superclassyshit:bigbitchcakes:foolscapper:“Please tell me, what is the upside to me being alive?” “A
superclassyshit:bigbitchcakes:foolscapper:“Please tell me, what is the upside to me being alive?” “Are you kidding me? You and me, fighting the good fight together.”Why don’t we look at what Dean carries on his back?I’m not going to be as nice as usual, so if you’d rather avoid that then just move on and don’t read.My drawing is not about what Dean carries on his back, nor any of his issues, and frankly as someone who’s studied and enjoys both characters quite a bit I find Dean is not carrying the same burdens — he carries 40 years of hell, dead friends, and a difficult childhood (Sam did as well, and I feel bad not including it considering how much of it had impacted him and made life less enjoyable). Canonically, Dean has dealt with less, and Sam is not the one telling Dean the upside to him being alive is ‘fighting the good fight’ after he’d forced another being into Dean’s body. Canonically, Sam is not the one who forced his brother to live only to be a petulant child when Dean is angry at him for violating him and lying to him for weeks. I’m sorry, I won’t have this turn into a ‘but who will think about Dean’ fanart. If you’d like to draw it or commission it, you can I guess, but considering Dean can often be a source of Sam’s pain by causing him insecurities or directly violating his free will or agency in this fanart (or telling Sam to live and then giving him no real reason to want to), I think you’d best be careful trying to make this particular set bi-bro, because you’ll come across as rude.Frankly, please don’t turn my drawing into a complaint that Dean isn’t in it. It’s about Sam. It is about Sam’s mistreatment and Sam’s suicidal tendencies that are only worsened by his treatment in canon. It is not. About. Dean. I like Dean, and I care about his issues, but this is not about him. Sorry. -- source link