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I keep forgetting the target demographic of miraculous is kids and it's like 10 years old now so a lot of you are younger than me. It's so crazy. I'm supposed to be graduating college in like a few months.
So anyways, I just wanted to say that life gets better than highschool and all the bad times you have now will be a distant memory in the future. Keep working hard and what you love and keep loving yourself. Be honest with others, spread kindness wherever and whenever you can. Fake it till you make it. If you want to be a better person pretend you are. The world is a beautiful place and there's so many Wonderful people in it. Don't let a few discredit the rest. Be kind to mean people too, I know it's like bad, but idk, they need some kindness to learn kindness. But also don't take shit, if they're an ass call them out on it with a smile and move on. Kill them with kindness as they say.
Also treat every scary experience like exposure therapy, that angle helped me do a lot of stuff I was nervous about
#i struggled with a lot of anxiety in highschool and if i had known how much better I'd feel in the future it wouldve helped a lot#struggled with panic attacks like multiple times a day#idk its just weird thinking back on it bc now i can go weeks without incident#its surreal to think that im truly proud of myself for how far ive pushed myself#social anxiety is crazy and its something that just comes with life experience#my three life hacks are#fake it till you make it#kill people with kindness#treat everything like exposure therapy#also put enrichment in your enclosure lmao
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Hii!! I just found your blog and your art is rlly nice! If I can ask,how do you deal with motivation and art block? (Speaking as someone who is STRUGGLING rn lmao)
hey, thank you very much! lemme see if I can type out something useful. here are a few things that have helped me:
making art part of my routine. the motivation question is difficult - it's hard to overcome the inertia of sitting on the couch, the lure of the internet, etc - and so I try to set aside a particular time of day to work on art. so it's not "hmmmm do I feel like working on art rn?" it's "ah, it's [x] time, so now I will go draw". sometimes it doesn't quite work out, but it helps to have this dedicated hour.
keeping my art supplies readily available. this may be hard to do if space is an issue but I find sometimes if I put away my hobby supplies out of sight, I forget all about them lol
try to find/organize some regular meetup (irl or virtual) to do some drawing from life/reference, like figure drawing, a plein air meetup, a still life club, etc. it's good practice to draw from life, but more relevantly for your question re art block/motivation: a) it provides a regularly-scheduled Time For Art b) it narrows down the question of "what should I draw" - you just draw the person/object/tree/whatever right in front of you! and also it's nice to hang out with other art people :)
related to the above, there are some websites (eg line of action) that provide free references for figure drawing, animals, etc. they're timed, so if all you have is 15 minutes and no ideas, then hey, you can still do three 5 minute sketches!
try a different medium/style than what you currently use. don't worry about quality, just play around with it! have some fun :^)
add some enrichment to your enclosure. check out an art gallery, go on a walk in a park you haven't been to before, see a play, read a new book, play a game, have dinner with loved ones, etc etc etc. I don't know what inspires you, but sometimes when I feel uninspired it's actually because I haven't gone outside or done anything fun in a few days and my brain is turning into sludge ._.
lastly, if nothing seems to be working, it's fine to let a hobby go for a little while. if you're getting no joy out of it (and it's not something you have to do eg for your education/career), you don't have to force yourself to draw. you can always come back to it when you're ready.
also, all this assumes the struggle is art-specific. if you feel unmotivated/uninterested in your hobbies in general that may be a mental health issue, in which case you should get advice from a medical professional and not me!
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Today's food from the Neopets Cookbook was....
Space quesadilla!
Yknow at first I wasn't sure why this item was 11k neopoints but after making it I kind of understand lmao it's a little tedious. But it got me thinking back that 20 years ago I would not have been able to afford this food item in the game comfortably haha.
Started off with some onions and beans! You gotta cook the onions for a bit, then add the seasoning, then the beans.
