…slip and SWAG
Nailed it.
More amazing than anything else I’ll see today. I have no doubt on that.
A+
…slip and SWAG
Nailed it.
More amazing than anything else I’ll see today. I have no doubt on that.
A+
Because I really want to believe that Dean isn’t a complete fucking moron who would rather just not know that the woman he loved can’t protect herself from potentially getting killed by a goddamn demon.
Sam’s face in that first panel = ENTIRE FANDOM’S OPINION ON LISA
Not. True. I liked Lisa. I still like her. I actually despise the entire fandom’s opinion on her. Cause all she did was try and give Dean what she thought he needed. She was there for him. And all she got back was that she nearly died and in the end she and Ben lost Dean and their memories. And still everyone hates them. And I can’t figure out WHY THE FUCK.
Don’t assume that just because some people think one way that the entire fandom does too. I’m learning there are a few of us who loved Lisa. I’m pissed with the way things ended, it wasn’t an answer at all and I think Lisa and Ben are still in danger. Lisa did what we needed her to do because do you think Dean could have made it on his own? He probably would have killed himself.
Jumping right on this boat. Not only do I hate mainstream fandom for all the Lisa hate, but I also hate the writers and what they did to Dean, making him force Castiel into taking away their memories. Dean was incredibly manipulated and selfish, doing what he did. Castiel was trying to regain his favor and Dean gave him the illusion that he could if he just did this thing, this one thing, and then Cas did it and he was all “Naw man, you’re still dead to me. GTFO.” And taking away Lisa and Ben’s memories? He might as well have killed them himself. They aren’t safe. What do you think a demon’s gonna do when they get a hold of them? You think their not knowing where he is will change the outcome of potentially killing them and/or possessing them and wrecking havoc on his already-damaged psyche? I mean come on, even Dean knew it was a bad idea, but he did it anyway!
Sam: I’m just saying, I really wanted that for you. And when I told you to go, I-I thought… You could have it, you know? But now I’m not so sure. I mean, you got to consider the fact that you’ll be putting them in danger if you go back.
Dean: So, what, it’s better to leave them alone, unprotected, and then they’re not in danger? I did this to them. I made them vulnerable the moment I knocked on their door, and I can’t undo that. But what I can do is go with the best option.
(Exile on Main Street)
It was a cop-out, and a sloppy one. Most of that season was one big, sloppy cop-out, actually. If I had the energy and the time, I’d re-write the whole fucking season.
The main point I’m trying to make is, Lisa didn’t do anything wrong. Hell, if anything, she was a fucking saint for taking him in. Dean was a wreck, an alcoholic, and a bad influence. All she did was love him.
Let’s take a quick moment to recap on some of her dialogue for the appearances she made in all of season six:
Lisa: He’s okay. How are you?
Dean: Look, I know Bobby’s a little crotchety, but he’s great. He’s gonna look after you guys. Me and Sam, we’re gonna head out.
Lisa: For how long?
Dean: I’m so sorry, Lisa.
Lisa: For what?
Dean: Those things were coming for me. And I should’ve known.
Lisa: How could you know a monster was gonna show up?
Dean: I should’ve known. I should’ve known that if I stayed with you that something would come, because something always does. But I was stupid and reckless and…You can’t outrun your past.
Lisa: You’re saying goodbye.
Dean: I’m saying I’m sorry… For everything. Everything.
Lisa: You’re an idiot. I mean, I know it wasn’t greeting-card perfect, but we were in it together.
Dean: I was a wreck half the time.
Lisa: Yeah, well, the guy that basically just saved the world shows up at your door, you expect him to have a couple of issues. And you’re always so amazing with Ben. You know what I wanted, more than anything was a guy that Ben could look up to like a dad. So, you’re saying it’s all bad, Dean? ‘Cause it was the best year of my life.
Dean: Hey.
Lisa: What happened? Ben’s been locked in his room for hours. Says you yelled at him. What did he do?
Dean: Nothing.
Lisa: What did you do?
Dean: He got into my tools. I shouldn’t have got mad.
Lisa: You want to talk about this?
Dean: About?
Lisa: Yelling at Ben? Keeping us in the house?
Dean: I’m trying to keep us safe, here.
Lisa: I’m not arguing, okay. You’re the expert. I’m just asking. You said that you and your brother killed whatever was after us. And then we moved just to be sure! So what is it, Dean? A monster? Or monsters in general?
Dean: I don’t know. Something might come.
Lisa: What?
Dean: I don’t know, I can’t predict what’s going to come after me.
Lisa: Well, I’m going to need some parameters. We have to live our lives here. I mean, at some point I have to work. Ben has school!
Dean: But if something happens on my watch…
Lisa: I know you’re trying to protect us, but you’re kind of scaring me a little, too.
Dean: Okay, show me.
Lisa: I’ve got it. We’ve been over this.
Dean: Humor me.
Lisa: Load clip. Pull slide. Safety off. Safety on.
Dean: And salt the windows and the doors.
Lisa: Of course.
Dean: Maybe I shouldn’t go.
Lisa: It’s okay. You want to go, so go.
Dean: You know what, Sam can handle this.
Lisa: Dean, no offense, but if you don’t walk out that door, I’m going to shoot you.
Dean: I bet you’re missing your ex right about now. The uh, the boring one?
Lisa: God, shut up. Just be careful, okay?
Dean: Bye.
Lisa: Bye.
Lisa: Hey.
Dean: Hey, where’s Ben?
Lisa: Bike ride. What?
Dean: I don’t know what to do here, Lis. I mean, if I knew for sure what the safest thing was, then I’d do it. Stay here and look after you guys or get as far away as I possibly can, but I don’t know. And I get what I’ve been doing lately, you know, what with the yelling and the acting like a prison guard. It’s just, that’s not me. You tell yourself you’re not gonna be something, you know? But my dad was exactly like this. All the time. It’s scaring the hell out of me.
Lisa: Dean, can I be honest? Maybe we’re safer with you here, maybe gone. I don’t know. The one thing that I do know is that you’re not a construction worker. You’re a hunter. And now you know your brother’s out there, things are different. You don’t want to be here, Dean.
Dean: Yes, I do.
Lisa: Okay. Okay, but you also want to be there. I get it. You’re white-knuckling it living like this. Like what you are is some bad, awful thing. But you’re not. But I’m not going to have this discussion every time you leave. And this is just going to keep happening, so I need you to go.
Dean: I can’t just lose you and Ben.
Lisa: That’s not what I’m saying.
Dean: You’re saying hit the road.
Lisa: Dean, if there’s some rule that says this all has to be either/or, how about we break it? Me and Ben will be here, and you come when you can. Just come in one piece, okay?
Dean: You really think we can pull something like that off?
Lisa: It’s worth a shot, right?
Dean: Hey — so, uh, I’m actually not far. I’m about a night’s drive.
Lisa: Yeah? (Hopefully.) So, ya think…?
Dean: Well, there’s some stuff I gotta do here first.
Lisa: Of course.
Dean: But I was thinkin’ that, uh, I’ll wrap up here, and, y’know, make sure I’m not followed…I’ll have to take side streets, and I’d have to come at night —
Lisa: (Happily interrupting.) Will you just shut up and get your ass home? I can’t wait to see you. This phone thing’s getting old.
Dean: (Smiling.) Yeah.
Lisa: Well, call us when you’re close. (Pause.) And be careful.
Dean: Course.
Lisa: Hey. I wasn’t expecting you for a couple of days.
Dean: Yeah, yeah… I wanted to see you.
Lisa: What’s up? Are you okay?
Dean: Listen…
Lisa: (Starting to catch on that something’s wrong.) What’s going on?
Dean: It doesn’t matter. But I need you to know…you AND Ben…just, uh… Thanks. Okay? For everything.
Lisa: Dean, you’re scaring me.
Dean: Oh, God, I’m Pattinson…
Lisa: What?
Dean: Nothing. I…I gotta go…
Lisa: No, you can’t just show up here like this and —
Dean: Believe me, I wish it was different.
Lisa: Just stop, and explain to me what’s going on out there.
Dean: (Pauses. Miserably.) Lisa, I can’t bring this crap home to you.
Lisa: You’re talking about your work?
Dean: I’m talking about my LIFE. It’s ugly…and it’s violent…and I’m gonna die — SOON.
Lisa: (Very upset now. She steps in closer.) Just tell me. Just tell me what the hell is going on…
Lisa: (After the whole wall-slam smolder bit) Dean?
Dean: I gotta go…
Lisa: So… I saw you called.
Dean: Yeah, it’s been crazy.
Lisa: Ben won’t even talk about it.
Dean: Lisa, I’m sorry, but this is actually the… worst time in the universe to talk. C-can we do this later?
Lisa: You shoved my kid, Dean. How about we do this now?
Dean: It wasn’t like that.
Lisa: Then how was it?
Dean: I can’t really explain.
Lisa: You want to know the truth?
Dean: Probably not.
Lisa: You’ve got so much buried in there, and you push it down, and you push it down. Do you honestly think that you can go through life like that and not freak out? Just, what, drink half a fifth a night and you’re good?
