hey there, little red.

[gri-clover]

(queerlyalex​ made this beautiful and perfect ficlet for this drawing :3 and I’m in love. Hope you all like this collab! :D)

“Are you awake?” Stiles asks, whisper barely audible over the soft music playing in the background. Derek drags his thumb over Stiles’ shoulder in affirmation. It’s a relative sort of awake, mind heavy with fatigue from the mind blowing orgasm Stiles just gave him less than an hour ago. All of his limbs are dense, tempting him to fall asleep before Stiles says anything else.

He doesn’t though, mind too trained to listen for Stiles. Stiles’ heart rate and scent, how his breath regulates; the small movements he makes, whether they come easily or are stiff with uncertainty. Derek’s body reacts and responds naturally to Stiles’, as if Stiles is an extension of him and not a separate, autonomous being.

At the moment, Stiles’ pulse is slow and steady. He smells like Derek and clean sweat, spunk and the underlying scent that Derek will forever associate with home. He’s warm and lax, sprawled across Derek, exhaling over Derek’s collar, hand twitching on his chest. Their legs are tangled, anchoring Derek to the bed. Derek appreciates it, without it he’d be drifting.

“No,” Derek answers, after a long moment. Stiles’ answer laugh rumbles against Derek, through him, vibrating their atoms together with Stiles’ amusement. Derek smirks at the ceiling. Even after years together, he still feels proud of himself every time he makes Stiles laugh. It’s a personal accomplishment.

“Remember when we first started sleeping together?” Stiles asks, tracing his fingertips over Derek’s chest, swirling patterns through his chest hair; tugging and smoothing it down with a lazy repetition. Derek is used to being used as a baseboard for Stiles’ nervous habits: rhythms tapped out on Derek’s leg instead of Stiles’, Stiles picking at Derek’s nails instead of his own, dragging his fingers through Derek’s hair over and over and over like he can’t help himself.

“Well, I got tired of your mouth being good for nothing more than arguing,” Derek says, in a reminiscent tone. “So, I shut you up the good old fashioned way.”

“Not the sex,” Stiles says, with an irritated huff, but he’s smiling, Derek can tell by his tone of voice. “Innocent sleeping, sleeping in the same bed together.”

“Of course,” Derek says, because he does remember. It was after they started sleeping together. They just kept falling asleep together. After sex, they would pass out on Stiles’ bed or fall asleep slowly on the couch watching movies. Stiles kept insisting that he never fell asleep like that. Neither of them napped for no reason, but they did it together repeatedly.

They realized quickly that they slept better together. Without Derek, Stiles tended to have violent nightmares that resulted in Derek climbing through his window at 3AM in the morning anyway. It was better if they started and ended the night together.

“I always sleep better with you,” Stiles mumbles, voice wavering in a way that means he’s about to fall asleep. Derek chuckles and strokes his hand through Stiles’ hair, tugging and twisting, thinking of the way it swoops and swirls in the morning when he has bedhead. “No nightmares, no problem. I always want to sleep with you.”

Derek grins and presses a kiss to the top of Stiles’ head. Stiles makes a pleased noise in response and nuzzles closer, tightening his arms and legs around Derek, clinging to him.

“I always want to sleep with you, too,” Derek whispers, but Stiles is already asleep, lax and comfortable around Derek. It doesn’t matter, because Derek will tell him tomorrow when they wake up and start their day with soft kisses, gentle reminders that they’re never letting each other go.

[ohlittle-red]

I love both Teen Wolf and Criminal Minds, and consciously, I had always been aware that both were created by Jeff Davis. It wasn't until now, however, that I realized just how similar the writing recipes of each show are, and how that ultimately contributes to some issues for Teen Wolf. 

After bingeing on every episode of Criminal Minds to date over the last couple of months, I can say with confidence that the writing recipe boils down to a heavy emphasis on the unsub (killer) and victims/targets of the episode, with the growth and relationships of the main cast taking a backseat to the puzzle and action the current case presents. 

Personally, I love this writing recipe for Criminal Minds. It works, and it works well. The format allows you to puzzle along with the team, while making it a little easier to gain insight and follow along because you are presented with long sequences of the killers' movements and motivations, as well as the victims'. In this format, main character growth and relationships are secondary to the cases, though you learn quite a bit about each character through how they handle and behave during the work. 

When Davis created Teen Wolf, he created it in Criminal Minds image. But as much as I love Criminal Minds, this writing recipe just doesn't work for Teen Wolf for two distinct reasons—pacing and demographic. 

Starting in Season 3 of Teen Wolf, many of us noticed how despite an ever-growing pile of urgent questions, we continued to see more focus on the revolving antagonists than the main characters with few answers. While the scene-pacing of focusing on the antagonists works with Criminal Minds, it doesn't mesh well with the supernatural elements of Teen Wolf. Where Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds' technical analyst) is able to research and hack her way to the critical answers and information the team needs to solve the case within mere minutes of screen time dispersed throughout the antagonist-showcasing, Stiles is at a serious disadvantage, having next to zero resources to pull his information from.

That lack of resources directly affects the Teen Wolf audience— there is no handy-dandy, all-knowing supernatural database where Stiles can look up things, but yet, there is also not enough screen time allotted for research to answer these questions because the writing layout is so similar to the Criminal Minds world where Garcia is able to quickly present information from her bird's eye view.

