Madness? This is SCIENCE!

obsessionisaperfume:

I want to talk about the bar scene in “Sacrifice,” but first let me refresh your memory about an exchange in “The Monster At the End of This Book.”

There’s a bit where Dean has asked for Castiel’s help in preventing Sam from meeting Lilith, and Castiel turns him down:

CASTIEL
You must understand why I can’t intercede. Prophets are very special. They’re protected.

DEAN
I get that.

CASTIEL
If anything threatens a prophet, anything at all, an archangel will appear to destroy that threat. Archangels are fierce. They’re absolute. They’re heaven’s most terrifying weapon.

DEAN
And these archangels, they’re tied to prophets?

CASTIEL
Yes.

DEAN
So if a prophet was in the same room as a demon –

CASTIEL
Then the most fearsome wrath of heaven would rain down on that demon. Just so you understand… why I can’t help.

The words you see up there may have sounded like there’s nothing else going on, but it was clear in the episode that even though Castiel wasn’t permitted to interfere, even to the extent of overtly telling Dean how to do it without him, he was nevertheless giving Dean the information he needed in the subtext of the conversation.  The pause indicated by the ellipsis in the last line was accompanied by a very pointed look from Cas that made it clear that he’d just said something important.

Right now, Show is in a position where they absolutely cannot give us a yes-or-no answer about whether or not Dean/Cas will go overtly canon.  Many of us are of the opinion that Show is doing what Cas did in the scene from TMATEOTB:  making the answer clear in the subtext.  And up until now, there’s been enough ambiguity that one could plausibly argue that it wasn’t intentional, or that it was just fanservice.

But with the Cupid scene in the bar in 8.23, I believe Show has given us as close to a YES answer as it’s possible to get without actually saying the words.

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valerianaceae:

I’m sharing this because I feel like it needs more support than what it is currently getting. I don’t have many followers, but I have faith that ones I do have will help me support this poor girl and the disgusting way she is being treated even if they don’t live in Florida. This is taken from the Facebook group ‘Free Kate.’ If this were a Male-Female relationship, it would never have gotten as far as a prosecutor’s desk, let alone to the extent it’s gotten so far. It’s beyond persecution, it’s ruining this girl’s future and it needs to be stopped. Whatever your views are, I’m sure you can agree. You can view the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/

As the summer of 2012 came to an end, the future looked bright for 17-year-old Sebastian River High School senior Kaitlyn Hunt. Voted the student with “Most School Spirit” by her peers, Kaitlyn was an active cheerleader, a basketball player, a camp counselor and cheering coach, and a medical assistant training to join the nursing program at Valencia College after graduation. She looked forward to a career helping others and a memorable final year of high school.

At the beginning of the school year, Kaitlyn made friends with a 14-year-old freshmen girl in Sebastian River High’s IB program who played varsity sports and took classes with upper classmen. The girls were peers in the same social circle, and as happens every day high schools across America, their friendship eventually developed into more. In September, shortly after Kaitlyn’s 18th birthday, the girls began dating, and they eventually expressed their affection for one another in intimate ways.

When the girls’ basketball coach found out that two of her players were dating, she kicked Kaitlyn off the team and informed her girlfriend’s parents that their daughter was in a same-sex relationship. The parents then conspired with police to entrap Kaitlyn and press charges.

The police recorded a phone conversation between the two girls, now 18 and 15, in which they discussed their relationship. Kaitlyn was arrested and charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12-16. Kaitlyn’s girlfriend denies that Kaitlyn ever pressured her and is adamant that their relationship is entirely consensual, but her parents are out to destroy Kaitlyn’s life. After two separate judges ruled that Kaitlyn could finish her senior year with her peers, her girlfriend’s parents appealed to the Indian River County School Board, who expelled Kaitlyn sent her to the alternative school.

The law is designed to protect our children, but the law does not serve its purpose when it is applied to consensual behavior between peers.

What can you do to help? First, please sign this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-river-county-state-attorney-s-office-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=permissions_dialog_false

Next, if you’re a resident of Florida, please contact your state legislators and tell them the law needs to protect high school peers from prosecution. Find your state legislators here:http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Welcome/index.cfm?CFID=295718277&CFTOKEN=95887900

If not a Florida resident, contact your legislators, anyway. Most states have similarly unjust laws.

If you know a high school student, make sure he or she knows the law. We don’t want our children going to jail out of ignorance.

Finally, share this story with everyone you know. Things need to change. We can make that change happen together.