Then you have to mash this whole thing in a "chunky purée"
I wouldn't exactly call this a purée, but I worked with it lmao. I'm not sure if it's meant to be softer than this or not but it worked out! Also to be fair I keep forgetting to buy a potato masher and had to make do.
Now it's time for assembly! A layer of the bean paste, and then a generous amount of cheese. In hindsight I shoulda put more cheese. But also at this point I'm very hungry and want to eat this thing.
The next step is to cut them into stars. This is a messy process and leaves you with a lot of extra cuttings. The cookbook suggest just cooking and eating them on the side, which yeah fair! But it does make a mess lol. The stars are very cute, but I probably wouldn't bother with it if I was gonna make this again haha. Would be fun for a party though!
All that's left is to garnish with pico de gallo! I omitted the cilantro in mine bc I hate cilantro and i know it likely changed the flavor but I don't care. Apologies for the messy presentation but I was hungry and also on the clock lmao. I may or may not have eaten one already. Also I suck ass at flipping stuff in pans sdfsg.
They tasted alright! There's a few things I would change from my first attempt (and I did do with the second batch): First I would put more seasoning in the bean paste. The two teaspoons of cumin kinda disappeared in all the beans. I think I could've used more lime juice too! Or just more salt.
Second I would use a mix of cheese. The cookbook suggest using cheddar or swiss (or a mix of both). I went with swiss for funsies but swiss alone was a little bland. In the second batch I added some cheddar and it was much better. And some green onions bc green onions are always good.
So this was neat! The taste was nothing to write home about but that's easily fixed I think, my second batch was much better. I think my pan got a bit too hot at the end too lol. Aside from the mess it was really easy to make though and cutting it into quarters was much faster and slightly less messy. But for a party or simply enclosure enrichment sometimes cutting your food into stars is just fun.
"See y'all next time!"
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HEY I have a hermit crab (he's like 6-7 at this point so not a recent acquisition) and I'm always trying to think of things for him to do or play with because he’s awesome and I love him. Any ideas?
ANON THATS SO COOL! hermit crabs are awesome, and huge props to you keeping your little guy’s enrichment in mind!!! i have seen some people put larger hermits or other crabs (like fiddlers) in hamster balls for short periods of time in order to let them explore in relative safety…. i would go for one of the larger ones and keep a close eye on him but that could be fun!!
variety in diet is also a big thing people will do for their hermits. when i worked at a pet store, i used to love giving ours fresh chopped veggies fruit and nuts — but they can eat all sorts of additional things too! food items that won’t spoil right away (like dried fish or dried fruit) can be sprinkled around the enclosure or ‘hidden’ to give him a chance to put those foraging skills to good use. stuff like sterilized dry leaf litter (catappa/indian almond leaves are usually sold for fish or reptile setups, but they work good for these guys too! i’d just make sure to go for stuff intended for pets) or even live plants can make for good edible enrichment too! (i’d be very careful to make sure everything you use is safe for him to eat - i’ve seen people grow wheatgrass or other ‘cat grasses’ for anything from hamsters to birds to crabs so that might be a decent option. you could also look into what sort of leafy greens people find their hermits tend to like, and consider growing some sprouts for him!!)
they’re also avid climbers, so something like pieces of sturdy driftwood or cholla wood or even one of those rope climbing nets people will use for lizards could be fun — if it’s the latter, i’d just make sure it’s very tightly secured and that the substrate is thick + soft enough that if he does fall, he won’t hurt himself too much. don’t want any shell damage.
one thing i always love to do for enrichment with the various inverts i’ve kept over the years is actually one of the easiest things to do — just rearrange their tank every so often! turn around or flip over bits of rock or wood, switch out fake plants for some new ones, change the location of the food or water dishes, all kinds of stuff like that to keep their brain moving and keep them exploring!! it’s something we do for animals at work too, it’s a great way to provide novel stimuli without having to go too crazy.
i’ve honestly never had a hermit crab myself (i love em to death, but they usually like to have as much space as possible and i’m heavily limited for space rn. that and i’m hardly ever home lmao) so i’m just pulling from my general invert/aquatic crustacean knowledge, so take that with a few grains of salt. best of luck in your crabby enrichment endeavors though!!
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tada dot point oc lore that i thought up on my plane ride tonight (just got home agh finallyyy) and yes. this is a curse now. oc lore be upon ye/silly :3
-So Tim (janette’s dad) did leave for a reason other than oh weird cult. Diana did try to kill him. He’s blind in his right eye because of it (she had to kill someone to become the cult leader)
-Janette shot huan lin in the back of the head and then immediately hopped back in the car they were driving and sat there in dead silence. and then got jumpscared by huan’s ghost who was like ‘WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT’/hj
-Dana and Tim were a highschool couple (guy who’s ‘alternative’ for the 60’s and very religious girl the couple ever)
-Janette originally was meant to be in a polycule/qpr thing with josh and adele but then @koymoa made adele a terrible person so. lore happened.
-ADELE IS KIND OF THE REASON FOR CLAIRE’S DEATH AND RYAN SAW HIS SISTER’S BODY GET DECAPITATED. poor guy.
okok byeee i will send non lore related asks i promisee
I WOULDVE REPLIED TO THIS EARLIER BUT TUMBLR PUT ME IN POST JAIL RAHHHHH (posted too much. i hate post limit ): )
OC LORE BE UPON ME 💥💥‼️ i have been fed... just so you know, this is like.. throwing enrichment into my enclosure. enrichment that i also eat. this is great.
O H. OH BOY. HALF-BLIND HUH?? WELL THATS F U N . id imagine that didnt affect his life in any way /s. does he wear an eyepatch..... he should wear an eyepatch.. (/nf, this is just Silly). what does he say when ppl ask him how he lost the eye.. "oh my evil cult leader ex-wife tried to kill me. its fine tho ! i took one of our children and left the other to suffer (:"
AHEHFJFJR. huan lin mustve been SOOO confused ngl. one second he wasnt dead... the next he was, and was a GHOST at it. imagine your best friend killing you, you become a ghost, find her, and shes just sitting ominously in her car..... gods, poor janette. did she even expect the ghost?? she mustve, right? considering her mum already haunts her...
weird fucking power couple ngl.. in the bad way LMAO
..oh how the turns table..... imagine happy qpr jodelette (thats their ship name now /hj (there is probably already ship names and shit, i just dont know them so im making stuff up so i dont have to type out all their names zWhmJEJFR)) meeting Fucked Up jadele. like. how would that go down. these guys are Silly and Happy, no fucked up bullshit... and these guys want to literally kill eachother and are traumatised as fuck. would evil adele want to kill happy adele. would she. id bet she would ... little acrophobic motherfucker..
OH. ?? RYAN!?? YIU GOO?? poor guy.. what the fuvk.. first his arm gets chopped off by his gf, next his sister gets decapitated which is somehow caused by his mother?? (idk if thats the actual order of events) oh thats Fun. giving the guy. a shock blanket, i swear
ALSO. WHAT HAPPENS TO OLIVER. PLEASE TELL ME. I FORGOT TO ASK THST. (olivers kemis kid right? the one that tim just drops off at janettes place and then Leaves?? it was smth like that..)
SEND ME ALLLL THE LORE ASKS EVER. I WILL EAT THEM !!! GOOD SOUP!! ENRICHMENT !!! heheheheh
#asks#murder lesbians#i am thinking sooo muvh abt happy qpr jodelette now.#i am thinking about them.#theu are in my brain.#what vouldve been....#TOXIC YURI THO-💥💥💥💥#ajndkfkfjdkg
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Okay so the rest of the chapter was also very good. I’ll start with the cafeteria. Tommy only got told he would get to run the next when it was very late, he left very early. He only took the time to wake up and tell Wilbur. He did not tell Tubbo, because Tubbo doesn’t seem to know where Tommy is. And he’s instantly worried and suspicious of Wilbur. But it has to sting know that Tommy didn’t tell you he was going on a run. That has to be a sign of how badly Tubbo fucked up. He’s being very paranoid and stressed still. Aimsey even says so.
