LARP and the Real Girl (8x11)

Welcome back to another episode of Denim Wrapped Nightmares, where Berly and LA dive into Supernatural Season 8, Episode 11: "LARP and the Real Girl" - and yes, it's exactly as nerdy as it sounds!

What Went Down:

Our episode kicks off with poor Ed the accountant getting literally torn apart by invisible horses (talk about a rough night!), followed by Lance projectile vomiting blood all over an interrogation room mirror. The Winchesters investigate and discover both deaths are connected to a LARPing group called Moondoor, where everyone dresses up as elves and orcs and takes their foam sword battles very seriously.

The Good Stuff:

• Charlie's back! Our favorite hacker queen is now ruling over a bunch of LARPers and looking fabulous doing it
• Dean gets fully costumed up and is way into it (that Braveheart speech though!)
• Sam meets a flirty elf in the tech tent (and maybe visits her tent later, according to Berly's headcanon)
• The mustache-sporting sheriff who's just happy to let the FBI handle the weird stuff

The Monster:

Turns out the real villain is Boltar the Furious (and boy, is he ever furious), who's been using a captive fairy named Gilda to murder anyone who gets too close to his beloved Queen Charlie. His evil plan? Kill everyone, wipe Charlie's memory, and force her to make him king. Therapy would've been cheaper, buddy.

The Resolution:

Charlie saves the day by destroying the spell book, freeing Gilda and turning Boltar's real sword back into harmless foam. Dean promptly punches the creep's lights out because he was SO done with this whole situation. The fairy tribunal takes Boltar away (and honestly, we'd watch that episode), and our heroes join an epic LARPing battle because sometimes you just need to have a little fun.

Gore Counter:

• 2 blood splooges 
• One extremely disturbing quartering scene
• Lance's face literally bleeding from every orifice (yikes!)

The hosts loved the Dean-Charlie friendship, the surprisingly impressive Moondoor setup, and Dean's complete transformation from LARP-mocker to enthusiastic participant. A fun, lighter episode that proves even monster hunters need to let loose sometimes!

"What I can't shut this down, it's good to be queen!" - Queen Charlie

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/LARP_and_the_Real_Girl 
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/12/19/are-fairies-real-origin/8121470001/
• https://www.awaywiththefairies.ie/how-do-you-attract-fairies-to-your-house/

Transcript

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Welcome to Denim Wrapped Nightmares, Tipsy Exchange Podcast, where we explore the Supernatural series episode by episode. Over drinks, we'll discuss the lore, the gore, and what we adore about the Winchesters and their adventures. I'm Burleigh, and I'm a new fan of the series. I'm Ale, and I'm here along for the ride. Now let's get tipsy. Hello, Ale. Hey, Burleigh. Before we get started, I want to give a shout out to the family don't end with blood a supernatural fan page they said that they found our podcast by accident so it wasn't a referral from one of our many listeners you guys are dropping the ball laughing They just stumbled upon us. They gave us a shout out with a lengthy review, a positive lengthy review about our podcast and encouraged their followers to check us out. Okay, cool. So thank you for

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that.

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On the last episode, it was titled Torn and Frayed.

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Naomi told Castiel that Crowley was holding an angel captive and Castiel had to rescue him before Crowley found out about their secrets. Castiel turned to Dean for help, of course. And Sam met with Amelia, who asked him to make a choice either to

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stay with her or leave and never contact her again. He said, see ya. Sayonara, Amelia. Thank God. Well, today's episode is titled LARP and the Real Girl. Have you ever seen that movie, Lars and the Real Girl? Mm-hmm. I don't think I ever saw it. Like, I know what the premise was, but I don't think I actually saw the movie. Is it cute? It is, yeah. It's different. I might need to Google that one. Well, LARP and the Real Girl is the 11th episode of Season 8 and originally aired on January 23, 2013. The episode opens up with Ed. He's an accountant, and he does whatever accountants do. Remember that song, whenever that was on? His name is Ed. He's an accountant. Anyway, Ed is having an argument on the phone and like, it's just a game and he hangs up and then we see this text from Lance where it's like you'll be sorry for this or something like that. Something threatening and menacing to sweet little Ed. So Ed goes through his nightly routine and he gets all comfy in his bed and he's laying there starting to drift off to sleep and then his arm falls over and we see this tattoo looking thing get etched onto his arm. It was like a tree. I loved it. I liked the way how it appeared on his skin. It

