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yeah, no. i really can’t get comfortable with the idea of legitimately acting like gertrude was actually some sincere surrogate mother figure to gerry in any way considering she wound up doing things in all but exact same vein that mary keay did: treating his suffering like a tool and neglecting to get him help in any way when she watched him start to deteriorate. wringing him for use like halved fruit over a glass that isn’t quite full and never will be, now, because well, i guess that’s all that was left in him. shame.

jon comments in MAG 107 as he’s relaying into the tape recorder that the two of them masqueraded around as mother and son as a cover and he has to recoil a bit in discomfort because he gets the idea that gertrude took a perverse joy from the pretense. like… it’s uncomfortable. it’s bad. it’s not actually this cute, funny thing? it’s not found family, it’s not the type of thing that we ought to romanticize as being such. as an outsider it’s nice to imagine gerry having a surrogate mother figure in his life that treated him better, i guess, but gertrude is not that person.

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late seasons supernatural makes sam so intensely traumatised and then shrugs and wipes their hands of him and refuses to give him any other storylines. his entire season nine arc if it can even be called that is just Sam gets violated again! and meanwhile eighty percent of the fandom watch and go God Sam is so fucking boring

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

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this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.

its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.

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this one goes out to all you sickos on tumblr at 10 am on a monday

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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

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this always comes to my mind

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Great news everyone. There was a kitten wandering in the drive thru at work and my inner warrior cats kid tried to be a hero and capture him.

I have now suffered multiple puncture wounds and have to go to the emergency room.

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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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WINCHESTER FAMILY GENETICS (or, perfect casting is perfect)

EYE COLOR: Both sons have color-shifting hazel eyes from John, tending toward green for both.

EYE SHAPE:  Sam’s eyes are narrower (“hooded”) from his father.  Dean’s eyes are larger and almond-shaped from his mother.  Even the lash line is similar.

NOSE: Sam has his father’s nose, even the nostrils are the same.  While Dean has his mother’s nose shape, the structure of his nose (in profile) is closer to his father’s.

CHIN: Clefted, both sons from their father.

HAIR: Imagine John’s hair without any product in it, with some length on it, and you’d probably have “Sam” hair on both.  While Dean isn’t currently blond like his mother, he was portrayed as having dirty blond hair at age 4 in the pilot.  And not just that, but toddler Dean had longer hair that appeared to be the same texture as his mother’s.  By the time we see young Dean in flashbacks again, at age 10, his hair had gone darker, but he’s still fair-haired like his mother.  

JAWLINE: Sam actually has his mother’s jawline, whereas Dean is square-jawed like his father.  Dean’s over all face structure is, in fact, very similar to his father’s.

BROW RIDGE:  Sam’s pronounced brow ridge (Gabriel described it as “Cro-Magnon”) is from his father, while Dean’s lack thereof is from his mother.  Sam’s is more pronounced than his father’s, which could be hand-waved as the demon blood making him “big and strong.”

CHEEKBONES: Sam has his mother’s wide cheekbones, while Dean’s high cheekbones are obviously from his father.

FOREHEAD:  Sam has John’s higher forehead, while Dean’s lower forehead appears to be from his mother.

LIP DIVOT (I know there’s a more accurate name for it, but I can’t think of it): Both sons from John.

LIPLINE: Sam has John’s wide, slightly thin-lipped mouth while Dean directly inherited his mother’s full mouth and the more pronounced bow of the upper lip.

COMPLEXION: Sam has his father’s darker complexion, while Dean is fair-skinned like his mother.  Though the make-up staff would have you believe, from season 5 onward, that he’s naturally tan at all times.  Don’t get me started.

Unexplained:

HEIGHT/BODY DIFFERENCES: Dean is within the height spectrum if you consider Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s height, but he’s slightly taller than Matt Cohen.  Sam’s height could’ve been due to the demon blood fortifying him as well, though the show has never mentioned it.  (It certainly didn’t give Ava or Andy that kind of boost.)  Would it kill them to have someone say, “You’re gigantic like John’s dad” or something?

DEAN’S FRECKLES: This could be dismissed as a lack of thorough makeup coverage were in not for the fact that the actor chosen to play Dean at age 10 had them (Ridge Canipe), and it seemed that this was an intentional choice for casting (i.e., the flashback morphing Jensen’s face into Ridge’s).  Neither parent has them.  Freckles can fade over time (it’s believable that Dean was more freckled when he was younger than now), but since Dean (like Jensen) is in his early 30s and still has at least a few, they must be from elsewhere in the genetic line.

The differences/similarities between the two boys and their father as portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan would need to take up its own post.  The issue is that the John Winchester shown in 1978 (Matt Cohen) is nowhere near to being as rough and dangerous looking as the John Winchester we see in 1983 (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).  Keep in mind that Jeffrey Dean Morgan, at his actual age, would’ve been Dean’s 12-year old father, and some hair and make-up magic had to happen to make his character appear old enough to play the boys’ father in the present timeline.

On that note, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a young man looked a hell of a lot like Jensen.

So there you go: Brothers, after all.  No mailman involved.  This has always led me to interesting theories involving John superimposing hopes onto Sam because Sam resembles him, and certain other hopes onto Dean (who resembles his mother).  Not to mention the reason that Dean has “delicate features for a hunter.”  Delicate features for anyone, really.  ;-)

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Good Traits Gone Bad

Exploring good traits gone bad in a novel can add depth and complexity to your characters. Here are a few examples of good traits that can take a negative turn:

1. Empathy turning into manipulation: A character with a strong sense of empathy may use it to manipulate others' emotions and gain an advantage.

2. Confidence becoming arrogance: Excessive confidence can lead to arrogance, where a character belittles others and dismisses their opinions.

3. Ambition turning into obsession: A character's ambition can transform into an unhealthy obsession, causing them to prioritize success at any cost, including sacrificing relationships and moral values.

4. Loyalty becoming blind devotion: Initially loyal, a character may become blindly devoted to a cause or person, disregarding their own well-being and critical thinking.

5. Courage turning into recklessness: A character's courage can morph into reckless behavior, endangering themselves and others due to an overestimation of their abilities.

6. Determination becoming stubbornness: Excessive determination can lead to stubbornness, where a character refuses to consider alternative perspectives or change their course of action, even when it's detrimental.

7. Optimism becoming naivety: Unwavering optimism can transform into naivety, causing a character to overlook dangers or be easily deceived.

8. Protectiveness turning into possessiveness: A character's protective nature can evolve into possessiveness, where they become overly controlling and jealous in relationships.

9. Altruism becoming self-neglect: A character's selflessness may lead to neglecting their own needs and well-being, to the point of self-sacrifice and burnout.

10. Honesty becoming brutal bluntness: A character's commitment to honesty can turn into brutal bluntness, hurting others with harsh and tactless remarks.

These examples demonstrate how even admirable traits can have negative consequences when taken to extremes or used improperly. By exploring the complexities of these traits, you can create compelling and multi-dimensional characters in your novel.

Happy writing!

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the inflection is exactly the same. I have been thinking about this for an hour. was this on purpose or is this just how people are naturally compelled to say these words in this order (via @biderverse on X/Twitter)