bert-and-ernie-are-gay:

This is not only incredibly useful for fanfic authors but it’s also freaking beautiful and I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before—first, the ground floor of Bobby Singer’s house in Sioux Falls, SD, cutaway-style—by the incredible lamapan (who’s done other amazing things for J2BB, for example THIS which is just mind-blowingly pretty) . Then I found Anna’s (her?) DA page and she did THREE of these paintings—so there’s not just the first floor, but also Bobby’s basement (including the panic room!) and some really lovely renderings + surmises + speculations on the whole house, since from outside you can see it has at least three floors, and we do know that upstairs there’s that stained-glass bay window and long hallway (shown in this shot when Sam goes upstairs to get a hex bag out of the closet, in 4×02, “Are You There God, It’s Me, Dean Winchester”).

ALL HAIL ANNA/LAMAPAN, WHOEVER/WHEREVER YOU BE, MY DEAR

hellotumbelrmrlb:

i-need-a-hero-i-need-a-loki:

guardianavngrs:

loverofmythology:

I literally just realized why Peter lost his shit when he found out Gamora was dead.

That’s what Peter’s dad said about putting cancer into his mom’s brain. That’s why he immediately said “no you didnt” when Thanos said he “had to” kill Gamora.

Both of the only women he ever loved were killed by men that supposedly loved them because they decided they had no other choice.

Who freed Satan again?

Music, Feelings, and Season 14 Mood.

intelligentshipper:

So @casgirlsam mentioned the filming playlist recently and I realized I hadn’t listened to it or even paid attention since around the end of filming episode 2 because I got kidnapped into working on stuff for CultFans and The Outpost and… all of my other ridiculous itinerary, but can I just say…

I am absolutely in love with the fact that they used Sam Tinnesz?? It’s so much classic rock but here comes Sam Tinnesz coming for me. He’s one of my major muses.

For anyone that hasn’t listened to it or looked at it or whatever, it’s here. Episode 3 sounds particularly tragic. 

Note: TPTB waved a white flag of it not being official or anything, but I find it interesting to listen to *why* this may be a creative muse for someone while they’re filming or seeing filming happening, and a lot of episode 1 seemed to fit. It’s not exactly prophetic but it’s a good way to get the mood we may be catching.

It’s given me to touch back on some of my season 14 speculation & feelings, which were admittedly shorthand, but the playlist is an efficient mood to get to talking. 

Keep reading

YES THAT LAST POINT

i definitely am with you an all of this but especially that. considering i spent weeks putting together cas-mention numbers, i can confidently say that cas is going to be mentioned at least once each episode when he’s gone doing Plot Needed Things. it’ll either be a call or This Is What Cas Is Doing

What is reading.

intelligentshipper:

Antis at it again

Turns out people are getting anon asks about “Dabb’s assistant posting about people not watching the premiere” and that it’s like a “show going extinct” and that “even Dabb’s people seem to be panicking.”

Rather than, you know, awareness that her tweets literally were talking about general TV, general seasonal premieres, and how people consume television.

Read as: literally all the shit I’ve been talking about they scream doesn’t exist.

Jesus christ go back to middle school.

Here’s the tweets.

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Swing and a miss yet again guys.

Dabb’s people absolutely are not panicking about any “low ratings” for the premiere. His assistant is addressing literally the same shit I’ve been talking about all day, every day, for a year, that you pretend doesn’t exist, no matter how many ratings sites talk about it.

Note my choice of Hulu. Given, Hulu isn’t my main platform of choice, but the concept remains. Short of Supernatural and The Outpost (which actually air at different times of the year, so one at a time) (and on occasion a third show that rotates in and out), all of my watching is on SVOD platforms. Other people hold very similar standards, or even watch entirely digitally.

S’not hard.

they really out here saying that means they’re worried about ratings and the show is dying oh my god i can’t with these people

thechanelmuse:


From The New York Times:

Decades earlier, another Sears executive engaged in activism of a different sort. Julius Rosenwald began promoting civil rights causes while he was still president of Sears, before he became its chairman in 1924, leading some to call him the “first social justice philanthropist.” He helped fund fellowships for black artists and academics, including W.E.B. Du Bois and James Baldwin. He worked with Booker T. Washington to open more than 5,300 schools for black children in the Jim Crow South. Some of them were burned down by the Ku Klux Klan.

Source

There’s also this article titled “A Peculiar Alliance: Julius Rosenwald,
the YMCA, and African-Americans,
1910-1933″ from American Jewish Archives that touches on this further. Here’s an excerpt:

“The alliance between Rosenwald, the YMCA, and African-Americans
seems rather peculiar at first glance. Why would a Jew support
the establishment of Christian facilities for African-Americans? David
Levering Lewis, who examined the collaboration between AfricanAmericans
and Jews during the 1910s and 1920s~ has suggested that
some of the wealthy Jews who aided African-Americans had ulterior
motives. According to Lewis, they reasoned that their assistance to
the African-American struggle for racial advancement would spare
Jews “some of the necessity of directly rebutting anti-Semitic stereotypes,”
for white America would perforce conclude that if “blacks
could make good citizens…all other groups [including Jews] could
make better ones.” Yet Lewis’s highly interpretive study offers no
evidence to support this contention. 

Julius Rosenwald certainly never said that his support of AfricanAmerican
causes was stimulated by a desire to refute anti-Semitic
stereotypes. On the contrary, Rosenwald claimed that he was motivated
by sympathy for the victims of discrimination. Having experienced
the indignity of anti-Semitism, he felt compassion for those
who suffered from racism.

intelligentshipper:

casgirlsam:

marril96:

casgirlsam:

marril96:

allabster:

marril96:

godshipsit:

marril96:

godshipsit:

“cw open to all” except a bi male lead, canon destiel, wayward sisters, decent representation etc etc

They don’t owe you to make your ship canon. Stop being entitled.

But they do like playing with all the baiting and jokes and teasing comments. It’s not about entitlement. Brokebacknatural? Joined at the everything? Come on. You should ask them to stop it, not me. 

A joke is not baiting. It’s a joke. Said by a villain. This fandom has a major entitlement complex.

Something I commonly see pointed out, The I Love You, I Love All Of You Moment, and their reactions to each other dying. There are plenty of other examples, Im sure, plus what op pointed out.

And sure, they dont owe it to us. Not at all. But one dang obvious and climax moment that would help make CW more “open to all” would be to make Destiel canon.

I tell my friends I love them. I kiss their cheeks and hug them when I see them. I am not attracted to them.

Destiel is not shipped by all, so that argument doesn’t stand. And same goes for Wayward Sisters, not everyone wanted the show, so let’s not claim otherwise.

oh i see. it has to be all or nothing? newsflash: if WE aren’t owed anything, YOU aren’t either

know what i want? for the writers to be allowed to write the story they’re trying to write. for spn to truly make sense to be included in a diversity campaign.

and for ship-shaming, crit-shaming antis like yourself to knock it off

I never claimed I was owed anything.

They are allowed to write the story they’re trying to write, but certain people aren’t happy about it so they call them all kinds of names and demand things.

I am not ship shaming. I don’t give a damn what you ship. I am, however, sick and tired of people think they’re entitled to other people’s creations.

“they are allowed to write the story they’re trying to write, but certain people aren’t happy about it so they call them all kinds of names and demand things.”

i’m going to address this because you think that it’s the audience that is forcing the writers into the destiel romance closet.

the audience has nothing to do with executive politics. which is exactly what’s at play here.

spn is cw’s longest running show. hell, it’s america’s longest running genre show. taking risks (even if the payoff will be astronomical) is frowned upon. just from what i’ve seen and heard, the writers WANT to write the romance we’re seeing, but they’re getting pushback from higher up.

also nah, bro. no one is calling writers “names” over destiel not being together. hell, even the hated duo bucklemming doesnt get called names. they ARE, however, being told they’re “pandering” whenever there’s blatant shippy moments (or even just having other characters around), being told they’re ruining the show because of said moments, told the show is just about the brothers, etc etc etc

and that ain’t coming from destiel shippers.

