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SUPERNATURAL â§ 1.12 FAITH
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Rowena MacLeod Additional Tags: Power Dynamics, Rivals to Lovers, mutual obsession, Power Struggle, AU - Dance Competition, Professional dancers, control and consent, Angst with a Happy Ending, Sexual Tension, Pining, Aggressive Dean Winchester, Possessive Castiel (Supernatural), First Kiss, My First Work in This Fandom, Dom/sub Undertones Summary:
When a high-stakes televised dance competition pairs Dean Winchester with Castiel Novakâthe one dancer he knows can beat himârivalry turns into something sharper. Their choreography becomes a fight for control and possession under the lights, until the line between performance and truth snaps. Winning the competition is still the goal. Pretending theyâre unaffected is no longer an option.
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I need someone to write an SPN AU fanfic about this dance!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNwVpT6Wn8L/?igsh=enA5bHJxa3RzenV2
See the link. Can't figure out how to actually link it, though. But! I can totally see a story about two dancers, Cas and Dean, being paired together randomly in a dance competition like Dancing with the Stars but with a more urban vibe, and having to figure out how to work together and win while fighting their growing attraction to one another. Cas is pan, Dean thought he was straight, neither wants to get emotionally attached because they are just here to win the competition but that's not how it goes. Their anger about this unwanted attraction and intensity towards one another results in this absolutely banging dance routine, The Shadow and the Gray.
Do it! And tag me when you do, please!!! I'd write it but I know nothing about the dance world and I'm already struggling with two stories I'm working on and haven't finished. đ
Edit: So, um, I decided to write it myself. It's posted at AO3 if you be interested, me hardies! Somehow, that dang video broke through my writer's block!
Something to be thankful for.
I know itâs been said before but an iconic, undeniably canon property of Cas' and tangentially of the Destiel dynamic is the âbuddy boy youâve got what they call sex appealâ of it all. I mean itâs always great when humans look at Cas being strange and off-putting and fumbling his way through every single human interaction and go âwhat a hot endearing guyâ, donât get me wrong. But what I really canât get enough of is the fact that he also has the angelic equivalent of crazy game which heâs usually only marginally aware of/completely disinterested in save for being generally prideful or using it for tactical purposes. Even more hilarious, the fact that throughout the show the other angels are absolutely fucking fuming about him choosing humans in spite of this.
Because the thing is Cas is already reasonably well regarded amongst angels as a very competent and loyal soldier and then after he falls he just keeps exponentially gaining both a bad reputation and a cult following. He used to be a master tactician. He was around for Heavenâs greatest battles. Heâs led two different controversial uprisings. He keeps disobeying Godâs word and heâs killed thousands and he might be a little batshit crazy but heâs also just. Kind of a nice dude. Heâs Heavenâs most wanted, for better or for worse. Every angel he meets either wants to fucking kill him or drop to their knees and pledge allegiance, which in angel terms pretty much makes him the extremely fuckable guy with a leather jacket and motorcycle in every teen drama.
And then every time the angels do meet him, instead of a host of warriors thereâs this pathetic miniscule angry creature bristling and hissing at his side and the angels are like. Castiel. Why is that bacteria speaking to you. And Castiel fierce garrison commander savior of the rebellion war criminal bearer of free will who God Himself resurrected 47482 times gets this horrifying soft misty eyed look on his face and goes âoh no thatâs just my bestest friend in the whole world most beautiful incredible lovable person Iâve ever met in my entire millennia-long life. Dean say hiâ and the bacteria goes đđđ and rattles off the most incomprehensible sentence on Godâs green earth and then calls the angels a slur and the angels collectively feel grace leak out their ears
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This video has been getting AI accusations and it isn't! All these types of woods exist! Though some of them are local names, I was able to track all of them down! Here are all the woods shown in the video!
Purpleheart Wood: Peltogyne genus, native to Central and South American rainforests. Freshly cut it's light brown, then turns into rich shades of purple. It turns brown in UV light so it has to be finished with a UV inhibitor to keep those gorgeous colors.
Namnu (various): A type of precious wood found in China/South Asia, sourced from various different species of trees, hence the different examples shown here. High grades of the wood are known for the optical effect shown in the video. Unfortunately the types of trees that produce the wood are all critically endangered, which is why the examples shown are all items or pillars or fragments of pieces. The species are all strictly protected and new trees cannot be harvested.
That example in the video is just that one video that goes around with the inside of a tree that's been struck burning while it still stands, but sometimes trees that have been struck by lightning and are cut down can have neat burn patterns in the wood (example), as the lightning goes to ground, so some people might want that. Who am I to judge.
Chicken-blood vine wood: Species is Spatholobus suberectus and it's only that bright when it's cut, it dries to a more woody color. Here's a page with examples of what the wood looks like when it's dried and some things made with it.
