#the fucking power of gay people…. it’s unmatched!!!

[partynthem]

life’s SO fucking fun

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Sword gays showdown, losers bracket (Round 1)

Propaganda:

For Nandor:

He's hilarious, pathetic, awful and used to be a great warrior. He's even pansexual.

Fucking guy

For Zhou Zishu:

he has a magical sword that bends called a whip sword! he keeps it around his slutty waist! it's one of three legendary magical swords made by the (formerly) immortal "ghost hand" swordsmith! his love interest uses it to make dick jokes!

he's an unmatched swordsman that created and led a secret assasin organization and then he retired to get drunk and be gay. he's never lost a fight unless he was at ½ or less of his power (he got terminally ill for a hot second) and the only person that compares to his skill is his husband, the former leader of the ghost valley. he's so babygirl and so gorgeous and so swordy.

he's got a special little bendy sword and he's my girlfriend (don't tell his husband)

He's already super dangerous with just his hands and random objects he picks up (from a stone Buddha statue he throws at a bunch of assailants in early chapters to flinging a clothes button right /through/ a man's wrist), but once he pulls out a sword, you know it's for real. He's gonna disarm a dozen people in a few seconds - as in, literally, he cut off a bunch of people's arms because they were trying to kill his bf, - or cut a "十" into someone's throat. He's especially hot... ahem, proficient with his personal sword, Baiyi, which is a soft sword - allowing it to pass defenses by bending in motion. Very fitting for a sneaky assassin & spy like Zhou Zishu!

[original-character-championship]

Bracket G Round 1

Poll 9

Suzuki Nobu & Yoshioka Jun (@to-hell-with-good-intentions & @hilowperfixations) vs. Aubrey Miller (@serethespider)

401. Suzuki Nobu & Yoshioka Jun (@to-hell-with-good-intentions & @hilowperfixations)

He/him for both of them!

Two autistic middle schoolers against the world... They are silly. Nobu has too many brain cells and Jun has none. They are besties because Jun forced them to be. He hugged Nobu one day and has not let go since. Nobu did not like this at first but now they will both cry if they are separated. They do bestie activities like Jun braids Nobu’s hair while Nobu explains hyper advanced music theory concepts that he does not understand. Nobu got his first phone (he was previously very against technology) just to FaceTime with Jun. Jun has a silly little crush on Nobu and is very obvious about it but Nobu does not see... or does he????!?! They have a playlist together made of disco music and 15 minute long orchestral pieces. Also they both know Hatsune Miku.

Jun is a short, 13-year-old boy with light brown skin, dark, curly hair, and very bright outfits that look like they come straight out of the 1970s. Nobu is a pale, 13-year-old boy with blonde hair who dresses in sweater vests and khakis, like a college professor.

402. Aubrey Miller (@serethespider)

any/all

How does one begin to describe Aubrey Miller? They're a happy, bubbly people-pleaser. She's a primadonna theatre gay who thinks in stage metahpors. He's an interdimensional eldtritch being with unmatched telepathic powers who nobody has ever heard of because she's spent the past 700 years fucking around in small towns learning various trades and taking part in as many forms of performance as possible. They form their identity and mannerisms entirely around the preferences of the people she likes and then just switches out custom-crafted personas as needed. He has 4 concurrently active secret identities and counting. She once systematically ruined a man's entire life for hurting one of her friends. They once cried on the subway because they accidentally upset a stranger. When they're bored they like to layer contradictory lies on top of each other until someone sees through it all, and calls this practice Manipulation Jenga. At least three of my real person friends are actively terrified of them. Character Of All Time.

[hella1975]

hella should I watch bsd and why?

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES E OMG YES okay okay here's why you should watch bsd right now this moment and tell me all about it:

chuuya nakahara is a man that exists. he is everything to me

the characters are all based on famous authors and they all dress like they're fucking victorian or some shit and they all fight each other and have homoerotic partnerships. the aesthetic of bsd is just unmatchable truly

genuinely the most homoerotic anime ive ever watched and ive watched haikyuu

chuuya is there!

on a serious note the plot absolutely WOWS it's soooo clever it's about detectives and mafia and external threats etc etc but there's twists and the characters are sooooo smart and especially with recent manga events you NEVER know what's going to happen im always on the edge of my seat

it has powers!!!!!!!!! they're called 'abilities' and our main cast all have one and they're so so interesting bc they're inspired by the writer that the character is named after (aka fyodor's ability is 'crime and punishment')

there's a guy with a literal GOD inside of him and he can control gravity and he wears funny hats and has the most gorgeous hair of all time also his name is chuuya

dazai osamu (yes like THEE dazai osamu) is there and he's a BITCH while also being one of the most insanely intelligent characters of any media ever. he makes me want to die (affectionate)

found family!!!!! particularly from our protag atsushi bc he's an orphan that effectively gets adopted by our main cast and he has a real thing about Belonging and Family and Healing From Abuse so watching that all unfold is just <33333

the generational trauma omg i know for a FACT you of all people will like this. we have a cycle of abuse that is just so so fascinating bc you sympathise with ALL OF THEM (aside mori. he can rot) even when they themselves become the next generation of abuser and it's so complicated and ive never actually seen it illustrated so explicitely before

also speaking of generational things we also have each new generation of double black from zenki soukoku to soukoku to shin soukoku i think it's soooo compelling (basically the most powerful duo of each generation but every single time they absolutely HATE each other and are forced to figure it out and wind up knowing each other better than anyone while still sustaining a farce of mutual dislike aka everyone knows they're fucking)

this one guy throws a building at a dragon. i cant remember his name right now but it's definitely nothing that rhymes with mooya makahara

YOSANO!!!!!!!! HOT ANGRY MURDER LESBIAN!!!!!!!!!!

murder siblings via the akutagawas!!!! they are everything to me!!!! we also have the tanizaki siblings but i need you to ignore every second they're on screen together and id like to apologise in advance

bsd set the standard for enemies to lovers. full stop argue with the wall

constant literary references throughout that make my heart happy

it's easily accessible! the entire show is free on crunchyroll in multiple languages including an english dub!

A5158

we have angst! we have humour! we have plot! we have bsd wan for when bsd gets too much! we have a movie! we have an updating manga that's still got plenty of steam! we have three seasons as is! we have a stage play! we have found family! we have corrupt organisations! we have healing! we have morally grey characters actively choosing good even though they have nothing inside them that is compelled to do so! we have gay people! no seriously soukoku is basically canon! they're so fucked!

im in really really really really really normal amounts of love with chuuya

[souryogurt64]

in terms of artistry, talent and/or cultural impact which one is more important: mcr or fob? not trolling just know that you are very thoughtful about this kind of stuff so would love to see your thoughts

I think this is a hard one, I think you cant really rank bands numerically because each one is different.

MCR are completely unmatched in their dedication to creating a world for each album and sticking to it. Not that FOB don't take the artistry seriously or do cool shit, but FOB don't really do concept albums with a fictional world and have like costumes and matching albums. MCR are completely unparalleled in that respect. Theatrically, MCR as a band are just so huge in a way I don't think FOB measure up to. I don't think FOB are trying-- they're different bands with different styles and FOB do more traditional pop/rock radio stuff. But I can't talk up what MCR do with every album and with their entire lives around the band enough; I think they truly made a pure legacy in a way FOB didn't with the story and the art and the fits all matching a theme.

I think as writers, Gerard and Pete are so different it's like comparing apples to oranges. Gerard is a storyteller and Pete is a wordsmith, you know? Gerards lyrics strike me as a little more simple than Pete's, but that's because Gerard is focusing on a big idea story, whereas FOB slur gorgeous pill-fueled poetry into a pop radio thing, I guess. Gerard's themes and Pete's one-liners are equally matched in different ways. But I have to say I think Pete takes the cake for the most show stopping writer.

Same with comparing musical talent. I think MCR have the best and most killer guitar solos, but FOB have much better basslines. Patrick and Gerard are so different in terms of melodies and vocals it's just tough to compare. Patrick definitely has "better" vocals but MCR's style fits Gerard's vocals and Gerard puts so much passion and sort of acting into them. Etc etc.

