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Item 61: IMAGE. Create a short "Supernatural"-related horror story out of the abbreviations of the elements of the Periodic Table. You may only use each letter from each abbreviation once (so you'd have roughly - 225 letters to use). The more coherent the story, the better. 

when someone’s so head over heels they maybe-subconsciously start dressing like they’re borrowing out of their crush’s/GF’s/BF’s closet

like if a dude who wears super dorky sweaters all the time starts turning up in leather jackets and surfer bracelets ‘cause that’s bae’s aesthetic

baesthetic

prompt [pairing: destiel, au: bartenders at local dive]

The Cash Inn Country’s more deafening than usual, even for a Friday night in downtown Phoenix; SCOTUS’s decision today tipped the crowd over from its typical Pride-week jubilation into an outrageous glittery hysteria. Dean’s been behind the stick since five without pausing for breath, and he can’t sling well drinks fast enough—no one wants pitchers tonight, they’re all going straight for the buzz. His soda gun’s slippery, he hasn’t had time to wipe down anything since a frantically kissing couple knocked over both of their Long Island iced teas, and all he wants is to sneak out back for a cigarette and a breath of quiet desert night air, away from the dance floor and its relentless raucous noise.

One aspect of Sense8 which I find particularly inspiring (in addition to its diversity) is the way in which--on a fundamental level--it is a show built on optimism about human nature. Sense8 is unabashedly an exploration of the potential for human nature to achieve the best rather than the worst. 

And that feels deeply refreshing in a time when science fiction as a medium has mostly been redirected from visions of utopian progress to those of dystopian decay and self-destruction. A time when Star Trek has transformed from a progressive, philosophical franchise to a regressive, action-oriented one. When the top grossing sci fi movies are either apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, or super hero flicks based on the premise that, hey, sure most humans suck or are feeble, but at least a few special, chosen ones are great!

Sense8 flies away from all of that dark cynicism and back to the land of idealism, to explore ideas like “I Am Also a We,” “Art is Like Religion,” and “We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of our Hearts.” It asks, “What is Human?” and answers not with greed, mortality, short-sightedness, weakness, bigotry, lust, or limitations, but with love.

Sense8′s central premise is that eight wildly diverse people suddenly find themselves to be part of a single, connected ‘cluster’ sharing each other’s reality. And like the best sci fi--this is allegorical. Despite their different lives, they find that they are one--on the literal level: one cluster, and on the allegorical level: instances of one common foundation--humanity.

Sure, the sensates may have been gifted with a few extra powers to aid them in their journey of empathy and understanding, but upon examination none of these skills differ drastically from what we, modern humans, already have the capacity for. We cannot yet teleport our badass kung fu skills to someone in need on another continent. But we can share our specialized skills faster and more widely than ever before. We can’t quite make out with a like-minded soul across the globe, but we can Skype in. We can project our minds, our voices, and our faces to almost every region on earth.

Thus the sensates, despite their fun extra powers, are embodying what we all could be--our potential--and their contrasts within the show (the “normal humans”) are displaying, not out fundamental limitations as human being, but merely...what too often we are. And what Sense8 sees as our potential is what it demonstrates through our onscreen cluster: