#grow the fuck up sam

[daftmooncretin]

in supernatural season 6 episode 18 frontierland. dean makes reference to star trek iv the voyage home and is dismayed by the fact that sam doesn’t like star trek and bobby has “only watched deep space nine” (which…. wow whole other can of worms) but that means dean winchester is enough of a star trek fan to not only have seen the original series but also the companion movies???? and his favourite is the one with the whales!!! he’s a hardcore trekkie!!! my blorbo canonically obsessed with my other blorbos what a revelation for me. I skip and i kick my feet and i say yippee!! salvation!

#do you think he makes cas roleplay as spock #also though when did dean watch all of this? #because the way sam reacts it implies he didnt know dean even liked star trek? #did he hide it growing up from sam? #or did he randomly become a trekkie during the shows run because that would be fucking hilarious #spn #dean winchester #supernatural #castiel #destiel #star trek tos #star trek #jim kirk #spirk #tos #the voyage home #spock

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

#lotr #lord of the rings #lord of the rings movies #i started this post because ''may it be'' came up on my playlist but now i think i'm going to start my nth rewatch of the trilogy #there is a lot to discuss about it re: comparison to the books but it's like... #for all the changes they made - good and bad and neutral - everyone involved in making the films *loved* the source material #they all *wanted* to do justice to it and believed in it and it shows #i think of some posts i've seen about how frustrating this modern push towards tongue-in-cheek irony over sincerity #so afraid to be corny or cheesy that you have to tack a joke onto every real emotional moment #like no fuck that #give me sam hauling frodo onto his shoulders saying ''i can't carry it for you but i can carry you'' #give me aragorn gently kissing boromir's forehead as he dies #give me merry and pippin throwing themselves at the uruk hai to distract them from frodo #give me theoden's grand speeches and gandalf's pained expression when frodo says he'll carry the ring #tbh i think that sincerity is a large part of *why* it has such staying power even now #because it is a story you are meant to get deeply emotionally invested in and not hold yourself a little ironically apart from #it isn't meant to sell merch it's meant to bring you to middle-earth and capture your heart and make you believe that the war can be won #with love and loyalty and hope and fellowship and fidelity and integrity and just... just refusing to give in to despair #it is earnest. it is unafraid to be melodramatic or corny because it believes in the story it's telling. #and so it imprinted onto a whole generation growing up right at the cusp of a barrage of apocalypses #anyway. i have Feelings about these movies and their impact and how that mirrors and enhances the books' own impact

[barry2018-2023]

the thing about supernatural as a whole is it is soooooo so so so bad obviously but if u track sam and dean's characterizations through all 15 seasons it 1. makes complete sense for both of them and 2. is devastating, soul-crushing, and evil beyond the writers' ability or knowledge. they didn't even know what they were doing but they did do it.

#the skewing poeer dynamic dean growing bigger and more violent while sam shrinks smaller and gentler #just all of it. its so fucked up. and they dont even know that they did that

[wentian]

METEOR WITH LONG HAIR OMG!!!!!!!

MY BABY IS SO HANDSOME 😭😭😭

BARK BARK BARK

#dawntrail #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv stuff #fanfest 2023 #i'm crying #why elves are so ugly though 😭 #okay i can talk. i'm so happy this trailer has lighter mood #it looks like a beach episode of an anime #i love it!!! the cats look much better than in EW trailer too #estinien is so fucking ugly my poor dude 😭 #WHEN THE TWINS FINALLY GROW UP I'M SO TIRED OF TRAVELING WITH TEENAGERS #what job does meteor use in trailer??? it's not sam and i doubt it's rdm #a new one??? i need to knooooow

[prettyflyshyguy]

............................................. I'm regretfully writing a fanfic.

It's not gonna be big, but dialogue has been running in my head 24/7 and if I don't write it down I'll explode. Writing is a fun break from drawing besides and I genuinely feel like slowly dissecting other characters is helping me revisit my original stories, and dissect my own characters and bring more continuity and subtlety into them.

#FUCK ALL OF YOU YOU ENABLED ME #i'm kidding i genuinely love you all #but GOD FUCKING DAMNIT #these two just have far too much fun dialogue and since i've been casually watching while i draw its given me more of a character basis to #work off of #and this is like junk food for my soul #the more I write garbage the better I get at writing my own stuff #but the fandom still scares the shit out of me #given I also have a younger brother its fun to examine their relationship and see some parrallels to my own experience #and how family differs from friendships in the dynamic #you get way more baggage from their shared experience growing up #and where they diverge from each other's mindset and approach and how its shaped from the difference in their Older sibling Younger sibling #experiences which is a critical component when they have fights #anyway Dean being the huge “I'M COOL FUCK THE SYSTEM I DO MY OWN THING” then immediately shifting to “yessir three bags full sir” #in 0.5 secconds never gets old #and Sam's perpetual frustration at this hypocrasy sends me #given Sam's entire existense is based around him genuinely wanting to do his own Thing VS Dean tricking himself into going down his own pat #but they both still have that childhood need to be fullfilled by their parents and IF THAT AINT RELATABLE #but they both tackle it so differently due to circumstance #anyway tldr: sibling dynamics fun as hell you go from seamlessly working with each other #to having a massive squabble so fast its very entertaining

[o-i-w-u]

welcome back fuckhead omg

him fucking wheezing is both worrying and interesting, why you so outta breath buddy you good??? i mean i guess he speedran coming back to life LMAO

i feel like he's gonna have to get babysat my god he wont stop causing havoc, wet cat of a man

also solar calling him a cringefest, 10/10

#char speaks #tsams #eclipse sams #hes so fucked up i love him #hes growing on me at an alarming rate #hes so pathetic #i needa draw him

[golbrocklovely]

others will say this nicely, but i'm not gonna be nice.

i 100% mean it when i say: if you still even after all this time call colby "one ball wonder", or now since he's starting chemo make some form of a """joking""" comment about him losing his hair or being bald, i just want you to know you are not funny and have never been funny. not once in your entire life has someone thought you were funny. you are not amusing, you are not entertaining.

colby himself is allowed to joke about his cancer and chemo journey. that's his trauma and his pain to deal with, and if he wants to joke about it, he's allowed to. but you aren't allowed to joke about it. i don't care if colby said it was fine. let's be honest for a minute: he only said it was fine bc if he said it wasn't, ppl would go twice as hard at making fun of him. he's being nice when he shouldn't have to be.

you are a random person on the internet that colby does not know. in your delusional brain where the two of you are besties, you might think what you're saying is with love and respect. but in reality, you just look weird. this is not the time to try and be funny. i don't care if you yourself have had cancer or knew someone with cancer and thus you're "allowed" to joke about colby bc of that. no, you aren't. if you wanna joke about your own trauma, that's fine. go ham for all i care. but you don't get to do the same for someone else's pain. that is not your place to do so.

not everything needs to be a joke. just send colby love without the comments on his lack of testicle and possible hair loss.

this is should be a no brainer, but apparently not.

#colby brock #sam and colby #i'm so sick of seeing “one ball wonder” on every fucking post he makes #like..... grow up #personal #text

[quietwingsinthesky]

I feel like much has been made about the fact that, if left unattended, Michael will put Adam on the pedestal God previously occupied and try to love him the same way, which makes things Worse for both of them. And not about Lucifer doing the same thing to Sam.