LA: 2:56

went out

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and

LA: 2:56

like grew from his skin or something. It was cool. I liked

Berly: 2:59

it. It looked like something from Lord of the Rings or something. Yeah. It was really cool. And then we start hearing horses and like hooves stomping and stuff. Ed wakes up and is like, what the fuck is that? And then his arms all of a sudden and his legs get pulled out straight. And so now he's confused and scared. Mm. He starts yelling like, oh my God, ow, ow. And we see the rope burns forming on his ankles and his wrists. And the horses are still like galloping and neighing and making their noises and stuff. And he starts screaming in agony as we're seeing them get pulled more and more and more. And then his arm gets ripped off his shoulder. And we get our 65th blood splooge of the Supernatural series as his limbs are torn apart. And there's actually a name for that. It's being quartered, right? Is that what it was? I knew there was a name for it, but I didn't write it down and I couldn't remember if they said it in the episode. I don't think they did, but I want to say that's what it is because when I was watching it, I was like, oh shit, is he being quartered right now? It's divide into four equal or corresponding parts. He technically got divided into five parts and they weren't equal.

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True.

Berly: 4:13

Why am I laughing?

LA: 4:16

Yeah, I don't know.

Berly: 4:18

Bye-bye, Ed.

LA: 4:19

Yeah, what a way to go. Not a great way to wake up. Right?

Berly: 4:22

He didn't even get a good night's sleep beforehand. Yeah,

LA: 4:25

not at all. No.

Berly: 4:26

No. So we cut to Sam and Dean. And Dean notices that Sam is just kind of being a little moody. And he's like, we should go do something fun. Take a day. Take some time off. Yeah, let's go get some drinks and just cut loose and have a good time. And Sam says no. I don't want to have fun. While they happen to get a call from Garth. He's been tracking their phones. And this is apparently a new hunter's best practice, right? They were like, it's totally something Bobby would do. Totally something Bobby would do. So I love that. Garth tracks every hunter's phone. So whenever a case comes across his desk, he literally jumps on his computer to see which hunter is closest to the area and contacts that hunter to just assign the case to them. Yeah, smart. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. Sam said that he didn't like it and he really didn't like that he said, you've been Garth. But Sam did like the idea of going to work on a case. We're not going to go have fun to distract us while Kevin is still trying to figure out what that half of the demon tablet that he has says instead. All

LA: 5:35

business, no play.

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They go to Ed's apartment and I liked the sheriff in there. I did too.

LA: 5:43

That mustache.

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That mustache, that personality, that attitude. It's just, okay, it's y'all's rodeo. I'm just here. Do what you need to do.

LA: 5:54

That room wasn't like blood everywhere.

Berly: 5:58

There were so many splooges. I was like, we only saw the one, but you know. I mean, streaks down the walls. I was like, good God. And they were like, we haven't even moved the body out yet. Y'all got here fast. I like when a Sam asked if like anything was missing from his when he was like oh no

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it's all there twig and berries everything I was like

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oh my god so Sam notices the tattoo while Dean is looking at other stuff and he's kind of seeing all the shields and swords and toys so they convene in the common area and the sheriff lets them know about Lance and that they had had a 15 minute conversation the evening before this had happened And that he had sent like a bunch of threatening texts with emojis and that they were kind of weird. I like 28 looked at Dean and just said, kids these days with their

LA: 6:54

texting and murder. What?

