#currently thinking of henriksen

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Forever my favorite installment of this series.

And do mind the tags: there is gore. There is blood. There is a lot of weecest that really should not take place on top of a literal dead body but does.

4th of July

Currently not thinking of Henriksen sitting in his office, pouring over crime stats and police reports going back over the last 10 years, looking for some sign of what the Winchesters do for the 4th of July, unable to find a hint because this day is not about him.

It’s only them.

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“I’m starving. You think they’ll let me sell your ass for a Slim Jim?”

“You made that joke last time we were arrested.”

“What, you think a good bit is only good once? I get no respect, no respect.” The last part not much of an impression because Sam presses harder on the bullet wound with the wad of toilet paper and Dean’s voice goes thin and crackly. A clean-ish hole, in through the meaty part of his shoulder and out by his armpit. Could’ve got his heart or a lung but it doesn’t even feel like it cracked the collarbone. Apparently demons are terrible shots. Lucky, Dean had said, swallowing hard and making his voice harder after. Sam didn’t dignify it with a response.

Dean’s trying to get blood off his hand with more TP. It’s thin, awful stuff, shreds against the tacky stain. The chain between the bracelets clinking. “In those Norwegian prisons I bet they get wet wipes, huh?” he says. Sam takes a deep breath through his nose. “Pampered, or whatever. Could go for some pampering.”

“I’m not killing you,” Sam says, “does that count,” and Dean laughs breathy and weird. It must really hurt. He’d be throwing Sam off already, otherwise.

They dragged the body of Henriksen’s old boss out into the main part of the jail. There’s been shouting. A boom that shook the building but no one has told them what it was, exactly. They aren’t currently top priority, despite being such world-class criminals. A break but not much of one, with Dean still bleeding over Sam’s hands. With what’s coming.

“Demons, huh,” Dean says. On the same train of thought when blood’s on the line, as always. He shifts on the shitty jailhouse mattress, gets his bootheels square on the ground. Sam shifts along with him, keeping the slack easy between their manacled ankles. “Better or worse than cops?”

Henriksen’s vicious little grin, telling them they’d never see each other again. Not quite yellow eyes but Sam’s stomach flips. Dean’s fingers slide over his, in the enveloping shadow of Dean’s jacket. Sam’s let his grip go slack.

“Can’t exorcise a cop,” Dean says, answering his own question because Sam feels like he’s going to puke. Taking point, as always. “Gotta be a point in the demons’ favor.”

“How are we gonna get him to believe us,” Sam says.

It’s all he can think. There are demons and there’s this asshole, do-gooder cop, who thinks he’s saving the day from monsters when he doesn’t know what monsters really are. If they had iron and salt and silver and a chance they might make it out. Maybe. Not like this.

“He thinks we’re psycho graverobbing murdering cannibals, Sammy, I’m not sure we’re in the circle of trust,” Dean says. He jostles his shoulder against Sam’s chest, even though that must hurt. “But hey, at least he didn’t guess about—”

“Jesus,” Sam says. Dean grins white in the emergency lights. No, Henriksen didn’t say that, did he. Although he did—about Dad—

“You think if we start making out in here, they’d open the door?” Dean’s fingers slip against his, pressing both their hands harder against his shoulder. He flinches. Still grinning. “Just to pull us apart, anyway. Worth a shot.”

“Shut up,” Sam says. Dean bites his lip, turning his face away. His chin trembles and Sam wants to—lay full length over him, take the next bullet if it comes. Go back in time and exorcise the demon before it could pull its gun, get Henriksen against the bars and get his hands around Henriksen’s neck and force him to hear the truth. That the dark was swarming up around them and if Henriksen didn’t let them go then it was going to take everyone in this station and, worse, it was going to take Dean and there was no chance, not one in the fucking world, that Sam was going to let his brother go without a fight. That it was impossible for that to happen again. Everything in him was solid on that part. That just—there’s no way that was going to happen.

