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Supernatural Revisited: 6x12 Like a Virgin

Spoilers for 6x20 The Man Who Would Be King

In the words of Raoul the imaginary gay dragon who lives in the internet, 'this is either going to be the best episode of televised entertainment ever, or it's going to make us all wish we'd never been born'. Unfortunately, this one was not even in the realm of good. It provided me with so little of interest to say or comment on that skipping it entirely might have been an understandable choice. Neither Paula nor Demian had much to say outside a basic recap, and nor do I. This will be a short one.

To summarise, 'dragons' are kidnapping virgins. Dean and a newly-ensouled Sam investigate, kill a 'dragon' or two, rescue the surviving virgins, and find a grimoire the 'dragons' had been using. The grimoire turns out to be a manual to opening a gate to purgatory and bringing forth the Mother of All. Two surviving 'dragons' open the gate for a moment by yeeting a virgin into a volcano. The Mother of All takes possession of her body, and thus endeth the episode.

Oh, and the wall Death put up to keep Sam from remembering his hell-trauma is already well on its way to crumbling. As soon as my friend watched the previous episode a year ago, she said instantly 'that won't last an episode'. And last it did not.

First of all, the dragons blew chunks in this episode. They were just men whose hands got hot, and were they shown at any point with wings? The show does not have the budget for everything, but if so the writers should know not to push it.

At least the episode got the story of series six to move on a bit. The lame soulless!Sam plot is finally over, although we still have to endure ten more episode of Sam's stupid soul nonsense.The end also finally gave the purgatory questline a kick up the arse and made it do something, although to be fair this pace is actually about average for Supernatural. Regarding the plot of the whole of series six, it has felt more present than the plot of earlier sereis where many episodes could go by with only passing mentions of overarcing plot. This was still the era of network television, though, when the audience mostly expected monster of the week episodes with a little bit of actual plot. Oh for the days when telly could just be telly and we had 22 episodes a year with only a few months between each series, rather than 'cinematic experiences' which only have 10... no, wait; 8 episodes every 2 years. Or every 3 years.

No wonder television is dying.

The Sam plot is dumb. I did not care when I first watched these episodes, and I care less now. It also does not help that characters act stupid around him for obvious plot reasons. The writers need Sam's mental wall to crumble for the next part of the story, so of course Bobby makes it obvious he is hiding something from Sam and Dean conveniently neglects to fill Cas in on the whole thing. So what should happen but Cas accidentally tells Sam he has not actually just come back from the cage, but rather has been walking around for a year and half like a muppet with a hand up his arse.

I could queef a better story than this, and I lack the equipment necessary for queefing.

Apropos Cas, he reminds me Cartman's song Kyle's Mom's a Bitch, because Cas really is being a total bitch at the moment. He was vehemently against restoring Sam's soul, and after fisting Sam at the beginning of this episode, is horrified and infuriated by what he found. Sam's soul apparently feels 'flayed', and Cas gets all up in Dean's business about it. Why precisely is never made clear to me: how is Sam's soul being in Sam's body any worse that it being in the cage? It might kill Sam, but... so? Soulless!Sam was about as much use as a marzipan dildo, so thank Scrooge he went out screaming like a little girl. If Sam's trauma were to kill him, what would actually be lost? Presumably Sam would go to heaven if he died, which is a vast improvement on *reads notes* being gang-banged by Lucifer and Michael in the cage. And if Sam were suffering on Earth... well, the same Sam was suffering even worse in the cage, so nothing has been lost. In fact, Sam has been saved from further damage at Lucifer and Michael's hands.

Actually, just Lucifer's. The show later makes it clear that Michael and Adam were essentially taking inspiration from Inception and living endless lives together for their entire time in the cage. In other words, Adam spent eternity boning an archangel. Which makes the penultimate epiosode of the show even worse, and means that the last three episodes of Supernatural is just a series of Bury Your Gays one after the other. Cas, Michael, Adam, and Dean.

I think I actually hate this show. But at least Sam got to marry his blurry wife *vomits*.

