#source: conversation I had

[child-of-the-undead]

D: I wish there were reaction pics in real life

Twin D: You mean like, facial expressions? I wish there were tone indicators in real life

D: You mean, like, tone?

[percabethconvos]

Annabeth: Percy and I are dating now

Thalia: Yeah I've known that for a while now

Annabeth: We just started?

Thalia: Then what the fuck were you doing before that?

[gundamthey17]

[on their way to question a witness]

Edwin: Charles, you must do me a favor.

Charles: What?

Edwin: Whatever I say, you will nod in agreement.

Charles: When did I ever do otherwise?

[coffeeandjuice]

An average text conversation between Natasha and Peter:

Peter: my new shampoo smells like you

Natasha: What do I even smell like????

Peter: My shampoo

Natasha: what’s in the shampoo?

Peter: …your scent

Natasha: What’s my average scent???

Peter: my shampoo

Natasha: I love how we’re talking in circles

[flowercrowncrip]

I say this with kindness and respect, but please stop coming to me and other random visibly disabled people/ full time wheelchair users for validation about your own disability.

I cannot tell you if it would be appropriate to call yourself disabled. I cannot tell you if you need a mobility aid. I cannot tell you if you should use a wheelchair or what sort of chair you should have. I’m not an expert, I’m just some guy who can’t walk.

All I have are my own experiences and the decisions I have made, and those will not be the same as yours. We’re different people with different conditions, priorities and circumstances, so what’s right for you might not be right for me and that doesn’t make anyone less valid.

[terymlxyrstdus]

james: i honestly think regulus might like me

remus: yeah…not likely

james: but we even talk sometimes

remus: so do we and he certainly doesn’t like me that way

james: but he even calls me by special nickname potter

remus: that’s your surname

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie being shown hugging Ravi rather than buck in this scene has me up in my feels actually.

Especially in combination with the conversation about Eddie being in the army and having been to a lot of funerals like this.

Because Ravi is a physical embodiment of bucks abandonment issues and Buck is watching on when the hug happens but not when the army stuff is talked about and that’s significant. It’s Eddie embracing bucks fear of abandonment when he’s feeling abandoned by his pseudo father and trying to live up to his last words - that the others are going to need him. So Eddie embracing Ravi is Eddie embracing Buck - having bucks back as he always has done and which we get a further representation of when they are carrying the coffin.

[here-comes-the-moose]

Echo: I can’t believe you’re getting so worked up about some guy.

Crosshair: This one’s different! He’s honest and he’s sweet.

Echo: Please…

Crosshair: He’d never do anything to hurt me.

Echo: HE’S A GUY!

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

JOHN: why do they always show cranberries in those big pits and it's implied it's wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. what.

ROSE: You've never heard of The Bog?

JOHN: th. the what?

ROSE: Hm. I forget some people don't understand New England.

JOHN: each additional comment you add makes my blood run cold.

ROSE: Well, then, yes, cranberries grow in large clumps called bogs. Once they're ripe, the bog is flooded and the cranberries are harvested, basically by using big floating nets to round them all up and scooping them out of the water.

JOHN: ok thank you. i hate it a little less. the horrible little man in my head is still screaming "BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY", but i appreciate the education.

ROSE: Additionally, you don't just flood the bog and then go around it in a boat, or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floating nets where they go and get all the berries and such.

ROSE: And many cranberry farms opt for organic or sustainable pest control methods, one of which is encouraging wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field and eat the bugs to keep insect damage down.

JOHN: wait.

ROSE: And, well, when you're in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don't like it, so they are, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing. So you will probably have, like, a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows. You have to be chill, though, because the spiders are also employees.

ROSE: If you ever want to go wading in a cranberry bog, just make sure you're cool with spiders.

JOHN: ...i want you to know, really truly know, that "make sure you're cool with spiders" is not a specific enough statement for that situation.

[yoitsmano]

Rio: I'm going to get some chocolate milk...

Agatha: Aren't you lactose intolerant?

Rio: Who told you that?

*Later*

Rio: *absolutely dying because she is in fact lactose intolerant*

Agatha: *tends to her wife’s upset tummy*

[percki]

i think that a lot of people don’t understand or weren’t conscious of the steddie apocalypse that occurred immediately after st4 aired. it was insane

[aedislumen]

What's your favourite portrait of a French revolutionary, and why?

Choosing one was hard, since I've got many that are my favourite, but here it is:

It's called Entente contre Danton (Agreement against Danton) by Svetlana Yukhlina and depicts Saint-Just surrounded by the rest of the CSP, which encourages him in a somewhat morbid way to write the indictment against the Dantonists.

The reason why I'm so fond of it, aside from the dark atmosphere, is that it shows something, an idea, that has been in the back of my mind for a while, after having read more about Saint-Just. I personally don't think it's a coincidence that it was he the one who made the speeches about the most delicate matters in the Convention: the CSP took advantage of his youth and apparent stern and uncompromising character - yes, even Robespierre did that- to send the message that the revolutionary government was as much as intransigent and determined as the one who was acting as its spokesperson during said speeches.

