#the double standards are blatant and annoying

[wutheringcaterpillar]

Omg pleeeease I need a dark/angsty Tommy fic where he ends up hurting the reader? Like an argument gets too heated and he ends up slapping her or something. Like maybe she was flirting and dancing a bit too much with someone at a party they’re hosting and he gets jealous and drags her to their room, then they start arguing and he gets so enraged that he basically sees red and absolutely slaps the hell out of her (some non con/dub con smut after as well???). Just need some heavy, dark, possessive, violent, scary/mean Tommy Shelby 😫 The darker the better lol

Warnings: noncon, p in v + anal, physical abuse, degradation, threats with a gun, some blood play, misogyny, name calling

Hope you enjoy! Thank you!

Tommy watched from afar, seeing you and Ada drunk, giggling like a bunch of school girls at a table filled with men. He may not be able to control his sister but his wife was another subject. People were beginning to stare, especially the men Tommy needed on his good side for now. The dress you were wearing was skin tight, your panties just barely showing through the thin black fabric. 

Tonight was a prestige dinner with delegates that Shelby Limited was in talks for business deals. The plan was too conversate, find weak spots, understand the patterns of movements, but the only thing Tommy was focused on was you, a long with every other man.

Even Arthur made a remark, a statement that angered Tommy even more. “Y/N’s quite the appeal tonight isn’t she?” Arthur chuckled, taking someone’s glass of whiskey and finishing it himself.

“What are you talking about?”

“Look at her, need to cherish her better brother before another man makes a move.” That was it, that was enough. When Tommy slammed his glass down and started to walk away Arthur pulled him back, pleading and convincing Tommy to just allow you to have fun for a night but he wouldn’t listen. Frowning, Arthur returned to the table, grabbing another drink whilst Tommy tried to keep his compusure. Greeting and checking in with the guests before approaching your flailing, inebriated body.

Three tradesman of London were in attendance, the blatant look of disgust from where they stood at the bookcase, giving your husband a look of disapproval before carrying on in conversation.

“Tommy! My husband, come here!” When you attempted to pull him down by the sleeve of his expensive suit, he pulled back, tucking his hands in his pockets, giving you a stern expression that told you to follow him.

Pouting, you crossed your arms, rolling your eyes annoyed, picking up a bottle of champagne before walking away with him, making flirtatious remarks to random men as you wobbled away until you were in the master bedroom.

Closing the door, you fell onto the floor laughing in a disarray of emotions, your vision blurry and your eyes dilated. Tommy pulled the nearly empty bottle from your hands, tossing it into the corner of the room before grabbing your wrist forcing you up onto your feet.

“What the fuck are you doing, eh? Are you stupid, is that it? You know how important tonight is and you go and fucking wreck it, bidding yourself off to other men when you are a married, taken woman.”

“Relax Tommy, we’re just having fun. What the boys can do whatever they damn well please but because of what’s between my legs I’m expected to just be formal, elegant?” Tommy looked at you with expecting eyes, not understanding where the confusion is. There were important men here tonight and seeing you galavanting around like some whore and being incoherently drunk made his blood boil. 

Biting dowm on his tongue and locking his jaw, he pointed with dictation, sapphire eyes raging with fire as he seethed out the following words.

“Yes. It’s that fucking simple. You can’t even fucking stand up straight.” Scoffing, you tiptoed around the room, holding onto the dresser to keep your warm, sweating body from falling. The room was spinning but that didn’t change the anger from the double standard that was always set against you. You hadn’t thought before speaking, the words simply sputtering out what you’ve held in.

“You should be thanking me for flirting with them, without me you’d have nothing. I’m simply the means to an end to the shit deals you can’t make on your own.”

Tommy cut you off with the back of his hand slapping across your cheek ferociously, silencing you for good. Grabbing for the bruising skin, you looked back at your husband in shock and fear. He’s never, ever layed a hand on you.

When you ran for the door, he was faster, shoving the wooden object closed with his hand and yanking you back by the strands of your hair, pushing you carelessly onto the bed.

His hands tightened around your wrists as he shoved his hardened member upward against your mound.

“I’d have nothing eh? I’ll show you what it’s like to be treated like you’re nothing.” 

Screaming hysterically, you wept as Tommy ripped the expensive gown, exposing the bare, delicate skin of your thighs. Hitting and fighting against his chest to push him away, he simply lifted his hand, slapping you harshly once more to stop the whining. 

You pressed your hand gently against your temple, a headache forming in the core of your mind from the impactful blow. 

Hearing the buckle of his belt, you panicked but were too weak to defend yourself from the man who claimed to be your husband.

“Maybe if you had just listened and weren’t a fucking whore tonight we wouldn’t be in this postion. Someone’s forgotten their place eh?” Pushing the thin laced fabric of your panties aside, he thrusted upward, letting his thick length penetrate you without any lube. Writhing and seething in pain below him, tears prickled at your eyes, not recognizing who was staring at you anymore.

Spitting at his face, he smiled slyly, a dark twisted grin bellowing at what you had done.

Returning the favor he spat back, hitting you once more with a forceful, strong slap that echoed through the room and knocked out your hearing in one ear.

“Don’t forget sweetheart. I own you, you’re my property.” Wrapping his hands around your throat, you struggled for air as he drilled into your dry cunt, shredding open the sensitive skin like a grater would cheese. Blood slowly leaked out from your pussy, the ability to scream non existent as your airway was constricted, bruising as his nails dug into your skin.

When your hands reached up to try to push him away from your neck, desperate for air, he shed himself of his tie, wrapping the fabric around your wrists tightly to the headboard and shoved his underwear in your mouth. 

Slapping your cunt repeatedly, he mocked your whimpers, feeling your walls slowly start to produce your sweet syrup against your will.

“How pathetic, is this what you wanted? Someone likes me cock, who knew my wife was a little fucking whore.” Screeching beneath the makeshift gag, your skin seethed in pain, wanting nothing more for this to be over.

His hands grasped at your breasts, tugging and pulling at your nipples, smitten by how easily your body gave in to him. 

Flipping you over onto your stomach, he spread your ass cheeks, pulling the fatty skin apart finding that tight, untouched hole you’d been denying him for so many years, now he was going to take it for himself.

There was nowhere for you to go, your eyes searched, panicked looking for anything to get you out of these bindings, but there was nothing. 

Aligning himself with your taint, you could feel the rounded head of his shaft resting at your virgin entrance. Every bone and muscle in your violated body tensed when his head pushed through your strained, congested walls. You screamed in agony as he wasted no time burying himself balls deep in your taint.

“Oh fuck…Didn’t know you could feel this good love. My little slave, that ass devouring me cock. About time I reminded you of your place. Nothing but a slut, a mere stupid little bitch.” He moaned in between thrusts as he fucked your anus, pounding your ass up and down on his shaft while holding the cheeks of your ass roughly. The sporadic pain was different than your pussy, far more intensified. It didn’t feel like stinging anymore, the size of his penis sent flames of fire through your hole.  

When he buried his neck into the crook of your neck while he continued to pump relentlessly into you. You fumbled with the bindings while he wasn’t paying attention. 

Realessing a choked sob, you were on the verge of being free, fidgeting with the tight knot with a tremendous effort, working over the fabric through the tears and painful agony, but you weren’t as smooth as you thought. Tommy’s hand shot up, slamming down on yours and pulled you arms behind your back, causing the gag to fall out in the process.

