i just realized this Benny character could ruin everything that Dean and Cas have done in order to fix their relationship by whispering five simple words in Castiel’s ear:
‘he doesn’t need you anymore’
OMFG
September 2012
August 2012
msdirected replied to your post: Wait, so what if that new weapon that Dean has in season 8…
oh god flutie STAWP. this makes me think you are purposefully torturing us. *wah*
Wait, so what if that new weapon that Dean has in season 8...
…is Cas’s angel blade?
Ok, so I just recently got all caught up on Supernatural. Can you please explain what this whole "Chuck is God" business is all about? Because he literally disappeared into thin air at the end of season 6 (or something) and nothing has been mentioned about it since.
The running idea of Seasons 4 and 5 is that God is missing; God has left the building; God has abandoned His children, etc.. But it is heavily implied at the end of “Swan Song” that God hasn’t left at all — that, in fact, Chuck is God, and that everything that has occurred is a story of his divine creation. Hence why Chuck narrates the “final” episode (which of course really wasn’t); and why he disappears at the end of “Swan Song” with such a satisfied smile on his face. Because God didn’t abandon his children; quite to the contrary, he took physical form and stuck around until his characters could get the story right.
And, for that matter, the conceit adds a touching counterpoint to Chuck’s presence in the 2014!universe. Because by that point, God’s story had gone horribly off the rails — if the point of this story was that you should choose family above all else, then what happened between God’s main characters was pretty the worst-case scenario. But notice that God didn’t give up. He didn’t leave. No, in fact, like any writer, God kept poking his universe, wondering where he’d gone wrong, getting more and more involved in order to get it right, until eventually he became such a micro-manager of the narrative that he literally began micromanaging Camp Chitaqua’s living supplies.
I think in some ways Chuck is a commentary on writers and their characters, on the writing process, on the things we do in order to achieve catharsis in fiction. But I also really, really love the philosophy behind it, because God as Writer explains the Problem of Evil so succinctly — that being, if God is all-powerful and all-loving, then how and why does evil exist? If God is a Writer, then it all makes sense. A writer loves all her characters, even the villains, but a writer also knows that conflict is the only way characters grow.
Hope that helps explain a few things!
- Supernatural: hey this is a normal scene where normal Supernatural things are happening, cool
- Tumblr: I can find like six different ways to make this sadder than it already is. Who has a stopwatch, time me.
I know I've gotten a little backed up on asks, and I'm sorry!
I like to take my time with answering asks, giving them as much consideration as I would any other post, which only seems fair since y’all ask such great questions… but it’s just been too crazy around these parts to do that, given this pile of work deadlines.
Tomorrow, I promise I’ll go through and lighten up the backlog. Thanks for being patient with me, followers! <3<3<3
Maybe "A Little Slice of Kevin" = "A Little Slice of Heaven"? 8U
Ohhhhh, good call, nonny!
Description of the movie in question, from IMDB:
An irreverent young woman who uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious has a life-changing visit with her doctor.
Not that this means anything for sure, but there it is.
ETA: Unless it’s referring to the Andrew Lloyd Webber song?
I'll Make Anla'shok Out Of You
Let’s get down to business
We live for the One
I asked for Andrei’s daughter
We’re not here for fun
You’re the saddest bunch I’ve ever met
But you can bet before we’re through
I will make Anla’shok out of youStealthy as a Shadow
But on fire within
Once you find your center
You are sure to win
You’re a shirking batch of Worker caste
With the spine of fresh-made spoo
But I’ll make Anla’shok out of youI’m never gonna catch my breath
Say goodbye to those who knew me
Boy was I a fool for all my fighting talk
This guy’s got ‘em scared to death
Hope he doesn’t see right through me
Is this a rifle scope or a denn’bok? (ow!)(Anla’shok)
We must be swift as a Psi Corps mindblast
(Anla’shok)
With all the faith of Alit Neroon
(Anla’shok)
With all the strength of Centauri hair gel
(Anla’shok)
Mysterious as a trip to Z’ha’dum!Time is racing toward us
‘Til the Drakh arrive
You might die for Valen
or you might survive
If you have a preference either way
Then pack up, go home, you’re through
I can’t make Anla’shok out of you(Anla’shok)
We must be swift as a Psi Corps mindblast
(Anla’shok)
With all the faith of Alit Neroon
(Anla’shok)
With all the strength of Centauri hair gel
(Anla’shok)
Mysterious as a trip to Z’ha’dum!(Anla’shok)
We must be swift as a Psi Corps mindblast
(Anla’shok)
With all the faith of Alit Neroon
(Anla’shok)
With all the strength of Centauri hair gel
(Anla’shok)
Mysterious as a trip to Z’ha’dum!
WITH ALL THE STRENGTH OF CENTAURI HAIR GEL
OMG I AM DEAD
Supernatural S8 - Episode titles for first 7 episodes
8.01: We Need to Talk About Kevin
8.02: What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?
8.03: Heartache
8.04: Bitten
8.05: Blood Brother
8.06: Southern Comfort
8.07: A Little Slice of Kevin[x]
I have no idea what “A Little Slice of Kevin” could refer to, but “Southern Comfort” is the name of the Garth episode.
