like a fever that just won't break.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Throwback Thursday-ers! This week's kind of a grab bag, S4 style. I tried to pick out a few of my favorite "forgotten," random, "wait, that happened?" moments of Dean H/C. Well, mostly H, but it's Sam to the rescue in half of them, so there's that! That's C, right??

In other, but related, news: 1) Wow, S4 is great. 2) And weird as hell. 3) Was it Halloween all year long in this season? I'M PRETTY SURE IT WAS. ALL THE HALLOWEEN EPISODES. Cannibals, the undead, immortal witches, immortal magicians, monster movie shapeshifters, and even feral children locked in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse.

No, but seriously, I'm pretty sure it was legitimately October for like, nearly half the season.

Also, bonus laryngitis!Jensen this season, because being an actor sucks. XP I tried to look up more specific info for you guys, but I wasn't super successful. (My search did land me on SneezeFetishForum.Org, though, if that's up your alley!)

4x02 "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"
-pain
-supernatural injury
-guilt complex (which isn't a tag, but maybe it should be)

( Victor Henriksen's ghost confronts Dean about the aftermath of 3x12  )

4x05 "Monster Movie"
-altered state
-drugs/drugged
-dizziness
-fainting

( Dean and Jamie are roofied, and Dean attempts to fight their aggressor in spite of this. )

4x07 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
-hell/post-hell issues
-PTSD

( Halloween masks trigger Dean's memories of Hell. )

4x12 "Criss Angel is a Douchebag"
-asphyxiation
-cough/coughing
-rather, attempted hanging

( Dean nearly suffers the same fate as the Hanged Man tarot card. )

Clip explications are less analytic, more squee this week, because it's Halloween, man!

Do you have fond memories of these scenes? Or a favorite out of them? Are they actually not forgotten and totally ever-present in your heart? Inquiring minds want to know!

Also, keep an eye out this weekend, when we'll be announcing hoodie_time's upcoming event!

HEAR YE, HEAR YE. It's Throwback Thursday again! And it's time to hearken back to 4x06 "Yellow Fever." Thank you to boysinperil for suggesting this episode!

While I was clipping this, it occurred to me that this is sort of reversal of 3x11 "Mystery Spot," because in 3x11, Sam was like OH GOD OH GOD YOU'RE DYING DEAN and Dean was like, derp derp; in 4x06 Dean is like OH GOD OH GOD I'M DYING (AGAIN) and Sam's just like, lol derpy derp derp. Sam don't have time for this bullshit. XP I'll just leave that here for you to interpret as you will.

It occurs to me that in addition to the essentially pornographic pleasures of regaling H/C moments, these may actually serve as useful ficcing and arting references. If you're interested in enhancing your grasp of H/C-related Dean body language, this is an excellent collection of clips! Featuring:

* expressions of fear
* hallucinations
* heart palpitations/cardiac arrest
* coughing
* choking
* anxiety/panic attack
* paranoia, as demonstrated via facial expressions
* lying exhausted on the ground
* looks of consternation as Dean contemplates Sam's demonic future
* Dean's lying face as he opts not to share his concerns wrt Sam's demonic future
* and as a bonus, Sam's FINE I guess I'm enabling your utterly transparent lies today face

Explications for the following clips may be truncated because my god, I am going to starve to death; it's one of those days where you really wish you owned a microwave because ovens are just so. Slow. And I am so. Hungry.

CLIP #1: With time ticking down, the pages swim before Dean's eyes, reminding him: You're dying; this isn't the first time. You know what happens next. This scene features one of my favorite recurring characters on SPN, the lovely Star Clock. (Also featured are coughing!Dean, sweaty!Dean, anxious!Dean, hallucinating!Dean, and any other slowly!dying!Deans you're likely to conceive of.)




( And then Dean coughs up a wood chip, and then he hallucinates evil!Sam, and then bb!Lilith nearly gives in a heart attack, and after all that's over, and the ghost sickness is good and gone, Dean remains saddled with the knowledge that they're STILL screwed and sooner or later, everything's going to hell in a handbasket. Without the handbasket. )