Endless Dean Winchester - 45/∞

“I still have a lot of fight left in me.”

Dean Winchester in SUPERNATURAL 1.19 "Provenance"

Oh. Hello, Dean.

It is not just forever, it is also forever growing. If your coffee shop shuts down, it failed. If it runs with a steady standard flow, it's a modest success and cute. Only if you expand to become a chain, it is considered a success. This "growth" model of finance and society is just crazy.

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

I think the question was about what could be done if SPN has less standards and practices.

Dean doing sex work, Dean starving etc is key to hellers background on hating John. They hate John so much that they forget that all that is not there in canon at all. And while canon says that Dean knows what it is to be hungry, and did steal food, if they regularly starved, do you think they would have the builds that they do?

Con tip - please don't ask Jensen stupid questions about Dean. As you can see he hates anything that goes against the canon representation of him. That kind of shit belongs in fanfiction.

And why TF would something like that even be in a reboot when it was never even on the show?

this is why dean was offering his eternal soul at every possible opportunity

2019-2022 (my Supernatural era)

TW: Blood

Jared’s smile for the masses.

Jensen Ackles in Dawson's Creek