We All Gon' Party Like It's 1888

Here I was, just eating a cup of applesauce under the 14-year-long assumption that the reason a small infant was able to remember something was because this was a fictional world of magic, but no, now this entirely reasonable and somewhat less terrifying bubble has burst and I’m never going to recapture that innocence. 

anything.

Waves: I had a 1920s themed dance last month, and I wore my hair in waves. I sat in a chair with a professional stylist for AN HOUR for FOUR of those beauties. I see at least eight. And she does those regularly for work.

Victory curls: I can do victory curls. Two, to be exact. Not counting practice, I have worn my hair in V-curls exactly twice. It took me an hour and a half last time, and I didn’t even curl the ends, just two v-curls on the top of my head, and they weren’t nearly this amazing. Again, another casual work look. 

There’s little flickers of red on her gun as testament to smudged nails before she learned to check her weapons first and then paint her nails. While they dry she reads something else, filing it all away for future reference and remembering key words by which finger she was painting at the time. When Peggy Carter checks her nails she might well be looking for chips, but it’s more likely she’s remembering names.

She ran out of cold cream weeks ago, but she stills has some rose water left and uses it sparingly, careful not to get it mixed up with the other little vials in her kit.

And of course there will be that one night, when the alarm sounds and everyone is forced from their beds in a panicked hurry. Peggy Carter will not only be at the center of it, but she will be the one keeping the intruder pinned down. Dressed in a faded floral nightgown thrown over her night clothes, smelling like rose water, her hair hidden under a silk scarf to keep her curls in place, gun held steadily in a perfectly manicured hand. Everyone else is dressed, however hurriedly, but it’s Peggy who is the most put together, even in her pin curls.

Let’s look at the fall.  Of course there’s the obvious difference in hair, but look at the pinch in his brow, the difference in how his eyes are set and eyebrows low.  The tightness around his eyes.  The set of his scowl and the vehement hate in his chin.  It’s just this entire distaste for what the game’s become.

You can see how on the right, he has hope.  Excitement.  He’s got something to look forward to.  I personally don’t believe that in TGG/Pool scene Jim, he knew he was going to die before it was all over with.  I honestly don’t.  There isn’t a vacancy in his eyes on the right, while on the left there’s just, I don’t know, a desolate gleam?  Yeah, he knew he was going to his death on the left.  But in the right, he looks like a dog when his master has a squeaky toy, except he has full intent on biting the hand instead of the toy.

I don’t know.  I just have so many feels for this character.  And Andrew Scott for being able to portray such a difference for one character from one point in time to another.  They barely look like the same person.

During Percy’s and Jason’s fight in Kansas one of them kills the other before Piper can get control of the situation. It could’ve been discussed how Piper and the one that lived handled their grief and guilt for letting the other one die. The crew’s reaction and how they handle the rest of the quest without Percy/Jason

When Percy was poisoning Akhlys, he doesn’t stop until the deed is done. After that Annabeth can barely even look at him anymore. Once they’re out of Tartarus she can’t escape the fear she felt when she saw him using his powers like that. Possible breakup

Piper not being able to save her dad during the Lost Hero. She doesn’t tell anyone the full extent of the details, but turns to a bit darker side with his death and her guilt

Hazel dying again once Thanatos is freed. Her not being able to say goodbye to Frank before she’s taken back to the underworld. Hazel not being able to go to Elysium and living(?) her afterlife in a constant dreary state

Octavian becoming praetor and ruling over New Rome with a fist of terror. In SoN, Percy teams up with Reyna to take him down, but not without a price. Reyna is gravely injured by one of Octavian’s goons and nearly dies. She escapes death because Thanatos is not there, but may have to return back to the underworld once Percy, Frank, and Hazel free him

Killing Annabeth or Percy in the battle in BoO

Percy never catching Annabeth in Mark of Athena

Leo never returning for Calypso

Leo actually dying at the end

Jason and Percy never regaining their memory

Nico fading into the shadows while helping the seven

Coach Hedge dying and not returning home to the birth of his son

Drew dying like Silena against an attack by the Romans and redeems herself like her deceased sister

The version, though, it’s just exaggerated, not completely made up. So the girl was flirting with him, but he turned her down for real. Because he’s telling the story to Sam and Bobby, so he emphasizes how displeased he was that he had no time to dedicate to the lady. So he did go to the lady nor strictly professional purposes, the lady just happened to flirt with him.

