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Why this Doesn’t Mean Destiel : Part 1 - Mixed Tape
I may make this a series. I may not. But I’m feeling annoyed by a certain side of fandom, so I’m going to take a look at moments (or things) that are claimed to totally make D and C cannon, and discuss why I disagree. If you like the ship, please just save yourself the annoyance and skip on past this post. If you read this anyway or are not a fan, and have anything to add, I welcome your thoughts.
THE TAPE:
First, and I can’t believe I have to say this, a mixed tape is not actually inherently romantic. Friends make mixes for each other all the time, or used to before you could just share playlists or whatever them kids are doing these days. For example, my friends have ripped me CDs because they had better internet, they gave me a mix for my birthday, we went on a road trip and they left me the mix, or just because. I have done many of these things for my friends in return. A missed-tape or CD is simply a way to share songs we like with people we care about, or even an acquaintance. Can it be romantic? Absolutely! Is it inherently so? No.
Why isn’t this particular tape romantic? Check the name: "Dean's Top 13 Zepp Traxx.” This looks, more than anything, like a tape Dean made for himself ("Dean's"). As in, "I really like these particular songs, so I’m going to put them on one tape, so I don’t have to keep changing tapes over on road trips." Also, note the "Zepp Traxx." This looks more to me like something a teenager would write because it looks "cool" than anything else. I mean, a Dean who is pushing 40 might write "Traxx" on a tape — maybe — but it doesn’t seem that likely. So, it’s more than likely this tape was made decades ago, for himself, thus not a romantically intended (or thought out) mixed-tape. There is nothing about the tape itself to indicate it was made for Cass or that it has any special meaning.
DEAN:
Can we be honest here for one minute, people? Can anyone — anyone who has actually watched the whole show rather than cherry picking certain people's scenes — actually picture Dean Winchester, sitting down with an old boom box, lovingly, tenderly loading tapes into one side and recording onto a blank tape in the other side, thinking, "Sigh! These songs are so special to me because they make me think of my crush, Cass!" Or "I’m going to make Cass a tape of the most romantic Zeppelin songs I can to show him I care!"? If you answered "Yes" to that … this is not the blog for you. Also, I doubt that you know who the canon Dean Winchester is, as opposed to the fanon man-shapedr 14-year-old girl version from Tumblr or AO3. Dean doesn’t have time (or inclination) to sit down and make a mixed tape from scratch at this time in the show, especially when, you know, good luck finding a working tape recorder / cassette player / boom box that still works these days. The MOL bunker was frozen in time just a touch before tape cassettes were invented, so I doubt they have one hanging around the place. So, he went and bought something he could make a tape for Cass with? Really? I’m thinking not.
The most likely scenario for Dean giving Castiel a mixed tape? They are in the impala, maybe Sam is there sitting shotgun, maybe he isn’t. Cass starts talking about how he found merit in music Sam liked, or just some random music, and Dean says, "Come on Cass! That music is crap! Here, listen to this. This is the good stuff!" Then he rummages in his box of tapes one-handed, while driving, and tosses one to Cass. "Keep that one. I have a others," Dean adds. Then Cass says, "I’ll treasure it always, Dean!" No I’m kidding. Cass says, "Okay, Dean." He may or may not intend to actually listen to it at some point. After he finds a tape deck, of course.
So, does the mixed tape mean nothing? No, it’s still a nice gesture to give something you made to someone you care about. Do I think Dean put a lot of soecific thought into it, just for Cass? No. I think it’s actually similar to Sam letting Cass hang out in his room (presumable on his bed) watching Netflix on his TV, doing something nice for a friend and sharing media.
CASTIEL:
Even if Dean had sat sobbing over his mix for hours while he painstakingly crafted it just for Cass, it still wouldn’t equal Destiel. Why? Because Cass clearly didn’t appreciate it since he simply used it as an excuse to enter Dean's room and steal from him. Even if it was intended as an act of love, it was used as a tool for deception and betrayal. Thus, this does not support Destiel, rather it makes a case against it from Cass' POV.
THE WRITER INTENTIONS
Obviously, I can’t speak to these personally, but my thoughts on their possible thought process behind the mixed tape. First, they needed Cass to return something to Dean so he can get into his room, and it has to be something that was given as a nice gesture to heighten the betrayal. A tape makes sense because it’s not something so huge that it would be automatically given a ton of significance, but it also isn’t totally insignificant either. Second, Dean has a lot of tapes and he loves music, it’s very possible for him to give one to Cass off screen without the audience getting sidetracked and wondering why (how is he going to play it BTW? Go sit alone in one of the cars he’s stolen?). Third, do I think the writers were also throwing destiellers a bone? Probably, but throwing fans a bone does not equal queerbaiting because nothing else in Dean and Cass' relationship points to romance (and Dean is not into guys or Supernatural Beings). Throwing fans a small bone also doesn’t meant it’s leading to a romantic endgame. They do it with Wincest all the time, after all.
