tgtbata · 2 years ago
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happy wincest wednesday frauke! What are your favorite and least favorite tropes to read in wincest fic?
thank u for the question! it's almost still wednesday even.
favourite tropes: curses (which encompasses a huge field of plot devices obviously lol), "we're both aware but haven't acted on it yet", pining (either and both ways; if that's not too general to count as a trope), bunker domesticity, not fake dating but playing along with assumptions, time travel/different version of sam and dean meeting.
least favourite tropes: unrelated AU (i mean whatever floats your boat, man, but why is this even a thing), mpreg/kidfic (just generally not into it, regardless of pairing), idk what the trope name would be but "they're sooo awful and abusive for each other and they actually hate each other deep down and are only forcibly held together by duct tape and cannibalism". cas bashing. dean or sam being made to grovel for forgiveness for their ~past mistakes~ like gadreel or demon blood.
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trials-era-sam · 2 years ago
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happy birthday ana!!! i hope you get to eat something tasty and see many sexy sam posts
awwww tysm!!!!! Ily and I hope you keep lighting up my dash with your great posts and hilarious rage TAGS. TAGS. I MEANT TAGS. WTF AUTOCORRECT 🥰🥰🥰
so far I’ve had Gorgonzola pasta and cheesecake so it’s been going good <333 I’m in Paris for the day (to see a Friends exhibit which I HIGHLY recommend) so I haven’t seen a lot of posts at all but I have still glimpsed some yummy Sam ☺️
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stanfordsweater · 2 years ago
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happy wincest wednesday ava! if sam and dean were dropped into the Dragon Age universe (with characters from any of the games), which characters do you think they would each get along with most and/or least?
:D omg yesssss. i've been contemplating this since z said that sam and cullen would be best friends or awkward enemies! i'm approaching this as canon sam and dean, not my personal thoughts about their roles in the DA universe would influence their relationships (eg. sam is not an apostate warden like he is in z's fic and all of my headcanons, he's just sam).
out of the characters in origins, i think early seasons sam and leliana would get along really well. sam would be really impressed by her double life and the optimism she's able to keep despite the horrors she's seen, but they would bring out the worst in each other. wynne would think sam was the sweetest boy ever, and sam would hate her and constantly try to use dean as a buffer (which would not work because wynne hates dean. bad taste. he wins her over eventually). zevran would try to wrangle sam and dean into a threesome. dean would be intimidated by zevran and pretend not to be. on the other hand, dean and sten would be BEST FRIENDS but dean would have no idea until sten leaves and reveals his deep respect for dean as a warrior and dean would be like ?? (but also they should hook up)
i wanted to do all the games but i am sick and i need to go lay horizontally, hopefully imagining sten being reluctantly in love with dean makes you as happy as it makes me
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flownwrong · 6 months ago
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dS rewatch shenanigans
So me and @mannequin3thereckoning rewatched 2.04 Bird in the Hand, 3.02 Eclipse and 4.03 The Ladies' Man (or 4.05, depending on the region; I like this ordering of the episodes better, it makes the season more equally paced to me). Somehow we picked a nice equal distribution between seasons 2-4 (sorry s1, I just did not have that much free time!)
It was fun to compare the impressions between us, a person who's fresh off a rewatch and one who didn't touch dS for some years :) Unlike my rigorous friend, I don't have it in me to do a separate post for each episode. It's all pretty chaotic, but here goes:
Bird in the Hand
It was funny to notice how much easier it is to judge the pacing of an episode while also chatting about it in real time compared to a regular watch. This one is pretty much perfect!
It's a great showcase for the side of Fraser that sometimes gets lost between screen and fic, or screen and meta—his lowkey permanent annoyance with his circumstances ("I'm not sulky. I don't sulk," he said. You know, like a liar!) and his masterfully contained intense anger. It's so funny how annoyed he gets with Turnbull! Finally, someone at the consulate who gets more shit than he does haha.
Also another great example of Ray consistently ready to both stir up shit and take shit for Fraser in a highly stressful situation where Fraser's hands are tied. “He’d shoot him for you if you asked"—even Dad knows <3 Linking this wonderful art to express my endless appreciation for how well-oiled Ray and Fraser's banter is. No one does put upon like Ray Vecchio. No one.
And, I mean, the emotional centerpiece of the episode is BRILLIANT. The tone balances on the usual dS edge between wacky and weighty juuust right for juuuuust long enough via Ghost Dad, and then it cannonballs right into heartbreaking because of the Ghost Dad in the span of two lines, sustains it for one of the most effective conversations in all of dS and eases out of it by—you guessed it—Ghost Dad diffusing the tension with continuous murderous overtures.
And I think Fraser's ✨Plan✨ in this one is a rare example of his speechifying that actually bares his underbelly as opposed to only expressing his beliefs illustrated by his experiences. He's very self-aware: he says to his father, "I'm no better", I, too, can't ask for help, I, too, can't express my love and my hurts—and then he goes and does exactly that—and then he immediately follows it by turning the tables on everyone and going "ah, but I stunned you all with my emotional openness on purpose so I could get the upper hand in the stand-off"—but it works both ways, and it's clearly also him using the excuse to actually be vulnerable for a second. Man, Fraser is a thing to behold in this episode.
But you can actually see how far he's come since the pilot, and how his partnership with Ray affected him—it's cool that this happens only two episodes after Ray bullies him into admitting his dissatisfaction with his circumstances. And here he's expressing grief, not the anger, not the desire for revenge, but grief, out loud, to everyone. "You broke my heart." Jesus.
10/10 episode, highly recommended.
Eclipse
This episode is like a favourite well-worn hoodie to me. Apart from the iconic "Do you find me attractive?" exchange it offers so many joys.
It's funny (The "now it's broken and it's working" exchange and "Mom, how you've changed—into cuban cigars" are both beautiful moments).
There's Fraser's "I'm acquainted with loss and, on occasion, loneliness" line which is I think a great thing to learn about him early in the season both if you tuned into the show without seeing s1-2 and if you're Ray Kowalski.
There's the great Ray intro, doubly so because we already had the intro, and were even given a lot of the info there that Eclipse reinforces (like Ray's compulsive need to express his vulnerabilities in hope of protecting himself from being judged too harshly, but also his competence—even if my man should really keep those glasses on—and his ability to think on his feet and his obsessive tendencies and his soft romantic underbelly and I could go on, we learn so. much. stuff. by the point we hear Fraser's exposition on Ray's professional record we're not even surprised).
I love that Fraser is immediately comfortable with his new position of being the more emotionally stable one in the duo, haha—while Ray Vecchio had his insecurities and great moments of learning to trust himself with Fraser's help, Fraser is clearly both fascinated by Ray Kowalski's openness and ready to offer his shoulder to lean on, with an added bonus of being in less danger of being perceived while near this dude who constantly makes himself available for perception.
Random little notes: I really love how Ray says his own name with so much disappointment when introducing himself: "I'm... *frustrated sigh* Kowalski." I love how he tentatively asks Fraser to repeat "friend" after his declaration of friendship. I love that he's a dork who throws the dreamcatcher like a frisbee. I love the b-plot letting us hang out with the station gang a little and see them stand up for each other. I love the insane angle on Ray's face while he's being interrogated (see: my eyelashes gifset). I love the birthday party. I love the crypt as a setting, and I love everyone in that impromptu holding cell.
And, in the words of my wiser friend, "ray finding out his imposter syndrome was caused by a guy who doesn’t even remember him is so very ray". I take my hat off to everyone involved in making this episode.
The Ladies' Man, which I'm very glad my friend suggested, bc otherwise I probably would've forced her to watch it anyway, and I'm not a fan of such cruelty.
Let's get some things out of the way:
Ray looks incredibly good in this episode. It's a crime to look this good AND suffer prettily on top of that. The fact that the camera that was already pretty obsessed with CKR these two seasons gets, like, terminally stuck on him here does Not hurt matters.
I have some Questions for the episode, and I'll get to them, but it's my top one dS episode on a pure viewing pleasure level because it pushes my buttons.
