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ouatiw first scenes v. last scenes
jafar & alice/cyrus
#ouatedit#ouatiwedit#once upon a time in wonderland#ouatiw#jafar#cyrus#alice liddell#1.01 down the rabbit hole#1.13 and they lived...#sophie lowe#peter gadiot#naveen andrews#first v last
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Join us tomorrow at 7 PM CEST for an epic Developer Live Stream!
Join us tomorrow at 7 PM CEST for an epic Developer Live Stream! 📷 Get a closer look at Hunt's Update 1.13 featuring the new Shooting Range, Ammo changes, Balance changes, and many more exciting updates. You don't wanna miss this one - http://twitch.tv/Crytek
#hunt#streamer#huntshowdown#twitch#gamer#twitchstreamer#crytek#games#cryengine#art#razors_tv#live#livestream#update1.13#Hunt's Update 1.13 featuring the new Shooting Range#Ammo changes#Balance changes#twitter#youtube#twitch affiliate#twitch tv#twitch streamer#twitch.tv/razors_tv#gaming#ps#videogames#xbox#fps#game#gamedev
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New Scotland Yard: Nothing to Live For (2.1, LWT, 1972)
"Any sign of her in there?"
"No. Odds are against it, I suppose."
"What, being there?"
"Being alive."
#new scotland yard#nothing to live for#classic tv#1972#tony hoare#bryan izzard#john woodvine#john carlisle#lynn farleigh#philip madoc#mark jones#charles morgan#raymond adamson#john peel#stephen white#peter kenton#victor harrington#john tatham#NSY's second series debuted just 3 months after the first had finished; presumably audiences still had the events of 1.13 fresh in their#minds and so not a huge amount of time is spent raking over why exactly Carlisle is in uniform and now working for the traffic unit (in old#tv cop shows‚ a fate worse than death; it makes you wonder who exactly Does work in the traffic units and why they aren't in a constant#state of furious rebellion at their apparently miserable station in life). of course things are quickly sorted out so that he's back with#old pal Woodvine... well‚ they do at least seem to find each other tolerable company here. he's been demoted to sergeant tho‚ so we'll see#if that sticks. the case of the week is a rather sad one about a dead child and the possibility that euthanasia was involved; this is#cleared up but becomes another kind of case when Madoc's grieving father snaps and grabs a gun. old fave Phil is very very good here#giving the kind of subtly moving performance he so often did. Farleigh fares less well; she's very good but this script is quite nakedly#misogynistic I'm afraid‚ with her character variously depicted as a neurotic mother in denial‚ a vengeful scorned woman‚ or a needlessly#spiteful cuckolding wife. it's a pretty hateful bit of writing which stands out like a sore thumb compared to the empathy the script#affords Madoc and Mark Jones (as the Other Man‚ who just happens to be the late child's biological father).#particularly disappointing bc Hoare's work on the series (and on other shows like Villains) was previously so well written and nuanced
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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14
April 12-19 2024
The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.
The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.
The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.
The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.
The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.
The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.
The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.
The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.
Bonus:
President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.
#Thanks Biden#Joe Biden#jobs#Economy#student loan debt#Environment#PFAS#politics#US politics#health care
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dean would be the most dedicated boyfriend/husband & i hate the way people talk about him like he’s a player who could “never settle down”.. please he just needs a moment of affection 🥲
People love to rewrite literally every single fucking thing that happened with the Braedens into various made up stories passed on as fact, but when Dean was with the Braedens, he treated Ben like a son. He taught him how to work on cars. He cooked Lisa and Ben breakfast every morning. He contributed to the household. They specifically wrote a scene where a pretty waitress passed her number to Dean while he was out with a neighbor and Dean disposed of it without a second thought (6.01). He didn't leave the Braedens so he could go fuck someone else. He left because his presence put Lisa and Ben in danger and then soulless Sam (who had ulterior motives) convinced him he was going to ruin their lives and probably get them murdered and his PTSD went haywire and 6.01, 6.02, 6.05, and finally 6.21 reinforced all his fears about them being hurt because of The Curse Of Loving Dean Winchester, and it left him feeling so upset and scared of them being hurt that he thought it was better for their safety if he cut ties.
