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i was minding my business and attacked by modern AU accessor verse and JUST THE IDEA of like how the history fits into modern erotica and courtship/culture (like imagining a swiping dating app matching lers/lees/switches and dean and cas meeting awkwardly on there & being cute and teasey) and like the folk songs/folk customs (like the feet thing) being vaguely recognizable in their modern form but still there

anyway, great work all, glad i have something new to spiral and be deranged about!

The typical profile pictures on social media are all the usual things - smiles, dogs, kids, partners. But on dating apps, the unspoken expectation is for a candid laughing shot. It keeps cycling in and out of fashion every decade or so to have a casual full-body barefoot photo in there, too.

It’s early in Dean’s working relationship with Cas, and he doesn’t spend loads of time trawling potential matches. He’s pretty busy with work, and to be honest he’s not even sure exactly what he’d be looking for anyway. But he does take a swipe through every so often, just to see. There’s a guy that catches his eye once, with a huge gummy smile and a nose scrunch that rivals an accordion, and Dean thinks that’s pretty damn cute. The guy has a vaguely familiar look about him that Dean can’t place, but he hearts the profile to check out later.

“Later” doesn’t arrive until the day after he and Cas both worked that woman’s reference session. Damn, he’d forgotten how fun it was to throw down on somebody. A million extra bonus points for that somebody being Cas, who has been putting Dean through the wringer for months. Getting to take him to pieces was awesome. He’s kinda geared up over it and opens the app to see if anybody strikes his fancy for a hookup.

That guy is still in his saves. And Dean almost chokes because it’s Cas. He hadn’t even realized, because Cas is so cool and professional whenever Dean’s working for him, but he’d gotten to experience Cas’ laugh for the first time yesterday, up close and personal, and it’s kind of stupidly attractive. The profile picture captures it pretty well.

He’s not going to request a match with his fucking boss on a dating app. (Client, technically, but still.)

That won’t stop him from thinking about it, though.

[#modern Accessor AU]

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*Kicks down door* I smell an ask meme. (&agree 100% with your thigh/toes assessment on Cas and Sam. Yes, true. Fact checked. Correct.) How abouttttt: Cas and his underarms?

Castiel had stupidly ticklish underarms, he terribly regrets it when he ends up with his arms pinned over his head because he knows he’s in store for some terrible torture even tho he loves it and giggles and dies the whole time. I would say solid 9/10 on his underarms, coming in very close with tummy and thighs

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UM TELL ME EVERYTHING POSSIBLE ABOUT PERCY AND OLIVER WOOD PLS, THAT SINGS TO MY SOUL IN A WAY THAT FEW THINGS DO

THEY ARE. SO CUTE!?

I headcanon them as being friends in school but reconnecting in their early twenties in uni (and then they get married obviously). They’re very different in many ways (with Oliver being more athletic and Percy more academically-inclined, which tbh is one of my favorite dichotomies) but they’re also both very motivated and driven people, and I <3 them together. (READ THIS FIC IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY.)

Also: they’re totally both ticklish, right? Like, obviously. Percy is very ticklish, particularly on his neck, ribs, and stomach. Much to his indignation, his siblings tend to be the hands-on type who use tickling as an annoying-sibling tactic, so its something he deals with quite often (though it’s different coming from Oliver). I think that Oliver’s ticklishness is much less known, especially because he tends to immediately come off as that-guy-with-the-singleminded-focus-on-Quidditch that people who don’t know him well have trouble looking past. However, he is ticklish, with his underarms and feet being the worst, and quite a few other spots that are mildly sensitive.

I see them as a couple who uses tickling when they know each other needs it and will be receptive of it; like, if one of them is stressed from schoolwork or Quidditch, respectively (stressed enough that they’d appreciate a distractor/stress relief, but not so stressed that they’re in don’t-touch-me-leave-me-alone-mode) then the other will tickle them. Or sometimes when they’re lying in bed or making out in a classroom together and just feel like being silly.

Look Percy gets so much shit and I’m not? Okay with it? There are several well-written defenses of Percy Weasley (x, x, x) that are far more eloquent than I could ever be but. He just got the short end of the stick, okay? He didn’t get a ton of respect from his family, and sure he was douchey sometimes, but who isn’t??? I love Percy okay don’t be mean to him.

