the cw’s hit show supernatural refers to its own canon as “the winchester gospel,” and with an author-god as its ultimate antagonist, positions itself again and again as a sort of pseudo-religious scripture. within that framework, the implication of the metanarrative is that anything related but outside of canon (deleted scenes, draft scripts, the actors’ headcanons, and to some extent, even fanon and fic) are essentially apocryphal texts. like its biblical counterpart, there’s a coherent enough narrative in the canon gospels if you can look past the contradictions, and for the average follower, it’s a spiritually satisfying story. but real ones know that if you want the juicy stuff? you’ve gotta become a scholar of the apocrypha. it will make you seem crazy to the rest of the world, yes, but it will keep your soul fed for eternity
