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Cathy | 23 | German | Supernatural addict | sometimes reblogging NSFW (18+!) SamGirl being really DeanCurious | Jared is sunshine personified but Jensen is also pretty perfect | I draw stuff | my art is @ #cathy's art | hate free zone | come talk to me, I love new friends! ❤

[flowercrowns4jandj]

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway

[sepulchritude]

Things that actually help picky eaters try new things:

“Do you want to try this off of my plate?”

“It’s made of [ingredients], I think you’d like [x part]”

“If you want to see if you like [x food], this is pretty good representation of it”

“You won’t like this, it tastes like [description]. Do you want to try it for fun?”

“Do you remember trying/have you ever tried [x food]? This is like that, but [differences]”

“I think you’d like the taste of this, but the texture is iffy. It’s [description]”

Make sure there’s other food they can eat if they don’t like the new one

And most importantly, build trust with that person by listening to them, showing that you take their concerns into account, and being cool if the answer is no. No is always an option. This isn’t something you do once, it’s a pattern you have to stick to if you want to establish that you are a safe person when it comes to food stuff

Basically: offer the food, explain what’s in it and why you think it’s worth trying, and then be cool with the answer you get. No pressure, no trickery, just be straight up with people

[autistics-speak]

Also as a picky eater, being able to smell a food helps me decide if I want to try tasting it.

[cloudsinsummertime]

hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free

[cloudsinsummertime]

if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people

[daisto-deactivated20181027]

So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?

[cloudsinsummertime]

yes

[fun-with-colors]

And does that mean that corrective lenses should also be free, because people with good vision don’t need to pay to see clearly, and that devices to aid in mobility for people with limited mobility (from crutches to (practical) canes to wheelchairs to prosthetics) should also be free, because people who don’t have limited mobility don’t need to pay for them?

[cloudsinsummertime]

yes? why does everyone in the notes keep trying to come up with gotchas lmao everything to do with healthcare should be free

[tabbytheravioli]

Then by that logic, healthy food and clean water should be free because without food and water we will die. Also, without water, hygiene will be minimal therefore increasing the chances of disease.

[bintilleil-deactivated20200510]

Yes. People should have access to a healthy happy life and the whole point of a society is to support eachother and work together. how brainwashed by capitalism are you to think food and water shouldn’t be free in an ideal world.

[cherryseltzer]

this post is such a wild ride every time. ‘so by this logic, people should have free access to the things they need to live and survive?????????’ like yes bitch, all of it !!!

[miniangel]

yall see “love” and immediately go to “romantic love” if you translate “love is the whole point” to “romantic love is the whole point” you need to rethink everything because love is found in everything. in community, in friendships, in family, in food, in nature so actually love is the whole point and u can die mad about it. hope this helps <3

[samsflannel]

supernatural said. meet Sam Winchester, a man who wants to believe in God so desperately despite all of the horrorshows he knows so intimately, who prays every night to a divine being who never answers, whose blood knows the devil better than it knows himself. whose faith fades over the years as he realizes that the God he knew was a sadistic puppetmaster, a man who instead puts faith in his brother in order to help him break those pinnochio strings. who had his trust broken by that very God over and over but it never ever made him unkind.

and it was that innate, stubborn kindness that allowed him to raise a new God in his image, and that came with the realization that divinity was always within him, not without him. God has always existed inside Sam.

[samdyke]

yknow whats fucked up. sam thinks so low of himself he says it all the time and like. people just dont make any real effort to tell him ofherwise. that hes not the least member of the team, that his life isnt worthless, that hes more than the ways he can throw himself towards death like yes i know self hatred and sacrifice is in the winchester dna but man can someone give my guy a pep talk

[ot3]

i hate two factor authentication i hate needing my phone to use my computer i hate that the computer has become a secondary piece of hardware that is seen as a peripheral to a phone in the eyes of society i don’t want to log into anything with my phone i should never ever need an app to do anything on my computer and i should be able to have my phone locked in a safe that i’ve dumped into the ocean and still be able to use every single feature of my computer unabated 

[seanwinchester]

just a thought but...

.. Supernatural is good actually. it's a good show. I see lots of posts saying it's a mess, it's so bad, it's a cockroach you can't get rid of, it's a guilty pleasure. you're entitled to your opinion but I think it's reductive— and frankly a bit sad— to see the show as a piece-of-shit media that is only appealing because you can make fun of it, when it has so much more to offer. I unironically think it's a good show. it's not perfect, obviously, you can criticize it plenty— from lack of diversity to plot holes to slowly deteriorating writing— and I encourage you to do so actually, because it's healthy to be critical of the media you consume.

but for me those aspects don't undermine the fact that it's a good show : it's interesting, it's entertaining, it's a mix of several genres with multi-layered complex characters. i think Eric Kripke is a genius actually, for putting this story together and taking the time to build the universe and creating a show about the supernatural that is very much anchored in reality and for bringing old legends next to modern-created myths and for mixing comedy and drama so well. so yeah, it's good. and let's face it, it wouldn't have lasted fifteen years if it wasn't.

you can say it's a guilty pleasure but come on, it's not Twilight.

[whitepeopletwitter]

Bimbldun xinflbaeth

[smol-and-grumpy]

Bebeduct fungerbutch

[flowercrowns4jandj]

Beneeidr dukbwebqdu

[asterekmess]

You ever open up a fic and barely a paragraph in your whole body starts trembling with giddy excitement?

The plot is exactly right and the atmosphere and the voice are all soul-singingly good, right at the very beginning, and you have to stop yourself from hooting like a crazy old wizard because Oh HOo HOOOOOO this one’s gonna be GOOD

[vickytokio]

YES!!!! Oh, God!! That’s the best feeling!!!