Dean’s knee sags and presses against Sam’s. “Okay, so,” Dean says, chin tipping down. “We’ll take out the demons, save the day. Guess even cops beat demons. And save the making out part for later, huh? Though I could go for some of that surf and turf.”

Sam breathes out. He puts his forehead down to Dean’s shoulder for two seconds, and then sits up straight. There’s more shouting, somewhere past the hall to the holding cells. Sam squeezes his wrist, lets him drop his hand, presses the compress hard and solid against the wound. Dean’s looking straight ahead, steady. A well, somewhere in him, that always seems to have one last drop of relief.

[its-alittleobsessed]

Currently rewatching season 2. This show is so fucking good. I joke about hating it, but it's soo. It's just. The supernatural of it all, man.

Theres this scene in ep 19, the prison episode, where Dean's talking to their lawyer, this business woman who's there to just do her job and get them a better deal than a death sentence.

She's a good lawyer, so she starts looking up their past, the routes they've taken and the footprints they've left behind, and every single witness ends up saying the same thing, Those boys saved me. Can't tell you from what, but I owe them. The statements lead her to a still, she starts questioning the faults and explanations, makes her feel like there's more to each story than she's willing to know.

And at one point Dean asks her for a favor. And he says, If you're as smart a PD as I think you are, then you can tell with just one look whether or not your clients are guilty, okay, just like that. So I want you to look at me, really look, and you tell me – am I guilty?

And Mara, this nobody lawyer who knows about Sam and Dean through the news, has seen the files on murders and grave robbing and arson and scamming, looks at Dean in this eyes and decides that all evidence--piles and piles of FBI record keeping--is suddenly bullshit. Because some other nobody across the state said, They saved me and, more than that, Dean Winchester has a look in his eyes she's never seen before.

She's never really belived in heroes--never really thought there could ever be someone who cared about this dirt ball of a planet enough to fight for it, but here, sitting between glass, sorrounded by guards, and communicating through cheap county jail telephones, she thinks she might've been wrong.

Henriksen said this guy's a monster, but Mara's worked with monsters before and they've never looked at her like this. Like they've got a purpose bigger than her, a goal, a heavy duty to some path she can't quite see. There's something about him--something bigger and other that she's not sure how to go against. Not sure if she wants to.

She looks at him and the world seems to, insanely, blur at the edges around him. He looks--good. As in, actual, care for people, good. The type of good that edges on theoretical altruism. It's insane.

And maybe that's why when Sam and Dean escape the prison, and Henriksen demands, Where are they? She just lies. Easy. Not knowing why she should, or where they're going, or if they'll ever see each other again. She lies and doesn't even feel bad about it because somehow she knows, trusts, that it's the right thing to do.

Like I know it's for the narrative okay, I know it's just for the plot to move forward, but the idea that Sam and Dean might seem just as supernatural as the monsters they haunt is something so juicy to me.

[autisticandroids]

15, 21, 23?

15. something you learned this year

i don't know if i can say i learned a new skill as such. but one thing is like... i really enjoyed making three card stud. and it really opened my eyes to like, how much of what i like about the practice of fanfiction is the meticulous remixing/reinterpretation of canon. there's a way in which the AMV is a more... analytical art form than the fanfic, because you are literally forced by the constraints of the medium to keep to the text. all you have are song lyrics and the kuleshov effect to convince your audience to take the new meaning you intend to convey from stuff already in the show. and i brought that ethos to three card stud even though i did add stuff. in a lot of ways three card stud was just me listing off things from canon i think a lot about and saying eh? eh? like. hoping the context would make it clear *why* this stuff makes me crazy. and i think that was a lot of the motivation behind the fic i'm currently working on, which is about dean and cas getting caught by the police. that fic at this point is mostly lists of things that have happened in spn episodes, placed in a new context by baffled feds and cops. which is the fun part. so like basically i learned that this is really fun, listing off canon facts in a new context

