Crescent Moonshine

butterfly therapist unreasonably empathetic

[faustandfurious]

Some people on this website learnt the word “trope” and let it settle comfortably into the vocabulary space that should have been occupied by the word “cliché”.

“Trope” is a neutral word. If a particular trope is overused ad nauseam, it becomes a cliché. Saying you hate tropes does not make any sense.

[faustandfurious]

“I hate recurring themes and motifs”

Well, good luck finding fictional content you can safely consume

[faustandfurious]

You can hate particular tropes. You can be violently opposed to reading any YA book where the female protagonist has to choose between a Mysterious Bad Boy and Her Childhood Friend, you can avoid Enemies To Lovers like the plague.

But looking for a work of literature without tropes is like looking for a food recipe without ingredients.

[faustandfurious]

And describing/recommending a literary work simply by listing the tropes it contains is, well, something that I think works a lot better for fanfiction than for original works/published novels.

With fanfiction you have the framework. You know the fandom and the characters. You know the recipe is for chocolate cake, and when someone says “oh hey this is good, it contains hazelnuts and orange”, you can go “that’s great! I love hazelnuts and orange” with the implication that you love them as chocolate cake ingredients.

Recommending a book by listing tropes is like telling someone “you should check out this recipe, it has hazelnuts and orange”. Ok fine, but what kind of recipe is it? Is it a chocolate cake or a fucking salad?

[nuntox]

so, about dean rescuing cas…

[northernkoyote]

Jensen Ackles - Rock 'n' Roll

[ubernaturalist]

Alyssa Hamlet on Twitter

“Allow me to make it worse https://t.co/0azgmO8u8V”

[lower-the-volume]

4.01 Lazarus Rising

[incorrectlyspn]

Dean: *Mindlessly flirting with Castiel*

Castiel: *Actually flirts back*

Dean:

Castiel:

Dean:

Castiel: You’re not gonna say anything?

Dean, panicking: I don’t know. I didn’t think I’d get this far.

[spnsmile]

A cup of Misha

we know, Jackles. We know.

[destiel-is-real-idgaf]

"What's a boy to do?"

[tiktaalic]

2.20 what is and what should never be +

14.13 lebanon

[tiktaalic]

i love dean’s step dad episodes!!!!! him and claire are like you’re old. well you’re a teenager. well you make dumb references. well you GET my dumb references. sorry about trying to kill you. eh my entire family’s tried to kill me it’s fine. but dean with jack is like. hey…. sport. how are your… interests. care to do one of my interests with me? cooooool. cool cool cool. tell me more about, uh, the things kids are watching these days.

[tiktaalic]

@acklesology : #dean + claire is great and im not knocking it bcuz claire is his mini me #but with jack its just jack is cas’ son that’s the actual son of my boyfriend who i desperately want to keep in my life and god help me im gonna do it all right and proper and be a **real** dad and stuff #like jackles said at first dean saw lucifer but now he only sees cas and its just that’s his son and he wants to do right by him sdfkl;kfkfsdlk

yeah :) with claire it’s like. ok well she’s a teenage girl so she doesn’t like anyone she CERTAINLY doesn’t like cas who is her father figure so she probably won’t like me the friend of her father figure she hates but i gueeeeess we can tentatively bond over being angry teenagers. vs jack where dean’s sweating bullets because he CANT go play mini golf with jack and fall into an easy banter and also he’s aware he was a bad guardian to jack when cas was dead and ALSO he’s aware that jack is cas’s first priority so if Dean fucks up dean’s the one who’s gone. a mean teenage daughter will not prevent a single dad from marrying his boyfriend a three year old who cries when the boyfriend is in the room will

[smoothoperatorleclerc]

dean spreading cas' ashes in a peaceful place because he knows how much his angel loves nature and serenity. but dean can't stay away, misses him so much it aches in his soul, so he starts going back there once a week to talk to cas. he never tells sam where he's going, but he thinks sam might know. he doesnt care how long of a drive it is. doesnt care that he spends the whole journey with the music off and the impala silent. because when he gets there, when he sees the windmill spinning lazily in the breeze, its like the air around him bursts into life and sound. cas. its like he can feel the angel's presence in every blade of grass and every flower blooming and every bee that buzzes past. he gets out of the car, sits down in the damp grass, and smiles softly. "hey, cas. i missed you," dean says quietly. and then, after a deep breathe, dean just starts talking. "you'll never guess what happened yesterday..." he tells cas everything, from hunts to the movie he watched the previous night. he stays until its dark, until the fireflies start to dance, and then he finally gets up to leave. "good night, cas, I'll see you next week."

[sobsicles]

thinking about how they made it even more destiel in the show bc what we got instead was sam being like "i don't even know what to think/do/say about this (cas being back)" and dean being like "well i do" before going right up to cas and wrapping him in his arms. thinking about how dean said "welcome home" when they weren't even in/near the bunker. thinking about how dean had life in his eyes for the first time since cas died. thinking about how dean must have gathered cas' ashes and cradled whatever he carried him in so tenderly. how dean must have wanted to keep those ashes, but forced himself to spread them over the earth, because cas would have wanted that and he can't be selfish, he can't. thinking about how he would have asked cas if he liked it when cas came back, and how cas would have said yes, it was a nice touch, and how dean would have held that answer so close to his heart. thinking about how the last time dean had cas under his hands, he was ashes, and that was all dean thought he would get until he suddenly had cas back, and of course he knew he had to hug him, hold him, touch him again. just thinking...

[youchangedmedean]

DEAN SPREAD CAS' ASHES BY A WINDMILL DONT TOUCH ME

[transruby]

society if they played the night we met during the confession scene

[fleurdulys]

Summer Mood - Langer Karel

[belialhaematemesis]

Flowers in a Vase (detail), 1792, Paulus Theodorus van Brussel

[steveyockey]

jensen’s answer to a fan question about dean’s response to cas’s confession (tweets from 11/15, recovered via the wayback machine)

[darkestcinema]

baroque in the 21st century