You know maybe I should have started with why Wilbur went to the cafeteria in the first place. Distractions! A big theme for glass!Wilbur. Or your Wilbur’s in general. Tbf, there’s not a lot he can do in this situation. All he can do is wait. So healthy distractions it is. And I say healthy cuz it’s not alcohol this time. In fact it is social interaction with new people. There are a lot of benefits to Tommy not being there even if it resulted in what I can only assume is going to be a trainwreck.
The lack of Tommy befinits include: Niki and Wilbur interactions. Wilbur wanting to go to the cafeteria. Aimsey coming over and wanting to sit with them. Wilbur being allowed to decide whether or not they can stay (though I think Tommy would let Wilbur decide for himself too, Aimsey was against killing Wilbur after all). The nice fear about death conversation and Aimsey comforting Wilbur. The general getting on the same page and clearing up misconceptions based on prejudice.
What I mean by that is that Wilbur assumes none of the Deathlinhs are anxious because they are used to this. But Niki is still anxious. They are all still afraid their friends might not come back. So there’s some comfort for Wilbur there. And of course he requires a different form of comfort. The thought that Lady Deafth is waiting on the other side of no comfort to him. Not only because she’s not his goddess (and I think he’s still kind of scared or put off by her) but he only just got a friend, he does not want to lose him. So then Aimsey switches tactics by pointing out that Tommy’s tattoos aren’t just proof of his recklessness, they are proof of his skill. And that does the trick.
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oh yeah tubbo was very shocked and hurt to learn that tommy went on a run without telling him. it really shows just how badly their relationship was damaged by the whole "we should kill the pythia" debate and how far tommy is willing to let his own stubbornness go.
going to the cafeteria was a very healthy distraction so props to him!! not alcohol this time yay!! and he gets to interact with way more people this time. healthy behaviors for him! it's like enriching a tiger in a zoo enclosure he's gotta get proper stimulation lmao
I also wanted to use tommy's absence to show how unhealthy their dynamic is becoming. because without tommy around, yes, wilbur is very anxious. but he can still interact with people and it forces him to make decisions and not just keep most of his focus on the person he's most comfortable with. pushing boundaries can be very helpful and that's what a lot of this chapter was. wilbur being in a position where he has to push his boundaries, but he has control of how far he wants to push them.
yeahhh the lady death angle wasn't gonna work to comfort him, so aimsey's topic switch to the tattoos was very necessary
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how did you decide what types of snakes to get? do reptiles need enrichment like dogs?
my first snake, who i got in middle school and died recently, was a corn snake. i got her because corn snakes are easy to take care of. i went for a bp after because they have rlly cool color morphs. i got a mbk finally because i think theyre neat and i was very tired of dealing with Ball Python Bullshit (tm).
decide what reptile to get based on what you can handle--reptiles need specialized care in ways that dogs or cats dont. i very much enjoy my uromastyx lizards (more than i enjoy my snakes care, but i still love my snakes regardless) and have no plans to get any other reptile any time soon.
for the second question.....anon u have opened up a can of worms that i think u dont realize how deeply engrained and fought over it is. short answer tho? YES. reptiles need enrichment just as any other animal on this planet.
again gonna put this under a read more bc it will probably get long
the much longer & more complicated answer is that the reptile hobby is full of money and that money drives interactions. ball pythons, especially, are a very lucrative business that spans potentially millions, if not billions of dollars. reptiles are bred for color--full stop. ive met maybe three breeders that somewhat look at temperament in breeding. a more colorful or rare morph means more money. you also have to think of it this way--adding enrichment costs money. providing big enclosures? costs money and space.
