#but supportive partners help

[ellydrawsstuff]

"Please just stay here with me"

[arkiwii]

i was supposed to draw something sad but my hands slipped, so oops?

[jsdhwdmax56]

And here we have the supportive bf suo

[halfdeadwallfly]

[shallowseeker]

I think this moment in 15x15 is doing something bad to Dean's psyche. It was just... such an (underappreciated?) psychological blow.

First, Dean was obviously waiting up for Cas and Jack. It's adorable.

But notice: Cas was leaving without saying goodbye again. Here, Cas's panicking, his keys already in hand as he rushes out to find a (heroic) solution.

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Hearthbreakingly, Dean actually asks where Cas is going twice in this scene. He can't hide the anxiety creeping onto his face when he asks.

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They make small talk about their daily works. Cas twirls and pockets his keys, but there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where Dean tracks the movement of the keys with nervousness:

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Dean forgets himself in the small talk, still laboring under the false promise, that the unethical plan will get his freedom (and everyone else's). There's a millisecond of happiness.

THEN.

There's a big HUH??? He does the little head turn, the same one he will do in 15x18

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Dean's anger rises, just a bit, alongside the panic.

The music swells and Dean, always clued in to when something is wrong, begins to get scared because Cas is scared. He flicks his eyes down to Cas in a panic, trying to understand what's happening, to him, to them.

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There's a familiar sense of confusion and disbelief here, not wanting to believe the bad news Cas is delivering about leaving, about Jack, and visually and beats-wise, it's so soooo similar to how 15x18 goes down when Cas tells him the bad news about the deal and the goodbye.

I actually think this is the moment Dean's mental health sails right off a cliff. Of course it's going wrong. Of course good things don't happen to them. Of course.

[kindlythevoid]

(FotR, pg. 42)

(FotR, pg. 74)

Guys Guys Guys Guys I know I know I KNOW we talk about Frodo and Sam's bond. Which is valid. Totally valid, I do it myself on occasion.

BUT.

BUT.

FRODO AND MERRY!!!!

FRODO PROBABLY GREW UP WITH MERRY!!! (I did the math cuz I'm a nerd) Merry was 7 when Frodo left to go live with Bilbo, but Frodo spent 9 years in Buckland!! He was there when Merry was born!! Merry hasn't known life without Frodo!!! Yes, Frodo was 21 when he left but he was in his "tweens" and probably still had to hang out with the younger kids aka MERRY!!!

Just. Look at them!! Frodo was a Respectable Gentlehobbit and Merry was one of those weird Brandybucks but they were both Adults and Frodo trusted Merry to find him a suitable house that he would supposedly retire in and Frodo didn't know that Merry knew that Frodo was leaving!! He just trusted Merry to get all the accounts settled and to find him a cute little house and he does!!! Merry does!!! He helps him find a house, he goes with the furniture to set it all up for Frodo when he gets there!! He even helps monitor everything that's being given away after Bilbo leaves and Frodo needs a moment!!

It's just. We're not even 100 pages in, they haven't left the Shire, but it's so blindingly obvious that Frodo trusts Merry and Merry looks out for Frodo, even though there's a 14 year age gap between them. They're friends, best friends, look at that first bit I put up there, they're joking around after Lobelia insulted Frodo and it's so natural, such a great little moment.

It's so. It's so obvious, right from the very beginning, like, of course Merry follows Frodo out of the Shire. It's not because Frodo's All That or anything, it's just that they're best friends and Merry cares for him and he wants to make sure he'll be alright. And I love that about Merry, I think it's a great character trait of his that you see again with Pippin. He loves them, so he follows them, even and especially into the unknown, but when it's their time to leave, to move on, he let's them. He keeps on loving them and trusting them, except this time it's trusting that they'll come back. And hoping that letting them know that they are loved will help them return.