Amber wood: This one took a while. There's a video out there claiming this is "petrified amber wood". That's not possible, I'm a geologist I would know. Since the video is in Chinese originally I presume, "amber wood" must be a translated local name. It's sandalwood, which has that gorgeous bright red color. Even tracked down the video the clip is taken from. "Chandan wood" is another name for sandalwood. Which smells amazing.
Rosewood: The most well known of the woods here in my opinion. There's a number of rosewoods, all in various shades of pinks and reds. True rosewoods are from the genus Dalbergia. Sadly they're all endangered, but illegal harvesting continues.
Purple hainan huanghuali: Dalbergia odorifera, the Chinese rosewood.
Pink oak - Likely pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri). You need a permit to cut down one of these trees, but it really is that pink. One of the most expensive woods in the world, up there with sandalwood.
Burmese huanghuali: Rosewood...3! This is either Dalbergia oliveri or Pterocarpus indicus, but given that Pterocarpus indicus is descripted as having purplish heartwood, I'm guessing it's Dalbergia oliveri. Though it's not a true rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus is also sadly endangered.
Liudao wood: This is Abelia biflora, though it looks like it has been reclassified as Zabelia biflora recently. Either it only looks like that when the bark is being peeled or it's the lighting in the videos. BUT this wood is used in making Buddhist prayer beads because of both its grain pattern connects to philosophy and its mention in Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Thank you for all that work!! I recognized some of the woods (since my siblings in law woodwork) but not all of them, and was going to look into them when I woke up, but you've gone and brought up all the treasure from the rabbit hole!
Happy New Year, everyone! Let's get creative this year, yeah?
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Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner recreating the ending of The Princess Bride in 2020 (x)
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All jokes aside, can we just take a moment to appreciate that this is basically the first time Dean is seeing Cas, his Cas, the Cas he fell in love with, in almost two years. I mean Cas was God for a bit, and then he was a Leviathan, and then he was dead, and then he was Emmanuel, and then he was insane, and then he was in Purgatory for a year; and between all of that, Cas hasnât really looked like himself in quite a while. But then he walks out of that bathroom and he looks like Cas again. The trench coat, the blue tie, neat(ish) hair, clean shaven, even the little smile. So of course Dean gets a little hot and bothered. Thatâs his angel right there. Thatâs his Cas. He hasnât seen him like that in so long, and I bet thereâs a part of him that thought he would never see him like that again. But there he is, standing in a motel room looking like he was ripped right out of one of Deanâs fonder memories.
The very simple fact of Castiel is that he is not the strongest angel, not the best fighter, maybe not even the smartest. He is, however, the most insane.
They will have him weakened and surrounded by five angels, and he will blast them away with a banishing sigil that he literally carved into his own chest.
An archangel will threaten him by killing him and starting the apocalypse, and Cas will go inhale the souls from Purgatory, make himself God, and then explode said archangel and his followers with a snap.
He will be injured with an angel bullet in his chest, dig that bullet out, and shove it into another angelâs eye.
He will be human, chained in a building with five other angels, and suddenly the angel who cannot lie for shit will convince another angel that he is best buds with Metatron, steal his grace, and then go kill the other angels instead of blasting them away with a sigil.
He married the djinn queen, tried to smite someone for taking too long on the phone, hid the angel tablet in his chest, killed an angel by crashing her car. Killed Billie and took on cosmic consequences like it was another Tuesday. Annoyed the Empty enough to let him go. He used the Empty deal to feed literal Death to it and squeezed out a love confession in the process.
At no point in his arc can angels guess what the hell he will do next, because there is literally no rhyme or reason to his behavior. He will go do the most insane shit and it will work out somehow.
My favorite Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Authors
A list for those who have run out of Holmes stories to read
Pastiche (Noun):
A literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work.
Lyndsay Faye- Writes both novels and short stories. Excellent at portraying canon Holmes accurately while also portraying emotional moments well; puts an excellently written focus on the friendship between Sherlock and Watson, has a book set from the point of view of minor characters in the canon that matches the books very well.
Bonnie MacBird- A pastiche novelist. Another writer that does well at inserting more intensely emotional moments into the story and writes more into the daily life of being a flatmate with Sherlock Holmes into her books.
Nicholas Meyer- Sherlock Holmes novelist responsible for some of the most famous pastiches of the modern era including âThe Seven-Per-Cent Solutionâ, a deeper non-canonical look into Sherlockâs psyche featuring Sigmund Freud. Willing to put Watson and Holmes through the wringer physically and emotionally; excellent at writing more suspenseful and stirring stories. He also brings non-canonical depth and insight to the time surrounding Watsonâs second marriage, creating a what-if scenario that some may enjoy.
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