An implicit, unofficial duty that he accepted and of whose impact he was well aware.

[aliusfrater]

i’m like. so sure you’ve probably addressed this before but there’s been a popular topic on tt recently pertaining to john and favoritism of all three of his sons, particularly about how dean is least favored and i am just. simply not buying it since an alarming amount of people seem to have the impression that john didn’t even give two fucks about his kids, so i just wanted to hear your thoughts on that!

fundamentally petty discourse filtered through a dean perspective bias. it's fundamental to sam and dean's (and their conjoined relationship dynamic vs adam's) dynamic as foils that they're both jealous yet not entirely privy to the dynamics of their respective relationships with john while also having quite views that are quite warped through apologia, guilt, or as mentioned, their respective dynamics with him—failed parentification and relative codependency vs infantalisation and isolation (they're both neglect but are fundamentally different kinds. it's where, i think, the idea of john as Figure is foundational within). i don't really know how to answer this ask without straight up summerising episodic plot points except to give you a watchlist: the entirety of seasons one and two, 3.01, 3.08, 3.14, 4.13, 4.19 (i, ii), 4.21, 4.22, 5.06, 5.11, 5.13, 5.16, 6.02, 7.11, 7.12, 7.14, 7.19, 11.08, 11.12, 11.22, 12.04, 13.04, 14.13, and feel free to add more if you find this list to be missing john exploration or hauntings.

like dean's role within the winchester familial dynamic has largely to do with the fact that he was the perfect soldier, the perfect weapon, the perfect extension of john and he fit that role for john's sake; the jacket, the music, his hair, and the impala are all aspects of his emulation of john. much of sam's relationship with john (and his role) has to do with his inability to fit within the parameters of their relationship that john expects/wants/needs. dean's dialogue (1.08, "and then within five minutes, you guys will be at each other's throats.") as well as specific scenes in season one (1.21, "you were just pissed you couldn't control me anymore!") establishes that sam and john's arguments are a fundamental aspect of their relationship dynamic while dean's obedience defined his and john's relationship. season one explores these factors as well as the idea of sam and dean's redeveloping relationship changes the way both think of their respective relationships with john; dean was very well aware of the differences in how he and sam were treated and he placed the blame of much of it on the child (sam) in the parent/child relationship (john and sam) (1.08, "i seem to recall a few choice phrases comin' out of your mouth." / "well, it's a two-way street, dude.") which affected sam's budding guilt complex about his and john's relationship while sam is very well aware of the impossibility of several aspects of dean's relationship with john (1.18, "you were just a kid.") and eventually gives dean his own agency to stand up to john like sam did (1.11, "you stand up to dad. and you always have. hell, i wish i—" / 1.21, "although i'm not too crazy about this new tone of yours, you're right. i'm sorry."). in the same vein, john and dean chronically isolated sam from their own family dynamic while dean never fully understood sam's perspective in that, his resulting desire for a life outside of hunting, and conflict this caused between sam and john (largely in favour of john's pov) which results in a median lack of understanding of each other's relationships with john. this snowballs throughout the rest of the show, especially regarding sam and dean's own dynamic. the thing is that, both dean and sam initially saw, and to some degree still do and forever will see, the way they view their respective relationships with john as the ideal. sam wants to feel wanted and included by john while dean admires sam's rebellion and envies the outward care john demonstrated to sam as a pedestal of innocence; dean very often neglects to acknowledge sam's childhood experience from his own perspective (lots of examples, but is encapsulated within 11.08, "you weren't lonely you had me!") (and in other cases he was expresses resentment for his own) while sam, privy to dean's attempted parentification, accommodates to his (1.18 mentioned above and even his reaction to the events of 9.07 and 15.16).

it's fundamental that john loved his kids—he loved both these aspects of them both but it was also cause for his own abusive behaviour. he took advantage of his codependent relationship with dean, especially when it came to hunting and he othered and eventually entirely excluding sam from the family for having life goals that didn't centre hunting because he was scared of how he thought this inadvertently dangerous paranormal world would affect his children. this also circles back around to how and why i think he neglected adam. it's kind of fundamental to john's character that he loved his family because otherwise the abuse sam and dean faced, and later, the dynamics of sam and dean's own dynamic, wouldn't work—which is why i've said time and time again that anyone who villainises or omits john's character will never fundamentally understand their familial dynamic. john's love for them is quite literally his driving motivation but there was straight up never any narrative exploration about a favourite: there was quite simply a difference in their respective childhood experiences because john loved them differently (largely based on their differing reactions to him as the parent as well as their circumstances).

[nixster627]

Wei Wuxian: You don't need to baby me anymore. I am an adult.

Wei Wuxian: I drink, I drive.

Jiang Cheng: Not at the same time, though, right?

Jiang Yanli: Does that mean I can't make you soup anymore?

Wei Wuxian: Soup doesn't have an age limit. Does it?

Jiang Cheng: That's great and all, but we never actually clarified the drinking and driving thing.

[doueverwonder]

Texas: are you one of them pronoun users?

California: … we all use pronouns Texas.

[tariah23]