Charlie's Dragon

I have no idea what I'm doing... I used to write a lot about sex ed.

[dorian-they-ao3]

insp.

[charliesdragon]

I only learnt now, ten months later, that the episode where Jack becomes God is not the last episode of Supernatural.

There’s one more after it, for whatever reason.

In my opinion they could have left it open-ended with Sam and Dean just riding into the sunset, it was a good and hopeful ending, but apparently that wasn’t good enough…

Anyway, I’m going to watch it now even though I’ve heard it’s a trainwreck.

[charliesdragon]

Well, the highlight of it was Dean getting pie to the face.

Having seen the brothers say goodbye to each other as one of them is dying fifteen times before really takes the gravitas out of it, and I really felt like I had heard it all before.

The montage of Sam’s life was... painfully cliché. 

Not quite as painful as the second version of Carry On My Wayward Son, though.

All in all it just tried to wrap up things that didn’t need wrapping up and felt entirely unnecessary. It would have been better to just leave it open after episode 19 and let people imagine whatever they wanted.

Well, we can always just ignore that episode 20 exists, which is what I’m going to do.

[charliesdragon]

I only learnt now, ten months later, that the episode where Jack becomes God is not the last episode of Supernatural.

There’s one more after it, for whatever reason.

In my opinion they could have left it open-ended with Sam and Dean just riding into the sunset, it was a good and hopeful ending, but apparently that wasn’t good enough...

Anyway, I’m going to watch it now even though I’ve heard it’s a trainwreck.

[kaumnyakte]

very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.

[kaumnyakte]

which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason

[chicago-geniza]

anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones   

[feeshies]

Things about journalism that tumblr never seems to grasp

Headlines have to be as streamline as possible. Aka, they can’t include names unless the article is about a well-known public figure.

Those “water is wet” articles do more then explain what you already know, they’re providing evidence and sources that support/explain what you already know.

Oh my god, there’s information after the headline.

[strands-of-starsilk]

journalists are required to use the word “alleged” or “allegedly” until the person they’re talking about has been found guilty in a court of law

[thathopeyetlives]

“Water is wet” things have a history of being disproven when studied scientifically, shouldn’t be taken that uncritically, and not that many decades ago they were wall-to-wall misogyny and racism. 

[headspace-hotel]

Ooh, I have one: The effort to verify something with quantifiable evidence isn’t...an insult to the original claim, or something.

Example: if a group of people has been claiming to experience workplace discrimination, and a study is conducted confirming that they are, in fact, experiencing workplace discrimination, the study isn’t evidence that the researchers “didn’t believe” that the discrimination was happening! It’s just the scientific method!!!

Like it’s really not about “doubting” that group of people’s experiences or some kind of insinuation that they’re lying about being discriminated against. Especially since the research is probably just...asking??? people????? so you can be like, “we asked 3,000 people about the workplace discrimination they have experienced using the following survey questions, here’s the breakdown of what they said.” Like no matter how much you “believe” people you still need that information in an organized and collected format to actually DO anything with it

Research is never redundant or unnecessary! It gets laws passed! It gets policies changed! It changes how we train educators and therapists and people in positions of power over the vulnerable!

[pisexuality]

so i know plenty of you unspoken hero’s have managed to stick around watching supernatural every week & keeping the show running, but has anyone else awoken after years of not caring about the show to find destiel trending on twitter and have caught up to the season and are now spiraling through tumblr, twitter, & youtube and staying up until 3 AM reading smut on AO3. that just me? I thought I left this shit behind in my teen years but I am unemployed due to covid so I have so much free time on my hands and now all I can do all day is think about and digest as much shit about destiel as i possible fucking can. i’m so scared coming back for the finale will be a mistake.

[charliesdragon]

Spoilers for Supernatural season 15 ending!

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I just had a dream that tried to fix some of the things that wasn’t answered in episode 19 after Chuck was defeated and Jack became the new God. That’s how big of a loose thread they left, it invaded my subconscience.

In my dream, an emissary of Heaven came to ask Dean what he wanted, anything in the power of Heaven, and Dean asked for him and Sam to be made angels, “With the wings and everything, yeah?” 

But he also went “Cas! Cas! Cas!”

The emissary told him to relax, he had two wishes to use either way, he could have both.

The angel that was in charge of newbie angels arrived in the form of Wednesday Addams. (If the whole Dorothy and Oz thing can be real, Wednesday Addams can be an angel vessel...) She told him it took an eternity for a new angel to earn their wings, literally an eternity, but I also got the feeling that was a set time frame for the angels, X hundreds or thousands of years.

But what about Cas? Wednesday explained that after the transfer of power from Chuck to Jack, nothing could be brought back from the Empty, but Castiel had been released as energy and was now part of the power/energy of Heaven. Insert some glowy effect to illustrate said power.

