Family Don't End With Blood

charliewaits:

Flesh And Blood by Charlie_Waits

Pairing(s): Sam/Dean

Rating: T

Word Count: 6161 

Summary:  Infant Sam was taken away during the night of the fire and grew up knowing neither about his birth family nor about monsters, until he meets someone akin to both: Dean.

Created for Day #6 (Free Day) of The Omega!Jared/Sam Network’s Fanworks Challenge

(Manip credit [top right image] to Traveller In Time)

deansbabybitch:

runtosleepdreamer:

romancingthebookworm:

herhmione:

herhmione:

literally one of my favorite romance tropes of all time is character a is a really notorious gang leader/well known feared ruler of some kind etc and no one dares cross them or talk back to them etc because they won’t make it out alive but character b can literally get away with saying whatever they want and everyone knows it’s because they have character a wrapped around their finger and character a is gentle with character b and everyone wouldn’t dare laying a finger on character b because then character a would literally chop their head off

bonus points if character b is just as ruthless and powerful as character a

You see this? Yes, all of this. All of it.

I’m waiting to see what gif the supernatural fandom can blow me away with this time… c'mon spn fandom, we’re waiting

character a is a really notorious gang leader/well known feared ruler

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character b is just as ruthless and powerful as character a

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character b can literally get away with saying whatever they want and everyone knows it’s because they have character a wrapped around their finger

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character a is gentle with character b

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everyone wouldn’t dare laying a finger on character b

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because then character a would literally chop their head off

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bonus for @runtosleepdreamer, enjoy! ^-^

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generousartisangladiator:

peanutbutterandbananasandwichs:

persephones-journey:

sunflowerchester:

peanutbutterandbananasandwichs:

This is quite honestly one of the bravest things I have ever seen:

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I thought the same thing. 

Dean is literally looming over him and said “If you answer that, so help me….” and he does it anyway. 

It’s not only because Sam is brave. Sam trusts that Dean won’t hurt him. Even with the Mark, deep down I honestly think Sam doesn’t think Dean would ever hurt him.

That’s why he answered anyway. Cause Sam still trusts his older brother not to hurt him. 

OK, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to strongly disagree with you here. Sam certainly has some blind spots when it comes to Dean (I won’t get into how these mostly relate to Dean’s treatment of him here), but expectation of physical (or otherwise) violence from Dean I don not think is one of them.

It is a complete and utter fanon fallocy to say that Dean doesn’t or wouldn’t ‘hurt’ Sam. We have seasons worth of evidence that Dean is more than willing and able to lash out physically (and verbally and emotionally) at Sam when he is angry or ‘frustrated’ with him usually when Sam has committed what Dean views as a transgression against him. The examples below are all without the Mark.

Here are two examples from S2 and S4 respectively:

S2: Bloodlust - Sam calls Dean on his lack of coping with their father’s death and pushes him on him trying to use Gordon as a ‘substitute’ for John. Dean’s reaction is to punch Sam, because he’s angry and to shut him up.

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S4: Metamorphasis - Dean finds out about Sam using his powers to exorcise demons, which Dean is angry about, once again his reaction is to hit Sam, not once but twice. I’m including all five gifs here, including Sam’s reactions because I will discuss these later:

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Ok, so there are a couple of important things to note about both of these instances and how they form part of a pattern in the way Dean hits Sam/Sam’s expectations with regards to being hit.

A very clear similarity in both scenes is that immediately before punching Sam, Dean turns away, as if he is going to walk off, therefore the attack comes on a Sam who is physically unprepared for the blow, this is pretty evident in the way that Sam’s head is snapped violently back in both scenes, Dean is hitting him at full force and Sam’s body is offering no resistance.

The next similarity is with regards to how Sam reacts immediately after being punched, I unfortunately don’t have the gif for Bloodlust, but as we can see here from the transcript, he says:

You hit me all you want. It won’t change anything.

In both Bloodlust and Metamorphosis, it is pretty clear that Sam, whilst perhaps physically unprepared for the onslaught is mentally and emotionally expectant of it. “You satisfied?” in particular, paints an image that this is a reaction Sam has come to expect of Dean when he is angry with him, that it is an established pattern than Dean takes out his anger on Sam in such situations and that Sam accepts this as the norm. It’s also worth noting that since Sam has an incredibly similar reaction in Bloodlust, which is the first time (on screen) that we see Dean punch Sam like this (although not the first time he has enacted physical violence of another kind), it is strongly suggestive that this is a pattern that stretches back to before Sam left of Stanford. Whether the punches at that point were given out by John or Dean we don’t know, but Sam clearly expects physical punishment for angering Dean in both of these scenes.

I think it’s also worth making an important point that, although Sam ‘accepts’ the hits in both cases, leading many to claim that he “can take it” - that even if we ignore the complete grossness of that as a statement, that Sam is, in fact, not without physical injury in both Bloodlust and Metamorphosis we see Sam physically recoil back and bring his hand to his bleeding face. To suggest that because Sam does not show obvious outward signs of physical or mental distress from the attacks means that he is immune to hurt from such is abuse apology and victim blaming at its finest.

Another instance of Dean dolling out punches when angry with Sam can be seen in The Girl Next Door:

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I could not care less if the show tries to play this off as humorous, it’s not. Again Sam’s reaction to this punch is merely to reach for the nearest cold object to put against his eye, once again, Sam displays that he has been socialized into expecting and accepting this behavior as coming along with Dean being angry at him.

Although I guess we don’t know for absolute certain is Sam remembers this particular incident (but I’m pretty such he does possess all his memories as Soulless Sam), it should certainly demonstrate to us as a fandom, what a fallacy it is to say that Dean would never hurt Sam.

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The brutal beating that Dean enacts on Sam in this episode involves him punching Sam no less than 18 times and into complete unconsciousness. Also worth making very, very clear that Dean had NO idea what was wrong at this point and that Sam had in fact just asked him for help.

Sometimes Dean doesn’t even have to be angry at Sam himself, in order to lash out with physical violence. At the end of Born Under a Bad Sign, we see Dean punch Sam because he was angry at MEG who had been possessing Sam. Dean literally uses Sam’s body as a punching bag for his frustrations with absolutely no ‘provocation’ from Sam himself, his body is being punished for another’s actions.

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Lastly and not least, let’s just remember that Dean has punched Sam before with the Mark too, ostensibly with the aim of ‘protecting’ Sam, however I can personally say that mine and Dean’s mileage vary considerably in the interpretation of the word ‘protection’!

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The only instances in which Sam seems even mildly surprised by Dean’s physical abuse are in ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ and ‘Do You Believe in Miracles’ in both cases this is because they fall outside the normal transgression/punishment dynamic and are therefore harder for Sam to predict as possibilities.


All the above, strongly demonstrate that there is EVERY reason for Sam to believe that Dean might physically hurt him in the scene in question in Dark Dynasty, especially as it would fit into the expected and largely predictable pattern of transgression/punishment. In fact the scene bares strong similarities to that in Metamorphosis, wherein Sam was hit twice in a row, in terms of Sam being interrogated for having ‘lied’ or ‘kept something’ from Dean. And remember, Metamorphosis (and every single other example bar one) happened LONG before Dean acquired the MoC.

What I’ve covered above is just physical hurt that Sam might expect from Dean, this does not cover all the times Dean has lashed out verbally or with an emotional attack against Sam, which fall into an equally, if not more, frequent pattern, even if Sam didn’t think Dean might physically hurt him he had plenty of reasons to believe he might have done so in other ways.

The fact that when Sam is never surprised and indignant when Dean hits him (when one is hit they are always surprised and indignant, if they didn’t get used to this) convinced me long ago that this pattern of behaviour is habitual for Sam,  it means that he was treated in such a way from the childhood, but John never hit his sons, it’s pretty obvious from Nightmare, so it was Dean and four years is a huge difference when it comes to teenagers, 12 year old can’t stand up to 16 year old.

kaizykat:

ummmwine:

this was a good thread i saw about how of course this is all more trash coming down from the total shit that is sesta/fosta

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A Twitter comment thread by user Cookie Cyboid:

“Why are Tumblr and Facebook cracking down on sex so much? And why is Facebook in so overzealous about it? It’s all Apple’s fault!” Ect etc.

I can explain it all. It is largely the fault of a set of US laws called SESTA and FOSTA.

Here’s an article about them, but in short these laws make websites responsible for third party content related to sex work. They can be sued for having full service sex work ads on their platforms EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT. https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17172762/fosta-sesta-backpage-230-internet-freedom

I’ll get to Tumblr and Facebook but first just lemme take a second to tell you these laws don’t do what they’re designed to do. They don’t stop trafficking, they actually make it harder to find victims. Turns out the easiest way to find victims is online.

Also turns out if you remove sites used to screen clients, pimps spring up offering safe client lists. Removing advertising also forces sex workers out onto street corners. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-sex-trafficking-advocates-say-new-law-cripples-efforts-to-save-victims-629081/

These laws were passed in April and we saw a lot of sites disappear overnight. So why are Tumblr and Facebook acting now?

They come into force next month. Next month any website with a US prescence can be sued if it allows, even unknowingly, sexual solicitation.

To my mind, Tumblr saw Apple removing the Tumblr app from their store and went “eh, we needed to ban porn anyway, we’ll just act early.”

Their algorithm sucks because training an algorithm to spot lewd content is incredibly difficult.

Facebook yesterday announced its policy on sexual solicitation. Which is ludicrously overzealous, bans the discussion of anything related to sex, including incredibly vague language like “I’m looking for a good time tonight.”

The reason they’re so overzealous isn’t because they’re screaming “Somebody think of the children!”

It’s because if they miss *one* ad, they can be sued. They know algorithms for this suck, so they’ve decided to overcompensate for that and effectively ban talking about sex.

These laws come into force next month. At that time I expect Twitter to also crack down on sex work. I don’t expect we’ll be warned, Twitter will just remove accounts overnight.

“Why don’t you just start your own website, you aren’t US based, just do that.”

There are a myriad of reasons I can’t do that,

1. Age verification laws are going to happen soon here and I can’t afford to pay for that software.

2. The UK gov is considering our own SESTA/FOSTA laws.

Go to PornHub!

Mate I’ve made my opinion on that hellsite very clear. I don’t need another store front. I need a place to communicate with queer communities and advertise. PornHub fucking sucks.

SESTA/FOSTA is an attempt to limit not only sex work, but queer expression online. Queer relationships are seen as inherently sexual to some. We need to be fighting this, because it’s not just a stick to hit sex workers with.

To my mind these laws were always about stopping consensual sex work, whilist also punching at queer people, and sexual expression. This is a censorship bill.

Yell at your elected representatives, America. Make them realize what this is, because it was sold on stopping sex trafficking. The options on it were so good that all the democrats voted for it too. Liberals are just as much at fault here.

I know there is a lot happening, and it’s hard to keep up with it all, but this is important. SESTA/FOSTA needs to be repealed.

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