#ywhiterain

this is really funny bc I used to use “dean action hero montage” sardonically to poke fun at the general audience’s short attention spans and Summer Blockbuster taste. but he is a cherished and spit-shined action figure on my shelf now so da joke is on me 😤

with that said I don’t actually have a top 5 bc I do not consume action scenes that way. from whatever is in my brain at this moment:

that one scene where he’s sitting in the swivel chair and like strangling that young cop on the ground with his legs . lmao. I have no idea what episode that was in but it was a later one. probably s10

pulling out his gun and shooting jack repeatedly to get him to stop menacing that grocery store employee 💀💀💀💀 #fatherhood

I’m counting shifter!dean at the beginning of “night shifter.” really really good

“You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.”

Missing scene for 2x06 or 2x07 when Klaus has taken Elijah back but hasn't been able to wake him up yet

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The room was too silent, the only sounds the soft ticking of the clock and Elijah’s regular slow breathing.

“Elijah,” Klaus said, sitting on the edge of the bed, eyes tracing the familiar features of his brother. “You have to wake up.”

There was no change in Elijah’s breathing, no sign at all that Elijah might finally return to the waking world. It was frustrating, but more than that, it was worrying. Their mother had done some magic to Elijah, and Klaus didn’t know how to save him from it.

“Brother,” he called again, but the result was the same.

Setting his jaw, he touched the side of Elijah’s face, finding his brother’s skin clam and cold. 

“Elijah,” he whispered. “I know you must be able to hear me, wherever you are. You need to come back.”

On the bed, Elijah’s brow frowned slightly, as if his sleep was disturbed.

Encouraged, Klaus shuffled closer, and leaned forward until he could press his forehead against Elijah’s, opening his mind to his brother’s.

Brother, he whispered, the word echoing in his mind. Hear me and come back to us. We need you.

He hesitated, then continued. You need to wake up, because I can’t do this without you. There are too many enemies coming for us and I need you by my side.

He felt rather than saw the shiver that went through Elijah as Klaus’s words slid past whatever mental barriers his brother might usually have up.

Elijah, brother.

And just for a moment he was inside Elijah’s mind. There was a flash of a dark forest stretching out for miles and the threat of things lurking in the dark, but no Elijah anywhere. Lightning flashed, illuminating the forest and the large pines all around them.

And then he was back in the bedroom.

Klaus opened his eyes, his heart racing, caught by some terror he couldn’t quite explain, but he knew was not entirely his own. His forehead was still pressed against Elijah’s and his brother was afraid. 

It made something in Klaus’s stomach squirm, to feel his brother’s fear. Elijah was always this composed creature. Sure, Klaus knew full well that it was a facade his brother had constructed, hiding the monster that lurked underneath. But even when he lost control, Klaus had rarely seen Elijah scared.

<3

5. when castiel goes on one of his earliest jaunts as an “fbi agent” (i think this was ep 9.09?) and dean is sceptical but sam beams and calls castiel “agent” with that awkward little shoulder-pat. he’s just--so proud and a little amused but not in a condescending way, and it’s so cute! murder, soulfisting and tooth-rotting cuteness: is sastiel one of the most shippable pairs on the show or what?

4. sam grinning and drooling while he went down on bela in 3.10. can you blame the guy for crushing on her? she’s tried to kill him and his brother multiple times, true, but eh, minor inconveniences. turn-ons, even.

(interestingly, i looked this episode up on wikipedia just to confirm to myself the episode number, and this little tidbit caught my eye:

[...] the writers recalled Sam's dream sequence with Bela; since Sam is revealed to be a "horn dog" underneath, the writers wanted Dean to be the opposite. Dean secretly desires a normal family, so they had Cindy Sampson reprise her role as Lisa Braeden—Dean's love interest from "The Kids are Alright"

again, the show’s treatment of sam’s sexuality, particularly in early seasons, continues to fascinate me. calling sam’s innocent wet dream as evidence that he’s secretly a lustful “horndog” and later explicitly tying his sexual expression with deviancy and evil... it’s just incredible how much of a traditionally female role he takes on in the narrative.)

3. sam’s eye rolling when dean indulges ron’s spiel about mandroids in 2.12 and his little offended face when dean and ron lock him in the safe with the rest of the people in the bank. actually this whole episode is a gold mine of great annoyed!sam moments, and in each and every one of them his exasperation about how the situation has escalated is absolutely 100% cute. i love when the show lets sam be bit of a dick. it’s so freeing.

2. sam’s discomfort with the Western Aesthetic in 6.18. “do i look stupid? i know i look stupid.” I FEEL YA, SAM

1. that weird little shoulder-shifting movement he does every time he’s either about to/finishes exerting himself. it’s probably an ill-fitting jacket but i just love the idea of him aligning straight the sheer length of him after it’s been skewed. it’s just funny enough to be an endearing character trait but not so much that it takes you out of the scene.

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hmmm... I'll give it a B, because while I absolutely scour AO3 and every other form of media for Hurt, the Comfort is pretty much never the operative word. So in practice I read and enjoy a lot of H/C, and have even written some myself to some degree or another, but not usually for the right reasons :)

What happened?

Because Gunn is openly and frequently anti-Trump, the alt right, led primarily by the same people behind PizzaGate, decided to go dig up old edgelord jokes he made on twitter about ten years ago to try to spin him as a pedophile or pedophilia apologist. 

Disney promptly fired him from Guardians 3.

The jokes were absolutely shitty stuff that Gunn himself brought up in an interview almost a year ago and expressed embarrassment and remorse over. I could honestly see an argument being made for why he maybe shouldn’t have been hired in the first place, given the content (if this was actually a concern for Disney). In fact, there was some discussion about it when the first film came out. These tweets are not new at all and it’s pretty obvious why they’re coming up again now. Firing him now, for well known things he did before his hiring and after he has clearly grown as a person, makes no sense at all.