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Fate is a Traveler by @bangingpatchouli (sylsdarkplace)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7822885

Jensen lives apart, destined to never mate. His only purpose is to service the sexual needs of the alphas of his village. His survival is predicated on the good will of those alphas until the night he’s expected to service a stranger who is just passing through.

It’ssssssss interesting that Jared and Gen are married but have zero onscreen chemistry. Never did. As for sparkle cowboy, good strip scene, after that complete tool. I don’t want to see his redemption arc, for the love of all that’s holy (cats and tacos), I don’t want to see him again.

I’m not getting the NotDean thing. I don’t see the connection. Walker has a brother that he’s also play/fought with actually in a couple of occasions. That being said, knowing Hoyt is a recurring roll gives me more motive to quit watching. The character is such a tool.

The strip club scene was interestingbaiting. You were baited to think that maybe this episode was more interesting. But then lowkey family drama. More lowkey colleague drama. Car. More lowkey family drama. Car. More lowkey family drama. Cheesy moment.

The show works best only when the characters are actively yelling at each other. The strongest scenes were when Walker and Stella or Walker and Liam were fighting. When that’s not happening, it’s like staring at the platonic form of boringness. That’s really not a good sign.

The Hoyt character existed in this landscape of endless lowkey drama. He didn’t even have a scene where he had actual conflict with Walker. The conflict all happened in Walker’s head.

The NotDean thing is because in interviews they said they were introducing this new character who was ~a friend Walker loves like a brother, who was a ~bad boy lothario, living a life on, you know, the other side of the law, and who was ~the Han Solo to Walker’s Luke Skywalker, which was how Kripke described the concept of Dean and Sam when he created the show. That’s why I called him NotDean, because it sounded like... they took the concept of Dean, at least what Dean was supposed to be in theory, and created a best friend for Walker from that.

YES!

Charlie, Chuck, Max Banes, Jesse and Cesar, etc ALL interacted with Sam as well.

She has John's journal so she does know something of how Sam was raised and that John disowned him when he went to Stanford

That’s a good point! She has to know quite a bit about their upbringing.

But do we know for sure that the journal contains any specifics? Almost everything seems to be hunting-related and written—as journals often are—in language easily accessible only to the original writer. Sam and Dean only understood that Missouri was a person and not a state when they’re in their twenties. John’s entry about her simply read: “I went to Missouri and I learned the truth.”

I don’t know if he would have written about Sam’s life or departure to Stanford in clear terms, if at all, especially because Dean always had access to the journal. The pictures we’ve seen of its pages are mostly unclear, filled with sketches of things and descriptions of monsters--code-like, because the first season was large about the boys “decoding” John’s entries.

But you’re right: whatever John may have written, it probably would have been more accessible to an experienced hunter like Mary, so she surely knows something about how the boys were raised or can easily infer it. (I mean, at least the huge range of locations noted in the journal must have clued her in that her boys moved from place to place).

In any case, it’d be awesome to see her mention/acknowledge some of that and ask questions. It makes perfect sense that it’d be tough for her to come to terms with the fact that her 6-month-old infant son is now older than she is, but for the show to jump from “I need some time by myself” to “don’t give me that face” seems like it’d require a fair amount of discussion that we never saw on-screen. It absolutely might have happened, but especially since the season relies so heavily on mother-child bonds (tentative though they may be), it’s kinda strange that they haven’t put any effort into really fleshing those out.

I obviously once followed you from SPN days, and realized I don't know who you are. I checked your AO3 but know SPN so oh well

I was keepingeachotherhuman for most of my spn days! All of my spn fic is under a different pseud on ao3, I probably should have posted that as well. My bad.

I lost interest last season. I've never been a regular viewer because TWD just didn't get me invested in the characters, but a good friend of mine, a veteran who is anything but squeamish and huge TWD fan, said that she and her guy felt that TWD crossed the line with brutality in the premiere.

I really think the whole “crossing the line” is only cause two beloved characters died in such a horrible way and we were made to watch it in a pretty detailed manner.

I bet money, had those been two random people or evil characters (or walkers), no one would give a fuck about the level of brutality. With villains, people probably would have even cheered. (The Governor for example...no one would care if he had his head bashed in for the things he’s done)

That said, I get people were upset. I myself am a huge fan of gore and even the “torture porn” genre, but when it was Glenn’s turn I had to turn away and could not watch it till it was all over.

But really, that was cause it was Glenn. I really loved him and also Maggie and having her watch and suffer and him die like that urgh...

So I really think it’s unjustified to judge it as a bad episode based on having to much violence, when what really is bothering people is having that level of violence inflicted on fan-faves, not the level of violence itself.

The show is full of other violent and disgusting scenes and always has been. I’m thinking how Dale died, Andrea breaking a walkers jaw, cutting open walkers to look inside, Beth’s brains flying out, Noah’s death, Glenn’s dumbstergate, cutting of Hershel’s head, all the gore of zombies eating ppl, many of the zombie-kills.