I get your righteousness about Dean, I do. He deserves better. (Hell everyone in SPN does.) With complicated characters with a diverse fandom, I get that you’re defensive & protective of Dean & that you might carry anger over Sam’s actions. I’m sure that’s how some Sam fans feel too. But to blatantly hate a nuanced character, a good guy, blaming Sam for almost all that’s wrong in Dean’s life when both brothers have a tendency to bring down & build each other up seems excessive. Thoughts? No hate

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Who exactly is blaming Sam for everything wrong in Dean’s life?? I blame Sam for his part sure, but not for anything he didn’t actually do.

To clarify, it’s how Sam acts, what he says, what he does; it’s his attitude and behaviors that earn him anger, annoyance, and complaints from some fans (which is not the same as hatred. Criticism? yes, it earns him a lot of that). And one thing that exacerbates the situation is the fact that the narrative pushes the audience to look at these behavior patterns and attitudes and conclude that Sam is “the good guy” just because he’s the protagonist. It’s frustrating to be force fed a lie. They could have written a good character instead, or addressed Sam’s bad behavior and had him grow/learn, but they didn’t. They wrote him as a chaotic, manipulative, and poorly behaved character, and rather than exploring that honestly, they TOLD us “he’s good b/c we said so” while he continued to behave badly and be deux ex machina’d out of any real consequences it. So…yeah. That pisses some people off.

Who?? Dean stans. That is who. Victim blamers who think Dean is allowed to control, manipulate and abuse whoever he likes.

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Is that so?? Well, I follow quite a few Dean fans and I’ve never seen it so, I’ll just have to take your Sam stan word for it then..

But I’d be really interested to see you explain exactly how Dean controls Sam, because from where I’m sitting, Lucifer being unleashed from his cage, twice, the darkness being unleashed, the fiasco with the BMOL, and about 60% of the unnecessary deaths wouldn’t have happened if Dean had ANY ability to control Sam’s behavior. Sam does what he wants no matter who it harms, and victim blaming Dean, like Sam tends to do, won’t change the reality that Sam is the one that is manipulative, abusive, and ultimately destructive.

True facts.