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copperbadge · 5 months
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The HVAC guys are here to put my new unit in! The Cats Do Not Like It!
This morning I moved their litterbox from the bathroom utility closet (where the HVAC unit is) into the bedroom. The cats were intrigued. "Oh, this is in here now? OK, better poo in it."
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[ID: A photo of the cats' litterbox on its litter mat, on the rug usually found in the bathroom; the whole thing has been moved into the bedroom. Polk is sitting in the litterbox, head sticking out the top hole, looking perplexed but resolute.]
Then I closed the bedroom door so all three of us were stuck in the bedroom, and they didn't like that; they got snippy with each other and ran around hissing and fighting, although their tails weren't brushed out and their ears were perked so they were mostly playing.
But around 9 when the guys were supposed to show up I slipped out of the bedroom, leaving them in it, and they were BIG MAD. Dearborn sat behind the door and yelled.
Now that I've let the guys in and shown them the bathroom, they're making all kinds of exciting noises while they put down padding and tarps and open the new unit up and presumably remove the old unit. The cats are under the very center of the bed, antagonism forgotten as they huddle away from The Horrors Outside. I imagine they're experiencing what Lovecraft's protagonists generally do when they hear a Great Old One moving under the Antarctic ice.
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bluerosefox · 10 months
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Misunderstandings and Miscommunications
Back at it again with some
✨️ Shenanigans ✨️
Brain rot.
Here goes.
So Danny finally tells his parents the truth (Phantom Planet not happening in this AU) and due to his anxiety and fear takes their disbelief and horror and yelling (not mad or angry but like worried yelling) as rejecting him.
They had rejected Vlad a few weeks ago when he had been caught as Plasmius but they only rejected him because they had found out he had been trying to kill Jack in order to get to Maddie and had been hurting Danny behind their backs while also trying to get him to denounce Jack as his dad, it had nothing to do with him being part ghost.
They do love Danny and are just horrified their invention had killed their baby boy and that they had been trying to hurt him for a last few years because they didn't know he was Phantom (but the clues, oh the clues were staring at them in the face now, how blind they were to it oh.)
Due to Danny's panic he runs off into the Infinite Realms in order to hide with one of his ghost friends but.... he runs into some trouble (Skulker? Walker? idk pick any) and gets tossed in a random portal that had opened up.
And finds himself in the DC verse.
Danny accidentally falls into a huge battle as well and when he spots the heroes trying to protect the city he fell into from some huge evil villain he helps out despite his own emotions (it helps distract him from what he 'thinks' happened between him and his parents)
And once he's done helping he books it cause he need to process everything and doesn't stop when the hero he helped out called out to him, and phases out and turns invisible if the hero tries to stop him to talk. It isn't long until Danny is in a new city and finds some more people to help from villains and evil, and he starts using it to distract himself.
Basically Danny aimlessly wanders around and starts helping anyone to keep his mind off the thought of never being able to go home again.
Meanwhile his parents are PANICKING about not being to find Danny after he runs. They try calling his friends, but the moment they hear the Fenton's say they know about him being Phantom they too jump the gun and think Danny was rejected. They both yell, not letting the Fenton's say anything, and let slip Danny most likely is hiding in the Infinite Realms (aka the Zone) if hes not in Amity.
Tucker and Sam immediately hang up and call Jazz, whose at college, before the Fenton parents could and tell her what happened. And Jazz isn't happy.
Despite being so smart and willing to give their parents so many chances to change their views on Ghosts, she's not a child anymore and isn't going to let them hurt Danny (they don't want to). She starts making her way home to give her parents a piece of her mind.
But by the time she gets there, driving all night, her parents are missing and she finds a video message on the computer from Tucker explaining they had snuck into the house to go into the portal to try to find Danny only to see the Fenton parents suiting up and going into the zone with the Specter Speeder and Boo-o-rang keyed to Danny. "No doubt they're going to hunt Danny down, we're going to try to slow them down and find Danny before they do Jazz! We left an extra Boo-o-rang behind keyed on Danny's signature come help us when you get this message! Take Danny's Specter Bike I made sure the keylock is off!" (Let's pretend Tucker tinkered with the design of the Specter Speeder and made some bike versions, with Danny and funnily enough Johnny 13's help, it was fun bonding thing they all did)
Jazz is even more livid after that. Takes a few things and heads to the portal as well, hopefully to find Danny first before her parents.
By the time Jazz finds the portal that opens to the DC verse she's in Gotham, runs into Red Hood (and helps take down some gang goons but in the process her Boo-o-rang gets busted in the scuffle) and basically they talk. She asks if he's seen any runaway blue eyed black haired young teens around and Jason jokingly says "Nope but we better find him before the Big Bad Bat takes him and turns him into a Robin."
Jazz is very confused.
MEANWHILE
The Fenton parents are of course making a menace of themselves... They're driving around (which is a warning enough if Jack is behind the wheel) trying to find Danny to explain that they do love him and to come back home, and when they do find Danny he freaks out and starts booking it again (right as he actually stopped to talk enough with a hero too). The heroes of the DC verse whose meet Danny and those that heard about some young 'meta' teen whose been helping out and is very powerful, take note how scared and panicked he looked when facing the two and things get worse when they take note how... careless they are going after him (cause we know the Fenton's get a little extreme) and add the fact they look like mad scientists too (they haven't been sleeping well since Danny ran off)
So the DC heroes start assuming the worse for the young teen hero...
It gets even much WORSE when Tucker and Sam, who are hot on the Fenton's heels as well, show up and eventfully tell them what happened (or what they think happened) when they gain their trust.
Basically, a lot of miscommunication happens.
Danny thinks he needs to be on the run from his parents and is helping out in the DC verse to keep his mind off his own breaking heart from the rejection (if you wanna make it serious maybe have his actual core in danger from the rejection or something). And is nearly adopted by every hero who see's this sad ghost kid.
His parents are labeled mad scientists (kinda are) who are hunting Phantom down to end him or experiment on him but they actually DO love him and just want their son come back home. (due to being Fenton's they do kinda accidentally cause a lot of mayhem in their wake)
Tucker and Sam are trying to be amazing friends and stopping the Fenton's from hurting their best friend but much like Danny they are a bit too caught up in their emotions to realize the truth of what happened and may or may not alerted the JL and JLD why Danny is on the run in the first place. (when they had down time to find out where they were they found out about the meta protection laws and is kinda using that to get Danny help)
Jazz is in Gotham, has no way to track Danny down at the moment, is talking with Red Hood (coughAngerManagementcough) about finding her brother and saving him from her parents before they do anything to hurt him. Cue Red Hood (and maybe with the help of the Outlaws) helping Jazz go find her brother.
This can be serious but I mostly see it being silly with nothing but shenanigans and a lot of miscommunication.
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diesoonandsuffer · 2 years
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sorry kirk and spock’s love for each other is written into the narrative. as if it’s my fault.
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p4nishers · 3 months
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can u believe this was published in 1999
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lonewolf638 · 6 months
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'i owe him everything' is actually so crazy. dean saving sam over and over again the debt piling on and sam never being able to catch up forever the little brother trailing behind who gets n gets && sam's hero worship as a child just continuing as szns pass, like god there is nothing dean can do that sam won't forgive dean will forever be the perfect good man
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fishnchip3011 · 1 month
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my biggest issue with romancing the bachelor/ettes in sdv is that in order for me to create a new save and actually pursue a character i Have to make an oc with a unique personality that also has good chemistry with said character or else i just wont do it 😭 i want to experience the other characters' heart events for myself but im so incredibly ocpilled i cant bring myself to do it without writing an oc with dynamics im satisfied with.. which i am very picky about BAH
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franklespine · 5 months
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Sam and Dean: trauma and self-loathing
I think a key difference between Sam and Dean is that while Sam believes he was born inherently evil and tainted, and so must spend his life redeeming and proving himself to win back agency and purity, Dean believes that he was born innocent and wrought by his actions into a force of violence that ruins everything he touches and us thus incapable of living a life of comfort.
And yes, it all comes back to what rests at the crux of their characterisations and trauma - the way they were raised.
Pre-Mary's death, Dean was a regular happy kid who had loving parents and a stable place to call home. This is the innocent child who deserved a family as a 'happy ending'.
Sam never experienced this life - his life was catalysed and born from a violent tragedy which he later learns had him as the true objective and target of. This is the tainted child chosen by demons and the devil himself, doomed since before conception, the 'cause' of his mother's death and so bears responsibility for tearing his family apart.
After Mary's death, John completely shuts down any emotional capacity to raise his children asides from a limited hyper-masculine way that requires their absolute obedience.
