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Are you a serious cockles shipper, or do you just do it for fun? No hate either way lol just wondering
okay iâm putting this under a readmore because itâs embarrassing to talk about in front of 20k people. this is my cockles manifesto:
i am, as a rule, not into rpf shipping. i have no problem with people who are, it just feels kind of weird and invasive to me so i generally avoid it.
however, i have been here since 2012, and the sheer level of unabashed shenanigans that have been beamed into my eyeballs, paired with my intuitive understanding of body language, have convinced me that misha and jensen do in fact have a private romantic/sexual relationship.
BUT i have to make it clear that i donât mean that in a âcheating on their wivesâ way, but in a polyamory way - which isnât much of a stretch, considering that we know misha and his wife are poly, and vicki literally wrote âthe threesomeâs handbookâ. almost every single cockles shipper loves vicki and danneel, we are not about disrespecting or hating them whatsoever.Â
now, i KNOW that saying that i believe the actors who portray my otp are in a secret relationship makes me sound insane, believe me iâm aware of that, but iâm not saying it lightly or without evidence. those of us whoâve been around a while know that itâs treated as basically an open secret in the spn fandom and among the spn cast, who very frequently make comments and allusions to them being together. jared has made SO many comments that people make posts collecting them, like this one and this one. like i said, itâs basically an open secret (like that time the show said âtheyâre a couple in real lifeâ). hereâs some Highly Suspicious Stuff: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14/15, 16, 17, 18, 19/20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
i mean...Â
but itâs important to make clear that if either of them EVER seemed uncomfortable with us shipping them and making jokes and comments, i would absolutely stop. i respect them and i donât ever want to make them feel creeped out or like their privacy is violated. but the thing is, they not just ânot uncomfortableâ, they very deliberately egg us on. misha loves to make âcocklesâ puns, they happily do silly photo ops implying theyâre together, and they both love to post photos of themselves together, knowing quite well how we go crazy for it.Â
like the above selfie, where they posed chest to chest, and this actual âanniversaryâ photo jensen posted, celebrating ten years of the first time he took misha out to dinner, actually tracking down the same restaurant and the same table.
or these really adorable photos of the boat trip they took with both their families:
and of course the beloved sunset photo:
every time they have a panel together (which usually only happens at the yearly roman convention known as jibcon), their antics get wilder. the first time i went âwait...â was in 2013, when they dry-humped onstage.
and by 2019, we have jensen eagerly throwing himself down on the stage (to reenact a scene between castiel and sam) so misha could get on top of him and mime choking him, and then pretty obviously getting a boner because of it (video). oh and i canât possibly leave out the kissing (bonus gifs, and more), or the panel where jensen got drunk and opened his pants to show misha his underwear.
their body language around each other is so different from how they are around anyone else (except their wives). like, you can see how jensen and jared love each other and what good friends they are by how they play off each other and have an easy camaraderie, but as soon as jensen gets around misha, he canât take his eyes off him. he stares, he giggles like a fool over not-that-funny jokes (we call it his unicorn laugh), he looks absolutely besotted, and theyâre constantly gravitating to each other and touching each other in really intimate ways: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
honestly, there have been so many Shenanigans over the last 12 years that i canât even remember them all, or find them all in my archives. thereâs been clothes sharing/swapping, thereâs jensenâs inexplicable kink for mishaâs bad accents, the time misha reenacted the fake orgasm scene from when harry met sally and jensen, um, liked it (bonus), their matching bracelets and rings (and another ring), how very enthusiastic jensen is about calling misha âdmitri��, how jensen grumpily insists he canât remember last week but jumps at the chance to tell the story of how he met misha and the first time he went to dinner with misha and misha told the server to bring them âthe three least ordered dishes on the menuâ (seriously, they tell the story of how they met all the time), the number of times theyâve been suspiciously late to their autograph and photo op sessions...
hereâs some more adorable:Â
gag reel compilationÂ
resume battleÂ
âi love youâÂ
best moments compilationÂ
really bad dancingÂ
gently bullyingÂ
jensen praising mishaÂ
jensen gushing over mishaÂ
lowkey hand-holdingÂ
âiâd take jensen homeâÂ
bickeringÂ
the time misha tried to sneak up but jensen could see him in the monitorÂ
knock knockÂ
supportive jensenÂ
âyou drew the black penis?âÂ
destiel or cockles??Â
bowtie adjustingÂ
jensen losing his fucking mind over meeting a dog named mishaÂ
whatever this is??Â
some sdcc shenanigansÂ
shenanigansÂ
âaloha, cowboyâÂ
when jensen pied mishaÂ
âdapper as alwaysâÂ
the way jensen likes being bossed around... (bonus angle)
that time jensen tried to facetime misha so he could participate in a panelÂ
âwho said itâ gameÂ
misha gazing at jensen
stuck in the space pants togetherÂ
2011 jibcon highlightsÂ
blowing a kissÂ
jensen straddling misha on setÂ
that time misha accidentally (?) tweeted out a cockles post,Â
jensen elbowing jared because he wants to play foosball opposite mishaÂ
the mirroring compilation
âwho doesnât love freckles?â
jensen falls over laughing because misha is wearing socks
the infamous reverse french mistake edit
jensen asked misha to autograph his sign
that time they showed up wearing the same suit
cute whispering and giggling
jensen calling misha his âpebbleâ
âhow are you?â compilation
jensen brought a shirt to give to misha
âheâs like a little puppyâ/âheâs like a little teddy bearâ
jensenâs accent kink reappears / and again
"jensenâs the horseâ/âmy kids have seen jensen having sex many timesâ
âso itâs like football...â
jensen reminiscing on when they met
and look, despite all that, itâs honestly not about fantasizing about two hot guys fucking, or anything sexual at all. whatever they actually are, they love each other, they make each other happy, and getting to see it makes me happy. itâs something good in the world, these two sweet idiots loving each other and letting us see the fact that they love each other.Â
so, uh, i guess to answer your question, iâm serious. but i do try not to cross the line between what happens publicly and whatâs private. from whatâs shown in public, i draw these conclusions, because, well,
#*tugs collar*#this is a normal thing to spend a few hours doing right? sure why not#whenever people try to shame me i'm just like 'i know more than you'#cockles#anonymous#ask#cockles manifesto
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i'm so excited about you taking asks again ahhhh okay so. if you'd absolutely had to choose. what would be your top 5 cockles moments, and why? thank you ily <3
hereâs the thing: there are so many routes i could go down with this, because cockles moments come in all shapes and sizes and formats. these include moments from their panels, their bloopers, the footage we get when they donât even know theyâre being recorded, stories being passed down from photo ops & autographs(one of my personal favorite ways to get cockles, tbh, because theyâre all insane), and social media(tweets to each other, instagram posts & comments, etc.).Â
SO! since many a list like this has already been made, and i want to stand out from the crowd, what iâm gonna do is definitively give the number one spot to each of these five categories.(i might even throw in honourable mentions because theyâre so despicably in love that they warrant that. i really put my whole pussy into this, guys, i hope youâre happy.)Â
disclaimer: these are my own personal opinions. but that also means iâm right. so. enjoy.Â
number one: top cockles panel moment
so weâre starting off with a bang, because how do you even BEGIN to rank what atrocities jensen and misha commit at jibcon. every single one theyâve had is damning in itâs own right, for different reasons.
however, considering just how much unabashed fuckery theyâve given us to sift through, itâs a good thing i do have a personal favorite despite it all. itâs heartwarming, the sweetest thing iâve ever seen, AND itâs jarringly cinematic - mainly because it has a whole ass arc to it that was years in the making. it might even be surprising to some people, but my favorite cockles panel moment, and what i consider the one that encompasses their entire gut-wrenching journey from 2008-2013 in the most sweepingly romantic gesture possible, is this one.
i want this burned into my retinas. i am not even joking. when i'm through with my explanation, let me convince you why this is thee most romantic cockles moment of all time.
first, some history: people call this the resume off, but many seem to forget the botched attempt at a resume off a year prior. and yes, you guessed it: it's during their break up. it's a juicy time period for a reason, guys. it came across as exceedingly one-sided and VERY awkward. let me refresh your memory as to just how bad it was, and just how hard jensen was trying and ultimately failing at winning misha over: the funniest part of the whole resume off in 2013??? every joke/bit had literally already been made/done. they were just going through the motions again, but the difference THIS time...is that misha reciprocated jensen's energy. it. is. fascinating. i want to get into it more detail in another post, and i'll link it here when i'm done, but the main takeaway, i think, and the main difference that showcases how much they've grown in a year, is that in jib 3, misha flat out refused to do an accent, and this time around, he indulges jensen for literal minutes. when i tell you they're crazy, they're crazy. i can't wait to actually dive into it later.
ANYWAY, the resume off culminates in this moment here. and, like, a million things happen in this gifset. actually, more like a million and one. the music starts playingneediremindyouthatthesongissingingintherain(h e l p), misha starts dancing, jensen 'perpetually fake grumpy' ackles lets misha think he's not going to join, misha sits down defeated, but no!!! that was jensen's plan all along(look at his stupid fucking smirk) and he offers his arm to his dance partner who immediately grins like a fool, jensen then leads misha into their kick step, they perfectly synchronise and let loose, and are then very clearly having the time of their lives, hanging off of each other with joy and ease. from their expressions alone i can tell that this moment is so. so. so. so! much more than what initially meets the eye. i mean-misha is fighting back the biggest smile i've ever seen. to me, it reads like jensen is offering something to misha, something that misha kind of gave up on expecting, and him offering his arm like that is like, a surprise to him in the best possible way(and it's so not platonic, let me just say that.) as soon as jensen did that, it ushered in a new era of cockles. this panel is jensen and misha's favourite for a reason, and i think this moment is the biggest clue as to why.
whew!!! ok. that took a lot out of me and that was only point one. moving on,
number two: top cockles blooper moment
cockles bloopers hold an extremely special place in my heart, because it shows just how fucking disastrous jensen and misha are. they are so goddamn infatuated with each other that they HOLD UP PRODUCTION ALL THE TIME TO FLIRT WITH EACH OTHER(???). let me repeat. let it sink in. jensen ackles; arguably one of the most professional actors on that show who puts everything he has into each scene, with mountains and mountains of notes to prove it: would rather hold up production to flirt with misha collins. this sounds fake. it's not. he does it. all. the. time. and here's the thing guys!!! i'm gonna let you in on a secret!!! misha loves it. he loveesssss it. on top of that-misha collins: overlooked because he's pranked and people assume he's unprofessional as well, but his only pranks are in retaliation/off-set, and he rarely if EVER causes problems if he can help it....lets himself get carried away when it comes to jensen making kissy faces at him!!! are you actually kidding me!!! i mean. misha. it's just a face. you've seen it a million times. i don't buy that it triggers something in you that strongly....you like it, and you like jensen's reaction. you can't fool me!!! lisa berry's face in that one gifset shows just how fed up the crew is with their gross, coupley boyfriend antics.
i could pull up so many examples. sooooooo many. but my favourite was sealed since the moment i saw it.
i actually already wrote an analysis on it but i can't find it :(((( which SUCKS because i really unpacked the whole thing. i'll try to summarise.
basically, a backstory is part of this too!!! jensen and misha both had a really really hard time with this scene(because it's explicitly romantic there i said it), they sat down for hours and poured over their scripts together, they were super super nervous going into filming, both of them, jensen especially, were super hard on themselves for their performances not being true to their characters but they both complimented the other's work(boyfriend moments fr). so, yeah. they weren't confident going into shooting. and how do they get themselves to feel better???? by cuddling each other, apparently.
a lot. a LOT. happens in this specific blooper. to the point that i saw it years before i knew about cockles and it raised all sorts of flags for me.
1) stop pulling my face towards your crotch(as a thinly veiled request that misha would, in fact, move jensen's face towards his crotch, considering it was jensen moving himself there in the first place. also, why so comfy down there guys???) 2) you're my baby daddy i know(in the most intimate voice i've ever heard please) 3) i know, i know, i love you too i didn't say i love you i know but you wanted to say it etc. misha's right, of course. that's what jensen meant.
it just reeks of comfort, familiarity and intimacy between the two, and it's a moment that is extremely sweet and silly at the same time. they're so <3
number three: top cockles found footage moment
WONDERFUL category. truly the culmination of the cockles experience. many people have said that shipping cockles doesn't work because 'they're just onstage you dummies!! they're playing it up for the audience!!!' here's the thing, love. i could not disagree with you more. once you climb your way up the cockles ladder, you soon learn that they are, in fact, playing their dynamic DOWN, not up. they really are just Like Thatâ˘, and they could not care less about the paying audience, if we're being honest, considering how much time they take to giggle with each other and refuse to let the audience in on the joke. and i love them for it <3
anyway, my point is that this category is for all you naysayers out there, all you 'jensen and misha's relationship is just for show and is real life queerbaiting'(?????lordhelp???) oh yeah? ok, explain this.
he. he. he calls jensen sweetheart. literally enough said. there's nothing to really add here, except, misha and jared then immediately engage in damage control. jared's method is distraction and misha's is retconning('get out of the car, dude') this was what got me to buy into the cockles dumpster for GOOD good. you don't call your buddy sweetheart accidentally and sound so completely earnest while doing it! especially not when that buddy is jensen ackles!!! you think he would let any of his friends call him that? do you?
one more thing; if it was a slip of the tongue, little mouth thing or whatever, you think jared wouldn't have jumped on it immediately??? i can hear it now. 'did you just call him SWEETHEART???' yeah. that's what i thought. you know why he didn't? because it was too revealing.
number four: top cockles autograph moment
i mean, i think we all know what it's gonna be, and if you don't, well, do i have the piece de cockles resistance that is gonna send you over the edge.
if you haven't heard of this story by now, as a cockles, truther, i'm gonna go ahead and get you to read it, because there is no possible heterosexual explanation for any of it, and you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise.
spoiler alert: it's the story where phones weren't allowed in an auto session, jensen nuzzles himself in misha's hair, leans his full body weight onto him, holds his hand, etc. etc. i'm imploding just repeating this back, actually. also, just, the sheer amount of stories from photo ops where they tackle hug each other or slap each other's asses or sing romantic songs to each other or almost kiss is, frankly, a lot. if i could wish for anything, it would be to witness them in person.
and finally,
number five: top cockles social media moment
this one is super difficult, because there's obviously a lot to choose from. but you know what? full send, i'm going with this one:
i just. what to say about this. how often do misha and jensen watch sunsets together for it to qualify as âalwaysâ ??? why are sunsets synonymous with their relationship??? thatâs like??? a very romantic thing????? âthis guyâ??? the fact that itâs a CANDID??? i donât know guys.
that could have been better but i am TIRED so. there you go rose ily
#cockles#cockles ask#liz answers#i really just. spend hours. writing about misha and his boyfriend.#why. why do i. do that#long post for ts
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To the @Anon who wished to remain anonymous I will not post your question. I will respect you wanting to stay anonymous and answer your question here. The question was why do I not like Cockles ship & why do I hate Misha?
Well like I have stated before I am not a shipper especially when it comes to Supernatural. I however do not have a problem with those who do ship as long as they are respectful about it. When it comes to Destiel & Cockles ship most of the fans are not really respectful at all. If you do not agree with them you are somehow a hater or homophobic. They will talk down to you if you donât share the same opinion as them. Most of them have this fantasy of wanting to see Jensen screw Misha when Jensen is a straight man. When they didnât get what they wanted in Supernatural they started pushing the Cockles ship hard.
Itâs gotten to where they donât understand Jensen and Misha are not a gay couple. They seem to not get that Jensen and Misha are straight. Every time Jensen & Misha had a panel together it was aw they are in love look at how they look at each other. Uh no they are not in love. Most of the time during Jensen & Misha panels(which are only done at Jibcon) Jensen has âapple juice.â When he has too much apple juice he becomes Nesnej so he probably doesnât know what goes on half the time. Itâs gotten to the point where every time Jensen does something they bring Misha into it. Jensen canât do anything without them wanting it to be about Misha. They also end up sending hate to Jared for no reason because they want Jared out of the picture. They only want Jensen near Misha and not his best friend Jared. They end up hating Jared for everything especially if he posts something to Jensen.
Now I will say there are some people in that ship who are respectful. They donât send unnecessary hate to Jared. They donât mention Misha every time Jensen has something going on for himself. They keep most of their fantasy to fanfics. They donât try to push it in real life. They donât say oh Jensen is in love with Misha and so on. If you say you donât ship it they are ok and donât talk down to you. But sadly all the bad ones outweigh the good ones.
As for Misha I donât actually hate him but I am not liking him at the moment. Itâs mainly his crazy fans as to why and the reasons are listed above. Misha could put a stop to how his fans act but he doesnât. He doesnât go hey guys please donât send hate to Jared or please donât harass Jensen about the ship. Nope he actually encourages them by getting them riled up mentioning the ship. So then they harass Jensen wanting him to change his mind on Destiel when itâs clear he wonât change his mind. I really wish Misha would tell them to chill out. But he doesnât at all he just riles them up more. I could say more but I already made this too long. I hope this answers your question anon.
#anti cockles shippers#anti cockles#anti hellers#anti destihellers#leave jensen alone#itâs mainly mishaâs crazy fans
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Destiel/Cockles analysis s/p 15x18
Okay, so... This is gonna be a mishmash of thoughts, but if you stick with me maybe youâll get what Iâm saying.Â
Iâve been seeing a lot of shit condemning Jensen as a homophobe because of his previous actions/statements about Destiel and also (for some ungodly reason) because of his performance during the confession in 15x18. And I have this theory that I needed to get out because itâs been there for a while, and now is the perfect time to explain it.Â
This show started out in 2005 as a show about two manly, Midwestern men that  got pulled into a life of hunting the Earthâs worst creatures, tapping ass, and drinking beers (while also giving you a play-by-play on how to repress emotions), and there was also A LOT of love buried in the plot. A lot.Â
The world was a completely different place in 2005. The own creator of the show didnât expect the show to go past 5 seasons, so when the longevity came they were forced to grow. We watched this show go through a very human process/experience of growth and acceptance and evolution, and we got to grow along side it. Was it always a neat, beautiful process? Hell no. There were a lot of potholes along the way. But, growth isnât linear. The point is that they (the writers, producers, actors, etc.) kept pushing themselves to grow year after year.Â
So now, back to Jensen. Jensen has shown this fandom time and time again not only how grateful he is that we adore him and helped him to cultivate a life beyond what he has dreamed of but also that he is attentive and considerate to our feelings/thoughts. Has he disagreed with us at times? Hell yes he has. Has be bluntly stated that âDestiel doesnât exist.â Hell yes he has. And itâs been hurtful and frustrating and invalidating. But, take a step back for a moment.Â
Jensen is so connected to Dean. His friends and even his own wife has stated that he sometimes forgets that âheâs not Dean.â Dean has informed so much of who Jensen is for the last 15 years. And Jensen has admittedly seen a lot of himself in Dean. So who was Dean at the beginning of this show? Dean was the guy who made gay jokes, slept with plethoras of woman to fill a void (and also for pleasure), was so out of touch with his feelings because he was too busy being the person his father wanted/needed him to be, and had a very clear idea of what it meant to be a man. Thatâs the brain Jensen lived in for years while playing Dean. And honestly, itâs been speculated and discussed here, that Jensenâs brain might not have been too far off from that mindset outside of Dean.Â
But just as we watched the show grow, I truly believe we watched Jensen grow. And we all know Danneel is a big part of that because she is wildly herself and big and fierce, especially about the things she believes in and loves, and she is open-minded and just pushes people to grow. And he has said those things about her. But I also think that a lot of Jensenâs growth came from Misha because as much as Danneel has influenced him over the years, I firmly believe Jensen needed to see/meet/form a relationship with someone like Misha in order to truly/permanently break down those walls about what a man should/could be.Â
Cockles fans have long dissected and held up microscopes to Jensen and Mishaâs relationship, so much so that there are pages and pages of theories about how their love bloomed, their break ups, their tender moments, and the growth of their relationship in general. But one thing that I think Jensen frequently struggled with is this idea that he needed to keep Dean true to who he is as a person, and that any growth and evolution in Jensenâs life (ie his relationship with Misha) couldnât influence that. All of those moments he was denouncing Destiel seemed to be out of a struggle to keep those two people separate- Jensen vs Dean. Because in Jensenâs head, Dean was still this super straight, rough and tough, Midwestern monster hunter.Â
But over the years, the Destiel fandom was comforted by Mishaâs outspoken love, admiration, and agreement. Misha truly championed this fandom with reckless abandon. But while Misha was comfortable (to a degree) with himself and his relationship with Jensen, we really watched Jensen struggle. We watched Jensen grow.Â
So, fast forward to the last couple of years. Destiel is subtextually canon- the writers have confirmed this at this point. Jensen is less negative about Destiel at panels insofar as to talk about their âbreak upsâ and âdomestic disputesâ and ârelationshipâ with a validating tone. Is he fervently talking about Destiel safe words and bondage and having sex/making out? No. But thatâs not who Jensen is. Heâs much more conservative with his emotions than Misha... at least publicly.Â
This fandom has watched Jensen grow, not only in his dealings with/approach to Cockles but also with Destiel. So, while Jensen has long been adamant that Dean is not bisexual and couldnât end up with Cas, I think there was potentially a moment where Misha (and potentially Danneel) were like, âWell, why canât Dean be bi? Why canât he finally realize that about himself after years of breaking down barriers and fears and conditioned notions? You did.âÂ
What came first, Cockles or Destiel? Thatâs been the debate right? The chicken or the egg? I truly think without Cockles coming first, we would have never been able to have Destiel. In fact, in my head, I can make the argument that without Jensen growing and going through the process of falling in love with Misha, Destiel would have never become canon. Jensen needed to first separate himself from Dean (which we are all privy to), grow and fall in love [again] as Jensen, and then give Dean the permission to grow and fall in love too.Â
As we have seen from this weekâs episode, Destiel has been there for years. YEARS. But Dean has always had to deal with two struggles: accepting himself and Jensen accepting him. We heard Jensen say at a panel that when he read the script for the final episode, he had a hard time coming to terms with what happened. People have long speculated that was referring to Destiel. Now, maybe it is and maybe it isnât (I guess weâll find out in two weeks), but it would make a lot of sense if it was.Â
As everyone (the writers, actors, fans, etc.) has validated and acknowledged Destiel and particularly Deanâs love for Cas, Jensen has continued to struggle with it. But I donât think itâs because Jensen is homophobic or anything like some people are saying. I think itâs because Jensen has worked tirelessly to separate the romantic lives of himself and Dean. Jensen convinced himself that Dean loving Cas and them having a relationship would be out of character, when in reality it followed this pattern of growth that both the show and bi (& LGTQ+) men/individuals around the world followed. Because Jensen is so connected to Dean, he canât have 2020 vision until itâs hindsight because as Dean was coming out to himself and accepting himself, Jensen was accepting Dean simultaneously. Itâs actually a beautiful thing. And it doesnât make Jensen homophobic... it makes Jensen human.Â
As many LGBTQ+ people will tell you, the path to realization and acceptance is fraught with struggle (internal and external) and doubt and denial and even self-hatred. There are no two characters that embody that more than Cas and Dean. So, I think that once Jensen realized that he went through a similar process as Dean it wasnât that crazy anymore that Dean was in love with Cas. And Jensen loving Misha didnât force Dean to love Cas- Jensen didnât make Dean bi- Jensen loving Misha gave Dean the permission to love Cas and become one of the most human characters (especially male characters) to ever exist because we got to watch Dean find love and accept love through repression, struggle, self realization, and self acceptance.Â
And for that, Jensen Ackles will go down in history as one of the best actors of this generation. Because he truly brought life to Dean Winchester.
Thank you for attending my TedTalk. I wanted to be much more thorough with this and include gifs and video evidence, but this is already lengthy and I doubt anyone even made it to the end.Â
#destiel meta#cockles meta#destiel#deancas#cockles#jenmish#rps for ts#spn spoilers#spn 15x18#destiel is canon#let's discuss this please#this is a mishmash of thoughts#jensen ackles is one of the best actors ever and you can't convince me otherwise#jensen and misha#dean/castiel#dean x castiel#otp: i need you#otp:Â I love you#the greatest love story ever told#bi!dean#dean is bi til the day I die#bi!dean is my dean
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Ok so here a thing. when i first learned about cockles ship in 2014 and then that people actually thought its real i was like â....yall are crazy, moving onâ just because the scenario in which some traditional, Texas born and raised, âdrinking out of the straw makes u gayâ man meets some laid back, open minded dude that gives 0 fucks to whats considered a norm and is a complete opposite of what Jensen is (or thought he should be), and that makes him jump out of his little box of pushed on toxic masculinity and fall in love seems so far from realistic itâs insane jk? ( and ofc on top of everything their wives being totally ok with it all too) But OH BOY, Iâve been back in the fandom for about a year and there are a lot of things I never knew it happened and with every passing day i feel like Iâm going more and more insane bc what. the.fuck ......... I need some time just to process that ring post I cannot believe
very understandable, nonnie, welcome to the dumpster and feel free to ask me anything you want or to just vent in my inbox <3 i am here for believers, non believers, and skeptics alike!
#honestly messages like this make my day cause like#yeah i get it!#i get being skeptical!#and i get thinking 'hold on now' because that was me too!
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Hello! Iâm a recent follower who saw your posts about Harry new songs and started following you over those. Iâve seen a bit of you on my dash recently and think we actually got a few interests in common (supernatural for one)! I just read your latest post, and would like to know: did you use to think Harry and xander were dating? Do you think could they have dated or nah? And about spn⌠did you ship destiel??
Hey anon! Welcome! Just so you know, I don't post that much spn because it's really toxic and not good for me... but you will see some of it on my blog.
Gonna break this up into questions.
Did you used to think Harry and Xander were dating?
Yes. Yes, I did. I said I was here for "whatever was going on," but what I meant was "THEY'RE DATING THEY'RE DATING THEY'RE DATING I'm not going to say it because they haven't but THEY'RE TOTALLY DATING" 2015 was a rough time, and also the best time. I felt ALIVE and ON TOP OF THE WORLD but also I was SUPREMELY miserable and afraid.. I let Xander and Harry's supposed relationship act as a stand in for happiness. When the snapchat fiasco happened, I was extremely upset in a couple different ways. I was upset because the person responsible had lied to Xander and attempted to blackmail him.... Which was really gross and shitty. I was also upset because... If xarry wasn't real, what was? I had myself so wrapped up in the fantasy world where I knew exactly what was going on between them, that to be punched in the face with a reminder that I didn't actually know them or what was happening between them..... hurt. And that's why I used them in my cockles post last night... Because I know that's happening for a lot of cockles tinhats rn and I know that it is.... undoubtedly..... Hard. And Hurtful. The loss of confidence in your tinhat ship can be a very profound loss.
Do you think they could have dated or nah?
Yes. For years, my headcanon for them was on-again-off-again long term fuckbuddies/boyfriends with the most serious part of their relationship in 2015-2016. I still find that plausible. I also find it plausible they're just friends and always were. I used to look at things like the birthday cake and the playing lacrosse on stage and "I'm here for Xander Ritz" "Me too" as undeniable evidence there was something not platonic. Now, I see these things as evidence of love, regardless of platonic/non platonic status.
So yeah, I think they could have dated. They also could have not.
That said, no matter what happened and happens, the fact that they've been in each other's lives for 8 years and seem to be going nowhere is adorable. I love their relationship as a friendship, and I love it as less platonic too.
Did you ship destiel?
lmao anon this is a really complicated question. Yes, I shipped destiel. However, it was always with the caveat that Cas not treat Dean like an enemy or someone so unhinged they were not to be trusted. Cas lying to Dean and not trusting Dean for the sake of it is his worst and most toxic quality, and my shipping of destiel was always Dean-centric. I wanted Cas to be better for him. Ultimately, the writers after Sera Gamble had other plans (Gamble gave him the most beautiful redemption arc at the end of season 7 with all that character growth that came with Crazy!Cas. She is iconic and all other showrunners - including Kripke - suck in comparison). I stopped shipping destiel in season 9 when the whole show was much more of a fight between Sam and Dean. At that point, I didn't give a flying fucking shit what happened with ships, I just wanted Sam to hurt.
I find destiel to be the second worst and toxic ship in spn, second to wincest. And yes, that means I think that John and Mary were less toxic than Dean and Cas. I don't apologize. Cas is an ass who is abusive and likes to hold power over Dean. This is so clearly shown in all the seasons, but most clearly, I think, in season 15. The most "destiel" of seasons is also the season where Cas is the nastiest and cruelest to Dean. This is able to be the case because destiel was never about DEAN and Cas, it was about CAS and Cas only. This is true of the writing staff's opinion of destiel as seen in the narrative structure of the show AND the fandom's opinion of destiel as seen in fannon. Dean is an object in the equation of destiel, not an active participant. And to that I say FUCK destiel.
So yes I did, but always with the caveat that Cas needs to be better to Dean, and then I stopped when that wasn't going to be the case.
#personal#xarry#destiel#hellers this is tagged destiel for MY BLOG'S ORGANIZATION#do not come at me about 'tagging hate'#i am allowed to organize my own blog thank you
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I will admit I donât understand why so many people in this fandom seem to be so set against any new content coming out. Like, why are you (this is a general you, not you specifically) in the fandom running a fan account if you seem to want spn to die off so badly? Aside from this Jessica Mason person being involved, a rewatch podcast with actual cast/crew members giving insight and bts stories is a fantastic idea. The prequel has a lot of potential to be great and if successful, could open the door for more spin-offs or even a continuation of the series. I think people forget that characters donât need to be âgoodâ or likable all the time to be interesting or to tell a compelling story. There are a lot of gaps in the John/Mary story that can be filled in by the prequel, and it also could be a really interesting character study. If thatâs not someoneâs cup of tea, thatâs fine, but stop immediately shitting all over any new content thatâs announced just because itâs not what you (again, general you) specifically want. There are plenty of people that are excited for the prequel and who want the podcast (just not Jessicaâs involvement in it), but they unfortunately get drowned out by the loudest voices who seem to exist solely to complain about everything.
