#betterthanpixels

anyway, great work all, glad i have something new to spiral and be deranged about!

The typical profile pictures on social media are all the usual things - smiles, dogs, kids, partners. But on dating apps, the unspoken expectation is for a candid laughing shot. It keeps cycling in and out of fashion every decade or so to have a casual full-body barefoot photo in there, too.

It’s early in Dean’s working relationship with Cas, and he doesn’t spend loads of time trawling potential matches. He’s pretty busy with work, and to be honest he’s not even sure exactly what he’d be looking for anyway. But he does take a swipe through every so often, just to see. There’s a guy that catches his eye once, with a huge gummy smile and a nose scrunch that rivals an accordion, and Dean thinks that’s pretty damn cute. The guy has a vaguely familiar look about him that Dean can’t place, but he hearts the profile to check out later.

“Later” doesn’t arrive until the day after he and Cas both worked that woman’s reference session. Damn, he’d forgotten how fun it was to throw down on somebody. A million extra bonus points for that somebody being Cas, who has been putting Dean through the wringer for months. Getting to take him to pieces was awesome. He’s kinda geared up over it and opens the app to see if anybody strikes his fancy for a hookup.

That guy is still in his saves. And Dean almost chokes because it’s Cas. He hadn’t even realized, because Cas is so cool and professional whenever Dean’s working for him, but he’d gotten to experience Cas’ laugh for the first time yesterday, up close and personal, and it’s kind of stupidly attractive. The profile picture captures it pretty well.

He’s not going to request a match with his fucking boss on a dating app. (Client, technically, but still.)

That won’t stop him from thinking about it, though.

THEY ARE. SO CUTE!?

I headcanon them as being friends in school but reconnecting in their early twenties in uni (and then they get married obviously). They’re very different in many ways (with Oliver being more athletic and Percy more academically-inclined, which tbh is one of my favorite dichotomies) but they’re also both very motivated and driven people, and I <3 them together. (READ THIS FIC IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY.)

Also: they’re totally both ticklish, right? Like, obviously. Percy is very ticklish, particularly on his neck, ribs, and stomach. Much to his indignation, his siblings tend to be the hands-on type who use tickling as an annoying-sibling tactic, so its something he deals with quite often (though it’s different coming from Oliver). I think that Oliver’s ticklishness is much less known, especially because he tends to immediately come off as that-guy-with-the-singleminded-focus-on-Quidditch that people who don’t know him well have trouble looking past. However, he is ticklish, with his underarms and feet being the worst, and quite a few other spots that are mildly sensitive.

I see them as a couple who uses tickling when they know each other needs it and will be receptive of it; like, if one of them is stressed from schoolwork or Quidditch, respectively (stressed enough that they’d appreciate a distractor/stress relief, but not so stressed that they’re in don’t-touch-me-leave-me-alone-mode) then the other will tickle them. Or sometimes when they’re lying in bed or making out in a classroom together and just feel like being silly.

A Supernatural Fluffsgiving Event

co-hosted by your SPN TFB Cool Aunts, Rynn (@betterthanpixels) and Lee (@wordstrings)

The Supernatural series finale has aired, leaving in its wake big feelings and blank pages to be filled. This Thanksgiving week, we encourage you to fill a page of your own.

In Rynn’s words, “our giggly little corner consistently did it better,” so whether you want to fill a gap, alter events, or tell a new story altogether, celebrate your authorial power and write something inspired by one (or more!) of the below prompts sometime between Monday, Nov. 23 and Friday, Nov. 27.

Prompt list:

canon

fix-it

rescue

apple pie life

what they deserved

Post your work using the hashtag #SPNfluffsgiving2020 so we can see your wonderful work! (If you don’t have a blog of your own – or if you do but you’d rather not post tickly things there – Lee will gladly take your submission at https://wordstrings.tumblr.com/submit)

HECK YEAH

who’s the most ticklish character:

Gamora and Peter are equally ticklish, but Gamora will stab most people who try to tickle her, so Peter is the most ticklish one who actually gets tickled.

who’s the character that most people would assume is ticklish, but actually isn’t:

Rocket seems like he might, possibly, be ticklish, but he actually isn’t very ticklish at all (not to mention he constantly radiates “don’t touch me,” so anyone who isn’t crazy - i.e. anyone who isn’t Peter - usually isn’t willing to test it).

who’s the character that everyone gangs up on and tickles:

Peter

who’s the character that somehow knows everyone else’s tickle spots and reveals them to others:

Rocket (he likes blackmail)

who’s the character with one specific tickle spot that only one other person knows about:

Rocket will deny until the end of time that he’s ticklish but. The area underneath his chin is a little sensitive, a fact which only Groot is privy to.

who’s the most likely to win gang tickle wars:

Literally e v e r y o n e except Peter. Gamora, Drax, and Rocket are all so ruthless that any one of them could win (or punch each other before coming to an agreement to gang up on Peter instead), and Groot will just hover over them jumping in when he feels like it.

which character has a kink for tickling:

Peter has a tiny kink.

which character didn’t even know they were ticklish until another character tickled them:

Gamora had no idea that she was ticklish until Peter snuck up on her and tickle-attacked her (after which she immediately kicked him).

which two characters have tickle fights all the time: