like a fever that just won't break.

Throwback Thursday is upon us! The stars have aligned on 3x09 "Malleus Maleficarum," the one with the coven of witches getting each other pottery prowess and lower mortgage rates.

AKA a classic. I'll be honest, I've never been quite sure why this episode exists, or why Dean/Jensen is talking so loud the sound stage echoes (or is that my laptop?), but hey, why not. If you have an opportunity to make someone's teeth fall out, and then turn someone's burger into a pile of maggots, and then slaughter some rabbits on a glass table, you really can't pass up the opportunity.

And if Dean spits up blood, well, I'm sold. XP I'm pretty sure I randomly end up watching this scene at least once a month. …And I may or may not have watched it multiple times this weekend.

A demon (pretending to be a part of a coven of witches) hexes Dean, and thing go downhill in a matter of minutes. Sam drives extremely fast in an attempt to stop the coven of witches that is actually a demon pretending to be a witch. Ruby, who is a demon but was at one point also a witch, kicks a door down and comes to the rescue!

Watch the long version on YouTube. [This clip might be blocked! D:] I wanted to give some context for the scene in terms of Ruby's relationship to Sam and Dean, and the circumstances within which this scene occurs (Dean's impending banishment to Hell, Sam's potential one-man crusade post-Dean's-mortem).

But if the long version doesn't work, or you don't need the refresher, here's JUST the H/Cest of this H/C scene!




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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. )