#romane talks

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you know, the older i get, the more i hate cynicism. isn't it exhausting to always be so bitter about everything? why don't you try a little genuine kindness and understanding and maybe you'll calm down

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talk by hozier literally makes me insane i’d be the voice that urged orpheus i’d be the choiceless hope in grief i’d be the dreadful need i’d be the immediate forgiveness i try to talk refined for fear that you find out how i’m imagining you imagine being loved by me INSANE

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there it is !!! i made a lemon bag !!! 🍋

i got the pattern from berriesandbonnets on etsy ❤️

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i think what i find most fascinating about supernatural is that pretty much every good thing about it was unintended. it all hinges on interpretation -- by the show's primarily female and queer audience (as opposed to the straight male audience that the writers seemingly had in mind at first), as well as jensen's acting, and supporting characters like castiel and crowley, who became way more important than originally planned because the fans pushed for it.

in the end, supernatural went from horror thriller to psychological thriller. it's the story of dean winchester's trauma and growth, and the horror and religious backgrounds can just be read as metaphors and reflections of his mental struggles.

it's a show about identity and relationships, and the many transformations the characters go through (being possessed by angels and demons, shapeshifters, angels having to inhabit human bodies and switching between different bodies, etc), if you read them as metaphors, can all be tied in to human identities and questions, like what is means to be a good person, but also gender and sexuality.

while the literal monsters and lore are entertaining, what made the show stick was what we could learn from it from a human point of view, and i don't think the writers ever went as deep into the characters as the audience (and actors cough jensen) did.

the queer subtext, which for so many consumers of the show, including myself, is the most attractive part of it, all rests on jensen's facial expressions (as well as misha's, less prominently but still notably) rather than the actual writing. it all feels very accidental, which, when you think about it, is pretty true to life. real people aren't queer because someone wrote them that way, we're all queer "on accident". so by projecting onto dean, a non intended queer character, we can make him much more real than any character that the show's straight writers may have intended to "make gay". which is no excuse for queerbaiting, but it's interesting to observe.

it's just so fascinating to me that supernatural is a show that works because of its meta rather than the factual stuff that happens on the show. hell, we even had a whole season 16 comprised entirely of meta discoveries and discourse.

supernatural is good, not as a story, but as a social experiment.

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society if cas had kept the messy hair

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This new fruit bracelet (designed and made by me 😊) is now available in my Etsy Shop

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gender is just like, not my cup of tea, personally