However, though, FOB-- and I guess Pete-- have this sort of massive tentacle-ing out impact in a way MCR doesn't. Gym Class Heroes, Panic!, Cobra, and so many other bands would not have existed without them and without Pete. He kickstarted a lot of artists and I feel like created an entire scene. And yeah, MCR brought up other bands like MSI and The Used but it wasn't like Decaydance. So many DCD things he directly or indirectly breathed life into live on forever and have this staying power. MCR haven't really done that or had as much pop influence-- though they did influence pop culture in their own way. Pete gets most of the street cred for this but Patrick was producing and putting vocals on so many songs that took them to another level. The cultural impact FOB had with the scene they created with other bands was just so fucking massive and far-reaching, whereas MCR just had their single impact as an unparalleled icon, if that makes sense.

MCR's merch is leagues ahead of Fall Out Boy's. Fall Out Boy's merch fucking sucks and has almost always fucking sucked, as does Panic!'s. MCR's latest merch drop is insane. The Boy Zone MCR teen magazine and the gay porn star with the MCR tramp stamp are things at a caliber FOB could never hit and would never care to hit. FOB knows they can slap arial text on a shirt in five seconds and people will buy it and they don't have to hire artists or think about their base at all. Pete and Brendon can definitely at times be extremely derisive, cruel, and condescending towards their fans in a way Gerard has never been and I think therein lies the crux of why their merch sucks and MCR's consistently hits every time and FOB's doesn't. Pete (and Brendon) rolls his eyes at his fangirls and thats why he doesn't give a shit if they're wearing ugly t-shirts that took five seconds to make because it gets him another Rolex and more custom golf gear. Gerard is a fangirl that writes Planet of the Apes fanfiction. Gerard genuinely views himself as the God-chosen leader of a fated army that respects his soldiers and Pete views himself as a celebrity.

Anyway, that and art school. FOB's album art is still a close second to MCR's, though. Still a second.

So yeah, it's hard to say, I think they each beat each other out in different areas. MCR probably wins as a single band, but FOB does as a culture and as these puppetmasters, IMO.

[steelycunt]

if there is anything i’ve gathered over the past few weeks is that people treat lestat how you treat sirius. like, every post I see I’m like “that could easily be ridi speaking about sirius” and I love that. they both reach such a level of pathetic-ness it’s astounding I love them.

Exhibit A:

“They couldn’t physically show a dirty, pathetic, muddy Lestat squatting in the fucking bushes while sobbing uncontrollably because it would actually cure all disease and solve world hunger”

HI BAB listen firstly im sooo close to giving in and watching this show you dont understand the marketing power of a tumblr mutual rbing gifs is unmatched unparalleled unheard of. im not even a tv show girl frankly my attention span is weak n generally doesnt last long enough to sit through films or tv shows but like as soon as its on the dash and everyones rbing its like. i AM susceptible to tumblr mutual dash fomo i DO want to know the names and stories behind the little people ur putting on my timeline. SECONDLY insane!! and see that only makes me want to watch it more am i right in saying lestat is the blond guy or am i making a fool of myself here. theres a vampire (being interviewed) and the other guy (doing the interview) and its about uhhhh the conduction of the interview (gay sex)?? anyway pathetic men u mean sm to me. and with that i will be tuning in this october thanks for the push bab <33

[bangchanswolfpelt]

*quietly drops this into ur inbox after like 2 months* part 2 of svt relationships. as a treat

jun + the8:

- SOULMATES PART THREE!!!!!! - sunshiney boy + intelligent book boy but taken to another level - jun seems quiet and unapproachable but is secretly a giant sweetheart and full of love - minghao seems like a good respectful boy but he’s actually a chaotic meme king who’s obsessed with kermit (the number of Minghao Roasting People compilations can attest to this. also see: haunted house gose episode, which is actually what really got me into svt in the first place) - i love these two forever. exasperated mom friend x flirty dreamy friend - it’s junhui running around and being loud and telling really horrible pickup jokes while minghao pretends to be disgusted but is actually cackling on the inside!!! - it’s minghao roasting everyone while jun hovers supportingly on the side!!!! it’s them making fun of each other in the sweetest possible way!! (minghao imitating jun in the talent show gose episode KILLED ME) - not only that, but the trust that these two have in each other, kind of like vernon and joshua but perhaps even more, as people from an unfamiliar country that gave everything to dance on a stage - best way to encapsulate them: the my i performance. The My I Performance. i have nothing else to say woozi + hoshi:

- overexcited extrovert friend + exhausted introvert friend - jihoonie’s so like. tolerantly fond of soonyoung’s shenanigans and it Makes Me Soft - see: that one vlive where he just let hoshi fuck around with his recording equipment - there’s really not much to say here i just love these two and their dynamic - hoshi: going absolutely batshit insane. woozi: on the side with sunglasses and a smoothie

vernon + seungkwan:

- MY CHILDREN. MY DARLINGS. - the Literal Epitome of the “kick his ass baby, i got yo flower” meme - seungkwan is honestly someone i relate to on a like. molecular level. - the man is so chaotic and loud and unrestrained and has ABSOLUTELY no care for his reputation and vernon’s just quietly supporting him in the back and i!!!!!!! - anyways - lowkey one of my favorite relationships to just watch interact with each other without words?? like they’re so at home with each other that they don’t need to act "nice" or be polite and it’s literally so good - i live for the comfortable married-couple energy - also: vernon, when asked during a LIVE CONCERT what his favorite part of seungkwan is: (without hesitation) *slaps seungkwans ass* - a key part of their dynamic: vernon doing something stupid and seungkwan: a) pouting. b) making fun of him. c) joining in. d) all of the above. - alexa play best friend by saweetie i CANT DEAL WITH THESE TWO - unrelated: vernon’s fashion sense and the collective group disdain over makes me cry laugh. like sir please i love you but why do you look like someone took a pride flag and a ufo and put them in a blender booseoksoon:

- CHAOTIC TRIO!!! LIFEBLOOD OF THE GROUP!!!!! blessed blessed blessed - unmatched energy. the vibes alone would incinerate me on the spot - this is a constant cycle of batshit crazy member to the power of three resulting in Shenanigans Never Before Seen - hoshi-hoshi unrelentingly making fun of seungkwan is like my entire life. i can’t even do my little gay wrist limping without thinking of these two anymore (ps seungkwan is my fruity gay boy icon by aesthetic and attitude alone idc if he’s probably straight) the entirety of the svt episode where they all imitate each other is everflowing serotonin for my weak carat heart - seungkwan, in return, having absolutely no qualms to just fucking DECK soonyoungie when he pulls shit is just. top tier content at all times. i LOVE these two the epitome of squabbling siblings who hate each others’ guts but will also combine forces to create one absolute MENACE. mingyu/coups energy but times 100000000000000000 teasing and general chaos - Seokmin My Beloved: an 10 page essay by me - completing the trio with dolphin screams, nonsense sense, and absolutely no concern for his idol image - dk is a sweet sweet boy but if you put him in proximity to the members he just. goes absolutely insane i love him - seokmin uniting factor of booseoksoon u can’t change my mind: bridges gap between seungkwan-hoshi war. hes literally just vibing. king - stream just do it mingyu + seungkwan

- that meme where seungkwan’s about to fight someone and mingyu holds him back. this has happened multiple times. that is all

heheh.

xoxo honey anon 🍯

Jun and Minghao!! i don't give Jun a lot of real estate in my brainspace, but he's such a good sweet boy. the way their initial impressions are so opposite!! and then you get a peek under the surface and they're so different from those initial impression and still so different from each other, and yet!! they fit!!!!

i cannot remember where it is, but somewhere they talked about how they're not sure they would have been friends if they had ended up meeting under circumstances where they needed each other less, but that now they couldn't live without each other and it makes me 😭😭😭

(also. just. do not talk to me about how these thirteen boys were all thrown together and not all of them were compatible or friendly right off the bat, but when they had the choice between being swallowed alive and forgotten by history or figuring out how to not hate each other, they turned themselves into a fuckin family and. i am not crying you're crying 😤😤😤😭)

(also MINGHAO IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE IS SO ICONIC—it was actually the beginning of the end for my roommie in their battle to not slide into the diamond life, too, what a way to go :'] )

Vernon and Seungkwan—the way their mbti's changed to become more similar over time, and the way Seungkwan said Vernon was "cute and small like a puppy" when they met as trainees but now he's grown into a big dog, it all fuckin kills me 😭

my favorite way to describe DK is The Weird Kid in Grade School Who Never Actually Got the Weird Bullied Out of Him, all random impulse zero self-consciousness will do anything to make you laff

[silviakundera]

Look, I know The Untamed has THE LONGING and I love it too, but we all gotta accept that the MDZS novel is unmatched because, my dudes, WWX defeats the villain by sabotaging his homophobia.

