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FAVORITE SPN CHARACTER: TOURNAMENT 3, ROUND 2

Polls for this tournament can be found here.

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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

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4 . 1 6  ➼  O N  T H E  H E A D  O F  A  P I N

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dogboy molloy vs puppyboy molloy

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i fear jibcon 2025 will be like a bomb going off and here's why. it's the absolutely diabolical combination of:

first con of the year + actors will have pent up con energy after several month hiatus + spn 20 year anniversary excitement + less restrictions than creation cons + jenmish/mishalecki/j2m panels + alcohol = chaos to a degree of which we have not yet witnessed

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“You’re gonna feel your friends to the meat grinder? Cas too?”

- Dean Winchester to Dean Winchester, acknowledging Cas is more than a friend since 2014

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ルイズコピペ　アルケイドVer.

Arcade! Arcade! Arcadeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! 

yarghh...uh...aaahah-! AaAAAAA!!! ARCADEARCADEARCADEaaaaAAAAaaa!!! 

Ae...*sniff*sniff*! *sniff*sniff*! sssssaaahsssssaaah.. smells good.... *sniff* 

　*gasp*! I can haz sniffsniff  blonde hair de Arcade Francoise?! *sniff*sniff*! Aah! 

No! I want fluffing! fluff! fluff! Hair hair fluff fluff! Scratch scratch fluff fluff... Kyunkyunnkyui!! 

Arcade-tan was so kawaii in games!! AaaAA...AAA...AhAaAAA!! FaaAAAnng! Arcade-tan! AaAAAAA! So cute! Arcade-tan! Kawaii!AaaAAA! 

In Gam...nnNrAGGggghHH!! Nyaaaaaargh!! UGyaaaAAAAA!!!Nnnnnnyyyyuuuurrrrgggghhhh!!! Games...................... AREN'T reality!!! ?...what about  the Games.... 

ARCADE I S N' T R E A L????? AAAAArgggghhHH!!! Uwaaaaaaannn!! 

NononononoNONONONONO! EEeeeeaAAAA!!!! HGGGGrrrrruuyynnnnnNN!!! Mojaveaaaaa!! 

You! BASTARDS! I'm quitting! I'm QUITTING REALIT...Y....huh!? He's...looking? Arcade-chan in Games is looking at me? 

Arcade in games IS looking at me! Arcade... at me! Arcade-chan Inside the TV monitor are looking at me!! 

Arcade-chan in the game is talking to me!!! Phew... reality ain't so bad after all! 

Yessssss! Wheeeee!! YEAH!!! I have Arcade!! I've done it Lilly, I can do it alone!!! 

Games... Arcade ARCADE-CHAAAaaaaaAAaaAAAN!!!!!!!! HyaaAAAaaaAaaaAAaA!!!!! 

Ahahaah...ahahaaahhhhahaAnn! Co,courieeEEeeeer!! BoooOOoooOOoNE!!! YES-MaAAAAaaAAaaaaaNNN!! 

u....uuuu..*sniff*sniff*uuuUUU!!! May my love reach Arcade!! May my love reach Arcade of Mojave!!! 

今度時間があるときに色を塗ります。

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So, you want to dupe a book from a show you're obsessed with?

(or, how I recreated one of Claudia's diaries)

Step 1: Assessment

The diary I chose to recreate is a hardcover with a floral pattern on it. I still can't tell if it's covered in book cloth or decorative paper, but I chose to cover mine in cloth because it'll last longer (and because this was for a class and I had to cover in cloth)

Step 2: Plan

What techniques will be required for this project? What materials are you going to need? In my case, I knew I was going to need some way of printing the pattern onto book cloth and coloring it in - that meant ink, lino blocks, carving tools, and googling around to see if my alcohol markers would be permanent. I was also originally planning to back my own book cloth, so I planned to buy fabric for that.

Step 3: Gather Materials

I ended up using a linocut stamp, oil-based black ink, alcohol markers, and pre-made book cloth for the final product. I also had to use mineral spirits to clean up the ink, which required some research in advance to make sure I wasn't about to poison myself. Make sure you're being safe!

