#riversandrocks

[westernanimal]

Run down woolshed. Swifts Creek, Vic. #viewsfromwork #ffmvic #delwp #riversandrocks https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMdXvYFZaj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4va8ibagjpsk

[kansaskissedlips]

Can we appreciate, for a second, that John (and Dean) kept a cassette of Judy Collins for all these years? I bet that's the reason soft rock and country knocks Sam out: John probably played that tape while he drove through the night and wee!Sam and Dean were asleep in the back. (Cripes, next they'll give me fandom feels about Fleetwood Mac.)

MELTS. GOOOOOD.

[kansaskissedlips]

dunno if you or the anon still care, but the second hair pulling gif is of Famine (look at the ring on his other hand!) when they went to take him out-- so near the beginning of 5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight.

OOOH, awesome! Thank you! I thought it might be a Horseman!

[unseelieaccords]

It's not strictly *urban* fantasy any more than Tamora Pierce's works (try the Beka Cooper series!), but Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series has female protags. Ones who aren't interested in getting a date so much as finding their place in the world and saving it, not necessarily in that order. There's Simon Green's Hawk and Fisher stories-- Fisher is a female beat cop in a steampunky city. FWIW, I agree with you re: romance, but I've found that sometimes it's worth wading through it.

I just have a very limited reading ability at the moment. XD I haven’t read a book for like 2 months that wasn’t a comic. So I’m being particularly picky about books cause I’ve got limited energy to spend on them.

[rebeccacolquhoun]

Snowy mountain rivers

[fullofstoryshapes-archive]

riversandrocks replied to your post: Does anyone have any thoughts on the b...

alphabetical is cliched for a reason…with the caveat that series are grouped together in publishing/chronological order.

Yeah, I’m thinking alphabetically by author, and by series within that? My main problem is arranging everything in such a way as to make it, you know, fit.

[thewinchestercave]

They've definitely done Jesus parallels before-- the nature of Western media(and education on symbolism in Western media), perhaps, but for the last seven seasons it's been Sam as the Jesus parallel, not Dean. jimmynovaks did a neat series focusing on the messianic/crucifixion parallels around Sam during the Trials. But, yes, very, VERY worrisome.

No, no, you’re right. Sam has definitely been the subject of a Jesus parallel of sorts... but his was actually more of a Messianic parallel. Sam seemed to be in the role of Jesus Christ as savior, sacrificial victim, and redeemer. Dean on the other hand seems to be in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. I think there’s a distinct difference. Sam as savior I was absolutely okay with and really liked. But if they’re casting Dean as Jesus, comparing a pizza dinner with the Last Supper and Sam with Judas... that scares me a bit.

[thewinchestercave]

In honor of there being no new episode tonight, what do you think of bringing back Bobby as the titular "Inside Man" last episode? Bobby is great and I'm glad that they're finding ways to keep him in the story, but part of me thinks that as close as he is to the Winchesters, he wasn't the smartest choice. Why didn't they go with Ash-- who can literally hack Heaven and who has been actively exploring it for years, undetected? (Aside from the meta reasons of Chad Lindbergh's availability...)

First, can we just ask why in the world we have a random one week hiatus when we just had a hiatus?!?!

Second, I should probably mention that while I love Bobby, I also have huge problems with him, stemming from the way the fandom glorifies his good qualities while ignoring his bad ones and the huge double standard they have regarding him vs other people. It does huge disservice to a character to put them on a pedestal and forget their humanity. So, personally, I was not thrilled to see him back, not really, because it meant the fandom would start doing it again.

Third, it’s really hard to look at the non-meta reasons for his return because really the only reason he returned is because him and Jim Beaver are such big parts of the SPN Family. He came back for reasons of nostalgia, fan service, and familial love, all of which were great things. But it was really unnecessary for the narrative. (Okay, besides maybe the fact that we needed to hear him say “Balls” again.)

BUT, okay, I’ll try to be good and look at it from a “within the show universe” perspective. The call for Bobby was not a call for an underground expert, an outlawed technician. Think about what Bobby did- it really was not that hard. No, Bobby was there for Sam. It was disguised as a call for “hunting help” but in reality, Sam is losing his brother. Dean’s not just dying or depressed or messing with the dark side of the force a bit. This is a fight for his soul and Sam knows what happens if he loses. Dean becomes a demon, the thing they hunt, truly truly evil. So Sam’s fighting against that fate. And he’s losing. He’s losing bad. 

Sam may be a grown up, but he needs help. He needs the wisdom of someone older than him and he needs someone to have his back. More than that, like a little boy he needs someone to be there and lie to him and tell him it’s going to be okay. And he’s got no one. It’s just him and Dean and Dean’s the one he’s trying to save. So he called out for Bobby, knowing that Bobby couldn’t do any of those things for him, any at all. But he could love him and love Dean. So Sam calls for Bobby because he needs a little reminder that he is strong enough and courageous enough to go on… for his brother.