#Chuck Harp

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[sethsclearwater]

can i ask for a paul x hothead!reader where she’s just like paul ( getting mad over tiny things ). so when her and a pack member get into a tiny argument he just sits there and is like “am i really like that?”😭

"you're nuts if you think you're right here," embry laughed as he came over to you and paul, taking a seat on the recliner next to the couch you and paul were currently sat at.

you rolled your eyes, "are you fucking insane?" you started, getting awfully annoyed over something as trivial as whether quil's fur was a chocolate brown or a sandy brown closer to seth clearwater's fur, "you're colorblind if you think his fur is that dark," you added, looking over to paul for support only to find him watching you with what could only be described as a thoroughly disturbed look on his face.

"paul tell him-" you encouraged, sucking in a threatening breath when you heard embry's laughter.

paul blinked twice before he opened his mouth to respond, only nothing came out and embry's laughter only got louder.

"i think he's doing some deep self reflection right now," quil's teasing voice came as he stepped into the living room to sit down in the chair next to embry, seeming interested in finding out how this stupid argument turned out.

you looked over your shoulder to roll your eyes at him before turning your attention back to paul who seemed to have found the words to describe whatever the hell was going on in his head, "do i really sound like that?" he asked, gaze drifting over to embry and quil who paused for a moment before bursting into laughter.

"paul!" you exclaimed, smacking his thigh, "just say his fur is lighter than that!" you added, huffing when you watched the corner of paul's lips curl into the faintest ghost of a smile at your words.

"you two are a match made in hell!" jared called from the kitchen and you gasped, glaring at him as quil and embry's laughter continued, "fuckin' twins you two," he added playfully, laughing when he saw how disgruntled you looked over all the boys harping on you over your stupid argument with embry.

before you could go start a new argument with jared, you felt paul slide his arm around your shoulders to tug you close to his side, pressing a gentle kiss to the crown of your head, "take a deep breath princess," paul murmured playfully, squeezing at your bicep.

you huffed but obliged nonetheless, sucking in a deep breath while glaring at embry who couldn't seem to contain his laughter over the whole ordeal.

"there you go," paul reassured when he felt your shoulders drop as you exhaled, "now why don't we put a movie on, yea?" he asked, though you knew it was most definitely more of a statement considering the fact that he used his free hand to grab the remote and click the tv on before you could respond.

"princess just needs a time out," embry added, jared and quil immediately bursting into laughter as paul dropped the remote in favor of grabbing his water bottle and chucking it at embry's head, only narrowly missing as the three boys got up and ran out of the room in an attempt to evade your imprinter's wrath.

"just relax princess," paul added, rolling his eyes at the boys' antics as he grabbed the remote and quickly got a movie on for the two of you to watch while you waited for the pizza emily ordered to arrive.

[ananke-xiii]

ah yes, of course I have more to say. This time it's not about a specific comparison/trope, more about how angels are perceived by viewers (but also partly by writers, too, tbh).

anything about angels being ethereal and divine etc: I think sometimes the non-in-universe view warps what's canon when it comes to angels. For instance, the way we the audience commonly perceive angels sort of interferes with the in-universe depiction of said creatures. Like, maybe we see angels as ethereal, celestial, incomprehensible figures but in SPN they're anything but. We can very much understand their motives, their feelings and what their agenda is. It's totally not beyond human comprehension, as amatter of fact, it's very much human but it's also NOT human at the same time because angels don't have the same morality as humans do and their notion of "good" and "evil" is quite peculiar, if they even have one. This is also why the "halo and a harp" joke is thrown around quite a few times as a reminder that SPN angels are not "our" angels.

The same misrepresentation happens when it's about angels and love (and sex). It's pretty clear that in SPN (hashtag not all but many) angels are actually very, very, very much interested in sex and love. I'll concede that they tend to confuse obsession for love and that there's a lot of repression/suppression/sublimation/you name it going on in that department but, frankly, it's not something so inherently alien that humans can't relate to.

Anyhow, I don't think it's only the audience's fault, though, as I see SPN writers implicitly inserting their own personal view into the story as well. For example, the idea that Lucifer is the "primary agent of evil" in s14 after we've spent a whole season dealing with how God has traumatized and abused both his own sister and his own "son" and how said sister has, in return, abused and traumatized Lucifer doesn't exactly hold up. I mean, if there must be one primary agent of evil in SPN everything seemed to point to Chuck well before s14's big "reveal". Moreover, from their first appearance in S4 angels have perhaps wreaked havoc more than demons and other monsters combined. Lucifer is admittedly a big problem (among other things because he is an abuser and a general piece of shit) but he's not the only problem in paradise (lol).

Related to the first point, how Dean's in awe with Cas because he's a celestial being etc: this is something that I read in a lot of fics so it's just both my own personal taste and my fic preferences (I like when fics stick to canon as far as possible because I like to see how different minds might have developed a particular storyline) that differ from others and that's fine, to each their own. The thing is, I don't really see it. Maybe S3-4 Sam was more in awe with the idea of angels but after Lucifer I don't think the guy's particularly moved by them. As far as Dean's concerned, I actually see him hating on angels the most. Vampires can be okay, werewolves maybe, he's surprisingly okay with demons as well, but angels? He doesn't like them at all. And I mean this, this is actually interesting because out of all the creatures in the world he hates (and who have hurt him and his family) he ends up getting a best friend/consort who belongs to that particular flavor he just can't tolerate and who probably hurt him and his family the most ("Angels are just monsters with good PR"). As in: Dean finds Cas amazing because he's Cas, not because he's an angel but he IS an angel nevertheless and that alone causes some problems. It makes for a very interesting moral dilemma and an engaging angle to explore where a good chunk of their issues stems from.

[yandere-dark-cupid]

Deity AU: darling; Goddess of the Stars and dreams

Sfw:

🌌In this AU, there are 6 main rulers. There are exceptions of course, but more on that later.

🌌 You're not one of those rulers. But If you married one you can be a co-ruler.

🌌 In this AU in general; you're either a human, a deity, or some minor or half-divine being ( like a demigod or nymph ). But in this case, you're a goddess.

🌌 You're part of the first generation of gods.

🌌 You're a minor deity

💤 You hold a very interesting place between life and death

☁ Your domain is more like a realm than it is a domain

🌌 Doesn't work with the deity of death, but works near them occasionally.

🌌 The star nymphs are your helpers

☁ A very mysterious and somewhat unknown deity that works quietly and prefers it to be like that.

🌌 Has 4 pet Samoyeds. They act as your messengers sometimes. Pay them in pets, treats, and belly rubs, please 😁.

☁ You have horse ears and a crystal-like horn.

☁ You have grey-ish wings that blend with silver at the tips

💤 Rejects invitations to gatherings and parties

💤 Has a soft spot for the mortals. Especially children and animals.

☁ Likes going to the mortal realm under the guise of being a human ( for obvious reasons.. )

☁ Though you are a somewhat unknown minor deity, you have a small nice size cult following. And like any other deity, you get offerings from said cult following.

🌌 Offerings for you consist of lavender, tea oranges, white feathers, sugar cubes, music boxes, lyre music, harp music, rainwater and/ or its sounds, moon water, Zodiac crystals, soft things ( ex: cotton, plushies, blankets, etc. ), dog toys and treats, ice cream, cookies, and milk.

{ Side note: Midnight snacks hit differently in your " domain " ( realm )😙. }

💤 Loves plushies

💤 Adores ballet

💤 Is sometimes seen carrying a magic mirror

☁ Has a great deal of sympathy

☁ Is surprisingly petty at times

💤 Does a lot of self-care and relaxing activities in your past time. Like taking a dip in your sweet waters and/or going to the astral plane.

☁ Though as quiet and mostly harmless as you are, reminder; you're a deity. So that means you're not that harmless.

🌌 When upset or feeling a spike of pettiness can and will chuck a meteorite at someone ( like an annoying persistent God or something )

🌌 Your curse consists of an on-site meteor being catapulted at you, being turned into your greatest fear(s), and making sure that you never wake up in a dream ( or nightmare ). There are other curses, but those are your main ones.

Third deity darling I've done it now and am proud of it 🌟. Are my little star and I hope y'all enjoyed this as much as her as much as I did 💕. As very unrelated as this is, I was recapping Euphoria when writing this. But other than that; Until next time my little tainted Angels, see you soon ❤💜❤ ~

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RANDOM SMILING CRITTERS OC ONESHOTS FT. @that1garrulousfan & @daydreamer36 OCS!

Scene 1 (Copper Trade & Hot Topic):

Ash, sitting on top of a cooler: Where is that penguin…

Fungus: He could be running late, Tio.

Ash: Yeah, yeah I know but Issac is normally on time whenever I call him. You don’t think he forgot, do you?

Fungus: No, if anything he’s probably stuck in traffic or something.

Ash: Yeah, you’re right. Y’know the last time I was here, there was this super hyper hyena that kept asking me what I was making-

HyperHumor in the distance: HEY THERE INVENTOR GUY!

Ash: oh my god no.

She runs towards them.

HyperHumor: I didn’t expect to see you again! You even brought a new friend with you this time!

Fungus: Tio, who is this lady-

HyperHumor: YOU’RE AN UNCLE NOW?!

Ash: I’ve always been an- Nevermind, yes I’m an uncle. Now what do you want?

HyperHumor: I just wanna know what you’re building that’s all!

Ash: I’m just fixing a coffee machine for a friend of mine.

Ash turns to Fungus and whispers into his ear.

Ash, whispering: Fungus, I need you to distract her until I’m done getting the materials from Issac.

Fungus nods in agreement.

Ash: Hey, uh…what’s your name again?

HyperHumor: My name is HyperHumor!

Ash: Oh! Well my name is Ash. This is my nephew, Fungus. Can you like take him to the uh…

Fungus: The Hello Kitty Store!

Ash: I thought you couldn’t stand that pla-

The boy winked at his uncle.

Ash: I mean- Yeah, take him to the Hello Kitty store for me!

HyperHumor: Uh, okay? When do you want me to give him back?

Ash: He’ll tell you when it’s time to go.

HyperHumor: Okay.

Hyper and Fungus leave as Issac finally arrives.

Issac Inventor: Sorry I’m late. I was stuck talking to this weird dog.

Ash: Don’t worry about it. You got the goods?

Issac Inventor: Depends, you got the ice?

Ash opens the cooler to reveal a huge chuck of ice.

Issac Inventor: Oh that’s beautiful! you’re gonna be building good for months!

HyperHumor and Fungus walk around the mall until they see a store.

HyperHumor: Hey, this isn’t the Hello Kitty store!

Fungus: No, it’s Hot Topic.

HyperHumor: What’s the topic? Devil worship?

Fungus: Wouldn’t you like to know.

They walk into the store and immediately spot a familiar face.

???: Which shirt did she want again?

Fungus: Miss Barker?

Harper Barker turns around and spots the two.

Harper Barker: Oh sweet critter-Jesus.

HyperHumor: Harper! I didn’t know you shopped here!

Harper Barker: I don’t. The one in the underground is getting remodeled and my girlfriend wanted something from here.

Fungus: As in the girlfriend that you don’t have?

Harper Barker: Shouldn’t you be with one of weird aunts or uncles?

Fungus: Shouldn’t you stop patronizing my uncle?

HyperHumor: Wait you two know each other?

Fungus and Harper both sigh.

Fungus & Harper: Unfortunately.

Harper Barker: One of his uncles is a criminal.

Fungus: She keeps hunting down my uncle CatNap whenever he isn’t doing anything bad.

HyperHumor: Yeesh, bad experiences with each other. We’ll just leave you alone then.

Fungus: Gabby says that you reek of bleach.

HyperHumor: ALRIGHT! Bye Harper!

Harper rolls her eyes and continued shopping as the two left.

They didn’t buy anything…

Scene 2 (Chased by a Guard Dog):

HyperHumor is seen walking through the halls of a facility. SV! CatNap is not too far behind her. Harper is seen talking to another guard.

Harper Barker: Yeah and then he said-

HyperHumor: AAAAAAAAAAAA!

Harper turns around and makes eye contact with Hyper. They stare at each other for a few minutes before Hyper runs away with Harper chasing her from behind.

Harper Barker: OH HYPERHUMOR!

HyperHumor: YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

Scene 3 (Denial):

Harper Barker is running through the valley in order to get to the entrance of the Underground.

SV! CatNap: Hey Harp-

Harper Barker: YOU’RE GAY.

Harper continues to run.

SV! CatNap: Yeesh! What was that about?

HyperHumor: Yeah like there was no need to repeat something that we already knew.

SV! CatNap slowly turns to stare at her.

HyperHumor: What?

SV! CatNap: I- I’m not gay.

HyperHumor eyes him up and down.

SV! CatNap: Why are you looking at me like that?

HyperHumor: Didn’t you call the sun DogDay-

SV! CatNap: IT WAS ONE TIME!

Diamond: CatNap, darling, we all know that it was more than one time.

SV! CatNap: No it wasn’t! Calico, you believe me right?

Calico: Te he visto llorar al anochecer varias veces. [translated: I've seen you cry at dusk (the sunset) several times.]

SV! CatNap: Damnit.

Scene 4 (Bagels):

Pico: Hey, what do you want to eat?

Pierre, standing behind Lucy: The Souls of the Innocent.

Lucy: A bagel.

Pierre: NO!

Lucy: Two bagels…?

Scene 5 (THE VOICES.):

Dainty Daisy: Hey, what’s wrong with that guy?

She points towards SV! CatNap being crowded by the SV! Smiling Critters.

HyperHumor: I don’t know, I tried asking once but-

SV! CatNap: THE VOICES‼️‼️‼️

SV! Hoppy: WE DEMAND WAFFLE FRIES!!!!

SV! Kickin: THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD DEMAND IT!!!!

SV! Bubba Bubbaphant: I don’t.

SV! Hoppy slowly turns around to look at him before turning back to SV! CatNap.

SV! Hoppy: BUBBA DEMANDS WAFFLE FRIES!!!

SV! Bubba Bubbaphant: NO I DONT???

Scene 6 (Dehydration or Godhood?):

Harper Barker and Pierre are fighting each other for practice, Pierre hadn’t been drinking water at all that day.

Harper Barker: You’re not ascending to godhood, you’re just dehydrated-

Pierre: OUTTA MY WAY LESBIAN! I’M BOUTTA LIBERATE MY DIVINE SELF FROM THIS MORTAL SHELL!

After Pierre attempted to fight Harper….

Pierre, laying on the ground as he looks extremely exhausted: Hop- Hopital…

Scene 7 (Roof: Chased by a Guard Dog continued):

Harper Barker is looking for HyperHumor and SV! CatNap around the facility.

Harper Barker: Where are they-

Footsteps are heard above her.

Harper Barker: oh my god.

Rat Guard 1: Captain! The intruders ran into the janitor’s closet-

Harper Barker: HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET UP TO THE ROOF?!

Rat Guard 2: Oh so that’s why we couldn’t find them in the janitor’s closet!

Harper Barker: …what.

Rat Guard 2: Yeah, we couldn’t find-

Harper grabs Rat Guard 2 by the neck and pins them to the wall.

