#kindness is contagious

[lau219]

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@novashelby

Love you, Nova! And if you’re wondering how much, that’s me up in that GIF. 👆🤣🎃

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[canisalbus]

I swapped them around in a silly doodle

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[destiel-wings]

People always underestimate just how much a little kindness can do. It's an invisible force, soft yet so powerful.

I know that very well, and to know that i was able to create such an impact on someone across wherever side of the globe fills me with so much joy and pride 🥹

I can't wait to see your concepts and ideas here on tumblr <3

Dean Winchester & hug dynamic analysis

I was thinking about how whenever Dean hugs someone he's almost always the one hugging the other and how this links to his psychological trauma of always being the caretaker of people, making himself bigger to protect them.

Because that's how Dean sees himself, as a shield for others, and then I thought about how Cas actually is the shield, and he's HIS SHIELD, specifically, the only one who's really there to protect HIM, which is why it hits so much when we see this:

The way Cas wraps his arms around him, trying to protect him with his whole body--that he'd use as a shield and give up in a second if he could spare him from any pain and save him.

(for context: Dean was about to go use the soul bomb on Amara there, it was a suicide mission)

Bobby is another one that hits, he hugs him as the big hugger because he's his father, he loves him and he's actually here to protect him (and Dean LETS him -barely, but he lets him *and Cas* - in a way that he doesn't let Sam)

I watched a compilation of Sam & Dean hugs to check if i was right about it, but it's almost always Dean the big hugger with Sam, except when he's about to die or Sam sees him alive again after losing him.

Even then, Dean mostly tries to hug Sam as the big hugger anyway, with at least one arm, like a way to comfort him, making him feel protected, like his body language is saying "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm still strong, i can still protect you" (because their real father failed and Dean thinks it's his job).

He rarely lets himself be the little one hugged with Sam, unless he's barely conscious. Which is why it kills me so much more now that in this moment (s14, when Dean was going to lock himself in the Ma'lak box cause he was possessed by Michael) and Sam has a desperate breakdown and punches him (to stop him) he forcefully hugs him as the little hugger, the way Dean always kept him, like a way of saying "I still need you to protect me, please don't do this to yourself".

In the scene below he gives Sam his blessing to do a dangerous (possibly suicidal) mission, and one of his arms is down, but the other one tries to stay up--he's forcing himself to do it and he struggles because he still wants to protect him, but (as the seasons progress) he slowly becomes more prone to let go.

So in this view the hug dynamic becomes an indicator of how Dean sees Sam (and himself) and his protector role, how adult and self sufficient he considers Sam, and how much he lets people around him take care of him, lowering his walls and letting himself be hugged.

This is also why i think hugs from characters like Garth or Charlie are so special, because they're just like us: they see Dean and they just know that he needs to be hugged a lot, and that he's not used to it, so they just go for it-- and it's so normal and kind and spontaneous that Dean's just not used to it-- he doesn't know how to respond (especially with Garth, at the beginning, but as the seasons progress, he learns to, and he even initiates the hug eventually).

I love the hugs where they're 50/50 (one arm up, one arm down both), feels like they're equals, both taking care of each other. I feel like with Sam and Dean, this indicates a healthier dynamic, because Dean lets go a little of the role that was imposed to him and manages to see Sam as the strong individual that he is. But the same applies to 50/50 hugs with other characters, like with Cas, where I feel like it testifies how equals they feel in terms of being fighters, there's a show of respect of each other's strength that transpires by the gesture (which is even more astounding considering that Cas is literally a powerful angel).

And just to end on a destiel note, I'd like to note the possessiveness and protectiveness of Dean (rightfully so) whenever he finds Cas after he thought he had lost him, and how that translates into his body/hug language:

[violent138]

Goddamn, I know people in Gotham are obsessed with their work, but to the point that you wouldn't trade it for your kid? And then feeling no remorse for your part in your daughter's death?

The fact that Bruce doesn't see this as instantly weird says so much.

[many-gay-magpies]

googling things such as can you be sick without a fever, does no fever mean youre not contagious, what makes you sick without a fever, etc etc. because my mom no longer tells me if i should stay home or not, she just says i can judge for myself and i know my own body

[pelcrow]

my baby boy Denver who should be cherished for eternity..!!

[princessnijireiki]

The notes on that Henson post are all either like, "oh it was the cult he was raised in" (he seems to have left it decades prior but, yk, stuff lingers), "he just like me fr" (??? don't do that), or "if only he knew and went to the doctor sooner :("

But truly, if anything, the commentary I added is UNDERSTATING how streptococcus operates— like unless some other grievous torso injury had happened to Henson early on in the illness that required BOTH blood cultures AND X-rays, AND the infection and lung abscesses had been caught, AND they proceeded with heavy medication AND likely surgical intervention, AND the timing and execution of all that were perfect + he didn't pick up any additional bugs at the hospital... there was & even nowadays would be no other route to survival. It would have taken extreme & sheer dumb luck, it would have been excruciating, and it still would have only been a "maybe."

And any bacteria that escaped purging could still "detonate" and kill him decades later.

All after, by medical standards of the time, not doing anything "wrong."

