shows should have 22 episodes a season again where half of them are low stakes silly fun shit happening. this i believe with my whole heart

#i miss monsters of the week #i miss bottle episodes #i miss side quests #i miss giving characters time to breathe and grow over time #i miss being able to show a friend a favourite standalone episode when they haven't seen the show #cause they don't need to know the overarching story to enjoy it #i miss getting to enjoy a show over the course of 6 months instead of watching it in a week and forgetting it a month later ( via @runs-in-the-family )

Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

(Amusingly, one such game was later re-used as the core system for a licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, and the madness rules were carried over verbatim, with the result that seeing Cthulhu can also make your ninja turtle gay.)

if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

It's a case that dead-ends at a magical door. But this Open Sesame can only be triggered by married men or women. Mary steps up to bat and reads the words, but the magic is finnicky. It only works for current marriages.

CAS: *stepping up*

OTHERS: cAs???!

CAS: "The definition of marriage is broad: political, conciliatory, locational, common law..."

(*in the background, Dean is lobster-red, thinking his inclusion of common law means them ofc*)

As the door slides open, Sam crows in victory, and they continue on.

SAM: "Hey so what opened the door? You got a wife we don't know about?"

CAS: "Yes. I suppose I owe a great deal to the djinn queen."

DEAN, face falling: wHaT?????

also i have never thought of dean allowing gadreel to possess sam as a violation of sam’s autonomy. dean was acting basically as a healthcare proxy for his brother who was in a coma, making medical decisions for sam because sam was not able to do so himself. it’s not like sam was sitting there actively saying “do not under any circumstances let a strange angel possess me” and dean went ahead and did it anyway, directly violating sam’s vocal wishes. multiple times over the course of s8, whenever dean and sam had talked about it, sam had said that he didn’t want to die, he wanted to live. based off the information he had, dean made yes an admittedly drastic decision, but not one that’s totally out of left field for the in-universe world? when dean was dying in season three, sam wanted him to harvest organs and keep himself alive like frankenstein’s monster. so. let’s have some perspective

#also sam still had to say yes#he had to choose to live#because an angel yes is not transitive#dean could not say yes for sam and sam coukd not say yes to dean and then have dean say yes to gadreel#which means gadreel decided to show up as dean inside Sam's mind and trick him#also see s14 for an example of cas not being able to take sam into Dean's mind#they had to use the bmol machine

@swordofsun yep you nailed it. The show makes it explicitly clear that Dean cannot say yes on Sam's behalf— the angel "yes" isn't transitive, otherwise Dean's "I don't know what I'm agreeing to but I'm saying yes to doing whatever you want" to Cas in 04.21 would have led to Michael immediately possessing him the second it was convenient.

Dean makes it explicitly clear two or three separate times in 09.01 that this is ultimately Sam's choice and he cannot make it for him. The fact that Gadreel subsequently uses deception and assuming a false identity to coerce an uninformed yes from Sam is, to be clear, something Gadreel did. Not Dean. Gadreel. Something which Dean immediately follows up by trying to tell Sam the truth right away, only to be himself coerced into keeping quiet by a threat to Sam's safety.

Dean's only real involvement in the choices that got made were 1) his initial call for help to any and all angels after Cas didn't (couldn't) respond and 2) the vetting of "Ezekiel" as someone he could trust not to screw them over, the failure of which is not his fault since he did in fact get information from a trusted source and it is very much not his fault that Gadreel was lying about his identity. Everything from that point on is Dean repeatedly stating that it's Sam's choice and ultimately agreeing that "Ezekiel" can go ahead with the possession... if Sam agrees to it.

Another Kind of Memory

Another Kind of Memory by FriendofCarlotta ( @friendofcarlotta) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 45k

If there's one thing that I absolutely love (and by love, I mean it occasionally makes me want to bash their heads together) it's when Dean and Cas are convinced that they're not good enough for the other one to love. So while I was reading this fic, I definitely wanted to bash some heads together (but always with the utmost love in my heart).

