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[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi

From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)

From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis

West Sahara conflict

Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)

[roadtripwithmybrother]

[boykingscourt]

10,000 lebanon fics where john realizes sam defers to dean and then john realizes that this horrifies him please

[mindllessdreaming]

and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

[buggyhuman-blog]

[moonyandmore]

honestly the way Lucifer talks to Sam and how scared and tiny Sam gets is the most terrifying thing in the whole show so far

[boyheretic]

it's interesting to me how sabriel has become this sweet ship in the eyes of fandom, as if gabriel didn't get his rocks off by torturing sam for an entire year after having met him exactly one time when lucifer kills gabriel in season 5, he says "you learned all your tricks from me, little brother" and, yeah, we can tell! cause both of them loved to have sam winchester crying and fully at their mercy

[prokopetz]

Every time someone tries to explain the metaplot of Supernatural to me, it basically ends up sounding like redneck Dragon Ball Z. I’m sure there’s some nuance I’m failing to grasp here.

[kazorus-deactivated20190626]

Care to elaborate on that?

…I’m not even offended, just absolutely curious.  From the stuff I’ve seen and heard about Supernatural I can’t see the connection.

[prokopetz]

Mostly, I get the impression of a show that doesn’t know how not to escalate.

Every threat’s gotta be quantitatively bigger and badder than the one that came before. Every deus ex machina’s gotta be shinier than the last one. Every season’s gotta end with a massive eleventh-hour powerup for our heroes, only for the next season to raise the stakes enough to put them back in the underdog position.

It’s like, you beat the Devil himself? Well, now you’ve gotta fight the Devil’s cousin Phil, who has conveniently gone entirely unmentioned up until now, but he’s totally twice as evil.

[prokopetz]

That last paragraph was literally supposed to be the most ridiculous hypothetical example I could think of, and people are messaging me to say “his name was Metatron, not Phil”. I can’t even make fun of this show.

[scoobydoodean]

Sam has abandonment issues just as bad or worse than Dean's and they have a massive impact on how he behaves at various points. There's a period of the Winchester's childhoods we learn about in 7.03 and 11.08, where Sam was old enough for John to feel okay about leaving him alone by himself for days, and Dean was old enough that John wanted him hunting with him sometimes. In the same way that Dean's parentification leads to a warped, negative self-image leading into his adulthood, Sam's experience with silence does the same. Sam remembers two figures walking out of the motel room door and leaving him behind. Sam remembers silence for days stuck in a room in the aftermath, waiting for the phone to ring. Sam can't help but feel punished by the silence. If he was good enough, they would have brought him along. He wouldn't be alone.

[scoobydoodean]

Dean's stolen childhood looks very different through Sam's childhood lens.

YOUNG SAM (picks up the phone) Dean? YOUNG DEAN (on the phone) Hey. YOUNG SAM Did you ask? YOUNG DEAN Yeah, it’s not gonna happen. YOUNG SAM Come on. You said. YOUNG DEAN Look, I said I would ask. Dad said no, what do you want me to do about it? YOUNG SAM But I’ve been shooting. I can run two miles. I know silver kills werewolves, and... YOUNG DEAN Sammy. YOUNG SAM No fair. You started hunting when you were younger than me.

11.08 Just My Imagination

We also know from 3.08 "A Very Supernatural Christmas" that Dean was "trusted" with the truth when he was younger than Sam.

We know that this "trust" wasn't beneficial to Dean—it took Dean's childhood from him and Dean desperately tried to protect Sam from the same fate (2.22, 3.08). But from the perspective of a child being left alone in silence for days, the conclusion was "I'm the family freak" (1.08). "Dean is trustworthy and noble and good and competent and I am not. There is something wrong with me, and because there is something wrong with me (and I don't even know what it is) I am always going to end up being left behind."

This is why Sam has a complex about trust—why he tends to frame things around not being trusted enough, why he begs for trust—even when he's already getting it, or he doesn't deserve it, or he's being deeply unfair to frame the situation to be about trust to begin with and not about differing moral principles. Not being trusted reminds him of feeling alone and othered—it reminds him of feeling like a freak.

[bluepearlie]

Obsessed with hell permanently changing Sam and Dean's characters in opposite ways.

Dean who gets traumatized by being the torturer. He has the soft parts of himself hardened into a small, condensed ball of hate that he gets brief pleasure in hurling at those who hurt him before going numb again. He still has love, but it's a hard, inflexible thing that refuses to learn or grow, and the part of himself that accepted cruelty as an act of self-defense is not afraid to beat that love into submission so it stays right where it is - firmly his, firmly under control.

Sam who gets traumatized by being the tortured. All his defenses are burned away, leaving the soft parts of himself pulpy and malleable as an open wound for the world to prod at. He wears his heart on his sleeve, but it has no boundaries protecting it. He's learned to not trust himself, so he puts everything into trusting others even when it hurts him more. Fighting back never worked in the cage - not even the smallest, meekest "no." Why would it work now?

Dean used to tell Sam he could go back to school and live his life once their hunt for Dad was over, and he meant it. He used to want Sam to move on after his death, not crucify himself to bring him back.

Sam used to tell Dean what he wanted, feeling safe enough with him to be totally honest, even if it caused conflict. He used to love with self-respect, staying when it was healthy and leaving when it wasn't. He used to say No.

Now they're both people who would be unrecognizable to their younger selves - would probably horrify them if they knew. They're the "bad future" versions that an after-school special would show to scare kids straight, show them the adults they don't want to be.

And isn't that just perfectly tragic?

[maulthots]

imagine the supernatural season one aesthetic if they were boppin around in a prius

[maulthots]

john winchester looks at the coat of dirt on the prius. “dean, i wouldn’t have given you this car if you weren’t going to take care of it.” “dad, everyone knows you buy a prius for the fuel efficiency, not for the appearance.” “you’re right, son, my bad. carry on.”

[maulthots]

in the pilot episode, the woman in white takes control of the prius on the bridge but then she realizes she’s in a prius so she softly whispers “this is bullshit. i can never go home.”

[maulthots]

sam says “we’ve got work to do” and then steps back so he can close the hatchback

[maulthots]

because their lives are so stressful, they choose the soothing sea glass pearl color. who wants to worry about visible clear coat scratches when you’ve got monsters to kill

[maulthots]

a semi hits the prius during the season 1 finale but, due to its five star side crash safety rating, dean winchester never enters a coma. season 2 is fundamentally altered.

[tnerdbean]

[thatisahotsoup-deactivated20220]

get his ass

[suncaptor]

how was sam supposed to know that the base illogical idea of corruption would be magical thinking wise tied to larger worldly harm when he was living in logic world and not scapegoat narrative world

[suncaptor]

me, when I'm doing something that's arguably the most ethical choice and means I don't have to kill people: it is so clear that I shouldn't be doing this because the idea of "tainted blood" is "evil". (my blood has already always been tainted)

[yugiohz]

I don’t think that Cas needs a closet full of clothes I think he’s very comfortable in Jimmy’s little suit and trenchoat, but it would be really endearing if the brothers either took him shopping or they made him a bundle of some of their clothes so cas, it’s like enrichment for their angel everyone needs inside clothes

[yugiohz]

sam and dean trying to figure out if cas has personal style, those two are so used to moving like twins i think they'd unintentionally look for clothes that are very similar to theirs but they look so weird on cas and cas doesn't even like their style all offenseeeeeeee, so they settle on a simple monochrome cotton pyjama set and some white cotton tees, he also still has that dressing gown from s10 but they make him wear clothes underneath, i feel like cas would have trouble finding a balance between not taking any of his layers off and going fully nude it takes a while for him to figure out what's appropriate bunker wear depending on who is in the bunker etc

[yugiohz]

dean would try to convince cas to get a snork mimimi night gown and sam would safe him front that fate

[niceworkhuggybear]

remember when heaven put Cas on Uriel's leash because he was a bit too curious and sympathetic for a wrath of god... yeah I do

[niceworkhuggybear]

morning star linocut

[helsex]

Hi. Angel on your shoulder here. It's totally ok to kill that guy

[letsnotdieartless]

I need him to come and save me from my exams that are rapidly approaching. Save me Dearest Gay Angel, save me

Actually really liked doing something different, made a new brush so the lineart could look gnarly enough for my ✨vision✨

Details and progress pics below the cut