you can’t have a multi-million dollar business if you give your reptiles proper care--it’s too much time, money, and effort for these people. that’s why if you go onto ball python groups, its incredibly common to see people deny that ball pythons need enrichment. despite the fact that there are several studies out there showing that reptiles do have an increased quality of life, it just doesnt matter to these people.
these are the same people who will breed and sell animals with known neurological issues VERY CLEARLY linked to their color morph so like, not the best people.
i very distinctly remember getting into a facebook argument like four years ago in a ball python group. these people will literally twist any words you have. the most common argument when linking those studies was “well, OTHER reptiles need enrichment but BALL PYTHONS dont because theyre pet rocks”. it’s a huge part of the reason that im just...not in the reptile hobby anymore. i breed for myself and what im looking for. i also dont touch ball pythons lmao
for reference, here is one of my bp enclosures:
here is what is considered the “standard” in the hobby: (this is also the color morph w neurological issues)
also im using bps as an example in this simply because theyre the most common, but they are not the only reptiles effected by this. case & point: burm/reticulated python setup that is also common
it is. incredibly frustrating. to be fighting this constantly. there is a lot of money in the reptile hobby, so its not an easy fight to begin with. there is a reason i simply do not talk about my reptiles much anymore lmao
#asks#tw#snake#snakes#reptiles#ball pythons#images in the read more so if u Dont Like Snakes .........
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hi!! can I ask what you mean by animal welfare > animal rights? this is a genuine question because I sort of see what you mean but I would love further details!
ok so this... isnt gonna have sources bc tbh im lazy hebdbbfbrhr if you want more information you can search animal welfare on my blog but basically
animal rights is basically what pe/ta stands for-- its an emotion-based approach to human/animal interaction that ends up ultimately harming the animals it claims to protect and usually this also intersects with opinions that are racist ableist etc. this ranges from claiming that there is NO ethically or sustainably responsible way to eat meat (vegan diets aee extremely unethical and unsustainable actually lol but nobody ever talks about that) to claiming that humans shouldnt interact with animals at ALL and we should all release our domesticated pets into the wild (WHICH IS A TERRIBLE IDEA)
animal welfare on the other hand is science based. it focuses on what has been empirically shown to be the best option for both people and animals. this can be things like keeping your cats indoors to protect native bird populations and prevent your cat from often tragic injuries or death, and providing your cat with proper enrichment while it is indoors. animal welfare is accredited zoos with state-of-the-art enclosures and enrichment for their animals raising money and awareness for conservation causes.
the rise of the internet has seen a HUUUGE increase in misinformation regarding animals and its important to me that people know that i dont support or put up with that bullshit lmao
also just as a sidenote I WOULD PREFER IF PEOPLE DID NOT REB/LOG THIS and instead reblogged posts with actual sources thank u 🥰🥰🥰
#answered#also thank you so much for asking!!! again id highly recommend looking thru my blog for actually well worded posts lmao
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3, 7, 11, 21 :)
((ok sorry i got distracted first by food then by s*pernatural posting whoops))
3. If your oc was put in a room for ten days with nobody else, would they mind or go insane?
little rain cloud of a human being winchester would be having the time of his life. he would SLEEP for DAYS and wake up REFRESHED. he would only leave because [REDACTED]. his siblings however would all fold in the first day. dallas might make it to the next morning if there were enough enrichment in the enclosure. but they run on social stimuli in different ways and don't do so hot when cut off from the supply.
7. who is their least favourite person?
astoria obviously hates her mother with fervor. jericho despises astoria as is his duty. dallas incidentally also hates his mother but tbh astoria is tied. winchester doesn't have room in his heart for negativity but if he had to pick someone damn it's astoria.
