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on my knees begging you to please look up “squick” if you don’t know it and help bring it back to fandom space by using it. it’s a valuable word we’re missing that through normalizing could solve some of the more prevalent communication issues.
squick = “this makes me uncomfortable I do not want to see it.” without the moral judgement and everything else that blows it out of proportion. a thing can make you uncomfortable, even deeply so, and not be problematic.
Michael Sheen retweeted this and my love for him grows every time he calls his Angel out on his bullshit and sides with poor Crowley
Can you explain cas and the writer's strike thing?
With pleasure.
On November 5, 2007 (yes, you read the date correctly), the Writers Guild of America strike begins. Supernatural season 3 just started airing and the strike poses a bit of an issue, as at that point only the episodes up to 12th (Jus in Bello) have been written. In the original version, Sam was supposed to save Dean from going to hell by completely giving into his powers. But now there's no time to do that. There are some ideas thrown around, like ending the season/series on Mystery Spot and maybe making a film after. Eventually, four more episodes are shot and season 3 ends on 16 episodes with Dean being dragged to hell in the finale.
Now they need to do something about it. Despite the initial plans to leave the angels out of Supernatural, a decision is made to have Dean saved by one (and to make them more acceptable for Kripke, let's make them dicks that plot to start the Apocalypse). So they sign one Misha Collins for three episodes to do the job (the reason why he lowered his voice was because he'd thought he'd only be in three episodes, he openly regretted that decision later on, understandably so). Fans fall in love. So they keep him. They try to kill him off a few times, but each time the fans demand Castiel come back.
Fast forward 11 seasons and Supernatural 15x18 Despair airs on November 5, 2020. Exactly 13 years after the strike. After years of denying Destiel's existence, Castiel The Angel Of The Lord confesses his love for Dean Winchester. The internet breaks, Destiel trends above the US election and rumors about Putin's resignation. There's a new influx of fans, many of those who stopped watching are coming back. Supernatural renaissance. Nine months later Destiel hits 100k fics on AO3 as a first ship in the history of the site.
One of the most fascinating phenomena in television that started with a strike.
bringing this back on the 15th anniversary of the episode
without girl tummy we would be nothing. without girl tummy we would be sooo fucked.
I find it extremely funny that the entire Good Omens fandom is absolutely in love with Bildad the Shuhite for seemingly no reason. Can one of you please tell me why we love him so?
It's like distilled Crowley before his walls have come up entirely. He's clearly considered his place in the world and made some decisions about the kind of person he wants to be and seems more or less comfortable in those lines he's drawn for himself. He's goofy and having fun, teasing people and taking delight in being a little bit of a shit when Aziraphale first shows up. He's... lighter generally than modern Crowley but not naive like the Starmaker either. He's maybe the most Balanced we've ever seen him. Then he for just a little, once it's clear to him that he's safe to be a little vulnerable, lets himself be. He lays out in front of someone who should be his enemy, talking openly about being on his own side more than Hell's. Then reassures that same supposed foe in his own way that things are okay like this and that they can be alone together. He's excellent and an excellent insight into the kind of person Crowley is both within his own context and also once he lets himself open up a little more. At least, that's some of what it is for me.
In my mind palace my tav and Astarion are playing the exact same game of 5D chess and they don't realize it yet
wait tumblr is now fully telling us if the call is coming from inside the house?
And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!
Now I'm unwell
The full quote from the book is even more heartbreaking:
But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "Where have you been?" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.
"I am here now," she said at last.
Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. "I wish you had never come. Why did you come now?" The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.
holy shit the new unity pricing plan
if I understand correctly...
but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money? does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well? is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign, or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?
What
And I cannot stress this enough
The FUCK????
I get what internet (often borderline or overt rad)feminists are trying to say with shit about how men never have to deal with x, but sooo many of the examples get shot to shit when you apply any other Man to the example than a cishet rich thin white guy.
“When have men ever had to worry about being killed for something they wore?” Black men. Gay men. Trans men.
“When have men ever been body shamed?” Fat men, balding men, disabled men.
“When have men ever had to worry about walking home at night?” Black men, gay men.
People reinvent “if men could get pregnant” over and over and when someone says “oh they do actually” it’s always viewed as hostile and not a potential intersection.
Like no, you do not have to coddle men, but men saying “hey I do know what it’s like actually” are not outright our enemy trying to center themselves, they are often extending a hand saying “hey I do get it too.”
2014 Tumblr wasn’t about whatever Tik Tok thinks it was about. 2014 Tumblr was about overanalyzing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and that one website that let you play Cards Against Humanity online
And it slapped
nandor immediately knowing it was his van helsing blood fighting the vampire blood. nandor knowing guillermo drinking human blood would be what fully turned him. nandor knowing that guillermo wasn’t ready to kill people and refusing to turn him because of it. nandor inventing a ceremony so guillermo could renounce his vampirism. nandor killing derek when he knew guillermo couldn’t. nandor keeping guillermo’s glasses. nandor putting his hand on guillermo’s shoulder to comfort him.
“but what about separating the art from the artist” buddy. listen to me. joanne kathleen rowling is relevant for one reason and one reason only—she wrote harry potter. that’s why she’s famous. that is the bedrock of her fucking platform. jk rowling is the harry potter lady and harry potter is the jk rowling guy. this is not the same thing as listening to a song on repeat even though the keyboardist was an asshole, or reading a novel by some dude who sucked ideological shit in the 1800s. jk rowling has a hate platform right now, today, and she sustains it off of harry potter bucks. u will forgive me if i am unwilling to advertise for her
"but what about separating the art from the artist" the death of the author still leaves the text to be examined on it's own and I'm not sure that's a game JK can win given what we already discerned from the text and game.
I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
At least give me a fucking transcript.
hey bro i've noticed you've not been as enthusiastic about the stabbing as penetration metaphor lately. you alright?
