i prayed to you, cas, every night

Courtney, 27, she/her, same handle on AO3 and Pillowfort

[domesticadventures]

call out. 13x07 coda. deancas. (ao3)

“Dude, what gives?” Dean says, heart racing, when Cas finally answers his phone. “I’ve been trying to get ahold of you for days.”

“I told you,” Cas says. “I’m–”

“Following an interesting lead. Yeah, I know.” He takes a steadying breath. “You really so busy you can’t text us to, oh, I don’t know, let us know you’re not dead?”

“You know I don’t always get service–”

“I know,” Dean says. “I just.” He rubs a hand over his face. “I guess after everything that happened, I thought something would have changed.”

Cas sighs. “What do you want from me?”

“I dunno. I guess for you to just stick around. For us to work together. For you to stop acting like you’re trying to get away from me as fast as possible.”

“Did it occur to you,” Cas says, “that maybe I have better things to do than cater to your insecurities?”

Dean is still sitting silently, mouth slightly open, when Cas hangs up.

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[scoobydoodean]

Did you know that, despite characters joking around that Dean is dumb a lot in Supernatural, the fact that Dean—specifically—has a gigantic textured brain is demonstrated over and over and over in Supernatural—more than any other character?

[scoobydoodean]

Anyway, stream my tag: #my smart bby

Or all its sub-tags:

#deans eye

#deans mechanical mind

#deans out of the box thinking

#what? i read

#detective boy

#what? i read: people edition

[scoobydoodean]

inb4 someone comes along and adds to this post something like, "Dean is almost as smart as Sam and we should acknowledge that more!" or "Dean is so smart in this one specific niche way while Sam is smarter in all the other ways but we should acknowledge this one niche way in which Dean is just as smart more often":

Incorrect. Stream the tags.

[scoobydoodean]

Yes I am in fact saying that Dean is smartest person in any motel room he has ever been in. Hope this clears things up.

[scoobydoodean]

Why do you think Sam always attacks Dean's intelligence level whenever he's influenced by supernatural forces and forced to let out his resentment? Because this is one of the things Sam is self conscious about—that Dean is constantly and repeatedly demonstrating the breadth and diversity of his intelligence on cases on the road in ways Sam admires but also feels just a little bit jealous about.

[scoobydoodean]

Sam worked his ass off to get into Standford with a full ride. His brother with a GED is getting him out of jail with nothing more than a clever story. His brother is coming up with brilliant plans to get rid of monsters that are nothing more than a collection of public thought. His brother is using his social intelligence and connections to find clues and leads on cases. His brother isn't violating his own principles and sacrificing someone to kill 30 demons he's coming up with a brilliant plan to mass exorcise them all without doing that. Dean is unraveling the entire case by himself in the episode where Sam screams that Dean has no mind of his own, deducing the location of and finding multiple hidden areas then fooling his own brother who's trying to murder him into trading out his shotgun for an empty pistol. Dean is reading straight through the threats and manipulations of angels and demons. Dean is prophesying the exact way your demon girlfriend is going to betray you and exactly how she is continuously misleading you. Dean is seeing through the fact that you're going to go behind his back and making a plan to steal your demon bestie's knife. Dean is reasoning through the psychology of a ghost based on nothing more than a few scraps of paper in order to find and save his brother. Dean is observing patterns and symbols and objects and things out of place that other people are not observing.

On top of all of that, HE ALSO READS.

[stevenrogered]

Ncuti Gatwa & Jonathan Groff DOCTOR WHO | "Rogue"

[destieltaggedfic]

Hi! Do You Know Any Fics Where Dean And Cas Are Already Dating And Sam Finds Out? Bonus Points If Sam Doesn’t Know Who Cas Is And Meets Him As Dean’s Boyfriend

ok, so obviously if Sam has never met Cas before that kind of leaves AUs or at least Alternate Canonverse, so I'll do a mix of the two.

To The Famous Final Scene - sandean_cas   Ao3

Set S15x20 didn’t happen.  After everything Dean moves away from Sam so they can live their own lives.  But today is the day Sam is coming to see Dean’s house for the first time.  Unfortunately for Sam he decides to sneak in to snoop instead of knocking on the door and learns more than he wanted to about what (and who) Dean is doing now.  (Cas is spelled Cass)

Word Count: 1k                                 Non-Graphic Sex

The Secret Boyfriend - fangirlingtodeath513   Ao3

AU.  It was confusing when Dean and Cas were sent separate invitations to Sam’s wedding, but they don’t realise just how out of the loop their families are when they question the engagement rings.

Word Count: 3k                                 No Sex

you don't know what you're missing, now - Steerpike13713   Ao3

Set S1 AU.  When Sam’s apartment is broken into he wasn’t expecting his brother and his brother’s… hunting partner?

Word Count:4k                                 No Sex

Family Matters – Aeronwy   Ao3

Nonspecific timeframe.  After Sam’s wife got turned into a vampire he’s been on the hunt to put her down.  It leads him to reconnecting with Dean whose life is much different than he would have expected with his angel husband and kids.  But vengeance comes first for Sam and he’s having trouble adapting to Dean’s new mindset about hunting and supernatural creatures.

Word Count:  17k                             Non-Graphic Sex

Hive – SpreadYourWings   Ao3

AU.  When Sam’s car breaks down in a strange town, he isn’t expecting the local B&B owner to be the brother who went missing years earlier, presumed dead.

Word Count: 5k                                 No Sex

[c-kaeru]

I still actually haven’t made an “official” pride art so here we go

This is totally not inspired by my own rainy experience at Pride last Saturday

Reference found here

Closeups under the cut :

Seguir leyendo

[winchester-reload]

🏳‍🌈Wishing everyone a very, very happy Pride month! UNLEASH THE RAINBOWS! 🏳‍🌈

[pumpkinhead666]

1st time

2nd time

3rd time

4th time

5th time

last time

screaming, crying, fucking throwing up

[louferrignojrofficial]

i know this is an april fools joke but it sounds extremely familiar…

[wellofdean]

I read your post about Supernatural being queer somehow from season 1 and I have two questions.

1. Don't you think it straight-appropriates the word "queer" to say it just means "not normal"? That argument seems disingenuous to me, and a lot of us want representation, and to see that word applied to explicit depiction of queer sexuality, and it's a cheat that they don't. Queer studies did start as the study of queer sexualities and the experience of queer people.

2. Are you saying that the makers of Supernatural intended for it to be "flesh on queer bones"? Do you think they intentionally sat down to tell a queer story?

Those are good questions my anonymous friend. Thank you for asking. Here are my thoughts:

To answer your first question: no, I don't think it appropriates anything. Here's why: firstly, if we're talking about sexuality and gender, it's queer 101 that no one owes anyone a justification of their queerness, and not everyone who is queer is interested in labeling it or making it legible to you, and they have no obligation to do so, and not doing so doesn't make them any less queer. Furthermore, some people who are queer are not interested in sex, so what about them?

All of that together is why, for me, the entire queer project is much more deeply about non-compliance with hegemony, and specifically with hegemony around gender roles, sexuality and to put it under a big umbrella, patriarchy, than it is about who you fuck. Those things extend into so many other aspects of life that I think you can easily talk about "queering" a very wide range of topics, and possibly? ANY TOPIC.

You are responding to this post, I think, and in it, I made a choice to talk about family and hunting, and our heroes roles and characterizations in that, and did not talk about gender shenanigans or sexuality, because my point was that even before we get to anything to do with it, Sam and Dean are immersed in a queered world in a fundamental, structural way. That said, I assure you that if you go back into season 1 of Supernatural, you will find LOADS that could be said about gender and sexuality, too. As well as other things, and a particularly important area, as @ironworked pointed out in the tags, is blue collar/white collar class issues.

As I said, the depth of queerness in Supernatural is actually dizzying just in terms of the story's BONES to say nothing of how they flesh it out. Queerness is about deviation from the norm. It's about rebellion and disobedience against hegemonic systems for the sake of personal authenticity and love.

Think about Cas for a minute. Cas's whole story is that he rejects his role in a hegemonic heaven. He rebels for love, and that is pretty explicit as early as season 4 when he tells Dean "We're making it up as we go". Fellas, that is THE QUEEREST SHIT EVER even if he didn't do it for Dean, and like... HE DID IT FOR DEAN. Cas did not have to tell Dean he loved him for me to know it, and for Cas to be a deeply queered character. When he DID say it, I wasn't the least bit surprised he was in love with Dean, because seriously, we been knew. I was only surprised I got to have the immense pleasure of hearing him say it and looking at Dean's face while he took it in. Jesus. I will NEVER RECOVER.

