#(using SPN faces bc this is the SPN website and I have an SPN blog

[lazarusthirsting]

Calling on writers/readers to help come up with terms for facial expressions if they exist.

For today, I'm calling this "the (un)impressed pout", but it's not quite a pout and not only used when (un)impressed. You see the issue.

If you were writing a story and want to express that a character is doing this exact thing with their mouth while considering something they perceive to be unknown but low stakes, how would you describe it? The shorter the better, I'm specifically hoping someone comes up with something as repeatable as "knowing smirk" or "frowning doubtfully" that anyone could use, or even find via google search (took a while to find all these, i had to look up "funny faces" to find them).

Extra bonus points if there *is* a term for this expression in a non-English language! Loan words are more than valid!!

[freackthejester]

I've had this same tumblr since late June 2012, and I am now basically 30. U do the math. I settled on a initial bio that I like so much, I am loathe to change it and the My Little Pony reference in it a decade later.

Here is a collection of the tags I use regularly:

I Say Stuff - every original post is tagged with this

spn - i tag most of my supernatural(2005- 2020) related posts w/ this so ppl can block 50% of what I post here

supernatural - this is the tag I use for my original posts about the show. I am a fan of the fandom and the meta analysis of the show more than I enjoy watching the show, so I personally think my collection of takes is good takes.

Kneat Knits - I follow the knitting tag and reblog a lot of the cooler handmade knit projects that I come across. it became my catch-all tag for any kind of string craft, which I am very into.

my stupid face - is the #gpoy tag I made up years ago that I'm stuck w/ bc too lazy to do a tag>search>replace, so>is still my #selfie tag . I look great, go forth

gloriously excessive landsharks - I like cars of a very specific sort. Here is the tag

Star Trek - JK I never got good at tagging the fandom in posts its all a mess

gif art - catchall tag for my own artistic digital creations, it's like woah in there some flashing gifs in that section

the simpsons - yeah that was a thing

Homestuck - My original fandom on this website.

My url Freack the Jester is a reference to my HS classpect (Jester of Hope) and a made up internet name from when you needed those.

My first URL was Freack the Hopeful, but there was a tragic bot-stealing-your-url-while-you-have-a-holiday-url incident, and I decided to pretty much never change my URL again for link-preservation reasons.

Anyway, this is my new pinned post, I am the swamp hag who only cares about fiction mankissing bisexualasexualcommiedetransitionedbluecolar dyke of your nightmares it's a tumblr blog we all have better places to be lets go

[filthyjanuary]

I posted 16,477 times in 2022

293 posts created (2%)

16,184 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@salamancussy

@bilvy

@everythingbutsure

@chrismequick

@citrusandmango

I tagged 6,148 of my posts in 2022

#mcyt - 2,480 posts

#hockey - 249 posts

#waterparks - 239 posts

#mcr - 220 posts

#stan - 146 posts

#lovejoy - 143 posts

#prince of everything - 138 posts

#fav - 133 posts

#dbh - 121 posts

#otp: destiny - 114 posts

Longest Tag: 134 characters

#i def should’ve sized up it’s too small but it’s wearable i just can’t zip it but it’s so cute i can’t wait to cover the front in pins

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT GEOFF!!!

128 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

#4

ok sorry to make another post about this CW thing but like... again, it’s insane to think supernatural kept the cw afloat when spn would not have made it to s5 let alone s15 without the cw being kind of a shitshow that gave them a pass over and over. the cw kept supernatural afloat for a long time until that relationship developed into the mutually beneficial questionable mess that it was by the time s15 rolled around.

like i used to hang out on the cancellation bear website and other tv rating/cancelled show predicting websites and supernatural CONSISTENTLY was on the brink of being cancelled and in fact in season 6 and 7 got put in the friday night dealth slot... those seasons are the ones that SO CONSISTENTLY get proclaimed as ones that were ‘saved’ by cas or that the ratings only tanked in s7 when they ‘tried to write him off’ but it’s like... they were already in the graveyard slot they were already left to die... the ratings were already bad enough by the time s5 wrapped that they got moved!!! castiel was literally not a factor one way or another!! you stuck tv shows in the 9 pm friday spot to say their goodbyes and gracefully bow out.

supernatural’s saving grace was literally that it was on the cw so its shitty garbage ratings were enough to scrape by and the fact that its small audience was reliable meant that it was more economical for the cw to eventually move it OUT of that timeslot and pair it with new shows because that audience generally did not waver even when they were put in the death slot. fridays usually lead to a dip in ratings so if ur already cancelling a show, it doesnt really matter. spn’s ratings didnt dip all that much in the death slot. so the cw was like ok these collective 5 live viewers will show up no matter what so we’ll pair them in a better timeslot with some of these new shows we want to get eyes on and hopefully that will give those new shows AND spn a boost and that generally became the cw’s model for dealing with supernatural for the rest of its days. making and marketing new shows is EXPENSIVE. betting on a new show that would pull in optimistically the same or maybe a little more views than supernatural or possibly even less is a bigger risk than filling one of your timeslots with your hunk of junk that still functions well enough at the end of the day to do what you need it to do. THATS why mark pedowitz etc ended up saying spn would keep airing as long as j2 still wanted to do it. it’s bc their ratings were not astronomical but they DID NOT WAVER. and so they were reliably a good show to have to pair with new stuff and the cw was happy to keep doing that.

supernatural would not have made it past s3 on in order to develop that consistency without the cw being a tiny baby network without views or profit like i dont know how to explain to you guys that your jokes are as usual entirely based on misinformation.