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He was a hoot. He was a hoot. I liked him. So they go to Lance now. They're like, okay, we got to interrogate this guy. He was already down at the sheriff's station because they had already brought him in. And he is distraught over his friend. In their interrogation, they find out about Moondore, that it's this LARPing game that happens like every other weekend and that he and Ed were both really into the game. And that's why Lance was texting him that stuff, that he had done something that was against the rules of the game and Lance didn't think it was cool and that it was his character, who's a really powerful mage with magic wines. And Dean's like,

LA: 7:42

no. I liked when he

Berly: 7:43

was...

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talking to Sam he said I'm a very very powerful mage in the game

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and this is the way Sam's like oh okay yeah I get it I get it I liked it when he said like we I told him that we would have a dueling of wands and whenever Dean went magic wands and he was like no unmagic wands because who wants a magic wand dumbass like it was really funny so they figure out okay there's no way this Lance kid did it like nothing about him is ringing as guilty he seems to be telling the truth they step outside the interrogation room and they go up to a laptop that isn't locked I don't know if you noticed but at the bottom whenever they moved the mouse around and we got the screen there were files down there that were open oh you know they need to take their security classes they really do their IT security classes at the sheriff's station because just anybody could walk up to it and just what's this file that's just open and sitting here I mean it was minimized But still, it was there. Right? Still there. Still can access it. Anyway, they Google Moondore, and sure enough, they see pictures of Lance. His alibi stands up. He said he was at the feast celebration thing, whatever, all night, and that they could easily confirm that. They also happen to see a little trailer for the Moondore game, where it's explaining the different elves and the orcs and the queen. Mm. And this queen looks very familiar. It's good old Charlie. I was excited. I didn't think we were going to see her again. I kind of figured. Really? LARP. LARPing. Yeah. Like she was dragon with the tattoo, the dice. Oh, yeah, yeah. And the Leia. And she does the Comic-Con. It seemed like her character would be somebody. Yeah, who would be into LARPing. She had like the fake sword in her room. Yeah. I wasn't certain of it, but it did kind of cross my mind that like, oh, we're going to, it's going to be nerds. I wonder if Charlie's going to be there. Sam and Dean are like, okay, yeah. So we need to go check out Moon Door. Good thing we know the queen. Well, while they're searching all of this, poor Lance is in the interrogation room.

LA: 10:02

Oh my God.

Berly: 10:03

My brother was watching it with me. Well, go ahead.

LA: 10:08

Explain it.

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He starts like scratching at his arm and then pulls up his sleeve and is like, what the fuck? And she's like, sure enough, here comes good old tree tattoo. And then he kind of starts coughing and a little bit of blood comes out. And then he like, like projectile vomits blood. And so I went ahead and counted it. I was wondering

LA: 10:26

if you were going to count that or not.

Berly: 10:28

Don't you think so? Oh yeah. Yeah. I felt like projectiled enough to be a splooge. Oh yeah. So we got our 66 splooge of the supernatural series as Lance vomited projectile, vomited blood on the two way mirror in the interrogation room. and then he looks at the mirror and there's like blood coming out of his eyes and I don't even know what was happening to his face like everything like his nose mouth ears and he just falls down dead my brother was watching it and he said good god I know

LA: 11:03

it's terrible

Berly: 11:04

it was pretty fucking awful yeah like damn Sam and Dean go to Moondore and they run into Boltar the Furious And let me tell you, he really is just angry, angry man. He quickly calls them on their fake FBI gear, though. So I thought that was hilarious. It was so good. Well, he was like, they're good fakes, but these are clearly fake. You know, get out of here. They're like, well, we want to talk to the queen. They go where the squires are training. I have to say, Moondore was kind of impressive. It was really nice. Her tent, the queen's tent, was very nice. Yeah, where are these tents? The whole setup. Year-round Renaissance Faire. Yeah, yeah. That's what it reminded me of, even though I've never been to one. That's

LA: 11:53

what it reminded me of. And I was like, that's pretty cool. I almost would want to go just to, like, be a fly on the wall. People watch, you know? I

Berly: 11:59

mean, that's what Ren Faires are. Most people don't participate. Most people aren't working at the Ren Faire. Most people are there just as... Yeah, but I'm saying, like, I wouldn't want to, like, necessarily dress up and participate

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like this, like where they're actually LARPing. Okay.

