#haley rants

[haley-harrison]

tbh the main cause of shipping wars is that jackles is too good at his job. Man has convincing chemistry with most of his coworkers, so depending on which scenes you focus on, you can gather a convincing argument for your ship of choice.

like if you look just at the first three seasons, j2 have such insane chemistry you have to be blind not to notice. (case in point, even my mother, who is otherwise a normal 62-y-o was like 'well that's not a normal brother relationship'). add the lack of significant alternative options, and it's clear why the early days had so many wincest shippers. Like, duh. You see two hot guys who look at each other with adoration (and lip-licking), brain's gonna ship. Fiction isn't reality anyway.

However, then comes s4. Now, I think Misha is awesome and funny and great, and obviously he and Jensen hit it off. Enough that it shows on screen. That said, the script was still written as Kripke intended, which is that Sam and Dean are obsessed with each other.

Because it's a fact, that Kripke read Siken's Crush, and also On the Road, and wrote Sam and Dean very much under that influence. And if you read either of those, you know they're about gay lovers.

So. There's a conflict between the script (which is samdean coded), and the acting (where jenmish actually gets more and more intense with time).

And the thing is, both sides of the fandom have solid 'evidence' on why their ship is (practically) canon. And it sucks to see people actually fight and insult each other.

I am a multishipper: I have an OTP but I see the appeal of other pairings and occasionally read those too. And I wish we could all see that plurality of opinions is good. Fiction is meant to be discussed, there isn't one correct answer.

At the end of the day, we're here to have fun with this trash show (affectionate), so maybe let's do that without judging?

[femslashspuffy]

Me in real life: yeah idk if romance is really for me I don't think I have it in me to have a real romantic relationship I kinda just want to do my own thing forever

Me in video game: if I cannot marry her RIGHT NOW then I'm gonna blow up! I'll fucking do it fucking watch me

[sdvshanewife]

"haley actually changed unlike..." SHUT THE FUCK UP

SHANE HAS AN ACTUAL REASON BEHIND HIM BEING AN ASSHOLE UNLIKE MS I WAS A MEAN GIRL IN HIGHSCHOOL

HES LITERALLY DEPRESSED, SUICIDAL AN ALCOHOLIC AND WORKS A DEAD END JOB!!!! YEAH ID BE AN ASS TOO!!! THE REASON HE DOESNT STOP DRINKING AFTER MARRIAGE IS BECAUSE NUMBER 1

ADDICTION IS HARD TO BEAT

AND NUMBER 2

IT CAN FUCKING KILL HIM!!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1

HE GOES FROM BEING A RAGING AND RUDE ALCOHOLIC TO BEING NICER AND DRINKING LESS UNLIKE MS HALEY WHO WENT FROM HIGHSCHOOL BULLY TO A NORMAL FUCKING PERSON WITH DECENCY

I HATE EVERYONE WHO IGNORES SHANES VERY OBVIOUS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE HE STILL DRINKS??? ARE YOU FR JUST GONNA IGNORE ALL THE PROGRESS HE MADE??? BECAUSE HE CANT FULL ON BREAK HIS ALCOHOL ADDICTION THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR (PROBABLY) YEARS?? yeah okay YOU FUCKING IDIOT

[akemisalem]

i’m really glad that some folks aren’t game developers because i seen in a forum people saying concernedape should make it so alex can only date/marry men and haley can only date/marry women and its like???

​i’m not going to go into a full rant but the way people discuss those two when it comes to dating the same/opposite gender gets a bit weird and almost homophobic/biphobic at times

[skeleton-with-a-bow]

I always get icky when I see people judge players for romancing Shane.

Maybe it’s just a me problem but seeing others say that people who marry Shane only enjoy "fixing him". Which sure, there’s probably players that do that, but it doesn’t mean ALL Shane likers do it.

Not to mention the Farmer barely helps Shane that much except for giving him support, almost none of the dialogue choices you make for Shane’s events even affects the friendship points.

Shane just needed more support, someone to cheer him on and drown out the thoughts in his head.

