From this picture, we would assume that Dean passed out in the middle of a particularly kinky fling.
How did he get back? Did he and the woman have this soft-bondage fling in the room, without waking Sam up? Did Dean walk home from her place, fully dressed, bra and tie and flog around his head, only to pass out mere feet from the bed?
The last time we saw Dean hungover was “Beyond the Mat,” where he had to get drunk for case purposes and Sam was a total dick to him. In contrast, this time, Dean’s gotten drunk for fun, and Sam gives him a pitying look and lets him sleep in.
And then there’s breakfast.
When Sam gets back from the interview, it’s exactly in time to see Dean, in sunglasses, loading up on bacon. His favorite food, bacon.
Because as Dean knows, nothing treats a hangover better than a big pile of bacon.
Basically?
Dean’s being a massive faker, trying to pretend that everything is fine. He’s weirded out that Sam is mothering him, and so he’s determined to prove that he’s living the same great life as always.
He wasn’t nearly as drunk as he’s pretending to be. The flogger and the bra are plants. The alternative is that a woman decided to leave at least $40 worth of stuff with her random drunken fling.
This is a thing that women generally don’t do, and what’s more, the writers know they don’t do it. Once previously, they used a pile of discarded lingerie and clothing to imply that a massacre, not an orgy, had taken place.
That scene, like this one, requires the viewer to look deeper in order to see a truth that is much darker than what is originally implied.
Sam and Dean can track each other’s phones. Dean knew when Sam would be on his way back, and he timed it so that his brother would have front-row seats to the breakfast scene. Dean went out of his way to play up the contradictory states of 1. craving bacon and 2. being massively hungover from partying.
Dean says “whatever happened to you being nice to me” hoping that he’d worn out Sam’s patience and things would go back to normal. Instead, Sam pulls out a gift bottle of alcohol.
Dean instantly drops the pretense of being hungover. He takes off his glasses, doesn’t protest the volume of Sam’s voice, and starts working the case. He’s also eating his bacon as obnoxiously as possible- not because he’s hungover, but because he’s fucking with Sam.
Stop blowing holes in my beautiful BDSM!Dean is canon theory!
@hazeldomain- Your theory is very plausible, and I hope you’re wrong. Because if you’re right, then the scene is also probably a No Homo moment for the viewers who aren’t up for the destiel reading, in order to soften the blow of the (beautifully shot, if unfair to Sam) end sequence.
Because if you don’t look deeper, it totally reads as Dean reconsidered and took Sam’s advice (possibly because he cares about Sam and doesn’t want him to worry), and got hammered and had a wild, kinky, one night stand, probably with a stripper from the Clam Digger, to cope with his grief. Can’t get much more het than that (I mean, obviously *I* know that doesn’t mean you’re het in the slightest, but I would not be the target market for that reading).
I would rather just accept it on it’s face, although sadly, I suspect you’re right.
UNSUBSTANTIATED HEADCANON TIME: I think that Dean goes to women when he feels manly and wants to be a manly man’s man, and I think he’s more into guys when he wants to allow himself to feel vulnerable. This is a headcanon I have.
If that’s true, which I think it is, and if Sam is aware of it, which I think he is, then coming home with a giant frilly pink bra says “I just fucked the girliest girl this side of the Mississippi and she loved my massive manly cock so much, she gave me her bra.”
Which is exactly the sort of thing you’d brag about if you were trying to convince your brother that you were Fine ™.
Setting Destiel aside for the moment-
Dean says during this episode “I’ve fought my way back before and I’ll fight my way back again.” The same way he always does- ‘bullets, bacon, and booze.’ (The ‘babes’ goes unsaid.)
For the audience watching with their heteronormative glasses on, Dean’s gotten all those things. He went out, he had a great time, he had a wild night with a whip-wielding pair of tits, he had a massive pile of bacon for breakfast, he got to shoot some ghosts… and he’s still depressed enough to be transparently suicidal. All the things that usually work are not working.
Even to the heteronormative crowd, this is a clear message that something vital is missing from his life.
Do I think the Song of Solomon was referenced in this episode because it loosely relates to Asmodeus? Yes. Yes, I do.
According to this biblical footnote from the Book of Tobit, “Asmodeus: in Persian aeshma daeva, ‘demon of wrath,’ adopted into Aramaic with the sense of ‘the Destroyer.’” Asmodeus once unseated Solomon from his throne (according to this account of Jewish legend of Solomon). He was also contained for a time by means of “a chain, the ring on which the Name of God was engraved, a bundle of wool, and a skin of wine”
Are these clues about what may lead to the downfall of Asmodeus? I think they are - or perhaps it’s just a wink to the audience.
HOWEVER
Let’s dive into Destiel land, my friends, because as soon as I saw Song of Solomon I shouted and slapped my friend’s shoulder. The Song. Of. Solomon. Well known to be the most romantic book of the Bible. In an episode where Dean and Cas are separated. How can you include that and not trigger heavy romantic feelings in viewers? Well. Let’s unpack this, people.
The Song of Solomon begins by adjuring one of the protagonists to
Is Dean’s reported hallucination of sheep while driving a veiled reference to Song of Solomon? Is his seeing sheep a way to say that Dean is seeing shades of Castiel - his Shepherd, his lover, his king - on the road?