#they are similar situations but also. Different. #Michael’s trying to deal with his abandonment issues because that’s what God *left* him with #but for Lucifer. this is about rejection. #similar flavor but not the same #this is about him Making A Choice to love god first. and then being told his choice was wrong. that the way he loved was wrong. #and that it was so wrong that god would rather lock him up in hell and never lay eyes on him again than just let him be #WHICH! HUH! YEAH THAT MAYBE FUCKED HIM UP A BIT! #what I’m saying is that when this comes around again but with Sam this time. it’s not like Lucifer has learned a different love language. #he’s the same. he got locked up. he was in stasis. he did not grow. this is all he knows. #and the last time he told someone he chose to love them above everything else that got him burned. #so. Sam. #(oh god wait no it’s worse. Sam *has* thrown Lucifer in hell. and it wasn’t for *choosing* Sam but. wasn’t it. what’s the apocalypse if not #the worlds longest bloodiest courtship. Sam’s intentions ≠ how Lucifer received the message.) #what Lucifer wants is. somewhere to put that love. and he is primed for it & him to be thrown out. #I’m not sure where I’m going with this honestly but I think it would do him some good if he got to lay Sam down and worship him for a bit #and have that be allowed. welcomed even. but also. reciprocated. the reciprocation is key. #that’s key for midam & samifer. learning that love is something that is meant to be returned. #spn #lucifer spn #sam winchester #samifer #lucifer/sam winchester

[krikeymate]

I've come around to it: Tara being 20 and in high school is fucking hilarious.

Do you think she was babied by the town? Do you think people knew who she was? Quiet little Tara Carpenter. Older than her peers but treated like a child. Not the healthiest of children, it's why she was held back you know, they made an exception. A lovely girl despite her... family. The father left, her mother... well we all know about Christina Carpenter, rarely here and drunk as a skunk when she is. The other daughter, Samantha, a real troublemaker, just like her mother. She ran off a few years back, the best thing she ever did for that poor girl.

And then she gets attacked and all anyone can talk about is poor little Tara Carpenter. Who would want to harm her, she's such a sweet little thing? It's to do with the family, I tell you, nothing but trouble. Then her sister returns, and she's seen sharing harsh words with Hicks just the day before her death and that's when the rumours began. Samantha Carpenter, back to drag more trouble into her little sister's life.

When everything is over, all anyone call talk about is Samantha's boyfriend, the man who attacked that darling girl and all the others. I told you, they say, it was the sister's fault. They don't talk about the best friend. And when they see Tara out on the streets, they'll watch and whisper and give their condolences while throwing her sister nasty looks and snide comments. And when Tara decides she doesn't want to go out anymore, they'll whisper about the sister keeping her locked inside, talks of welfare checks and abuse, because what else could be going on. After all, it is the Carpenter's, we all know they're trouble.

#/mp #Scream #Tara Carpenter #Sam Carpenter #Scream 5 #scream concept #my writing tag #topic: woodsboro #topic: timeline #Do you think Judy and Martha had a soft spot for Tara. Do you think they tried to be there for her #but Tara was just so closed off. She didn't trust the adults in her life. #But their children? They made sure that they didn't grow apart. That way they could keep an eye on her. #everyone looking at Tara and seeing a victim of a fucked up family #me: i love this character and i'm going to make their life WORSE #the only person allowed to baby her is Sam. and it's a constant struggle for her to accept that.

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

☀️A little dose of Sammy's Smiles for your mental health☀️

(Bonus gif)

(I'm adding the longer version of this gif because he's still cute as hell, but the quality of the source is absolute ass so I had to trim the gif down a bit for the post above)

#Samuel is a fucking ray of sunshine when he flashes those pretty pearly whites #My anxiety and depressive tendencies step the fuck down whenever I see this angel's smile. those fuckers know better. #either he has awesome genetics or he had a very skilled orthodontist growing up cuz DAYUM that smile is PRISTINE #but can we also talk about the cute way his cheek bones stand out and his eyes crinkle when he smiles because I'd like to have a TEDtalk. #Sam Rivers #Limp Bizkit #nu-metal #SAM. I. AM. #Sammy Boy #Bass Boss #Bass Master #Catch me simpin' for Samuel on Sam Rivers Sunday #down the rabbit hole

[ascendingtothestarsasone]

