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things I forgot: they made an artemis fowl movie in 2020

things I was extremely excited to re-discover in 2025: they made an artemis fowl movie in 2020

things I also forgot: it's hilariously nothing near close to the premise of the books

things that made me extremely not excited upon re-discovering: it's nothing near to the premise of the books

what a rollercoaster of emotions I just went through

#artemis fowl #fowldom #i used to love artemis fowl when i was a kid #one day i will watch the movie #but that day is not today

transjackrackham

they should’ve had the end of the trials be crucifixion. dean should’ve had to drive nails through the palms of sam’s hands and his feet, and then make sam’s cross stand up on the altar of the church. fellas do you ever feel so impure that you strive to become christ incarnate and then never get to be crucified?

ywhiterain

bed now

but before Man, how great was Sam and Jack in the prison cell together? Sam’s so clearly terrified because of Lucifer trauma but clear enough in his thinking that Jack isn’t his father and deserves compassion so he tries to reach out.

And it’s not so clear cut as Sam Is Wonderful, because he’s not. He’s got a motive - Jack might be able to save his mom. He plans to bring Jack into his home with Dean, who is set on murdering him and has decided he’s going to be evil and that’s that (like he did with poor Cyrus - and remember the mark just brings out what’s inside.)

He’s basically bringing Jack into an abusive home. His connection with Jack is pretty goddamn terrifying - Sam is honestly not the right person to raise him. It’s not fair to Jack, it’s not fair to Sam. Who else is there, though? But that’s so often how things end up in toxic family dynamics. There either no other answer but more pain and suffering or there doesn’t seem to be any other way because you’re too caught up in cycles of trauma and violence.

And this is what SPN does best. Jack isn’t just a breath of fresh air because of really damn good casting and a new gimmick on a long-running show. He really adds something to the Winchester Family Dysfunction.

Let’s fix the family by bringing in a baby! Only that’s never actually worked. But it’s a natural progression in the Sam-and-Dean-as-life-partners-in-an-abusive-relationship dynamic. We’re getting some new notes on this familiar song. Dean’s been gung-ho on killing innocent before, but only for one episode. Jack isn’t going anywhere and what Dean will do and Sam’s inability to truly protect him will have consequences.

At the same time. a newborn Jack spent his first day alive trying to find his father only to end the day at his funeral. He had no idea what to do or how to feel or what to say. Sam’s the only one he’s got and Sam stepped up. And that really does matter. At the end of the day, despite Sam’s mistakes with Jack, he does play a pivotal role in shaping Jack into becoming a better god.

katsidhe

I love how 13.01 sets up the relationship beats for Sam and Jack’s relationship. And I adore how simultaneously flawed and giving Sam is here: I don’t think the flawed elements of their relationship get enough attention in fandom. On top of the pragmatism you pointed out, in that Sam needs Jack’s powers to save Mary, Sam is also using Jack for his own emotional needs in a way that isn’t fair to either of them.

Sam NEEDS for the son of Lucifer to be redeemable, and Sam is getting something cathartic out of personally being the one to help him. Sam wants his relationship with Jack to not be about Lucifer, but, well, it’s unavoidable. The uncomfortable elements in Sam nominating himself to raise his rapist’s child are unavoidable. It’s in some ways a self-care/self-harm thing, a bit comparable to what Sam was trying to use Nick to accomplish in s14.

And Sam wants having Jack around to prove a point to Dean, too, to challenge his black-and-white thinking, and the obvious ways that Dean could and has condemned Sam with the same logic. When Sam says that his family helped him, it’s not true, but he wants it to be true.

The will-Dean-kill-Sam question can really only be interrogated so many times when we know the answer has to be, in the end, always and forever no, for as long as the show is running. But Jack doesn’t have that same safety. Jack isn’t Dean’s family, even though he’s shoved into that familiar role. So the stakes for Jack feel so much fresher than for Sam, and Sam as a protector rather than a target is also in new territory.

#spn #tw: rape

tchaikovskaya

sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

miss-chicken

armillary-spheres-lover

yes exactly

maulthots

fic recs for when you think about sam’s dropped plotlines

fic for when you think about the consequences of being possessed by gadreel: touch and go

fic for when you think about amy and jacob pond: 2081

fic for when you think about boyking sam: victrix

fic for when you think about witch sam: these are the days of miracle and wonder

fic for when you think about sam meeting lucifer again in s13: the long walk

fic for when you think about sam’s bodily autonomy over the years: body of proof

fic for when you think about the fact that sam never get his own ep in the same way as dean: sleepwalking the life fantastic

fic for when you think about sam’s crown of thorns: maschiach

#spn #yes yes yes

unseelieaccords

"my child is fine" your child soulgazed a Kraken.

