#< i guess? i don't know what the best thing to tag this as is

[halipula-aika]

Okay I will allow myself one (1) Eurovision post this year because I went to the tags and it seems like some of you don't understand how this thing works.

"why did Israel win the televote / why did Israel almost win / Israel bought votes / this whole thing is rigged" friends and acquaintances. Fellow tumblrinas. If you start boycotting a thing, guess who the people not boycotting are? That's right, the people supporting the thing.

The fact that people who don't support Israel aren't voting these past two years means the only people left to vote are the ones who support Israel. And that means Israel is going to sweep the televote. This is what happens when you remove one demographic (palestine supporters) from the equation entirely.

(Also, a lot of people do just genuinely support Israel across Europe, tumblr is not a good representation of your average Eurovision viewer)

"The juries are rigged" yeah probably. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm fairly certain the reason Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France swept the jury vote is because juries want a country that could realistically host next year. The fact of the matter is that this and last year Eurovision has been a way bigger security concern, and letting a more politically unstable state host wouldn't work. I don't think there's any cross-country conspiracy here, but I believe individual juries consider who they'd like to host next year.

"Okay but wtf was up with the rest of the jury" neighbourly love. This happens every year. There were no major knockout performances this year, so the juries (and televote! Israel is an outlier!) are divided. This is natural and normal. I can't explain the UK and Denmark to you those points made no sense. I want to be mad about Switzerland but unfortunately I think getting bronze from the jury vote and getting ZERO POINTS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 in televote is the best thing that happened in this year's Eurovision.

Tl;dr: nothing about this year's Eurovision was surprising and I don't know what you expected

[lightandfellowship]

Tags by user masteraqua:

#definitely agree about nomura. for better or worse he does not let things go #the main difference between this and dark road is that dark road was dirt cheap to produce #anything that happens with missing link won't be and that may affect the options he has at his disposal going forward #that's why i think the likeliest outcome isn't a game or a movie but a novel #because that doesn't require dev resources #but maybe square will surprise me!

Oh yeah, absolutely. KHDR being so cheaply made was both a blessing and a curse I suppose, because had it not already been, essentially, a lower-budget KHUX asset flip made by a smaller team, I imagine Square wouldn't have even bothered letting Nomura and the devs finish it at all. (And props again to those two animators, Mayu Shimizu and Megumi Yamamoto I believe, tasked with animating the entire thing and doing an excellent job at that, geeze.)

And like, maybe it's just because not enough people actually downloaded the app/played the game to justify supporting it any longer, but the fact that the finished game was only allowed to exist on app stores for like 2 years before Square silently delisted it with no indication of whether or not the game or its cutscenes would ever again be available to fans in any official capacity speaks volumes about Square's opinion on it as a "product", I think; it was turned into an (admittedly, in my opinion, rather subpar gameplay-wise) offline single-player game and yet it still got killed anyway. Like yeah maybe Square really didn't intend to finish it at all and only let Nomura and his team do so as a temporary concession to them and the fans.

Then again, it wasn't just KHDR that got delisted, offline KHUX was delisted too since they're the same app, and letting those cutscenes effectively disappear while relying on fans to archive it all seems downright silly considering how important they are to the next saga, so idk what the heck they have planned there, if anything. But considering the "soft reset/reboot" angle of KH4 and the new saga, I'm growing increasingly concerned that Square doesn't terribly care about making UX or DR's cutscenes officially accessible to new and old fans, which, damn, guys.

And yeah, I agree, a novel would probably be the cheapest option. I just don't know if Square's stance will end up being "it's a waste of time/effort/money to let these assets we made go unused and we can maybe make our money back + turn a profit by reworking the game and/or cutscenes into something else" or "reworking it will be too difficult/expensive of an endeavor if we can't guarantee we'll make our money back + turn a profit, best to just forget about the whole thing and cut our losses now."

Of course, they could always end up re-using some of the assets in like KH4 or something I guess (assuming the assets are compatibile or can be made compatibile with the game), in which case they wouldn't have to throw any more money at a KHML project while still utilizing some of what they've already made. Though personally I'd much prefer an option that allows us to experience all or most of KHML's intended main story without having to flatten or shorten it significantly (whatever that option may be that would allow such a thing)...but that might be wishful thinking.

People pointing out that it's not just the cancelled/reworked project Versus XIII that Nomura found a way to revive in a new form (KH4/Verum Rex) but also the secret-ending-teased Birth By Sleep Volume 2 (0.2) gives me hope that Nomura isn't going to be willing to let KHML go, at least not completely.

And I adored 0.2, even if it was no doubt shorter than whatever BBS Volume 2 was going to be.

Like, I know it's only two examples, but to me? Pattern basically established. The man finds a way.