I know we joke (and we SHOULD) about jgy the shipper et etc but in the end, it's whimsical humor.

In the scene where jgy has our heroes trapped, held hostage, and villian monologues about poor Lan Wangji's unrequited gay love...

All this fake sympathy for LXC's brother is 100% bad intent: he's revealing a "dirty secret" to the hostages & Jin minions about his biggest threat (the biggest fire power) that would stain lwj in the eyes of the sect world. A secret that might repulse wwx when laid out publically - make him let down lwj easy at best.

(Recall, jgy is THAT GUY who killed his own infant son out of fear of public disdain.)

What is actually happening here is that he's trying to shame them. Just like how he attacks JC in another scene, destabilizing him w his words, and plays mind games w LXC. JGY's greatest weapon in his persuasion and narrative building. His words are just as much of a weapon as the string he slides around wwx's neck.

But none of this plays out the way jgy expects it to AT ALL. He sees it going weird, kinda sideways, but is completely unprepared for what actually happens.

Which is a key component of the humor. But also a fucking AMAZING climactic moment for a novel that has reminded the reader and the characters over and over that they exist in a homophobic society where tainted public reputation and rumors can have violent, deadly consequences.

And what does wwx do in the face of that? Before jgy can start in on lwj w his word knives, wwx SCREAMS that he wanted to have sex with the man who was just maliciously outed. Like, yelps it at the top of his lungs

He grasps what the villian is trying to do and turns it on its head. He takes the power of the moment back. You want to other, to humiliate, and to degrade Lan Wangji? Figuratively and LITERALLY taking his power away? Well, fuck you. Actually we had. sex. MAN ON MAN SEX. AND I WANTED IT. AND ILL DO IT AGAIN.

The power of this wholesale rejection of jgy's narrative, the sheer audacity of this gay pride rant, stuns & unhinges the master of whispers and wwx springs free from the trap.

The novel doesn't allow us to forget about the othering that WWX/LWJ have just experienced. They are seated away from everyone else, people are uncomfortable around them.

This only underscores how absolutely badass it was. And how irrevocable. It forshadows what is to come, as they continue to express affection off on their own side, before "eloping" on their own at the end. (The only reason drama!LWJ can BE Chief Cultivator is that this scene never happened.)

But novel wwx and lwj don't gaf. And that's how they win. They craft their happy ending regardless of their society's prejudices -- you can't erase them but you can refuse to let them change you, quiet you, isolate you. You can build your own patchwork families and proudly love who you love.

[cooloddball]

Someone submitted something in my inbox and they wanted to remain anonymous. Since this is an extremely long essay, I will put it under the cut. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

xxx submitted: hey, i was the one who ask what do you think of Misha and Jensen's current relationship First off all thank you for your answear it means much to me cause im easy to be convice and this person who keep telling me that they are no longer friends can be so convicing, so I'm actully trying to forget what she said 😅 so I'm just writing a few. she said that since they no longer work together, they will forget about each other, and do their common things like the gay jokes, face touches ect. With other people, and neglect each other, don't talk to each other, and then meet new people who will replace the other. And and she talked about the gish thing, she said she sure they didn't talk since the end of the series, because Jensen didn't know where Misha was and Misha didn't know about the Radio Company vol 2 (but i saw people say that, they were just pretending, because Misha liked something about Radio Company Vol 2, before the gish live, so in theory he already knew then or something like that) and She said Misha wrote a poem about Darius not Jensen and now I will write down what she sent me : I saw a post about Jensen's current activities on social media, and I've come to the conclusion the only person he doesn't interact with is mish. Sadly this makes my break up theory even stronger. I feel like this is a goodbye to one of the biggest parts of my life. They've moved on from "uk what I haven't told you today? That i love u"+ from "miss my only jensen" from "i love u misha i mean it from the bottom of my heart" from "jensen has no flaws" from "misha is the funniest thing ever happened to me" from all that love and affection from everything they developed together and now they're apart leaving their lives like nothing happened and call me a dramatic but they both have the same energy now as someone has after a big break up. and Jensen comments on almost every of his friend’s post except Misha’s"+ Jenmish is genuinely the best thing that has ever happened in my entire life. I owe them literally everything. They're the reason i hold on. Unfortunately on this essay i have to start using past tense verbs for them, and i have to continue on that. I don't know for how long y'all been in spn fandom. But even if u joined one year before the show ended you'd know how close and intimate jensen and misha were. Everything about them was unmatched.+ The chemistry and how they just fit eachother. They had always been all over eachother. Like they were holding on eachother for dear life. They completed eachother and were like world's most powerful thing. They were the definition of soulmatism. No matter where, they ALWAYS kept interacting with eachother. Each possible tweet or insta post. On cons that the other wasn't there, the other one would bring up the othere's name for no absolute reason. +The looks and repeated love confessions. How invested they were both into eachother. The family they had built together cuz we know how close dee and mish are (look all the charity work they've been doing together recently). There are youtube videos to proof everything I've said so far.When i say break up, my real intention is that they've grown apart. Everything started in the the third or forth month of pandemic. Before than jensen used to interact +(comment mostly) on almost all of misha's posts. But after a while everything just stopped. At first personally didn't care that much. Bcuz I believed too much in them that I thought not even the gods above could separate them. I told myself maybe they spend long hours chatting or video calling and that's why online public interactions are gone. But as it passed it almost diminished to zero. Except some likes from jackles and eventual ones from misha there weren't anything else.+ We got absolutely no content and the show went off too. We were helpless and were sticking to everything we had Dee had a big social media shot down, so as jensen. Misha was busy with the election. We got some interviews for it with all of them. But we didn't get much.except remember both of them pulling a bff

move. and texted eachother during an online con where everyone else were dead-serious about politics? That flickered something in me. That showed me that+ they can't ever possibly let eachother go. And the times everyone else were talking and these too would just talk random things together (the one jackels had a white hat on with stacy abraham).And then Misha posted that for jensen's bday We really overlooked it. That shit was too intimate. To close. Fav march baby? U just don't go around and called ur bestie baby and when u mean it deeply. Especially not when ur friend is jensen ackles the "I suffered form internalized homophobia my whole life+ but fuck my wife's an angel and i have an angel bf too and another angel which is his wife but I'd rather die than come out cuz my asshole dad pulled a John winchester on me". It doesn't work like that. But uk how mish is. Carefree and open. I believe they got into a fight bcuz of this. He didn't even like the post. AND that was when the tiny bit of interactions we had was gone too. For a while jensen didn't even liked his posts. After a month it started again.What made me finally believe in that they had grown too+ far: I still remember the night misha posted that he and jensen were going to have a con for gish together. I remember how hard I cried. Lile the whole world was given to me. But deep down in my heart I knew that something would definitely happen. It didn't sit right with me and unfortunately my senses never lie to me. Jensen showed up at the wrong time bcuz of misunderstanding the time zones (this was HILARIOUS). That's not even my point.+ I've seen that interview 3 times so far. It always reminds me of when i saw my ex at a party and we were both so thrilled to see eachother and we still loved the other dearly, but we just couldn't work it out. Jensen and Misha's expressions were EXACTLY the same. The genuine smiles and longs pauses were they just stared at eachother. I'm so happy that it was online cuz if they actually gave that looks to eachother standing right next to the other one I would've collapsed. Misha didn't know that jensen's album+ was out. And he got so embarrassed when he found it out. He didn't know that jensen was on set and hadn't been home for 8weeks. Jensen had no idea where misha was. And this means that they hadn't talked in a long long time.When you're that close with someone for more than a decade, i mean THAT close, even if u're separated from eachother you'd at least check on the once a week, or at least once in two weeks. But it was vividly clear that they hadn't. I hate how this world works. They would always be in my heart.+ I would be thankful from them for everything. It hurts, and it won't stop and im so sure I'd be carrying this pain for a long time. They mean too much to a lot of us. Sometimes I think to myself that god i love them so much. Remember in 2019 when we used to get SO many jenmishdee interactions? That was LIT. It was THEE year for us. I hope they're doing good. I really do. I hope we don't get more proofs and I won't have to update this thread. Cuz my heart won't be taking it very+ well.Something i gotta add U may say that Jensen's busy and that's why he doesn't comment. But he comments on a lot of jared and his new costar's posts. So that's no excuse. So yeah that's it. I don't know what am I supposed to think. english isn't my native language, so sorry for the mistakes

