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It’s not just grief.

Dean isn’t just lashing out over losing Mary, tho he 100% for sure is doing that. He also just watched Sam nearly die. Again. Then watched him be saved by the same guy that apparently killed his mother. (Saved one of his dads from certain death then proceeded to murder his mother without really meaning to, Jack’s on some somehow less incestuous Oedipal shit) There’s a reason Dean keeps 🙄 every time the snake-icide gets mentioned, it’s cuz HE knows he wouldn’t give a fuck if Jack went full on homicidal St Patrick, *because Jack saved Sam from certain death*. The fact that he also killed the guy who almost liked Sam is just the cherry on top, really. Dean’s anger toward Cas very much reads as a lover’s quarrel over their troubled kid who just went violent. Dean’s accusing Cas of keeping secrets about the kid’s mental state as if Dean himself didn’t see the signs and was worried enough to literally bring him to talk to someone (Donatello filling the role of mental health professional in this analogy). Dean’s not mad at Cas for not telling them about what he saw with the snake, he’s exploded repeatedly brushing off the importance/significance of the snake. He’s not even mad at Cas at all really, he’s mad at himself. Mad that he didn’t ‘do more’ to keep an eye on Jack, mad that he left Jack alone with Mary knowing he’s currently a danger to everyone around him, mad that he’s not entirely mad at Jack cuz he still saved Sam, killed Lucifer, killed Michael, and most of all, he’s mad at himself for loving Jack, despite his initial instinct that the kid is too dangerous. “It was a warning and I didn’t see it.” This is also why he’s lashing out at Cas. He loves Cas, and he’s just had his heart broken by a powerful angelic being that he let in, let get close enough to become family. He’s just nearly lost his brother, lost his son, lost his mom, and pushed away his best friend (husband). It’s not just grief. It’s self loathing, it’s fear, it’s guilt. Dean’s entire world just fell apart. Lashing out at Cas (but not Sam) is the closest he can come to lashing out at himself. As soon as Cas came back to the bunker Dean came out to hear what he had to say. “And what, you just took her word for it?” ‘You’re TRUSTING someone?!? Like that isn’t what got us into this mess to begin with?!?’ Lashing out at Cas in place of himself. The verbal/emotional beating he gave Cas this ep was the external mirror of the internal battle within Dean.

Global Temperature by the Numbers

The Year

4th Hottest

2018 was the fourth hottest year since modern recordkeeping began. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work together to track temperatures around the world and study how they change from year to year. For decades, the overall global temperature has been increasing.

Over the long term, world temperatures are warming, but each individual year is affected by things like El Niño ocean patterns and specific weather events.

1.5 degrees

Globally, Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.

The Record

139 years

Since 1880, we can put together a consistent record of temperatures around the planet and see that it was much colder in the late-19th century. Before 1880, uncertainties in tracking global temperatures were too large. Temperatures have increased even faster since the 1970s, the result of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Five Hottest

The last five years have been the hottest in the modern record.

6,300 Individual Observations

Scientists from NASA use data from 6,300 weather stations and Antarctic research stations, together with ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures to track global temperatures.

The Consequences

605,830 swimming pools

As the planet warms, polar ice is melting at an accelerated rate. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost about 605,830 Olympic swimming pools (400 billion gallons) of water between 1993 and 2016.

8 inches

Melting ice raises sea levels around the world. While ice melts into the ocean, heat also causes the water to expand. Since 1880, sea levels around the world have risen approximately 8 inches.

71,189 acres burned

One symptom of the warmer climate is that fire seasons burn hotter and longer. In 2018, wildfires burned more than 71,189 acres in the U.S. alone.

46% increase in CO2 levels

CO2 levels have increased 46 percent since the late 19th Century, which is a dominant factor causing global warming.

I’m not sure I can shout any louder or more regularly that THIS IS CLASSIC ROMANTIC STORYTELLING.

Act 1.

~ Dean doesn’t believe in Angels.

~ Cas is a soldier and Angel of the Lord.

Classic antagonistic meet-cute. They get to know each other through season 4 as reluctant allies. Debate is rife between them as to the right thing to do. Denial is a running theme for Dean re: Cas, let’s be honest, not even romantically but the ever old “It’s Cas, he’ll be fine” etc. Denial is central.

Season 4 finale: THE NEW RELATIONSHIP. Cas rebelled. He did it, all of it, for Dean. They are now compatriots working together against Heaven and Hell.

~ Dean starts to have faith in Cas, he prays to Cas.

~ Cas starts to see Dean as his leader and ally, not the Angels.

Act 2.

Season 5 - 8. Getting to know you. Well its SPN, so not exactly Fun and Games but yeah, this is it. They do get to know each other, and we get to know them better too. Cas even occasionally takes part in some MOTW ‘fun and games’ episodes and we see the development of both the romantic Destiel and the very kindly clearly written as a mirror obviously platonic Sastiel for comparison.