I would also like to point out that many of these people (and Iâm not even going to try to touch the jpeg stans, because theyâre just a whole other level of crazy. Iâm mostly referring to the destiel fandom here) were plenty excited at the prospect of a rewatch podcast when they thought Misha was involved and are now suddenly claiming nobody wants this and the idea is stupid. Like, if youâre (general you) just here for Misha/Cas content, thatâs fine. You do you. But newsflash, spn is not just about Cas or Misha, and plenty of people in the fandom care about the show and characters as a whole.
I think that, in fact almost everybody want new SPN content, but they are afraid they would be disappointed and/or could further cause more conflict between different sides of the fandom. You know, it's literally impossible to content everybody in this fandom:
Most Hellers don't want to see Jared anymore and I'm sure many of them are pissed off the first 2 episodes of the podcasts are only focused on J2. There are also many hellers afraid that someone would use the new shows/podcasts/whatever to discredit Destiel (specially if that someone is Jensen. You would argue that Jensen is "heller king" or whatever, but the thing is that he's in the middle of the fandom wars and can't deny nor confirm any ship. And tbh I don't think he's very interested...)
They same applies to most Wincesties, they can't stand Misha and they are also afraid the new shows would further drift away from a "only brothers" centered vision.
Plus, the J2 fallout debacle, which is still well alive no matter how much "brother forever" PR Jensen and Jared play. Just look at the last Rosenbaum's podcast; J2 stans and Jared stans were very disappointed with most things Jensen said.
The Ackles Army, which I guess also have some J2/wincesties and Cockles/Destiel shippers, but still I suspect almost all of them are pissed off with the ships (specially real people shipping), and are only interested in Dean/Jensen. Most of them probably want to get rid of both Jared and Misha.
The ones who are not interested in any ship and neither stan any of the actors; they are just sick of the fandom wars. And those who actually cares about ships/actors/whatever but are very respectful and friendly with any side and they are heartbroken about how the fandom has been shattered since the finale. (I suspect these 2 groups are the majority but they can't be heard above the noise of the other sides of the fandom)
Long story short: the SPN fandom is literally the Middle East of the fandoms. You have Christian, Muslims, Jews, and competing countries and superpowers always fighting with each other in neverending wars. In fact, this fandom says A LOT about the human nature. I find it kind of fascinating.
And all of them want more and new SPN content, but they are terrified it would disappoint them or fuel fandom wars even more.
Personally, I want to see new content, as long as it's good of course. I'm looking forward to see the John and Mary story, I think it has a lot of potential. And also happy for the podcast series. I agree the show is not only about Dean and Cas; in fact, I started to watch the show for Destiel, but I've been sucked by the whole history and all the characters. Deancas is only a small part of a much bigger thing, and I really enjoy that.
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23. Enhance!
I actually finished this yesterday... I have to get a COVID test and gather groceries, though, so it's queued.
I have... a theory about that timeline, because if it's correct, Elisabet would have programmed GAIA in just about three weeks before machining her parts. Which seems... way too fast.
...or maybe I'm just a terrible coder.
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She recognizes the voice that calls her name in a mockingly jubilant tone the moment she hears it, and it takes all of her self-control not to groan and bang her head against the desk.
Oh boy. Give me the strength. And the patience.
Without turning around, or acknowledging his arrival in any way, she flattens out her voice, keeping it as neutral and cool as possible.
"What can I do for you, Mr. Tate?"
Instead of answering the question, he leans over the back of her chair, peering at the lines of code on the holographic display.
"That doesn't look like your style of notation. You cribbin' someone else's work for the alpha build?"
With a noncommittal noise, she does her best to block him out, examining the next chunk of code, and adding in a few more lines and notations of her own before moving on.
"It's some of the base code used for VAST SILVER."
Tate lets out a low whistle.
"Always did wonder what happened to that thing. They said 'contained,' but that was just what they told the public, right?"
She's not surprised that he knows the truth; it's in his realm of expertise, after all.
"Yeah. It disappeared not too long after its recapture."
He takes a seat on the edge of her desk, uninvited, crossing one leg over the other and continuing to scrutinize the code.
"Courtesy of the hacker calling themselves 'Soteria.' Had a good laugh over that one, I did. It warms the cold cockles of my heart, thinkin' about all them MOCKINGBIRD types scrambling around like chickens with their heads cut off."
Raising an eyebrow, he tips his head toward her.
"I'm guessin' you've sniffed them out and recruited them for this dog and pony show, too?"
Still keeping her eyes on her work, she lets out a soft snort.
"I found you, didn't I? Yeah. They're on-staff. And they brought what's left of VAST SILVER along at my request."
Resting his chin on his hand, Tate waves a hand in a vague, circular motion toward the screen.
"So, you're usin' the residual code of an AI that went rogue as the basis for another AI that's supposed't direct the reconstitution of life on Earth?"
The skeptical tone rubs her entirely the wrong way, and she has to fight back a groan. This is exactly why she hasn't told anyone else about this particular part of the process; Tate's reaction is, she feels, fairly mild, as far as the possibilities go.
And it still irks her.
She knows that she doesn't have to justify herself. But she tries anyway, punching at the keyboard with more force than is strictly necessary.
"It had good bones. And what constitutes a 'rogue' AI, anyway? The reasons that it did what it did... it's easy to see them in retrospect. I can work with it. Make it better."
Give it a second chance, now that we know better.
He makes a wordless, dubious noise, turning his palms upward.
"You're the expert."
For some reason, she finds this the most irritating part of the visit to date. Finally turning toward him, she puts on her best Withering Manager Look.
"Look, did you have a question? Or do you need something?"
It proves to be wholly ineffective, which she should have expected; if Travis Tate were the sort to be cowed by authority, then he probably wouldn't be here, in honesty.
"Nahhhh. Just visiting. Code's compiling, so what else am I gonna do?"
She must look like she's about to burst, because he raises his hands, hopping down from the desk and backing away from the workspace with a chuckle.
"I can see you're busy, though. Maybe I'll go pester your team for a while. See if I can figure out which one've 'em'd be the type to spring a crazy AI out of the clink."
Allowing a shade of the irritation eating up her insides to creep into her voice, she reaches up to massage her temples.
"Don't do that. You have to know already that 'Soteria' was me."
Tate's lazy grin would put a hyena to shame.
"Sure did, Lizzy. Just wanted to hear you admit it out loud."
With a playful salute, he spins around sharply on his heel and slouches out, leaving her to her work.
#horizontober#horizontober2020#horizon zero dawn#always been curious about VAST SILVER#because of the climate change connection; most of my research has focused on fish and climate change#I hope we learn more about it in Forbidden West!
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Somebody pointed out that in the above video, Jensen seemed a little upbeat. Jared and Misha had swollen eyes. In fact, Jared looked like he was going to burst into tears. To be brutally honest, it did seem that way to me too. Why did Jensen seem happy? Well there may be a few logical reasons for it. The most obvious one is that he is trying to be strong for Jared, because he did point out that Jared is barely holding it together. However, there is a discussion that I had with another fan that came to mind. SPN is CW's biggest show. They will not terminate their cash cow willfully, unless they are earning ad revenues. If the ratings are dropping, maybe that might have fueled CW's decision to end the show, which will explain why Jared is so upset. I mean, why would Jared make a decision and then be sad about it? One year in advance.
I don't have access to US ratings. If someone does, fill us in. I would like to know how the ratings are. Oh, could you not use bogus baseball stats. We aren't psychotic hellers. Spare us the tomfoolery.Â
Anyhoo, after the announcement, Misha started mouthing off, as he is usually does. And he has been behaving oddly. First he said that punching Jensen during a fight scene was a revenge fantasy that he had been harboring. Then he fat shamed Jensen. Where did the sudden hatred for Jensen come from? I thought Jensen was his ''princess'', amirite? What ever will happen to Cockles? Now, I know that some Cockleheller fans get turned on by the thought of Cas beating up Dean, but I doubt Misha would know something so obscure. I
mean, he never read Twist and shout.  Or so he claimed.  But the fat shaming? How ironic though, that an ugly bastard like Misha is picking on Jensen's looks. Jensen is beautiful.  Â
Then he started pushing Mishalecki like crazy, and recently confessed to nagging Dabb and Singer into bringing Rachel [the Meg demon] back on the show, wheelchair and all. Why would he do that except to push Megstiel?  So  Mishalecki and Megstiel are high on his agenda, but no destiel is mentioned. He is trying to kill off the ships that have become problematic for him but he is elevating mishalecki and even megstiel because? He doesn't even seem to mind that the person who played Meg has multiple sclerosis and is confined to a wheelchair. Gosh! what a selfish guy. Anything to stay in the game. Even if SPN is going to die in one year.   Â
Ok, here is a silly little headcanon for you. Absolutely do not take it seriously: The hellers became too much for Jensen to bare. Jensen blasted at Misha in front of Jared, Singer and gang, and he complained that they are threatening his life and his reputation. Pedowitz also noted that crazy fans actually carrying out a threat against Jensen might be detrimental to, not only Jensen but the already failing network.  A visibly pissed off Jared asked Jensen if he wanted out, and Jensen tiredly said yes. So that is why Jensen is happy [relieved] in the video but Jared is sad but supportive. And Misha is freaking out because who is going to hire his putrid ass now.  That is also why Misha is in revenge mode towards Jensen. Gish and Random Acts could fall apart because of this.  Misha will lose a lot of money.  And that is what I think happened....
Nah! if that was the case, they would have just fired Misha's unnecessary ass. He does nothing for the ratings anyway.  Why give up their two golden boys for that bloated jackass?  I mean, that is what I would do. I would get rid of Eye-bags and keep my boys. So until we don't fully learn about the ratings or until Jensen and Jared willfully tell us why they are calling it quits, we may never know. But whatever their decision, then we will respect it.Â
#misha#jensen ackles#destiel#cockles#jenmish#jensen and misha#deancas#casdean#dean x castiel#castiel#cas#bi dean#dean is bi#dean and cas#jenmisheel#dean winchester#destiel headcanon#jdvm#misha collins#sam winchester#sam and dean#jensen and jared#wincest#supernatural#jared padalecki#padackles#performing dean#sabriel#sammy winchester#j2
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Hi! So, I have a promt for u, but first a little backstory: Iâm from Spain, and I remember when I worked at my parents shop and there were this bracelets everybody was CRAZY about one summer, as in every day ten people would come in asking for them, because Sara Carbonero -sports reporter and Iker Casillas, goalie for the football national team, gf - wore them. It was after Spain son the word cup in 2010. Look into them, there was a very cute kiss. So, prompt: Emma starts a trend with her laces?
Hey, hi, hello there! This has been sitting in my inbox for a millennia and I am so, so sorry for that. I am also so, so sorry because this is not exactly the prompt you asked for. There are laces involved and some dad!Killian feels and, like, New Yearâs Eve somehow? Itâs a mess of fluff, honestly.Â
Anyway, 2018 has been some kind of something for just about everyone and I canât say Iâm not excited to see it go. Iâve spent a lot of time stress-writing fic, particularly, hockey fic and I know that there are other hockey stories out there and other Rangers stories out there, but it genuinely warms the cockles of my entire soul that you guys continue to have thoughts and feelings about these Rangers and this ridiculous hockey team. This is (clearly) my favorite âverse to write in and itâs kind of my spot to write when everything else is nonsense.Â
It is a joy to write these stories and a thrill that anyone wants to read them. I wish you guys nothing but the absolute best in 2019 and maybe the Rangers can keep winning in regulation.Â
âHit him, hit him, hit him.â
Killian leaned back, resting his head against the door as it closed behind him and the voice on the other side of the apartment was barely audible. It was, however, fairly determined.
Or as determined as a voice could be when, presumably, watching a replay of the game heâd finished playing in a few hours before.
âCâmon, hit him,â Emma hissed, and he liked to imagine that there was some hand flailing going on as well. Of course, heâd be able to confirm that if he moved, but every single inch of him was sore and tired and he had, in fact, played a hockey game a few hours before. âOh my God,â Emma continued, a thump that might have been most of her body weight dropping back onto the couch. Sheâd been pacing.
Killian moved.
The floor creaked underneath him, toeing out of his shoes and kicking his equipment bag further into the corner. He didnât take his jacket off.
And Emma was slumped in the middle of the couch, hair splayed out behind her and a distinct lack of pants on.
He felt his eyes bug.
She didnât stop watching the game.
âWhy do you not know how to get the puck out of the zone?â
Killian tilted his head. âMe specifically?â
âYou in the general sense of the entire New York Rangers franchise,â she amended. âBut mostly Phillip. Especially PhillipâGod, get it out.â
âThey donât score here, you know.â
âHey, câmon, donât spoil it.â
He scoffed, loosening the tie around his neck and glancing at the rather impressive arrangement of only recently-built baby furniture in the corner of the room. âSleeping,â Emma mumbled, answering a question he hadnât asked. âOnly just. Which is why I donât want you to spoil the game for me. We didnât see, well, much of any of it, honestly.â
âWasnât interested in watching in real time, huh?â
Emma made a noise â not quite dismissive, but slightly exhausted and it may have had more to do with the Rangers inability to clear the puck in the opening minutes of the first period than the sleeping habits of Margaret. Who, it seemed, in her first few days of existence was bound and determined to drive both of her parents crazy.
And, maybe, terrify them just a bit. That may have just been Killian. Because heâd been the one whoâd spent most of the night pacing in a hospital hallway and theyâd only just gotten back from D.C. and he wasnât sure heâd taken a deep breath the entire time, several medical terms bouncing between his ears and around his heart andâ
âShoot!â
His eyes flickered back towards the screen, the puck on his stick and he didnât shoot. Emma mumbled several rather impressive curses under her breath.
âWhere did you expect me to shoot there?â Killian asked, and Emma rolled her eyes. And shrugged. And made that noise again.
âI really have no idea,â she admitted, nodding towards the few inches of space to her left. And it only took a moment for the metaphorical light bulb to go off over her head, a few blinks and a quirk of her lips that never failed to make his heart sputter just a bit against his rib cage and it was fine.
She was fine.
Margaret was fine.
They were fine.
It was New Yearâs Eve. He wasnât sure how that factored into it, but he was certain it had to mean something good.
Theyâd won the game.
Killian didnât say that. Spoilers or something.
âYou donât have to watch this, love,â Killian said, another laugh when Emma mumbled something that sounded distinctly like take your coat off, God under her breath. He nudged her up slightly with his shoulder, shifting until he was almost comfortable and he wasnât really surprised when she curled against his side, head on his thigh and arm draped across him.
He let his fingers move through her hair. She sighed.
âI want to. Iâm justâwhenâs the last time I showered?â
It would have been absolutely impossible to kiss her â a ridiculous twist of his body that would have infuriated Ariel when it inevitably did something drastic to his back, but Killian made an effort and Emma burrowed further against him, a solid weight of warmth and certainty and fine that he kept reminding himself of.
