hey beech

i'm sorry but steven going 'uwu its just 6 dollars, everyone can afford it' made me want to whack him with a stale baguette filled with lead, like how tone-deaf can you be, you silly little tesla-driving man

It's been 10 years since this movie came out, and it's been almost three years since this piece was drawn by me. Enjoy <3

dont forget to help preen ur angel boyfriend during molting season

Anyone else notice that especially in the earlier seasons(1-3 specifically for this post), Sam is usually the one talking to the witnesses/authority figures. Doesn’t matter if Dean started the conversation/interrogation, Sam near always finishes them.

Not only that, but officers and others tend to direct their questions more to Sam than Dean. The question is why? In the early seasons like 1-3, Dean may be shorter, but Sam is still noticeably younger than his brother. Is there something about Sam that people trust him to be more mature or what?

On the opposite note, you will rarely see Sam talking to any kid, his area lying more with the teens and young adults. Dean is always talking to the kids, he values their opinions and wants them to feel safe no matter what. This is probably from raising Sam, but it’s also very him. (One example is Lucas in 1x03 Dead in the Water, another is Michael in 1x18 Something Wicked, and again with Ben in 3x02 The Kids Are All Right)

Now, I’m very much onboard with the “both Winchester brothers are autistic” and “ADHDean”, but my question is still, why would the authorities and older suspects talk to Sam instead of Dean? Is it because Sam is so good at masking? Is it because Dean is starting to let his childish side out more now that John isn’t there? Maybe it’s because due to Dean having been selectively mute, Sam had to speak for the both of them growing up and the habit stuck? Could it be because even though both boys are good looking, Sam is more traditionally handsome while Dean is a pretty face? Is there really an answer?

Sam is better at masking, and he's better at following the unwritten social rules when it comes to authority figures. He doesn't balk as much at the societal expectation that we be respectful to certain authority figures just because they're authority figures. Dean, however, is like "that guy sucks. No, I know he's a cop, but he still sucks, and somebody should tell him that."

(Cut to the scene where the trooper is like "is anything on you real?" or whatever and he says "my boobs" like a dummy lmao)

Also, there's a lot of classism and tone/code switching that happens in season 1-3 of the show. Sam spent 4 years at a school that has a fairly wealthy student body, socializing with people who have money, so he knows how to play the part of "nice upper middle class white boy from the suburbs." Dean has never had any real exposure to that kind of life or those people by this time in the show, and it's very obvious to snooty, shitty people who would look down on someone for having gotten their GED instead of graduating high school in a more traditional way (//cough// sam's comment about dean's EMF reader in s1) (no, I'm still not over it), when you don't fit in. What I'm trying to say is, if you're a shitty, classist rich person, Dean reads very "white trash" and Sam doesn't. That inherently makes Sam easier to believe for people in authority positions.

Sam, you know, didn't have anything close to a normal childhood, but he had friends, he had peers, he knew how the social hierarchies at school worked, he at least got to have a little bit of childhood. Dean didn't. He's never really had any peers, so social norms with your peers (and most of the cops they talk to would be his peers) are uncharted territory for him. He like, vaguely, theoretically, knows what the rules are, but in practice I think he gets nervous because he knows that people look down on him when they see his clothes and his car and the way he talks, and he's like, "What does it matter if I play their stupid game right? They're not going to like me anyways."

Also, if you think about it, his relationships with adults, parents, etc growing up were very abnormal, so with witnesses and families he's probably like "[sweats nervously] um, and you think it was a vampire? [adjusts his collar, having flashbacks to the one dance he went to and his date's dad looming over him] sir?"

Kids, teenagers, more vulnerable people, you know, they tend to be less judgmental and more forgiving of perceived differences or slights. They look at Sam and see an authority figure. They look at Dean, and they just see a guy. And he knows this, and uses this to his advantage, because even though he's internalized people's perceptions about him to some extent, he still ultimately doesn't really care.

As the show progresses, Dean's had more time to watch Sam do his thing, he starts to meet people who are effectively his peers, he sees how they interact with these authority figures, and he kind of develops his own mask for them.

James Buchanan Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

on this, the 11th birthday of fall out boy's esteemed fifth studio album save rock and roll, i just want to remind everyone of the one thing that never fails to Get Me about it.

there was a lot of scorn and derision about the title when it first got promoted, and fob was well aware this would happen. critics and caustic news outlets collectively scoffed about it, save rock and roll. like this four-piece from chicago, this dorky pop band, is gonna save rock and roll?

of course they missed the point, which is in the very god damn title. it's not a declarative statement. it's not a pronouncement of how we, fall out boy, saved rock and roll. it is a call to action. it is an earnest request for you, the listener, to participate in this act alongside them. it is an expression of desire to inspire creation in turn.

that's the ethos they've carried at the forefront of every creative endeavor they've undertaken since returning from hiatus. certainly that element was present before then, but save rock and roll marked the moment where they very deliberately centered that squarely in their narrative.

because fall out boy doesn't just want to save rock and roll. they want you to save rock and roll with them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as BUFFY SUMMERS

While I'm proud of watcher for branching out, I'm not sure hiding everything behind a pay wall was the smartest thing to do actually.

Little Cas midnight sketch from a few days ago

None of This Rocks Live Book Signing (September 13, 2022) | Of All The Gin Joints in All The World (June 23, 2023)

This band has a habit of doing absolutely insane things so often that they come to seem like normal things for a band to do but sorry, we all need to take a moment to appreciate how COMPLETELY INSANE it is that these two idiots as kids wrote a song with the literal lyric "Pete and me in the wake of Saturday" because that is literally how obsessed they were with each other and then they still play it every night as their last song like that is a totally normal thing to be doing and everyone does stuff like that.

No. It is insane.

SABRINA CARPENTER performing ESPRESSO Coachella 2024

Dean Winchester in SUPERNATURAL 7.04

Dean Winchester - 17x1