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she hears ellen choking on the other end of the line, the splutter and cough of grapefruit soda going down the wrong way and then her best friend rasps out, “john WINCHESTER is a man of letters? what in the hell gave you that idea?”

“oh, I dunno.” mary idly flicks at the silver charm bracelet john had presented to her earlier in the afternoon, seated across from her in their favorite sticky vinyl booth at cunningham’s diner, his thick fingers oddly delicate working open the clasp. “just that he gave me a bracelet today.”

“so what?”

“so, it was a silver bracelet with half a dozen protective charms hung on it. crucifix, devil's trap, pentacle, a witch’s knot, an ankh, AND a hexagram.”

ellen's sharp gasp is everything she'd hoped for. “an aquarium star?”

“the very same.”

“holy shit. I mean, holy SHIT. mare, your dad's gonna kill him when he finds out.”

“IF he finds out, ell, and he's not gonna find out. he doesn't even LIKE john; he'll never get close enough to know.”

“that's what you're banking on? that he won't get close enough to sniff him out? your dad's like a bloodhound with shit like that.”

“he's an old man who hates his daughter's boyfriend; alert the press. ell, he'll never look past that to see anything else. no way, no day.”

Vadinian Funerary Stele for Tridius. 2nd-3rd century CE.

Translation: "Frontus, of the Doiderigians, placed this monument for his friend Tridius, son of Boderus of the Alongi, a Vadinian 25 years of age. Here he lies. May the earth rest lightly on thee."

Museum of Leon, Spain

More on the Vadinian's, an interesting ancient group from Northern Spain:

Below this are several screenshots or tumblr replies and reblogs with commentary.

The first is by a reblog by user real trans facts and reads ’“Trans people waiting for bottom surgery” fashion.

The second is by a reblog by one weird cryptid and reads “For a second I forgot that pregnancies exist and thought this was about bottom surgery.”

The third is a reblog by user boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend and reads “I forgot pregnancy was A Thing for a moment and was just like. Hell yeah trans shirt.” ‘A Thing’ is capitalized.

The fourth is a reply by straw budgies and reads “Being on tumblr is like- I’d never even think this was about pregnancy. It’s the bottom surgery shirt. What else could it possibly be?”

User pompatus of love, who collected the screenshots, has added underneath them the comment “Everyone in the notes forgetting about the concept of pregnancy you’re so valid never change.”

And they worked so much better than he could’ve hoped. Well, it was worse for poor Sammy, but it was necessary. When he helped Sam walk to the door, half asleep and totally out of it, he whispered the story of their mother to him, and he didn’t miss out a single detail.