#cockles discord

[the-rollerchloster]

Found in my notes app, and no less relevant now than when I blathered it to no one back then...

Me, a small-ish discord server owner, reading the notes on this post like: 🤔🤔 these are all valid concerns, but maybe y’all just haven’t found the right home.

My thoughts on tumblr vs discord in the fandom space is that they’re not a one or other, they should be used to boost and enhance each other.

I will admit that I have been burnt by big servers before, and I have landed in a few more that have immediately overwhelmed me and made me nope out, but I have also had some amazing conversations with people I never would have reached out to before if I’d only been following them on tumblr.

When I created @sunshineshellers I had a very clear goal. I saw a gap in the cockles/destiel corner of the spn fandom for people who needed to be able to talk freely without fear of judgement. Screaming into the void of tumblr (as so many of us with less than 200 followers do) isn’t always enough to satiate a full blown fandom spiral. It’s nice to have somewhere where you can say “is this something…?” and actually get a response, but so many spn servers sweep cockles into a dusty corner, which makes people who perceive feel like dirty little outcasts.

I love tumblr, I love spnblr, and it’s great for big brain thoughts like this, and for finding and sharing so many beautiful creations, and for collective meltdowns when something noteworthy comes to light.

But some of *my* best “content” comes to me inside the group chatter of my pocket family. A community of people who Get It is a treasured commodity in this life that can look like a hodge-podge group of people from all over the world coming together to scream incoherently about our shared love of Supernatural. We don’t agree all the time, but that’s okay because we care about each other because we understand the passion and love having somewhere that makes fandom feel less empty.

I’m not saying all this to convince you to join my server and say you must love discord cos I do. I’m saying this just to point out that much like you curate your tumblr dash to your personal preferences, you curate your discord experience to your personal preferences too, and there could be a whole corner of this community just waiting to hear your thoughts if only you’d give them a chance. 💖

[sunshineshellers]

Happy 2nd birthday to my fave internet family!! 🥳🧁🍾

TWO YEARS!! Somehow it feels like there’s no way it’s been that long, but I also can’t remember having this home in my pocket.

Here’s to many more shenanigans to come!

[blanketforcas]

hiii (gayly) okay so i'd been thinking about making a more tumblr-focused (medium sized) discord server for us destiel folks looking for cummunity, cause i keep seeing posts that are asking for this. and so i made one! trying to keep it lowkey tho so it's invite-only, but there's not a lot of people yet so i still have a lot of "spots" available lol

shoot me a dm if you want a link! i don't bite* ❤️

if this post is unrebloggable it means we're not accepting new members atm

important info:

this server is 18+

it's also rpf friendly (eg dedicated channel for cockles)

chill vibes, not gossip-friendly wrt other fans

*only upon request

[chaosmisha-art]

'It's still you' Dedicated to my lovely friends from the Cockles HQ Discord server. We've been together almost 3 years now and I couldn't be more grateful <3 Please do not edit or steal without permission 😘

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[viridiave]

O Great and Powerful Viri I'm back again with flower language requests. I'm writing a drabble for Miguel/Darius and flowers are involved. Am unsure how yet, but would it be possible to give me a few flowers that describe them? If possible, some for Miguel, some for Darius, and some for both? 🥺🥺🥺🥺pls?

Heya Zazu! No praise necessary aksjak I might die before I can get to answer this question properly

To tell you the truth this was a challenge to put together because the Language of Flowers generally deals in sweetness and virtue so the ratio of good flowers to flowers that I would actually use to describe Miguel and Darius is like. 9:1. Plus I'm not overwhelmingly familiar with how this relationship tends to be portrayed outside of like. the Discord exchange we had a couple years ago - but I tried my best, so buckle down for the list I managed to cobble together from going through my dictionaries

MIGUEL Trying to look for flowers for a guy that's really more of a narrative tool than a character was tough. I'm not familiar with your game but this was the fanciest I could manage.

