That’s so nice to hear... thank you so much!  

Thank you so much!  

Thank you so much!  I’m so glad that you liked it

I’m not sure what this is exactly in reference to.  I’m going to guess that it’s got something to do with Sam and sexuality?  

1) Demons possess people.  They seem to have preferences, but a crossroads demon could conceivably possess someone of any gender.  

In Bela’s case, someone suffering from a recent sexual trauma and a CHILD to boot, I don’t imagine that even a crossroads demon is going to bring attraction into the mix.  

In Mary’s case she wasn’t dealing with a crossroads demon.  She was dealing with Azazel, ruler of Hell.  

2) The banker’s case was initially handled using a female crossroads demon.  He specifically stated that he had been dealing with a woman, but Crowley felt that the deal was too important to deal with a subordinate.

3) While we’re on the subject, the notion of attraction being part of a crossroads demon’s arsenal in luring a mark in to make a deal - not the whole thing, but part - has been mentioned twice.  Once by the banker in the above mentioned episode, and once by Dean in “Taxi Driver” when Sam summoned a crossroads demon who, once again, turned up in a male body.  It was the second time that Sam had summoned a crossroads demon who showed up in a male body, the first time that he had done so in front of Dean, and Dean saw fit to comment about the gender.  

4) Are you seriously going with “women are more likely to be…”  

5)  Now I’m kind of going out on a limb here, and I’m sorry if I’m not understanding where you’re coming from on this.  I know that the ask box has a character limit and everything.  I can only assume that you’re on this because you’re trying to convince me either that we can’t use the multiple crossroads demons that Sam has summoned who have turned up in male bodies as evidence for his being part of the MOGAI community.  (Other people have tried. They have failed.)  

Why is Sam’s (very, very questionable) heterosexuality so very important to you?  

We’ve got a guy here who has never stated, in canon, that his sexual interest is limited to women.  He uses gender neutral terms when referring to his own sexual and romantic past, Crowley’s stated that he had a relationship with a man, we’ve got the issue with the crossroads demons, he’s never claimed to be heterosexual, but we’ve got people falling all over themselves screaming “BUT SAM IS STRAIGHT!”  

I think about this a lot… 

I mean, first of all, it was Sam and Dean’s love that saved the world, or more properly Sam’s love for Dean that allowed Sam to save the world.  So a lot of us have got it in our heads - and I’ve been guilty of this at times - that it’s this beautiful and epic tale of brotherly love and perfection with no flaws or ugly aspects to it, and to be honest I don’t think anyone would ever want to watch that past the age of like six.  Yeah, Sam’s love for Dean let him overcome Lucifer.  We can’t forget that.  

But we can’t let that stop us from thinking sensibly and logically.  Was it @pocochina or sillierthanasillylaugh who pointed out that the scene in My Brother’s Keeper was actually a staged, fake execution?  Assuming that Dean never intended to kill Sam - and if he’d intended to kill Sam and then changed his mind, they’d show that as they did with Sam taking control back from Lucifer in Swan Song - he put Sam through that whole charade, made him believe that his brother was going to execute him just because he was going to do what Dean wanted him to do while Dean was in Purgatory - rescue Dean.  

Mock executions are a form of torture.  I’m not making this up, they’re used all over the world to break down an inmate’s resistance and make them more receptive.  And Dean knowingly did that to his own brother.  This isn’t something to hold up as something glittering and shining, an example of Brotherly Love That Breaks Through All Darkness.  This is torture.  This counts as war crimes.  If this happened to you (and someone found out about it), the perpetrator would get a visit to The Hague.  

The goalpost shifting, that’s another one.  It doesn’t matter what Sam does, he cannot win, because the desired outcome has suddenly changed without his being informed.  Or the desired outcome - as in, “oh, you can just chain me up in here” - is untenable.  

The idea of wanting one’s sibling to be so ground down that he cannot imagine a life in which he has hopes, goals or dreams of his own - no longer has hobbies outside of you, no longer approaches potential romantic or sexual partners, no longer expresses joy or pleasure - has become romanticized.  That person, the person who wanted that, is being held up as a hero, as an example to follow, and I’m kind of horrified.  

At the same time, I mean, it was made very clear to us from the beginning that this was not a Shining Happy Family.  I don’t want to make it seem like I’m standing up in some pulpit screaming “You can’t watch this show, it shows a terrible representation of family life!”  No, it’s not like that.  

Like I said at the outset, Sam’s love for Dean let him save the world.  Sam’s love let him overcome a terrible attack that shattered his psyche, so he wouldn’t leave his brother alone.  Sam so loved his brother that he was willing to bow his head and die to clean up Dean’s mess.  That shouldn’t be romanticized, but it should be acknowledged.  It’s ugly and it’s twisted and it’s seriously screwed up - it’s not what I’d want for myself, for my daughter, for anyone I know - but it makes for great fiction.  

When the show started I was uncomfortable with some aspects of his character - I didn’t think that he treated Sam as well as he thought he did.  But I didn’t hate him, and I made an active effort to conform my way of thinking to the “aww… BRUDDERS” standard.  Sam loves him, after all, and Sam is the reason I watch the show.  (Full disclaimer: my reasons for watching, in order of importance: Sam, brothers, interesting folkloric plots.)  The abusive traits that have always been present were subtle, and easy to overlook, and were easily masked by funny one-liners and the Single Man Tear or whatever.  

After Dean crammed an angel into his brother, using deceit, knowing and openly acknowledging that this was something that his brother would never, ever want and that he would prefer to be dead than to have his body, mind and soul taken away yet again by an outside entity - yes, I hated him.  

And then, after that, I sat down and re-watched the series.  And I saw a LOT of signs that I’d purposefully overlooked before.  He’s a shit brother.  He’s an abuser who will stop at nothing to have control over his brother, regardless of what is in that brother’s actual best interests.  Once I started watching while thinking more critically, instead of getting distracted by the pretty and swallowing the narrative as presented by Dean, I couldn’t ignore what was being shown the whole time.  

(Also, if this is Laura, sorry for the spoilers.)  

EDIT: Please don’t take this as a knock against Jensen; I’m very fond of Jensen.  He’s a fine actor and shares my defensive love of over-height chestnut-haired actors married to petite beautiful women.