#deanael

[lootscorpses]

Hey. You. Your icon. That's pretty rad.

Thanks, friend! :D

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

Destiel, Destiel, DESTIEL.

shops for groceries: Both. And it takes them fucking hours, because Cas insists on inspecting each and every piece of fruit before he picks one. Sam refuses to go shopping with them since The Incident With All The Blueberries (“We can never go to that Piggly Wiggly again, Dean!”)

kills the spiders: Neither. Cas refuses to kill any insect (except parasites, Dean’s seen him sit for hours picking every flea and tick off a stray dog). He’ll chase bugs around the bunker with a cup and a paper plate (both carefully labeled ‘FOR CATCHING BUGS’), attempting to reason with them that this is not the place for small insects, they will not be happy here, tells them not to be afraid, Cas promises to find them the best tree to live on/rock to live under. Dean doesn’t want Cas to look at him with the face Cas would look at him with if he ever did kill a spider, so he never does. Cas named the large orb-weaver that likes to build giant hobbit-death traps just outside the bunker hatch Abigail.

comes home drunk at 3am: Neither. They’re responsible adults, these days they get drunk at home, when drinking needs to be done. Besides, Cas is an affectionate drunk, and he doesn’t want to have to worry about some foolish human who thinks God cares about sexual orientation when God doesn’t even care about the apocalypse, Cas just wants to sit in Dean’s lap and tell him what a good person he is and look at his freckles really close.

makes breakfast: DEAN. Because he likes it, he knows how, and Cas is a giant Mister Grumpypants in the morning. Dean swears he hisses at him in the morning, like a big angry kitty, but Cas insists it’s Enochian.

remembers to feed the fish: They both do, Doctor Fishopolis and Ouestucati (“My sister, she was the angel of the sea wind”) are their responsibility. However only Cas takes them for walks.

decorates the apartment: Cas. Mostly because it scares Dean too much to think of one place as home enough to buy shit for, but also because Cas has terrible taste, and watching Sam try to hide his bitchface when Cas brings home a pink seashell windchime (“What wind is that gonna chime in, Dean, bunkers have no windows!”) or an old ashtray with a pin-up girl in the middle (“We don’t smoke, Dean, it’s just a bowl with tits on it!”) or another bag full of throw pillows (“Is he building a nest?! Is this like an angel thing?”) is usually the highlight of Dean’s week.

initiates duets: DEAN. He was half-expecting the angel to sound like an actual angel (or at least like, Freddie Mercury), but turns out shoving a Chrysler-building sized wavelength of celestial intent that still somehow had four very-unwavelengthy animal heads into one compact Midwestern vessel causes a bit of degradation in sound quality (but not, as it turns out, enthusiasm). 

falls asleep first: whoever is the little spoon that night.

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

If you don't mind me asking: Depending on how the finale goes, are you gonna watch next season, or is Tuesday basically make-it-or-break-it for you?

I don’t know.

Which I suppose means it’s the latter.

I mean, there’s always spite-watching (which, honestly, I’ve been doing for a while), but that’s only fun to do with other people, in a “Let’s cope with our collective rage and despair that queers still aren’t desirable in the media and that a show we made a real emotional connection to is dying a sad, slow death, like so many beached whales when it could so easily not if it just swam the fuck back into the ocean but it won’t stop thinking that it really needs to work on it’s tan, by MST3King the fuck outta this fuckery”

But, well, it get to a point where it’s not even fun to make fun, and a lot of people are reaching that point.

I don’t know…maybe if there was some actual acknowledgement that they fucked up in regards to how they handled sexual consent this season (by ignoring it completely, because consent is for nerds) I might consider it, but am I really gonna want to watch another season with a shitton of unfunny, forced heteronormativity, normalized rape and subsequent rape jokes?

And the writing is just BAD. I mean, you can have writing full of problematic stuff, and it’s still well-written and engaging and quality (it’s not just shitty writing that can be affected by rape culture or racism, etc). But this isn’t even good writing most of the time. I alternate between being bored and enraged, and the best episode of the season was the one that made fun of the writing on the show. That’s not really a good sign.

[summerhalldreams]

Questions

Tag! You’re It!
 Always post the rules: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones. Tag 11 new people.
 Tagged by:  darylredbandanna, who is a sweetiepop. :)

1. What is the last song that you heard?

Berlin by the Piano Guys. Excellent cello music, seriously go check it out if you haven't heard it.

2. What do you think is better, to love or to be loved?

I honestly think that, in that situation, one is incredibly sad without the other. Whether you love someone who doesn't love you back, or you're BEING loved by someone you don't have that kind of feeling for, like...honestly any sort of unbalanced love makes me sad, and they're both equally important for healthy relationships and happiness.

3. Do you have a favorite word?

Oh gosh. Ubiquitous, superlative, extraneous, disambiguation, surreal...weirdly Tuscaloosa, even though that's a name and probably not exactly what you meant.

4. Last book you enjoyed reading?

I really enjoyed the first four books of GOT. I still haven't read A Dance of Dragons yet, butlike. Yeah. Those are the last books I read and I absolutely loved them.

5. Do you watch anime?

I used to almost exclusively, and I still do some. I think the last one I watched was PMMM, (because my brain died and I literally can't spell it atm), which was....ridiculously good and ridiculously depressing, and not what I was expecting from a magical girl anime AT ALL.

6. Do you believe in hope?

I don't think I could keep getting up in the morning if I didn't. If you don't believe in hope, there's nothing to stop you from giving up on things, and I...refuse to give up.

