#why didn't he protest????

[drulalovescas]

Everyone: implying Dean and Cas are a couple

Dean Winchester: doesn't deny a thing

#why didn't dean deny it once??? #why didn't he protest???? #laugh it off????? #why???? #because it was all true #destiel #supernatural #spn

[softquietsteadylove]

The tiny cellar. The door slamming shut. The darkness. Gils claustrophobia. The DRAMA!

For the wildfire one please! ❤️

"Someone! Anyone, please!!"

Thena walked a little more briskly. It had reached her ears so quietly and muffled at first, but there was no mistaking it now. Someone needed help. "Hello?"

"Please, help me!"

She picked her pace up to a light jog, the scenery looking much more familiar now. She kept telling herself she wasn't coming back to Gil's cabin - again - she was just...in the area. Her perimeter routes had changed, that was all.

It wasn't that she missed the place, or the host.

"Someone!"

"Gil?" she called out, looking around for him. She couldn't figure out for the life of her where he was. She walked around the side of the cabin, but he wasn't by the wood pile, or chopping out front. He didn't seem to be inside, based on how she was hearing him.

"Please!"

"Gil, are you okay?!" she shouted back, her heart starting to beat faster. What the hell had happened to him? "Gil!"

"Help!!"

"Gilgamesh!" Thena ran around the other side of the house. There wasn't much over there except the storm cellar door and where the water connection was. He had showed her the water main so that she could help herself to the shower in case he was away and had shut it off.

The doors rattled, being pounded on from the inside.

"Please, please, please!"

"Gil!" Thena shouted back, rushing to pull them open. They weren't locked, but the wood had warped over the course of winter, and now were wedged together in just such a way that made them seem impossible to get open now that they were slotted together.

"Thena, please!"

She slammed her foot on one door and pulled on the other one, stumbling back as it finally cracked open. If she didn't know him so well, it might have been terrifying, seeing someone as large as Gil come tearing up and out of the cellar in that state.

"Thena!"

She tried not to fall over as Gil sank to his knees, wrapping his arms around her and pressing his face into her stomach. He was bawling like a baby, clearly having been hyperventilating in the cellar by himself. She huffed. "Gil."

"Thena, oh thank god, fuck, I-I thought-"

Thena tried a few times to try and pat his head - or something - without feeling weird about it. He was clinging to her like he'd faced down his worst nightmare, which perhaps he had. He wasn't being dramatic, or his big, sensitive self. He wasn't well. "It's okay, Gil."

He screamed into the material of her shirt, his whole body quaking. He was such a bear of a man but he truly seemed fragile, on the verge of crumbling. "I can't...I can't..."

Thena finally gave in, letting her hands fall over him as gently as she could manage. He flinched, and it only made her feel worse for him. But she rubbed his shoulder, ran her fingers through his hair. "I'm here, Gil. You're okay."

He took slower breaths, steadier with each slow inhale. He slowly sank lower until he couldn't even hold onto her anymore, seemingly ready to lie down on the forest floor.

"Gil, hey," she said gently, trying to have more than her usual charisma (lack thereof) with him. She knelt with him, holding his shoulders and making him look at her. "What happened?"

He groaned, his throat raw from screaming for however long he'd been in there. "I-I was checking on some stuff in the cellar. I always have the doors wide open, but they must have gotten blown over, or maybe something wandered by and closed them--I-I dunno."

"Okay," she nearly whispered, nodding and watching him closely. His eyes were bloodshot from crying, but his pupils were responsive. He was no longer gasping for air, his chest no longer heaving. She wouldn't be surprised if he was lightheaded. "It's over now."

He groaned again, rubbing his face. "Ugh, Thena...I'm sorry."

He was apologising?

"I didn't mean to freak out and," he blushed, typical Gil, "throw myself at you like that."

She tilted her head at him, and he looked truly ashamed and remorseful. "You never told me you're claustrophobic."

He shook his head, ruffling his own hair now. He looked like he'd been through hell. "Doesn't come up much, I guess. I don't exactly get put on cave duty that often."