This starts a long chain of reactions that Dean considers as corrupting him from this innocent child - starting from his efforts to appease his father and receive the validation that he desperately wanted, as any young child does. Although he did not necessarily view it this way at the time, his life lacks commitment in all areas other than his family (particularly to Sam) and he resultingly becomes someone who is so unaccustomed to the comforts of a domestic, stable life where he lives for his own happiness, that he fails to cope with it as a knee jerk reaction. Yet still he wants his happy family ending in s4-5; as he says, when he pictures himself happy, it is with Lisa and Ben. But after living with them for a year doesn't work out at the start of s6 - mainly due to factors out of his control, but also his paranoia - he finds himself at the conclusion that he has been irreversibly wrought into a violent killer, and is someone who could never 'settle down' or be satisfied with a 'happy ending'. These ideas are then only reinforced in his mind as the narrative continues. In purgatory Dean guiltily takes satisfaction in the black and white distinction of kill or be killed that exists there. Then, he does something so borderline unforgivable to Sam in order to save him - tricks him into being possessed by Ezekiel, which spirals out of control as Ezekiel turns out to be Gadreel - that Dean refers to himself as 'poison' that damages everyone he cares about. This idea about his irrevocable corruption into a man that, much like his father, has little emotional capacity or expression other than aggression or self-sacrifice, is I feel, most solidified in his psyche by s10 through the mark of Cain. There exists this unsolvable question, which never actually gets solved by the narrative, of how much of his increasingly violent actions can be attributed to an accentuation of his aggressive nature, and how much can be attributed to what the mark 'makes' him do. Up to s11, Dean has progressively become a character that permeates self-loathing because he truly believes that although his hunting lifestyle is one that is inherently confining, he has convinced himself that it is the only one that he deserves and the only place he belongs. Interestingly enough, s11 concludes with Dean telling Amara of the lack-lustre effect of revenge and the futility of it, because the only thing that Dean has ever found to provide him solace or comfort is acts of goodness (saving people) and reconciliation (understanding and forgiving Sam, prioritising their relationship - as Chuck and Amara serve to parallel them).
[Note: although in theory this is a good development to his character, I think it would have been better serving as a parallel if Dean had later implemented his own advice with Sam by apologising for treating him as a monster and freak, distrusting him because of something inherent to his being that he can't control (demon blood), and the ultimate betrayal of tricking him into getting possessed by Gadreel to save him. That said, I don't say this to mean it as a criticism to Dean or to say that Sam doesn't also have things he should apologise to Dean for - but I think it would have served the narrative, both their characters, and the ideas that were almost carried through in a nuanced way in the s11 finale, by having the brothers truly apologise, listen and understand each other. Parallels only really work as an allegory if what is displayed in them plays out/is reflected in what they are paralleled to.]
Now, Sam on the other hand, his childhood was tumultuous and unstable at best, and he lacks any frame of reference to what a normal family dynamic should be. Unlike Dean who had this happy idealistic family lifestyle ripped away from him (or at least idealistic in the perspective of Sam and Dean), Sam has always been outside the house, looking in the windows and trying to imagine what it would be like. Although Dean tried his best to shield his younger brother from the monstrous reality of their world, Sam's early childhood was characterised by constant displacement and temporary bonds that he would have to form and reform over and over every time they moved. Yes, Dean protected him as best he could, but Dean was also a child, and so to Sam who didn't know any better, this doesn't feel like protection, but mistrust and isolation. Sam doesn't remember the unspeakable loss of Mary that shattered Dean and John - he hardly knows anything about her at all. He doesn't know why John keeps leaving them and they keep moving - even though it's obvious that Dean does. Although knowing did Dean no favours, to Sam it meant that the only conclusion to be made was that John and Dean didn't trust him, that he was an outsider in his own family as much as with anyone else. So although Sam is often presented as longing to be normal, to fit in with broader society who are on the greener side of the fence, on a deeper level what Sam really wants is not necessarily to be normal, but to belong and to be secure; more than anything within his own family. As he says in the pilot: "not normal, safe". To Sam, being a freak is the grain of sand at the centre of the pearl - especially in the early seasons. It is the use of the word 'freak' in association with him that triggers his chaotic, irrational anger, when hardly anything else does. Especially because deep down, he believes it to be true. This is demonstrated in a lot of ways, but one of the scenes that really encapsulates this to me is when Sam and Dean go to a psyche ward in s5 to hunt a wraith, unaware that this wraith poisons her victims, making them go crazy before she kills them. I think one of the purposes of this episode was, through this plot device, to show what triggers Sam and Dean - what is the straw that breaks the camel's back and how do they react when they are confronted with their worst fears about themselves. This culminates for Sam when he hallucinates the other patients mobbing him - getting pushed around as they call him a freak and a monster. This spurs Sam into irrationally lashing out, yelling at them to shut up as he thrashes and punches. This scene is so evocative because I don't believe this is the rage that simmers below Sam's calm and rational demeaner which he thinks of as a sign of his impending fall to darkness (see Born Under a Bad Sign), but a potent frustration and desperation to break out of his own inevitable fate of being an outsider - a freak.
From the beginning Sam has had this ritualistic, obsession with having to prove his goodness - believing himself to be inherently impure, and this drives a lot of his actions: from an insatiable need to save the people from his visions, killing Lilith, jumping in the Cage, wanting the suffering that the Trials entail to purify him, indifference to his ultimate death to close the gates of Hell, and believing his visions in s11 are from God wanting him to go back to the most abhorrent time in his life (the Cage).
