#on the basis of ''brothers amiright?''

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

mostly I choose to blatantly ignore most plot points that happened while Bruce was lost in time but occasionally I get the whim to write something that actually reworks some of it in a way that 1) is actually in character and 2) is flagrantly self-indulgent

[alien-enjoyer]

just finished watching the iwtv movie (because i refuse* to pay the paywall on amazon) (*i will end up paying the paywall on amazon :( unless someone has super legal way for me to watch the show 🥺)

review: it was good i think maybe uh like… roughly 7.629 / 10

claudia’s performance absolutely slayed she was perfect. literally giving kirsten (my best friend i am on a first name basis (i had not heard of her before today)) a 10/10.

tom and brad (<- i am on first name basis with them also) did ok i guess,, i mean they definitely got their characterisation down. louis is the perfect little miserable milk sog webkinz wall throw plushie and lestat is a massive bitch and also That Guy so i mean,, yeah. yeah they did well. that’s them. they just looked a little odd.

some of the effects were a little goofy but thats part of the fun. i love obviously plastic rat numbers 1-67 (i did not count them but there were so many) and also plastic bats 1, 2 and 3.

very funny they couldnt spring the budget for the telepathy. made the Bad realisation that this version of louis is like bella swan, so now it’s hilarious.

loses points for making the lateral incisors fangs. regains them for having bonus canine fangs as well. thats like 8 fangs each. almost overkill, but thats what vampires are built for. so it’s allowed. in my humble opinion. loses points again for i think being inconsistent with fang placement idk i was only sort of paying attention. who am i kidding i was paying attention im like 80% sure that they were inconsistent. i am also inconsistent in that ive already decided the final score of this movie in that this does not affect the score at all.

speaking of fangs they shouldve given themselves more time to get used to having fangs because sometimes the way they held their mouth looked remarkably uncomfortable. not the point. this one did affect the score slightly.

not homosexual enough. why did they give louis a wife and kid albeit a dead one what happened to his brother ? censorship more like censorSHIT !! amiright chat

crusty ass theatre des vampires. also why was lestat not there ? what was the reason

ending ??? didnt make much sense??? lestat was there immediately after??????? like within 10 minutes of louis leaving??? how did he know. oh fuck the lack of telepathy made ME forget the telepathy. but why tf was he in sanfran (<- im on nickname basis with this city too)

[bestworstcase]

at this point careening fully away from serious canonical speculation and into the fanfic lore sandbox because this is one of those things i think about a Normal Amount. LETS GO

to kick off i’m pretty firmly in the camp of thinking that ozma’s influence over the development of remnants cultures has been wildly overestimated by both the fandom at large and also in-universe by the huntsman system (<- deliberately); he is One Guy whose foremost goal for millennia has been to make sure nobody learns his secrets, and to that end we know that he’s spent his most recent two lives 1. sitting in a tower at the head of conspiracy formed of, like, twelve other people, and 2. nearly getting his kingdom wiped off the map because he tried to keep the peace by letting a hostile foreign empire colonize his own people; i am skeptical as to how effective ozma’s efforts to keep humanity culturally ‘on track’ actually is, past the very broad scope notional success of getting the brother-cult off the ground.

see also, the tangible contrast between the huntsman model presented in V1-3 smacking face-first into those villagers at the beginning of V4 who were like “oh hey that huge old geist you four trainee huntsmen had to work your butts off to kill has been bothering us for WEEKS, thanks for dealing with it for us. such a nuisance lol amiright. what’s that? you want us to go to mistral with you? HAHAHA no thank you.”

or oscar “zero aura training and didn’t know what a semblance is” pine, fourteen year old farmhand, going pfft no i’ve never had any combat training or anything that’s crazy, i just fended off the occasional small grimm :)

factoring in that mathematically the population numbers given and relative size of the big cities would suggest that something like half or more of remnant’s total population live in rural settlements outside the kingdoms—well. there’s a solid textual basis for thinking that the huntsman model is not as universally culturally dominant as the huntsmen would like to believe. also, the world is big.

anyways

what’s fun about this, if we take ancillary materials into consideration, we have a pretty good sense of what grimm are actually after—and it’s not feelings, it’s aura. grimm eat aura:

Gill had experimented once with transferring Aura into a Grimm that had been roaming near the Wasteland base. The Aura had been absorbed quickly and began pulling more from Gill, faster and faster, until she ended their connection.

The Grimm hadn’t seemed altered by the Aura at all. Whatever they were, they didn’t use it for power, and they didn’t have souls. But it had consumed the Aura.

…and they don’t seem to need to kill to get it. they can siphon it out of people too, cinder-style. the killing seems to mainly be a way of getting around the part where people really don’t like it if you suck the aura out of them. if negativity factors into it in any meaningful sense (<- as opposed to “bad feelings attract grimm” being a superstition) then it’s probably because intense emotions galvanize aura—see every character who’s manifested or evolved their semblance in direct response to acute stress or trauma.

so in the practical sense what making sacrifices [human or otherwise] to the grimm has to achieve in order for ritual propitiation of the grimm to… work, is moving aura from people, to grimm, in some manner that makes it more advantageous to the grimm to play nice with you than eat you. the latter piece is the easiest to achieve, because people are quite good at killing grimm and grimm do not want to die; it’s the transference of aura that is perhaps tricky.

the most obvious way to do this is to feed your enemies to the grimm.

i would expect any cultural group that put a social premium on warfare and/or prowess in battle and engaged in specifically raiding warfare to develop Some Degree of symbiotic relationships with the local grimm for the obvious reason that if you can strike up with an alliance with grimm [something we know to be possible; see also, the white fang ferrying grimm to beacon and the huntsmen forming an ad hoc temporary alliance with grimm during the climactic battle of before the dawn] then you can redirect the predation away from your group onto the groups you don’t like and/or are competing with for territory and resources.

grimm as war gods is the obvious model here. population density is less of a consideration if your sacrifices are all raid captives and if you’re engaging in raiding warfare as a prominent feature of your way of life you probably don’t have the subsistence base to be sustaining high population density anyways (because otherwise you’d be doing siege warfare)

but the other question is, does it need to be human sacrifice. or can it be animals with their auras awakened (<- a la zwei.) or can it be portions of the harvest saturated with aura. or can it be the village witch with the semblance that lets her channel her aura into other people who realizes that hey the grimm chill out when she pours aura into them. it’s not like aura is a limited or non-replenishable resource—as long as you’re not pulling a pietro and ripping out chunks of your soul, aura is just an energy that you can regenerate (quite rapidly!) with focus and emotional discipline, and auras breaking doesn't seem to have any harmful effect in and of itself other than the obvious consequence of not being immune to damage anymore.

and for that matter, is the average huntsman a juicier target for the grimm because of having their aura unlocked, because if so there’s bound to be different ratios of unlocked auras to dormant ones that are most advantageous for any given group of people based on how they’re living; for sedentary agriculturalists a high density of non-warriors with unlocked auras might actually be dangerous because non-combatants with juiced auras are sitting ducks vs say a group of nomadic pastoralists maybe can’t afford to NOT unlock everyone’s auras. and that in turn changed the cultural relationship with the grimm because the latter are probably encountering them far more often.

(for that matter i imagine nomadism on remnant is a lot more competitive with sedentary agriculture because having mass numbers of people-eating monsters roaming the world does rather change the calculus on how beneficial it is to stay in one place and farm, even if ultimately the higher density and technological advantages baked into sedentary agriculture do still dominate. again this is something we see hints of in canon, with the branwens and with the nomadic desert peoples in the CFVY novels; nomadism is a viable strategy for reducing the threat of grimm even with all other factors being equal.)

i do tend to land on thinking that grimm-worship is probably positively correlated with full or partial nomadism simply because 1. grimm encounters are likely to be less severe but more frequent, and 2. grimm-worship probably works best at low population densities, which makes it more attractive if your subsistence base is low density to begin with. but those same factors are also true if to a lesser extent for small farms on marginal lands. and then you get stuff like folk beliefs colliding with formal religion (eg: the brother-cult) and being syncretized together in ways that are unpredictable and probably very blasphemous and i just think it would be very funny if ozma got people revering Grimm Dragons by mistake

for my own purposes i have also added “grimm ash in the water supply is BAD” into the mix such that there’s also environmental pressure on people living in wetter areas to figure out ways of dealing with grimm that don’t involve accidentally making spawning grounds out of their homes, making “you live in a wetland” one of the single biggest predictors of whether your and your culture has a history of grimm-worship. because i think that’s fun.

less shipping more cosmic horror. where are the rwby fics about quiet little coastal villages where the local fisherman brings in a haul of horrors (fish mutated by grimm goo seeping up from the thermal vents). where

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Mary, John and Cas in 15x14. About parenthood and reality

Thanks @funnywings for reminding me to talk about this angle too -- Mrs Butters as a Mary mirror. Of course Mrs Butters fits the sematic sphere where Mary and Dean are mirrors for each other -- motherhood/guardianhood and domesticity.

Mrs Butters is basically the mother figure that Mary tried to be, or, maybe better phrased, tried to appear as; and the mother figure Dean, of course, tried to replicate for his own family after they lost Mary. Once Mary came back, she initially tried to replicate the old dynamic, buying food (and pie, pie, I don’t have to point out how this episode had cake, right? We all know about cake, right? We all got people calling us delusional for making posts about cake? Right? Yes? Moving on).

Anyway. Mary initially tried to be that figure, except that figure was always unsustainable and based on an illusion (food wasn’t homemade except for some artery-clogging monstrosity, she was still occasionally hunting on the side, and so on) so it obviously couldn’t work now. That role, that life, was something she simultaneously craved and abhorred. She always walked on an ambiguity, embracing and rejecting that domestic goddess ideal, embracing and rejecting her role as mother, as guardian.

Dean also has a complex relationship with the role. A natural ambiguity stems from the fact that, before Jack (who isn’t exactly a traditional child anyway), he didn’t have children to be the mother of. This episode even puts a little emphasis on how Dean acts “brotherly” with Sam, when Mrs Butters tells him to be nicer to his brother and he basically replies “duh, brothers are made to be fun of amiright?”. Which is correct, by the way. And a notable sign of where Dean and Sam’s relationship is right now -- siblinghood, a relationship between equals, as much as they can have something like that.

Anyway, Dean always had to walk that ambiguity territory, a child raising another child as a parent, I might add a child acting as emotional support (a spouse’s role, not a child’s) to his father, while that guardianhood was expected from him while simultaneously an entirely different lifestyle and line of behavior was expected from him. He was expected to be wood nymph and man of letters, so to speak. This is incidentally why we’ve all put out queer little grabby hands on Dean’s character, but this is not the place to elaborate on that.

Mrs Butters also walks on an ambiguity, while different. She absolutely embraces the role and doesn’t struggle with it (although it does lead her to potentially making a severe mistake), but the role of governess isn’t exactly where she belongs, and once presented with freedom she makes a different choice. Her actions as a guardian, though, are genuine, and she genuinely loves doing those things for her “family”.

This parallels her straight with Dean, who might not have magical powers of perfect cake conjuring but still makes yummy burgers and adorable messy little cakes (pardon me, but of course Dean isn’t completely skilled with cake-making yet, he’s still some growth and character development to go through. Mind I’m not talking just about sexuality or Cas, I’m talking in general, this is about trauma and relationships as a whole, don’t get me wrong, just like the cake posts were not just about Cas in 2015, but okay).

Mary and Cas, both mentioned by Jack when he talks about his family, are the empty spaces in the episode, Mary clearly more prominent because this is all about Mary -- the emotional issue at the basis of the episode is the absence of Mary, and of course Mrs Butters acts as the missing mother figure, but the mother figure must leave after all, and Dean embraces his passage from child to parent at the end, being the one to prepare the celebratory food for his own child.

Supernatural is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story of sorts, where the child grows up and becomes a father to his own child, freeing himself from the shackles of the emotional abuse from the parenting he’d experienced. John Winchester is there, of course, all through the episode, the parent who’d leave their children alone during the holidays, who’d do nothing for their birthday -- remember that moment where Dean is told that John celebrated Adam’s birthday? Remember Sam’s memory in heaven of some Thanksgiving party at some girl’s house? And of course remember Dean saying he knows what it means to be hungry for days, it’s no wonder he finds so much joy at being provided food...

So, yeah, there’s the empty space of Mary and there’s the empty space of John, Mrs Butters represents the parenting and care Mary struggled with and John never bothered with in the first place. The episode is so reminiscent of Lebanon, after all, the four of them enjoying a celebratory meal together... something that can’t last, for different reasons. Or are they the same reason? Mrs Butters left because she finally had the choice to, she was able to process her trauma and became free. When they destroyed the pearl, it was a moment of freedom after all; leave the past and fantasies behind and embrace their actual lives, their actual present (and consequently future).