Can't say much about the cold open because it's pretty much perfect, tight and tense and we get the Homoerotic Calling Off Your Rabid Dog Partner When He's Losing It Before He Kills Someone, which is a timeless classic (complete with the obvious and iconic Look at me! Look! At! Me!), and Ray and Fraser are perfect characters to act it out. CKR is on fire, no notes.
One moment I somehow forgot from my many previous rewatches that really struck me during this one is Fraser's almost casual admission of imagining murdering his father's murderers—thinking again about Bird in the Hand up there. It's a great reminder late in the show, where we see this aspect of him less often, and it's cool that he can safely share it in the face of Ray's rawness, you know, as opposed to it being a great and painful admission when he's the vulnerable one.
A brief interlude to shake my fists at the sky and wail Why, o Paul Gross, did you have to add the singing—it's not just that the joke didn't age well, it didn't even land at the time, and I don't think it would in any episode, but especially here???— and the bark tea flirting—which is par for the course as far as dS goes and could be cute but it feels totally disconnected from the rest of the scene, let alone the episode, so, again, ???? It's not that I wanted a mournful monotony of an episode with no laughs—I would pick a different show then—but like, I think better jokes could've been made. Like later in the episode, where during a climactic scene they drop the "actually, all that exposition makes me feel a little thirsty" line, it works.
Back to the point: Dixie Seatle is fucking amazing??? Her and CKR work so well together that all the noise of failed gags and nonsensical continuity of Ray's cover and whatnot is super easy to wave away because they're the emotional core of the episode, and they deliver. They have such a fragile thing going on, with him being exhausted from all the guilt and her also being exhausted from his guilt on top of the, you know, the whole death penalty thing.
Which, speaking of, UM, that's one of Thee Darkest Premises in the whole show and encountering it for the first time was a trip, during a season I was not a fan of and considered dropping. And yes many rewatches later I'm still confused but grateful about it all. The world in this episode is brutal in the way it rarely is in the show; integrity and redemption and whatnot are big motives in dS, and the big point is usually that the world, imperfect and unfair as it is, can respond to kindness with kindness and this is worth upholding. It is Not So here; scenes like the whole precinct cheering away at the prospect of Beth's impending execution are just—wow, okay.
So, as far as dS goes, this is a super solipsistic episode. It's perfectly self-contained, and even though it could have, I don't know, implications for Ray the way some of Fraser's Bad Shit did for Fraser, it just isn't addressed in the end. And I don't think it should be. It's a character study, and whoever decided they needed a very heavy one for Ray is my hero. (Note: I think this is the reason I never read a coda for this episode that I enjoyed. Having your blorbo break down in tears right in front of his boyfriend right before the credits with no follow-up kind of begs for a coda, but—newp. It works so well because it cuts off with no big resolutions.)
And whoever wrote those two closing scenes deserves a medal; to have this much restraint is an achievement for late season dS. CKR and Dixie Seatle also deserve a medal each for creating something this excruciating with super precise line deliveries and body language.
Small things my mind always catches on:
Welsh and his pink duster, looking out for Ray
CKR's rolling over the car stunt (steam comes out of my ears)
tiny flashback Ray checking his hair in the mirror at the crime scene because of course he does
Ray casually fiddling with Fraser's hat as they walk around
Sam Franklin's whole deal. I mean, there's tension there. For god's sake he pats Ray's cheek like a proud mentor he played the whole time when Ray takes his gun during his arrest. I mean. Uh. Yeah.
the fact that truepenny quit her meta right before this episode is a human tragedy
Probably like 40% of what you've read above have been brought up or articulated by @mannequin3thereckoning, so thank her for all the fun. I hope we can do this again some time <3
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fandom-hoarder · 1 year ago
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prince-of-elsinore · 8 months ago
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Writing patterns tag game!
Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!
