#fear is your choice

[wistfulwatcher]

[cubbihue]

Ok this is gonna sound fun but, did Timmy ever get any advice from "fairy mason" who was his fairy lawyer in the norm the genie episode. It would be cool to see Timmy have a mentor

Timmy practically lived in Fairy Mason's office throughout his entire schooling at Pixies' Academy. He had lots of questions and discussions and thoughts!!!! And Fairy Mason answered every. single. one of them.

Fairy Mason wrote the letter of recommendation to the Fairy Council to let Timmy work so close with Jorgen on Da Rules' policy changes! Timmy was able to hit the ground running by the time he entered the workforce thanks to it. He also quickly made a name of himself as one of the best lawyers of the Pixie Court due to Mason's tutelage!

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[disniq]

Oh I misread that last post actually. While Jason's loneliness definitely resonates, I don't think it's self made in the slightest.

If anything he's guilty of reaching out at any cost - originally by using violence and antagonism to force interaction (UTRH and BiB, arguably the titans tower thing), and later by consistently showing up when called no matter how badly he's been treated, doing Bruce's bidding, and being 110% willing to sacrifice himself for the cause in the hopes that it'll finally be enough, even though it never is.

[incesthemes]

there is interesting johndean subtext and insinuations across kripke era, usually through an antagonist insinuating parent-child sexual violence in order to exert dominance over dean. this type of mockery exploits that ambiguous relationship between john and dean and reminds dean that he never had a normal relationship with his father, and that makes him gross and wrong. it doesn't actually matter in the end whether john was sexually abusive to dean. the core of their relationship was damning enough: dean was made to take the place of john's wife—to comfort john and raise sam—while simultaneously being his son. the codependent nature of their relationship implies the incest that underscores their dynamic. again, this is regardless of what literally occurred between dean and john because there is enough doubt toward the nature of their relationship that multiple antagonists can use it against them.

sonwife, brotherhusband—dean is stuck in a liminal space between family and lover and is unable to put his feet firmly on just one side and instead has to accept both together or abandon both together. he doesn't get to have a relationship with his family without it being simultaneously incestuous. he plays the role of wife to john and mother to sam as mary's replacement; he therefore becomes more than a son and transcends the boundaries of the familial into the incestuous. it's baked into the dynamic and he can't hope to escape the liminality in which he's stuck without abandoning his entire family altogether.

this ambiguous relationship is further acted out with sam, where people perceive them as lovers rather than brothers; where their mutual devotion trumps, neglects, and disallows any other close relationship outside each other; where their physical closeness is viewed through an unusually sexual lens despite no literal sex acts between them taking place on screen. once again dean is stuck in a liminal space, paralleling the ambiguous and uncertain relationship he had with john.

in the end, sex (and sexual violence) is just a symbol of this codependency and uncertainly incestuous dynamic. sex acts in kripke era end up being symbolic: misinterpretations of sam and dean's relationship; accusations of sexual violence; literal, on-screen sexual moments between the brothers and someone else. it's a literary device that highlights the incestuous themes of the show. dean hand-picks women for sam to fuck because it allows dean to be symbolically part of sam's sex life. henricksen accuses john of raping dean because it is a symbol of the unhealthy, codependent relationship dean had with his father. the samulet stays on during sex because sam is symbolically integral to dean's sexual gratification (seen too in the way both dean and cassie in 1.13 appear to kiss the amulet at least once in the dark room). sex is used to signify more than what's literally on the screen, and the connections between the literal sex acts and the blurred lines of dean's familial relationships allow for a reading of incest between both john and dean and sam and dean.

it never mattered whether johndean or samdean had a sexual relationship in the canon because that was never the point. the point is the liminality that permeates the narrative. sam, dean, and john all stand upon a threshold between acceptable and taboo. the point of it all is the doubt and anxiety, the are-they-aren't-they that is never answered. the absence of incest within the text invites the understanding that the incest was, in fact, always there.

[scamguy]

im trying to read post canon yoohankim fics and i can't be bothered to look for them on ao3 like...... im not going to lie a lot of it is really boring.... its fluff in a way that really doesnt appeal to my taste. uh oops I just wrote a bunch of shit in the tags

[mochidoodle]

I haven’t stopped thinking about them since I first saw them stand next to each other in kakariko village

[corduroyinstitute]

February 27, 2018: Six years ago today, we recorded the first song we ever devised using what would become Corduroy Institute's signature methodology.