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That's not fun, though. You have to dress up. You can't go to a Renaissance fair and not at least try to dress up a little bit. Oh, OK. Well, I don't know. I've never been. You can't go. Well, that's the vibe. Like, did you see how immersed everybody was? Like, if you don't have to, like, pretend to have a sword fight or, like, do anything like that, you can just go there and eat turkey legs and just walk around. But that's the Renaissance fair, right? Right. But you have to be, like. But that's not LARPing. No. I thought you were talking about a Wren fair. No. Oh, no, I was saying, no, like, this moon door thing. Like, I would like to, like, go there and just, like, watch. I creeped on some LARPers. I creeped on some LARPers in a park once. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I think you told me about that. Yeah, because I didn't know what they were doing at first. And so I was like, what is happening? I, like, called you and was, like, telling you what was happening. And, like, it took me, it took us forever. But we, like, figured it out that, like, they must be LARPing.

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That

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was a long time ago. We

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need to, like, go creep on them again sometime.

Berly: 13:10

Go creep on some LARPers?

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Yeah.

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Okay. Well, anyway, Sam and Dean come walking up and they're like a foot taller than everybody there, basically. So they already stand out like a sore thumb because they're in suits. But then they're also taller than everyone there. So Charlie's not only overseeing the training of the squires. She's actually the one squabbing with the squires. And she's really good because they like, oh, I surrender. I surrender. I surrender. And she did like the dramatic how reveal and shook her hair out and started giving a speech to all of her people and then she saw them and just like her face oh shit yeah she was not happy to see them she was not happy so she goes to her tent Sam and Dean follow her in there they were like hey Charlie she's like no I'm Carrie I literally killed and buried Charlie after the whole Dick Roman thing you know I ran away and I actually have a life here and I'm enjoying myself and now you two show up which only means there's a monster here which means she's like packing up saying

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all this to them

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she's already

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traumatized

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yeah she's like I don't want to break my other arm Sam oh Sam didn't do that Bobby did and she didn't know Bobby did it because she didn't see the ghost did she I don't remember that doesn't matter she doesn't want to break her other arm that's what matters so she's packing up her shit and is like I'm running again but they start talking to her about ed and lance and what happened to them and that this weird tree thing is coming up and everything and she ends up deciding that she's not going to run that she's going to stay there and help them because that's what a queen would do

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that's right queen

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and there were some other weird like injuries

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and stuff from some of her other subjects right earlier on before this happened so she yeah she wants to know what's up why they're taking out her her people

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yeah so now they have a wider sample We'll say, right? It's not just these two guys. Charlie's let them know there's actually quite a few people. So Sam heads to the tech tent because nobody else can have laptops. You have to go to the tech tent to get on the internet to do some research. He's going to look into this tree, find out if these other people who happened to get injured also have the tree. I loved the little elf character who was in there with him and helped him out. Oh my God, me

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too.

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Like she wasn't necessary for the story, but I still really liked her. I thought it was a nice touch.

LA: 15:43

She shot her shot with them too. I was like, good for you, girl.

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Who knew LARPers and Renfares were so horny? I didn't know that. So we got to look cute when we go creep on the LARPers. I guess so. Who knows? Maybe that's where we're going to find ourselves. I can't wait for people to be like, how did you meet? Well, my friend and I decided that we were going to go and creep on a bunch of LARPers one day.

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And we just He

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dropped his sword, and when he bent over to pick it up, I knew he was the one. Hey, you never know. So Charlie and Dean are kind of walking around trying to kind of poke some prod some people. Like, do you know this symbol? Have you seen this thing? Do you know what this is? And we find out, you know, speaking again of horniness, like Charlie is apparently doing really well.