“Help! Help! Ah-“ Striking you in the back of your waeay head, he shoved his fingers between your lips, invading your mouth and pulling at the sides of your lips.

“Shut the fuck up. Listen to me, are you listening sweetheart?” You whimpered through his fingers, nodding your head, squeezing your eyes closed in a pained expression when he thrusted his cock violently with a force of strength and dominance.

“No one is coming to your rescue, you belong to me, and I have the right to use and abuse my property all I want and you will listen, or suffer the consequences as you are right now. Get up.” Tommy pulled you onto his lap, reinserting his lengthy shaft into your soaking wet walls. You mewled from the discomfort, struggling to make eye contact with Tommy. 

His lips connected to your hardened nipples, biting down on the flesh harshly, aiming to draw blood. Slapping you across the face once again, your head whipped to the other side fiercly.

“Ride me. Go on, you claim to be so great in bed to those men out there. Can’t treat your husband the same?” Another backhand, before his hand gripped the fat of your ass cheeks, slamming you up and down on his cock, an immense joy curdling within him from seeing your pathetic tears.

Then an idea struck you, if you’r just get him off surely he’d let you go. A satisfied grin spread across his face when you began to rotate your hips, staring slowly at first before picking up speeding. 

“Ah, fuck, that’s it love. Show me what that worthless cunt can do.” You continued to whine and whimper as you rode his cock, your ass landing on his thighs with each powerful bounce, your breasts flying up and down for his amusement.

You could feel him begin to pulsate, he was close, very close.

Arching your back, Tommy focused in on your pussy devouring his lengthy member with each pivotal motion of your hips. Your walls tightened, constricting his length, and within seconds his seed was filling your tortured void, flooding into your ovaries.

At that moment you moved as fast as lightning, taking the lamp and smashing it over his head to try to escape his bitter soul. Rushing to put clothes on, you ran to the door, thinking that someone would help you but Tommy wasn’t weak and you were nowhere nearly as strong as him. He was quick to recover, but not as quick as you. Throwing on a nightshirt and slipping on the closest thing to work as underwear, you opened the door just nearly out when Tommy pulled on his pants, rolling over the bed and running, rushing toward you, slamming the door closed once again. 

You punched the door in defeat, frightened to turn around until he forced you to, pulling out something you’d never thought he’d use as a threat to you.

“If you think I am playing some sort of sick game, you are sadly mistaken sweetheart. Now get back on the fucking bed, you’ve done enough tonight.” Removing the safety, he pointed the gun directly on the middle of your forehead, the cool metal barrel sending chills down your spine. Is this what your marriage had come to? How were you supposed to move forward from this catastrophic night? Surely people would notice the bruises but then again, no one ever questioned Tommy Shelby, not anyone that gave a shit about their life.

Surrendering you rose your arms, the shaking of your trembling hands visible. The man facing you, you no longer recognized. There was no guilt, or shame, or any type of love present in those venomous, frigid eyes, he really wasn’t joking. Making your way back to the bed, you tucked your head onto the pillow, weeping relentlessly into the case of the feathered object. Tommy layed the gun down on the table, taking a seat beside you. You flinched away from his cold, heartless touch, terrified of what was to come next.

“I need to go back and entertain our guests. You stay here and be good. Can you do that?” He twisted your labia, pinching the sensitive skin, causing you a tremendous amount of pain, reminding you what could happen if you don’t listen.

Nodding with fearful, tired eyes, you watched as Tommy dressed himself, and stayed in your fragile position on the soiled sheets, eventually crying yourself to sleep in the dark room.

#thomas shelby #tommy shelby #ranaewrites #peaky blinders #thomas shelby imagine #tommy shelby imagine #thomas shelby x reader #tommy shelby x reader #requested

[darklinaforever]

So the delusion of "colonization" on Zutara is coming back in force after NATLA ? My God. It's been 20 years. People still can't learn the definitions of the words they use ? (Especially since it's never brought up when people ship Zuko & Sokka or Katara and Azula... Also since once, a fan of Azula & Katara came to lecture me on the fact of loving Zutara who apparently would be an ultra sexualized ship while... Well what she reblogs or says on her own ship is of a sexual nature. The double standards compared to Zutara have always been blatant. Zutara triggers / annoys some for... reasons ?) Nor to let go of their hatred ? People have differences of opinion and differences whether you like it or not. Honestly, I think what annoys the antis the most about Zutara is that of all the fanon ships, there was really a discussion in the writers' room about whether to do Zutara instead of Kataang or not and that there are traces of this in the original series. That and also the fact that it's easier to type on a "heterosexual" ship than a ship between two men and two women. Because here, there is no risk of being called homophobic.

#zutara #pro zutara #zuko x katara #katara x zuko #zuko and katara #katara and zuko #katara #pro katara #zuko #pro zuko #prince zuko #pro prince zuko #fire lord zuko #pro fire lord zuko #anti kataang #anti maiko #atla #avatar : the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #natla

[ariesmortis]

I see a lot of people complaining about Vivzie's humor and the writing of both Hulluva Boss and Hazbin without having much of an actual argument and it kinda came at a pique today when I saw a video of Adam from S1 E1 saying "call me Dickmaster" and adding sarcastic cheering and clapping with people saying "this show sounds like it's written by a 13 year old who got permission to curse"

For one: that isn't even the full joke. It's funnier when it turns to Charlie and she still calls him Adam because there's no way in Hell, pun intended, she'd call him that

For two: these are the same people who either don't enjoy adult animation to begin with or enjoy shows like Family Guy, Rick and Morty, and South Park (which isn't a bad thing) and would lose their minds laughing if Rick was like "M-Morty -burp- call me Dickmaster" and praise the jokes and writing for what is really a mostly mediocre show due to the creators fucking up their series

I don't know if it's a double standard or just some type of blatant disregard for something new that some people just aren't interested in, but it's just annoying seeing baseless criticisms from people who don't really care. In the end, this just feels like a me problem because people are entitled to their preferences and judgements, I suppose, but this just feels very biased for some reason

Anyways! I'm loving the show myself if that wasn't obvious 💖

#hazbin hotel #helluva boss #vivziepop #text post

[asteria-argo]

Hey at least you're not one of those people who thinks that Ted is 100% guilty for all of Jamie's suffering like some people are. Yeah he has double standards and he's kind of a dick but he isn't a monster. He's just a shitty person at times.

My Hot Take on Ted is that he tries his best with Jamie, and it isn't good enough. You can go into something with your best intentions and still fuck up, you can be a good, kindhearted person who still has biases and treats people unfairly.

The thing about Ted and Jamie, the very crux of their relationship in canon to me, is that Ted doesn't like Jamie, and he doesn't even realize it.

Jamie is essentially the antithesis of what kind of person Ted wants his players to be, he's combative and non receptive to a lot of Ted's usually tried and true methods of coaching, he's just kind overall frustrating and annoying. Ted doesn't like him.

But Ted? He can't not like someone, his whole deal is being friendly with everyone, in believing in people, and to me this really shapes how Ted views Jamie as The Problem even when Jamie is not actively being the problem. For instance, in the scene where Jamie gets benched? I do believe Ted should have benched Jamie, but I think he should have benched Roy as well. It was not only unfair that he singled out Jamie when they'd both done the wrong thing, it was blatant favoritism.