If there were some kind of searchable database-version of the bestiary, or even a more detailed account of the supernatural and how to handle each creature (ex. John Winchester's journal in Supernatural or Giles' endless library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer), this writing recipe would still work. But there isn't a readily available wealth of info, and consequently, there's just not enough screen time for thorough discovery amongst the focus on the big bad of the week. 

In addition to the scene-pacing occurring too quickly for real answers in the Teen Wolf world, the Criminal Minds layout clashes with the Teen Wolf demographic. While Teen Wolf could be a great mystery/sci-fi procedural drama, it aims to cater more toward the audience of typical teen dramas where the focus is on the main cast, their growth, and their relationships instead. And instead of a layout for the latter (which typically has a slower pace), Teen Wolf has partially-extended procedural drama layout (similar to Criminal Minds) with main character development quickly stuffed in wherever it fits. That leaves us with rushed relationships and transformations underlined with a certain level of incredulity. Where Criminal Minds can get away with things like introducing two characters vaguely flirting in one episode in one season and then have them been secretly dating off-screen for several months the next season, Teen Wolf cannot. 

As much as I love both shows, Teen Wolf is not Criminal Minds, so it should have its' own writing layout. Hopefully with Season 5 we'll see more emphasis on the main characters and the appearance of a quickly-searchable supernatural resource and/or extended discovery scenes so we can see more growth and gain more answers.

[ohlittle-red]

this fight is hilarious. it's like peter is aggressively modeling at the camera. 

[ohlittle-red]

okay, with what kind of voodoo is Chris still standing? it was believable that an adrenaline rush could could help him live through the impalement, but how is he walking around and shooting things??????

[ohlittle-red]

Does anyone feel like this season is a little incomplete? The season finale is next week and it feels a little abrupt. 

[ohlittle-red]

How could one turn a wolf into a berzerker? 

And I guess Kate and Peter were never really a united force, since the pack killing Scott on accident was totally not what Peter had in mind.

[ohlittle-red]

CHRRRRRRRRRIISSSSSSSSS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ohlittle-red]

I haven't been the biggest fan of Derek and Braeden, but them spooning is adorable. And I don't know what it says about me that I think them getting up and doing a sweep together in their underwear is adorable too.

[ohlittle-red]

Deaton was in love with Talia? Things just got a little more spicy.

[ohlittle-red]

I feel like this season was born from the question "how many ways can we kill werewolves?"

[thatjourneygame]

[hoechloin]

[the-bluespirit]

Dylan O’Brien accepting Breakthrough Actor at the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards

[dailyteenwolf]

[aliassmith]

re-crudescence: “Derek tries to blend in more at the high school instead of lurking like a creeper, results are disastrous.”

[theheightswithinyou]

Yeah Derek, stop being a creepy lovesick werewolf and let Stiles sleep (x)

[moshita-deactivated20180620]

Anecdotes by medical practitioners 

"A woman came in for a baby check with her 6-month-old and she had what looked like chocolate milk in the baby’s bottle. So he started explaining to her as kindly as he could that she shouldn’t be giving her baby chocolate milk. At which point she interrupts him and says, ‘Oh that isn’t chocolate milk. It’s coffee! He just loves it!”

"I had a patient come in for an STD check. She was very upset and continued to tell me that she only had one partner. Progressing through my assessment, she further divulged that even if he was sleeping with other people it shouldn’t matter ‘because he uses a condom every time and he makes sure to wash it thoroughly after every use’.”

"Had a lady who measured her baby’s temperature by pre-heating the oven and putting one hand in front of it while the other hand was on the baby’s forehead. She told the nurse her baby’s fever was about 250 degrees.”

"Lady has to have foot amputated and is given waiver forms to sign pre-op. Buddy asks if she needs time to think about it. She’s very nonchalant and doesn’t seem to care much what they do. He gets suspicious and probes a bit as to why she’s not more concerned. She says she gets that they have to operate and it’s OK because the foot will grow back.”

"I had a couple who had been trying to conceive for over two years. I asked all the usual questions, how often do you have sex, any previous pregnancy, etc etc. Something seemed off to me during the consult, so I continued to ask questions. Finally I asked if he ejaculated while inserted into the vagina. Both parties looked confused.Turns out the couple was not having insertional sex at all. I had to awkwardly explain to them how insertional sex works. Diagrams were required.”

"Patient comes in, she’s upset. She’s pregnant, and she doesn’t understand why. She’s on the pill. Upon talking to her at great length, I find out that she only takes the pills on the days that she is sexually active – no other time.”

"Patient comes in with her bf. They are indignant, as if somehow I could’ve prevented [the pregnancy]. The problem? Well, the pills were bothering the girl’s stomach, so, being a gallant bf, he decided to start taking them instead.”

“I was explaining the treatment to the husband of a patient about to be discharged. He kept nodding and agreeing with me, but I knew it was flying over his head. Turned out a fundamental problem was that I was describing the drugs as ‘tablets’ and he had no clue what those were.”

Reddit thread 

[malgosh-deactivated20150506]

Hahah

[fuckingnightmareeyes]

Oh my god… I can’t decide if I should laugh or cry…

[effingstiles]

Teen Wolf 4x08 “Time of Death” Promo (1080p HD)