random person: *dies* 

cut to Sam and Dean eating on the impala outside a food truck 

Sam: so get this a random person across the country died 

Dean: ok but it’s probably not our thing 

*it is their thing*

Scene change: Dean and Sam walking outside

Dean or Sam: hey do you really think we should be taking this case, considering the season’s overarching plot line?

Dean or Sam: we’ve got no leads so I’ve got to work or I’ll go crazy 

Dean: hello sheriff pay no attention to the fact we look like supermodels, have ridiculous names on these clearly fake FBI badges and my brother has the same hair style as Jackie Kennedy and give us all the info on this case 

random sheriff: this case? Why you FBI boys are wasting your time. There isn’t a case here. 

Visibly shaken white woman holding baby: this isn’t like (random person) I just can’t believe it

Dean: did you hear or smell anything weird? Sulfur? Cold spots? These are very official FBI questions. 

Visibly shaken white woman holding baby: Of course, agents. Look I’ve told you everything I know, except for this mysterious hint. 

*Sam swallows and looks at Dean*

*Scene change*

*Impala pulls into motel*

*research* 

Sam: I think it’s this thing 

*it’s not that thing* 

Sam: get this, I think we’re dealing with this thing. 

Dean: That’s great Sammy but I think I know where the thing is going to be

Monster: attacks visibly shaken white woman holding baby

*Sam and Dean arrive just before visibly shaken white woman holding baby passes out

Monster: *chokes Sam*

*Camera shot of Sam’s face as he is being chocked* 

If only Sam could reach the phone/ knife/ gun!!!!

Sam: *eyes roll back into head* 

Dean: arrives in the nick of time and kills monster 

Visibly shaken white woman hugs baby, she is teary-eyed: “so you’re telling me monsters are real??? Thank you for saving us!!! If only you could have saved that random person. I guess I’ll have to move on now.” 

*scene change, Sam and Dean in Impala* 

Dean or Sam: that was the right thing to do 

Dean or Sam: but was it 

Dean or Sam: sometimes you can’t save everyone. 

*implication that story of random person is the same as Sam/ Dean’s season plot line issue 

Dean and Sam look at each other 

Sam is clearly nervous

Dean is stoic

Impala drives into rain

No story is perfect. No character is perfect. No scene is perfect. But 4LW is one of the VERY few fics I have read more than once since joining this fandom a little over a year ago, and I greatly appreciate it's (and your) existence.

How boring would life be if we were actually able to cancel, erase or control everything that upset us? How would we grow and learn as human beings? This is how echo chambers and conservative Facebook aunties win. I wish people would learn some critical thinking skills and take some responsibility for their own expectations and interpretations before jumping directly on the Cancel Bandwagon.

All this to say sorry you've had to deal with this negativity, and to remind you that there are many people in this fandom that DO love and appreciate your work. Keep it up! 💖

*insert Dean saying "never change" here*

(sorry, I'm a rambler...)

As far as I can tell, everyone making the jump is very much on the young side. I’m trying to be patient for that reason. I know what it’s like to be full of anger with nowhere good to put in within my reach.

I’m assuming fandom = activism in their eyes, and I hope they figure out that activism = activism sometime soon.

I do continue to be perplexed that Dean Winchester is the character they’re demanding to be unproblematic. That’s. An interesting choice.

I think a lot of us are just tired. This kind of discourse is exhausting. Especially when we are talking about two paragraphs out of 195k in a 4-year-old, fandom beloved fic.

Young or not (because I’ve seen some older people jump on this bandwagon too), I hope we can all eventually realise that sometimes life is uncomfortable, sometimes characters we encounter are problematic, sometimes loving those characters doesn’t mean condoning all of their behaviour, and sometimes there are better ways to effect change than aggressively telling people they’re wrong.

Sure, people can want the first one. But I wrote the second one. And I have watched people very rapidly go from “You should have punished Dean more” to “Now you must be punished more.”

May I suggest, The Lot:

In the Infinite Ikea or Backrooms you can convince yourself there’s gonna be a door round the next corner or behind that wall.

Do the cars occasionally have groceries in them and do people go around from car to car looking in the windows and scavenging? Would it be possible to tear up the pavement and grow food if you could get seeds?

It happens when you don’t expect it, while you’re searching for your car or a place to park. You look up and you notice the rest of the world is gone.

Here’s Castiel welcoming his favorite human to Heaven :D

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