So Ineffable

[stjohnstarling]

I’m not sure how many people realize that there’s a way in which hurt/comfort is actually very kinky, because at its core you’ve got this emotional power exchange fantasy where one character is vulnerable and helpless and the other takes care of them. In the case of stories involving grievous injuries, where someone is bedridden for a long time, you often end up with two characters in a 24/7 total power exchange relationship without a safeword. It just doesn’t involve as many whips and dog collars.

[ardebatis]

Can I?? Like burrow into your brain like an amoeba? I need to feed on more of this

[mumblingsage]

This reminds me of a blogger who covered femdom romance and erotica novels, who once remarked on a non-femdom series where "the portrayal of sex has an emotional intensity and purpose which is reminiscent of BDSM. The sex is vanilla, but the feelings are rather sadomasochism."

Hurt/comfort may be vanilla or entirely nonsexual, but the feelings can get very sadomasochism! Or D/s. Or other elements of kink.

[nymphalidaze]

The canonical feminisation of Dean is so fascinating. I don't know a single other piece of media that's ever done anything like it. Sometimes it's subtle and subtextual, but often it's the polar opposite.

There's the parentification of Dean into the role of wife and mother.

Dean being literally forcefemmed sexually by Rhonda when she makes him wear pink panties.

The way people talk about his looks, like Gwen saying he 'has delicate features for a hunter'.

Azazel calling Sam 'son' but calling Dean 'daddy's little girl'.

'Daddy' is more utilised by female characters than male, often to signify youth, innocence, and naivety, but it crops up often for Dean. The above from Azazel. Dean's own subconscious calling him 'Daddy's blunt little instrument'. Most strikingly, Henrickson saying 'Daddy brainwashed you with all that devil talk and no doubt touched you in a bad place'.

And that last one, the little remarks and plot points that time and again suggest Dean is a victim of CSA. The 'nobody's a virgin' line. The way he is paralleled with Bela. It's rare that male characters ever get this treatment.

It's just such fascinating characterisation. On the surface, Dean is all tough-guy machismo: he drives a cool car, wears a leather jacket and work wear, listens to metal, drinks whiskey, and is chillingly comfortable with violence. But this is so often framed as compensation for the fact that underneath it all, he's just a traumatised, damaged kid who grew up too fast and has suffered through countless horrors.

And he's Daddy's little girl.

[ambyo]

I don’t know who made this but this is pure gold

[according2thelore]

in an au where soulmates are an accepted phenomenon, and you only see in black & white until you meet your soulmate, sam winchester was born seeing in color.

he thinks it's just because he's not built for a soulmate, that the weird, ugly, broken thing inside of him exempts him from ever being connected to another human being like that.

he keeps books underneath his mattress, stolen from school libraries and left whenever they leave, of big dramatic soulmate revelations. of people who aren't soulmates but make it work anyway, of two widowed soulmates falling in love. a million soulmates-by-choice stories, where people carve out their own happiness.

he resents the fact that the sky is blue on the day of jessica's funeral, that he's allowed to know it.

in "faith," it's raining and dark and sam is so strung out he doesn't even notice the color leeching out of the world, a slow dial lowering the volume tick-by-tick.

it's not until dean gets dragged to hell, sam screaming no-no-no-no, that the world clicks off color like a light switch. sam crawls over to dean, and hauls him into his arms, and can barely see the blood anymore--soaked into the already-dark wood of the floor.

and sam sobs and sobs and sobs because not only does he have a soulmate--did, past tense--the entire time, but he's alone in it, because sam was hauled back into life and dean didn't mention it once.

[according2thelore]

in an au where soulmates are an accepted phenomenon, and you only see in black & white until you meet your soulmate, dean winchester can't remember a time when he didn't see in color.

life for him started when he saw baby sammy in his blue, blue, blue blanket in mommy's arms at the hospital. he remembers the fire was red. he remembers mommy's blood was almost black on daddy's ruddy face.

he figures it's probably for the best that he doesn't have a soulmate, since the life is so dangerous and he's seen what losing colors has done to his dad. he loves short flings and sleeping around and pretty girls, and lets them know he's not looking to get attached. it's the best someone like him could hope for, anyway.

until sammy dies in his arms knee-deep in a mud-pit in cold oak. dean thinks the world's ended, because he lifts his hand to see if sammy's bleeding, but it's just black smeared on grey and he doesn't know what's happening.

it's like peering through a veil, staring at his dead soulmate on a bed. for days. when he brings sam back, he almost sobs in relief to see the demon's red eyes. he doesn't tell sam--of course he doesn't--who fucking wants to hear that your evil, fucked up bastard of an older brother has a one-way tie to you? especially 364 days from his ultimate demise? no. dean's not cruel, just selfish.

((the worst thing of it all, though, is when sam jumps into the pit, and dean stares down at the green grass underneath his hands, clenched in his fists until they come away to show rich, brown dirt, where sam lies thousands of miles below. alive. alive. alive. until, presumably, he hits the pit, and dean feels sam die in real time, feels that string snap, and tear ragged, and sam and all of his color is taken from him.))

[mylittleimpala]

[novakstogive]

Sam & Dean Winchester SUPERNATURAL — 1.04 "Phantom Traveler"

[rowenagirl]

on the flipside of the genre aware Dean coin I've always had this idea that sam is genre-resistant, he is oblivious or disdainful or both. I mean obviously with moments like 'you peed yourself!' or 'there aren't even words in this newspaper dean!' the joke is that he's not participating in Dean's self-conscious vaudeville act. first scene of him as an adult is him telling Jess he doesn't want to dress up for Halloween, he resists being costumed, he doesn't pick the music and all the music he is shown genuinely enjoying the joke is that it's out-of-place, too whiny or modern. his pop culture touchstones don't mesh with the show's very strict aesthetic sensibilities. also in comparison to Dean who is such a chameleon Sam is kind of allergic to pretense. like thinking abt in it's a terrible life where Dean immediately adapts to the contours of his new role vs Sam who is thrashing around like a trapped animal.

[ethan-anyfandom]

another wip… I’m kinda proud of this one too, but it’s something that I’m probably never going to finish, I’m way too busy 😭 but y’all get to see it anyways :3

[moovawy]

just a little study, or something. i don’t know the terms, i just do stuff.

[ellakas]

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

[iloveyoudeanwinchester]

For @faunary 's SPN Spring Creative Prompts Day 15: Instrument

My poor boy, he's just a tool for heaven to use .... 🥺

[prokrst]

Mary Winchester, the most controversial character for me, whom I love.

[dragongirlbunny]

while i do enjoy 'blatantly obvious lies as a bit' as much as the next gal, i will always break keyfabe if someone needs clarification, because i know it can be hard to parse a joke sometimes, especially via a text-only medium

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[bvrialatsea]

:)

[youmurderedmy]

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you