11. If they were falling from a building with no way out and knew this was it, what would be their last thought?
this is not what the question is asking at all but i made a grid lmao
21. what’s their greatest pride? How does it control them?
ohhhhhhhohoho the kids are not alright. ok so astoria is incredibly competent and she's not shy about it. she has no sympathy for incompetence and has unfortunately never learned the lesson that some things cannot be had simply because you want them bad enough. in her defense she has successfully fulfilled every goal she's ever set for herself via various means, including but not limited to: extortion, 15% concentrated power of will, malicious opportunism, and murder (allegedly). jericho's greatest pride is himself. everything from his pedigree (which was handed to him) to his career path (which was handed to him) and even the very property he owns (which was handed to him). jericho gets what he wants because it's what he deserves and he has very little left to prove so please don't go prying into his psyche, for the love of god. how rude. dear lovely dallas prides himself on his knack for social finessing. he's never met a situation he couldn't talk himself out of. his charisma stat is off the charts. he's never had need for anything because he always has a buddy or knows a guy who can hook him up and if he doesn't he will find someone. things are so simple if you just ask. flipside is that this gets him into just as much trouble as it gets him out. so. really it's a tossup but the odds are usually in his favor (citation needed). and lastly winchester, for all his empathy and moral high ground, is actually a little full of himself. he looks down on his family but to be fair he is right in some regards. might be a bit difficult to stand high when the view requires cutting your roots. we'll see.
#thank you 💟#asks and answers#project succession#i did write a whole darn paragraph#i am happy for any words tho at this point#blessed 🙏
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itsmerandi replied to your post: “i bought Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection hoping to have the...”:
Ooooh tell us more! I've always wanted one of those tycoon games but my mom never got me one :(
Okayso. Zoo Tycoon 2 was the only ~tycoon~ game I ever played before this new one, so I’ll just compare the two of them.
Zoo Tycoon 2 was like... perfect amazing ingenious wonderful so much fun. I only ever played it in the ~unlimited budget~ mode bc I was like 10 and didn’t want to have to use my Brain lmfao. But anyway, the player basically had 100% control over everything. You could design all your own animal enclosures. Like, you choose what kind of fence to use, you choose what shape the enclosure will be, how big... you could even manipulate the terrain and make hills, ditches, cliffs, different ground levels, ponds, rivers, and waterfalls. You could “paint” the biomes/habitats onto the ground and choose from different textures like rocky, sandy, grassy, water, etc. When decorating the enclosures with stuff like trees and plants and rocks and statues, you could put them wherever you wanted, and use as many as you wanted.
In regards to the actual animals, you could put those wherever you wanted, too, including in places where they weren’t supposed to be lmao. Like, you did not have to put animals inside enclosures. You could let them run around and chase zoo guests if you wanted. :P Also, you could pick up zoo guests and put them inside with the animals. It was fucking funny! You could also put prey animals in with predator animals, and the predators would attack and kill and eat them (which really just meant that the predator animal, say, a lion, would just swipe his paw at a gazelle and then the gazelle would suddenly turn into a carcass lmao.)
Now, this new shit doesn’t let you do ANNNNYYYYY OF THAT!!!
The game basically makes all creative decisions FOR you while simultaneously having what’s probably the worst user interface that I’ve ever seen.
Firstly, you have basically no control over what the enclosures look like. You can only select from a handful of pre-made enclosures, and you basically just stamp them down where you want them to go. Like. A literal stamp. There are three different enclosure sizes to choose from: ~Large, medium, and small~. They all have the exact same shape. If you want to place things like restrooms or food kiosks or entertainment areas, those work the same way, too; you just stamp it the fuck down, complete with footpaths that surround the area.
You also have no real control over where the footpaths go. When you place an enclosure or restroom/food kiosk/etc, it pretty much automatically decides where the paths are gonna connect it to the rest of the zoo. This results in there being a LOT of wasted space throughout the zoo, since the game won’t allow you to place things in the most efficient areas.
And perhaps the thing that pissed me off the most was that when it comes to decorating the enclosures.... you basically CAN’T. Everything that you can place in the enclosures, including food stations, bathing stations, shelters, enrichment activities, decorations, etc, can only go in a handful of PRE-DETERMINED LOCATIONS. And once those locations are used up, you can’t put anything else inside!