#dresden files #the most wtf moment

livedinthecastle

watching a single episode of supernatural cna be a 3 hour long engagement if you’re damaged enough

#spn #this is why my roomates hate me #they have to listen to me go on a 1 hr long rant over 5 minutes in an episode #this is hyperbole #but also this

ratcity

Sorry I think the reason I’m so stuck on supernatural is because it understands American loneliness kind of more than any other show. Like who else’s pussy was big enough to put an angel next to a vending machine. That’s so powerful. How are you going to have a show about America and most of it takes place on highways and in offbrand motel rooms confronting monsters. Not to mention the uncanny valley of shooting in backwoods Canada and trying to pass it off as Route 66. It’s so perfect because it says America is a distant dream that we can’t reach and a land of ghosts and then it follows through. It says there’s always a war below the surface and we are all fighting constantly to keep it in check. Death drives a hotrod through Chicago. There’s two brothers and a demon in a diner and they’re getting milkshakes together. How can you show a man losing faith with an angel next to him. My brain feels so hot can someone please microwave me.

serialreblogger

not to unironically talk about spn in the godforsaken year of 2020 but honestly i feel this

the other thing tho, the flip side, the reason my bitterness and hatred for this show rose gradually like bile in my throat, the sickly aftertaste of day-old coffee–Supernatural is about America, in its most raw white hateful glory. And it shows.

I mean, yeah, as we know, there isn’t a marginalizing trope they don’t hit. You have “magical negros” (at least 3 i can think of off the top of my head–wait, I forgot about the fetish cat-witch, make that 4), and fridged lesbians and ambiguously “Asian” typecast-neurotic nerds and sexy Strong Female Characters and queer-baiting that flips into bury-your-gays and no matter what happens next, fifteen years of mocking fans for wanting what the narrative promised will not be undone.

The lesbian dies, and the Asian prophet dies, and the maternal Black psychic dies, and the blonde girlfriend dies, and the blind psychic dies, and the Deaf hunter dies (fucking offscreen), and every one of the Strong Female Characters die, and they all die so the armed white men can justify enacting further violence.

But that isn’t the point. That’s just a side-effect of the point.

You have wendigos and skinwalkers and Indian curses, Kali and Ganesh and Zao Shen and Baron Samedi. Sacred beliefs that are stolen and framed as monsters that stalk innocent women and children.

Other people’s religions are pillaged for monsters, gods rebuilt into depraved beasts that, without fail, hunger for white flesh. Christian beliefs and Christian values are grappled with for seasons, rebelled against with gravitas. Even when God is a deadbeat novelist named Chuck with an evil twin, the rosaries and rituals and holy water and prayers are still wielded as weapons to kill the wicked “pagan gods,” the foul, foreign, savage spirits and beasts.

You have shapeshifters, creatures that are somehow always evil: perhaps they’re assaulting innocents for their perverted pleasure, or they’re angry at being locked away and rejected because of their nature. Their nature, which is in itself no threat at all. Hunters, sure as American men always are with their guns and their black-and-white codes, call them “unnatural,” and we’re told they’re deserving of death. Their anger at being outcasts condemns them. Embracing the label of monster condemns them too.

You have families (always white families) trying to live their lives and being attacked by inhuman, awful things, over and over again. The family business, things that need to be eradicated with guns and fire and bloody stakes.

Supernatural is an American fantasy.

Supernatural takes place in a nation that doesn’t exist, backwoods Canada calling itself Las Vegas, a nation beset with inhuman threats that creep like rot from within. White, gun-toting alcoholics drive around in their car from the 60s and heroically, valiantly carry on the fight against the foul things that infiltrate their American dream. They kill walking, talking, feeling monsters with human faces, some of which have done no evil at all, and they are heroes.

Shapeshifters, witches, skinwalkers, foreign gods, these are things that do not deserve a trial. By their nature, they are evil. Our heroes roll through town in a muscle car and worn jeans, and shoot the monsters dead.

Saving people, hunting things.

(The white men with guns decide which is which.)

This is why I love Supernatural: it was fun to watch, still is really, if only for nostalgia’s sake; and I thought for a time there might be room in its story for me.

This is why I hate it: because it hates me. Because it hates everyone who is not a straight, cis, American, abled, culturally-Christian white man.

The family business, indeed.

#spn #really interesting #i had never thought of it like this #well put

rubysstrap-deactivated

ive had an epiphany

raccoonus

previeous tags: #i feel like i change my opinion on the finale every day but like.#if they did 'kill god' and the wack ass divine plan was over then they would be Normal THEREFORE#you can literally die at any time my dude. you can die the day before christmas and there will still be presents under the tree.#you can hope for a neat ending but like. most people just die on a weekday _________________________________________________________

Okay so here are my thoughts. The finale was:

1) a song fic to kansas carry on my wayward son

2) an homage and a goodbye

3) what the tags says. like. it’s life. it’s what happens in life. people just die and the pain is always there but you gotta live

#spn #did i do tumblr tag etiquette correct #it was about the boys but it also wasn't about the boys

is finnick odair and thomas raith the same person?

#the dresden files #the hunger games #ok i know they aren't #but they definitely have the same vibe #justine / annie?

katsidhe

X-Coded Y Girl: The Definitive Supernatural Quiz

Here it is. The moment everyone has been waiting for. This is it. This is where it’s all been leading. Billions of years of evolution, thousands of years of literary criticism and psychological thought. It’s all culminated in this. This is my crowning achievement. You’re welcome. This isn’t what the world needs, but it’s what the world deserves.

Are you Dean-, Sam-, or Cas-coded? Are you a Dean, Sam, or Cas girl? what are you? WHAT are you? what ARE you? what are YOU?

The answers may surprise you.

#i took this test #samcoded sam girl (not really surprised there)#and then I made my roomate who hasn't watched supernatural take it #which was way more fun than I expected #I didn't know the x-coded y girl meme before I took the test #now I do #this fandom man