Long before all that, Dean was so in love with Cassie that he told her about hunting after just a couple of months and then he was heartbroken when she rejected him and he was willing to be vulnerable enough to tell her so directly. The idea of Dean as some kind of suave playboy who could never settle down because he likes to fuck and suck too much is just ???? Like quite arguably, Dean seeks out casual sex as a substitute for the affection he wishes he could share with a life partner, but liking sex and having casual hookups isn't a crime and doesn't preclude a person from being interested in a long-term relationship and/or a stable home (something we know Dean was actively aching for at various points from episodes like 1.13, 2.20, 3.10, 5.12, 5.17). It was that he felt he couldn't have those things because of the circumstances of his life, and the narrative repeatedly reinforced that belief, and Dean eventually settled into peace with the fact that he has a family anyway despite everything!! It just isn't a traditional family. And he also gets a stable home and his own room!!! It's just underground and warded so he feels safe and cosy. People not recognizing that Dean DOES have a family and a home carry the same confusion as John in 14.13 (who also—btw—always knew that Dean wanted a home THE MOST).
JOHN My fight. It was supposed to end with me, with Yellow Eyes. But now you – you are a grown man, and I am incredibly proud of you. I guess that I had hoped, eventually, you would… get yourself a normal life, a peaceful life, a family. DEAN I have a family.
HE HAS A FAMILY. It just isn't the traditional family!!! And Dean is very loyal to that family and he takes care of that family he is the hearth of the house!!!
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“The prince lives.”
MERLIN 1.13 (Le Morte d’Arthur)
#colin morgan#merlin#bbc merlin#merlingifs#bellamyblakru#thebookluvrr1816#aithusar#usersmia#alielook#this scene kills me he's so relieved arthur lived but he thinks he's going to die my heart BREAKS!#and when i say colin is one of the most under-appreciated actors?#ee#gifs#m#113
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KYLE GALLNER as HASIL FARRELL Outsiders | 1.13 "Long Live the Bren'in"
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When I say S3 Crosshair was speed-running Hunter’s Dad arc from S1-2, this is what I’m talking about:
They’re the only CF99 members Omega has a one-on-one conversation with in 1.01 "Aftermath"
Both help her escape danger at an evil cloning facility, thanks to unseen assistance from Nala Se (1.01 and 3.03)
Both make a choice to go back for her instead of securing their own freedom (1.01 and 3.04)
Both initially try to send her away, reasoning she'll be better off without them in her lives (1.02 and 1.15)
Both initially tell her to stay away from them for her own sake, but she persists and eventually wins them over (1.01 and 3.01)
Both are mistaken as her dad by other characters (2.13 and 3.04)
Due to Omega's influence/impact on their lives, both of them become open to trying new things. For Hunter, it's things like treasure-hunting and settling down on Pabu. (2.05 and 2.13) For Crosshair, it's things like bribing/hustling people instead of shooting them, and meditating for peace of mind. (3.04 and 3.08)
In S1, Hunter and Omega average one meaningful one-on-one conversation per episode. In S3, Crosshair and Omega average one meaningful one-on-one conversation per episode.
Parallel scenes of her copying their body language, facial expressions and personal quirks (1.01 and 3.06)
Parallel scenes of them checking on her physical and emotional well-being after she’s been in danger (1.09 and 3.07)
Parallel scenes of them watching helplessly as Omega is taken away by an Imperial ship (2.16 and 3.11)
Parallel scenes of Hemlock torturing them after they tried to protect Omega (2.14 and 3.15). FUN FACT: Hunter and Crosshair are the only two CF99 members Hemlock ever talks to.
Parallel scenes of Omega convincing them to let her endanger herself for the greater mission of finding Tantiss: “I need to do this, Hunter” (3.05) VS. “Focus on the bigger mission, Crosshair.” (3.11) In both cases, they are initially unwilling to go along with her plan bc they fear for her safety, but they both ultimately agree to support her brave and selfless decision.
Parallel scenes of Omega purposely endangering herself by attacking her captor, but she has complete confidence that Hunter and Crosshair will save her in 2.10 and 3.15, respectively.
