I Was Legit Scared During This Scene. I Didn't Know Which Way Any Of Them Would Bounce. Just For A Second

I was legit scared during this scene. I didn't know which way any of them would bounce. Just for a second there I thought what Sam thought. And I probably looked as devastated as Sam looks.

If the point of pushing the melodrama this far was to misdirect me from Chuck for a second so he could Arrive and drop the other shoe on them without me anticipating it... It worked. No thoughts, only angst.

15.17 Unity

Watching the Avengers for the first time in like 8 years probably lol and even as Coulson died he says to Loki

"You're going to lose."

"It's in your nature."

Like damn even all the way back then we had a deeper understanding of Loki than we really thought about. In his dying breath Coulson was more correct that he ever knew

*thinks up an idea for a silly quick piece* okay haha let's whip something up real quick

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

*idea gets more complicated*

oh no

Dear God:

Mate, Castiel's been over you since at least season six. Observe the many fucks Cas does not give about your opinion of him as a mere cookie-cutter supporting character in your unbeta'd self-insert fic.

Amen.

Seriously, I loved these scenes. Chuck's so scary-powerful, even when he's acting like a petulant toddler, even with an exploding Jack-bomb about to go off, but Team Free Will 2.0 are past flinching. Pushed too far. Turned worms. Characters fighting back against a tyrannical author. Nnngh. I had a metagasm.

15.17 Unity

GOOD OMENS2.06 • "Every Day"

wait, you hadn't seen spn when you posted the good omens wip? the language with the angels is so similar and everything?

Nope. Pratchett fan of many years, completely new to Supernatural these past three months (with the exception of Cas' love confession, cuz I think everyone on the internet who didn't know to duck and cover in advance got sp*ilered for it that night in 2020.) Something of a lifelong thing for fictional angels, though.

I went with a quasi-Judeo-Christian-theological, liturgical, and poetic vocabulary for the Heaven and Hell/angel and demon stuff. More straight-up/slightly unintentionally ironic for Aziraphale, who wants to take it all at face value (even when he can't); more filtered through the questions of Milton's Paradise Lost, and more despairing and hurting, for fallen angel Crowley.

Muriel's dialogue has a touch of the innocence and wonder of catechism - a discovery, a flowering that opens up to them through the spoken and written word. They question without hidden motive.

Metatron's got a smidge of the manipulative certainty of commercially-driven televangelism: clinical, cynical, tailored for maximum impact on his target audience (Aziraphale). A performance.

I'd guess the Supernatural writers did much the same, cherrypicking for whichever aspect bolstered their storyline or character at the time! Throw a rock at the English language and you'll hit a Judeo-Christian concept somewhere, somehow. "Grace", "vessel", "the Michael Sword" and so on - that stuff paints a lyrical picture that "essence", "body", and "archangel's avatar" couldn't, because it pulls hard on sources rooted so deep in English prose and poetry that we infer deeper meanings without, necessarily, ever giving them a moment's thought before. I'd guess that Good Omens itself influenced Supernatural, too?

A lot of scriptural and liturgical vocabularly and cadence is hardwired into the lyrical use of the English language via influential sources like the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.

"I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition," tells us a boatload about Castiel's mindset before he even reveals to Dean that he's "an angel of the Lord". Then he's taken aback when Dean doesn't believe him - challenges him and keeps on pushing back; Cas expects this shit to be hardwired into Dean's brain and for Dean to respond accordingly by bending at the knees. Shock and awe using language.

They spend most of season 4 in that state of disconnect, barely communicating even when they both try, because Dean's just not doing "because it's God's will/because I say so", not for anyone or anything; he won't respond to that portentous vocabulary and Cas struggles to adapt to that (not least because he gets brutally punished when he tries).

Put 'em away Cas.