Jenn. I don’t know why I’m still here. *In an effort to keep my dash manageable, I do not follow tumblrs that don't use tags. Use tags! They are handy and make the world a nicer place!*
jp fans keep calling ja backstabber but, considering everything we know about ja great personality, I believe it was jp who broke the trust between them first. The jokes about jared's show (2 times already in panels with ms) make me think that jp really made use of his position as first on the call sheet. I think that ja didn't told him about the prequel because jp was disinterested on anything spn, but his ego got hurt and the hell broke loose LOL
I’m a firm believer in the idea that the reason most jokes are funny is because there is at least a kernel of truth to them.
Which is to say that I 100% think Jensen and Mark were just trying (and succeeding!) to be funny when they talked about “The Jared Padalecki Show.” But I also think you are probably on to something about the whole “First on the call sheet” thing.
I’ve long believed that Jensen would have told Jared about The Winchesters, even when it was just an idea bouncing around his brain, if he felt he could trust him. I don’t think it was some conspiracy to keep Jared away from something that could be profitable and popular; I think it was Jensen not wanting to handcuff himself to Jared again. And there has to be a reason for that, which JP fans don’t want to admit to.
It always comes back to that virtual CE panel where JP said “and I didn’t see all of the question but i think it was ‘will Jared be in it [the CMP Supernatural Project] and the answer is YES.” And Jensen’s face.
There was a pattern of coercion and entrapment between JP and JA that once you see it you can’t unsee it. That Walker was pitched as a JA vehicle without him knowing. The constant pressure in interviews to have JA guest or direct on Walker. When he DID come direct on Walker, two roles heavily implied to be for him being open. And in the middle of all that, JP doing whatever THAT was with CMP’s future projects.
I think that JP wasn’t looped in because of all that nonsense. I have a theory that JP had an idea for a follow on series that they had discussed, and he was mad that the pitch that got sold wasn’t what they discussed thus the tantrum. But we’ll probably never know.
And that’s why Jensen made such an effort to get away from the J2 branding if not supernatural. Because the other half of it made it toxic.
fwiw I think they worked it out earlier this year and everyone is full steam ahead on the limited series revival. But the j2 divorce was inevitable, that entire situation was toxic in hindsight
Love seeing my name in this font 🥲 The first episode I directed this season is out! I’ll wait a few days to avoid spoilers, and then hopefully I’ll find time to gush about my team and how amazing they did. Catch episode 1 and 2 of Lower Decks S4 on Paramount plus!!
This is how i find out the account i followed for the Hamilton storyboards like six years ago directed one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek
egyptian singer amira selim sings ancient egyptian verses at the pharaoh’s golden parade, in which the mummies of egypt’s ancient royalty were transported to their new home. 3rd April 2021.
From the video:“To understand the concept of the universal mind we must distinguish the Western conception of mind from the eastern (…) in the East, mind is a cosmic factor, the very essence of existence; everything in the universe is the extension of the cosmic universal mind. (…) the universal mind has 3 components, [one being] sambhogakaya [which] roughly translates to ‘subtle body of limitless form’. To use Jung’s words the sambhogakaya is the matrix of all archetypes or structural patterns; (…) gives birth to the universe and sets its parameters.”
The focus of the video is on the chikhai bardo:the first of the three intermediate states that the consciousness experiences (…) has crucial importance because the consciousness at this point is free of all the basic constituents of its physical and metal forms and (…) if the consciousness listens carefully to the lama’s guidelines, describing the true nature of the consciousness’ inner radiant truth, then liberation can be attained immediately.
The thing that knocks me out is how antis sscream and wail and throw spaghetti at the wall trying to “disprove” so much of SPN meta and especially TW, but really, it’s all very textbook. Like, they’re really throwing tantrums because they don’t understand, don’t want to understand, and don’t care if it means something else. They just need to “be right” without really applying any thought besides hating on something so COMPLETELY that that will somehow make it true.
SPN fandom is slowly realizing I was not just emptily insulting when I said that this fandom not only is anti-intellectual, but rewards and entertains illiteracy above adult media consumption, and its dialogue has been fundamentally corrupted around misunderstanding of How Canon Functions outside of any specific fictional universe.
Catching up British-time, so a bit late to the party as usual, and coming to it fresh, as I like to do, without jumping into the time-line first.
Screeches a bit because I am overwhelmed.