I don't expect to hear from him directly for a while, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if the next time he gives a statement or an interview, he (vaguely) talks about his intentions/hopes for KHML's future.

[raayllum]

gonna keep this 'brief' for once in my life:

blanket statement i think it's crappy to publicly post private DMs clearly sent to you in confidence In General. this is true no matter the person or situation! i think it's deeply shameful that anyone would think that having personal DMs publicly shared is remotely okay, let alone something to be supported or sympathized with and not like, a huge violation of trust, privacy, and feelings of personal safety. even if i hadn't broken away from OP for other reasons, this alone would've been enough to make me go wtf is wrong with you and, provided they couldn't be convinced to treat the other party like a human being deserving basic respect, block them flat out. it's absolutely abysmal behaviour towards anyone, but but especially private DMs of someone having a breakdown and being so overwhelmed they couldn't stop shaking (both things you were explicitly told after the fact but well before posting). that's not to say everything was expressed perfectly, but i think we can all agree that having a breakdown does, generally, impact your ability to communicate.

with that out of the way, more under the cut bc i also don't put my weird fucking personal bullshit in the main tags

moreover, shaming people with a social communication disorder asking for social communication accommodations (i.e. can you tell me what i did wrong with specific examples so i can have a model to base future interactions off of in terms of doing better, esp since when i've guessed/tried on my own in the past i've gotten it wrong? something i've often been too scared to do with people bc i don't know them well, and asked you bc even if i no longer self safe with you, i thought i owed it to you to try) you then refused to do and said i was using my autism as an excuse (which partially triggered the breakdown in the first place because then i couldn't explain, ask for help, or advocate for myself in any meaningful way) is also not great. especially when what happened is pretty goddamn textbook autism vs everyone else communication in the first place.

assuming that every time someone blogs about a relationship on their own tumblr blog after blocking you everywhere is vagueblogging is also like... weird to assume you're the only relationship i have in my life that could be in conflict (another friend recently had some conflict, so i was commiserating) and also weird to circumvent and step over a block boundary on a routine basis to begin with bc we've definitely never had a troll do that to harass us on a regular basis, no sir. i came This Close to not seeing the post at all bc i've insulated myself so well and don't have people running to tell me the second someone maybe breathes wrong in my direction, and i honestly feel bad you've spent a Lot more time thinking about me than i have you. or that when calling ppl stupid you've also told them to shoot themselves in the foot but sure. it was silly to feel like your behaviour was contradictory and confusing and to ask for clarification, or to assume you'd leave me and my blogs the fuck alone after i'd made it clear i wanted nothing to do with you; i honestly wish you'd done the same, i can't imagine anyone going into the fandom tags wanted to see any of our shared crap.

last but not least: i think it's slightly bananas to look at someone who left a space because they realized they weren't a good fit for it because their best efforts weren't good enough at keeping things smooth, which was entirely on me, and then a relationship, where it wasn't entirely, bc they realized you really struggled with communicating things in a mature manner (ie. ghosting my partner who was also friends with you despite them not being involved at all and without a word because you just Assumed we were shit talking you, i guess, when in reality i was asking them for advice about how to apologize and they had to point out to me you were being mean because i was still taking everything in good faith) and figured out that whatever i did you wouldn't take it well so it was better to cut my losses and block (after days/weeks of agonizing over what, if anything, to say to you that wouldn't possibly make things worse)... only for you to then not take any of it well and do This?

This, from nicely saying i needed more space from you (only telling you so you wouldn't think i was ignoring you bc that would be cruel out of nowhere to just not respond to messages at all), and then you took it poorly (the way you apparently take everything) and then when i apologized/clarified that it was to work on myself and not an ask of you in any way, you were still aggressive if not downright cruel. even Before doing this, which is really the cherry on top.

if i had a nickel for everyone time someone 1) lost their shit about me blocking them, 2) routinely checked my blog or had had someone keep tabs on me on a regular basis for them (bc that's not creepy or invasive at all) even on my non tdp related blogs, 3) posted a callout post while not actually naming me but making it exceedingly evident that it was about me and 4) publicly aired personal dirty laundry in all the main tags so hard 5) that you couldn't have played the victim more, i'd have two nickels. this is a playbook i have seen before from someone who in some ways did far worse to me (it was an emotionally abusive relationship) and far less in comparison, but it's the same playbook of someone who cannot and does not respect boundaries & cannot handle feeling any negative emotion without lashing out for... what? the last laugh? to make someone a pariah or to punish? i can't imagine being that cruel. i can't imagine being that petty and disregarding another person as a person so deeply. after all, i withheld sending any messages because with each one i drafted, i asked myself it was to help or to hurt, and realized if i couldn't do the former, i shouldn't be sending anything at all.

