jared-padalecki-makes-me-happy: Dear Jared (A Reflection on “Sacrifice”) Dear Jared, It has been almost a week since your SPN family sat in front of their TV screens in awe of the season 8 finale. If everything was as it should be, you probably would have watched it with us, live tweeting occasional comments and interacting with friends, fans and fellow cast members. I imagine you would have experienced a few anxious feelings wondering how the episode would be received, but after a while you would have relaxed a bit, and allowed yourself to absorb the joy of knowing that the show was a success. It should have been an hour of exhilaration and professional pride for you. Instead of basking in excitement, however, I know you are completely consumed with a family crisis right now, so I assume you either missed the show entirely or have not had the time or the heart to tune into fan reactions. At some point in the future, though, when your life starts to return to normal, you will check in with Twitter and emails again, you will think about work again, and you might just have a fleeting sadness that you missed the enthusiasm that surrounded the season’s end. You gave so much of yourself to us in that episode that I thought we should return the favor. So I would like to capture here the thoughts and feelings of as many fans as possible while the finale’s effect on us is still raw and unmuted by the passage of time. Jared, your performance in “Sacrifice” was nothing less than stunning. The entire episode was a masterpiece, but your portrayal of Sam’s suffering and heartbreak was breathtaking, literally. Every analyst’s review and fan comment I have read has used words like “award-winning” and “ground breaking” with phrases like “raised the bar yet again” and “hit it out of the park”. You brought passion to every minute of Sam’s self-doubt, physical pain and human need. The scenes with Mark Sheppard were touching, believable and transformative. (You have mentioned that working with a variety of other actors stretches your creative capabilities, so I am so glad you got a chance to craft that scene with such a deeply talented actor as Mark. Together, the two of you struck a perfect balance between intensity and sensitivity, resulting in an incredibly moving character exposé.) Then Sam’s climatic revelation to Dean was arguably the most poignant scene in the series. It was long ago established that you and Jensen have unmatched chemistry, and while he added immeasurably to the emotion of that dialogue, you truly owned that moment. Your gut-wrenching confession of (perceived) failure was a window into our most guarded human frailties. You showed us a human’s soul, leaving our hearts pounding and our nerves wrecked. (I can’t imagine filming that scene several times to get the angles, camera shots, etc. perfect. You had to go through that over and over again!) I can’t say I’m surprised. While your acting is always superb, over the past eight years you have given us several outstanding performances as Sam. You reduced us to puddles of empathy in “Heart” (s2), “Croatoan”(s2) and “Mystery Spot”(s3). We enjoyed your humor and comedic timing through entire episodes of “Bad Day at Black Rock” (s3), “The French Mistake” (s6) and “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie” (s7), as well as through quick one-liners, as in “Reading is Fundamental” (s7). You left us awed in horror as you transformed yourself into a mocking and sinister Possessed!Sam in “Born Under a Bad Sign” (s2), showed us unforgiving rage in “Fresh Blood” (S3), then mystified us as you delivered a haunting, emotionless Soulless!Sam in season 6. There have been the intense, highly emotional scenes such as those in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (s4), “Sex and Violence” (s4), “When the Levee Breaks” (s4), “Swan Song”(s5), “The Man Who Knew Too Much”(s6) and “Hello Cruel World” (s7) (Sorry…I started out to list just a few of my personal favorites but the list just kept growing!). Then, at the end of season 8, you began the road to your best performance yet in “The Great Escapist”. None of these achievements, though, prepared us for the perfection we saw in the finale, in “Sacrifice”. Your vulnerability was gripping and unforgettable. Without taking away from the prior seasons’ accomplishments, the distinction that elevated this episode’s performance was that the impact did not come from what was happening in the scene. The audience was not affected by watching you die from being stabbed in the back, or watching Dean be killed after a season of trying to save him. We were not watching you kill Lilith or raise Lucifer. No, the power of your scenes came solely and completely from what was said and how it was said. There was only dialogue. There were simple movements like you drawing blood on yourself, holding a syringe up to Crowley or showing your arms to Dean but these were there only to support the dialogue. The intensity of the moment came entirely from the honesty of the human emotion. The movements of your eyes, voice inflections, breath, posture, the way you walked, the way you stood and the heartbreak in your face all delivered the dominance of this episode. Acting at its absolute finest. During the New Jersey convention panel, Jensen said you were “wrecked” after filming the finale. With all respect, you did look tired. Then when your family crisis happened and you had to leave Rome unexpectedly, Jensen said you were “heartbroken” about missing Jus In Bello. He said that interacting with fans rejuvenates both of you and that talking to fans is what makes the long hours of your filming schedule worth it. So ironically, while we were watching a fictional show about sacrifices, you were being asked to make a real life sacrifice of your own for the good of your family. Hopefully, though, our comments give back to you some of that wonderfully grateful, positive enthusiasm that you missed. I wasn’t one of the people affected by your absence in Italy or England, but I know I can speak for at least some of them when I say there is no need to explain further or to feel bad. We are your family too. We understand. We are proud of what you did and we support you. Our love to you, Genevieve and her family. Our thoughts, hopes and good wishes are with you all. When you are ready, read these comments, and understand what your performance meant to us. Love and gratitude Your SPN family
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Dear Jared (A Reflection on “Sacrifice”)