This episode suggests that, on one level, we can read every character in The Winchesters as manifestations of Dean’s consciousness, as he hovers in the “bardo”, the liminal realm in Tibetan Buddhism, between death and reincarnation.
Mary - the leader and hunter who wants to get out of hunting; John - filled with wounded rage, Daddy-issues and violence; Carlos - the fabulous bisexual who dares to get into therapy and to go after the men he wants; Lata - the abused child who manages to chose love over violence - ALL OF THESE ARE ASPECTS OF DEAN WINCHESTER’S being, his experience/ soul/ desires <sobs a little because it’s beautiful>.
Now I’m back on my meta, I’ve previously mused on The Winchesters as a reparative narrative told by Holy Ghost Dean Winchester; a counter-point to the traumatic narrative of Supernatural.
1x06 The Art of Dying offers further illumination and elaboration on that concept, namely:
The episode title, “The Art of Dying” is a George Harrison song, the right time-period for The Winchesters (1970), from his album All Things Must Pass.
The Beatles, in keeping with the hippie counterculturalism of the time, were interested in Eastern spirituality, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism, and this Harrison song was inspired by his reading of Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964).
Harrison’s lyrics are about the religious philosophy of perfecting the soul through cycles of reincarnation:
“There’ll come a time when all of us must leave here There’s nothing Sister Mary can do, will keep me here with you As nothing in this life that I’ve been trying Can equal or surpass the Art of Dying….
There’ll come a time when most of us return here Brought back by our desire to be a perfect entity Living through a million years of crying Until you realize the Art of Dying
“
A theme which fits well with the Ouroboros (serpent swallowing it’s own tail as it ascends) narrative of latter-day Supernatural, which drew on Jung and esoteric alchemy to manifest the Winchesters’ journey as the journey of the soul towards God.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the Bardo Thodol, which means “liberation through hearing in the intermediate state”. It is a 14thC esoteric text (or possibly older but that’s when the written text we have dates from).
John, Mary, Lata and Losy all struggle with pain, parent-induced and violence-induced and hunting-induced trauma, but they are able to communicate their feelings to one another in a way which is strikingly and remarkably different from the enormous struggles with emotional articulation which animated Supernatural, which we watchedDean suffer with throught his life.
So we can read The Winchesters as Dean’s revelatory hallucinations in the liminal state between death and liberation (or rebirth) - his revelatory sexual and emotional healing soul-dreams (in which, and what could be more Freudian, he returns to the scene of his parents).
And look, Lata is teaching John, who surived being possessed by the vengeful spirit of abused-as-a-child and violently out-of-control Mac, how to meditate and achieve higher consciousness (with an image of a globe in the background):
And isn’t it interesting that the rare type of vampire which Mac’s vengeful spirit first possesses is called a “soucouyant”, which means (incongrously, one would think) “carefree” in French. But not so incongruous if The Winchesters is about the journey of Dean’s soul to liberation, to bliss, to being “carefree”…
I swear god as my witness I’ve been scrolling by that Teen Wolf ad all day thinking it was Sterek fanart and you want me to believe that is supposed to be Derek’s son that he had with literally anyone other than Stiles WHAT IS THIS
“but al what if you clown too close to the sun” I lived through watching the spn finale live and I would do it again a million times because we were right about destiel all along and we can only keep winning from here. you think that low point can deter me??? you think these clown shoes get put away????? no. the fact that I even still call it “clowning” is a joke in itself because fellas is it clown behavior to believe in objective facts like (checks notes) destiel being canon? like… there’s people on Reddit denying Cas’ confession was even romantic at all, let alone Dean’s side of it. THOSE are the true clowns here. hellers with faith in jackles? we’re just vibing we’re just having the time of our lives!! we’re just lovingly engaging with the media jensen ackles is choosing to produce! we have video proof of this man saying he enjoys us dissecting the scripts and the characters and people think it’s not that deep?
if believing in Canon Destiel (Again) in 2023 is for clowns, then hand me the big red nose!! honk honk motherfuckers!!!!!
Jensen is about to shove the entire fandom in an actual circus tent and people will still be denying reality.
the influx of pornbots is so funny. we’re out in our little paddleboat like “oh the rats are swarming again. auspices for the new year.” and in the background the S.S. Twitter is floating past upside down.
crying and sobbing as i use my oar to push all these beautiful sirens back into the water, for i know that they deceive.
