I find this so fascinating. The implication that Sam doesn’t like that Dean knows more than he does about something. And then when Sam sees something on the screen, thus changing the subject from Dean’s awesome new skills, we get this: 

I mean, Sam’s not actually changing the subject to not let him bask in the glory, but it’s pretty interesting that Dean comments on it anyway. A season later, and Dean’s going to be telling Sam he’s just a grunt, saying Sam’s the brains of the operation, and it’s fascinating that Dean sees that as the sort of status quo Sam enjoys. {7.12}

Immediately after this we get Sam teasing Dean about his sexuality asking if he’s “strictly into dick now”.

Which is exactly like Sam teasing Dean in front of Jody about liking chick flicks and animated erotica the moment Dean let’s his guard down and told him he liked chick flicks when he thought he was gonna die - Sam is a little shit brother and just teasing, he means no harm, but Dean is sensitive about this stuff and Sam teases him about it, jeez.

No wonder Dean generally doesn’t share his feelings or let his walls down with Sam given he friggin uses it against him in return. Sigh. I love Sam but dude you ain’t helpin.

Sam teases Dean for watching Oprah then acts surprised that Dean doesn’t tell him he watches Dr Sexy. Come on Sam your smart it ain’t rocket science that you’re part of the problem here.

I had completely forgotten this, thank you!

pulsatingvulcan:

NOPE. NOT BREATHING

DEAN SO GRUMPY

This is my absolute favorite thing to have come out of Season 12 so far

Look at their squishy faces… Who could resist that??

“Hey Jody, we’re here. Just think of us as your dopey teenage sons home from college to clear out your kitchen and take over your sofa” *finger guns* honestly that look on Dean’s face says ‘I know exactly where you hide your pie and cookies and you can’t stop me’ and Sam’s face says 'I’m slightly embarrassed, but same’

pointed out to me by impalaforthree

While this exchange is ostensibly the feather in many a John Winchester apologist’s cap, watching this scene gave me chills. Look at Dean’s face very closely. Do you see anything there of happiness, gratitude, or even agreement? Honestly I can read nothing in Dean’s expressions or body language that doesn’t look to me like tightly repressed bitterness and rage, at best impassive coldness. While making these gifs I was flipping through each frame to check for errors and I was struck by how motionless Dean is, how unnaturally still he holds while Sam is talking - except for that expression he makes in the sixth gif, which looks a lot like disgust to me. He lowers his eyes away as Sam says “we could have had Max’s childhood”.

Max was beaten by his father. Does it truly look to anyone like Dean is saying to himself “yeah, good thing we had dad or we might have been beaten”? Or does his rigid face and dark eyes say “I did have Max’s childhood, and you would have too if I hadn’t protected you by making sure dad only hit me”? He looks back at the house - and perhaps into his past as well - and shadows ominously cover his face. “All things considered” he says without any enthusiasm, and for a moment his mask falls away as he gets in the car. As though he’s saying “maybe you turned out okay, but I didn’t”.

And is it just me or does Dean look like he’s been punched in the stomach in the second gif? People seem to think that he is happy and pleased by Sam saying “we were lucky to have dad”, but that just isn’t what his face looks like to me. Before he speaks, he looks… devastated. He doesn’t actually say that he’s glad Sam said that, only that he never thought he would, and his smile doesn’t look excited, only incredulous. Maybe part of him was always glad that Sam fought back against John when he couldn’t, that Sam knew John abused them. Maybe hearing Sam say that John did right by them, no matter how much Dean himself insists that’s true, took the air out of him. 

Once we take this scene apart and look at it closely, it only convinces me further that John beat Dean when Sam wasn’t around and Dean protected Sam not only from John, but from the knowledge that he was beaten.

I decided to remake the Dean gifs so that we can get a slightly better look at his face. I think it speaks for itself.

Look closely at Sam in the last gif. Dean gets in the car, but Sam just stands there, like he’s processing Dean’s strange reaction. I think Sam had been expecting a very different reaction from Dean. Up to this point, Dean has always been the one defending John while Sam yelled about their fucked up childhood (going all the way back to the pilot and his anger over being given a gun when he was 9 and afraid of the thing in his closet).

Sam was expecting a positive response from Dean, or at least the usual Dean snark when Sam agrees with his brother. He got none of that. He got this grim, stoic mask instead.

Sam stands there, dumbfounded really. And I think that might be the first time he realizes that Dean’s childhood experiences might’ve been a little different than his own. That maybe it wasn’t John who was responsible for Sam not experiencing a childhood like Max did. That maybe the demons and vampires and werewolves weren’t the only horrors that Dean tried to keep hidden from Sam.

ugh help stop with the feels :(

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For majesticajeff who asked for S3 E17

Hey, we can all dream he would be ok with it right?

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Everyone freaks.

Except Sam. He just bitchfaces.

that's my brother shooting the ground dramatically sigh

My new favorite reaction gif.

No but this one is even better:

And isn’t it beautiful how they are finally, finally relaxing into being easy and affectionate with each other again? How these two, who have been loving fiercely and dysfunctionally for years, are finally mature enough to learn to like each other again?

S11, S11 Spoilers, Supernatural Spoilers, THESE WERE THE FIRST GIFS I SAVED, FOR A REASON, (tags from @aria-lerendeair)

that reason wouldn’t have anything to do with JENSEN’S FACE, would it?

Omfg of course it would! And because I am a Sam girl through and through, I also saved Sam’s exasperated face. Because yes.

it is such a fond exasperated face though

My new favorite reaction gif.

No but this one is even better:

And isn’t it beautiful how they are finally, finally relaxing into being easy and affectionate with each other again? How these two, who have been loving fiercely and dysfunctionally for years, are finally mature enough to learn to like each other again?

And this is why Sam in Snowbound (and in everything I ever write, likely) is a blatant SJW (which is not an insult, btw, no matter how much you try to make it one).  Because of this and about 10,000 other little things.  Sam is totally a Social Justice Warrior, emphasis on the actual fucking warrior part.

Sam Fucking Winchester, Social Justice Warrior.

Fight me.

but EVEN SO look how embarrassed he gets about calling his brother on that stuff. because he knows Dean thinks it's stupid, what word you choose, when it doesn't change how he THINKS about the people (and really, he just figures all non-hunter people are kind of dense but are there for him to protect, so it's not like he discriminates). Sam knows his brother too well to be passionate and earnest about that kind of thing with him, so he does it with an eyeroll instead, and waits to be mocked. (Dean does listen, though. Even if he thinks it's kinda dumb.)

sam thinks dean is the cutest sometimes pass it on

I’ve decided I like drawing frustrated Dean on hunts

no but look at their faces Sam's just "Yes, okay, Donna likes this and that's nice, we can do hugs, no big, sometimes it is nice to do hugs isn't it?" Dean is "I am Manly and Stolid and she is FORCING THIS ON ME and I will put up with it.... dammit. DAMMIT. i love hugs hugs are the best more hugs now please."

1.03 // 11.16

LOOK AT THE TINY ENORMOUS DARLINGS :((((((

This is so accurate.