Here is my response:

I don't know who this person who has been talking to is but I have to say they seem to be project their previous relationship experience on cockles.

I believe Jensen and Misha are okay and are together. Social media likes and comments don't mean anything. I mean it's not like Jensen or Misha used to comment on each other's posts before. Jensen didn't even wish Dee Happy Mother's Day this year, does that mean they are not together anymore? Nope. He has other best friends he has known for over 20 years like Jason Manns, Steve Carlson etc that he doesn't wish happy birthday, does that mean they are not friends anymore.

Please let's not put value on social media likes. I don't even follow my own family on sm and I don't always like or comment on my bf's or bff's posts on sm. So it doesn't mean anything.

As for the Gish Panel, I have talked about it before, the time Jensen was slotted to attend the panel, he was meant to answer fan questions. I honestly believe they decided to not do it at that time because they knew the questions would be about Destiel and not their new projects. If you watched that panel, Misha knew that Jensen's album was out as I pointed out. He was just trying to promote the album and soldier boy. He knew Jensen had also buffed out. It was all to promote Jensen. Anything else you hear is trolls and antis just being loud. Also don't forget Jensen called him "babe".

If Jensen and Misha weren't okay, he wouldn't have attended or participated all those panels Misha organized especially for Gish. Danneel also posts a lot about RA and likes Misha's posts. I am 100% Misha visited the Ackles when he went to Colorado last month.

Stop listening to trolls and/or antis or just people who are projecting and look at facts.

[gaybarbiegirl]

00s Barbie rewatch - 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)

Yesss I've been looking forward to this one

The intro of this movie >>>>>>

"Which is known for its abundance of pears, potatoes and peasants" underrated joke right there

We love a movie that shows princesses being fun and charismatic and unique instead of just being graceful and sweet

Ok but that bird is iconic, he deserves more love

Imagine having eleven people tease you about your love life, I think I'd just die on the spot

Why do most Barbie villains have gigantic hair?

THE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Someone really should tell mattel that being identical in every feature except for haircolor is not how twins and triplets work

Love how the main villain of this movie is one of these classist conservative ladies who try to control how women should act. Like, that is something that should be portrayed as a terrible thing to children, you know?

Why do they all wear bows to sleep?

Their birthday song ❤

How did they never notice that the books matched the stones before? They've owned these books and lived in this room for years

This theme song is so magical

Mood

Thank god Genevieve suggested they call a doctor. Bring in the common sense, girl

God, Rowena is so worried about the girls potentially marrying princes that they would've met the night before. Like, chill, it's been less than 24 hours, I doubt anyone's ringing wedding bells.

I know I was just trashing on Rowena a minute ago, but she really is the most efficient villain in the BCU. Like, she's the one with the most coherent and doable plan, and the one who comes the closest to succeeding

"Lock her up and throw away the key" I'm dead, the comedic timing of this bird is unmatched

BEST DANCE SEQUENCE OF THE MOVIE YESS

See, this is why I love Edeline

You know how everyone says that there are twelve dancing princesses, so at least one of them has to be gay? I have now decided that there are three gay princesses, Blair, Edeline, and Fallon, for no good reason other than that I think they're cool

Felix being a 10/10 sidekick again

But it is a little weird that Derek's best friend is a parrot

Holy fuck, Rowena just called this man's children burdens to his face

I'm not sure if I respect her more or less for it

"Newsflash. She walked in her own room" I'm telling you, this bird is a gem

"You did...? Or is that just the bird talking?" more respect for Felix, please

Yeah, Rowena has the right idea, I don't understand why the girls haven't started harvesting those wish flowers yet

Ok but why do they suddenly have to dance in pairs for the portal to work? It always worked fine with just one person

Their dancing is really pretty though

This scene looks so gorgeous ❤

What does "the power of twelve" mean? Wouldn't it be easier to just say "we have each other"?

When did Rowena find the time to get this painted?

Look at them using the skills they were reprimanded for in the beginning of the movie to save the day! Hell yeah, good for them!

Rowena WHY are you confessing?? I get he's about to die, but still, keep it to yourself

But seriously, Rowena could have been the Barbie villain if she just had a more likeable personality. She's got everything else going for her: she's the smartest, most capable and most strategic villain in the BCU, and she has style. If only she wasn't annoying...

Why did Genevieve just randomly have a fan with her?

Also, what would have happened if the fan didn't reach every single speck of dust? Would Genevieve have like, an eternally dancing arm?

Yeah man, you were pretty blind

Their dad accepting them as they are is a really sweet scene, though

I have to say, ending in a wedding was a bit of a disappointing note. Genevieve and Derek were cute, but they barely knew each other

Plus, this ending only wraps things up for Genevieve, and I get it, she's the protagonist, but she did have eleven sisters who we've also been following for the entire movie, and they deserved a proper ending, you know?

Final thoughts:

I like this movie A LOT. It's one of my top 10 Barbie movies, and for more than one reason: I love the soundtrack, love the dance sequences, love the bond between the sisters, and, most of all, I love the theme and the way the princesses were portrayed.

Like, princess movies are very often criticised for having bland one note protagonists who lack agency, and while I don't 100% agree with these criticisms, I do see where they're coming from. Now enter this movie, that does the exact opposite. We've got twelve different princesses here, all with different skills and abilities that are portrayed as equally valuable and impressive. They're fun to watch, they have distinctive personalities, and they take the lead and are active characters for the entire movie.

Since we know for a fact that the little girls who watch Barbie movies are going to be looking up to the princess characters, I think it's great to show them a bunch of princesses with unique personalities and interests. It gives every kid someone to relate to, instead of just potentially making girls feel inadequate for not being "princessy" enough. And if that wasn't enough, the main conflict we have in this movie is that their father is trying to change them to be more ladylike, and the whole ordeal is clearly treated as a big, terrible mistake from start to finish.

I could gush for hours about how great and unique this theme is, and about how important it is for movies that are aimed at little girls to portray this sort of message. But I'm just gonna wrap things up and say that overall, this movie is amazing, and it deserves all the love it gets.