Even when he was on the ice.
Maybe thatâs why he hadnât taken the shot.
âYou can do that now, Swan,â Killian muttered, fingers still moving as his gaze darted from the game to the somehow-still sleeping infant on the other side of the room. âI promise Iâll be able to tell you what happened in the game.â
She laughed softly, the sound pressed into his pants and, like, his entire soul. He knew he couldnât actually feel her smile, but it was comforting to imagine, particularly when Emma tugged her legs up under her, a bundle of limbs and that distinct lack of pants.
âHowâd you get out of post?â
âWhere are your pants?â
âI promise, your story is way more interesting,â Emma said, and he could hear the smile. âSeriously though, did Phillip justâforget how to pass?â
âArthur broke a whiteboard on that one.â
âMaybe youâre too fast, honestly.â
âI think thatâs a compliment,â Killian pointed out. âDonât put pants on, ok?â
Her answering laugh had a distinct air of exhaustion to it, but there was a hint of something that may have been happiness and two kids and he did eventually take a shot that went into the back of the net. He kind of wanted to watch Emma watch that.
What a weirdo.
Margaret made a noise in the crib â both Killian and Emmaâs head snapping towards the sound. He dug his teeth into his lip, barely daring to blink, let alone breathe andâ
âNothing,â Emma mumbled after five seconds that felt like five impossibly long lifetimes. âYou going to answer the question though?â
âAbout Phillipâs inability to pass in the neutral zone?â
âAnd the board work. God, tell Arthur to practice that tomorrow. There are drills for that, right?â
Killian nodded. âSeveral thousand, Iâd imagine. Was that honestly the question?â
âHowâd you get out of post?â
âI did not totally get out of post,â he said, clicking his tongue when Scarlet was whistled for slashing. âThey score here.â
Emma groaned. âOh my God. What did we say about spoilers?â
âIâm really not sure youâre going to make it to the end of the game, Swan.â
âYou doing are an absolutely horrible job of deflecting this conversation, you know. Iâm going to tell Rubes.â
âI think sheâs a little preoccupied with some other things.â
Emma lifted her head, an awkward twist to her neck that Killian would have mentioned if he wasnât admittedly distracted by the pull of her eyebrows and whatever she was doing with her mouth. Twisting it or something. It was probably because of the pants thing, honestly. And the baby. He was a mess of human emotions and feelings and come-from-behind victories.
And blowing off post.
Kind of.
âDid Ruby sneak you out of post?â
âThere was no sneaking involved,â Killian promised, groaning softly when Emma swung her legs over his. She kissed his cheek. âAsk Lucas. We just walked out.â
âSticking it to the system and the NHLâs player policy, huh? Did you see Mattie?â
âThat was part of the reason for leaving.â
âAh, you canât say stuff like that, Iâm definitely still all hormonal.â
âI mean if youâre going to swoon over my paternal tendencies, Iâm not going to stop you.â
âDid he go in the locker room?â
âNearly ran me over to get in there,â Killian grinned, and it was easier to press a kiss to her temple now. âTold me I played really fastââ
ââI told you!â
Killian hummed. âWait until the second period,â he murmured against Emmaâs hair, laughing slightly when she swore again. âAnyway, he ran me over, nearly broke several sticks, charmed the whole place and presumably left with Locksley, according to the plan.â
âPresumably.â
âIâd imagine it took some time to get out of there. He had several thoughts about Phillip as well. Although yours are a little more coarse, love.â
âYeah, well, if the three-year-old starts swearing in Norwegian, we might have bigger problems on our hands than whatever fine youâre going to get.â
âIâm not going to get fined.â
âNo?â
Killian shook his head. âLucas was certain itâd work. Plus, I didnât even score the game-winner.â
âThe spoilers,â Emma growled, swatting at his chest and scrunching her nose when he wrapped his fingers around her wrist. She exhaled when he kissed her knuckles, quick presses of his lips across the back of her hand and towards her wrist and that was part of the reason too.
Her very bare wrist.
âItâs almost the second period,â Killian reasoned, nodding back towards the TV.
âThere are ten minutes left in the first.â
He groaned when Emma dug the hell of her hand into his stomach again, snapping up as soon as the announcerâs voices picked up and it was ridiculous. The whole goddamn thing â because there was a three-year-old with incredibly pointed hockey opinions and a baby that heâd been calling Peggy when they were by themselves and heâd been so goddamn nervous, terrified, a pacing, frustrated mess whoâd only sat down because Regina had told him, somewhere in the realm of four in the morning, that he was going to do permanent damage to both of your hamstrings. But there had been so many machines and everything kept beeping andâ
âHey,â Emma muttered, tugging lightly on the tie heâd forgotten he was still wearing. âWhat just happened?â
âWhat?â
âYou got all distant. Were you also thinking about how shitty Phillip is playing in this game.â
âNo.â
âOh, that was a much quicker objection than I was expecting,â Emma said, one side of her mouth tilting up into something that was almost a smile. It probably would have been if the bags under her eyes werenât quite so obvious and there wasnât still a slight tinge to her skin, not quite grey, but not quite flushed and Killian pressed his lips to her forehead before he considered all the reasons he didnât have to.
âI really love that you think that,â Killian mumbled. He didnât move his head. He was totally going to keep calling the baby Peggy.
âThink what? Are you speaking in tongues? Because I really canât remember when I showered last and the pants thing was this whole disaster, so itâs notââ
âYou really donât have to put pants back on.â
It was a real smile that time. âNoted. What do you love? And seriously why did you walk out of post?â
âYou.â
He hadnât meant for it to sound quite like a promise or a pledge or several thousand statements on the record that would spark several more thousand internet clicks, but thatâs what it was and what it always had been and Emmaâs tongue darted between her lips.
âAlways,â Killian added softly, brushing his thumb over the curve of her jaw. âAnd on both fronts. I, wellâitâs a little late, butâŚâ
It wasnât easy to shift both of them â exhaustion and post-game bumps and bruises, but Emma moved as soon as she realized what was going on, a hint of curiosity in the pinch between her eyebrows. âWe were kind of busy around Christmas,â he added, tugging the laces out of his pocket and Emma might have gasped.
Her hand flew to her mouth, so it was kind of hard to tell.
âNo way,â Emma mumbled into her palm, and Killian had to blink so he didnât feel as if every single human emotion he was currently feeling overwhelmed him entirely. âOh that is soâŚstupid.â
Killianâs whole body moved when he laughed, loud enough that his eyes darted towards the crib again. Nothing. âStupid?â he echoed, Emma nodding before heâd even finished the word.
âSo stupid. ItâsâI canât believeâŚno, thatâs totally a lie. I knew you were going to do it, as soon as Mattie broke the last ones.â
âThatâs kind of disappointing, honestly. I donât want my game to be so one-dimensional.â
âFar too confident in your own humor.â
âThat was funny, Swan, admit it,â Killian said, nosing at her cheek until he felt the end of her lips tick up. âAnd I didnât really think about it after Mattie broke âem.â
âNo?â
âNo.â
It had been an accident â a few months before and a very enthusiastic kid who was very excited at the prospect of camp and trying to get on the ice and Emma had lunged, doing her best to keep him off that very same ice when there was an actual practice going on and the second pair of laces snapped in rather dramatic fashion in Tarrytown.
Sheâd promised there was some kind of relationship irony to that.
But then thereâd been a season and Emma had been pregnant and thereâd been games and skates and the thought of replacing laces hadnât even occurred to Killian until he was pacing out a small semicircle in a hospital room, a dozing infant in his arms and mumbled words falling out of his lips and he stopped as soon as he saw the distinct lack of anything on his wifeâs left wrist.
So a plan was formed.
Kind of.
There were still games, after all. And a baby.
âI wanted to have it for Christmas,â Killian said, voice dropping of its own accord and the first period was over. âBut that gotââ
The words caught in his throat, lips suddenly dry and eyes far too wide to be healthy. Emma shifted, twisting until she had either one of her legs on the side of his hips and he refused to be held accountable for whatever sound he made as soon as her fingers moved through his hair.
He closed his eyes.
âYou know you keep calling her Peggy when you think I canât hear you.â
He smiled. âAre you stalking me, Swan?â
âOnly because Iâm super attracted to your paternal tendencies. Itâs almost getting ridiculous.â
âSeriously, do not put pants on for the rest of the night.â
âI donât think any of them are clean, soâŚâ
Killian laughed, some of the inexplicable tension that had been lingering between his shoulder blades for the last ten days dissipating. He ducked his head, catching Emmaâs lips with his own and it wasnât anything more than a bit cautious and a little hopeful, but it felt like coming home and scoring the game winner and settling back into a skating rhythm that could maybe make some kind of playoff run this season.
âI really like Peggy,â Emma whispered against his mouth. âDid Rubes help you steal laces too?â
âNah, that was all Banana.â
âNaturally. Are they fromââ
âYeah,â Killian nodded when she trailed off, and the tears on her cheeks were somehow almost, kind of, sort of nice. âIt was a very impressive goal. Lots of speed up the side of the ice and a ridiculous angle.â
âYou sound very confident, Cap.â
âGot me a star.â
Emma beamed. âYeah?â
âSecond, but you know it wasnât the game-winner, soâŚâ
âI donât care. Iââ She took a deep breath, tongue flashing between her lips again and shoulders shifting slightly and he wasnât really surprised by the kiss that time either. Or the way her hand cupped the side of his face, like she was trying to memorize him or keep him and he would have willingly sat there in the corner of the couch for the rest of his goddamn life.
Fines be damned.
âI love you,â Emma said, no trace of anything except honest and a slightly distracting lack of pants. She twisted again, moving her arm in between them and flipping her hand over. âAnd I knowâwell, it was kind of terrifying there for a second, huh?â
âA little.â
âA lot. IâŚI know if I try and apologize youâre going to tell meââ
ââYou donât have anything to apologize for, Swan.â
âSee, this is the interrupting I was prefacing,â she grumbled, another quick kiss that left his stomach slightly knotted. âBut, well, it wasâŚGod, Iâm so tired, I canât come up with another word except terrifying. I justâI knew, I hoped it would be fine and I was fairly confident in modern medicine, but I started thinking about not being here for you and the kids andââ
Emma sighed again, more tears and lips pressed together tightly. âI love you,â she shrugged, as if that werenât the single most important sentence the world. âAnd that angle is ridiculous. ItâsâŚI donât even understand how it works.â
âIâm a very talented hockey player.â
âAnd a really, really good dad.â
âI hope.â
âI know,â Emma promised, wiggling her fingers. âPlus, itâs stupid attractive when you score.â
âThat so?â
âLike every single time. Itâs good Peggyâs asleep, I donât want to scar her for life this early.â
âSheâll get used to it.â
Killian didnât mention that Emma used the nickname either, but the glint in her eye made it almost too obvious she knew. âThatâs definitely the right approach,â she laughed. âYou going to give me my laces or, like, whatâs your plan here?â
He slid the laces on her wrist.
And Emma did, actually, see the goal, mumbling ridiculously fast against him as soon as he crossed the blue line, but it only took a few more moments for her eyelashes to flutter and her breathing to even out and Killian tried not to wake her when Peggy fussed midway through the third period â a few minutes before midnight.
âHey little love,â he whispered, pulling her out of the crib and rocking back and forth, a quiet rhythm that felt a little bit like being back in skates. âYou missed the goal, you know. Thatâs ok. Weâll get some more later this week.â
She didnât answer, just squirmed against him and twisted towards the TV and that was hardly playing fair.
âYeah,â Killian continued. âTie game. Itâs gets very dramatic at the end.â
More squirming. And blinking. And a rather impressive attempt to yank on his shirt.
âCâmon, letâs at least be comfortable when Phillip makes up for all those turnovers from before.â
And Killian barely noticed the clock ticking past midnight, far too preoccupied with the baby in his arms and the feeling in his chest and Peggy did, eventually, stop squirming â enough for a few more moments of sleep that ensured neither one of them saw the game-winner.
They watched it in the morning, Emmaâs hair still damp from the shower and the laces on her wrist sticking to her skin.
#cs ff#captain swan#captain swan ff#captain swan fic#blue line one shots#i don't know guys here's some new years eve emotions or something#florepy#laura rambles
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Hi, I'm new to this fandom. I'm cockles fan. What is tinhat?
Hi Nonnie,
First off, welcome! We are happy to have you in the fandom and also here in the dumpster mansion. Iâm sure that there are plenty of fandom glossaries etc. that would be happy to give a history of the termâs origins and how its use has changed etc. but I can just tell you how I use it. The notion of a tinhat comes from the convention/joke that conspiracy theorists wear tinfoil hats (either to communicate with aliens or to keep the government out of their head or somethingâŚit probably varies depending on your individual conspiracy theorist). The wearer of a tinfoil hat in media/TV is likely to remind you of this guy:
Itâs media shorthand for a mentally unstable conspiracy nut who thinks they have access to truth that regular folks donât (WAKE UP SHEEPLE!).
So, thatâs a tinhatter in general. When used in fandom, itâs Itâs a term mostly associated with real person ships (RPSâŚand when they are made into real person fiction, RPF) because they tend to encourage the kind of âI see the real truth!â attitude a little more than fiction, which is deliberately constructed and can be read for subtext that someone has designed. (Iâm sure they get used about people that ship fictional characters too though.)
The way the term is used can vary. If used by the person doing the postulatingâwhich is how I use itâitâs kind of self-depreciating and also serves as a disclaimer: âI know how crazy I sound here so if you want to ignore me I totally understand.â If other people use it about you, it turns into an insult, although thatâs maybe not universally true. Personally, I distinguish between being a shipper (or fan) and being a tinhat. When I blog about Jensen making a ridiculously sappy face at Misha (which happens a minimum of once a week) I donât consider that tinhatting because it involves basically no theorizing. He made a doofy face and I point at it and flail. Thatâs real person shipping (for me).
Once you start conjecturing about the most probable reason behind face-making or clothes-sharing or whatever, then you are getting into tinhatting. Itâs a fine line, because I feel that you can (for example) write meta about body language and not be a tinhatter because youâre saying: âHereâs what I see happeningâ but not âand from that we conclude that they have a secret love nest on setâ or âMisha is the baby daddy.â The edges are fuzzy and, for me, have to do with whether youâre making an argumentative claim. âThis looks like outrageous flirting to meâ doesnât meet the tinhat threshold. But a post like mine about JIB 7 and how (I think) they fucked right before the panel 100% does. So when I tag for tinhatting here it means that I feel I have ventured away from the realm of observation and idle speculation into making an argument based on conjecture and deductions that have very little real-world evidence.
