EXCUSE ME?! Did Misha just confirm intention around season 10?

@doctorprofessorsong just sent me this video from @waywardassbutt (x), and I legit gasped. Misha acknowledging he fought for the Cas confession is always something so personal, yes, but also he kinda confirms an intention from the show around five years prior. Five. Years. Prior.

"Five years prior would’ve said, "There is no fucking way they will let us do that." Who is the they in that sentence? [We know who]

And if I may try on this very fashionable chrome colored accessory, five years ago would land us in 2016, the year of the market research.

I've been thinking for some time now, becoming convinced that the caslighting involved keeping a front for the network. Bewitched could never admit to being a gay allegory, Xena couldn't, not while staying on the air.

Extra gif for that warm smile at the end, devilish look in the eye. I'm seeing so many of these today, lovely people paying top dollar to be able to tell Misha just how much the scene he fought for, the character portrayal, meant to them and the good he's put out into the world. That's beautiful. 🌈 So many people came out, whether to the community or to themselves, after Cas got his moment on line television. They erased him but they couldn't erase the effect that he had. (Tanscript in the original.)

Anon is right and should absolutely say it. Singer has been fucking with the show for so long now. The fact that bucklemming still get to write episodes? Singer. Hell the fact that bucklemming wrote one episode in s1 and didnt again until season 7??? Singer.

Shitty treatment of Misha? Singer. That horrendous s13 Michael v Lucifer wire fight plus freezeframe zoom? Singer. Human Cas needing to bone women to calm down the gay? Singer. The reason Mark Sheppard left the show under such a cloud? Singer. The fact we got saddled with so much Pellegrino in later years? Singer. We go where the story takes us? Singer. We kill Charlie in a bathtub? Singer. Yeah we’re bringing back Eileen but I doubt she’s Sam’s endgame? SINGER.

He was a leech on that show. He drained it of everything remotely decent as the years went on. He threw everyone else under the bus before him. The fans are pissed at Dabb for the finale? The fans were pissed at Carver for Charlie? Hell I’m now wondering if the Gamble era wasn’t completely glass cliffed by Singer????

He used to be a decent director, I’ll give him that. But after 13x23? Nah son that man should’ve been made to retire by the suits. That was a joke. It was laughable.

So yeah, anon was right. Singer only ever wanted the superficial reading of the show. He just wanted two bros driving in their car being cool and killing monsters. And hell. Kinda interesting that the only member of their found family to show up in the last episode is the character that was specifically named after him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don’t forget federal agents Singer and Kripke. His name was honored TWICE in the finale.

@pocketsizedtitan-blog @sinnabonka That cameo of him in the pie fest?? Total douche move as I see it. I really hope after few years we see a day when a reboot or a spin off happens, Singer is nowhere to be seen or heard in that. I really hope whoever does it Jackles or not, have the sense to not involve who fucked it up in the first place.

Alright, I said this in bits and pieces here and in POLOL and eventually I’m going to write something that covers the entire season with coherent sentences and screengrabs, but here it is quickly and sloppily: at this point after thinking about it a while I don’t believe it was Dabb’s fault.  I think Dabb, Bobo, and Meredith to an extent tried to spend the rest of the season A. warning us of what was going to happen and B. giving us as much of what we wanted as they could.  

You can see the warnings in stuff like Atomic Monsters and the Lamp Dance.  The bad ending was described outright for us in Chuck’s 1st draft (15x19) and 2nd draft (15x20).  The Lamp Dance was still a callout of Hays Code, but not in the way we first thought- as an explanation for past treatment- but as a warning of the future.  Still being censored, this is as close as we can get.

15x03/15x09/15x18 were attempts to provide the fanbase with what they wanted.  The rift over Jack and Mary had to get aired out- we got that.  Then the rift had to be repaired- we got that.  Then the confession- written and directed by what is basically the Destiel Dream Team, written first, treated with gravitas by cast and crew alike- crew keeping privacy for Misha so he could stay in character, the perfect callback with the handprint that wasn’t scripted but added by Dick/Jensen/Misha, Jensen actually talking about it positively after the fact.  (sexy silence anyone?)

