Rita Dove is one of the greatest living poets. And this is a lovely piece.
Is everything about supernatural or am I just too aware of supernatural and therefore am biased?
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Nah, everything is about destiel forever.
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This is my first time drawing Bentley
The fact that these two moments happened in the same conversation will never not leave me feeling absolutely devastated
…forever? With you?
Title: What Happens in Wichita...
Artist: @burdonedwithpointlesspurpose
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Mary Winchester/Annie Hawkins
Warnings: None
Tags: Canon Divergent, Pre-Canon, Case Fic, Age Gap, First Time
Summary: It’s 1982. Ronald Reagan is President, the Dodgers won the World Series and Mary Winchester is done with hunting. She’s a wife now, and a mom, living the apple pie life, just like she always wanted.When an old friend calls in a favor, Mary reluctantly takes the case. It’s a simple haunting that shouldn’t take more than a day. But to Mary’s surprise, she’s not the only hunter trying to gank the spirit. Eighteen year old Annie Hawkins is young and hungry to prove herself, and there’s something about her that draws Mary in. Over the course of the weekend Mary discovers that there is more to life than being a hunter or being a loving wife and mother. But you know what they say: what happens in Witchita…
There he is
The bear in area
His arrival was foretold in ancient murals
Guest what i did with that drawing hahhshs , don’t tag as ship, thank
Just a few more hours until season 2!! Here’s some art in the meantime :)
OH!!! OH MY GOD!!! DEAN IS THE HUSBAND!!!!
okay okay okay hang on. this thought isn't all the way developed yet but I'm kind of working through it as I go here hang on.
alright so Hannah pretty explicitly has spent a good chunk of her time on the show so far with the very pointed agenda of keeping Cas away from Dean and his "bad influence" and it's a pretty clear "Hannah likes Cas and Cas is in love with Dean and Dean is ?????" (where ???? means "stupidly in love with Cas as well but neither Cas nor Hannah know that") and Cas is coping with the relatively recent realization that he is, in fact, in love with a mortal man who can die and stuff extremely fucking badly and trying to ignore it and push himself to be an angel's angel again, which Hannah facilitates by trying to keep him away from the Winchesters and on the road with her...
...but then we introduce a second parallel. Like obviously we've got the Cas:Hannah::Dean:Cas parallel showing the fucked up twisted mirror perception Cas has, but then we introduce an actual explicit love triangle into the mix when we bring up Caroline, Hannah's vessel, and Caroline's husband Joe.
once when you throw that in the mix? suddenly the metaphor isn't so clear-cut.
yeah okay this is starting to come together in my head now. it's not totally coalesced yet but I'm seeing the outline of it. because like. before you had a very simple, uncomplicated metaphor where Cas is the Dean figure and Hannah is the Cas figure and it all works out very tidily for Cas's own fucked up mental health issues...
but then suddenly there's a different dynamic at play. it's not so simple, anymore. suddenly Hannah isn't just a metaphor for Cas, she's returned to her own role as a distinct individual... and she has pulled Caroline away from the man she loves.
like. HI.
"These feelings, they aren't for me, for us. They belong to her. I know it's time to step aside."
there is a metric shit ton of meaning packed into that line. because on the surface level it's about how Hannah needs to stop possessing Caroline because she realizes it's ethically wrong to possess a human even if they consented to it. on a deeper level, it's about how her exposure to Caroline's humanity, to the love and joy and despair of being a person, has been a big driving factor in her developing feelings for Cas and pursuing them as tenaciously as she has been. she and Caroline are in a feedback loop.
but I think there's also a third layer here, that specifically sparks from that phrasing about "stepping aside." this is her recognizing that Cas doesn't want her, and by pulling him into her mission in the first place, she's pulled him away from where he really wants to be: with Dean.
(not, of course, that he's going to actually go back to Lebanon once Hannah frees them both from their ongoing quest the way Caroline goes back to her husband, because what Cas took away from the whole conversation wasn't "go back to your metaphorical husband, you clearly miss him." he responded to the top layer of the dialogue rather than the subtext, and got "damn, vessel possession's kinda fucked up, you should maybe make amends for the lives you ruined" stuff. which. you know what? fair enough)
anyway where the hell is that anon from like a year and half ago about how Drowley and CasHannah are both twisted mirrors for Destiel, reflecting how Dean and Cas respectively feel that they're the toxic one in the relationship... like, that anon was so correct and blew my mind WIDE the fuck open
okay welp I just spent a Lot of time searching for the post but I can't find it off the cuff so instead I guess I'm just reiterating the analysis in short form here.
so the basis of the concept is that Drowley is basically how Dean's poor self-esteem makes him view Destiel, with Crowley playing the role of Dean and Dean playing the role of Cas. Crowley seduces Dean, corrupts him, tempts him into abandoning his life and his family, drags him down in the mud with him... which is what Dean is very very afraid of doing to Cas (thanks for that, Zachariah). Dean thinks, on some level, that what happened to him because of his liaison with Crowley is what Cas has gone through because of his relationship with Dean.
meanwhile CasHannah is basically how Cas's poor self-esteem makes him view Destiel, with Hannah playing the role of Cas and Cas playing the role of Dean. Hannah is clueless, new to life on Earth but blundering her way through anyway, thinking she knows what's best for Cas and bulldozing right over his expressed desires and needs to do what she thinks is best regardless of what he wants, and pushing unrequited feelings on him at every opportunity. Cas thinks this is what he is to Dean, a pushy, oblivious problem to be solved who should really just go back to Heaven and stop involving himself in things that aren't his business.
the beginning of season 10 illuminating the lies that their respective self-esteem issues tell them about what they are to each other by establishing these secondary relationships as twisted mirrors.... it's fucked up, it's diabolical, it's fucking brilliant, and I wanna shake the hand of whichever writer decided to roll with that.
Neil Gaiman: "in season 2 the fan-favorite angel/demon couple will fall in love, overcome great adversity, and eventually defy heaven and hell to run off together to the stars :)"
Fans: "cool! I can't wait, does Aziraphale confess first or does Crowley?'
Neil, holding Gabriel and Beelzebub figures and making them kiss: "Does who do what now?"
The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don't like are "problematic" that I've ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister "like siblings".
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
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