#and how that was cool and funny and respectable

[soup-mother]

It's still genuinely burned into my memory when I started coming to school in skirts and a guy I was kinda friends with was friendly and kinda amused and asked like "there's gotta be a bit of this that's a meme right?" or something like that with a bit of respect in his voice.

and I know if I'd said yes he would have been chill and I also know he genuinely thought he was being bros or whatever, but when I said "no" he didn't really know how to respond and got a bit quiet and I don't think we ever really talked again.

like there's just so many things like that where it's been "oh haha dude nice crossdressing" because they can tell themselves it's ironic and a meme and youre still one of the dudes (albeit not one they particularly respect) but the second you say it's not then it's suddenly an issue.

[unpersoniverse]

Skén:nen sá:sewh

as promised, here's Precious boy™ getting kissed by Precious wife™ because he deserves all the love in the world :cc

translation: Get home safe

[fumifooms]

Chilchuck Tims has 4 daughters

Izutsumi’s relationship with the whole party is very fun and heartwarming, and her relationship with each party member has something unique and special, but besides Senshi being the mama hen I really love how Chilchuck looks after Izutsumi in a father-ish way. He’s the only one in the party that sees her like an actual human girl lol. He treats her with respect while not letting himself be walked over, and I think there’s something to be said about it, esp since Chilchuck knows how it’s like to be infantilized and pet like a cute thing much like our favorite catgirl. He does handle her like a guy who has 3 adult daughters, parenting instincts kicking in

Listen I knooow the party is breaking up with the end approaching but I’ve been thinking a lot about if Izutsumi decided to stick with anyone and I think it’d be really nice if she stayed with Chilchuck. I love Chilchuck’s store so much, I have so many headcanons and fic plans involving it, but listen.  I feel like Chilchuck would be a good person to look after her, she’s still a teen and shown not to be mature enough to know what to do with herself and feed herself right yet, she could become Chilchuck’s store mascot like a cat that’s always lounging inside hehe.  He gains another sort-of-daughter and she keeps her favorite pillow, a loss-loss deal on his end but Chilchuck is too responsible to not take her in if needed mwahahaha Izutsumi would have no remorse, he’s ready to suffer for her comfort

Ok girl we get it he’s your dad

[shallowseeker]

Jack's Kelly-coded sarcasm is so funny to me. Woof! (SEE: Kelly's flat statement of her life being over after having a kid: "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how this is gonna go.")

The irony, of course, is that Jack and Dean ARE simpatico here. That's the whole point. It's Sam who's actually odd man out! If only you look a BIT more closely.

Dean and Jack drowning openly in their respective griefs and confusion, while Sam has barely begun to face his own dread.

That's why Dean and Jack are so vulnerable and get picked off by the monster of the week lickety split...

(SEE:

)

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Jack worries about Mia, immediately wondering after she tells them about Buddy if he hurt her too. It's very emotionally intuitive... especially for a guy who worries he *checks notes* "Doesn't really FEEL anything."

The truth is this: Jack feels PLENTY of things. But much in the mode of Cas, he doesn't always know how to recognize, parse, or name those things. Like Cas, Jack undersells his own emotional capability.

Anyway, Mia slowly nods, opening up and in a really cool reversal, relying on Jack emotionally, at least in this moment.

///

Jack wants to come with Dean to prove himself. Sure, that's a given.

But it ALSO might be that that secret simpatico is 1000% real, that it's more comfortable to be with someone who is openly hurting the same way he is.

(What Jack really maybe wants deep down is someone to SIT with his feelings with in the dark in mutual misery, not TURN those feelings into heroic action.)

ANYHOO

Sam is allergic to grief for very good reasons. *cough* Thanks Azazel and Brady and Lucifer and everyone. It's such a lovely pattern we see as far back as season 6 when he's confronted by a parent figure grieving loved ones. x (John's grief was terrifying, so... that makes sense too. It's like Sam's emotional competence completely flatlines in the shadow of it.)

But I'd wager that I ALWAYS found it interested even as far back as the Special Kids, when Sam didn't bring up Jess even in a coded way when faced with the specter of Ava Wilson "losing her fiancé." Sam is a very closed book on this topic of personal loss.

Later, I THINK Mia pings on this in Sam, too, especially this:

which we will see repeated when he's talking to John in Lebanon. It's a HUUUUUGE Same hang-up, as it turns out.

(SEE:

)

ANYHOO: SIMPATICO.

Sam has a hug freakout between this episode in the next, and I'm here for it.

SEE also Sam vs grief with it comes to Dean-losing-Cas specifically. (It triggers his fear of John's enormous, never-ending, destructive grief.)

x - x - x -x - x

Despite the turbulence,

it's VERY interesting that as soon as he's done hanging out with Dean, Jack is very ready to talk, though, isn't it?

Sam is struggling with not getting to say goodbye, but Jack is struggling with not getting to say hello. :(

Neither Sam nor Jack know HOW to grieve, and I think in the end, Jack starts clinging to Dean because he starts to realize it's okay to not pretend everything's fine.

Emotional shock and numbing HAS till this point resulted in some pretty volatile powers, after all, and he's scared of that, with good reason.

It's SUCH a ball of misery OMG.