it's safe to say that not sending more messages was the right decision made to protect myself from accidentally giving you more ammo. in some ways i'm admittedly relieved bc this exact sort of thing was something i was anxious about for weeks, but was entirely keeping to myself bc it was 1) nobody else's business and 2) wanted to believe OP better than that as someone i once loved and trusted; surely, they'd be a mature reasonable adult and while we'd both wounded each other, they wouldn't twist the knife; i certainly wouldn't. in many ways, though, this was even worse than whatever nightmare scenario i'd come up with. i've never had my privacy so directly violated, and i wouldn't wish it on anyone. i still wish i'd been wrong about my inclinations when i stepped away after facing repeated aggression no matter how much i apologized or betrayed myself till i couldn't anymore, and had a select few loved ones reaffirm to me that you were never going to see that maybe you'd made some, even one, mistake along the way, like sitting on your resentment i was unaware of till it reached a boiling point. clearly, they were right.

that said, i hope publicly humiliating someone and violating the trust and privacy of another human being, a friend who trusted you, who never would have done this to you, got you whatever you needed. at least one of us should get something productive out of this, and for me it was shreds of certainty that you've chosen to behave exactly as awfully and pettily as i feared, and honestly that's really unfortunate. you were/are really talented. i'm sure, despite our history, you can be an amazing friend to others. i'm sure you can incredibly understanding and kind; you just chose to be cruel and defensive instead, and i hope you never burn a bridge you regret being unable to repair

cause fuck, while i am far from perfect and am the first to admit i've made plenty of mistakes i have sometimes been unable to adequately atone for (i'm sure plenty of people will rightfully unfollow and/or block me and they absolutely should — whether they find me unsavoury, annoying, condescending, or anything else i've had thrown at me — in order to make their internet experience a better, more positive place) i sure as hell have never done and will never do you've done to me, and i can find a solid ground in that if nothing else.

[supernatural-recs]

Disclaimer: This is a library of fanfics. They belong to their respective owner (tagged next to the fic name).

Fics not under the 18+ header are still likely to contain 18+ material. Please read the fanfics warnings before proceeding.

Masterlist

Sam x Reader masterlist

Tropes

Age Gap

Old Man @kaleldobrev (One-shot) Summary: Dean never had a problem with the age gap between you two; not until now any way

Best Friends Brother

Best Friends Brother @queen-of-deans-booty (One-shot) Summary: You have a huge crush on your best friend’s brother, and you do everything you can to keep it from her. Does he like you back? Does he not? What will she think if you decide to pursue him? So many questions and not enough answers.

Enemies to Lovers

Fake Dating

Drunk

Girl's Night @thirdsaltyhunter (One-shot) Summary: Jody and Donna ask you for help on a hunt and you all get drunk and call your boyfriend while you're away

Friends with Benefits

F.W.B @deanwritings (Series) Summary: After walking in on Y/N following a fun encounter, Dean and Y/N decide it would be beneficial and much easier to use each other for their needs. But can they keep it just about sex?

Hurt/Comfort

IDiots @missmarveledsblog (One-shot) Summary: when reader becomes the victim of a entity Dean is forced to admit feeling that he thought he could keep away in fear of being hurt.

Every fucking time @dean-winchester-is-a-warrior (one-shot) Summary: You want to help Dean, but he knows you can't.

AUs

Coffee Shop AU

College AU

Sammy's New Babysitter @luci-in-trenchcoats (One-shot) Summary: The reader babysits her neighbor Sam last minute when his parents go to pick up his older brother from college. When they come home, she gets to meet the elder Winchester brother herself...

ABO

No match for you @holylulusworld (One-shot) Summary: Reader gets pregnant with Dean's pups only to find out he found a new omega.

Firefighter AU

Smoke Eater @zepskies (Series) Summary: Dean Winchester is the cocky, but well-respected Lieutenant at Firehouse 25. He leads by example, but he’s also known to break a few hearts. He’s starting to crave something he’s never had, though. Something stable. Something real. 

The Firefighter @luci-in-trenchcoats (mini-series) Summary: The reader winds up in a bad situation when she tries to do the right thing but when she meets the firefighter that rescued her, it turns out to be not so bad after all…

Pregnant

Not a lot, just forever @take-it-on-the-run (One-shot) Summary: After throwing up morning after morning, the reader discovers her illness isn't what she initially thought.

Single parent AU

Worlds Best Dad @luci-in-trenchcoats (series) Summary: One of the reader’s students has a problem and she confronts the girl’s father, Dean, about what’s going on. He owns up to his mistake and ends up asking the reader out to appease his daughter. The reader quickly becomes part of the Winchester’s lives and learns what that means as Dean gets a lesson of his own on how he might not be the world’s greatest dad, but he is a good one…

18+

Guessing Game @bunnysbrainrot (One-shot) Summary: Can your body tell the difference between the brothers? If you’re correct, you’ll be rewarded. If not, well…

Can't tie me down @writethelifeyouwant (Series) Summary: Y/N has no interest in being tied down by a mate, but she still needs help with her heats when they come around.