[moth-based-cryptology]

Ufc Fighter Albert Dasilva Headcanons

hello, people who still follow me despite the fact i never post cause i’m a mess. how y’all doin? my favorite ufc fighter won the other day so now ✨this is what we’re doing✨. also i originally sent this thought to @we-are-inevitable ‘s ask box so find that post here (hi jac ilysm mwah mwah mwah)

i also wrote a part 2 so find that here !!

also,,,,, this is fairly obvious. but trigger warning for violence/physical fighting, and well as blood and injury. (it’s a rough gig y’all fjdhdb)

i sincerely apologize in advance for what a mess this post is gonna be i just had a monster and i’m hyped up on the win and this is a hyperfixation i don’t get to talk about very often so feel free to ask questions and HERE WE FUCKIN GO

OK SO

albert is just,,,,,, a violent sports guy. always has been, probably always will be.

most forms of recreational fighting, football, hockey, rugby, fuck even soccer if he gets too into it. he’s just a Built Person, and he wicked competitive, and that makes for violent displays of athleticism

I think he was probably a hockey or football guy in high school, but he was also on the wrestling team cause i said so

then after graduation he got really into kickboxing, just to have something to do cause he didn’t have school sports to play and train for all the time

and then one day his coach is like ‘hey. you’re like,,, stupid good at this. you should sign up for competitions, you might make some money.’

he does, in fact, ‘make some money’, cause in straight kickboxing? he’s pretty much unmatched on the regional scene, which is ridiculous cause he didn’t start training his stand up game til he was 18 or 19

then American Top Team (ATT, it’s a really big MMA training camp that had trained a boat load of the top talent in the UFC) approaches him like ‘y’know if you worked on your grappling you could be a really solid mma fighter’

which is HUGE, but obviously albert can’t pick up his entire life and move to florida to train with them, so him and race (this is me, of course race is with al. supportive boyfriend and number one fan alert <3) find gyms willing to work with him based in new york. then he starts signing up for shit.

he sticks with stand up fighting when he can, he likes it more and cause,,,,, well. it’s more entertaining. the higher your entertainment value, the more people watch your fights. the more people watch your fights, the more likely you are to get noticed by big promotions (like the ufc)

he uses his wrestling to keep grapplers on their feet (he’s got like a 90% takedown defense, what an icon) and he picks people apart.

he has a lot of technical skill, but he also is fiery and passionate and scrappy. he gets hit too much for his own good a lot of the time.

he’s super durable. this man can get hit clean over and over and stay on his feet, but that’s not gonna hold up forever. it takes a loss or two in a row to motivate him to change it

and oh boy does he change it

he spends a month in auckland, new zealand at city kickboxing (one of the best kickboxing gyms in the world, and they lean heavily on tactics rather than just charging forward blindly)

he’s straight up a different fighter after that. he’s quick, light on his feet, and avoids punches way easier while also setting up the angles for his own. he gets signed to the ufc 2 fights later.

his first fight is short notice. no training camp, he’s got 5 days to make weight, AND it’s against a top 10 ranked opponent. no big deal, right?

and albert, being albert, is super chill about it. sure, this is the opportunity of a lifetime, could decide his entire future as a fighter, and he’s barely got time to prepare.

but he’s in the gym every single day of the week, he doesn’t super cut on weight like most ex-wrestlers, and most importantly, it’s just fighting. all he has to do is get in the octagon and punch some dude in the face. he can do that all day.

race on the other hand,,,,,,,,

he believes in albert with his whole soul, he really does, but Fuck watching your boyfriend get hit in the head is no fucking fun. especially when you know that the guy throwing the punches has been training for months, and your guy hasn’t even had a week

so he brings jack for moral support. also cause jack is DEFINITELY a ufc fan and was the only one that would understand what was happening.

at some point in the first round albert gets caught clean, opening a cut on his cheek, which makes race Panic Even More

but he gets cleaned up between rounds, and it’s not swelling so he can still see, and it’s over by the middle of the second.

and albert wins, cause (this is fiction and i’m telling a story) of fucking course he does, and he probably wins with some stupid dramatic spinning back kick and gets clipped on twitter cause he’s just Like That

the part that makes me, as the ralbert shipper, super fucking happy is coming up but i need to add a lil real talk first

considering albert is like,,,, openly in a relationship with a man when he gets into the ufc,,,,, that makes him the first publicly gay ufc fighter. like,,,, ever.

this is realized after his hand gets raised after the ref calls the stoppage.

bruce buffer makes the official announcement, al gets his hand raised, he gets interviewed by joe rogan, and then his coaches, jack and race get to come into the cage

at first everyone things it’s a best friend or something, especially after the dap up bro hug things he gives his coaches and jack

but then albert sees race, and you can watch this boy’s face light up on the camera. then race throws his arms around albert’s neck and albert half lifts him off the ground in a hug around his waist and ok, sure, that’s not the most platonic thing you’ve ever seen, but that doesn’t prove anything

and then albert kisses race. like full, actual, on the mouth in front of all the cameras kiss. cause he doesn’t give a shit.

and nobody’s talking about his spinning back kick anymore, cause Holy Shit That Wasn’t Very Straight Of You Dasilva

but he doesn’t address it, cause every other fighter gets to kiss their wife or girlfriend or whatever in the cage after they win and nobody bats an eye, so why should it be any different for him and his boyfriend?

also, because it needs to be said, statistically there are ALREADY lgbtq+ male fighters in the ufc. like currently, in real life. they’re just not out publicly. the ufc has openly supported queer people’s rights in the past, and is partnered with 4 prominent HIV/AIDS awareness organizations. there is multiple openly queer women currently fighting in the ufc, including amanda nunes, who has been repeatedly called the greatest women’s fighter of all time. but as of right now, there is no openly mlm ufc fighters, so that would technically make albert the first. we love a trend setter. now back to what i’m supposed to be talking about djdhdbd

and eventually interviewers and fans on twitter realize that they’re only going to get one answer to vague questions about sexuality, which is “i’m dating a man and i fight people for a living. if that makes me a revolutionary, so be it bro.”

he includes race in a lot of his answers, especially in interviews where they ask more personal questions or grill him on his mental game, cause he loves race and thinks he deserves credit for everything he does to make al a better person and a better fighter

also, purely for my own entertainment, i think after he becomes champion (cause of course he does) he goes on the joe rogan podcast, and joe is pretty much the only one who gets albert to talk about any of it in a genuine way

he doesn’t get sarcasm or a blunt “can we talk about fighting, now?” like everyone else, he gets a real answer, cause that’s what albert came on to do anyway

he talks about getting together in highschool, and how it was race’s idea for him to start kickboxing in the first place, and what a fucking genius race is and how he’s getting his PhD right now, and how he didn’t want to talk about it cause he didn’t want to be the “gay fighter”, and how that’s a trivialization of his relationship with race and he refuses to let it be seen as anything but what it is, which is the best fucking thing that’s ever happened to him

just. Ugh. them <3

THIS POST IS SO LONG HOLY SHIT DHDHDHDH

anyway-

y e a h. albert dasilva would rock anyone’s shit. if i keep having thoughts about this i’ll make one about him becoming champion. thank you for your time ✨

also gonna tag @soaps-posts cause the brainrot is powerful so here you are my dear <3

[collisiondiscourse]

SKSKSKSKSKSK CODI CODI PLEASE I LOVE DADRAGON HISASHI PLS CAN I GET A COUPLE HCS

*SLAMS DESK* THANK HECK SOMEONE ASKED ME BECAUSE I *LOVE* TALKING ABOUT MY MENTAL IMAGE FOR HISASHI MIDORIYA

listen. ok. in my mind, hisashi is the COOLEST DAD EVER. THE COOL ONE EVERYONE *WISHES* THEY HAD

-he has red hair and bright green eyes and freckles EVERYWHERE just like deku. except i hc that his firebreathing thing is partially a dragon thing!! so he has little horns on top of his head and a few patchy areas with scales. he looks COOL ASF until u get to the back n see his tiny ass wings that dont do nuthin

inko makes fun of his stubby wings so much n hes always like "BAAAABE STOP U KNOW I WAS BORN LIKE THIS 😭" but its ok bc he still luvs her

HE. DRESSES. HORRIBLY. Like im talkin stupid unbuttoned polos with band shirts underneath and ratty ass jeans. he wears socks and sandals and sometimes even jorts. hes always wearing like 30 unmatched pieces of jewelry bc hes a dragon and he HOARDS

most of the jewelry is handmade bracelets izuku sent him as a kid and he NEVER TAKES THEM OFF even if theyre literally falling apart

AND LIKE. OK. DEKUS RED SHOES RIGHT?? HE ACTUALLY GOT THOSE FROM HIS DAD WHO BOUGHT HIM AND BAKUGOU MATCHING RED AND BLUE ONES AND A RED ADULT SIZED PAIR FOR HIMSELF TOO. bakugou stopped wearing them after he grew out of them but IZUKU AND HISASHI ARE STUBBORN MFS N WEAR THE SAME SHOES EVERYDAY.

dekusquad jokingly is always like "ahh finding the male midoriyas in a crowd is always easy! just look for them big ass red shoes ✌"

all that aside tho. if u look past the disastrous fashion sense. hisashi midoriya is HOT hot.