Dean: You knew what you signed up for.
Lisa: Yeah. But I didn’t expect Sam to come back. And I’m glad he’s okay. I am. But the minute he walked through that door, I knew. It was over. You two have the most unhealthy, tangled-up, crazy thing I’ve ever seen. And as long as he’s in your life, you’re never gonna be happy. That came out so much harsher than I meant. (this is because she’s under the influence of the veritas)
Dean: It’s not your fault.
Lisa: I’m not saying don’t be close to Sam. I’m close to my sister. But if she got killed, I wouldn’t bring her back from the dead!
Dean: Okay, Lis… I’m not gonna lie. Okay, me and Sam, we… we’ve got issues. No doubt. But you and Ben —
Lisa: Me and Ben can’t be in this with you. I’m sorry.
We can assume at that point that they are over. Lisa has break-up remorse and tries to call, but Dean doesn’t answer, and we can assume she couldn’t bring herself to leaving a message because by that point, she’d already considered herself back-burner to Dean. Why pull him away from his work when he isn’t coming back? You can bed the girl probably cried herself to sleep more than once, because if any of you have been on the end of a relationship that ended because of long-distance or relocation, you would know that. The next time we see them, it’s only because Ben is trying to bring them back together.
Dean: You want to sit down?
Lisa: Not so much.
Dean: So, who’s the guy?
Lisa: “Who’s the guy?” His name is Matt. He’s a doctor.
Dean: Oh, Dr. Matt. How respectable.
Lisa: Really? That’s how this is gonna be?
Dean: Look, I-I —
Lisa: I called you six times, Dean.
Dean: And I almost called you back about 100.
Lisa: Good to know.
Dean: Lis, Ben called me. I dropped everything and ran. If you want to know if I care —
Lisa: Doesn’t help me.
Dean: What do you want from me?
Lisa: I’m not asking for anything.
Dean: Well, then ask for something!
[…]
Lisa: You know, I…I can’t. Ask for something. I know what I want. But I can’t have it — Not how you live. My phone rings, I think — tiny chance it’s you, big chance it’s Sam calling to tell me you’re dead.
Dean: Lis…
Lisa: No, don’t. Don’t apologize or anything. It’s just… It’s just I get to this place where I’m okay, and then you show up at our door. You keep doing that, every time I think I’m never gonna see you again. I’m trying to get over you. What are you trying to do? What do you want from us, Dean?
Ben: Who’re you?
Dean: I, I’m Dean. Uh, I’m the guy who hit you.
Lisa: Oh.
Dean: I just, uh, I lost control for a minute, and I just wanted to say that I’m sorry. I’m real happy you two are both okay. And uh, I’m just - I’m glad your life can get back to normal now.
Lisa: (smiles) We’re okay, so - so that’s what’s important, right?
Dean: Yeah. Anyway, uh, I’ll leave you two alone. (to Ben) You take care of your mom.
We don’t get to see the product of Ben, Lisa, and Dean’s year together the same way we got to see Sam and Ruby’s, because it’s “unimportant to the plot.” But all the shit that’s unsaid? All the little clues and hints that get no further explanation? How Dean became familiar with Lisa’s sister’s child, how Ben learned about wendigos, how Lisa learned how to properly set up a gun, all that shit. And all the good things that come from it. It takes a long time for anyone to get over the death of a close family member, but they do. Sam was dead. Dean was getting over it. He had an amazing thing going for him, and then it got ripped out from beneath him, and even then he still dropped everything to save them.
Now you fucking tell me, to my face, that Dean is just a hunter and not a family guy. That he didn’t love Lisa and that it was just one big act to appease his brother’s last wish. That he didn’t want to stay. You tell me that.

Crossroad Blues.
*
And then cameth Supernatural. And Kittrose became a fan.
Truth to be said, I never really watched SPN until some months ago, and I don’t know exactly why it took me so long. I had mentally put it into the “Ghost Whisperer&friends” category without further investigation, shame on me. I blame the cheap dubbed version airing here in Italy. But then, some friends and the beautiful fan artwork by *euclase convinced me to give this show a chance. A few episodes of season 1 and… ta-dah. Dean and Sam gained another fangirl.
Now, it’s definitely time for me to express my newfound mania in some figurative way. Which may be an exercise in futility, considering the amount of amazing SPN artists that are already there. But… I love this show. And when I realize I love something, the next logical thing for me to do is start drawing it.
TECH STUFF: Photoshop CS3 + Tablet. If you manage to enlarge the second picture, you should be able to use it as a wallpaper. See also on Deviantart.
Ohai, new wallpaper. *_*
(via cherry8914)