#werewolf!garth

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reposting this werewolf Garth illustration because I added some more details

[drsilverfish]

Dean’s 17 Cavities in 15x10 The Hero’s Journey

Seventeen is a pretty specific number, right?

I’ve already written about the way in which the dentist’s chair sequence in 15x10 makes specific, subtextual, reference to Dr. Freud, who wrote, in The Interpretation of Dreams, that dreams about teeth falling out were repressed sexual anxiety dreams.

And why would Dean be suffering from (subtextual) sexual anxiety? 

Because, he’s just confessed more of his feelings, and on his knees no less, to Castiel, than he’s ever confessed before. 

Garth probes Dean’s teeth and finds seventeen cavities.

In subtext, Garth has always had a bit of a crush on Dean. In subtext, Garth the werewolf helps Dean learn to tap-dance in the dentist’s chair dream-sequence as a metaphor for self-acceptance (in part) of Dean’s own “monstrous” side (his queer closeted anxiety). And after that dance sequence, Dean is able, back up out of the dentist’s chair, to admit to Garth that he smells good too (a bit more, subtextual, bisexual self-acceptance), and to look longingly at Garth and Bess dancing, wishing (we can infer) for his own “dance partner”.  He thinks he’d be good at it <3. 

For those of you who’ve been following the Jungian and alchemical symbolism in S14 and S15, the number 17 might ring a bell as the path, on the Qabbalistic Tree of Life, between Tiphareth (Integraton/ Beauty) and Binah (Wisdom/ Understanding):

That pathway is said to be linked to the Tarot card The Lovers (here reproduced from the Crowley-Harris deck):

This card doesn’t simply symbolise the meeting of two lovers on the physical plane, but also the “sacred marriage”, which, in Jungian alchemy (which views alchemical texts as metaphors for psychic forces) it is the meeting of the Self and the Shadow, the integration of “masculine” and “feminine” principles within the self. 

Dean has just been on an underworld journey to Purgatory 2.0 (a metaphor for a journey into the unconscious) and has come face to face with his Shadow-self, in the form of admitting, in his prayer to Cas, to the rage that he inherited from his childhood trauma and which has, up to this point (because it hadn’t been confronted) often controlled him, turning him into someone who acts out like his father did.

So, in subtext, Dean’s seventeen cavities link to The Lovers tarot card, and thus symbolise, a) Dean’s “hero’s journey” towards greater acceptance of his bisexuality, b) Dean’s psychic journey towards greater integration of his self and his Shadow-self, c) Dean’s psychic journey towards greater integration of his “softer” side (the side that wants to dance) with his exterior “hardass” side (the side his father approved of), and d) also symbolises Castiel as Dean’s potential life-partner. All of these are, of course, clearly linked. 

Not only that, but this integration of Self and Shadow on the earthly plane has been, and will again, be mirrored on the cosmic plane. 

Chuck is unbalanced at present, because he has “broken up” with Amara, and he is not facing his own Shadow self (whatever it is he has repressed about himself). Therefore, he is acting out and behaving “monstrously”. Chuck needs to achieve the same kind of psychic growth Dean is in the process of achieving - the creator must learn from his creation. 

N.B: As ever, my reading of the queer subtext in SPN does not promise a rainbow parade of obviousness at the end.  But subtext IS part of narrative.

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drawing werewolf garth is good and healthy for my soul

[drsilverfish]

Bring it on Madison 15x10

Did anyone else notice that during the final fight sequence with Maul the cage-fighting monster in The Hero’s Journey, Dean called him “Madison”?

“Bring it on, Madison!” he yelled:

Just before he got kicked in the nuts?

Yes, Dean was calling the dude girls’ names beginning with “M” to “emasculate” him, (which, you deserved the kick in the balls for, Deano) but also, Madison was Sam’s werewolf lover, way back in 2x17 Heart.:

Werewolves, more than any other monster on SPN, as I’ve written about before, represent the Winchesters’ journey away from their father’s (and Chuck’s) black-and-white view of monsters, towards a more nuanced “grey area” approach:

https://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/159130804019/werewolf-my-beloved-12x16

So it’s deeply poignant that Madison’s name is mentioned in an episode where Sam and Dean are saved by their werewolf friend Garth, whilst being pissed on from a great height by Chuck (screwing around with their health, Baby etc). 

Dabb uses Madison’s mention (emerging from Dean’s unconscious association) to highlight, just that little bit more, what a giant dick Chuck really is. 

Because, Sam, with the level of knowlege the Winchesters had back then (not knowing about the Men of Letters’ werewolf cure which later saved Claire) had to (at her request) kill Madison.  

And now we know how actively Chuck was interferring in his “favourite story” along the way (a little nudge here, a little poke there) we know he enjoyed Sam’s suffering, falling for Maddison and then having to put that “monster” down. 

Which was also a deliberate and an awful mirror, at the time, for Dean to see, of what his father, John Winchester, had told him he might have to do to Sammy himself.

So raise a glass to Madison.

And let’s hope someone kicks Chuck in the nuts before The End. 

[everylamp]

I love how we all acknowledge Claire and Jack and Ben as Dean’s children!!! but if you’re not gonna accept Emma into your hearts, I’ll just have to claim her as my own daughter and defend her with Sam’s life by myself

[vicrathis]

What the ever-loving fuck was even season nine. We had angel!Sam, almost-human!Crowley, human!Cas, demon!Dean, werewolf!Garth, and ghost!Kevin.

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[thegirlwhodrivesapolicebox]

I kinda like the idea of werewolf!Garth hunting with the boys. I mean, they've teamed up with an angel, a vampire, a witch, a (few) demons.... Seems a werewolf would fit right into that list.