Heaven's Borrowed Things

Heather. 39. USA (sorry). Fandoms: Supernatural, Hannibal, Heated Rivalry, Harry Potter (obligatory “JKR is a TERF/This series is now millennial folklore” disclaimer), The Hunger Games Sidebar gif by Castiel

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ABOUT Graphic Designer / Writer / Professional Overthinker

I make things, feel too much about fictional people, and talk about both here. Personal posts are tagged shut up heather.

I’m respectful and accepting of how anyone defines themselves. As for myself, labels exhaust me. Gender, sexuality, whatever. I’m just existing.

Minors are free to hang, but this is an adult space. Act like one.

I don’t think in absolutes. I think critically, sit with discomfort, and like questions more than answers. If you’re allergic to nuance or need everyone to agree with you, you’re gonna have a bad time here.

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[oracleoutlook]

Teaching Shakespearean Sonnets to Brain Rot 15-Year-Olds

There's hope.

My co-teacher came up with an idea. She said to me: “I’m going to project a Shakespearean sonnet on the board that you have never seen before. They are going to watch you struggle through it, and they are going to see what it takes to authentically annotate something to attempt to understand it”. This was a good idea because it targeted a pitfall of my teaching: that I already know the answer— a predetermined answer I want my students to come to. Therefore, when I ask the class a question, they are aware that there is an answer in my head I want them to arrive at. This method can stifle students’ voice. So, I stood at the front of the classroom that day, feeling exposed, sight-reading Shakespearean sonnets. With most of the sonnets, I, with the help of the class, could only get to about 75% understanding and accuracy at best. But my confusion — my apparent struggle and frustration in understanding each new sonnet— was key for my students. They felt free to posit their interpretations and even to disagree with me. In each session, a student shared a thought or possibility that not only I had failed to see but was also ultimately accurate. One student couldn’t wipe the smile off her face when she figured out a metaphor that stumped both me and my co-teacher. “This was fun”, she and her classmate said to each other when the bell rang.

[horrortvfilmsource]

SCREAM 2 dir. Wes Craven, 1997

[entropic-saudade]

A Knight of Hell and his attack angel walk into a bar...

Like demon, like dog.

Silly comic for Restraintstiel Week, Day 1: Collar. I did similar ideas for days 1 and 2, so expect more collars and leashes/chains at some point!

[lexicanons]

Married Hollanov decided to do an ad campaign together and they chose Peloton to be the first one. They sit down with the Peloton team and they’re throwing out ideas for the commercial when Ilya cuts in with an idea of his own. As Ilya talks, Shane realizes Ilya is describing the night in the gym all those years ago. The Peloton people love it. They’ll need to work in some other aspects but they go with Ilya’s general idea. The commercial comes out and it opens up on a shot of Shane pedaling on the bike. Ilya joins him a moment later, not before running his hand along Shane’s lower back. They pedal hard on their respective bikes. That turns into running on a treadmill which turns into shadow boxing which turns into other exercises to show off all of the Peloton features before they end up on the floor facing each other, sharing a water bottle and smiling at each other as the Peloton label fills the screen. Shane and Ilya watch the commercial and then decide to read the comments:

‘I didn’t know Peloton was a porn company now’

‘So if I get a Peloton I’ll get a hot husband? He’ll just appear beside me?’

‘You ever look at two people and just know they’re freaks?’

‘Did you see how Ilya mouthed ‘more’ to Shane when he was drinking??’

‘The hand on Shane’s back, helping him stretch during the Yoga part, oh I know Ilya tore Shane up after that shoot.’

[stickerqueer]

A few weeks after the ad drops, someone who was on set that day anonymously posts a phone video of the director saying cut while they’re on the treadmills but Shane and Ilya are both glaring at each other and bickering like,

“He said cut Hollander”

“So why don’t you stop Rozanov?

“I will. As soon as you do.”

“Thought we agreed this wouldn’t be a competition?”

