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[sam-wilsons-couch]

Hello!

💛My Fics:

Free To Be You And Me (Castiel/Dean Winchester; Destiel)

I Sleep So I Can See You (Castiel/Dean Winchester; Destiel)

Saving Dean (Castiel/Dean Winchester; Destiel)

Wanna Be Yours (Jensen Ackles/Misha Collins; Jenmish, Cockles)

💛Destiel brainworm wiggle wiggle series:

(random imaginary (or is it??) scenes that live rent-free in my brain, in my Word docs, and on my Tumblr):

Domestic Destiel

Dean has a headache, and Cas gives him a good old head massage

Dean and Cas on a drive (Honorary wiggle, as this was a prompt given to me. I enjoyed writing it so much!)

💛My WIPs & related asks:

List of my WIPs (there's more in my head lol), also includes the Cat!Dean x Cat!Cas in the comments <333

3+1 Things

Omega Cas x Omega Dean

How to deal with a massive crush on your coworker

💛My Destiel fic recs:

Part one (fics rated G)

Part two (fics rated T)

Part three (Fics rated M)

Part four (Fics rated E)

💛Link to the post where I've listed my favorite fics:

Just gonna put my most favorite fics here…

Ships in this list include: Sambucky, Sam/Bucky/Joaquín, SamBuckySteve, Stucky, Bucky/Thor.

****The list includes fics only from the MCU fandom, as I made it when I was an avid Sambucky reader. I've been into other ships, such as Jayvik, CaitVi, Barisi, Ineffable husbands- Aziraphale/Crowley, and most importantly, Destiel (I'm so crazy about them right now). I'll add my favorite fics from these ships as well in this post every once in a while***

💛Important stuff:

Information on hatebots and art bot scams on AO3 and Tumblr

💛My own posts about Destiel:

YouTube edits of Destiel with Hindi songs (please watch and bless yourselves. NOT my videos btw, I found those gems while surfing through YT)

💛Fanarts and posts I think about from time to time:

💚Destiel fanarts/edits that I want to live in:

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💙Destiel gifset:

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🩵Cockles/Jenmish giftset/edits:

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💜Posts/prompts I want to write fics based on:

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🩷Posts I'm in love with:

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I'll add more stuff, but this is it for now!

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[ridleymocki]

Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Fictions are a cornerstone of human cultures: they are created, shared, discussed, modified, and valued. Yet, philosophical accounts which p

[andythanfiction-deactivated2017]

Sensitive

For lymeandcoconut

[alwild]

My love for these two knows no bounds

[untilthenexttruck]

6x19 Mommy Dearest

[peace-of-dogs]

I have so many sketches just collecting dust in my archive...yeah anyway, here's one of them

[cat-peach]

late season cas and stanford era dean call that a finger blast from the past happy friday

[jarchaeology]

Photographer: Christopher Voelker - 1997

Part 3 (Part 1, 2, 4)

[angelsdean]

stanford era dean is just like. so lonely and so full of self-hatred and he only has two people in the whole world and neither of them want to be around him and he’s SO desperate for attention and affection and he just wants someone by his side, he’s tired of being alone, he’s sad he’s a sad sad lonely boy but he still hides behind a smile and flashes that charm and tries to feel ok w/ one-night stands and one-night friends but he just wants. MORE he wants more he wants more he wants more and he hates himself for wanting at all and just. THIS dean meeting future cas and being held by him and being told that he’s good and deserving and loved !!!!!!!!!! and not just all that but also simply that. he has a best friend !!!! fuck it’s everything it’s everything 

[angelsdean]

thinking abt cas meeting 90s-modelboy-looking dean makes my brain short-circuit. he’d cry and pet his hair

[valdelion]

Love to Burn by Bethmints ~ a Valentine's collab celebrating destiel true love

[click for HQ!]

Bethmints was awesome like that to take up my idea for a collab: I wanted to draw season 15 Cas meeting Stanford Era Dean, and she wrote the most amazing gem of a ficlet with that idea! This destiel anniversary I'm beyond grateful to have found a community of incredibly talented, funny, fiercely creative, kind and thoughtful people. I love you, I love you all ❤️

Pencils, the teensiest bit of white acrylic marker and watercolor for the lollipop

[shallowseeker]

Love how as she goes, the more and more big-dick coded the D-Train gets

[demetriustheangel]

happy birthday to you @cosmonatural 🎉

I've always had this idea in my mind and when i realized it was your 20,889,720,914th birthday i had to do it

Full version down the cut

Happy birthday muaw muaw

[shallowseeker]

Jimmy 🤝 Cas

[shallowseeker]

Jimmy 🤝 Cas

[shallowseeker]

#ah that's why jimmy is cas's perfect vessel#they're both fucking stupid via @vvaltiel

Post-finale Spouse Swap (TM) Situation where Dean and Amelia are mostly just going

the whole time.

[pollsnatural]

Sam finds out that the serial killer behind his favorite unsolved case from idk 1920s was actually Rowena and almost passes out from all his blood going to his dick.

[aurorarpresources]

reblog this if you're fine with your mutuals sending you asks unprompted

[clairejack]

brokeback mountain / supernatural