Parallel scenes of Omega absolutely gagging them: “Why not? Isn’t that what soldiers do?” (1.12) VS. “I never gave up on you, did I?” (3.09) FUN FACT: Hunter and Crosshair are even sitting in the same seat on the Marauder in both scenes!!
As someone else pointed out here, parallel scenes/lines of them aiming their guns at someone threatening to take Omega away and saying, “Not happening.” (1.13 and 3.09)
Parallel lines like: “You’re wasting your time — they’ll never turn her over” VS. “Omega’s not going anywhere with you.” (2.14 and 2.16)
Hunter when he tries to send Omega with Cut and Suu: “You have to go, Omega. It’s for your own good.” VS. Crosshair when he tries to have her captured and sent off Kamino: “It’s for her own good, and yours.” (1.02 and 1.15)
Hunter when Cad Bane is after her: “Omega, get behind me.” (1.08) VS. Crosshair when CX-2 and Imperial troopers are after her: “Stick by my side and stay down.” (3.07)
Hunter telling the others to leave him on Daro and Omega protesting in 1.14 VS. Crosshair telling the others to leave while he fights CX-2 and Omega protesting in 3.07. (And, in both cases, she literally had to be pulled away by other “co-parent” in Echo and Hunter, respectively.)
Hunter made a “deal with the devil” in the Devaronian matriarch to try to find Omega in 3.02. Then Crosshair made a deal with a different type of devil in Rampart to find her in 3.12. (And they were both 1,000% done with their respective devils: “We heard your syndicate had the connections needed to find the Imperials’ base, and since we’ve upheld our end of the bargain, now it’s your turn.” VS “We got you off the planet, now tell us where Tantiss is.”)
The first time Hunter ever fully hugs Omega is in 3.04, after she escapes Tantiss the first time. (To clarify: she had hugged him a few times before, but he hadn't really hugged her back.) VS. The first time Crosshair ever hugs Omega is in 3.15 after she escapes Tantiss the second time.
Crosshair telling Hunter in 3.05, "You let Omega be taken to Tantiss. She went through what she did because you failed" ... only for Crosshair to be in the EXACT same situation himself later in S3.
Also, let’s never forget that moment in 3.07 when Crosshair went full Helicopter Parent™️, and Omega said, “You’re as bad as Hunter!” Like, even Omega thought Crosshair was turning into a dad! 😂
Also, after he fully reintegrates into the family at the end of 3.05, Crosshair basically becomes Hunter's "co-parent."
There are several scenes where they are paired together to talk about Omega's safety or something, while Wrecker is elsewhere. (And even when Wrecker is there, the shots tend to focus more on Hunter and Crosshair, like when they find Batcher barking on the beach in 3.09.)
Of course, this all culminates in the final confrontation with Hemlock on the bridge. I don't think Hunter or Crosshair could've navigated that situation alone, especially given their injuries and how high-stakes it was. They HAD to do it together, which has been their approach since 3.05: "Not alone. We'll do it together."
(UPDATE: I go over some of these points more in my CrossDad Episode Rankings post. Give it a read, if you haven’t already!)