LIKE. ok. hes mostly lean w a bit of chub, from working as a successful barista in america, and hes also TALL AS HECK. hes like. maybe a few inches shorter than all might. bottomline is that hes REALLY ATTRACTIVE. ESPECIALLY WHEN INKO DRESSES HIM UP

and when deku introduces him to 1A and his teachers for the first time everyones looking at hisashi n blushing n they look at deku n theyre all like "....dude"

(and maybe because they notice the fact that deku actually looks pretty similar to his dad 1A starts to realize that deku isnt actually that plain when you stare at his face long enough and oh wow uh—"

ANYWAY katsuki 💯 had a crush on dekus dad when he was younger. mitsuki makes fun of her son like ALL THE TIME for having a crush on her best friend. hisashi demonstrated his quirk once in front of the bakugous to show off a bartending trick and that was literally the first time katsuki ever complimented a quirk aside from his own

hisashi and deku at the same time combining their adorable energy: kacchan!!

katsuki, furiously blushing: STOP

anyway aside from katsuki—uraraka, todoroki, and shinsou DEFINITELY also have a crush on dekus dad. NO ONE CAN FIGHT ME ON THIS. obvs everyone in UA thinks hisashi's cool and SMOKIN, but those four have it like BAD.

SO BAD.

dekus oblivious to this. so is hisashi. he goes up to shouto once and ruffles his hair and calls him sport and todoroki sets his desk on fire.

uraraka keeps making things float accidentally because she gets sidetracked staring at deku and his dad side by side and "oh wow they both have a freckle on the back of their neck just a little below their left ears—"

shinsou just. goes up to deku n hands him a note that says "get ur dad out of my school"

BUT THE FUNNIEST PART THO. THE FUNNIEST PART.

all might has a crush on hisashi too.

LIKE HISASHI COMES BACK TO JAPAN N IS ALL LIKE "wow i miss being here! is all might still no. 1? hows my son doing? america was so stressful! im so glad to be back in sweet home musutafu :)"

n then he comes home and all mights eating ice cream on the couch cursing at the football game on TV

hisashi: ....all might-san?

toshinori: u-aH? uh? good evening er. uh. mr. midoriya?? welcome home! im going to gay—i mean go!!

hisashi: w—

toshinori, panicking and reverting to symbol of peace dealing with PR mode: ENJOY YOUR SON! HAVE A NICE STAY! DONT DO DRUGS *leaves house in sweatpants and slams the door shut*

toshinori, internally: oh my god what the fuck what the fuck is this a quirk am i dying

when it calms down tho toshinoris still a blushing stuttering mess buT AT LEAST YK WHAT?? they bond over talking about america and deku!!

they both go on long af rambles about american lifestyles n all the weird people theyve met while in there and then they start throwing around words like bucky's convenience store and bubba gump shrimps and everyone stops listening

izuku notices how weird his mentor is around his dad but doesnt rlly care bc two!!! two father figures!!!! and a mom figure!!!!! they all play (quirk powered) dodgeball every other sunday while 1A watches in a mix of horror, attraction, and unbridled joy.

toshinori: oh my god why did they both have to be hot. why couldnt it have just been inko? thats easier to deal with. i cant do both. i cant HANDLE both. who allowed this? why?

aizawa: how the fuck did you get into my office its 4 am yagi.

[patrocles]

🍵 House Baratheon/Durrandon

Oh the inherent sexiness of these chaotic ass stags.

Argella Durrandon has got to be one of, if not my favorite historical "they hate to see a girlboss winning" characters. And honestly you could really see the similarities between Argilac and Stannis in terms of just sheer PETTINESS and absolute refusal to back down to the bitter bitter end honestly you have to respect it. I like to believe that he died with the middle fingers up.. Actually their sigil should be a stag with middle fingers cus that's really the essence innit

(wait wait stannis' sigil should be a stag on a flaming middle finger skdjfkls)

So one of the most interesting themes of asoiaf is the power that can be had in sibling bonds and what they can accomplish when they work together instead of against one another. And you see it in really every house dynamic; not to say that they always have to get along (look at the Greyjoy brothers). But Robert, Renly, and Stannis I think are the biggest examples of this. Like it's almost comical how badly they tripped over the finish line out of their sheer disdain of one another.

If Robert had made Stannis his hand and trusted him, if Stannis and Renly had united against the Lannisters, absolutely UNMATCHED they would have been. Robert was the warrior for the Songs and a very powerful ability to procreate which is kinda useful when your brothers are asexual and gay, Stannis is the mannis with the plannis, and sweet sweet Renly is the People's Prince ala Diana. (Which like, again to reiterate, even if Robert was a folk hero who people are in fear of and respect, Stannis was really the one the military supported hashtag vets rights, so having that and Renly's relationship with the Tyrells (hello food???) it's VERY GOOD COMBINATION WHEN CREATING A STRONG GOVERNMENT) Like they're all so good at their specific roles that had they truly worked together, they were poised to set up a powerful dynasty. (and also stannis would make sure the iron bank got paid IM SORRY THIS IS STRESSING ME OUT)

But no they had to be fucking idiots and now everything rests on the shoulders of a sweet little Shireen. (i have a shrine dedicated to her survival im not joking) (and YES im a storm queen shireen truther)

Like jesus christ this war could have been OVER WITH if Renly and Stannis teamed up at Blackwater AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE RED WEDDING WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED BECAUSE ROBB AND STANNIS WOULD HAVE PUT THEIR BEEF ON PAUSE TO COMBINE THEIR FORCES TO HELP THE WALL AND PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BECOME BESTIES IN THE PROCESS SO THE NORTH WOULD REMAIN ENTIRELY SECURE AHHHHHH im pissed

also i would rly like the bastards to meet up??? will anything come of it?? will they work together under the shared bond of having the worst father in the world??? i mean its what rly brought me and my siblings together lmfaooo

[corvus--rex]

Long ago I had a writer's fever dream where I thought "What if Keith had a twin? And what if that twin was on the Kerberos mission..." So I decided to rewrite VLD from the beginning with these things in mind. This one's pretty well given up on as of right now. I realized that I needed to figure out how to fit people in and never quite got there. Anyway, here's the first ~1.3k words of Double Threat (working title). (also, for the record, I don't actually ship Keith & Matt, but ocs are always fair game ;) )

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“Why you? Why does it have to be you? If anything – and I mean anything – happened…I…I don’t know what I’d do. Not after…” Keith began his rant angry, furious even. But then the walls began to crumble like they always did around his brother, and the truth began to slip out.

Finlay stopped. He sighed, turning around. They’d gone over this so many times. Despite their both still being cadets at the Galaxy Garrison, despite both of them having unmatched scores in their classes and flight training, it was Finlay who was chosen in the new mentorship program. It was Finlay who had been selected for the opportunity to go along on the Kerberos Mission as a co-pilot, to have the experience of real space flight. They both knew why. Not that it made sense to anyone but Commander Iverson.

Keith and Finlay, despite being identical twins, despite having nearly identical scores, weren’t viewed the same way by some of the Garrison’s faculty. The brothers stuck together, backing each other up in everything. But James Griffin had gone out of his way to harass Keith one day, and Keith snapped, getting into a fistfight with the other boy. Ever since then, Iverson had decided that Keith was trouble, even though the class full of witnesses all said the same thing: that Griffin had purposely goaded Keith into that fight.