Back to Cas; spoilers, but he is to blame for Sam's soul remaining in the cage while his body escaped. Everything that happened over the 18 months before this episode is Cas's fault. Being the overgrown teenager he is, accountability and responsibility are his kryptonite. Not to flog a dead horse, but this never changes. Even during the divorce arc of 15x03-15x10... Moreover, he is putting all the blame on Dean, and even has the cheek to say 'If you wanted to kill your brother, you should've done it outright', as if it were Dean who botched up the job of getting Sam out of the cage in the first place.

But on that topic: why does Cas not kill Sam? They have no relationship to speak of, do not resemble friends in any way, and the mess Sam will be in in a few episodes time is Cas's fault anyway. Although since they are not friends, I wonder why Cas was personally listening to Sam's prayer later in the episode. Guilt, fear, and anxiety probably.

Back to the plot: why did Dean and Sam drive all the way from South Dakota to Oregon to investigate a random case? The drive is so long. I live in Helsinki, and the drive they took is like me hopping into a car and spending a day and a half driving all the way to Austria. And then later, Dean drove from Oregon to San Francisco. WHY?! Is that like me driving from Austria to the south of Greece or Italy? How does he have enough money to pay for all that petrol? And to maintain the car? Are there no hunters already in the vicinity who can take on the case while Dean and Sam fart around in Minnesota or Iowa or somewhere nearby?

And why does Dean leave Sam alone in Oregon for so long? Not an idea of the good variety since Sam has only just returned from hell. And why, on the first case after Sam returns from hell, does he end up saving the day after Dean softens the enemy up and gets beaten up for his effort? This is as predictable as The Walking Dead having zombie ex machina all the bloody time. A few weeks ago, a clip from The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 3x01 appeared on my youtube feed, and I rolled my eyes after watching it. 'Bet you didn't expect those zombies to just appear out of that abandoned bus, did you? Wasn't that gnarly! I bet it scared ya!'

Actually, I thought it stupid that Carol and Daryl's recon skills were apparently non-existent after having lived in a zombie-world for many years. They walk past a bus in an infected area like that, but neglect to peer in through the open doors. Did they not even smell the huge number of dead bodies in the bus and down the street? It was pretty obvious what you were going for, but go off, I suppose.

At least Dean and Sam's conversation in the car does not get too ridiculous. Generally speaking, Sam is sufferable in this episode, although this might just be in comparison to soulless!Sam. Sam broaches the subject of Lisa (presumptively presuming Dean did not try to live a life with her), and Dean brushes the topic aside and deters further question by turning the music up. Sam, surprisingly, takes the hint and keeps his questions to himself.

One last point; Bobby claims that the grimoire is written in an obscure variety of Latin which will take him ages to translate. Paula pointed out that the Latin shown in the book is completely run-of-the-mill standardised Latin, so that was nonsense. Although I wonder whether there are actually any documented varieties of Latin which are especially obscure or unusual. The Anglo-Saxon used in the original manuscripts varies greatly between manuscripts written in different areas of England, and even between different time periods in the same area. Students of Anglo-Saxon will be presented with a standardised version to aid learning before dealing with variation. It is a similar situation with Old Norse. I really do wish the show were more specific with things like this, though, rather than making vague references and claims in the hopes the majority of the audience will be happy with it sounding meaningful. But how much more interesting would it have been if the grimoire had been in Faliscan, Latin's sister? Close enough that a skilled Latin speaker could reasonably be expected to work with it, but different enough to prove a challenge?

Anyway, that does it for this time. The next episode is a bit better than this one, so at least I have that to look forward to.

Anyway, that does it for this time. You can read more of my analyses here:

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Series 5

Series 6

Sundry

You can read Paula’s review here and Demian’s here.

P.S. The only version of Like a Virgin I care about.

[hellerfanboy91]

Supernatural Revisited: 6x12 Like a Virgin

Spoilers for 6x20 The Man Who Would Be King

In the words of Raoul the imaginary gay dragon who lives in the internet, 'this is either going to be the best episode of televised entertainment ever, or it's going to make us all wish we'd never been born'. Unfortunately, this one was not even in the realm of good. It provided me with so little of interest to say or comment on that skipping it entirely might have been an understandable choice. Neither Paula nor Demian had much to say outside a basic recap, and nor do I. This will be a short one.