15x19 is so all over the place I feel like it’s going to take multiple rewatches to even begin to get into, but this has Buckleming smeared all over it.  It’s typical of them- plot holes, convoluted explanations, and Mark Pellegrino.  I’ve seen the Jack is Chuck meta and I like the hell out of it.  It wouldn’t surprise me if DabBobo and Alex had slipped it in intentionally on the sly, but I guarantee it didn’t come from BL.  The stance maybe, but the shrug?  The smile?  Too close for comfort and too minute for them to even think of while they’re busy jerking off over angel CGI effects.  Regardless, I don’t think Dabb had much control of this episode.  This is when the Network/Shit Tier (BLS) takeover of the ending circumstances really kicks in.

Then we come to 15x20.  This is the part that is stuck in my brain and won’t let go.

There are little things I could get into here in the beginning, like the fact that Dean’s room is sloppy and he obviously doesn’t care to fix it, the multiple alcohol bottles and pill bottle strewn about, the hammer directly above Dean’s head as he wakes up.  But what I want to address is the Pie Scene and then what happens directly thereafter.

So Pie Scene.  First off we get:

“Oh, I don’t have a choice.  this is my destiny.”

Haha!  A funny joke about how Dean loves pie!

Or is it an uncomfortable reminder of being inescapably bound to someone else’s will, the theme of the entire god damn season??

Then: Direct pan to “Dabb’s Pies.”

THIS is the scene he puts his name on.  This is where he says “Hey, I wrote this.”

Then: “I’m thinking about Cas…  Jack…  You know.  If they could be here.”

“Yeah.  I know, I think about ‘em too.  You know what, that pain’s not gonna go away, right?  But if we don’t keep living, then all that sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.”

This is Dabb’s last gasp.  The last actual heartfelt thing he was allowed to say.  Keep going, don’t let it break you, but remember what was there all this time.

And then another funny pie joke.  But this one, this is what broke me.  Let’s break it down.

Pie is used as a metaphor on the show for Dean’s happiness.  And these are Dabb’s Pies, right?  So these pies are Dabb’s writing and Dean’s happiness.  What happens to the pie?  It gets slapped in Dean’s face.  Embarrassing, right?  Dean’s happiness, right there in front of him, close enough to taste.  Dabb’s writing, wasted in a puerile insult to Dean by Sam.  Now, who does Sam represent in the God-Network metanarrative?  Jared, obviously.  And what is Jared right now?  That’s right, he’s Network Golden Boy, Walker: Texas Ranger.  That guy getting shoved in your face during every single ad break.  The embodiment of the demographic that’s being catered to by the rest of the ending.  Meanwhile, who’s that laughing in the background?  Yes, it’s Robert Singer, the Long Arm of the Network, King of the Bronlies.  Laughing at Dean not ever being able to get his pie, not even at the very end.

Wrapping it back up; Dean’s pie (Dabb’s writing/Dean’s happiness) is wasted/ruined by slapping it in Dean’s face (insult/embarrassment to Dean as a character) by Sam (Walker) while Singer (the Network) laughs in the background.

So we’ve gone through what is basically Dabb waving his arms and screaming “you better watch out you better watch out You Better Watch Out YOU BETTER WATCH OUT”.  What do we cut to next?  

A MOTW attack, better known as the show’s standard cold open.  That’s right, folks, this is not the same episode anymore.  This is how the generic week to week filler episodes so beloved by the Network/Shit Tier (BLS) begin.  This is their episode now.  Replete with ridiculous Party City vamp-mimes and the gruesome offscreen death of a nameless woman.  We’ve all seen this show before.  This is the show that thinks Dean is a character from Star Wars and not Dostoyevsky.  This is the Sad Dead and Car Winchester show, when it hasn’t actually been that for years.  The culprits?  Named and blamed in the very first words in the very next scene:

“Singer and Kripke, FBI.”

And the rest is…  Well, you saw it.  Need I say more?

Now, yeah, Dabb may have “written” the entire episode, but there’s such a disconnect that I simply cannot believe that this mess was created by him.  I think he was told what the ending had to be, tried to make it work, failed because it’s FUCKING AWFUL, and then said “fuck it” and made the rest of the season about trying desperately to show what it was meant to be.

I’m here to just nod along with @literallybyronic but also take @pocketsized-prophet ‘s comment about the glass cliff and nod along HEAVILY.

This is something I started wondering around season 12, actually, regarding Gamble. As Kripke started peeling out, Gamble took over. I really, really do not like Gamble. The fact that we’re super distantly related occasionally makes me want to break out into HIVES (no, that’s not an ITK statement, I’ve never even spoken to her personally, only like her aunt or second aunt or whatever the fuck she is, and even THEN not directly – I’m just saying, this is not an angle of like, wanting to defend Gamble at all.) BUT LIKE.