Other people may use it differently, especially if they think that all real-person shippers are also tinhats. And not all tinhats are created equal, imo. I can give you my personal take on what this looks like in our fandom, but the fact that itâs my personal take means that it is biased and more sympathetic to Cockles. Within our particular fandom, there are the J2 tinhats and the Cockles tinhats. I would say they are âwarringâ except that, tbh, I donât see Cockles people fighting with anyone very often. Itâs more like when my auntâs chihuahua used to bite and snap at her Labrador and the lab would just be all good-natured like âHuh? What is even happening?â as the chihuahua got more pissed off. (Again, thatâs how it looks to me.)Â
Iâve only accidentally encountered J2 content so I can speak super generally, but J2 tinhats tend to believe that their wives are âbeardsâ enabling them to maintain a secret relationship thatâs been going since the start of the show. Iâve seen some stuff suggesting that the pregnancies were somehow âfakeâ and/or at least didnât involve actual sex (because no one can see those kids and not know they are related to their daddies, ffs) but Iâm going to guess thatâs pretty âfringeâ behavior even in that group. The J2 tinhats are the ones who send the most hate to the wives. Like, it is vile, vile shit. You can find it pretty easily on any of Danneel and Genâs social media posts (and often on Jared and Jensenâs too). Thereâs probably (unfortunately) another subset of people sending hate to the wives too who just wish J2 were single so they could indulge some kind of fantasy about dating them (whichâguess what!âyou can anyway! itâs a fantasy!). But J2 tinhats definitely do hate on their wives, looking for examples of how much J2 donât love them and how they are in fact each otherâs life partners though not ok with being Out about it for PR reasons.
Oh right, and the craziest J2 tinhat theory I ever saw was that Misha is actually a beard (meard, to be exact) to distract from how much Jensen loves Jared. I am not sure how that helps the J2 case, but at least it means they arenât blind to those hearteyes Jen and Mish exchange. Honestly, there are probably some very nice J2 shippers who do not hate their wives and who think, like Cockles shippers do, that it can all be one happy non-monogamous party. They probably maintain quiet blogs that squee over hugs and head rubs or whatever. They donât go on Twitter and scream about stuff. But that means I also donât know that they are out there and that it feels much more like theyâre the exception rather than the norm. Iâm also not sure the extent to which J2 believers overlap with Wincest shippers or bronliesâŚprobably a lot? This isnât my area of expertise though.
The norm for Cockles tinhats, in my (fairly extensive) experience is that everyone believes that everything is done consensually and without angst; they love the wives and assume that, even if theyâre not actively involved, they fully sanction (and perhaps even instigated) Misha and Jensenâs relationship. They think that they spend some family vacations together (which was confirmed) and that that means they are kind of raising them together. Essentially, the most extreme tinhatty end of Cockles shipping is still best described as âpoly blissâ in which everyone is informed and consenting and full of love. I am not sure Iâve seen anyone pro-Cockles suggesting that Vicki and Danneel are beards, though again it may happen in a small and quieter minority.Â
I could go on even longer about why I feel like tinhatting Cockles is less of a reach than tinhatting J2, but essentially it just comes down to the fact that a) Misha and Vicki have a marriage that has included a third serious partner before (in addition to including multiple people in bed) but Iâve never heard anything like that about Jared and b)Â the suggested scenario where the wives are involved and everyone is happy about it seems like it could actually be emotionally sustainable where what is suggested for J2 doesnât.
I know thatâs a longer answer than maybe you were expecting or wanted, but I have been thinking about tinhatting vs. shipping a lot recently so I thought Iâd share those reflections. Again, though, this is my interpretation of the term and my way of using it so YMMV. Either way, welcome to the party!
#asks#tinhatting#cockles#cockles vs j2#how to rps#the ethics of shipping#fandom life#tumblr life#j2 tinhats#cockles tinhats#rps for ts
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Tinhatting Cockles like a Boss - like a G0$$ B0$$
So Misha did a livestream for his death2normalcy Valentineâs Day sale yesterday, and as a cockles tinhat, I think I would be remiss if I did not consider that Jensen is somehow involved. I will even go one step further and postulate that Misha was lying when he said the screaming came from one of the grandmothers.Â
Ok so first of all I think that this D2N Valentineâs Day sale is about Jensen because yeah Iâma crazy tinhat but itâs freaking Valentines. But also because I think Misha and Jensen disagree when it comes to keeping their relationship secret. This might seem random but bear with me. At SPNHON (when they were broken up blah blah blah), the last question of the cockles panel was about gishwhes and after Misha tells the story about Jensen finding his skittles portrait, he pivots to another skittles portrait story that I donât think Misha has ever told before:
So that year, this friend of mine actually was on a gishwhes team and he made a Jensen - he never watched supernatural he had no idea - but he made a Jensen Acklesâ mosaic portrait in Skittles and he was like âIâm certainly not gonna hang this up in my place so I thought you should have itâ and I was like âoh thanksâ and I stuck it in the closet. And then Vicki was like -a few months later she was like , âWe have to get rid of that Jensen Skittle thing because rats are eating the candies off of it and itâs attracting rats.â
Ok I think I need to post a video because imo it looks like the story was fabricated by Misha in an effort to hurt Jensen while making a point and thatâs important. When youâre angry and in a high emotional state, you are gonna say shit thatâs true and shit that hurts. And yeah I know most cockles shippers think this was a great panel, but nah. Mishaâs story starts at 34:16. If you watch before or after this part when the band comes on stage, you can see how teary eyed both Misha and Jensen are. Especially Misha doing everything he could to keep the emotion from escalating. Honestly, I donât see how people can see this panel and think that they were in a good place. Itâs painful.
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Anyways, so this is all about The Closetâ˘. Yep, that closet. Because Jensen wants their relationship to stay secret and while in the closet, they canât openly be as affectionate as they would probably like, which means that itâs easier for people to think Misha is available which gives him more opportunity to stray since not everyone is aware of their relationship. Iâm not blaming Jensen or giving Misha an excuse, Iâm just reasoning that the more temptation there is, the harder it is to resist. So I think one thing that maybe Misha is saying, is that because Jensen is in the closet, he is gonna attract cheating rats like Misha. He could also be saying that because Jensen wants to stay closeted, Misha (and Vicki?) think they should toss Jensen and break up because they only get the little bits of Jensen anyways rather than the whole guy. So maybe this was like a retaliatory breakup for Misha, if true. One of those âyou canât break up with me! Iâm breaking up with you!â. So I think this closet conversation is possibly a point of contention for them. This closet thing from SPNHON came back to me because of the D2N email they sent out a week ago.
The closet in Hawaii had some serious negative connotation, but the way that Misha is using it here, is diametrically different. Here with D2N, the closet is associated with 7 minutes, which was probably intended to remind us of that teenage party game where two people make-out in a closet for 7 minutes. The game is called 7 Minutes in Heaven. Cute and relevant. And since this is set to go down on Valentineâs day, then almost certainly Misha wanted us to think of sexy closet time. But with Valentineâs I also think of cupids, which reminds me of angels, which reminds me of heaven. Cool. 7 Minutes of Heaven. Just kidding, I thought cupi-Cas, which reminds me of Casâs original personal heaven from season 9, a room full of pics of naked Deans. Maybe this is Mishaâs personal heaven too. Being a in a closet with naked Dean/Jensen.Â
But then Misha throws me when he keeps reiterating in the D2N video and on twitter that âloving someone means letting goâ and âwhen you love something, set it freeâ. Oh god is this another cockles breakup.Of course my negative filter, thinks heâs talking about letting Jensen go but would he do that on Valentineâs Day? Maybe. Misha is pretty twisted but I donât think he is cruel. Plus, I have seen what broken-hearted Jensen and Misha look like and how they behave, particularly when their relationship has blown up, and I just donât see the Misha from his D2N video as the lovelorn one from late last year. But I could be wrong.
However, even though my default is to go negative, I am actually more hopeful. The dreamer in me is hoping that this whole D2N thing was making way for Jensen and Misha to say goodbye to the closet and for them to finally be open with their love. Death to the closet. Death to normalcy. Hello motto. Hello to polyamory. That would be freaking amazing but yeah thatâs definitely not gonna happen (yet). And I donât really need or care if theyâre public with their relationship, but I donât want my babies fighting. I actually wonder if maybe thatâs where gishwhes was gonna go this year till Misha blew it. Like it was gonna be some elaborate coming out celebration/scavenger hunt, but since they broke up, they had to call off that plan and Misha decided to go ahead and stick with the same tried and true gishwhes formula. Oh man, I wish. But the truth is, I donât think Jensen and Misha are gonna come out on Valentines Day but I will be more shocked if this D2N thing is about a breakup rather than if its some next level flirting on Mishaâs part. I mean câmon! He is selling a mixtape.Â
So that was crazy the first. Crazy the second is that Iâm not actually convinced that it was a grandmother at Mishaâs door. I have no real proof for this (as if I ever do) except that when Danneel posted â¤đđđ in response to one of Mishaâs instagrams on saturday the 10th, my eighth thought was that she meant âsee you in two daysâ. The little moon guy signifies night and the rotation of the earth. So when Misha had visitors at his house that he was desperately hiding from us, in my crazy tinhat head, it was the Ackles family and everything was all coming together. Here is Mishaâs D2N video.
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Here is my stellar logic though. Yes, it could have been a grandmother but he has already introduced us to both of them. We met Vickiâs mom in Hawaii and Misha has never been too shy with showing off his parents. I think he had a a gishwhes meet-up in Bellingham for his motherâs bday in 2016 where tons of fans socialized with her. It just doesnât make sense to me that he would suddenly want to exclude them (unless they asked for that which is a possibility) when he films pretty much anyone that is there. But this is flawed because i have no idea if he asks permission from the people and the parents of everyone he films beforehand. But no doubt, both Mishaâs and Vickiâs respective mothers know Misha well enough to know heâs quirky and he records a lot of videos. Ok I admit this is a weak argument. But what about Mishaâs reaction when his wind-chime/doorbell rang, before the screaming even began? Why would he frantically run upstairs away from his mom or MIL? I mean, Misha booked it, two steps at a time.Â
And then there was that weird thing he said after he ran upstairs and closed the door. Â He said:
What else do I need to tell you. I mean that may be it. Itâs valentines day. They say - Â I mean really thatâs the problem with live video. Someone walks through the front door and starts screaming and itâs all - itâs captured for everyone to see. Something terrible is gonna happen eventually.
But how is having one of the mothers/grandmotherâs accidentally walk in on a live video terrible? How many times have we seen glimpses or flashes of people that we have known and not known in his videos? Would he define those as something terrible? Considering he hasnât, probably not. However, even though I have begged and prayed for a revealing accidental cockles moment in one of Mishaâs videos, as amazing and life-saving as that would be for me and for the world, I can see how that could be âsomething terribleâ for Misha and Jensen and maybe even their families. But imo family time with a shrieking grandmother does not compare to "something terribleâ. It is actually a rather odd, harmless time for Misha to suddenly realize the risks of livestreaming. He has streamed dozens of live videos of his family, one where someone even farted. These are not uncommon occurrences for him yet we are supposed to believe that this ordinary standard loud family gathering with grandma is the eye-opening incident that shines a light on the hazards of livestreaming that he never considered before. Sure, Jan. The incongruity or just plain absurdity of his grandmothers visit warranting a âsomething terribleâ is so weird and it makes it suspicious for some kind of deception.Â
Plus Misha was way too urgent and nervous when he ran upstairs. He definitely did not want us to see who his visitors were. He was also talking and stomping on the stairs while his visitors were loudly greeting each other in the background. He definitely did not want us to hear who his visitors were. Now this is my favorite part. Even though he was hiding us or his visitors, he was having a good time doing it but I don't think he wanted us to know that. He was trying not to smile. He was suppressing smiles when he was running up the stairs and for a lot of the second half of the video but especially when discussing the dangers of live streaming. The suppressed smile on the stairs actually makes sense because it could have been because he was probably happy and excited about seeing his visitors and/or finding humor in the whole ridiculous situation. It could be for other various reasons, including the one I am about to talk about, but you canât be sure because the loud women were legitimately funny, thus smiling is an appropriate display. But the smile that he tried to suppress that slipped out in his âsomething terribleâ speech was a different kind of suppressed smile. I believe he was displaying something known in the nonverbal world as duping delight.
Duping delight is when a smile leaks out when we fool or dupe someone with a lie, partial truth or when we are withholding information, like a secret. Some people subconsciously or semi-consciously occasionally take delight in such a ruse and obviously a suppressed smile is indicative of that pleasure and thrill they experience in tricking others or in doing some other act of deception. But this smile has to be out of place and inappropriate and since there was nothing else going on that would normally produce a smile (like the loud ladies), and because he did display a cluster of other deceptive body signals along with his duping delight, I really do think he was delighting in his clever deceptions. But was he all that successful? Because as hard as Misha tried not to show his joy in deceiving us, he just couldnât completely shut it down. But thatâs understandable if it were actually âsomething terribleâ as Jensen and his brood that he was trying to keep secret. I would be delighting so fucking much in that dupe, too, if I were that lucky.Â
#misha you little imp i love you#cockles#wtf are you up to?#i love this theorizing brainstorming shit#im not sold on anything but i do enjoy trying to figure these guys out
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okay so iâve been going crazy these past few days. all about cockles/jensmish and obsessively watching their panels or reading the transcripts BECAUSE. THEY ARE LOUD. LIKE. i saw some fancams on twt and i thought people were just exaggerating but noooooooooo!!!???? so, getting to the point. you said that how do we know that jensen is performing masculinity? because jared isnât and THAT IS A BIG BRAIN MOMENT. ON POINT. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. a particular moment from gag reel that jumps out (which youâve talked about) when jensen goes âcas, you are my baby daddyâ and misha goes, âi know i love you tooâ and jensen goes, âi didnât say i love youâ and misha goes, âi know you wanted toâ and jensen says, âi love youâ WHAT THE FUCK! that was NOT a joke. yes, people took it as a joke and had a good laugh BUT I HAVE WATCHED IT TOO MANY TIMES AND IT LIVES IN MY MIND RENT FREE BECAUSE IT WAS NOT A PERFORMANCE. THAT WAS JENSEN. THAT WAS MISHA. jensen has a had trouble with the pda and being all touch feely (the breakup theory) and he gradually grew into it, accepted it and misha was right there all along, never pushed it. it was like a deancas au but tbh, 99% of destiel is because of cockles and we all know it. i just. jensen has latched onto dean as an emotional support because he tunes with it. understands it. projects on to it. yeah, i just had to say it and get it off my chest. (and what about those poetry pages on instagram? alma? what is your opinion?) btw, you have a lovely blog and your analysis are right on target.
so there is a LOT i���m going to address here(how dare you bring up [gunshot] i HAVE to talk about it now) so again!!!! under a cut it goes but i hope you appreciate my rambles anon it seems like you do :,)
1. jared vs. jensen and performing masculinity. hell yeah man. jared and jensen are both just âguys from texasâ but they are still so vastly different. today i actually had a revelation that iâm pretty sure has to do with me being bi. and itâs that i have a group of straight friends(that i love dearly but they care too much about hockey and pitbull imo could not be me) and i have a group of queer friends(who are also batshit[affectionate]). and itâs like whichever group i hang out with a different side of me emerges? theyâre both me, itâs just that certain aspects of who i am as a person only surface depending on who i am around. however, i will say i feel like i watch what i say around my straight friends more. i see that very clearly in jensen as well. around jared during panels and on set, heâs definitely putting on an air of machismo and engages in typical guy talk. i do think an element of it is performative, because he wants validation from jared that theyâre still just two dudes from texas taking on the world together despite his sexual identity. does that make any sense??? i hope so. but when heâs with misha he is an entirely different person and his sense of humour becomes wildly different. the machismo fades away, heâs way less caught up in what people think about him, lets his guard down, etc. to go back to my original point which is how j2 are different in that regard....jared does not do this. he is a constant. he does not flip a switch between âperforming masculinityâ and ânotâ because he isnât performing any part of who he is. he just IS. so yeah these two are similar in many regards but thereâs somewhat of a dissonance between them when it comes to how they perform masculinity because one of them is putting on a show and the other is merely being.
