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[aeschylia]

guys we can’t infantilize yoichi it puts us in horrible horrible company

this guy stands up to afo from day 1 and he does it quirkless and malnourished and thinking that’s the only person who will ever care for him. and he resists him anyways! he’s got the strongest willpower of anyone in the series to do what he did for as long as he did it

yeah sure he wasn’t raised in the system so he might not have certain skills expected of someone his age but… zen was in the same boat! i can’t imagine he kept yoichi entirely in the dark over the years. his possessiveness of the guy doesn’t extend to permanent dependency, because we literally watch him give yoichi a powerful quirk. not one that could stand up to him, and it’s really more of a controlling gesture, but he took a risk (and paid for it in 2 centuries of spades, mind you). i’ve no doubt that prior to slamming him in the vault, he tried to treat him well in his own fucked up way.

it’s likely yoichi denied luxury where he could and absorbed any knowledge he was offered. there’s no way he’s illiterate by the time he dies, there’s no way he’s unaware of the political scene around him. isolated, yes, perhaps socially unaware, yes… completely stupid? no. he’s got a fully-developed moral code and sense of what’s right and wrong and was the first between him and zen to try and educate himself. when you grow up how they grew up you develop skills, one way or another. zen wasn’t always there to keep an eye on him (he had to amass his army of evil and steal quirks left and right) so i am sure yoichi taught himself things such as how to sew, cook, bandage injuries, treat illness, and so forth.

not to mention the iffy thing about him potentially being disabled due to low nourishment in the womb and his formative years. tacky take. dude’s a grown ass man and if he’d lived longer than 2mo outside of afo’s grasp, i know that fucker would’ve done some incredible shit

[curioussubjects]

the thing the supernatural-as-meme mentality is that it robs you of the richness of its story. with 326 episodes, there's now way that every single one of them will be amazing, that with 15 seasons all of them will be equally well crafted, but taken in aggregate those 326 episodes across 15 seasons of television tell a story that is so layered and nuanced.

supernatural is a story about recovery, about healing and self-acceptance. about standing up to repressive authority even when it seems hopeless. it's a show that's interested in how people create meaning, not only of the world around them but of their own selves, and how the two relate. constantly, supernatural orbits the tension of the self vs. the other. it asks: what do we owe ourselves? what do we owe each other? what do we owe those who will come after we are gone? and above all: supernatural is a story about the transformative power of love, in all its forms.

the show is tenacious in its themes. it holds on to them even in the face of the limitations of television as a medium, and executive meddling. but you have to do the work. supernatural-as-meme would have you believe anything good about it is coincidence, serendipity. sure, there's quite a lot of serendipity in how some things in supernatural have worked out (how could it not? it's a long-running collaborative piece of art), but at its core, supernatural is very intentional. it weaves a rich tapestry of subtext, intertextuality, environmental storytelling, character acting, etc; and in doing so requires the viewer to do the work of parsing it all out -- with bonus points if you can watch it in context of how television is made.

it's is a show for people who truly, deeply, love stories. people who like figuring out how they work, why they work. it invites you to think about it, all the time, in all its sillyserious, campy, complex glory.

it's a fairy tale, it's a procedural, it's a family drama, it's a romance, it's a myth, it's an epic, it's a comedy and a tragedy. sometimes it's disappointing. frustrating, too. but if i had to say, one way or the other, i'd say supernatural is a damn good show.

10/10 do recommend.

[tyzfol]

them + scenes from my own fic because if i dont who will

[mrspronouns]

not my usual post but..... i need to share this billford playlist that i made.... they won't get out of my head

i wanted to make a sequential playlist for them thats based mostly in music that would have existed like. before 1982 because portal? anyway yeah i put a lot of effort into this. it tells a story i hope you guys like it

[rooolt]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dungeons and Daddies (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Normal Oak/Hermie Unworthy Characters: Normal Oak, Hermie the Unworthy (but like not really) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Like That's The Whole Thing, Canonical Character Death, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

They all have their coping mechanisms. Normal's just so happens to be a magical facsimile of the dead boy he had a crush on.

If I was a teenage boy with the ability to summon a copy of the boy I liked who would kiss me immediately, I simply would

[tightwadspoonies]

Making maple syrup on our wood stove!

[im-the-punk-who]

I know y'all are tired of my opinions but denoting a certain color scheme to a whole group of people based on their gender schematic isn't inclusive no matter how good-intentioned it is.