Dean looked sad about that, because it’s pretty far from having Cas back, and even while dreaming I thought it wasn’t a satisfactory ending, but at least they addressed what had happened to Cas. And the idea of Dean and Sam as angels is amusing, they’ve tried being just about everything else, so why not?

[feathered-bitch]

I stan gay angels in a long coat who are hated by heaven and protective over humanity, and if you don't, you should

[shitpostinguniverse]

[jackmeister]

Of all the directions I thought this comic was heading, this wasn’t it.

[charliesdragon]

I made this video for TikTok, but might as well share it on all my social media.

Essential tremor is mostly harmless, but annoying at times. I get by fine, medicines help, and I usually use big glasses and cups and don’t fill them to the brim to avoid spilling, I chose that glass specifically because I knew I would spill.

Shaky hands is not a normal part of aging, or anything, if it’s interfering with your life, it’s worth talking to a doctor about it.

Feel free to spread the word, since essential tremor is not well-known about despite being one of the most common movement disorders.

[butch-with-a-tortoise-deactivat]

OK so this isn’t so much a problem on this site* but I see this on live streaming and occasionally when I pop into a larger discord (before leaving because overwhelmed) and I want to remind everyone that the echos, that is, three parentheses around a word or a name…(((tortoise)))…for example

is an antisemitic dog whistle. 

It is used by right wingers, usually Nazis and their ilk, to indicate that a name/person in question is Jewish or that something is related to the Jewish conspiracy 

A few Jews do use it in their twitter handles because like, a slur I guess, it’s something we can reclaim but I don’t recommend doing it unless you’re very openly Jewish because it’s just confusing and freaks people out 

a pretty easy to spot example:

Post: X company lost millions of dollars in revenue that year

Person retweeting post: I bet the (((banks))) were involved 

or 

Person: I wonder if (((Darwin))) was behind this

(Uh, Darwin as in me  not the evolution guy)

It’s not a joke, it’s not random or abstract or clever

like literally every other signal Nazis use it’s just annoying as fuck 

And if you’re a gentile who knowingly uses it because a Jew told you not to or you think it’s “ironic” or edgy or whatever

It’s a hate symbol and it can be legitimately alarming to see 

fine I don’t fucking care but just don’t whine when people think you’re a Nazi or something similar

source here from the ADL

*usually when people do it on this sight it’s legit Nazi apologists who know exactly what they’re doing or occasionally very explicitly Jewish people doing it as a joke 

[coolxatu]

[volvereparcas]

Hot take though

my wife worked on an oil rig in Wyoming out of high school because there aren’t a lot of jobs that pay that well for someone without access to college. She was a driller and then a supervisor after the crew supervisor was killed during their shift. She saw multiple people die and loose limbs and she got pretty bad ptsd from watching a friend get decapitated by a chain that went loose and catching his head in her hands.

Shifts are often 20+ hours at a time with an 8-10 hour break between shifts for at least two weeks at a time and then a week off. Rigs are normally understaffed which make it worse and a lot of people on rigs turn to drug use just to be able to stay awake during their shifts. But it’s a job that pays a lot in rural and low income communities for people who don’t have a lot of options. A lot of people go in knowing they’ll maybe die but at least their families won’t have to work afterwards because of life insurance policies from the companies they work for.

I know this post was probably just meant as a joke post the whole thing with Joe Biden and fracking but like sometimes it shows that people who post these things don’t know a ton about what they’re talking about. It remains one of the most lethal jobs worldwide. Switching from oil/natural gas to sustainable energy sources will take time to transition and right now we have millions working in drilling with odds stacked against them. Republicans don’t care about oil workers’ lives because they can be used to make a profit and the left hates them because of a career they didn’t have a lot of choice in choosing.

The oil field is like the military where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die. Fracking and drilling being bad for the planet and needing an end and oil workers being worthy of concern because their lives are treated as disposable are two ideas that can coexist.

[charliesdragon]

I have a theory Jack will be the new Death. He made that plant in the silo die just by trying to touch it, he definitely has powers of some kind, and that’s why Billie wanted to keep him after resurrecting him.

I saw another theory that Jack will be the new God, and why not.

[vixenmcmahenhphm]

Me: I need to work on Willow.

Also me: what if Sam and Dean were aurors? Sam was a Ravenclaw and Dean was a gryffindor. They are good at their job. They took Vixen in and Vixen got along great with Dean and annoyed Sam. What if...

I dont want to expand on this but I'm more than likely going to anyway because I love the Winchesters so much

[charliesdragon]

Their story started and ended with Cas’s handprint on Dean’s arm.

[charliesdragon]

Dean Winchester, trying to literally outrun Death.

Again.

[charliesdragon]

Oh, so the thing to take down the Big Bad will actually just make things worse.

It’s not like we’ve seen that 15 times before...