Also can we like… not give the Nick arc to characters that aren’t Sam? Like if it isn’t used to finally explore Sam’s trauma and history with Lucifer then I don’t care. Why tf are we getting more Cas angst about this than Sam? I know he’s busy with Michael but come on.
13 years later Sam Winchester is still my favorite character. He’s just one the reasons why I love watching the show, of course that is next to the amazing bond between the brothers. I mean they are always willing to sacrifice their lives for each other. But still I’ve always thought of Sam’s character as the most inspiring of all the characters. I mean his own father thinks he’ll go dark-side but he was able to prove them wrong. I love how he listens to other people and hears their problems, and he doesn’t belittle their problems even though he usually has bigger ones. He honestly cares about everyone and I can see it on his face. If he’s talking to a victim’s family he never says a mean word to them and is always consious of their feelings and attitude. He is just a really awesome character for me.
This is why Sam doesn’t talk about the cage to anyone. As someone who’s been abused, it’s hard to talk about it to someone who cannot even fathom what that traumatic experience is like.
I’m SO glad Sam found someone he could open up to, even if it was Rowena. And it was good to see Rowena be vulnerable and admit she’s scared shitless. This was very healthy for both of them.
whenever sam talks to jack it feels like he’s talking to a young and scared version of himself, and it makes me so emotional
like, when jack tells him that maybe he’s not worth all this, he gets it. sam really gets (or genuinely believes he gets) all that’s going through this kid’s head. because he’s been azazel’s golden boy, and he was meant to be lucifer’s true vessel. so he gets what it means, to be destined for terrible things, and he knows that it doesn’t make you inherently evil, even if people will try to convince you otherwise. and he knows that having faith in people can make miracles happen. he knows that pushing jack away would mean sending him off to a bad path, because he’s been there.
(this doesn’t mean sam is necessarily right in this case, but I understand why he’s fighting so hard for jack)
#GiveSamaVoice is about one thing and one thing only: respectfully asking the writers and creators to understand that Sam deserves to respond emotionally to his abuse and the story itself, because Supernatural is fiction, but stories are more than flights of fancy and words on a page. They change things and shape things.
#GiveSamaVoice is about asking the show to respect abuse survivors and their right to speak out. I happen to enjoy Castiel and think he matters. Some people who use the hashtag don’t like him. Some like Sam and Dean, some only Sam. Some support other characters or pairings but are baffled by the treatment of Sam. Many of us are abuse survivors or people affected profoundly by emotional, sexual, or physical abuse.
Reducing the whole of us to a flimsy caricature doesn’t erase the truth. Sure, the people who care about this are individuals with their own preferences, but the preferences of the individual do not carry over to the goals of the whole. (For example, I’d love if the bunker was filled with puppies and Sam and Cas chilled out and made flower crowns, but not everyone here shares that dream. Some hate it. That’s okay.)
We are not asking for the Sam Winchester show. We are not asking for the Sam and Dean Show.
We’re certainly not banding together as a group to…what? ask them to kill Cas or Dean or anyone else?
We’re asking for a one-second shot (Chuck forbid we ask for two seconds, or two shots—or, dear God, more than that) dedicated to showing unambiguously that Sam might actually be affected by the presence of the man who tortured him for lifetimes in the Cage, tried to severely hurt or kill him twice this season, and spent the whole first half of the season giving Sam visions of his torture.
We just want them to #givesamavoice, because our voices don’t go far alone, but, united, we have just a smidgen more than a snowball’s chance in Hell of reaching someone.
This happened two years ago. Always having each other’s back, always being each other’s biggest support.
Hard to believe it’s been two years, I still remember crying on my bed after receiving Jared’s tweets. I was so scared and worried for him. Thinking back on it now sends chills down my spine after reading about what Jared was really going through during that time. I’m so glad he found the will to keep fighting, I’m so glad he decided to live. And I’m also so, so glad that Jared and Jensen will always have each other to lean on.
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