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SamJess and/or DeanJo for the send a ship thing.

SamJess

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter:
Sam is a werewolf and Jess is a hunter. He’s never killed a person but he believes he’s terrible and dangerous. She doesn’t but that at all.
who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman:
Jess is the mermaid and Sam’s the fisherman. (I love a classic.)
who’s the witch and who’s the familiar:
Jess is a witch. Sam is her really, really big familiar. (Not a moose but like, maybe a retriever.) 
who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict: 
Sam is a barista. Jess is a college student who’s trying really hard to keep her eyes open in the morning. 
who’s the professor and who’s the TA: 
Sam is Jess’s TA. It’s totally inappropriate that they have a relationship, but as long as no one finds out it’s fine (and that’s also half the fun).
who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss)
Again, because I love a classic, Jess is the princess and Sam’s the knight. 
who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent:
Sam is a single dad and Jess is his son’s teacher. He’s cute and flustered around her when they have parent-teacher conferences. She might call him to tell him about how well Adam is doing in class a little more than she calls other parents. 
who’s the writer and who’s the editor:
Jess is the writer and Sam is the editor. 

DeanJo

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter: 
Jo is totally a feisty werewolf. Dean doesn’t know until they’re hunting together on a full moon but he knows her and he won’t hurt her. 
who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman:
Dean’s a mermaid and Jess is a fisherwoman. She tried to haul him out of the water when she saw him the first time because she thought he was drowning. 
who’s the witch and who’s the familiar:
Witch!Jo and Familiar!Dean all the way. 
who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict:
Jo is the barista who draws patterns into Dean’s cappuccino. He didn’t get she was flirting with him until she somehow managed to write “Do you like me or what?” in his foam. 
who’s the professor and who’s the TA:
 Professor!Dean and TA!Jo. 
who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss):
Dean is a prince and Jo is a knight who pretended to be a guy in order to become a knight. She’s so good she’s assigned to guard the prince. 
who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent:
Again, single dad!Dean and teacher!Jo who Dean is very smitten with. 
who’s the writer and who’s the editor:
Jo is a brutal editor but she’s the best in the business and Dean needs her. Boy, does he need her. 

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dean/benny :)

🙂 

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter:
Let’s go with Dean as a nearly starving werewolf who’s been separated from his pack and Benny as a hunter (but still vampire) who calms Dean down and keeps him from going feral. 
who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman:
Be still my heart! Mermaid!Dean and fisherman!Benny. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. 
who’s the witch and who’s the familiar:
Witch!Dean and Familiar!Benny. (He’s a massive Saint Bernard) 
who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict: 
Dean’s a coffee addict. Benny owns the resturant Dean likes to get his coffee from. And his pastry. And sometimes lunch. 
who’s the professor and who’s the TA:
Professor Benny teaches history. Some of them are very odd, but Dean’s his TA so he’s learned a lot about pirates and can kinda speak a little Gaelic now. 
who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss):
Come on. Dean’s always the prince. Benny is his loyal knight who would follow him to the end of the earth. 
who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent:
Benny’s a single dad just trying to provide a good life fo his little girl. Dean’s her teacher and she thinks they would be really good boyfriends. (Benny’s kid has probably seen one too many romantic comedies.)
who’s the writer and who’s the editor:
Dean writes. Benny tears his hair out edits. (Dean, you don’t need to write twelve pages of dialogue.) 

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Wincestiel & CasJimmy

Wincestiel 

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter: 
It’s always tempting to say Cas is the werewolf, but I’m gonna god with Sam and Dean as werewolves and Cas as a hunter. He was sure they were gonna eat him. (Technically he wasn’t wrong 😉 )
who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman:
Cas is the mermaid. Sam and Dean are poor marooned fishermen saved by some mysterious sea spirit. 
who’s the witch and who’s the familiar:
Sam and Cas are both witches. Dean’s Sam’s familiar until something really odd happens and he’s determined they both have to meet the devastatingly handsome new witch who just joined their town’s witch’s council. And a familiar’s senses are never wrong. 
who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict:
Sam is the barista. Dean liked to come bug him and Cas is the coffee addict. Cas is cute when he’s grumpy and Dean and Sam compete to see who gets to ask him out first. (Cas beats them both to it.)
who’s the professor and who’s the TA:
Cas is a professor but so is Dean. Sam’s Cas’s TA because he wasn’t allowed to be Dean’s. (nepotism or something) But they all hang out and geek it up. Cas feels bad about having inappropriate thoughts about his coworker and TA.
who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss): 
Cas is the prince. Dean and Sam are his loyal knights. 
who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent: 
Dean is the single parent and Sam and Cas are both teachers. Cas didn’t know they were related at first, so when he asked where Emma’s other dad was (meaning Sam) Dean’s eyes shot open. Emma thought it was funny.
who’s the writer and who’s the editor:
This one’s hard. *pout* Uh? Dean’s the writer, Sam is the editor and Cas is an artist.

Cas/Jimmy

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter:
They were both hunters until Jimmy got bitten. He wanted Cas to leave him in case he got out of control but Cas isn’t gonna do that. 
who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman:
Jimmy is a siren (not a mermaid, Cas, seriously!) and Cas is a fisherman.
who’s the witch and who’s the familiar:
Cas is the witch. Jimmy is his feline familiar.
who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict:
Cas doesn’t function without coffee. He says that’s the reason he’s always in Jimmy’s coffee shop, but they both know better. 
who’s the professor and who’s the TA:
Cas is the professor, Jimmy is his TA because it took him a while to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. 
who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss): 
They’re both technically princes but Cas is a better fighter than any of their knights. 
who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent:
I’m a sucker for single!dad Jimmy. Cas is, obviously, the teacher. 
who’s the writer and who’s the editor:
Jimmy is the scatterbrained writer and Cas is his editor/moral support. 

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If it makes you feel any better, I don’t believe Cas is going to stay dead. In a show that routinely features death, death is not shocking or interesting. Unless… They go after someone you don’t expect. Dabb wanted to get this emotion out of us. But I don’t think he’s going to leave us in misery. That would not be very satisfying storytelling. I can’t say I have the same faith for Crowley, Eileen, or Rowena. But I’m confident we’ll see Cas again.

I appreciate your optimism, anon. I can definitely see where you’re coming from, but I think it was so shocking for me that I almost don’t know if I can think positively about it. We’ve seen Cas die, but we’ve never seen him spark out like that and it was just so sudden and different that it threw me. 

That’s not to say that if anyone wants to think positively they shouldn’t. By all means, if that’s what you feel is gonna happen I can’t take that away from you. I won’t take that from you.

I will say my issue with it has a lot to do with the fact that I don’t have the faith in the spn writers that I used to. I was very optimistic about the season when it started. I was excited to see which routes they were going to take with the characters and I was left unsatisfied. I was expecting more about the family dynamic and interpersonal conflicts, considering the statement about “smaller stories”. 

I’ve been going back and forth on this since it happened. On one hand, anything is possible (death is meaningless on spn) and we could see him again next season. Cas is a very popular character and he’s deeply loved by many people. On the other, I’ve been burned so many times and this season was just so full of death that I’m a little numb and disheartened. And I personally feel that pulling this kind of heartache out of your audience isn’t a thing a showrunner should want. There are a thousand things worse and more interesting than death so it just feels cheap. 

I’ll remain agnostic for now, but it still feels like a brick to the face. 

You aren’t being a baby or overdramatic at all. Emotions and feelings are real and they sometimes hurt, no matter what caused the hurt – fiction or reality, the emotion is still the same. You have a right to feel what you need to feel. *hugs* I’m sorry you’re hurting though, regardless, and I do hope you feel better soon.

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Thank you, Dean. 

I’ll be honest, it kinda feels like the cherry on top of the shit sundae. I’ll be better with time, it’s just… not what I was expecting at all. I’ve had a rough… three years or so? I don’t even remember at this point. It’s a long ass story and fiction (particularly spn) has been something I could consistently look forward to. 

It feels like losing a friend. Losing a lot of friends, really. I knew at least one of the characters was doomed and I had a feeling another would bite it too, but like… all of them? All of the recurring cast (save for Jody, Donna, and the girls) bites it or gets trapped? That’s what we get? It feels so bad, especially considering the way the season began. 

@wanderingcas and I were talking and she thinks the reason Cas’s death, in particular, is so hard to swallow is because we’ve spent so much time in his head. I’ve written probably 50k through his eyes in the past year. I know him. He’s a part of me in some ways, because all writers put parts of their soul into their writing and I definitely put myself into him. 

It sucks, you know? 

I’ll just let myself feel it I suppose. I need to work on actually letting myself process anger and pain so I guess this is as good an opportunity as any. 

16 and 22?

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
Just one thing? lol. Obviously, I’d stop the fridging of minor characters for no good reason. Look, I totally get that sometimes characters die and for good reason. Jo and Ellen died a hero’s death worthy of their characters if you ask me. Bobby’s death was impactful (he got a whole damn episode to die). Even Benny’s death, I can forgive, because you could kinda tell that he was feeling lost and alone and his death proved that he’d been good all along (I swear I thought he was going to be Dean’s Ruby). But there are other deaths I can’t forgive or look past (Billie, Charlie, Eileen, Bela, etc etc). I get that characters die and that’s fine, but what bugs me is the way they die. They’re pawns and I hate that. It wouldn’t kill the show to just have these characters live a life separate from the Winchesters only to show up every once in a while, and if the show didn’t have a history of killing off all of Sam, Dean, and Cas’s friends for no good reason (plot w/out deep impact is not a good reason) I’d probably handle it better, but it frustrates me to no end is that it happens so often. If you don’t know what to do with a character you can just make something up and leave them alone. (Like, you know, how Claire and Alex went to a Radiohead concert so they weren’t in an ep. See how easy that is spn? Wow.) 
Here’s a hint, show, having a cast of recurring characters isn’t a bad thing. You can add to the world and make the show more fun the more characters you have. Wow. 
22. Popular character you hate?
Gabriel. 
I know! I know! Look, Gabe is fine he’s just not really my favorite. He’s just meh. I get that he’s usually the wild, fun, party guy in fics and that’s totally fine but I’m just not a fan. I don’t really care for him. 

Thanks! 

Salty Asks!

8, 10, 27?

8. Have you received anon hate? What about?
Nope. I’ve never gotten anon hate. I’ve gotten in arguments with people who didn’t hide behind anon calling me an idiot for saying things like “spn is about family, not just Sam and Dean and without side characters the show would die because it would be boring” but I’ve never gotten anon hate. I don’t want it either, but I’m sure one of these days someone’s gonna tell me to go fuck myself for no good reason.
10. Most disliked arc? Why?
Whatever the fuck season six was. I know the Amara arc or the MoC arc is most people’s least favorite but I don’t mind those as much. I wish they were different but nothing compares to whatever the fuck season six was. Soulless!Sam was fun, I’ll give it that, but like…monster wars? Why? That plot line was dropped out of nowhere. A second apocalypse exactly like the first but forgetting all the rules of the first? Cas, an angel who gained free will only to become a megalomaniac? No thanks, I’ll pass. 
27. Least shippable character?
Metatron. Ugh. I can’t stand Metatron. I mean, I ship him with Becky, but that’s just because I can’t stand either of them and I want them to suffer. lol
But yeah, Metatron reminds me of some dudes in creative writing I knew and it drives me nuts. (I love Curtis Armstrong though, he’s a cool dude.) But Metatron. No. 

Thanks!

Salty Asks!

7. On salty asks…

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?
Meta. (This is gonna get me some shit, I know it.) 
I really used to enjoy meta, and to some extent I still do, but I feel like the meta I like now discusses previous seasons and character development over time. I used to enjoy meta that was speculative, things that discussed what might happen and why, but these days that kind of thing irritates me to no end. Like, it’s one thing to speculate and talk about what you want to happen, that’s totally fine, but I feel like spn has let me down a few too many times in terms of me being able to see a cool plot that could come out of the stuff they’ve laid out only to lose their minds and pull something out of their asses last minute and not follow through with something that would’ve made more sense with the story threads. 
Not only that, but spec meta is usually pretty ship focused and I’ve read the phrase “ship what you want but I don’t see it” way too many times. Like, sure, it’s okay that you don’t see it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there *cough cough* gothic themes of seasons 1&2 leading to an interpretation of a certain ship *cough cough*. 
I don’t have anything against people who write and enjoy meta, that’s fine. We all engage with fandom in our own ways and if it make you happy and you’re not being a dick, have fun with it. I’ve just fallen out of love with it. I’d rather discuss themes of family sins in early season or hints of mental illness in characters than speculation. That’s just me though. Everyone is allowed to enjoy the show as they will. 

Thanks!

Salty Asks!

For the Salty Asks: 14, 19, and 23?

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
I’m not sure what passes as “unpopular” these days. I mean, I see a lot of people saying things like “spn isn’t a family if we’re willing to attack each other for dumb things” and “spn is full of ““”problematic””” people” and like, yeah, those are fair criticisms. (Everyone can be “”problematic””.) But I think we’re kind of the norm. Like, I’ve been poking around the Star Wars TFA fandom for a few weeks and there is literally nothing different in that fandom. Like, people are sending threats and hate over people who ship Rey and Kylo calling those shippers abusers and pedos and all kinds of shit (Kylo and Rey are both adults??? what????) and saying that no one can ship it because Rey and Kylo might be cousins and I’m like…… this is Star Wars…. Luke and Leia kissed. On screen. We were supposed to ship that until suddenly we weren’t. What????
But yeah, I do think the SPN fandom is pretty much the same as any other fandom. It’s not especially bad or toxic. It’s just another fandom. And of course, your enjoyment is dependent on who you follow, engage with, and what you do. 
19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
Fights about “canon”. Like, obviously I hate sending hate and threats, that goes without saying, but the thing I think drives me nuts is the insistence some people have that their interpretations of “canon” are the only valid interpretations. Like, the lit nerd in me just wants to bust out a lecture on literary theory and interpretation. “Canon” is what we see on screen. What it means is 100% up to us, especially because spn is such a post-modern, meta show. I can believe that Dean loves musicals based on his love of chick-flicks and whatever else, and someone else can say that he only likes Fiddler based on something he said. We can both be right. That’s the cool thing about literary interpretation. Everyone is right and no one is right. End of story. 
23. Unpopular character you love?

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Yeah. I love a good bad guy. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he’s the most interesting adversary since season 5 Lucifer. (Lbr, Abaddon was fun but there was nothing but a desire for power and destruction there. Metatron was annoying. Naomi wasn’t explored enough.) I know why people don’t like him, and that’s totally justified, but he’s my favorite non-TFW member. He’s dark but I do think there’s a bit of complexity there and I’d love to know his backstory.

Thanks! 

Salty Asks!