21. most memorable comment/review

so the most memorable traditional comment as such i got was probably this one, on i fold in half so easily (ifihse tends to generate the best comments because it's extremely dark without the ways in which it is dark being obviously flagged. so people are more shocked and more forced to think). "Cas: no officer i am very happy please dont tell dean im emotionally complex" is so funny and true that's literally what happens in that fic.

another top contender is this one, on getting serious, which generates good comments for the same reason ifihse does, though it's a lot less intense.

but in terms of my favorite *response to my work,* it was the breastfeeding anon saga (in chronological order here) which was a response to my fic smorgasbord.

and then i wrote a fic based on those anons, and then i got these very funny tags on my fic post:

23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

when i tell you about the 120k deanvictor fic which is literally 90k of victor henriksen hunting down a serial killer dean winchester while becoming a little (sexually) obsessed with him and then 30k of victor knowing about the supernatural and moonlighting as a hunter while he and dean suck each others dicks so much.

and also it's about victor's relationship with his two ex wives and his former stepdaughter who he is still emotionally a parent to even though they have no legal relationship and the coworker he had an emotional affair with who he doesn't speak to anymore and how he feels trapped in his life and his job and dean represents this escape for him this total freedom. just living in his car on the road and not having to worry about what your boss thinks or needing to quit smoking. while for dean victor represents this stability and adulthood dean can never achieve. and dean leaves three spare pairs of underwear in victor's divorcé bachelor pad as a kind of little... fantasy. of what life could be like.

anyway the most compelling scene from that, IN MY MIND, is a scene where victor STILL thinks dean is a serial killer. and now he has him in custody. and against his will he's... charmed. by dean. because dean is charming and pathetic, shaking and sweating from mild alcohol withdrawal but still cracking jokes and being friendly and observant and extremely young-feeling, for 28. and earnest in a way he didn't expect. and they're forced to work together against a demon siege, a spin on jus in bello where victor still doesn't find out about the supernatural he's just protecting himself and a prisoner from a threat. and he has the uncomfortable realization that he's attracted to dean winchester (serial killer) (guy he is trying to take down) (has killed so so many people). and he's like well. we can table that for later. and then dean escapes.

so i've been trying to figure out a way to scoop out just that scene and turn it into its own fic because that's actually manageable for me.

the dean and cas pursued by the cops idea also comes a bit from frustration that i can't write this, though the feds in that one are ocs bc it's later.

from here

[backwards-blackbird]

@therealjustpeachesback Thanks for the tag, amiga! 🤘

Favorite color: Black. Behold the mid 2000s goth pastiche that is my closet.

Last song I listened to: Coming Undone - Korn

Last movie I watched: Been a minute since I've sat down to watch a movie... But I think the last one was The Right Stuff? Fabulous movie. Could have used more Lance Henriksen.

Other stuff I watched this year: A shit ton of different series, but my favorite might have been Daisy Jones and the Six. Pure immersive 70s band drama with killer tunes. Would recommend it to anyone.

Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: I still cannot get past one or two episodes of Fleabag. I made my last attempt this year, lol. Can't get into it.

Currently reading: Priests of Mars (40k) - Graham McNeill

Currently listening to: The Forest Church - Green Lung

Currently working on: About to start a Lieu drawing. Something involving him looking sexy while smoking and doing factory work. You know. #justlieuthings

Current obsession: Legend of Korra, baby. Specifically S1. ...If you haven't noticed. 😌

Feel free to snag if you want! ❤️

[spiderwovendreams]

Will we find out how Mary knew the YED anytime soon? — jacobha Kripke: We will definitely find out how Mary knew the YED, but I can't promise when that will be. It ties into the mystery of what Sam is becoming, and what makes him so damn qualified to lead a demon army in the first place. But we're not ready to pull that trigger just yet.

