sam and dean working a case where a string of people have reported super strength and advanced healing and as they interview the people they realize that they all live in cities they recently passed through on other hunts, but that doesn’t make any sense, so when they get back to the hotel they call cas in to help make sense of it. cas flips through the first few profiles and asks where/when it began. sam says the first person they’ve found was a guy named peter in st. louis, the most recent was a girl named heather in topeka. cas says ah. did any of the people – peter, manny, anya, shawn, or heather – have any idea what caused it? and sam says shawn? we didn’t meet a shawn? who’s shawn? and cas dodges the question and they go talk to shawn. turns out he’s totally normal. it also turns out he’s the only one of cas’ hookups who didn’t swallow.

another patented *interesting spn concept that comes up like five times in fifteen years but has enough potential to build an entire show around if you wanted to* is the whole celestial eugenics of what it takes to build an archangelic vessel - i.e., that if you want a human body durable enough to withstand the strain of that cosmic essence for long-term possessions, you have to breed it in over generations and then keep the line going just in case your archangel wants to stroll the earth at any point, so you’ve got these families who are essentially constructed by the celestial bureaucracy specifically so that the big four can have cars in the garage so to speak, and individuals who’ve been pulled into this include the main characters and their own parents, and the violation of autonomy and choice that that entails even before any of these people are even taken as vessels is astounding and the implications of it have what i’d definitely call narrative reverberations - and they have this explanation so that there was a good structural reason for why the main characters were doing main character stuff like hosting archangels and then THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE . and presumably this is going on for more than just lucifer and mike. raphael always manifests as black (but unlike his brothers, seems to have no preference between presenting male or presenting female) and one would assume that he is choosing people who are (even distantly) related - and gabriel, do we ever even acknowledge the fact that he presumably also must take a vessel? unless his particular gifts mean that he doesn’t need to do that, since he’s shapeshifting all the time anyway. it’s like…in s12 lucifer goes through swaths of humans until he finds a vessel with enough durability to walk around in for longer than a couple minutes, and when he was in cas it was brought up i think that it wasn’t a long-term solution and the body formerly housing jimmy novak would eventually burn up with cas still in it - but like…………can we talk about that? can we write a whole saga about the four (or more) families who all seem to do fascinating, involved things in their histories but whose existence is (unbeknownst to most of them) explicitly to function as michael waves or whatever. spn’s biggest storytelling problem is that it brings up stuff that is objectively horrifying and it is a horror show but the stuff that’s truly most cosmically, psychologically scary it treats as no big deal 

Not to derail but. On the same note.

The one (1) episode in which Dean sort of gets turned into a dog (and we don't talk about it because it's handled in a way that's silly and kind of gross) because he... needed to take a witness statement from the family dog so he needed to be able to talk to dogs? I think?

And so in the process we learn that not only dogs but apparently every other animal we encounter is fully self-aware and can talk and communicate in coherent sentences and have memories and emotions that are directly comparable to those of humans, we just can't usually hear them and

this is never brought up again.

That is a very very fundamental world change you just made there guys. It should also radically change the boys' world view—even if they don't get too much into the ethics of it or philosophise much, they surely shouldn't have forgotten that it opens up the possibility of non-human allies, witnesses, etc.

But nope, it was a one-off joke and we never remember it again.

actually i think the funniest way to get sam and cas to fake date is that they’re at whatever scene is relevant for the case, somebody assumes dean and cas are married, and dean panics and instinctively says “what? no! we’re brothers!” [realising they look nothing alike] “in... law?” [cue the conveniently timed arrival of sam] “this is my brother” [horrified realisation]. make dean bring it on himself

@queerstudiesnatural im literally proposing fake marriage to you right now

I think they should have to delete an episode of supernatural for every new episode they make

starting with "Rock and a Hard Place". you know, that one where there's a group of women who've decided to devote themselves to abstinence and dean's first reaction is to leer over them and then recognise one of them as a former porn star and to objectify her hard and try to pressure her into sex to fulfil his fantasy until she starts crying, and the narrative treats this mostly like a joke? yeah.

reboot mary: lying awake in bed as an exact mirror of dean laying in bed next to lisa looking distant in season 6 and giving john a close lipped smile before she goes back to looking miserable.

dean voiceover: they were in love here <3

... I mean that could actually work if they want to play with the 'Dean as unreliable narrator' thing. 👀

certified iconic 24 hours

thank you desi this is beautiful

Somebody go check on joe biden because this much supernatural drama does not happen without a severe shake up in the American political landscape.

HELP ITS TRUE

oh there it is

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i thought it was fake until the credits rolled. IT WAS AN EL SOL BEER

IT WAS TOTALLY FAKE OKAY. the whole enemy for the last five seasons has been THE AUTHOR and we thought they defeated the Evil Author in ep 19 but secretly they hadn't realised that God was in fact synonymous witht he showrunners and the secret tragedy is that they won in the end. truly it is epic and weighty storytelling for our time. the el sol beer is one final candleflame of individuality signalling desperately before it flickers out under the vast tide of Tidy Pre-Determined Narrative.

As a multi-shipper in the SPN fandom:

Be kind to each other. Stop cross-posting hate in the tags. Stop sending horrid asks to other shippers. Stop harassing and attacking the actors. I’ve literally never seen a more toxic fandom space than the current war between Destiel and Wincest.

We both won. Destiel and Wincest both got an “I love you” scene either way you look at it. Neither of us got the dream ending, but we both got some beautiful moments and that is what we should take from the finale. Not all this hate and spitefulness. 

Cultivate your own spaces. Embrace your own tags and ships and communities. If you truly can’t stand seeing content from another ship, block the tags. Filter post content. Block bloggers. Its so easy, guys. Rioting and harassing and sending hate isn’t going to change what we were given, nor is it going to make your community better.

There’s a handful of fanatics on both sides doing their damndest to ruin it for everyone, and that is not the legacy we should be leaving nor how we should be embracing the end of a 15 year journey that left its mark on all of us. The actors shouldn’t be facing hate and truly horrid comments when saying goodbye to the past 15 years of their lives. 

Be kind to each other, I beg of you. Every ship got something beautiful to cherish, and that’s all that shoulder matter. 

Except Sastiel shippers. They got nothing. Please spare a thought for your local Sastiel shipper, they’re starving.

Castiel popped downstairs regularly to give Sam updates on how Dean was going and get snuggles.

Of course, due to the "time moves differently in heaven" thing the updates were along the lines of...

"Hello Sam. I thought you would like to know that he has now progressed another five inches along the road. How was your weekend at the water park?"

"Dean is currently experiencing a transient itch to his left ear lobe. It has so far lasted two weeks of time as you experience it. What are your thoughts on the cultivation of unusual colour mutations in aviculture?"

"I apologise for my absence this last month. Dean thought of a hilarious joke about glow worms and had to tell me in full. Well, he assures me it was hilarious. You know how it is, with Dean."

"I believe there is a very interesting bug about to collide with the Impala's windscreen. I don't think I like the colour of your cardigan, Sam."

GET THEM QUEEN

OOF. go off sam. i love you.

Got to say I'm living for all the actors coming out and Saying Things now it's over.