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Because of Re: Carmilla, I thought you all would enjoy my edition of Carmilla :

The holes go all the way through, the sides of the book are red, and on some pages the text is colored red just under the holes !

I was so happy when I found it in a little french bookshop specialized in queer texts ❤️

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sense8 is so good. especially when it's hysterical. lito being on sun's period. wolfgang hanging brain at kala's wedding. will being caught in the middle of both gay and lesbian sex at the gym. sense8 you will always be famous to me.

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There is something really sweet that I noticed about Castiel some time ago

I mean someone probably pointed it already but, in case…

When he sits down in the backseat of the Impala, he is ALWAYS behind Sam or at least in the middle, but NEVER behind Dean. The only time we saw Misha there, he was playing Jimmy.

It’s like Cas prefers sitting where he can still have a good look at Dean

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Hey look it’s ME! @plotdevicetommy and I are so excited to finally be here! Come yell with us about stuff please??

Hey look Ma, we made it!

Hi, I'm Lucia and she's Nell, and we do a podcast where we watch (or read) queer media and talk about it! We've covered books like Red, White and Royal Blue, movies like Pitch Perfect, and shows like Supernatural, Our Flag Means Death, Heartstopper, Merlin, and countless others!

If I'm being totally transparent, I don't really know how to use tumblr, which is why it took us so long to get here, but hey! We didn't know how to make a podcast a year ago and look at us now!

If you want to check us out, just click HERE or search for "Totally Normal About That" anywhere you listen to podcasts! We live for feedback and suggestions for our watch lists, so please please PLEASE feel free to reach out with your thoughts, feelings, and of course your recommendations!

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when people portray cas as Super Healthy Farmers Market Gardener Guy and as someone who would try to get dean to eat vegetables and be "healthier" i am like. NO!!!!! cas is INDULGING dean in all his food pleasures. cas is watching him eat 50 burgers in a row and then using his grace to clear his arteries. dean and cas are doing those eating contests at restaurants all across the country. cas canonically loves burgers too. and pork rinds. and pb&j's. that's his whole diet. cas hounds claire abt eating a vegetable bc he's trying to cosplay as Responsible Adult and Pseudo-Father Figure with her. but he is NOT micro-managing dean's eating habits. he is ordering extra burgers to swap plates with dean. he is buying pie (cas would never forget the pie, unlike someone). in that scene where cas is like "surely you can't eat another slice of pizza" that's sam!cas. it's literally sam's dream. he's projecting his own judgement onto everyone in his dream (jack has been keeping count of how many slices dean's eaten, mary recounts calling dean her "little piglet" as a child. and cas is astounded by how much he's eaten). but real cas? he'd go get dean a second pizza and then roleplay the pizza delivery.

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he was told to kill all his life but he just wanted to fix cars and people and he was told he was nothing but violence but he just wanted to build things and relationships and he just wanted to turn places into homes and people into family and he just wanted to cook for his loved ones and save and protect people and he deserved the world

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“They groom their witnesses too”

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!

I’m not naming names because I’m not trying to start anything but I’m seeing several mutuals claiming they always knew Gaiman was a bad egg and it was so obvious, as though they didn’t make me stand in line with them to get his signature and kept their signed copies of his books on a special shelf akin to a shrine.

And like, listen, you don’t need to pretend.

This isn’t the devil’s sacrament. You’re not tainted by association. You’re not morally bad for not immediately knowing when someone is being charming and persuasive to hide something they don’t want you to know.

Abusers don’t just groom their victims. They groom their witnesses too. You were never supposed to know something was wrong because it was intentionally hidden. It’s okay you didn’t know. You don’t need to act like you never liked him or his work. You don’t need to pretend. But you do need to stop being shitty to other people who also didn’t know because it reeks of victim blaming.

“Well I knew, so how come others didn’t?”

His victims were fans. Are you blaming them for not knowing?

Christ alive, I hope not.

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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

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neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)

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everyone is always acting like there is some crisis of human interaction with one another because everyone is overly sensitive to how strangers approach them and like. no actually its because nobody has any fucking manners. social etiquette has legitimately vanished. it makes interacting with strangers miserable because people don’t know how to fucking behave in public.

like it is rude to stare. it is rude to point. it is rude to have a loud phone conversation in a quiet place. it’s rude to listen to music or videos or whatever on your device with no headphones on a loud volume, or at any volume in an enclosed or quiet space. these are rude things to do. like i’m sorry while some etiquette is silly, an acceptable level of decorum is necessary to make existing in public bearable for everybody…….it is LITERALLY common courtesy

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shout out to my 77 year old nan asking my cousin to make her a "woke pride" shirt she can wear so conservative old people will stop assuming she agrees with them

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yes communication is important, but being in a situation where you constantly have to over-communicate every single thing in order to get listened and tended to is draining and kills romance. a huge part of intimacy and connection is feeling seen and understood by the other person – them being attuned to your needs, feelings, desires, and knowing who you are as a person on a deeper level, is a sign of love. being with someone who is thoughtless and inconsiderate and constantly has to have everything spelled out to them, will leave you feeling invisible and unloved. yes people aren’t mind readers and its good to talk about stuff but someone who just doesn’t think of you or understand basic things that would make you happy, isn’t a good partner.

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Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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an angel as old as the universe, a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent wants to hold hands with his human. wants to sleep next to him even though he doesn’t even need sleep. wants to kiss him in a parking lot and make him turn a slight shade of crimson under the dim light of the street lamps. he wants but he cannot have. so he says, ‘it’s enough just to want. I am happy to just want you. And if you don’t want me that’s okay. I’m giving myself to you anyway’ and then dies.