Overall, to me the purpose of the mixtape was to show Cass throwing something Dean gave him back in his face, so he could go behind his back for supernatural purposes. Again. If someone wants to read the tape as a romantic gift from Dean (it isn’t), that actually only makes what Cass uses it for worse. Thus, the tape does not support Dean and Cass romance.
And because I have to, this is a mixed tape (CD) with clear intent.
#supernatural#anti destiel#dean winchester#castiel critical#brief Smallville nod#Zepplin tape#my thoughts#SPN Meta#fandom wank
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SimFox in The Rookie
You gotta have somebody outside this job.
There was a girl I picked up at a bar last week.
My last boyfriend broke up with me when he found out that I sometimes have girlfriends.
#The rookie#SimFox#Simone x Casey#Simone Clark#Casey Fox#Listen ... Yes i just invented this ship name and I believe made the first gif ever of them ? Anyway here's a new ship guys#keep your eyes on it#They should have their own show of the backdoor pilot of the rookie did well#Can't wait to have more of them ... canon (at least) bi and at least wlw probably lesbian ... sign me in#Agent Fox is so much like Ava I'm dying okay ? Organized ? likes women ? suitttt ?#Also she has a chaotic bi coming into her life ? :P lollll#Also she loves rules ... and the Agent Fox/Trainee Clark is so like Avalance Miss Lance/Agent Sharpe#The rookie*#SimFox*#TR:s4#TR:4x19#TR:4x20
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Congratulations Cas you’ve been accepted to Crimson Revolt as Rita Skeeter!
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It’s always so intriguing to me whenever someone wants to explore the complexities of a character that might’ve been presented as one-sided in the original books, and Rita definitely deserves further exploration! From your application, it’s so clear that you see her as an entirely dynamic character, and we can’t wait to see you explore those sides to her that weren’t explored before and to develop her as an ambitious and ruthless reporter during a time of war! It’ll also be intriguing to see her in this non-canon setting, and to see how she deals with everything that’s going on in the plot drops! Welcome to the rp!
application beneath the cut
OUT OF CHARACTER
INTRODUCTION
Cas, 20, he/him or they/them, EST.
ACTIVITY
Not sure what number this would be, but I plan to be online at LEAST once a day. So maybe a 7/10?
TRIGGERS
*removed for privacy
HOW DID YOU FIND US?
In the tag “hp rp”.
WHAT HARRY POTTER CHARACTER DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH MOST?
Definitely Remus Lupin, and I also loved Gilderoy Lockhart. I probably would’ve gone for Gilderoy if he’d been available </3
ANYTHING ELSE?
Nope!
IN CHARACTER
DESIRED CHARACTER
Rita Skeeter.
FACE CLAIM
Carlson Young.
REASON FOR CHOSEN CHARACTER
I’ve been rereading the Harry Potter books lately and I’ve definitely been more drawn to Rita than I have been in previous reads. I think her character is really interesting and I would like to explore her in this setting where she was still making a name for herself. I think she’s really an intelligent character but with obvious flaws which is what makes her so dynamic.
Rita is ruthless, which I think is something hinted at in the book but not fully explored. Her determination to express the stories she wants to tell makes her almost Slytherin-worthy in her ambition. Her cleverness is quite understated, I think; the ability to illegally become an Animagus without anybody finding out for years is a quality that has drawn me to her immensely.
I also think it’s really fascinating for her to be listed as a Death Eater in this RP. Though it’s common knowledge that she reported on Death Eater trials during the first wizarding war I’m really invested in exploring her involvement in Death Eater movements before this happened, and being able to hide the fact that she’s more on Voldemort’s side. I’m excited to use her mobility as a reporter to be able to interact with characters of all sides.
PREFERRED SHIPS // CHARACTER SEXUALITY // GENDER & PRONOUNS
Rita views people as opportunities, not emotional investments. Although, if she were to become romantically involved in anyone, I don’t believe she would have a preference gender-wise. She finds attractive qualities in everyone. She identifies as a cis woman and uses she/her pronouns.
CREATE ONE (OR MORE!) OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
A FEW POTENTIAL PLOT POINTS
A Quill Too Far: Rita writes an article regarding something or someone that goes too far and she receives unexpected backlash. I’d like to see her experience consequences for her reporting and see how it affects (or doesn’t affect) her approach to journalism afterward.
