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JULY 2021 — month in review & monthly favorites

god this month passed so quickly. below are my creations from the past month & others’ insanely talented works that caught my eye!!

let me know what I’m missing lmao. Important to note, as said, that all of this is just wild speculation/theories and this is a powerpoint I made for fun. Take every single thing with a grain of salt. Based on several great posts (x) (x) 

EDIT: it was brought to my attention by @deanification​ that I failed to mention that Supernatural is also problematic because of racism and its treatment of poc. As a fandom, we all should make a better effort at recognizing racism in the show as well! 

Dean:

1. casifer hand-on-shoulder. intimate moment ALL the crueler because we know it’s a deception. also this comes right on the heels of dean admitting that he has “a connection” with amara—he is evaluating what “attraction” means because he is desperately hoping he is NOT attracted to god’s evil sister. this means he has to think about what attraction DOES mean to him.

2. dean gets targeted by the banshee (because he is vulnerable. yes he WILL obsessively analyze what the shit that means)

3. mildred can tell he’s “pining” and tells him to “follow his heart”

first off...laying in bed trying VERY hard to sleep. unable to sleep. he sits up.

REALIZATION FACES? EPIPHANY FACE?

bullet ONE dean will 1) hide his worry from sam. big brother instinct. 2) WORRY so hard. he is so worried all the time please you see this guy (COSMIC ENTITY) after a while (FEW DAYS) and you greet him with grumpiness because what else are you supposed to say? you miss him?

BULLET TWO another piece of the puzzle falls into place. how come dean knows cas better than sam? theyve known each other the same amount of time. open concern about him....but not too open. not TOO vulnerable. mr thompson....

same scene TKO. dean brushing aside the idea of weakness per fuckin usual....yeah ok why is he sitting up late at night and pulling his hair then. “overthinking it” says the ceo of overthinking things

supernatural s15 gag reel

1. casifer hand-on-shoulder. intimate moment ALL the crueler because we know it’s a deception. also this comes right on the heels of dean admitting that he has “a connection” with amara—he is evaluating what “attraction” means because he is desperately hoping he is NOT attracted to god’s evil sister. this means he has to think about what attraction DOES mean to him.

2. dean gets targeted by the banshee (because he is vulnerable. yes he WILL obsessively analyze what the shit that means)

3. mildred can tell he’s “pining” and tells him to “follow his heart”

first off...laying in bed trying VERY hard to sleep. unable to sleep. he sits up.

REALIZATION FACES? EPIPHANY FACE?

bullet ONE dean will 1) hide his worry from sam. big brother instinct. 2) WORRY so hard. he is so worried all the time please you see this guy (COSMIC ENTITY) after a while (FEW DAYS) and you greet him with grumpiness because what else are you supposed to say? you miss him?

BULLET TWO another piece of the puzzle falls into place. how come dean knows cas better than sam? theyve known each other the same amount of time. open concern about him....but not too open. not TOO vulnerable. mr thompson....

same scene TKO. dean brushing aside the idea of weakness per fuckin usual....yeah ok why is he sitting up late at night and pulling his hair then. “overthinking it” says the ceo of overthinking things

Which of course doesn’t work, because in positioning his main characters as protectors of the middle American heterosexual nuclear family, he has already fundamentally misunderstood them. Their very existence is something middle America views as a threat, and middle America is to these characters a trap, a prison, a slow death rather than a quick one for which they nevertheless yearn because we are all taught to do so. (Perhaps what they truly yearn for is to want that life, but I digress.)

The American road story, the drifter’s story, is a queer story. It is not compatible with the white picket fence, in fact the white picket fence’s primary purpose is to shut it out. The white picket fence is a symbol of stability, comfort, prosperity (conformity, stagnation). The road, on the other hand, is a symbol of upset, disquiet, transience (freedom, transformation). Adventure and uncertainty are the cornerstones of the road story. It simply makes no goddamn sense to take characters from the road story and position them as protectors of the middle American nuclear family when their very existence is positioned as a threat within the cultural context of middle America.

honey wake up, Bobo Berens fancam just dropped