This was a very good idea, Anne. Thanks for suggesting it.
Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.
Xander ,'First Date'
Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business
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Lee - Jan 01, 2008 2:45:34 pm PST #5684 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Amy - Jan 01, 2008 2:46:18 pm PST #5685 of 10002
Because books.
as little as Dean, or even Sam, actually wants out of life, it's still more than they can have.
Yes, this. And the fact that Dean wants this one thing, now, when he knows it's going to be his last Christmas...
The outsiderness of them is so total.
Cass - Jan 01, 2008 2:46:19 pm PST #5686 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Awesome idea, Anne. Thanks!
Amy - Jan 01, 2008 2:46:55 pm PST #5687 of 10002
Because books.
Thank you, Anne! Now start planning what day we should do the next one!
Cass, we can discuss that in email, yes?
Cass - Jan 01, 2008 2:48:41 pm PST #5688 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We can.
And I just realized that I have purchased adult things for people I wasn't going to be adult with. Maybe it's the Winchester version of The Sex Talk. Um, the graphic novel version?
Beverly - Jan 01, 2008 2:50:25 pm PST #5689 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I get that too, Plei, but then I step back and look at it, and they've made other choices.
They need to know they can choose some of the good things, too. That a life of service doesn't have to mean a life of total self-denial. I don't think they know that. In a weird sort of way, they're monastic, separate from the world they've chosen to protect. I think there's been a type like that in almost every culture. And most of them chose it for themselves.
That Sam and Dean were trained into it rather than approaching it as adults, yeah, that's sad. But at this point, either or both of them could quit. Or slow down, make time for a life. They've chosen not to.
All right, deadline, ticking clock, demon heir apparent. Not so much with the choice right now. But there have been, and there will be points where they could choose something else. Or at least a compromise with something else. I'd like to see that.
DebetEsse - Jan 01, 2008 2:50:33 pm PST #5690 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
And now I'm imagining Dean giving Sam The Talk. I think I may never have been more horrified in my life. And I read that Sesame Street Yuletide fic.
P.M. Marc - Jan 01, 2008 2:52:17 pm PST #5691 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dean has been on a quest to get Sam laid since S1. When it finally happened, it ended poorly, so I think it makes sense that he'd dial it back, and figure Sam could have some solo fun where nobody winds up taking a bullet.
(As a random thought, seeing as sexual excess is one of the few ways Dean has to distract himself or lift his own mood, I see his preoccupation with Sam's sex life as Dean mapping his own coping mechanisms to Sam. Which, of course, doesn't really work, because Sam != Dean.)
Anne W. - Jan 01, 2008 2:53:27 pm PST #5692 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
You're very welcome, all! This was a blast!
Cass - Jan 01, 2008 2:54:09 pm PST #5693 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So the Winchester version of "I'm cold, go put on a sweater"? Good point.