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I Fixed/Fic’d It

A Supernatural Fluffsgiving Event

co-hosted by your SPN TFB Cool Aunts, Rynn (@betterthanpixels) and Lee (@wordstrings)

The Supernatural series finale has aired, leaving in its wake big feelings and blank pages to be filled. This Thanksgiving week, we encourage you to fill a page of your own.

In Rynn’s words, “our giggly little corner consistently did it better,” so whether you want to fill a gap, alter events, or tell a new story altogether, celebrate your authorial power and write something inspired by one (or more!) of the below prompts sometime between Monday, Nov. 23 and Friday, Nov. 27.

Prompt list:

canon

fix-it

rescue

apple pie life

what they deserved

Post your work using the hashtag #SPNfluffsgiving2020 so we can see your wonderful work! (If you don’t have a blog of your own – or if you do but you’d rather not post tickly things there – Lee will gladly take your submission at https://wordstrings.tumblr.com/submit)

Endings are hard. But then again... nothing ever really ends, does it?

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I keep reading "Spideypool" as Spideypoo and both are v. cute anyway (just like that fic omg)

Omg thank you fam speaking of which I NEED MORE OH VERSE DEANCAS INTERACTIONS I AM THIRSTY AS FUCK GIRL PLSHALP I love you my spideypoo

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Hi there, it me, with some prompts. I need Cas like everywhere rn. So anything with his nose scrunch face/hysterical full-body laughter after a long day & his doofy smile or his hip bones or him sleepily curling up into someone's lap for gentle tickles or getting tickled until he's a pile of boneless goo or purposely antagonizing (in his own weird ways) Dean or Sam into tickling the poop outta him because they seemed stressed and he thought it might make them relax. Or really anything.

This has been sitting in my ask for days haunting me and taking over my thoughts and I hate you so much bc I need to expand this into 800 other ideas that I suddenly realized could tie in and I need to discuss this with you pls help

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I read a crunchy review of the sequel and wanna be happy again — wanna do the ask game for Guardians of the Galaxy?

HECK YEAH

who’s the most ticklish character:

Gamora and Peter are equally ticklish, but Gamora will stab most people who try to tickle her, so Peter is the most ticklish one who actually gets tickled.

who’s the character that most people would assume is ticklish, but actually isn’t:

Rocket seems like he might, possibly, be ticklish, but he actually isn’t very ticklish at all (not to mention he constantly radiates “don’t touch me,” so anyone who isn’t crazy - i.e. anyone who isn’t Peter - usually isn’t willing to test it).

who’s the character that everyone gangs up on and tickles:

Peter

who’s the character that somehow knows everyone else’s tickle spots and reveals them to others:

Rocket (he likes blackmail)

who’s the character with one specific tickle spot that only one other person knows about:

Rocket will deny until the end of time that he’s ticklish but. The area underneath his chin is a little sensitive, a fact which only Groot is privy to.

who’s the most likely to win gang tickle wars:

Literally e v e r y o n e except Peter. Gamora, Drax, and Rocket are all so ruthless that any one of them could win (or punch each other before coming to an agreement to gang up on Peter instead), and Groot will just hover over them jumping in when he feels like it.

which character has a kink for tickling:

Peter has a tiny kink.

which character didn’t even know they were ticklish until another character tickled them:

Gamora had no idea that she was ticklish until Peter snuck up on her and tickle-attacked her (after which she immediately kicked him).

which two characters have tickle fights all the time:

Peter and Rocket always start tickle fights with each other (either Peter trying to get a rise out of Rocket, or Rocket wanting to torture Peter when he’s being too annoying). Rocket always wins (he’s vicious in tickle fights).

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OMG GRADUATION. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE JUST YESTERDAY EVERYONE IN THIS CORNER OF THE INTERNET WERE 18 YEAR OLDS SWADDLED IN BLANKETS AND NOW THEY ARE AAAADULTS. WOW. CONGRATS. AGE. LIFE. THINGS.

HELLO YES THANK YOU. WE OLD.