Thena furrowed her brows. She would think that if his phobia was this severe that he wouldn't be put on cave search duty to begin with.

"Thanks for rescuing me," he smiled limply at her as she rocked back on her heels and flopped back on her butt across from him. "Sorry you had to come all this way to do it."

"I was," she shrugged, hoping she seemed casual, "passing by."

Whether he believed her or not, he chuckled and nodded, "well, you really saved me, so..."

Thena sighed, keeping an eye on him. It didn't feel right to just...leave him like this. She inhaled, poking him in the shoulder, "okay, hey, c'mon, get up."

He blinked at her as she pulled herself up and dusted off her grey jeans. "R-Right, you must have to-"

"Get inside, I'll make your disgusting leaf water for you." As soon as she said it she wondered if maybe she could see why she was known as a 'stone cold bitch' at the station.

Gil brightened like a dog being offered a treat. He looked up at her with those big brown eyes of his, "really?"

She turned away from him; he acted like she had asked him to marry her! All she offered was to make him some tea! "Today, Gilgamesh, before I change my mind!"

Maybe she could be a little nicer to the man whose life had flashed before his eyes in his own storm cellar.

But Gil picked himself up, hopping to fall in step beside her. He nudged her shoulder gently with his, "thanks."

She bit the inside of her cheek. He was making such a big deal about it. "Thank me if I make it right."

But even now, her growling did nothing to dissuade him from inviting her in. If anything, when she whipped the door open and stepped in ahead of him, he held the door open over her shoulder. Such a little gentleman (she rolled her eyes).

"Gil," she started while on her way to the kitchen.

"Yeah?" he asked, already kicking off his boots in favour of his sandals.

She lingered by the doorway between the kitchen and the main body of the cabin. "Next time you need something in that cellar...just call me."

"Huh?"

She resisted the urge to press her forehead to the fridge door, feeling her face growing warm. "Just wait for me and I'll do it for you! You don't have to go down there again, is what I'm saying."

She continued on her way, digging out the kind of tea that was his favourite. She didn't know what kind it was, but she supposed she had smelled worse teas. And she knew how to put the kettle on. Maybe she would make herself a single mug of instant coffee with the boiling water while she was here.

"Thanks, Thena."

He was probably smiling that dumb smile that was kind of endearing. And she refused to go out there if he was going to catch her looking flustered over it. He could wait for his stupid leaf water.

This was why she was off search and rescue. Saving just one person made it feel worthwhile to do it again and again.

#Thenamesh Wildfire AU #Thank you for asking for this! #I didn't write this Gil with claustrophobia initially #but y'know what? why not #He has to have some weakness as a firefighter right? #otherwise he's too big and strong and nice and good with the public #there has to be some reason he's also stationed out in the middle of nowhere #Gil is truly terrified of being locked in pretty much anywhere #Thena starts walking a route tighter and tighter around the cabin #she even radios in and says that she's changing her perimeter deal with it #everyone's like uh...okay? #her boys radio her and are like everything good Thee? #how's your boyfriend doing? #Thena: HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND #protests too much maybe #meanwhile poor golden retriever Gil is just happy to be here #Thena makes truly terrible tea #she lets the water boil too long and scorches the delicate oolong leaves Gil loves #but that's okay he loves it anyway

[npdclaraoswald]

I've decided to be okay with movie!Hobie being British if and only if they establish that he killed the queen

#i know this reads like a joke but hobie killing the president is important to his character #obvi there's the inherent discussion of a hero who kills in the name of justice #and the extra dimension that comes with this particular spider-man leading a political rebellion and how that makes it much more directly #about activism and violent protests than any metaphorical discussion #but also that scene in his mini where he's despairing bc he thought cutting off the head of the snake would fix everything and it didn't #and the conversation he has with karl abt having to keep on fighting even when it's exhausting #and that that's why mutual aid and both supporting and leaning on your community is vital #is my favorite thing abt spider-punk #and I'm genuinely really sad that movie hobie doesn't have that #atsv #spider-punk