If we don't get a full Season 3, what would happen with Dean's deal? Would the big climax be in the middle of Season 4 or would it be extended to the end of Season 4? — acsgrlie Kripke: That's a very smart question, and one that's currently haunting my dreams. There's a simple answer: We'll definitely save the climax of Dean's Deal for Season 4, no question. And there's a more complicated answer: Not many showrunners will admit it, but the strike is throwing a lot of stories on a lot of different series up in the air. I mean, how do you get back on the story track in an elegant, artful way? If I had to guess, I'd say I'm probably going to end up combining the Season 3 and Season 4 mythologies into one big story to play out next season. It's interesting how real-world issues affect the creative storytelling of the show. There's no doubt that, because of the strike, I'm going to end up telling a slightly different story than I had originally intended. Knowing how these things go, however, it'll probably end up being a better one. Happy accidents usually result in better stories.

What's your take on the fans reactions to Bela and Ruby? — WaywardDaughter Kripke: Bela and Ruby do seem to be the big controversies this season, don't they? I'll start with Ruby: I'm generally pleased with how the fans have been responding to her. I knew from the beginning that there was going to be a lot of resistance to the character.... Our fans are very protective of the boys, they don't want the show to turn into One Tree Hill, but I always believed that if viewers gave Ruby a chance, they'd accept her as a formidable player in our little drama. Demons have always been fun for us to write. On top of that, Katie [Cassidy] is growing into the character nicely, starting to show new colors.

As for Bela, I have to admit, I was fairly surprised by the seemingly negative fan reaction. Among the writers, Bela was a pleasure to write, we could all channel our inner smart-asses, and we like how cool and unflappable she is under terrible pressure. She's strong, smart, resourceful. And Lauren [Cohan] is one of the finest, most highly trained actresses we've ever had on the show, truthfully. Because she wasn't going to be a love interest anytime soon, I thought we were adding a fun foil for the boys. But the fans seem to be having a difficult time overcoming their initial resistance to the character. (And we certainly didn't do Bela any favors with "Red Sky at Morning.") We have an interesting backstory for her, but I think we need to push a little harder, we have to do a better job muddying up the character, making her human and real to the audience. And I know that Lauren can sure as hell play it.

Will there be a season-finale-type of cliff-hanger when the last episode [filmed before the writers' strike] airs? — diamondlove22 Kripke: The final episode we're airing — "Jus in Bello" — wasn't originally going to be the last one, but we slid it back to serve as a kind of makeshift season finale. It's a big, epic, action movie of an episode, it climaxes the Agent Henriksen storyline, and it's got a few interesting mythology reveals, so we hope it'll tide the fans over until whenever we return. But honestly, we didn't have time to create a proper cliff-hanger. Hell, we barely had time to get our final scripts finished before the writers' strike!

Why has no one made the slightest mention of where Ellen and Jo are and what's happening to them? They weren't killed off or explained off, and it just doesn't seem logical that Bobby, Dean and Sam would just forget all about them, especially after Ellen's involvement in the Season 2 ending. — AriGato Kripke: As far as Jo goes, I don't know why they would mention her, because I feel we concluded her story fairly elegantly in Season 2. Dean left her at the bar, she was going to continue to hunt on her own, and she knew, with melancholy, that he was never going to call her again. She was older, sadder, wiser. End of story. As for Ellen, I agree with you, we probably should have mentioned what she's been doing. And for the record, I kept trying to squeeze some expository dialogue about Ellen into the early drafts of the first few episodes, but it always stuck out like a sore thumb. Hindsight is 20/20, and I know a lot of fans love Ellen, and we should have at least sent a dispatch explaining where she is and what she's doing. We were in the midst of correcting this oversight when the strike hit — we were breaking a story about the return of Ellen when we were forced to shut down. Hopefully, we'll still get a chance to tell that story, because I do love Ellen and think she's a fascinating character in this world.

Will we ever meet the Demon that holds Dean's contract, and will we ever find out why the contract is so important to the demon who holds it? — icancounttoduc Kripke: Yes. Definitely.