Mrs Butters also gives them a fantasy -- something I probably should have mentioned before, in the other post I said her actions are real but they also aren’t*: it’s real that she cares - although the smoothies were a deception, so, yeah, there’s also that at the same time - but it’s not really Christmas, it’s not really Thanksgiving, the parties are a fantasy. And the fantasy of course can’t last forever, she leaves eventually, and it’s Dean who acts in her stead, who embraces the role of guardian to his own child, in fact celebrating his birthday, something tied to traumatic memories that was previously painful to Dean to even think about. (Mary’s fantasy had also come to an end tragically, since we were talking about the reality of her domestic goddess life.)

*It’s a matter of context, Mrs Butters is real as opposed to Chuck’s manipulations all through the seasons or as opposed to Michael’s dream bar for Dean or the 50s-inspired town, but of course it’s also a fantasy, which has both paralleling and contrasting elements to the other fantasies we’ve seen. I’d argue it’s the most real of all, it doesn’t bend reality or manipulate minds. The pearl gave them a “real” experience but also bent reality to do so, you know? Mrs Butters was just real, just in “standby”.

You know who’s also in standby every time his actor is not scheduled to appear in the episode? Yeah. I’m not going to do the whole ‘Cas isn’t in this kind of episodes because he’s supposed to be the negative space’ thing because we’ve been through the grinder a million times, but, yeah, Cas isn’t supposed to be inside the fantasy, you know? Because the fantasy ends. The pearl is destroyed, the wood nymph goes back to the forest.

Cas belongs to the side of things that are ~really real~. He said it himself in 15x02, You asked “What about all of this is real?”--We are. Of course his “empty space” in the episode is more subdued than Mary who’s literally the point of the episode, i.e. where Jack and Dean’s relationships stands in relation to what had broken it, but of course he is part of the family, and we’re supposed to think about what family means every time the word is mentioned, which is a lot. Also, cake. The cake is the new things, okay? The new things as opposed to Gina? You know the new things, right? We’ve talked about the new things for years? Okay, good.

[flowerbeds-and-fairywings]

i arrive for a ramble! i’d love just a general les mis s/i ramble because obviously as a fellow les mis inserter i must think about how our inserts would make friends 💖 plus obviously i just wanna to know the general details because i’m super curious! (squips-ship)

hello !! ask and you shall receive !! i apologize in advance because i know this will be long —

( from my open invitation for ramble requests ! )

( you're totally welcome to share ideas for how our s/i's might know each other or anything of that sort if you have any , btw !! )

okay !! i've actually been putting some thought into specifically my les mis s/i so i'll do my best to coherently explain what i have so far :D

the same general basis stays the same throughout f/o universes , especially for appearance — wren ( some picrews here and here bc i haven't finished proper art yet oops ) is , in the very basics , a lil sweetheart sunshine who's kinda nervous but overall just a good lad ( sorry i had to ) , if a bit ( " a bit " ) stubborn.

❀ les mis f/o family dictates that they're brother to enjolras and cosette ( not related by blood(?) ) and son to valjean ( adoptive because yes ) . wren knew enj before meeting valjean, but not cosette. valjean, with his tendency to take in blonds who need help, was quick to welcome wren into his home upon meeting him; thankfully, wren along surprisingly well with everyone and now is the sunshine of the home ( and provides rather entertaining dinner conversations with his siblings ) :)

❀ the flower buddies ( as i refer to wren and jehan ) met through, of course, their loves for the arts ( and nature ) !! they both often wear flower crowns / flowers that the other has picked, and they exchange poems and artwork !! they've had little art sessions together to hang out and work on projects over tea and snacks uwu

❀ wren and courf, on the other hand, met because beings of chaos simply attract one another (/j). in truth, though, courf and i aren't too different in Vibes so neither are he and wren ! two of a feather :D ( hehe bird jokes amiright ) . they became friends in a pretty unexpected way. courf knew who wren was prior to meeting him and wren vaguely knew who courf was ( through enj ofc ) but neither expected to meet the other ( given that enj is pretty private about his personal life and all that ) . but ! as good things happen to unexpectedly go, they ran into each other by complete chance — wren often takes walks to get their mind off of things ( a common trait with enj lmao ) and happened to be passing through the park while courf was out; the two immediately hit it off after a passing joking(?) comment about wren being out in the evening without a proper coat. friendship quickly blossomed ( especially after they realized their mutual connections to enj ) and now the two are inseparable besties :]

