I love love love Supernatural! I will reblog and post anything and everything I see, no matter how many times I see it. [side note; I will probably just reblog and post things about everything and anything I am interested in, for warning ^-^ thanks]
i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet
Fun fact: they've done studies and money DOES buy happiness, but it tops out after a certain amount (nowadays around $500,000)
So yeah, having food / bills / medicine & a fair amount of leisure covered by income DOES buy happiness, but excess wealth depletes the effect exponentially.
Imagine that one day as you're walking on a hot sunny path, your hat jumps off your head and lands into a muddy ditch. And you look at your muddy hat and ask it: "What did you do that for?"
"I don't want to be a burden anymore", your hat answers. "You are always carrying me around, and I can't carry you. That's not fair."
"I don't mind carrying you, little idiot", you tell your hat, "you hardly weight anything at all, and you shelter me from the sun."
"But that's different", your hat protests. "I don't mind the sun scorching on me. That happens anyway. It's literally no trouble for me to shade you too."
"Just the same it's no trouble for me to carry you. But now, because you wanted to stop inconveniencing and bothering me, I am now hatless and you are in the dirt."
"Well done, mortal. I suppose you'll want to trade the changeling for your child?" "Trade? Are you insane? I'm keeping them both. What kind of worthless, twisted parent abandons their child to kidnap another?"
2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'
"I don't get the point of this." Cas mumbles. Again.
"Stop grumbling Cas, we're almost there."
"You're aware that I can establish my exact placement on this planet even with my sight obstructed, aren't you?"
"You're such a kill-joy man," Dean sighs. "Can't you turn off your angelic GPS or whatever?"
"I can," the angel replies honestly.
"Then do it and shut up. You're making me regret everything."
"No I'm not. You're excited, and you can't suppress a smile right now. Also you're thinking things that I probably shouldn't ..."
"CAS! for fucks sake, get out of my head! No mind reading, I thought we'd agreed upon that a long time ago."
Cas has the decency to look sheepish.
"Anyway. We're here. You can take the blindfold off."
Cas dutifully does as instructed, takes a look at the scenery out of the window, then at Dean, back to the scenery and Dean again. "A barn," he deadpans.
"The barn," Dean clarifies, feeling unsure all of a sudden.
After the longest ten seconds since the birth of the universe, Castiel opens the passenger door and gets out of the car. Dean follows, going to stand beside his angel friend.
"You took me here because this place holds a special meaning to you."
"No shit Sherlock."
Castiel frowns, but refrains from commenting on Dean's wording. "That's something that humans would deem romantic."
"U-uh," Dean mumbles.
"I thought that 'dudes' didn't do the 'romantic shit', that those were 'for chicks'." The dork even does the air quotes.
"Well I made an exception!" Dean snaps. He's really, really starting to regret everything. But then Castiel smiles. It's a small, secret thing, almost intimate. Beautiful.
"For me." He says. It's not really a question, but Dean feels like he should answer anyway.
"Yeah, for you. Because you're special. You said good things do happen, and I didn't believe you at the time, but then I had to change my mind, because you happened. You're my good thing Cas."
Cas is doing his usual intense staring, and Dean feels like he could collapse under that stare any moment now, but he collects his strength and stares back. Because Cas deserves this. He deserves to see the magnitude of the change that he brought into Dean's life. The transformation from empty shell, blunt instrument to a man full of hope, full of love.
"I wanted to celebrate the night we met," Dean says. "The night that changed everything."
"Does that involve kissing?" Cas blurts out, taking Dean totally aback.
"Well, uhm."
"Because I'd really like that." Again, that little, irresistible smile. And Dean is just a man. A man with no willstrength and that isn't even trying to resist.
erickripke1: "Happy 20 years, Supernatural. This doc is from April 2005, my pitch to the network of what I wanted the first eps to be after the pilot. Bloody Mary is the only one that stuck. Honestly, these would have been bangers. I had just turned 31, way too young to run a show. I was terrified. But I had the amazing Bob Singer, who taught me everything I know about producing and show running. David Nutter, one of the kindest people I've ever met, directing a brilliant pilot and being a trusted advisor throughout the first season. And then Peter Johnson, Phil Sgriccia, John Shiban, Jerry Wanek, Serge Ladouceur, the late great Kim Manners, and so many more, all genuine geniuses who made the show what it was and covered for my early fuck ups.
Unsung executives like Peter Roth, Susan Rovner, Clancy Collins-White, Melinda Hage, Stephanie Groves, Chad Kennedy, Michael Roberts, and too many others to count, who supported the show at every turn. And most importantly, @jaredpadalecki and @jensenackles, whose immediate and obvious bond from the very beginning was magic to watch. I saw it on the pilot (shooting the scene on the bridge) and knew it was going to work. We added so many other brilliant actors — @jumblejimstagram @misha @realmarksheppard and all the others, you know who you are, thanks for being family. Never could I have dreamed as a baby showrunner, that the show would touch that many people, and most importantly, put that much good in the world, thanks to the Jared, Jensen, Misha and the cast, who grew up into such fine, generous, kind men.
I guess we all grew up on that show. It'll always be my first TV love, I am who I am because of that show. Thanks to you, the fans, for loving it so passionately back then and loving it now, 20 years later. I can never express how grateful I am. Thank you. Happy 20th."