Can you take us to Hell? Can you envision the show actually going there, maybe with Dean when the deal's up? — write_light Kripke: I would love to take you to Hell, which is the weirdest statement I think I've ever written. But alas, I don't think we'll ever take a trip downstairs, because of purely budgetary reasons. My vision of Supernatural's Hell is a big and grotesque and expensive one — Hieronymus Bosch meets Hellraiser — and on our TV budget, we just don't have the cash to do it right. And our mantra is, "If you can't do it right, then don't do it." So Dean may very well be heading to Hell, and we'll talk about it, describe it, tease it, maybe even catch a shadowed glimpse.... But we'll never see it full-monty.

Don't know if this had been asked before, but what's your favorite episode over the three seasons? — supermars Kripke: I liked "Faith" in Season 1, because that was my first glimpse that the show had the potential to go deeper than I had originally thought. I liked "Nightshifter" in Season 2, because it's just a damn good story and well-told. And I like "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and the upcoming "Mystery Spot" in Season 3, because they so perfectly balance the humor, the scares and the emotion that have become the core elements of our show. (Both were written by our new writer Jeremy Carver, by theway. He's a keeper). And because it's only fair, here are the episodes I don't like: Season 1's "Hookman," "Bugs" and "Route 666"; Season 2's "No Exit"; and Season 3's "Red Sky at Morning." Sometimes, you don't have the time to go back and redo them, you have no choice but to air them in their deformed state, and so you have to live with millions of people watching your mistakes. You have no idea how painful that is.

In the past two seasons, you have had a lot of episodes based in Wisconsin. What is up with that? — ragbagdharma Kripke: I do love Wisconsin — my brother and sister went to summer camp there — but I have to admit there's no particular reason stories are set there, outside of the fact that we set the majority of our episodes in the Midwest, because that's where I'm from. We have just as many stories in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. By this point, my writers know that if they come in and pitch me an episode set in Seattle, my eyes start to glaze over, but if it's set in Detroit, I pay rapt attention. It's unfair Midwest bias, I guess, but the Midwest never gets the long end of the stick in movies and TV, damn it, so I'm happy to try to even the scales a bit!

I'm really liking this season so far, but why is it so much brighter than past seasons? — acsgrlie Kripke: It's amazing. Our fans don't miss a thing. I've read on the boards how many people have noticed the change in our visuals this year. And it's true, we were attempting an adjustment to our creative look. It was very intentional. We wanted to create a more dramatic contrast between the "real" world, in which we all live, and the "secret" supernatural world that exists just beneath the surface. So therefore, when the guys are in diners or motels or bars, it looks more true-to-life. Like our world. But when they go into a dank basement or haunted house, the look becomes moody, desaturated again. When it was washed-out and dark all the time throughout the previous seasons, we felt it might have been too much of a good thing, and numbed the audience. This year's look was an experiment, so when a scene wasn't supposed to be scary, the audience would feel safe and comfortable. But when the story became scary, the look got darker and more ominous. We wanted to see if that would make the scary parts scarier. Now I'm not sure the experiment was entirely successful, and we may correct our course for Season 4, but there was conscious, creative thought behind it, for whatever that's worth. — With additional reporting by Tina Charles

[eisforeidolon]

I think some of it is just part and parcel of current day fandom's tendency to tout representation as, if not the end-all-be-all of storytelling worth, at least the should-be priority of all stories. Which is part of how so many seem to fail to understand that not prioritizing women's stories =/= hating women.

No. It's the everybody dies show, revolving around and prioritizing Sam & Dean's story. Not Bela's or Meg's or Jo's or Ellen's or Ruby's or or Linda's or Mary's or Billie's or Rowena's or or or. In the same way it wasn't John's or Bobby's or Gordon's or Andy's or Henriksen's or Castiel's or Crowley's or Ketch's or or or. And it's not just about death, because it wasn't Jody's or Claire's or Lisa's or Jack's or Garth's either.