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Side note, she made Dean get into the gear, like full costume. He looks pretty good. I liked it. I think he liked it. He liked his outfit. He was so into it. I love that at first he's like trying to make fun of the what's his name at the station like oh Larpy oh okay okay magic and then he gets there and he gets all dressed and he's like into it picking up his sword carrying it around with him I

Berly: 17:04

mean he loved it he was honestly doing that even when they were at the police station whenever Sam was going through the website Dean was like looking and was like kind of smiling he's like yeah like this looks like it could be kind of fun so he was he was a little reluctant to give in to the dress up and the whatever but actually you know what I take that back because whenever Charlie put her crown on him as she was like packing up and getting ready he didn't touch that thing he left he left that there he actually succumbed very quickly to getting dressed up yeah it was very cute very cute they point out that the tree is the symbol of one of the orc families it's like their family crest or something like that so while Sam is researching he finds out that the tree is also the tree of pain which is a symbol of fairy magic and In the meantime, Dean and Charlie decide to go and talk to the Shadow King about this family crest thing. So they aren't on, like, the main grounds thing anymore, and they run into Boltar the Furious. Boltar agrees to take Dean to the Shadow King, but he tells Charlie, Dean tells Charlie that she should go back and check in on Sam and see what information he's got. He gives her his phone. Didn't seem too happy about that but she goes ahead and walks back oh I forgot about the dark magic because that's coming up soon oh no that's coming that's coming as she's heading back she notices that she's being followed by an orc so she waits until he approaches and then she confidently throws her bean bag at him her little her little hand bean bag it's like dark magic and he's like oh I've been defeated and he runs away and then she's like smirking all proud of herself and then she turns around And there's this really, I thought it was a really tall figure, but I guess they were just standing on something because when we see them later, they were not any taller than her. And like a stag skull with the big cape. And she not so confidently throws another beanbag. It's like dark, dark magic. Nope, not going to work. And the figure like covers her in the cloak and they disappear. Dean and Baltar do not find the orc. no luck there

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right

Berly: 19:26

but they get back to the camp and Baltar is like you know I happen to have one of their orcs prisoner if we get word to them that we're willing to like do an exchange give them this orc back if they'll get meet with us and give us some information maybe that'll work out and Dean was like oh my god yeah that's gonna be great we'll do that so Sam comes running up to Dean to tell him about Tree of Pain and all his research that he did and the fact that a elf was trying to get him to come back with her to her tent. But Sam's not ready to have fun yet. Nope. You know what? I'm deciding right now that after Sam did decide to have fun while they were in Moondore and they do that battle at the end and everything, he went to her tent after all.

LA: 20:10

Oh, you think?

Berly: 20:10

I want that for her. Me too. Yeah. So that happened. Dean tells Sam about the plan to exchange the orc and is sure to clarify. It was my idea. I came up with it. Not that Boltar guy. It was all me. And then Dean says where's Charlie Sam says she's with you what do you mean he's like no I sent her back with you and they're like oh god so Sam pulls out his phone because Dean's like she has my phone call her we cut to Charlie laying on a bed nice soft romantic bed but the phone for some reason is like laid out on the bed next to her and it says no signal so she is not getting that call and then this magical phone vanishes we never see it again Charlie like gets up off the bed and we see the bed it's not there it's just gone sorry Dean no phone for you Dean yep so Charlie wakes up and the stag monster is in there and she does the whole what was it was it Notting Hill where she's like I'm just a girl standing in front of a skull stag monster asking it not to kill her it

LA: 21:17

was good

Berly: 21:18

it was funny it was funny and then she's talking about how fuck man I just want to go home I just want to be able to go home go back to my old life I'm so sick of running this sucks and the person takes off the skull mask and it's a beautiful fairy and she's like that's all I want too like this is not what I want to do this is all against my will I need someone to save me save me Charlie save me Sam Dean and Boltar the Furious take their orc warrior guy to the shadow orcs out in the woods and Dean is done fucking around all right he is worried about his friend Charlie he is ready to cut to the chase so they're doing like their whole staying in character banter stuff and Dean is just like okay I've had enough of this and he pulls out his gun and he's just like hey hi yeah this is a real gun see and he like fires it and they I swear they pissed their pants it was he was like seriously like you need to tell us what the fuck is going on where is Charlie what what's happening here so they somehow magically see stumble upon this tent after Dean is confronting them and everything I don't remember where the orcs went after the confrontation but they find out that orcs they don't know anything like they know nothing everybody has a crush on Charlie everybody's trying to get closer to Charlie which I mean everybody in this fucking camp had a crush on Charlie like everybody yeah I loved it whenever Dean was talking to that guy and was like I don't think you're her type yeah and he goes oh she doesn't date orcs yeah But anyway, I don't remember how, but the tent magically reveals itself to Sam, Dean, and Bultor, the furious. The orcs have skipped away or something. I don't remember what. They go in there, and Charlie and the fairy are having some- Making out. Yeah, magic time together. They're making some magic together, or they were on their way to be making some magic together. There you go. Charlie was none too pleased. Yeah, she was like, what did she say? When the tent's- Rocking. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Which it wasn't rocking. It wasn't rocking, Charlie. She hadn't gotten there. Yeah. Come on. Well, then Glinda or Gilda, Gilda, not Glinda, Gilda, the fairy starts freaking out and is like, oh my God, that's him. That's the fucker who trapped me here. That's the monster who summoned me and has been making me hurt people. That's him. And it cuts to Boltar and it was, he had his hood down and looked very villainous, which I thought he did well there with the lighting and everything making him all of a sudden this intimidating evil factor. Well, a fight ensues and he like gets his foam sword and makes Gilda make it into a real sword. And he's using her magic to defeat Sam and Dean. Like he's kicking their asses. But I also liked when the guys pulled out their guns

LA: 24:13

and he told Gilda to take care of it. Their guns turned to feathers. Oh yeah.

Berly: 24:18

And the noise, the sound effect.

LA: 24:21

Yeah.

Unknown: 24:22

Yeah.

Berly: 24:23

Yeah, for someone who was doing stuff she didn't want to do, Gilda was being real fucking creative. Like, I liked what she was doing.

LA: 24:32

Yeah,

Berly: 24:32

yeah. But yeah, so then Gilda tells Charlie, oh, if you destroy this spellbook, that magic spellbook, then you'll set me free. And in the meantime, Sam and Dean are fighting Bulldar, and they're like, Sam's trying to reason with him. And he's just, he's really, really mad because, you know, the reason things escalated to murder was because Lance and Ed cheated. Right. They were paying people with real money, not moon door money. So, of course, they deserved it. And everybody else, you know, they were just getting closer to the queen and he didn't want them to be close to the queen. I was just like, geez, he wanted to be close to her. Like a bolt heart. Go go to therapy. One of the weekends out of the month or something, honey. This isn't normal. And he was like saying he's going to wipe Charlie's memory after he murdered everybody and force her to make him her king. and blah, blah, blah. I was just like, damn. But anyway, Charlie, she stabs the book and it does its fanciful spellbroken thing and Baltar's sword turns back to just being foam. So Dean just takes it from him and punches him and knocks him out. Knocks him out,

LA: 25:41

yeah. And Dean was like, he

Berly: 25:44

was over it. He was over it at this point. We are done. We are done at this point. Gilda explains to Charlie that she has to return to her people they kiss like one last time and then she says by the way I'm gonna take your little friend over here with us because he has to answer to the fairy tribunal um that's another episode I recommend for our oh yep yep I want to see the fairy tribunal me too right that'd be a good one yeah yeah I want to see that I want to see Gilda and this guy the fairy and like what his sentence is going to be and like that could be that could be a fun episode episode that could be fun I want to see it so Gilda disappears and I like how she kind of evaporated and then he the bolt are kind of evaporated to after all is said and done you know Charlie she did mention earlier in the episode about how she wanted to be a hero that she she was she was a hero and Dean told her dude like you beat dick and Get it? I get it. You beat dick, okay? Out there in the real world, you are a hero. She beat him off. You took it like a champ. Took it like a champ. Don't put that in there. She beat him off. She did. She beat that dick. She did. With all her might. She's got small hands and not a lot of upper body strength. Sometimes it's hard to do. And the angle can be really awkward like I don't it's a skill okay just say now she's like buying into it she's like okay like I am a hero I saved I saved a fucking fairy queen I got to make out with a fairy I didn't get to seal the deal thanks guys thanks for that like I wasn't in any danger at that time you couldn't have waited shit but anyway overall she's grateful and she's happy and she doesn't want to run anymore so she tells them that if they ever need her help for something ring a ding ring a ding ding after Charlie leaves to go get ready for her battle that she's like we're gonna lose I don't have enough people but fuck it you know I'm gonna go fight this battle Dean is talking to Sam oh I forgot I loved the scene where Dean and Charlie were catching up and she was like you pretended to be his ex and that was a dick move that was not cool and then after they were chatting back and forth she was like so what do about you like you seem like you've gone through a breakup and he was like no yeah not me yes you Dean anyway Sam and Dean are talking and Dean's like yeah no fun I get it you need time you're not ecstatic about losing your chance at a normal life with Amelia which I don't think it would have lasted with Amelia anyway Sam just saying yeah yeah just saying but Sam is like you know what we can have a little bit of fun you got to get in a costume early and I was really jealous about that. I've just been walking around in my suit and dress shoes on this muddy floor all day. It's my time. Yeah. Where'd that wig come from for Dean? I don't know. They get fully dressed up and they join the battle. And was it Braveheart? Was that the speech he was doing? Okay, I was like, I don't know what this is. But yeah, so it's Braveheart. And I gotta say, I mean, Dean didn't look bad, right? No. But Jared Padalecki, that is not fair that he still looked hot with that face paint. I was like, what the fuck is this? I liked it.

Unknown: 29:29

Yeah.

Berly: 29:29

And his hair was all pulled back like in a ponytail or something. I don't know. Yeah. I saw his face paint. I was like, I like put on too much blush and I look freaking hideous. You like literally have face paint all over you and you still look hot. Yeah. They have a big old battle after Dean leads them into the charge instead of their queen for some reason.

LA: 29:52

Yeah. I thought that was odd, but okay.

Berly: 29:55

I guess Charlie was just like, okay, like you guys need to play. You guys need to let off some steam. Dean's been like foaming at the mouth about planning battle strategy and doing all that kind of stuff like I guess I'll let you guys play this episode was written by Robbie Thompson who's also written in season 8 bitten the episode with the werewolf the found footage thing and last season he wrote slash fiction where the Leviathans copied Sam and Dean time after time one of your favorites and And the girl with the Dungeons and Dragons tattoo. So that makes sense that it was the same writer who brought this character back. And it was directed by Jeannotte Swark, who directed Mannequin 3, The Reckoning, in season six. You liked that mannequin. And Adventures in Babysitting in season seven. So gore. I mean, the goriest thing was poor Lance.

Unknown: 30:54

Yeah.

Berly: 30:54

Yeah. I forgot that was funny whenever Sam was like, all right, so Lance toxicology came back, nothing, nothing in his system, but all of the symptoms point to poison or point to Belladonna. Oh yeah. And Dean and Charlie both went the porn star.

Unknown: 31:13

Yeah.

Berly: 31:15

Sam had to be like the poison. Yeah. But yeah, that, that was brutal. Yeah. It was so bad. Oh, so I would say that was the biggest score even though we got two blood splooges I mean the first death wasn't a freaking walk in the park but man Lance's death oh it's real bad yeah did you adore anything in this episode

LA: 31:40

I liked how like Dean and Charlie's little friendship kind of how they clicked so well together and how he was like so concerned about her and like she better not be hurt or something like that I think he said at one point

Berly: 31:54

I liked that I thought it was cute. What about you? I liked that too. I liked them. And like I said, that random elf girl in the tech tent, I liked that touch. Like I said, she wasn't had nothing to do with the story really. She could have not been there and it wouldn't have mattered, but I liked that rather than us just seeing Sam clicking away on a laptop that there was this little elf nerd helping him out and that she was having fun because she thought it was like a mashup fantasy thing and she didn't realize like, oh, I'm actually looking at dead bodies and Oh, I forgot about the hobbled woman. Oh yeah. Not gory, but damn, I clinched. Yeah. Yikes. Okay. So what about lore? Okay. Back in season six,

LA: 32:38

episode nine, clap your hands. If you believe our fairy lore focused on the Irish. Okay. So we're going to branch out a little today.