2. that crypt scene blooper(here just in case you need to see it again. do it. as a treat.) when i tell you i have easily seen this over thirty times??? since it first came out??? i mean it. it is such an overlooked(r*mantic) moment and it means so much more than people think it does. iâve talked about the context behind it, and i think thatâs why this blooper was so meaningful, so iâll mention it again. jensen and misha had a LOT of trouble with this scene. the reason is that jensen couldnât wrap his head around why dean would be saying these things, if i remember correctly, and both of them sat down and scoured over how they should play it for a while before filming(teamwork ;) teammates *ahem*). [to be honest we all know why jensen had a hard time with that scene and it is because it is blatantly romantic. rip to him but i would simply give in to it at that point but oh well] so anyway, their heads were scattered going into shooting, which is NEVER a good headspace to be in for a scene, ESPECIALLY not a pivotal one. but they had each other to help them through said weird energy on set that couldnât possibly have invoked the best feelings, especially considering jensen STILL doesnât think he played that correctly(but he praised misha on his performance :,) ). and with that context every single part of that video hits haRDÂ
-âstop pulling my face towards your crotchâ i think this is objectively hilarious because it really really looks like jensen is pulling HIMSELF towards mishaâs crotch. again, youâre fooling no one, jensen. mishaâs wheezing laugh and the way he wraps himself around jensen is also,,,sweet??? like i donât know how else to describe how i see it but this moment really reads as jensen, in his weird âconstructing elaborate ritualsâ way is asking for security through a physical touch from misha and he happily obliges and gives jensen what he needs. because i mean...watch it again. jensen âfights backâ, but not really at all, actually. pretty wimpy counterattack. he literally lets himself be smothered by misha, and i would literally describe what they end up doing as cuddling.Â
-âi need you, cas. youâre my baby daddyâ i love having an actorâs perspective on things bc i think i can explain whatâs going on here. jensen just delivered what was(in his own mind) a rotten take of the lines heâs most scared of delivering. so the scene was already messed up. therefore; ensuing fuckery is warranted to help him feel better. but thereâs also for sure more than meets the eye for what he says here because of mishaâs reaction after??? like he seemed genuinely touched. first of all, heâs saying âyouâre my baby daddyâ as half-jensen, but not necessarily dean either(because he didnât say the previous lines as true to his character...you get it), to misha, not cas. i think iâve made this point before, but every single innuendo in the gag reels is to misha specifically, never once cas. therefore; logical conclusion: âyouâre my baby daddyâ was for misha and it meant something deeper than we think because of what follows it
-this part. jensenâs giddy ass smile after he sees misha crack and then misha says âyeah, i knowâ (can i just say his voice when he says this is so intimate???? like am i intruding guys??? sorry iâll let myself out) also he is smiling SO BIG
- âi knowâ âwhy are you laughing?â âno i know i love you tooâ this analysis is already so long but i still want to get into what THAT whole exchange means. âwhy are you laughing?â to me sounds like jensenâs pretending to be affronted by misha laughing at something that is serious. and itâs serious because he quite literally meant âi love youâ. he did. misha knows it. mishaâs really REALLY good at cutting the bs and just getting to what people are actually trying to say. he has an innate sharpness to his sense of humour. so yes, misha is being 100% accurate when he says âi know, but you wanted to say it.â misha isnât lying here. jensen did want and mean to say âi love youâ. and then he actually does say it(in a jokey way but not really).Â
- so yeah. it is actually so romantic??? like in a weird way jensen was professing his love for misha here?????? and thatâs why this clip will NEVER. ever. get old.Â
3. jensen having trouble with pda and projecting onto dean: we can all call ourselves dean coded cas girls but NO one deserves that title more than jensen ackles himself. he is dean winchester but marginally less repressed because he actually did admit he was in love with his best friend and let himself be happy, and pretty early on too. one year and two months as opposed to twelve years. so. happy deancas au is correct. and yes about the pda thing: one day i want to write my own post about both of their body language when it comes to each other, but all i can tell is jensen, even in the early days, couldnât help himself from flirting with misha, but if misha ever crossed a line, jensen would not be happy. clearly heâs come around, however. what i find sweet is that misha always follows jensenâs lead when it comes to how much affection theyâre allowed to show each other onstage. it touches my soul
4. destiel is cockles fault. yeah. and the thing is everyone knows it, too. even non-cockles shippers will explain early destiel as entirely dependant on jensen and mishaâs wild chemistry. and that chemistry is easily explained by the fact that misha and jensen are literally just wildly horny bisexuals who were crazily attracted to one another and were falling in love on screen before our very eyes. and when you have THAT insider info(which sounds cray doesnât it!!!! the destiel actors are in love irl??? huh???) everything really does click into place. why destiel got SO popular when the show and actors never ever intended for it to happen.(i know some people think misha was playing cas as gay the whole time for shits and giggles, and i wonât deny that[especially considering he found out early on that destiel was why he was staying on the show], but i donât think he really wanted it to amount to anything, nor did he care??? i mean he has the real thing with jensen, for one, so their characters arenât really as important. for two, he loves joking about destiel because itâs a cultural phenomenon and itâs fascinating, and iâm sure he did ship it because heâs unhinged, but i donât think it was vastly important to him either way.) destiel got popular because everyone was and is unintentionally reading into the real deal. i could pull up countless gifs that people have used as destiel proof that is actually just jensen and misha being messy. mainly jensen. if iâm being honest. the symbiotic relationship between destiel and cockles is why iâve stayed onboard the destielcule and shellerscape for three solid months now; because it is utterly fascinating to witness and kind of super beautiful, too.Â
5. alma(and others). so. i do NOT want to really REALLY get into this in its entirety here and now so i will just give you my opinion on if i think alma is misha or not. also; i donât want to mention the other poetry accounts here bc i feel like thatâs a bigger breach in privacy, but a lot of people do know about alma now. way too many, actually. this is why we canât have nice things. anyway-to answer your question-there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that yes, misha is running that alma poetry account. i am 100% certain. some people think itâs actually three people and theyâre all connected to misha in some way but that is so needlessly complicated. as it goes in psychology; the easiest explanation is probably the right one. itâs just one person running that account, and it is misha collins. i donât know why itâs so hard to believe KNOWN POET misha collins(who is known to spend most of his free time writing poetry anyway) would have created a secret poetry account to write about his intense secret relationship under an alias and also get legitimate feedback since no one used to know it was him. oh and the handwriting is identical??? you are blind if you do not see that i am sorry. and a million other things prove itâs misha too but yeah all you need to know is yes. itâs him. it would take a literal livestream from a random woman on that account to convince me otherwise. and honestly not even that because a random woman could technically still log in if misha asked her too. so. it would take a hell of a lot to convince me otherwise, clearly. that said DO NOTTTTTTTTTTTT GO ONTO THAT ACCOUNT WITH A SUPERNATURAL RELATED USERNAME AND COMMENT THINGS THAT ARE COCKLES RELATED. ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD WHY WOULD YOU THINK THATâS OKAY. sorry i got heated but god please just donât be dumb so many people have already gone way too farÂ
6. thank you for your lovely compliment on my analyses!!! i love doing them but i donât know if people actually like reading them so i really appreciate it
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This is how my new year started off. This ask was in response to an answer I had given to a previous random ask that showed up in my inbox after being mostly inactive for the past couple of months. This was the original ask:
The blacked out section is a personal story the anon shared that i didn't feel comfortable sharing, nor did i want to blast them for it. That is their story and it is not my business to put their business out there, even if they felt comfortable enough sharing it with a stranger who could have very well done so. I may be a bitch sometimes but I'm not a heartless one. Instead I chose to answer it in a general post:
The reblogged post is their response. After I made that post their only respose was this:
Instead of doing what I wanted to do (respond in a way that was just absolutely petty and vicious) I took a breath and walked away for a while and came back to make another general post for them. I offered them a place to vent if necessary as long as they promised not to attack me personally again (the offer still stands btw anon, if you're reading this. I meant every word I said, I'm just using this to make a point.) And told them if they didn't want to take my offer then they can feel free to block me.
I'm reblogging this particular ask for 2 reasons. 1: to respond to comments, as this is just a side blog and I'm not giving the crazies on the other side a chance to find my main and bully me off of this site (AGAIN). This is my safe space (weird i know) and I dont want to lose it again.
@questionablebluebox it really is disgusting the lengths some people will go to, to besmirch someone's name. This lie in particular pisses me off because I know for a fact a lot of them haven't actually watched the video this was in, they just saw that a couple of their lead antis say something about it and took their word as law without looking up the resource for context and making objective decisions for themselves. Which, unfortunately for the entirety of the world right now, is not an uncommon practice for most people đ. Misha has flaws but he is no where near the monster they paint him as. He's a good dude. It's okay not to like someone without actively trying to destroy them. Like, Damn.
@spnkat I told them as much, but they didn't listen. I even provided an article on intrusive thoughts. Still didn't listen. It was most likey my fault because I took their ask personally and got riled up at the end and went off. I know better than that. I know people don't respond to anger. But I still found it incredibly frustrating that they refused to use the resources and evidence I gave them and instead chose to double down on their bias.
The second reason I'm reblogging this it to adress future anons.
I AM NOT THE ONE.
I get it, you want to defend your fave and the only way some of you even know how to do that is to tear someone else down. But look, I never said I was a Jared Anti. I just don't care for him anymore. Attacking me for not liking him is not going to make me like him again. Attacking the actors I do follow is not going to make me like him again. And I said it before, but I'll say it here too, for people who use his MHI as an excuse an awful lot , y'all really don't seem to care about the mental health of the people you go after.
I have never adressed my problems with him, to him. I dont stalk his SM, I don't even interact with it. I dont go around to his stan's blogs and call him names or make up rumors and spread them. I do not look up what he's up to, to tear it apart. In fact, the only reason I know half of what he's got going on, are anon asks on everyone's blog detailing every facet of his "Many success" while tearing Misha and Jensen to shreds. Unless he is at an event or in an interview or something with one or more of the other SPN cast memebers, I do not engage at all.
You want to "protect" Jared from the antis? Then go find them. I ain't it. If I am anti anything it's y'all. His stans. Not his fans, his stans. The people who believe he is a god among men and can do no wrong. Y'all are what I can't stand. Y'all are most of the reason I stopped following him.
If you want to talk to me like a rational human being, that's fine. I love listening to different views on things, as long as they aren't shrouded in belligerent ignorance. The human mind is absolutely fascinating to me and I actually like stepping out of my biases and seeing how others think. I am more than willing to have adult conversations. But unprompted shit like thisâŹď¸. Nah dude.
You don't get to sit there on your high horses and act like all hellers are vile and vicious for absolutely no reason when shit like this happens everyday and has for forever. Yeah there are people on my side that are extreme but you can't sit the and act like your side is inncocent and pure. Some of y'all are insanely VILE in the way you behave. The hypocrisy is outstanding.
Basically, if I get asks that are reasonable, I will answer reasonably, but come at me with fire? I'm going to defend myself. That doesn't make me nasty, it doesn't make me stupid and it sure as hell doesn't mean I'm a horrible person. It means I value my mental health. I am learning how to value myself as a human being. Becuase behind this screen is a HUMAN FUCKING PERSON.
Some of y'all really seem to forget that. I think it's time some of y'all do a self evaluation and check your own mental health.
Thank you, and have the day you deserve.
Yikes. Nasty for excusing a pedo. The man want to a playground to leer at kids. Nothing intrusive about that.
You know what, I generally try to answer these with with a modicum of respect, but unfortunately for you nonners, I had a shit year and my "give a fuck" meter is all but broken.
So, you're still on your "Misha's a p*do" kick huh?Okay, fair. Lets play it that way. You realize that makes Jared an Jensen look REALLY BAD too right? So...
YIKES. Nasty for stanning a man who willingly worked with a known p*do for 13 years. Nasty for being a fan of men who let their children be around a known p*do unsupervised. Nasty for watching a show that had a p*do on it. Nasty for stanning a man who didn't call the cops and have a known p*do arrested for being a p*do. Nasty for stanning a man who not only worked with but also supported the side projects of a known p*do. Absolutely disgusting. They should all be imprisoned!
Because if Supernatural was so successful without Cas, they could have easily taken Misha out of the show and not have to worry about it failing. And if Jared is truly successful on his own then he wouldn't have had to worry about SPN ending if it did fail without Cas. They would at least have him removed from creation cons, they've done it with other actors before. You must also be amongst the crazy ass faction who believes that Misha has some "Big Blackmail" against the Js and thats the only reason he stayed. Except that means that the Js have blackmail worthy secrets which doesn't look good for them either. Because that means they have some big bad secret that will destroy their careers and therefore they are willing to sacrifice their morals and the SAFETY OF CHILDREN to protect those careers. Because money over morals, right? REPUTATION OVER MORALS RIGHT?!
Here's the thing, if you truly believe that Misha is a p*do then you also have to accept the fact that the Js have done absolutely nothing about it. They have done nothing to get him locked up or keep him away from children, INCLUDING THEIR OWN, meaning that they value their careers and reputaions more than the safety of children. Because a good person, a truly good person, protects children and does not give a FUCK what it costs them.
So, take your pick. Either Misha's a p*do and the Js are complicit in his actions to protect themselves over children, or y'all took a quote out of contxt and ran with it because you are obsessed with hating Misha. There is no in between.
Thank you, and you can fuck all the way off. Buhbye.
#anon hate#anon ask#misha anti#anti jared#sort of#but not really#leave me in peace#please get a new hobby#be gone#anti stans
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Title: âThe Spooky Truth with Dr. Jones,â (1/2)
Summary: Emma Swan is a podcaster looking for a semi-interesting story. Dr. Killian Jones is a paranormal investigator who doesnât believe in the paranormal. Emma Swan absolutely does not want to write this storyâbut it seems to be writing itself. A CS Black Tapes AU.
Notes: This delightful little AU was 100% inspired by The Black Tapes, a seriously awesome fictional horror podcast that you can listen to for free. Which you should. Right now. Iâd like to thank and/or notify a # of awesome people who helped with this: @seastarved @zengoalie @ofshipsandswans @abbadons-little-witch @the-reason-to-sail-home @businesscasualprincess @swanandapirate (who also wrote a podcast AU, so if you like this, you should probably check it out). Also on Ao3.
+Â Honestly, the worst thing about this job is the constant threat of, âYou have a face too pretty for radio,â every time she has to conduct an interview with some bland fuck-boy that the country has suddenly decided is worth her time. If not for the occasionally tedious subject matter and overeager interviewees, it would be damn near perfect.