❀ and now, time for my beloved !! : it shouldn't be a surprise that wren and ferre met through enj ( especially after courf ) — but it was more of a coincidence than anything ! wren, on his way out of the house ( probably to hang out with courf ) happened to be leaving just as ferre was arriving to drop something off for enj ! though it was a brief meeting, it wasn't long before they both had a proper interaction. it's no surprise that they got along well and clicked immediately :)

( this is just in canon era btw !! i have. so many aus. and i'll talk a little about modern au below this because it's a little different )

❀ and, modern au because i use it just as frequently as canon era : rather than meeting through [ insert scenario described above ] , in modern au it's fairly similar ( and cliché lmao ) . ferre had come over for a study session with enj ( the besties b studying ( even though they have different majors lmao ) ) and wren, unaware, came downstairs from their room. of course, a nice little introduction session ensued — i have to note that it wasn't wren who fell first hehe ;) but ! they clicked pretty easily as friends ( which grew slowly over time because *chefs kiss* and also jane austen romance my beloved ) and may or may not have used enj as a medium to see each other again because they're dorks and couldn't figure out a more efficient way to plan to see each other again ( like. yknow. messaging each other. ) . thankfully though it all worked out even though the road was a lil bumpy, and they became book besties ( including very passionate book arguments that no one else understood and long reading sessions in happy silence together ) .

❀ and that's all i can think of ( hope i answered your request !! ) without making this post even longer than the absurd length it already is !! tysm for reading through this omg skdjgkdk i hope it made sense !! and ofc more questions ( or any ideas / hc's / whatever ) are always more than welcome :)

( @squips-ship , tagging u because sometimes anon answers are weird ! )

[gurguliare]

young hurin + huor headcanons dump:

hurin admired barahir more than beren (partly entwined with his inexplicable finrod thing)

huor probs the opposite ... i feel like huor is an alltime romantic except when he’s a berserker. especially when a berserker. realization that i’m freely stealing characterization from rocky and freckle of lackadaisy fame. anyway

okay, that really took the wind out of my sails, honestly

but i was GOING to say something about tuor having like, his dad’s core motives/behavior patterns in terms of determinator violence in some contexts but also passive deference toward people he trusts, but also way more of his mom’s charming personable talent for deflection and like, vivaciousness---uhhhh and I have no basis for that with rian at all I guess except that it’s more fun for him to have gotten it from her than from, say, grandpa galdor, maybe also a LITTLE grandpa galdor---idk. i’m getting distracted. i guess i think of huor and rian as quite similar people anyway at bottom and huor probably like, learned some people-managing techniques from her

the thousand yard stare is from hareth

hurin reminds turgon of (pre-kingship) fingon and huor reminds him of argon

huor and idril talked more than huor and ... other glowing people at the high table but idril avoided the brothers in general as part of a semi-unconscious effort to divert maeglin’s attention amiright :’)

hurin thinking over the issue of maeglin: hmmm elves are great overall pity they live forever

[butiaintgonnaloveem]

Baby’s Big 50 Writing Challenge

I know. I KNOW! Another writing challenge being thrown into the void, but hear me out. It’s not due til April and it’s all about that gorgeous, sleek, black beauty known as Baby...

Dear, wonderful Baby is turning 50 this year. Damn does she look good, amiright? I think that she deserves a whole lotta love so, I’m inviting you all to celebrate with Baby’s Big 50 Writing Challenge! 

The idea is to write a Baby-centric fic. Want to set your whole story in Baby? Cool. Want to crash her and put the boys in danger? Do it. Want to write Human!Impala? Go for it. Just as long as Baby plays some kind of starring or important role in your fic, it’s all good.(You with me so far?)

I’ve put together 50 different song prompts in 3 different categories. Some of these songs are a little less well-known, but pretty inspiring once you give them a listen and you can use the prompt however you want.

Group 1: The top songs from April 20- December 30, 1967 according to the Billboard Charts Archive (chose those dates since her birthday is April 24)

Group 2: Songs about cars & driving

Group 3: Songs with Baby in the title

Rules/Guidelines: 

NO, you don’t have to be following me, but it would be cool if you did. I’m nice, I promise.

Any SPN pairing/ship is welcome. Just please make sure you give proper warnings before your fic and in the tags.

Any genre is welcome - gimme the fluff, the angst, the smut, the crack fics, the au’s. Want to write a poem, a drabble, a 10k one-shot, a series? Gimme.

Tag me @butiaintgonnaloveem in your fic and use the tag #Happy Big 50 Baby in the first five tags. 

Fics are due by April 10 APRIL 17th , that gives you 3 months! of writing time. It also allows time for extensions and for me to get the masterlist together. Should you need an extension, or to drop out, please let me know before the due date.

Send me an ask with your first and second prompt choices (in case one is already taken). I will take up to 2 entries per prompt. I’d love to get 50 fics, but as celebrations go - the more, the merrier. Prompts taken on a first come, first serve basis. I’ll answer you as quickly as I can, I do work and sleep sometimes.

If there is a different version of the prompt you’d like to use, you are welcome to do so, just as long as it’s still the same song.

Questions, need anything clarified? Drop me a line. My asks and messages are open. If you need any ideas, I’ve got a few. Now, on to the prompts!! Prompts with strikeouts indicate that both spots are already taken.

Songs of 1967:

Something Stupid – Frank & Nancy Sinatra ~ @one-shots-supernatural & @purgatoan

The Happening – The Supremes

Groovin – The Young Rascals ~ @plaidstiel-wormstache & @idreamofhazel

Respect – Aretha Franklin ~ @just-a-touch-of-sass-and-fandoms & @hanginwithmanerds

Windy – The Association

Light My Fire – The Doors ~ @wayward-mirage

All You Need is Love – The Beatles ~ @revwinchester & @seljepw

Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry ~ @demonangelimpala

The Letter – The Box Tops

To Sir With Love – Lulu

Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock ~ @purplejellybean

Daydream Believer – The Monkees ~ @hollygopossum & @staticbirdy

Hello goodbye – The Beatles

Songs about Driving/Cars:

Low Rider – War ~ @scarygoodfanfics

Get Out of my Dreams, Get into my Car – Billy Ocean ~ @deansdirtylittlesecretsblog

One Piece At A Time – Johnny Cash ~ @babypieandwhiskey

Life is a Highway – Tom Cochrane ~ @little-red-83

Radar Love – Golden Earring ~ @kayteonline & @helvonasche

Riding in My Car – Woodie Guthrie

Pink Cadillac – Bruce Springsteen ~ @luci-in-trenchcoats

No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry ~ @littlegreenplasticsoldier & @dancing-the-hellfire-rumba

On The Road Again – Willie Nelson ~ @sammied23

Cruisin – Smokey Robinson ~ @chaos-and-the-calm67

I’m in Love with My Car – Queen ~ @maximumkillshot

The Passenger – Iggy Pop ~ @deandoesthingstome & @anotherwinchesterfangirl

Paradise by the Dashboard Light – Meatloaf ~ @impala-dreamer

Chevrolet – ZZ Top @wideawakeandwriting

Black Limousine – The Rolling Stones

Devil in My Car – The B-52’s ~ @megafrontliner311 & @bulletscrossbowpie

Blondes in Black Cars – Autograph

I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash

My Chevrolet – Phil Vassar ~ @assbutting-everything

Night Moves – Bob Seger (we all know why this one’s here) ~ @ilostmyshoe-79 & @bcr36

Ramblin’ Man – The Allman Brothers Band ~ @cookee50 & @thing-you-do-with-that-thing

Baby Title Songs:

O Baby – Siouxsie and the Banshees

Baby Come on home – Led Zeppelin ~ @quick-act-supernatural

Baby Love – The Supremes ~ @xxturningsaintsintotheseaxx

My Baby – Janis Joplin ~ @whywhydoyouwantmetosaymyname

When She Says Baby – Jason Aldean ~ @samgirlcarmen

Baby Ride Easy – Johnny Cash

Baby’s in Black – The Beatles

Love to Love you Baby – Donna Summer

Maybe Baby – Buddy Holly ~ @seenashwrite

Baby Ain’t That Fine – Gene Pitney

Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me – Mac Davis ~ @sunriserose1023

Baby, I don’t Care – Elvis Presley

Baby, I’m Burning – Dolly Parton ~ @cantthinkofanythingtoputhere

Doing it For My Baby – Huey Lewis and the News @mamaredd123

Here Comes my Baby – The Tremeloes

Ruby Baby – Dion

There’s No Other (Like My Baby) – The Beach Boys ~ @notnaturalanahi

Tagging those who might be interested/Signal boost. I’m just a tiny blog with a big idea.

