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I’m still thriving about gettng to ask him this and the answer he gave me

nothing about this was accidental

*clears throat*

I’m going to be annoying for a second to add some lore to this post. Because one thing on here was accidental, but I think it’s cool to know that.

I am typically a huge supporter of the statement “nothing about this was accidental,” generally speaking, especially because oftentimes I’m the one insisting that’s the case when people try to ignore/devalue subtext or production details.

But… While the colors in Naomi’s office are often pointed to as looking like the bi flag (understandably), at the time, Jerry Wanek said that wasn’t the case:

Of course, maybe Serge chose it for bi flag reasons, but this seems to be confirmation that he didn’t. And that honestly checks out, because the term “bisexual lighting” wasn’t even popularized until 2014.

However… to me, this moment is significant, because it means that in 2013 Jerry Wanek and also possibly Serge Ladouceur had the concept of using lighting to signify the bi flag brought up to them directly and they were made aware of the possibility. And of course, as the years went on, “bisexual lighting” then came to be something discussed in the cultural lexicon and turned into a well-established media language in its own right, used in several queer instances like Janelle Monáe’s “Make Me Feel” music video, the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero,” the movie Atomic Blonde, etc.

It certainly became known to the point where it’d make sense for its use in SPN to unequivocally mean bisexuality by 2019 and be blatantly deliberate by everyone involved in making episode 15x07. That includes Jeremy Adams, who wrote “GLOWING NEON SIGNS illuminate what can only be described as Dean’s idea of Heaven. Cowboys and bikers. Gorgeous ladies and rock and roII” in his script.

My point in bringing this up and clarifying it is this: yes, Naomi’s office having bi lighting was accidental. People will sometimes mention that to try to claim all subtext in SPN must be accidental, but that’s obviously complete and utter bullshit. Especially because, in this instance, that “accident” could have put something on the team’s radar in a way that turned into it being used fantastically and extremely effectively years later—which I personally think is cool as fuck.

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Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

fuck OFF

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

FUCK OFF

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

This post…it just really went places on me.

This post makes it very clear why people are so easily taken in by the “teacup pig” myth. Y'all are out here thinking mini pigs are the average.

Making Daniel Craig gifs just made me realize how much the man acts with his eyes. Like from one frame to the next his face can go from happy to sad without moving a single muscle and only somehow changing the way he looks at someone

they wrote it, shot it, aired it and then were like: just don't read too much into this

my favorite part of early destiel seasons is the way dean will stand like this🧍staring at castiel lips parted and eyes the size of the moon

lily evans the woman that you are….

hbd lily my aquarius bestie <3

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