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I've been thinking about this fic today: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45410980?view_full_work=true It's the most sweet and fun, interesting and intense thing to read or listen to! If you haven't checked it out yet - you won't regret it. If you don't have the time to read it: here you go: https://youtu.be/oOxBmuqH8I8?is=vnMKGCh3AvEgbDNc

padaleckigallery

Happy Padurday, everybody! 📸 credit to kunerksterphoto on X

kitsnicket

I don’t like this actually

kitsnicket

This is depressing does anyone else find this depressing

#fandom problem

talking-fox-actual-deactivated2

How do you feel about Americans?

Americans have one of the highest obesity rates in the world, yet they hold the most Olympic medals. They have a horrible education system, yet eclipse the rest of the world in scientific research. The country is filled with clueless philistines, yet their culture permeates every society, in some way, across the planet. The country is still less than three centuries old, but has spent most of it at war. They are universally hated or feared by nearly every other country on the planet, yet the first to offer help during a disaster. Their people are stubborn and never content with the way things are, and for better or worse, all of them imagine how things could be better. Every American is a bankrupt billionaire, a prince in exile, a grounded astronaut, a disgraced scientist. There are the people who do not settle for who they are, but for what they may become.

The country has her problems. Certainly their government has a lot of blood on its hands. But there is something charming about the people I can’t quite place. Even the delusional leftists or the out of touch neocons. There is a certain magic about the place that you don’t find elsewhere. There are bad parts and bad people, to be sure, but there are just as many good parts and good people. It is a land of extremes. But even the poor aren’t really that poor. Much better to be a homeless American living on the beach than literally freezing to death at a metro station in Moscow.

Sure, Yanks say some stupid things. Sometimes they do stupid things like arm terrorist groups they later go to war with. But sometimes they also say profound things. Sometimes they do profound things like planting their flag, in person, on the moon. I can’t stay mad at them and I can’t help but love them.

mccarthyites

Bless u

viewtifulmarkovich

Nerd.

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch

That was profoundly said

nunyabizni

I love this

uncle-beanbag

America is a melting pot of everyone else. We are everything.

lilaccatholic

I’m literally getting emotional because I can’t remember the last time I saw something this kind about Americans on my dash

#America

seriously-dude-what-the-hell

DEAN WINCHESTER in one random episode per day ▸ 034 /364 04.01 LAZARUS RISING

hippychick006

So here’s where we are and why I believe we have a bigger problem than bad fandom etiquette.

The fundamental issue is that the most extreme of the destihellers are not “shippers” - i’m talking about the very small percentage that are fully locked in and 100% believe the ship is real in canon and want to ask questions about the canon of it at cons and don’t understand why they can’t ask. It makes them feel persecuted, it makes them feel the people that are trying to stop them asking about a genuine queer pairing (in their minds) are homophobic. That the people denying it’s real are homophobic. For them it’s as real and factual as the sky being blue and the grass being green. They are absolutely going to lose their mind at anyone who says otherwise because you’re taking their foundation away and they are just going to get defensive and push harder to get back on solid ground, to hold on tighter to that delusion, that for whatever reason and whatever coping mechanism they’ve latched onto makes them feel safe. They genuinely see it is real and that’s why they take extreme offence at their real canon queer pairing being compared to a fictional fanon ship - an incest one at that.

And the reason we are in this mess in the first place is because someone - queerbaiter mcbackstabber - thought it “harmless” to give validation to it, “you aren’t crazy, it’s real”. And in psychology, this is THE absolute worst thing you can do to people that have real delusions (not people that are having fun and know it’s a fantasy but people who believe 100% it’s real) is to validate those beliefs. He knew it wasn’t real, he knew it wasn’t being discussed in the writers’ room, he knew it wasn’t ever going to become reality but he gave validation to those beliefs anyway and continues to do so and worse, he’s feeding delusions about Dean too.

People like Rich and Rob have compounded it, “oh we see it now”, 🙄 No, what they see is the potential of it, they see why normal shippers might explore it in fanon because we ALL see that, we all see the potential in any ship and that’s what shipping is about. We still know it’s fanon and not real and it’s fun. But to these “extreme believers” I’ll call them, again it’s more validation for what they believe is real and everyone else saying otherwise are homophobes persecuting them.

We simply aren’t dealing with badly behaved rogue shippers that just don’t understand fandom etiquette (many are undeniably but they are just shitty people jumping on the bandwagon to get what they want at any cost), it’s much worse than that. That’s why this isn’t going to end, unless as I said on my previous post that the person that fed into this starts realising this isn’t “harmless” fun and starts being honest and backtracks on all the things he’s said and done that feed these very real delusions.

As i said this is a very, very small percentage of that fandom, the rest are just selfish and don’t care about anyone but themselves and their fetish so this is in no way excusing those a/h shippers.