To summarise, 'dragons' are kidnapping virgins. Dean and a newly-ensouled Sam investigate, kill a 'dragon' or two, rescue the surviving virgins, and find a grimoire the 'dragons' had been using. The grimoire turns out to be a manual to opening a gate to purgatory and bringing forth the Mother of All. Two surviving 'dragons' open the gate for a moment by yeeting a virgin into a volcano. The Mother of All takes possession of her body, and thus endeth the episode.

Oh, and the wall Death put up to keep Sam from remembering his hell-trauma is already well on its way to crumbling. As soon as my friend watched the previous episode a year ago, she said instantly 'that won't last an episode'. And last it did not.

First of all, the dragons blew chunks in this episode. They were just men whose hands got hot, and were they shown at any point with wings? The show does not have the budget for everything, but if so the writers should know not to push it.

At least the episode got the story of series six to move on a bit. The lame soulless!Sam plot is finally over, although we still have to endure ten more episode of Sam's stupid soul nonsense.The end also finally gave the purgatory questline a kick up the arse and made it do something, although to be fair this pace is actually about average for Supernatural. Regarding the plot of the whole of series six, it has felt more present than the plot of earlier sereis where many episodes could go by with only passing mentions of overarcing plot. This was still the era of network television, though, when the audience mostly expected monster of the week episodes with a little bit of actual plot. Oh for the days when telly could just be telly and we had 22 episodes a year with only a few months between each series, rather than 'cinematic experiences' which only have 10... no, wait; 8 episodes every 2 years. Or every 3 years.

No wonder television is dying.

The Sam plot is dumb. I did not care when I first watched these episodes, and I care less now. It also does not help that characters act stupid around him for obvious plot reasons. The writers need Sam's mental wall to crumble for the next part of the story, so of course Bobby makes it obvious he is hiding something from Sam and Dean conveniently neglects to fill Cas in on the whole thing. So what should happen but Cas accidentally tells Sam he has not actually just come back from the cage, but rather has been walking around for a year and half like a muppet with a hand up his arse.

I could queef a better story than this, and I lack the equipment necessary for queefing.

Apropos Cas, he reminds me Cartman's song Kyle's Mom's a Bitch, because Cas really is being a total bitch at the moment. He was vehemently against restoring Sam's soul, and after fisting Sam at the beginning of this episode, is horrified and infuriated by what he found. Sam's soul apparently feels 'flayed', and Cas gets all up in Dean's business about it. Why precisely is never made clear to me: how is Sam's soul being in Sam's body any worse that it being in the cage? It might kill Sam, but... so? Soulless!Sam was about as much use as a marzipan dildo, so thank Scrooge he went out screaming like a little girl. If Sam's trauma were to kill him, what would actually be lost? Presumably Sam would go to heaven if he died, which is a vast improvement on *reads notes* being gang-banged by Lucifer and Michael in the cage. And if Sam were suffering on Earth... well, the same Sam was suffering even worse in the cage, so nothing has been lost. In fact, Sam has been saved from further damage at Lucifer and Michael's hands.

Actually, just Lucifer's. The show later makes it clear that Michael and Adam were essentially taking inspiration from Inception and living endless lives together for their entire time in the cage. In other words, Adam spent eternity boning an archangel. Which makes the penultimate epiosode of the show even worse, and means that the last three episodes of Supernatural is just a series of Bury Your Gays one after the other. Cas, Michael, Adam, and Dean.

I think I actually hate this show. But at least Sam got to marry his blurry wife *vomits*.

Back to Cas; spoilers, but he is to blame for Sam's soul remaining in the cage while his body escaped. Everything that happened over the 18 months before this episode is Cas's fault. Being the overgrown teenager he is, accountability and responsibility are his kryptonite. Not to flog a dead horse, but this never changes. Even during the divorce arc of 15x03-15x10... Moreover, he is putting all the blame on Dean, and even has the cheek to say 'If you wanted to kill your brother, you should've done it outright', as if it were Dean who botched up the job of getting Sam out of the cage in the first place.

But on that topic: why does Cas not kill Sam? They have no relationship to speak of, do not resemble friends in any way, and the mess Sam will be in in a few episodes time is Cas's fault anyway. Although since they are not friends, I wonder why Cas was personally listening to Sam's prayer later in the episode. Guilt, fear, and anxiety probably.