Harper Barker: Has no one ever taught you a lesson in shutting up? Because that running mouth of yours is about to get you fired.

Rat Guard 2: No… Sorry, Ca- Captain.

Harper Barker: Good.

She throws them into Rat Guard 1.

Harper Barker: Now go be useful and capture those intruders.

The two guards ran off as Harper quickly made her way towards the roof.

Meanwhile…

SV! CatNap and HyperHumor are on the roof, looking down at the ground below.

HyperHumor: How much do you think grass can soften a fall?

SV! CatNap: Not a lot. Trust me, I’ve seen Topaz try and fail several times.

HyperHumor: Welp, what are we supposed to do now?

SV! CatNap: I can probably call Cat-Bee to teleport us out of here-

Harper Barker from a distance: OH CRIMINAL!

SV! CatNap: ONTO THE GRASS!

HyperHumor: WAIT WHAT-

SV! CatNap pushed HyperHumor off the roof before jumping off as well. Harper Barker and two rat guards walked over to where the two criminals were before they jumped.

Rat Guard 1: Are they…dead?

Harper couldn’t help but smile. Her smile looked manic…

Harper Barker: Only one can hope!

…Harper then saw both of them again when she was getting lunch with her girlfriend.

Scene 8 (Fries):

HyperHumor and Harper Barker are sitting at a park bench.

HyperHumor: Your anger levels have not gone down at all today!

Harper Barker: Okay and?

HyperHumor: We were supposed to figure out how to control your anger so that you’d stop blowing up on people and saying death threats whenever someone you don’t like starts speaking! Aren’t guards supposed to be nice to civilians or something?

Harper Barker: Not me. I’m the captain of the guards, remember?

Hyper let out an annoyed sigh.

HyperHumor: Of course that doesn’t apply to you…

???: Sounds like you’re trying to help Harper with her issues.

Hyper and Harper turned around and saw Dainty Daisy walking towards them. Harper’s eyes widened as she saw fries in Daisy’s hand.

Harper Barker: She has Hop n Stops! Dan, where’d you get Hop n Stops?

Dainty Daisy: Hop n Stop?

Harper held her hand out.

Harper Barker: Bitch, give me fry.

HyperHumor: Harper language-

Dainty Daisy, holding the fries away from her: Is that how you ask?

Harper Barker: Bitch, PLEASE give me a fry.

Daisy gave Harper a fry as she sat down next to Hyper. Putting the fries on the table as she did so.

HyperHumor: That’s somewhat better, but can you please not call her the B word?

Harper Barker: That sounds like you problem.

Dainty Daisy: Hyper, why are you even helping her? She’s walking disaster.

HyperHumor: Be nice! Harper just needs a push in the right direction is all.

Dainty Daisy: She needs a push into therapy.

Harper Barker: And you need a push into the hospital.

Dainty Daisy: See? Just let her imaginary girlfriend help her.

Harper started to growl.

Harper Barker: Continue talking about my girlfriend and the last thing you’re gonna remember is her putting you in the ground.

HyperHumor: Harper, calm down! Daisy didn’t mean it! Right, Daisy?

Dainty Daisy: I mean it. God, I need some fries- WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIES?!

Harper showed off the last fry in front of Daisy before eating it in front of her.

Dainty Daisy: B*dolphin noise*H, THAT WAS MY LAST ONE! HOW’D YOU TAKE THAT?!

Harper Barker: Quick hands. Don’t leave your fries out on the table next time. You should check in with like Fungus or an angel about that weird censoring curse you and Hyper both have.

Dainty Daisy: We don’t-

HyperHumor: HAHA! YOU’RE SO RIGHT, HARPER! WE SHOULD DO THAT EVENTUALLY!

Daisy gave Hyper a confused look.

HyperHumor: Wow! Look at the time, we’d better get going now. Bye, Harper! See ya later!

Before Harper could say anything, Hyper quickly dragged Daisy behind a building.

Dainty Daisy: Hyper, what was that all about? Why were you acting so weird?

HyperHumor turned around and gave her a guilty look.

Dainty Daisy: Hyper… What did you do?

HyperHumor: So uh… Funny story, Harper thinks that we’re from her universe-

Dainty Daisy: HYPER!

HyperHumor: I wasn’t even done yet! She thinks we’re from here and that we got cursed to be censored whenever we swear!

Dainty Daisy: You could’ve ask that Bee-Cat lady to turn off the censors! I don’t mind cussing Harper out without censors.

HyperHumor: That’s problem if I do turn off the censors for us! Harper would crush you into tiny little bits! I’ve seen her fight and she gets all the scary.

Dainty Daisy: Okay? I can probably take her in a fight.

HyperHumor: You don’t know that!

Dainty Daisy: Ugh, can we just talk about this back home?

HyperHumor: Fine, but you have to put a dollar in the sweat jar for what you said to Harper!

Daisy rolled her eyes as Hyper opened a portal back home.

Dainty Daisy: Fine.

Hyper and Daisy both enter the portal as a shadowy figure watches before flying away. The only thing left behind was a yellowish green feather.

THATS THE END OF THIS BATCH OF ONESHOTS! :D

HYPERHUMOR AND DAINTY DAISY BELONGS TO @that1garrulousfan

PERFECT PIERRE, PICO IMPURE, AND ISSAC INVENTOR BELONGS TO @daydreamer36

[itsmalachitenow]

MORE CHUCK HEADCANONS!

You guys seemed to really like my last post, so I'm sharing the other headcanons I've gathered for my personal take on Chuck since then. Get ready for angst!

Chuck did, in fact, hit Gus with the Ghost Train. It was an accident, and to this day he's incredibly broken up about it. Gus, on the other hand, isn't nearly as upset about being dead. He will, however, use his death to guilt Chuck into doing things for him because he knows just how awful Chuck feels about it. Any time Gus wants a new game system or toy, if Chuck isn't too keen on getting it for him, Gus will just bring up that Chuck ran him over and now he's stuck here, and Chuck will look utterly miserable as he climbs into his wheelchair to leave the Ghost Station.

Chuck is very talented at many different types of instruments, including but not limited to: piano, trumpet, saxophone, violin, harp, french horn, clarinet, cello, and oboe.

He can also sing very well. He is a baritone.

Chuck's true full name is Carlo Toscanini. He prefers the Chuck nickname, though, because it sounds like a train noise. He likes train noises!

Because he's been alone for so long, Chuck is incredibly self conscious about needing any kind of help because he's disabled. Especially when he's in his chair. The idea of being helped and not having to do it all himself is completely foreign to him, and he absolutely abhors the idea of needing to rely on someone else to help him do what he sees as 'basic things'. He would rather struggle by himself than swallow his pride and ask a loved one to get involved.

Related: If you touch this man's wheelchair without asking him first, he is going to run you over with it.

Chuck will never finish his 'magnum opus'. He is a perfectionist, and hasn't had what he considers a 'good' piece in decades because he's constantly going back and changing them, never satisfied with the results. Even if he does finish a musical composition or opera, he will always find some fault with them afterwards and not want to dwell on them. Being alone for so long with no real audience for his works other than Gus (who doesn't really understand or care as much because he's a kid) means he's his only critic, and he will always be his worst critic.

Chuck makes his own coffee and is a total snob about drinking anyone else's. It tastes like diesel, but it'll keep you awake for three days straight.

This man does not have a consistent schedule for anything other than 'work'. Food, sleep, self care, all of it comes second to his job and to his music.

He has chronic insomnia, and horrible nightmares whenever he does drift off to sleep, so Chuck prefers to just keep going for as many days as possible until his body physically cannot stay awake anymore.

Because he's lived so long, Chuck can barely remember any of his early life, and that terrifies him. He remembers the name of his hometown, he remembers he had a father who was a conductor, but everything else is a blur. He can't remember his parents' names, their faces, whether he had siblings or not...those memories are gone forever, and Chuck will never get them back.

His biggest regret is not saying goodbye to his family the night he left to join the Train.

Chuck is also terrified of going back to his hometown, because he knows it will be entirely different from what little he remembers. If he never returns, he can always pretend it's still the way he was when he left it, and ignore the gravity of his choice to join the Ghost Train.

Because he's scared he'll forget other things, Chuck is a compulsive journaler. He writes down the day's events, no matter how trivial, and gives a massive amount of detail about every person he interacts with. He only started doing this about a hundred years ago, once he realized he couldn't remember his family anymore.

Chuck has a small apartment in the Ghost Station. It's small and cramped, but it's a place for him to stay when he's not working, and also for any lovers or loved ones to stay if they're 'living' with him. He has a room entirely dedicated to all of his journals, though the manner of sorting them is known only to Chuck.

[eisforeidolon]

Hey there, I hope you don't mind me dropping in here on a topic from a few days ago and harping on about it (I'm not very well-versed on ask boxes so I'm a bit unsure of the etiquette. If I commit a major faux-pas, forgive me). Apologies if this ends up a little long and a lot sarcastic - I have opinions about this. It's given me a fair bit of grief over the years.

Y'know, I see these 'abusive Dean' takes float across my dash a fair bit (apparently not being into Destiel or Wincest means I must be a Bitter Sam-girl instead and hate Dean, according to Tumblr). The oh-so-delightful 'abusive husband Dean and beaten wife Sam' takes. People calling Sam 'beaten wife coded' in general. One based on a grand total of two instances where he flinched cause Dean made a loud violent noise near him (who the hell wouldn't, you don't need to be 'beaten wife coded' to flinch when someone chucks a chair at a wall, it's almost like Sam has some kind of trauma about various other things and might be generally jumpy...). Or taking the end of S10 out of context and choosing to forget that Dean was nearly fully taken over by a mark of fratricide (which he still managed to overcome, they conveniently fail to mention that). And I just... ugh.

What I never understood about these takes is like... why? There's trying to paint your fave in a good light and a character you hate in a bad one, but then there's making the heart and soul of the show itself into something so ugly it ruins it for other people, like your Anon, and honestly this happened to me too a while ago before I forced myself to stop listening to the greater fandom and find a few I trusted (like you). Even still, it gets all up in my head sometimes. Why are these people finding such glee in making the central relationship so awful? What are you getting out of this show if you think that about it?

Like, imagine looking at the finale through this lens. Congratulations, you turned something sad but ultimately bittersweet into something horrible, the 'beaten wife' dedicating the rest of their life to their 'abuser' then being forced to be with them for eternity, and this is portrayed as a good thing. Why would you ever want to view it that way? Plus, it's rather forced if you take it as a whole - the few times Sam stood there looking contrite while Dean did something stupid pale in comparison to the number of times he calls him out on it, even in the later seasons (14x12 Prophet and Loss, anyone? 15x17 Unity?).

I guess people can take from media what they want, it's obviously not my place to police people's enjoyment, but I just never got the appeal. It seems so counter to what the show was clearly actually trying to do, yet they tout it as fact (now where have I seen that before). Like it's somehow a bad thing to enjoy the show on its own terms. Coming across these takes still kinda bums me out. This goes for people insisting it's the other way around too - I can't stand any brother vs. brother stuff either, it's never anything but bad faith, and honestly kinda misses the point. Some of these people boggle my mind with their lack of empathy.

If there's one thing this fandom is good for, it's honing your ability to roll your eyes and move along. It's full of so much absolute batshit insanity that you'll never survive if you listen to every take. Trust me, I've tried. Do you know which tags to block to avoid this kinda stuff? Cause I never seem to be able to.

Sorry if this was a bit of a rant dump, heh. I'm usually a chronic lurker, but this discourse in particular bothers me immensely.

You're absolutely fine, I mind neither bringing up previous topics nor excessive length (be a bit of a hypocrite if I did, tbh). And yeah, it's one of my least favorite SPN fandom discourses, too.

It does feel like it's pretty hard to find any corner of the fandom where you won't at least occasionally see one side or the other's worst faith not!fave-brother-is-terrible takes. And oh, do I hate the 'beaten wife Sam' half of the 'Dean is an abuser' discourse equation just as much. Like, supposedly they like Sam, so why on earth would they want to pretend this stubborn competent badass of a character is actually a helpless pathetic marshmallow?! Same with Dean on the opposite side of the fandom - it's not just the character they're constantly maligning I can't recognize, the character they "like" similarly bears very little resemblance to the one I'm a fan of!

So far as I can tell, some people just desperately need their favorite character to be the best one who is always in the right. Whether it's over-identification or what, I don't know. They seem to think they achieve it by reframing large portions of the canon as justifying, unfairly attacking, or insulting that character as necessary. Except they don't see how from the outside it very often looks entirely absurd, regardless of if they're doing it in favor of Sam, Dean, or Castiel. Which is not to say there aren't parts of canon which treat all of those characters ridiculously in one way or another? But it's the total fixation on it only being the case with their favorite character in every possible situation where it gets weird.

Every great once in a while, I do manage to come across a take that really annoys me. But for the most part? The extreme ones are just so absurd, so divorced from what anyone even vaguely trying to understand the other characters' motivations and what the show quite obviously intended? I just can't take it at all seriously. Especially when they (as they so often do) get canon details wrong or pointedly "forget" all the canon points that blatantly don't fit their narrative.

Unfortunately, like with a certain ship, when it comes to tagging? You're kind of at the mercy of the self-awareness of the poster about how much other people may not want to see their hot takes.

[luimagines]

Hello! So i have this idea of a Linksona of mine if you don't mind listening to it.

This Linksona title is The Hero of Freedom, he is actually a complete nobody wannabe bard before the whole adventure happen, so the Chain could also call him 'Bard/Musician'. He belongs in the downfall timeline and his Hyrule is kinda of a mess because Ganondorf is the current Ruler of his lifetime, having killed the royal family of Hyrule way before the spirit of the Hero could have reborn.

This Link of mine actually had a mother who was a priestess of Hylia, his mother still has hope in the Goddess even after years of suffering under Ganondorf rule and his severe punishments to those caught still worshiping the Goddess or having any type of rebellious behavior, Link mother managed to savage a Golden Harp thought to be the original Harp that Hylia used from the ashes of the old church where she prayed, she gave her son the name 'Link' because she wanted him to be as brave as the hero of Legend, Link mother would often play her harp to her son and sing to him and tell him stories about the heroes of the past, she always told him the importance of being kind and brave even in the most severe of circumstances, she wanted him to be able to feel hope even when none existed. Link mother ended up dying, killed by Ganondorf followers when Link was 13, she left him her harp and made him promise not to hate the people of Hyrule for their fear of the Demon King and to not let hate weight in his heart.

Link was pretty much alone after his mother death, he ended picking up his mom musical talent and played his harp and sang regularly, although he was sometimes getting thrown at him, he met Zelda at the age of 14 and his adventure started there.

Zelda is 19 in this timeline and is actually the leader of a rebellion against Ganondorf, she was saved still as a baby and was raised by Impa so she doesn't know about much about royalty life, but she knows to kill a man, so there's that, she is actually pretty no nonsense and is focused on battle tactics and fighting rather than magic, although she has the triforce of wisdom, she actually met Link when she was trying to shrug off one of Ganondorf guards, and he appeared out of nowhere and chucked a glass bottle at the guys face, the guard then attempted to kill Link and Zelda put a dagger to the guy's throat.