//

Oh crap. Sam. Yes, I love how by the end of this little case, Dean and Jack seem more at peace with what they're feeling.

Dean entered the kitchen when he knew Jack was already in there TO try to talk to him:

Dean apologizes to Sam AND verbalizes the Cas of it all.

And Sam is having a mini-crisis because what if his hope is hopeless after all?

But that's not what KO's him emotionally. What KOs him is when Dean verbalizes the magnitude of his grief:

SO.

Sam shuts the fuck down.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which stretches so hilariously into the next episode of classic Sam freakouts.

he's the stupidest smart person i know siiiigh

My favorite thing about Mia Vallens is how, by the end of the episode, the dude trying so hard NOT to connect and the kid who is afraid he has no "real" feelings of humanity and warmth are the ones that genuinely connect with her.

This is the face of "I was trying to help them, and they wound up helping ME instead." (Beautifully done acting BTW.)

[moeblob]

"Bro, do you hear yourself?" "My man!" "I'm sorry that I am so delightful that my dimension change turns me into a fruit pop." "Do you think whoever runs this dimension just immediately saw me and clocked me as the fruitiest guy alive? I'm starting to think I /might/ give off the gayest vibes around." "If you wouldn't offer to make out with your best friend are you really even best friends?"

[akemiiya]

thinking abt an au where siffrin joins the party first before mirabelle gets to jouvente...

[jenna-louise-jamie]

it just occurred to me, martin wilby is the alex rider tv show's ash. there's a line in season 1 where the department is talking about wilby being responsible for ian's death and how ian “thought the world of him.”

very similar to how ash was responsible for john (and helen's) death, but john very clearly loved the guy. enough to make him alex's godfather and save his life. another very interesting parallel for the rider brothers.

ash and wilby are different to each other however. at least ash had somewhat more of a reason to join scorpia? a vendetta against alan blunt. wilby just straight up wanted money. yassen gregorovich stabbed both of them though.

[bumpscosity]

nickelodeon's doing a super bowl thing live with spongebob and patrick's VAs commentating and i don't wanna sound negative here but im so hoping one of them slips up and swears

[nicknacknightmare]

Hey do yall remember Jessica Jacklyn from ep6 Shell in a Cell??? Literal definition of Show Up, Serve, Eat, Have No Crumbs Remaining and Leave.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

nova moment i won’t get to for ages but wanna talk about bc it’s really fucking funny- when amy has her bat mizvah she obviously like. invites her friends. and nova is her best friend and bc of this she’s obviously also invited. and she just spends the entire time in awe bc she's got a special interest in religious text while also having never had any knowledge of actual religious practices. after during celebrations she's just BEGGING amy to know how she can come back to the synagogue bc she had the best night of her life that didn't involve murder she's utterly awestruck. like she legitimately Did Not Know religion was like this and she’s stoked. like down to convert on the spot stoked. (amy encourages her to do more research first bc obviously nova doesn’t have the informed ability to make that choice when she barely knows anything about religion except the scripture isolated from any context but she does take nova to synagogue when she’s in station square)

[asthedeathoflight]

The problem with being an extremely argumentative child who was constantly being reprimanded by adults to pick my battles and not start fights over nothing is that in the moment when I want to stop a conversation in its tracks to call out an injustice i always feel like I'm being overdramatic and i shouldn't cause problems or rock the boat and I'll regret it if I speak up. But that's literally never been true. I've never once regretted opening my mouth, but there have been times I didn't say anything that will haunt me to my grave. You can apologize for overreacting or reading into things, but you can never go back and have spoken up when you didn't. If you're someone who finds yourself biting your tongue a lot over stuff that seems like maybe only you care, cut that shit out. Its 2025 we're picking all the battles now.

[deus-ex-mona]

something something guys who think of the backs of the girls they love

and girls who pinch the cheeks of the guys they love

[taegularities]

some men are textbook villains fr

[clouds-of-wings]

In terms of tone, out of all the fantasy video game series I know, The Witcher is still my favourite. Bit too heavy on the grimdark maybe, but possibly I enjoy that. For example, it's the only series that does the "Human racism against elves and dwarves" idea well. I don't care about dull soggy "perfect victims" and stories that try to make their side the extremely obvious choice. TW has elven terrorists, elven guerillas, elves who commit atrocities that make you consider whether and when justice (or just revenge?) without mercy can ever be appropriate, ineffectually bitter elves, elitist arrogant elves, impulsive elves who lash out in short-sighted ways, calculating elves who send others to their deaths. You can see that they're all coping with their shitty situation in their own imperfect way. It's a similar situation with the Witchers themselves, being that they're treated by humans both as superhuman and subhuman, sometimes as both by the same people in the same day. I love the series' treatment of racism, conformism, resistance, statecraft, mental laziness, self-righteousness. TW2 is my favourite. Other fantasy games that try to take on this topic just don't measure up.

[y010isaghost]

everyone pronouncing "鬼"/"guei" like "gay" is kind of funny but. yeah. /neg

[therepudiatedimmortals]

another thing is that notw has something some writers lack when writing genre fiction and its both confidence on the genre and its own writing. kvothe sits down and says im gonna tell you abotu how awesome he is for 600 pages and so far i cant say i disagree with his arrogance