Dear Jared,

It has been almost a week since your SPN family sat in front of their TV screens in awe of the season 8 finale. If everything was as it should be, you probably would have watched it with us, live tweeting occasional comments and interacting with friends, fans and fellow cast members. I imagine you would have experienced a few anxious feelings wondering how the episode would be received, but after a while you would have relaxed a bit, and allowed yourself to absorb the joy of knowing that the show was a success. It should have been an hour of exhilaration and professional pride for you. Instead of basking in excitement, however, I know you are completely consumed with a family crisis right now, so I assume you either missed the show entirely or have not had the time or the heart to tune into fan reactions. At some point in the future, though, when your life starts to return to normal, you will check in with Twitter and emails again, you will think about work again, and you might just have a fleeting sadness that you missed the enthusiasm that surrounded the season’s end. You gave so much of yourself to us in that episode that I thought we should return the favor. So I would like to capture here the thoughts and feelings of as many fans as possible while the finale’s effect on us is still raw and unmuted by the passage of time.


Jared, your performance in “Sacrifice” was nothing less than stunning. The entire episode was a masterpiece, but your portrayal of Sam’s suffering and heartbreak was breathtaking, literally. Every analyst’s review and fan comment I have read has used words like “award-winning” and “ground breaking” with phrases like “raised the bar yet again” and “hit it out of the park”. You brought passion to every minute of Sam’s self-doubt, physical pain and human need. The scenes with Mark Sheppard were touching, believable and transformative. (You have mentioned that working with a variety of other actors stretches your creative capabilities, so I am so glad you got a chance to craft that scene with such a deeply talented actor as Mark. Together, the two of you struck a perfect balance between intensity and sensitivity, resulting in an incredibly moving character exposé.) Then Sam’s climatic revelation to Dean was arguably the most poignant scene in the series. It was long ago established that you and Jensen have unmatched chemistry, and while he added immeasurably to the emotion of that dialogue, you truly owned that moment. Your gut-wrenching confession of (perceived) failure was a window into our most guarded human frailties. You showed us a human’s soul, leaving our hearts pounding and our nerves wrecked. (I can’t imagine filming that scene several times to get the angles, camera shots, etc. perfect. You had to go through that over and over again!)