In this fic, we have the dueling cases of the low self-esteem and self-worth. You have Dean, who's convinced that no one will ever want him for a real relationship, only for the short-term fun, and you have Cas, who's convinced that the prominent scar on his face (gotten in a truly tragic moment) makes him unlovable and undesirable--especially to someone as outgoing and attractive as Dean. Despite those feelings, the two strike up an easy friendship--at least until Anna, Cas' sister, develops a crush on Dean, and Dean finds a love letter written by Cas to him... except Dean thinks that Anna wrote the letter.

What follows is a series of revelations, both for Dean and Cas, as they both start to discover the value that they have to other people. Cas also has to go on a journey of self-discovery and self-love (and NOT the fun kind; the kind that comes on a therapist's couch) but it's worth it to see how Dean and Cas come together at the end. (And it's especially worth it to see how Cas finally gets all of the love that he's been denying himself for so long.)

Unrecorded artist, Moose Hair Tufting, early to mid-20th century, Moose hair, fabric, porcupine quills.

Raclin Murphy Museum

several people in the replies are asking how these techniques work so i'm sharing these lovely videos from the royal alberta museum

the first video shows an indigenous artist, coral madge, demonstrating the moose hair tufting technique and talking about her family history with moose and caribou hair tufting. in the second video she demonstrates the porcupine quill technique. both techniques were used in the creation of the textile above.

the "hellers hate sam" smear campaign of the early '10s did irreparable damage to the fic scene because people felt like they had to overcompensate to own the bronlies and now i'm fighting for my life in a sea of 2011-2013 fic that depicts sam and cas as confidants when those two barely had a serious conversation until the second half of s9

Dean gets really into wearing utili kilts post canon and has a bunch of them he wears around a lot. Sam makes a homophobic comment (as he is wont to do & everyone forgets) about Dean wearing skirts. So Dean is starting to launch into a whole spiel about manly Scots wearing kilts and William Wallace etc etc when Cas walks in and just immediately shoves a hand up the back of Dean's kilt, causing him to go bright red and then even redder when Cas says he appreciates the authenticity.

Sam is confused why Dean isn't telling Cas to take his hand out from under his skirt, but then again Cas has always been really weird. So he just wanders off to make himself a green drink and listen to the next installment of one of his true crime podcasts and doesn't really give it much thought.

Dean and Cas have been together for months and think Sam knows.

Sam does not know.

The Prodigal

By FriendofCarlotta | @friendofcarlotta Art by aggiedoll | @romachebella

Link to Fic | Link to Art

Rated E | 19,500 words | No Archive Warnings Apply

through heaven and hell

Dean, Cas and Charlie haven’t said more then 3 words to a straight person in like 6 months. As is their right.

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

summer is coming up lads..

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

I grew up in Canada and I've lived in the US, England, Scotland, and Australia. my brain bluescreened on every image in this post

except the toque, there's no other correct word for that

Dean drunkenly bragging about being best best best friends with Cas to someone at a bar and he's like "here look I'll call him, I'll talk to him" and proceeds to call him with no answer 50 times in a row and the other person keeps trying to gently be like "maybe he's busy?" "are you sure you're actually friends? Does he know that you're friends?" "Maybe you should stop trying" And Dean is like "no no no we are we are best friends he's gonna pick up" like this is a totally normal thing that happens between all friends

That same person is in the bar again next week and Cas is there and when he introduces himself they're like "WAIT do you have a friend named Dean. Is he. This is a weird question but is he your best friend??" And Cas does his little shy smile and says "yes."

Later on his phone starts ringing and he looks at it, then just puts it on the table where it vibrates with persistent calls for over 20 minutes.

"Don't you want to get that?"

"It's just Dean"

"Couldn't you just tell him you don't want him to call you so often??"

"I like when he calls"

"Then why not answer???"

"I don't have anything to say to him right now"

"Don't you think he might have something to say to YOU?"

Even more laterer, at the end of the night, bar closing, having seen Cas slug back an entire vodka bottle, "Hey you shouldn't drive, do you want me to give you a ride?"

"Oh, no thank you. Dean will drive me."

Cas pulls out his phone and they're like there's no way. It's 2am and Cas just ghosted him for 45 minutes. There's no-

"Dean," he'd answered on the first ring, "I'm 'too drunk to drive' can you come get me?"

Dean rolls up in his car within 15 minutes.