Step 4: Execute

Do the damn thing. For me, this involved:

4a. Tracing the pattern on Krita using the cleanest screenshot I could get. Reformat it so that it will work as a repeating design. IF YOU'RE STAMPING, REVERSE YOUR DESIGN. SAVE YOURSELF FROM MY HEADACHES.

4b. Print out the design in a few sizes. Pick a size, and transfer it onto a lino block by covering the back of the paper in graphite and tracing over the pattern. Cut the pattern into the lino with a cutting tool (or, if you're a detail freak like me, use a lino cutter for most of it and then scrape out the fine lines with an awl).

4c. Test out your stamp. Cut away excess material, thin some of those lines, practice repeating the design. If you're having trouble lining up the repeating design, draw a guide on the back of the stamp so you know where things are positioned while you're stamping. (on mine, I drew a dot in each corner that lined up with those center flower dots)

4d. Print! Listen to a podcast and stamp that shit.

4e. Color - I opted to color in my design like a coloring sheet rather than make a bunch more stamps for each individual color. I tested out my alcohol markers on a scrap of book cloth I'd printed on, in case the markers made the print ink bleed and so that I could match the colors from my screenshot.

I also covered a test board with that colored-in scrap, just in case the glue interacted weirdly with the design, but it turned out fine, so I went ahead and colored in the full sheet.

4f. Covering the case - this part was standard bookbinding, just a full cloth case with 5/8th'' turn-ins. The most stressful part of this was cutting into the sheet of beautiful cloth I'd just finished!

4g. Casing in - Again, standard bookbinding, there are lots of tutorials for this online.

Final result:

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he has a 100% divorce rate btw

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writing patterns tag game

I was tagged by @dirtangeldean to post the first sentence from your 10 most recently posted fics. Thank you so much. This is really fun to do :')

I'm going to pick the stuff I have on my AO3, because I don't think the drabbles I've written every now and then on Tumblr count as fics, which means that some of the oldest fics I'm choosing are around 7 years old lol

Not a Ramblin' Man: Walking through the familiar aisles of the supermarket, Dean can’t help but shake his head.

All That's Left is Hurt: “Where’s Cas?” Dean asks, looking around, hopeful.

The Deeper the Grief, the Deeper the Love: Dean doesn’t know how they can stop the leviathans inside Cas; he doesn’t even know if Cas is really dead.

Dream a Little Dream of Me: Despite the chillness of the autumn wind, Dean drives with his window rolled down.

Angel's Threesome: It is no secret that Dean Winchester likes sex.

There'll Be Peace When You Are Done: Dean can’t stop crying.

The Purple Shield: “Cas, now!” Dean yells after smashing a vase against the witch’s head.

Broken Pieces: The first thing Dean sees when he opens his sore eyes is Castiel.

Snapshots of a Married Life: “Don’t you dare leave this bed,” Castiel warns with a sleepy voice and tightening his arms around Dean.

Painting a Prince: Castiel sighed.

I guess my pattern is mentioning Dean in the very first line lol

Anyway, I'm tagging @wanderingcas @valleydean @winchester-reload @deancaskiss @whelvenwings and @thebloggerbloggerfun

Feel free to ignore it ^^

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For any AO3 authors who have been following the lore.fm stuff, they have posted a video saying they are considering shutting down due to feedback.

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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anyways, there’s a new app that is putting fanfictions from ao3 as an audible book without author’s permission. it’s called lore fm.

the only way to opt out is by emailing them? which is completely bs. ao3 is completely okay with it, unfortunately.

so as an author, im asking, please don’t put fanfics on here unless you ask the author specifically and they okay it.

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anyways, there’s a new app that is putting fanfictions from ao3 as an audible book without author’s permission. it’s called lore fm.

the only way to opt out is by emailing them? which is completely bs. ao3 is completely okay with it, unfortunately.

so as an author, im asking, please don’t put fanfics on here unless you ask the author specifically and they okay it.