Itâs certainly odd, considering how long sheâd spent trying to make herself invisible; avoiding friends and relationships in exchange for the blissful quiet of self-imposed isolation, all while maintaining her carefully constructed state of emotional constipation.
âTheyâre not my friends,â trying to explain to her producer, David, âtheyâre my subjects.â
Snorting, with an affectionate rolling of his eyes, âThatâs awfully sentimental of you, Emma.â
âExcept you,â her words starting to run sloppily together, resting a warm, heavy arm around his neck, âyouâre a regular ��prince charming.ââ
âYeah, yeah,â brushing off the compliment but she can see it in his eyes, how much he cares, and while it still makes her vaguely uncomfortable, itâs nice knowing thereâs somebody in her corner. âLetâs get you to bed, âprincess.ââ
It was supposed to be a one-off episode, part of a larger story about people and professions and why we do what we do to get byâdefining ourselves through our work, that kind of thing. She had done a few episodes already; one on geo-caching, another one focusing on a lady who actually got paid to paint the claws of peopleâs cats. And that was when David had gently knocked on her office door and told her about a conference about the paranormal going on at the local college, and would she, maybe, like to attend?
 She had been in the midst of sorting through a rather demoralizing gallery of neon-colored cat toenails when heâd made the suggestion, so it wasnât hard to imagine the gusto with which she flew out of her chair; oversized bag of gum, phone chargers, and pencils swung over one shoulder, her knee-length boots half-zipped up her calves, âYeah,â she answered excitedly, âIâm on it!â
âDr. Killian Jones is handsome,â she speaks into her dictaphone later that night, an unfamiliar vibrato of excitement painting her words, âthereâs no point in denying it. I wonât have my young, impressionable female listeners hanging on his every lovely, accented word thinking this guy isnât as good looking as he sounds.â
 She considers the, frankly, unreal color of his stupidly blue eyes and continues, âBut I donât want there to be any kind of confusion. Dr. Killian Jones is a real dick.â
The lecture hall is louder, busier, and fuller than sheâs ever seen it before. Sheâs taken a few classes here, attended a few events, and she can say with absolute confidence that this campus has never seen such a to-do in all its many, stuffy years.
The hall is a diverse mix, but there's an unusually large amount of tittering freshmen, and she can't help but feel as if she might be missing something.
She puts that exact question to a rather excitable group of young women (and men), all of them clutching copies of the same book. It's large, hardcover, she can barely make out the thick, dramatic eyebrows of the author on the back.
âSo, uh, what's with the crowd?â
A young man wearing bold, square frames and a bowtie covered in tiny ghosts answers incredulously, âHow can you not know?â
 âDon't be rude, Jefferson,â interrupts a small, dark-haired brunette, her lipstick a bright, fire engine red. âDr. Killian Jones,â she answers happily, handing Emma a copy of her book, âexpert in all things fucked up and certifiably creepy.â
 Emma skims the almost revelatory reviews on the back as the girl continues, âThe accent and the eyes don't hurt either.â
 âNot a damn bit,â the kid with the bowtie, Jefferson, mumbles under his breath.
 Emma releases a sigh. There's no point in being coy, she'd actually been excited about this. Turns out it's nothing more than an academic peep show.
 âYou should stick around,â the girl comments carefully, her grin shrewd, âI don't think you'll regret it.
âHereâs the thing about me,â she reflects carefully, a half-empty bottle of beer dangling from her fingertips, âIâm skeptical, but I donât begrudge people their beliefs.â
It probably has something to do with the absolutely devastating, trope-tastic childhood that she carries around with her like a brand. All those years yearning for some kind of âhappily ever after,â when really it was just one bleak foster home after another, disappointment upon disappointment upon disappointment. But for a while? It was all that had kept her going.
âI would have given up otherwise,â a dry sniff, a cough that attempts to hide an unwelcome truth, âno matter how idealisticâstories⌠even the crazy ones, were everything.â
She pauses the recording, takes another swig of the warm beer in her hand, and pictures Killian Jonesâ smug face, stiff blazer, and distinctly non-professorial jewelry. Recording.
âAsshole.â
âBut whatâs wrong with letting people believe what they believeâŚ? If it brings them comfort?â
Emmaâs sure this kid couldnât look anymore nervous if she tried, the flushed cheeks and shaky hands an obvious betrayal of her adoration and fear of this guy. Sure, the deep, dulcet tones of his voice were what radio jockeys dreamed of, and yes, maybe the black stud in his ear managed to convey so authentic a quality that it had to be seen to be believed, but stillâthe all-knowing grin and perfect teeth were undoubtedly punch-worthy.
âI would never want to deny someone their comfort,â he begins gently, a charming twinkle in his eye, âbut thereâs quite a bit more at stake, loveââ
Impossibly, the girl blushes even deeper as he continues, âYour intentions, while quite admirable, they undermine the integrity of scientific fact, and in this day and age, wellâŚâ
He laughs and the entire room joins in, even the girl who had asked the question, and Emma canât help but feel that if she were to pull her aside at the end of the night, she would have insisted that he had done her some kind of favor.
Unsurprisingly, the rest of the night seems as if it will continue in much the same way. The guy has an answer to absolutely everything, and nothing has gotten under her skin more. Heâs unshakeable in his rightness, in the certainty of his argument and his devotion to the truth with a capital âT.â
 It would be almost admirable if it wasnât so obviously a lie.
She decides to conduct street interviews the next day, nothing too formal, just the usual method of stopping folks on the street, inquiring after their views about the supernatural; make sure they feel comfortable and get honest, usable content.
âAnd you donât think this tone of yours will influence their âhonesty?ââ David asks slyly, his smile familiar and deliberate and sheâs had just about enough of how well he knows her sometimes.
âWhat tone? I just wanna prove to the guy that maybe heâs a little bit wrong about things.â
âNo,â he laughs, shuffling around a pile of folders on top of his desk, âyou want to humiliate him.â
âThat would be unprofessional.â
âAnd no one would ever accuse you of that.â
She very professionally admits that she manages to speak with a handful of people who would agree with Dr. Killian Jones. They find belief in the supernatural, the magical, the unbelievable, to be a failing of the human mind, not a strength. A few of them even mentioned him by name, âThat doctor, you know,â and she had to physically stop herself from recoiling, âthe one with the accent. Heâs got the right idea.â
But thereâs also the vast majority of people who harbor some kind of belief in the unknown, even if itâs the teeniest, vaguest inklingâthey want to believe, âAnd it warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart.â
Itâs his answer to the last question that really seals the dealâacting as confirmation of the steadily growing theory that thereâs a lot more to Jonesâ âmissionâ than heâd like his enamored audiences to believe. Itâs when the story that Emma Swan has started to write in her head goes from âso-soâ to âaward-winning.â Itâs also when she gets the small blotch of ink on her face.
Sheâs just about ready to throw in the towel, hasnât been able to stop anxiously chewing on the cap of the pen she had shoved into her mouth to keep from groaning at all of his well-crafted answers, when a stern-faced, well-dressed woman stands to speak.
Her voice seems to ring unusually loud in the suddenly hushed auditorium, and Emmaâs eyes immediately swivel to the doctorâs face, which has, almost indiscernibly, shifted from charming to mildly concerned. Interesting.
âYes, I have a question, Dr. Jones.â
He adjusts slightly in his seat, straightening the lapel of his blazer and clearing his throat, âOf course, darling, have at it.â
âYou seem to have so many answers, and youâre so knowledgeable about all of these incomprehensible matters, I just have to knowââ
âAt this point, Iâm so freaking enraptured by this ladiesâ pantsuit, itâs all I can do to keep my butt in the seat,â thereâs now a few empties strewn about the floor as she paces excitedly back and forth, her finger manically tapping against the side of the recorder, âIn fact, I was so interested in this question that I happened to get pen ink all over my face,â she pauses, âbut thatâs neither here nor there. Point is, this lady stands up and saysââ
âWhat happened to Milah Gold?â
A new, almost threatening kind of silence falls over the room. It had been âhushedâ when Miss Pantsuit had stood up initially, but truthfully, there was still a smattering of noise you might usually attribute to normal human movement; the rustling of a candy wrapper, a small cough or shared whisper between friends, but the silence in the wake of this particular question, is, well, itâs almost spooky, isnât it?
Itâs like a vacuum has sucked all the air from the room, especially when you consider the fact that Jonesâ face is so red itâs almost purple. His lips tighten and move together as if heâs about speak⌠and thatâs when the goddamn lights go out.
âNo shit?â David asks, distracted over the phone, his voice tinny and distant. She can hear Mary Margaret and the baby in the distance, the sound of a live studio audience clapping in time with his wifeâs sickeningly sweet singing voice.
Emmaâs own voice is high and fast as she walks quickly back to her car, a near-frigid October breeze whipping her hair into a frenzy against flushed cheeks, her boots still charmingly unzipped around her legs. âDavid, it was fucking wild. The lights went out.â
âSo you said,â he laughs and says something to the baby in a squeaky, high-pitched voice she canât help but roll her eyes at, âSo, uh, you think thereâs a story here?â
âFucking hell, David, yes, yes, I think thereâs a story here.â
âWell, you know I trust you,â Emma holds her breath as she stares at the strange, excited expression on the face of the woman reflected in the semi-frosted glass of her car window, âGo for it.â
It takes her a moment to realize that in the time spent walking from the lecture hall to her car, sheâs somehow depleted all of her oxygen, and she has to quickly inhale before responding. Not to mention the fact of that damnable spot of ink still barely noticeable on the high apple of her stupid cheeks and she knows Davidâs waiting for an answer but itâs the freaking principle of the thing. Sheâs already about to lose a few cool points, with her back now resting heavily against the door of the VW, summoning the courage to be emotive for once in her pathetic life.
âThank you, David. Seriously, I mean it.â
âNo need to thank me,â he answers gently, âEmma Swan always gets her man.â
It will pain her to admit it, but thereâs little room to exaggerate when she later tries to describe the undeniable smoothness of Dr. Killian Jones after the absurdly dramatic disruption of his, so far, grossly successful night of win, after win, after win. Thereâs some light shrieking and girlish giggling in the darkness of the auditorium, and Emmaâs almost positive thereâs a hand lost up a skirt somewhere, but as soon as the lights come up a few minutes later, itâs as if the whole thing never happened.
Pantsuit hasnât plopped her proper butt back into her seat, but thereâs a grin on Jonesâ face that almost makes her believe he had planned the whole thing to catch her out. He makes some crack about the auditorium being haunted, âBut donât quote me on that,â winks, and turns those insane eyes back on the witch (Because sheâs gotta be, right?) in the third row.
âThe matter of Milah Goldâs disappearance is still up for a debate,â he answers firmly, succinctly, âand in all fairness Iâm not quite certain why you would bring it up here.â
The witch in business attire takes a seat after that perfunctory response, and then, finally, after an almost masturbatory few hours in which Dr. Killian Jones manages to elevate himself to a pedestal so high sheâs certain his body would explode on impact were he to do the whole world a favor and fling himself off, Emma Swan remains carefully still in her seat, waiting for the adoring fans to file out. Her recorder waits impatiently in the pocket of Davidâs denim jacket, at least three sizes too big, and sheâs secretly yearning for the red leather number lost under her bed somewhere.
The pencil sheâd tugged out of the ratâs nest on top of her head is tapping restlessly against her knee and goddamn, does she just want to get this guy alone. And sheâs preparing herself because she just knows at this point, that when she gets within a hairâs breadth of his stupid face, heâs going to smell amazingâlike warm, decadent cologne and expensive coffee. And sheâs going to stare at his lips and her knees will undoubtedly quiver at the way he says⌠words.
âCome on, Emma,â she whispers furiously, wiping the unattractive, crusty remnants of old, useless sleep gathering at the corners of her eyes, âletâs give this guy something heâll actually be afraid of.â
Whichever marketing firm designed August Boothâs website is a freaking genius.
âWell,â he laughs, blushing slightly, âthank you, Miss Swan.â
She meets him at his office in a town called Storybrooke, about an hour south of Portland, and calling it quaint would be an understatement. The people in this town would appear to be so close theyâve got a running schedule for everyone elseâs daily fiber intake, and she wants to leave almost as soon as she arrives.
âSo, itâs gotta be the pie or something, right?â
The guyâs charming, sheâll give him that, if not a bit⌠empty. Which is vague, she knows, and sheâll have to revise the language at a later date, but when she considers his laughter in her room later that night itâs the first word thatâll come to mind. Empty ideas, empty gestures, just⌠heâs there, but no oneâs really home. Dr. Jones is a dramatic, performative jackass, thereâs absolutely no doubtâbut whatâs not up for debate is his passion. The man obviously cares. Now, exactly what he cares about and why? Thatâs up for discussion.
âI donât think I know what you mean,â smiling, but again, itâs all a bit off.
âSmall towns like this,â she explains, âa lot of the time the reason people give for sticking around. Itâs a signature dish or an old, anthropomorphic tree or something.â
âAh,â he answers, turning around to face a large, imposing bookcase, âit does have... something.â
When she says âlarge,â she means floor to freaking ceiling. Emmaâs got bookcases that David has called âlarge,â and she snaps a picture on her phone because this? This is large. Not only does it extend from the persian rug-covered floor to the water-stained ceiling, the thing is the width of the entire wall, one end to the other. Every shelf, every inch of available space is occupied, either with books, VHS cases, manuscripts, or various occult objects you couldnât pay her to actually touch (sheâs not so much with the tempting of fate).
âJesus, does it spin around, too?â
She might pretend he doesnât flinch at the Jesus-bomb, but regardless, he smiles again, of course, and makes some kind of Scooby-Doo reference she chooses to ignore.
Heâs kinder up close and she wants to die. Basically. The anger is harder to use when she can see how fucking sweet heâs being to the gaggle of students hanging around, how heâs actually listening to their questions and comments instead of continuing the performance she had watched him perfectly execute on stage.
âI understand where youâre coming from, truly,â his hand pressed firmly, earnestly against his own chest, âbut Iâve seen the damage it can do, and I have to take my own comfort in what I can actually see.â
He offers yet another winning, gentle grin, signs a few more books, confirms or denies a few more rumors, and she watches, entranced, as he collapses into his seat with a sigh. She almost feels bad for the guy. Almost.
âI know youâre there,â he starts kindly, his arm flung tiredly over his eyes, âno worries, love, I wonât bite.â
âWhatâs with the pet names?â she asks sweetly, dropping heavily into the seat across from him, âDoes the tenure let you get away with that?â
He seems to lose his balance even though heâs seated, surprised at the vaguely mean, pointed quality of an older voice, âYouâre not a student.â
âAnd you are very smart,â she responds kindly, her own smile adopting the least genuine feeling of kindness she can hope to convey, dragging her press pass out from beneath her flannel, âEmma Swan, ACRS.â
âRadio?â
The inviting, gentle nature she had witnessed earlier seems to have evaporated and thereâs a part of her, a small, small part, that kind of hates what sheâs about to do. As if it would kill her to make another friend.