Of course there are some aspects of the show that are sexist, but find a show where that's not true. Especially one that started way back in 2005! At the end of the day, though, the Winchesters surviving to the last episode while nearly everyone around them of various genders, orientations, and other identities dies sooner or later in a horror fantasy canon - is just a matter of following the story the show told you it was setting out to tell from the beginning. There seems to be this expectation that not only should a show include diverse characters, but that in doing so, it's obligated to wrap them in bubble wrap so they never have anything bad happen to them and certainly they can't *gasp* die. No matter what their story is - how strong of a character they are, how much agency they have, how much depth and sympathy they're given, what makes the most sense thematically and given the setting as the way for their story to go. Nope, if you don't preeminently elevate or dare to kill those characters, you hate them and all people like them! Who needs nuance when you can go on a crusade pretending to be oppressed?

If I only had the attention span and focus and time, I would go off on a epic length rant about how Supernatural did not, in fact, hate or even dislike women, despite popular fanon that insists it did. But, alas, I have too many other things that need my attention and very little attention to spare any of them. So y'all'll just have to deal with me randomly popping off about it. I get that I'm in the minority on this subject.

[ohnoitsthebat]

Spotlight Saturday Rec 1.

Make a post recommending a someone else’s fic that you love. Whether it was posted this week or whether it’s been in progress for a while and is currently updating, tell everyone you know that they should check it out.

The first fic I'm recommending is the "Currently Thinking of Henriksen" series, by @writinginthesecrettrees . If you like your Wincest dark and of the serial killer variety, you'll love this. Kelly is a fantastic author and someone I'm lucky and proud to consider my friend. It's a really neat series; it features holidays as well.

[duchessofostergotlands]

What last name do the Dane kids use?

Like most royal families, I don't think the Danes technically have a last name. We know some cases where they have adopted last names. Frederik went by Frederik Henriksen at university. Nikolai went by Jorgensen (his then step-father's last name) on Facebook. But I've been asked this before and no one has ever been sure what the current Danish children use day to day.

[fromcenotaphy]

Can I ask about Cassie?

yepp hbo cassie [moves on from missouri and makes a name for herself chasing story after story across the continental us] [flask of holy water tucked into the bottom of her purse] [tarnished rosary beads wound around her wrist like jewelry] [still thinks about dean sometimes, when she notices her breath puffing in cold air or runs across another exorcism in the latin books she collects like talismans] [interviews victor henriksen over drinks in chicago, one night while she’s running down a lead on a story that turns out to be the monster he’s hunting] [meets with shamans and mystics and soothsayers and healers and anyone who has any experience sending evil back to the pit it crawled out of] [damned if she’s ever going to be at the mercy of something invisible ever again] [known in journalist circles as the reporter who broke the groundwater contamination story that finally sank roman industries] [meticulously organized folder of notes on her laptop] [constantly poring over news stories about unexplained phenomena or miraculous rescues] [looks for sam and dean between the lines, wonders if their handiwork runs in an invisible current under the typed print of the story] [gets attacked by crowley when he’s on his season 8 warpath and hits him with a zoroastrian exorcism so heavy it knocks him into next week, literally] [marries a man with laughing eyes and warm grin, knows he’s the one when she tells him ghosts are real and he doesn’t flinch] [reads poetry to their children at bedtime while her husband fixes the salt lines on the windowsills] [digs up dirt on religious cults and white supremacist cells and emails it to a hacker victor put her in touch with] [watches the scandals blitz across the evening news months later and smirks into her tea] [murmuring the words of a warding chant like a lullaby as she rocks her daughter to sleep] [looks across a crowded bar one night and catches sight of someone who looks exactly like her: a doppelganger with close-cropped hair and a tired smile and three knives sticking out of the top of her boot] [buys her alternate self a drink and hears about the shattered, apocalyptic world where dean winchester never existed] 

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Trivia: I plotted out a route for Sam and Dean to take between Dean’s birthday and Valentine’s Day for my Currently Thinking of Henriksen fic.

