These promo pictures are from ep21: [link] They show a new character, and don't look at the tags if you don't want to know who.

But, really cutely, I love this non-spoilery picture of Dean: [link] He looks all brobdingnagian. It's adorable.

I got spoiled for that character, and also it's in the photo set's tags (sort of).

Sam also looks huge in those photos.

I didn't actually look at the tags, so I apologise if anyone learns too much from them. Oops.

I should have said, I was *already* spoiled for who that character is.

But the name is (sort of) in the tags.

Man, sometimes I don't feel like I know what time it is in Dean!girl and D/C territory (where theoretically, demonstrably, I belong): [link]

The problem is that the brothers relationship and dynamic is horrendiously stuck in 1-3 and Sam's still getting the myth arc with Dean reacting to it, so obviously Sam is a main character he can't die so Dean has to save him etc a cicle resulting of the "brothers only" mentality. This shit is responsible for everything thats bad about this show

I...we get just about everything through Dean's eyes, whether he's actor or reactor. If one of them gets the scripts slanted towards them, it's so very much Dean in my read of it all. I do not understand this current rage in some places that Sam gets all the cool stuff.

Plot events have tended to revolve more around Sam? Though I really think Dean's the protagonist if you have to pick just one.

Though I really think Dean's the protagonist if you have to pick just one

I don't even see how it's a question, really. Sam gets the superpowers, but Dean gets the reactions, the friends, and when the stakes get high, he's more often portrayed as being in the right, even if he doesn't have the power.

If I'm going to sympathise with a whiny SamGirl or a whiny DeanGirl, despite being a DeanGirl, I'm going to nod at what the SamGirl whines.

I really tried to make it through this fic, because it was the only thing I had to read at lunch. I made it through the bit where teen Cas worked out John was homophobic because of how he said "Hello boys" and the bit where Dean heard the silent tears fall on his jacket. I made it through a lot of really rote step by step descriptions of actions that have no bearing on anything, including plot and characterisation (they stopped watching Star Trek at episode four (Naked Time) to have dinner, and watched one more before Cas had to leave). (And I know guys who think they're straight tend not to practice kissing on each other--right? But she managed to rip away the cute facade we put on this trope when we demand it....so traumatic.)

I stopped stopped where she gave a glossary at the start of the chapter--noting what MIT stood for, and that BU stands for "Boston University (aka a university in Boston)".

At that point I started laughing out loud in the cafe. Since everyone else was watching the news, this was especially awkward.

Interesting six-part blog mapping the "love narrative" between Dean and Castiel from a professed non-shipper throughout season 8: [link]

Got nostalgic for Journeyman with Kevin McKidd (that started with a desire to see Ever Gjokaj do impersonations of Reed Diamond because I was rewatching The Avengers) and I picked the whump episode where he gets shot, and who's there but a wee Colin Ford!