Supernatural: trip down memory lane

[ariadne83]

So, I have been mainlining seasons 1 & 2, again (bought the seasons 1-5 set, so it was pretty much inevitable) and... I am in love with all the characters ever.

It's kind of ridiculous, actually, and it makes me want a million AUs populated by all the amazing one-shot/two-shot characters. ALL OF THEM EVER.

I want the one where

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[emerald_embers]

I think with me the reason why I pretty much side with Dean despite sympathising with Jo is that I see blind when it comes to my family, so instead of thinking "rationally, Dean should think...", I instantly jump to "if it was my sister, I would be THIS IS ME THIS IS MY WORK EVERYONE ELSE GTFO".

Me and my sister are exceptionally close (not Wincesty close, but nonetheless, we live together voluntarily when we're both in our twenties and have an us-against-the-world mentality at times), and in a weird way, I can kind of put myself in Dean's situation because if my sister was behaving in a way that I knew just wasn't her, I'd ignore anyone else's input because I'd want to be the one to save her and protect her and take care of her.

If, say, Sam and Dean were friends, I'd be frowny-faced at Dean, or if they were brothers who weren't too fond of each other I'd be a bit "Hmm", but Sam and Dean love each other blatantly to such a degree that I can understand his blindness.

Like I said, I sympathise with Jo, I feel sorry for her, but I completely and totally get where Dean's coming from so that episode resonates with me because if my sister had done things like Sam did and I had the capacity to help her, I'd be completely blind to other people because I'd need to be the one to 'fix' her, past the point of all rationality.

[ariadne83]

Whereas I had to train myself out of trying to fix my sister years ago just to stay sane because oy, bad life choices, she has 'em in spades.

[emerald_embers]

*huge hugs*

I'm extremely lucky, really. For some reason, by accident, my mum seemed to hit on a formula where all of us were only complete idiots during our early teens.

Well, except me, where I was a complete idiot during my late teens/early twenties, but I was a slow developer socially ;).

[ariadne83]

Luckily enough she doesn't do anything really dangerous, but she does have appalling taste in men and she stays in bad relationships for WAY too long (like, altogether her two worst relationships add up to something like 16 years)

[emerald_embers]

I think our mum is eternally grateful for the fact she doesn't get boy trouble from either of us (though my little brother does get girl trouble, as he suffers from teenage boy "I LOVE HER FOREVER SHE WILL BE MY WIFE I ADORE HER *asks her out* WOE IS ME I WILL NEVER LOVE AGAIN SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME ;_______;"-itis). My sister has the attention span of a gnat and hops between men pretty swiftly because she's not currently interested in a long term relationship, while I'm ONLY interested in a long term relationship and as I'm effectively looking for a future husband, I'm being very, very picky about it XD, hence the being a 25-year-old single virgin thing ^^.

[ariadne83]

Picky is good. I dated a fair few jerks before I raised my expectations, and in my experience picky is how you end up with someone worthwhile and not someone who treats you like a doormat.