Lmao this. Ship shamey kumquats are basically working on years-expired narrative and they haven’t updated their broken record. That shit worked back in season 4. 5. season 7 even. Season 8… maybe even season 9. By season 10 the line started getting jiggly-wiggly and by season 13  it was outright out of hand. 

By season 9 we had a showrunner directing them to play as jilted lovers already. A metaphor, the antis cried. Still just bros, just loverly just-bros. Season 10 they were written as fated as Cain-Colette and author confirmed; they were intentionally directionally mirrored to canon OTPs from an old show of Jensen’s; there were three super-ultra gay scenes that, for reasons we’ll pretend not to understand, after they went as far as filming ended up on the cutting room floor, but if they had been employed painted an entirely different mytharc atop the already queer-AF confirmed one. Just subtext and greycanon, the antis cried.

Season 11, we had Carver explicitly clarifying that Amara wasn’t Dean’s romantic interest, to Jensen, who misread it at first; and them charging bond against bond, story against story. Pining, yet again more “in love” and humanity discussions.

Season 12 we got ridiculous  – human weakness lover parallels; he came in my room and he played me (wtf Dean?), the mixtape. Antis slide. First they begin at “mixtape isn’t necessarily romantic” and, once they start feeling like the obtuse idiots they’re being, slide into instead “It’s not a mixtape, just a tape of Dean’s favorite songs.” yeah okay.

Season 13 we had an author, paralleling Destiel into Wayward for an OTP, which everyone trumpeted about both ends of to him. An author who said they were ecstatic we saw what they wanted us to see.

And this, none of this, covers those things that pass in the grapevine. Those things this fandom knows, and has receipts on, that we keep traded only in DMs. Those things I can’t clarify about, those things we wouldn’t dare talk about publicly because the people related to it in TPTB already get enough horse shit without antis figuring out who to target and scream at, when it’s something already outside of their control. Those things. And there are a great many of these things. Those things that have. Actual. Receipts. Those things we’ve even been told to keep quiet, and saying this much in public almost breaks some of that trust but it’s frankly inevitable that they eventually hear *some* sort of breath about it anyway and I can hope I’ve been vague enough to not be problematic in saying too much. I’ve gone back and edited this paragraph like 6 times to cull too many direct statements already. But they’ll yell and stomp and demand receipts just to try to ridiculously explain it away like we don’t all literally know, even publicly facing, about Dabb still having the Destiel books in his office *years* later. *Promotions* later. Moved offices later. And that’s just the public facing side – and that side had his new assistant get threats to her job for even mentioning reading them. Unshockingly, despite that, she’s still around.

Celebrating that network politics and old white dudes running networks are too scared to aggressively move forward on years of work on queer content because it’s their prize pony show, doesn’t make anybody a good fan, or even a good person. It makes them part of the problem, just because they don’t like it.

Well, newsflash, buttercup. Not everybody likes MichaelDean. Not everybody liked Amara. Not everybody liked Cas being human. Not everything that happens is gonna be stuff everybody likes. Actually, literally nothing that happens is going to be something everybody likes.

THAT is where the entitlement is at this point.

You’re free to continue to celebrate the tilting and blurring line between queerbait and queer erasure, neither of which are good things. But you have to understand that doesn’t make you the good person in this fight, and makes you regressive as fuck.

And that’s just it.

Reblog to argue with me all you want. It is what it is.

Lmao these people legit think the authors aren’t gonna be out here trying to convince upper-CW to let them go this road. Bro there’s shows where their execs take a stand to even have freedom to up-write more characters/actors based on fan buzz. You legit think with all of this nobody’s been out there campaigning to CW to … hm, see how much they could… “do this year.” 

Some people will see what I did there. Even if it’s a year old.

They legit seem to believe this.

Lay off the Entitlement Crack just BECAUSE *you* don’t like it.