I Am Inimitable, I Am An Original

Schitt’s Creek, Broadway, Merlin, and I guess Destiel’s back. Tan France enthusiast. It's Gabi here! Demisexual panromatic; she/her pronouns

[nerd0608]

Forever jealous of the Merlin cast. Imagine being in your 20s in the 2000s and your life consists of getting paid to do medieval larping, while surrounded by only attractive people.

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[coyotette]

[dittography-direwolf]

The Pride Month notifs are getting a little more direct this year.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and yet

[twinkiefairy]

I love this because if I were to write a literary novel in the Western cannon that described the image of an apple with a chunk bitten off, any high school English student would tell you it is a Bible reference meant to represent the source of all evil and downfall of humanity and YET 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[s1r3n-slacks]

Today I discovered that melting ice makes a sound— it cracks, pops, fizzes and hisses like demonic Rice Krispies. Apparently it has to do with pressurized air bubbles and fractures from expansion, but this leads to a question which National Geographic already answered for me:

Which is similarly heavy handed but also extremely freaking metal

[sirpompet]

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[finnglas]

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

[ekjohnston]

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

[russianblush]

#happypridemonth

[handsywoman]

strangers to colleagues to friends to soulmates <3

[alices--angel]

if I were jensen ackles, even if i truly and wholeheartedly did not think destiel was a good ship and i had never intentionally played into it even once. i think i would give it lip service whenever possible. i would be like ‘yep I did that. dean is hella gay for cas. all the purposeful looks? that was me. i made dean stare at cas like that all the time. i played him that way ON PURPOSE from the beginning.’ and not because i wanted to appease the fans or because i wanted them to cheer me on. no. i would do that because if the general consensus was that dean was gay for cas as an intentional acting choice on my part, then everyone would praise me as a brilliant actor with perfectly natural chemistry instead of coming to the conclusion that yes, i, hypothetical jensen ackles, was not in fact making jenius jacting joices but had instead simply been staring at my coworker’s lips for twelve years. because that’s exactly what happened, assuming destiel was actually unintentional.

[gaygoatshane]

ilya promising children cash if they win knowing he's gonna let them win and then asking shane for money because he doesn't have his wallet. he wasn't even an annoying husband yet but he was letting shane know his potential

[themoonandmyman]

#myshane couldn’t give less of a fuck about queer culture he just likes dick in his ass and he loves a Man. If you asked him about Stonewall he’d think it was the name of a tech startup.

#myilya is a fag and he loves it. him and harris watch queer movies once a month with Harris’ mom and they drink margaritas with little umbrellas in them.

[oatmealdiva]

shane:

[junkiepunkie]

the funniest thing about the homophobic Spn fans and ones that despise Destiel and Cas being queer is that they seem to think that was the first big queer statement that Spn made which is insane considering;

-Spn had casual representation of men kissing men with Crowley and Bobby pretty early on, and they don’t make it into a massive “ha! Gayyyy!” Joke despite the fact this was the 2000s when that was the main type of humour.

-Casual gay rep with the Sam and Dean cosplayers, and the Dean and Cas actresses in “Fanfiction”, again both of these examples are actually incredibly sweet.

-Sam doesn’t bat an eyelid when deans siren is a man even before the siren mentions what Dean really wanted was a brother

-Gabriel flirting with just about everything that moves

-Charlie. Which has gotta be one of the best queer women I’ve seen on screen representation wise.

-Godstiel killing a homophobic pastor for spreading the wrong message.

-Dean actually being pretty proud of the fact he thought a gay guy had flirted with him to the point that he’s visibly saddened when he finds out it was a ruse.

-“a study in werewolf transgenderism” (okay this one was a joke I’ll admit but I still love it (im trans))

-Cas taking the form of a man AND the form of a woman.

This show was actually doing queer rep consistently. Was it always perfect? No. Has some of it aged questionably? Yeah a little. But was this, at its core, a very popular show making sure to represent its fanbase in a respectful way? Hell yeah it was. So how the fuck homophobes managed to miss the obvious allyship of this show is beyond me.

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[bumblebeebats]

“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter: Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision. Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”

— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response." (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation's been going on.)

[sadevildean]

he’s getting too bold now that he has the dudebro following he always wanted. we need to humble him, and then get him playing gay again. this is about justice.

[snoopylovessoup]

[solarsyrup]

one of my favorite story elements is "character way past their prime can still absolutely wreck you, leaving you to wonder just how powerful they used to be"

[sdwolfpup]

@padlocked-quintus leaving the funniest response in the tags

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal