#we all contain multitudes

[bedupolker]

This is the only 2023 wrapped that I care about

[martymcdie88mph]

No truer words have ever been spoken 🙏

I just know how much he loves to use words like literally and very and actually and totally. And in phrases like she sadly wept and she gladly wept and so on

Such a master🙏

Go forth and use all those adverbs y'all!

[mortimer]

YOU’RE THE GOOD AND THE BAD

Im the scary and the nasty

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[dosomethingplease83]

I repost a lot of serious stuff. Stuff about politics, cults, abuse, etc.

But I also repost cat videos. It’s not because I’m unserious about the heavy topics, but because I can’t just be all doom and gloom and serious all the time. It’s a little break, a palette cleanser, something to be happy about that exists in the world right now instead of in some imagined better future.

IDK how other people use Tumblr, but I use it as a sort of personal scrapbook of things I find interesting or useful. Like a diary of reposts that I sometimes go back and read over again. I make it for me, not for other people to look at.

[theresidualhope]

It’s okay, fam. I know you contain multitudes too.

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

I'm honestly not sure which of these guys has the weirdest track.

Michael Mayer directs operas at the Met but also did a horsegirl movie in the '90s, and a charming gay Christmas movie with Michael Urie.

George Miller, on the other hand, is of course known for Mad Max but also Happy Feet & Babe: A Pig in the City, and also The Witches of Eastwick, and a movie I've never heard of until today but stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba and is about a genie and has amazing reviews.

[morningtime]

my most insane talent is that I am able to wake up from a nap exactly when I want. I will put an alarm on for a 20 min nap and wake up with 10 seconds left on the timer. this morning I told my gf to wake me up from my nap by 11am and she forgot but I work up right at 11 anyway. this happens literally every time I take a nap I am not joking. this also works when I put on a timer when I am cooking I don’t know how I do it. 

[dandylion-s]

Sorry but "these are the arms that held my wife" still goes crazy.... like insane for them to put that in the middle of a podcast ep i listened to on the train on a random day in 2017.

[thirdwifeofriversong]

yes! i’m all for critical engagement with media and believe that critique is an important part of loving a work

AND it can be exhausting for fandom to be all critique (and honestly hate) and no joy. because it’s okay to enjoy work that’s imperfect! you deserve to like things! and your liking things and being excited about them doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person or not able to critique where necessary. media is nuanced, and our relationship to it has to be nuanced as well.

I'll say this only once.

Can we focus and engage with things that bring us more joy in this fandom? We're all bored and miserable as it is without any new content.

Because I am genuinely sad about the state of the fandom right now.

[bitchslapblastoids]

Was thinking about how much of a normo I come across as irl, how I’ve felt a lil odd person out at their shows bc of being a bit older (29) and looking so aggressively normal, how generally confused people in my life would be if they knew about my d&p obsession, how thoroughly i mask weirder traits and essentially codeswitch to suit the mainstream, etc.

i feel kind of fish out of water when I imagine how all the people that populate my tumblr phandom ecosystem are likely presenting to the world irl (I.e. more visibly queer, counterculture, and so on). But then I think maybe the most visible phannies are the ones with the most curated, alt, deliberate daytoday lewks/style? So maybe what I’m picturing is off base? But then I’m also basing this off of what audiences look like in audience footage, m&gs, etc.

Sooooooo i would like to know… do you guys feel like you present as someone who may be Deeply Online and obsessed with two gay nerds from the internet? Or do you hide it and fly under the radar, masking as a total normy and living a double life?

(To clarify I don’t mean you’re like out and about wearing the fringes boob sweatshirt lol I more mean vibes and overall lewk yk?)

[screechingfromthevoid]

nothing (besides everyone ignoring Orym's deal) has made me angrier than watching Dorian keep up this facade. Dorian Storm has always been a type of mask he's worn. At first he called himself a liar because of it. The happy go lucky bard was a way of escaping for him. He was escaping Brontë so he created Dorian. He didn't believe he was Dorian. Until the Crown Keepers made Dorian real. And for a while, he really believed he was Dorian. That he has this new family and new life and he could be who he truly wanted to be.

And then his brother came back and made his problems Dorian's problems. Until he had to put Brontë back on. Because even if the Crown Keepers + Cyrus called him Dorian, he was Brontë. He had to be who his brother thought he was.

When Cyrus dies, the thread to Brontë had snapped. He was going to see Orym, back to the Bells Hells, back to Dorian Storm. But the foundation of Dorian had shattered. Dorian was created in order to run from his place in life, family, Cyrus. Now he was gone. The Crown Keepers had fallen apart. His friends fell through his fingers and he couldn't do anything to stop it. He was once ready to side with a betrayer god for these people and now they're in the wind.

