#tamilnatural

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omg it's so obvious. tamilnatural dean wud b an auto driver.

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lol rasave unna nambi song destiel edit...need it now...

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tamilnatural deancas moments is when deanna n cas travel together in the bus (the older model with the bigger windows.ok) and listening to music together n dean falls asleep on Cas's shoulder....

tamilnatural where dean buys cas jasmine flowers for her hair (cas wud never hv gotten this kinda thing before...killer alien cosmic death cult.life n all that)

tamilnatural where cas starts buying dean flowers for her hair everytime she's home late in the bunker...the local poo karamma (flower vendor) knowsssss n helps her out

tamilnatural where deancas fight ghosts in temples to save common people (even tho dean isn't even allowed in without weirdness)

tamilnatural The Benders ep equivalent where she's just caught by casteist sexist pieces of shit...

tamilnatural where cas used to be part of the armed militias who threaten people into giving up forests n water n land etc....for "God"

tamilnatural where vamps are actually originally seen as beings of mercy for soldiers because they drain people who are already dying??? (this one needs a source but i saw someone talking about this)

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omgg nenje nenje nee enge song destiel edit fuck i need it

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Tamilnatural Sam would believe that karma from previous births is the reason he's all fucked up. And that's why he deserves all he got on some level.

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Tamilnatural thoughts:

Hindu-Tamil-natural actually.

Aruval (அருவாள்) for vampires

Barathanatyam dancer horror instd of ballet horror (in a crowded arena for margazhi festival maybe????)

Sam and Dean wearing kaili sattai at home

I'll make them eat Pani puri and parotta and kari kozhambu and soru when they're traveling for cases

Roadside stalls and lil restaurants and potti kadai instd of fast food joints. Biriyani kadaikku poi oru kattu kattanum.

Tea kadai for asking info (it's usually a lot of men here...smoking n stuff)

Sam on his way to becoming an engineer ok.

Deancas intercaste marriage for sure, apart from also being disdained for being queer obv.

They shd really have a two wheeler tbh...idk what to do abt the car lol...here only middle class or upper ppl hv cars...what can I do lol shd I make them hv a transport business or some shit idkkkkkk lollll.

Kungumam and thiruneer and sindhooram etc used in summoning rituals n shit ig.

Vilakku instd of candles.

Did uk there's a lot of significance to snakes in South India? Snakes are revered tbh. It's not a bad thing at all. We workship them. That cud b so fun.

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Has to hindu coz hindutva fascism is thee problem here rn.... that's the religious fundamentalism Angels / Devas can have.

Complicating factors r: hinduism is racist af, so asuras in hinduism r usually genuinely racist depictions of south indian ppl and not an actual class of terrible people :/ in so many myths the worst thing they do is like....be arrogant and then they hv to humbled...ugh...the politics of it... I'm not so confident in using that in spn type demon lore....

Even south indian hinduism is complex coz a lot of tamil gods weren't even part of hinduism previously...they were kinda synchretised n shit. So tamil people's relationships to our gods is so...complex and nuanced.

All this in order to oppress ppl easier and enslave them using caste hierarchies, as far as i can tell.

Basically hinduism is full of casteist racist nonsense as a whole. But! Dravidian practices are kinda unique in how they were intentionally messed with.

Idk I'm not like a historian, but this is what we kinda know. For eg., a lot of tribal people simply worshipped nature, but they will also be labeled as hindu just to mess with the numbers n culture.

All that said. Currently. The biggest issue is hindutva fascism and that's fully based on an Aryan version of it. It's those at the top that actually hold that power within the religion and it has worked more than enough that so many people are being oppressed thru the weaponisation of the hindu religion. It's just that their PR campaign to attract or force voters support is gna slightly shift when their targets r Dravidians.

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Current military propaganda and patriotism talking points - very impt topic. Altho idk who shd have these ingrained. Devas for sure r warriors. Who will bend for priest class. But idk among humans which kinda ppl r particularly vulnerable to that within Dravidian ppl. Hmmm.

(like making john a vet may work for typical american masculinity stuff...but i genuinely don't think it wud work for tamil working class masculinity?)

Alcoholism and masculinity for sure. Tasmac scenes hv to be so many.

I Have to make Sam and Dean trans right out the gate otherwise I gta deal with tamil misogyny and I simply refuse.

So much fertile ground for exploring family trauma. Divorce. Dowry. DV. SA. Marital rape. Chilbearing issues. Etc. Just endless.

Jo and Ellen wud drive me absolutely insane in tamilnatural in my head coz omg. I'd die.

I actually think muslim and christian shopkeepers, neighbours, lovers, friends, etc. can be so impt. It's diverse here. Thing is...interfaith marriages n shit aren't big ukwim. Like. U get along grt. But u can't mix like That. Which is so! Ugh. But it cud b so good to write about.

