Meta Masterpost: cupidsbower

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Supernatural [s10] meta

• Multiple dimensions of homophobia in Supernatural and more thoughts.
• Bisexual Dean and homophobia/biphobia in fandom
• The shape of the Carver arc
• Cain’s life lived in reverse
• Yeats and Brothers’ Keeper
• A line reading of the fight between Dean and Cas in The Prisoner
• About Rowena
• Nothing so sure as Death (s10e23), do you feel lucky?, dean and castiel are muppets about feelings, a clarification
• The tree and the apple & (s10e22), and follow up
• Pre-watch s10e22 speculation about Dean’s character development
• For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption (speculation about s10e22 before I watched it)
• Sam Winchester’s ethics are not relative, and follow up
• An eye for an I (s10e21)
• Bodily autonomy (speculation about The Prisoner)
• “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel…” (spoilers for s10e21, but not my ep review)
• Character mirroring in Angel Heart
• How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! (s10e20) and follow up about Crowley and Rowena
• The lack of Destiel text, vs the building subtext (a conversation)
• The River and the Keeper (more speculation about the s10 finale)
• Is that a halo I see before me? (angel wings and halos over the seasons)
• Speed 2 - Emotional Control (s10e19)
• Destiel subtext (and why I don’t trust it) - a conversation
• Allusions, mirrors, and lots of smoke - possible references in the final eps of s10
• The end (speculation about the s10 finale)
• A little light reading - the library in s10e18
• All the world’s a page (s10e18)
• The Winchester abuse narrative
• Fandom politics, part 784 (pro Sam vs pro Dean)
• Reading subtext
• meta/tron
• Love is all you need (LOL) (s10e17)
• Actually, he’s pretty fucking heavy (s10e15, s10e16)
• Vengeance is the daughter of silence (s10e13, s10e14)
• Crosshatching and Dean’s journey
• 50 Shades of No-homo: The subtext and the Domtext
• Let them eat cake (s10e11, s10e12)
• The problem of Sam Winchester (discussing his characterisation since s5, use these links instead of the ones in the post: hellsbells, spoilertv)
• But tomatoes are a fruit! (s10e09, s10e10)
• Fangs for the memories (s10e08)
• All the puppets dance (s10e06, s10e07)
• Free to be you and me (s10e04, s10e05)
• Queerly or not at all (s10e02, s10e03)
• Supernatural s10 - the big love triangle? (s10e01)

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Supernatural s11 reviews

• …and God divided the light from the darkness (11x01, 11x02)
• Workin’ on mysteries without any clues (11x03, 11x04)
• The toys are back in town! (11x05, 11x06)
• Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination (11x07, 11x08)
• I am a man of constant sorrow (11x09, 11x10)
• When the light gets into your heart (11x11, 11x12)
• Because my life, because my joys, today, they start with you (11x13, 11x14)
• Playtime in Brazil! (11x15) and an addendum about the music
• I’m too old for this shit (11x16)
• a low-cost, nutritious, and great-tasting dinosaur food (11x17, 11x18)
• Spanish Fly "gone bad" (11x19) and a follow-up post about Sam
• I may not always love you (11x20) and a follow-up speculation about Deanna Winchester's origins
• heroes in a half (s)hell (11x21)
• O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention (11x22)
• Don't let the sun catch you crying (11x23)

Supernatural meta

• The Winchesters of Hazzard (about Daisy Duke compared to Castiel)
• Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. (Looking back at the themes in the story arc that began in s8 and seems to be climaxing in s11)
• the tension of the hook (about my response to queerbaiting in s11)
• Some thoughts on "lightbringers" in s11 (an addendum to dustydreamsanddirtyscars's post)
• Unpacking the ethics of queerbaiting
• A response to the Ellen Show comment
• A response to a post about Destiel shipping
• The Carver Arc: For Love is Strong as Death (a review of the major themes in seasons 8-11)
• Will Destiel ever go canon?
• Oh no! A speculation about Sam
• About Sam negativity and queerness in Supernatural
• the things they carried – thinking about fandom baggage
• The Puppy Episode – this is actually more about Ellen’s coming out episode than Supernatural, but it fits better here than under "Other" below.
• Why I like looking at character flaws
• Want, need and (un)conditional love, and more on want and need
• Protagonist centered morality
• Speculation about the s11 finale
• game-changer
• holding on (and letting go), a conversation with awed-frog
• Destiel as a "story bomb"
• your eyes are full of language
• My stars shine darkly over me, a breakdown of the car scene in 11x23
• Fridged to unfridged (about Mary)
• On Castiel not speaking to Chuck in the s11 finale
• Saving people, hunting things. The family business. Or, how Dean and Sam are monsters.
• a discussion of the s11 cemetery scene.

Fandom

• dealing with textual betrayal
• Fannish entitlement redux
• Homophobes in SPN fandom
• activism in the eye of the beholder
• fandom millefiori

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Supernatural s12 reviews

• The Ministry of Information vs Wayward Sons Carrying On (12x01)
• My, my, how can I resist you? (12x02) and follow-up about Bohemian Raphsody
• So what am I so afraid of? (I think I love you) (12x03)
• I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy Down in my heart (Where?) (12x04) and a follow-up about the codependency and about Dean’s self-flagellation and issues with space
• There can be only one! (12x05), and a follow-up conversation with elizabethrobertajones on Freud vs  Schwartz.
• They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes (12x06)
• Presenting the Immaculate Heart Reunion Tour (12x07)
• I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. ~Alan Rickman (12x08, 12x09)
• When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men (12x10)
• in re (12x11)
• Making the most of teachable moments (12x12) and an added thought, In-and-out-laws
• Don’t fuck with the branches on my family tree (12x13)
• To Protect and to Serve (12x14) and some more thoughts
• Hiding in the shadow of love (12x15) and some further thoughts in response to @elizabethrobertajones‘ meta.
• You’re living in the past, it’s a new generation (12x16)
• I’m still the same old me, that’s all I’ll ever be (12x17 and 12x18)
• We called her the woman who did not care (12x19, 12x20)
• We were never welcome here (12x21, 12x22, 12x23)

Supernatural [s12] meta

• The importance of sunshine
• Trinity - about how Jesus might be figured in the text via trinities.
• The possibility of surprise!kids in s12
• A recommendation to watch Supernatural, with several caveats (written as of 12x12), and a break-down of key episodes.
• The everyday remix artist - a note about Dean’s mix-tape
• positive engagement / critical engagement / bashing (venting about anti-tags)
• The absence of women in Supernatural
• its all a matter of heart (speculation about the season 12 finale), and some thoughts on consent

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Supernatural Season 13

• I never opened myself this way (13x01 and 13x02)
• You say you’ve only got one life to live (13x03, 13x04, 13x05)
• Let me tell you people that I found a new way (13x06, 13x07, 13x08)
• Alive and burning brighter (13x09, 13x10)
• It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation (13x11, 13x12)

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