belly of fists and starvation

Obsession expanding on that Supernatural wishful thinking plot is what made it so interesting to me tbh. I never loved that episode. I didn't like that Hope being coerced into acting profoundly and cartoonishly in love was treated like silly shenanigans on par with a life-sized talking teddy bear or a child who can lift a car. I didn't like that the episode strongly implies Hope and Wesley have a sex life (rape) in an equally silly scene, and I especially didnt like that Wesley gets to be the hero of the episode and we as the audience get to meditate on how sad and lonely poor Wesley is after his wish is broken. Hope, of course, has no idea her autonomy was every violated and we get to wash our hands clean of the incident. The premise of this wish was always horrifying to me and the fact that Obsession pays the same concept its dues is what makes it work so well.

i have a lot of thoughts on the matter but i will say that fandom moving from semi-private blogs and communities to extremely public and algorithm-driven social media was a huge mistake that has changed fandom culture for the worse

i love projection boy sam being so so wrong abt andy and dean being so right to be thinking in shades of gray about this. sam is already thinking of himself as a freak who could go bad simply for having psychic powers (a totally neutral ability), and he's also so convinced that andy is bad, and unlike with max in 1x14, sam doesn't feel sympathetic toward andy, so he thinks monster and bad. meanwhile it's dean who's going with his intuition and saying andy doesn't seem to be the one behind the deaths, and just because he has the ability to mind control doesn't mean he's inherently bad. sam is just so stuck in his internal loop of freak freak freak like me i could become that i need to stop that freak freak bad monster kill the monster that he can't think objectively. and it's interesting given the conclusion of 2x03. of dean reflecting on john's monster ethics they were raised with, dean being broken up abt how many monsters they may have killed that didn't deserve it, and sam in that scene being the one to deflect and defend john with "he did the best he could." throughout s2 we see sam start to adopt john's mentality, we see him start to say john was right abt dean needing to kill sam if he goes darkside, because sam is already feeling this way about himself, because john's beliefs confirm sam's own personal fears and insecurities. meanwhile dean becomes increasingly more critical of john after his death, especially because of john's parting words to dean. and in this episode dean is the one vouching for the innocence and goodness of the "monster." he's holding on to the belief that just because someone has powers doesn't mean they're inherently evil. it's about what you do with those powers. with the heavy weight of john's words on his shoulders, dean is re-evaluating his beliefs abt monsters. he refuses to kill sam. he's not afraid of sam's powers but he is afraid of the unknowns surrounding those powers. will the powers eventually turn him evil? will someone else, like azazel, try to use sam and his powers to hurt people? those are the things dean is worried about. he's also worried about other hunters who aren't thinking in shades of grey (like gordon) finding out about sam's abilities and deciding to shoot first and ask questions later.

My Ilya has a bag of frozen peas that he uses to ice all his injuries that he’s had since his rookie year. If he wants to eat peas he buys a new bag because that’s literally his ice pack

The genre of deanposting that's about Dean not letting himself do smth "coz it's too girly". I get sad. He wants it too bad and he knows it. He's not the one denying himself that. Idk sigh lol.