#auroramere

[whitmerule]

auroramere replied to your post “crystalpoints: When people assume Celtic = Irish I get a strong urge...”

Other = 'wals' or something like it in Germanic languages, so Wales is an iconic exonym. Pure othering. Anyway, don't English-speaking kids read Lloyd Alexander books anymore?

Yes, and ‘Gaul’ comes from the same root. ‘Not us’. This is why Gerald of Wales insisted on being Giraldus Cambriensis (’of Cambria’, being the not -’Wales’ name for Wales), and... 

dammit self go to bed

[materialsscienceandengineering]

auroramere replied to your post “Elemental Naming: Bohrium”

Has anyone made a bohrate?

I don’t believe so. The most stable isotope we know of has a half life of about a minute and, as far as I know, no compounds of bohrium have ever been created, included bohrate. 

[illusivexemissary]

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More on Gabriel and Sibling Dynamics: Pacifism,...

Class clown – like Dean trying to defuse the tension between Sam and John? Without much luck or thanks from either. Sam sees it as Dean taking John’s side (the status quo) and John as rebellion (trying to interfere with the chain of command.) Bet Gabriel can identify with that – the hopeless struggle to keep them all together.

He definitely can relate to that, but I think the point of departure is the way that Dean and Gabriel respectively deal with acknowledging that hopelessness. Dean keeps pushing, even to the detriment of all involved, subjecting everyone around him to his idea of “what’s best for them.”  Gabriel, on the other hand, withdraws from the situation and the people involved altogether, because he believes that his involvement can help in no way, and in some ways, even hinders: with the result that his loved ones feel abandoned. It’s the difference between being too controlling and being too passive. 

 Incidentally, it’s also why Michael and Gabriel could never be allies, because Dean is remarkably similar to Michael in many ways, good and bad.  

And I think it makes Michael’s murder of Gabriel particularly poetic, because it was in good part Michael’s “sword” and “perfect vessel” (Dean) who nagged and pushed and harassed Gabriel into feeling like he “still owed” the factions in the Season 13 feud a (pointless, heartbreaking) sacrificial act.  

[grandenchanterfiona]

auroramere replied to your photo: “I have some clearer pics of my bat mitzvah!”:

Mazel tov! These pictures made my eyes tear up.

<3 <3

[mittensmorgul]

auroramere replied to your post: 1/2 You know what i find sad and disturbing? That...

I agree. But if you think codependency means Dean *doesn’t* profoundly love Sam, then you’re not talking about the same universe I am.

I admit I wasn't gonna reply to this, because it reads like wank-bait, but honestly, it's impossible to watch Supernatural and *not* get that Dean and Sam do love each other profoundly. What bothers me is folks thinking Dean selling his soul for Sam was somehow a "romantic" gesture, or that it was done from some sort of pure selfless love. Obviously he never would've felt the guilt and failure he did over Sam's death if he *didn't* love his brother, you know? But what pushed him into literally signing up for an eternity in Hell on Sam's behalf was closer to the self-hatred and feelings of personal worthlessness that drove Cas to feel he deserved an eternity of punishment alone in Purgatory, or that drove Sam to feel that his self-sacrifice in 8.23 was the only thing that could "redeem" him in Dean's eyes. It was guilt and a feeling of never being able to be good enough, you know? It's horrifying, and it's that codependency taken to the bleakest possible extreme. It's not something we want for ANY of our boys. We want them to love THEMSELVES as much as they love each other. And sacrificing themselves as their sole means of redemption is the antithesis of that, not the pinnacle of it.

[themegalosaurus]

babbleabble replied to your post “Sam like ‘why would you want them to smell like food??’ CUT TO three...”

JessiCA

Look me dead in the eye and tell me you don’t think that could happen

auroramere replied to your post “Sam like ‘why would you want them to smell like food??’ CUT TO three...”

That's adorable and also purr.

I know man, all these years I’ve spent in libraries and yet never have I ever been so fortunate

j2believers replied to your post “Sam like ‘why would you want them to smell like food??’ CUT TO three...”

I said that while watching! I literally said "I bet if they smelled like dusty old books, Sam would like that." LOL

Luckily wifi doesn’t have a smell, it would be like Sam catnip

[funforahermit]

@auroramere replied to your photo:looking at his hands as if he can’t believe he...

Pretending that he didn’t mean to, it was just a hand reflex?    

whoops my hand slipped and I’ve performed a complex and delicate flying manoeuvre by accident!

[whitmerule]

auroramere replied to your photo “(Link) Well, Jensen looks rather wrecked. In fact, each of them does -...”

Jared isn't even pretending to be calm.

No, but then, his talking-to-fans persona is better for incorporating his real emotions. Jensen tends to need to be calm and strong and present a fully vetted version of his own feelings, so it makes sense for him to need to tamp all that down when he’s worked up, at least while he’s actually speaking.