I love how someone has already told me to go fuck myself and blocked me before I even had the chance to have a civil conversation. I’m fucking crying 😂. Man there are some real nasty, toxic so called “mature adults” in this ‘peaceful army’

#greta van fleet #josh kiszka #jake kiszka #sam kiszka #danny wagner #starcatcher #grow the fuck up and stop bullying people #have a civil normal conversation like the adult you are #this just makes me sad and highly disappointed

[thatfaerieprincess]

Feel free to skip on past this, I’ve just gotta ramble for a minute bc i cant stop thinking about this kid from work last week. They were so much like me at that age (5-6th grade) that I didn’t know how to interact with them? I didn’t know what to say to them bc I don’t know what I needed to hear back then, what I would’ve WANTED to hear? What would I have even listened to? They were almost entirely silent and looked out at the world with a hesitant curiosity, but would pull back so fast as soon as you tried to interact w them. Little to no eye contact, face hidden in hair, always looking down, following others until they could strike off on their own and just quietly explore. Intently focusing on drawing any chance they got. We did an art project and they hunched over their piece the entire time and wouldn’t let any of us see it in progress, refusing to look up or acknowledge us if we asked to see it or to know what it was. Idk. I barely interacted w them while they were with us for those few days bc I didn’t know how? It almost hurt to try? It was like looking back into a time machine and i didn’t know how to tell them that it does get better,,, I still don’t even know if where I am is better, some days feel so unsure that I don’t think I’ve made any progress at all. But seeing that kid, idk. I’ve come pretty far. And it DOES get better. Maybe it’s not the best now, or even that great at all, but it’s better. I wish I could’ve told them but I don’t think they’d have wanted to hear it anyway

#im a rambling sam #I’m in a weird place again since getting here for this season of work #idk maybe I’ve been in a weird place all year probably #I don’t think I’m that far from where I was at that age but I know I am there’s just still so much further to go #one day I think it’ll feel easier but maybe not today #I do love working w kids but I’m considering going into horticulture instead of outdoor education bc I don’t know if I can handle this #I can #but god I don’t know #in my heart I’m still that exact kid and she’s still in there so damn anxious and unsure and needing to observe the world and everyone in it #just to get some sense of understanding of just what the fuck is going on around here #but by the time I’ve gotten a good handle on what is going on everything is already so set in place and my place is outside the system and I #I don’t know how to step into it #sorry sorry I’m still rambling I’m having a weird day I probably just haven’t eaten nearly enough in the last few days and I’m about to #start teaching on my own this week which is terrifying and I can’t stop thinking abt that damn kid I wish they stayed longer I think #we probably would’ve gotten along #but groups only come here for a couple days and then go home which is v weird after having the same kids for 3 weeks for summer camp #idk life gets better and it gets worse and sometimes u grow into the world a little more but there’s still a mute child in your ribcage #little hands pressed up against ur ribs like laying a palm against a bus window #I put my hand over my sternum as if we could press our hands together thru time #when I was that age I used to pretend to have someone around me like an imaginary friend but usually it was a book character that I liked #and I’d talk to myself in my head like having a conversation and giving myself motivation and assurances from someone else to me #and now I’m here and I still talk to myself like that but without the imagined friend as a buffer I just talk to myself in my head #now I’m the imaginary friend for the little Sam that lives in my chest #when I talk to myself I’m talking to her #I’m giving her the assurance she needed back then #the assurance I still need now #I am here for her so I am here for myself #this is getting poetically nonsensical maybe it’s time for bed

[soullessjack]

“Dean still isn’t Jacks dad” “which brother is more misogynistic” “name [character] transgression” do you people ever talk about anything remotely interesting or is it a constant miserable pissing contest to see whose baby wins the pageant

#watch 14x07 and grow the fuck up already oh my god #how are you gonna be a supernatural fan and whine about them doing bad things THATS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THE SHOW #this isn’t even a media literacy problem you people are just fucking insufferable #and can’t do anything except try and one up your favs all the time #holy shit #every day I become more grateful to be in my own little corner with ppl who actually understand shit #god #cal.txt #spn #spn fandom #jack kline #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #tfw2.0 #being a jackgirl is terrible enough but being a jackgirl who understands dean is a fate worse than death #you people are so incorrect all the time ❤️ #dean crits when a traumatized man acts traumatized 😲😲😲😲 #dean crits when people change for the better and try to break their personal cycle 😲😲😲😲 #half of this fucking fandom when the process of breaking abusive cycles isn’t linear or domestic and angsty #I am so TIRED #I’m not in a bad mood but I’m annoyed and have a headache from the movies sooo idk . fuck y’all

[no-one-picked-maris]

Why I Think They Won't Re-Release Felicity (in any meaningful capacity)

Felicity's stories are very white and protestant in a very alienating way - and I say this as someone who related to her as a child. She's literally a member of the gentry, she's Samantha of the 18th century.

Fun Fact: In the earliest editions of Meet Felicity, rather than referring to Jiggy Nye's language as "not proper", it's referred to as "sinful". Felicity is also chided with reminding her that disobeying one's parent's is a sin. Oh, and this change:

Nan: "Then Mr. Nye called the horse a nag, and he said the devil could have it. And he said he would skin us alive if we ever came back!”

Nan: "Then Mr. Nye called the horse a nag, and he said anyone could take it if they could ride it. And he said he would skin us alive if we ever came back!”

Her hornbook:

(and the parentification)

Felicity and Kirsten share a very similar problem in the way they present history, they are literally the mascots for sanitized white people history. There are no black people in Kirsten's stories. Kirsten is literally Manifest Destiny: the Doll.

There's only one free man in Felicity's stories, Issac. Rose and Marcus are slaves. King's Creek is a plantation, a plantation left to Mother and the children when Grandfather dies (he knew they "loved it so.") Felicity is a slaveowner.

She's not reading Thomas Paine there guys.

I haven't read Felicity's Beforever series. I know they're abridged, and I know they didn't substantially change them. Felicity's relationship with her Grandfather, and his subsequent death, are integral to the series.

How do her central series present her slaveownership? It was ignored as some sort of background consequence of her possession of King's Creek. Like it's just a fact of life, with no need to remark upon it.

okay, and:

Felicity was the worst selling light skinned doll in the collection. Even worse than Kirsten whose sales got cannibalized by Kit after 2000.

I'm not sure if there's a consensus on why Felicity sold so poorly. Red hair, a dainty collection, not girly enough? Her class contemporary, Samantha, is widely agreed to be one of the most popular historical dolls AG released. So it's not class consciousness.

Both don't follow the rules of the time (being a tomboy, befriending people outside her class status):

Felicity only got a movie because Julia Roberts loved her.

Kirsten: Little House on the Prairie and All American History. This is the time of the Oregon Trail Game, after all. I lived on pioneer stories when I was little (1990s).

Samantha: Romanticized "victorian" era things were popular, and her clothing is pretty 1980s inspired. Look at it.

Molly: The Grandmothers' generation.

Is it Felicity's mob caps? She was the horse girl, and that wasn't enough. Was she frumpy, with her gowns rather than dresses? Her schooling - it's unrelatable. She's learning etiquette with Miss Manderly rather than struggling with Miss Campbell's times tables:

Her daddy owning a fucking general store and being prominent enough to provoke a reaction with his refusal to sell tea?

Her Beforever release was out for 2 years, releasing during the 2017 Doll Deluge or whatever we call it. She was gone by 2019. She got a doll, accessories, and undergarments. At least the latter were more period accurate.

you have to keep your trademark active.

Kirsten's unpopularity prior to archival is easily explained by the release of Kit, the decreasing popularity of pioneer stories, and the changing times.

Felicity was never popular at the outset.

Why?