Discovered Disguise: Even though as far as we know canonically nobody discovers Rita’s secret of being an Animagus until Hermione does in the fourth book, I would like it if at some point this information is revealed to one other character, probably by accident. (However, this character would have to keep the secret so that the canon remains the same.)
Queen of the Quills: This is a pretty standard plot, but it would be fun to have Rita work with another or multiple characters to create an article about current plot drops. It would be interesting to explore her dynamic when working with (or for) others, instead of her just going around on her own writing articles by listening all the time.
I’ve also made a Pinterest board for Rita! Link: https://pin.it/toghec5jy4mewg
IN CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE
♔ If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it? Feel free to name it: “Well, there are very few spells that need inventing, not when you have the power of words on your side… But oh, if I must, perhaps I’d invent something that would make people unable to stop reading my work once they start, until they’ve finished it all the way through. Of course, my readers are so invested that this is usually the case, anyway….”
♔ You have to venture deep into the Forbidden Forest one night. Pick one other character and one object (muggle or magical), besides your wand, that you’d want with you: “Can’t go anywhere without my camera man! Yes, he’d have to come along… Just in case we come across anything newsworthy. As for an object, I suppose my Quick-Quotes Quill will do.”
♔ What kinds of decisions are the most difficult for you to make? “There are no decisions, only actions! And no action is difficult to make if you’re as intelligent a woman as I. If you are not first to act, then you will be at the mercy of those who acted before you.”
♔ What is one thing you would never want said about you? “The only thing no one should dare say about me is that I’m lazy. Laziness should be a classified sin––You’ll never get anywhere in life if you don’t get on your feet!”
WRITING SAMPLE
Rita side-stepped into the narrow hallway of her home, a tiny apartment nestled so tightly between two larger houses in Muggle London that it was easy to pass by if you weren’t looking closely enough. A flick of her wand slammed the door shut behind her, plunging the corridor into darkness. Another flick and a pinprick of light sprung to the tip of her wand, illuminating the bare walls around her.
She squeezed through the foyer into the small, one room apartment. All that the room held was a cot, a desk with a typewriter and a comfortable chair, a tiny kitchen (which was really just a refrigerator, and one square foot of counter space), and numerous suitcases that lay scattered under the bed and against the walls.
Rita dropped her still-lit wand and dragon-hide handbag carelessly on the desk, removed her frilly coat and draped it over the bedspread. Despite the cramped nature of the space, it was impeccably clean, especially considering it was uninhabited most of the time. Rita spent most of her hours outside, watching, investigating, and taking notes. It was never good to stay in one place for too long these days. Now, she sat at the small desk and popped open her handbag, pulling out her notes from the day and shuffling them idly. Her eyes were pensive, focused; this was the way she usually got before she sat to write her big stories. During the investigative process, she was alive, and bright-eyed. When she was writing on her own afterwards, she was far more subdued.
Placing a loose sheet of paper in the typewriter, she scanned her notes intently and began to dictate. “You-Know-Who’s ‘Death Eaters’––Cruel Wrongdoers or Misunderstood Victims?” she said, and the typewriter magically typed out her words as they left her lips.
She was quite proud of her research on this article. Rita had pursued every possible thread in order to portray the Death Eaters as hopelessly misunderstood puppets of He Who Must Not Be Named. It was no easy task, after everything that had happened since the beginning of the war. Many people suspected certain wizards of following the Dark Lord; it was Rita’s job to find holes in their reasoning and excuses for why it would not be their faults.
Though she would likely be thanked for her work, Rita was conscious of how it would make her look to be excusing Death Eaters of their crimes. Her next article, she thought, would have to be supportive of the Order or the Ministry or some other facet of the resistance that was, in her opinion, horribly failing.
She gazed at her typewriter, which was idling patiently with a vacant hum as it awaited her next words. Dragging her mind away from the subject of her own potential incarceration, she took a deep breath and continued to recite her next big story.
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Congratulations Snow you’ve been accepted to Crimson Revolt as Dirk Cresswell!
↳ please refer to our character checklist
It’s always so amazing to me that so many people choose to come back to Crimson and it’s such a joy to see your Dirk come back to life in your app! I know I speak for many when I say that you took a character that none of us knew much about and brought with him a personality that we couldn’t forget. It’s so good to see you again and that you’ve found the time to come back to the rp! Snow, your reason for choosing him, in particular, made me emotional, and I can’t wait to see you write him with a fresh breath of life! Hopefully, you’ll be able to carry him on a new and beautiful journey as the war progresses and affects him. I can’t wait to see you and Dirk back on the dash!
application beneath the cut ( tw: brief mentions of death )
OUT OF CHARACTER
INTRODUCTION
Snow, 21, she/her, gmt+3
ACTIVITY
im going to well and truly throw myself into my studies this semester, and i’m also running an rp with a friend of mine on tumblr, so i don’t know how active i’ll be honestly. given how much i already love and adore every member of this group and all your characters, i’ll be able to find time. 6 or 5 out of ten, i think.