Zelda was pretty prepared to give Link the scolding of his life, but the racket they caused ended up catching the attention of more guards, and she ended up picking the kid like a sack of potatoes and fleeing the scene. She was not exactly happy that the 'Chucking a bottle at a guy two times my size is a good idea' kid is the fricking Hero reborn, actually the thought of having to train a 14 old to kill a freaking adult demon man makes her nauseous and start to curse the Goddesses to high heaven, she eventually relents and keeps a Hawkeye on Link in his journey to make sure 'everything goes according to plan' (She is actually worried, but doesn't want anyone to know).

I see Link and Zelda having a very much Big sister and Little brother relationship in this timeline, Link does lookup to Zelda and think she is the coolest person ever and Zelda thinks Link will be the reason she goes white early because the kid never stopped picking fights with things that are a hundred times his size.

That my Linksona, hope you found it interesting!

I really like this au! XD

Link is still Link no matter what and Zelda is ready to kick butt as always!

Would that make Impa the grandma or very tired aunt?

Poor Link though, destined to not have family. :(

[celestetcetera]

I’m obsessed w the “could you imagine [dashboard simulator prompt]?” that chuck faux notes on the bottom of their statement and go right into the dash sim. It’s like that cartoon effect where a harp plays and the world gets distorted as I am transported into their imagination

[unicyclehippo]

prompt: patience

‘ashton! good morning!’ laudna trilled, fluttering a wave his way. they grunted. nodded her over.

she settled beside them, skirt of her new dress wafting out over his knee, the layers soft against their skin. it burned. soft things did, which was some cosmic fucking joke probably. it made him entirely too fucking aware of the itch under his skin, the one that felt like his body was trying to turn itself inside out. laudna apologised, which he ignored. she didn’t have to apologise for shit. ever.

‘so?’

‘so what.’

‘how’s it going? your meditation?’

a frown crunched between their brows.

‘honestly?’

‘of course!’ she said, loud and bright and cheery. he’d fucking die for her.

‘seems like a lot of being patient,’ he said. laudna nodded, smiling. ‘no. i’m no fucking good at patience. it’s a fucking scam. people are always harping on about it but it’s always for their own fucking benefit. be patient so we can treat you like shit for longer. be content with fucking scraps, the hunger is good for you, makes you determined. be patient and you’ll learn something. life’s a fucking prison and patience is your time fucking served and you better be on your best behaviour or else. it’s bullshit! meditation is bullshit. it’s all…’ ashton grabbed the nearest rock, one they’d been focusing on for this meditative shit, and chucked it. hard. it sailed a considerable distance before impacting a tree, which shattered.

‘holy shit.’

‘fuck. that’s not. one of their important trees, is it?’

‘i don’t know,’ she said, and climbed swiftly to her feet. ‘but just in case, we should not be here.’ she held a hand down to him, like she could actually lift him. ashton took it, softly.

there had been a time when he’d done stupid shit, got into scrapes, and had no one to run away with. it had taken fucking years before he salvaged FCG, then the rest piled in by accident. had it been patience that got him to all of them? or something else?

when they stopped running, laudna didn’t need to catch her breath because she didn’t ever really do that. ‘are you going to try again? the meditation.’

ashton groaned and dropped to the ground, sprawling beneath the sprawling branches of some nice old tree. the stretching shadows mimicked his outstretched limbs. did that mean something? laudna nudged them.

‘yeah. fuck me,’ he muttered. ‘yeah, i am.’

[gamesception]

Sception Reads Cass Cain #9

Robin #73 story by Chuck Dixon, pencils by Steven Harris

Right up front, I'm not a big fan how Cass is depicted in this one. Like, it's not the complete train wreck that I felt it was on initial read, and I've gone back to tone down some of the excessive negativity in my initial write up. I still don't like how Harris draws Cass/Batgirl here, and I still think this issue is just a completely missed opportunity by Chuck Dixon to start building a relationship - working, family or otherwise - between Tim Drake and this new member of the Bat Clan. But it's not like, uniquely bad. Just frustrating.

The basic set up here is that Tim's dad, who left with his family before No Mans Land, and who I don't think knows that Tim is Robin? Though I'm not sure of that? has realized that Tim has returned to Gotham somehow. Afraid for his son's safety, has made a big stink with the press.

The American news media, who were big supporters of the 'nobody enters nobody leaves' No Mans Land policy when the people trapped in Gotham were poors and minorities and criminals, are suddenly screaming about the inhumanity of the policy now that they have an upper class white father afraid for the safety of his upper class white child. Tim feels guilty about more public concern being expressed by the national media over just him than over literally every other human being trapped in Gotham put together, but Bruce sees an opportunity to leverage the media circus to move political landscape towards ending No Mans Land altogether.

Meanwhile the government wants the story over as quickly as possible, so a one time exception is made to the NML policy for Tim and federal marshals meet with his dad to contact Tim and arrange a rescue by helicopter. I'm left wondering how there's still working cell reception almost a full year into No Man's Land - that's not just a Cinema Sins ding, the difficulty of getting communications and accurate reporting out of Gotham is a fundamental part of the set up, but whatever.