Idk much about muslim or chirstian tamil people's experiences tbh. To me they're just ppl I interact with. (Basically I really don't know shit about any religion.....even hindu practice knowledge is sooooo barebones...i kinda never can relate to ppl coz of that...but it wud b so good in story). I do know that there r lots of jewelry shops, meat shops, etc run by muslims and r usually trusted by ppl. Idk why. Cud just b me sterotyping ig but I an just saying that muslim communities are really actively part of the culture here. There hv to be random pookaramma and ayammas and tiny shops selling nattu marundhu etc.

But those cud b so fun for introducing characters later. (All my Muslim frnds are also not that religious lolll idk how to understand religiosity and how it affects diff communities at alll tbh...sigh).

There r many scams and cults and fake samiyars and abusive priests and everything else in every religion ofc. I'd say hindu-adjacent spirituality groups can also b cultish n dangerous here.

sweets and fruits and food specific to each town and place. Each single area has a totally diff regional dialect of the same language istg lol. Alas I'm too untravelled and a dumb dumb to Know them well but it shd b part of the fabric of that story.

Caste caste caste. Daily wage labourers being killed in horrifying ways and the heroes helping Them rather than middle class or upper class ppl. Imagine someone dying from manual scavenging thru ghosts or some shit. N that's so fucked up on so many levels. Women. Working class women like sanitation workers, domestic help, etc etc. govt school going kids. Ppl selling bangles and kerchiefs and food on trains. Disabled homeless ppl. Mentally ill homeless ppl. Mentally ill ppl in general. Arranged marriage horrors (arranged marriages suck but not for the reasons Western ppl typically think. It sucks coz it's a grand culmination of every single societal bigotry).

Horror of humans - honor killings dowry killings, caste based violence for intercaste mingling, untouchability, gender based violence, transwomen as sex workers - violence, police pinning shit on poor ppl and criminalising tribal ppl, etc etc. Endless. Absolutely endless.

Someone like Sarah shd offer them paper plates because that's the policy or some shit. And Dean shd go, I don't want the shit y'all used anyways. (This is abt untouchability shit).

Sam and Dean need to talk to a priest who won't allow them into the temple so they interview the beggar in front of the temple instd. Idk. Sigh.

Sam getting attached to stray dogs they come across all the time. They buy small biscuit packets from the local tea kadai to feed to the dogs. Ditto for Dean but with cats. He just feeds it portions of meat before it's cooked.

Dean cooking kanji for Sam when he's sick and Sam hates it but he's gta eat it. Aatukkal soup (broth basically). Etc. Dean being grt at making meen kozhambu and karuvadu etc. (fish gravy...fish fried???....).

Transfem dean definitely a sex worker. But he also isn't just that. And that itself is a hugeee trope reversal lemme tell u.

Eps near beaches with the fisherman communities involved. Many folktales abt the sea must exist too I think (can't think of any rn sigh).

Tamil genocide being brought up too. It's a very serious issue but obviously it's undeniably important. (This will also include being critical of colonisation from the elites of the North. Eg: hindi imposition, issues with the Army vs. the victims in Sri Lanka. Etc....)

(In this world, meat is a huge political thing. Dean shd eat beef and buffalo meat even coz many hindus actually do eat those).

Sigh. Idk. I could keep going. Thing is. We never get to see the lives and stories of oppressed ppl here. The industry is just fucked up like that. But I have such a huge craving for it. Part of learning ur culture and roots is also being able to SEE it uk. Without the veneer and agenda of film industries. I kid u not, there is not a single dark skinned tamil industry actress yet. They can be lightly tan at best. That's so insane coz almost all tamil ppl r dark af. And I love that. But I am never allowed to see it and learn it and explore it. And it sucks. The impact of western imperialism aside, rn, tamil culture is also under attack by Hindutva forces n shit.

And I'm just so tired of all that. (I grew up very middle class but I'm not an idiot. Ik I'm really ignorant about sooo much of tamil society coz I was lowkey kept out of it due to my own personal reasons. But that doesn't mean I wanna let it be that way uk. For such a long time in my life, I was told people like me and my family are just included in my culture. That we were to be kept out. Noone would accept us. And I just kinda accepted that I belonged nowhere. But as I grow up, I'm realising that noone gets to say that. I can just claim my space in my culture by myself. And idk I wanna be spoken to in art. And I wanna create my own. What better way to do that than my favoritest hyperfixations lol. This is how I am actually soooooo Sam coded. Idk how to human just like him. I really do get him in that way.

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kaadhal yaanai // casifer

for @ophanims follower celebration prompt: asiannatural

(cw: blood, deaths by neck snap and explosion)

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etho oru paatu // 7x17 castiel getting his memories back

(cw flashing lights and fast moving scenes)