building bomb shelters under your skin

[musesfool]

I can't stop listening to Daylight by Matt & Kim. It's a little gem of pure pop perfection and I can't get enough. Thank you to whoever it was I snagged it from (I feel like it was probably hackthis, since so much of the music I end up loving comes from her).

As a bonus, since I uploaded it for my niece, If I Can't Change Your Mind by Sugar, which is one

Comments

[shaggydogstail]

I didn't see Sam's demon blood addiction as being analogous to drug addiction because of Ruby's reaction to his accusation that she poisoned him. It seems more like a psychological dependence which Ruby cultivated in order to make Sam depend on her and to drive a wedge between Sam and Dean. Unlike Sam, Ruby must've known that the angels were coming for Dean while he was in hell, so she needed an insurance policy to make sure Dean didn't pull Sam off track. Drinking demon blood is so sure to disgust and repel Dean that of course Sam is going to keep it secret, and that's a big part of the rift that opens up between the two brothers during S4.

Sam's "addict" symptons seem to be partly psychosomatic (he suffers withdrawl because he believes he's dependent on demon blood) and partly evidence of his mental breakdown. I thought Sam was very mentally ill throughout S4, and the difficulty Dean has in recognising and dealing with this compounds the problem. Cold Turkey would never, ever work, because you can't detoxify someone of their mind.

I think we can be confident that there are major problems with Sam using his powers based on Anna's reaction when she discovers that Castiel has let Dean out. It seems that drinking demon blood isn't necessary to enhance them, so that isn't the issue, and it's hard to see that they are inherently evil given that Sam is the only one who can kill a demon without killing their host. The biggest problems seems that Sam's development of his powers appears to be fuelled mainly by a need for revenge - he's obsessed with killing Lilith and, with the exception of his psychic dreams, I think most of the time his powers have manifested themselves have been when he's angry. So perhaps the danger is that he's drawing on the worst aspects of himself and if he kept doing it there'd be nothing else left?

both Ruby and Castiel knew exactly which points to apply pressure to to make Sam and Dean more receptive to their various blandishments, and how Castiel screwed Dean over nearly as much as Ruby screwed Sam

Ruby was a much better manipulator because she had more clarity of purpose - she knew exactly what she was doing from day one and stuck with it. Castiel doesn't have much more of a conscience when it comes to manipulating people but his own uncertainties prevent him from controlling Dean to anything like the extent that Ruby controls Sam.

Uh, rambly thoughts encourage rambly thoughts, I guess? :D