Personal Demons (spoilers for 4.16)
This isn't an episode reaction as much as some thoughts and questions about one of the issues brought up by the episode.
When I first got hooked on SPN, about a year ago, I kind of assumed that if the Winchester family tragedy had an allegorical dimension, it had to do with the way the YED's predation figured for the trauma of a broken home. You know: it wasn't divorce that turned us into a struggling, single-parent family, it was a yellow-eyed demon, though the results were the same.
But now that I've been poking around in canon and fanon for all these months, I think that the "natural" demon that the "supernatural" demon is most often read as standing in for is not divorce, ( but rather ) 's Clangs (AU, implied alcoholic!John, implied alcoholic!Dean--also PTSD!Dean)
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roque_clasique 's Drive!Verse (S1 AU, alcohol-abusing!Sam, nicotine-addicted!Dean--who's also addicted to painkillers, but only because he's permanently disabled).
candle_beck 's Look the Other Way (AU, no supernatural, implied alcoholic!John, alcoholic!Sam)
kroki_refur 's But for the Grace (alcoholic!Sam in an alternate reality)
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innocentculprit 's Please Exit Hell Quietly Through the Rear Doors (S4 alcoholic!Dean)
red_handed 's Can't Feel a Thing (heroin-addict!Dean, 4.10 tag)
When I first got hooked on SPN, about a year ago, I kind of assumed that if the Winchester family tragedy had an allegorical dimension, it had to do with the way the YED's predation figured for the trauma of a broken home. You know: it wasn't divorce that turned us into a struggling, single-parent family, it was a yellow-eyed demon, though the results were the same.
But now that I've been poking around in canon and fanon for all these months, I think that the "natural" demon that the "supernatural" demon is most often read as standing in for is not divorce, ( but rather ) 's Clangs (AU, implied alcoholic!John, implied alcoholic!Dean--also PTSD!Dean)
roque_clasique 's Drive!Verse (S1 AU, alcohol-abusing!Sam, nicotine-addicted!Dean--who's also addicted to painkillers, but only because he's permanently disabled).candle_beck 's Look the Other Way (AU, no supernatural, implied alcoholic!John, alcoholic!Sam)kroki_refur 's But for the Grace (alcoholic!Sam in an alternate reality)innocentculprit 's Please Exit Hell Quietly Through the Rear Doors (S4 alcoholic!Dean)red_handed 's Can't Feel a Thing (heroin-addict!Dean, 4.10 tag)