

Dean, as an officer, should have mentioned he’d have duties to attend to, a job to get done, but he didn’t waste a second in nodding his head. “If it’ll make it easier for you, I’ll stay with you.”

“I’m not married to Sam, in fact, I’m in love with you.” Your eyes drifted away from his as your cheeks turned red. Something about this ship, these clothes, the people, it made you someone else, you spoke different, acted differently, were different. If this were Dean, he might’ve joked at you for sounding so melodramatic, but instead, he wrapped his arms around you and pulled you close, pressing his lips against yours.

You didn’t fight the kiss, you didn’t consider it wrong. This was a bad dream that was becoming a shade of gray. First, you’d been terrified, it had been a nightmare, then a lovely dream, and now, even though you felt in some way Dean was back and was with you, you also knew what would happen by the next evening.

Dean broke away from the kiss but kept you in his embrace, and you buried your face in his shoulder, comforted by the familiar smell that was Dean in any world, in any dream or universe. Tears slipped from your eyes and down your cheeks. Fear began to consume you.

The end of this all was coming, and you knew, whether you wanted to or not, you would have to face it head on, and hopefully, that would free you and your foreshadowing to the boys of what would come might wake them and they would know what to do.

One way or another, this ship would sink, and you would be there when it did.

The end was coming.

And you could only hope that would be your freedom.

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Unhuman Nature

Honestly, if I actively wanted to watch a terribly written fantasy soap opera, I'll bet there are more entertaining ones out there I could find. I felt like this episode desperately wanted me to be emotionally invested in a lot of really ridiculous and completely over-the-top soapy bullshit that neither the episodes preceding it nor this one actually did the work to earn – at least not from me.

It's Bucklemming so this is yet another episode filled to the brim with Nick bullshit. I'm seriously supposed to care about Nick's wailing angst over a murder that happened to characters we didn't even meet alive nine seasons ago? LOL. I'm supposed to be, what, scared by him becoming a bog-standard human serial killer when even Pellegrino’s Lucifer hasn't been scary in several seasons? Yawn. I should be in any way drawn in by this story about the influence of possession on a human vessel when exploring that would be a million times more interesting with the actual main characters and it's written with all the subtlety and nuance of a brick to the face? Oh, please. Not to mention that it would actually be more interesting if demons hadn't killed Nick's family, that's how predictable and unnecessary this plotline is. The only thing that separates Nick and his family from every other group of randos harmed by monsters along the way is Ross-Lemming's Pellegrino thirst. The amount I absolutely do not care cannot be understated.

I think we're supposed to be sympathetic to the Winchesters being flummoxed by being questioned trying to admit Jack to the hospital? Like, normal people would be flustered by their worry in that situation, so we should feel it more? Except I wasn't sympathetic, because the Winchesters aren’t normal people - I thought it just made them look like idiots. Castiel, okay, him not knowing how anything works in that situation makes sense. Sam and Dean though? Within the show itself they've had to check themselves, each other, and other people they care about into the hospital. So they should damn well know how hospitals are about insisting on getting information upfront, and yet they don't discuss what to say for Jack in advance when they're thinking about taking him in? Let alone when they're in the car driving him there? No, of course they don't, because these writers are perfectly happy to make the characters idiots or OOC to do a “dramatic” scene they've decided they want.

Speaking of which, I already reposted some people pointing it out at the time, but the scene with Rowena not knowing who Jack is another example of that. She literally said his name when she was taunting Lucifer last season, but Bucklemming don't give a shit about continuity and desperately wanted a scene of pathetic woobie Jack convincing Rowena to stay after she was upset about his existence/possible evil. Pay attention to something in someone else's episodes? Ha, like they even pay attention to what's in their own! The thing is, Rowena being reluctant to help Jack and Jack playing on Rowena's desire to be appreciated by thanking her (without any awareness how persuasive that particular tack is) could actually work just fine if it wasn't proceeded by Rowena's sudden inexplicable bout of amnesia. Hell, the whole thing where she comes rushing in thinking Sam has called her to help save Dean would actually work better if they had remembered she already knew who Jack was!

Then there's the part where archangels can juice themselves up on regular ol’ angel grace, but Jack, of course, has a whole new set of special rules where that can't work because reasons. That's pretty much how all powers in this show work now, so I'm not surprised, just disappointed. I could maybe even forgive that for Jack because we haven't had a nephilim character before and they are meant to be a fairly rare and unique hybrid creature, but when the rules for bog standard witches and angels seem to change every single time they show up on screen, I am over it.

