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boxxes · 9 months

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Not caught up with the Recreyo lore? NO PROBLEM! This post will be updating every time we get new lore!

Here’s the ENTIRETY of Recreyo lore;

So the glitches ur seeing are all Recreyo Chan. A girl originally used to promote Recreyo’s Anime NYC event! Her first appearance was on twitter, when it was still believed to be a gag. This girl is clearly the same. Matching blue hair and red neck tie. This was season 1 of course, so it was still a joke. But in season 2 she takes on a new light.

So her first MENTION takes place in ‘SCP The Sculpture’ where we can make a safe estimate that Recreyo Chan is the thing that is “keeping a special eye on the recreyo crew.” (Curt has stated that SCP is easier to work with because you can change things as well as said the SCP lore could leak into other episodes so thats how we know RC and SCP are connected) But we didn’t know what curt meant by this until the release of ‘Doctor Stone’. Where Recreyo Chan glitched into the video for a few moments before returning things back to normal.

After this ‘FNAF 4’ incident, the next week Curt uploaded a video titled ‘We need to talk.’ Addressing the glitches. His solution to combat the glitches was changing the upload schedule to every other week to *intensify the edits and get rid of the glitches*. This worked for the most part, EXCEPT for small glitches where a spiral (referencing the swirl design on her cheek). These spirals would only appear when they were breaking the fourth wall. Whether it be through the art looking like they’re grabbing the screen (‘Scream’) or talking directly to the animators (‘The Menu’). These spirals originated in the 4th SCP episode ‘SCP Plague doctor’ where the plague doctor referred to an IT. This IT obviously being Recreyo Chan.

In ‘Rizz, Marry, Kill’ instead of the typical spiral, Curt *spiraled* out of the video into a blank void where he asks “Now..?” before getting transported back into the video. This shows he was self aware of the glitch happening.. After a few weeks of episodes that show Recreyo Chan always on the outside looking in at Curt, finally the long awaited ‘SCP Security Breach’ was finally dropped. Throughout the video, Curt seemed removed and monotone. Something is clearly off. Once we reach the end of the episode, the Recreyo Crew come across a portal, which Curt has been leading them to throughout the episode. Except now we truly can tell, Curt wasn’t the one leading them to the portal. It was Recreyo Chan, who seemed to shape-shift into him. She closes out the scenario with the chilling line “now I have everything I need to end the scenario”. After this, Curt’s voice and body have fully transformed and we see her true form.

But YouTube isn’t the only thing Recreyo Chan has been attempting to hack. The Official Recreyo discord has been hacked by an account on the 31st of March, and was assumed to be an April fools prank. This user originally named “ca” terrorized the server and even hacked curt, turning Curt’s profile into a creepy blue light, his name to ca as well. Den ended up banning him, only for him to return a day later. Every Friday, or day of a post, this user has been adding a letter to their name every day. What was originally “Ca” is now “Can you”. We originally believed she could be spelling out “Can you survive”, as it is a common phrase used in their video titles. However now, we believe she could be spelling out “Can you hear me” After joining a call and changing everyone’s names to one of the letters “C, A, N, Y, O, U, or H”

In the aforementioned call that this mysterious account joined, they played strange audio, we are yet to understand the meaning of the audio, but it seems the first is weird glitching audio, while the other sounds like scraping or mechanical noises.

Another website we can find Recreyo Chan on is pleasestopareyoulisteningcanyouhear.me . On this website we can hear Curt talking about the laws of physics and possibilities of other universes (an obvious reference to the portals we’ve been seeing in the episodes lately) In the background you can hear the others having a normal conversation and you can tell this happens before a recording because Ivan says “We’re ready to clap now.” to Curt. (Clapping is how they sync their audio in recordings.) If you want the transcript of the audio I have another post detailing it!

ALSO RECREYO CHAN IS DATING HATSUNE MIKU.

#recreyo #recreyoyt #curt richy #cypher den #frugal aesthetic #ivan animated #kfel #recreyo scp #scp #recreyo chan

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ronanlynchdefender · 1 year

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An Aromantic Asexual Reading of Henry Cheng

Happy International Asexual Day! I had a lot of fun making “An Asexual Reading of Gansey” post, and so of course, I had to make a post about The Raven Cycle’s resident aroace king, Henry Cheng. Unlike Gansey, I think Henry is written with the intention of being canonically aroace. Henry, himself, implies as much, and the way his character is developed also supports this conclusion. In other words, the text does not lie. The man is aroace.

Henry Comes Out

A thought occurred to her. “I don’t need to remind you I’m with Gansey, right?” “Naturally not. I’m Henrysexual, anyway. Can I take you home?” (TRK, pg. 234)

I interpret this moment as Henry stating in clear terms that he is not interested in anyone romantically or sexually. While it is phrased somewhat as a quip, it is significant because, as we see throughout The Raven King, Henry is very intentional about how he uses his words and what words mean. He doesn’t need to comment or joke about his sexuality, but he does. He does it casually too, “I’m Henrysexual, anyway.” He phrases it almost as an afterthought. Clarifiying not only is he not interested in Blue, he is not interested at all.

Platonic Longing

So he had no real way to explain how he felt about trying to befriend Richard Gansey and the members of Gansey’s royal family. (TRK, pg. 266)

He felt 20 percent guilty for longing to become friends with Gansey and Sargent and Lynch and Parrish. The Vancouver crowd was great. They just weren’t enough, but words failed him to say why. (TRK, pg. 267)

Can you just imagine little Henry Cheng looking at Gansey’s friend group and longing to be a part of it? Honestly, I think all of us as readers can relate to Henry’s desire. We all want to be friends with them. We all want to be in their inner circle.

What Henry craves more than anything are those queerplatonic bonds that the raven boys have with each other. This is a kid who has grown up without anyone really understanding him, except maybe his mom. And here he is, in the least likely of places, witnessing this friend group possess exactly the type of relationships he has always craved but never had words to truly describe.

Not “Just” Friends, But Just, Friends

“You had RoboBee looking out for me.” “It was friendly. That was a friend thing.” He seemed anxious for Gansey to believe that his motives were pure, so Gansey said quickly, “I know that, just I don’t meet many people who make friends like I do. So fast.” (TRK, pg. 360)

I think this moment parallels the moment with Blue where Henry is clarifying that there is nothing else going on other than platonic vibes. He is not romantically or sexually interested in Blue or Gansey. His motives really, truly are just friendship. I think Henry is also nervous in this scene because he doesn’t know if Gansey will accept him as a friend. Henry is really desperate to be accepted as one of Gansey’s friends, his inner circle. Even though his desire is not romantic, Henry is still putting himself in a vulnerable position where he could get rejected. And Gansey is quick to try to dispel that anxiety. It’s a sweet moment between the two of them, honestly. And I think many of us can relate to the simple desire of just wanting to be someone’s friend without any romantic or sexual implications. I mean, that’s all many of us want. Just friends. Maybe very, very special friends that we feel inexplicably intense connections to but friends nonetheless.

Soulmates, But Platonic

“We’re friends at once, we would instantly do what friends would do for each other. Not just pals. Friends. Blood brothers. You just feel it. We instead of you and me. That’s jeong.” (TRK, pg. 360)

Not romantic. Not sexual. But a secret third thing. Throughout the whole series we witness Gansey’s very complicated feelings toward his friends, and here comes Henry Cheng with the perfect language to describe what Gansey is feeling. And who better than an aroace character to introduce the concept of platonic soulmates? Although, I would argue that what Henry is saying here is more than just platonic soulmates. It’s pure connection. It’s community.

Three’s A Crowd, Except When it’s Sarchengsey, Then it’s A Queerplatonic Polycule

Gansey had bid for a gap year and won. Henry had already planned on one. It was all convenient, as Blue had spent months planning how to cheaply hike across the country post-graduation, the destination: life. It was better with company. It was better with three. (TRK, pg. 434)

I just absolutely love that Henry agrees to accompany this true love pairing across country as their platonic third wheel. It’s fantastic actually. The idea of Bluesey being all romantic and shit and Henry is just completely unbothered. Completely content. Love it.

Also, Blue and Gansey could’ve very easily gone on a romantic road trip by themselves, but instead they thought hey let’s invite our good friend, Henry Cheng. Because who the fuck cares about true love? We’re all platonic soulmates here.

Also, extended vacation with your queerplatonic polycule. Need I say more

Cars and Sex???

“Rumor has it that his father gave him a Fisker for his birthday and he’s too afraid to drive it.” (BLLB, pg. 154)

“Stop. Stop. Get in my car. You know what? You drive. This thing scares the piss out of me.” Henry tossed him the keys. (TRK, pg. 348)

In a book series where car driving/racing are constantly used as metaphors for sex, I find it very interesting that the most canonically aroace character is also afraid of driving his car. Coincidence?

Okay maybe I included this point partly as a joke, and maybe this is a stretch, but here me out. This isn’t some throwaway character detail. This is mentioned or referenced multiple times. At the bus loop, during the chase for Glendower, after Blue and Gansey’s late-night date, immediately after we are introduced to his character. Anyway

In conclusion, Henry is an aroace king, and we needed way more of him in The Raven Cycle. He’s funny, dramatic, and brings a levity that some of the other characters don’t possess. A great, sorely underused character.

I may make more of these asexual analyses posts about The Raven Cycle because I have a lot more I want to say about the series as a whole, so you can follow me for that if you’re interested. I’d also love to hear other people’s thoughts.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed and happy ace day!!!!!

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daylightcommand3 · 2 months

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Dear, @purplekoop

GRRRR RAHH War Bots is consuming me! I keep finding myself thinking about the far off hypotheticals and all the little extraneous details:

What would box art look like? So far I can see Wilderoad and Calber staring at each other from the corners of the art. A random map from the game is the background. Other bots from the game are all rushing towards each other ready for a fight.

What kinds of PvP maps will there be? One idea I had is an abandoned amusement park based on a once-beloved-but-now-forsaken gaming company that is now being used for training.

Also I had the potential* headcanon that the PvP gameplay is the War Bots** training.

*(I say potential because i don't know if you already had that idea. I don't want to assume.)

**(Not to be annoying myself. But I know that War Bots is not the final name of the game nor the team. I just wanted to make that clear real quick. Sorry if this sounds rude. I genuinely don't know how to phrase this without sounding like an asshole.)

What will the trailer look like? I can see a rough draft. A little rendered animation of showing Wilderoad walking onto a PVP map. Chaos is everywhere. We then get quick clips of gameplay footage of characters using their abilities. The obligatory pop song playing in my head bounces between "Cut Off" by Set It Off and "Magic 8" also by Set It Off. (I listened to the album these songs were in recently while I had War Bots on the brain)

By the way, I see Wilderoad as the face of War Bots mainly because they were literally the introduction to it, and if I remembered correctly, they were also one of the first characters made. And if i'm remembering REALLY correctly, I believe you yourself said they were the face.

What will the cosmetics be like? This question really started when you mentioned the quickly scrapped penguin's moveset being given to Velenna. I instantly thought "Alright, Velenna should be given a penguin skin then." Then i realized that I don't recall you ever mentioning cosmetics. Would it be more TF2-esque with a loadout system? Or would it be more Overwatch 2-esque with a simple complete skin system? Speaking of Overwatch, I couldn't help but think of an "Ancient Heroes" skinline that gives our favorite bots a familiar look. Some mappings are rather cut and dry, while some really get you to think (Poppett in particular: Tracer? Lucio? D.va? Kiriko????). I also briefly imagined a "Coat" mechanic of sorts. Where you could merely change the color of the bots bodies. Like putting on a new coat of paint. (As you can see, I'm kinda using War Bots as a cope and a way to wean me off of Overwatch. Or at least attempting to.)

What would the community jokes and memes be like? What would be our nerf Genji? I can already see a meme about Necross, but I won't since I plan to make that one a reality eventually.

Bot Select? I want to see all the bots lined up in rows and columns.

Of course. What game would be complete without your favorite thing: figures! Not to make you drool, but imagine if a Wilderoad figure was right there on your desk. Or Formann? Or Poppett? Or Velenna? Or Navea? Or etc etc etc.

It's all so just- GRRRrrr OHHHhhh, so enticing, so magical, so beautiful. I'm proud to say that I'm on the ground floor of War Bots. I love being a part of this. I can't wait for what comes next.

Sincerely, G

PS: I have absolutely no idea when the rest of The Gardeners posts will be finished. I have solid ideas on all of them (minus one). I just haven't had the time to write them. This week I'm focusing on a big midterm and have the usual load of homework. I'm trying to get a lot done this week so Spring Break I can truly relax and write to my hearts content. Of course, the biggest roadblock to my writing is that I'm busy writing a script for my university's comedy skit program club. And that has a deadline of the week after Spring Break. So yeah. Sometime after that I suppose. I will let you know that the next Gardener I'll be going over is the one with blades.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings!

#originally this was going to be an ask but I had so much to say #war bots #koop's oc stuff #friend's oc #mutuals

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eastgaysian · 10 months

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where do you get the sense that shiv feels tom getting her pregnant was a physical betrayal...?

my beautiful mind :)

eh it's definitely not the most clear or elegant phrasing on my part, written on my phone at 1am etc, also realize it's kind of dependent on an understanding of the tomshiv gender-body-fucked/fucking matrix that only exists within my mind palace. and people are ofc free to disagree with my reading of anything, i have, like, extremely specific takes that have built up over time.

shiv's feelings about her own pregnancy/specifically that tom got her pregnant are obviously extremely complicated - 'physical betrayal' is not the clearest expression of what i'm trying to say there but, yeah, imo, a sense of betrayal is part of it.

(NB: i am 100% aware that scenes set after it's revealed shiv is pregnant were not all shot afterwards/with knowledge that shiv was pregnant. i will still be talking about them in the context of the show as reflective of shiv's feelings about her pregnancy/her body etc because i think not talking about the show the way it aired and we watched it is nonsensical.)

like, i don't think it's totally accurate to say either that shiv wants to or doesn't want to have a kid - in one sense it happened to her and she went along with it, and in another she did have to work towards and choose it to some degree. it's something that she wanted to be able to choose but couldn't bring herself to decide. she distances herself from the prospect with the suggestion of freezing 'baby popsicles' but never fully rejects it. i believe lucy prebble on the official podcast post-honeymoon states said that she felt there was a part of shiv that wanted there to be some kind of issue with the fetus so she could justify terminating it - hearing that everything is fine is partially a relief, and partially terrifying because it means whatever shiv decides about her own pregnancy is completely her decision and her responsibility.

the concept of having/raising kids isn't innately repulsive to shiv, imo. there are some aspects that appeal to her, which have less to do with the actual child than what that child could represent - logan's approval and affection, as she imagines in honeymoon states; getting one over on kendall/her brothers as a whole by successfully having her own biological child; spiting caroline by proving actually i can be a mother, and a better one than you. deciding to never have kids means giving up on all of that and tacitly admitting to a deficiency. at the same time, shiv knows that child's going to be fucked and is daring someone to call her on it by continuing to drink and making jokes about fobbing the baby off on a nanny. it's a bad decision, but nobody's stopping her, so it's her bad decision to try and prove something.