Thank you @flownwrong for the tag! I love tag games that investigate writing style and habits :)
Sam shuts his laptop and massages the bridge of his nose. Too many violent deaths that fit the profile of their vengeful spirit; not enough sleep to parse through them. -
When I climbed over my brother's hips for the third time that night, Sodapop threw an arm over his eyes and groaned. -
When I started writing that composition, it made me remember things. -
The Tar Man first appeared to me in Plano, Texas. -
The brake lines in Mrs. Shapiro's 1986 Ford station wagon need replacing. -
Sam's still in his stage makeup when he pulls his brother into an empty classroom in the wing off the auditorium. -
When Sam suggested they warm up, this was not what he had in mind. For the record. -
New Orleans in the middle of July is hell. -
He spends Christmas Day driving west. -
Storms stir shit up. Like dogs and old war wounds, spirits get restless when the pressure drops. -
Hm, I seem to favor some sort of setting contextualization of time, place, or occasion. And I've started three stories with the word "When." Funny that that includes both my published Outsiders stories, and of course the book also begins with "When." Perhaps I was subconsciously echoing that.
Anyone notice anything else? I'm curious what you see!
I have no idea who's been tagged for this one already so apologies if you're double-tapped: @nigeltde-fic, @mannequin3thereckoning, @buddyaldridge, @nevergettingoverwincest, and @dyed-red :)
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ruinedsam · 1 year ago
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hey so i am new spn blog! j2 blog (nice ones!!!) not minor in 30s i was wondering if i can get blog recs for active blogs that follow back? :)
Hi!
Well I can't say anything about whether they'll follow back, that's their business, but there are definitely some cool active blogs I can rec :)
Not sure what kind of blog you're looking for, but these are all either Sam or some flavor of samdean blogs:
@chiisana-sukima @ambersock @lillysilverus @trials-era-sam @fuckyeahsam @mpregspn @queenfansam @fandom-hoarder @dyed-red @seanwinchester @pranzill @the-gray-ghosty @hellhoundlair @red-meat-my-beloved @aborddelimpala @moonlightdistractions @digitalmeowmix @mannequin3thereckoning @cosmicsiblings @opheliasam @adihildilid @traumatizedsam
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ghostsisters · 10 months ago
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9 people you want to know better, tagged by @monstraduplicia, thank you :)
Last Song: dig me out - sleather-kinney
Favorite Color: dark teal
Last Movie/TV Show: last movie - sense and sensibility, and i just finished my rewatch of s1 true detective
Sweet/Spicy/Savory: now why would i choose, i love all kinds of food
Relationship Status: all alone
Last Thing I Googled: when is shrek 5 coming out
Current Obsession: the most noticable thing is most definitely that i've been rewatching beloved tv show fringe consistently non stop since last summer.
Last Book: last thing was actually wutherng heights lmao but with the winter holidays and stuff it's been a while, i should go back to it.
Looking Forward To: i don't know, 'm pretty stocked to have a day off tomorrow, that's basically all i look forward to these days. not having to work.
tagging @biblempreg @christsam @holocrone @rontology @marys2ndson @weirdbrothers @thousandsswords @seanwinchester @mannequin3thereckoning
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hurricanejane · 1 year ago
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9 people I would like to know better 💜
Tagged by: @winchesterride
Last song: Foxes Mate for Life - Born Ruffians
Favorite color: Olive green, burnt orange
Currently watching: Our Flag Means Death S2, Mandalorian S3, Loki S2, Only Murders in the Building S1
Last movie/tv show:
movie(s): Cabin in the Woods
show: Wednesday (just finished), Only Murders in the Building (last episode watched)
Spicy/savory/sweet: Savory I guess, but I love a lil sweet treat
Relationship status: In a nested polyam partnership
Current obsession(s): Supernatural, it's waning a bit though wahh. Star Wars (Just watched Rebels and got into Kalluzeb, also just watched Ahsoka, currently watching Mandalorian S3)
Last thing you googled: Yerba Mate (lol wanted to see if they had any cute merch, found out they have a peach flavor I want to try)
Tagging:
No pressure friends. @deanwinchesterpregnant @mostlybbucky @pranzill @mannequin3thereckoning @blacknidstang @weirdbros @juststartingtobebrothersagain @greasysteak @wendibird
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zmediaoutlet · 6 months ago
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RULES: put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people.
d'aw, thank you for thinking of me @stanfordsweater <3
I always thought the 'actually' in here was funny. Are people just pretending to listen to music? Here's five from the shuffle I do, really, actually listen to --
Sleeping on the Blacktop -- Colter Wall
Queen -- Perfume Genius
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters -- Elton John
Here Comes the Sun -- Yo-Yo Ma & James Taylor
Carry On Phenomenon -- Kishi Bashi
I guess that's relatively representative, lol. Hit me up, buds --
@mannequin3thereckoning, @anonajn, @nyxocity, @jamevaa, @felisblanco, @aj-carryon, @futuristicenthusiastlight, @candybarrnerd, @monstersandbrothers, @pendragony
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tgtbata · 2 years ago
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happy wincest mittwoch! what is your favorite era of wincest to explore artistically, and what makes it so appealing to you? is it also your favorite era of the show just in general, from a viewer standpoint?
oh perhaps slightly embarrassing to answer but i love drawing later seasons married!chesters. not actually married, but as close as can be. simply because at heart i am secretly the soggiest being alive and i love the domesticity and gentleness and relief of it and i love adding a little bit of grey to dean’s temples. but i do also love sam’s stupid early bangs and motel aesthetic and tbh a lot of the stuff i want to draw i haven’t drawn yet (and a lot of that is more episode/season specific) so i guess my very favourite thing is that there are so many different angles and eras to explore :p married era is also one of my favourites to watch but it’s definitely not the sole top 1 simply because i love everything before that as well.
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trials-era-sam · 2 years ago
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worms can be bugs if they believe in themselves hard enough!!
omg that’s so true Eve….. maybe the true bugs are the worms we made along the way
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stanfordsweater · 9 months ago
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Nine people you want to know better — i was tagged by @alaynestone @hearthouses @zombiejunk and @seanwinchester and i feel like the prettiest girl at the ball 🥰
Last Song: everybody here hates you by courtney barnett
Favorite Color: blue!
Last Movie/TV Show: true detective episode one 🫡
Sweet/Spicy/Savory: savoury for sure, i love sashimi because what i'm really looking for is that savoury feeling
Relationship Status: common law, tax man 🤨
Last Thing I Googled: ... "is sushi savoury"
Current Obsession: BALDURS GATE 3 play this game i'm so serious
Last Book: the good ole days of video rental by kevin doherty and bill hrenchuk, which has a very weird and kind of funny section about two teenage boys copying one of their dads' VCR porn collections and finding a bunch of incest before it was mainstream. bout to start reading tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica
Looking Forward To: :/ having time to make more edits. sometime in my life. more importantly going to njcon with @catnipster69!!!!!!
tagging: not sure who hasn't done this yet! @mannequin3thereckoning @compo67 @ecobully @catnipster69 @deanwinchesterpregnant @laloslayamanca @hurricanejane
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jellybracelet · 2 years ago
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Tagged by @trials-era-sam to make this picrew! Love you Ana
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Tagging a bunch of blogs from my recent notes @glowingsamulet @finalwoman @mannequin3thereckoning @youcanchoosefreedom @laertez @tomgregmpreg
@hurricanejane @sh1tbewild @tommymilkers @lanechester @cordellwinchesterwalker @yesimirreputable
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flownwrong · 4 months ago
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Thanks for the tag @bisexualdawnsummers!
Add 10 gifs from your favorite shows and tag 10 people. Uh, a mix of current and all time faves in no particular order.
True Detective
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The Terror
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due South
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Slings & Arrows
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M*A*S*H
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Endeavour
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TOS
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Chernobyl
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Supernatural (consider this gif season 15 meta)
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Person of Interest
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tagging @prince-of-elsinore @stanfordsweater @mannequin3thereckoning @mackmp3 @rightspocko @cascadella @hwaetnot @spacetimeconundrum @flashbulb-memory @redmyeyes (no pressure and sorry if you've been tagged before!)
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bagsley · 11 months ago
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tagged by @ghostsisters in the album game <3 thank you! this was fun
rules: list 10 your favorite albums, tag 10 people
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tagging: @seasononecest @mlmsam @mannequin3thereckoning @fuckyeahsam @horrorshow
pls no pressure and if u haven’t been tagged and want to be pretend i tagged u <3
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