This makes Sam’s version even more interesting. He drinks Dean’s façade up. Sam sees a lady flirting with Dean (and drinking some alcoholic beverages with him, because he needs to have a conversation with her in order to get information, so he would have taken advantage of her flirtiness to buy her a drink or two) and automatically assumes Dean is not being professional.

Well… I don’t think that anyone ever explicitly stated it. :p However, I can give you a list of suspects.

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Suspect #1: Ruthie Connell

Did I ever mention that I love this lady? I love this lady. Anyway, not the point of this post, moving on. 

The evidence

Voted for Destiel for TCA best chemistry, and even tweeted about it to her followers to promote it:

Bonus points

Seems to adore Cockles on the side, if her pointing and smiling here is anything to go by:

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Suspect #2: Misha Collins

The evidence

Literally pretended to ship “Diestel” to Jensen, and made a vid of it:

Knows that when Cas does everything for ‘humanity’, humanity means ‘Dean’. 

When a Supernatural director claimed that Destiel ‘didn’t exist’ and people tweeted Misha because they were upset about being crazy and weird for seeing Destiel, he tweeted this: 

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Suspect #3: Jared Padalecki

The evidence

Tweeted about that same Diestel to Misha, fully knowing what it implies: 

When Jensen complained that he didn’t have a girl to make out with when having a dark story line like Sam did with Ruby:

Thinks the Cas/Colette parallel was there for a reason:

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Suspect #4: Kathryn Newton

The evidence

Is all for dadstiel and what it implies:

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Suspect #5: Former SPN writer Adam Glass

The evidence

Same. 

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Suspect #6: Felicia Day

The evidence

Talked about Destiel at a con, and how she thinks Charlie views that relationship:

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Suspect #7: As much as I hate to say it; Jeremy Carver

The evidence

Instructed Misha Collins to play Castiel as a ‘jilted lover’ towards Dean in 9x06:

Literally said, and I quote:

“No one’s a bigger fan of Dean and Cas than I am.”

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Suspect #8: Writer Robert Berens

The evidence

He wrote 9x06, ‘Heaven Can’t Wait’. That’s it. That’s the evidence. There’s no excuse for him, sorry. 

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Suspect #9: Set designer Jerry Wanek

The evidence

Jerry Wanek… How do I even begin to explain Jerry Wanek, lol. Everything he does, ever, just screams Destiel and Cas choosing humanity. But to give a concrete example though, this is one of his most infamous actions… Literal ‘ships’ sailing over Dean/Cas’ heads:

When a fan commented on twitter that they loved him for doing that, he was happy that fans noticed and even thanked them for being perceptive/his work being appreciated. 

You go Jerry, four for you, Jerry!

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I’m sure I missed plenty, and there are many more ‘suspicious’ Destiel scenes by other SPN writers. These are the things that stood out to me though. 

Hello, and welcome! :)

I am in 100% agreement with LSiT’s theory on this. Essentially: Jim employs a ton of snipers/assassins, particularly in TRF. When Mycroft shows John the files of the assassins moving in on Baker Street, one is a blond Russian woman with a tattoo (recorded in her files) Her picture is visible and it’s not Mary, but it’s easy to see a parallel, as we know from Sherlock’s deductions that she has a secret tattoo, she is possibly not English, and of course, she’s blond. (And an assassin. ;)

(The fact that John doesn’t recognize the two male assassins from their photos, but admits to Mycroft he’s noticed the female one around, is a bit of foreshadowing – he’ll take notice of another blond assassin in Sherlock’s absence.)

