#active-mind-15

[bonefall]

Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.

[ancientcosmicentity]

So, I'm rewatching Criminal Minds, soooooo, here's my character sexuality headcannons and ships and why.

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Character sexuality headcannons:

Gideon - straight, somewhere in the aromantic spectrum

Rossi - straight but experimented

Hotch - bicon w/preference for women

Elle - bisexual lesbian (i know, controversial)

JJ - bi girlie

Prentiss - lesbian queen

(Jemily, my beloved)

Reid - bi (cannon if they weren't cowards)

Morgan - bicon part 2 electric bugaloo

Luke - pansexual, demiromantic babes

Garcia - pan/lesbian/queer (leaning slightly more queer)

Reasons:

Gideon -

He doesn't radiate sad gay old man vibes like some others (cough cough hotch cough cough) but he definitely isn't entirely straight either, I feel like he takes a minute to grow a connection and it's that connection he needs to pursue a healthy relationship. So probs demiromantic (maybe i project, sue me !! I want more demi romantic characters) but could also fall on other areas of the aromantic spectrum.

Rossi -

Similar to Gideon, doesn't radiate the same gay old man vibes and I loved his relationship with hayden (joys mum). However, he is canonically a kinky bastard in his youth, and he most definitely had no qualms about fucking around with guys, he wasn't attracted to them and is instead just one hell of an ally who was also heavily involved in queer and kink scenes.

Hotch -

SAD OLD GAY MAN VIBES !! I do enjoy his relationship with haley, and i know he can have had a strong fulfilling relationship with a women without being attracted to her, but I do think he is attracted to women. But he also just radiates sad gay dad there fore 💫bicon hotch💫. Also, he was a troubled teen in an all boys boarding school...I will die on the fact he was a bit of a whore in his youth before haley, I wish we had more on his backstory and what the timeline was but in my head - all boys boarding school for most of his early and mid teenage years before meeting haley late/final year of highschool post transfer - I can't remember if that is even possible with what we know in show but I don't care !! Also, defo had a little thing for garcias friend in the Halloween episode when he gets Jack's costume.

Elle -

I didn't know what I thought she would be at first cuz like she defo loves women but she does have a thing with men then it struck me, both !! She defo would fuck a man but would not want a relationship with one/has no romantic attraction to them. Women on the other hand, she with eat their pussy and put a ring on it at the same time like a true queer icon. I know it's a controversial label but also, they're fiction characters and want to make fun head cannons with fun words !!

JJ -

She just is. Like, I could write a whole essay on the parallels of queerness with JJ, but I'm already yapping excessively and those video essays already exist sooooo I'll let them be lol. Also, i love jemily so much but NO ONE TALKS BAD ABOUT WILL LAMONTAGUE JNR. his and JJs relationship is so cute so I shall multi ship and throuple these mother fuckers as much as I please.

Prentiss -

Literally the OG man hating lesbian and I love her for it. She has never been attracted to a man in her life and i shall die on that hill. Emily prentiss, know I love you deeply.

Reid -

Literally the most stereotypical bisexual to bisexual. And I love him for it. Like, he likes women, but he had more chemistry with Ethan in a SINGLE EPISODE than with JJ (jeid, my UNbeloved) I love my bisexual nerd.

Morgan -

I won't even lie to you this is mostly for angst and hurt/comfort purposes. He lost his father young and took on the role as 'man of the house' incredibly young, then their was C*rl B*ford, and I just love a self realisation fic where he comes to terms with the fact that he is allowed to be attracted to men and that not discount his past trauma and be COMFORTED FOR IT !!! don't get me wrong, all the characters (especially reid) have gone through it, but please!! Give me some morgan-centric fics where he gets comforted and it not delve into other characters trauma. I love reid but please, I need morgan centric hurt/comfort fics where he doesn't act uncharacteristically violently.

Luke -

Ngl, this is entirely vibes. There's nothing I can point to for 'evidence' or 'proper' reasoning, it is just straight up vibes and I choose to stand by it.

Garcia -

This is where I struggle !! Cuz like, she is definitely not straight and I kinda want to say she's a lesbian but I love her relationships with kevin and I love galvez so much. So maybe pan cuase I think i have put too many as bi lol but I also think maybe she would just be unlabelled and 'queer' (let me project onto my  favourite characters okay !!), so probs leaning more towards queer but still up in the air.

Just a little extra here. Hotches stint as a whore, and JJ in a throuple aren't meant to be comments on bisexuality as an identity. For hotch, i just love the trope of very stoic/serious/otherwise unsuspecting character being a whore on the past mostly then for the accidental 'oh, during this very important situation and the person whose important we must talk to I have slept with fuck' moments I love ngl. And I just love both JJ and wills and JJ and Emily as ships and want them all together and happy and see next section for further reasoning. Just got worried on case this fell into any stereotypes of bi people being 'greedy' or unable to have committed relationships or being known for sleeping around. It was not intended !!

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Ships I like and why:

• Jemily

A classic. They're so fucking close and so cute with eachother. They lean on eachother and know nigh everything about eachother even stuff they have been told not to share. I love them together and they'd be fucking precious together!!

• JJ × Will

A cannon straight ship I like. This is highly unusual. I love will with JJ, and honestly just Will as a character. They're relationship and family together is so sweet and cute and I love them as a couple I won't lie. Also male wife × girlboss

• Emily × JJ × Will

I do ship them both speratley but do love a good throuple ship. JJ with her wife and husband, living her best life. I love both these ships and have never been a fan of infidelity trope in fic, and honestly, I want to see wine besties Will and Emily cuz they so would be. They would both put their lives on the line for JJ and that creates a base if respect and trust between them.

• Galvez

I LOVE PENELOPE AND LUKE !!!! I love how garcia is cold at first to him and stand offish and Luke just puppy wags tail 'she's so cool' 'I've heard she's so nice' I love it !! They're precious together and I'm so mad they didn't go through with it in the og 15 seasons (reboot don't let me down on this)

• Morgan and garcia QPR

I do love Morgan and garcia but I don't like them as a romantic couple. I love their violently flirty yet platonic friendship HOWEVER !!! I do love them as a queer platonic relationship. They're is something there that is more than platonic but not romantic and I also just want more QPR stuff in media (including fan media) also: shout out to my irl QPP cuz she will get her appreciation !!! Love you babes (even tho you'll probs not see this)

For next section, just know i stand heavily by SHIP AND LET SHIP. I don't like these for my own reason, if you do SLAY !! I love that for you. But for me, it's just not a fave.

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Ships I don't like and why:

• Jeid

...why? Just why? Reid had a small crush on her in SEASON 1 then she confesses to being in love with Reid in SEASON 14!! there was no build up, or even really mention on it between that time, including which JJ getting a husband and family and Reid going through his love life with Maeve and that whole situation. I like them more as brother and sister type vibe.

• Anyone on the team with Hotch, Rossi, or Gideon

I just don't like it. They all feel like the parents of the team so them shipped with anyone else feels icky to me.

[ohsweetflips]

somewhere on this blog there is a post that goes something like "what if i just start identifying as nonbinary and don't tell anyone and still go by she/her" and that needs to be marked as the day that pandora's box opened

[javierduffy]

ohh javieran … javieran post kieran’s death .., javier is a poor lonesome cowboy in america a long way from home with no more sweetheart to sit and talk with him ooohhh can anyone hear me ….

[sunsetsandsunshine]

PLEASE READ THIS ASK. I PROMISE YOU WON'T REGRET IT.

Um..... hi.

It's the Silent Giggler.

I know I'm the last person you want to see or talk to rn but I wanted to apologise properly for what I said to you earlier today.

It was rude and uncalled for. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote comment, but that doesn't excuse my behaviour.

I wanted to apologise for ruining your Halloween.

You're a really kind person and an amazing writer and I didn't appreciate that.

You're not an AI that can write everything I want all the time and it was selfish of me to even think so.

As an aspiring writer myself, I know what it's like to put your whole heart and soul into writing sth and how scary it can be to post it online because it's like you're putting your sweat, tears and a piece of your personality for everyone to see.

Deleting my old account was cowardly because it's wrong not to admit one's mistake especially if others were hurt in the process.

I want you to log out smiling instead of being even more upset than you were before you logged in.

Thank you for all the hard work you put into everything you write and I'm really sorry for what I said.

It was wrong and I did act like a bully towards you the moment I sent that comment.

You don't have to forgive me if you don't want to. I just don't want you to keep hurting after what I said to you.

PS: You don't have to answer this ask. I just wanted a chance to apologise properly to you.

Well…hello.

I appreciate the apology but I don’t think I can forgive you. I really and truly don’t know. What you said was rude and it was uncalled for and it does not in the slightest excuse your behavior towards me. 

I do not celebrate Halloween but I do celebrate Day of the Dead…which you did in fact ruin for me this year. I was mourning the losses of people I cared about and to receive your comment on my fic that I worked so fucking HARD on despite losing so many people dear to me just…made everything worse. 

I don’t think you understand but this week and month has been rough. So freaking rough but despite that I have been TRYING to post fics continuously because I care about my followers and I know how much people enjoy my work. 

I am not an AI that just…writes to write. I write from my heart but most importantly it’s a HOBBY of mine; a hobby you made me question. 

And I’m still now trying to comprehend WHY you did all of this. You’re a writer. You know full well what’s it’s like so…why? What the actual hell did I do to you? 

We are strangers. I do not know you. And for you to treat me like what you did was just…sad.

PLUS you’ve SEEN my posts about me going to be inactive and having a hard day.

And personally? I don’t log into this site smiling anymore because of people like you. You are, like, the 5th person this MONTH that has done something like this and I’m tired. 

The amount of time and work that I put into my fics mean nothing and they never will because there is always just…someone always trying to put me down. 

People don’t care about me— it’s just the work I produce and even then it doesn’t satisfy people like yourself.

You are a bully and I don’t understand what I did to get a comment like that. No offense, but I think you should know better regarding the fact that you are like…3 years older than me. 

I’m tired and I’m hurt. And I don’t know what to do anymore really

[farenmaddox]

this is apparently a Supernatural blog now

do you ever think for wayyyy too much about that scene where Dean and Cas thought that they were saying goodbye forever in the finale episode of season 8? and the fact that there were two other dudes literally visibly falling in love with each other like 10 feet away? and you start clawing your own face off?

no? just me?

[obstinaterixatrix]

Hi Stella :) I’m in your inbox for the fic ask thing 

Here’s the symbol I chose ✿

Howdy howdy :V

✿ did anything major change when you started writing [fic] to when you finished? 

In general, I feel like I either have a solid idea of the whole fic (because most of what I write are oneshots) or I develop the fic as it goes so it’s not really a ‘change’ per se... the change tends to be ‘knowing where I actually want to go with it’ lol. also, a lot of times when I write it tends to be during times of stress and transition, so for example that are major changes like ‘when I started writing this fic I was in school, when I finished the fic I graduated’.

oh, for the fic I’m trying to write now (for a given definition of ‘trying’ -_-) the change is: before I didn’t know much about fishing in japan, now I know... still not a lot but I have some logistics. also another major change for it is that I was originally going to do a oneshot of a couple of different scenarios and then was like... hm... with the oneshots being based on hobbies/activities, I can see a way to make this a multichapter getting together fic...’ so that’s A Major Change. actually I have the exact moment I realized this in the tags of a post hang on let me dig it up

[pyroreadscomics]

I have done it

According to the DCU Guide, I have read every single Post-Crisis Pre-Flashpoint comic that features main universe Selina Kyle. And I have to say... Good lord was that not worth it.

[haruichi-mamiya]

I'm not a huge meta head when it comes to lbc (my principle is as long as I survive longer than the enemies, I'm good w whatever) but man there really are some picturas out here that have the most beautiful art but then have the most god awful effects

[olessan]

I love the fact that I can work as hard as I can manage with a broken tooth and a dying tooth (one on each side, I've been chewing on the cavity for a year) and I still cannot save even $10 towards getting dental treatment (2 impacted wisdom teeth, + tooth broken off under the gum, + bad cavity) because I barely make enough to cover my food and board and the insane energy bill

[djarinova]

after seeing those tom gifs i know i followed the right account

OMG plsss 😭

if you liked those you should've seen the amount of tom stuff I was rbing from like 2016-2019 ... that was my mcu and subsequently my tom phase and let me tell u... the number of tom photos + gifs I had saved to my phone was astronomical tehehe

[bravevolunteer]

not only does michael watch supernatural, he FINISHED supernatural

[hopefulqueer]

i rly like that i'm at a place with my art where i can literally see the improvement from one piece to the next

[icannotgetoverbirds]

the horrors persist but so do i

i was trying to make a meme but i fucked up the audio layering and

[aethercurrent]

speaking of fisher main behaviour this week's tragic happenstance is that i actually caught every fish outside of ocean fishing now and im so desperately wanting to fish im side-eyeing the absolute rng horror that is ocean fishing completion

[obstinaterixatrix]

🤝 comrade