“I know. But I’ll be with Shiro, and Sam. And Matt. We’ll be fine.” Finlay huffed a laugh. “If anything, you’ll have the tougher job. Keeping Katie in line.”

Keith cracked a smile, albeit a small one. His brother considered that a win.

“Of course,” he said with a knowing smirk, “That also means I won’t be around to give you someone to hide behind whenever your crush is around.”

Keith’s smile hardened into a glare at his twin. “Fuck.”

“Sorry,” Finlay said, smirk still in place, “Looks like you’re just gonna have to deal with McClain all on your own for a few months.”

“Kill me now.”

The smirk widened into a grin. “Nope. Either suffer, get over it, or y’know…just fucking tell him.”

“Never gonna happen,” Keith said, but his immediate stress had been relieved.

“You say that now, dear brother, but you are way the fuck too gay to keep it to yourself without me.”

“You’re just as gay as I am.”

Finlay slung an arm around his brother’s shoulders. “Oh, well aware. How else would I know?”

Keith snorted. “Yeah, about that. How areyou planning on dealing with being out in space? With Matt? In such close quarters?”

“Fuck you,” Finlay spat without malice, shoving his brother, who only laughed.

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Keith raced along the desert, the memory unbidden, but not unwelcome. He was getting them back. Both of them. Finlay and Shiro. He wasn’t entirely sure how he was going to manage it with just his hoverbike and not knowing what kind of shape they were in, but he was doing it. Whatever the hell else was going on, he was getting them back.

Taking out the guards was easy. Taking out the Garrison scientists was even easier. Just as Keith was working on releasing the restraints around Finlay’s wrists, his twin began to wake. Keith’s efforts became hurried, nearly frantic, in his attempt to free his brother. The instant one wrist is free, Finlay rolled, pushing Keith’s hands away so he could free himself.

“Shiro took most of the impact,” he managed weakly, “He needs more help than I do.”

Keith had only just gotten Shiro free and his weight supported when a hand was on his shoulder. One of the hazmat-suited scientists was awake. It took Keith a second to recognize him through the suit.

“Adam?”

“Let me help.”

Keith didn’t think, only reacted. “Ok. What now?”

“Nope. No no no no no,” said a familiar voice from the entranceway.

Keith froze, not having heard that voice in six months. He felt more than heard Finlay’s rough chuckle behind him. What the actual fuck was Lance McClain doing there? Not that it mattered, they didn’t have time for that. Adam took charge, leading them and the other two Garrison cadets that looked like they’d been following Lance out and over to one of the Garrison vehicles.

“Keith! I need you to take point! Get us the fuck out of here!” Adam yelled, ushering everyone but Finlay into the truck.

Finlay followed Keith to the hoverbike, climbing on behind his twin. He was still weak from the crash, and whatever it is that the Garrison techs did to him, but held on with what strength he had left.

“Finn, you good to ride?” Keith asked, flipping the power switch.

Finlay nodded against his back, knowing his voice wouldn’t be heard over the roar of the engine.

“Hold on.”

Keith took off, feeling more secure than he had in months. He led Adam through the desert, knowing that the ace pilot could keep up with him, even in something like a Garrison truck. They lost the rest of the Garrison pursuit, but Keith didn’t trust them. He took off again, making a turn he knew would make the trip longer, but it was less likely that they’d be followed.

Coming over the crest of a hill, the cabin that had belonged to their father came into view. Keith felt it when Finlay gasped against his back.

“It’s still there,” he said softly.

The hoverbike had slowed down, the engine nowhere near as loud as it had been. Keith heard his brother’s astonished whisper.

“Yeah. It is.”

Adam and the others were still unloading both themselves and the still unconscious Shiro from the Garrison truck when the Kogane twins entered the cabin. Finlay was surprised to see that it looked lived in and turned to face Keith. For his part, Keith was looking more at the floor than his twin.

“I, um, I kind of got kicked out of the Garrison,” he admitted, “You went missing, and they tried to claim that it was pilot error. I knew it was bullshit and I tried to fight it, but Iverson just called it ‘disciplinary issues’ and got me booted. He tried to say that I wasn’t thinking clearly and that I was trying to see things that weren’t there. I never believed it was pilot error. I’ve been out here listening to the Garrison’s radio chatter; that’s how I knew where to find you.”

Finlay was exhausted, physically and emotionally, but still found the strength to pull his brother into a tight hug. “I knew you’d never give up. Too fuckin’ stubborn for it.”

Keith returned his twin’s hold. “So are you.”

Their moment was interrupted by the sound of conversation and what they knew was Shiro’s unconscious body being dragged across the compacted sand and dirt. The rest of the group stumbled inside, Adam and Lance carrying Shiro.

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From a later scene that wasn't even half-baked:

“Go away,” Pidge snapped, “I’m close, I know I am.”

She tried to throw off the hand on her shoulder, but it held on, squeezing once. “We’ll find him.”

That voice used to throw her off, never knowing if it was Keith or Finn. But after months in space together, she learned the differences between the twins. Sighing out a combination of stress, exhaustion, and frustration, she let her hands fall from the keyboard and slumped into her chair.

“Every time I think I'm getting somewhere, it always leads to a dead end. I’m getting frustrated, Finn. The only thing that keeps me going is that I know Matt and Dad are still out there somewhere. I have to find them. I'm going to find them.”

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Links to the rest of the series:

1 | 2 | 3* | 4 | 5* | 6* | 7 | 8 | 9* | 10 | 11 | 12* | 13 | 14 | 15* | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19*

[rappaccini]

i found you because of fiveya and the absolutely fantastic tua meta and now I find out you got the donnaburg Vibe too??? Exquisite Taste, my crops are watered, my skin is cleared. (also would LOVE to hear your donnaburg screaming 👀)

ugh yes i did. i swear these ships find me, not the other way around.

but yes. donnaberg. absolute surprise, but damn it has me by the throat. i got into re8 for tall vampire lady, got hyped about heisenberg being gay af for ethan, but somehow ended up here instead. as eloquently as @manic-pixie-dream-dude put it, "i see a pairing with thematic parallels and that can fit my favorite tropes and i go FUCKING INSANE for it."

but this shit stems from noticing how karl hates alcina, is repulsed by sal and pissed off by angie, but he always aims his insults at her and not donna. i blame quill bc when we were dming about why he just doesn't go after her, why she's the only lord he's on a first name basis with, about why donna is the way she is, and about how similar they are, it all kind of clicked. so here the fuck i am.

basically, on the outside they seem like total opposites, who'd have nothing to do with each other.

personality-wise, she hates herself and he's a massive narcissist. she avoids all conflict, and he races towards it. she's a recluse and he's a showman. he hates miranda, she loves her. he'd rather be alone than a part of the family, and she'd rather be a part of the family than alone. her expertise is all psychological and delicate detail, while his is brute force (literally... sewing needle versus fuck-you sized hammer).

because quill and i are feral over this: heisenberg's clearly got some hades woven into the character-- he's the lord of an industrial, subterranean hellhole where he enslaves the dead and has power over metals and electricity. and beneviento, persephone-- she's a smothered young(er) woman from a mountainside with power over flowers and herbs and an unmatched vicious streak, who's surrounded by death. its definitely accidental but i mean, that shit just goes together.

but aside from that, the narrative sets up all these similarities between them:

both command armies they built themselves (complete with signature special followers, angie and sturm) and are highly-skilled craftspeople. donna excels at tiny, intricate but delicate pieces made one by one, karl at mass-production of larger, hardier (but sloppier) weapons.

they're the youngest of the lords physically and chronologically-- they've spent the least amount of time in the family.

both of them were changed as children, whereas alcina was definitely an adult, and moreau likely was as well [there's a rule of two thing going on with the four].

both are part of a set-- donna and moreau (the ugly outsiders who just want affection), alcina and karl (the favored successes who are at each others throats while fighting over power).

and both are a reflection of their same-gendered 'sibling'-- ex: donna is old hereditary nobility like alcina (though of far more modest means), karl's status is directly tied to his family's connection to the town's industry, like moreau.

both of them hold rose in a higher regard than the other lords-- donna seems to care for her, and karl at least sees value in keeping her around. (i'm not sure if we can count it as true affection, given that they split her into pieces, but it's something).

both of them like to play games with their prey and have a sadistic streak, though karl's seems physical and donna's is psychological.

yet, both of them have the smallest body counts and are less dangerous to the villagers as a whole-- while alcina and her daughters actively hunt and torture, and salvatore might pick people off to vent his frustrations, donna seems to keep entirely to herself (she only goes after people who've crossed onto her territory, and she's never experimented with the cadou on anything other than her own dolls), and karl only experiments on corpses. you still don't want to cross paths with them, they'll kill your ass and have a good time doing it, but as long as you're out of their way, you'll probably be left alone.