Point of no return / deeper commitment: somewhere around season 8 / Purgatory. “I’m not leaving here without you” etc. This is also the point where Dean believes that emotions will break Cas. This is literally heartbreaking and affects how he reacts to everything moving forwards, most specifically it is the reason why he holds back so much other than when Cas is human (see all the meta about 2nd nightstands, all of 9x06, the bar scene etc). It is also a standard unrequited/undeserving/it’s better for them if they don’t love me love trope in order to drag the story out, just saying.

Falling for you / Complications & Higher stakes: Cas becoming Human. Dean’s Demon/MoC arc. All these arcs lead them to a more profound emotional development towards each other and more textual romanticism in the writing rather than the initial crush/interest.

Final straw for Cas: Perhaps believing Dean is dead in 9x23 but then consolidated in 11x23.

Final straw for Dean: Lucifer possessing Cas, the whole second half of s11.

~ Dean over this whole period comes to see Cas not as a distant Angel but in a much more Human way. He even might have stopped praying to him as he replaces it with phone calls / direct communication, but his faith in Cas is clear.

~ Cas replaces his love and faith in God with his love and faith in Dean (consolidated in 11x23) and doesn’t want be a soldier but wants to help people, maybe by saving people, hunting things…

12x12 is the expositional point telling us that Cas has CHANGED. It also is a call back to Dean’s worry that emotions will break Cas as here he is, emotional and breaking. Dean even bows his head and visually looks like he is praying (it doesn’t even matter really if he is or not, the effect for the audience is the key).

These concepts tie back round to and build on where they were BEFORE THEY MET to show how they have changed within themselves and grown in relation to each other.

So, Now. They have both experienced the complications and higher stakes towards each other. They have both fallen in love, Cas both metaphorically and literally falling (it’s only on becoming human that I think he truly realised how he felt, it’s both a narrative reality and a metaphor). Dean’s gone from having no faith to eventually meeting God and worrying the whole time about saving Cas.

Which leaves us currently at the Break up Moment. 

Which is honestly exactly where I see this separation and all the questions about choices/Angels/nephilim/cosmic consequences going, leading us to…. 

Act 3.

Winning him back.

Not sure how this works, but here we go.. 🐙

(Surprisingly) Tagged by: @ibelieveinathingcalleddestiel

Zodiac: Leo

Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 4 songs:

If My Heart Was a House - Owl City

The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terell

Angel with a Shotgun - The Cab

Grab the nearest book and turn to page 23, what does line 17 say?

“You and your brothers and sisters, I curse you all, your straining ambition will destroy you” - Mythos by Stephen Fry

When was the last time you played air guitar?

No idea, it’s been years. I mostly sing.

What is one sound you hate and one sound that you love?

I hate the sound of the garbage truck at 5 am, and I love the sound of waves at the beach.

Do you believe in ghost?

Some days.. Mostly all I can say is that all I know, is that I don’t know.

Do you believe in aliens?

It would be wierd, if we were alone in the entire Universe..

Do you drive? Have you ever gotten into an accident?

I can drive (but I prefer not to) and have luckliy never been in an accident.

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

No, do people like that? I didn’t know that was a thing..

Do you have any obsessions right now?

I have been obsessed with Supernatural for about 6 months now, so it’s calming down a bit.. (a bit!) Other than that I am very fascinated by sexuality and gender identities at this point in my life (maybe not obsessed as much as a genuinly interested).

In a relationship?

Thought I might have been close for a moment, but I had to end it on account of my confusing brain.

I’m tagging: @mssammysam @bendingsignpost @dimples-of-discontent

Tag Game

 was tagged by. @the-queens-of-chaos Thank you!

zodiac : Leo

put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 4 songs :

Over the hills and far away- Led Zeppelin

The Corridor - La Ley

Nocturne op.9 No.2 -  Chopin

Lost stars - Adam Levine

grab the nearest book and turn to page 23, what does line 17 say ?

“no puede uno estar todo el día sacando brillo a la insignia de prefecto” - Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets ilustrated versión in spanish 🙂

when was the last time you played air guitar?

Honestly i don’t remember, air guitar is not my thing, but i do piano and violin sometimes.

what is one sound you hate and one sound you love ? I hate the sound of a very loud sssss in a microphone, and i love the sound of the spanish word “Policroma”

do you believe in ghosts ? No

do you believe in aliens? No

do you drive ? have you ever gotten into an accident ? I don’t drive, and I’ve never gotten into an accident.

do you like the smell of gasoline ? No  

do you have any obsessions right now ?

Supernatural, Isn’t that obvious?

in a relationship ?

Nah, too lazy for one right now

I’m tagging: @mozzy-o @savio-the-depressed-moose @myed89 @littleduck46 @barmy-owl

dean: so he’s not like you? donatello: oh no. i’m a prophet of the lord but he… *creepy background music plays* jack’s probably the most powerful being in the universe… i mean, really… *creepy background music swells* who knows what’s going on instead his head?… dean & donatello: *apprehensively glances at jack* jack: