DEAN SHAKING A DEAD SAM LIKE A KID TRYING TO WAKE UP HIS PARENTS AND SAYING SAMMY SO SOFTLY AND LIKE

I don't know if this is an unpopular or rare perspective on Jack, and I'm a huge over-analyzer, but I think that he purposefully makes himself more naive as a way of making himself likeable/less intimidating.

Like at first he's genuinely new to everything and doesn't understand what's going on, but I think he starts "masking" fairly early as he notices people react well to certain things and react poorly to others.

An example that stands out to me is his expression and the way he holds himself.

At the start, he has a "scary" expression reminiscent of the Kubrick stare. His head is tilted down, chin in, and eyes furrowed. It seems to be his default state, as he reverts to it when he's overwhelmed or just focused strongly on something else, like when he uses his powers.

However, at the police station he ends up getting his first positive feedback (lack of fear/nervous response) from his body language

Being down on the ground, he looks up at the officer and ends up with his head tilted up and his eyes unfurrowed. With his mouth full his expression also changes compared to how slack his face was before.

Then when he wakes up in the cell with Sam, he's back to his normal expression and angry about Sam tazing him, and Sam apologizes and explains why.

What's interesting to me is what Jack does next -

He sits crosslegged like he did earlier, despite being on a bench, and apologizes back. Because he just learned from Sam that if you hurt someone and regret it and want them to forgive you, you apologize and explain why it happened.

And he gets into the last pose that worked for him - legs crossed and tilting his head up, because it makes him look less threatening. And it works, it relieves some of Sam's obvious fear.

(part 1)

dean walks into the war room one day to see what seems like jack and cas glitching in and out of the bunker while they point to different parts of the map table and dean is like guys what the fuck and cas is like i'm showing sam and jack my favorite points in world history and dean is like uhhh i don't see sam??? and jack is like oh yeah we left him at the petersen house in 1865 he really wanted to watch a play there for some reason and dean on a verge of a heart attack turns to cas like you took sam on a field trip to watch lincoln get assassinated???? and cas just deadpans no i left him there he wanted to take pictures

trying to explain that there has never been a single instance in the show to indicate that jack is intended to be a child/toddler/baby in any way and that all canon actually makes it pretty clear he’s supposed to be a teenager/young adult is like trying to explain that the cheese is under the sauce in a Chicago style pizza

(trying to explain babyjack in the destiel language so they can understand what I’m saying)

so you see it’s like if dean’s one-off improvised “baby in a trench coat” comment to cas in 6x19 got taken far too literally and everyone decided that either Cas or the show would be better off as an actual baby in a trench coat being babysat by Sam and Dean instead of being a former angel of the lord and later member of team free will. so they completely ignore his actual character and relationship dynamics to keep the baby thing going, make it almost entirely impossible to enjoy or engage with any content about him because it’s all nothing but the same baby-Cas being babysat drivel and there’s no sign of nuanced discussion to be seen.

maybe it gets switched up with Bobby as the babysitting uncle instead of Sam and Dean but that’s as different as it’ll ever get. eventually trench baby Cas gets so over-saturated within the fandom that it becomes regarded and touted as the show’s own gospel truth instead of the silly fandom joke it started as. destiel is of course completely nonexistent, because Cas is a baby and dean is his babysitter-dad and that’s weird, right?

but if you try to say “hey no, that’s actually a grown ass gay man who loves dean romantically and he’s an equal part of the family, this baby stuff was never real and the canon textual evidence actually shows he’s a grown ass gay man who loves dean,” you’ll get thrown in the corner with a shame collar because everyone is still so insistent that their baby-being-babysat dynamic is the real textual deal. mmkay?

this is a very out of the blue post for me to make, but thirteen hours ago numerous A-list celebrities wrote and signed a thank-you letter to Biden for supporting Israel and lent him their own support as well. if you at any point supported or “stanned” any of these celebrities, now is the time to bring it to a full stop. no matter how much this letter or these celebrities or anyone else wants to pretend that a blatant genocide is a “both sided” conflict, it fucking isn’t, and their vocalized complicity should not be heralded or followed in, and any continued support of them is frankly disgusting. Free Palestine.

Fan art I drew of Ghostface dying in a glue trap

he walked into set with sex hair, a knock-off constantine cosplay, the most perplexing vocal choices of all time and the most intense homoerotic stare to ever be levelled at another man

hey yall! this was my jack piece for the hunting & haunting spn zine. ive said it before and ill say it again: it was an absolute honor and privilege to work with these lovely and talented people. hope yall enjoy!

Cain my beloved, Sam knowing serial killer stats is also pretty cool and fits his character

obviously dean digging himself out of his own grave is the cold open of the century but I maintain that there’s a version of Lazarus rising which exclusively follows a nameless and increasingly frightening tax accountant looking mf who gets a couple of talking tos from his boss about “the mission” and “what he has to do” while intermittently suffering disturbing visions about a woman named anna who keeps saying you have to REMEMBER, try and remember and he’s like remember what remember what??? and it culminates in a featureless room where he stands before a mangled body and begins pressing his hands methodically into the flesh, like a potter. and we see that he’s healing it. increasingly loving, this act of healing. somehow passionate. somehow artful and unstoppable. he gets to a cluster of old scars on the shoulder and overcome presses too hard and it hurts, it BURNS, it sears them both. when he finally jerks his hand away, his handprint is branded into the skin and his own palm is raw and bloody, the first layer of skin brutalized. he reaches down again, closes his hand around the brand he just left. fascinated. unable to stop himself. and THEN dean seizes to life in his coffin