thejabberwock:

Does anyone else find it incredibly frustrating that Dean is clearly hurt by Emma’s death, and yet it’s never mentioned again? If they hadn’t put this scene in, where he explicitly states that Emma was his daughter, I might not be so bothered. But they did put it in and yet… nothing more is ever said of it.  {7.13}

I feel like this is more about the grief that comes with losing a family he might have had- something Dean has always felt. It’s just more acute with Emma. I’d say his grief here is more like the grief of a parent whom loses their child at birth. He didn’t actually get to really know Emma, so the might-have-been is all he has left.

And when has Dean ever been open about what he feels, except when he’s at his lowest?

restoringsanity:

shipwhateveryouwant:

educating-antis:

much-ado-about-mothing:

yoyo-inspace:

shalamaladingdong:

“why is saying ‘i hate pedophilia’ a controversial opinion on this site?”

i’ll tell you, it’s because you fuckers literally call relationships between two adults with an age gap pedophilia

#stop abusing serious terms until they lose all meaning ffs

things I have seen called pedophilia on this hellsite with my own two eyes

– a relationship between two adults with the youngest being 25

– a high school senior dating a high school junior

– a college senior being sexually interested in a college freshman

– size difference fetish art featuring two adult characters

– consenting adults engaging in kink with other consenting adults

– writing about 2 teenagers of similar ages having sex

– shipping characters with vaguely defined ages who are treated as adults in canon

telling kids that asexuality exists

– sex education

like, I shouldn’t have to ask myself if the person being accused of pedophilia is an actual child molester or if they reblog shippy vo|tron fanart

Antis: Why do people hate us for not liking pedophilia :////

Also Antis: *call out everything under the sun that isn’t pedophilia as pedophilia and then wonder why the fuck nobody takes pedophilia claims seriously anymore*

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I wrote this post on September 4th, 2017. It only took a month. (From that point on.)

False callout posts get hundreds if not thousands of notes (albeit at least half of them confused or rejecting the accusations), while posts trying to draw attention to individuals that might pose actual danger go ignored.

There’s something demonstrably harmful to minors and adults alike, especially to victims/survivors – it’s how much of a rhetorical nightmare shipping discourse is, and how much it actually desensitizes people to the subjects in question. You do not want people to become callous and dismissive, but the individuals continuously fabricating accusations, watering down definitions, making completely outrageous claims, and concentrating their opportunistic activism on ‘problematic content’ do everything possible to erode the patience, understanding, sympathy and empathy of the people around them.

Please, please stop trying to sell your ship wars as literally anything else. You’re doing more damage than any piece of fiction possibly could. This is how you are affecting reality, and the effect your actions have is unquestionably bad.

You have to start taking these subjects seriously again. You absolutely have to. When you’re not using certain terms correctly, you’re not respecting their meaning, and you don’t take what they stand for seriously enough, because in your mind the definition can be changed or applied to different things.

Shipping that deals with entirely fictional characters is inconsequential and amoral in every possible instance. This applies to drawn and written works, as well. Fictional characters aren’t real people. Real people law doesn’t apply to them. You need to understand this.

Here’s an example:
Shipping entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

Creating/consuming explicit/mature content of entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

I’m talking about entirely fictional characters. This excludes the shipping of real people – actual living and breathing human people. Not historical figures. People that are alive today. A person. (We still know what a person is, right?) The shipping of real people is a different subject entirely, and it should be approached differently. Still not a crime. Just different.

The bottom line is:
Stop treating fictional characters like real people.
Stop implying that shipping ‘matters’.
Stop involving serious subjects to give your anti-ship arguments more weight and meaning. It’s just a ship. Calm down.
Stop claiming that fiction has a direct, constant, measurable effect on reality. (It has an effect, but not like you think it does.)
Stop saying “This is abuse/incest/pedophilia/etc” when you really want to say “I don’t like it”.

Can you explain the whole “Dean setting up Cas with the waitress in 12×12”? I really want to believe it has some kind of Destiel underline but I can’t figure it out

tinkdw:

You mean Dean 100% putting on a performance for Wally – Mr I make fun of guys by insinuating they’re queer (soft hands comment to Mick) who tries desperately to emulate Dean by ordering the same dinner then getting all embarrassed and looking at Dean whilst everyone corrects him about cheese not being a carb.

Wally looking like John with the dark hair, beard etc, nodding along in all the shots of Dean postulating. 

This scene just looks like a family dinner where Dean’s invited his crush best friend, Wally/John and Mary are sat next to each other, Wally/John is encouraging Dean to act like a dudebro, might as well be like yeah Dean tell us all about your last QB performance! Meanwhile little brother Sam is just looking on at Dean/Cas interactions huffing like “wow…” and making fun of Dean’s shit excuses and postulating. 

Yeah. Wally is John.

He’s in Dean’s performance/postulating scenes, nodding in the background.

Total accident. Much coincidence.

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Dean’s first look is totally off guard. THIS is how he really feels. Fucking pissed and jealous. Look at the dimples of discontent 😉

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Then he gets his act together, pulls himself up and puts the facade on.

We then have Dean and Wally agreeing together about Mandy being into Cas and Dean posturing with all the yeah yeah, you hot waitress, you should find Cas sexy, he’s… yeah my Cas, he’s…he’s hot right, devastatingly handsome you might say! Ummm…. awkward weird smirk that it takes SO MUCH EFFORT for Jensen not NOT look good, I mean this was so on purpose to look awkward and terrible as FUCK.

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Meanwhile Mary is watching on like Dean wtf are you doing to your husband? Sam is just like, god, not this again.

Wally is the John stand-in for Dean’s performance whilst Mary and Sam are the “it so doesn’t matter we don’t care who you think is hot or wanna bag or if you’re in freaking LOVE with Cas just focus on the job, Dean!”.

Watch it back too, when you flip between takes, Cas doesn’t even notice Mandy and his memory of Dean is kinda nice. Mary however… totally thinks Dean is being skeevy AF.

It’s all about Dean’s performance. It’s hugely linked to John. It’s fucking fantastic, just before Cas’ death bed confession, Dean’s eternal second half of the season months of worry and then grief that now could not be less framed as romantic.

Leading into a season that is ALL ABOUT FATHERS and specifically brings John up, literally out of fucking nowhere, to remind us that this season is SO much about Dean’s daddy issues and getting past them.

Letting go of precisely this kind of performance and accepting himself and who he is and who he loves.

*Rubs hands together*