Anchusa - Falsehood Anemone - Forsaken Nettle - Cruelty Evening Primrose - Inconstancy

DARIUS Now Darius is a little easier and it did surprise me that at least in terms of what we actually see of him in-game, he has traits that can distinguish him enough from Miguel that I can compile a further list.

Adder's Tongue - Jealousy Corn-cockle - Peerless and proud Bramble - Envy Brunfelsia - Beware of false friends Calliopsis - Vanity Heath - Solitude Hollyhock - Ambition

If this looks a bit barren to you, don't worry - I took the liberty of gathering other flowers that could be used to describe them both because they have a NUMBER of overlapping themes, though I'm not sure how well they can fit into your vision:

Aloe - Bitterness and pain Aspen - Lamentation Bay leaf - I change but in death Bilberry - Treachery Narcissus - Egotism Darnel - Vice Tamarisk - Crime

And now as for the list that'll accommodate them being a couple, I've actually got a couple here that MIGHT help? Lemme try to do what I did with the Eisenbright list real quick:

All is not gold that glistens (Bartonia aurea), but riches (California Poppy) tempt (Quince) me all the same. It is a dangerous pleasure (Tuberose) to pursue its luster, but in my world there is little else to cling to (Monkshood, Misantrophy / Scabiosa, I have lost all). By hook or by crook (Argemone), glory will be mine (Laurel).

There is no unalloyed good in this world (Lapageria). You and I, at the bottom of the world - buried in delusions of rare worth (Achimines). You understand this intoxication (Heliotrope) better than anyone.

In the dead of night (Catchfly), cling to me (Chickweed).

Lemme know if none of this fits what you had in mind lmao I don't have 20/20 vision on this pair at ALL

[ariaste]

Hi! I absolutely adore your work. I ended up buying a hardcover copy of Running Close to the Wind for two reasons 1) I loved it and needed it forever and 2) I wanted my parents to read it. After all, a physical book is easier to loan.

I gave my dad a couple of Very Serious Non-Fiction Books for Christmas and he was having a hard time with one of them. He needed something lighter as a palate cleanser to help him balance things out. Cue me with Avra to the rescue!

He loved it. He gleefully kept me updated on his progress throughout the narrative. His smile as he talked about it warmed the cockles of my heart.

We'll get my mom to read it eventually.

For now, thank you for your delightful stories. And thank you for writing the tale I could happily share with my dad. Just. Thanks.

Aw, thank you so much! I used to share books with my dad too (he passed away about ten years ago) so I'm glad to hear that RCW was something you could share with him too. <3 That is so wonderful!!!

(Side note but if you'd like some other people to talk to about the books as well, there is an official fandom discord server linked on my website! :D)

[jackhkeynes]

13th Lexember - Borlish

zizania "discord"

zizania /ˌzi.zaˈnja/ [ˌzi.zɐˈnja]

discord, disharmony, dissonance, cacophony, a harsh combination of sounds;

discord, tension, strife, dissension, arguing, lack of agreement of harmony between people;

anguish, distress, angst, inner conflict;

temptation, spite, vice, sin, feeling drawn to doing wicked things

Etymology: seventeenth-century borrowing from Lombard zizania "ryegrass, weed; discord, vice", which displays a metaphorical extension dating back to its ancestor in Late Latin zizanium "cockle, ryegrass, darnel; vice", a borrowing from Greek. Its modern association with cacophonous noise is probably due to sound symbolism.

Nos oyau zizania dereðr dy mur dy rajognoir. /nɔz oˈjo ˌzi.zaˈnja deˈrɛðr̩ di mɪr di ��ra.ʒɔiˈnɔir/ [nɔz ʊˈʝo ˌzi.zɐˈnja dɪˈʀɛ.ðɐ di mɪː di ˌʀa.ʝʊiˈnɔ.jɐ] 1p hear-ipf.1p discord behind of-df wall of-df boardroom We heard arguing through the boardroom's wall.

[cocksley-and-catapult]

PLEAASEE make a discord server im begging you cockle and catter

[the-rollerchloster]

Hi.Do you still have a discord server for spn/The Winchesters fans??

Hello! 👋

I have a discord server for lovers of all things DeanCas and JenMish, where we discuss everything from Supernatural and The Winchesters (lots of clowning going on right now 🤡) to other Jensen and Misha projects, other ships, share art and fics, help each other with fandom and non-fandom projects, and just generally talk a lot of nonsense in between.

More info, including the invite link, can be found over on the @sunshineshellers blog. We are a smallish server of less than 100 members, and depending on the chaos of the day we can have up to 25ish active members from various places around the world. We are unhinged in a fun way, and chat often devolves into less than savoury topics, and our mod affectionately calls us the GayDHD server.

If chaotic chatter and Jensen/Misha are your thing, come join us!

[sunshineshellers]

TOO MUCH ENRICHMENT IN THE ENCLOSURE!!!

Our channels have gone crazy with the amount of screaming that needs to happen right now - lucky we're not channel police!

Remember, if you need somewhere to be incoherent about the chaos of Jensen and Misha, we're here ready and waiting for you. We chat about a lot of things... whatever the hell JenMish have going on right now, but also The Winchesters, destiel, other ships, other fandoms and just life in general. Family and friends don't understand? That's what we're here for!

Invite link in the pinned post.

[lightofraye]

An Open Letter

Hello Danneel,

I suppose it had to happen, right? A “letter” to you. After all, I’ve written two to your husband. I had been pondering this for some time. I imagine your “stans” believe that I dislike you because you’re in a position that I wish to be in—the woman married to Jensen Ackles.

Perhaps.

Perhaps not.

See… when my life became chaotic and I lost track of a number of my favorite celebrities’ work and career, I became unaware that Jensen moved onto different shows, eventually settling in Supernatural for fifteen years.

By the time my life arranged itself in a way that I could begin to track down information—some easy to find, some next to impossible—I learned of the tail end of Supernatural. However, my provider was being ornery and refused to carry CW. So I just let it go.

My family, my life, was my primary focus for a time. Then I found a good internet provider, dropped my satellite provider, and began adding streamers. That’s when I came across The Boys. Then Big Sky. Then Supernatural on Netflix.

I became a new-old fan. I remembered Jensen on Days of Our Lives, after all. I remembered talking about him with one of my best friends. I remember talking about his unusual name—Jensen. And I remember talking about his acting.

Then I saw you. Longtime married, three kids. All the news articles kept raving about how great you two were. I saw the older videos of you two together, that livestream with Misha in the Impala….

I felt the sting, just a bit, of what I assumed was jealousy. I sighed, set it aside. I would follow Jensen’s work, I told myself. Jared’s too. Others that I admired. Just added to the list.

Something kept bothering me. I kept going back to it. I couldn’t quite pinpoint the problem. Mere jealousy couldn’t be it. I’ve had that sting before, grew past it. (Henry Cavill, anyone?) So why couldn’t I get past this?

It was pure happenstance, me coming to Tumblr. I was feeling very dissatisfied with Facebook, didn’t like Twitter. Reddit was not my thing. There were other, smaller, options, but damn if I didn’t keep coming back to Tumblr, largely because of the hilarious memes I’d see snipped and shared.

Why not? I told myself.

Let’s see how it goes. Signed up, picked a few areas of interest and I was off.

Boy, was I off.

Discovering the subsections of the fandom left me reeling. Destiel? Where the hell did they come up with that? Wincest? Yikes. And then—

Tinhat?!

COCKLES?!

Needless to say, it was… phew. I found a few I liked and focused on them. Then someone mentioned YOU. I rolled my eyes; you hadn’t been active in acting other than a few teeny-tiny but parts. What could they possibly say about YOU?

Then I read the post. And another. And another. I would spent a good few weeks carefully devouring everything I read. There’s so much, I may never cover it all. But I saw enough.

I would fact-check as best I could. Some were completely lost. The Wayback Machine could only do so much. Not everyone saved the sources. 

But I saw enough.

Then I sat back and it CLICKED. It wasn’t jealousy that waved hello to me. It was the personality traits, the behavior, the way you spoke to him, that all matched what I knew and learned in my several decades of life.

