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lousysharkbutt

fandom secret cas’ face cures artblock literally every time

stealingpotatoes

doodle for my friend who put himself through rewatching TROS

xxxtmns

Team Purgatory!

medicatedmaniac

Never forget the nipple freckle when you put that angel in a situation ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭

Was inspired to participate in Restrainstiel Week which is what it says on the tin and I encourage everyone to be inspired and make art and fic and such

perlukafarinn

endings that are better for dean than dying young and bloody:

opening a bar (as shown to be a fantasy of his)

opening a gay bar (my preferred ending)

working with kids, potentially at a home like sonny's

working as a mechanic, eventually specializing in vintage cars

becoming the new bobby, helping the next generation of hunters

being a stay-at-home dad with his husband castiel as the breadwinner (cas doesn't work either he just steals money from rich assholes using his powers and calls it being a breadwinner)

(he's with cas for all of these btw in case that wasn't obvious)

spending like a good decade traveling the world via angel express and enjoying his retirement from hunting

becoming a rock star with a cult following, a significant portion of which love sharing around conspiracy theories that he's actually a serial killer who faked his own death and started fresh with a new identity (no one seriously believes this)

becoming a sheep herder (it's the closest thing to a modern-day cowboy he can get. he gets to wear the hat and everything)

moving to hollywood and becoming an actor under the pseudonym jensen ackles

becoming a successful writer purely to spite chuck, outselling the supernatural series easily and receiving rave reviews for his refreshing style and devastating depictions of childhood trauma and breaking the cycle of abuse

building a space ship and searching the galaxy for intelligent life

literally anything other than what happened on the show

patat-penguin

i’m intentionally not replying to posts directly that are upset with the good omens finale because I think those feelings are valid even if I feel differently. I don’t want to invalidate anyone’s reaction and start a fight

however, sometimes they are forgetting an important plot detail because the 90 minute format was so rushed and everything happened too quickly for us to process all of the emotional weight of each scene

so (imo) it’s not out of character or contradictory for crowley to want to run away to alpha centurai for all of seasons 1 and 2 and most of season 3, then choose to remake the world. this is for a few reasons:

firstly, the running away plan would have never worked for them because they fundamentally love humanity. this was an important point in season 1, where running away was always a fantasy and they ultimately both wanted to stay and fight and make sure that the apocalypse doesn’t happen on earth

at it’s core, running away symbolized escaping the expectations of heaven and hell that kept them apart. and they managed to find a way to do that and also stay on earth alongside humanity, which I think is beautiful. it’s bittersweet for sure because they had to be reincarnated for that happy ending to work, but it’s still them. it’s just them in another universe because they are in love in every universe, which is also beautiful

also, in a comparison to beezelbub and gabriel, those two spent most of their time in heaven and hell. they only met up on earth as common ground. they don’t love humanity the way crowley and aziraphael do. so it’s easier for them to give that all up and run away. and when the book of life was destroyed, they were powerless to stop it because they gave up everything for however long they could get together. which is beautiful and powerful and works for them, but it’s not a one size fits all happy ending. because crowley and aziraphael couldn’t in good conscience stop trying to save humanity from the power struggle between heaven and hell. and ultimately, that gave them the opportunity to save everyone and fix it all and start over. something beezelbub and gabriel couldn’t do because they also got erased with the rest of the world

and to better explain how that switch happened, how crowley went from telling aziraphael they should run away together when they’re first in the bentley together to making the choice to start the universe over without god in it, well there’s few things. this sort of switch also happened in season 1. like a key part of that season actually. season 3 mirrors it in a lot of ways, I should do a rewatch to better appreciate that because it’s been a few years since i’ve seen it. but also, very importantly in the plot of this season, crowley learns that the book of life is missing. and immediately no longer wants to run away because he knows that it won’t matter. editing the book of life can erase him or aziraphael from existence or make it so they never escaped or worse. that’s why he needs to make sure the universe has free will before he and aziraphael can truly be happy. because otherwise any choices they make can be rewritten by whoever holds the book. and that is too much power for any being to have.

so no that choice wasn’t out of character and yes the plot does make sense and sure it needed more time to be executed well, but i’m glad they left the full structure of the story they were trying to tell in place when condensing it. because this way there’s internal consistency to the story and the themes still shine through

also i’ve heard that the end credits had more aziracrow versions and amazon prime just default skips it to autoplay more content so I, and probably many other people, didn’t get to see that :( gotta go back and watch that now

theniceandaccurategoodomensblog

Yes to all of this and also:

Crowley says over and over that it is a rigged game, you can’t change anything, it’s always too late etc. If that’s true the only thing you can do is try to scrape as much happiness for yourself as you can in the mess. You can’t actually change in full outcome. But once you have a way to change the full outcome (whole new universe) well that’s different. Suddenly, there is hope and you try to change things.

Crowley has cared about the problem of evil/lack of genuine free will etc this whole time. The scene in season one where gives everyone guns, the Job storyline, the Resurrectionists story line, in all of those he was raising this core question/problem. This has always mattered to Crowley. He just couldn’t fix it before that moment.

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Dream vacay

hiii 💖

usual briefing

I love them so much..

deancasreversebang

Profound Rivalry

Artist: witchy-worm

Author: a_diamond

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Dean/Castiel

Length: 4165

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Alternate Universe - Hockey, Inspired by Heated Rivalry (TV), Enemies to Lovers, Russian Castiel (Supernatural), John Winchester's A+ Parenting

Summary: The winter before they get drafted to the NHL, top prospects Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet on the ice for the first time. Even though Dean's been anticipating it for years, it feels anticlimactic compared to what happens when they meet off the ice.

Link to Art (NSFW) | Link to Fic

salchat

Thoughtful angel

This is in willow charcoal on smooth newsprint, with 4b charcoal pencil accents. Willow on newsprint is my favourite way to draw and I can't recommend it enough. It's very fragile, but it's also very forgiving - just swipe at it with your finger and it disappears or you get an atmospheric shadow. If you're into art but haven't tried it... do! It also has the advantage of being very cheap. But the main thing for me is that it's very organic - you can really see and feel the life in it. It's like there's less of a barrier between you and the art. That's not to say it makes things easy - you still have to put in the hours and accept frustration! But I love it.