But Ted wouldn't see it like that, because from his perspective Jamie is the The Problem, Jamie is the one that needs to change in order for things to be better. It's why Jamie is the one put through trial by fire when he comes back to Richmond without Ted stepping in to actually manage his team, it's why Ted dismisses Jamie's concerns about Zava right out of the gate even though he's proven right immediately, because even though Jamie has changed to be a better person, a better friend, and a better player, Ted still doesn't like him, because the Jamie's hasn't changed his personality, only as a player. And Ted still cannot admit to himself that he just doesn't like someone, so his bias towards Jamie goes unchecked because Ted thinks that he's justified in his automatic assumption that Jamie is The Problem.

and the show never addressing it because they absolutely did not realize or intend to have made Jamie and Teds dynamic like that!

#wip stuff #asteria answers asks #jamie tartt #ted lasso #ted lasso meta #asteria rambles

[pathologictwo]

for how progressive some of y’all claim to be, the double standard between how bg3 fans treat Wyll as the only black companion versus the rest of the male party members and tbh all of the origin characters as a whole is incredibly blatant. he gets significantly less fan content compared to everyone else, and when i do see posts about him, it’s constant shit-talking.

Wyll’s heroism and bravery are painted as “white saviorism” (which is an insane thing to say about a black man), his decorum is snobbish, and his occasional awkwardness is annoying. but if literally any other character shares a similar trait, it’s endearing or ok because of xyz. the difference in treatment is even more obvious in the contrast between how people talk about Wyll versus Astarion. i saw people getting mad about something Wyll can say to Astarion about feeding on blood from chickens, and people were saying it was so insensitive and rude of him to make a joke about that…but Astarion can be selfish, cruel, and even fucking racist against the Gur, and people will bend over backwards to defend him. i saw people get mad at Wyll for being upset about his transformation and going off on his own during the tiefling party and saying he was “killing the vibe” when HE LITERALLY SEPARATES HIMSELF SO HE DOESN’T BRING THE MOOD DOWN. the comments on YouTube videos featuring his banter with other party members are littered with people saying “this is why I always kill Wyll,” “this is why I never bring him” and in the video he’s just having conversations and making jokes???

why does everybody else deserve to be treated with nuance or kid gloves, but with Wyll it’s different? do you not notice the fact that you’re treating the only black origin character like shit?

#this isn’t me saying Astarion is unredeemable or it’s bad to like or defend him #just pointing out a double standard #x #baldur’s gate 3

[stagbeetleboy]

Re: your military propaganda post, I've noticed another really annoying trend in leftist circles of stuff like the MCU or Top Gun being hand-waved away but then something like Across the Spider-Verse will be decried as, like, copaganda. Which it is largely but the double standard is drawn across very specific and obvious factors. White leftists are holding much less harmful poc-led films to a much higher standard than much more harmful mostly-white films

The fucking copaganda thing is crazy bc they’ll defend Brooklyn 99 with their life, because it’s so “progressive” for having like queer poc cops or whatever. When that’s literally like part of the copaganda. You have Andy Samberg as the face of the show and suddenly it’s ok, but Across the spiderverse is crossing a line.

Like I can list quite a few blatant copagandas, like gotham, grimm, and bones but the thing is I’ve barely heard a peep about those, even when they where still running. Which is the fucking double standard you’re talking about bc they’re white lead and waay more heavy handed with its pro piggy tactics.

Btw before others get defensive about their favs, you can still enjoy all of these things (just be smart about what you’re absorbing). It’s just really fucking weird that spiderverse is a problem bc of an obvious impossible standard for anything minority lead.

[crossdressingdeath]

I just realized: Alistair dumping the leadership responsibilities onto you also makes Wynne annoying or even more annoying depending on how you play. Like she is all over you preaching about "responsibility" and "you are a Grey Warden, you have a duty" and bla bla bla. Meanwhile Alistair is over there literally shirking HIS duty for no other reason than "I don't wanna."

Why is Morrigan the only one to question this shit!?

The thing that really bothers me is that Wynne acts like Alistair's kindly old granny. Like, she's darning his clothes and fussing over his injuries and generally acting like your typical grandmother and it's all just sooooooo sweet... and then she's constantly getting on the Warden's case for not being the perfect darkspawn-killing Blight-ending machine to the point of lecturing them about duty over things like having (at the time) casual sex? Even though Alistair actively refuses to take on the responsibilities of a Warden, Wynne doesn't get on his case about it! In fact, having gone through her banters with him, if you romance Alistair she encourages it on his end... while telling the Warden to back off because duty and responsibility. ...Which, thinking about it, what was she going to do if she successfully hyped Alistair up over the relationship and successfully talked the Warden into breaking it off...? Odd choice there. But yeah, Wynne seems to forget that Alistair is also a Warden and so should also be responsible for ending the Blight. Whatever his reasons may have been for not taking charge, Alistair has very firmly refused the responsibility that should be his, and instead of lecturing him the way she does the Warden (who, reminder, is taking on their own share of responsibility in ending the Blight and picking up all of Alistair's slack) Wynne babies him! It's such a blatant double standard!

And I mean, Bioware could've gone somewhere interesting with that by suggesting that Wynne's so much nicer and more forgiving to Alistair than she is to the Warden because Alistair's a former Templar and she has the usual Circle trauma that's making her want to suck up to him to avoid trouble in a way she doesn't feel the need to suck up to the Warden. But they didn't do that (in fact when he asks she insists he doesn't make her uncomfortable in any way and that Templars are necessary), so we're just left with the sense that Wynne's being incredibly unfair and blatantly playing favourites!

#dragon age origins #wynne #asks #anon

[buckysbabygorl]

The other day, my bf and I were driving with one of my bf’s buddies. Buddy goes “why are girls proud to be sluts?” (problematic statement ik) but being sleepy and annoyed I said “because men are”. After a few moments he went “wow, I never thought of it that way.”

Now this isn’t a commentary on the usage of language, or generalization, or blatant obvious “slut-shaming” used; but rather the fact that our generation still has a gap of understanding shared experience and double standards. Really? You never thought of it that way? You never thought of it what way, dude? That people, regardless of gender identity, can participate in the same behaviors yet only one side is seen as shameful? Like come the fuck on

#slutshaming #feminism #double standards #white boy learns empathy

[just-a-torn-up-masterpiece]

first kill has been cancelled after its first season

it’s not overly surprising considering the way they like to cancel everything with queer female representation but it’s still disappointing

AND IT ENDED ON A CLIFFHANGER WTF

they cancelled gentleman jack

they cancelled the wilds

they ruined killing eve with the tired bury your gays trope

it’s actually exhausting and so fucking annoying to see any glimpse of representation just be quite blatantly disliked and get taken away

but they’re doing a season 2 of heartstopper

and young royals

not only that but the fans of both of these shows were criticising first kill before it even came out

the response to the announcement of first kill was fans of these shows saying they don’t care and just want heartstopper to be renewed or straight men fetishising it 🧍

they don’t even try to hide it anymore - there is a blatant distaste for queer women, a painful double standard within the queer community where the men are praised but the women are looked at in disgust or under a predatory gaze

it’s tiring

can we please stop getting cancelled

#first kill #had to rant #sorry #lgbtq #first kill cancelled #first kill cancellation #the wilds #killing eve #queer representation #the wilds cancellation #queer women

[evelhak]

Ok Moon,

Can i ask you 15, 13, 28, 44 back?

