dni lists don't work and i am well aware of this but just know that if you are a zionist/pro-israel and/or you think the israel/palestine situation is a "neutral situation" please know that you are extremely unwelcome here and will be made to feel that way. free palestine
You know what I think. I think that Mary should have been possessed and when she burned on the ceiling it was her blood that dripped into sam's mouth. Send xeet.
scrumpty scromch jr
SAM JUST CALLED MARY MOMMA IN APOCALYPSE WORLD WHILE NAMING THE PEOPLE WALKING PAST HIM šššš IāM TEARING UP
you're laughing??? they ate his tailor and you're laughing???
jack will always the funniest character ever to me solely because of the fact that he outwardly looks and acts like a nickelodeon sitcom protagonist boy complete with silly elaborate outfits and an āerm what the flipā type of endearing dumbness to him and then inwardly heās like āI am deeply afraid of an inherent inescapable evil within me :Dā and constantly experiencing the emotional turmoil of a teenage girl
castiel should've had more accidental pretty celestial things happen to him. his shadow should have a hint of his wings all the time, he should look luminescent in the night compared to other people like a faint glowstick, lights should gather and form a halo in his presence, he should get rainbows above his head when it rains, lightning should always hit him when he's around and it should just make his eyes glow for a second. birds should seek refuge in his hair, butterflies should rest on his halo. animals should bow to him whenever he passes by. flowers should face him on the path he walks.
I don't know if this is an unpopular or rare perspective on Jack, and I'm a huge over-analyzer, but I think that he purposefully makes himself more naive as a way of making himself likeable/less intimidating.
Like at first he's genuinely new to everything and doesn't understand what's going on, but I think he starts "masking" fairly early as he notices people react well to certain things and react poorly to others.
An example that stands out to me is his expression and the way he holds himself.
At the start, he has a "scary" expression reminiscent of the Kubrick stare. His head is tilted down, chin in, and eyes furrowed. It seems to be his default state, as he reverts to it when he's overwhelmed or just focused strongly on something else, like when he uses his powers.
However, at the police station he ends up getting his first positive feedback (lack of fear/nervous response) from his body language
Being down on the ground, he looks up at the officer and ends up with his head tilted up and his eyes unfurrowed. With his mouth full his expression also changes compared to how slack his face was before.
Then when he wakes up in the cell with Sam, he's back to his normal expression and angry about Sam tazing him, and Sam apologizes and explains why.
What's interesting to me is what Jack does next -
He sits crosslegged like he did earlier, despite being on a bench, and apologizes back. Because he just learned from Sam that if you hurt someone and regret it and want them to forgive you, you apologize and explain why it happened.
And he gets into the last pose that worked for him - legs crossed and tilting his head up, because it makes him look less threatening. And it works, it relieves some of Sam's obvious fear.
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Deeply enjoy The Boys/Gen V taking supernatural actors who played very likeable characters and getting them to just let loose being shitty vile characters.
tbh a lot of the ways jackās infantilization pops up is in discourse around him and dean and their relationship , especially after Maryās death in game night. because everyoneās relentlessly clinging to the idea of jack as a pwecious widdle baby who can do no wrong, thereās this unanimous refusal to give him any accountability whatsoever for anything he does, particularly with killing mary and hurting dean so severely in the process. instead, everyone decides that dean is the bad guy for reacting to his childhood trauma unfolding again after heād finally healed from it and got her back.
I mean spn fans fundamentally do not see jack as an autonomous person so it only makes sense that nobody can put him on equal footing in any of his relationship dynamics, but to vilify dean for having a very justified reaction to his fucking mother dying again is just an insane thing to do in the name of woobifying jack. yes, it was entirely accidental and yes, Jack is equally as traumatized by it, but that does not take away from the fact that what he did directly emotionally damaged sam and dean.
not only would a lot of fandom discourse benefit from realizing these are literally not normal functional healthy people dealing with normal situations that give them the liberty to approach said situations in normal functional healthy ways (dean promising to kill jack if he needed to in 13x02, & shooting jack in 13x23), but it would also benefit from realizing that jack is a grown ass invulnerable demigod with the capacity to cause a lot of major damage if he spins out of control, and he bears full responsibility for that damage (which is why it is actually so fucking stupid whej I see ppl say that jack becoming a baby would magically fix their conflict. no it fucking wouldnāt, you just donāt see jack as a full person with direct responsibility in said conflict and you donāt care about their relationship actually being healed mutually).
on the other hand, dean was reacting to a presumed threat almost immediately after losing two of his loved ones in a situation directly related to jack. he has every right to be wary and cautious, and given that he is actively traumatized and already an emotionally dysfunctional person from being abused by John, he isnāt exactly going to outlet his trauma healthily or behave in a way that miraculously breaks the cycle John created. Iām getting tired but lastly, ppl should also realize that jack is a grown ass adult with the emotional maturity to understand and forgive dean for the way he acted beforeāeven while Dean actively struggles to forgive himself and tries to be as good a father as possible to make up for it.
Because again, their situation is not normal and they have no way of treating it or reacting to it normally. as far as jack knows and has seen of his powers, he is dangerous and is able to reach a point where heās too much of a threat to keep alive. the tragedy of it is that he doesnāt want to be a threat, he doesnāt want people to fear or hate him and he doesnāt want to hurt anyone. thatās why he says āyou were right all alongā in moriah. between dean and jack, a huge facet in their relationship is the question of whether or not dean is right, and by the time theyāve reached a point of mutually seeing each other as father and son that question is up in the air as something neither of them want. jack never wanted dean to be right, and now that dean knows jack as a person and as his own kid he especially doesnāt want to be right anymore.
just. Please start thinking of Jack as an actual autonomous person. That is literally all it comes down to. It will open up your world
sam <3