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This was a supernatural blog and now I'm spiraling into other things. he/him transmasc. 21. very gay

[clingyduoapologist]

The lesson of avatar was never “killing bad people makes you just as bad as them” it was “you cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or loss” guys like come on it’s been 20 years

[clingyduoapologist]

Katara doesn’t forgive Yon Rha and hug him and dry him off and walk him home she leaves him scared and sniveling and crying in the mud but she leaves him alive because she realized in that moment that she was only doing this because she felt like she had to. She hates this man, therefore she should want to kill him, right? The narrative isn’t saying wow Katara killing a mass murdering fascist dickwad is just as bad as said dickwad killing an innocent wife and mother during a raid on her home, it’s saying wow isn’t it fucked up that this little girl has been forced to carry this deep seated anger in her for most of her life to the point where the only outlet she believes she has for it is killing a man in cold blood? And like… yeah! That is pretty fucked!

[icannotweave]

#katara realizing that the man who killed her mother #who has been the face of evil and the war for most of her life (prior to aang's bullshit) #is just a pathetic loser #and by extension that most soldiers who commit hideous crimes of imperialist violence are just Some Guy #god that's really something #like he's Not a monster he's Not uniquely evil he has NO particular grudge against her or kya #the most traumatic event of katara's life was just a day at work for him #and less than a decade later he's nothing. he's retired and miserable and PATHETIC and he's not worth her time #she's better than him in every way #brave and powerful and generous and about all PRINCIPLED in a way he could never be. she's exceptional #she doesn't need to kill him she's already beaten him in every way that matters #and killing him will not create any positive change in the world #katara doesn't show mercy for his sake she does it for hers #god I love you katara ( @batmanisagatewaydrug )

[simplyfurnituredirect]

Saw this funny post and wanted to draw something w it

[jakemorph]

as far as i'm concerned all "yuri" is "toxic yuri" because women are ontologically evil thanks to eve's original sin

[kimodraw]

Sam Winchester and the repeated violation of his bodily autonomy

or : isn't it fucked up how big of a theme this is with him and how little it is adressed in text

This uses my favorite completely untrue headcanon: the idea that Jessica got possesed by Ruby as soon as Sam showed interest in her, and he only ever knew Ruby. That and transmasc Sam but that's just the kimodraw package

ps: have a look at my spn zine

[the-gray-ghosty]

I love when dean's like "what happened to all the hot chicks" when Sam gets male crossroad demons

Like ...

[sammygender]

wrt prev post and sam’s original ‘fed demon blood by azazel as a baby’ arc like. actually that was the most insane thing to see depicted on my television especially when it seemed like no one else i knew or followed was talking about it. it felt so explicit and yet it was sooo deep in metaphor. she walked in on us. sammy, you’re my favourite. god it must be terrible to know something happened but that you’ll never be able to remember it or tell anyone about it. never be able to rip it out or scrub it clean. so azazel could get into my nursery and- bleed in my mouth? because i wasn’t clean. these trials - they’re purifying me. anyway. augh

[creatorofarcadia]

It's been a while since I watched Supernatural, so don't take my opinions as gospel or anything. But I think Dean is self-hating to the point of narcissism in some ways. Don't get me wrong, I empathise with Dean and understand why fans largely do too. But his self-loathing warps his perception and becomes the centre of EVERYTHING and at times that really has ripple effects on those around him - particularly Sam.

Take their childhood, Sam has a right to mourn the fact that he didn't get a normal childhood. He's allowed to be angry that he didn't get a home, a present father, a stable community, and consistent education. But whenever Sam attempts to express his complicated feelings about his childhood, Dean immediately interprets it as ' oh I was supposed to look out for you. Are you saying I failed? Are you confirming I'm worthless?' which grinds the conversation to a complete halt. Because of Dean's intense self-criticism, Sam can never really be 100% honest with him or ask for support with his own issues, especially regarding their childhood. As anything outside of 100% gratitude just becomes another stick for Dean to beat himself with, and the conversation is immediately derailed.

Not only does Deans self-hatred mean that Sam's expression of his own experiences are pretty consistently shut down. In some ways, I think Dean strips Sam of his autonomy - he's so self-loathing, he sees every decision Sam makes as being about/a reaction to him. A good example of this is Stanford. Rather than understanding Stanford for what it was, an attempt by Sam to carve out a better life from himself and escape hunting. Dean views it as betrayal or abandonment, some re-affirmation of his own belief that he's not worth caring about. Rather than understanding it's a rejection of hunting, he sees it as Sam rejecting him. To Dean, Sam isn't attempting to find a better life, he's punishing the family.