@aprofoundbondwithdean @bringmesomepie56 @blushingsamgirl @babypieandwhiskey @callmesweetheartifyoumeanit @d-s-winchester @dancingalone21 @deansdirtylittlesecretsblog @deandoesthingstome @demondean-for-kingofhell @helvonasche @ilostmyshoe-79 @iwantthedean @kayteonline @katnharper @kittenofdoomage @littlegreenplasticsoldier @luci-in-trenchcoats @notnaturalanahi @one-shots-supernatural @pluckypennywhistle @supernaturalfreewill @supernatural-jackles @teamfreewill-imagine @winchestersinthedrift @withoutaplease @mrswhozeewhatsis @jpadjackles @whywhydoyouwantmetosaymyname @feelmyroarrrr @torn-and-frayed @nichelle-my-belle @dr-dean @thing-you-do-with-that-thing @loveitsallineed @leatherwhiskeycoffeeplaid @thegreatficmaster @lipstickandwhiskey @impala-dreamer @deathtonormalcy56 @curliesallovertheplace @chaos-and-the-calm67 @mysaintsasinner @saxxxology @winchesterprincessbride @sunriserose1023 @chelsea072498 @eyes-of-a-disney-princess @sis-tafics @just-a-touch-of-sass-and-fandoms @jotink78

[nightmareonfilmstreet]

[Ranked] The Seasons of AMERICAN HORROR STORY from Best to Worst

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[Ranked] The Seasons of AMERICAN HORROR STORY from Best to Worst

The seventh season of everyone’s favorite hot mess, American Horror Story, premieres on FX tonight. This batch of episodes (subtitled Cult) puts a political spin on the proceedings. And, while they could technically just replay this year’s inauguration video for each episode, it seems this season focuses on Sarah Paulson’s fear of clowns and Evan Peters’ blue-haired screaming fits. In preparation of tonight’s inaugural episode, let’s take a look back at all six seasons so far from best to worst.

  6. FREAK SHOW (Season 4)

Last and definitely least is American Horror Story: Freak Show. Right from the get-go, this season was one big eye roll. It’s very basis is a theme not unfamiliar in Murphy’s cannon; a group of outsiders fighting against bigotry and hate. But here he places the protagonists in the most obvious setting possible: an actual freak show. Effectively turning the subtext of his previous stories into capital-t Text, and shoving it down our throats while he’s at it. Get it?? They’re actual freaks!! It’s as if he missed the screenwriting class that teaches you the “show, don’t tell” method of storytelling.

The resulting season is cringe-inducingly on the nose. It has exactly one redeeming quality, having a villain who’s genuinely terrifying. Twisty the Clown still haunts my nightmares, but then so does Kathy Bates’ god awful Minnesota accent. Add to that some obnoxiously anachronistic musical numbers performed by Lange with a phony German accent, and you have what’s surely the worst season in a largely hit-or-miss series.

  5. HOTEL (Season 5)

After Freak Show, series highlight Jessica Lange opted out of the show. American Horror Story: Hotel was the first one without her, and a Lange lost is a Gaga gained. Inviting the certified queen of all things weird, Lady Gaga, into the AHS universe was perhaps the most inspired bit of casting the show has had. Gaga, while not amazing, brought a calm assuredness to her performance that bagged her a Golden Globe. What’s unfortunate about this season is you aren’t really given a reason to care about anything that’s happening. There’s no real through-line here, it’s just about this weird hotel run by this weird woman who calls herself ‘The Countess‘ who’s kind of a vampire and also collects children. Wes Bentley plays a detective who checks in to the hotel in hopes of investigating a murder or something. There’s also a killer afoot who kills people according to the Ten Commandments for some reason.

In typical Murphy fashion, it’s a bunch of puzzle pieces that were all taken from completely different puzzles. The end result is as incoherent as it sounds. One hidden gem however is Evan Peters’ gonzo performance as the hotel’s founder James Patrick Marsh, who terrorized guests in his torture chamber on the property in the 1920s. Peters even adopts a ‘1920s accent’ (if that’s even a thing), and somehow manages to make it sound completely natural. So that’s a plus.

