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[asstroyess]

best thing about getting into spn after scrolling through the tags is seeing the context behind the millions of destiel gifs and screaming actually

[bookworm-2000]

No cause literally this?? And seeing how soon some of these gifs take place?? Like what do you mean that that one set of gifs where Cas is beating up Dean and holding him against the wall (homoerotically) is only in season 6???

[harrypotter-black]

Dumbledore: *sends Harry to his death after a lifetime of abuse and suffering*

Dumbledore: hmm yeah I'm going to make you do 80% of the work destroying the horcruxes. and then tell you to kill yourself.

Dumbledore: also I still don't trust you.

Dumbledore: now I want you to forgive me so I feel better about myself :)

[angelsdean]

Dean: I know. You didn’t, you didn’t think of it like that. ⤷ oblivious younger sibling Sam + not thinking before he speaks. 1.02 | 1.18 | 5.16

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[rostekhorn]

Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

[trambrosia]

And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.

This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book

[angelsdean]

"i left, but you didn't stop me" CAS I AM GRABBING YOU BY THE SHOULDERS AND SHAKING YOU. I AM RATTLING YOU LIKE A PIGGY BANK. you always leave !!!! he never wants you to !!!!!!! he's been trying to lock you down for years !!!!! if he could he'd handcuff you two together !!!! this is dean abandonment issues winchester. this is dean everyone you love leaves you winchester. you should knowww he'd let you go bc he thinks everyone is better off without him PLEASE CASTIEL THIS IS DEAN STUDIES 101 AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A PHD IN HIM (yes, pretty huge dick)

[melioristicbeast]

when the bf insists on going to a college party only to conk out on the designated jacket-chair in the corner, so you get called to go pick him up

Sleep-deprived-stiles falling asleep in inopportune places and long-suffering derek picking him up and lugging him home, my beloved 🫶

Inspired by Oblivious Misadventures, and Other Such Tales by @always-the-little-spoon, that does this trope beautifully along with an oblivious Scott as outsider POV - what's not to like!

What was supposed to just be a little add-on that took on a life of it's own, so it gets its own post instead: [part 2]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[lazarrusrising]

The only reason people think Dean is 'the angry one' is because he actually expresses his anger whereas when Sam is angry a lot of the time he will simply leave, and not in a 'im too angry to have this discussion productively' kind of way, I mean he will ditch Dean and pursue the course of action they disagree upon without him and that distance allows him to repress the anger enough to reach back out to Dean afterwards without actually processing it, Dean reacts immediately and is quick to burn through that high emotion, we actually often see him apologizing for his reactions whereas Sam holds onto his rage for years until it explodes out of him disproportionately (aka the Benny of it all), people don't see Sam as an angry character because the behaviours that the anger is channeled into aren't loud; its self-isolation, its reticence/silence, it's hyperfixation on a hunt or a cause or a quest, it's shame and self-flagellation and a need to prove himself, to be right and good and justified, all of these things are where the anger goes when Sam doesn't let himself actually process it. And like, all this to say, they both have a lot to be angry about. It would be weird if they weren't angry. But I think Dean telegraphing his emotions next to Sam repressing them makes it easy to think that Dean is disproportionately angry when he's not. He should be angrier tbh.

[bookworm-2000]

Oh my god everyone (including Sam!) thinks he’s so superior to Dean for this! He’s not! It’s manipulative to go after Dean for expressing his anger!

And then Sam turns around, very hypocritically and accuses Dean of not facing his grief ughhh

[selenaissupercool]

the real reason why characters like jonathan and argyle are so disliked is because they arent conventionally attractive white guys who are strong and who look nice being shipped with steve fuckass harrington.

‘but.. but.. jonathan took those pictures of nancy in season one!’

yea that was gross and that is something i dont like about Jon but he apologized

Steve on the other hand let his bitchy friends call nancy a slut, slept with multiple girls and played with their feelings, made fun of jonathans family, and didnt give af about barb.

‘but.. but Jonathan and argyle are always stoned!’

EDDIE IS A FUCKING SUPER SENIOR+++ SELLING DRUGS TO UNDERAGE PEOPLE!!! IM NOT SURPRISED PEOPLE THOUGHT HE KILLED CHRISSY!! I WOULDVE TOO!!

‘billy saved el’

i don’t give a shit bro. i truly do not. he is still a horrible person and did not get a ‘redemption arc’, it was the start of one. IT DIDNT ACTUALLY HAPPEN!! HE TRIED TO RUN OVER LITERAL CHILDREN AND TRIED TO HURT LUCAS!!! HE IS HORRIBLE TO MAX!! ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!!

‘but Billy went through so much!’

SO DID JONATHAN! HE HAD TO PREPARE HIS OWN BROTHERS FUNERAL BECAUSE HIS MOM WAS ACTING LIKE A LUNATIC!! HIS ABUSIVE FATHER CAME BACK INTO HIS LIFE JUST TO BE A BITCH AGAIN!!!! HE HAD TO PLAY CO PARENT WITH JOYCE!!!! HE WAS AMAZING TO WILL WHILE BILLY LITERALLY GRABBED MAX! DID WE JUST FORGET HOW SCARED SHE LOOKED WHEN HE DID THAT!!! DID WE JUST ALL COLLECTIVELY FUCKING FORGET THAT!!

‘but.. but.. argyle was so unnecessary to season four!’

as was eddie. idc what anyone says , he didnt do shit. If argyle and eddie were switched then you know damn well people would’ve LOVED the cali crew. they would’ve thought argyle was weird for still being in school at his big age and call him a weirdo for selling drugs to chrissy.

long story short , we love love LOVE jonathan byers and argyle. jargyle can be in there too. (stonathan as well, but only with the better version of steve that fans created)

STEVE EDDIE AND BILLY CAN SUCK MY FAT ONE!!!

[do-it-for-johnny-man]

Why do I feel like there is almost no love for Jonathan in this fandom 😭 Like guys... he's a great brother, a great son, a good dude. He's made mistakes, but you can tell he's changed. He's so misunderstood by the fandom. But seriously, the drought of Jonathan-Centric fics is insane.

[dogwaterdish]

do y'all ever think about the amount of misplaced love jason has in his heart. do y'all ever think about how he was orphaned at two years old. do y'all ever think about how much he compliments people and tries to make them feel seen and heard. do you ever think maybe thats not just cause thats the best way to keep a team intact but also because he's grasping for somewhere to put all the love inside him. do y'all ever think about how the only family he had ever known turned on him in an instant, when the Argo II attacked new rome. do y'all ever think about how hard he tried to reconcile even though the romans were throwing bricks at him. do y'all ever think about how one of the few times jason is shown to be naive is when he's trying to connect the two things he loves (cj/nr & chb)*. do y'all ever think about how jason was willing to die for a boy he'd known for less than a year. do y'all ever think about how once he realized nico was just another hurt kid, jason adopted him into his circle. do y'all ever think about how he gave percy, who he had only known for two-ish months and had a rivalry with, a huge hug after he came out of tartarus. and do y'all ever think about how, no matter that he's been taught to repress his feelings & to avoid vulnerability, love seeps out of jason like honey.

do y'all ever think???

*this one's referencing him asking piper to talk to reyna, and how she'll be able to smooth everything out

[queer-stilinski]

I kinda love the idea that only Stiles gets to witness Derek’s softness.

like, ok, yeah, maybe Derek is a little softer with his pack. maybe he does interact with strangers a little differently. he's not as brute, socially awkward, or short.

but only Stiles gets to see the moments where Derek is vulnerable. where there's random nights that have turned into therapy sessions for Derek. where Derek openly tells stories of his family, how much he misses them, the moments where he cries because he misses his mom the most.

love the idea of Stiles being selfish with Derek’s affection and attention. keeping to himself how Derek lays with him and practically holds him like a safety blanket or his favorite stuffy. keeping to himself the pillow talk and the whispered conversations they have when no one's around and Derek can speak openly about whatever. tells no one how Derek seeks him out when they're in their apartment just so Derek can look at him.

the light touches, the soft smiles, the quiet laughs, the longing stares? all for Stiles and he'd probably keep it that way forever if he could.

[writerjayne]

Pt. 6

While Derek waited for Stiles to change, he checked his phone for updates from the pack. Scott had told his mom, but Melissa was on shift at the hospital. She reached out to Derek directly, saying she would stop by on her way home. Derek let her know that they would be at the Stilinski house for the evening with no current plans, and he was sure Stiles would be happy to see her. Peter had responded to Derek's earlier text, promising to retrieve Stiles things without laying a finger on Kyle. There was no word yet from Malia or Kira, but the two were often traveling and didn't always have cell service. The click of the doorknob alerted Derek, and he looked up, smiling at Stiles as he stepped into the hall.

"How are you feeling?" Derek asked.

"Hungry," Stiles admitted. "I'm not positive when I ate last."

"Let's make food then," Derek said easily, watching for Stiles reaction. The Beta was calm now, but Derek instinctively scanned for any distress, ready to soothe, to help, to be the alpha, if Stiles needed him to.

"Hopefully there's food to make," Stiles' mouth quirked up into an almost smile. "Dad isn't great about grocery shopping without reminders."

"I'm sure Scott or Melissa kept him on track," Derek assured as the two wolves headed down the stairs.

"Hopefully," Stiles sighed.

Derek glanced over and saw Stiles fidgeting with his fingers. Silently, Derek reached out and took Stiles' hand, smoothing the younger man's fingers. Stiles took a breath and leaned forward slightly. Derek tugged lightly on Stiles' hand, and the young beta followed him to the kitchen.

Stiles watched Derek go through the fridge and cupboards, pulling out ingredients and dishes.

"How's breakfast sound?" Derek asked. "There are eggs and some bacon, and I think there are potatoes."

"Sure," Stiles smiled. "Can I help?"

"Of course," Derek gestured for Stiles to join him.

Derek set Stiles to cleaning and cutting the potatoes while he began cooking the eggs and bacon. It didn't take long for Stiles' stomach to growl, making them both laugh. Once the food was done, Derek generously filled a plate for Stiles, and the two sat to eat.

Stiles ate slowly, enjoying the flavors and having food in his stomach again. Derek watched every bite Stiles took. There was a need, a drive wired into the instincts of an alpha, to protect and care for the newest addition to his pack. Derek was aware it came out in odd ways sometimes, and he was doing his best not to overdo it. Stiles noticed anyway.

"Something on my face, sourwolf?" Stiles asked, mouth full of egg.

Derek rolled his eyes and dropped his gaze to his plate.

"No," He huffed.

"You were staring," Stiles challenged.

"Alpha thing," Derek shrugged. "Just keeping an eye on you."

"Worried I'm going to vanish?" Stiles raised an eyebrow.

"Something like that," Derek's tone was noncommittal, and he stood, gesturing to Stiles' empty plate. "All done? Or do you need more?"

"I'm done," Stiles pushed the plate towards Derek. "So when am I going to get bombarded with visits from the pack?"

"Not until you want them."

"What does that mean?" Stiles asked with a frown.

"It's a lot, at first, especially with a pack the size of ours. You already know them, so that will help, but the pack bond can be intense when it first snaps into place. Not to mention the sensory factors of integrating into the pack," Derek came back to lean against the doorframe. "They're waiting until you give the word. Though I'm sure they would be happy to come one at a time, if you wanted to see them sooner."

Stiles was silent for a moment, and Derek let that moment stretch, knowing Stiles well enough to recognize when he was thinking.

"I don't think I'm ready," Stiles admitted, the slightest quiver in his voice.

"And that is okay," Derek reassured, coming over to rest a hand on Stiles' shoulder. "The pack can wait. You are home, and safe, and uninjured. That will be enough for them."

Stiles nodded, eyes down. Derek knelt next to Stiles' chair and tilted Stiles' chin up to meet his eyes. He could smell waves of worry and anxiety radiating from Stiles and could hear the thunder of Stiles' heart.

"I just don't want to hurt anyone," Stiles admitted.

"Luckily, most of your friends heal almost instantly now," Derek smiled slightly, waiting for Stiles to smile in return. When the younger man did, Derek continued. "And the ones who don't are pretty familiar with handling werewolves."

"And I heal now, too," Stiles said quietly. "So if they need to stop me..."

"They won't need to stop you." Derek's voice was firm. "Come on, let's go watch a movie."

"A movie?" Stiles blinked, confusion spreading across his face.

"You've had a long day," Derek stood, and Stiles followed. "Not to mention the last few weeks. So yes, we are going to watch a movie, and you are going to relax."

Stiles still looked confused but didn't protest. He sat on the couch when Derek nodded to it and watched as the alpha pulled out some movies, flipping through until he found what he was looking for. Once it was ready to play, Derek joined Stiles on the couch. He adjusted the volume to a level so low that Stiles didn't think he would be able to hear it. When the movie started, Stiles was almost startled by how clear it was.

"You'll get used to filtering the sounds," Derek promised, leaning so their shoulders were pressed together.

Stiles leaned into the pressure, but didn't respond. They watched the movie in comfortable silence, and when it was finished, Derek put in another. They continued watching movies until Stiles was nodding against Derek's shoulder. Derek didn't mind, knowing Stiles must be exhausted, but when the last movie finished, Stiles jerked awake, heart racing.

"What was that?" He asked, eyes flashing gold.

"It was just the TV," Derek ran a hand over Stiles' hair, before pulling the beta closer. "Do you want to go to bed?"

"No, I'm awake," Stiles settled against Derek's side, insisting. "I'm fine."

"You sure?" Derek asked when Stiles yawned widely.

"Yeah, I'm good." Stiles crossed his arms, but his head was against Derek's shoulder, eyes already drifting closed again.

"Stiles," Derek rumbled softly. "You can sleep if you need to."

"I don't want to be alone," Stiles admitted.

"You won't be alone," Derek promised.

"You'll stay?" Stiles looked up at the alpha.

"If you want me to," Derek nodded.

"Okay," Stiles said softly. "Please stay."

Part 5 here: https://www.tumblr.com/writerjayne/809864307252871168/pt-5-stiles-was-quiet-on-the-drive-doing-his-best?source=share

[amia4yourheart]

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Haha first time drawing stonathan hope i did them justice

[iwriteonthisone]

The tragedy of jason grace will randomly sneak up on me every couple of weeks and MENTALLY DESTROY ME

Because what do you mean he lived a hollow gods-serving life in a military camp. What do you mean that in spite of that he might have still had meaningful friendships- ones that he neither will fully remember nor that we'll get to know about. Percy got his memories back but jason didn't and for that he lost reyna and who knows who else actually!! He might have had a support system at some point- he might have even had friends who died in battle. Ones he vowed to remember at some point in the past, but then hera/juno happened and,,, who knows? We truly barely know the full true details about jason grace's past. Like that boy was in cj from literal toddlerhood. Reyna's POV hints that they were good friends once. She never says that Jason also didn't have anyone else though does she? So like. We will never truly know. And he might have started remembering things with time, but now all is lostttt

Truly, what was robbed from him the most was time. Just simple timeee. He finally had his sister again. He finally found a place where he belonged. Despite his memory loss, he had leo and piper. But then he lost leo and distance grew between him and piper due to them going their separate ways (piper had a right to want to find herself btw I'll fight piper haters at anytime)

I believe that if jason grace had more time his life would have climbed back up eventually. He had a fresh start and a way to start to get to know himself more. When percy and annabeth got back to camp in the summer, he would have had time to hang out with them and to tell them everything that was going on! The same with hazel and frank. Jason was starting to have people. With time he and piper would have found a new friendship, and maybe with reyna as well, and looking back at percy's reaction to his death i would like to assume that they had started to get closer as well

(I have No idea what was going on with coach hedge and mellie but I refuse to believe that this was their reaction to the breakup💀 like even if it Was Jason's doing, it is still his right as much as it is piper's??? Those two are basically their childrennn wtf was that)

Anyways. Jason Grace you died way too soon. You had so much potential. He makes my heart ache. He is genuinely a complex character that deserved to be explored more. The comparisons between him and percy would be much more interesting if they stopped being about who is stronger and they ended up being about them as human beings. Also those two boys are FRIENDS who clearly loved and respected eachother SO MUCH. Like hello????? Jason bear-hugging percy when he got back from tartarus, Percy basically being catatonic with grief when he found out about Jason's death. The HOO cast adored eachother much more deeply than we recognise. It was seen more than once. Those babies went through sm together

[gutsyaddy]

Jonathan, Jane & Will headcanons!

I love them sm, I don't think people understand

also posted on tiktok || gutsyaddy

[bookworm-2000]

Love these three so much 😭

[handsofred]

I want a cute childhood boyfriend’s story.

Stiles and Derek are both 6 and declare each other their boyfriend one Valentine’s Day.

Alive Hales and Talia and alive Claudia, who are best of friends. They think it’s so cute and encourages it and helps both boys to create a valentines card for the other, the joke and laugh about it, saying that they would probably forget all about it.

Come April, Derek says that he wants to get Stiles a gift for his birthday since he’s his boyfriend. Talia finds it adorable and helps him before telling Claudia all about it when the boys nap, curled together and holding hands.

The next year, they keep calling each other boyfriends and both their mothers start thinking that this going to be a long phase. Their families just think it’s cute still and tell them that by the time they turn ten or something it will be forgotten.

Fast forward to ten years of age, they still call each other boyfriends and they hold hands everywhere and cuddle together.

Each year, they get gifts for Valentine’s Day, birthdays and other holidays.

Talia and Claudia realise that the boys have a strong bond and accept it since it’s clear that if they haven’t forgotten about it in four years, that they probably won’t. But think that maybe by the time they hit high school it might be different.

Stiles and Derek start high school and they walk in on their first day holding hands and telling anyone who asks about it that they are boyfriends.

They turn fourteen and are still together.

When they are sixteen, Claudia walks in on them heavily making out with each other on the couch, hands down each others pants before they are quickly breaking apart, flushing red from more than one thing.

Claudia sits down with Talia and says that it’s about time they had a talk with the boys and tells her what happened. They both sit down with their respective sons and go through the sex talk despite them flushing and begging them to stop before escaping to their rooms to call each other and complain about the embarrassment.

They turn eighteen and are in love with each other still but they go to separate colleges

Talia and Claudia wonder if this is the moment things will stop but it doesn’t.

They visit each other whenever they can, they call and text each other constantly, although friends of Stiles’ who hasn’t met Derek doesn’t believe he is real or as hot as Stiles rants about but then one day Derek surprises Stiles at school during Valentine’s Day and presents him with a card, a rose and box of chocolates before he is going down on one knee and proposes to Stiles.

They are twenty when they get engaged.

They are twenty six when they finally get married, after having finished college and found jobs and saved up for their first home and the wedding.

Both Talia and Claudia has a speech where they talk about how their little boys were six years old when they declared each other their boyfriend and they had thought it was a cute little moment between kids. Of how people called it a cute phase that they would grow out off but they weren’t sure and how they were proud of what amazing men they had become and how happy they were to be celebrating their love for one another.

Claudia totally slips in about the moment she walked in on them, throwing a wink and grin at them both as Stiles and Derek blush and laugh.

After speeches are done, both Derek and Stiles get up to have a mother son dance with their mothers, the rest of their families watching on in fondness.