Kripke started easing out, Carver was gone, Gamble got passed a wrapped story line and still had Singer up her ass. We see a SIMILAR chaotic effect in S12. The writing room yet again had heavy rotation change, Dabb had a heavily wrapped plot to launch from with a bunch of rookies and only a few veterans, and then the BMOL and Lucifer shit vomited all over our storyline, complete with BL admitting they even stole the rift/AU idea from Wayward since it got delayed and we basically got the dumbest fucking take ever that Dabb tried to work with.

Now, the difference here is leadership: Gamble basically seemed to concede or even lean into Singer’s take. By season 13, though, Dabb seemed to have galvanized his writing room under a collaborative hat. Like, the nerds and gays unionized into collectively pushing back when they could. We got far more cohesive stories. But Singer was still there, throwing in wire fights and shit.

I have ALWAYS said Singer is basically the corporate arm in this show. Him signing on when Kripke was a relative nobody was basically how the show even started. He’s anchored in the industry and has weight, even if 13.23 tells us that weight is really more just DEAD WEIGHT at this point. 

But I do wonder how much we blame Gamble for that wasn’t entirely her fault. Obviously Dabb generally recovered better from it than she did with how he handled his writing room in the long-term, but it was a VERY similar crash at the start. Carver had similar recovery and also similarly had to shit the bed at the end with his own 3 year plan ending up on the cutting room floor (the secret admirer scene.) Charlie in the bathtub was a known public upset the authors all argued over and Carver just kinda hid his face on. This is an ONGOING PATTERN. 

While yes, it’s corporate, Singer is basically the arm of that corporate wing, and always has been, because that’s how the show even hit the air. 

But Singer being in the finale itself not one, not two, but THREE TIMES should clarify to people what the FUCK really happened here. It’s the same “glass cliff” as Gamble era, the same censor cliff as Carver era, and the same brick wall of early Dabb era. 

THERE IS ONE CONSTANT HERE: ROBERT SINGER.

Here it is! Our cameo.This is dedicated to all of you hellers and endverseCas! fans out there!

“Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas was released November 19, 1976. The final Supernatural episode, called “Carry On”, is airing November 19, 2020.

Unbelievable!

You could almost say it’s… supernatural

Castiel and Dean Winchester

Castiel started on the show establishing himself as the character who would see the Truth within Dean and help Dean see the Truth within himself, it’s all been the same long drawn out story since 4x01.

Now, a decade later, the things Cas said to Dean in this love confession are all things Dean has to address and resolve within himself before the end of the show, before he can let himself be happy.

You see yourself the way our enemies see you. You are an enemy to yourself, you are self destructive, you don’t love yourself, you must learn to do so.

You’re destructive and you’re angry, and you’re broken. You are this only due to things outside your control. That’s ok! We can fix it, it’s not your fault!

You’re daddy’s blunt instrument. You are not your father, you can choose to be your own self and let all this baggage go.

You think that hate and anger, that’s drives you. That’s who you are. It’s not! And it isn’t!

And everyone who knows you sees it. This is for the audience - WE are everyone. WE know this, WE see this. And if you haven’t you’ve missed the entire point of Dean’s story so we are spelling it out for you.

Everything you’ve ever done, the good and bad, you’ve done for love. Again, Dean isn’t the villain, he’s the hero. Get with the program.

You raised your little brother for love. We have addressed this continuously but even more so just in the few last episodes, this is a continued theme and shall have closure. Dean needs to close this himself, to allow Sam to be his own man and let them be their own people without this feeling of responsibility over him for Sam.

You fought for this whole world for love. Again, Dean needs to let the weight of the world go from his shoulders. He doesn’t deserve the burden, he has done his bit, he deserves peace and a reward.

That is who you are! You’re the most caring man on Earth! You are the most selfless, loving human being I will ever know. We been knew ;)

Castiel’s love confession is all about Dean, because Castiel was first introduced to show us these things about Dean, Dean who we had been watching for 4 years and had already fallen in love with ourselves. Now Dean has to take all these elements and address them himself, to allow HIMSELF to be happy, to eventually allow himself to think that he deserves to be loved, he is allowed to have this love from Castiel and he, in return, can be free to love Castiel regardless of any reasons why he used to think he shouldn’t, and that they deserve to be happy together.

