#sam babbles

[winfreak]

This just solidifies for me that Ruby knows Sam wants to fuck his brother.

[bunni-v1]

Aommgg

Could I request the nrc staff + grim finding out you‘re a girl (plantonic)?

Or do they all know straight from the start?

TW: None

Info: Crowley, Grim, Sam, Cruel, Trien x Reader (Platonic)

🍓Hello lovely! I didn't want to make a whole long post about this, but I do want to talk about it. I'm so glad you asked! So the staff is... made aware of the situation, obviously. But, I think I'll go a little into depth on how each member deals with this information.

Crowley knows because... well... he sees you out of the ceremonial robes before anyone else does. He handles it as well as he does every other issue he comes across. "Just cover it up!" Famously said by Crowley. He's not unkind though, he does ensure that you get the help you need and he makes sure you keep what you need hidden, well, hidden. But... he won't do more than the bare minimum unless his hand is forced. Like... with Scarabia, he pretty much threatened the whole dorm with expulsion if they so much as uttered a word to anyone but amongst themselves. He is, unsurprisingly, not a father figure to you. He's more like... you're weird quirky uncle that you like, but only in small doses.

Grim, our little guy, finds out at the same time as Crowley... and he's a little harder to convince to keep his mouth shut to start. He doesn't like you, okay, you stole his position at NRC (like he had a chance at all). With a few well-placed cans of tuna from both you and Crowley, he keeps his little rat mouth shut. However, when you're actually granted studentship as NRC? His tune changes. It changes because Crowley holds his position as a student over his head, but it changes. Not a SINGLE person will ever hear you're a woman from Grim. He can't lose this position, not after so much work to get where he's gotten to. Besides, he grows to really love you! You're family to him, and no one out family. Seriously, he's so protective of it, once Ace and Deuce figure it out they're too scared to talk because of Grim's looming presence.

Sam is the first member of Staff to find out, other than Crowley. How? Crowley's sudden interest in pads, tampons, birth control, and all the fun stuff that comes with being a woman. Sam usually would just shrug his shoulders and excuse Crowley's quirky behavior, but then you come in looking like a lost deer and he gets it. He is genuinely so nice to you though! If you ever feel unsafe on campus, you talk to Sam and he'll handle it for you, okay? Sure, he jacks up the prices on your feminine products, but it's considerably less than his normal prices. Hell, if you're short, he'll "suddenly" remember he's got a discount on those items. He's like a cool older brother, honestly. He lets you hang out in the back of the shop and do homework when you ask, and he gives you snacks at a discount when you're there!

Crewel doesn't really treat you any differently than anyone else. Admittedly though, he's fond of you, even if you're a troublemaker. When you come into his class on your first day in a uniform six times too big for you, he feels pity for you. You didn't ask to be here, and now you have to wear that atrocious old uniform? You poor little pup. He's not exactly easy on you, but he's more understanding of your mistakes. Eventually, after you get to know him better, he offers to get you a nicer uniform and also privately tutor you. This is his excuse for keeping you busy so that you don't have as many chances to get found out, and it's also because you are horrifically failing his class and it looks bad on him.

Trien treats you the most differently out of everyone on staff. The SECOND he found out you were a girl and were being forced to hide that fact for Crowley's sake? Oh my god, grandpa was PISSED. Crowley got an EARFUL after that meeting. This man makes it his mission to make your stay as comfortable as he possibly can make it because sevens know Crowley won't be doing SHIT. After he meets you? Oh my god, you remind him of his own girls when they were little. He absolutely adores you, and everyone can tell. It's so odd to the other students because he clearly favors you, and when they ask you about it you've got no clue. He is your dad here at NRC, as out of character as that might be. You are a young woman lost in a world that is not kind to you going through so much more than you need to. He doesn't want to add more to your plate. You can come to him for anything and he will provide as best as he can.

Vargas (I'm sorry for forgetting about him lol) is a lot like Crewel in the fact that he doesn't treat you too differently from his other students. You're still made to push yourself to your upper limits for gym, still expected to keep up with your peers, and still expected to meet his general expectations. However, if it's way too much for you to do, out of fear of Crowley and Trien breathing down his neck, he'll lessen your load. Otherwise, he doesn't really have much chance to be around you outside of class. He finds you amusing and knows you've got a good head on your shoulders, but that's about it from him.

[immodestly-marina]

Looking for something...?

(psst... so is Sammy, see how he's looking <3. around with his dumb lil' flashlight?)

Here's my masterlist, where you can find all things Sammy :)

Anything marked with * includes mature themes (smut), you have been warned!

SFW Sam Winchester Headcanons - What Sam would be like as a boyfriend (Alphabet hcs), very lovey dovey, Sammy's a cutie, Soft golden retriever coded

Taking care of a sleepy and drained Sammy - Sam needs some love and care after a particularly stressful hunt, fluffy and whumpy

*You Ruined It :( - Sammy being so riled up from just your hand palming his jean covered cock, only for you to ruin the orgasm he'd been longing for

Syncope - Where reader faints after an injury, Sam and Dean panic because god forbid they think rationally, Sam takes care of you like the gentleman he is

*Needy Sammy - Riding Sam into the floor after a hunt as he begs you to fuck him

*So Soaked - Soulless Sam coaxes you to sleep with him to pass time, completely unfazed by you cheating on his brother with him

*Prettiest thing - Transfem!Sam thought she'd lost you on a hunt, you show your gratitude and appreciation for each other by riding her on an old motel chair

Will be updated with each work!

[samuelsdean]

the contrast between dean not knowing what to do when sam died for the first time he started breaking down and malfunctioning and sam becoming the terminator after dean died like 600 times is very funny to me i’m sorry they really are the poster boys for codependency it’s insane

[timegnosticproductions]

Ghosts: BBC vs CBS

It’s been almost a month since I finished BBC’s Ghosts, and I cannot stop thinking about it. It has quickly become one of my favourite TV shows. I watched the US-American version first because it had been plaguing my TikTok FYP. It was a fine show, but it didn’t have the grip the BBC version currently has on me.

This is an exploration of why I found UK Ghosts to be a much more compelling story than US Ghosts, even if they are “the same show”.

DISCLAIMER: There will be spoilers for both shows.

The Main Couple

Underappreciated in both shows, let’s begin with the two livings: Alison and Mike, and Sam and Jay.

Sam and Jay feel, to me, like they just spawned at the beginning of the show. They aren’t people, with lives before the fragments we see, which will continue after the show ends. Sam is the biggest offender of the two. Where are her friends from before she moved to Woodstone Manor? I would understand if she didn’t have any friends over, and we also have to consider that the US is massive compared to the UK, and her friends might live on the other side of the country. But not one call? No facetime? Not even one text message? And let me be clear: I don’t want this to be a show about her living friends, and I don’t need them to be characters in the show, but do Sam and Jay have to be completely cut off from the real world?

Alison and Mike, on the other hand, have a friend group, and when these friends play a role in an episode, the focus is still on the ghosts’ reactions. They don’t distract from the main characters, while still making Alison and Mike feel more grounded in reality.

Character moments vs. cheap jokes

I’m not the first person to point this out, and I certainly won’t be the last, but it’s still worth saying: why would you change a ghost’s powers from Mary reliving the moment of her death, being “burned at the stake” again, and subsequently making the living people that have passed through her smell the burning of the fire that killed her, to a fart joke. Isaac’s life/death is tragic, but his ghost power being “fart” get’s really exhausting really quickly.

Ghost lore

Expanding on ghost powers, let’s talk about the other ghosts. This point, I realise, is less black and white and more about personal preference rather than bad writing. I like that Ghosts (UK) doesn’t always directly answer the viewer’s questions about the afterlife. Some ghosts have powers, and some don’t and the ones that don’t aren’t searching for them. Mary gets “sucked off” but we don’t know what comes next.

In the US version, however, there is explicitly a hell and a heaven, and Elias comes back from hell to tell us what happens there.

That is one of the many charms of the UK version, the uncertainty. What comes next? I don’t want to know.

I also think it helps the emotional punch of Mary’s death (re-death, moving on? idk) land better. If one of the CBS ghosts were to die, the grieving wouldn’t be as devastating, because we know what comes next, and how could we be sad when a character has, certainly, gone to heaven? It could still be made into an interesting episode, maybe exploring the other ghosts’ (especially the older ones) jealousy, who also want to get “sucked off”. Still, I much prefer the uncertainty of Mary’s death (would also very much like to see a main character from the US version move on, just because I would like to see how they handle it when it isn’t a fake out like with Flower).

Found family vs. pair the spares

CBS’s Ghosts has an obsession with romance, to the point where it is quite frankly absurd.

You know when in a fandom there is a four-person friend group (or other even number) and two of those characters are in a really popular ship, so the fandom decides to ship the other two characters together as if they couldn’t be happily single, or aromantic, or whatever? (Author’s note: yes, aromantic people can still date, doesn’t take away from my point.) Yeah, I feel like that watching CBS’s Ghosts. Some characters are single, but I still think there is too much of a focus on romance/sex, with Flower and Thor, Isaac and Nigel, Hetty and Trevor, Pete and Alberta/Donna since he discovered his ghost power, and I’m sure when the series is over I will have more examples. Maybe, if these couples had more chemistry and were properly set up, I wouldn’t be so hard on them, but my point still stands.

Both shows try to pull off the found family angle, but only one of them succeeds. You can’t call it a found family if your only “family dynamic” is “romantic relationship”, that’s just a regular friend group. The Captain and Kitty’s father-daughter relationship is one of my favourite things about the original, and I also love Julian being a sort of mentor to Alison in all things scheming. It can even be played for laughs, with Robin being the “family dog”. None of this charm is carried over to the US-American version, and I really, really wish it was, because it has made me fall in love with the BBC’s version.

Pacing

You know, for a show with 20-ish episodes per season instead of six, you’d think they could take more than an episode to develop a storyline properly. Let’s take a closer look at two storylines that appear in both shows.

Firstly, the one with Alison’s/Sam’s long-lost sister. In the BBC’s version, this is a season-long arch, and it is not solely centred around uncovering whether she is lying, but also discussing Kitty’s jealousy and possessiveness over Alison; and Alison’s deep desire for a family, and how the ghosts have become that for her. And, generally, it makes you believe that Alison would believe the lie, and wouldn’t see the holes in the story, because she just really wanted a sister. Sam’s story plays almost the same but is reduced to a single episode. I know it is the classic sitcom formula, things must return to the status quo by the end of the episode. Still, I wish it wasn’t so rushed.

Secondly, the Captain(s) coming out. In both shows, the queerness of these characters is very obvious, but in the UK version, coming to terms with his queerness and learning to express his feelings is the core of his character. However, the US version takes this in another direction, placing more importance on the budding relationship between Isaac and Nigel (see: my point about this version’s obsession with romance). The UK version is hardly subtle, but compared to the US version… I wouldn’t be so angry if they hadn’t decided to undo their development by having Isaac leave Nigel at the altar.

Bad people vs. bad characters

This discussion should extend beyond Ghosts and into literature/art in general. To quote Oscar Wilde, “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” A character being a bad person doesn’t mean they are a bad character, those two qualities can coexist, but don’t always come together. CBS’s Ghosts seems wary of making any of the characters bad people. BBC’s Ghosts doesn’t have this problem. Julian (the equivalent to Trevor in the CBS version) is a bad person, especially at the beginning of the show. And he is probably my favourite character. He died of a heart attack while cheating on his wife, he didn’t bother to take care of his daughter and he attempted to kill Alison, which ultimately resulted in her being able to see ghosts. He is not nice, and the show doesn’t want you to think that. And you watch him grow throughout the series and it is great.