On that auspicious occasion, S.A. Morin arrived at the location which would subsequently be christened the O'Higgins Laboratory of Recorded Sound. There, W. Ruiz had prepared a makeshift recording setup centered around his Tascam DP-24SD Portastudio multitrack recorder.

W. Ruiz wielded a mixed array of machines consisting of the Moog Sub Phatty, the Volca FM, the Electribe ES-1, and the Volca Beats. S.A. Morin's tools consisted of a portable pedalboard and his newest acquisition, the Squier Bass VI. This six string instrument became our unofficial third member by appearing on every single song we have ever released.

After recording three layers of multitracked improvisations, we consulted the B. Davis Archive. We made stanzas using only cutups taken from across the spectrum of print media. This has remained our sole method for generating lyrical content for our songs. Then we sang, and then the session ended.

The recording we made on that occasion six years ago today became "Fear is Your Choice." It became the first song on the first EP we ever released to the public. Bandcamp download codes for this EP are available upon request for the rest of the month.

https://corduroyinstitute.bandcamp.com/track/fear-is-your-choice

https://music.apple.com/us/album/fear-is-your-choice/1448639683?i=1448639690

https://youtu.be/1ORg10-Topc?si=GGpqDZhuNGY-9gCZ

https://open.spotify.com/track/5KFJwXxLAd3k2EK10nqSUj

[rhymaes]

Merlin (BBC) // Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

[shorthaltsjester]

Imogen Temult, Exaltant Hope of the Red Storm

Heroes and Monsters by Penny & Sparrow // Critical Role Campaign 3

[hawnks]

For the first time since your fateful meeting, you're really and truly mad at him.

Of course you know what you want to do is foolish, dangerous. But this is your risk to take. Despite his teasing, Sylus doesn't own you.

He doesn't even look up from his paperwork. "No."

It was a courtesy to tell him why you wouldn't be home tonight. He doesn't get to tell you no.

You give him a chance to rethink it. "Excuse me?"

He turns the page. Makes a note. As if the conversation wasn't even worth his attention. "I'll handle it tomorrow. Just go to bed, sweetheart. I left out a new pair of pajamas for you."

Seething, you steal his bike, leaving the estate with big plans to show him exactly what you think of his high handedness.

That plan doesn't come to fruition, though. Because someone tipped off the mark.

They're waiting for you when you arrive. You're taken down in seconds, a week of careful plotting gone to waste.

Bound and gagged, they leave you alone in the dark. Just waiting for whatever punishment will be mete out. They'll kill you for this. But first they'll hurt you.

It's all you can do, cycle through fear after fear. A rabbit in the snare.

The light of dawn is red as it floods the room and your fate steps through the door.

"We'll have to work on your manners, darling," Sylus tells you. "We don't bite the hand that feeds us."

[saltyfilmmajor]

Thinking how Lane’s descriptor of Ethan being a Gambler sticking for the rest of the franchise

[blae-kitta]

Saintly 'destroyed by your own devotion', part 2. Angled photo and WIP below.

[rorydrawsandwrites]

FANFIC TIIIME

I've only read a few sentences yet and I'm already hyped!! Rambling in the tags below (part 1)

[nicorobinphd]

stg, being an enjoyer of jane twdg is like being forced into an expert-level course on the way misogyny manifests in video game spaces.

god forbid a woman be complex or difficult or provably mischaracterized (see tags) at the end of her arc to service the culmination of a man’s storyline.

[gayladygrey]

im going Feral about how charles' mutation is always treated differently from everyone elses. charles (rightly) gets a lot of flack for only taking in the pretty mutants, but i think thats bcus he knows how isolating it is to have a power that is considered inherently a violation of consent. unless charles is 100% 24/7 a paragon of self control, hes GOING to hear your thoughts. asking him to stay out of your head is like asking him not to look at you, its just one of his senses like any other. and i think also thats why he snowballs so easily into huge violating acts like memory wipes and segmentation of identity - if everyone reviles him anyway for his natural, unconscious sensing of surface thoughts, feelings, vibes, traumas, etc etc, then why not do the huge messed up stuff they will also hate him for? he has to keep everything he knows about everyone a secret anyway, so as not to damage their sensibilities, whats one more horrendous secret? one more violation? and erik, of all people, who tells mystique not to cover up, who tells beast to be blue, tells charles "get out of my head".

[xleethegreat]

yk, v2 was supposed to be a security robot. what if she was looking after limbo before v1 pulled up