the physical aspect of being pregnant, though, is definitely disturbing to her. her whole life shiv has been limited by and demeaned for being a woman, getting reduced to her body and its perceived sole function of carrying children. (kendall voice) it's only your teats that give you any value! the corporate world has no respect for a pregnant woman or a mother and shiv cannot stand feeling disrespected. related to this, shiv highly prizes her bodily autonomy. to her being impregnated by someone else is always going to feel like a violation, being treated as an incubator for someone else's purposes. (citing dalia oreganosbaby's post that explains this better than i do.) her keeping the pregnancy a secret/continuing to drink is in some ways an attempt to retain her sense of agency and bodily autonomy by refusing to let it affect her lifestyle or emotions.

in this sense being impregnated by tom particularly registers as a 'betrayal' in that, like, because tom was unique as the man she felt safe around emotionally and physically - because shiv felt she was the one with the power/the one doing the fucking - he became the man who was able to truly fuck her emotionally and physically (betray her to logan/impregnate her). she thought she had control over him (he was more openly emotionally invested than her, she fucked other people and he didn't) and he turned it around to subordinate her positionally and physically. the broadness/masculinity that made her think he was reliable humiliated her instead.

#mingbox #chalkboard

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xiaoluclair · 10 months

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hello okay i've seen you reblog 4433 posts so this is my invite for you to go fully incoherent rambling about why you love 4433 pretty please?

okay so i sure as hell ain't a vet but i Am intrigued invested enamored hopelessly sinking and it goes like This:

ONE. racer4racer ruthless4ruthless champion4champion. yall heard lewis talk about booing?? it just fuels me 💪💪. yall heard max? i'll just take my trophy home and they can have a nice evening ☺️. the objective energies are a SPECTRUM apart. but then you look a little deeper and Yeah, that's. thats a champion there and champion there.

alexa play monza 2021 silverstone 2021 jeddah 2021 interlagos 2022. in other words: racing other people?? yeah, fine. Can Do, no Problemo. racing each other? explosion Noises.

i.e. u know the phrase Opposites Attract? well. Yeah . onto

TWO. Opposites! e.g. Agendas (for lack of a better word.) max will kneel, will speak when spoken to. but give that kid the choice and he aint sayin a word. he is there to Race and have Laffs why u askin me about my political stance on cheese 🙄😒. lewis on the other more vocal hand Will Speak Out. prbly maybe it traces back to their childhoods, but im not getting into that Particular thing bc its too heavy for this and im not about to make it into a joke, So. yeah, the way they view their own Purpose within fame, the way max Wouldnt bc he thinks hes too small, insignificant in worldwide change, doesnt believe he can do Much for those larger social issues, then lewis doing so many things bc he might not alter the globe singlehandedly but he wants to be part of that smth Bigger. and no that is Not me saying max doesnt have a heart or doesnt want to help bc we've seen him raise donations and be Kind and condemn people for their shitiness. i just think, Opposites.

keeping with the seriousness: yall ever seen max wear smth not white and jeaned other than his racesuit and swim trunks?? MAYBE i can give him the singular fucking bowtie. lewis? ur catchin him suckin of the w14 before u catch him in that shit (Affectionate).

and to their hearts: both of them, who race to win, to be the fastest, to take home the trophy, to feed that fire as it burns on the track, to make their fathers proud. and then: lewis, who lives with faith, who races with God, who want to break records. max, who lives against superstition, who races with gut, who wants to rest. so Yeah. Opposites.

nYway,

THREE. i realize i havent actually touched much on their actual Dynamic HEE, so like. theyre fukin . miscroscope-worthy. in that they should be Studied. intently. i Cant with the whole, the whole Thing they have like. yeah no theyre not Best Buds or anythin but they Have been amicable. acquaintances. Rivals. and there is no fucking way im feeling Nuthin about two men racing with the Sole Focus of beating the other. first, thats 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈YYY!!! second, that is Everything. who tf is feeling what either of them are feeling going into abu dhabi 21. who Else is putting down his visor knowing its Make or Break. who else is sinking into their cockpit pulling up at the starting line exhaling into their helmet as they watch the lights go out knowing its Now. its there, for Me or Him. its pinned in the center of Us right in the middle, could tip either way. who else, if not each other???? who ELSE I ASK!! also when tf did it happen before that two f1 title rivals went into the final race on equal points??? once?? idk but the Point is, theres two fuckin people (or close to) in the entire World who've been There, only one person who knows how you couldve truly Felt in ur Soul, hands on the steering wheel foot on the gas, has felt it too and hes sitting to ur left, takin a fuckin selfie of u both like sum social media Diva. smfh.

FOUR! they Actually get along???? like ik to some poople theyre tryna Kill each other 25/8 but dawg i think about tom sharing that lil story abt max asking lewis about his hair all the fucking Time its so Unhealthy i need More. n less often but still deserves Stage Time: lewis saying This Guy, this Fucking guy, and max calling him out on it right there on the podium. lewis showing max shit on his phone, makin him goddamn Giggle. the two of them just Joking Around, idk i think its Sweet. that they Can be okay, yknow, even with all the head to head (head 👀) shit they drove each other to in 21.

FIVE: the misc things! i.e. theyre no1s theyve both fucking Dominated the field. who else has on the current grid, i hear? No Fucking one. only Them. i.e. i think there is so much Potential. ik theyre so Different almost polar arctic antarctic north south but it warms my heart sm when theyre together Because of that. i.e. ik this post doesnt read quite so Shippy as it couldve but idk they make me feel More than that in a way bc theyre just so. Apart. and when they come together, it feels Monumental. plus the absolute Dawg the Cunt the 🧎🧎🧎 they can fit into a single photo:

Yeah .

#if u had ur head in the gutter with one of those last sentences get it Out #xiao: waffle #waffle: mv1.lh44 #zhalia my beloved #3344 #4433 #Anyway . time to go Life #theres prbly More btw but i just #haha cant Think

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arlovegood · 5 months

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Six little nuggets

This is a little drabble of something that could/will maybe become a larger one shot (hence why there's some passing mention to things that would only make sense with context), but I thought it cute and wanted to post

From the corner of her eyes she watches him, his gaze is fixed on the sleeping babies and his face, oh that face, a tiny smirk verging on a smile resting on his lips, a look that says he knows this kids are trouble and he couldn’t be more delighted by that. She knows that face, knows what it means.

“You always wanted six” she mockingly singsongs while lightly nudging him with her shoulder. It’s a joke but not really.

She doesn’t even know which one of them she’s talking about.

He huffs out a laugh and looks at her. That intense, loving look that captures her and lets her fly free all at the same time.

“I’ve always wanted you” and his eyes are so serious, so truthful. She’s always know that, even before they truly got back together, after all, he had said hadn’t he?

‘the most important part’ That’s what he called her.

“And whatever makes the both of us happy. Truly happy. That’s what I’ve always wanted Nance. That’s what I’ll always want.”

And she knows the question laying hidden on that phrase.

‘What will make you, us, happy?’

She looks back to the babies. Their tiny little angelic faces sleeping, unaware of the world they were born into, unaware of the way they came to be.

Unaware that they could be soon tossed into an orphanage to go gods know where, maybe even separated.

Nancy truly looked at those little faces and…

“I’ve always liked the name Nathaniel” She sees the little furrow of Steve’s eyebrows. Sees the confusion mixed with giddiness and hope in his eyes. He lets her talk, explain….confirm.