There's not really any safe places to carry out a helicopter rescue, and Tim won't be able to fight off threats as Robin while being rescued as Tim Drake, so he'll need a chaperone. That's where our girl comes in, looking cool and spooky in the window.

Once again we have Cass as the silent shadow / batman's enforcer, creepy and unknowable even to her allies. Cass is supposed to be like 16 in No Mans Land? And in her own stories she's very much a kid - giddy at the high of being a superhero, overconfident in her abilities, insecure in her place in the Bat Clan, desperate to please Batman. I don't object to Tim not knowing what to think of Cass to start, but It should not be difficult for a writer to find some level on which Tim can begin to relate to Cass, some way for them to begin to empathize with each other and move on from that starting point as strangers to start building a rapport between them.

So the next day they head over to the agreed on site, and... what's going on with Cass's proportions here? Ok ok, there's clearly supposed to be some foreshortening going on in this panel, lets cut Harris some slack and move on...

... no, no I'm sorry, there's no foreshortening here. Cass is 16. She's a kid. Who is that giant lady in the background?

Like... this isn't great. Not great art happens, so I'm not going to harp on for an extended paragraph of pure complaints, and definitely didn't write and delete such a paragraph. It's not worth getting hung up over.

A convenient breeze picks up to move Batgirl's cape for one pane. Because you gotta get that butt shot in there somehow, full length cape or no.

So anyway Tim gets changed and the marshals show up in their helicopter, and as expected a nearby gang notices and attacks.

Cass shows up to fight off the gang, and Tim stops the marshals from shooting while they might hit her. I mean, they said they were using rubber bullets, but are you really going to take their word for it.

The helicopter lifts off from the park with Tim and Cass as more reinforcements for the gang arrive, but the Marshals say they're only authorized to take Tim out of Gotham. Not that Batgirl would have left anyway, but she drops back down into the city, and Tim gets to leave - and make rounds on the news talking about how the real heroes are the ones still in Gotham.

A fine enough wrap up to Tim's participation in No Mans Land, and it gets him out of Gotham so his book doesn't have to involve the darker Joker threatening babies / killing Gordon's wife note the crossover ends on.

As a Cass fan though, this is a super frustrating issue, because for all that Batgirl features in the story, it doesn't really feel like Cass is here at all. The giant lady in the Batgirl suit doesn't look like Cass, but it's not just the art, she's not there in the writing or either. This book was an opportunity to start building a connection between Cass, this all new member of the Bat Family, and Tim, one of the key existing members. There were pages enough that we could have had a nice quiet moment between them, maybe with her mask off so we could see her face, where they connect on some level, establish the beginnings of some sort of friendship or at least working relationship. Like, Cass could maybe use drawings or pantomime to ask if Tim were Bruce's son, or he could notice how hard she's working to impress Batman and feel some sympathy for how difficult that is. Something. Anything.

To the extent that what we all like most about the Bat Family is the found family aspect, we want to see these two starting to build some sort of sibling relationship. Instead there's just nothing at all. They don't even feel like acquaintances or co-workers here. And it's hard not to read that as an implicit statement from Dixon that as far as he's concerned Cass isn't a real member of the bat family at all.

[seraphtrevs]

I always thought that it wasn't an accident that, soon after Chuck departs from the story, we get Lalo. Of course it's probably just a natural progression of the story, but it's almost like the exchange of these two major characters is commenting on the dichotomy between the two sides (the legal drama side and the crime drama side) itself.

Oh absolutely- I know I'm always harping on this, but Chuck's last piece of advice to his brother is that he should stop feeling remorse since he is incapable of not hurting people. And as if he were summoned, Lalo comes whirling into town - the embodiment of that advice. And it's very bad! Bad advice!

And it's only after Chuck - the symbol of everything right and wrong with the law - dies that lawless Lalo can take over as Jimmy moves from the straight(ish) and narrow path to the illegal bad choice road. The stakes are much higher in cartel land and in a weird way, chuck was protecting him from it

While Chuck couldn't stop jimmy from smalltime scams, I do think influence would have kept jimmy's worst instincts in check and he would not have become a "criminal" lawyer. Chuck was the last road block on jimmy's journey to saul, and once he passes that, there is no turning back

[jonesbrianshining]

Brian Jones and Keith Richards (photoshoot in Green Park London in 1967)

Excerpt from Keith Richards' interview with Guitarist magazine, 1977. Question: When you first met Brian Jones, was he playing acoustic or electric guitar? Keith: He played acoustic guitar with a pickup. When I first saw Brian, he was playing exclusively Elmore James stuff. Question: How did you two manage to play together? Keith: Great, although it was a somewhat bizarre combination, Brian later switched from guitar to whatever other instrument came to hand he needed two or three tests to get the thing completely ready to record, Brian played vibraphone, marimba and even harp without any prior practice. Question: When you started playing together, who did what? Keith: He and I got along surprisingly easily because we were both into electric blues from Chicago, but the styles of playing were more what I would call commercial - stuff by Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed. Maybe that's part of why Brian hardly listened to Elmore James, BB King and Howlin' Wolf.