Jim went to the roof knowing Sherlock had set up a plan to fake his suicide. Jim did the same thing. He had three snipers/assassins on Lestrade, Hudders, and John – and a fourth on himself. Mary.

Jim shaking Sherlock’s hand is the signal. That’s why Sherlock looks confused when Jim holds his hand out – it’s a weird thing to do. And Jim’s movement is very, very deliberate.

And that’s why we get the close-up, because this moment is important:

Jim is sealing his and Sherlock’s fake-fates.

Mary sees the signal and aims. Jim says “good luck with that,” pulls out a fake and/or unloaded gun, sticks it in his mouth, and…PAUSES.

See how he waits? It’s Sherlock who backs away, and the camera follows him. You can see Jim blink. Watching, enjoying Sherlock’s look of horror, staying perfectly still so Mary can take the shot. He’s got a pouch of fake blood under his turned-up collar, just behind his neck. He knows Mary can hit that pouch from a side angle without hurting him.

It’s surgery.

Mary makes the shot, crack, the pouch bursts and Jim falls back.

We see no brain, no fragments of skull, none of the gore that is present when someone has actually stuck a gun in their mouth and pulled the trigger. Instead:

The pouch leaks and Jim lays there and tries not to giggle. Is he really going to get away with this? Is Sherlock not going to check him for a pulse, for any signs of life? (Because Jim sure would like him to…)

Too easy, it’s too easy!

Sherlock glances back. There’s a reason we’re at this angle, with Sherlock blocking part of the shot. We, like Sherlock, aren’t seeing the full picture.

But we can see enough. That is not what someone who blows the back of his head out looks like.

And here’s the thing: this isn’t a gory show. Horrible murders are committed, but we don’t really see gore. Take Magnussen’s shot in the head, which was real:

So they kept it distant intentionally. To show us that yes, Sherlock shot him, but to avoid showing the up-close gore. But with Jim, they focus on his head and the trickling blood. Because it’s fake, and because they planned to bring Jim back all along, they knew when they filmed this part they would have to show us it was fake, and not intentionally block his body or show it from a distance. That’d be cheating. We have to see what Sherlock sees.

The last shot of Jim they give us is this:

His hand is still holding the gun. That’s one clingy corpse. (Seriously though – look at his fingers. It’s not just that the gun is in his hand: his fingers are still wrapped around it. #NotDead)

Of course, the sniper doesn’t have to be Mary. Except it really kind of does. Why?

Because you won’t love me when you’re finished.

Mary says this to John after he’s learned she’s an assassin, and after he discovers she’s shot and nearly killed Sherlock. Yet somehow, there is actually something else in her past that is worse than damn near murdering John’s best friend which, were he to discover it, would make him stop loving her (in her opinion). So what could that be? What is more terrible than almost murdering Sherlock?

Mary helped Jim fake his death. Which means she played a role in forcing Sherlock’s fake suicide. Which means she’s always known both Sherlock and Jim are alive. Which means John spent all that time grieving and crying about his dead best friend on the shoulder of a woman who not only knew he was alive, but was partially responsible for taking him away from John in the first place. 

She did all that, and then she shot Sherlock in the chest.

11x05 had Sam pointing out that people without souls respond differently, reminding Dean (again) that he had to save people and not kill them, had Dean tell Sam he was “better” with empathy, and had him tell a soulless man that as long as he still had a piece of a conscience there was hope.

I’ve said before that Andrew Dabb is one of my favorite Supernatural writers. After watching tonight’s episode (11x02), I have confirmed that he’s still in my top 3. Even though Dean, Sam, and Cas had their separate stories, I found I was very interested in all three of them. However, if you’ve read previous stuff I’ve written, you will know the main focus of my posts is always Dean/Cas.

Once Dean made sure Jenna and baby Amara were “safe” at Jenna’s grandma’s house, he left and started working on item #2 on the list he made in the previous episode: find and save Cas. He desperately wanted to contact Castiel.