So the episode opens and Sam, Dean, and Cas are all SO CONCERNED about Jack. Yet for some reason, Dean is the only one that goes with him on his “live life for a day” trip, because … Okay, Castiel goes off to meet with Ketch's contact, Accent Guy. So at least there was an excuse there and he was trying to do something theoretically productive. But Sam just stays in the bunker … because ... it's not like he and Dean would have gone through every bit of information on nephilim that's in there already when they thought he was a threat. Or again when he lost his grace to begin with so they’d know what to expect. Going back through the material they have absolutely no reason not to have read already certainly couldn't be pawned off on the suddenly AWOL AU!hunters who literally, personally owe Jack their lives. Nope, that would make them actually useful for once, so Sam had to stay behind for reasons.

Look, I'm not saying I didn't like the scenes with Jack and Dean, because I did. Nor that I didn’t appreciate the brief bit of Impala porn in the teaching-Jack-to-drive segment. Nor that if I was going to pick only one of those three for a fun last-day-alive romp, it wouldn't be Dean. With that said, there was literally no reason for Sam to stay back when he's had the closest relationship to Jack overall – it was one of the most transparently ridiculous times the Winchesters have been split up recently for reasons and that is seriously saying something. It’s not like Dean would be magically unable to develop more of a connection with Jack, if that was the whole intent, if Sam was also there. Even from the angle of Sam sometimes coming off like a killjoy, I don't believe he wouldn't be willing to indulge a dying Jack in the same way he's sometimes been willing to indulge Dean when he was in peril or down (early season 3, Plucky, Advanced Thanatology, etc.)if he’d gotten the same speech from Jack about wanting to live a little more in what time he had - and they all but asked for Sam’s permission to go before leaving anyway.

Part of what makes it so ridiculous is how hard other parts of the episode were selling the contrived, fanfiction-borrowed Jack-is-their-smol-son thing. Again, this is something I know a lot of other people are actually into, but it really isn't working for me to the extent they're selling it. I’m not saying they don’t care about him, but he's not literally their kid. For one, he's not actually a child. For two, most of the time where he and the Winchesters were actually together, it was because they were afraid he'd go darkside. For three, a great chunk of the limited time he's been alive, he was in Apocaworld, not even with them. It's bad enough that literally everybody is totally family now after, like, an episode. It's bad enough Jack's personality is more often than not written as a beige blob of cutesy inoffensiveness. Compounding it with this whole oh noes, our actual child has mystical consumption? God, it's so contrived for the dramaz and so far as I'm concerned, tissue-paper thin if you take out all the fanfic and imagines posts written about it.

Then there's the part at the end where Dean apologizes for taking Jack out for the day because … fuck if I know? The reason Jack's worse at the end is because he was already dying and they tried some unknown spell thing from some sketchy contact Ketch knows, so if there's any guilt to be had there, which is dubious, it should be on trying some spell they know basically nothing about without trying to research it first. Like, it felt like Bucklemming suddenly decided they couldn't end the episode without Dean gratuitously feeling guilty for something because his only real emotions are guilt and anger, so here you go!

Finally, gosh, if death ever really meant anything on this show anymore, this ending would totally be sad and shit. As it is? Even if I wasn't spoiled for future events, the only thing I feel is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Great job, guys. Keep up the good work!

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MTVS Epic Rewatch #178

VM 3x11 Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves

Stray thoughts

1) Okay, all the cuteness and fluff in this opening scene should’ve been a warning sign that this episode wasn’t going to end on a happy note for LoVe, right? I mean, tell me this doesn’t read as a piece of fanfic.

VERONICA: Are you gonna eat that? LOGAN: This? VERONICA: Yeah, that fry in particular. LOGAN: That was the plan. VERONICA: I'm just saying, if you weren't, or if you were just gonna consume it out of obligation or to meet someone else's expectations, I know someone who might be willing to take it off your hands. VERONICA: Maybe add a little ketchup, make it worth a girl's while.

VERONICA: You're welcome.

Of course, I’ve embraced the notion that Rob Thomas is actually writing LoVe fanfiction a long time ago.

2) Ugh, Weevil’s so sad about the Dean’s death. Of course, he is! How many people have actually given a rat’s ass about Weevil? Not that many, and the Dean was one of them.

