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[hipstersbleedroses]

i completed my reading goal of 12 books for 2023. As someone who's never managed to read more than a book a year, I'm so proud of myself 👑

here's the books I read in chronologial order:

The Maidens - Alex Michaelides

Going Dark - Melissa de la Cruz

Survive the Night - Riley Sager

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight - Riku Onda

Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Another Country - Julian Mitchell

I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

[incognitopolls]

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[quirrelli]

here's my wildly belated contribution to the 60th anniversary

[starz0rstuff]

So there’s this horror podcast…

[jimimn]

happy birthday to the most relatable cutie, jimin 🥰 (insp.) (cr. jung-koook, qdeoks, namuspromised. transl cr. taee, bts-trans)

[bugwolfsstuff]

'Apollo will just forget his lesson and go back to old habits after a few years. He wont change—'

Okay explain why you think that other than 'hurr durr he's a god and they don't change' because that's a stupid fucking reason. That's Hermes' mentality and he is NOT a good role model (I love him tho)

And honestly presuming someone will always go back to being a bad person after they tried to better themselves because time has passed/their upbringing is straight up a bad mindset to have in general. You WANT people to be better. Prematurely deciding they'll give up and stay bad is how you make sure they stay bad.

[jamiekb]

So polyps and things vaguely resembling growing nature am I right?

Cause we have Putting Down Roots

then I’m counting Hard Reset with the dog

and now A New You

so we’ve got themes of transformation through something taking over you (like externals or Avatars) and transmutation in general I guess. Two based in nature, the other chemical and one connected to the sea cause why not. I’m just putting a pin on many things to see if something clicks in my mind

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

darry is a LIAR. that man thinks it's FUNNY. pony asks him a question he doesn't know the answer to n he MAKES THAT SHIT UP. n he does it with a straight face every time.

[exhaustedalien]

here's a couple of sketchy Laura's!! 2 me she is short and beefy and hairy and dresses butch just like her dad!!

[johnnyshrine]

★ 123 // “Take the next best step and pray.”

[hipstersbleedroses]

reacting fully normally to all the ghosts feels (by pulling a lot of novel-length caphavers fics onto my ereader)

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

hey sorry for the 23 minutes of constant giggling grandma my two bffs were just showing me funny videos on the internet

[saddragonhours]

the midwest goodbye is kinda nice honestly

like yeah its kinda nice that we can just stand there and talk for hours before going our separate ways or just sit there and chat before i get out of the car

[blanze]

It feels good to be back.

(A more risque version under the cut)

[daiziesssart]

i reread shelf awareness by @ghostofbambifanfiction (GhostofBambi on ao3) for the millionth time and it made me want to draw jily being disgustingly in love (again). i am only human

[bedazzled-applesauce]

okay let me set the stage

an indeterminable amount of time into the future, season 16 comes out in the fall, somehow finangling itself out of the s15 finale. the main plot point being trying to get cas out of superhell. think good omens season two in that it’s more layed back and focused on character analysis and relationship building. dean is worse than we’ve ever seen him. the first 2 episodes are through the perspective of a kinda messed up but overall healthy if not exceedingly worried sam, and occasionally, a not sober nor lucid dean very near drinking himself to death, not ever leaving the library, surrounded by a very large number of open books; he been trying to get cas back. jack needs to be hands off, no matter what, and the empty is holding him to that, non negotiably, so it’s really up to sam and dean to fight against fate itself.

eventually, we do get cas back, somehow someway. there are the supernatural required multiple episodes of “is he gonna make it or not” wherein cas is whitekuckling life, helped along by a gentle but exceedingly awkward and uncomfortable dean. by the time cas is recovered enough for actual conversation, we the viewers are all on the edge of our seats. when dean finally says the well awaited “cas, we need to talk about what you said back then” line, the viewers are vibrating with impatience, having been egged on by a few episodes of unfortunately timed interruptions keeping dean from actually talking about s15e18. cas steps forward, and the show cuts to whatever sam is dealing with at the time. something entirely unimportant. it’s not mentioned again for the rest of the episode.

everyone freaks, tumblr is breaking with the force of hundreds of posts per second, and a light shines through the chaos. the cw supernatural accounts, announcing in some vague but unmistakable way that the rest of the destiel confirmation has already been recorded, but for dramatic effect, the show will air it on november 5th. a few weeks, and a few episodes, past when the post had initially been made. but in the few filler episodes before the big confession, dean and cas have been subtly acting differently. eyefucking each other somehow more often than usual, and much more obviously, constantly just looking at each other fondly, just more of the same “subtext” we’ve been living on already, only amplified, and with witty and annoyed but fond comments from sam. misha has been busy during these trying times, talking about airtight ndas and just building a lot of anticipation in the form of posts with cleverly placed quotation marks. it finally airs, and the big scene they’d been talking up consisted of dean beginning his “we need to talk” before giving up and having the big kiss in an attempt to convey his emotions. they make out very aggressively against deans door, on his bed, steadily ramping up the excitement and loosing articles of clothing, before a fade to black. there’s a clever shot just before the fade though, which is taken from deans desk, their frenzied kissing blurred in the background, as in the forefront, cas’s trenchcoat is hurriedly thrown over the chair, on top of deans jacket with the bloody handprint on it from cas’s sacrifice scene.

they do eventually have the long awaited talk later in the episode, laying in deans bed with that cw classic “bedsheets as low hung as we could possibly get them” shot. the confession is awkward and broken up by a whole lot of making out, and it’s clear that dean is putting into words what he’s actively figuring out about his feelings. he tells a lot of unfunny jokes, and attempts to leave a few times, but eventually dean gets it all out. it’s in this post-sex confession scene that all the speculation over how no one has really seen deans neck in the past few episodes is proven more than just overthinking. hickies litter his neck, from the juncture connecting his neck to his shoulders, all the way up to behind his ear. but it’s nothing compared to the absolutely horrendous scratches on cas’s back, of which the viewers never see, only alluded to by a horrified sam, making a one off joke about whether or not dean was some kind of clawed creature. everything is good.

the last episode of the season is only a few weeks into the future, a domestic cas and dean are gently bickering in the kitchen, dean prepping food before what is apparently a “big reunion dinner” celebrating cas’s return to earth. sam and eileen are being gross and couple-y, seen dancing together in the library before time skipping to them playing footsie at the map table across from cas and dean, who are doing the same thing. there’s a moment during the first few seconds of the scene where dean accidentally taps his foot against sam’s, leading to the generally awkward and embarrassed vibes that a good supernatural episode just wouldn’t be complete without. there’s table consists of jody and donna and the girls, jack, cas and dean, charlie, basically everyone we know who is still alive. everyone is happy, destiel is officially unruined and completely canon, everyone is alive, and the ending is actually good. the end.