[tvrningout]

we turn the page to a new chapter | mutuals meet yoshiaki ♡

" aw, c'mon! " arm slung around their shoulders and a contagious smile stretching across his face, yoshi leans on his friend like a kid hanging onto his parent. he manages to throw them both off balance, stumbling a little down the sidewalk and barely missing a few passersby. his cheeks and nose are rosy, though more from the drinking than from the cold. " it's still a bit early to call it quits, don'tcha think? i'll be bored if i go home now. can't we hang out at your place or somethin'? "

#i won't lie yoshi isn't doing well if he's drinking and protesting when you suggest going home #to be clear he doesn't have an alcohol problem per se? he's not addicted but he doesn't like that he only ever drinks #when he doesn't want to be alone with his thoughts -- it's definitely a crutch vs. something to casually enjoy with friends #still i'm gonna tag this juuuust in case #and your muse would know that it's weird that he's drinking not bc he's open about why he doesn't like it #but bc he does typically avoid drinking #okay that's enough outta me asdfg pls take this silly lad <3 #interactions | yoshiaki #btw i linked his temporary bio for anyone who didn't see me ramble about him a ton before :' ) #tw alcoholism

[bahrmp3]

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#personal #now that the new year's has passed I feel like I can talk about it I did not have a good time lmao it started fine I guess? I was going to #play music for the new year but then mum made a comment about me still on laptop so I shut it bc ok fine let's not #then it was down hill from there? like I ignored it and was like let's not make a thing out of it so we are saying what we liked this year #/ what we want to do and mum goes and for my son I want x y z and didn't mention me so joe asks her and for if she has anything to say for #me? any wishes? but she doesn't lmao later on she goes (if only you would say what you want we do not know anything about you) #she didn't even mean it she said just to hurt like I was taking a video of this and lit off frame my face is dropping #later on she goes (and you didn't even say what you wish for us either) as she leaves and later when I'm talking to my brother #and I protest this he goes (welp what can I even say? like I told you before are pretty selfish) and idk what to say I was surprised I #don't think I'm selfish tho? I legit was the one to cook for us and got cake? I try so much but keep being labeled selfish this is the #second time he tells me that in the last two weeks I think and both are unfounded ngl anyway all of this pales in the last thing #so we call dad to say happy new year! Well joe does and I mean ok I was still pretty upset about what happened an hour ago so ofc I wasn't #cheerful when calling dad lmao but like I was saying all the right things anyway? but Joe kept gesturing at me to smile its a phone call #and after the phone call he has like (why are you always so depressed? if I were you and I finally got a laptop I would be flying from joy #why are you always so down? why can't you just be happy?) and I honestly don't know what to say lmao ok so I wasn't flying from joy with #my laptop but idk how to say it here but then like what's worst? being hurt and not a person recognising that you are hurt? and in fact #asking you why aren't you smiling? or idk being too depressed for others?? what's funnier is mum later on was like (don't let anyone words #change you you shouldn't yield to others) in reference to Joe's speech but like hello mama?? not 2 hrs ago??? #anyway so I asked her if I shouldn't be listening to her words then? and she was saying yes with confidence like does she not #see either how she hurts me? how she keeps hurting me voer and over and over??? #God I should have made that pizza and truly be selfish maybe I wouldnt have been hurt like that #tbd

[polaraffect]

sometimes I truly genuinely forget nuance is dead on the internet and then I have to read people who should be on the same side argue about politics on the internet and I start wanting to bash my head into a wall.

#damien.txt #ohhh my god. rattling the bars of my cage. lesser of two evils is a real and true concept. #revolution and changing a fucking country and keeping marginalized people alive takes many different forms #and guess what! voting for the 'somewhat lesser right wing' president over the 'extremely right wing' president IS one of those forms! #change is not going to happen because you voted third party or didn't fucking vote. it is actively going to make things worse actually #truly i think half the people making these comments have no idea how the us government works. #revolutions and protests and community projects and other revolutionary activity i wont explicitly name here will change things. and we #should also be doing that. but we can't just sink into the idealism of those things and ignore the actions we can take around us in reality #and in our reality at this moment. truly. voting strategically to keep republicans out of office is critical. #do you know why the government has been particularly shit the past couple years? sure yeah biden is a shit president and that's part of it #but also. thinking back to 2017-2020. when trump appointed all those conservative right wing people #to positions that opened up. like the supreme court justices. and laws and things started to take a downturn? #whoa..... almost like.... we should prevent that from happening again..... like that was Bad or something...... #im truly begging you to take a look at project 2025 and see if that's something you're willing to risk #'im still not voting for joe he supports genocide' cool i guess. hope you enjoy your moral superiority complex. let me know how you plan #to actually do anything about the genocide anyways. #politics

[autisticcassandracain]

is it just me or is batman like. significantly more tolerable outside of gotham comics than in

#my laptop's still letting me use tumblr without major issues and i'll make that everyone else's problem #anyway. i'm not saying batman outside of gotham is never insufferable to read bc he absolutely can be #when they write him like a gary sue and pretend that he's the most powerful member of a justice league that includes you know #superman and wonder woman #but also from the admittedly limited justice league comics i've read so far as well as the cameos i've seen of bats in other comics #he's just like. 200% more likeable #this post is about wonder woman issue 293 btw #he's out there doing a group hug without major blackmail and not protesting when clark announces bats and he both love diana #he's also engaging in casual conversation and treating clark and diana as on equal footing with him #and he didn't even have to go through a 12 issue arc or have an emotional breakdown about any of it #it's like. gotham comics are almost 100% guaranteed to work their reality around him and make sure you know he's the bestest ever #and all the energy goes towards making him grim and serious and traumatized while also being cool in an action figure kinda way #meanwhile a lot of comics outside of gotham go more like. hey this is bruce. he's a cool superhero who's really smart and competent #he's also kind of a loser who takes himself way too seriously and like maybe two people in this building like him #and the rest are not afraid to make fun of him either to his face or the moment he turns around #i know this is not the case for all comics and there's still a very very good chunk of them that make him the Coolest Boy Ever #but like. even just. seeing him treat other people as being on equal footing with him or even better than him #just makes him SO much more tolerable #like tower of babel or whatever that arc was called had a bunch of rlly dumb takes on how bruce could 'outplay' the justice league #but like. bruce still treated the rest of the justice league as on his level or better. it's why he bothered to MAKE those plans #you just don't rlly get that in gotham. the closest we get is if nightwing shows up bc then we might get an 'oh he's the best of us' #inner monolgue about how proud bruce is of dick. sometimes we'll get an inner monolgue about the other heroes too #but those monologues are the exception not the rule and they are almost never said out loud to anyone #and if they ARE it's only after an arc of bruce being a fucking ass as an apology and it's. insufferable. #idk maybe it's just bc i read more batman comics than justice league comics but still. #bruce is usually just. SO much more likeable in basically any comic not set in gotham to me #i bet if you made him spend a few weeks in metropolis or something his mental health issues would go away actually #he's just vitamin d deficient and it's making him cranky #my posts #bruce wayne

[lesbiten]

my english teacher is making us take the mbti test to assign us groups

#for why #its a very small a class and #by some unfortunate circumstance #this guy from my hs in there and its the guy who dropped out and transferred to the christian school across the street #because he didn't want to wear a mask during peak covid and was protesting outside the school before and after class #he also used to call me and the other gay bitches in that class slurs and is misogynistic and makes christian rap music #if i get in a group with him i might actually kill myself. or email my professor and ask to switch #idek how i would bring that up. Hey this guy in our class was the worst person ive ever met and being around him makes me physically ill #Can you Maybe make it so that i Never have to talk to him ever at all this semester. Thanks #simon says

[argothiathedreamer]

I'm just... I realize Alan Grant had good intentions creating Anarky and writing Rite of Passage, but the road to hell is paved in those and Rite of Passage is HELL

It's horrible and racist and borderline fascist and I hate it so much.

I deserve financial compensation for this.

No one should be subjected to Rite of Passage.

#Allow me to give you a quick summary of why I hate it: #Every black person is either a criminal or incredibly naive and superstitious #Anarky (Lonnie Machin) is one of the villains and he spends his time stealing from rich people to #set up bank accounts for struggling farmers in poor nations #All while he's in Juvie for *checks notes* Leading a protest against the destruction of homeless people's tent city to make way for a bank #Grant I understand you were trying to make a sympathetic supervillain but oh my god how do you fuck it up that bad???? #argothia's being weird again #(like narratively Lonnie is acknowledged as idealistically in the right. It's just his methods that are supposed to be wrong) #(his methods aren't even bad. Because Alan Grant didn't know how to write good social commentary) #(if Alan Grant were better at social commentary Lonnie would've been Robin not arrested) #And now I gotta rip out all the shit I hate and make an actually good story out of it

[gurrillero-aa]

my hyperfixated autistic brain trying to piece together cassian's story from what we know and every scrape of information i've memorised and trying to connect it to my canon.

#SO WE KNOW ALL THE ADULTS DIED IN THE MINING ACCIDENT #BUT I FEEL CASSIAN'S FATHER DIDN'T DIE THERE BC R1 DICTIONARY HAS HIM DYING AT A PROTEST BUT LUTHEN SAID HE WAS HANGED AT RIX ROAD #WAS THERE AN INSURGENCE AT KENARI THAT'S WHY EVERYONE DIED??? #AND WHY WAS THAT SHIP REPUBLIC BUT THE SOLDIERS HAD SEPARATISTS UNIFORMS #I NEED ANSWERS #I HAVE QUESTIONS #andor spoilers

[vulpes-ex-machina]

I actually have a theory why katya isn't goncharova in-universe of the film:

when they(or their dads idk I didn't saw the movie lol) fled from revolution in Russia they had to change their names to cover their tracks and start a new life.

#goncharov #goncharov(1973) #in addition to post by princesskuragina about why katya isn't goncharova #fantasy #unreality #fun fact: my grandad's last name got changed when he was called to fight in WW2 #officer who gave him documents misherd him and added -ov to the end and didn't listen to his protests #at least that's how I remember that story

[zmaragdos]

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#I am complaining #I don't understand American protestants (specifically southern baptists) #I saw my step-brother-in-law yesterday bc we went to my in-laws on Christmas day (he falls into the southern Baptist category) #And when my step-mil asked if we opened gifts on Christmas morning my partner said 'no we opened them last night' #Which was true bc i grew up celebrating jul with my family (my mom is a dane) and we do all our stuff on dec 24 like all the other danes #And my step-bil asked 'why do you/they do that?' #And I was like 'what do you mean thats just when we celebrate' #And he goes 'but thats not christmas' #And I was just like 'have you ever considered that other people have different types of traditions that are different that american ones?' #Like....how can you just assume that what you do is the default and everyone else is weird?? #I think the whole santa/stockings/Christmas morning stuff is bizarre bc I didn't grow up doing it! #Like bro #In my mind you're the freak and yet I'm the one that has to explain myself #And to top my annoyance meter off I literally have had this conversation with him every Christmas for the past 6 years I have known him #It's like dude you see me like once a year and you always question my fuckg traditions and somehow can not remember that they're different #Every. Fucking. Year #Just like #Learn something #Get your head out of your ass #But what can I expect from a southern Baptist single man who is obsessed with the US Civil War #And is a literal card carrying member of the sons of the confederacy #Ugh #In laws are the worst part about being married (with the exception of my actual mil and bil and my mil's #Extended family who are all amazing incredible wonderful etc #To be deleted later i just wanted to complain

[mynameisbillandimaheadcase]

...

