6.05: Dean becomes the monster, and burns the last bridge to his normal life…
DEAN. Look at this. He’s WATCHING her sleep. How is that not rape-y?
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They’re staking out the Black Rose bar looking for their Emo Teenage Vampire who’s been luring young women with the whole Twilight act, and they’ve got three potential suspects:
DEAN. I dunno. It’s hard to tell. (He continues to look around and spies two other young men talking with girls.) Hey, we got multiple choice. SAM. Great. Three of them and two of us. (They watch as one of the men kisses another guy.) DEAN. (After taking a moment to process.) Okay. Make that two of them.
(oh my GOD this episode has so much homoerotic subtext– and actual text-text– it’s ridiculous)
(I mean, vampires as a symbol for dark and forbidden desire, and then it’s Dean who’s turned… it’s not subtle or mysterious subtext here…)
(DEAN starts to walk away.) VOICE. You’re pretty… (DEAN turns and finds himself face-to-face with BORIS.) DEAN. I’m sorry? BORIS. I said…you’re pretty. DEAN. Yeah, sorry again, pal. I don’t play for your team.
Being told he’s pretty was enough to get Dean to turn around… in a dark alley outside a club where they suspected vampires were abducting girls from… I mean, what was he expecting when he turned around? If he had truly NOT been interested in any way, he would’ve kept walking, right? I mean, that’s what a totally hetero dudebro would’ve done, right?
Sure, okay, they are working this vampire case and maybe the guy in the alley could be a suspect… or at least tangentially involved… but it’s been girls who’ve gone missing (SEVEN of them, it’s been a very consistent pattern), not “pretty” guys. So he initially wouldn’t be expecting the vampire to suddenly switch up his MO like that. He’d already dismissed another suspect inside the bar when he started macking on another guy.
So WHY did Dean turn around? Why didn’t he just keep walking? If he really didn’t play for that team once in a while?
Because heck, there were a lot of pretty people inside that club (and Dean was definitely one of those pretty people), and maybe one of those pretty people had followed him outside…
But the guy he came face to face with in that alley wasn’t what Dean had been hoping to find…
(what he’d been expecting to find:
what he actually found:
yeah… maybe this guy just wasn’t his type?)
But then Sam just stands by while Boris here attacks and TURNS Dean into a vampire. And then Sam also stands around while Boris escapes.
Dean goes to say goodbye to Lisa (which really is the end for them BECAUSE of WHAT DEAN IS, and not because he’s been turned into a vampire…)
LISA. Just stop, and explain to me what’s going on out there. DEAN. (Pauses. Miserably.) Lisa, I can’t bring this crap home to you. LISA. You’re talking about your work? DEAN. I’m talking about my LIFE. It’s ugly…and it’s violent…and I’m gonna die – SOON.
But ALL of this happened because of Sam’s actions– he lies to practically everyone and deliberately “weaponzies” Dean to achieve their aims of capturing the Alpha Vampire. He’s lying to Samuel when he confronts Sam with his belief that this is what Sam has done, he lies to Dean after Dean’s cured… and NEITHER Samuel or Dean really trust him anymore after this. I mean, not like Dean really trusted him BEFORE this, but this was the last straw for Dean. He knows there’s something seriously wrong with Sam now.
*cue Dean’s epic battle inside the vamp nest*
*and his strange vision of the Alpha Vamp*
And Dean learns the monsters are running a mass recruitment drive… they’re fighting back because they’re being attacked in record numbers
(in a direct parallel to s12, but with the MoL trying to wipe them all out wholesale instead of just trying to find and destroy their alphas to raid purgatory…)
When Sam and Samuel make their way inside after Dean’s slaughter of the entire nest, Samuel looks around at the carnage and says to Sam, “Looks like your brother has some Campbell in him after all.”
Which is REALLY creepy in the context of what a Campbell hunter is, and what that means about Mary in s12…
DEAN. Honestly? Recruitment drive. (SAM and SAMUEL register this.) Their alpha’s building an army. SAMUEL. Well, THAT’s comforting. DEAN. That’s not the worst. SAM. Then what IS? DEAN. We don’t scare them anymore.
Hunters didn’t scare the monsters anymore back in s6, but the MoL and their horrifying technology that can wipe them out en masse seem to have the monsters on the run in s12. But eventually those monsters will have their backs to the walls (like in 12.14) and will fight back.
Only now, Sam and Dean are in a very different place themselves. They’re working (mostly) together, they really DO have each other’s backs unlike in s6. They aren’t personally out to kill ALL the monsters. They know there ARE some monsters who deserve to live.
And sometimes people (like soulless!Sam in s6 and the BMoL in s12) are the real monsters…
Given how Dean reacts even as a grown man to the word “pretty,” and all his knowledge about roofies, and the CBGB incident, I always thought that hearing “pretty” in a male voice was an immediate DANGER flag for Dean.
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These are not trafficking posters. Did anyone bother to call the numbers? More importantly, do you honestly think people who can be seen placing the posters, and answering phone numbers that can be tracked would be this ignorant?
Human trafficking is a serious and real problem. But you did not find trafficking here. Whoever took these photos made shit up. I know. Not only did I check, and I a former criminal justice instructor who actually taught about human trafficking.
“This photograph shows a giraffe with an impala skull in its mouth. From the photo alone the motivation is unclear, but there are extensive records of giraffes engaging in osteophagia, or bone eating.
When you’re that tall a little extra calcium comes in particularly handy, but lots of other animals engage in osteophagia on occasion. Bones are a rich source of phosphorus as well as calcium, and animals don’t always fit into the neat carnivore, herbivore, omnivore categories we learn at school.
Despite the name, osteophags seldom eat the whole bone – particularly when they come from animals of similar size. However, by gnawing on bones, antlers or even ivory they can get the nutrients they need.
Reports of large ungulates gnawing bone have been summarized in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Nevertheless, the process remains somewhat mysterious, with one study finding that the fluids within ruminants’ stomachs would not be able to draw out significant amounts of minerals. Giraffes do seem to do it more than other ruminants, however.
Some giraffes are more prone to exotic eating than others. Tony, a pure Rothschild’s giraffe at Werribee Open Plains Zoo in Australia was notorious for eating dead rabbits in front of visitors. “It just ruined your talk,” says Goldie Pergl, former visitor experience officer at Werribee. “You’d explain how giraffes were herbivores and he would do that. Then he’d come up and start eating the rubber off the windscreen wipers, which puzzled us even more.” Other giraffes at the same zoo were far more likely to stick to the script.
this is my fav bc an actual major cause for the fall of rome was the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes which led to a crumbling of infrastructure but who cares about thaaaaat
“Feminism killed Rome” is my new favorite sentence of all time.
Also ballooning military spending, a widening gap between rich and poor, religious intolerance following the Emperor’s embrace of Christianity, and lead poisoning of the water supply.
I can’t explain it, but something about this scene just screams “BOYFREINDS” to me
A Straight-Forward Explanation to Why There is a Boyfriend Vibe:
Two people in a friendship relationship might ask if they can have a taste of what their friend has ordered, while two people in a couple relationship assumes that eating off of their loved one’s plate is acceptable, even expected, especially if the food goes untouched.
We, the audience, are meant to pick up on this subtlety and subconsciously take note of it, without the narrative explicitly stating that this scene has a “date” connotation to it. When the writers, director and actors choose to engage in this, it’s called addingsubtext.
This particular use of subtext is there to signal to us, the audience, that these two characters are not engaged in a friendship relationship, but rather in a couple relationship. One that has yet to be fully acknowledged by either of them, and yet both of them have subconsciously adopted the couple behaviour and accepted that this is how they relate to one another.
This is why the scene screams BOYFRIENDS at you. Because that’s what the writers, the director and the actors want you to take from this specific character interaction – that they are behaving like a couple would, not as friends do.
if any of you are bored you could try taking this color oracle assessment. it’s interesting
this shit dragged my ass within the first two lines of text, I’m done!
me as well
How did it know I have been maticulously watching my finances? How did it know that I hate my roommate and am in a stressful situation because she is the dirtiest person I’ve ever met? How did it know that I’m a year into a long distance relationship/ have constant feelings of loneliness??
On April 21, 1967, the 100 millionth GM vehicle rolled off the line at the plant in Janesville – a blue two-door Caprice. There was a big ceremony, speeches. The lieutenant governor even showed up. Three days later, another car rolled off that same line. No one gave two craps about her. But they should have, because this 1967 Chevrolet Impala would turn out to be the most important car, no, the most important object, in pretty much the whole universe.
in french today we were talking about celebrities that we admire and i said misha collins and nobody knew who i was talking about so my teacher googled him and put this photo up
and the whole class went quiet and from the back of the room we just heard this tiny ‘oh my god’
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