[romnianistan]

i don't consider the bapo new york workshop to be canon (considering most of the changes never made it to any official production/cast recording) however i think they provide some very interesting insight into the characters. for example during the dialogue part between confession and portrait of a girl you've got the girls and nadia talking shit about ivy ("the girl is like the anti-Mary, so many men have touched her it's a miracle she hasn't conceived") then the stage directions go "Ivy overhears and walks off. Jason stops her" and that's when Jason tells her "hey, chantelle says your drawing looks great". and i think this says a lot about jason's character. he is smart and notices a lot of things. he is aware of how fast rumours can travel and how they can ruin someone's reputation. but he is also kind and feels for ivy because he knows exactly how awful it'd be if rumours were going around about him too. i think he sees himself in her. and i also think it's very sweet (in a sad way) that their relationship started with him simply trying to comfort her and letting her know she's not alone despite the bullying she's facing. they could have had such a sweet friendship if things hadn't escalated the way they did

[my-status-single]

Peter Parker’s the boyfriend that will hold your yarn ball and unwrap some every time you tap him with your foot while you’re crocheting/knitting.

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[justaz]

ballerina marinette lives rent free in my head

[arcsin27]

On my hands and knees please please please have Amy be shadows classic stage counterpart

[mrdrhenwardhykle]

TBH I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes

But I would literally ship Phone Guy with any other adult character than William, because if you look up Purplephone 80% of the fanart is William overstaying his welcome and Phone Guy having his personal space violated.

Like ANY healthy relationship is fine. That one just bothers me in particular because if you take away the cutsey blush it's just William/Vincent getting close and PG telling him to stop.

[spiderwarden]

no little hair on your face is safe from this drow's tweezers!

[fem-lit]

Ryan, Barbara. “BEYOND EMBARRASSMENT: FEMINISM AND ADULT HETEROSEXUAL LOVE.” The Centennial Review, vol. 37, no. 3, 1993, pp. 471–86.

JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23739489.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Bout to muse about something that is part headcanon part canon events

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Tails is finally saved from his bullies by the (currently) small time hero he admires

Tails stalks follows his hero, uses his mechanical knowledge to improve Sonic's plane

While Tails follows Sonic around, even on dangerous journeys, the hedgehog keeps an eye out for the younger fox behind him, keeping him from being in too much danger

Sonic leads by example, demonstrating to Tails how to fight, and Tails runs maintenance on Sonic's plane and teaches him how to read

Soon enough, they become softly inseparable. Even if they can't adventure side by side (although they do more often than not), Sonic keeps contact with Tails whenever he can.

They strengthen each other's weak points. Where Tails lacks in raw strength, Sonic makes up for it with experience and speed. Where Sonic lacks in firepower, Tails has a machine, a gadget, or the technical know-how to take one. Sonic often rushes into danger, fighting without thinking too hard, but Tails' specialty is strategizing or making plans, and he's one of the few who can slow Sonic down enough to make sure he's prepared. And where Sonic supports Tails by being a force of nature, someone who can roll with the punches and execute one of Tails' plans with complete trust or faith, Tails also supports Sonic by understanding what he cannot, by crafting plans when Sonic is at a loss for how to proceed. They have such unwavering faith and trust in each other's abilities now.

Where Sonic is a hero, Tails is his own kind of hero, saving the people only he can save, helping in the ways only he can help. They support each other. They look out for each other. Even if Sonic is a force on his own, or Tails can go on solo adventures, they're more effective when they're together.

And no matter how things change as they grow, the people who come and go, the two of them are a constant. Sonic and Tails, ever at each other's sides.

[dreamlogic]

aye can i get a fuckin uuuhhhh

break. on my burger

[mollysunder]

What about Silco as Medea? The two are so alike in the way that their actions are essentially held by a different standard because they act as agents of fate. Where Medea is bound to Jason to fulfill the gods' task for him, so does Silco exist to aid Vander to create the nation of Zaun.

On the surface their both easily read as violent and spiteful figures whose actions draw disgust and condemnation, and yet they escape true punishment. That is because the actions of Medea and Silco are above divine reproach. It is their respective partners that walked back on their divine tasks, where Vander abandoned Zaun's independence just as Jason a champion of Hera abandoned his blessed union with Medea.

After both Silco and Medea had their revenge on the men they that loved and helped achieved great heights, they didn't have easy lives but they still found success and even peace in the end. They were both devoted to their divine responsibility and were rewarded in turn. Medea married another king and was rewarded with a place in Elysium. Meanwhile Silco built an empire, got to avoid experiencing the true bloodshed his choice to protect Jinx (the spirit of Zaun), and was able to die with the knowledge that he wasn't betrayed by the last person he ever loved.