  4. COVEN (Season 3)

Asylum (which I’ll get to in a moment), while well-regarded by most, was largely criticized for being ‘too dark’. In retaliation, Ryan Murphy delivered one of the lightest, most ridiculous seasons of the series with American Horror Story: Coven. The humor is in abundance, but most of it is far too campy to ever really be funny. Despite the delightful inclusion of Stevie Nicks (who was actually accused of being a witch in Fleetwood Mac’s heyday), even that cameo was inconsequential.

In fact, the only thing keeping this season in fourth place is the addition of Angela Bassett, who chews the scenery like she’s ripping into a juicy steak. If her death glare doesn’t kill you, surely the amount of verbal acid she spits will. Nobody knows how to deliver a cutting insult quite like Bassett, and it’s one of the only things making this season worth checking out. But she’s the rose in a field full of thorns. Including but not limited to: zombies, racism, and Precious‘ Gabourey Sidibe having sex with a minotaur…

  3. ASYLUM (Season 2)

The second season is a bit of a reversal of the typical AHS formula. The kitchen-sink approach is employed from the get-go here, toning down as it goes along. There’s a Nazi doctor, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, and of course the ill-advised subplot of alien abduction. American Horror Story: Asylum begins as a complete mess with glimmers of promise, and ends on a pleasingly suspenseful and satisfying note.

Aside from bringing Lange to the forefront as the HBIC (Head-Bitch-In-Charge) of the titular institute, we’re also treated to a wonderfully zany performance by Lily Rabe as the repressed nun, and a fun twist that casts Zachary Quinto in a sinister new light. By the time Sarah Paulson’s Lana Winters finds herself unwittingly trapped in Bloody Face‘s lair, the season is finally finding its footing. The problem is, that’s in the third-to-last episode.

  2. ROANOKE (Season 6)

The most recent season also proved to be one of the most divisive. The show’s schtick was beginning to grow quite stale, with many die-hard fans considering jumping ship. Love it or hate it, American Horror Story: Roanoke injected the series with something it was in dire need of: a fresh new storytelling structure. [Spoilers start here, folks] By dividing the season into two halves, Ryan Murphy gave the show something it’s been lacking since season one, and that’s genuine intrigue. The marketing was our first hint that we were in for a change, with the plot and even the subtitle a total secret until it premiered.

It was revealed the season was presented in the style of a true crime docu-series titled “My Roanoke Nightmare“, complete with “dramatic reenactments” of the strange events that occurred after a couple move to a creepy house in North Carolina. Interesting enough, until you realize that all the ‘real’ versions of the characters are still alive and telling the cameras their version of the story, thus dispelling most of the suspense. Things progressed quite quickly, with the story even coming to an apparent conclusion by the end of the fifth episode.

So what now, you ask? Well, it turns out the second half of the season follows the producers of “My Roanoke Nightmare” starting a new reality show. In it, they plan to put the real people and their reenactment counterparts in the same house together with hidden cameras, Big Brother style. Not only did this invigorate the formula, it reached peak excitement when the end of the sixth episode revealed that every single castmember except for one was killed over the course of filming. And what we’re about to watch is the ‘found footage’ of what transpired. F*ck me up, Ryan Murphy. This is storytelling experimentation the likes of which we rarely see on television. Save for a little noticeable lack of focus toward the end, Roanoke proved to be the incredibly necessary slap in the face to those of us being lulled to sleep by the typical AHS formula.

  1. MURDER HOUSE (Season 1)

A clear plot and sense of structure has rarely been AHS‘s strong suit, but it’s part of what makes the first season the undisputed champion. Following some unsavory marital struggles (he’s a cheating jerk who wears fedoras), the Harmon family uproot their lives in Boston and seek a fresh start in sunny California. And wouldn’t ya know it, turns out the house is haunted by literally everyone who has ever died there. Ugh, realtors, amiright? Notable bright spots include a uniquely creepy (and rubbery) villain, Jessica Lange as the unhinged nosy neighbor, and something called “the infantata“. What follows is a season full of memorable moments, but even the best season isn’t without its faults.

As it progresses, it starts to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall, seeing what sticks. And while it’s a defense mechanism that’s present in every season, it’s perhaps employed least offensively in this one. And while we definitely didn’t need an almost-whole episode devoted to the Black Dahlia, we most certainly needed a scene with Connie Britton eating gourmet brains. Ryan Murphy giveth and Ryan Murphy taketh away.

            So where will season seven land on the ranking? Only time will tell. American Horror Story: Cult premieres tonight, 9/5 on FX at 10pm.