Berly: 32:57

I just remembered that it sounded like twat, and then I kept saying twat, and you kept getting mad at me for saying twat.

LA: 33:06

Okay, well, I don't know how to pronounce some other stuff that we're about to get into, so we'll see. Yay! All right, so this, I guess, is an article from USA Today titled, From Fairy Godmother to the Wink Saga, Are Fairies Real? Origins Explained.

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Many centuries ago, fairies were believed to be vindictive, powerful, and cruel in addition to being benevolent. For instance, travelers on long journeys would bring offerings for fairies in exchange for safe pathways and good weather. Failing to appease

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these fairies would risk the countrymen ruin in the form of natural disasters or terrible accidents. Despite such tales and beliefs in fairy folklore, modern scientists believe unknown medical conditions

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in the fairies. And the U.S., the Cherokee tribe of North Carolina, believed in Yanwe Sunday

LA: 34:02

to Sunday. Sure. Or little people. Equivalent to fairies of European folklore and Cherokee mythology. The Yunwi Tsundi were benevolent spirits who sometimes

Berly: 34:17

helped... I think it's Sundi, like tsunami. Sundi? Sunsti. There's that S though. Sunsti. Yeah, Sunsti. Sunsti. Yunwi Sunsti. Yunwi Sunsti. They're benevolent spirits who sometimes helped humans in Cherokee stories. but also had powers and could punish people who were disrespectful toward them. Nice. Over the centuries, fairies have taken different appearances and different legends. Fairies have been generally portrayed as human-like in appearance with magical powers, allowing them to alter their size from unusually small to human-sized. In Orkney, Scotland, fairies were portrayed as short in stature, dressed in dark gray, and sometimes seen in armor.

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Modern depictions of fairies include a possumer wings, and pointy elf-like ears, among other typical fairy characteristics. Now, if you want a fairy booty call, don't be a creep and summon them against their will. According to A Way with the Fairies, if you're looking for ways to attract fairies to your home, here are a few tips to try. Build a fairy house. Create a small

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shelter made out of natural materials like twigs, leaves, and moss. Put it in your yard or garden and see if any fairies decide to make it their home. Also decorate with fairy lights. String up some twinkling fairy lights around your garden or balcony. Fairies are attracted to light and may be drawn to your home if it appears magical and enchanting. Also play some music. Some believe that fairies are fond of music, so playing soft, soothing tunes in your garden or home may help to attract them. Or plant a fairy garden. Create a small garden with flowers and plants

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that are believed to attract fairies, such as foxglove, primrose, and time add

Berly: 36:06

some small decorative items like miniature furniture a small pond and a fairy statue to make the garden even more inviting leave some offerings fairies are said to appreciate gifts and offerings leave small trinkets like crystals shells or pretty stones around your home or garden as a sign of goodwill and last create a fairy circle a fairy circle is a ring of mushrooms that is said to be a portal to the fairy world if you find one in your garden be sure to leave it undisturbed and treat it with respect. All in all, it's best to remember that fairies are very elusive and may not make themselves known right away. Fairies are sensitive creatures who value kindness and respect for nature. Attracting fairies to your home can be a fun and enchanting experience. By creating a magical and welcoming environment, you may just attract

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some fairy friends with benefits to your home.

Berly: 36:59

I'm on it. I'll be doing all of these tomorrow. well quote to close it out it's from queen charlie talking about whenever dean noticed her getting checked out by like everybody on the fucking camp she said what i can't shut this down it's good to be queen cheers cheers that was cute when she said that yeah it was a cute episode i liked it i liked it yeah thank you for listening to denim wrapped nightmares follow us on twitter or instagram leave a and let us know how we can get involved in the fandom. This was fun. Jerk. It always is, bitch.