TRIGGERS
*removed for privacy
HOW DID YOU FIND US?
a promo blog about a year ago lol. i found this group way before it even opened but only applied like, months afterwards.
WHAT HARRY POTTER CHARACTER DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH MOST?
hm. my answer differs every time based on my mood i think. like i dont think there’s one character i really truly identify with? probably percy tho lbr.
ANYTHING ELSE?
nope.
IN CHARACTER
DESIRED CHARACTER
dirk cresswell. well, a revised version of him.
FACE CLAIM
ezra miller. listen i tried to change his fc but ezra is dirk and dirk is ezra the line has been blurred for ages now it is beyond my control.
REASON FOR CHOSEN CHARACTER
i’d thought of coming back with a different character and had gone through a host of them in the open tag. i’d considered someone on the other end of the spectrum to counteract the experience i’ve had playing dirk. i’d thought of playing someone balanced and sophisticated and well-mannered, someone with a little less emotion and a little more poise. someone who is not dirk, but dirk seems to have stuck himself all the way down to the roots and i can’t seem to get him out.
i cannot properly express in words how much i love this character. i’m floundering for the right ways to lay it out. he is a myriad of unlikely contradictions – kind, and just, and cruel. he is optimism and realism hand-in-hand, but he is just as much that as he is full of lies. half truths, denials, secrets. he is honest and genuine, and his intentions are as pure as those of a noble knight but he strikes quick, and fast, and merciless, with the harsh finality of an execution.
he loves openly. he is never shying away from expressing his love and devotion for his friends and family. he is never afraid of what his love for them would do to him, or to them – no, he is afraid: the fear of losing someone who’d rooted themselves into the crevices of his life is numbing, almost all-consuming, but dirk has never known how to not love, how to not be so open towards them so much of the time.
and even then, it feels, to him, as though he is never without something to hide. as though he is never not carrying a secret of some sort, as though there is always something he is carefully folding to the side throughout his life, as though he has never been fully honest with another person before. the thing is, he is always open about the good parts of himself – he is loud and obnoxious about his love and his optimism, he is blazing and boisterous about his successes and achievements. he is almost always alone in his losses. he has become terribly adept in being both honest and not, at once.
he does not forgive. he is fearful of trust, of betrayal, of being left in the dust once again. he loves, he loves, he loves, but he does not trust quite as freely.
i’d focused much too much on his guilt and misery when i had played him last, but i’m hoping to be able to focus more this time on some good things in his life. which will probably not last very long lbr but im excited to see for myself.
PREFERRED SHIPS // CHARACTER SEXUALITY // GENDER & PRONOUNS
dirk is an utter, unbelievably obnoxious, hopeless romantic. he is nineteen years old and had known he is gay for years, the wizarding world being far more relaxed about such things than where he’d come from, but only in the last few years or so had he become relaxed enough to be open about his sexuality to more than just the people he trusts. the idea of finding a committed, long term partner – male partner – is only just beginning to settle itself within him. he is only now beginning to truly see himself with a future in perhaps a domestic fashion and, despite the times they live in, he is positively giddy. it’s embarrassing. really.
dirk is a cis male character, though i’d really like to see how he would interact with a trans and/or nonbinary character and how he might find solace with someone who, while perhaps not exactly like him, falls far from the conventional lines drawn up by the social structures they live in.
CREATE ONE (OR MORE!) OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
traits:
+ TALENTED:
Dirk’s magical talents were difficult to miss, even to those who really, really tried, and it was not entirely for the considerable amount of bragging on Dirk’s part – though, arguably, that was a large part of it – but his hands, deft with potions and charms and defensive spells, were quick to catch people’s attention, and keep it. his exceptional dueling skills had not gone unnoticed, either, not by his teachers, and certainly not by his pureblooded schoolmates, who have repeatedly tested his abilities first hand.
+SOCIABLE:
Dirk is That One Kid that knows everyone, and who everyone knows. He joined every extracellular activity the school had to offer at one point or another, he never missed a chance to hang out and have fun, and he was always interested in meeting new people and making new friends. His easy humor and confident attitude drew people to him and relaxed them in his company, his optimism and cheeky remarks making him an uplifting presence to have around. He is secretive, however, keeping his emotional troubles and inner demons far away from prying eyes, even those he considers close.
