By @nmni_k

by @nmni_k

Boy with a basket of guts (tap for HQ) 🩸

a redraw of this Caravaggio’s masterpiece

They look like they're from season six. And sex, hahaha. I draw chibi Crowley and Castiel when I want to break out of art block. Love them.

still the hottest cas scene in all of spn to me

scary? my god you're divine . . .

All of this meta is love brain food and gives my fannish heart hope for a revival/sequel. Also.... it gives my Destiel-loving heart hope. Because if Dean becomes a new kind of angel, one sculpted from a human soul.... that could make The Empty less powerful against him. Enough to mount a rescue maybe???

Well, now. How about that. Ben Edlund tweeting about metaphysical concepts he used while brainstorming spn. Ideas that have been part of the show a long time, there's been plenty of meta posted about these concepts btw. Something some fans were mocked for pointing out and analyzing those concepts in relationship to story, characters, relationships, and themes.

It's all about the souls. It has been for a long time on spn.

Screaming crying laughing. Dean's soul becoming angel 2.0.

This is what I meant when I've talked about how recontextualizing can repair a story (we don't know if Ben is going to be involved in the revival or not, but these are canonical concepts already in use in spn since Kripke era, which got more obvious in late seasons, and Ben's takes are making me tingly).

Even if no hard retcon, adding to the story, expanding, movement forward can help repair shortfalls in execution and ease for some fans the disappointments and hurt of the aired ending.