“Then why haven’t you stopped yet?”

and the crew and director are just looking on like… Guys we’ve got like, five more shots to film, can you flirt on your own time????

Eventually the fed up makeup artist pulls the plugs in both machines at the same time cause “The sweat might play good for the camera, but if I have to redo your hair and powder one more time I will lose it! Dry shampoo can only do so much!”

[bowlegsandbiceps]

Three Facts About Me

I was tagged by @bleuzombie and @valandrawrites (forever ago oops lol)

I once got my arms stuck in a golf bag at Walmart (yes, Walmart used to sell golf bags)

My favorite energy drink is called Liquid Ice. I've been all over the US and throughout Europe and the only place I can find it retail or in bars is in Southern Illinois or by the case on Amazon*.

I love pub trivia but I cannot get anyone to consistently go with me. I'm almost at the point where I'm going to start going by myself.

No pressure tags; Bleu tagged everyone I would tag so if you see this consider yourself tagged. And tag me back so I can see your answers. *Fun fact: I met the guy I'm dating at my previous job and the first time he stayed over it was very clear he is not a morning person so I sent one of these with him to work. Completely slipped my mind that these were very unique to me. So when he had one on his desk and my former-supervisor came in and saw it he kind of did a double take and was like "did you get that from the breakroom market?" (because I had asked how we could get them stocked in there before I was downsized) and TGID was like "....no..." Still cracks me up to this day.

[busty-shackleford]

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The rest of us who already knew this shit seeing data back it up are SO VALIDATED rn

[seasononesam]

That was Bobby. Some banker guy blew his head off in Ohio and he thinks there's a spirit involved.

[richarddmadden]

“There’s another way.” “Great. What is it?”

[angelsdean]

that was so dean-grenade-launcher of her

[follows-the-bees]

[constablekal]

I was gonna do the whole burning up in the sky thing, but I really liked this :)

[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

[corrupt-touch]

I will never get over how broken Dean looks here

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So the problem with my upstairs neighbor is that the majority of the times they play their shit SO. FUCKING. LOUD. is on Friday evening and all through the weekend. The time that I DESPERATELY want to relax and it's just vibrations all the way down the walls.

Sometimes it's music and sometimes it's just talking? I guess it's a TV show or something?

I know there's no real way to mitigate this other than to buy a whole fucking house but I really wish that complexes has like "Quiet Buildings" or something where it's quiet hours all the time.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[gayteensupreme]

I'm going to address a specific set of notes in this post (without indicating who wrote them) because it's a valuable insight into criticisms of this post. Also keep in mind broadly that this post is a JOKE it's supposed to be FUNNY. But also I'm not stupid enough to think jokes aren't a very effective way to communicate and persuade.

"This is like saying female-owned businesses mean nothing because J.K Rowling is a businesswoman". Incredibly, that's exactly what I'm saying. I applaud this critique for correctly identifying how my stance might be applied elsewhere.

But what I would ask is this: do you not remember how JKR (being a successful female author and businesswoman) was lauded as a feminist hero during the peak of the books' success which allowed her to make a large part of modern feminism incredibly TERF-y because of her influence? Because I think we should all do well to remember that.

Interestingly, this critique then goes on to make my entire point for me, albeit maybe slightly more charitably than I. It goes on to say "queer people are not a monolith" and that we should inform ourselves as to who owns these businesses. Yes! Yes! This is my point! Relying purely on identity politics to judge whether businesses (and people) are good or not is bad!

It closes out by saying big corps "don't count" when talking about queer-owned businesses. Honestly? Yeah, I agree. Most of the time, people are talking about small queer-owned businesses. That is because this post is a joke. I have applied the label of "queer-owned business" to some businesses the label is not usually applied to to point out the limits of identity politics in business.

Corporations are not your friends. Small businesses can be your friends, and they are closer to your level than Big Corporations - but that doesn't mean they always will be.