-TRUST ISSUES:
Dirk has been shown love and taught not to trust it. a parting gift, from his mother, one could say. he finds difficulty – immense difficulty – in sharing his troubles, or his secrets of any kind, with anyone. he loves and he cares about his friends and there is very little he wouldn’t do for them, but trust is something that is difficult to come by, for him, and it is something that frustrates his friends to no end.
-ARROGANT:
Dirk has an exaggerated sense of his own abilities. He is talented, yes, anyone would be hard pressed to deny that, but he tends to – overestimate, what he can do. It could also be put down to his perfectionist nature, that he would bite off more than he could chew and simply expect himself to rise up to the challenge.
he is so confident in the caliber of his character, in his own moral righteousness, in his ability to tell right from wrong. he believes so completely in aversio and what they stand for and in the choices he’s made, that he is right, that he is good, that what they’re doing is entirely justified to a morally correct eye. his arrogance and his pride, just as his loyalty and his bravery and everything good in his heart, have led him down a path of darkness where the torch of his anger has lit the way so brightly he cannot see the blackness of his surroundings. he is a morally grey character with a black and white mindset.
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Mockblog: dorkcresswxll.tumblr.com
IN CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE
♔ If you were able to invent one spell, potion, or charm, what would it do, what would you use it for or how would you use it? Feel free to name it:
he squints, tilts his head, leans back on the back of his feet. “just one?” he asks, and straightens up as a thought occurs to him. there’s the beginning of a grin pulling at his lips, something of boyish mischief coloring his features. “something to, to take care of pureblooded bigots. y’know, take care of ‘em. actually, all bigots, y’know, all at once.” he shrugs, hands shoved into his pockets, boyish grin spreading across his face. giddy. “i’d call it the purifier, just for kicks.”
♔ You have to venture deep into the Forbidden Forest one night. Pick one other character and one object (muggle or magical), besides your wand, that you’d want with you:
“Sal!” a burst of laughter, involuntary, and he leans forward. “did you see her swing that wretched bat of hers? i’d take her with me to that Snake Supreme if i could, she’d bash his head in and cuss up a storm and everything, she’s good at making a big fuss.” the fond gleam in his eyes is unmissed by any, there is pride in his voice when he speaks of her, of his sister. he does not attempt to hide it. “and – and food for the object, i think, that’d work out pretty well, yeah?”
♔ What kinds of decisions are the most difficult for you to make?
“when to take a bloody break.” he huffs, annoyed, and perhaps a touch embarrassed. “i still don’t know how to do that.”
♔ What is one thing you would never want said about you?
that he is weak, that he is lesser, that he isn’t good enough. that he is just as bad as those he fights to rid the world of, that he is worst. that he is amoral, immoral, that he is unjust and evil and simply a murderer.
he hums. thoughtful. for a moment. “that i can’t take a loss well. which, mind you, is ridiculous – i never lose anyway!”
WRITING SAMPLE
it wasn’t difficult to get the old man to sign his letter – it wasn’t difficult, he’d not needed any convincing, all dirk had to do was thrust the form under his nose, pen in hand and a flat look upon his face: stiff, clunky, the way he only ever is with his father anymore.
the man looks up from the book between his palms, his sharp nose striking, his slanted eyes lifting towards his son. there is a crease between his brows as he pulls the paper from the young boy’s hands, eyes over ink before he asks what this is.
“it’s a permission form.” he sounds nervous. he hates it. “for hogsmeade.” he says, “you’re supposed to sign it.”
and the man signs it. just like that, he reads the paper and he signs it – he hangs on to it for a moment before giving it back. there is something there, something he wants to say, but his father was never good with words and so he says nothing. dirk is pathetically grateful – he never seems to say the right thing when his dad is involved, either.
dirk takes the paper and shifts his weight between his feet and isn’t sure if he should just leave – there is something there he wants to say, as well, but he can’t quite grasp the words and so he mulls about for a moment more, shifting the paper in his hand, before he nods a quick ‘thank you’ and scurries away.
he stuffs the paper in his pocket as he walks away. he stuffs his guilt down too, and tries not to think about it – he’d been avoiding his dad all summer, had only spoken to him now when he needed something, and not for the first time he wonders how it’s gotten this bad. he wonders when it’s gotten so tense between them they can’t share more than a few words before something made someone snap. he wonders what made it so, what caused this wide, gaping chasm to stretch between them – but he can’t think about that without thinking about emptied rooms and funeral marches, so he shakes his head quickly and bursts into Sal’s room.
They have much planned for the rest of the day, and there’s only so much of summer left for them to enjoy.
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