So Dorian shows back up to Bells Hella and he's completely broken. The foundation of both of his lives has been thoroughly rocked. No brother. No Crown Keepers. The two things that forged Dorian Storm. He wears that mask so fucking well. Because he still wants to believe in it. He said it live on stage that he should "believe his own backstory". The one he made up. The one where he was a bard.

He wants to be Dorian so bad. He spends all his money on Orym, he spins the bottle so he can kiss his friends, he flirts, he blushes and giggles at compliments. Exactly how Dorian would, should.

But he wears the gold of the heir. He has a festering animosity inside his chest. He doesn't sleep. He's thinner than he was. He doesn't sleep. He sicks abominations after their creators. He talks to God's without an ounce of self preservation, daring them to strike him down. He does not acknowledge them as they taunt him.

The god of beauty and magic calls him beautiful and he does not smile.

[lilacpaperbird]

About Sam's music taste

Okay so I've always been really intrigued by the kind of music Sam might like, since we seemingly didn't get much information about it in the show. So I did a deep dive, and this is everything I could find/remember in relation to Sam and his taste in music:

Kripke, interview from 2007

From the Supernatural Wiki - There's a small mistake here. I checked the video and Jared said "Jack Johnson", not "Jackson"

Good catch, thanks anon whoever you are! - I checked and yep there it is! I added a pic of the poster so you could see what it looks like

11x04 Baby - Sam knows the lyrics to the song "Night Moves" and sings it enthusiastically, like he did with "Dead or Alive" in 3x16

14x20 Moriah

Bands/singers mentioned:

Green Day

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fall Out Boy

The Killers

Jack Johnson

Death Cab for Cutie

Jason Manns

Bon Jovi

A Wilhem Scream

Bob Seger

Elvis Presley

Celine Dion

[leghorned]

look at my horny edit boy. to ponyboy by SOPHIE of COURSE

[clairenatural]

i also think that cas as a character fundamentally feels like he doesn't Belong and that's something they did accidentally but can be interpreted as an allegory for multiple different experiences that all resonate with people. Misha has talked about how he wasn't intending him to be Not Like Other Angels, all the angels were supposed to be like that, they just. didn't end up doing that. And because it wasn't intentional at first I think the angel/human cas debate/endgame/storylines resonate differently to different people who relate to it in different ways. Outside of the debate of what should/would most likely happen in canon I've seen a cas actively choosing to be a man be important to people for gender reasons. I've also seen a human!cas who chooses to be human be important as an allegory for leaving a toxic family and choosing your own found family. And I also see angel!cas be important to people as an allegory for neurodivergency and the idea that he should be accepted as an angel the way he is, that there's nothing "wrong" with him as he is. he's such a beautiful complex character and i think people connect with lots of different aspects of him and idk i think it's really cool. i love castiel

[messiahzzz]

When I came across that "joke" from Tav to Quill and Z'rell's comment (plus Halsin), I had to take a minute to process what happened. Gale might be a bit silly and eccentric but he's the kindest, sweetest and most passionate character in that party. No wonder the poor man has deep insecurities to solve, so many people reduce him to an easy target! Ofc one of the side effects would be overconfidence and ambition as a defense mechanism. He's obv lonely; only Tara and Morena ever loved him for him.

his eccentric nature might be a part of it. he is loquacious, outgoing, and doesn’t see the point in hiding his enthusiasm. he is considered to be the weird one. naturally, wizards in general being seen as somewhat squishy and physically weak might also add to it.

personally, i really don’t like the implications of the (widely considered) autistic-coded character being the one who faces the most ridicule by far by other characters and fans (and larian) alike.

some might disagree with me on that, but i don’t find it funny by any means either. mostly it just makes me feel bad. “he deserves it. cocky, arrogant, hubris-ridden wizard needs to be taken down a peg” like he isn’t… y’know… already at his lowest. it also disregards the fact that much of his bravado is part of his carefully curated Great Wizard of Waterdeep™ persona that he has skillfully adopted to mask his general feeling of being defective. being fiercely proud of your skill and knowledge and being doubtful of having something truly worthwhile to offer are mindsets that can coexist. according to fandom, gale is either secret hubris incarnate that is only waiting to be unleashed upon the world or pure baby that can do no wrong. instead of a character that is just as flawed and traumatized as all the others, but no less deserving of genuine love.

to me, the constant ridicule just reads as further feeding into his deep-rooted insecurities and his belief that he (as gale, the person) isn’t someone who holds inherent worth. it really, really doesn’t sit well with me.