None of the characters in the US version are bad. This is mostly just a pet peeve of mine, but I do think it makes things much more static. Everyone in this version is just too nice. And too excited about everything. Why is Sam so onboard with the ghosts? Why is she never annoyed with them? And why do they never talk over each other? Do they never get tired of each other? I mean, some of them have been “living” together for centuries!

This topic in particular is something I want to write about more extensively, looking at other shows and fandom perception and that kind of stuff, so I’m going to cut myself here.

Conclusion

I don’t think that CBS’s Ghosts is, like, the worst show ever, it just doesn’t live up to its predecessor. That was just, from my point of view, a really high bar. There is one thing I think it does better than its BBC counterpart, and that is Jay’s relationship with the Ghosts (as opposed to Mike’s), which is to say, he actually has one.

So, yes, CBC’s Ghosts has lots of issues that may come from adapting the story for an American audience, or may just be lousy writing. Either way, I still enjoy it, although the episodes are definitely harder to get through.

[anghraine]

Speaking of Sauron, I've been amusing myself by thinking about how a disproportionate number of people who super ruined his day are descendants of Melian:

Lúthien, obviously, kicked his ass.

Elwing retaining Lúthien's Silmaril and giving it to Eärendil led to the utter defeat of Morgoth's forces including Sauron.

Tar-Telperiën and her nephew Tar-Minastir, descendants of Elwing's son Elros, were responsible for the vast Númenórean fleet that crushed Sauron's attempts to seize Eregion in the Second Age.

Tar-Minastir's descendant Pharazôn (a usurper and terrible person, but nevertheless) led a massive force against Sauron that intimidated Sauron's armies into giving up. Sauron tricked Pharazôn and managed to take out Númenor, only to end up drowning with it, and was significantly damaged and limited by the event.

Meanwhile, a different descendant of Elros, Elendil, survived! He led Númenórean dissenters away just in time to establish sprawling Númenórean-controlled kingdoms in Middle-earth.

Elendil and the Elvish king Gil-galad proceeded to defeat Sauron in single combat after a long siege. The effort killed them but also took out Sauron himself for a very, very long time. Elendil's son Isildur cut the Ring away from Sauron's body as repayment for the deaths of Elendil and Isildur's younger brother Anárion.

Anárion's children produced various lines of descent that would go on to include the Stewards of Gondor, resolute enemies of Mordor who recruited the Rohirrim into Team We Hate Sauron.

Isildur's and Anárion's descendant Aragorn spent decades criss-crossing the map to spike various evil plans, like when he torched the Corsair fleet as Thorongil and disappeared into the night only to turn up decades later to threaten Sauron with Elendil's reforged sword.

The Ring ended up in the hands of Frodo, who would be only too happy to turn it over to Aragorn as Isildur's heir. Aragorn promptly rejected the idea, crucially leading to Frodo remaining as Ringbearer while Sauron came to mistakenly believe Aragorn had the Ring and meant to use it.

The only time Frodo was ever truly captured by Men (the people easily assumed to be the greatest danger to the quest) was by Anárion's descendant Faramir. Faramir could have taken the Ring with disastrous results for everyone but Sauron, but instead shrugged off the temptation and laughed at it before helping Frodo on his way.

Sauron understandably panicked about the Aragorn situation and sent his forces to Gondor earlier than planned, despite knowing at that point that the Steward Denethor was much better prepared than he'd hoped. Faramir used his abilities to lead a retreat across favorable ground that inflicted large casualties on Sauron's armies, as planned. This tactic functionally sacrificed Faramir and Denethor but bought enough time for the Rohirrim and Aragorn's mainly southern Gondorian armies to arrive and turn the tide of the battle of the Pelennor Fields. Sauron's forces in that battle were defeated. Again.