Smootches!

Vesper

Thanks. 💙

15. Favourite movie

I'm not sure. Spirited Away, Brother Bear, Mona Lisa Smile, The Outsiders, Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, Frozen 2 and Little Women (1994) are certainly options. Generally if a movie makes me cry uncontrollably it's a candidate.

13. Biggest turn ons

Well, this is easy since nothing else turns me on really, except a love scene between two characters whose love I'm in love with. I'm ace but when it comes to fiction I'm sort of like demi because I need a deep emotional connection to the characters. I'm still not attracted to the characters though, it's just that I can then deeply emphatize when I have that connection, so whatever they feel I'm going to feel.

28. A description of the person I dislike the most

Well, if picking a favourite movie is difficult...

I'm just going to have to think of the person I currently have the most negative feelings towards, I think. I don't hate them, but I have never liked them very much personally, just tolerated them and treated them with the respect anyone deserves but to be honest I don't like them very much personally. This is time sensitive though, so they might not annoy me this much in the near future, they might improve or disappear from my life. They are someone who is two-faced in the sense that they are always putting up the sweetest, most harmless and innocent front. They appear so kind and vulnerable and weak in a sense that I think is supposed to be disarming and give the impression that they could never hurt a fly, like they are a baby bunny or a baby mouse or something. And that's true, they wouldn't actively harm anyone, I think. But they passively harm pretty much everyone I've seen with them, because they don't have the guts to stand up for themselves, much less another person, and they don't take responsibility for their actions, and especially their inaction. They constantly gaslight and invalidate other people's feelings because they don't want any drama, but they are actually the cause of most of that drama, because they regularly fail to communicate anything of importance and answer to the needs of the people around them and be truly present for others. The constant and blatant denying of other people's feelings is probably what gets to me the most about this person. And the way they do it, because they are always veiling their invalidation as kindness and reassurance, which makes people feel like it's impossible to get through to this person. They have frequent double standards. They "don't want to be a bother" but actually they want everything to go their way. They've mastered being so pitifully insecure and innocent that you have a hard time not feeling like a jerk if you judge them for anything. They do everything to appear like the most understanding and open minded person but they do it in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you express concerns about another person, they always take that person's side, saying meaningless shit like "oh everybody just needs to be understood" as if that excuses all behaviour, clearly moralizing you for having feelings about how someone treats you. They never say what they truly want, they act like they are being a good person by not making their wishes verbally known but they are actually disrespectful of other people's boundaries, because they stay close and wait for opportunities to get what they want anyway, they just always manage to do it in a way that they don't need to ask and the other person doesn't need to agree, they just wait for the opportunity where they get what they want as a by-product of what is happening, but still in a way that harms others and their relationships, it just conveniently shifts the blame away from this person. They have not truly grasped that being a good person isn't the same as "not actively doing anything wrong" because they are constantly causing harm by passively trying to get their way in the world. But I believe they are also in denial about this, and it is not calculated. It's just the only way they know how to get by. Their strategies are repulsive to me, but I don't hate their guts or anything, I would positively respond to any improvement from them, but I also don't want this underhanded emotional manipulation in my life. I'm all for direct and honest communication.

44. A random fact about anything

I just learned you can buy mermaid tails in the city closest to me and I want one.

[soncicthebugger2]

🔥

aight, first answer on these, haven't been feeling too good lately which is why i haven't aswered these right away but i am now.

ooh, Complete freedom, should be interesting, guess i could make several small answers on subjects (warning, walls of text ahead)

-Kirby

Some of the "Memes" and jokes commonly made are overused or have run their course and annoy me at this point, you probably know the ones "Oh Kirby kills Gods!" or "Oh kirby goes on a rampage over cake" Neither of which are true really, and while they might be (or at least started off as) intentional exaggerations they're constantly repeated and parroted over and over again By Both Fans and Non Fans Alike and at this point have gotten grating and ignore and degrade\rob Kirby (both the Character and the Series) of any Detail, depth and Nuance.

Which brings me to another point, Conflation of and in general causing Blatant Misinformation are too common an Occurrence in this Fandom and causes way too many debates and/or Disregarding of important things in story, One example is The Idea that Subgames (Basically Other Modes not Named "Story") In general and all of their contents are somehow Non-Canon (in a franchise that doesn't worry too much about Separating things in the first place and Leaves things Pretty open generally, Somehow, Work your head around that one) Which is Blatantly false and irreconcilable with many of the games. Their Source? an Old (and Likely badly) translated Miiverse post made as part of a QnA for Kirby Planet Robobot that said parts of a Pair of Subgame modes were separate from and didn't affect the story, Note i said Only parts of a Pair of Subgames, those parts being the parts of two subgames that either wouldn't entirely make sense and don't line up with the story or are obviously there for Gameplay purposes or they would be over fast.

The First one being Meta Knightmare Returns, a sort of Time attack\Speedrun mode where you go through the story mode stages and bosses as Meta Knight, Normally he gets captured and forced into a fight against you part way through the story in the main mode and remains captured until the final battle where he helps you, in MKR the Capturing part never happens (so you can go through the entire story mode) and Instead the story goes on as normal with a Robotic Double replacing him in his Fights, that part conflicts with the main story and is obviously there for Gameplay Convention, meanwhile after the normal parts of the story instead of Going to the final battle, Meta Knight fights Three New Bosses not encountered in the story, all with their own Pause screen descriptions giving Important Lore and Story detail, while the previous parts conflicted with the main game entirely this part doesn't really as much and is given a Reasoning as to how it can happen in the main mode.

The Second one being The True Arena, a boss rush mode where you Go against multiple Bosses in a row with Few rest stops to heal in between, there's always a Standard arena and a True arena when an arena mode appears, the True arena However usually contains Harder variations of some bosses and usually the major final boss from the speedrun mode (as Kirby never fights them himself normally due them being exclusive to that mode type which usually focus on different Characters) and one Exclusive boss, these (and any repeated bosses in the True arena) usually contain Important Story detail and Lore giving more insight into the background of the characters and events that cause the Games and the Exclusive boss usually acts as one final test and contains an extra battle phase or two and wraps up the story. in this case obviously the fights against enemies and villains already fought in the main mode and speedrun mode don't factor into the story and are there for gameplay purposes (or else it wouldn't be an arena) but the exclusive pause descriptions and boss do of course.

Somehow, in what basically is akin to an awful Game of Telephone, this got Misconstrued into the Subgames in the game aren't Canon, into Subgames as a whole aren't canon, into Characters and story detail contained within modes outside of the main one aren't Canon, Somehow even though that makes no sense (Kind of like how the Sonic Fandom made up "mandates" really now that i think of it.)

This of course falls apart as soon as you take even a Single second to actually think about it or even look at other games, Kirby Super Star and it's Remake Super Star Ultra, Kirby Star Allies, and the framing device situation Presented in Kirby's dream collection (which is regularly referenced back to btw) and their stories are all largely comprised of Subgames in someway or another, so to say Subgames as a whole were somehow NonCanon would mean Disregarding entire games that are Constantly referenced not to mention integral to the Story and character Development more often then not, Not to mention the fact that the actual answer in the QnA was ONLY referring to the Game in question it was about and never Referring to the other games or the Concept of subgames as a whole (they were referred to by name for Goodness sake!)

Whew kirby rant over (i think)

-Sonic the Hedgehog

I'm not a huge stickler for certain or things concepts to have to remain largely consistant (characters however yes, though it's not like they've ever been that inconsistent in the games)

this is largely in reference in to the Fandom's needless obsession with making a reasoning for classic sonic and modern\main sonic being separate after being past and future selfs for Literally One Game, I'm not really worried about that and really Sega could do what ever with it and i wouldn't care too much, the games are always pretty self contained (aside from some character or story stuff that they might intend to carry over to another game or revive one day) anyway so whenever the Classic games are a part of the mainline series\dimension just with a separate timeline\dimension split off from them or the classics never happened and are now an alternate series with different stuff happening now in the main series i wouldn't really be too bothered by it.

it's kind of freeing really now because they don't have to be bound by the classics or worry about old concepts and stuff from them while at the same time they can make new content and games around the classics without having to worry about conflicting with anything in the modern\main games anyway, and there are a few games and other things that could fill in the place of the events of some of the classics anyway if they are removed so it's not like there's much of a loss. it also allows them to maintain and use two different instantly recognizable designs for many things so a small extra bonus for them out of it.

guess i go with those for now, maybe i'll think of some more later.

#Hot take #Unpopular Opinion #i guess #Kirby #Sonic the Hedgehog #Kirby Planet Robobot #Kirby Super Star #kirby Super Star Ultra #Kirby's Dream Collection #Classic Sonic

[babyrdie]

i feel exploitative asking you to just draw things so I come here with a different type of ask while you draw odypen since a couple must be more difficult than a single person

your favorite female character

your favorite male character

a female character you hate

a male character you hate

a popular character that you don't get that vibe

a hated character you like

your favorite F/F ship

your favorite M/M ship

your favorite F/M ship

a ship you hate

the deity interests you most

Hey! No need to feel exploitative! But you're right, odypen will take more time.

By the way, I'ill ignore deities in the answers as much as possible. So I won't mention which divine couples I like and things like that. I'ill focus on the mortal characters, except a few moments.

1. Favorite female character

I don't have a supreme favorite! But I really like Medea, Clytemnestra, Circe, Antigone and Helen. They all have a lot of personality, although they're different. They're also very interesting because, except for Antigone, they all have gray/questionable morality.

In the case of Medea and Clytemnestra, I also like how they subvert gender roles (especially depending on the version) because I think that's an interesting approach. In Antigone's case, I like how she's balanced between strength, determination, love and loyalty. For Circe, I like her duality as a fearsome goddess and a knowledgeable helper. And for Helen, I specifically like her portrayal by Homer!

I'm not going to explain more than that or this post will be huge! In case you're wondering about Penelope, she's in the "characters I like but aren't favorites" category.

2. Favorite male character

FAVORITE is a strong word, so I guess just Patroclus and Achilles for now. Jason from "Argonautica" and "Medea" is a favorite too, but I haven't read his other myths yet to solidify it. I think Perseus, Orpheus and Cadmus have GREAT potential for me to really like them too!

There are other male characters that I simply like, but they aren't my favorites. For example, I like Paris, Hector, Antilochus, Great Ajax, Oedipus, Tiresias, and Cadmus…but they aren't favorites. As for Perseus and Orpheus, I just haven't read enough of them yet.

3. Female character I hate

None? I think my least favorite is Calypso, but I don't really HATE her.

I know a lot of people hate her because she's a rapist and that's understandable, but I have male favs who are abusers in certain versions, so…Idk it would be a blatant double standard. If it weren't Greek mythology but a more modern story, I would definitely hate Calypso, but when it comes to Greek mythology, she is neither the first nor the last abuser. My problem with her character is that she is…basically just that? Like okay, she kind of helps Odysseus later, but still…? Hermes had to threaten her to do it anyway, so I don't think Calypso is that complex. She doesn't have much else interesting about her, she only has the part where she imprisons Odysseus for 7 years. So she's pretty uninteresting, It's as if Calypso's character was pretty much just abusing Odysseus. Idk maybe there's another myth about her that I'm missing.

4. Male character I hate

Just like with female characters, there are none that I HATE. Only the ones that are uninteresting or annoying.

Little Ajax is certainly despicable, but for me he fits into the same category as Calypso: he's neither the first nor the last abuser, but his story is so uninteresting that his most distinguishing characteristic is that he's an abuser and that is why he's most hated than other characters who are also abusers. Like Calypso, he's not much more than that, and so I can't sympathize with them.

I see a lot of people argue that he was despicable even by Ancient Greek standards, but that's because he disrespected Athena and not because they cared THAT much about the fate of enslaved women. No one despised Achilles for having Briseis, Agamemnon for having Chryseis and Cassandra, Great Ajax for having Tecmessa, etc. And Heracles had considerable respect and he explicitly raped people, so…really, the hatred for Little Ajax was more because he was disrespectful towards Athena. It wasn't because they were all screaming "rape is wrong!" and “consent is essential!” especially because a slave society was certainly not SO concerned with the freedom of consent of the enslaved. There is certainly recognition of the pain of the defeated (Homer mentions that women cried at Patroclus' funeral because of their own pain too, Aeschylus comments on the slavery, Euripides makes enslaved women extremely sympathetic), but not in the way there is at the modern days.

Not defending him or anything, I just think the constant narrative I see that paints it as if Athena and Poseidon punished Little Ajax because they were angered by rape is…well, nonsense. A lot of Trojans were raped and there was no punishment for their abusers precisely because in their cases it was not an offense to the gods. Apollo cursed the Achaeans because Agamemnon disrespected him by mocking Chryses' priesthood and not because he thought "oh poor Chryseis, kidnapped from her home", Little Ajax was punished because he disrespected Athena by dragging someone who sought protection into her temple and even take down her statue and not because Athena thought "I interfere because I am vocally against rape".

Perhaps I could consider Creon of Thebes. He was UNBEARABLE with Antigone, belittling her all the time and often being dismissive towards her because she's a girl, and with Ismene it wasn't much better. He also only worsened the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices, and not enough did he make that law prohibiting the burial of Polyneices. Creon was also very opportunistic towards Oedipus, and very insensitive towards his own family. So yes, even though he has considerable "screen time", he is simply unbearable.

Polydectes isn't a nice guy either. He harassed Danae endlessly and then tried to make her son die because that way he could remove Perseus as an obstacle to being with Danae. And like Little Ajax and Calypso, he doesn't have much else to remember besides his harassing behavior.

5. Popular character that I don't get that vibe

There are a lot of characters that I'm indifferent to, but most of them aren't popular. I think that of the popular characters, the only one that is indifferent to me is Cassandra. I don't dislike her, I just don't have any attachment to her. Okay, this is a hugely unpopular opinion and I know it!

As Cassandra is very popular and talked about a lot, I read it hoping there would be more of her in the myths, but in fact she has a less active role compared to other popular characters (note that "less active role" is not the same as "she doesn't has personality". I know she has personality, but that doesn't make her have an active role). Most sources have her as more of a mention or quick explanation, with "Agamemnon" and "Trojan Women" being the ones she has the most visibility on. Practically all of them are about her suffering too (curse of Apollo, rape situation with Little Ajax, enslaved by Agamemnon and murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus) and I was kind of hoping that there would be something of her outside of this context of immense pain.

There's also her kind of romance with Agamemnon. Even though it's not made explicit, it was kind of obvious to me that they're supposed to be a couple. Except for Euripides' Cassandra, she seems to at least like Agamemnon. And I'm not really here for master vs. slave, so not my cup of tea.

Again, I don't dislike her! I just don't really like her either. Except for the moments of sympathy, she's very indifferent to me.

6. Hated character I like

None!

Even the ones I like who receive A LOT of hate also have A LOT of fans, so it's more of the balanced type than the unquestionably hated type of fandom (Achilles, Circe, Medea, Clytemnestra, Helen). If you asked me the opposite question "a character most people hate and you don't", I actually have an answer for this ask. But "hated character I like"? Nah

And so you don't have to send me an ask like "who is the hated character that you don't hate?", I'll answer: it's Agamemnon. To be honest with you, I DON'T like him, but I think the hate on him is exaggerated. Like, dude DIDN'T want to sacrifice Iphigenia, for the love of god stop talking as if "oh so Agamemnon went AND KILLED HIS OWN DAUGHTER" as if it had been something simple. If it were simple, it wouldn't be a sacrifice for him. There would be no conflict in the myth because the Achaeans would want to sacrifice and so would he and that was it, the story was over. And yeah, I also found him UNBEARABLE in Book 1 of The Iliad, but I like ACHILLES who also made me very angry at certain moments, so! Yes, he has slaves, but then has Patroclus, Achilles, Odysseus, Great Ajax, etc. The reason I don't say I like him is that he only interests me as a background for other characters (Menelaus, Electra, Clytemnestra, Helen…), but I definitely don't think he's a nightmare incarnate.

7. Favorite F/F ship

None!

Sincerely? As far as I've read, Greek mythology doesn't have much F/F potential.

I know there is Callisto x Artemis, but it seemed to me that Callisto was the only one interested and Artemis didn't reciprocated that feeling. Not because Callisto is a woman, but simply because Artemis seems mostly uninterested in the spheres of sex and romantic love and this is a defining characteristic of hers. I was avoiding mentioning gods in the answers, but F/F has so little that it basically left this myth.

I know Helen x Cassandra exists and when I read Homer I saw the potential, but reading the other sources…sorry guys, but Cassandra is EXTREMELY straight to me. Like, the straightest of the straight!!! I can see a little of her in the straight women I know, but I couldn't see her as sapphic. I can't see her actually liking a woman romantically. I'm okay with this ship, I just don't share it. There's Clytemnestra x Cassandra too, but that goes into the thing about me not liking master x slave… okay, Cassandra's master is Agamemnon and not Clytemnestra, but still.

I actually can't quickly think of a canon F/F relationship and fanon ones are almost impossible because the female characters are usually clearly male-oriented. When I say "male-oriented" I don't mean that they do everything for men and there's nothing else about their characters beyond that, I mean more in the sense that there's simply no place for sapphic romantic interests in the narrative.

Like, who am I going to ship Andromeda with? Her story is divided between her being an unfair sacrifice and her being with Perseus. Penelope? Her plot is literally about Odysseus and Telemachus. Medea? She is obsessed with Jason. Eurydice? Her story is her romance with Orpheus. Ariadne? Both relevant periods of her life involve men, Theseus and Dionysus. Suffice it to say that female characters in Greek mythology in general are very obviously straight to me, so I'm unable to do even an F/F headcanon with them.

8. Favorite M/M ship

Predictable answer alert! It's Patroclus x Achilles.

But it's also because I think their type of relationships really resonate with me as an aroace person. Maybe this gets weird because you might think what the hell does Patrochilles have to do with aroace… and believe me, it's not because I headcanon them like that! In fact, for me they are both allo! No, it's for another reason. It's the same situation I have with Enkidu x Gilgamesh, actually.

Basically, it is precisely how they're brothers in arms, cousins, squire and prince, best friends and possible lovers at the same time that gives this interest. They don't fit into a traditional role. Truth be told, if they were JUST lovers, it wouldn't have been so special to me. I like how they're in a kind of limbo when it comes to describing their relationship, because no description alone is enough…there has to be more. Just "friends" doesn't express it well, just "lovers" doesn't express it well, "just squire and prince" doesn't express it well…it has to be all together!

It's this situation of being nothing and everything at the same time, of having a type of affection that doesn't fit into a specific relationship label, that resonates with me as an aroace person. More specifically, like aroace that isn't a-gray. I've never felt attraction, whether sexual or romantic, but I would actually love a queerplatonic relationship. Something that wasn't friendship, but wasn't dating. Something trustworthy, comfortable, warm, loving, even if it wasn't what other people were doing and what they expected me to do.

That's why it irritates me when people say shipping them is just "liking two guys having sex." I don't understand why when shipping M/F couples you do it for all about complexity and feelings, but at the moment it's an F/F or M/M couple it's CERTAINLY because of a fetish. Like, no, they're my favorite because their lack of a traditional relationship label resonates with me as aroace who wants a queerplatonic relationship whereas canon M/F relationships are very obviously allo and amatonormativity to me and I don't identify with them. It's just that, my god! Does this mean I don't like conventionally amatonormative shipps? No, I even mentioned some in this ask!

Also, I like Diomedes x Odysseus too because of how they are in The Iliad, and I also like Diomedes x Odysseus x Penelope. They're not my favorite and you won't see me posting about them, but I like them. I've seen Odysseus x Agamemnon, but for me Agamemnon is the straightest man to ever walk the earth. Most of the notable myths involve a woman (Clytemnestra, Chryseis, Cassandra) and the only male characters he is consistently portrayed as having a deep bond with are…well, Menelaus and Orestes, who are family. I've seen shipps with Menelaus and I can see the bi potential in him, but at the same time I don't have a specific M/M shipp for him (I've seen the shipp with Paris, but that's not my cup of tea).

And that's it. Most of the canon M/M shipps don't appeal to me because of pedophilia and kidnapping. I know there is Apollo x Hyacinthus, but I haven't seen their sources, so I don't have an opinion.

9. Favorite F/M ship

Medea x Jason! Yeah, I know they're not a healthy relationship, but it's part of what makes them so them. Their charm is that it's not healthy on ANY side! Medea isn't the only asshole nor is Jason the only asshole, both are assholes but to different degrees.

I like the idea of Deidamia x Achilles in the versions where it's consensual too. But to be honest, it's more about my headcanons than about the myths, since Deidamia is a character that has no Greek sources showing her having lines or anything like that. I like Helen x Menelaus, but it basically only works for me as a favorite in the Homeric version.

10. Ship I hate

I have immense discomfort with any shipp with a slave x master dynamic, so Achilles x Briseis, Agamemnon x Chryseis, Agamemnon x Cassandra, Ajax x Tecmessa, Patroclus x Iphis and such are not for me. "Ah, but the myth says the master treated the enslaved person well" or "ah, but the master says they loves the enslaved person", I don't care…it's still very uncomfortable for me. That's where I draw my line.

I can understand why using Tecmessa as Ajax's girlfriend and same with Patroclus and Iphis in a modern AU for example, but within canon impossible. I've seen people write Agamemnon cheating on Clytemnestra with Chryseis (very consensually) in modern AU and that's okay for me. It's really more about shipping them in canon than putting such a relationship into a modern AU for story sense/reference.

But I think this is the opinion of the majority, so nothing surprising.

11. Deity interests me most

It depends on what you are considering as deities. Do nymphs count? If so, Tethis! I'm obsessed with Thetis since The Iliad, the part about her mourning in the Odyssey was painful and then I read the Argonautica and I was lost…If nymphs don't count, then I guess Dionysus!

