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At Purcon 9, someone asked whether “Watching Over Me" was inspired by the relationship between Dean and Castiel. [I can't find what the actual question was.]

Jensen:

“A lot of the songs Steve and I have written have double meanings. They are analogies. There's a way to kind of read two meanings into them. Yes, ‘Watching over Me’ was definitely — not all of it, but there were many lyrics in there that were inspired by that… that story. Yes.”

Steve was previously asked about their songwriting process:

“It was always about an, an angel watching over you that you don't necessarily want watching over you. I don't think Jensen perceived it that way. I think he saw it as something different, but I like that. And I kind of, we like keeping songs in the abstract sometimes and not putting too much.”

If you read these lyrics, and knowing it's about a guardian angel, how exactly do you come to the conclusion this is about Destiel? We know that Cas cares about Dean. That Cas has saved Dean on many occasions. That Dean has called on Cas for help; that Dean thinks of Cas as his and Sam's best friend. And in light of 15x18, where Cas tells Dean that he loves him and then dies to save him, is it weird that Dean would feel grief? Or that Jensen might use themes in the show to write about a guardian angel?

Let me put it anothre way. Jensen has said that Sam and Dean's "souls were bound together," and a million other comments about Sam and Dean being what the show was about, about how Dean wouldn't have been able to live without Sam, and so on. We wincesties obviously enjoy every bit of Sam & Dean enmeshment and codependency. But we also know it isn't confirming wincest as canon.

Let's requote Steve again:

Source ~ Neurodivergent_Lou

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Sam Winchester

I drew him awhile ago already and never posted it

She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.

Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?

Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach brought forward a litany of anti-trans witnesses familiar from litigation defending these bans. Among them was James Cantor, a Toronto psychologist who has built a career testifying for states defending care bans despite no clinical experience treating transgender minors—and who was once quietly dropped from a Florida Board of Medicine hearing after it emerged he had served on the advisory council of the Prostasia Foundation, a group that has worked to destigmatize pedophilia. Folsom wrote that Cantor "has not conducted any original scientific research on the efficacy or safety of gender dysphoria treatments," and noted he is not licensed to treat anyone under 16 and has never diagnosed a minor with gender dysphoria. [...] "The Court gives Dr. Cantor's testimony little weight," Folsom concluded. The judge turned next to Farr Curlin, a Duke University doctor and theologian who was an author of the Trump administration's HHS report on pediatric gender dysphoria ... By his own admission, Folsom noted, Curlin's views are "radically counter to current medical orthodoxy." The judge found his opinions "appear motivated by his personal views as opposed to a methodology applicable in the field of medical ethics," and gave his testimony "little-to-no weight." ...

And then there was Jamie Reed, the self-styled "whistleblower" who built a national profile on lurid, largely unsubstantiated accusations against a St. Louis gender clinic and who has gone on Fox News to describe being transgender as a delusion. Reed also did not testify and could not be cross-examined. Folsom gave her affidavit "little weight,” and had scathing remarks towards her lack of expertise: “The Court gives thus Jamie Reed’s affidavit little weight, given that she is not a medical provider or mental-health professional. In addition, her affidavit primarily addresses her experiences with a clinic operating outside of Kansas—thus, it does not rebut or refute the credible, uncontroverted testimony about clinical practice within the state of Kansas,” read the order.

This decision is 117 pages long, and if you want to actually feel good about something a judge has had to say recently about trans rights, this is legitimately a good read. (I understand that some people do not read legal decisions for fun. You should still try reading this one. It's really good.)