Aragorn exploited Sauron's understandable fixation on him by making a flashy frontal assault as (unofficial) king of the Dúnedain to distract Sauron's attention from the real threat (three hobbits making their way to Mount Doom). This was 100% successful. Through a series of good and bad choices on the part of the hobbits, the Ring was destroyed and Sauron with it.

Bad day all around for Sauron! Aragorn, meanwhile, married Elrond's daughter and became overlord of Sauron's allies with Faramir as his prime minister.

[starzzytisms]

**In the basement theater**

Lunar: *In Moon's lap, happily babbling and flapping their hands*

Sun: "What're they saying?"

Moon: "They're spilling the tea"

[thebrofriends]

[honey-crypt]

★ the vanilla bachelors & bachelorettes as monsters ★

★ abigail - ghoul

honorable mention: chimera

★ alex - minotaur

honorable mention: werewolf

★ elliott - merman

honorable mention: vampire

★ emily - nymph

honorable mention: harpy

★ haley - siren

honorable mention: banshee

★ harvey - satyr

honorable mention: gnome

★ leah - elf

honorable mention: fairy

★ maru - frankenstein’s monster

honorable mention: alien

★ sam - hippogriff

honorable mention: mummy

★ sebastian - demon

honorable mention: hellhound

★ shane - yeti

honorable mention: bigfoot

★ penny - selkie

honorable mention: gorgon

[ursie]

Critical role has released a statement (my guess is a bigger statement will follow)

Image id : a screenshot of a tweet from the critical role foundation. The tweet reads “We have donated 25K each to two organizations that are working diligently to provide vital aid to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza—@WCKitchen and @Savethechildren. To those that sent us messages and asked us to support, we hear you. #Ceasefirenow : end id

[winfreak]

Sam on his knees, the image of utter devotion. Is he praying to God or Dean? He couldn't tell you.

[noisyasalways]

okay but are we getting more seasons of play it by ear?

[sinnabee]

pov u can’t afford to get ur name changed legally yet so it’s still in all the systems at work as your old name, but your supervisor is chill and even though he himself calls himself an asshole he actually tries pretty hard to be considerate to others, and he tells you he added your preferred name (sam) to your contact and updated it in his email and also is gonna try to remember to call you that from now on, but also please forgive him if it takes him a while

and your other coworker that mans the phone at the desk starts writing “sam” on your papers whenever you have to swing by and get them

and she pointedly calls you sam over the radio even when you yourself are using ur legal name

anyway. pov ur a little (a lot) emo about it /pos

[neetily]

hi!! can I please ask for sweet boyfriend Sam on the farmer's birthday? <3 how will he wish them a happy birthday and how will they spend the day? sfw and maybe nsfw both! thank u so much

since you asked for both SFW and NSFW, i'm taking this as a HC request instead of a drabble request :D...

warnings: nothing! just sam being sweet. wc: 971

SFW Birthday HC'S

i'm gonna be honest here, i think there's a high likelihood of him just straight up forgetting your birthday. he's very forgetful, goes in one ear and out the other! he would, of course, be suuuuuper apologetic about it though and plan to do things with you another day

but on the off chance that he doesn't forget...

i think he'd start the day off with something romantic... like breakfast in bed! something about how he remembers doing it a lot when he was younger, and kent would wake him up early on jodi's birthday to make her favourite foods... and he's all too happy to do the same for you! spends all night the night before making sure the kitchen is prepared for him just waking up !!! with all of your favs... he made sure to make note of them on his phone

he'd have a whooooole day planned out for you! anything you want, literally. it's your day, and he's at your beck and call regardless of what you wanna suggest!

though he does have the mind to pre-plan a little in the event that you decide to leave it up to him... i think maybe sebastian would help him out a little here too, only because sam is so busy stressing about making your day as perfect as possible— seb helps keep him in check!