Back to the plot: why did Dean and Sam drive all the way from South Dakota to Oregon to investigate a random case? The drive is so long. I live in Helsinki, and the drive they took is like me hopping into a car and spending a day and a half driving all the way to Austria. And then later, Dean drove from Oregon to San Francisco. WHY?! Is that like me driving from Austria to the south of Greece or Italy? How does he have enough money to pay for all that petrol? And to maintain the car? Are there no hunters already in the vicinity who can take on the case while Dean and Sam fart around in Minnesota or Iowa or somewhere nearby?

And why does Dean leave Sam alone in Oregon for so long? Not an idea of the good variety since Sam has only just returned from hell. And why, on the first case after Sam returns from hell, does he end up saving the day after Dean softens the enemy up and gets beaten up for his effort? This is as predictable as The Walking Dead having zombie ex machina all the bloody time. A few weeks ago, a clip from The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 3x01 appeared on my youtube feed, and I rolled my eyes after watching it. 'Bet you didn't expect those zombies to just appear out of that abandoned bus, did you? Wasn't that gnarly! I bet it scared ya!'

Actually, I thought it stupid that Carol and Daryl's recon skills were apparently non-existent after having lived in a zombie-world for many years. They walk past a bus in an infected area like that, but neglect to peer in through the open doors. Did they not even smell the huge number of dead bodies in the bus and down the street? It was pretty obvious what you were going for, but go off, I suppose.

At least Dean and Sam's conversation in the car does not get too ridiculous. Generally speaking, Sam is sufferable in this episode, although this might just be in comparison to soulless!Sam. Sam broaches the subject of Lisa (presumptively presuming Dean did not try to live a life with her), and Dean brushes the topic aside and deters further question by turning the music up. Sam, surprisingly, takes the hint and keeps his questions to himself.

One last point; Bobby claims that the grimoire is written in an obscure variety of Latin which will take him ages to translate. Paula pointed out that the Latin shown in the book is completely run-of-the-mill standardised Latin, so that was nonsense. Although I wonder whether there are actually any documented varieties of Latin which are especially obscure or unusual. The Anglo-Saxon used in the original manuscripts varies greatly between manuscripts written in different areas of England, and even between different time periods in the same area. Students of Anglo-Saxon will be presented with a standardised version to aid learning before dealing with variation. It is a similar situation with Old Norse. I really do wish the show were more specific with things like this, though, rather than making vague references and claims in the hopes the majority of the audience will be happy with it sounding meaningful. But how much more interesting would it have been if the grimoire had been in Faliscan, Latin's sister? Close enough that a skilled Latin speaker could reasonably be expected to work with it, but different enough to prove a challenge?

Anyway, that does it for this time. The next episode is a bit better than this one, so at least I have that to look forward to.

Anyway, that does it for this time. You can read more of my analyses here:

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Series 5

Series 6

Sundry

You can read Paula’s review here and Demian’s here.

P.S. The only version of Like a Virgin I care about.

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[fuckblast]

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word erratic and stop using schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic as a replacement

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word particular and stop using ocd as a replacement

[weresoul]

People need to relearn the word "egocentric" and stop using narcissist/narc as a replacement.

[thatpreciousthing]

People need to relearn the word "impulse" and stop using "intrusive thought" as a replacement

[answrs]

People need to relearn the word "lying" and stop using "gaslighting" as a replacement

[lavellyne]

Supernatural chibs

[willgrahamsbouncingbulge]

Tumblr should take away the ability to like posts for a few weeks so peeps understand this website cannot survive with just liking. I see so many gorgeous gifs and edits and they get like....13 reblogs and 700 likes. That's not right, fam

[00000066]

[hee-blee-art]

clingy angel

commission info | tip jar

[gremlinpeaches]

Castiel with Peonies

—

I don’t say this lightly, but I genuinely think this is the best piece I’ve ever created.

Every painting teaches me something, and this one feels like all those lessons finally came together. The course I’ve been taking has also helped me immensely, I t’s completely changed how I think about the painting process, and I finally feel like things are starting to click.

I did, however, almost lose my mind somewhere around peony number three… and then I realized there were a lot more peonies to paint. 😂

I’m incredibly proud of how this turned out.

Progress shots are under the cut if you’d like to see how it came together! Added as well the references used!