âItâs a podcast.â
âIâm sorry, a what?â
âItâs radio. Look, donât you think itâs just a little bit strange thatââ
âLet me stop you right there, Miss Swanââ
Thus beginning the era of âinterview interruptus,â as she would so gleefully begin later, trying and failing to conceal her pride at using a term she had coined a few months earlier. There was lots of fake politeness and huffs of frustrated breath and eye-rolling and honestly she barely got to ask a question let alone receive any answers, and he must have been getting just as irate as she was because the guy actually had the nerve toâ
âWhat the hell are you doing?â
Realizing that she was standing dangerously close to this man, stepping out of his wickedly tempting sphere of handsome, academic influence (and she was right about the expensive coffee thing).
âYou had some ink on your cheek,â he answered quietly, as if he were surprised at his own movement, his hand slowly returning to his side. âMy apologies.â
âItâs fine,â she said sharply, swiping her hand over her face, âdonât worry about it.â
âMiss Swan,â he paused, âEmma.â
His brief silence was heavy, and while in reality it was probably only a few seconds, it felt as if hours of contemplation went by. It seemed like he was devoting so much energy, so much careful attention to his next words to her, and honestly, it was kind of refreshing.
âI understand youâre skeptical, alright? Iâve been known to doubt on occasion as well.â
She rolls her eyes and he smiles, his pronounced cheeks adorably flushed, âBut Iâm bloody exhausted, I could use some rest. Hereâs my card.â
Itâs just a normal business card, which is pretty disappointing. Couldâve at least used some holo-graphics or something.
âE-mail me, give me a call. We can talk then.â
Emma Swan is well-versed in the complex, many-layered looks of suspicion and distaste. Sheâs not quite sure which one sheâs decided to unleash on the good doctor here, but from the look on his face itâs not too far off from the one sheâd given Neal when he had tried to âbury the hatchet,â as it were. His face softens and he releases a quiet breath, a new, patient smile on his face.
âTry something new, darling. Itâs called trust.â
And thatâs when she runs for her car.
You can tell that August Booth wants to be able to pull off that genuine, trustworthy thing that Dr. Jones is able to convey so well, which is what makes it that much more distasteful to observe.
âI didnât even think they made VHS tapes anymore.â
August glances back at her over his shoulder with a mischievous look on his face, or at the very least, trying to be. Itâs a little bit like a teenager who thinks theyâve managed to pull one over on the teacher, when really theyâre about to be sent to summer school.
âThey do, actually,â he starts, pulling a black tape off the shelf, âsomething about the way it records. Catches it better.â
âNever thought I would hear that,â she answers, following his path across the room to an old television with a large player stacked beneath it. âCatches what better?â
A few hours later sheâs calling, e-mailing, and texting Dr. Killian Jones, trying to temper the excitable tone of her voice, âHey, Dr. Handsome? Yeah, I hope youâre well-rested. Iâve got something you need to see.â
Dropping her phone almost directly into the good doctorâs hot coffee probably isnât the best idea sheâs ever had, but itâs certainly one of the more dramatic.
âI hope you know that I wonât be paying for that,â he starts calmly, his eyebrow predictably, adorably quirked.
âDonât quirk that thing at me,â she answers hotly, pulling the phone away at the corner, wiping the liquid off on her jeans, âsheâs endured a whole lot worse than your shitty coffee.â
He takes an actual, delicate sip of his hot, expensive, garbage coffee and she thinks, gleefully, of all the articles sheâs read about problematic coffee bean importation and the fact that this self-righteous jerkface actually thinks heâs taking the moral high ground right now before she tries to hand the phone over yet again. Slower this time.
âWatch it,â insistently pushing the phone into his hand, âI think youâll find it... enlightening.â
âI can assure you, Swan,â slowly returning his mug to the table, his eyes never leaving hers as he tugs it from her fingers, âitâs nothing I havenât seen before.â
âYeah, well, weâll see about that.â
She probably shouldâve warned him, the screaming is pretty loud.
Exorcism footage is undeniably fucked, and sheâs starting to regret the re-watch rabbit hole she tumbled down the night before. She hadnât slept much, and between the violent, erratic spasming and otherworldly shrieking sheâs not sure sheâll be sleeping ever again, thank you very much. It is worth it, however, for the shocked, offended look on his face when Alex Reagan, aged 10 or 11, lets out an ungodly shriek so loud that the barista behind the counter drops a bucket full of dirty mugs and dishes. (And, okay, she does feel slightly bad about that.)
âGood God, Swan,â he hisses angrily, desperately trying to mute her phone before it gives the older lady in the corner booth a heart attack, âyou could see fit to warn a man.â
âOops.â
His sigh of frustration is almost erotically gratifying, and she unleashes a smug, self-satisfied grin of her own before he resumes the video, at a much lower volume this time, and a serene sense of concentration seems to envelop him as he watches the entire 10 minute clip.
It had seemed pretty legitimate, in her admittedly amateur opinion. Maybe she hadnât spent her whole life debunking the paranormal, but she liked to think she had a pretty good instinct for these things. August Booth was a shady character, there was no doubt in her mind of that, but this tapeâand the others? They had to be real.
Her voice is clear, steady, and entirely unimpeded by snacks as she records. Her foot fails to nervously fidget beneath her desk as it normally would. Her motives are pure and ethically sound.
Take that, David Nolan.
Let me describe it for you, so you can really get a clear sense of what weâre seeing.
Thereâs a young girl tied to a chair. Sheâs unusually small for her age, Booth says she canât be any older than 10, but it takes at least 3 large, beefy guys to keep her in that chair. Thereâs a sound coming from the video, and, ya know, her mouth is open, so it has to be the girl, but⌠it sounds more like the cries of a wounded animal. A cat, maybe. And it echoes, loudly, throughout the roomâyou can tell that itâs distracting the priest, which⌠I dunno, maybe thatâs the point.
 Heâs chanting something in Latin, and itâs having some kind of effect on the girl, Alex, her jaw seems to be clenched so tightly Iâm surprised it doesnât break. This goes on for a while, I wonât bore you with the rest, but itâs the end thatâs really⌠itâs really something else. The priest seems to finish his chant or sermon, whatever it is, and Alex goes real still, like maybe sheâs heard something in another room?
And thenâŚ
âBloody hell.â
âTold ya.â
...Her mouth just⌠drops open, but itâs more than that, itâs not like sheâs surprised or excited or shouting, it just drops, like the physical reality of her bones arenât even a thing, because this poor girlâs jaw, itâs down to her sternum, at least, and itâs only a second, itâs a literal fraction of a second but when you see it. Man, do you see it.Â
âDebunk that, Mr. Bean.â
Dr. Jones looks thoroughly unimpressed for a whopping 30 seconds before he speaks.
âWhere did you find this, Emma?â
âI may have taken a trip to Storybrooke after our chat the other day.â
The man couldnât look less amused by that confession even if he tried. His manner seems to shift from inquisitive scientist to scolding parent, and she tries not to feel disappointed.
âYou shouldnât have done that, Swan.â
âOh, itâs âSwan,â now, is it?â
He slips the phone back into her hand and returns to his seat, his sad, neglected coffee having significantly cooled since she walked in the door. She had been hoping for another explosive debate, if she were being truthful. Not that theyâd made much progress the other night at the college, but she enjoyed riling him upâhe blushed a lot.
âWhat is it you want from me?â
She sighs and considers her position. The least she could do is be truthful with her subject. The chair slides harshly across the floor as she moves to take a seat, and the coffee shop seems to fall almost eerily quiet in the absence of the video, the sound of their voices filtering in between the generic noises of a public space.
âI just want the truth, Jones. Like you.â
âSomehow, Miss Swan, Iâm not quite sure thatâs true.â
Thereâs something unsettling about the way he studies her, like he knows all of her deepest, darkest secrets, can read her insecurities as if they were second-rate horoscopes in some local paper and she wants to take it all backâsheâll write about the cat toenails. After a few long, uncomfortable minutes in which she feels strangely psychoanalyzed, he manages to expose at least one of her secrets.
âI know you got that tape from August Booth,â taking a sip of his cold coffee and wrinkling his nose, âand I canât say I approve.â
âGood thing I donât live or die at the whims of your approval, Dr. Jones.â
âYes, I would have to agree. Quite a good thing.â
He seems to disappear into himself for another moment, not dissimilar to his reaction when the almost comically serious, dark-haired woman had asked him about Milah Gold that night at the lecture.
âI have a proposition,â he starts again, straightening his jacket, âif youâre going to be as⌠shall we say, âcommitted,â to hounding me about this as you appear to beââ
A bearded waiter wearing suspenders (because this coffee shop isnât trendy enough) stops by their table to retrieve empty mugs and take any other orders, and she would very much like to get some herbal tea (David âpop-popâ Nolan seems to think that caffeine âmakes her worseâ), except this dude wonât stop flirting with her paranormal professor. Her time is precious, after all.
âExcuse me, yes, hello?â
Killian Jones stops flashing his obnoxious eyeballs at their stunned waiter long enough for her to order her tea and then heâs gone, both of them making eyes at the other until heâs back behind the counter.
âYou are a mystery unto yourself, Dr. Jones.â
He clears his throat and tries to hold back another one of those smug grins she still canât stand, and he gestures towards her phone sitting innocuously on the table, like a bomb waiting to go off.
âI know this all seems like just another story to you, but thereâs a lot more to this world than you know.â
âI do know, thatâs whyââ
He chuckles and gently interrupts, âJust, hold on one moment and let me finish. Iâve listened to a few of your âpodcasts,â as you call them. You are clearly very smart, intuitive, I have no doubt you could tell a compelling story.â
Flirty, in-over-his-head waiter returns with her tea, and luckily, doesnât stick around for another game of mental footsie.
âIf youâre going to tell this story, as I have no doubt you will, I want to make sure that itâs the truth.â
She raises an eyebrow, as if listening to a few of her episodes means he knows her. Nothing is more important than the integrity of her work. Nothing. Cat toenails or no, sheâs not a liar.
âIâm not great at a whole lot, Dr. Jones. But Iâm a brilliant reporter. Iâm thorough and careful and creative and I do my job. I donât need you or anybody else reminding me of what the truth is.â
Stand up, she thinks to herself, leave. You donât know need him to tell this story, itâs practically writing itself at this point. In her recollections of this moment, lost in the digital confines of her recorder, looking out over the bay in her VW, the sun setting magnificently in the distance, she will lie. Just a little bit.
âSo he tells me he thinks weâd make a good team, basically, only the language was a bit more formal.â
As if she were some kinda middle-class British lady in a Jane Austen novel and heâs gonna be her Mr. Darcy or a Knightley or whomever the hell decides to play the gentleman in the story of her life. Makes her realize that he wasnât who she thought he was or some bullshit, and âNo,â aloud, recording, âheâs exactly who I think he is.â
âAnyway,â taking a breath, re-focusing, onto the next step, âheâs taking me out of state tomorrow.â Some kind of haunting in Canada and dammit, sheâs gonna need to dig her passport out of her closet.
âThis is Emma Swan, ACRS, signing off.â
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Recipe: My Meat-Free Chilli
I know what youâve all been thinking, these past few years; where the hell are Crillyâs crazy cooking videos? Weâve had Nigella, weâve had Joe Wicks, Jamie Oliver has released about thirty new cookbooks, but none of them are a patch on Ruth and her woefully under-prepped, badly-filmed recipe videos!Â
Well here you go â feel free to thank me later. A meat-free chilli recipe that will warm the cockles and spice up your weekday mealtimes. Iâve been meaning to share this one for a while, because itâs a very tasty vegan alternative to the classic, beefy Chilli Con Carne. I usually find vegetable chilli so bland and boring but thereâs a little jar of chipotle wondrousness that saves the day for this particular version.
Quite honestly, Iâd say that the chipotle paste is non-negotiable. I mean you can knob about with any sort of bean/vegetable combo you like â add in courgette, mushrooms, more beans, less beans â but the smokey richness from the chipotle is the very backbone of the recipe. I got mine in Sainsburyâs but a quick Google shows me that both Waitrose and Tesco also stock it.
Now Iâm not vegan, or even vegetarian, but Iâve never been massively into cooking meat at home and over the past few years Iâve reduced our meat intake even more. This vegan chilli recipe is quick, easy and makes a huge pot (even huger if you have the mushrooms and courgette in, which I forgot to buy) and you can portion it off once itâs cooked and then reheat whatever you need on other nights. It actually tastes better after a few days in the fridge and thereâs nothing better than remembering youâve got a tasty, ready-made meal waiting for you when youâre knackered and just want to watch Netflix.
Iâve written out the ingredients list and recipe method (itâs so uncomplicated it almost seems patronising to write it out but hey, Iâm here to serve!) and you can refer to those beneath the video. It drives me mad when I look up a recipe online and then Iâm forced to watch a video to find out how to make something, so Iâve covered both bases.
Enjoy. Excuse the jaunty camera angles and fact that the video seems to have been edited by a madman â I was home alone and operating two cameras on two tripods was trickier than anticipated!
(UPDATE: after I filmed the video and wrote the majority of this accompanying post, I went into my store cupboard and found a load of lovely sauces and spices with very Instagrammable labels. I didnât even realise I had the Luchito Smoked Chilli Paste or the tin of smoked paprika thatâs just peeking into shot above! The Cholula sauce I was aware of, mainly because I pour it liberally onto just about everything.)
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Meat-Free Chilli / Chilli Sin Carne Recipe
2 large cloves garlic 1 onion chopped 1 pepper (red or orange) chopped 2 red chillis chopped (depending on how spicy you like things!) 1 heaped tsp Cumin powder 1/3 tsp All Spice 1 large tbsp Chipotle Paste (I use Sainsburyâs) 1 can cooked red kidney beans, drained 1 can/pack of cooked black beans, drained 1 can chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp tomato ketchup 1 handful of fresh coriander leaves to garnish (You can add mushrooms, chopped, and courgette too if you like â both are amazing in it but I forgot to buy them, soâŚ) Rice and mashed avocado (with a touch of lime) to serve
1. Fry onions in vegetable (or other) oil until browned and almost caramelised. Mmmm.
2. Add the chopped pepper and chillis and fry until softened.
3. Add the dried spices and garlic, stir quickly and then add the chipotle paste. Have your tin of tomatoes ready to add in case the spices stick to the pan â you donât want the garlic or spices to burn so keep stirring! Stir for about thirty seconds then add the toms and half a can of water.
4. At this point, I let the sauce cook for a few minutes whilst I drain my bean medley. Then add the beans to the sauce and allow to cook for anywhere between 20 minutes to an hour. If you keep it cooking along, check the water level and donât let it dry out!
5. Mash your avocado, cook your rice (I use basmati, takes 10 mins to boil) and taste your chilli â at this point I add some ketchup if it needs zinging up a bit, and then salt to taste.
6. Serve it, eat it. I actually make mine REALLY spicy and have yoghurt with it but that wouldnât very vegan so I left that fact out! Itâs also great piled into taco shells or tortilla wraps with grated cheese/vegan cheese and sliced pickled jalapenos.
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