his plans are as follows...

after breakfast in bed, he practically forces you into the shower with him so that he can freshen up with you. after all, there's a big day ahead! i like to think that if you don't just want a nice cosy evening in, he'd pack the whole day full of things to do together!! and it starts with a double shower <3...

whatever your main hobby is, he'd like to spend the morning/afternoon indulging in it together. drawing, painting, reading, gaming, knitting, hiking— whatever it may be, even if he sucks at it. all that matters to him is that you love it, and he's more than willing to act the fool to make sure you have the best day possible!!

he likes the idea of relaxing by watching a movie or two together too, especially at the cinema! a nice little treat together, but he's paying for everything !!! count it as an extension of his gift for you, which he's adamant that you won't get until later on that night!! and of course, the movie is your choice too, he's just happy to be along for the ride <3

and to top it all off, he takes you out for dinner! maybe in the city, where he'd book a nice hotel for you both too for the night. but at the saloon is nice enough too, maybe he changes it every year. just something special and one off, somewhere where you can really go all out on his expense. he just wants to treat you right, the way you deserve <3

then when night comes, that's when he lets you open his gift. and i think despite how forgetful he can be at times, he's actually a really got gift giver, even just based off vibes. either that, or he's stalking your interests a week before so that he can work out exactly what it is you'd like as a gift!! regardless, he wraps it all up by himself (as in: it's badly wrapped lmfao) and eagerly watches for your reaction!!!

also also i think he would make you a special birthday bath or something. he wouldn't join you, but after such an exhausting day of doing THINGS, he'd give you space and time to decompress in a perfectly vibed bath

(i can imagine him being passed out in bed by the time you get out LOL... tired himself out too

NSFW Birthday HC'S

birthday sex is such a cheesy idea, which is exactly why sam is so into it... of course, it's not absolutely necessary to do, but he enjoys the special event just a little more than usual i think.

he wants to, more than anything, keep things new and exciting for you— especially on your birthday! so if you have anything that he's yet to try, then this is the day he'll suggest doing it!

and i can see him either wanting to do it as soon as you get up, because oh my god he just loves you so much and he can barely contain just how much he loves you and he NEEDS YOU RIGHT THIS INSTANT or else he feels like he's gonna explode !!!!

or, he lets the tension simmer aaaaaaaall day and night long. loving and doting on you from the moment you wake up, right through until he has you under the sheets and he can prolong your bday celebrations into the AM hehe.....

he'd be so extra loving i think. lots and lots of kisses everywhere, drooling over every part of you that you allow him access to

would love to spend all night long servicing you. like forget about how hard his cock is and instead, let him eat you out for a good hour or so !!! let him finger you casually while you talk about how much fun you hand during the day!! let him suck on your titties idly while you hump his cock to your hearts content. like this is your night, you can use him however you want.

and and and !!! he would do his best to last as long as possible for you extra hard on your birthday so as to give you the best experience possible :^(... he'd struggle lmfao, but it's the trying that counts, right?

multiple loads if he can. that's all.

[samuelsdean]

just thought of how young sam & dean navigated hunting without john.

dean thinks sam's too young to go on a hunt and worries about his safety, so he'd convince sam to stay in the motel. but little sammy doesn't get why? why does dean have to leave him? both dean and his dad has started training him. he probably already knows more about handling guns than most adults!

so, sam whines, "but what am i supposed to do while you're gone?"

dean shrugs, a little annoyed, "well, i don't know, kiddo! what do you usually do while i'm gone?"

sam mumbles, "wait for you to come back."

that shuts dean up. his cheeks flush as he realizes how much his little brother's life revolves around him. the weight of responsibility settles on his shoulders, pushing him to finish the hunt as quickly as possible. dean needs to get back to his little brother.

[alientoastt]

thursdays are meaningful again (magnus protocol)