#hes so soft but also badass and hes Dad™

[dothwrites]

PEACE OF MIND! PEACE OF MIND! (aka best episode ever)

cas really is an awkward dad coming to talk to his kid. and it's not going well. though he is more supportive of jack's snake than dean, which good for him (coming from someone who is DEEPLY uncomfortable around snakes) i forgot how worried everyone already was about jack's soul. i remembered dean and the ridiculous cake test but i didn't remember cas being this concerned

dean and cas having a conversation about jack and sam is really like cas is dean's second husband and sam is his stepson while jack is his and dean's child. if you get where i'm going. like, sam is DEAN'S kid, but jack is THEIR child. so they're having a conversation about their respective children, and they've cast themselves in roles of concerned parents

i can only assume that dean forced cas to watch all of the scanners movies since metatron would never lower himself to watch those movies. (this pleases me GREATLY) cas' saturday evening post line! there's something about cas drifting through the bunker late at night after everyone has gone to bed and looking through old magazines to soothe himself that is both incredibly soft, incredibly hilarious and incredibly poignant. he LOVES humanity! he's looking at an idealized version of the human condition in order to soothe himself. the rest of his loved ones are asleep and cas remains awake to watch over them but he still needs comfort, so he looks at old magazines. (i'm going to stop now but just know that this thought LIVES IN MY HEAD)

cas' "delicious" is wonderful here. he's such a wonderful dick. HIS HEAD EXPLODED. LIKE A RIPE MELON ON THE SUN. i love cas and i would die for him and he is the only character ever.

the irony of this woman saying "MORALS" to a degenerate homosexual angel of THEE lord... layers upon layers upon layers! and then cas mimicking the "shape and heft". he knows from personal experience. because he is a homosexual.

dean's cake test is so ridiculous. HE is so ridiculous. and his immediate REGRET after calling snakes "cool". the look of a man who just saw his whole damn life flash before his eyes. (it is established that dean does not care for snakes and finds them frightening. how much of this is because of a natural aversion and how much of this is because THEE indiana jones ALSO finds snakes off putting and scary?) RIDICULOUS MAN! RIDICULOUS MAN TESTING HIS KID WITH CAKE.

cas' consistent irritation with people is something that can be so personal, honestly. "the very tall man" laughing because misha looks so short next to jarpad but misha is actually pretty normal sized/tall

whoever the woman is who plays the wife, give her an emmy. she has FANTASTIC comedic timing. this whole scene is pure comedic gold. i remember laughing to the point of tears the first time i saw it. stop forcing jarpad to be a dramatic action hero. let him either be the villain or let him act in comedies! this is where he THRIVES! don't make him be a gritty action hero! he is not receiving enrichment in that environment!

i love when cas allows himself to be a terrifying badass. so much of the time he's masking his true nature for the comfort of the humans around him, but sometimes he just lets himself go and when he does, it's TERRIFYING!

we love a fight where cas is FINALLY allowed to be a badass. we LOVE IT. finally some good fucking food if you ever wanted to know why sastiel can never be a thing (sastiel fans i love and respect you) just look at this scene compared with the prisoner scene. sam and cas' scene is longer but my GOD is it lacking in the sexual tension and pathos of the prisoner scene. jarpad just does not have chemistry with men and that is okay because he is a heterosexual and they're necessary for the environment too!

"GOD HAS A BEARD" supernatural is A Show™

the implications that cas called dean to gossip about sam's cardigan and his faux marriage. insane. they're just chatting. because they're husbands. and they're married.

love that very ominous shot of cas lurking over jack's shoulder as he watches him kill the snake. it's very dramatic.

[little-baby-kaiju]

My cats as Pacific Rim characters

So I have 8 cats, with very different personalities. This is them as Pacific Rim characters.

So first off we have Eric. He’s a large male tuxedo, about 6 years old. Ex feral. He’s elusive, spending most of his time in the garage and only coming in to be fed once a day. He’s the leader. No one fucks with Eric. Only comes in through one window in the kitchen.

Next we have Ernie. Eric’s brother, he is a blue and is very round, but very lovely. He takes absolutely no shit from anyone, but is secretly a soft boy who just wants a cuddle. The best mouser. Either moves very very fast or in total slow motion.

George is next, he’s a white and black about 4 years old and was a rescue from the streets. He’s the Loveliest Boy™. Such a soft baby. Loved to cuddle, prefers humans to other cats, and is generally the nicest cat we own. Love him. My therapy/emotional support cat. Always runs to me when I’m crying. Love him.

Then we have Mildred. George’s sister. Tortie. Absolute psycho. Is lovely one minute, but can lash out if necessary. Badass. A bitch. Pisses on my dad and brother’s dirty laundry when she’s angry. Jumps on your back like a parrot when she’s happy. A Very Odd Cat.

Next we have Tommy Cooper. Our other tuxedo, he came from a bad household after being attacked but their staffie. Family oriented. A floppy boy, will lay on all your paperwork. Comes in from the rain and asks to be dried with a tea towel. Likes to bury under your duvet at night and bite your toes. Bit of a dick, but sweet on the inside. (chuck deserved better). Cat dad to Stanley. Came inside recently, chin dripping in blood from the rabbit he’d just killed and eaten entirely. Gross boy. Ice skates when he drinks water.

Then comes Stanley. A 1 and a half year old colourpoint ragamuffin, he’s the biggest arsehole cat we own. Our only non-rescue, I raised him from a tiny kitten in my room (I don’t know how he turned out like he has). My baby. He’s a jerk. Very very very overly loving towards me, hates literally everyone else. Floppy. Screams all the time. Screams more when you touch his back. Only drinks from the tap. Loves water. Gets in the shower with you.

Billy next! An 11 month old ginger/Burmese (estimate - we don’t know the breeding of any of our street boys, only Stanley for sure) ex-foster from an overcrowded home, he is very lovely, second only to George. He is hyperactive and playful, but also loves his cuddles. Likes having his face smushed. When he’s very relaxed he can’t open his eyes. Doesn’t like being picked up. Doesn’t like our foster cats. Ridiculous Boy. Also ice skates when he drinks water.

And finally, we have Jem. Another ex foster, hes a 7 month old grey tabby from a family of a mum and 7 kittens. Handreared. We kept him because of his medical issues. He’s very hyperactive and playful. Shouts when he’s hungry. Shouts when he wants to go outside (his legs are too short for him to use the cat flap). Shouts for cuddles. Loves every other cat he meets. Plays with my Grandma’s dog. Never Stops. Since we’ve let him go outside, he is now an Outside Boy™ and won’t come in Ever. He’s vicious. Plays in his water dish, splashes it everywhere.

[nautilusopus]

hope you dont mind me asking but what’re your opinions on the main ffvii cast? no worries if it’s more effort that it’s worth. i’m mostly just curious bcus i only feel like i have a solid grasp on your opinions of tifa and cloud

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I HAD A MINIATURE ESSAY TYPED OUT FOR EACH CHARACTER AND I FUCKING LOST IT EAT A DICK TUMBLR

I’m sorry anon this was a good question and I wanted to do a good answer but I just lost an hour so you’re getting the short version.

I like all of them for different reasons! 

Cloud: actual goddamn dumpster fire of a man. The people arguing over whether Cloud is a “sarcastic totally cool cocky badass, why does he whine so much in the spinoffs?” or a “smol soft depression boy uwu… he likes cats and flowers probably and has done nothing wrong” need to stop fucking stepping on each others’ toes and realise they’re both right but for the wrong reasons. Got called a “vicious troll” once for calling him a weenie which was ultimately what kicked off my callout post, still wondering if we all played the same game. 

Tifa: Queen of It Seemed Like Such A Good Idea At The Time. Nervous wreck, does her best in any given creek even though nobody ever seems to give her a paddle. Despite the popular interpretation, she’s probably  not all that “suns-out-guns-out”. Love the deeply personal story arc she’s a part of, hate that it’s the only thing she’s a part of. 

Aeris: Has a lot of shit going on. Friendly and blunt and stone-cold and a shameless flirt and a messenger for something perhaps just as ominous and not necessarily more benevolent as Jenova and adventurous and uncertain of herself and doing what she thinks needs to be done without a moment’s hesitation. Good foil to Tifa, her Best Friend (possibly gf?). 

Both girls are good and Cloud loved them both even independently of any romantic attraction he may or may not have had with anyone because who gives a shit it’s not all that important and the story would not change one bit if you headcanoned every single character as aro/ace and even if he hated them both for some reason one shouldn’t judge their worth based on that alone. And also Cloud would not hate his friends. All girls are good! Only fandom is bad!

Barret: The only good dad in a game full of bad dads (except Seto I guess maybe???). I’m gonna try not to repeat all this again and instead will talk about how Barret is doing what he thinks is right, and what he thinks is right in this case is blowing up parts of the city. And the game doesn’t gloss over that at all – we’re made well-aware more than a few times that there were civilian casualties, and yet I feel like the game doesn’t just go either “it’s okay he’s a good guy so it’s fine” or “oh, well then he’s just as bad!” and call it a day like the Compilation tends to, especially with regards to fucking Zack and his warcrime joytrip in Wutai. Both the audience and Barret are left to ponder how anything could have turned out better in the first place when Shinra has already gotten so bad to begin with. While situations are not always black and white, sometimes actions have to be. Is busy raising his daughter whom he loves and fought for and is NOT prospecting oil while Cloud looks after Marlene, any insistence to the contrary is false and slanderous. 

Nanaki: A good doggo! Preproduces asexually??? Who knows. Maybe found a girl catdog at one point. Wants to be a Respectable Adult™, possibly has no idea what he’s doing. Probably gets on really well with Cloud. I don’t have a whole lot to say about him because most of his deal is pretty cut-and-dry, but what’s there is good. 

Cid: My original favourite, and still holds a special place in my heart. I think that was back from when I was still trying to hate Cloud and everyone and Cid was as fed up with them as I was. Plus, the maymays. I think little me was still fascinated by the prospect that you could swear in a video game, too. Cid (and his arc) are flawed, and apart from how hamfistedly the game handles his abuse of Shera (she was right the whole time so… hooray?), I think I probably do have a soft spot for people that are gruff assholes, but god damn, they’re trying. And he really is trying – part of the fun is getting to see him do that as Avalanche grows closer to one another. 

Yuffie: Ironically, I never hated Yuffie? Even when it was in vogue to shit on VII, and I was actively trying to do that, and even the people that liked VII hated Yuffie, I just… never had an issue with her. The Wutai sidequest wasn’t too annoying to do, and it made me laugh in parts. And it’s a shame the Compilation seems to have punted pretty much her entire personality in favour of reducing her to a ~waaaaaaacky~~ ninja sidekick! What about all that shit with her inheriting a country that had been sucked dry by colonialism and apathy on the part of its leader, and coming into her own with what she wants to be to her nation? Did that just hit too close to home or something with the focus testers? Whatever. 

Reeve/Cait Sith: One character, and the Compilation will never take that from me no matter how hard it pushes its shitty Scottish cat agenda. Another character I never had a problem with even though you’d think I would. Has that brilliant scene where he brings up (though not for the first time) that “collateral damage” is sort of an arbitrary concept, something that I think plays back into some of the larger themes about death in this game. Thought his “fake out” death was a bit weird. I know why they did it, to create contrast with the real death later, but… eh. Not a fan. I like Reeve though. He’s not even necessarily a good person, but there’s something interesting about someone like that consciously making a decision to do good things nonetheless. 

Vincent: I’ll admit Vincent is my least favourite of the original cast. I don’t dislike him, per se (though, as always, I hate what he represents with Dirge and that stupid, stupid “Vincent was the father!” theory and the erasure of everything interesting about the game’s backstory to promote further marketability), I just think his story isn’t quite as interesting as the others’. Wish they’d stuck with first-draft Vincent where he’s a paranormal detective, though I can see how that would have clashed a bit when they transitioned from “New York City in the future” to “Actual Magical City So What The Fuck Even Counts As Paranormal Anymore, Get A Real Job Vincent”. I like what we got well enough, though. Giant hypocrite. Great for objective advice, and then spends all day lying on the floor of his apartment with a bottle of wine blasting Evanescence. 

Sephiroth: I didn’t start caring about Sephiroth until the last year or so, but like everyone he’s really grown on me. I think the fanbase does a shit job of understanding what his motivations are (hint: they’re not fucking “oh he loves to torture Cloud he’s a sadist :3″), which definitely did a lot to turn me off from him. I was always alright with him, I guess – not my favourite, but he served his purpose well enough. Now that I’ve actually stepped back and looked at him, though, I think he’s a good foil to Cloud, in that they’re both fucking trainwrecks, but Cloud learned to be okay with that, and Sephiroth caused at least six more trainwrecks in the process while trying to deny his own. Fucking moron. 

Zack: Not the main cast, and I still consider him a minor background character, but I’m throwing him on here for the sake of completion I suppose. Crisis Core still sucks so I characterise him based on what we got from the OG, and what we got from the OG was a breath of fresh air, because honestly, Zack was kind of a tool (which I love him for, don’t get me wrong). Possibly selfish, probably was only stringing Cloud along at first, couldn’t bring himself to break it to him when they actually started getting attached for real. Zack’s got a sort of Lord of the Rings vibe to him, in that evil isn’t an opposing force to good, but simply the absence of good. Despise his death scene in Crisis Core, which undermined everything good it originally had going for it. Inglorious, unheroic, unglamorous, unfair. No ultimate reward for him. No final goodbye. Completely purposeless. That was honestly a lot sadder than any shitty J-pop song could’ve made it. And in the end it was all for a guy that he might not even have been that close with, and who latched onto him for the simple act of showing him basic human kindness, but whom he decided should live because it was the right thing to do.

And as a whole, I think part of the reason this particular cast resonated with me so much is their dynamic. Usually in “big adventure fantasy story” whatever, there’s a bit where they start infighting over some stupid shit. Maybe it’s a love triangle, maybe someone is From The Bad Guy Land Grr Grr Prejudices, maybe someone just butts heads. Avalanche never does that, and I fucking love them for it. The whole way through, you get to watch them grow closer, and there’s no obnoxious arc where you have to break up a fight that should’ve never happened in the first place. They just get along because they’re good fucking friends and never even for a minute is that in question, and it’s so rare to see that in anything. 

Good game, good characters. No ill will towards any of them, contrary to what people seem to think based on some of the anons I’ve gotten. 

(Except the Compilation cast, and especially Genesis. He can choke.)