(they're a lighter shade of black than the others, is what i'm getting at. by no means ~misunderstood~ woobies wanting redemption, but definitely closer to it than the other lords.)

both of them rebel against mother miranda. karl openly in grand fashion, donna in a quiet way that most people miss.

and the biggest one for me is that big central conflict within both of their characters: how they want to respond to mother miranda. aside from their opposite reactions (donna: flee/submit, karl: fight), they're both conflicted.

karl fashions himself as a liberator... while operating a factory run by zombie slave labor and planning to use a baby as a weapon. which begs the question: is his end goal breaking miranda's system, or simply taking her place at the head of it? and more importantly, does he even know what he wants? did he ever think that far in the first place, or was he just letting his rage do the driving? and is the reason why he never thought that far because he (consciously or otherwise) doesn't actually intend to survive that confrontation?

and donna and angie's behavior during the end of their fight with ethan suggests that donna's dealing with her own internal conflict--donna cares for rose and tries to hide from ethan after he beats her basement trap, but angie, who hates rose, practically leads ethan to her so he can kill her. it seems like donna's struggling to figure out if she wants to leave miranda (and go into hiding) or whether she would rather die to avoid incurring her wrath.

both fall prey to their worse impulses, and take opposite approaches to making the same choice (he burns up, she fades away, but they're both choosing to die). even though it seems like both were aware of and considering taking another path, in the end they can't resist the urge to antagonize ethan, which sends them into a death spiral. they're doomed because they doom themselves.

what i'm getting at is, two outwardly opposing people with personalities and arcs that unexpectedly align and compliment one another is something i'm feral about. throw in the tragedy and the gothic elements and i'm obsessed.

[remythologise]

I don't even watch SPN but all the rants got me super intrigued, is it possible to get a layman's summary of what's going on? I think I understand why the Destiel canon confession thing got everyone mad but what happened after? What's the meta narrative everyone's talking about? Was there an expectation of something and they didn't deliver? Just super curious feel free to ignore if you don't have the time x

Hey anon! Sorry for flooding your dash haha. Layman’s summary is as follows:

Of the people watching SPN and shipping Destiel in season 15, most don’t expect it to be canon. A small group of people are providing meta being like it’s DEFINITELY going canon, but 500 times bitten 600 times shy, most don’t believe them. Now I wanna say, this meta - on the most part - makes sense. It does. It just assumes a smarter show than I think Supernatural is.

Season 12-15, from when Dabb takes over as showrunner, is emotionally about building a family around ‘Jack’ a nephilim child who considers Sam, Dean and Cas his ‘three dads’. They love him as a son, textually this is stated many times. 

Season 15 is a meta narrative in which the characters face off against God, ‘the Author’. The Author also represents the SPN writers. Many people believed that this meant the end of the show would be Sam and Dean being ‘free’ of the narrative that had chained them, which is, to SPN’s credit, exactly what happened (if executed extremely fucking poorly.) The defeat of God is the one plot point in 15.19 I liked, even if I don’t like how it was done.

During this season and to be honest, many previous seasons, there’s a really subtle Dean/Cas narrative being drawn, and when I say ‘subtle’, I mean like, it’s loud for an intelligent show, but quiet for a CW show where nothing is written subtly. And this season, there’s a beautiful line being strung through about free will, about how Castiel had free will, how he fell for Dean, outside the narrative. Outside of the author’s intention. It matches up with the meta arc.

15.18 airs, Destiel goes canon with Cas’ confession, suddenly everything is on the table. The show REALLY IS intelligent enough to understand that amazing meta narrative; the characters falling in love outside the author’s plan. They really bring it into canon. Suddenly, all the bi flag lighting and weird tap dance scenes in this season make SENSE. And I mean that sincerely; it was like the arc of the season was completely locked into place with this. Everything had a place to fall into. Everyone is very excited for the end, because surely, surely, this being a grand epic narrative where one main character confesses to another, Castiel would not stay dead. The narrative had showed us that Dean loved him, through mixtapes given and unmatched grief for his death and choked off prayers. And tap dancing with lamps, if you read into that.

I think the problem is that the Dean/Cas arc was written subtly by the talented writers who love it, and for that reason it’s far better than anything else in season 15. And I think people wrongly assumed that Dean would be allowed to love a man in return, despite the narrative imperative he return Cas’ love (Cas being a character who has never really been treated the way he deserved, and a happy ending being the antithesis to Chuck/The Author’s desired tragic ending) Which brings us to

15.19 airs, and it’s a complete clusterfuck. The episode itself is the worst I’ve seen, hands down. The writing is terrible, the ending is anti-climatic, they have montages that are supposed to be emotional but just seem like random clips of random characters to completely incorrect music choices. Not only that, but the characters end the episode emotionally OOC in a way I’ve never seen before. At the start of the episode, Dean begs God/Chuck to bring Cas back to life. Chuck has the power to do this; we see this when he resurrects Lucifer from the same place Cas is. At the end of the episode, Jack, despite having acquired God’s powers, resurrects EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, but not Castiel. Castiel is not mentioned, by Jack - the son who adored him, and who he adored - and not by Dean - who had just received a love confession from him, and had not twenty minutes earlier begged God to kill him and Sam and bring back everyone especially Cas. Hello?

There are so many plotholes and canon continuity errors and dropped plot points with 15.19 but let me say the most glaring wrt Cas; in s15, Ruby asks Cas to free her from the Empty. She says it’s eternal suffering for demons and angels there. We know the Empty hates Cas. Lucifer, in this ep, mentions the Empty being a fucking nightmare. And yet DESPITE ALL OF THIS, Castiel is left there to suffer. And the writers it seems are pretending that the Empty is meant to be ‘peaceful’, despite this being mentioned nowhere in text. 

At the end of the episode, Sam and Dean toast to Jack and Castiel, to the ‘ones they lost’ and then just seem to be happy and fine with everything. Sam doesn’t even mention his love interest, Eileen, who he had been panicking over being dead. And full smile coming from the man, Dean Winchester, who was textually suicidal last time he thought Castiel was dead. What??? But it really does seem like the family was just broken up without any emotional catharsis and Castiel’s confession won’t be addressed.

As far as we are aware, Misha Collins is not returning and the next ep is a Monster of the Week brother-centred ‘classic’ episode finale.

So basically; everything intelligent we thought was happening in the story was mostly a lie, Dean/Castiel was no-homo’d out of being a beautiful never before seen meta narrative love story (well, a reciprocated one), the family dynamic of Team Free Will was horribly broken up with no emotional coherence or catharsis, and most of this seems to be a poorly written excuse to have the two brothers alone again. Oh, and also, Castiel is an incredibly tragic queer figure who spent the whole show suffering, dying, and serving the man he loved, and got sent to super-turbo-hell for it. And NONE of the dropped plot threads or emotional threads are gonna be picked back up, barring a miracle surprise appearance from Misha Collins in 15.20 - but even then, how do you excuse Jack walking out, and forgetting to bring Cas back to life? How do you excuse Dean suddenly giving up on Cas as soon as it’s possible to revive him again... what, because he’s gay for Dean now? How do you excuse any of it?