Overall, it's interesting that people largely and rightfully sympathise with Dean due to his self-hatred. However, I don't see as much discussion about how his self-hatred doesn't just hurt him, it hurts those he's close to, as it colours his interpretation of their every action. Dean's self-loathing is always the biggest thing in the room and that has consequences.

[cannibology]

once in a while i’ll see someone act like sam had a good (or even spoiled) childhood just because he had dean taking care of him and all i can think is, are we talking about the same sam? the sam who wanted to get away from his family so badly as a child that his imaginary friend, a real being with his best interest at heart, was encouraging him to run away? the sam who was so miserable at home that the times he was able to get away became all of his best memories? that’s the sam we’re saying had a good childhood?

dean may have done his best to care for sam and sam may express a lot of appreciation for that in hindsight, but it doesn’t change the fact that a kid is never going to be able to be a good primary caregiver to another kid. dean wasn’t a father or mother to sam; mary was sam’s mom who was gone for good and john was sam’s dad who was gone most of the time and sam was a kid raised without real parental nurturance or really any kind of consistent support from an adult in his life. he may have had a brother who tried to fill that gap, but that was always going to be a sisyphean task for a fellow child. dean being the closest thing he had to a good parent doesn’t make his childhood better, it just means he didn’t have a good parent in his life at all because dean was never a parent, much less a good one.

pretending dean did a great job raising sam and gave him a good childhood isn’t any fairer to dean than it is to sam, because the point isn’t that dean did a good job, the point is that dean never should have been given that job in the first place. he was a child with far more weight on his shoulders than he could reasonably be expected to handle and sam was a child abandoned by the person who actually should have been caring for him. both of them were neglected by the only family they had left, and both of them suffered for it.

[zombiegirldean]

it is actually so inch resting how mental illness in spn is coded as soooooo fem like Sam has been compared to: Sylvia Plath, chick from the Yellow Wallpaper, Florence Nightingale, "bag-lady", and Alice in Wonderland. In one episode. It truly is like women (and Sam) have feeble suggestible lady-brains susceptible to Hysteria unlike men who punch each other.

[pollsnatural]

You are trapped with two Supernatural characters (spin the wheel: first and second) in an elevator for two hours.

How comfortable would you be?

I'm as comfortable as a person stuck in an elevator can be

Very comfortable, I'm chatting with these characters and making new friends

Very comfortable, we're not talking to each other though

Very comfortable, we're having a threesome

I'm uncomfortable because I don't feel safe with these characters

I'm uncomfortable because I don't like these characters

I'm uncomfortable bc these characters're fighting/making out/etc w/ each other

Other

Voting ended onJun 12, 2024

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

[nonbinary-witch-sam]

happy pride sam is transgender and fucks nasty

[anassemblageofpassions-deactiva]

So fascinating how sam drinks demon blood and dean narratively has the right to kill him. And dean turns into a literal demon and sam and the narrative never even consider it

[sammygender]

if you go through my blog from when i first got really into spn you can see me slowly and surely becoming more and more disillusioned with the mainstream fandom. moving from ‘haha i think some of you guys like dean too much and it blinds you’ to ‘you are all so fucking stupid and you’re making me hate dean winchester’. average spn watching experience

[monttagues]

so many brennan outfits? hello????

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

supernatural was truly just. a fifteen year long experimental study looking into an audience's ability to empathise with the Narrative Scapegoat. the results? most people are still filled with the medieval urge to throw rotten fruit at the resident Freak in the town square.

[chushanye]

You are Brennan Lee Mulligan. Time and time again, Ally Beardsly has had the most religiously poetic rolls with impeccable timing. Their chaotic characters and humor contrasted with their incredible ability to tell an emotional story. This entire season the two of you have been setting up a beutiful arc about a goddess and her saint. In the climax of this battle they ask for a divine intervention. It's perfect. Everything you could ask for, another poetic scene-

and then BritHet Kristen says "blimey" and steals the fucking scene. And she wasn't british this whole time. Also she's pregnant.

God is real and their sense of humor is unmatched.