With every stop they made along the way. I had a doc with their roadtrip planned out, what date they’d get to each location, how long they spent on the road, what they did when they got there.

I kinda love Google maps for stuff like that.

Trivia Tuesday

Creators: give a “behind the scenes” look at one of your works. This could be things that got removed or changed, the origins of ideas/details, whatever you like!

Fans: share bits of trivia from canon and challenge others to create something based on that trivia - fic, art, or something else! I once made a crossword puzzle :)

Feel free to repost this header!

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 13, 2021

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Differential attentional control mechanisms by two distinct noradrenergic coeruleo-frontal cortical pathways. Bari, A., Xu, S., Pignatelli, M., Takeuchi, D., Feng, J., Li, Y., & Tonegawa, S. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(46), 29080–29089.

Gamma activity accelerates during prefrontal development. Bitzenhofer, S. H., Pöpplau, J. A., & Hanganu-Opatz, I. (2020). eLife, 9, e56795.

The thermodynamics of thinking: connections between neural activity, energy metabolism and blood flow. Buxton, R. B. (2021). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1815), 20190624.

Adversarial vulnerabilities of human decision-making. Dezfouli, A., Nock, R., & Dayan, P. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(46), 29221–29228.

The Hippocampus and Dorsolateral Striatum Integrate Distinct Types of Memories through Time and Space, Respectively. Ferbinteanu, J. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(47), 9055–9065.

Amygdala-Cortical Control of Striatal Plasticity Drives the Acquisition of Goal-Directed Action. Fisher, S. D., Ferguson, L. A., Bertran-Gonzalez, J., & Balleine, B. W. (2020). Current Biology, 30(22), 4541-4546.e5.

Regulation of Olfactory Associative Memory by the Circadian Clock Output Signal Pigment-Dispersing Factor (PDF). Flyer-Adams, J. G., Rivera-Rodriguez, E. J., Yu, J., Mardovin, J. D., Reed, M. L., & Griffith, L. C. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(47), 9066–9077.

Predictions from masked motion with and without obstacles. Goldstein, A., Rivlin, I., Goldstein, A., Pertzov, Y., & Hassin, R. R. (2020). PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0239839.

Variational Free Energy and Economics Optimizing With Biases and Bounded Rationality. Henriksen, M. (2020). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2822.

The Dorsal Striatum Energizes Motor Routines. Jurado-Parras, M.-T., Safaie, M., Sarno, S., Louis, J., Karoutchi, C., Berret, B., & Robbe, D. (2020). Current Biology, 30(22), 4362-4372.e6.

The amygdala instructs insular feedback for affective learning. Kargl, D., Kaczanowska, J., Ulonska, S., Groessl, F., Piszczek, L., Lazovic, J., … Haubensak, W. (2020). eLife, 9, e60336.

Dendritic Voltage Recordings Explain Paradoxical Synaptic Plasticity: A Modeling Study. Meissner-Bernard, C., Tsai, M. C., Logiaco, L., & Gerstner, W. (2020). Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 12, 49.

Bayesian inference for biophysical neuron models enables stimulus optimization for retinal neuroprosthetics. Oesterle, J., Behrens, C., Schröder, C., Hermann, T., Euler, T., Franke, K., … Berens, P. (2020). eLife, 9, e54997.

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[the-empress-7]

Loving this discussion on facial treatments. I dont know the age of the anon, but I recommend getting facials done a couple times a year if you can afford it. I started getting them when I was in my late 20’s. I would also say be careful about mixing too many different facial treatments. It sounds like your current treatment has worked to clear up your face but looks dull? Definitely drink plenty of water like Empress said & eat more foods high in vit C!

It took me years of trial/error to find a product that actually cleared my face AND was compatible with my skin in general so I totally feel you anon.

Im not a dermatologist but I use Clinique serum on my days I dont exfoliate. Its very gentle.

