weak spots

all hell breaks loose + waiting for godot

AHHHHHHH

I've stalled with the time travel fic, but I did draw this plot synopsis

kali is so hot

sam looking at dean in a very supernatural christmas…

wake up babe a new "kripke has an incest kink" piece of lore dropped

supernatural, “the magnificent seven” (2007)

1.11-1.22

Its better if you read it in their voice

Did Sam…shoot Dean twice in asylum??? Was there a…I just saw post about how when Sam shoots Dean he doesn’t know it’s rock salt but…they do know? How would they not know??? How would Sam not fucking know the weapons they’ve been using for years are loaded with rock salt???? And if that’s not enough the spirit tells him right before he does shoot Dean??? Jsksksks maybe I’m misreading it? But it’s like something something Sam shoots him and it was rock salt but Sam didn’t know that…what do you mean??? 😭😭😭😭 

from the episode transcript:

but later, there’s a second shot:

so the sam hater is wrong, but both are true in a sense. sam knows about the rock salt and intentionally shoots dean to hurt, but not kill, him. but sam later shoots dean with what he thinks to be a loaded pistol, except nothing comes out. 

for the second, dean goads him to shoot and clearly emptied the clip and chamber subtly before this (i suspect that dean wouldn’t bring an unloaded weapon into the asylum, so i’m assuming he had to have unloaded the weapon inside of it in order to distract/get the better of sam). sam is heavily under the influence of dr. ellicott and dean knows this, even says so right before egging this conversation on. 

i remember being shocked when sam took the second shot the first time i watched because i wanted him to overcome his anger and for their brotherly bond to prevail over ellicott, and when that didn’t happen i spent a long time wondering how dean felt about it (how sam felt about it) and don’t recall there being many fix-it fics, for which i’m eternally disappointed.

i think it speaks to that notion of them “just starting to be brothers again” at this point in the narrative. they’re so estranged from one another in early season 1, there’s so much sam doesn’t know about himself and his family yet, and so much of his bond with dean he’s still re-forging. so many secrets and mutual resentments between them. this scene wouldn’t be possible later on. later, sam overcomes lucifer for dean in a similar scenario. 

there’s this incredible growth in their bond that takes place from s1 to s5, from sam shooting dean (with an unloaded weapon but with the intent to kill) while under an outside force, to later overcoming the strongest outside force imaginable that’s literally in control of his body in order to save dean instead. 

i do wonder (and wish there was more meta about, like i wish there were more fix-its for) how this moment catalyzed a change in their dynamic. if sam harboured guilt over it, despite knowing it was ellicott’s influence. if that helped catalyze his obsessive need to save dean a few episodes later in Faith, or if that was always going to go the way it did (probably yes, but the trajectory is still worth exploring, right?)

anyway using this moment to be anti sam or prop up dean is kind of ridiculous, but there’s a lot of meat in Asylum that still gets overlooked because the episode just has so much to it already to unpack (like sam and the psychiatrist, and dean flirting with sam about being the hotter psychic, and more). 

@dyed-red pointed the particulars here wonderfully!

I just want to add one more point of order: Canonically, Dean introduces Sam to his genius idea in 1x07 (Hook Man). So, though Sam knew in Asylum about the rock salt, he did not grow up using rock salt shells in the shotguns.

I’ve been following you around my entire life! I mean, I’ve been looking up to you since I was four, Dean. Studying you, trying to be just like my big brother. So yeah, I know you. Better than anyone else in the entire world.