137 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

#3

um sorry i know everyone’s like over talking about this but i saw this twitter post and i went and found the tiktok and the comment and verified it’s the same amanda and the comment is real and it’s just really breaking my heart i’m so angry about this situation all over again like she was too scared to come forward this was all pre face reveal and like i’m sure the way people reacted was just all her worst fears coming true i truly hope she has a good support system around her i am livid truly

223 notes - Posted October 25, 2022

#2

what's your take on the cw thing?

okay apologies if this isn't articulate, i've gotten maybe 6 hours of sleep in the past three days but i'm mostly seeing a lot of bitter spn fans acting like this is some sort of brilliant win on the part of the fandom or that homophobia tanked a successful network and will teach other networks better or whatever but that's just not an accurate picture of what the cw network is or has ever been? it's frankly surprising the cw has survived THIS LONG regardless of whatever insane supernatural fandom conspiracies circulate.

to start, the cw being for sale does not mean it's bankrupt, and bankrupt and not profitable do not mean the same thing whatsoever. netflix did not turn a profit until 2020 i'm pretty sure but that was just the nature of their business model. the cw having never turned a profit is unsurprising to anyone with even a crumb of knowledge about tv ratings. of the five u.s. commercial networks, the cw has since its inception been the smallest and pulled in vastly smaller audiences than any of the others. ratings that would get shows cancelled on any other network were smash hits for the cw bc its audience is so tiny. since they cant rely on huge live audiences to pull the advertising dollars of the other networks, most of their money came from syndication deals and global broadcast which is why most cw shows would get to 4 seasons before dying (syndication requires ~88 episodes). the cw itself came to be by merging two networks owned by cbs and wb that were money sinks on their own. clearly the merger wasnt enough to give those companies the win they wanted, and they're hoping involving a third party will finally work, i'm assuming. it's also a good example of how fandoms dont ACTUALLY impact the financials of a show. networks care about people being loud on here a /bit/ but they care about eyeballs even more than. supernatural, riverdale, the DC shows, everything that is the cw's bread and butter have massively popular online fanbases but that did not save the network. nbc and abc shows i dont hear a peep about online are thriving on networks that are surviving the death of network tv because millions will tune in week after week to watch them in a way that often younger, more online audiences simply wont do. it doesn't help that cw shows are in genres that are often far more expensive than shows that air on more popular networks.

tldr im surprised the cw lasted 16 years... i wouldve assumed they wouldve tried to offload it 6+ years ago because it's always kind of been treading water but i guess the pandemic was just the final nail in the coffin

298 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

hey everyone did we know awsten apparently auditioned for euphoria two years ago? here is the video, watch at your own risk.. it’s definitely not... academy award-winning, to put it mildly. the upload date is jan 21, 2020.

fwiw the character, darian is a 17-year-old described as an "outsider, sensitive, vulnerable, and mischievous."

the video was uploaded by dana sims who is apparently a talent agent in LA so make of that and what it says about awsten’s career ambitions what you will.

before anyone (see: twitter) gets mad about this, it’s publicly posted (not even unlisted) on vimeo and is incredibly easy to find (i searched ‘awsten’ that’s it...literally nothing else) so... what’s fair is fair.

362 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

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[dearmrsawyer]

kit @nightwideopen tagged me to answer 30 questions and then tag 5 people, thank you! :)

name/nickname: jamila/aja

gender: girl

star sign: aquarius, i think i’m whatever the opposite kind of aquarius harry styles is 😂

height: 160cm i think

birthday: 9 feb, i'm freshly minted at 30!

favourite bands: 1d, the oh hello's, patd, fob, mcr, green day, i think if your bandname doesn't turn into an acronym your chances aren't good LOL

song stuck in my head: i'm listening to kiss you rn so that :)

last movie: UGHHHHHHHHHH

last show: up to the s5 finale of spn in my rewatch!!

when did i create this blog: i think in 2012. i had another blog briefly in 2011 but it didn't stick right away

what do i post: well atm you are all suffering through my emotional spn rewatch, so primarily 1d/louis/spn/whatever other shows i love that appear on my dash (all the shows i love are on this website too few and far between)!

last thing googled: 'shakshuka' bc i wanted to check whether i need 1 or 2 cans of tomato

other blogs: a bunch of fests i've run and @notjustalibrary which is my library blog that i constantly FORGET to post to because its not a side blog so its not in my face, and i try to use it during work hours, and work has been off the walls nuts for the past 12 months so i have not have time :'/ but it is always lurking in the back of my mind causing me guilt lol

do i get asks: mostly just if i reblog a meme! 

why i chose my url: a reference to my fav Lost character :)

following: 169

followers: 1,210 (i think 25 of you are active/real blogs lol)

average hours of sleep: usually 7 frequently interrupted hours

lucky number: i really don't have one, but i do always get a good feeling if i see a Lost number

instruments: a brief stint with piano in my teens that i enjoyed much more before i started taking proper lessons

what am i wearing: pyjamas ALWAYS. grey pants with white stars and a S.T.A.R. Labs tee

dream job: sort of what i'm doing! i guess in the most ideal of library worlds i might like to be a YA librarian but i love being an academic librarian, and i love having my hand in so many pots/knowing the whole library inside out as the sole librarian of a small library, rather than specialising in a particular department

dream trip: round-the-world trip to see all my friends and maybe go to a concert with said friends!! everyone lives so far away!! the injustice!

favourite food: potato in any form

nationality: italian/lebanese heritage but i live in australia

favourite song: the song i've most recently fallen in love with and played a LOT is 'bright lights and cityscapes' by sara bareilles

last book read: 'a beautifully foolish endeavour' by hank green (omGGGGGGG)

top three fictional universes i'd like to live it: the 'i'd like to live in' qualifier REALLY narrows this down 😂 ok hp, star trek or POKEMON. god i want a little pokepal so bad 😭

i shall tag: @candybarrnerd @virglows @niallandtommo @gratitudecafe @youcancallmedoctor