Anyway, here’s a summary on it for anyone interested in learning more. It deals with delusions like thinking you are being followed but the principles are the same for any delusion.

caio-silva

Friendly reminder that Jensen was just the actor, not a writer or the showrunner. The actual writers of the show have confirmed and shown the exact opposite: yes, Dean did reciprocate.

There are multiple deliberate parallels between Dean and Cas and other couples on the show, which clearly confirm that their relationship was written romantically.

In the final season, the writers repeatedly used Sam and Eileen’s romantic relationship as a mirror for Dean and Cas’s. One example: when Eileen tells Sam she doesn’t know what’s real anymore because of Chuck, Sam kisses her and says “I know that was real.” This directly mirrors the scene earlier in the season where Dean tells Cas that nothing in their lives is real because of Chuck, and Cas replies, “You asked what about all of this is real? We are.”

Another clear parallel: Sam loses Eileen and Dean loses Cas literally in the same episode, 15x18. In fact, the entire episode where Castiel confesses was built around characters losing their love interests, starting with Charlie losing Stevie, specifically to set up and mirror Dean losing Cas at the end. The writers genuinely could not have made it any clearer.

On top of that, they introduced Adam and Serafina — a human and an angel who were deeply in love — literally one episode before Castiel’s confession. That was obviously not accidental. It was clear foreshadowing and an extremely direct parallel to Dean and Castiel. Everyone knows the biblical Adam and Eve story, but Supernatural deliberately changed the narrative specifically to mirror Dean and Cas — a human and an angel, just like Adam and Serafina.

They did the exact same thing with Cain. They didn’t even cast an actor to play Abel. Instead, they created an entirely new character, Colette, Cain’s great love, specifically so she could mirror Castiel in Dean’s life. Cain literally tells Dean, “You’re living my life in reverse,” and says that Dean will kill Cas first and then Sam. Since Cain killed his brother first and then his love interest, Dean living the story in reverse means Cas is his Colette (the love interest) and Sam is his Abel (the brother). That was extremely explicit. That is not subtext — that is text.

And finally, in episode 15x19, right after Cas’s confession and death, Lucifer impersonates Cas in order to manipulate Dean into letting him in. That is the ultimate confirmation that Dean reciprocated. The show had already established Lucifer’s consistent method: he always impersonates the person’s dead love interest in order to manipulate them into letting him in. He did it with Nick by impersonating his dead wife Sarah, with Sam by impersonating Jessica, his dead girlfriend, and with Vince Vicente by impersonating Jen, his dead lover. And he did it with Dean by impersonating Cas.

Therefore, Castiel is canonically Dean’s love interest. Destiel is canon. You cannot argue against these canon facts.

arkvark2

lol the script by Berens LITERALLY said Dean does not reciprocate. The rest of your "proof" is fanfiction. Colette was not mentioned for 1.5 seasons, the general audience does not remember her. The season Colette was mentioned, Sam literally told Dean to "stop", and Dean did. Cain said Sam's death will hurt Dean the most, not Cas.

iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid

i love this team so much. this dude ballerina twirled around the first defender who came at him and then hurdled backwards over the next one, an entire grown ass man, like it was nothing. like he's in a goddamn sports anime. unbelievable

iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid

can you imagine the kind of bonkers athleticism you have to display to get an entire sideline of professional athletes to react like this

WHAT

Not just that, the US pays for the defense of Europe, while Europe really does not.

The US contributes roughly 14.9% of NATO’s direct common-funded budget, which covers shared administrative and operational costs.

For the wider collective defense target, US defense spending represents about $980 billion, accounting for over 60% of the combined military expenditures of all NATO allies, that's $20 billion less than it spends on its own military.

These same so called allies will turn around and bitch about the US not spending money on healthcare, while ignoring that the US spends over $4.9 trillion annually on healthcare, the US is the world's highest spender on healthcare, outstripping peer nations by nearly double.

The US also has better healthcare, is a global leader in clinical research, pharmaceutical development, and new medical technology, often outpacing other nations in bringing breakthrough drugs to market.

For individuals with robust insurance or sufficient financial resources, wait times for specialist consultations, elective surgeries, and advanced diagnostic testing are much shorter than in publicly funded systems.

The US boasts some of the world's most renowned research hospitals and cancer centers, offering highly personalized and cutting-edge treatments.

The country achieves high survival rates for complex conditions, such as certain cancers and premature births.

The European mind cannot fathom that they are in fact inferior to a former British colony, the age of Europe is over, now is the age of the Burger.

@uncle-beanbag-mojave I request a burger Trump that is mirroring the British octopus stretching across the world, but from the US, raining burgers down across the globe.

#truth #healthcare #nato

gettothedancing

"The Hoover Dam kicked off its America 250 celebrations with the unfurling of a massive American flag and a red, white and blue light display. The full display includes more than 500 LED lights and over 126,000 feet of wire. The flag itself measures at 300 feet by 150 feet - the size of an American football field - and weighs approximately 2,000 pounds." (x)