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Castiel didn't need to blow the lightbulbs out in the barn. That was very much a choice. He knew he was meeting The Righteous Man™ and he wanted to make an impression.

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streamer & youtuber RPF: this makes sense, most streamers are a subset of comedian and acting gay with your friends as a joke is very popular with straight men, leading to a lot of fuel for the fire.

kpop RPF: prettyboys that are usually contractually obligated to avoid public relationships, which renders them very available for shipping. i can see how we got here.

men's hockey & wrestling RPF: contact sports.

beatles RPF: insert paul mccartney group jerk off session story.

formula 1 RPF: yeah im still trying to figure this one out. no clue lads. good for them though.

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The Sam "perpetual third wheel" Winchester genre of pics 🤌🏻

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Tbh as a non-American, reading media set in USA sometimes feels like you stumbled into a fanfic fandom-blind and there's naturally no exposition about the setting because you're supposed to be aware of it. But you're not so you just nod along and hope it's not relevant to the story. Like the characters being from different states probably has some significance to their backstory but it's never explained. The story being set in this state also probably has some significance but it's also not explained. Being in this diner/shop/Americanism-store thing whatever probably has some context clues (is it supposed to be posh? Common? Cheap? Accessible? Old-fashioned?) but it is also not explained. It's like when you're reading a new scifi/fantasy story and there's a hundred new terms but you can't extrapolate their meanings from context clues/flavour text because they just give you a name and you're like "cool, dunno what that means at all".

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the xbox is a Machine. the playstation is a Device. the switch is a Toy. the personal computer is also a Machine. what the world needs, is a way to play video games on a Contraption

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Incredible things happening on my timeline

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Has this one been done yet?

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I have sometimes called the IPA chart "a periodic table of speech sounds". The layout of the modern IPA chart traces its origins back to Pāṇini's method organizing the consonants of Sanskrit. Well,

Mendeleev published his periodic table of all known elements and predicted several new elements to complete the table in a Russian-language journal. Only a few months after, Meyer published a virtually identical table in a German-language journal.[39][40] Mendeleev has the distinction of accurately predicting the properties of what he called ekasilicon, ekaaluminium and ekaboron (germanium, gallium and scandium, respectively). [...] For his predicted three elements, he used the prefixes of eka, dvi, and tri (Sanskrit one, two, three) in their naming. [...] By using Sanskrit prefixes to name "missing" elements, Mendeleev may have recorded his debt to the Sanskrit grammarians of ancient India, who had created theories of language based on their discovery of the two-dimensional patterns of speech sounds (exemplified by the Śivasūtras in Pāṇini's Sanskrit grammar). Mendeleev was a friend and colleague of the Sanskritist Otto von Böhtlingk, who was preparing the second edition of his book on Pāṇini[45] at about this time, and Mendeleev wished to honor Pāṇini with his nomenclature.

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I love Meg the most, but she's not here and Cas is my second favourite. Bella, Charlie, Crowley, Jack, Gabriel and Rowena are my honourable mentions

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writing tip #661:

create villains your readers want to have sex with. this is the only way to properly ensure people will read your novel

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goin for the funniest guy ever award (´ε｀ )♡

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medieval monks and accountants start using Italian millione ("one thousand" + augmentative suffix) to mean 10^6 by the 1200s; this spreads to other languages

Jehan Adam coins bymillion and trimillion to mean 10^12 and 10^18 in 1475

Nicolas Chuquet extends this scale up to nonyllion (10^54), with every step being another six orders of magnitude (million, byllion, tryllion, quadrillion, quyllion, sixlion, septyllion, ottylion, nonyllion) in 1484. Note that in this period, it was common to put the digit separator every six digits instead of every three.

Guillaume Budé refers to 10^9 as milliart in 1516, in a Latin text

But in 1549, Jacques Pelletier du Mans uses milliard to mean 10^12, citing Budé as a source

In the 1600s, people start putting digit separators every three digits. But some scientists and mathematicians define the numerical scale according to how digits are grouped, rather than the actual order of magnitude: thus, one billion becomes 10^9, one trillion becomes 10^12, etc, creating the short scale.

"Milliard" is eventually added to the long scale, meaning 10^9 (in keeping with Budé's usage); the first published example is from 1676

By 1729, the short-scale meaning of "billion" (10^9) has already crept into American usage

This is in keeping with French usage at the time: in 1762, the Académie Française dictionary cites billion as meaning 10^9.

By the early 19th century, France has almost completely converted to the short scale, and U.S. usage follows France; the long scale is referred to in some sources as "obsolete." But Britain is still using the long scale (and I assume Germany and most other European countries)

Over the course of the 20th century, the long scale begins to become more influential in France, presumably due to the influence of continental usage; while the short scale becomes more influential in Britain, presumably due to the influence of American English. Notably the SI system very specifically uses unique prefixes that are the same across languages, to prevent confusion!

In 1961, the French Government confirms that they're going to officially use the long scale from now on; in 1974, Britain officially switches over to the short scale, and many other English-speaking countries follow.

In 1975, the terms "short scale" and "long scale" are actually coined, by mathematician Geneviève Guitel.

One reason large number names could be so unstable for so long is, of course, that outside specialized usage they are rare, and were even more rare before modern science and large modern monetary amounts became commonplace points of discussion. Wikipedia says "milliard" wasn't common in German until 1923, when bank notes had to be overstamped during Weimar-era hyperinflation.

