#contains multitudes <3

[ayo-edebiri]

#Louder for the people in the back

[lilacpaperbird]

About Sam's music taste

Okay so I've always been really intrigued by the kind of music Sam might like, since we seemingly didn't get much information about it in the show. So I did a deep dive, and this is everything I could find/remember in relation to Sam and his taste in music:

Kripke, interview from 2007

From the Supernatural Wiki - There's a small mistake here. I checked the video and Jared said "Jack Johnson", not "Jackson"

Good catch, thanks anon whoever you are! - I checked and yep there it is! I added a pic of the poster so you could see what it looks like

11x04 Baby - Sam knows the lyrics to the song "Night Moves" and sings it enthusiastically, like he did with "Dead or Alive" in 3x16

14x20 Moriah

Bands/singers mentioned:

Green Day

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fall Out Boy

The Killers

Jack Johnson

Death Cab for Cutie

Jason Manns

Bon Jovi

A Wilhem Scream

Bob Seger

Elvis Presley

Celine Dion

[messiahzzz]

When I came across that "joke" from Tav to Quill and Z'rell's comment (plus Halsin), I had to take a minute to process what happened. Gale might be a bit silly and eccentric but he's the kindest, sweetest and most passionate character in that party. No wonder the poor man has deep insecurities to solve, so many people reduce him to an easy target! Ofc one of the side effects would be overconfidence and ambition as a defense mechanism. He's obv lonely; only Tara and Morena ever loved him for him.

his eccentric nature might be a part of it. he is loquacious, outgoing, and doesn’t see the point in hiding his enthusiasm. he is considered to be the weird one. naturally, wizards in general being seen as somewhat squishy and physically weak might also add to it.

personally, i really don’t like the implications of the (widely considered) autistic-coded character being the one who faces the most ridicule by far by other characters and fans (and larian) alike.

some might disagree with me on that, but i don’t find it funny by any means either. mostly it just makes me feel bad. “he deserves it. cocky, arrogant, hubris-ridden wizard needs to be taken down a peg” like he isn’t… y’know… already at his lowest. it also disregards the fact that much of his bravado is part of his carefully curated Great Wizard of Waterdeep™ persona that he has skillfully adopted to mask his general feeling of being defective. being fiercely proud of your skill and knowledge and being doubtful of having something truly worthwhile to offer are mindsets that can coexist. according to fandom, gale is either secret hubris incarnate that is only waiting to be unleashed upon the world or pure baby that can do no wrong. instead of a character that is just as flawed and traumatized as all the others, but no less deserving of genuine love.

to me, the constant ridicule just reads as further feeding into his deep-rooted insecurities and his belief that he (as gale, the person) isn’t someone who holds inherent worth. it really, really doesn’t sit well with me.

[orowyrm]

finally finished up a proper fullbody ref of this beautiful bastard!! my tenno oc, my special boy, my silly guy, my cinnamon apple — LAZ!!!!!!

i got wayyyy too ambitious with this one, but i think it serves its purpose just fine — and it was loads of fun!!

[seancefemme]

My favourites of Roy Ascott's 100 Terms and Definitions for the Post-Biological Era (1998)

[lizzieraindrops]

like oh my god. yes ikora is extremely aromantic. yes chalco is the love of her soul. yes it's entirely platonic and all-consuming. yes she's also demi for eris. yes it's incredibly lesbian/sapphic. yes that's equally important. yes this does incorporate them into the greater reef polycule. what's not clicking

[biancadavri]

some idiot: dragon age is dark and gritty and hopeless

me, brain impossibly huge: *thinks about these dialogue choices the dwarven pcs have when interacting with curious kids* :)

[kimikaami]

and you will surely be the death of me, but how could I have known?

[ferretwhomst]

wendy wendelin corduroy you will always be famous

[july-19th-club]

ishmael is a guy who refers to all fasting whether it is christian, muslim, or made-up-by-herman-melville-for-what-herman-melville-thinks-is-the-culture-of-the-south-pacific religions, as 'ramadans'. he is also a guy who moves to a new town with his roommate and they are recommended a particular chowder restaurant and inn, and when the server says, "clam or cod?" he goes "you're going to serve us cold clams for dinner???" and seems one hundred percent serious and not like he's just having a goof. son you were told it was chowder. that's why you came here. and he is also a guy who spends chapter three loudly saying to everybody who will halfway listen that he is absolutely not the type of guy to sleep in bed with a stranger even for convenience's sake and he especially hates it when guys smoke in bed. and then both of those things happen and by chapter five he is saying "there's just something so nice about being curled up in my cozy wee bed with a six foot man throwing his thighs across me . love when he lights his pipe and we lie there smoking and talking til the wee hours this must be exactly like what it s to be a Wife"

[fancyingfinefabrics]

for me, i love & relate to ed so much because i’ve also been through a non mutual breakup that left me sobbing on the floor, bc nothing hurts like getting your heart broken by a dorky boy! it’s devastating

BUT if blackbeard can cry over a boy and still be saved by love, so can we all, and if that’s not beautiful and liberating idk what is

[warningsine]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Drew the mouse enjoyer Howdy I mentioned

AW he has friends...

[katabay]

Publius toddler era antics vs Pompeio adult era antics

ngl this is actually a subplot I’ve been working on and refuse to let go of, but I also realized that last month that if I wanted to do a sequel with the next generation of politicians, I had to introduce them ahead of time, so it’s truly become a small storm of Antics That Are Happening All The Time around Crasso’s house

[vaguely-concerned]

it never gets old to me that out of all the cardassians we see, garak has some of the roundest shape language to him while being y'know. himself! it's like a bouba kikills you situation.

[dmsr-art]

Can you wish me a happy birthday

happy birthday anon!!! here's a bnnuy i drew just for u

edit:

YAYYY im glad u like him 🫶🏼