They can only get there if Dean addresses these issues Castiel raised since 4x01 and now so spectacularly just 2 episodes before the finale, before going to the Empty where Dean will have to rescue him as a reverse mirror of Castiel rescuing him from hell in 4x01.

This will happen I’m sure but Dean first had to work on all this within himself, the things Castiel raised in order for him to do so, to them get his happy ending.

In the end...

They should come back in the 4x01 field for symmetry just saying

Happiness isn’t in the having. It’s in just being. It’s in just saying it.

ugh sitting here knowing it’s not bury your gays or unrequited love at all, it’s the final scene before the conclusion of a show that’s been on for 15 years and that is about to culminate in a literal battle with god himself for the fate of the universe. and they decided that the most impactful way to emphasize the stakes of this conflict - that it’s for the fate of all of humanity and the validity of the existence of free will - was to have a central character. take a moment for himself, to exist in the act of Being and of Saying without hope of gain or even expectation of reciprocation, to save the man he loves after experiencing true happiness in the very act of speaking the truth. and then to have the object of devotion not only understand that he has been loved this whole time, but that he is a being built of love, for love, because of love, and that he is bigger than the worst things he thinks about himself. our main character, who has been drowning in anger and fear and hate and destruction, is now left alone, in the dawn before a battle against GOD HIMSELF, understanding that he has been loved unconditionally and without end, for a decade of his life, by someone who considered just speaking the truth to be Enough.

so we’re left with dean winchester, human chaos and human love incarnate, having had castiel angel of the lord ripped away from him, and in his place there is now a true and RIGHTEOUS reason to win against a god who craves annihilation. you can’t triumph over the Creator when you’re fueled by rage and pain. but you can succeed when the sacrifice of the one you love has reminded you of who you are, and what you have to fight for. and you can win when there’s something waiting for you at the end of it all, a being who thinks he can never have the one thing he wants, because he never asked. dean’s lost it all, again, but he knows who he is and he knows he is loved. and now he has a reason to fight and an answer to give.

Hey Destiel fandom why are we not talking about this final scene? This was so fucking raw. This broke me. No background music. Him letting the phone ring as he cries into his hands. This was heartbreaking.

Full Supernatural 1518 Destiel “canon” scene. JFC.

Dean & Castiel || “I love you.” [15x18] We are here folks. People have waited 12 years for this and we finally have it. If someone were to tell me my favorite ship is going to be canon 3 years ago… i would’ve laughed in their face. But here we are. We are real. This is real.

do you ever read fanfiction so good you wish it was a book that you could buy and put on some shelf in your bedroom and gaze at sometimes and remember how amazing that motherfucker was instead of having to squint at it on your too bright phone screen at 3 am

That’s what Lulu is for folks!!! Make your own fanfic-book! For cheap! It’s quite easy once you get the hang of it!

It

Is

So easy

(even easier if you don’t bother doing personalized covers like me but I wanted it to look realistic)

Ooohhh @epicstuckyficrecs those are gorgeous! ❤️ I only got the one done so far but I’m so pleased with it and will definitey get a few more!

Modern media and technology is SO FREAKING AWESOME! 😃

Thanks for the info!

Apparently this is something I’m going to be doing now too

future reference reblogg

Destiel Trope Collection 2020 MASTERLIST

Day 1 | A/B/O Dynamics Day 2 | BDSM Day 3 | Bed Sharing Day 4 | Canon Compliant Day 5 | Case Fic Day 6 | College AU Day 7 | Detective/Law Enforcement Day 8 | Domestic Day 9 | Drunken Confessions Day 10 | Enemies to Lovers Day 11 | Established Relationship Day 12 | Everyone Knows But Them Day 13 | First Kiss Day 14 | First Responder AU Day 15 | Friends to Lovers Day 16 | Friends With Benefits Day 17 | Hurt/Comfort and Whump Day 18 | Magical Realism Day 19 | Meet Cute Day 20 | Mutual Pining Day 21 | Neighbour AU Day 22 | Roommates Day 23 | Sam Ships It Day 24 | Secret Dating Day 25 | Slow Burn Day 26 | Soulmate Day 27 | Spy, Secret Agent, Hitman, Assassin AU Day 28 | Teacher AU Day 29 | Two Person Love Triangle Day 30 | Wing Fic Day 31 | Witch/Familiar AU

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I have no experience with this strategy, but as I’ve seen more than one comment there with the same advice I’d assume this is true about YouTube’s algorithm

Jenmish // Hugs (Eyes closed)

-- "you know what i haven't told you today? that i love you."