#Ask #Anon #Tw: rape #Tw: slavery

[bowieisworried]

There's a double standard.

Why do you get mad when a GG "steals" choreography from N (that no matter how hard I looked I couldn't see the theft, even as a Vixx fan) and then say you are blind to the most blatant plagiarism of Criminal when Rano shows up with "his own" choreo. Did the GG take inspiration from N? Yes, but they didn't copy moves and sequences exactly. You know who did though? Rano.

Why, when a BTS Stan and "journalist" is dragging BigBang through the mud and reducing Jonghyun to his suicide as some sort of timeline marker in BTS's career, do you not really care or pay attention or show any interest in understanding why I'm annoyed. Meanwhile you defend Army by saying Exols are as bad, or are worse. That isn't the point. The point is that right now, at the moment of a conversation, a BTS stan is being a cunt. But you don't care.

And then "I don't reblog XYZ group/person", yet they show up without fail. Then the line is "Only the sweet/cute/heartwarming stuff." Yet, when I send it it's patched. Just tell the truth, my stuff isn't good enough. It's the gatekeeper on nothing.

This is why I set myself rules, though I break them because they're so difficult to keep. This is why I don't want to send certain things to you, not because I think it annoys you or bores you when I send them, but because there's always something wrong with it. Or I care too much about it and you don't care at all.

#.text #not kpop #.personal #this is just me venting #no need to acknowledge it #it's nobody here that follows me

[erb23]

Going in some of the main tags only ever disappoints me. 

#ignore me #the double standards are blatant and annoying #please just admit that you're only here for the blonde white boy character please it'd just be so much more tolerable #i say this as I block 10 more blogs that popped up out of the woodwork #whose only commentary is on how unfair the mc is for not returning the interest/advances of their favorite blondie #while he also goes around flirting with someone who has no interest in dating him WHILE he has a girlfriend #but mc has to get every one of her attempts to move past her one sided crush squashed by the universe conspiring against her #and every day on fic sites more and more <3[] ppl pop up like weeds #you block one author and 5 more show up in their place (tag blocking doesn't work fffff) #its a pain being a fan of female characters because no matter what property you like some group is gonna hate on em for no good reason #and unfortunately most of the people left watching this trainwreck hate the mc #i only ever talk about this so much because i've invested so much time just to be let down a LOT #i swear I do actively watch and read other things but htose discussions stay on discord/yt/rdt etc where the fans are active #and my blog is about the one place where I can whinge into the night undisturbed #i know there are a couple hundred of you here #and aren't probably used to my opinions vague as they are but these feelings have to come out somewhere

[bigskydreaming]

Also not like it’s relevant or anything but Dick did y’know, go rescue Jason and save his life at the end of that story, so I mean, it’s not like it was always super clear that he didn’t really mean that and it was just a literal THOUGHT he had for one panel, not even something he said to him or let affect his actions lol.

Fandom: always has a reason for never holding anyone accountable for what they do to Dick even if it’s to toss the whole story out as bad writing

Also fandom: gives Dick shit for every negative thing he’s done in 80 years of writing, even one panel of having a shitty THOUGHT, in a story that they all almost unanimously otherwise disregard as bad writing.

Also also fandom: has most definitely written a shit ton of stories about Dick’s return from Spyral that specifically involve the plot point of having Jason or Tim say to Dick they wish he really had died or stayed dead, because the Angst and Saying Things We Don’t Mean and Wish We Could Take Back tropes, yet I cant recall ever reading similar outrage in comment threads there. Oh well.

#lololl ans its seriously not saying that its not a shitty thought #and a bad look for Dick #or that it needs or should be defended #its literally just #Look at your blatant double standards fandom #they are annoying as fuck and make actual conversation about these things impossible

[littlegnoblin]

Happy Valentine’s Day to my best friend and other half @donestiel

read on ao3

Dean comes home from work to find Cas and Jack sitting at the table, red heart-shaped lollipops strewn in front of them. 

He gives Cas a quick kiss. “You trying to give the kid a sugar rush or what?” 

“Daddy! It’s for Valemtime’s Day!” Jack yells excitedly, hopping off his chair to hug Dean’s legs.  

“It’s pronounced valentine, Jack.”

“I don’t know, valemtime kinda has a nice ring to it,” Dean says. Jack beams up at him and he can’t help but ruffle his hair. 

“Yes, well, the holiday has become so bastardized that I suppose renaming it wouldn’t hurt.” Cas squints at the box the candy came in. “Does no one find it odd that their children are passing around cards demanding others belong to them?”

Dean sits down and pulls Jack into his lap, flipping through the little pink cards. “I don’t know that you’re supposed to think about it that hard, dude.” He comes across a card that reads ‘kiss me’ and holds it up. “This, on the other hand-- they’re five, what the hell do they need to be kissin’ for?”

“I want kisses!” Jack protests. 

“You’re a little kiss monster.” Cas leans in and presses a big, exaggerated smooch to Jack’s cheek. “How was that? Did it satisfy the beast?”

Jack giggles and nods enthusiastically. 

“Hey, I’m gonna need to sample one of those kisses myself. Make sure they’re regulation-- standard procedure.”

“Is that right?”

“‘Fraid so,” Dean says with a shit eating grin. 

He’s expecting a goofy kiss like the one he gave Jack but Cas uses his thumb to tilt Dean’s chin just so and kisses him deeply. 

They break apart when two tiny hands push at their faces and Jack tells them to knock it off. 

“This is what Valentine’s Day is all about, champ. Besides, I thought you liked kisses.”

“You guys do it gross.” 

Dean smiles and bounces his eyebrows at Cas, who rolls his eyes but can’t hide the small curl of his mouth. 

“Perhaps your father will help you write your classmates’ names on the cards while I get dinner ready.”

“I can cook,” Dean says quickly. The thought of Cas’ last attempt at cooking has his stomach churning and he’s pretty sure feeding that toxic waste to Jack would be considered child abuse. 

Cas holds up a cardboard box. “It’s frozen pizza.”

“Alright, I’ll do babysitting duty. Just make sure you take the plastic off this time.”

“It’s not babysitting when it’s your own child and that was one time.”

“One time too many,” Dean mutters.

“I’m sorry, what was that?”

“Nothing, dear.”

Cas glares at him. “I expect you to eat a healthy portion of salad along with your pizza tonight.”

“You making it yourself or is it bagged?”

The glare intensifies. 

Jack tugs on his sleeve. “Daddy, did you like doing valentine’s stuff in school?”

“Nah, it, uh-- it wasn’t really a thing when I was your age.” 

That’s a blatant lie but Dean’s not going to tell him the truth and bum him out. What five year old wants to hear that their dad didn’t do Valentine’s Day exchanges because there was barely enough money for food, let alone candy, and he never really stuck around any school long enough to get included in the holiday stuff. Shit’s depressing. 

“So you never got no cards or nothin’?”

“Nope.” Dean never got cards but he did get invited under the bleachers a few times in high school to unwrap a different kind of present. He’s not telling him that either, though. 

“That sucks. Can I have a lollipop?”

“Nice try, kid.” Dean taps on the card in front of them. “Get to writing.” 

He oversees the careful labelling of the cards, reminding Jack to double check the list of names anytime he spells something wrong and corrects a few backwards letters. They debate who gets what card and Jack complains that he has to give one to Tom who keeps cutting him in line. 