#star wars#tbb crosshair#the bad batch#the bad batch crosshair#tbb omega#omega and crosshair#tbb season 3#tbb spoilers#crosshair and omega#crosshair and hunter#hunter and crosshair#crossdad#the dad batch#clone trooper crosshair#crosshair tbb#omega tbb#sw tbb#crossfather
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重生之门 - Be Reborn - Whump List - 🇨🇳
Whumpee: Zhuang Wen Jie played by Wang Karry
Synopsis: While investigating an ancient painting that has been stolen, Luo Jian, who heads the criminal investigation team, crosses paths with genius university student Zhuang Wen Jie who is from a family of thieves. The unlikely pair work together to crack the case. (MDL)
Genre/Tags: Cop/Crime, Found Family, Trauma, Drowning, Action, Mystery, Kidnapped, Captive, Restrained, Hospital
Watch On: YouTube, KissAsian, DramaCool
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW
1.01 : accused of stealing, told someone he doesn’t have a family
1.02 : concerned for his friends, taken
1.03 : captive, forced to do things, concern for him ::: knife held to his throat, defiant ::: blindfolded multiple times
1.04 : captive, concern for him
1.05 : captive, concern for him ::: tazed in the back of the neck, collapsed, groaning, writhing, blurry vision, watching as he’s being trapped, heavy breathing, whumper turns on oxygen suction system, struggling to move ::: struggling to move ::: struggling to move ::: crawling, weak, heavy breathing, trying to stand, collapsed ::: crawling, struggling to move, trying to stand, collapsed, heavy breathing ::: crawling, growing weaker, severely electrocuting himself, passed out ::: unconscious ::: concern for him ::: concern for him ::: unconscious ::: concern for him ::: unconscious ::: (dream: collapsed), unconscious, found, concern for him, carried ::: in surgery, concern for him, loved one told that he’s not well and on oxygen and that being electrocuted severely damaged his heart and that the oxygen deprivation caused brain damage, asleep, oxygen mask, concern for him, loved one told they sedated him ::: in the hospital, semi looked after ::: (flashbacks: weak, writhing, groaning) ::: doctors examining him
1.06 : in the hospital ::: in the hospital ::: concern for him ::: stressed, angry, manhandled ::: angry, heavy breathing, concern for him, coughing, concern for him, looked after ::: head pain, stressed ::: asleep in the hospital, woken up, looked after
1.07 : still in the hospital ::: stressed
1.08 : still in the hospital ::: stressed
1.09 : fought ::: fought, thrown into a pool ::: shivering, anxious ::: panicked
1.10 : anxious, shivering, shaking ::: anxious, shivering, shaking ::: anxious, shivering, shaking
1.11 : manhandled, piece of rebar held to his throat, concern for him, pushed
1.12 : manhandled, piece of rebar held to his throat, concern for him, pushed, trying to save someone, held, pulled, in shock ::: loved one scolds him for nearly getting himself killed
1.13 : (flashbacks: finding out his father is dead)
1.14 : mildly scolded multiple times during the episode
1.15 : emotional, concern for him
1.16 : knife held to his back, taken, threatened with his friends’ lives ::: concern for him ::: thrown into another vehicle, hood thrown over his head ::: restrained in a chair (tied up in multiple places) ::: concern for him ::: struggling in his restraints, escaping
1.17 : escaping, chased ::: interrogated
1.18-1.23 : none
1.24 : fought, choked out, saved ::: emotional, hit on the back of the head, collapsed, groaning, passed out ::: trapped inside the trunk of a car, restrained by his hands and feet, mouth taped, struggling
1.25 : trapped inside the trunk of a car, restrained by his hands and feet, mouth taped, struggling ::: concern for him ::: still restrained, struggling, concern for him, loved one contacts him, realizing he’s in a sinking car, told a loved one that he’s drowning, struggling, drowning, struggling, drowning, passed out, found restrained in the sunken car, concern for him, manhandled, dragged out of the water, laid down, restraints undone, chest compressions, coughing up water, concern for him ::: (dream: drowning), woke up startled, heavy breathing ::: in cuffs, interrogated, emotional, startled, emotional ::: interrogated ::: interrogated, realizing he’d been betrayed ::: interrogated ::: finding out things are worse than he thought, stressed, heavy breathing becoming more severe, passed out ::: in the hospital
1.26 : none
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House MD and the use of the word ‘miserable’ (S1)
‘Miserable’ total mentions: 14
‘Miserable’ mentions by House: 3
‘Miserable’ mentions by Wilson: 3
‘Miserable’ mentions by Cuddy: 3
‘Miserable’ mentions by patients/families: 3
‘Miserable’ mentions by Chase: 1
‘Miserable’ mentions by Vogler: 1
Times someone accuses House of being miserable: 6 - (3 from Wilson / 2 from patients / 1 from Cuddy)
Full quotes:
1.01
House to Foreman: “Treating illnesses is why we became doctors. Treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable.”
1.03
Cuddy to House: “You think of something to make me miserable. I think of something to make you miserable; it’s a game! And I’m going to win because I got a head start. You are already miserable.”
1.05
Chase to Foreman: “If House did make a mistake, he’ll be upset, and our lives will be miserable for months.”
Nun to House: “I barely know you, and I don’t know if I’m right. I just hope I am. Because the alternative is, you really are as miserable as you seem to be.”
1.11
Wilson to House: “No, I was there! You’re not just a regular guy who’s gotten older, you’ve changed! You’re miserable, and you’re afraid to face yourself –”
1.13
Patient’s father to House: “I love my son – look at me! – love my son, love him more than anything else in the world, and you’re going to start paying attention to this case, or I’m going to make things miserable for you –”
1.15
Vogler to Cuddy about House: “He makes you miserable.”
1.16
Wilson to House: “I’ve been thinking. You’ve made it quite clear that you’re miserable here –”
House to Wilson: “I am not miserable.”
1.17
Patient to House: “It must be miserable, always assuming the worst in people.”
1.18
Wilson to Vogler about House: “Okay, he’s screwed up. He’s miserable, and he should probably re-read the Ethics Code, but it works for him. He’s saved hundreds of lives.”
1.22
House to Cuddy: “I will not have sex with you! Not again! Miserable, that first time. All that desperate, administrative need –”
#miserable is the writing room’s favourite word and i am INTRIGUED#house md#gregory house#james wilson#lisa cuddy#i will analyse this later when i have more data. bc i am fascinated by this continued word choice#anyway can you tell i have an essay due
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so that’s what this is all about?
#ouatedit#ouatiwedit#once upon a time in wonderland#ouatiw#will scarlet#knave of hearts#jafar#anastasia tremaine#red queen#scarlet queen#red sorcerer#scarlet sorcerer#michael socha#emma rigby#naveen andrews#1.13 and they lived…
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Me and a few friends were trying to work out a vague timeline of when some stuff happened for an RP, and I was specifically looking at when Gold died, trying to place it on our timeline. I came to the conclusion that it's after Caves & Cliffs Part II due to the usage of the deepslate caves in the trailer. (As such I personally think that the earliest this could've happened is November 30, 2021)
And like, that feels reasonable, that makes sense. But then I kept watching and squinted really hard at the console and stuff. And got jumpscared cause. The booth isn't running 1.18?????
it's running 1.7.10. But like, after thinking for a little either this is a really fun reference or the Alan Becker team did their research. IDK how many people get this, but 1.7.10 is one of the most stable version for modding, a lot of mods didn't update past it. If they wanted to make something that did modding it'd be the best version without sacrificing a ton of things for it. Which I think is neat. Cool little detail. I'm not sure what the flier's on about regarding the updates tho
The closest biome update they can get to already passed (1.7.2), and they'd have to deal with the refactoring otherwise (the next biome update is the ocean update, 1.13) I wonder if the booth people were working on updating past 1.7.10. That'd definitely cause some problems if something was pushed to live that wasn't for the version they were on/that they weren't ready for. More theories for my nogging Also, the console isn't super interesting, but I think that this bit is really funny.
they turn off the daylight cycle lol. the console also doesn't update after that until things go wrong. (you can see the daylight cycle setting here)
anyways have a good day everybody
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i think another huge factor in the evolution of mincraft over time is that minecraft was kinda one of the first big-name games that "updated" over time? & during its lifespan, "live-service" games have become more of a thing; historically, updates were more, yknow, update focused. Not just "new content" for new content sake, but also rounding things out a lot more, filling out the game rather than just adding new ingredient after new ingredient after new ingredient after new ingredient ad infinitum. Which isn't to say Mojang is stuck in this- 1.20.5 was IMO the biggest update Since 1.13's Flattening, basically accomplishing the same thing with Item NBT -> Item Components. Rather, a lot of the time I think Mojang gets stuck in this expectation that they need to release eye-catching tiktok-marketable New ! New ! New ! features rather than really getting in deep with the inner workings of the game itself; this is why everyone remembers "new ocean biomes!" for 1.13, but most folks don't even know what The Flattening is. It's hard to make a less-than-5-minute youtube video showcasing "hey yeah we completely overhauled the internal handling systems for ID slots from integer to string values in such a way that we now have a namespacing system that allows for new content to be added Forever rather than having to worry about reaching the integer limit". Minecraft changed how games "as a service" happened, and then was changed By the concept of games "as a service" in turn. Hopefully they manage to actually pull it back eventually, & I think the new "drops" system is a really good way to do that, especially if they keep major technical overhauls limited to proper Updates.
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dean's sexuality is an overwhelming recurring theme throughout the show: his fetishes are prominent, he flaunts his sexuality and sexual behavior freely, he's a relentless flirt, and he has the most sexual encounters in the show. what i want to briefly consider here is how his sexuality and, more importantly, his fetishes may symbolize a freudian eroticization of a fantasized domestic life, particularly in his fetishization of femininity.
so hear me out: dean subconsciously eroticizes his mundane desires because he can't externalize them in a safe or realistic way. the desires are, namely, a longing for a domestic, "apple pie" life, which is a desire that has been explored in the show multiple times. dean routinely covets domesticity, through his desire to raise a child (ben and lisa subplot), the djinn fantasy (2.20), his "nesting" in the bunker (8.14), and his displacement of that desire onto sam (who is the primary subject of his erotic fixation in general and a subconscious extension of himself—if sam acquires a happy domestic life, dean can live vicariously through it).
he also routinely denies himself this domesticity because he's given up on getting out of the hunter life. he was raised in a survival environment and never was given a real opportunity to escape (even sam had to fight tooth and nail to get out, and we all know where that got him). the one time he had a chance to reject john and embrace normality he returned smiling because of sam (9.07). he's the one that vehemently secludes himself (and sam, like in 1.06) from society because connections are a liability. he leaves potential long-term relationships preemptively, always choosing hunting (and sam) over them before anything "real" can happen (1.13, 6.01, 6.21, also consider 8.19, perhaps more abstractly). he's so broken inside that he lacks any real desire at all (5.14). et cetera, et cetera. he denies himself his domestic desires to the point that he lacks desire at all—he's a broken shell of a man.
so the violent repression of the id causes the secret desire to leak out through erotic fantasy, a playground of fiction that is used by, well, most if not all people to explore desire in a safe and controlled medium (see: how many women have rape fantasies, for example—the sexual fantasy is a constructed world for safe exploration of certain desires, often abstracted through erotic symbols).
dean is so repressed as an individual, likely by external pressure to conform and control himself via john, that dean could subconsciously transform his secret desire for domesticity, into an erotic fantasy. he displaces those unacceptable desires from the unattainable mundane onto the safer erotic and they eventually distort into fetishes. the fetishes themselves are then abstractions of the things he covets but can't obtain.
and i want to focus specifically on his desire for domesticity and make an argument for feminization as a fetish (thank you rhonda hurley for your contributions to society) and how that relates back to that base desire.
there are several episodes in the show which suggest that dean fetishizes femininity itself, or rather feminization as it pertains to him (4.07, 5.04, also consider 10.05 in a more abstract sense). in 4.07, dean openly fantasizes about living in a "hot cheerleader's" body (youthfully feminine). in 5.04, dean recounts the time rhonda hurley forced him into her pink, satiny panties, saying that he liked it. 10.05 is a meta episode which additionally posits a plotline where dean becomes a woman through supernatural means, suggesting that fans are invited to draw a connection between dean and feminization. (these are the episodes i can pull off the top of my head; it's probably not comprehensive but i can't remember others atm)
so let's consider this feminization kink: we have dean fantasizing about femininity, womanhood, and especially girlhood, which he notoriously eroticizes (again in 4.07 and also in 4.13 and 10.13, to name specific references, but there are so many examples of this) in relation to himself, specifically. you can layer this in the way his deeper desires are of domesticity, and the home is traditionally (importantly) the domain of the woman. if dean would come to associate domesticity with femininity, then he would subconsciously connect his desire for domesticity with a desire for femininity. therefore, this feminization kink can represent an eroticization of his own (perceived) femininity. dean craves domesticity, but the domestic can only be achieved through womanhood, and therefore his desire for the domestic manifests through femininity, and thus feminization.
