So I was doing some research on common medications for a pharmacology class at school, and realized that Wikipedia is calling out the outrageous practices of pharmacological sales in the US. Right up there in the main intro to the medication they’re showing how much the drug costs to produce, versus how much a typical course of treatment costs in the USA.
Also, just so you’re aware, as of late Mat 2018, 1.80 GBP is 2.40 USD. For a three month supply of the pill. The same amount could cost you 150 USD in the United States.
So this is supposed to be a few weeks after Castiel left to search for Kelly Kline. Castiel and Mary doesn’t know that Dean was hit with the forgetting curse because Dean forbade Sam from telling either Mary or Castiel.
But Dean knew that he was close to death and he forgot Castiel. He forgot his best friend and the angel who saved him from hell. The first two GIFs show Dean getting out of the car. He sees his mom and a random hunter and he acts normally like it isn’t a big deal. But we as the audience know that it is supposed to be a big deal because Dean forgot his mom and his own name recently. So the lack of any major reaction upon seeing his mom is very obvious in its absence. When Sam gets out of the car, he acknowledges Mary right away by saying “Hey, Mom.” But when Mary greets Dean, he just nods in her direction and shakes Wally’s hand first. He is very distant with Mary.
Next, let’s observe Dean’s reaction when Castiel enters the scene. Dean turns the moment he hears Cas’s footsteps. He acknowledges Cas even before Cas joins the group. He greets Cas unlike his mother (who he doesn’t say anything directly to this whole scene.) In the first GIF above, Dean turns his body to face Cas. He literally takes a step in the direction of Cas. Meanwhile, you can see Sam and Wally just turn their heads to look at Cas.
Already it is obvious that Dean orients himself to Cas when he approaches. But, in the second GIF above, see Dean taking ANOTHER step in the direction of Castiel. He further orientates towards Cas. This is the first time Dean is seeing Cas after forgetting him in the last episode. We can clearly see Deans desire to be closer to Cas, to re-memorise him, the way he looks and the ways he talks. He is much more affected by Castiel’s presence than by his own mothers.
So, here’s the clip below if you want to watch the whole scene and see for yourself.
At this point it is important to notice that after Dean escaped from prison in first blood, he called Castiel and wanted to see him before he sacrificed himself to Billy. He sat in the back seat with Castiel and was closer to Castiel than his own Mother.
anyone can pass as straight, if they silence themselves enough.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
once was told that as a bi woman, i’ve always had love stories for me.
and sure there’s a plethora of m/w romances and that’s a part of me, but where’s the over abundance of stories about girls that get crushes on their bffs, regardless of gender?
exactly
Again, @casgirlsam, for the people in the back my dear!
As a PanSex/PanRo Lady, I have no problem reminding people that while I married a dude, I can/will/do admire anyone. I will not let my sexuality be silenced or hidden because I can fit a “heterosexual ideal.”
My exes were never phases. I loved them, and mourned the loss. And for that, I will never be silent, and I will never allow those who identify as bi/pan/aro/ace/demi to be erased.
Destiel shippers, mobilize and put a stop to this, before it gets worst.
Just reported her. Do the same!
do you mean diane? because these posts she screencapped were already reported when they happened. i know because i was there on twitter helping to spread the word
that in the Chinese version of Disney’s Mulan, the fake name she gives is “Ping”, but her family name “Fa” in English is “Hua” in Chinese, therefore her full name is “Hua Ping”, which is literally “Flower Vase”, and that’s why Shang is so bewildered because it’s a silly name.
but OP how could you not tell them the best part
“hua ping”/flower vase is chinese slang for “camp gay”
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Mulan, introducing her soldiersona: Hello yes it is me, a twink
you know what actually pisses me off? when I finally start to feel a smidge of confidence in my writing ability and then some JERK POSTS A SINGLE LINE FROM A TERRY PRATCHETT NOVEL AND IT’S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I WILL EVER WRITE NO MATTER HOW MANY MILLENNIA I SPEND TRYING!
Terry was a professional writer from the age of 17. He worked as a journalist which meant that he had to learn to research, write and edit his own work very quickly or else he’d lose his job.
He was 23 when his first novel was published. After six years of writing professionally every single day. The Carpet People was a lovely novel, from a lovely writer, but almost all of Terry’s iconic truth bomb lines come from Discworld.
The Colour of Magic, the first ever Discworld novel was published in 1983. Terry was 35 years old. He had been writing professionally for 18 years. His career was old enough to vote, get married and drink. We now know that at 35 he was, tragically, over half way through his life. And do you know what us devoted, adoring Discworld fans say about The Colour of Magic? “Don’t start with Colour of Magic.”
It is the only reading order rule we ever give people. Because it’s not that great. Don’t get me wrong, very good book, although I’ll be honest I’ve never been able to finish it, but it’s nowhere near his later stuff. Compare it to Guards Guards, The Fifth Elephant, the utterly iconic Nightwatch and it pales in comparison because even after nearly 20 years of writing, half a lifetime of loving books and storytelling Terry was still learning.
He was a man with a wonderful natural talent, yes. But more importantly he worked and worked and worked to be a better writer. He was writing up until days before he died. He spent 49 years learning and growing as a writer, taking so much joy in storytelling that not even Alzheimer’s could steal it from him. He wouldn’t want that joy stolen from you too.
Terry was a wonderful, kind, compassionate, genius of a writer. And all of this was in spite of many many people telling him he wasn’t good enough. At the age of five his headmaster told him that he would never amount to anything. He died a knight of the realm and one of the most beloved writers ever to have lived in a country with a vast and rich literary tradition. He wouldn’t let anyone tell him that he wasn’t good enough. And he wouldn’t want you to think you aren’t good enough. He especially wouldn’t want to be the reason why you think you aren’t good enough.
You’re not Terry Pratchett.
You are you.
And Terry would love that.
I only ever had a chance to talk to Terry Pratchett once, and that was in an autograph line. I’d bought a copy of The Carpet People, which was his very first book, and he looked at it with a faint air of concern. “You realise that I wrote that when I was very young,” he said, in warning.
“Yes,” I said. “But I like seeing how authors grow.”
He brightened and reached for his pen. “That’s all right then,” he said, and signed.
I’m coining generation Nobody Knows for people born in 1995-2000
generation Nobody Knows has the qualities of both Millennials and Gen Z. We are broke and miserable like Millenials and frothing at the mouth and out for blood like Gen Z.
So in lore, vampires have this trait that I’ve almost never seen used, and that’s the fact that vampires are OBSESSED with counting things. Like, the Count on Sesame Street was almost certainly created specifically as a vampire because of this piece of lore.
Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.
If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.
Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.
Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.
Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.
Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.
MATH NERD VAMPIRES
If anyone would like the term for this, it’s arithmomania.
“But sir, he’s a vampire!!!”
“Vampire or not, he’s the best damn accountant we have here, and i’d let him drink my blood before i fire him!”
“still less of a leech than Matt in legal. Fuck matt”
Okay but also, vampires as drug dealers- a profession that requires extremely quick, extremely accurate counting. “You’re 5 dollars short.” “There’s 50,000 dollars in there at least, how the fuck did you count that fast-” “Pay up or I will drink you like a slurpee.”
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