Cas rejoins them in the middle of Jack’s impassioned rant, hiding his smile behind his hand. 

“While I agree that Tom is a-- what was it you called him?”

“A butthead.”

“Yes, right, a butthead. While I agree he is a butthead, unfortunately I think you need to be the bigger person. Maybe this will even convince him to stop cutting in line and you two can be friends.”

“No way. I don’t wanna be friends with Tom.”

“You never know,” Dean says. “I didn’t like your dad when we first met, but I think he’s a pretty okay guy now.”

Jack looks at him wide eyed. “You didn’t like Daddy?”

“No way, he was a butthead.”

“It was more of a misunderstanding,” Cas explains. 

“Oh is that what we’re calling it?”

Cas lifts an eyebrow and stares him down. “What would you call it, Dean?” 

Shit, that should not be so hot. 

“Not the point; the point is that I didn’t think I would ever like your dad and now we’re married. Things change.”

Jack furrows his brows, considering. “I don’t want to marry Tom.”

Dean snorts. “You don’t have to. In fact, please don’t. His mom is a nightmare.” Cas kicks him under the table. “What! She is!”

“You don’t have to marry him and you don’t have to be friends with him,” Cas says, ignoring Dean completely, “but you do have to give him a card and some candy.” 

Jack grumbles but does as he’s told. Dean’s legs are starting to fall asleep but he’s become increasingly aware of how fast Jack is growing up and soon-- way too fucking soon, if you ask him-- he won’t be sitting in his lap at all so he silently resigns to not feeling his legs for the next ten minutes. 

“All done!” Jack yells and throws his hands in the air. 

“Sweet, now let's stick some candy in these bad boys and call it a night.”

“Wait, there’s a extra, what should I do with it?”

“Is there anyone who’s not in your class that you’d like to give a valentine to?”

Jack gasps and slaps a hand over Dean’s eyes, nearly poking one out in the process. “Close your eyes, Daddy!”

Dean dutifully closes his eyes until Jack tells him he’s finished. He slowly opens one eye and sees the pink card held about an inch from his face.

“For me?” he gasps dramatically.

“Yes!”

The front of the card reads ‘You’re the best!’ and when he opens it, he finds ‘Daddy’ written in some of the neatest handwriting from Jack he’s ever seen. Beneath it he’s signed his name, the K backwards like it always is on his first try. 

“I gave it to you because you never had one before and also you’re the best daddy ever, who makes me yummy chocolate chip pancakes and cheeseburgers and does funny voices for bedtime stories,” Jack explains. 

Dean wraps his arms around his son and rests his cheek on top of his head, his heart feeling fit to burst. “Thank you, Jack. I’m gonna keep this forever.” And he means it. 

“Welcome. Can I have a lollipop now?”

Cas points at Dean. “He gets that from you.”

 After the valentines are carefully put away and they’ve had dinner (plastic free and edible, which Cas seems proud of), Jack gets a bath and is tucked in bed. Dean and Cas spend the rest of the night sprawled out on the couch watching reruns of Doctor Sexy and drinking beer. Party city. 

When the Doctor Sexy reruns switch to Jeopardy, Dean knows it’s officially midnight. 

“Happy Valentine’s Day, I guess.” 

They tip their bottles together. 

“I hope I didn’t disappoint you by not planning anything,” Cas says, picking at the label on his beer. 

“What? No, of course not. We never do anything. I thought we were on the same page about avoiding that shit after our first Valentine’s together.”

They both shudder thinking about the sweaty cupid ‘handshake’. 

“We are, but we never actually discussed it and I…” Cas pauses and tilts his head. “I think having Jack around and seeing the world through his eyes, experiencing things in a new way, it makes me wonder if we’re not missing out on some of the little things.”

“Hey, we appreciate lots of the little things-- like you not cooking frozen pizza with the plastic still on.”

“Dean.”

“Okay, okay. So you sayin’ you wanna celebrate now?”

“Sam and Eileen do.”

“Sam and Eileen are saps. And they don’t have a five year old running around.” 

Cas makes a sound of agreement and softly strokes the back of Dean’s neck, sending shivers down his spine. “You make a fair point. In all honesty, I don’t want to do anything extravagant but I would like to take the opportunity to remind you how much I love you. Am I allowed to be sappy for a moment?”

Dean clears his throat. “Yeah, I guess you deserve one day to get it all out.” He puts their bottles down and faces his husband. “Lay it on me, big guy.”

Instead of looking annoyed, Cas just looks fond. “You know, it’s ironic that a man as full of love as you are is so quick to dismiss any sentimentality. You are a fascinating creature.” A thumb sweeps under his eye where he’s got permanent dark circles and settles at the corner where his lines get deeper every day. It makes Dean want to squirm but he holds still under the reverent touch. “Perhaps that’s why I never stood a chance.”

“C’mon, man,” Dean says, dropping his eyes to the couch. 

“Hush, I’m allowed, I’ll have you know. My husband gave me explicit permission.”

“Well, your husband is thinking about rescinding the offer.”

“I love you.” 

Cas says it with such conviction that Dean can’t help but look back at him, at his bright eyes and soft smile; at the evidence of his love written all over his face. 

“I love you, endlessly, Dean Winchester. For everything that you are; the good and the bad. From the moment I saw your soul in hell, so bright it was almost blinding, I knew I would never be the same. You breathed life into me, gave me meaning and purpose, taught me the value of love, and you did it all, selflessly, simply by being the man that you are.” Cas draws him close, presses their foreheads together. “I can never give back all that you’ve given me but I promise you will have my love until we are nothing but a forgotten memory, and longer still.”

Dean squeezes his eyes shut and they breath together in the small space between them. 

“You can’t-- you can’t just say shit like that,” he whispers. 

“And why not?”

“Because it’s not true, first of all.” Cas opens his mouth to argue but Dean covers it with his hand and hurries on. “You’ve already given all of that back and more. God, Cas, if it weren’t for you I’d have been dead years ago. I needed to stick around-- to take care of Sammy, to stop whatever or whoever was trying to end the world next-- but you… you made me want to live. Really live, not just survive, you know? I fuckin’ love you, man.”

Cas pushes Dean’s hand away and presses his lips against Dean’s fervently. 

When they finally break apart for desperately needed air, they both pretend they aren’t sniffling like little girls. 

“You happy now? Can we go back to not doing this?”

Cas laughs. “I hadn’t planned on making it quite so emotional, I apologize. You always bring out the most in me.”

“Ugh, enough,” Dean groans, shoving Cas’ smiling face away. “You aren’t allowed to say anything even approaching romantic for the next twenty four hours, capiche?”

“I can agree to that, as long as I’m allowed to give you a gift later.”

“I thought you said you didn’t plan anything?”

“It’s nothing big.” Cas’ fingers sneak under Dean’s shirt and trail along his stomach, dipping to his waistband. “I just happened to walk by Victoria’s Secret and see a pair of pink satin panties in the window.”

Dean’s heart beats a little faster. “Oh yeah?” he says breathlessly. “Not gonna lie, that seems more like a present for you.”

Cas hums and leans over Dean, forcing him to lie back on the couch. “Well then I suppose I’ll just have to do whatever you want while you wear them.”

When he kisses him he tastes like cherry candy and Dean thinks could learn to like this holiday. 

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