So no, people who marry Shane aren’t just some white knights, hell, some of them even understand and empathize with him and his issues.

And before anyone says, "Well you’re probably a Shane romancer, so your opinion is biased" I am not, sure I enjoy his character, but I don’t romance him.

My stardew spouse is Haley, and yes, I know that she’s unpopular with players, but all I can say is that I’m a masochist. ┐(´∇｀)┌

[stars-and-galaxys]

PERHAPS FATE BROUGHT US TOGETHER

3x15//2x22//Mirror Traps - Hera Lindsay Bird//2x22//Uneven Odds - Sleeping at Last//Isle of the Dogs - Wes Anderson//2x14//5x11//2x22//Bring Him Home - Les Miserables//3x15

[hyperfixating-rn-brb]

lying in bed sobbing over a fic

again

[bbeeew]

if I had a nickel for every time one of my friends I know irl that plays stardew and romances Haley and called Shane a "bad bachelor" I'd have two nickles

Which isn't a lot, but it's two too many

[trashartgalleries]

Yo, why the fuck does Haley be like, "Ew, you're dirty!" And Alex be like, "Oh your shoes are dirty, that's cool tho."

>:0 Bitches, I work on a fuckmothering FARM!! I'm sorry I don't get the spa until day 3 of summer, and there's nothing I can do about my boots!!

This is why I always talk to Sebastian, Abigail, and Sam first 😤

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

I've always had a pretty good idea of when Haley caught feels for Nathan but I think I've finally pinpointed when Nathan caught feels for Haley (spoiler alert it's sooner than I was willing to say before).

Haley is pretty easy to read. I feel like the show canon supports the idea that she started to catch feels during that first tutor session based off of the fact that she wears the cracker jack bracelet all day. He put it on her wrist around 7 AM and during the damn night she's still wearing it. Also she was awfully squirrelly around Lucas about who she was tutoring. Yeah, she was squirrelly simply because she was tutoring Lucas' enemy but she also seemed squirrelly about the fact that she was still wearing the bracelet... making me think there was more to it. There are more indications that she caught feels around that point but I would argue that was the first and biggest indication.

Nathan on the other hand has been harder to read... given what his intentions were when he first tried to get her to be his tutor and then subsequently agreed to the date and time. But I just remembered something that Nathan said to Haley in season 8 just before she's about to give birth to their baby daughter. He's telling their love story and he says

She was tutoring him. But they both knew it was something more

Yeah, that's vague enough that he could be talking about any tutor session but it's the first real indication of when he started to catch feels. We know when he fell in love. Now i've started to believe that he started to catch feels during that first tutoring session as well. Just imagine it, she busts his balls pretty much says "You don't charm me, pull your BS on someone else" and Nathan is immediately taken with her. This girl who is so badass and secure in herself. This girl who is so smart and beautiful. Also that smile on his face after she says that to him looks so genuine. You can practically see the heart eyes jumping from his eye sockets. Imagine Haley meaning every word when she said that he didn't charm her. But then she begins to tutor him, she sees his beautiful blue eyes sparkle. She says in 1x08 how she loves his smile when he solves a problem while studying... so she's sitting across from his tall/handsome self, sees his eyes sparkle, she sees the genuine smile when he starts to understand and she thinks to herself "Holy shit, i'm in trouble." Their hearts didn't stand a chance the moment they entered each other's spheres! 💕😍

[everything-is-as-it-was]

Man just started rewatching season 2 and there's so much I forgot

But the main thing is after Elle gets shot and her house declared a crime scene, when it's all over Hotch goes there himself, straight from work before he goes to see his family (he's still in his suit) and washes the blood off her walls.

Like, idk what it is about that scene that really gets to me but this man went to his coworker's house, one that still had the crime scene tape on it, just to roll up the sleeves of his nice clothes to wash the word written in her blood off the walls. Before he went to see his family.

And, I mean, Elle is FBI. I have no doubt there was someone she could have contacted to get that done for her, and well.

But Hotch decided to take the bucket and do it himself. huh.