(Source: x)

He really was worried about Cas and wanted him to answer the phone. How many times have we seen Dean worried about Cas over the phone? Let’s count… 9x18, 10x14, 11x01 and now 11x02. It’s more than three times. Of course, Cas didn’t even get to know Dean was calling him because the angels who had taken him broke his phone when they realized Dean was calling him. But at least there is continuity between 11x01 and 11x02. If Jenna hadn’t called Dean about the baby, Dean would have continued trying to find Cas. 

In case we didn’t get the memo before, Castiel’s endame is to choose what he wants to be (an angel or a man?). Third time’s a pattern!

(Source: x)

Cas has been asked three times now about his endgame. In 9x06, when Cas said he wanted to live, Ephraim asked him: “But as what, Castiel? As an angel or a man?” Even though it couldn’t be clearer than that, Metatron became more obvious in 10x18 when he asked Cas: “Who are you now? Like, you’re obviously not an angel of the Lord. […] And what are you gonna do once you’re done […]? Go back to heaven? […] Tell me, Castiel, truly, what is your mission now?” This time in 11x02, we have another angel questioning Cas with the very obvious question: “What are you?” In fact, this same angel answered the question about Cas’ mission that Metatron asked in season 10 because he said: “When you have to choose between Heaven and the Winchesters, you choose them, every time.” 

The angels don’t consider Cas a brother anymore. They don’t see him as an angel of the Lord (even though Cas still calls himself that) because they know Cas’ loyalty doesn’t belong to Heaven at all. It belongs to the Winchesters. And if we analyze a little beyond the surface, it belongs to Dean ‘cause Cas broke Metatron out of Heaven in order to find a cure for the Mark of Cain. All Castiel cared about was to save Dean. Everything has always been about saving “one human,” right?

Once Castiel killed the angels who had taken him (R.I.P. Hannah, btw), somehow he managed to get to the place where he knew he would find help. He went to the Bunker, back to the Winchesters. He went home. Because Heaven isn’t home anymore. Home is where the heart is and… where is Castiel’s heart? 

(Source: x)

I believe we can agree that Cas’ heart is in Lebanon, Kansas. The Bunker is the only place where he has voluntarily stripped of his angelic identity (his trench coat) in the company of his human family (10x18 the same episode where Metatron mocked Cas for still considering the angels his family), so… you make your own conclusions. 

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“i drank, like, half the bottle. i’m a fucking badass.” sam tips off the barstool, crashing to the floor before dean can catch him. 

luna lovegood has dirty blonde hair (book 5, chapter 10)

lily potter has dark red hair (book 1, chapter 12)

neville longbottom has blond hair (JKR interview)

hermione granger has bushy hair (book 1, chapter 6)

james potter is tall (book 1, chapter 12)

at seventeen, harry potter is the same height as his father so he is also tall (book 7, chapter 34)

peter pettigrew is fat (book 3, chapter 10)

severus snape has yellow-ish teeth (book 3, chapter 14)

EDMUND IS NOT A SLYTHERIN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE “BETRAYED THEM AT ONE POINT”

He’s a Slytherin because he’s ambitious and cunning. He knows what he wants and he’s been offered a way to get it. (And PS: he betrayed them because his siblings were totally rotten to him, and then he stumbled into this land where a nice woman gave him things and told him he was special, like the whole Death Eater thing, which means only that he was doing what he thought was better than being yelled at all day by his family.)

Slytherins are clever, shrewd, ambitious, and they are loyal to what serves them best. Edmund is also clever, ambitious, and has that element of trickery and mischief about him trademark of Slytherins. 

Sure, he screwed up. Not everyone’s perfect. He may have done something he wasn’t proud of, but here’s the thing:

He’s not proud of it. He’s ashamed of what he did. 

He comes back to Aslan’s camp and he looks at them apologetically. His look says, I’m sorry. I’m sorry I put you in danger and I’m sorry I messed up. 

He’s a brilliant, shrewd boy, and he checks himself and ends up fighting for the “good” side with the “good” Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.

So no, Edmund is not a Slytherin because he betrayed his family.