7. What do you think about videogames?

I think about video games the same way I think about a lot of entertainment systems. There's good things, there's bad things, there's drama and semi-political crap, but if at the end of the day they're what helps you unwind and they're something you groove to, get down with your bad self and don't let anyone make you feel self-conscious about it. Life's hard enough without attempting to avoid the things you enjoy for appearance sake.

8. Do you like your name?

I love my name, yes. 

9. How did you learn tying your shoelaces?

That one rhyme about the bunny ears or some such. 

10. Do you like your handwriting?

My handwriting is so inconsistent it's hard to tell. Sometimes it's small and curvy and looks like some whimsical font, and sometimes it's block letter scrawl, and sometimes I look like I must have a Ph.D. because nothing else would excuse that level of mess. 

11. Tell me something that makes you happy, even if it’s something small:

Bucky Barnes  I really like it when people are kind to each other. I like seeing stories about people helping the elderly, or going out of their way to make sure strangers are happy, I just. There's so much ugliness and terror in the world, and it's really reassuring and nice to see people being all that they're capable of, especially with no expectation of reward.

  And I tag…

Deanael

Pajamapatty

Faelin

Seraphlimonade

hershelgreenie

black-tip-shark

cptnbckybrns

IDK off the top of my head. Anyone who wants to do this can, really.

VERY IMPORTANT: it’s ok if you don’t have time to answer or you just don’t want to, don’t worry, don’t feel obligated :D

Okay, new questions.

1. If money wasn't a factor, where would you most like to live?

2. What's more important to you in global terms, security or freedom?

3. What would you rather have the opportunity to personally explore, deep space, or deep sea?

4. What would be your top five essential items for the zombie apocalypse?

5. What is your favorite work of fiction that holds personal relevance to you?

6. Who's your favorite actor/actress, and why?

7. Do/did you have a favorite course in high school? What was it?

8. Pizza Rolls or Bagel Bites? 

9. Have you ever traveled outside your home country, and if so where?

10. Do you need ambient noise to sleep, or do you prefer it to be totally quiet?

11. What was the last thing that made you smile?

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

I'm gonna do the obvious and say Supernatural.

my favorite female character: Bela Talbot

my favorite male character: Dean Cas Dean Cas Dean Cas Deas!

my favorite book/season/etc: The alternate season 9 I play in my head after watching any actual season 9 episode (it’s pretty awesome)

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): I’m actually having a crisis over here trying to pick one, so I won’t: Mystery Spot, Bad Day At Black Rock, Lazarus Rising, Metafiction, Changing Channels, more I’m forgetting right now

my favorite cast member: Miiiiiiissshhhhhaaaa

my favorite ship: Destiel!

a character I’d die defending: BELA FUCKING TALBOT!

a character I just can’t sympathize with: Excusing the really awful villains (because who the fuck sympathizes with Alastair?!) I’m gonna have to say Meg. I like her as a character, I just can’t sympathize with what she does. I understand why she does what she does, but understanding doesn’t translate into sympathy (that doesn’t mean I don’t know she was a victim of some awful abuse, which I do not in any way condone, I don’t think she deserved it or anything). I would have loved to have known her backstory, who she was as a human, what her real name was. And I am still mad about how she was killed off, and how she was used by the narrative before that, that was some bullshit right there. Basically my relationship with Meg is complicated.

a character I grew to love: Naomi. Not because I agree with anything she did, but she was one hell of an impressive villain. She may have been the smartest villain TFW ever faced. Now all we have is fucking Booger.

my anti otp: It’s actually an OT4: Buckner/Ross-Lemming/Klein/writing Supernatural Scripts

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

I'm gonna sit over here with you on the "What the fuck was that episode?" island.

It’s just this scenario, in this episode….I am not seeing as Destielly. As in a romantic sense. This goes back to the common complaint all season that that while they’re showing Dean and Cas caring, it’s in a platonic friend way. Unlike in S8, where there was a blatant romantic slant to things.

Yes, they chose Dean to be the one Cas had to choose. That was deliberate. But deliberate =/= Destiel.

The angels had to have a reason to punish one of the Winchesters, to kill one of them, because otherwise it would just look like the angels going nuts, the angels asking Cas to murder people who did nothing even remotely wrong. So either Sam or Dean had to kill someone.

Dean’s larger arc of the Mark of Cain making him murder happy, so of course he sneaks the Blade in.

(and you know, they know WE care about Dean/Cas, so yeah they’re gonna go to that well to get a reaction, it doesn’t MEAN anything)

Dabb could have come up with a more interesting/complex scenario to put Cas in this position, but he didn’t. He went with the easiest, murder. The way he set the story up, the angels could not have chosen anyone for Castiel to ‘punish’ other than Dean, because of larger story reasons that have nothing to do with Destiel.

And it’s kind of, I don't know,  disappointing I guess, because people are ignoring the really gross problems with this episode, like the pointless killing of another female character. They totally pulled a Sarah with Tessa, bringing her back just to kill her. I mean, you can like the “Kill Dean” scene, but that doesn’t mean you have to call the episode ‘great’.

You know what this is? A non-romantic redo of 9x17 and the Crypt Scene, complete with the destruction of a long-running female character for inexplicable reasons.

[thelaughingmagician]

Your Constantine edits are gorgeous. :)

why thank you!

[deadpai]

Apparently Danneel said that Jensen helped Misha rehearse some part of that movie, so I'd say Jensen saw it.

That's really sexy.