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***
When you
crush my mouth close
I hear
the river sing
siren
whispers I should
block my ears
rejoice,
it commands, but
the song
is only blood
drowning
from inside out
i’m going under
this breath—
my first, my last—
is shared
your palm on lung,
willing
out an exhale
i can’t—no—won’t
give in
just tread water
falling
feels like floating
if you
can’t see the sun
i slip underneath
and you
flare so proudly
my own
armageddon
so hot
and so bright on
these incoming tides
Don’t you know how distracting it is?
Don’t make me separate you two.
So I’d normally fill this space with a “Shadows” update, but I can’t, not today, because I spent last night staying up WAY too late watching Supernatural with myjusticecake (to those who’ve seen the show, we just watched “The Man Who Would Be King” for the first time), and I brim with too many feels that, well, sorry, I just have to meta for a bit. Hope you don’t mind.
For six months and five seasons, I’ve approached Supernatural as nothing more than a mostly enjoyable, sometimes problematic, and always addictive diversion. While individual episodes stand out – “The End”, “Mystery Spot”, “Criss Angel Is A Douchebag”—most of the time I’ve watched the series with tongue firmly in cheek and eyes ready to roll.
But at some point during Season 6, I feel like the quality of the storytelling skyrocketed. Much of the juicier external drama – the rise of new supernatural powers, Eve’s, uh, “activities”, the civil war – shifted off-screen. As a result, the series’s often heavy-handed storytelling has softened, becoming more subtle and complex. It doesn’t hurt that this season’s narrative has pulled liberally from my favorite storytelling pattern ever, the Heroine’s Journey: from the shattering of Dean’s illusory “perfect world”, to the recurring theme of monsters building “new families”; from the relative unimportance of the external “big baddie” to the overarching narrative dominance of emotional conflict, this is a different kind of story than Kripke & co. told in Seasons 1-5.
And in my opinion, it’s better. Much better.
WARNING: SUPER DUPER SPOILERS FOR SUPERNATURAL SEASON 6, UP TO AND INCLUDING “THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING”, BEHIND THE CUT.
