her-roses-never-fall:

dorkilysoulless:

her-roses-never-fall:

luxshine:

auntjj:

juppschmitz:

“SAM FUCKING WINCHESTER stepping up and basically facilitating the
salvation of the world when everyone else was literally ready to drink
themselves stupid and watch it end.” (x)

By suggesting they do what Dean has been saying all along. It is NO THANKS to Sam whatsoever that Dean (of course) couldn’t go through with killing Amara, but saving Sam’s fabulous God (whom Dean doesn’t even like all that much) and the whole bloody world instead.

Of course, one could also say that he “facilitated” the salvation of the world by ~condemning it first when he released Amara. Because, of course, without Sam making the others do the spell, the world wouldn’t have needed “salvation”.

If Sam hadn’t rallied them, they would have all sat around waiting for the end of the world.

If Dean hadn’t taken the MOC with absolutely no idea of the consequences, Sam wouldn’t have had to save him, would he?

If Sam had LISTENED to people about the MoC (in particular to Death, but hey, who cares what Death had to say. Not Sam) then he would’ve realized that his “solution” was not a good one and could have searched for a different way to save his brother.

HEll, if Sam had been a bit less self-centered and put his issues with Dean aside (As Dean has been doing since the first time Sam pulled the trigger on him way back in season 1) and helped to catch Abbadon, Dean wouldn’t have needed to get the MoC.

Oh, also, it’s funny how after all the problems that hte MoC caused, Sam was so on board to get it. Because hey, if HE gets to be the hero, who cares about the rest.

“If Dean hadn’t taken the MOC with absolutely no idea of the consequences, Sam wouldn’t have had to save him, would he?”

And that’s Dean’s fault how exactly? 

Dean was under the impression that The Mark of Cain worked in tandem with The First Blade and that he could use it to kill Abbadon. That’s it. That’s all the information he had. Cain didn’t give Dean any information besides cryptically telling him that The Mark of Cain came at a great cost and burden, which, quite frankly, isn’t telling Dean jack shit. That’s something Dean would have already assumed. Of course the Mark of Cain would come with a great burden, It’s the fucking Mark of Cain.

Even still, Dean didn’t have the time to think it over before making his choice to take on The Mark because no time existed. They were surrounded by Abaddon’s goons and Cain made it abundantly clear that he was going to peace the fuck out. Dean had the choice of either taking on the Mark right then and there or he’d never be able to take it.

Also, literally no one apart from Death knew what the Mark of Cain really was. That it was a lock on The Darkness and removing The Mark  would unleash it. No one. How the fuck is Dean responsible for that? He’s not.

However, when Dean did figure out that toying around with the Mark would cause something horrible to happen, he willingly accepted the burden of carrying it. He called it, “his cross to bear.” Which, by the way, he said right to Sam’s face.

But Sam went behind Dean’s back, against Dean’s soundly expressed and bluntly put wishes, against even the warnings Dean had given that nothing good would come from getting rid of the Mark and chose to get rid of it anyway.

Sam wouldn’t have needed to rally anyone to anything if he just listened to his brother in the first fucking place.

Or maybe we could stop making this a Sam v. Dean thing, because their whole stock in trade is dealing with/getting caught in the middle of things Above Their Pay Grade, and this is the very definition of above everyone’s pay grade.

This is on Chuck for stuffing his sister in a broom closet for millennia by using his favorite son as lock and key.  It broke Lucifer, it broke Cain (who created the Knights of Hell, including Abaddon), and it broke Dean.  

Sam didn’t break anything by undoing the Mark.  He didn’t know it at the time, but Sam basically lanced a damn boil in the foundations of creation and forced things to a resolution.  Prior to that, Dean carried the Mark for what he thought – and frankly was railroaded into thinking by Crowley, and trained for most of his life by John to think – were good reasons.  

Yeah, there is a moment when the brothers could have avoided the Mark entirely: 8×22.  They reassemble Abaddon to try the blood cure with her instead of, I don’t know, literally any other demon.  That still leaves Cain out there, though, and it’s not like someone else couldn’t have reassembled Abaddon.  I mean, it’s not like a demon loyalist fixes her in 9×02 after that whole holy oil fiasco.  OH WAIT.

TL;DR: Things are still fucked, time bombs are still in play.  

(And do we really think that closing Hell solves everything?  Because…no.  I don’t think closing Hell solves everything.  I think it creates a nasty scenario in which the violent dead are left in the Veil, and then somebody’s going to have to crack Hell back open to sort it out, but there’s one less Winchester in the world to deal with it.)

Dean isn’t always right.  Neither is Sam.  But for all the ways they fuck up under circumstances so bizarre and fraught that anyone would fuck up because there is rarely a clean, simple answer, they try to be good.  Sometimes they’re selfish, sometimes they’re wrong, sometimes they don’t have all the right info.  But they’re trying.  

Somebody give them blankets and some Gatorade.  And a puppy.  And a gold star for Saving The Damn World From Things Bigger Than All Of Us. 

I would absolutely love to be objective. I would love to be able to look at Sam and Dean and say, “They are both flawed human beings who are just trying to make the best of the world of shit that they find themselves in.” I don’t want to take part in fandom tribalism because that does nothing but divide us.

However, since there is a very vocal section of this fandom who is hell bent on painting Dean as this sack of shit who has done literally nothing with his life but destroy the world and crucify Sam at every conceivable turn and is not worthy to untie Sam’s sandals, I have no choice but to defend Dean. 

Since that section of the fandom invades posts that have jack shit do with Sam because they are about nothing other than us airing our grievances about the show’s very obvious neglect of Dean and his story lines, hijacks said posts and makes them instead about how Sam is this selfless martyr who has spent the last eleven years sacrificing himself for Dean’s sins and being Dean’s whipping boy, I have no choice but to defend Dean.

Since that section of the fandom has what I can only assume is collective amnesia when it comes to anything negative Sam has ever done and refuses to even acknowledge that Sam has, in fact, fucked up on occasion, I have no choice but to defend Dean. 

As long as the fandom’s status quo and the show’s status quo is to have a double standard that favors Sam over Dean, I have no choice but to defend Dean.