weird positive

I regret nothing

Cas’ actual internal dialogue

Dean rolled over in his sleep, turning inwards and pressing himself against a warm wall of muscle. The room was cold and Sam felt so warm that Dean couldn’t back away. He tucked his knees behind Sam’s, draped an arm around his trim waist, pushed his nose against the nape of his neck. He breathed him in; the scent, the heat of him, and Dean’s blood sang, surging downwards to pulse in his cock. 

Sam stirred gently, his shoulders rolling backwards in a sleepy attempt to get comfortable. “What time is it?” he asked, voice cracking, lips dry. 

“No idea.” Dean mumbled and nuzzled into Sam’s neck, his lips tickling the hollow. When Sam didn’t pull away, he kissed him properly, plush lips pulling gently on his sensitive skin. 

Sam signed and wiggled slightly back against Dean as the dream fell further away. “Dean, it’s the middle of the night,” he whined, whisper deepening as Dean sucked his ear between his teeth. 

“So what?” His hand slid up Sam’s rippled stomach and Dean brushed this fingertips over his nipples, pulling a shuddering breath from his brother. “I want you,” he said, rocking his hips, nudging Sam’s ass with his quickly growing erection. “Come on, Sammy…” The hand fell from Sam’s chest to graze over his thighs, teasing its way to Sam’s cock. 

“Fuck.” Sam sighed lustfully and flipped over in Dean’s arms, capturing his cheeks in both hands. “OK, but you’re getting up to get breakfast later. I’m tired.” 

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

Cas:

Dean: I mean hang

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Dean: