"Sam And Dean Love Each Other As Much As Two Human Beings Can Love Each Other. Truly." Jared Padalecki,

"Sam and Dean love each other as much as two human beings can love each other. Truly." — Jared Padalecki, San Diego Comic Con 2017

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❤️ Jensen's version

so i wanted to share this little tidbit from my m&g with jared and it’s specifically show related/about sam so i think it’s okay. and i wanted sam fans to hear this bc i know it’s something discussed a lot (this is all paraphrased and stuff btw, but i tried to accurately capture jared’s answer).

at njcon, i essentially asked jared this: “the show has had this trope of having sam constantly have to work with his abusers but never addresses the after effects. last season he had to work with lucifer, and lucifer was even in his room, and cole the season before that, and gadreel before that. and most recently there was his torture and sexual assault from toni, who i have a feeling he’ll now have to work with. so do you think sam has any trauma and ptsd and struggles working with them?”

jared said that he thought that of course sam had trauma, a lot of trauma, from all these events and these people. but he went on to say that he thinks sam is a character who constantly feels like he needs forgiveness - that he needs to be forgiven for the things he’s done wrong in his life. and because sam always feels like he needs to be forgiven, that makes him feel like he needs to forgive others in return for the wrongs they’ve done. he said that sam doesn’t want to work with them, nor forgive them, and it’s hard for him in these situations and of course the trauma is real and present for sam, but sam also knows that when he is working with them it’s typically born from necessity, so he has to kind of shoulder his own demons and work with these people despite what they’ve done. so it boiled down to jared saying that yes, sam has a great deal amount of trauma, but he will stomach that/ignore that because sam is a character that feels like he needs to be forgiven and therefore has to give forgiveness back and also because of the situations of the boys’ life 

also jared seemed a little shocked/interested by the question, said it was one he didn’t think anyone had really asked or put together, but he appreciated the weight of it and definitely took his time to answer seriously and think about sam and sam’s headspace, which i truly appreciated. 

No matter how different they are, brothers should always love each other

I’m not very good at drawing dogs so I couldn’t figure out how to draw a wagging tail..

Been a long time coming. But I just realized that the next thing I draw is obviously going to *have* to be the actual kiss…..

This is why I have no time for the garbage take that fanfiction without smut is somehow superior to fanfiction with it. And I most often hear this from fellow authors complaining that their fics without smut don't reach the same audience or get the same feedback as those whose fics do contain smut.

The thing is, you could write 100k words as pure as the driven snow and you've no guarantee to come anywhere near the 5k of realness I just read while the blorbos fucked nasty in the backseat of their dead daddy's car still covered in grave dirt while someone else's blood is in their mouths.

Wincest is particularly good for this, as an example. Those boys are so hopeless at expressing themselves unless it's through silence or violence that sex is the perfect medium. It's also unexplored in canon, so it can be whatever we want it to be

Sure, PWP is a real and valid thing, but smut isn't only PWP. It can be a legitimate driving force of character development and an incredible vehicle for character study. Sex is such an intimate engagement; exploring a character during and around that act is ripe with potential.

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