You are insecure.

You lack confidence.

You lack any outside interests.

You are unsupportive.

You care for nothing and no one outside of money. Oh, you have your children—you just don’t care about them. You have your husband—all you see are dollar signs.

There is no love. There is nothing genuinely GOOD in how you view Jensen. You don’t want him home; you push him out. All you want is the constant stream of income.

I see what you’ve done. All the acting in the world wouldn’t change the rest—you’ve an empty heart, a black soul.

Let him go, Danneel.

That’s my best advice to you. Let him go. Get some therapy and grow as a person.

Maybe then you could actually like the person you see the mirror.

In discordant tunes, Raye

[blanketforcas]

had a conversation with someone and now i'm wondering

*i know in cockles fandom (you can also vote if you're into a different real person ship btw) we tend to not see the basic "i think it's very likely they're a real couple" as tinhatting, but for the sake of this poll i use it in the more traditional sense

**this can be on discord/any kind of chat on or offline/tumblr/social media etc

[mishacolinsackles]

Is there a Cockles Discord group?

I have no freaking idea but honestly after coming into this fandom and understanding there are different levels to ship Cockles, and how much drama happens, having a chatroom will become a pretty bad idea because there will be blocked people one after another. It's not ideal but this is my opinion.

[mishacollinsthighsss]

Heya! Once again calling all the Destiel/Cockles Fandom Artists! <3

A little over a week ago, I opened a discord server for all Fandom artists - and it's going great so far! We have some pretty talented people there and I'm so happy about every single one of them.

The link included in the first post is expired by now, so I thought hey, gonna put up another one with a link that never expires! 👀

Once again, if you write fic, draw, create AMVs, write songs - whatever you do, there's a place for you (and if there isn't, we can always create new channels!).

It's a Destiel and Cockles server, but you don't have to see Cockles if you only ship Destiel and vice versa - just claim the roles that are fitting for you 🥰

Pssssst, we also have simping corners for both Destiel and Cockles, PLUS a general area to talk about everything that isn't those two ships 👀

Interested? Great! Please follow the link and join our little chaotic place of inspiration and fun ��💚

[loucifersbitch]

... a Tommy discord?????

Will my soul be enough for entry?

I'm djchskxhxkx

I hate to break it to you, but it's actually a Cockles rps server 😅 We just also have a 9-1-1 side thread because so many of us are in this fandom as well

[pooopopop]

You said in one of your posts that Misha used Jensen and destiel to promote bridgewater and gotham knights every single week. Could you give specific examples?

This one started a running joke:

Bonus, another roadfood:

I remember more from them but it’s probably lost to time, between Instagram stories and broken quote tweets from deleted posts or deleted accounts. He usually made a Cas/Destiel/SPNfamily before every tweet advertising the newest episode.

Continued, Gotham Knights:

(He was on Today promoting the premiere of GK, On Instagram he used Jensen as the cover https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvZ6p-vWzj/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)

I don’t think it’s fair to post every time he used the salute to supernatural conventions to promote it- bc you were only asking about Jensen and Destiel. I sort of count using Jaistiel to promote GK though; they were a popular “big name fan” on tiktok and then Twitter, active GISH participant who ran the unofficial GISH discord server, went to many conventions and interacted with Misha and the other cast many times. Jai was the one in the infamous bishagate video who shouted “you never raised your hand!”, and had Jensen and Misha to sign a destiel plate for them the same day. some more links 1. 2. 3. And even after that fiasco, Jai was still alma truthing publicly, so I’ll say that sharing their video can be included in this montage since they are a cockles tinhatter and he’s very much aware- their praise

in this video probably meant a lot to him like it was reassurance that he’d atoned for his fan service sins. When trying to fetch these tweets I was reminded that he actually did it twice LMAO

Cont. GK, he got a lot of mileage out of saying Jensen was supposed to be involved https://www.tvinsider.com/1095234/misha-collins-supernatural-gotham-knights-cast/

more tweets

And there’s probably a lot I’m missing but this post has taken so much effort already 🥳