CHOSEN ONE'S BRIDE

23. She/Her. Dedicated to dissecting different shows that I'm invested in, such as True Blood, Teen Wolf, Young Dracula, Being Human UK, The Originals, Hemlock Grove (and many more, you just have to take a look or ask) NOT MY GIFS, as if that isn’t obvious by now. This is all just innocent fun and for my own indulgence.

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YD rewrite fic masterlist

I'll preface this by saying my version of Season 1 is the show's Season 3, if that makes sense. I start there, so I just call it Season 1, 2 and 3 even though in the show and in canon, it's Season 3, 4 and 5.

Season 1:

Chapter One

Bonus Chapter

Chapter Two

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being human random take

I'm not the only one to think this, I'm sure, but the reason why Hal, Tom and Alex feel so different to Annie, Mitchell and George, to me, is primarily because for them, it isn't about being human.

Tom tries to improve himself, whether it's vocabulary or his know-how, sure. Hal tries to act more civilised and in-control, sure. Alex tries to... well, nothing, besides trying to resolve her own death and open the door. Sure, they have the job at the hotel. But this trio doesn't fight tooth and nail to have all that. We don't see them have go through the awkward parts of life. It's all quite simple and isolated. For example: they get the jobs no problem, or they don't date different people.

They're not agonising over the unreachable concept of being human, not like the original trio were. It consumed them. For Hal, Tom and Alex, being supernatural is the focus, in my opinion.

They don't fight outside forces tearing them apart, they fight amongst each other.

I don't know how else to put it into words. They obviously still try to be human, but there isn't so much desperation or effort. And I feel like they somehow didn't take advantage of the fact that these three aren't fixated on being human. They wanna change, they wanna fix themselves, but it's not to the same point as the original trio. They could've had more conversations (and better plots) surrounding the idea that they don't mind being supernatural, for the most part.

Tom IS the wolf and it works well for him. He's a warrior.

Hal is crippled by his hunger, but it doesn't drive him to murder every single time. He's capable of holding back and just feeding on someone.

And I think, if the show had gone on further and things had developed, Alex would have adapted to being dead if it meant she could still have a semblance of something with Hal.

Call me nasty or misunderstanding of her character, but her relationship with Hal was always the most fun, interesting part of her character. Like how Alex going on the date with Cram, for example, wasn't exactly to feel human. Not really. It was a lust-filled get-back at Hal. They were flirting through conflict.

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young Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the death of me 😍🔥👅💋🙊

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Every time I see things like this, I just get down on my knees and praise the casting for Supernatural because...

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True Blood season 2, episode 8, "Timebomb"

Godric puts Lorena Krasiki in her place, after she attacks Sookie Stackhouse in his territory.

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Sam, Amelia and the dog is just a copy of Dean, Lisa and Ben.

Instead of a child, it’s a dog.

Down to the picnic blanket date stuff.

It’s the EXACT same.

Sam deserved way more than that shit. I’m not the only person to say that. I felt the same way years ago. But it’s just lazy writing. Total lazy writing.

Sam could’ve been trying to help Kevin. He could’ve been alone with the dog, like when he first ran away from John. He could’ve been literally doing anything else.

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Okay, I seriously, seriously dislike the writers for just blatantly painting Sam as this ignorant, unsympathetic ass who didn’t even try to look for Dean, but also left a 16-year-old boy to fend for himself with demons.

I get it, he might have turned his cellphone off and just didn’t hear the messages, but come on…

Sam’s like a dog with a bone sometimes. You telling me that he felt helpless about not finding Dean and Cas, but didn’t help Kevin — who he actually knew was with Crowley?

Sam Winchester, who was showing up drunk and devastated, at the crossroads all the time, bartering with demons to get Dean out of Hell?

Did they just completely forget who Sam was?

ALSO, Sam saying “I found something I’ve never had before, all my life” — uh… he had it with Jess.

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Okay, I really like the soft version of Meg and Castiel. Caretaker and Crazy!Cas is a really good combo — interesting, even.