Jealousy @supernaturalistthings Summary: One night in a run down bar Dean Winchester has no choice but to reveal his true feelings

Roadhouse @supernaturalistthings (One-shot) Summary: You have had feelings for Dean Winchester for a while and never thought you guys would be more than friends but on a case Dean's jealousy gets the best of him and the truth comes out.

You've never what? @gallavichsreddie1128 (One-shot) Summary: Y/N has never rode anyone’s face before and Dean is shocked.

Don't be a tease @hintsofhoney (One-shot) Summary: A little teasing never hurt nobody... even if it is at dinner with Dean’s parents.

I could show you @hintsofhoney (One-shot) Summary: You decide to step out of your comfort zone and finally visit a sex shop in search of some new toys. The guy at the counter, Dean, offers to show you how some of them work instead of just telling you.

Need some help? @lucy-literates (One-shot) Summary: It’s your first time sleeping in Deans bed, you find out that morning wood does exist and are more than happy to help.

And... action @yunggoblin (One-shot) Summary: *This is based off of Season 5 Episode 8!* To pass Gabriel's next trick you, Sam and Dean have to shoot a porno.

The talk @avanatural (One-shot) Summary: Jack catches Dean and Y/N while they're being intimate. The Nephilim has a lot of questions about what he witnessed, and Dean takes it upon himself to answer at least the most important ones.

If you have any recommendations to be added to this list, please let me know.

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[measureformeasure]

Elektra in Mycenae, Casey J. King

[lunarharp]

love's shadow will surround - 6k T orufrey fic about a witch and a silverleaf

He's left the lights of his small house on, his tiny atelier, waiting - he likes to see the glint of it on the leaves, his light reach the tree here. Give him what he can. It's always a comfort.

But when his physical senses are dulled, it brings it all back like fog, the flashes of memory. Of that day, all of them around the twisted body. He cups a few straggling branches, letting the hurt filter through him, almost as if keen to. They called him the Witch of Light in those days, eulogise his work still - but that was his masterpiece.

[shurup-overt]

the terukane development still blows off my mind because what do you mean akane considers himself telling teru to go away while he's on a date with aoi an ooc thing. I grew up in a time when "hearing sorry from you is creepy" was legit his most normal and calmest response

ashamed to admit but I'm still there. my mind is still there. and then I watch in pure horror how akane caresses teru's back

[sunshine-and-her-ikevil-stuff]

*thinking about the villains' tragic fates*

You know, their routes never really talk too much about their fates and how it effects them mentally. Or how the MC feels about it, and dealing with the fear and angst of it with the slight exception of William's route

*eyes widen*

... I think I know what the sequels are gonna be about

[ichorblossoms]

i <3 writing stupid banter

[zestyzigzagoon]

If any non-writers want to have a glimpse into what it's actually like to write, then here. I've been stuck on this lame half-sentence for approximately thirteen days now.

[rayofmisfortune]

The DP graphic novel is in my hands...

JFNXNFNCC REEEEEEEEE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT JUST EEEEEEE AAAAAAH THE ART AAAAA MY BELOVED AND DANNY AND EVERYTHING PPL SAY ABT IT BEING THE BEST GODDAMN THING DP SINCE SEASON 2 JFJFJFFJJ (yea sure I could've listened to a comic dub or read it online BUT SHHHHHHHHHH WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT AH) Saw ppl saying Glitch in Time fixes Phantom Planet??? I'm rambling oh lord BUT I'M JUST SO EXCITED TO READ THROUGH IT SND PERCIEVE THE GORGEOUS ART AND JUST AAAAAAAAAA

[trebeksfault]

[ilkkawhat]

Do u have any alan wake fic recs..... especially nsfw... its ok if not 🥺 thank you....

i've honestly been pretty terrible at reading fics lately but i recommend going through my fic rec tag on my blog linked here, since may of last year i've been reblogging alan or niko related fics that i've either read or intended to read cause even if i don't read something i do geniunely want to reblog to spread...i gotta get back into serious fic reading again

[the-wreck-of-1852]

it just hit me that i'm halfway through season 4 right now and i am terrified of the end...

[keeps-ache]

gonna keep it shmoovin man

[iamnathannah]

I guess I can say this finally...

Yes, my Glorbie NWSL soccer prompt (that I'll maybe post one day) does feature Sophia Bush-adjacent slander and Barbie is pretty much Ali Krieger because I can't deal with cheaters and Gloria is her salvation as the new owner, a Honduramerican Rebecca Welton (America looks hot in a suit skirted or panted, it's required).