[naked-covered-in-bees]

thinking of a thing where sam mentions to cas that dean will do almost anything cas tells him to do and cas thinks that's ridiculous and starts putting it to the test and cannot believe what he's getting away with (like driving baby around and getting dean's fries and dean kneeling down to tie cas's shoe for starters-which leads to dean miraculously drinking water and going to bed a little earlier and having a couple less drinks just cause cas gave him dom brow and didn't say please, even sam is astounded and all "you just...you just told him to...and he did it. the fuck.")

cut to dean in a better mood than he usually ever is following cas around asking if there's anything else he can do lol.

(he doesn't tell sam about the part where dean was rewarded for following all those instructions)

[ceruleanheaven]

very cruel to put this much love inside the body of such an unloveable creature

[strawlessandbraless]

[carryonauthor]

Hello, fellow Destiel Fans!

Carry On, Author presents: Written Interview #2: Bethmints!

Do you love fanfiction? Are you curious about how some of your favorite authors make the fics you know and love? You're in the right spot!

In this interview on Ao3, Bethmints discusses the intricacies of her fic, Heaven Came Down, her writing process, and how she got into fanfiction and fandom in the first place!

Find Bethmints on Ao3 and here on Tumblr

Interested in having one of your fics featured on the program? Send a message, or an ask, here on Tumblr to request a slot on the show.

If you are over 18, come join the Discord to discuss the interviews and episodes, or drop a link to one of your fics in the recs and promotions tab!

[bethmints]

Very cool to be a guest! Peachy is so awesome for doing this <3

My interview is live if you want a little behind-the-scenes look at Heaven Came Down, or if you're nosy about how I got into fandom lol

ALSO!! Make sure to follow this Tumblr and check out the previous interviews! There is a written interview from @tanis-in-a-trenchcoat about A crack in everything (that's how the light gets in) and a podcast with @whoipretended2b about The Middle!!

And lots of great writers on the schedule, too!! <3

[zephyr0x0]

Practicing for art club pt2

Baby's first wendigo hunt:)

(without color in keep reading)

[vikode]

🦋

[lichanicksstuff]

I'm watching supernatural with my friend and she just paused and asked me:

"Why every time Castiel shows up they only show Dean's reaction?"

We watched like a few episodes and she clocked it immediately.

[sicksicksixx]

this is what i mean when I talk about destiel being in the editing as much as the writing or the acting. this is not something the actors have control over or are even necessarily aware of. but it’s there, textually.

[kinky-cas]

the back half of s11 is so fun. first sentence out of deans mouth every SINGLE episode is “what about cas” “i’m worried about cas” “we gotta find cas” “we’re gonna save cas whether he likes it or not” “but will this plan hurt cas” “i haven’t slept in a week looking for leads on cas” and in every one of these scenes sam responds with a delicacy that suggests he is very concerned that dean will fling himself off a nearby cliff if they don’t get cas back soon

[destielover40bang]

Coming to you on September 9 

Kansas Katabasis

Written by @farenmaddox with art by @stonelions & @frijolebean

Rating: Mature

Word count: ~10k

Characters: Dean, Castiel, Jimmy Novak, Zachariah, Lillith 

Ships: Past Dean/Cassie Robinson

Tags: No archive warnings apply, Grief/Mourning, Angel Vessels, Soul Selling, Firefighter Dean Winchester, You can’t prove there’s allegory in this  

Summary:  Dean is dead. Allegedly. The angel Castiel is supposed to take his soul to Heaven before taking over his body, but his soul is being remarkably stubborn about going, clinging to the moment of his death and refusing to move on. Something's wrong, and they both know it. Either the vessel donation office made a mistake, or something far more sinister is going on.

Excerpt: It was like organ donation and like a life insurance policy, both in one, they said. You die, your body goes to someone who needs it—well, needs was a strong word, more like just really wants it—and your family gets a huge payout. And Dean’s family could use the money.

The more Dean thought about it, the more he wished he’d never signed up for this damned program. A hundred grand had seemed like the answer to every problem he had, and the idea that someone would puppet his body around had been entirely abstract. It had been easy to sign on the dotted line, at the time.

It wasn’t abstract anymore. Not now that he sat here with the thing who was going to do the puppeting.