This is my perspective on representation in Supernatural: It's excellent, and I relate to, and feel seen by it as a queer person. Nobody needs to get fucked on the maps table for me to do the math that this is a queer story. It is very, very, very thoroughgoingly canonically queer in so many ways, and not all of them are to do with sex. I think some fans will only allow it to be called queer if dudes make out in it. I am not one of those fans.

As to your second question, I think there is a wealth of evidence in the filmic oeuvre of Eric Kripke to suggest that as an artist and a writer, he is concerned or maybe even preoccupied with masculinity issues and issues around family, and around the way patriarchy fucks men up. So, yes. I think he knew what he was doing and he knew that queerness was part of the mix. For fucks sake, it's a family of men who hunt monsters. That is very fucking on the nose. Do I think he kicked off Supernatural in 2005 planning a 15 year operatic queer romance between Cas and Dean? No. I don't think anyone planned for it to go as long as it did, and it's a matter of record that some things were influenced by fan response, actors' chemistry, different writers and showrunners' preferences and etc. What I will say is that when they had a choice to "straighten shit out" or lean into the queerness, they fucking leaned in, nearly EVERY TIME. Like, it's pretty amazing how consistently they lean the fuck in.

I'll admit -- I wasn't watching it with those eyes the first time, and I didn't give it much real estate in my mind when I watched it as it aired from 2006 to the end, but the last three episodes reshaped it for me and made me angry, and also made me need to watch it all again, this time with an explicitly queer lens, and BOY HOWDY let me tell you this: the Supernatch rewatch journey is a wild and wonderful trip to Queertown. It is legit more difficult to argue that Dean is straight than it is to argue that he is queer. There is a full on CORNUCOPIA of story evidence to support that read and relatively little that convincingly counters it on the straight side, and that starts right at the beginning, when they bend pretty baby Dean over a police car in episode one, and he smirks insouciantly in his lip gloss. Do I think everyone involved knew how that looked? Sexy, submissive and a bit gay?

YES I DO.

[wellofdean]

Peer review! And from all my tumblr faves! Thanks, fellas. Love your blogs so much. xx and like, boop.

@ilarual : #seconding ALL of the above^^#queer theory + queering a text is VERY MUCH about SO much more than just ''is there a character who explicitly expresses a queer identity''#(though to be clear even by that narrow definition SPN would still VERY much fit the bill)#(given that NUMEROUS major characters are explicitly and canonically queer)#but more relevantly: as OP so well outlined queering something is very much about the process of interrogating normative ideas#about interrogating and transgressing boundaries that the cisheteropatriarchy draws around How Things Work#I remember reading an absolutely fascinating academic essay about queering *time*#(for instance)#which was a reflection on how cishet expectations about the timetable on which we're supposed to meet certain life milestones#is queered by the experiences of queer individuals who may experience these milestones much later or much earlier#because of the unique experiences of queerness#and how that very act of interrogating the expectation of a certain middle class life timeline is a queer act#*even if* the interrogator is not themselves a queer person#like that is the kind of analysis that queer theory is really about#and in that regard SPN has been a deeply deeply DEEPLY queer text from the literal second Dean busted into Sam and Jess's bedroom#the proverbial Outsider intruding on Sam's heteronormative domesticity to disrupt the expected flow of his normative college boy life#spn

@ironworked : #queer includes gender/sexual/romantic orientations or identities or expressions that fall outside of societal norms#and it applies to individuals as well as couples and groups#so queer is about lesbians and about gnc individuals and about poly relationships and about ace/aro folks and queerplatonic relationships#myriads!!#so... I mean... before we even get into romance or attraction SPN had things to say about expressions of masculinity for example#as well as about the white picket fence apple pie life versus hunting. versus life on the road#that sounds pretty damn queer to me#also wrt A Plan to write a queer story... Kripke's famous 5 year plan was a few sentences on a napkin (paraphrasing)#they knew some stuff they wanted to do but like OP says a lot of it they built to take into account... everything#chemistry between the actors and audience reaction and actor availability and changing trends in the industry and writer preference etc#and again like OP says somehow *wink wink* they chose the queerest path again and again and again#that's not an accident#Tv: Supernatural#long post

@luckshiptoshore : #wellofdean is a SCHOLAR#this is so so so good#and is also kinda queer theory 101 for anyone interested in it as a concept#queernatural

[beebox-illustrations]

Happy Easter!! ✨🐝

Thought the boys deserved at least one nice, happy Easter egg hunt and in my mind Bobby did so too :)

Have a fantastic Sunday 🌻

[lourdes-archieve]

@Fanfic writers:

My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool

Lists of tutorials:

How to make images fit in mobile browsers

This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.

How to mimic letters, fliers, and stationery without using images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.

How to make a “choose your own adventure” Fic

This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.

How to make linked footnotes on Ao3

This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.

How to change text on Ao3 when the cursor is hovering over it (or clicked on mobile)

This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.

How to mimic author’s notes and Kudos/Comment buttons

Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons

Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!

How to wrap text around images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.

How to mimic email windows

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.

How to make ios text messages on Ao3

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.

How to make Customized page deviders

Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).

How to make invisible text (That can be highlighted)

This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.

MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.

How to make a rounded playlist

Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.

How to create notebook lined paper on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

Sticky notes on Ao3 without using images

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make deadpool’s thinking thinking boxes on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make newspaper articles on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

[dduane]

This is really useful and I'll always reblog it.

[anthonycrowley]

it’s the summer and it’s hot and you’re driving in your car. all things being equal (a/c works, not so hot having windows down is unbearable, etc) what do you PREFER doing to make it cooler?

air conditioning

roll down windows

Voting ended onJan 27, 2024

please reblog for sample size i just feel like people have Personal Opinions on this

EDIT: also. if you’re comfortable tell me where you’re from.

[just-a-blog-for-polls]

Do you or do you not use makeup and what is the main reason for it?

I do, 'cause I'm not comfortable with my looks without it

I do, 'cause I like the way I look with it (but I'm okay without it too)

I do, 'cause it's a way for me to express myself

I do, 'cause [insert an explanation]

I don't, cause I like my looks just the way I am

I don't, 'cause I would feel uncomfortable to look different than I naturally do

I don't, 'cause I'm allergic / otherwise medically unable to use makeup

I don't, 'cause I don't want to waste money on it

I don't, 'cause [insert an explanation]

This question is not relevant to me

Just show me the results

Voting ended onJan 26, 2024

Edit: sensory issues can be counted under "otherwise medically unable to" if you feel that to be appropriate

[fangirlingtodeath513]

hi, someone recommended your story Lost and Found, but I am unable to open it (even when signed in on ao3)—is it in a locked collection? As opposed to locked for nonmembers? (There was recently a thread about readers adding fics to locked collections and making them inaccessible in the process, fwiw.) Thanks!

Nope, only collection it’s in is the one for the exchange it was part of, which is still listed as open. All my fics are locked to people who have accounts so as long as you’re logged in you should be able to see it? Maybe log out and then log back in again, if you’re able. Might just be a weird glitch. Otherwise you should definitely be able to see it!

[baradragon]

usamericans: how many languages did your high school offer

0 (we only had english)

1

2

3

4

5+

Voting ended onJan 19, 2024

give me the state if you're comfy and what languages were offered

[ultrastimpaks]

wait people sleep with their doors closed????

[ultrastimpaks]

okay now im curious. reblog this with where youre from and if you sleep with your door open or closed

[queermania]

y'all might think dean was repressed and/or refused to admit that he wanted to fuck cas from the jump but EYE saw his 'oh no he's hot' face both in the barn AND when cas threatened to throw him back in hell. EYE saw dean throwing himself at cas repeatedly over the years and EYE saw dean slowly start to tamp it down as (unintended) rejection after rejection started to stack up. EYE saw dean fail to not get flustered even after years of exposure. EYE saw a man who resigned himself to being in love with someone who was not interested in that particular type of physical relationship. EYE saw someone whose entire worldview was shattered when his best friend confessed his feelings and EYE saw a man crying on the floor with his head in his hands while the world was ending, mourning the fact that he could've been getting railed this whole time.