3) So, Lamb is more of an idiot than I thought. I mean, this is how responds to Keith’s burn…

He doesn’t understand his own sarcastic comment is actually a self-burn? Like, you can actually read his lips (“Oh, fuck”) when he realizes what he just said?

4) “ You're just like the rest of them, aren't you? You just want to use me for my skills and pay me for my time and effort.”

MAX: If you don't find her, I'm taking a bath with my blow-dryer.

6) This is one of Veronica’s traits that always rubs me the wrong way, probably because people mocking others’ interests is a personal pet peeve of mine…

MAX: It was Comic-Con. VERONICA: You didn't get all sweaty in your Wookiee suit, did you? MAX: Yuk it up. You know, it's not all Trekkies and Star Wars nerds. I was there because Dave Gibbons has a new graphic novel that he scripted as well as drew. VERONICA: [sarcastically] Sounds cooler now.

Get off your high horse, Veronica. There’s nothing uncool about liking stuff. That mentality sucks.

What’s worse, she’s clearly a closet nerd, since she can both deliver and understand geeky references.

7) Now, this is the Veronica I love...

MAX: Have a seat.

VERONICA: No, thanks. It's easier to be nosy if I can mill about.

8) And I love this little Easter egg...

VERONICA: You know Mac and Parker? This is their room.

MAX: Who?

VERONICA: Uh, this photo.

MAX: No, that's from the around-the-world party. That's my roommate, Brian, and my friend, Fred. I think that room was supposed to be Canada, but it was kind of lame.

9) This is gross on so many levels…

VERONICA: The glass-is-half-full version: Chelsea's not getting married. Max is overjoyed. MAX: Are you serious? VERONICA: Yeah. The half-empty version is...she's a hooker. VERONICA: Brian and Fred, as demented as this sounds, thought you'd have more confidence with girls if you...lost your virginity.

10) And this is something the show did a lot during this season, and I honestly appreciate it:

MAX: Can you still find her?

VERONICA: Um...yes. But she'll still be a prostitute.

MAX: I'm not stupid, Veronica. Okay, we had something. I know it. There's some things you can't fake.

VERONICA: There are some things women are universally known for faking, and this girl is a professional.

MAX: When I dropped her off at the airport, she had tears in her eyes.

VERONICA: Are you sure she wasn't thinking of the cab fare back?

See, Veronica’s fieldwork in the world of P.I. has given her hands-on experience on how seedy and corrupted everyone is. Expecting the worse and jumping to conclusions has become second nature to her. She can’t help it. It doesn’t help that more often than not, her instincts are right. But on occasion, people surprise her and prove her wrong. This will be one of those cases, at least in the sense that Wendy really had feelings for Max. And every time Veronica is proven wrong in her preconceptions, it feels so refreshing because Veronica is judgmental and jaded to a fault. And like Logan told her a few episodes ago, she’s not always right. She still believes she is, though.

It still kind of feels this pattern of Veronica having preconceptions and then being proven wrong was building up to something bigger, you know? Veronica had become more prejudiced and prone to snap judgments at the same time she became more reckless and cocky with her detective work. As the season progresses, her sense of infallibility and almightiness gets stronger. But she is never forced to face the music. I think it would’ve been a great arc if she was.

11) See point 6) above.

VERONICA: That explains why Chelsea was into comic books. Chelsea's a dude.

12)

13)

KEITH: Will you be home for dinner?

VERONICA: No, I'm meeting two hookers over at Logan's later.

KEITH: On a school night?

VERONICA: Off-peak hours. Save a few bucks.

KEITH: You're not really.

VERONICA: Fiona and Lizette. They're just a couple of gals putting themselves through college. Man, quit bringing me down with your bourgeois hang-ups.

14) This conversation pretty much sums up Logan’s and Veronica’s issues and insecurities as well as their relationship’s shortcomings in this season.

VERONICA: So, have you...ever been with one? LOGAN: An escort? VERONICA: Yeah. LOGAN: Do we really want to go there? VERONICA: I guess we don't have to now. LOGAN: Come on, that wasn't me answering the question. VERONICA: It kinda was. LOGAN: No, it wasn't. That was me knowing there's a land mine and trying to figure out where to put my foot. VERONICA: Well, I guess you picked your spot. Look, why not dispel any romantic notions? If we see each other, warts and all, and still like each other, that's a real connection. LOGAN: Well, maybe I enjoy my romantic notions. Maybe I don't care to see any warts, you know, yours or mine. Now you see, you're smiling, all right, so I think it's all fun and safe, but it's a slippery slope from "Have you ever been" to "How many" and "How often." VERONICA: So you've been with multiple hookers on several occasions. LOGAN: I'm not having this conversation with you.

