just thinking abt them so i made up this list of some of my random spn personal headcanons for tfw, in no particular order (pls keep in mind im only on early s14, and i'm vaguely ignoring canon ending, if some things contradict themselves... also obviously spoilers):
dean has an irrational fear of dogs because of the hellhounds dragging him down to hell
sam knows how to do peoples make-up because he used to help jess with hers back at stanford
sam has claustrophobia because of his time in the cage
even after the mark is removed, dean unconsciously scratches his arm whenever he spaces out; sam and cas chastise him whenever they catch him doing it
cas will listen to deans unconscious prayers whenever he’s away
dean keeps pads and tampons in the back of his car because charlie got on his ass about it
when he was way too young, dean would watch parenting videos in order to take care of sammy. he unconsciously refers to them whenever he deals with kids… or people in general
cas gets lonely very easily and finds himself in either brothers personal space unintentionally
he doesn't ever admit to it, but dean is very clingy. he needs casual, physical reassurance; he’ll pat sam on the back, squeeze cas’ shoulder, ruffle sam’s hair, let his hands linger on cas’ a little longer when he passes him a drink. but he will never push or ask for more. he doesn’t know how.
dean begrudgingly gets the help of rowena at some point to alter the spell carved into his ribcage, so that cas is the only exception; now, cas can always sense and find him
sam can't stand to be alone or in silence for longer than 30 minutes, he'll bug dean to come and sit with him or he'll put on a podcast in the background to fill the silence
sam likes the twilight films, dean makes fun of him for it
dean will purposefully get facts wrong just so cas can explain it to him, but gets annoyed when sam jumps in to correct him instead
cas will occasionally alter the brothers’ nightmares into peaceful dreams whenever he can but, regretfully, not as often as he’d like. he does it sporadically so he wont get caught
dean has violent intrusive thoughts as a lingering effect from the mark of cain
sam will go back and study his old law textbooks for fun
dean learns a bit of enochian on his own so he can talk to cas, it's sloppy and the pronunciation is sometimes strange, but cas is surprised and absolutely thrilled
occasionally, dean will wake up disoriented and a little freaked out when he cant remember things he did yesterday, because it reminds him of his time with michael. cas will gently remind him of everything he did.
sam will get nervous around the sight of blood because of his blood-drinking days; he thinks its stupid, considering their jobs, but he can't help it
dean’s a smoker. he started young, and went on and off for a few years because sammy said he didn’t like smell. he picked the habit back up after hell, but also uses zyn packets and patches after cas started chastising him too
sam will sit in front of deans door to make sure he’s alive and breathing before going to bed. he’s afraid dean will do something stupid…
cas has occasional migraines and random headaches from his time with naomi
dean tests himself with holy water sometimes
dean carved a devils trap on the floor under his bed. just to be sure.
cas struggles with his identity a lot, and finds it difficult to look in the mirror. he will actively avoid them when he can.
both dean and cas will occasionally just message each other hearts (at first it was little thumbs up emojis), green and blue respectively, as a silent reminder that they’re both alive and okay
the brothers will do the same, but instead send each other middle finger emojis, or “bitch”/“jerk”
sam will press his fingers to his pulse to make sure he’s real and alive. he’ll sometimes count the beats for hours just to be sure
Huge shout out to all the people who read fics. Who actually take the time out of their busy days to open a fic and read it
Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it
Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.
Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist
i feel like we don't appreciate bubbeline enough these days a kids show really had an adventuring hero boy and the princess he adored and instead of ending with them Monogamously Heterosexual Together she turned out to actually be messy exes with the hero boy's cool older goth frenemy and also a terrifying paranoid immortal god-queen of mad science and also she got back together with the goth chick.
Imagine you're a big wrestling fan. You follow this one really dominant wrestler and you absolutely love her. You keep up with all the drama and you're super invested until one week there's just Bomb after Bomb.
First your fave dominates an event - duh, obviously, she's the best. Then during the part of the show where the announcer is like "anybody in the audience want to challenge her for a fat stack of cash", somebody actually does. (Obviously a tourist.) It's some kid wearing like a beginner outfit from a McDojo... and he actually wins?And gets the cash! And then the event just ends!?
You're buzzing. It's clear that this is like a storyline or something. You can't wait for next week's show. Except that there isn't one, because - as you find out through the gossip mill - your fave was actually the local billionaires' daughter who was competing in secret. And also kayfabe might not exist. And now she's gone and the billionaire is blaming a demigod (who's back from the dead? I guess?) for kidnapping her.
So, how come that means no show this week or possibly ever? Well, the billionaire hired the promoter (and a random McDojo sensei) to go after the demigod to get back his daughter (your fave wrestler!) and the guy just... packed up his entire promotion and left.
Some months later the war that's been going on since your great-grandfathers days ends. You go to a peace parade. And there she is: Toph Beifong, the Blind Bandit, giving the new Fire Lord a noogie.
“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”
— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post.
(via 360degreesasthecrowflies)
this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.
Banksy is a really interesting case of an artist being catastrophically overrated without being a complete hack. Like you start to think "oh God, him again" but then he puts up something Actually Good and it's kind of like getting slapped with a fish, but somehow in a positive way.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