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Episode 26: “I Have A Confession To Make”
This week, missl0nelyhearts subs in for flutiebear to talk confessions blogs: the pros, the cons, the Fenris knotting fics – basically, all in a day’s work for the KW crew.
Plus: How running a confession blog is like being Heimdall on the Bifrost; what fandom wank and shambling corpses have in common; and why it’s so easy to give into being a Mean Girl on the Internet.
NOTE: THAR BE SPOILERS FOR “THOSE WHO SPEAK”. The spoiler section runs roughly from 1:50 to 7:20. Ye been warned, matey. Or something.
Links:
- Dragon Age: “Those Who Speak”, Issue #1
- “Happy Birthday Misha Collins” tag on Tumblr
- Gyzym’s post on Arthur’s moleskin notebook shown at the WB Inception exhibit
- Purgaytory’s scale of Kanye West to Dean Winchester
- Sherlock Season 3’s “three words”: rat, wedding, bow
- Confession blogs: Dragon Age Confessions, Mass Effect Confessions, Bioware Confessions
- Post Secret
- Example of DA Confessions: Harrowmont or Bhelen?
- DA3 Prophecies
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One last reblog for the late night crowd. Enjoy!
In defense of season 6
I feel like this needs saying: Season 6 wasn’t stupid. Dean going to live with Lisa and Ben, trying to have a family – that wasn’t stupid either, or meaningless, or unnecessary. It was about adulthood, and what that means, what it really means.
I mean, I have to wonder if the negative reaction stems from the fandom’s fairly young demographic. Like – and let me be clear, I hate it when people say this – but maybe those fans were just too young to get it?
But they will.
Because, one day, your parents will die. Or worse: they won’t, and you’ll wish that they had. But they live, and you live, and you all must live with the knowledge that you’re not a kid anymore, that something has broken between you, something precious that was never meant to be saved, and nothing will ever be whole between you again.
They call it growing up, but maybe they should call it growing apart, for it’s the ties that bind that always unravel at the seams. And so we fall away from one another, no longer bound by the roles we play, the ones we were handed at the moment of birth, but as individuals, discrete and free.
Sam and Dean start Season 1 as boys and end Season 5 as men. But Sam at least has the luxury of martyrdom: He may become an adult, but he doesn’t have to live as one. Not like Dean.
And he struggles with what that means –as do we all. But one thing is true for everyone: One day, in between your parents dying or not dying, you realize it doesn’t really matter, because you’re an orphan anyway; and suddenly you realize you ache for a family of your own, something to fill the gaping mother and father-sized holes shredded into your heart.
And when that day happens, then and only then you will understand why Dean Winchester shows up on Lisa’s doorstep.
Maybe you’ll also understand why it was never going to work.
Partly because the families we make can’t fill the holes left by the families that left us behind: All they can do is to smooth over the edges and by the comfort of numbers make the loss more bearable.
But partly also because Lisa and Ben weren’t the family that Dean made. They were the one he forced himself into. And the reality is you don’t so much choose your new family as fall into it, the weight of inevitability bringing friends and lovers together, like planets tugged into line by the gravity of stars. Dean already had a new family, and the Braedens weren’t it.
But that doesn’t make his actions stupid, or meaningless, or unnecessary. And it doesn’t mean the story shouldn’t be told. Because even though some loves were never meant to last forever, you tell their stories anyway, because it’s their very impermanence that matters so much to the ones left behind. You tell these stories anyway, even though you know the ending, even though you see it coming from a mile away, because you know how it feels; because in the end, we are all orphans, straining toward the holes in our own hearts, filling them however we can.
After all, that’s what adulthood is all about.
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Knickerweasels is a weekly fancast by hosts flutiebear and myjusticecake on all things Dragon Age and fandom. We’ve taken our ongoing conversation to the internet in the hopes that some of you will find it interesting, amusing, or perhaps even want to join in.
Episode 26: “I Have A Confession To Make”
This week, missl0nelyhearts subs in for flutiebear to talk confessions blogs: the pros, the cons, the Fenris knotting fics – basically, all in a day’s work for the KW crew.
Plus: How running a confession blog is like being Heimdall on the Bifrost; what fandom wank and shambling corpses have in common; and why it’s so easy to give into being a Mean Girl on the Internet.
NOTE: THAR BE SPOILERS FOR “THOSE WHO SPEAK”. The spoiler section runs roughly from 1:50 to 7:20. Ye been warned, matey. Or something.
Links:
- Dragon Age: “Those Who Speak”, Issue #1
- “Happy Birthday Misha Collins” tag on Tumblr
- Gyzym’s post on Arthur’s moleskin notebook shown at the WB Inception exhibit
- Purgaytory’s scale of Kanye West to Dean Winchester
- Sherlock Season 3’s “three words”: rat, wedding, bow
- Confession blogs: Dragon Age Confessions, Mass Effect Confessions, Bioware Confessions
- Post Secret
- Example of DA Confessions: Harrowmont or Bhelen?
- DA3 Prophecies
If you’d like to leave us a comment, question or maybe just some good old fashioned hatemail, drop us an ask in our Inbox or send us an email at knickerweaselspodcast (at) gmail [dot] com.
Previous Episode: “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Manabela”
I must confess: I always reblog for the post-work crowd.
