fromkansaswithluv

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
almaasi

li-izumi asked:

Notice: Romantic/hero music starts up when Cas and Dean see each other. Hugs with Jack, but no hugs for Cas. Silence for Cas and Dean, except for the music. Which ends when Dean leaves. The music speaks when Dean and Cas can’t.

mittensmorgul answered:

Yep… I mean not only was Dean jarringly caught off guard by the absolute hive of activity in what he thought of as his own personal living room, you know? Like… ALL THESE PEOPLE? 

I think if they weren’t there, if Dean hadn’t felt so wrong-footed in his own home there, that reunion could’ve gone a little differently.

But even when they were packing to leave on the hunt, Cas was just… packing a bag alongside Dean like they were back to business as usual, and that just… :’)

That said SO MUCH to me, that there was just no longer even a question of whether or not Cas would hunt with them. And honestly I AM GLAD for exactly how everything has played out.

Because even if Cas had gone with them, he would’ve been in the back seat, you know? All that conversation with Sam? Sure he got some of those answers he was looking for about how Dean’s really doing, but I’m glad Cas wasn’t a literal back seat passenger for that talk, because Cas deserves to have that one face to face, you know?

grey2510

Not only that but the space where they should have hugged was so idk if emotional is the word but… Like they just clearly had this silent convo like, yeah we can’t have our moment right now because we’re in “public” but we both know how we feel.

It was so personal and somehow intimate considering they never touched.

mittensmorgul

THERE WAS A VOID THERE. There was that silent moment and that chasm of space with the pillar dividing it keeping them apart. And yet, Jack and Sam stayed silent through that moment too…

almaasi
katrinageist

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.  

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

jumpingjacktrash

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

kelseyridge13

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregarded the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.