The Song of Solomon is full of passages where the lovers are separated. Asmodeus is known as one who separates lovers. (Asmodeus lore) What two potential lovers in this show yearn for each other more than Dean and Castiel? (The mix tape was romantic DAMN IT.)
Love of humanity, love of Sam and Dean, love of…Dean. These are the things that will motivate Castiel to tear his way out of The Empty and back to Earth - and the lives of those he loves.
These two lovers, interrupted before they could come together, will fight to end their separation. Where is my lover? Have you seen him? He is there, in the darkness, fighting to find you.
Yes!!!
There was SO MUCH sheep imagery and referencing in this episode.
Sheep and shepherds obviously a hugely biblical reference.
Cas who tried to be the sheep (allowing God then Dean then Lucifer then Jack to use him rather than taking the lead himself).
Cas who needs to be the leader. Same goes for Sam.
Then the “3 sheeps” in bisexual colours again jeez, and right behind Asmodeus… perhaps because the 3 sheep are his downfall?
TFW who are so often alluded to as the holy trinity, the 3…
There’s just so much to go on for all this. So much meta.
the moon told me personally that she thinks you’re obnoxious and hopes you never get a girlfriend
I have a theory that the moon IS a trans woman cause she’s always associated with feminine things but when we saw the craters that look like a face we called it “The Man In The Moon”. She’s a woman with a face that people may perceive as male. She’s a beautiful trans woman
the moon is a beautiful trans woman who hates terfs and shows her face every night to remind other trans women they are beautiful and strong and loved and important and wonderful and that terfs and their opinions q dont matter
e) he might be called Tim but that might be short for something
- Timmos
- Timotheus
- Timiron (yeah just add “Ron” when in doubt)
- Tiroth
- Timarimos
Congratulations your Tim both has a cute nickname and a full name that sounds vaguely badass, or if not badass long-winded and unnecessary enough to be a Fantasy Name™.
Also try to make the syllables sound like their personality. A suave and socially smooth character could maybe not have any hard ‘r’ or ‘br’ or ‘tr’ in their names. Etc.
Hey guys! I’ve had a lot of people asking about the kind of music that inspires my art, so here are a couple of the playlists I’ve been listening to while I work:
Crisp Autumn vibes and a little bit of mystery. The smell of dead leaves, wet wheat, and far-away smoke. Listen here: Bright Leaves, Cold Air
Eerie tunes and strange sounds from the dark. A black dog at the edge of your headlights, a pale hand reaching out from the tall grass. Radio static in the middle of nowhere. Listen Here: It’s Dark Out
“HEY FUCKO, SHE HAS A DELICATE CONSTITUTION, CAN YOU NOT?? CAN YOU NOT GIVE HER A SUNBURN WITH YOUR GLOWING HORSESHIT ALL FLYING AROUND LIKE WHAT UP I’M SHINY AND BOTHERING GIRLS WHILE THEY NAP AT THE BEACH. YOU EVER GET A SUNBURN ON YOUR BOOBS? IT’S NOT GREAT. IT IS IN FACT THE WORST. GO AWAY.”
Keira Knightley photographed by Yelena Yemchuk for Vogue Italia April 2017
this looks like a lesbian begging her love to come back after Medusa turned her to stone for not returning her feelings
I NEED TO KNOW THAT SHE SAVED HER
Medusa appears, and the woman embraces her stone wife BEGS Medusa to turn her to stone as well so they can be together forever. Medusa, being a massive lesbian herself, falls such horrible guilt that she sacrifices one of her snake locks and restores the wife to life, then tells them to love each other and never return.
i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”
this isn’t a “pushing my identity on historic people” thing, it’s the fact that every single time i or another person brings up the possibility of someone like us in history, we’re immediately shut down, told that we didn’t “exist yet”, given a billion different reasons why we aren’t ALLOWED to see these people as reflective of us and our struggles and experiences - i get that we didn’t have the vocabulary back then but for so many of you the IDEA that someone who went to the same stretches that we do today to separate from their dead selves and identify similar to the way trans people do is too “far out there” and “disrespectful” to them somehow. they’re dead. we’re alive. we’re trying to connect the pieces. go get your kicks out of isolating us from history somewhere else, away from me.
yeah, there were women who did crossdress in order to take up jobs they would not have been permitted to access
but when people say it about Albert Cashier, who donned Union uniform, bound his chest, and lived as a man even after the Civil War, when he was reclusive and lived in a tiny village, after there would have been no incentive for him to do so, I question their motives.
I also question their motives when they list Alan L Hart, who legally changed his name and was one of the first trans men to pursue a hysterectomy, referring to himself as “a fellow.”
people DONT want historical figures to be trans. they WANT to interpret these historical figures as women, not trans men, because that makes them uncomfortable.
james barry was a surgeon in the 1800′s who was a trans man, referred to himself as a man in his own personal journals, and requested that he be buried without the body being examined. if his wishes hadn’t been ignored and the body inspected, he would have been buried and recorded as a man and not a “woman who disguised herself!”
i think it’s pretty fucking clear how he identified and thankfully people have moved towards gendering him properly in recent years
but yeah walking into a “women in the history medicine!” museum exhibit and seeing him as well as a placard stating that he was actually transgender was a pretty formative experience for me in the discovery of my own identity
