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created for @starrynightdeancas and @drgarth's Christmas advent calendar event! day one: decorate the tree

Cas and Dean are in their lake house and they've decorated a small tree. They're very proud of it and had Jack take a picture of them :)

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Do you have any book recs? Have been wanting to read and I don't know what

This is going to disclose that I read an inappropriate amount of YA and I apologize in advance, however:

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ANYTHING by Sarah J. Maas if you like series (my favorite of hers are the ACOTAR books - starts with A Court of Thorns and Roses [THERE ARE WINGS!!!]); anything by Leigh Bardugo; The Ember quartet by Sabaa Tahir (Ember in the Ashes is the first book); the Caraval trilogy by Stephanie Garber.

If you like Bridgewater, Lauren Shippen also created an audio drama called the Bright Sessions and there are three in-universe books - the third came out today!!! You don't have to have listened to the audio drama to read them, and they can be read as stand-alones or separately. They are: The Infinite Noise (TIN is such a comfort read), A New Darkness, and Some Faraway Place (HBD TO THIS ONE!)

Sam Smith mentioned another series by Laini Taylor that I love dearly at this last con; first book is The Daughter of Smoke and Bone (monsters, angels, lore galore!)

If you wanna get Halloween-y I really love the book Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake (also her Three Dark Crowns series is amazing).

I can't book rec without mentioning my beloved Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden (first book is The Bear and the Nightingale), which accurately incorporates so much of my own Russian historical folklore and Talk About A Compelling Otherworldly Being as a lead character RAWR.

I read a lot of series; that much is clear. However -

Non-series: Slaughterhouse Five; The Song of Achilles (but prepare to be broken); The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (peak literature); The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (and watch the Netflix film after); On the Come Up by Angie Thomas. I was recently rec'ed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke as well and really enjoying diving into that one (I read mult books and fic at once I am unwell).

Oh! And White Oleander. I am always thinking about White Oleander by Janet Finch, be warned if it was an AO3 fic though the triggers would be a paragraph long. But its fucking lovely and sadly formative brain reading years for me.

If you're ok with harder topics, the best two books I've ever read on the concept of addiction are Beautiful Boy by David Sheff and the companion piece Tweak by Nic Sheff (the boy in question). Please be forewarned they are BOTH very hard reads dealing with drug abuse (meth and other things). Also as someone with personal history of ED I would be remiss not to mention Portia De Rossi's memoir Unbearable Lightness which does the best job of describing that area of struggle I have ever read (however again - please watch the triggers).

For lighter, funner fare please read through Tamora Pierce's entire oeuvre and enjoy the stories of my youth. Also Anne McAffrey. Pern, my beloved safe place.

Nonfiction I have enjoyed includes What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates; Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (if you're a history human this is a great account of the REAL history so many of us were not taught in school); and Pity The Reader by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell (a great writing book).

oh god this is so long and now I want to re read almost everything on this list. hope this helps; if you have a specific genre or type of story you are thinking of pls feel free to lmk. I used to (and sometimes still!! do!) read a TON.

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Fuck dean Forester hes literally the worst boyfriend she has the entire show and that's been my opinion since 3rd grade

you're right !!!!!!!!! when ur so jealous u get jealous of SCHOOL...

send me gilmore girls opinions

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/35502139

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drgarth we are like, so close in my brain, and real life i have interacted with you so little, but you are an absolute ray of sunshine

@drgarth

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created for @starrynightdeancas and @drgarth's Christmas advent calendar event! day two: poinsettias

poinsettias symbolize hope and love

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genuine question. how do you write poetry?

ive wanted to for a long time but i also didnt like most poetry. and then you and Misha and a couple other blogs have got me wanting to try my hand at it again, but i dont know where to start

first of all friend the fact that you just put poetry me and Misha in the same sentence is extremely *heart eyes at you*

poetry IMO is all about feelings. it's your heart in words. I know some people do it more technically (and some of Misha's poems are VERY technical!!), but I generally just. dump the words out. sometimes I revise them a little; sometimes I leave em raw. sometimes they rhyme, sometimes they don't. sometimes I write them with visual effects in mind (extra space b/w words or staggering). sometimes I name them.

I come up with a lot of them while outdoors; whether I'm sitting on my deck or on a run. they strike randomly - but when they do I try to chase the thought until it comes out in words.

I have a poetry google doc and I just drop poems there when one strikes me; when they feel exceptionally decent I share 'em :D

IMO the definition of a 'good' poem is that it makes you feel something. that's it!

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are people really still referencing that poem? like... cant we all just shut up about until the 12? its literally tomorrow oh my gosh

yes. oh to be an a d u l t- I hear you <3