[haley-harrison]

Eric Kripke is the Alfred Hitchcock of our generation. In this essay I will outline the main types of horror they use, offer examples, and elaborate the genius of the said tropes.

It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the man's work, that Kripke loves his ✨gore✨. Now that he's no longer restrained by CW's PG rating, he gets to go full-throttle with it in The Boys. That isn't to say that Supernatural didn't get it's fair share though - I mean, just remember the "Skin" episode in season one - that scene where the skinwalker changes his skin is pure body horror. Masterful.

Okay, Haley, so what? Some of us aren't squeamish. What's the brilliant part?

Good point, my med/bio orientated reader. That gets me to the second type of horror (and my personal kryptonite): psychological horror.

Here we get to lovecraftian themes. And I don't exactly mean Cthulhu. See, lovecraftian monsters are incomprehensible to the human mind, which generates horror through the unease of being unable to understand. Similarly, certain characters that the majority of the audience cannot identify with, can be used to the same end. Lemme illustrate this with two examples: Homelander and The Deep.

I reckon it's safe to assume most people aren't sadistic psychopaths, nor zoophiles with a penchant for sea creatures. Therefore the extreme Otherness of these two makes people uneasy, disturbing on a fundamental level. Hitchcock refined that particular horror trope by sprinkling his movies with taboo-topics of his own time, such as implied homosexuality. (*gasp* 🏳️‍🌈😆)

And here we get to the now well-known horror rule: the unseen monster is the scariest monster. More broadly, what is only implied can be more impactful than having the exact scenario shown on screen. The unsaid leaves more to the imagination (which is the most powerful tool for horror), and creates and additional dread with the element of unknown. People are unsettled by what else there might be, when elipses replace a clear answer.

Now back to Kripke, and how CW's censorship actually worked in his favor in Supernatural.

Maybe you saw this coming, but the monsters aren't the lovecraftian element. (Really, with the exception of tulpas and wendigos, none of them were even remotely scary). As I said above, Homelander and The Deep are lovecraftian because they're freaks. Unsympathetic freaks, but imagine if we took that first part away...

I shan't say it.

Just. Something something, american gothic, shit's implied and that's the point.

Haley, is this an elaborate ploy to talk about shipping? Really?

No. This is about environmental storytelling, gritty noir filter, camera angles, and just how much is left unsaid. This is about trauma, and repression, and the emotional reaction of the audience when they're left to ruminate a bit on the kind of lives the Winchesters had. It's about the missing scenes, the psychology, the implications - just -

*deep breath*

Another brilliant thing is how Kripke plays around with bathos - causing contrasting feelings in quick succession to give the audience emotional whiplash. The quips sprinkled in between the violence. The unexpected gag right before a gut-punch. It accentuates the experience for the audience. Like the way Dean's relationship with food is often played for laughs, but when you mull it over it's not hard to figure out the underlying food scarcity while growing up.

And furthermore, where did the money come from when times were tough? A myriad of angst-fics went ahead to answer that, which just proves an implication is far superior to exposition.

Then there's Hell. We don't get more than a few seconds of flashes, but think about it. Wouldn't Hell use every torture method imaginable? And what's the most psychologically damaging thing you can do to a person, especially a man?

I think you know the answer.

And that realization is the dawning psychological horror.

Finally, I'll leave you with this:

Just... Kripke!!!

I'm biting stuff!

[lurvly-malice]

to all u evil bitches editing/writing/drawing haley as a sad closeted little lesbian to 'good luck, babe' i hope u always forget the passwords to all ur social media accounts because OUCH?

(did i marry haley after seeing them? yes. they're glorious)

[scarlct-vvitch]

rip to all you sitcom love interests forced to move away because your chemistry with the main character got in the way of the endgame ship. i see you. i know you never would have ended your long-distance relationship over the phone. youre endgame to me

[chiistarri]

i need to vague post ab my ships now

[pey-up]

Greetings. How are you? :0

Also I’m asking random people what they think of this goober.

KIBBY (????)

And im vibin! Just "studying" (drawing, im drawing)!! Hru? :3