On the one hand, Veronica claims she wants to know about Logan’s sexual exploits so that they can disregard any “romantic notions” they might have about each other and love each other as they truly are. On paper, that seems like a solid statement. And I’d buy it if she wasn’t prying on Logan’s sexual exploits, to begin with. Veronica has always been terrified of Logan cheating on her, with has more to do with her own insecurities than him giving her actual reasons to suspect him. Other than the one time he “cheated” on Lilly with Yolanda (and I think it’s fair to quote Ross Geller’s “we were on a break” defense,) Logan’s always been faithful. Yes, he does sleep around when he’s single, but when he’s in a relationship with someone he loves? I think Logan would cut his own dick before cheating. Veronica knows this. She’s had first-hand experience on how loyal and faithful Logan can be. And she had a first-row seat to Logan and Lilly’s relationship – he was the cheatee, not the cheater. So the fact that she wants to dig in Logan’s previous sexual relationships has to do with her own insecurities as regards how she won’t measure up to Logan’s former sexual partners. She probably feels inexperienced and inadequate. She might even think he could get bored of having sex with her (I know, she’s delusional! Logan could never get tired of her! NEVER!) And so she’s been restlessly waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Logan to cheat on her pretty much since they started dating.

On the other hand, there’s Logan claim that he’d rather avoid this conversation because it is quite literally a landmine. He’s honest, of course. And right. Nothing he could ever say would satisfy Veronica. And that’s the problem. That’s his own insecurity when it comes to her. But the difference is, his insecurities are well-founded. We already got a glimpse of this when the whole Mercer-and-the-hotel-on-fire thing came up. What frightens Logan more than anything is that he believes he will never be good enough for Veronica. And Veronica, more often than not, makes him feel wanting. So, you see, fessing up about his sleazy past won’t exactly paint him in a boyfriend-material light. Logan’s smarter than that. Moreover, he knows he’ll probably feed Veronica’s mistrust because for some reason she has this internalized misconception that if you are a sexual being, then you’re prone to cheating.

15)

VERONICA: Sorry, Lizette. Looks like we're gonna have to reschedule. Pay the girl, Max.

LOGAN: If we're paying her anyway...

VERONICA: Honey?

16) Look at this goofus face when the two lovers are finally reunited! You truly believe this guy could cheat?

17) Ugh, and then…

To Logan’s credit, he didn’t even bat an eye when she showed up. But then…

VERONICA: No, Madison is pretty much the physical embodiment of all things I loathe. If Dick starts dating her again, you're gonna need to get a different roommate.

He can’t look her in the eye because he knows, he knows what her reaction is going to be once she finds out he slept with Madison (even if they weren’t together when he did…)

18) I fucking love this moment…

The way Keith just looks at her like actually taking note of her advice? It kills me.

19) Favorite!

20)

WENDY: Oh, my God. Thank you. That's the thing about being a working girl. Easy to break into, not so easy to get out of. It's not like I'm one of the big earners, but I have this client, a judge. VERONICA: Ooh, a judge? Which one? WENDY: Cramer. VERONICA: No freaking way! My dad busted him for taking bribes, and the old bastard still got re-elected. WENDY: He is the kinkiest out of all my clients. No sex, he just likes to sneak me into his office at the courthouse. All he wants to do is have tickle fights and walk around in my shoes.

And while Veronica is delighted with this piece of information, Max is…

…the opposite of delighted?

21) “For what little it's worth, I was totally wrong. You and Wendy do have something. You two are great together, and I'm sorry. And this just plain sucks.” You see? How nice is it to hear Veronica admitting she wasn’t right?

But, of course, literally one minute later…

VERONICA: It's purple makeup. The bruise was a fake. You've been had. They duped you. Nicki didn't get worked over by her pimp. She and Wendy just conned you out of a grand. MAX: That's crazy. VERONICA: Crazy? She screws people for money, Max. That's what she does. VERONICA: I'm sorry. That wasn't- MAX: No, I'm an idiot. VERONICA: You're not. From where I stand, Wendy's the idiot. And now we must crush her.

