( He is. He's stealing candy. )

( namaste, bruh )

I read through this post and would like not to let it pass without comment. In the first part of my response I will do my best to explain how Dean’s behavior toward Sam meets a lot of the criteria for intimate partner abuse, because the OP does not seem to grasp the argument we are making. I will assume good faith, though - this is a difficult ( Read more... )

 
( the only boring werewolf is a SPN werewolf, so. )

So this episode. It had a lot of stuff I really wanted to see and more than a few things I wouldn’t have thought to want but am really happy about anyway, but it still left me weirdly unsettled in some ways? And I’m not sure if it’s the kind of unsettled I want to be because it is on the right trajectory of this whole fucked up story, or if ( Read more... )

Metatron’s mind games with Gadreel were pitch-perfect. He rides Gadreel about you’re a screw-up, nobody’ll have you but me, you have to fight more and harder and maybe just maybe I’ll give you a way out of this shame spiral which you’re only in because you’re such a failure, have we talked lately about how I’m a saint for not reminding you of that ( Read more... )

I could give a long list of things that I like about Carver's run of the show so far and it'd be totally honest. He's doing a lot of interesting stuff. But I think the core reason I'm enjoying it so much is that he manages to give me what I want but not at all in the way I'd expect it. And I think the opposite of that is happening for a lot of ( Read more... )

In numerous meta communities, I've seen conversations of S9 which strike me as incomplete about some very important dimensions to the season, and I'd like to respond.
( cut for abuse triggers; discusses through the most recent episode )

I say "the first" because you all can probably count on a lot more pointedly-not-saying-I-told-you-so posts over the next five weeks.

( since it was coming out in aggravatingly truncated little tumblr posts everywhere )

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OMG, how GREAT was the way things went down with Dean went down in the last third of the episode. Oh, he’ll lie to and undermine and gaslight Sam for weeks on end, but as soon as he found out HE got played, THAT light a fire under his ass and turned him 50 shades of blasé as to whether Sam could survive throwing “Zeke” out. Note, too, how he ( Read more... )