Like, follow medical recommendations re: antibiotic usage to the letter with "regular" strep because otherwise, you may die, AND you will make new germs that are harder to kill so OTHER people will also die. But Henson did not have "regular" strep— and my point is, regular strep bacteria FROM 1990 could tear you apart brutally, and the strep of the 2020s is already stronger, faster, and scarier.

I'm not saying, "save yourself the way Henson should have," he was already doomed before ever flying back to NYC, which is tragic, but that was not an issue in his or your or any of our control— I'm saying we're in a losing war against bacteria, so save yourself if and when you can, AND don't give the germ another fucking gun, because it's already strong enough that there are ways you can get sick and no one can save you, and we haven't medically been able to move the needle on that, but the germ sure has.

Same as polio vaccination. The herd immunity and the armor needs to be strong, because if enough people get sick enough for it or one of its cousin viruses to MUTATE and then spread again, we cannot save you. The vaccines of the past will not protect you. There is no "if only." There are not enough iron lungs left in the world. Get vaccinated and follow medical best practices so you don't fill a graveyard.

We live in a scary world where we are not the determinors of our own health and safety. And sometimes there are no life jackets.

[alice-makes-things]

Dyslexic Librarian

Being a dyslexic library manager will always be worth it purely for this wonderful ✨teachable moment✨:

I misspelled a child’s name on their Summer Reading Challenge certificate (I won't go into specifics, but think "accidental vowel swaps on a common name which then becomes another very common name"). The child pointed this out, and I apologised and showed them my “I’m dyslexic” badge.

Me: Do you know what dyslexia means?

Child: No?

Me: So “Dys” means “difficulty”, and “Lexia” means words. So it means I have difficulty with words! So, sometimes, I find it particularly difficult to read, write, or spell.

Child: *finds this hilarious* NO YOU DON’T *hysterical laughter* YOU WORK IN A LIBRARY *further laughter* THAT’S A LIE OF COURSE YOU CAN READ!

(Reader, please bear in mind that, throughout this entire interaction, I’m somehow still shaking this child’s hand after handing them the certificate)

Me: I can read and I love reading! And sometimes I have difficulty with it. I have a certificate from a doctor and everything!

Child: *continued merriment, disbelief and general amusement*

At this point, the child's mother steps in to explain that (a) dyslexia is real, and that (b) several of the child’s friends are dyslexic, including (c) their best friend.

Child: *continued disbelieving laughter* before *a slow realisation and acceptance of the truth* before *a sudden, horrified thought*

Child: CAN I CATCH IT?!?!!!!

Reader, I may simply pass away from laughter. 10/10 library interaction

[lau219]

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@wonderlanddreamer

Thank you, Daisy! Love you!!! 🥰

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[feastingonchrist]

Oh my gosh so i shared something personal w my fav church lady yesterday and she was like “oh my gosh i didn’t know you loved me that much” nearly moved to tears mind you… AS IF i don’t always say “i love you more”. One time i said that to her and she pushed me and was like “you’re silly” but i told her “i’m not being silly i’m being serious”. Then today she talked to my mom ab what i said and told her too that she didn’t know i loved her that much and my mom was like…… “yeah she’s serious” SHE THOUGHT I WAS JOKING THIS WHOLE TIME WHEN I SAY I LOVE YOU MORE 😭😭😭 even tho i literally go and squeeze her to death multiple times a week and a day and when my mom told her i was obsessed w her she told her “she can be, she can be”. Like ma’am do u get it now??? She always says “i love you girls/baby girl” and i say it right back and i guess it’s never registered in her mind. It makes me sad i don’t think she’s able to truly receive love yet she has the biggest heart and has been there for everyone she loves and is trying her hardest to help me out with something right now. She knows i love her but i guess hadn’t truly understood my heart for her until i really poured it out to her. Bc it runs very deep. So i pray she receives it in her heart. If you see this please pray for her i am so serious. She needs it.

[elven-beckons]

POV: your roommate is psyched for season two of Loki while you’re emotionally recovering from season one of Ahsoka

[kingmakerpod]

hi, it's me again, sorry for sending so many asks in such a short time i'm just autistic and currently extremely hyperfixated on kingmaker haha.

do people just not really care that queer people exist in the vsr? i mean, it is 1911 europe, so usually that would be an issue, but they do have exposure to the good neighbors who obviously like... don't care about that stuff. also creative liberty exists and if it's just that that's cool too lol.

Attitudes towards queerness were actually in a very interesting transitional period in the early 1900s due to things like the Oscar Wilde trial and the Eulenberg affair. Keep in mind Kingmaker is only set 8 years before the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was opened in Berlin. (By Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee- the first ever LGBT advocacy group.)

So at that time, in Germany at least, they weren't burning gay people at the stake anymore, but there were still laws against having gay sex. (Albeit ones that were very hard to enforce)

More than anything I think that queerness just is not something people talk about in the VSR. It's not polite and it's not anybody's business.

[sciderman]

do you think an ask-blog needs art to be successful?

i think it helps because art is kind of just more eye-catching than text - but i also think if you want to make a text-based ask blog then nothing should stop you! i mean, who makes an ask-blog for success. there's so many other things i could be doing if i wanted to be successful. you do it because you want to do it!

[theshadowrealmitself]

Been unwell these past couple of days, but just well enough to be stressed about missing class and spending hours convincing myself I’ll get better in time to still make it to class