Or such are my observations thus far in watching supernatural. There are some truly fascinating ideas in there, but unfortunately I don't think a lot of them are extrapolated to their full potential. This was just something that struck me about the brothers that I thought was compelling enough for me to want to articulate to the void. Would be interested in hearing other opinions and analysis tho.
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anouri · 1 year
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sam sax from madness (2017)
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cas---2y5 · 4 months
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i think if john and gabriel met there'd be a weird sexual tension that would ruin sam's life. like they'd either met before when john was hunting solo (pre or post stanford) or its their first time meeting and sam does like an awkward little introduction which is then significantly less awkward by comparison to the energy that just entered the room. like. the kind of sexual tension that absolutely just sucks the life out of a room and leaves no space for anything else. and then later sam would have to be like, very seriously, "Gabriel. Do you wanna fuck my dad?" and gabriel denies it but like a little too much. Sam would kick one of them out of the bunker, he'd have to for his own sanity.
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thatfaerieprincess · 7 months
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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
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copperbadge · 5 months
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Did I say National Clean Your Home month was over? I SPOKE TOO SOON.
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[ID: A text chat between me and @scifigrl47; I say "Who has two thumbs and a new HVAC system arriving tomorrow? This guy!" to which she responds "Is it the Cryptids?" I answer "They have no thumbs! They will however get to have their litterbox in the bedroom tomorrow while the guys rip the bathroom floor up." Sci says "I mean, they have weird little paws." to which I respond "Also they might have a human thumb stashed away somewhere for all I know."]
I meant to call the HVAC company next week, because I hadn't heard from them about getting my unit replaced but I also wasn't about to bother with it before Thanksgiving. But they called me this morning and were very apologetic when they asked "Would...would we be able to do it tomorrow?" and I said YES immediately.
And then had to go and frantically empty out the utility closet, where the HVAC is, but where the litterbox, some cleaning supplies, and Darth Ladder also live. So Darth Ladder aka Anakin Stepladder is out in the living room for a bit.
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[ID: A photograph of a wooden ladder, painted green with duct tape on several areas, sitting in front of my living room window.]
I swept and steam-mopped as best I could, put the litterbox back so as not to freak out the cats ahead of time, and tomorrow before the new unit arrives I'll move the litterbox and bathroom rug out of the way.
I have never been more excited to spend several thousand dollars on something I can't eat, wear, or carnally enjoy.
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the-innefable-idiot · 2 years
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lemme be lestat defense lawyer here for a moment
Lestat just wants a human vampiric connection and the fact he can't read neither Louis nor Claudia's minds is making him feel alienated and distraught :(
in the end Lestat is just a lil guy desperate for validation and scared of being alone but he is a babygirl who is wrong about everything all the time
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biolizardboils · 2 years
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not sure if this sounds weird but god the boys’ fur coats are so exquisite in this short?? they’re so bright and look like they’ve been professionally combed out?? headcanon that they had an appointment at a pet salon (which makes it funnier that they went to a junkyard right after)
and they each have a distinct texture too!! Sonic’s is short and straight, Knuckles’ is longer and kinda wavy, and Tails’ is the longest and puffs out like a real fox. thanks again Marza for my entire life
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olliecoded · 9 days
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anyway scars by the crane wives is so insane it's like. there's something really wrong with me and it's ruining you, it's ruining both of us, and i know what it is but i don't know where it came from and i don't know how to fix it. there's nothing that made me this way, i just am. i think i've always been like this and i just didn't see it at first. i don't think there was ever any chance that i could've been anything better than this. this was always what i was going to become. this was always who i was going to be. and then they just PLAYED that at their concert with no warning and said hope u guys like our new song! ❤️
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gleesongtournament · 11 months
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Glee Song Tournament Redemption Round
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godsprettiestprincess · 10 months
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hello same anon. Yes lmao that was exactly what I was thinking about too.
Also imagining Sam trying out dating other people and on first dates, he’s thinking ‘:/ okay but how long do we have to spend on small talk why can’t we skip to the part where you’re my other half and I’d trust you with my soul’ which probably ends with him getting a reputation of being Way Too Intense for a high schooler(?) (idk at what age people start dating I’m ace and never cared.) Point is that he’s routinely disappointed by his dates Not Being Lucifer until he comes to terms with the fact that he should probably skip the hassle and actually commit to making out with the devil in his head.
(Sam and his invisible devil boyfriend. I’m sure Dean & John would be very normal about this. There’s no way this could go wrong for Sam.)
SO REAL. He enjoys having friends & leading his little groups but whenever he goes on dates/gets kissed/etc he’s just thinking about Lucifer watching them which is not how that’s supposed to go, he’s pretty sure. Eventually he just starts turning them down and going to the movies “by himself” <333
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