this "perceived femininity" of the domestic is important because of how dean conceptualizes the world largely through his consumption of media (see also: his "wild west fetish" via 6.18), which enforces gender roles and the relegating of the woman to the domestic sphere. this additionally aligns with dean's lived experiences: he had a domestic life while mary was alive, and when mary died the domesticity died with her. his only personal experiences with a settled home life are inexorably tied to the presence of femininity (his other excursion is when he lives with lisa, strengthening this association), and the absence of it and subsequent domination of john (the masculine) also took with it that domestic life.
and then you could even go so far as to make the argument that his eroticization of girlhood and his fetish for barely legal girls is a symbol of the domestic life he didn't get to live himself. it can represent a longing for youth in an environment that was inaccessible to him, a stability and domesticity walled off by womanhood. his youth was masculine, and his desire is for the feminine. it would stand to reason that when he yearns for an idealized youth, it would be through the lens of the symbolically feminine. and so this desire manifests through a fetishization of youth (girlhood) and his subsequent creep behavior. it all comes back to the life dean didn't get to live, eroticized and represented through a sexual fantasy born of rigidly enforced gender roles and the loss of femininity in his home life.
#supernatural#dean winchester#this is so long. i know no one is going to read it#but that's okay i'll survive#i've been thinking about this since before i saw a poll going around about 4.07#and whether his 'hot cheerleader' thing was him being a creep or him being trans#and then i got to thinking about it again because i saw the poll. creep is much closer to my answer but this is my full response to it#i just think he is a mess of psychosexual fixations on everything he wants but can't have#and it manifests in the weirdest and creepiest behavior imaginable#so thanks for coming to my ted talk i guess#.txt#dean#the winchester gospel#spn posting
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John dropping to his knees when he loses Mary 🤝 Dean dropping to his knees when he loses Cas
They even both involve portals to another dimension
Bobby asked Dean if this was one last hunt. And Dean said one last hunt.
But Jensen was using Dean's lying face
#Charlie is just now watching the finale okay? its been a fcking week#'ruggedly handsome'#I'm in#spntw 1.13#spn 12x23#spntw finale#live blogging#unparalleled paralleling experience#spntw deancas parallels
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anyways the actual best X Files episodes in order by season
1.01 Pilot (obviously)
1.13 Beyond the Sea (basically Silence of the Lambs as an X Files episode but Gillian Anderson's performance is insanely compelling)
1.20 Darkness Falls (spooky PNW forest vibes/arguably the best use of British Columbia as a filming location in the whole series)
2.20 Humbug (this is the one that gets closest to what I'd say the show is about at its core)
3.17 Pusher (early Vince Gilligan episode; all of the core themes of Breaking Bad are there in this episode if you look closely)
3.20 Jose Chung's From Outer Space (probably the best Darin Morgan episode? I'm partial to Humbug and there's a case for Clyde Bruckman but it's not a personal favorite of mine)
3.22 Quagmire (lake monster! the conversation on the rock! also RIP Queequeg)
4.02 Home (furthest the X Files ever went into straight-up horror)
4.13 Never Again (Scully tattoo scene)
5.12 Bad Blood (it’s a classic for a reason)
5.18 The Pine Bluff Variant (Mulder goes undercover in a right-wing militia; oddly compelling)
6.02 Drive (Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston)
6.04 and 6.05 Dreamland I and II (the Mulder and Morris Fletcher body swap)
6.19 The Unnatural (oddly sweet baseball episode written+directed by David Duchovny with my favorite opening and closing scenes in the series)
6.20 Three of a Kind (Lone Gunmen + giddy intoxicated Scully. the potential that the Lone Gunmen spinoff show mostly failed to live up to.)
7.19 Hollywood AD (another David Duchovny writing/directing credit + the Mulder/Scully/Skinner bathtub scene)
after S7 who cares (I do actually like Robert Patrick as Doggett but S8 and S9 don't hold up). as you can tell from this list I'm mostly interested in Darin Morgan and Vince Gilligan's visions of the show and the Mulder/Scully dynamic and couldn't care less about Chris Carter or the myth arc generally.
also honorable mention to 6.15 Arcadia which isn't amazing but I'm a sucker for the Mulder and Scully undercover as a married couple in suburban SoCal thing
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