I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.
SUPERNATURAL + THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHERfor @wincestwednesdays prompt: American Gothic (pt 1: Beginnings)
I needed to try out this new paper so SELF INDULGENCE TIME I SUPPOSE?
“What is it with you Winchesters, huh? You, your dad. You’re both just itching to throw yourselves down the pit.
That’s my point. Dad brought me back, Bobby. I’m not even supposed to be here. At least this way, something good could come out of it, you know? I-It’s like my life could mean something.
What? And it didn’t before?! Have you got that low of an opinion of yourself? Are you that screwed in the head?
I couldn’t let him die, Bobby. I couldn’t. He’s my brother. You can’t tell him. You take a shot at me, whatever you got to do, but please don’t tell him.”
Swan Song, 5.22\ Playthings, 2.11\Nox, Anne Carson
i think a part of sam feels physically empty after lucifer is done with him. i think there is a space carved into him that lucifer fills and now that’s so empty. and despite his aversion to possessions, he needs to feel whole, to feel full again. he hates that lucifer made some part of him feel whole but longs to feel that way again. he hates himself for missing it. who in their right mind asks to be possessed just to chase some twisted high?
#!!!!!!!!!!!!#when he literally WAS empty when he got out the cage without his soul#when that stupid novel said TWICE that soulless sam would welcome lucifer again bc he never felt so powerful#its on my mind all the time#secret good spn where sam pays creatures to possess him when he's suicidal and feeling disintegrated#sam#a fiddle of gold against your soul
Supernatural (2005-2010) / “'A whole new level of freak:' Supernatural, Poe, and the legacy of the incestuous Gothic" by [redacted]
#ohhhh i love how you mention the reversal of dean tackling sam and sam attacking dean#that show of strength to say there is no escape#dean 'buries' sam and sam comes back. sam 'buries' dean and dean comes back#round and round the winchesters go(!!!!!)#their whole life was a haunted life the life of a ghost🚬🚬#americana 🤝 gothic 🤝 supernatural#they're (my) best friends actually#you and me#family is hell#home is the first grave
will never get over the fact that sams grief after dean died in season 3 turned him into the same revenge obsessed man their dad became after mary died. the fact that thats not subtext or whatever thats just the show.
What the hell is this? ↳ 4.15 - DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
The attraction and shared isolation of the siblings locates the work as operating in the tradition of Wuthering Heights, which Finney describes as an example of ‘the siblings-as-soulmates configuration’ […] in terms of the protagonists’ common status as outsiders and their incestuous love that transcends the values of the society that rejects them and the event of death itself. [...]
The consequences of denying the incestuous element of Catherine and Heathcliff ’s relationship are a denial of their love and a reduction of it to a pathological egotism. When, for example, Thormählen states that ‘I have avoided referring to the bond between Catherine and Heathcliff as “love” … because the nature of their passions fits no description of the concepts known to me’, she disregards the established conventions of Gothic and Romantic incest in which the representation of their love is, in part, grounded. — J. Diplacidi, Gothic incest: Gender, sexuality and transgression
Cathy and Heathcliff reach in death what they possessed in this world when they were unself-conscious children, and did not know of their separateness. They reach peace not through obedient acceptance of isolation, but through the final exhaustion of all their forces in the attempt to reach union in this life. Their heroism is, in Georges Bataille’s phrase, an “approbation of life to the point of death.” — J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth Century Writers
SUPERNATURAL + WUTHERING HEIGHTS
for @wincestwednesdays prompt: American Gothic (pt 2: Endings)
*rosemary woodhouse’s your mary winchester*
i wonder if it was obvious that her baby was demonic or not?
supernatural should’ve never stopped giving us shots of dean puttering around in his little black boxers and everything would’ve been fine
"It's a road movie, a double feature, two boys striking out across America while desire, like a monster, rises up out of the lake." — Eric Kripke Americana prompt for @wincestwednesdays
As GROSSMAN moves, the books on the bookshelves behind him suddenly fall off and onto his head, knocking him out cold. SAM'S gun flies out of his hand and SAM catches it. DEAN looks astounded.
SUPERNATURAL 3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock
I wish we got to see what sam and dean do between hunts more often. Like just the casual things, hanging out in a laundromat, playing pool for money, driving in the car for ungodly amount of hours. Like do they cut each other's hair when it gets too long? Does dean tease sam and say that he's gonna cut it all off, but they both know he never will. I wanted to see them sleeping in the car more often, not being able to afford a motel. Like how in tune would they be with each other? I need to see their daily routine. Does Sam always get up before Dean to get them their morning coffee? Do they fight to get to the bathroom first? I need them to film a grwm