I can’t say I’m surprised. While your acting is always superb, over the past eight years you have given us several outstanding performances as Sam. You reduced us to puddles of empathy in “Heart” (s2), “Croatoan”(s2) and “Mystery Spot”(s3). We enjoyed your humor and comedic timing through entire episodes of “Bad Day at Black Rock” (s3), “The French Mistake” (s6) and “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie” (s7), as well as through quick one-liners, as in “Reading is Fundamental” (s7). You left us awed in horror as you transformed yourself into a mocking and sinister Possessed!Sam in “Born Under a Bad Sign” (s2), showed us unforgiving rage in “Fresh Blood” (S3), then mystified us as you delivered a haunting, emotionless Soulless!Sam in season 6. There have been the intense, highly emotional scenes such as those in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (s4), “Sex and Violence” (s4), “When the Levee Breaks” (s4), “Swan Song”(s5), “The Man Who Knew Too Much”(s6) and “Hello Cruel World” (s7) (Sorry…I started out to list just a few of my personal favorites but the list just kept growing!). Then, at the end of season 8, you began the road to your best performance yet in “The Great Escapist”. None of these achievements, though, prepared us for the perfection we saw in the finale, in “Sacrifice”. Your vulnerability was gripping and unforgettable.

Without taking away from the prior seasons’ accomplishments, the distinction that elevated this episode’s performance was that the impact did not come from what was happening in the scene. The audience was not affected by watching you die from being stabbed in the back, or watching Dean be killed after a season of trying to save him. We were not watching you kill Lilith or raise Lucifer. No, the power of your scenes came solely and completely from what was said and how it was said. There was only dialogue. There were simple movements like you drawing blood on yourself, holding a syringe up to Crowley or showing your arms to Dean but these were there only to support the dialogue. The intensity of the moment came entirely from the honesty of the human emotion. The movements of your eyes, voice inflections, breath, posture, the way you walked, the way you stood and the heartbreak in your face all delivered the dominance of this episode. Acting at its absolute finest.

During the New Jersey convention panel, Jensen said you were “wrecked” after filming the finale. With all respect, you did look tired. Then when your family crisis happened and you had to leave Rome unexpectedly, Jensen said you were “heartbroken” about missing Jus In Bello. He said that interacting with fans rejuvenates both of you and that talking to fans is what makes the long hours of your filming schedule worth it. So ironically, while we were watching a fictional show about sacrifices, you were being asked to make a real life sacrifice of your own for the good of your family. Hopefully, though, our comments give back to you some of that wonderfully grateful, positive enthusiasm that you missed. I wasn’t one of the people affected by your absence in Italy or England, but I know I can speak for at least some of them when I say there is no need to explain further or to feel bad. We are your family too. We understand. We are proud of what you did and we support you.

Our love to you, Genevieve and her family. Our thoughts, hopes and good wishes are with you all. When you are ready, read these comments, and understand what your performance meant to us.

Love and gratitude

Your SPN family

destielprofoundbond: Cockles a touch of Love Its like Jensen has this constant need to be close to Misha to touch him.. to feel him.. feel the life that runs through his heart in Misha’s presence.. Because every time cas leaves.. so does misha.. and dean has become an irreplaceable and unshakable part of Jensen’s life.. and he feels deans pain for cas and his own heart feels misha absence. So every time cas comes back.. Jensen is brightened visible and its some thing he can not control.. so what if Jared smiles teasingly or or sic smiles fondly and directors and creators smile knowingly.. doesn’t matter. And in these cons.. away from work and home he gets to spend time with Misha and in the tipsy atmosphere and screaming fan girls Jensen let’s himself relax.. though misha softly whispers to be safe or be aware but Jensen can’t help himself around misha.. he has never felt this way before.. misha is like liquid happiness through him and warms his cold body and relaxes his burdened shoulders. So that’s why Jensen keeps touching misha intentionally and subconsciously at times.. to remind himself that he is with him. Misha knows this. And he tries to be more careful but he knows Jensen is serious and has a lot of baggage and some how finds solace and happiness in him. Misha some times wonders how a serious and such an alpha male fell for a eccentric weird and different person like him.. misha knows he bullshits half the time and has many layers but some how Jensen saw through that and found a part of him that he did not even knew was there.. a part that only exists for Jensen. And misha is aware of every touch and look and let’s Jensen feel and touch because he knows Jensen needs the reassurance of his touch. He also lives for these soft tender brushes hands and eyes that melt his heart. They have to go back to their lives and responsibilities but during these cons they live and let the love flow. They both cherish it and let each other know through their hands.. eyes ..words and gestures that its mutual and beautiful.
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Cockles a touch of Love
Its like Jensen has this constant need to be close to Misha to touch him.. to feel him.. feel the life that runs through his heart in Misha’s presence..
Because every time cas leaves.. so does misha.. and dean has become an irreplaceable and unshakable part of Jensen’s life.. and he feels deans pain for cas and his own heart feels misha absence.
So every time cas comes back.. Jensen is brightened visible and its some thing he can not control.. so what if Jared smiles teasingly or or sic smiles fondly and directors and creators smile knowingly.. doesn’t matter. And in these cons.. away from work and home he gets to spend time with Misha and in the tipsy atmosphere and screaming fan girls Jensen let’s himself relax.. though misha softly whispers to be safe or be aware but Jensen can’t help himself around misha.. he has never felt this way before.. misha is like liquid happiness through him and warms his cold body and relaxes his burdened shoulders.
So that’s why Jensen keeps touching misha intentionally and subconsciously at times.. to remind himself that he is with him.

Misha knows this. And he tries to be more careful but he knows Jensen is serious and has a lot of baggage and some how finds solace and happiness in him. Misha some times wonders how a serious and such an alpha male fell for a eccentric weird and different person like him.. misha knows he bullshits half the time and has many layers but some how Jensen saw through that and found a part of him that he did not even knew was there.. a part that only exists for Jensen. And misha is aware of every touch and look and let’s Jensen feel and touch because he knows Jensen needs the reassurance of his touch. He also lives for these soft tender brushes hands and eyes that melt his heart.
They have to go back to their lives and responsibilities but during these cons they live and let the love flow. They both cherish it and let each other know through their hands.. eyes ..words and gestures that its mutual and beautiful.

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Anonymous asked:

I'm so sorry about Misha!... Where do you live, though, so interested followers can say (or, I mean, would someone be picking up the tab for sending Misha to a new home?)? And I'm also so sorry about your dad getting laid off. *hugs*

Oh, I’m silly, I should have put that in the post. I like in Northern Indiana. I’ll change the post now so that people know. Thank you for your hugs and support. <3

So, this may be the worst day ever.

You know that puppy that I waited months to get? The Boston Terrier? Misha?

Yeah, so my dad got laid off and it turns out you can’t keep a dog if you can’t pay for his wellbeing.

I realize it’s selfish of me to want to keep him, but we’ve had him for a month now, and I’m entirely in love with him. And just…I’m completely heartbroken.

So, we have to sell him now to try and get the money back that we spent on him so that we will be able to pay bills and stuff. And I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m looking for a new home for my 3 month old, male, Boston Terrier puppy. I would prefer to sell him to one of my followers, because I love you guys and trust you with him, whereas if I put an ad in the newspaper or on Craigslist, I would be extremely worried for him.

Also, I live in Northern Indiana and here are some things that you will probably want to know about Misha.

  • Gender: Male
  • Birthday: 02/21/13
  • Colors: Black, white and Brindle
  • Not neutered (so you could use him to breed when he gets older if you wanted to)
  • Comes with ACA registration papers.
  • Microchipped
  • Answers to Misha, but he’s a smart cookie (already knows the sit command and will do just about anything for a treat, so teaching him a new name would not be hard).
  • Had his distemper shot and one booster with one to go.
  • Comes with about 10 lbs of puppy food, lots of toys (chew toys and others), leash, collar, two harnesses (one for now and one he’ll grow into), treats, crate, crate bed, two pet beds, food bowl, water bowl, two puppy training books with a clicker for training, 3 months worth of Frontline Flea treatment and one month worth of Hartgard, heart worm preventive medicine.
  •      **So basically everything you need for a new puppy, he comes with. All you need is him.**

And this is my little guy:

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If you or anyone you know, would like to buy him, please privately message me.

Thank you.

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