#But I'm getting ahead of myself

[littlebigmouse]

Something about AU Vander telling AU Powder she's "too smart to spend her life in a bar" vs telling AU Ekko (as far as he knows, anyway) that he thinks he'd be "running this place soon" makes the latter almost seem like an insult.

[marigoidz]

I did in fact decide to spare Mark

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

the downside of the caps somehow sneaking into playoffs (if they manage it) will be having to watch the caps play in the playoffs

[campingwiththecharmings]

thinking of moving 4 hours north of my current city and it's comforting to know that there are jobs up there that pay more or less the same as what i'm making now.

idk if i'll be able to GET any of those jobs but lmao they are available! 😆

[leila-the-witch]

As much as I love Yule I already have to resist counting the days until Ostara.

[thetruearchmagos]

Now that I've written that Bardin Boxing post, a bunch of old ideas I've had around other aspects of Bardish culture have come to mind, and I may or may not have just reinvented something that reminds me of hotpot.

[bookwyrminspiration]

i KNOW i was going to say something else but i am actually curled up about the teraeth janel and kihrin dynamic. i am holding them gently in my hands looking fearfully at the rest of the series but holding them gently regardless. they are SO BLORBO. ALSO THURVISHAR.

LITERALLY!! I have said time and time again how I get tired of romances and am just here for the fantasy, but whatever Kihrin/janel/teraeth have going on is SO important and special to me. It's intrinsically tied to the story, but doesn't dominate. There's still a fuck ton of other things going on, but their tension and relationships have their place within all that. Because our relationships to others are important and do shape us and our world

I love each of their characters individually and the people they become when near each other. For better or for worse. janel's ferocity and Kihrin's ridiculous charm and Teraeth's expressive skill. All the different histories between them, how they've been dragged into this mess together and now they have to get out of it together. Even if sometimes they want to stab each other and they infuriate each other seemingly to death. I could not pick one of them over the other Jenn has someone created a group who are all so blorbo-able

And Thurvishar is part of that group! He's so composed and smart and endearing. Especially when something does finally get under his skin or ruffle him, since it tells us so much. Thinking about that scene where he's like "okay this isn't funny anymore guys I AM actually quite good at magic you know" when his portals weren't working. He's got the air of someone refined and quiet and contemplative--and he is! But he's also the fourth hellwarrior. Which means he's a cheeky little shit sometimes. Because what other kind of person would volunteer for something like this? And when we get to see those moments they're beautiful. I love his snark and commentary in the footnotes.

When I started this series I thought Thurvishar D'Lorus was some weird narrator we'd never see who only existed to provide footnotes, but oh how wrong I was <3

[xyl4-4444]

Dumping these doodles bcus Twilight Forest is STILL a GOATED Minecraft mod

[d-adpool]

speak for yourself. my friend's funeral is this weekend (very sad)

What a week! We made it to Friday.

[hood-ex]

Aw look at Bryce's little Nightwing emblem.

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #124

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[scoobydoodean]

The thing is that when Cas first laid a hand on Dean in hell he was lost, and not actually because "For the first time, I feel". Cas had felt before he knew Dean. We know this because we know Cas had rebelled before. Naomi tells us Cas never did as he was told—that Cas had a "Crack in the chassis straight off the line" (something Chuck later echoes in a rage).

Cas's rebellion is far older than Dean and that rebellion is a function of what he feels. Cas just doesn't get to remember feeling. Each time he does, he's stripped of the memory of it... but subconsciously he starts to understand it as something he must keep secret.

Can I tell you something if you promise not to tell another soul?

Cas is in love with humanity, and we conflate this with Dean because Dean is the narrative heart, and the subject of Cas's greatest love, and because the concept of humanity and Dean are so deeply linked they're almost one in the same. We are not at all wrong to conflate the two, but make no mistake—Cas is in love humanity.

You misunderstand me, Dean, I’m not like you think. I was praying that you would choose to save the town.

Cas calls humanity a work of art, and the camera pans to Dean sitting on the bench beside him. Dean represents humanity. Not just as precious works of art, but also because humans get to feel. Humans don't get lobotomized for feeling. Dean encourages Cas to feel. He encourages Cas to feel by asking him to—begging him to, and by feeling for others, and by existing and deserving to be loved himself.

Dean echoes free will to Cas like a call from the wild. He's the beauty of humanity. He's the liberation and beautiful terror of choice. The reason "You always have a choice" and "There is a right and there is a wrong here, and you know it" works is because Cas already feels, already hopes, already loves.

You were gonna help me once, weren't you? You were gonna warn me about all this, before they dragged you back to Bible camp. Help me -- now. Please.

The function by which Dean gets through to Cas is through Cas's own feelings and convictions. He gets through because Cas is "not a hammer, as you say". Cas has questions. Cas has doubts.

Cas is in love with humanity, and every time he remembers it, he gets packed off to Bible Camp and he forgets. But he can remember again. What it takes is a push. What it takes is a hand reached out in the darkness. The day Cas rescued Dean from hell, two people were saved. A hand clawed out toward Cas too, breaking through his own torturous prison and offering him escape. For the first time in a long time, he felt.

Dean's importance is that he touches Cas. He makes Cas remember. And he keeps making Cas remember. Through touch, through words, through the expression of his own affection for Cas and for others. Because Dean cares, Cas cares.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

ladies, I need to wander despondently across a foggy moor asap

[dixoterin]

merch wips for this summer hopefully🫣

[feel free to keep on sending my subliminals too]

[creekfiend]

around Tuesday and Wednesday I was feeling SO GOOD it almost felt like a good day before this flare in December like it was just like. oh yeah cool I'm back

yesterday and today I feel like hot garbage

it's the fucking. unpredictable WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE FACTORS IN THIS DISEASE IM GOING TO GO INSANE ITS GOING TO KILL ME

[iizuumi]

Enough general kn8 art, time to make everyone look at my weird little ship hello