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I completely agree...now if you excuse I’m going to go cry

Wrote this 3 years ago..

It’s still true

ELECTRIC BOOGALOOS

I would like to start of by saying electric cars and motorcycles can F*ck Off!. Ok now that we have that out of the way I can explain exactly why. First and foremost let’s talk about the Ohh so “planet friendly” Formula E racing series. Now at first glance you might think that this “clean” form of racing must be the way of the future, right?? Not so much. Let take a peek at what’s really going on. The very first indication this might be Bullshit is the 20 CAT Diesel generators in the pits running full throttle charging the batteries for these cars. Each car uses two 550 pound Lithium batteries per race. These batteries put out 250KW of power, and have a maximum output of 54KWH (kilowatt hours). On the high side the average U.S. home uses about 20KWH of power per month. One Formula E car, in one race uses four times that in 50 minutes. The recent Hong Kong race had 25 cars on the grid, using fifty 550lb Lithium batteries in 50 minutes. That’s a total of 2700 Kilowatt Hours. Or more than enough to power 10 homes for a month. That’s a lot of juice! Also the five power-plants in Hong Kong are powered by Diesel, Coal, and Gasoline. Whoopsie! Now let’s take a look at these newfangled Lithium batteries. The big companies hawking electric cars and motorcycles would love you to believe that Fossil fuel is so harmful, and electric power is so clean. It actually the opposite. We are swapping a carbon monoxide problem that is fixable and controllable. For a toxic Lithium mining that kills wild life, ruins the water table and destroys agriculture. The mining process uses a ton of water. A million gallons of water per 2 metric tons of lithium(Each Tesla has 12 kilos of Lithium). In some South American countries like Chile. Lithium mining uses almost 70% of the countries water supply. Also if you are naive enough to think that there isn’t a bunch of diesel powered machinery used in the process? Think again. These Lithium batteries also leave a toxic footprint on the way out. Contamination of landfills and seeping into the water table….

bumberasperformance: Something doesn’t seem natural…more like Supernatural ⚡️

Somewhere in the vastness of the empty Zach is screaming THAT WAS ALL I HAD TO DO? ALL THAT WORK- AUs AND TIME JUMPS AND TRICKS AND KIDNAPPING- AND I COULD HAVE JUST…TAKEN SAM AWAY FROM HIM? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

1. Call to adventure - the hero is given an invitation/challenge to adventure.  Dean shows up and tells Sam, “Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days”.

2. Refusal of the call -  unwilling to step out of their comfort zone or face their fear.  Sam tells Dean, “I have an interview on Monday”

3. Mentor and Assistance - Hero gets help.  Dean, John, Bobby, and frenemies

4. Crossing the first Threshold - Hero leaves their comfort zone and goes into the new world.  Sam leaves Stanford and his safe life behind, which he repeats in season 8.  

The hero is trained to face the ordeals that lies ahead.  Most of SPN’s monster-of-the-week episodes.

5. Approach the inmost cave (belly of the whale) - The hero enters the new and more dangerous phase of the unconscious and faces their biggest fear.  Sam discovers his blood infection, being a freak and unclean, losing Dean (and their father) to fate worse than death.

6. Road of Trials - The hero goes ordeals to begin their transformation, and often fails the lessons and face defeat.  Sam releases Lucifer even though most fans will tell you it was a group effort.  Sam doesn’t close the Hell gates on Dean’s bequest.   Sam releases Darkness to free Dean of the curse.  Sam works with the BMoL at Mary’s bequest.  Sam shoots Chuck who opens the hell gate out of spite.  

Yet in the midst of crisis, the hero may raise himself up through a revelation of what it means to be in the new world, strikes back, and is reborn.  Sam imprisons Lucifer and Michae and emerges soulless and then resouled.  Sam expels Gadriel and sets new boundaries.  Sam rallies the hunters and defeats the BMoL.  Sam raises Jack to defeat Chuck to become the new God.

7: Meeting the goddess/allies i.e. metaphor of unconditional or romantic love i.e. Dean, Ruby, Sully, and Rowena,

8. Temptations to abandon his quest by picking on the Hero’s insecurities i.e. Dean, Ruby, Amelia, and Eileen.  As you can see, the goddess can sometimes turn into the temptress.

9. Atonement with the father - The most emotional part of the journey as the Hero needs to forgive the father, be forgiven by the father, and thus realize that he and the father are one (think how Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker make up at the end of Return of the Jedi).   The “fathers” are Alistair (demon blood), John (initiation into the hunting lifestyle), Dean (domineering authority), Lucifer (enslavement), and Chuck (fate). 

“and thus realize he and the father are one”  Hence why Sam and Dean are soulmates thanks to their codependent relationship.   

10.  Apotheosis - As a result of this confrontation, the hero gains a profound understanding of their purpose.  Armed with this new ability, he prepares for the most difficult part of the adventure.  Swan Song, Sacrifice, Brother’s Keeper, Mohiar, Carry On.

11. The ultimate boon -The hero achieves the goal he set out to accomplish, fulfilling the call that inspired his journey in the first place. Sam imprisoned Lucifer and Michael, reconcile with Dean, and gain his freedom from destiny.  

12. Refusal of the return - If the Hero’s journey has been victorious, he may be reluctant to return to the ordinary world of his prior life.  Sam stayed a hunter with Dean and have a routine life in the bunker as seen in the first 3 minutes of Carry On.

13. The magic flight or the leap of faith - The hero must escape with the object of his quest, evading those who would reclaim it.  Sam tricks Michael with a fake spell to lure Chuck so that Jack can take his power and become the new God.

14. Rescue from without - Mirroring the goddess’s meeting, the hero receives help from a guide or rescuer to make it home.  Dean tells Sam in Carry On not to bring him back because it always ends badly.

15. The crossing of the return threshold - The hero makes a successful return to the ordinary world, symbolizing the back to self.  Sam leaves hunting, returns to the normal world, finds a bride and raises a family.

16. Master of two worlds- We see the hero achieve a balance between who he was before his journey and who he is now. Sam successfully re-integrate in the normal world while teaching his son enough of the supernatural world that he has a protection tattoo as an adult.  We suspect Sam would be able to move into the supernatural world at moment’s notice if necessary.  On a deeper live the hero integrates their divinity with their humaneness.

17. Freedom to live = They live happily ever after.  Sam and Dean literally live happily ever after in New Heaven.

First off, this is a quote from s2 and was said neither by Sam nor Dean.

So yeah, “found family” isn’t SPN’s core message, it’s: 

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The sheep need the hair cut.

Nothing dies for it.

Sheep live pretty much wild for most the year.

Placed correctly they maintain a landscape and help the wildlife that live there to thrive.

Doesn’t use Vast Quantities of land for little product.

Not draining inland fresh water oceans.

Been spending thousands of years perfecting the genetics for this purpose.

Comes in many different kinds of uses.

And the animal it comes off is fully edible.

Also an unshorn sheep can drown if it falls into water, just by the sheer weight of the water its wool can absorb, dragging it down.

A Tunis sheep can live in a large doghouse, and staked in a different place every day, will mow your lawn (buy they get lonely. Buy two).

Light shearing nicks heal fast because the sheep’s waxy lanolin coats their skin. Though most sheep farmers won’t Nick the sheep bc it gets blood on the wool.

Sheep farmers MUST treat their sheep with care, because any little thing that upsets sheep affects the quality of their wool.

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Some people are racked with guilt all their lives, but “Oh no! I like a naughty thing!” sounds like an over-dramatic teenager, doesn’t it? Keep imagining an embarrassing teen or a 20-something who is So Over their embarrassing teenage years (and thus is actually twice as embarrassing, though they don’t know it yet). You’re a bit old for caring about silly people’s irrelevant opinions, no?

Just keep reminding yourself that it’s only fiction and that people who think it’s a big deal are Very Dramatic Teenagers, in mind if not in body.

As for where you can find that sweet, sweet Wincest, it was big on Livejournal. I was actually a SPN fan around season 2, and Sam/Dean was a huge ship. Some stuff made it onto AO3, but there’s a lot still entombed on LJ (and perhaps ported to DW). I’d see if Fanlore has links to old kinkmemes and if old recs communities like crack_van have anything.

* searching tumblr for Wincest/SamDean reclists that include fluff in the post title

* going to the SamDean tag on AO3 and filtering the page to exclude angst and any similar tropes they don’t want to see – this can receive better results than simply including “fluff” in your search. It also helps if you exclude other relationships you don’t want to see.

If you follow some SamDean blogs, a lot of us don’t mind being asked for a rec here and there. A lot of us also reblog rec lists regularly, so simply going to a Wincest shipper’s blog and searching for a rec list tag can be a gold mine. Many tumblr rec lists include links to lj.

If you primarily like the cuteness with canon vibes, you might like a certain flavor of domestic gencest.

Also, you might find something you like on this case fic rec list of mine.

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As for feeling guilty or embarrassed about it…I get it. We all have our hangups. I get embarrassed admitting I like some 1D songs and know the words to ByeByeBye, you get embarrassed for liking fictional incest. But it’s just fiction; there shouldn’t be a moral weight to it; but you might need to self-talk yourself into embracing the zero fucks attitude of the fandom old. <3

I’ve got some recs under my fic recs tag here as a potential place to get started.

I’d suggest also following @fandom-hoarder​’s suggestions, and know that the sam/dean fandom is alive and thriving still (if not as large as it was before the series end). 

If you like cute stuff and have seen the later seasons, I’ll happily (shamelessly) self-rec my own works Disney Princess Hair  and Five Conversations Dean Doesn’t Have With His Brother About Their Wedding + One That He Does . 

Most are cute and fluff -just watch the ratings

9 months today since “Carry On” aired - November 19, 2020 (Series Finale)

“Goodbye Sam”