“We didn’t use it at any point…I mean…I love our boys names but…what I’m saying is…” and she’s stumbling because it’s just..so much. It’s good, it’s great, but she’s just as emotionally stable as she was on those four trips to the hospital where she left with a little bundle that was now hers and Steve’s to care and love.

“Nance…” and as his gaze catches hers again she melts, embraces what her heart has been screaming for the past hours, what her soul already knew when that poor girl was brought in.

“They’re ours Steve…aren’t they?” And his eyes scream the answer and she just hugs him, lets herself be enveloped by his arms, that place where nothing can hurt her.

“I like Nathaniel…it’s pretty, I think it’s suits him. Our little Nate” She just squeezes him tighter, her eyes watering from holding back tears.

“And this little princess Nance…what should we call her?” God his voice! She already knows this two little sleeping babies have him wrapped around their tiny little fingers and well, okay…..they got her two.

“Destiny” she doesn’t elaborate. Doesn’t say anything really. When she was younger, but on that age where you hate being called young, she would have scoffed and said she didn’t believe in things as destiny and fate.

But that was before.

Before the world as she knew fell out of her feet. Before she found someone who came so close to what a soulmate was supposed to be. Before life brought her back to Hawkins, to this very hospital, so she could find her babies.

The last remaining two lil nuggets missing from their pack.

“Yeah, Nate and Destiny Harrington….I like that” his voice was hoarse and chocked. He was crying too. A dream years on the making, always giving that feeling of happiness and fulfillment to them but also ever growing and ever evolving.

'Minus the six kid part…that sounds like a total nightmare'

Once upon a time, her younger self had declared this, in a fruitless attempt at deflecting the emotions Steve was making her feel.

But now…

Now as she saw Steve buckling a little Destiny, dressed into the most adorable “Daddy’s little girl” onesie, onto the baby seat, while Max, with a lot of help of a scowling Ellie - who apparently was very disappointed with his proficiency in holding a baby - rocked little Nate back and forth in a soothing manner.

They weren’t buckling it up to go on a road trip across the country.

At least not yet.

They were just going to the Wheeler’s residence until the babies were a few days older so they could go back to Boston.

(Or until Karen managed to convince her daughter that Hawkins was a perfect place to live and that the Post would allow her to write from anywhere. What can you say, the woman was persistent if nothing else)

And yet….

Nancy felt like this was truly the beginning of the adventure promised so many years ago on a stolen Winnebago while they faced the possible end of the world.

It had sounded like a nightmare….but it wasn’t.

Not really.

It was her life. And she goddamn loved it.

#stancy #stranger things #steve x nancy #steve harrington #nancy wheeler #six little nuggets

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mako-neexu · 1 year

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Man. You wanna know what would really fuck up Guda. Have it turn out that there was a way for the lostbelts to exist and have PHH be returned and safe. Like marisbury or whoever explains how easy it would be to have PHH and lostbelts exist. And Guda just.... breaks. The one thing that comforted them whenever a lostbelt was destroyed was that it was doomed anyway and was the only thing that could bring back PHH. But now knowing that all that sacrifice, all that death, all that pain could have been preventable leads to all the guilt crushing Guda and they snap. Rest of the Chaldea crw have to watch as Guda breaks down in tears and laughter, saying "I have to fix this I have to make up for my sins I have to BRING THEM BACK". And, either by becoming a beast or using the holy grails they collected they begin to reform CHALDEAS to recreate a "perfect world" for the worlds that they remember.

(sorry if this was a long post but this idea has been on my mind for a while)

Im sorry for taking so long! But I really wanted to write at least something about this!

For smoe reason, I can't write Guda's POV? Im used to friendly, and goofy, suffering guda with a little bit of melancholy gaze xD (i mostly use guda of JP interpretation)

But its a concept I wanted to explore a little bit: Where nearly all the Servants side by their Master and very few stay at Chaldea, a world where Fujimaru Ritsuka truly becomes "selfish", Similar to the story, guda produced tears from her memories, stars that contain stories, creates what-if worlds that made Patxi see the blue sky, Gerda be able to grow up, a happy family for Asha, Vihan, and Ajay, a different tomorrow for Macarios and Adele, a kind of peace and freedom for the inhabitants in the chinese lostbelt and more... perhaps including those she lost from before "Part 2" started.

I want Homuhomu alive so I wrote it that hes alive post-traum XD i love holmes so i want to try writing him too if only a little bit

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“How terrifying.”

It was one phrase accompanied with a sigh. A mere phrase uttered so simply, so casually by the detective that Goredolf immediately knew something was wrong.

“Well, care to grace us with your findings, Administrative Advisor?”

Because as it stands now, they wouldn’t be able to defeat their once cornerstone of their whole operation.

Leaning against his seat, the detective pressed on the hologram, allowing Goredolf to see the statistics that will now predict their fate.

“As you can see, this is our probability of being able to win against the battle with our former Master.”

….Five percent.

The brit must be kidding.

The blond man cleared his throat and dabbed at the sweat beading his forehead, “I’m not finding this funny, Holmes.”

“If only I had the ability to joke as well, Director.”

Goredolf grit his teeth, unwilling to believe the information stated before him, “Does that account our current resources? What about with the help of Zemlupus? And our reserves?”

“Would you like to know what the percentage would look like if all our assets and potential ones are removed?”

Shit.

A shiver, and a tremble, down to his bones, he absolutely despises the day Fujimaru Ritsuka started to drift away from them.

The very same day it was his fault for letting them astray in the first place.

–

It was merely an offhand comment. A simple thought that slipped past his lips before leading to a series of explanations and answers that he shared with her that morning.

A sigh, a sip of his coffee, “Tsk, this would’ve been handled easier if the first Director wasn’t so hellbent on reaching the Root in a way that would take the rest of the world with it…”

Orange-red hair passed by before stopping, curious with his statement, “Eh? What do you mean Director?”

He handed her the tablet beside him, scrolling through the document, “Here. Long story short, our research led us to the high possibility of the Lostbelts having had a high chance of existing alongside Panhistory as ‘closed reality marbles’ in their respective locations. For example, the Permafrost Empire could have a portal located in one of the major cities of Russia, either in Moscow or St. Petersberg to continue existing. So long as it occurred in the country, these false histories should- Fujimaru?”

The master either seemed to be too absorbed in reading or processing what he said. But that didn’t stop Goredolf from worrying.

“Director.” A frail and weak voice, a voice that had the man put his cup down in concern, “Fuji-”

“So you mean to say… that they could have lived alongside us?”

Servants are heavily influenced by the emotion their Master feels because of the connections. And the stronger the Master aptitude is, the stronger that connection between them is.

To the near hundreds whom they’ve summoned as an organization, it was a fact that everyone knew, but didn’t really acknowledge much.

In this situation, the only ones who aren’t affected by it, was Mash, Kadoc, Goredolf, and the remaining Chaldea staff.

As emotions influence judgment and rationale, so too are actions that were to be made.

Kyrielight shouts her noble phantasm’s name just as the shadowy figure of Edmond Dantes deployed his own. Her defense could only last long, but they were in a tight pinch as he was also busy covering her back.

“Shit.” He curses, barely dodging the Dragon Witch’s flames and spears, “Where the hell is that Atlas Mage’s so-called support?!”

“She said a minute more!” Mash huffed, covering his back before Arjuna’s arrows rained down on them.

“Well, we won’t last more than ten seconds with the way things are at!”

Fucking shit. Their only exit has been cut off, the support they need and more are on that bastard’s side, and moreover, they had to get this Tear to the border!

Before Kadoc knew it, a sea of pink flowers flooded the labyrinth, sweeping away all Servants except them- but he didn’t dwell on it further as he was carried under Kyrielight’s arm, an opportunity to make a break for it.

Unable to hold back as they boarded the ship, he saw Merlin giving them a wave and a smile before a sword swung down on him.

Kadoc swallowed and broke his gaze, clicking his tongue in irritation as he clutched at the Tear closely.

Sion was the first to greet them after the hatch had been opened.

“Man, so sorry about that. We had to reduce the number of Nemo marines and bakers to man the ship and conserve mana, and summoning someone had been difficult especially when our access to the Throne got cut off but I managed to get Merlin’s help when we got a hold of one of his flowers.”

Kadoc sighed, “We were really close to dying back there, y’know? Couldn’t you have at least lent us some firepower?” But he held out the box he had been carrying to the mage.

Mash took it, gently, carefully, just like she had done to the others, “Sion-san, we have the Tear.”

The genius nodded opening it to reveal a star that glowed brightly, yet packing enough mana to create a giant crater almost the size of the Indian Ocean on the surface of the earth.

“...Ritsuka’s Tears are really special, huh?��

Mash bit her lower lip and looked away, “It does contain her most precious memories of each singularity and lostbelt after all.”

Not wanting to contribute to the sombering mood, Kadoc began shedding his coat, “We have one more to go right?”

“That’s correct. We will be leaving for Antarctica in a few hours. Nemo is working double time to make sure we’re camouflaged so I’ll be handling the controls with Da Vinci soon. Which means…”

They will have to rush back to the beginning to end all of this.

It was ridiculous but they’ve got no choice if they want to collect all of her Tears containing those precious moments framed in grief and guilt.

Honestly, he couldn’t take it anymore. It was terrifying just being alive right now in this world filled with nothing but endless white. Still, he doesn’t wanna die. And he’d like to punch that Master so she could snap out of it, tell her that this wasn’t what the people she loved wanted her to do.

—Or finally lay her to rest, a way of giving her a reunion with the people who are no longer in this world.

Just like she wanted.

#insert the sweating dude speedrun meme #<me forcing myself to not include romani reference lmaooo #fgo #ask #anon #sorry for mistakes i die early

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Sacred and Profane: Hunters in Darkness

I originally posted this essay about Hunters in Darkness on my Twitter but finding it again is probably a nightmare at this point. Fortunately tumblr is far better for archival purposes. So, disclaimer: the actual document is really long. Like. 5K words not counting the footnote jokes, making the whole thing like 11 pages long. Apologies. I have strong feelings about them and their direction in Werewolf 2e.

Point is I realized that posting the whole thing here would be a bit excessive, especially since there are a bunch of jokes requiring formatting and footnotes that would not transfer over well to tumblr.

Anyways! For that reason I'll put a little teaser here, the first section of the essay. If you like it, the full writeup is here! I even go into game design and how to better play a Hunter in Darkness a bit. :>

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What is sacred? It's a question most people can't answer without a tautology. It's difficult even for religious scholars to define. Trust me, I’m studying it. At least it's not "what is a cult" because that's even harder. Nevertheless, here's my best attempt.

The sacred is a series of actions, place, or object meant to connect those participating to a greater power. And we can't talk about the Hunters in Darkness without talking about the sacred and how it's interpreted in werewolf society. To the Uratha, the single greatest show of devotion is the hunt. And as the corebook says, a Hunter in Darkness is never truly off the hunt. The sacred is at the core of their culture and being. You don't join unless you have at least some reverence and awe at that which is greater than yourself.

There’s a couple reasons I’d argue this. Firstly, Purity is about following the Oath above all else. It’s an ancient code that doesn’t follow human morality and doesn’t necessarily let you do what’s right. It’s what you have to do because it’s part of the tradition. It’s what your role is as a child of Father Wolf and Mother Moon. And it means abandoning both your role as spirit-being and your role as human to be the greater sum of two halves.

It’s appropriate that the Tribal prey of the Hunters in Darkness is Hosts for this reason. Yeah, I know, we call spirits little gods of the Shadow. Not all of them are. Every Host is part of a god, though. Every time you fight a Host you’re trying, while knowing you’ll almost definitely fail, to finish what your Father couldn’t millenia ago and kill an actual no-shit god. This is a grudge that’s lasted since your own gods wandered the Earth, before humans could build cities, domesticate animals, or grow crops. You’re never going to solve it, but you keep fighting it because you have to. Of course it’s nonsensical. Of course you could take a harm reductionist standpoint and deal with what’s more practical. But you don’t, because that’s not what you should do, and that’s not what lets you connect to that higher power and greater history of being Uratha.

That’s being a Hunter in Darkness. That’s what a lot of other takes on the Tribe seem to skim over. As a side note I’m going to use the phrase “holy site” often, this isn’t necessarily a mus-rah but can be. The Tribal Oath implies you can have more than one holy place on your territory (or just in general) so I’m running with that.

Anyway. Let’s explore the concept of the sacred as a defining concept of the Hunters in Darkness, but first some diversions.

You want to be a Hunter in Darkness because...

You want to get in touch with your primal side and embrace not being human anymore

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a philosophy to live by

You feel deeply connected to the world around you and can acknowledge you’re just one part of a greater whole

You believe some things are sacred or divine, and you are determined to protect them

You don’t mind doing tactics some might find unsavory to do so, because...

Fighting fair is a human construct, and you embrace the fact you’re a wolf now

[CONTINUED HERE!]

#werewolf the forsaken #ttrpg #werewolves #hunters in darkness

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there is a sequence in disco elysium where you find a dead man in the docks, and you must go to tell his wife what happened to him. it's a standout impactful scene in a game full of brilliant writing; there is no joking, the many voices in your head are quiet - just you having to work out how to tell someone the worst thing they're ever going to hear. kim kitsuragi counsels you on the approach to take before you go in, and i never felt like the stakes were higher, and there was a serious sense of relief when i picked the 'right' dialogue options and played the role i needed to for that fictional woman.

it is so simple and yet, now I'm in this situation, it comes back to me.

we have cultural scripts around death and grief. in the past, when my friends have been hurting, i always feel like the things i say must seem like platitudes. things a robot could say. i tried to find a way to say something more substantial. but now i realise that these phrases - the I'm so sorry. the simple 'yeah.' the hug and heart emoji. the 'is there anything i can do' - are invocations of ritual. they need to be done. it's not the content itself but the act of expressing it.

i have been reading the Wikipedia article on grief. it might seem like a strange thing to do - to turn to a dry and rather meandering summary of scientific research on grief.

it's odd in a way - i feel like i need to show the world that I'm grieving properly - which is in a sense a way of saying that Fall was worth grieving. when i suddenly burst into sobs and someone says 'oh, honey...' and reaches out to touch me, there is some small part that observes this and says, good, I'm playing my role properly. my performance is convincing. which is crazy because like... there's as many ways to express grief as there are people. i would never think someone else is doing it 'wrong' somehow. someone who turned to black humour as a way to cope would be just as ~valid~ as me. and yet... i want the proper story to be observed. by doing this i cement that this really happened, and i cement what Fall meant to me.

one thing the scientists puzzle over is what exactly is the evolutionary function of grief. it seems maladaptive, to the evolutionary biologist. some reach for various kinds of signalling explanations. but the answer that makes emotional sense to me is that, you might as well ask what's the evolutionary function of blood spraying out when an artery is cut. this isn't proper functioning. a hole has been punched in the fabric of relationships - the 'trim'. everything falls into disequilibrium.

so why post through this? it's a work of magic I guess. I believe Fall was important, that she shouldn't just be forgotten by the world. so... i try to act like it. without really thinking about it, i make a show of the pain I'm in. i build an online memorial. i reach out to all the other people who are hurting and try to care for them and talk about her. if Fall's life continues to have an effect, if we carry her in the way we live now, then she's not truly gone.

there is another thing from Disco Elysium i keep thinking about. the working title of that game was No Truce With The Furies. for some reason, this phrase keeps coming into my head. it was written by the Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. Thomas was an Anglican priest and a nationalist, which predisposes me against him, but i feel like there is something truly powerful in that line. even though i don't understand what Thomas meant by it, i can feel a sense of heartbreak and defiance and determination to fight on. the furies suggest something supernatural and unknowable, beyond our power. to make truce with them would be to accept the limits of this existence and live less than fully, to close yourself off and become numb for the sake of avoiding pain. to make no truce is to continue to feel everything strongly, to accept the pain and still live passionately and furiously. that's what it means to me.

perhaps I'm simply projecting the atmosphere of Disco Elysium itself. regardless, this phrase has become something of a mantra. it pops into my head at random moments. (i imagine Fall would have had a way to build on it, some really fascinating cross cultural link.)

and this is what art is for, i guess. one of its purposes. if we can touch the truth of this things safely, in fiction, we have an anchor to hold onto when the horror reaches us in reality.

i don't really believe in afterlives. but i do believe in creating one through our words and deeds. the world would have it that Fall's body is the property of her parents, that her life is just a tragic statistic. reject it. we will remember her as she was, and she was brilliant. we will live on in the same way. no truce with the furies.

#memorial #suicide cw #introspective nightposting

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Frank, I have an important question. Something that has been on my mind for days, maybe even weeks. I feel like it's important I ask you, before it drives me crazy.

What is the meaning of "big yud"? So many things you post have this tag. Can you explain it's meaning?

Sure. Here's my understanding:

The term "big yud" was a neologism from Hussie when he was writing Homestuck originally. It was a sarcastic term for "Yudkowsky-style AI people who believe that AIs would have to be able to "consciously" create a human world, and that they would need to be more or less the same as a human in order to do so."

The "yud" was short for "you'd better be fucking joking" and the "big" was supposed to suggest "big-Yudkowsky-style AI people." (So the pun on "you'd better be fucking joking" is still there.)

That was the joke. It was a joke. A ridiculous, stupid, sarcastic joke.

Since people found the joke too much to bear, "big yud" later became a popular tumblr tag for sarcastic remarks made in a "you'd better be fucking joking" sort of way. In that respect it has a certain amount of charm, which, ironically, Hussie felt was missing from the original term.

But it was always supposed to be a joke.

I used it in part because I like puns and play on words ("I'm not going to be the one to tell you you're wrong") and in part because it gave me a useful phrase that I could say whenever I had something "Hussie-ish" or self-referential in a sentence or two (e.g. I once wrote "the real Homestuck will never truly begin until the end of the Homestuck") without having to justify it with some sort of weird, "subconscious/unconscious" excuse like "well, I think... "

Of course I'm not going to give a detailed definition of "yudkowsky" (since I doubt he'd be happy with that), but if you mean this as in "people who really are like Yudkowsky, in a way that you know to be wrong but think is right, or who are acting in a way that can be mistaken for a kind of "Yudkowsky-style" writing," then sure, that's "big yud" and that's what I'm using it for, just as it's what it was originally for.

It's sort of a "meme of a meme," if you think about it.

#toothsome-coyote #homestalgebra

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this is a weird question but i genuinely don't know where to go with this because i'm trying to convert, but i have absolutely no one in my life who is even remotely christian, and my own family follows a different religion. but are there any resources on how forgiveness works and what it is? one of the things that confuse me the most is the entire penance/confession/forgiveness part.

for example, is anything forgiven? the topic of abortion comes up a lot lately and i think it's a good example of what i'm confused on. i've seen bloggers on this website calling women who've had abortions bad names, or implying they should all die, or saying they should go to jail for it. but then when it comes to other crimes these same men act like "forgiveness is possible". it's confusing because i've seen jokes about how these women should keep their legs closed, coming directly from men who admit they had sex outside of marriage, and before they "found their faith again". it feels like a large part of the community is torn on how to handle sins that come from women, and only fine with sins that come from men?

Firstly, anything can be forgiven. God's mercy is limitless. I know people who have gotten an abortion and have been forgiven for it. Even the "unforgivable sin" (suicide) is only given that name because the people who do it don't have the time to confess it before they die, not because it's so bad that God refuses them. Many Catholics believe that God reaches those who commit suicide after their deaths and that they are in heaven anyway, and others believe that it can't truly be a mortal sin if someone suffers with mental illness. Long story short, we don't believe anything is unforgivable, and I hope knowing this gives you peace.

Onto the rest of the message: You'll see lots of stuff on tumblr. I will say, it is particularly grating to me to see people doing exactly what you just said. So much hatred for women even wearing immodest clothing, but then you find out these men have had sex before marriage. And unfortuately, it's not just online. Still grating over the fact that I was dresscoded for a loose dress with a high neck because it went TO the knee instead of below it... by someone who definitely had sex before he was married.

I also know that it's grating for men to see "kill men with pornography addictions" when most of them were exposed without their consent, and it's an addictive substance. We extend so much compassion to drug addicts (and the drug trafficking industry directly harms women and children too) but for some reason we cannot extend this to men who watch porn.

What I would say to conclude from all of this is that roughly 1/2 of the people making these kinds of comments are acting in good faith, and the rest are in bad faith. And you can usually tell the difference based on their tone. If someone is telling you to hold off on sexual behavior or dress modestly in a kind way even if they have done otherwise, it is likely because their past choices hurt them. In other words, they are trying to warn you. If someone is using crass phrases like "keep their legs closed" or "pornhead behavior", they probably don't care about your spiritual wellbeing and it's best to ignore them

These kinds of posts gain notes and reblogs on this site because they're inflammatory. The best way you can stop this kind of culture is by boosting compassionate posts that talk about morals in a way that are achievable for others and understanding when people fall short. I know I try to pick and choose which anti-pornography and modesty posts I reblog for this reason.

#answer

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damn go crazy thank you so much abby. this got long so

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

cop out answer but 1. my mom and my sister but like truly I do not think I would be anywhere near the person I am today without them. and when I had nobody (often) I always had them god bless 2. pinterest. just everything about it. it inspired me to join tumblr. It shaped my humor. it taught me to cook. it kept me busy. it raised me more than my father. no joke. 3. I didn’t want to have another person answer but my oldest and dearest friend [readcted] she’s like a year and a half older than me and we grew up three houses down from one another and hung out all the time and I cannot recall a time in my life when I didn’t look up to her. she was always such an inspiration to be the most confident and real version of myself. I don’t see her as much anymore bc college but to this day when I’m worried I said something horrible I always ask myself “what would [redacted] think if she heard I said that?” And it’s not even like I’m putting her up on a pedestal she really is just one of the most amazing human beings I’ve ever met in my life

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

HUSTLERS 2019 ocean’s 8 and the goonies

what made you start your blog?

I was really into skam and pinterest wasn’t cutting it anymore so I started lurking then actually liking posts then reblogging then posting and. here we are.

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

best part is all the people I’ve met and the friends I’ve made I love you all so sincerely sometimes it feels as if my heart could explode. worst is having to block twenty million tags and phrases to avoid t*ylor sw*ft and h*rry styles. and having to see the most abysmal takes known to man from my own MUTAULS no less. love y’all regardless it’s okay when you do it

what scares you the most and why?

well. first of all getting shots because holy shit keep needles out of my body. and a more philosophical answer is being a bad person without even realizing it

would you say you’re an emotional person?

oh my god yeah. I used to consider myself a logical person in like middle school and I look back at that and I’m like what the hell were you talking about. I make every decision with my heart and honestly like half the time I feel like my emotions are so big they could explode out of my body. lol.

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

aliens yes absolutely. they’re out there and they’re so real. they are the teeniest tiniest bacteria ever and little green men and beings as big as the moon i truly to believe that. ghosts? no unless I get literally thrown across a room.

what do you do when you’re sad?

take a shower listening to my silly little music. never fails. also helps to put on a fancy dress. idk.

any pet peeves?

girl where do I even start. obviously slow walkers I’m a fast bitch. chewing with your mouth open. pronouncing frustrating as “fustrating” men speaking in philosophy class. people looking at my phone over my shoulder. people not using their sleeves to open doors (this one is actually ridiculous but you don’t know who touched that fucking door handle what is wrong with you). saying jokes I literally saw online and claiming them as your own who do you think you’re fooling. off pitch singing just do not fucking sing #chiorkid. coughing into your hand like I bet you went and touched a door handle afterwards huh. when people pull out their phone (without a reason) when you’re in the middle of talking to them like okay. condescension. I could go on but I’ll stop.

hopefully I didn’t take any and this took a lot of time so sorry but I had fun so thank you again!!!

#mwah mwah mwah #abby💌

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supernatural sees women as a tool for development and strengthening of narratives/motivation and dean sees his body as a tool. is that anything?

When I saw this ask I really made the 🥴in real life. So, yeah anon, I do think there’s something to this.

Quick Disclaimer before I actually launch into my thoughts™: A lot of my read of Dean stems from my experience as both an oldest daughter and a transman. Being the oldest daughter was an experience I lived for many years, but I am also a man. I wasn’t raised as a man, I wasn’t socialized as a man, and even though once I came out upon reflection my masculinity was obviously there. Like I was a man™ before I knew I was a man. Even when I actively tied my identity to femininity for a long time! A lot of my prideful moments were based around statements like: “I was the only girl who (fill in the blank).”

So I am just putting that out there before I launch into my spiel about Dean/Gender/Tool because they all interlock for me.

I am also going to apologize in advance because I know this has fully gone off the rails and I’m not even done writing it yet. If this is incomprehensible ! Well, happens to the best of us.

First off, most importantly I guess before we discuss womanhood and Dean and the way both are utilized on the show I need to say that I personally don’t subscribe the whole Dean is female coded thing.

It’s a read I can absolutely understand. But for me..he’s not.

He’s a hypermasculine man to the point that when (and because he is written as a punchline, as the stupid™ brother, as the whore™, as the mother/father™, as daddy’s blunt instrument™, etc) Dean deviates from the pre-accepted definition of hypermasculine it’s Wrong.

It’s Instantly Feminine.

I think the internet has made the world very black and white, or blue and pink maybe. This point, I think, colors a lot of these discussions. Dean cooks, he cleans and so therefor he’s female coded. When that really just feeds back into the whole toxic masculinity loop. You can’t be masculine and cook and clean and cry. That’s for feminine people only.

I get the argument! I do, I just think that Dean’s actions are not inherently feminine, it’s just in the vacuum of Female and in the Absence of Traditional Masculinity it makes sense to assign him female coded and move on.

IN FACT the way that Dean is the action hero of the show, the Masculine™ one on the show - but he cries, and he rages, and he cooks (Again and Again) and cleans (Again and Again). The fact he’s macho and confident but he has so little self esteem. Is frankly insane to me. You have this blaze of glory character who is so depressed that they have him kill himself. Twice. In explicitly “I hate myself, I hate hearing all the things I hate about myself, I want to destroy myself” ways.

On just a regular ol’ network show that is just ungodly bad at times. They let their Male Hero cry - all the time (if I linked every example of this the essay would be...longer than it already is, but just take my word for it). Dean tears up and grieves and shows more than just Angry Horny Violent™ (he shows plenty of that, don’t get me wrong) but he’s Emotional (Again and Again and Again). In many different ways!

I mean, beyond even just tearing up, they make their Male Hero™ face sexual violence in pretty, uniquely horrifying - and queer! - ways.

Let’s make it clear, they did a lot of this unintentionally.

Or they do it as a joke.

Off of dean for a moment to say women are plot devices in this show. I could probably count on one hand female characters who have sincere depth to them that have roles outside of progressing plot, filling a filler episode, and who are still alive. Like even characters such as Charlie who are wholly developed, and interesting, are only remembered/mentioned/utilized to progress plots or fill an episode out - and then she dies. For pain™ for plot™ for no other reason than to traumatize a character.

Which let’s also make it clear Dean’s trauma is also only used as a plot device (as is Sam’s but in a different way, and Cas’ trauma is a whole other barrel of fish we’re not gonna dive into right now). Like wholesale full stop they don’t actually care about what happened to him. Unless it’s relevant in an episode.

Oh that boys home he was left at when he was 16 for months? Sure we’ll sprinkle that in in the back half of the series. Oh he was covered in bruises and said it was from a hunt (when it’s clear contextually they were from his father but saying the fantastical but true is easier than saying the uncomfortable but true). As Dean says though the story became the story, he was sixteen. He just went along with what John said.

We only see Dean ever truly rage at John, by the way, when either Dean is dead (when he’s between life and death and he rages at John, right before John “apologizes” for traumatizing him, for putting too much on Dean’s shoulders, and fucking dying) or John is dead (the Djinn episode where Dean is straight™ and John is dead™ and he goes to his grave and just yells and rages like he should have to his father in the real world).

Dean’s trauma from being both tortured and torturer in hell? Yeah, we don’t talk about that after it’s Relevant™. Even though it’s clear - especially in the demon!dean, mark of cain era, all those years later - Alastair still has his hooks inside of Dean. I stopped watching originally after s8 ended. I was fed up with the show, and with this whole renaissance I’ve been doing a rewatch and I’m into season twelve now and it really has never come up again.

Even when he had the mark of cain and he was tasked with questioning and accused of torturing it was “the mark has changed you” and not “you were victim and victimizer in hell for forty years, which is longer than you’ve been alive on earth” (and, was about as long as he wound up living. Which is desperately sad.

Because we talk about Sam’s desire for a “normal” life but, Dean wanted out too. He was tired in the first few seasons of this show, he never had a chance to taste freedom (we don’t count the boys home, because that was a different kind of regimented life, and it was a false freedom) the way that Sam did in Flagstaff with Bones or at Stanford with Jessica. Love for Dean is sacrificing, it’s putting himself/his happiness/his well-being last.

Because Dean only knows love in the context of violence (like all of these fun examples, for starters) is a phrase that I’ve said a lot both in private chats and on here, and I absolutely think it goes to him being a tool (a blunt instrument, a plot device, so both textually and metatextually) instead of a person. Which Cas sees Dean’s shame/guilt and sees that side of Dean because he touched his soul, and saw more than just the Righteous™ man, more than just the tool, he saw A good man, not a machine.

On the other side though you have how “bad guys” view Dean: Desperate, Sloppy, Needy, Dean’s hole (Again), which is again so wildly counterintuitive to the story of a Macho Man Hero™. You’re using vocabulary that is both queering him and feminizing (and I know this a meme format, but sincerely it is done in a derogatory way it is feminizing. It’s breaking him down to bare parts, to a sloppy hole).

