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yugiohz

john winchester and bobby singer were in a co-parenting situationship for years like that's bobby's deadbeat husband

yugiohz

john: i thinkt the control devil is in ohio i need to go

bobby: pick your sons up by thursday

johnwinchesterofficial

thursday…. i knew i was forgetting something

winchestergifs

STACKEDNATURAL ⇉ 258.5/327 (part 1)

5.17 99 Problems Written by Julie Siege Directed by Charles Beeson Original Air Date: April 8, 2010

sweetonsugden

So, just a reminder that Dean is wearing the same (or similar) Tshirt + over shirt when he was saved by Cas both times. The first time and the last time.

First with the handprint under the shirt, and then with the handprint over the shirt.

4x01 Lazarus Rising

15x18 Despair

“Dean Winchester is saved”

#head in hands #i can never be done with this godforsaken show #spn #destiel

creatorofarcadia

It's been a while since I watched Supernatural, so don't take my opinions as gospel or anything. But I think Dean is self-hating to the point of narcissism in some ways. Don't get me wrong, I empathise with Dean and understand why fans largely do too. But his self-loathing warps his perception and becomes the centre of EVERYTHING and at times that really has ripple effects on those around him - particularly Sam.

Take their childhood, Sam has a right to mourn the fact that he didn't get a normal childhood. He's allowed to be angry that he didn't get a home, a present father, a stable community, and consistent education. But whenever Sam attempts to express his complicated feelings about his childhood, Dean immediately interprets it as ' oh I was supposed to look out for you. Are you saying I failed? Are you confirming I'm worthless?' which grinds the conversation to a complete halt. Because of Dean's intense self-criticism, Sam can never really be 100% honest with him or ask for support with his own issues, especially regarding their childhood. As anything outside of 100% gratitude just becomes another stick for Dean to beat himself with, and the conversation is immediately derailed.

Not only does Deans self-hatred mean that Sam's expression of his own experiences are pretty consistently shut down. In some ways, I think Dean strips Sam of his autonomy - he's so self-loathing, he sees every decision Sam makes as being about/a reaction to him. A good example of this is Stanford. Rather than understanding Stanford for what it was, an attempt by Sam to carve out a better life from himself and escape hunting. Dean views it as betrayal or abandonment, some re-affirmation of his own belief that he's not worth caring about. Rather than understanding it's a rejection of hunting, he sees it as Sam rejecting him. To Dean, Sam isn't attempting to find a better life, he's punishing the family.

Overall, it's interesting that people largely and rightfully sympathise with Dean due to his self-hatred. However, I don't see as much discussion about how his self-hatred doesn't just hurt him, it hurts those he's close to, as it colours his interpretation of their every action. Dean's self-loathing is always the biggest thing in the room and that has consequences.

hylianane

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

diaryofadigitalloser

Sam and Dean Winchester would both die for each other but they're both suicidal, so it's not very motivating.

brobeccks

finished drawing dean & finished rewatching s8 of spn!! call me the multitasking queen 💅

gayhockeyshow

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

twinkleinadiamondsky

Yes we do. We absolutely need characters covered in blood.

#girl dinner #bloody dean winchester #dean winchester #spn

t4tcas

good god when the clicky noises in the dean winchester rebel just for kicks amv hit.........

#sweet jesus #it's been so long i missed you

shallowseeker

i do think a lot about dean cupping cas’s cheek to keep him off the cold, unforgiving floor

shallowseeker

via @lazarrusrising

worrynoodle

Literally how can anyone deny Dean's love for Castiel?

corrupt-touch

Reminder that Dean loved Cas too. So much that Lucifer pretended to be Cas and asked to be “let in.” Just like he pretended to be Jess to Sam, Vince Vincente’s dead girlfriend, and Nick’s murdered wife.

corrupt-touch

Thinking about the light spreading over Dean’s face and overcoming the darkness when he finds out Cas is alive

mab-morrigan

It's details like this that make me appreciate the WORK that went into the everyday production of Supernatural.

This was a thoughtful choice. Everything had to be set up and staged to get this shot. This is a set - not a car on a real highway where this happened by chance. Jensen had a mark. The lights were rigged. The angle and temperature of the lights were chosen to set a specific mood for the scene overall.

Everyone who worked to create this scene was a seasoned professional who knew how to tell a story within seconds with minute detail. It's subtle. While we might not literally be thinking "oh there's light on Dean's face, so that means that he's allowing himself to hope because Cas, his favorite person, is alive". Like, no. We already know Cas is alive and fine because we've been watching him annoy The Shadow for a few weeks. But Dean doesn't know that.

Anyway. All of this was intentional. It continues to be wild to me that given the constraints of production schedules, CW fuckery, how many people were involved in the business of making this show in general, that there are so many moements of just really lovely and subtle filmaking like this. They didn't have to go so hard, but they did.

Which is why, as always, I have so many questions when any of the actors are like "it was platonic" because, yeah, OK buddy, tell it to the production team? Because storytelling goes beyond acting.

alivedean

destiel + insane shit they say to each other

slaygentford

obsessed w the campbells bc they really are THEE killers. john signed up to fight but the campbells are like we ARE the war and always have been. which is SO interesting in the context of mary-the-nightgown because it emphasizes more than anything else that 1) mary was playing a role and 2) dean got subsumed by a role he didn't know WAS a role until much later in life. like the mary fallacy is also the campbell fallacy. there IS no mother mary there IS no loving normal campbells which means deans WHOLE role in the family which he thought he was filling he was actually creating. MARY is not even mary. ONLY dean is mary

juiche

I imagine young Dean loved riding shotgun, talking hunts and cars with his dad, feeling all grownup and whatnot. But some days he'd let Sammy have the front seat, would cramp himself into the back, listen to that latest Led Zeppelin album and watch nature go by :>