Serums to look into:

1)Dr. Dennis Gross

2) Clinique

3) Derma-E

4) Maelove

5) Ole Henrikeson

6) Mad Hippie

Empress & Scorpio any other brands you can think of for Vit C brightner/booster?

So, I use serums from iS Clinical, they are an investment but the serums go a long way. I do NOT recommend the Vit C serum by Skinceuticals, I am still trying to get through the bottle and regret wasting my money on it.

Of the brands you mentioned I can definitely vouch Dr. Dennis Grossman and Ole Henriksen because I use/have used them.

Anyone want a retinol recommendation? I have one that is my holy grail and the one product I refuse to live without. 

[writinginthesecrettrees]

is Henriksen just really intuitive, or does their FBI file say something like, ¨from eyewitness reports, it’s possible that we have a serious brotherfucking situation on our hands.¨

I mean, my opinion is their file has entire pages full of “brotherfuckers” just scribbled all over. Surveillance photos of them standing much too close that have dirty dialogue Sharpied on. Statement from the housing developers in Bugs about how they were a couple and all the ass-slapping.

FBI knows.

Jus in Bello

At the beginning of this episode, Sam and Dean are chained together. Ahhhh… just like in my dreams. Apparently that’s what Agent Henriksen’s dreams about as well:

HENRIKSEN: I got a lot to celebrate. I mean, after all, seeing you two in chains…

DEAN: You kinky son of a bitch. We don’t swing that way.

But Henriksen is on to Dean. He sees right throught the snark & knows what Dean’s afraid of. 

Look at their faces. Sam looks scared and angry. Dean’s face is full of pure, cold fury. Henriksen knew exactly how to get to Dean. Like I said before when he made that ¨Bonnie to your Clyde¨ remark, he seemed to have their relationship figured out from the start. That makes me wonder: is Henriksen just really intuitive, or does their FBI file say something like, ¨from eyewitness reports, it’s possible that we have a serious brotherfucking situation on our hands.¨ 

This is also the episode where they first reveal their anti-possession tattoos. 

I love to think about them going to the tattoo shop together and asking for matching tattoos over their hearts. You know the tattoo artists had to think they were in love. Do you think they gave them a talk? Like ¨I know you guys think you’re really in love, but we don’t want you to end up regretting this tomorrow. Matching tattoos are a big step.¨ Sam probably tried to tell the artists that they were just brothers, but nobody really believed him. 

I also love that I cannot watch this episode now without thinking of the gag reel.

DEAN: Open the doors, let them all in and we fight… like men in tights.

(DEAN and SAM embrace)

SAM: I love you, Dean.

DEAN: I love you, too.

I never get tired of hearing them exchange ¨I love yous¨, especially while they’re pressed up against each other. I think I need to go watch it again right now. 

[lancelothenriksen]

Hiya! Long time since I last posted anything. The reason was the first thing you probably thought of and what's been on all of our minds unfortunately for the whole past year (and still going). I did however miss searching for and sharing Lance Henriksen stuff. I want to get back to sporadically posting things, even though I'm currently quite limited as far as getting new movies etc. is concerned. But I've definitelly haven't lost my passion for Lance's goofy antics and (often also goofy) movies. Besides I think I wanted something else I could focus on while we're still on this long path to recovery. Knock on wood and all that. 

[hellerism]

6,7,8, & 30?

6. which character should never have died (excluding tfw 2.0)?

do i have to pick just one? henriksen, kevin, charlie, billie, bobby, missouri, rufus, benny, ellen, jo...probably more but thats all i can think of rn

7. bloodfreak, closest thing we have to a witch, or lawboy sammy?

bloodfreak! yes chomping biting violence kill!!!! witch sam is a close second tho

8. favorite cas (ex. casifer, endverse, honey, etc)?

dadstiel :}

30. what destiel fic are you currently reading/wanting to read?

ummm i have a bunch of 20k+ fics marked for later that i need to get in the mood for, including poet dean and a sobsicles fic

ask me about my spn opinions!