Felicity's 35th Anniversary Edition was the first to sell out, but that can mean a lot of things. AG doesn't realize sales figures and stock figures. Selling out of 2,500 Felicity is relative to selling out of, say, 10,000 Samantha. Businesses order stock based on projected sales. I'd argue, without the benefit of the full statistical picture, that Felicity collectors are a small and passionate group.

They removed Felicity from catalogs in 2001, making her an online exclusive. Did sixty somethings use the internet at the turn of the century? Mine didn't! She wasn't worth the catalog space a year after American Girl was sold to Mattel. Pleasant was inspired by colonial Williamsburg to create AG. She wasn't enough to gamble a new doll line on. She had to wait until they had some footing. I'd argue Pleasant always knew Felicity would be a poor seller.

When Felicity was removed, I got Kit. She was my next favorite after Felicity and I related to her as a small child, too.

Which reminds me, Kit is responsible for a lot in the AG Historical Collection:

She was another blonde haired blue eyed doll, but with a more relatable collection, and easier to deal with hair:

Ta dah ^

I think Kit also a soft relaunch of Felicity:

In photos and brief:

wearing boys' clothing

close with their fathers

tomboys: with felicity being interested in footraces and racehorses, and kit being a newshound, lacking patience for Ruthie's princess stories (at first).

Kit was like a two-for-one special. I'd really like to see her sales stats compared to Felicity and Kirsten.

#fuck you Eddie Ryland #even tho I do think he and Sam get married when they grow up #american girl #american girl felicity #american girl kirsten #tw: racism #I'm almost done with Samantha's collection #I'm at my stopping place with Kirsten's collection #I need to make some decisions on Kit's collection #treehouse outfit definitely #decisions on felicity #ag #agblr #american girl collection

[munamania]

um yall… sam’s roommate pulled up to coffee like. um. dressed like this. btw. and their hair is just like. a better fluffier mullet. is this surprising

#just wanna express what i’m dealing with btw because the hair thing sort of hit me like a truck earlier and then i was like #well girl wait… literally… come on lmao… also we both wore sweatervests hashtag twinem #it’s so chill though coffee was really fun #we ended up hanging for like two hours and then i was like fuckkkkk g2g to class and they walked w me partway there #and then almost dapped me up gave me a hug at the worst possible intersection there were so many people walking fuck the construction fr #but like. yeah it was chill im glad i reached out even tho like idk things r... ok.. w sam but we’re certainly not like 🤞 #and i think they just had a semi recent breakup and drama and im like. um. largely unwell #and need 2 just get through this semester so i rlly forced myself to chill and go in with no expectations and it was just :-) #i was charmed by how passionate he was talking abt the weather and stuff like within minutes of meeting #i was listening to a very excited spiel about el nino and the tornadoes in wisconsin and etc oh and they came up w an ocean fact for me #and also ugh they played piano for so long growing up and can still like. do it. fucckcjkkk. and demonstrated #this rlly odd chord. um. like stretching and flexing their hand. srrryy lol i’m just giggling #lol and i mentioned my hair journey at one point and they were like ‘yeah? tell me about it’ shut UP… oh and also #knew exactly the stairwell i was talking abt when i described my favorite and we managed to chat abt that ugh it was so dorky #like. aw wow this person is just really cool #i also think they’re stupid hot but like idk since we actually um communicated and etc it's taken out a lot of the #tendency i had/have to be like 'sigh what if -' and er mythologize ppl. i suppose could be said. like aw we're just yapping and we're loyal #story likers now and if they ever want to just like make out sometime that’s so chill but regardless like we ball 💪 #yayyyyyayyyyy me when i can be normal about things!!!!! 🫶🙈 #abby talks

[samaspic31]

Ppl will nod and go ok and think they did sooooo well at being a trans ally but then loose their shit when supporting and hearing us entails actually changing the way they conceive gender including their own huh

#sam speaks #cis feminists are tiring. the #defining your womanhood through your genitals only is tired and surface level. #grow the fuck up