So, the Reaper Billie was introduced to us singing
nothing satisfies me but your soul
in the same episode we find out that Amara eats souls. I wonder if one of the unintended consequences of Dean killing (old) Death is that we will get desertion in the ranks among the Reapers. Billie seems the most likely candidate to actually be the new Death, but Reapers have always been tricky characters on the show, particularly under Carver. And what would serve Amara better than to have Reapers bring her souls by the bucketload. So, I wonder if Billie is indeed the new Death if she is not going to have to eat her words to Sam and align herself with the Winchesters to keep her Reapers from serving Amara.
And the medieval chunk of the poetry you’re talking about is entirely based around the idea that love ennobles, and so if one loves but is not loved in return, because the woman is married or trapped in a tower or THIRTEEN GODDAMNED YEARS OLD, one is obligated to go out into the world and use that love as a catalyst to do great and good things.
The “friendzone” narrative cannibalizes this, because it replaces the story of Working Your Passion On The World To Make It Better with the story of Working Your Passion On Some Judgemental Cockteasing Bitch Because Something Something My Penis.
somehow i cant imagine a fuckboy sitting down and composing a ghazal
…damnit, don’t make me hope
don’t make me hope to one day see a poem where just over half the lines end in “because something something my penis”
don’t do that to me
what ungrateful bitch has put me in the friend zone? who spurned my love, just as i was in the end zone?
m’lady, i tipped the fedora of my heart your way –
believe me, my love was no pretend zone
i felt euphoric for days, with your attention,
now here i languish, alone, in the condemned zone
That’s it, agoodcartoon is a goddamn poet for the ages.
Forsooth, mine love, why can’t you doth see me? Through the chains of jocks which hast trapped thee?
My fedora displays knowledge and class Unlike yon alpha male’s firm, tonéd ass
My insults will pique your interests with ease Since a true meninist shan’t deign to please
You can’t know what a Nice Guy’s true love is Because friendzone, something, something penis
I will never, ever get the friend zone as a concept. It’s utterly stupid.
ha ha ha ha ha ha!
“My lady, the strings of my heart you’ve been plucking But instead of my junk it’s that hunk that you’re fucking Your heart is as cold as a frozen ice block Because you will not something something my cock”
“I can’t believe you really thought we’d be friends Can’t you see I’ve been nice for ulterior ends The fact that you don’t live to fuck me is sick You’re worthless to me something something my dick”
These are the thoughts of a million douchebags Who deserve to hump nothing but crusty cumrags She’s a goddess, you dolt, she’s a modern day Venus There is more to love than something something your penis.
note: a significant part of this meta is actually spec.
In Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire, Sam made a passionate speech about the need for both Winchesters to change. As has been the topic of fandom meta almost from the moment Carver took over the reigns and deliberately started setting it up, the brothers’ bond as it currently exists will need to be broken and cleansed into a healthier one. Since then the bonds with Crowley and Castiel have been explored as extensively, particularly their links with humanity, for both mainly in the form of Dean. There too, the ties that bound them were unhealthily balanced and in dire need of a redefinition. And by the looks of it, season 11 might finally do this. Breaking the bonds that exist, bonds that have become chains tying people down, looks to be season 11′s emotional and plot arc.
What stood out more than anything for me visually was the sheer number of times we saw people literally bound in chains, and figuratively bound to the Darkness. And while certainly part of this meta should be considered spec, there is little doubt in my mind why we were presented with this sheer volume of chain symbolism representing the unhealthy bonds between characters, and how these chains need to be broken if, like Sam said in the previous episode, they truly want to change.
Firstly, there is Sam, who is most heavily associated with chains this episode. Form and Void begins with him desperately searching for a means to bind one possessed by the Darkness yet bonded to him through what courses through his veins. Symbolically, it isn’t a big leap to see this as a parallel to his and Dean’s predicament.
It was Sam who spent the entirety of last season desperately trying to hold on to his brother. So, when we track through the store with Sam now, we see his hands first clutch wires that he can cut. From bonds that can be broken to those less easily severed but simultaneously are associated with captivity. He discards the first option for heavy duty chains to tie up a rabid whose words are eerily reminiscent of Dean’s in Brother’s Keeper:
Tell us you wouldn’t watch this show. We dare you. [x]
But imagine this as the picture they take on the day they close on their new house, the huge one with like 8 bedrooms that they’re going to fix up and make more suitable to their needs as huntresses.
Well, I started adding a comment on to THIS POST, but I realized I was writing a novel that was only peripherally related to it… So I decided to start a new post rather than totally corrupt that other one. Pffft.
Anyway, this sort of went off on a really broad tangent, so I’m putting it under a cut because nobody probably wants to read my thinky thoughts about the origins of all the energy in the universe, and what happens to monster souls when they die in Purgatory, and God as Scarface. Okay. I should call this my Grand Unification Theory of Supernatural. It’s about 90% crap, but I like it anyway.
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