Wishing On A Wavelength Of Celestial Intent

[depairt]

A night in some AU, on the run, taking shelter in an abandoned motel. Dean can't sleep. Cas wakes up, because he just knows <3

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[dftwm]

Cas’ honest reaction to Dean (he’s in love)

[greeneyedgrasshopperandhisangel]

Yeah..easy tiger we know😉😉

[followyourenergy]

We know, Dean, we know

[randomishnickname]

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

[inimitably-ineffable]

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

[mx-incognito]

@cynaram

[cynaram]

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be.  They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.” 

[explorerrowan]

“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”

“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”

[fieldbears]

“Ah, a heritage crop.”

[captainclickycat]

The shipping forecast.

[romanticalgirl]

The Fandom Almanac

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

“I think I’m going to sow some rarepairs this season. Don’t know what the market for ‘em will be, but I can eat ‘em if nobody else wants to.”

[jonairadreaming]

Petition to start referring to fanworks as ‘produce’ and stop calling it ‘content’.

Produce = Fresh. Tasty. Nutritious. Contains some ppm of Love.

Content = Lifeless. Sterile. An obligation.

[ensignrainy]

I was finishing up Supernatural when VGen dropped challenge with a theme WIngs, so I knew exactly what I should do...

Close-ups vvvv (Please look closely... Please... I promise you it's worth it)

This one is just because I like how the stars turned out (but you know what they represent... You know...)

[pinknatural]

“What was it like?” Sam asks. Cas turns to face him. They’re in the “Dean Cave”, lights still dim and credits rolling. Dean’s asleep, head resting on Cas’ shoulder, and Sam almost suggested moving him before he saw the pleased expression on Cas’ face. Jack excused himself for bed as soon as the movie ended, and Sam thought about it, too, but–he needs to know. 

“The Empty?”

“No,” Sam says. “No, when…when I was dead. In the Cage. What was–what was Dean like? I know you were watching him.”

“Oh,” Cas says, clearly surprised at this topic of conversation. “Well he was very sad, obviously.”

“Obviously,” Sam says. “But I mean–was he drinking? Was he crying himself to sleep? Was he being stupid?”

Cas frowns. “He drank, but he had a job with a construction company so he usually reserved that for weekends. He didn’t like to talk about you.”

“But he had a job?”

“Yes,” Cas says. 

“Did he like–go to Ben’s PTA meetings?”

“I don’t know,” Cas says. “He certainly drove him to baseball practice and went to his games if he wasn’t working.”

Sam exhales. 

“You have to understand that he was a shell of himself,” Cas says. “Trying very hard but he didn’t have any passion.”

“Right,” Sam says. “Of course.”

“It was, I assume, very similar to how he acted the last few months,” Cas adds. Except the thing is that Cas is totally wrong. The thing is that Dean had a whole life with Lisa while Sam was in the Cage, while Sam was soulless. The thing is that when Cas was dead….

Sam’s not jealous. He’s not upset. He’s glad Dean was able to move on. His time with Amelia proves that he can move on, too. It’s just…

Interesting, that when it was Cas who died, he couldn’t. 

Sam looks at Dean, who hasn’t moved. His eyes are wide open, and he stares at Sam. Cas doesn’t know he’s awake. Dean shakes his head minutely, and Sam sends his gaze to the ceiling. 

“Yeah,” Sam lies. “Sounds pretty much the same.”

[greeneyedgrasshopperandhisangel]

Please do answer Dean

[followyourenergy]

Getting to Know Your Mutuals

Tagged by @darynidia

Thank you, Dary!

1. Origins of your blog‘s name:

followyourenergy is the name I use for my SPN fandom writing. It comes from a time when I was a bit adrift in my job and searching for the next thing, something that I’d find fulfilling. My life/career coach (no I’m not making that up) suggested that I follow my energy—that is, that I did what was most energizing, that fueled me. It stuck, and here I am. (Also, it was very good guidance that hasn’t steered me wrong yet.) It’s a name that fits my personality.

2. My “I’ll always order this food“:

Thai, specifically panang curry or pad see ew.

3. Overused emoji:

😂

4. Current comfort movie, show, and book:

I…don’t really have a comfort book? Terrible for an author. I don’t reread a lot of things except for my own work, so perhaps it is my own work that is my comfort read (how egotistical of me lol). I think it’s because I write what I like to read. Also, I poured my heart into them, and when I read them, I get that feeling all over again, along with the feelings of connection I had with my readers over our favorite fools. 💙💚 As for movies and TV shows, I don’t watch a lot of them, and I rarely rewatch them. However, I suppose my comfort movies would be “The Princess Bride” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and TV show would be “Schitt’s Creek.”

5. Song on repeat:

“The Only Hope for Me Is You” by MCR, and a lot of their other work (the entire Black Parade album, etc.). Also some of ABBA’s work. Music often influences my writing, so it’s usually something that I’m going to use in my work in some way. Look for both of those artists in later fics lol

6. My current hyperfixation:

Reading, I guess?

7. Oddly specific thing that brings me joy:

The feeling of opening my door to a warm day and breathing it in.

8. What smell makes me happy:

Petrichor and greenhouses

9. Something I loved as a kid and secretly still do:

A loved one covering me with a blanket

10. Phone wallpaper right now/lock screen:

Both are photos from my trip to Iceland.

11. Are you an early bird or a night owl:

Early bird, both by nature and because the cats wake me up lol

12. If you work, what is your profession and do you like it:

Without getting too specific about it, I’m a health professional and educator. I adore what I do.

No-pressure tags:

@friendofcarlotta @desiraelovesdestiel

Anyone is welcome to play!

[nezyy78]

[followyourenergy]

I love this angle! Someone wanna write this? 👀

[frecklesandfeathers]

phone sex gone wrong

[travelingintheimpalaandthetardi]

THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE DESTIEL POST

[goodblunt]

Remember when dean was a Husk of a shell of a xerox of a xerox of a man at the bottom of a flask for all of season fifteen because he had learned his whole life had been prewritten and composed for the amusement of a perverse god and he was consumed by a need to escape and eventually after chasing away his BEST FRIEND and making his son into a BOMB and threatening his brother with a GUN he realized he had been entertaining god's will by enacting cycles of violence and nearly sacrificed all his relationships for a godless freedom which actually meant nothing without those relationships, and when he broke down and felt more than cornered animal anger , when he felt cornered animal guilt and despair that he had led his best friend into a small room with Death knocking on the door, in that moment his best friend sacrificed himself by DECLARING HIS TRUE LOVE AS A FORM OF SUICIDE to give dean a shot at life and freedom , and he threw dean to thhe ground where he stayed for hours alone in the dark , and dean said nothing and he became nothing again and the world was empty too and he shouted to god that he would trade his own life, his brother's life, their freedom, for his angel who was the only person who ever broke out for real, the singular embodiment of true freedom in the whole stupid sandbox world. And even after they Won and everything was normal except one thing, he drank himself into carrying on a pointless imitation of life until he had a chance to give up and nail his exhaustion on the wall of a barn because he couldn't enjoy a freedom that was devoid of love. And he was drinking in heaven too and cas was there but he never saw cas again does anybody remember any of that?

[followyourenergy]

😭

[myaimistrue]

watching season five is just me seeing dean and cas interact, remembering that they end up in a common-law marriage raising a child together, and then bursting into tears

[myaimistrue]

like they don’t know each other here! i mean, they’re allies and friends and they’re devoted to the same cause, but they aren’t best friends yet! they’re in a motel parking lot at the end of the world talking about their deadbeat dads, and they have no idea that in ten years they will have a son. they have no idea what they’re going to do to each other, and what they will forgive of each other, and the mistakes they’ll make over and over. they have no idea that they have a love that will kill god. 

[thefriendlypigeon]

🍂Suptober - Day 21 | Ladies Of SPN🍂

Missouri smiled as the boys clung to her, small and full of light. She saw so many paths in those bright little souls ~ storm and sorrow, yes, but also laughter and love that would shake the heavens. “You’ll be all right,” she whispered, brushing a curl from Sam’s forehead. “Both of you will find your way.”

[wyrdpersonwhowanders]

i was rewatching the end of 10x22 and realised something about the final scene between cas and dean. when cas says "i don't want to have to hurt you" to dean, dean scoffs, gives cas a sound beating, then turns to walk away. but then. cas says the colette parallel: "dean. stop." and i cannot get over the way this impacts dean.

cas has no idea what his words mean. he was not there with cain in 9x11 when he told dean the story of his wife. only crowley was there, and it's not like he's going to share any of this information with cas. so when cas asks dean to stop, he's not saying it in the hopes that dean will remember what cain said and be moved by that. he's only asking, in the most heartbreakingly gentle voice, for dean to stop. to walk away from this path that will lead him into darkness. and the only reason he's saying it is out of his love for dean.

but DEAN. dean knows the story behind that word. he knows that "stop" was what cain's wife, who loved him unconditionally, who forgave him, said in an attempt to save him. to dean, this would sound like an expression of love.

i think this is why dean walks back toward cas and hurts him so much more violently than he did the first time and then tries to kill him. because he understood cas' words through the lens of unconditional love and devotion. and maybe he realised that he also loved cas enough that he would stop if cas asked him. and the mark couldn't allow that - the mark was driving dean to kill anything that stood in his way, and while it didn't interpret cas, an angelic warrior, as a threat, a loving, forgiving cas brokenly asking dean to stop - that was a threat.

look at dean's reaction here. he was on the verge of leaving, he was walking away because he didn't think cas could physically do anything to stop him. but when cas simply asks him to stop, he turns back. he realises that, if cas begged him, then he would stop, that the part of him still clinging to humanity loves cas enough to do that. and that love frightens the part of him that has been taken over by the mark. so the only solution is to kill cas, to remove someone who could actually stand in his way.

and during this second beating, the most gentle of supernatural's themes, the jay gruska dean's family dedication theme, is playing in the background - it starts right after cas asks dean to stop. the theme that specifically reveals dean's gentler, loving inner self - that's the theme they chose to play while he's trying to kill cas.

but of course, in the end, despite what the mark wants, despite it seeing cas and his love for dean, as a threat, it still cannot make dean kill cas.

[followyourenergy]

Intriguing interpretation!

[michaelsworddean]

fics where the miscommunication between dean and cas are too strong are so realistic and funny. like no dean cas isn’t rejecting your date proposal you said it like you only wanted to eat something in the middle of a hunt. no cas dean isn’t being a friendly buddy he literally just tried to kiss you

[michaelsworddean]

and the ones where cas comes back and dean thinks for some reason cas magically stopped loving him. he’s like “i know you don’t love me anymore but” babygirl you’re unwell

[michaelsworddean]

DO YOU THINK HE GOT A BOYFRIEND IN THE EMPTY???

[michaelsworddean]

#those ones are so funny bc Dean has had months to convince himself something has changed#but Cas just took a nap#went to sleep woke up Dean's like so youve fallen out of love with me cas is like it has been FIVE MINUTES

[butchmary]

jaw fucking drop everybody look at this tiktok