#not my classmate casually admitting that he did black face last year bc he dressed up as 50c for a costume party #why are all the kids on private universities so fucking detached #my friend literally didn't know why i was going to a protest one day #and after i told him that it was about Τέμπη he asked me the what ? #like he heard it in the first time ever #i had to explain him that it was the one year anniversary of this country's most fatal train accident and we were going to protest again bc #the government didn't do a single thing to make traveling by train safer and aslo the people who are at fault didn't really get prosecuted #another person asked me what protest rally was #I'm literally not joking i wish i was #amd those are the more down to earth people i semi voluntarily spent my time with #there's a girl that missed a week and half bc she went to fucking Dubai for shopping

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

Oh i love reddit. I just spend like, 20 minutes writing an anwser explaining in detail in the nicest way possible why Aaron Bushnell was not necessarily mentaly ill, just to get a response : nah he killed himself, he was mentall ill.

You know what, i get why some of you are so angry all the time

#txt #they didn't even care about literally anything else regarding my message #like #i talked about how self immulation is an extreme act of protest #how it did happen in our country also #i said that i was upset that it had to end like this #like i have opened my door for discussion so wide just to get nothing #and you know i am sad i do think this topic should be discussed #we should talk about why he did that what was his goal #that is what he probably wanted #but no fuck it #:( #idk ive lost my energy on this

[barnbridges]

clyde from an american tragedy is how i imagine richard's childhood and feelings towards his parents actually are. if you even care.

i believe it to be one of the few things richard could outright have lied about, his parents' relationship with religion and their influence on him in that regard.

the ease with which they are taken with the mcnatts, the tractor (something... one would think useless in urban northern california), the way with which richard cuts them off.

in my head, richard's parents were more than certainly some flavour of evangelicals, which to his college-aquired catholic sensibilities would be of too poor taste to mention.

#perhaps not as bas as the griffiths making their children be out on the street but #i do believe richard's relationship with faith is more complex than “my parents didn't have religious beliefs” #again one has to really ASK why is RICHARD interested in the religious beliefs of a girl he doesn't talk to #because i DOUBT bunny was like me and my girlfriend REALLY disagree on the book of common prayer -truly a thing in our protestant beliefs #FGHJK #idk #richard papen comes off like a bitter ex evangelist the way julian is an ex catholic

[reasonsforhope]

It was a really, really good political news day today in the US (4/4/23)

For anyone who hasn't heard, not only did Trump get arrested, but also:

-We found out that the legal case against him in this prosecution (stormy daniels hush money case) is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than people had speculated. Like, wow do they have receipts.

-In fact, the evidence was so entirely there that the new question on prime time news (well, at least on msnbc lol) is "Hey, why didn't the federal courts prosecute him for this already???)

-Trump FAILED UTTERLY in his attempts to rally mass protests and demands for "death and destruction" if he was arrested. There was no violence at the arrest at all, and as for Trump supporters? They failed to show up in any kind of numbers--reportedly only about a hundred people were protesting the arrest

-We (aka Judge Janet Protasiewicz) WON what is widely considered to be the most consequential election of 2023, a Wisconsin state supreme court election that handed control of the state supreme court to the left

-Because of that election win, it is now extremely likely that abortion will be legal in Wisconsin, and that Wisconsin won't be able to throw out electors in the 2024 presidential election

-ALSO bc of this, Wisconsin, the most gerrymandered state in the country, will probably get nonpartisan, accurate maps, which COULD FLIP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 2024

-In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, union organizer and former teacher, won the election for mayor, in a decisive win progressives, esp for meaningful criminal justice reform and investment in mental health (whereas the other guy was campaigning on hiring hundreds of new cops and being super tough on crime)

#united states #us politics #wisconsin #supreme court #criminal justice reform #progressive politics #democrats #VOTING MATTERS #brandon johnson #janet protasiewicz #state supreme court #elections #gerrymandering #chicago #illinois #mayor #donald trump #trump indictment #trump arrest #alvin bragg #grand jury #manhattan #stormy daniels #good news #hope