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Dean Winchester referenced True Blood.

I can die happy.

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Having the Leviathans act like normal humans, bitching about coffee orders and stuff, was a poor move. Makes them so not scary.

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okay i saw your canon/non canon fave ships post and you might not acknowledge legacies but jed and ben are such a refreshing and good ship i swear

I’m sure they’re great! I’d expect Legacies to have more gay ships because it’s the younger generation and a more recent show out of the “trilogy”.

But like I said, I have no interest in watching Legacies as a whole because it’s, in my opinion, trying too hard to suddenly be like Supernatural or even Shadowhunters with all of the creatures they suddenly have. It became… ridiculous. They should’ve stuck to vampires, werewolves and witches.

[seasononesam]

Have you seen ‘em? Yeah.

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in light of my last post: my fave gay ships (canon and non-canon)

Lafayette and Jesus (True Blood) are one of the most solid, if not THE most solid, relationships in the show. Perfection. The way that I clutched my chest when the two first met -- I knew this would be a heartbreaker kind of ship. And I was right. They were perfect together and what I loved most about them was that Lafayette finally got his true love, after spending seasons of men lying to him and using him. And while I did like James in the later seasons, with Lafayette, I definitely missed Jesus.

My gay Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Romeo, if you will. Josh and Aiden were one of the best things about Season 2 of The Originals and SHOCKINGLY the first gay ship in TVDU. Like, that's ridiculous. I would've thought TVD, being filled with teens who are arguably more experimental and carefree about sexuality, and how it's pitched to be the sexiest show of the three shows (even if I don't acknowledge Legacies), that it would've been the show to have more gay relationships. But alas... Josh and Aiden, in THIS episode specifically, were just so adorable. Again, one of the best ships in the show. Fuck you, Dahlia. Also, the scene where Josh is under Finn's spell and is going all vampy, so Aiden snaps his neck and presses him close in apology before just hauling him over his shoulder and carrying him out. Honestly, goals.

Danny and Ethan (Teen Wolf) were exactly the kind of refresher the show needed after so much straight drama in the first two seasons lmao. They were, again, adorable. Didn't have them for long, but like I said... having gay ships cleanses certain eye-rolling moments.

Scott and Isaac (Teen Wolf), while not being canon, are one of the ships I think about most when it comes to the idea of "untapped potential". I've always said that precious time was wasted with Isaac and Allison and all that drama when it was so clear that he and Scott had a connection pretty much as soon as they met. To me, while they are portrayed as two straight guys, if the writers had used their heads, they would've put them together. What did it for me, years ago, was the scene in Raving, when they're stood close, rather intimately, and it's just locked in on them as Scott's explaining the plan to him. And then Scott drops the fact that he's worried about him getting hurt. Isaac looks at him in awe. Like... hello? And that's just one scene. The rest is... without a doubt... full of actual gay subtext, in my opinion.

Perhaps my fave non-canon ship: Eric and Jason. I get giddy every time I remember that dream scene. Nothing could've been more iconic than the most two "masculine-presenting" men of True Blood actually throwing each other around and having sex. Jason Womaniser Stackhouse turns into a total puppy with Eric. I can't even think about them for two long or else I'll gnaw through my cage.

As for lesbian and sapphic ships... there really isn't that many that pull me in. A lot of lesbian ships on TV, to me, typically feel forced or queer-bait-y. And, well, there is a complete lack of lesbians in shows altogether. So, I'm ashamed to say that I have no love for any WLW ships in any of the shows I watch. The only one I can think of is Buffy and Faith (BTVS).

Faith was my in-your-face awakening that I wasn't completely straight, so I may be biased, but they did give certain vibes. I could see Faith being in love with Buffy and being quasi-obsessed with her whilst also resenting/envying her. Buffy wouldn't necessarily reciprocate because of the show's context but, I'd have settled for a little bit more obvious outlining about Faith's feelings.

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my thoughts on dean and castiel

No one asked for this, but my blog is purely to get things off my chest, so, here's to the rare people who care. So, to start: I've been a fan of Supernatural for, I don't know, ten years? Maybe more? And I've always had complicated feelings about Dean and Cas, especially when I saw how people on the internet felt about them.

I never saw romance as a teen and I still don't. I see something that is "profound" like Cas says, but it never strays into romantic territory because it's just not written that way to me. "Gay subtext" aside or whatever, I just didn't see it that way.

Shippers can have their cake. I just feel like... a man and a male-presenting vessel with an angel inside can have a strong relationship without it being romantic.

Dean inspired Castiel to think for himself, to question authority and, well, God. He represents the best of humanity because he's willing to risk his life for the many, he's willing to stand up to angels to save a town of innocent people and he's loyal to his brother like most of the angels are to each other. They have a great deal in common and a lot of differences at the same time. Dean himself calls Cas a brother and I think that while there is a intimacy that they have unlike many other relationships, it's not romantic, it's, again, profound. Castiel represents the angels that were supposed to have been watching over Dean when he was a baby, like his mother always told him before bed. Cas represents the idea of there being good besides hunters. Also, Cas saw Dean in his most vulnerable moments because of the lack of barriers, such as raising him from Hell, knowing what he did down there, knowing what he's dreaming about, knowing how much responsibility weighs on his shoulders and acknowledging it. Cas basically guided Dean through the post-Hell life and had his back. Before Cas, Dean was always helplessly calling John, dealing with things by himself (which would end in self-destructive moments) and staring helplessly into the sky, crying.

"The Monster At The End Of This Book" is a prime example of what Cas means to Dean. He feels helpless, as always, because Sam seems to be in bed with evil again, or he's at risk of using his powers and going too far. He's upset and pissed off and Cas initially claims he can't do anything. He can't interfere. But with a smirk, he tells him, in a roundabout way, how to save Sam from Lilith. Dean breathes out in relief and thanks him, before leaving to do just that.

Cas eliminates Dean's constant helplessness, most of the time.

As for the sexuality conversation...

While I think Dean's sexuality could be dissected all day by people, Jensen played him as straight and it plays out that way. What fans misunderstand as cues of his bisexuality is Eric Kripke (and other writers) quite terribly ridiculing certain things about masculinity and gayness. Dean being flustered that a guy at the bar would hit on him isn't him being flustered because he's excited, it's him being unaccustomed to being seen as a potential date by a guy. It's him thinking "what about me says that I'm gay?" He doesn't want to be perceived as gay because he was a typical straight guy born in the 70's. The jokes about him and Sam being assumed to be a couple is a very 2005-2007 dig that was played up at the time.

Also, the idea of internalised homophobia be damned, Dean knew himself pretty damn well and after taking on Satan, he would've been out of the closet and done as he wanted, even if it was in secret. If they wanted to do a Deadpool/Peacemaker kind of thing where he's masculine badass but still bisexual, they could have, easily. But they didn't. Dean only hooked up with women. He had the hetero male-crushes that men tend to have, like Dr Sexy, but it didn't mean he was bisexual. He liked Dr Sexy because he wanted to be like him, it seemed. Cowboy boots and sleeping with nurses. Sounds like him.

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i would fuck him [remembers im talking about a real person] um [remembers its normal to be attracted to people] i would fuck him

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I may be the only one, but why did Chrissy feel like she was flirting with Dean?

Maybe the way she looked at him, the way she talked… it all felt odd to me.

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Supernatural struggles to toe the line between “hunters die, that’s the life” and “this death was a devastating blow to me and my life”.

I feel like so many side characters who die, often in service of Sam and Dean, aren’t given their props, they aren’t referenced enough, there’s no real consequence.

I don’t know, part of me would like the earlier season stuff, like Sam seeing Jess on the side of the road as they drive by. Even if it’s just flashes like that, it has an effect.

Bobby’s death specifically, didn’t do it for me.

In True Blood, Sookie couldn’t clean or enter her kitchen without imagining her Gran. And that relationship wasn’t as “extraordinary” and trauma-bonded as Supernatural’s relationships are.