Basically the entire game (in unlimited mode, at least) is just... going around the zoo and picking up poop, refilling food and water stations, and repairing broken restaurants and bathrooms.
It’s.
Awful and zero fun at all.
Literally the only good thing about it is the graphics and whatnot. All the animals are pretty to look at.
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Okay I'm ready to talk I think
So like I said dean could be inserted as stone instead bc we all know chuck projected hard as hell onto dean and his narcissistic tendencies also make him horny for the Dean Winchester Charm™️
But that's an essay for another time
The reason I think about this as chuck and cas is cos cas really veered off from the plan
He jumped off of the script and started writing his own destiny
Naturally this pissed chuck the hell off
You guys know all that tho so moving on to lyric analysis
"You drool at adventures...your pen is no match for my sword"
So cas gets to be one of the Boys because he CHOSE to. He changed everything with his decision to fall and that ruined Chuck's fucking day
Chuck lives on earth, he was cringe and put himself in the story cos he wanted to experience it I think. He wanted to be part of that experience, to meet Sam and Dean up close and not just manipulate from afar
He's soooo jealous of cas man no cap cas is more important to the winchesters even when he's graceless than chuck ever was as bonafide capital g God
Cas gets to do all the action (my sword) while chuck sits and fruitlessly write (your pen) cos cas' influence changes the story anyway
"You're in my plot I'm still your creator I call each shot I'm your private dictator"
Ofc Chuck by the end is tired of this shit so he's like I'm taking my story back this is gonna end shitty whether you like it or not
He takes away all the other characters and leaves just the brothers as if that's still a relevant theme
He wants control so bad but it's always gonna slip because he can't account for free will aka Cas!!! Cas thee El!!
"I'm everything you've always wanted to be
Let's deal with the issue: you wish you were me"
Ahem...Godstiel anyone??
Yeah cas was god for while wack
And ofc Chuck wishes he was dean's boystie but will NEVER be dean's boystie
So this essentially
I should probably mention that I've literally never watched City of Angels and this song is taken totally out of context so sorry to any like City of Angels buffs reading this lmao (ik there's a reprise where stone and stine see past their differences or whatever and realize they need each other it's actually super sweet but that's all I know)
So basically to wrap up like Stine Chuck is an author that's losing control of the narrative because of Cas (Stone) and they are at odds because of this, direct rivals even
What is a character that goes off script to a writer if not an enemy?
You take away Cas you're left with a bland ass story with a shitty plot that literally no one would care about u less they were super into hot blooded white American men having road trips in a muscle car
You take Chuck away you're literally left with nothing because he made it all.
Without Chuck there is no Cas without Cas there is no substance
Now let's delve a bit into the "Chuck is the CW" side things
Love this analogy a lot actually
What makes even more sense is the CW itself vs cas and what he inspires in fans of the show
His character quite literally changed the story and they just like chuck were willing to let him stay just to see where he'd take things (plus the viewers fell in love with him on sight)
But everytime he was killed off cos they HATE him the viewers and Dean!!! Stopped functioning = stopped watching
Cas isn't supposed to come back?? Views literally tank. Dean literally falls apart no enrichment in the enclosure makes dean a heartbroken boy
So the stuff I said before applies to the company itself too
Because they really fucked us AND cas over in the worst of ways with this finale and we made sure they knew it
"You're nothing without me indeed" without cw there's no Cas and evidence shows that the opposite is also true
It's just a really fun thing to think about!!
something something You're Nothing Without Me from City of Angels is about cas and chuck I would write an essay on it but I'm too cold and sleepy rn someone remind me later
#feel free to drop ur thoughts on this im interested#also if u have no idea what im talking about same#i could get deeper but i have to go for now dksjej#cas thee el#cas my best friend cas#chuck that bastard#cw (derogatory)#supernatural
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