As it currently stands, English, Indonesian, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, and most varieties of Arabic use the short scale; continental Europe and most varieties of Spanish outside Europe use the long scale. A few countries use both, usually in different languages, like South African English (short scale) and Afrikaans (long scale) or Canadian English (short scale) and Canadian French (long scale) . Puerto Rico uses the short scale in economic and technical usage, but the long scale in publications aimed at export.

Notably some languages use neither, having their own names for large numbers--South Asian languages have the Indian numbering system, and Bhutan, Cambodia, and various East Asian languages also have their own numbering systems. Greek, exceptionally, uses a native calque of the short scale rather than a borrowing.

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love to think about dick and jaybin brotherism if it was in the modern era. here’s a scene i’ve been rotating in my head:

*on a road trip for some reason*

dick (18): i’m gonna stop at the 7-11 up here, you want anything?

jason (13): yeah, a pack of marlboros

dick: smoking kills, you know

jason: and those zyns destroy your gums

dick: that’s different, i’m eighteen

jason: still not old enough to buy those things, you’ve got a fake id

dick: so what?

jason: do you think bruce’d be happy to know you buy drugs and alcohol with a fake id?

dick: bruce isn’t the boss of me

jason: he’s the boss of me, and you’re a bad influence. what would he say if i told him there were drugs in your car?

dick: there aren’t drugs in my car

jason, pulling a baggie of weed from his pocket and shoving it in the glove box: there are now

dick: …you’re getting lucky strikes, they’re cheaper

jason: YOUR DAD IS A BILLIONAIRE

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tomorrow im really gonna give it my nothing

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Did fanart for @komochek-nervov's Teenagers AU

I just liked the vibe and wanted to draw punk Cas

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Dick: What do you do when someone offers you drugs?

Tim: Take them!

Damian: Punch them in the neck!

Cass: Say thank you!

Jason: Offer them more drugs to assert dominance!

Dick: …

Dick: No.

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Ok, kinda very loosely riffing on a B99 AU for SPN, detective AU but Sam's the only detective. He works for the precinct. He is Detective Winchester. Cas works in the morgue to do autopsies and stuff. He is Dr. Winchester because he married Dean and would rather use Winchester than have everyone say Winchester-Shurley every time. Dean works for the local fire department. He is Officer Winchester. Gabriel is a local lawyer who gives the rich people their just desserts when they try to take innocent people to court and is often around the precinct becayse Sam is. The other detectives love him bevause he brings sweets, sometimes shares, and is super funny. He is Mr. Winchester Esq.

There are two big things I see coming out of this.

#1:

When they're first hired on, everyone assumes Sam and Cas are biological siblings (bc Cas doesn't emphasize the hypen) and they never denied it when people called them brothers because they both figured "what's the point?"

Then comes the Christmas party, where they're introduced to Sam's brother, Dean. Cas comes in a little later and promptly gets a kiss on the lips from Dean.

The whole room freezes. No one knows what to do or how to ask until people start getting drunk. Eventually, Castiel's assistant, Meg, is slammed enough to ask "So are you two brothers or dating or what?"

Dean chokes on his drink and laughs til he can't breath but Cas is horrified and promptly makes an announcement to explain that he and Dean are, in fact, married and Sam is his brother-in-law not his biological brother.

From then on, they made sure to specify whenever relationships came up.

Funny thing #2:

Name confusion.

Imagine someone such as John Winchester is looking for, let just say, Sam and he knows he works in law enforcement so he goes to the precinct asking for Winchester.

John: I'm looking for Winchester

Secretary: Which one?

John: Excuse me?

Secretary: Which Winchester?

John: Sam.

Secretary: *sighs* Detective Winchester, Dr. Winchester, Officer Winchester, or Mr Winchester Esq?

John: ???

John: ...He was originally going to law school so I guess Esq?

The secretary then proceeds to give John the location of Gabriel's office. Upon seeing Gabriel, John asks him if he knows Sam. Being the chaos gremlin that he is, he tells John that he may be looking for Dr. Winchester over at the precinct. When John leaves, Gabriel calls Cas to inform him and Cas agrees to continue the chaos for once because he also doesn't like John but also promised Dean he wouldn't harm him.

John is sent down to Cas, who keeps his face hidden for as long as possible to keep him distracted before revealing himself. John doesn't know his face (because we all know this man didn't show up to Destiel's wedding) and asks with less patience if he knows Sam. Cas tells him he may be looking for Officer Winchester over at the fire station and John is clearly ready to loose it.

When John leaves, Cas calls Bobby, the fire chief, to inform him of John's visit and to keep an eye on Dean. John gets to the station, demanding to see Officer Winchester and Dean shows up. John practically blows up until Dean offers to take him to Sam. John agrees only because he knows Dean will know where Sam is and Dean only offers because he doesn't want Sam getting hurt by John when they eventually talk.

Upon arriving at the precinct, John and Dean find Sam, Cas, and Gabriel eating lunch together in the break room. This is when John looses it. He eventually gets arrested because he starts swinging when he finds out Sam is married to Gabriel.

So yeah, Detective/Law Enforcement AU?

Just for Funzies :)