My whole rewatch I have been absolutely fascinated by how identity and free will is utilized/conceptualized on this show. Castiel has been my main focus, but Dean and how he is framed by himself and others is...fascinating - and frustrating. The writers inconsistency lends itself not only to this unintentionally queer character, but also one that again is incredibly easily read as a non-traditionally masculine character.

As a feminine character.

This show has so few female characters that of course it had to foist the roles/behaviors/plots that a female character might have onto a male character. Which I think is part of why reading Dean as trans (either transmasc, or transfemme) is so easily done like.

Half of these are shit posts, but you can find trans allegories/textual evidence in this show again, again, again, again, and again. And this is unintentional, they don’t want you to look at Dean and see woman, former future or present. Like a lot of these I’m sure are punchlines for them, because women/queer folk are punchlines to them.

Sometimes the only women in an episode are random witnesses who get two sentences of dialogue, and then the main guest character is a man. Who flirts with Dean, and Dean is receptive to it.

They paint themselves into a corner, there are female Rabbi. So easily could Aaron have been a woman instead of a man, but they made the choice to play up the HaHa Dean & Men card.

Because, again, Dean has filled the slot of Woman™ of Female Lead™ and the flirting would’ve been straight if Dean was a woman. It’s a plot device, they needed to have the guest character be disarming, be cute, make the main character flustered.

It’s just the main character is a man, because they’re allergic to women. But they still need those female plots, tools of femininity, to move their show forward. I mean I am a big subscriber to transmasc Jo (no idea if anyone else is with me on this one, but let me explain). Jo is in love with Dean (concept) not Dean (actuality). Which, we’ve all had our eggs cracked by someone like that. We were in love with them until we realized we just wanted to be them.

He loved her like a little sister, she loved him like a lost idol. He’s a golden calf and she dies for him, because she believed in him, she was the original character dashed at the altar of the Winchesters.

I fully believe if she had lived and if this show had a crumb of actual good writing Jo could have been a deeply compelling transmasc character. But I also think she’s a fascinating inversion of Dean. Dean is a Masculine Character who subverts Toxic Masculinity, Jo is a Tomboy™ she’s not your (if you take it straight, literally and metaphorically) average female love interest. She’s angry, she’s not soft at all, all edges and corners and thorns. She isn’t helpless, she’s stubborn but not in a “you’re going to get punished for this” way. She’s right when she’s stubborn. She’s helpful, she’s a martyr.

I could do a whole other essay just on Jo (and Ellen, and Ash, what a fucking trio!) but needless to say Jo was one of the first...plot device feminine tools sacrificed to this show. She was a regular, she was unique, she was an engaging character, and she still died (to progress the plot? no. for man pain? yeah, for like three episodes maybe, and then it’s forgotten just like the rest of Dean’s trauma, as we mentioned above).

Dean and Women and Love is a very interesting tool used too because. Boy they sure try to make Dean love women and it fails in small ways, and in big, meaningless, failed het domesticity (again) ways. Not to mention whatever Lust (in the form of a woman) having no effect upon him, when they could have used that moment to assert his Masculinity and Heterosexuality. He behaved normally? And...also...whatever the fuck the Adios thing was!

Like they have these opportunities to make him Traditionally (toxically) Masculine, but make the choice to...not? To soften him. Because it’s a tool. He’s their female lead, textually he had to take on the role of mother(/father) to Sam, but...I mean this is a million miles long already. I know, but we absolutely can’t not talk about his Paternal/Maternal behaviors. (Which appear again and again again and again, outside of his relationship with Sam even/especially). He’s the mother hen, sage, safety net, beacon, home to so many side characters they meet.

I mean in many ways Jody is also a Dean comparison. Lost her family. Found a new family. She is non-traditionally feminine, but easily flustered and Silly™ (let’s just drop the entire sex talk over family dinner scene with Alex and the boys and looking to them for help, even though she was already a mother, and she’s a cop, and a hunter and this confident no nonsense individual.... She’s not). We are meant to see her as this hard ass, but she makes extra food for the boys to take back to the bunker. She’s deadly in a fight, but also still easily overwhelmed and put into damsel mode, and she cares so much even in the face of adversity.

It’s also fun to see how Jo | Jody are reflections of Dean at different points of his life. Younger, cocky | Older, settled.

Even when the text tries to tell us that he’s not.

When it reminds us that he’s violent. That he is his father, even if he says that Sam is more like John (which was reflexive, which was angry because of Adam and how Sam was behaving like Dean in that episode, and yes there are parallels to be drawn between Sam and John, the show barely dives into them). Instead we’re told that Dean is John (Again and Again and Again and Again).

So intensely that a fanfictionalized version of the Winchester Gospels makes it an entire fucking musical number.

And yet, despite the texts insistence to make Dean Macho Man Father Reborn™ We get this Dean who is silly (and directly compared/contrasted to the female character in this scene), soft, in heels, nagging, and... Sully (you know Sam’s imaginary friend who has the same Haircut Dean has, who is a softer, shorter, friendlier, campier, version of Dean who was a replacement For Dean until the real one let Sam back in? That? Sully?) it’s hard to take them seriously.

Hell, even when he was A DEMON? What did they do? They had him sing off-key drunken karaoke, they had him doing this ! Like that’s your hero, unhinged, free to be as bad as he could be, and you put him in a cowboy hat in a romance with the king of hell.

The Female Lead, everyone. Who’s biggest betrayal(s) comes at the hands of his love interest (again, a man even though it was an angel who could’ve taken any vessel! who could’ve been recast, who canonically dies admitting his love to Dean - that one), who he tries so hard to be loyal to.

The contradictions of his character are laughable. He is so emotional, but if he is engaged about his emotions? He shuts down, or he’s exasperated about being asked about them. It really is Female Lead/Only Here For The Plot disease, because everything is more important than him. How’s he doing? Doesn’t matter outside of the context of how x character is doing or that y character is dead. Or his emotions only matter if they’re done in penance.

They also really do frame him as Pretty Boy™ in a violent way, or in a derogatory manner. They’ll give us homoerotic shots like this or these and never really acknowledge how these are gay shots. Sorry the gun scene is a a straight up sex scene, the beer sip spilling out over his mouth is oral, the scene where Cas fills up Dean’s glass with whisky is also a sex scene, they do this shit on purpose but accidentally queer it up. If Dean was a woman these scenes wouldn’t even matter. They’d be passing moments, but because he is not just a man but A Man™ they’re insane to see.

Not to mention all of these scenes and all the ones I haven’t linked where Dean dresses up. He performs masculinity, but he performs femininity too. He’s a plot device that is slotted in to whatever role they need. He’s Super Straight Butch Man™ but coaches the lesbian on how to successfully flirt with a man. He’s Action Hero™ who sits through a montage with the same lesbian and yays and nays her outfits, and enjoys himself.

Fuck he loves dressing up, he feels better in these costumes because performing a character is easier than being himself. Because who is Dean? He’s a tool, both textually and metatextually. It is exactly how the women and because of the women on the show that Dean is the way that he is. If there was a more steady female presence Dean would not be half as much of a plot device or half as camp/gay/feminine/non-traditionally masculine/queer coded as he is.

In conclusion....

#dean winchester #supernatural #spn meta #spn #gender #anon #replies #messages #my writing #ANYWAYS PHEW okay anon i don't know if i even fully got to your point but i woke up at like 3:30 to this ask and i've been fixated on it #HOPE THIS IS EVEN JUST a little bit coherent #the way i meant for this to talk so much more about transness and eldest daughter syndrome and just FORGOT #oops #oh well

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