#well there's my rant of the week i guess

[navree]

I would love to hear more of your opinions about SPN because frankly...I cannot talk to anyone about this show without the fear of getting condemned by rabid fans.

I have not thought about SPN in any seriousness in several, several years, but my fucking God I hate Dean Winchester. The reason I stopped even keeping up with the show even tangentially is because the show had Dean spend the first few minutes of whatever season was the season where Jack first showed abusing the absolute shit out of Jack because he can't process his emotions despite being a grown man, and then as soon as Cas came back they tried to pretend that Dean was a good guy and is Jack's surrogate dad or something and I felt like I was losing my mind. He's such a misogynistic ass, he's a deeply violent guy who is incredibly awful to everyone who has the misfortune to love him, he's not a good brother, and worst of all the writers really forgot he wasn't the main character and kept trying to make him super important because Destiel was popular. And I also hate Destiel because I just despise Dean so much, at least Sam and Cas seem to genuinely like each other by, like, season 8, Destiel is just Dean being an asshole and occasionally some moments of man pain then rinse and repeat that got traction because Jensen and Misha are hot and Cas was the only person Dean talks to who isn't related to him.

I like Sam, I find him the most compelling and the best character anyway, and I feel like the show was at its best when it remembered that he is, ostensibly, the center of the story even if there are technically two protagonists. I like Cas and I like most of the angel stuff before they went off the rails with it. Because that's honestly my biggest issue with the show, the writing went nuts. It's pretty common knowledge that the show had a pretty firm ending in season 5, but the CW renewing it for a sixth season caused them to throw it out, and it's so clearly starts spiraling from there. The writers never had any ideas what to do with the characters, what to do with the plots, they kept on trying to escalate but also not escalate, they kept breaking their own lore every six minutes, and every character was either wasted potential (who remembers Gadreel? I remember Gadreel) or gets excessively flanderized. Like, look at Lucifer in season 5, and look at Lucifer when he comes back in season 11. It's basically a different character, which only happened because they forgot that Hallucifer wasn't actually the real deal and was a hallucination from Sam's head and that characterization shouldn't carry over, and then they went nuts from there. And don't get me started on the constant factory resetting, which Lucifer is again emblematic of (along with the angels at large), of fixing something in one season and then just making it the baseline again in the next season. And not resolving anything, I'm still not sure where the Hell Sam forgiving Dean for the forced angel possession thing even came from (but then Dean being tricked into letting Michael possessing him was treated as this big thing as if Sam routinely being possessed against his will isn't a constant feature of the show and didn't most recently happen at Dean's behest GOD I hate Dean). The writing is just so atrocious that it saps a lot of enjoyment from the show, especially if you're, like, invested in any of these characters.

But the humor can hit sometimes. I like The French Mistake, I like the Ghostfacers episode, I like the bits where they're just being dumb and silly. So there's a couple episodes I like revisiting on occasion. And it did give us omegaverse (for stupid reasons I don't believe in) and that's done so much for the culture.

[secretsimpleness]

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

[hella1975]

so there's a reason my new job got back to me so quickly about my application and that's bc it's an absolute fucking shambles like actually perfect timing for me to decide to rewatch the bear bc i have never more felt like ive been thrown into a broke on-its-knees establishment trying to crawl its way up the ladder where i am somehow a godsend to them. my old job was crazy and shambolic in the sense that the industry is just Like That but this one?????? insanity. every 5 mins i am questioning what im doing with my life. ive already had a walk-in fridge moment

[authenticcadence18]

Twice this week I have received comments on Can’t Help Falling in Love critiquing my use of tags and I’m just like?

those “extra” tags have been there for four years? no im not going to delete them?? I think if it truly was a big issue one of my moots/writer friends would’ve brought it up to me by now???

I use tags to express my creative voice and personality. And I DO include lots of real tags.

if someone makes something FOR FREE and it’s not harmful maybe just say what you like about it and move on?

like? do yall like my tags?? have my tags dissuaded you from checking out my stuff??? because I’ve been posting on ao3 since 2019 and this is the first time anyone has ever brought it up :/

[surreal-duck]

art summary for this year o7 (template from here!!)

[midnapanda]

My dad has the fluuuuu and he never covers his mouthhhhh when he coughhhhs so my lil sis probably has it toooooo..... i had my flu shot already but ill still be pissed if i also get it :(

[trashworldblog]

casually talked about my disability with my professor and casually tried not to cry talking about the struggles of this semester

[passthroughtime]

i hope you don’t mind me not participating in sunday six for so long and not updating my fic... i’m having a bit rough time handling my life irl right now

[triglycercule]

duuude i never thought it would be this bad that i literally saw art of my trio. joking around and laughing and having fun. and not immediately smiling and being like yeah this is silly theyd do this. something is clearly wrong

[thesupernaturalhouse]

Someone needs to tell me why I'm feeling so my anxiety over the ides of possibly giving blood

I am not required, I do not have to, I'm not even sure if I'll pass all the tests before I can, I've had blood drawn before and it doesn't hurt that much it was over before I knew it, and I probably won't anyways!

Why and I getting a fucking pit in my stomach at the idea-

You

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Man, I'm so tired.

[loumauve]

I snapped today at work, and by snapped I mean I politely commented on a help desk ticket by summing up an mess of an (type of) issue that's come up for at least the fourth time in the 2+ months I've been managing user accounts, and asked the person responsible to fix it (himself for once) because last time I fixed his mess-up it took me two whole days to work out the details with at least four other colleagues from different departments and I really don't want to do it again. there's other shit that needs doing, I've been working 10+ hour days for most of this week already, so I need to cut down not add on more.

(good thing tho - at least we managed to fix the issue where the dataset of a newer employee got mixed up with another one of the same name and therefore wasn't able to apply for any of the access/accounts she needed. technically not entirely my area but it does impact us not being allowed to create an account for her so I figured I might as well track that issue down. took three days and at least three other people, but hey - it should all work out now. yay for that)

[whirlinglikeaballet]

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[theangrypomeranian]

me rn

[thebigqueer]

maybe the reason im so upset about it isnt cuz she broke up wme but because all that waiting over the summer just feels so worthelss now. like i know we couldnt talk as much or be around each other as much but i was waitingall summer like when we get back all we'll do is be together!!!! all of the 'new relationship syndrome especially now that its long distance' stuff will be fixed when we get back!! but were over and theres no chanec of fixing it because were over and its just like what if we waited what if we just figured it out for another few weeksand see where it went form there

[an-incoherent-mess]

So I'm really into genealogy and have been for a few years now and I'm blessed with being really good with names and dates etc. So in conversation I can remember like a ridiculous amount of:

Jane Doe Smith Johnson

b. 1805 Tennessee d. 1879 Missouri

Married 1828 to John Patrick Johnson. Had five children. Died of TB

Etc etc

And that's cool enough apparently but I've mostly been using it for

A. Making up bullshit but real sounding names for stuff (i.e my name is Emily Stewart, Grace Kolár, etc). The point is that they're normal sounding and varied.

B. Having a bizarre frame of reference for historical events. Like "oh [small town],[state] 1942 had [random] event happen? My 1st cousin 4x removed got married there that year, small world!"

It's so dumb, like I'll read about some historical event from my area (where I've had family in the vicinity of since the 1840s) and I'll link up the time frame in my head and be like hmm... I wonder what 3rd great aunt Helen thought about that happening next door to her church.