Grey’s Law Advocate

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

We had a lot of fun with this one on the discord so reblogging it here as well!

one of the most horrifying things about supernatural as a setting is that by virtue of the numerous avenues for resurrection and the conception of the afterlife as Just Another Place (difficult to get to, harder still to drag someone out of, but a place nevertheless) is that it is ontologically impossible for Sam and Dean to get past the bargaining stage of grief. how could they. how could anyone. imagine that there is always someone with the power to bring your brother back from the dead if you only had something good enough to wager, good enough to give up. how could you ever let a dead thing stay dead in a world like that. whether or not your brother lives is dependent not upon the uncaring inevitability of death but rather, how much work you’re willing to put in. how much you’re willing to sacrifice. to stay dead is to not have been loved enough. of course the brothers develop a horrifying language around sacrifice and love and bodily autonomy. how could they not, in the end.

just. thinking a lot about Sam’s blink and you’ll miss it death in 5x13 and dean’s horrified demand that Michael “FIX HIM.” because just like in mystery spot and sam’s demand that Gabriel break the loop and bring Dean back, the time travel doesn’t feel real. the death itself doesn’t feel real. it’s so temporary. even in 5x16 when dean talks about coming back from the dead to get payback on Roy and Walt as a certainty. death has lost all meaning by season 5 to the point that Dean clearly doesn’t see Sam jumping into the pit as him dying (even though! it is! that’s hell!!) and thinks of it as something he’ll rescue Sam from later. death isn’t real.

my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

she once called my friend’s deadname “that stupid thing his mom calls him”

just found out that accidentally in love by counting crows was literally made for shrek. they didnt just choose it. it didnt exist before. they asked counting crows to make a song for shrek 2 and thats how we got one of the best songs ever made. insane.

counting crows knew shrek 2 would become one of the best movies ever made and had to act accordingly

Hand job vs manual labor

Oh, yeah. And it can get worse still. Cause like, we all have a certain idea when we hear "cowboy" in English, but in ancient Greek "cowboy" was a euphemism for a large slave.

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

again, there IS a problem of straight actors playing all the gay roles, but the answer isn’t as easy as “straight people shouldn’t play gay people” because a) it’s acting and there’s nothing intrinsically physical about gayness and b) it’s bad to insist that actors make their sexuality public information

do y'all think that, at one of his many high schools, dean shocked one of his teachers because he's the bad boy, the one who calls teachers "sweetheart", and doesn't make friends with anyone, but he signed up for Home Ec? and he's absolutely shit at it. his skills are limited to boxed pasta and dolling up microwave dinners, but he's determined? he shows up to every class, something no other teacher can say for his attendance in their class, and he doesn't snark once? he's focused in a way he isn't in any other class, asking questions, stuff about nutrition and what foods are good for little kids, and that teacher is so confused. it's like a switch is flipped. dean is their best student, he pays more attention than any girl in that primarily-girls class, and he leaves with the most improvement. and the teacher doesn't realize WHY until they see Dean leaving one day, arm over the shoulder of a boy from the middle school. and they think---there's more to that boy than he will ever let anyone know.