No evidence other than the stained cloth and yet she thinks she’s figured it all out. And she’s ready for payback. Ugh, I wish they would’ve gone somewhere with this pattern of behavior!

22) You see what I mean?!

LOGAN: This is a bad idea.

VERONICA: It's blackmail. It's the go-to idea. In case of emergency, break glass or blackmail.

LOGAN: Uh, excuse me if I can't get jazzed about my girlfriend extorting a judge.

VERONICA: Look, I'm not doing a back handspring about it either, but I'm getting Max his thousand dollars back, and I'm taking away Wendy's best client. It works on so many levels.

MAX: You don't have to do this.

Like, even Max tells her she doesn’t have to do this. And she ploughes ahead

23) And, let’s be honest, she gets off on it…

VERONICA: I can't believe I had to blackmail a judge just to get some alone time with you.

24)

VERONICA: But seriously, folks... have you? LOGAN: What? Ever been with a hooker? Why does it matter? VERONICA: I just want to know. I assume the answer is yes. Look at it as an opportunity for me to show you how cool I can be. "Hooker? Who cares?" LOGAN: Well, here's your chance to be cool. Stop asking. VERONICA: I just want to get to a place with you where we can be really... intimate. LOGAN: That's what the female praying mantis says before she bites the male's head off. VERONICA: I'm just saying, buried secrets tend to surface when I'm around. LOGAN: Maybe that's because of all the digging, huh? VERONICA: I'm giving you the chance right now to come clean. You tell all. I tell all. Go from there. LOGAN: Hm, fine. Ask away. Ask anything you want. VERONICA: Have you ever been with a hooker? LOGAN: No.

She’s giving him a chance to “come clean” as if he’s committed some sort of crime. And she can’t help her smile when he confesses he’s never been with a prostitute.

25) So was he talking about the beach girl or Madison? Or, possibly, both.

VERONICA: Were you with anyone while we were broken up? LOGAN: Landmine. I fooled around with this horrible girl who meant less than nothing to me, and I couldn't regret it more. Thinking of it makes me ill. So, there. Presto. Intimacy. Still love me? VERONICA: Yes.

26) You see Veronica? You’re not invincible…

27)

VERONICA: You just handed over a hundred hundred dollar bills.

MAX: Yeah, I was there.

VERONICA: And what guarantee do you have that-

28) To be honest, I love how Weevil treats Wendy in this scene. Like, no judgment at all! He’s just happy to see someone he knows and wants to say hello! You’re cool beans, Weevs.

WEEVIL: Hey, I-I know you.

VERONICA: Weevil, this is Wendy.

WEEVIL: Fiona, right?

WEEVIL: You used to dance at the Electric Lady. My buddy was a bouncer up there.

WENDY: You must be thinking of someone else.

WEEVIL: No, I don't think so. You have a tattoo, red dragon, left cheek. Am I right?

29) Okay, so that lasted as long as a un pedo en una canasta. (sorry, I like this idiomatic expression in Spanish and I’m not even trying to translate it.)

MAX: "The-the day we met was one of the best days of my life. I-I fell for you that day, but you didn't know what I was then, and now you do and it shows in the way you look at me. It shows in the way you touch me but I'll never regret it. You made me realise what I was missing. Love, Wendy."

30) UGH UGH UGH…

MADISON: Oh, Logan and I hooked up in Aspen over the holidays. I guess you two were split, huh? I was in town and thought he might have some free time, but, oh, well. Oh, and, as a friend, he's not so big on the one-piece numbers.

#Veronica Mars #VM #Kristen Bell #Logan Echolls #Rob Thomas #LoVe #Poughkeepsie Tramps and Thieves #MTVSepicrewatch #VMrewatch2015 #mine #recap #vmrecap

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Be Grateful

1. Your perception is a reflection of your attitude. Your attitude is a reflection of your gratitude. Be grateful!

2. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey

3. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” - Cicero

Kill Self

1. “Replace the 'I' with 'we' and illness becomes wellness.” - @dasscherick

2. “There is no easy way to humility. Pride longs to roam free and expands wherever space allows. Death to self is the greatest of all wars.” -EGW

3. “It’s funny how the highest praise goes up only when our flesh is being pleased.” - @_lonewolf

4. “How did, ‘deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me’ become, ‘fulfil yourself, take up ur calling, and follow your dreams?’” - S. Foyeh

5. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” - Albert Einstein

Love at the Centre

1. “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” - 1 Cori 13:1

2. “I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” - Mother Teresa

3. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King Jr

4. Walk humbly. Live simply. Love genuinely.

Relationships

1. Some spend their time trying to find someone to sleep with instead of finding someone worth waking up to.

2. The truth is, everyone will at some point hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

3. “Just because no one is perfect, that isn't a good enough excuse to settle for mediocrity.” - Tony Gaskins

4. “The higher your standard, the longer the wait. The longer the wait, the more faith is required.” - T. Rain

5. “Understand that even an ‘understanding heart’ grows tired of being understanding and never understood” - @AaliyahJay

Religious

1. “The goal is not to end up in Heaven. The goal is to live on earth as it is in Heaven.” - Damon Thompson

2. We were made by Love and for love, and until we understand that, life will never make sense.

3. Two Foundational Facts of Human Enlightenment: (1) There is a God. (2) And you are not Him.

4. “Faith never knows where it is being led. But it knows and loves the One who is leading.” - Oswald Chambers

5. “God can turn things around in a second, minute, hour, day, month, year or whatever time HE desires. Wait on HIM!” - @Zalika_M

6. “Sin is an inevitable and natural consequence of having a false picture of God.” - @dasscherick

7. “We must denounce sin as boldly as the world commits it.” – Dean Cullinane

8. Every good decision isn't necessarily God's decision. Remember to stay in his will.

9. “When #religion is just an idea, a concept or a set of doctrines, it is worse than meaningless; it is harmful.” - @dasscherick

10. Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes problems, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection and many more.

11. “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn.’” – C S Lewis

12. Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

13. “Secularism makes you selfish. Religion makes you tribal. The gospel makes you sacrificial.” - Tim Keller

14. “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.” - C.S. Lewis

15. “Your life will be a remimder to another soul that they can overcome. Don’t numb the hurt give it purpose. Prove that survival is possible” - @Niaa_xs

16. Freedom is not getting to do whatever you want, but being able to do what God created you to do.

17. “Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities, life today is a collection of the choices you made yesterday.” - A. Michael

18. “If you read history you will find that the people who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since people have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” - C.S. Lewis

19. Desires for goodness and holiness are right as far as they go; but if you stop here, they will avail nothing. Many will be lost while hoping and desiring to be Christians. They do not come to the point of yielding the will to God. They do not now choose to be Christians. - {SC47.2}

20. “Someday my heart will pound its last beat. My pulse will go still, but my spirit will soar to God who gave it. He will judge me by His Word.” - Ken Raddio

Be the Best you Can Be

1. Pray as though everything depends on God. Work as though everything depends on you. #WorkHard #PrayEvenHarder

2. Just be true to who you are. You were born an original don't die a copy.

3. “Live your life outside the box, because when you die you're going into one.” - Tyler Perry

4. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden

5. “Without uncertainty there's no progress. Live your life without limits. Enjoy it. Embrace it. Love it.” - @CrisOkero

6. “Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

7. “When you stop growing you start dying.” - William Burroughs.

8. “Life is short. Christ lived for 33 years but fulfilled His purpose. Live everyday like it’s your last and be pleasing unto God." - @FaithChildMusic

9. “Most people would choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” - @CrisOkero

10. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” - M. Savant

11. “When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.” - Louis Binstock

12. “If you don't get it the first time, what do you do? Walk away? Maybe they didn't hear the knock. Try Again.” #determination - Jackson Ogunyemi

13. Your mind is your greatest asset. Invest in your mind and you’ll always be wealthy.

14. “Try not be a man of success but a man value.” - Albert Einstein

Miscellaneous

1. “We must always have old memories and young hopes.” - Arsene Houssaye

2. I wouldn't turn back time and change anything, unless I could change everything.

3. In some of the third world countries, an 13 year old is leading his family. In the U.S/U.K they are reciting their favorite singer’s lyrics.

4. “A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.” - ML 151 (E.G. White)

5. “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” - John Adams

6. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski

7. “It's Ok to be inspired by someone else but be bold enough to be yourself.” - Tony Gaskins

8. “Death always gives life perspective. The irony.” - @Ayokunu

9. “Man says show me and I'll trust you, God says trust me and I'll show you!!” - @astarmusicuk

10. “Ten years from now, make sure you will be able to say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.” - @itsnakhedibtw

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