"Beleaguered" is a wonderfully expressive word. I am beset by troubles so manifold that they have formed a league. I am playing host to a diplomatic summit of the United Nations of Fuckery, and negotiations are not going well.

realllllly bold/interesting/horrible of the supernatural writers not to understand the consequences of saying that in every single universe where dean either did not a) grow up under the weight of hunting or b) find himself confined to the hypermasculine atmosphere of hunting due to a change in socioeconomic status, dean was out and comfortable with himself. YES it was written as a joke. NO it does not change the fact that this is the reality of dean’s situation. 

there's something so sickly tender about how we meet Dogged. We come down from the sweeping cosmic narration of the Nameless Historian, plunge into a world of death, hear a dead man talk, and then the first living person brings Music with her. We ride alongside her. This is Dogged, and hear how light and sweet her music is. And we follow and ride alongside Dogged as she faces the Patriot...and we lay on the ground with Dogged as she is dying. And the music is so sweet and tender as she does.

[sluttily rests my wrist on the pommel of my sword] hi

[standing up boldly] I don't think pearl actually fumbled rose though

everyone makes the joke posts about how if they fumbled a bbw to a soundcloud rapper they would also start eating their own organs but i don't think pearl actually fumbled rose under any definition. pearl inspired some of the most positive changes in rose's life and rose spent thousands of years loving being with her while also fully convinced that she was undeserving of her. you have to place the whole thing with rose dating greg in context of the gem timescale. it's canon text that rose was occasionally dating earth men during the course of their time on earth, not as some sort of monogamous break-up situation where she would leave pearl each time, but where her gem relationship with pearl was one long ongoing thing, and humans were the cute little aliens she sort of objectified and treated as a novelty to occasionally date before she got bored of them/they died/whatever. rose presumably did not in any meaningful way drop pearl for greg, she just deprioritized spending time with her--which pearl was fine with at first, because she was fine with being deprioritized for novelties that might only last a few years while she'll last for thousands. pearl became upset and envious after she realized that rose actually cared about this one in a way more comparable to how she cares about pearl. but this didn't happen because she fumbled rose by any reasonable stretch of the term. this happened because even after reinventing herself once thanks to pearl's idea, rose still believed that she hadn't really changed, and hated herself, and saw herself as unworthy and undeserving of the people around her, and was very suicidal. she was so enamored with greg and with humans because she saw them of being capable of changing & growing in a way that she believed she was fundamentally incapable of. and so she decided to kill herself through the route that involved what she perceived as reinvention into someone beautifully capable of that growth. pearl just simply could not have done anything about rose still privately having those hang-ups or about the fact that they're both gems. I Do Not Believe It Was Pearl's Fumble When Her Wife Killed Herself