[just-shower-thoughts]

Space either ends or doesn’t end and both are equally weird

[stanfordsweater]

can’t stand when people say sam had a childhood and dean didn’t. sam got the never ending family road trip, it’s all he ever knew. dean got four years that he somewhat remembers and wants to go back to when his family was whole and happy. neither of them truly got a childhood, they only had each other, so why are we pitting their unhappiness and experiences against each other!!!

sorry this took me so long to respond to! here is the post this is in reference to.

i’ve said before that whether sam had a childhood depends on what you’re defining as a childhood. he was kept away from hunting while dean and john seemed to be able to bond over it from sam’s perspective, but as we know from later conversations, dean resented that and was never, ever an equal partner. sam gets left alone in motel rooms in almost every flashback episode-- not dean’s fault, because he’s a child who should never have been put in the position of taking care of another child-- but sam is constantly talking about what a lonely kid he was, and how terrified he was that every hunt would be the last for john and for dean. he doesn’t learn about hunting until he’s 8 years old in a very supernatural christmas, which i know some people see as him “having a childhood,” but what kind of childhood is that? having no idea why you and your family have to move around, why your dad leaves for weeks and comes back with massive injuries, why your brother is constantly dodging your questions?

and at the same time, dean didn’t have a traditional childhood even when he was four. we see him comforting mary in dark side of the moon after an argument with john. dean was already being placed into a more mature role in the family before any demons had come knocking, and he was four years old acting as the mediator between his parents. so, no perfect childhood there either, much as sam seems shocked by that memory in heaven.

just speculation here, but i think that a lot of the people pitting their childhoods against each other tend to be people who relate very heavily to one of the brothers, because despite the fact that they did live through the same upbringing, they both experienced it very different ways. sam seems to have retreated inwards, not making many friends or connections-- it’s always shown to be a rarity if he makes a true friend in the flashback episodes, and the friend in after school special doesn’t seem to be very close to him compared to amy in that season seven ep. dean exploded outwards in an endless search for validation, trying to play a role that will make people think he’s cool and not completely messed up over his dad being gone, trying to pretend he doesn’t resent his circumstances. 

supernatural was always very, very good at depicting the consequences of growing up in an abusive or neglectful family. they knew what they were doing. i think some writers were more aware of that than others, but supernatural is fundamentally about two brothers who grew up in the same system of abuse, and how it affects them as adults. dean pining for a lost childhood that didn’t actually exist, sam resentful over never having one at all-- it’s so common, and neither of them are wrong for the way they feel, and that contrast is the basis of every single conflict in the show. which is good writing and satisfying to watch while understanding where they’re both coming from, as well as nail-bitingly frustrating. so everybody just get along, okay 🌈😙✨

[nebulairis]

the implications of the dean pov going from the pyre and not from the barn..... dean actually STUCK AROUND until he was burned i am going to LOSE IT

[caranfindel]

Well. Fuck.

Did he? Did he stick around to make sure Sam got home safely? To make sure Sam burned him? What would he have done if Sam went into his room and sat on the bed and took out a gun? Would he try to stop him? Or would he greet him in Heaven with “it’s okay, Sammy, I would have done the same thing”?

[bangingpatchouli]

Dean actually gets more psychoanalyzing in Sam, Interrupted than Sam does, and we learn later that it’s because Dean’s psychiatrist isn’t real. She’s a figment of his drugged brain. Given that, this is Dean confronting his own issues. He clearly knows what they are – his drinking, his inability to sleep or have long-term relationships. But does he conclude that any of that is due to his time in hell? No, because they were problems before he went to hell that have just worsened. For Dean, it all leads back to his father. It’s hard to know if that is just incredibly sad or absolutely chilling.

[suncaptor]

the worst part is like. not a single word of this is true. 

[lillysilverus]

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[jackhawksmoor]

[aborddelimpala]

#SPNDEN 2021 | Jared Padalecki about Castiel & Dean last scene in episode 15.18

Disclaimer: I won't tolerate any hateful or BS comments/tags on that post. You're free to think whatever you want, you can disagree but Jared view of that scene is valid and I'm glad he shared it with us.

[castielackerman]

Crazy people can actually hear JPeg say this with their own ears and not actually hear what he’s saying.. mans should of stayed quiet 😩😂🤡

[aborddelimpala]

No he should have not. What's actually crazy is that he has to say that again (if you watch con panels & interviews, both Jared & Jensen said this numerous times) . Supernatural was never about romance. Brothers can say I love you to each other & touch their foreheads for comfort and it's not gross or incestual. Best friends can say I love you to each other and it doesn't mean they want to bang each other. That's what make Supernatural unique and beautiful. And I do think they (Misha & Berens especially) did a great disservice to Castiel by saying Cass's love confession was a romantic one, cause, to me it feels like coming out of nowhere (pun unintended), OOC, borderline shady. Castiel isn't human. He doesn't feel emotions like humans. He's above that. And as Jared put it he's 'junkless'. It doesn't mean he can't have sex. It means Cass doesn't have a gender.. On Earth, his vessel could be a male or a female, it wouldn't matter. In Heaven, he is pure grace.

That's why I like Jensen's interpretation so much : Castiel's love was heavenly, so much more than what human emotion can comprehend. It was pure love for Dean (not lust or romance) & Humanity as a whole & like Jensen, that's how I choose to interpret it. Now, if you choose to interpret that confession scene as a romantic one, feel free to do so but don't come at actors who've played those characters for 15 years & read every single scripts.