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[envydean]

envydean’s follower celebration - requested by @shinychimera (x)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

@falconowls replied to your text post

I do also have a thought that many Disney's films really need more writing improvements as time passes. One of the main issues is that it is getting more unrealistic, exaggerating and sloppy. Movies are becoming less inspirational and disappointing. Even when you do remakes or based on something, they shouldn't just using CGI or live actions to do so, but actually adding a theme that motivates and inspires.

Likewise, not just remaking The Lion King with new voices and CGIs, and just focusing on remaking everything just for making money. It seems that Disney was more creative and inspirational before. Even when you're talking about 60-70s animations or older franchises films like POTC, 20000 leagues under the sea, the sorcerer's apprentice etc. You can feel a deeper depth of art, emotions and reflections.

Perhaps Disney's older works are much more daring but still realistic. Indeed, with things full of imaginations, yet still brings out messages of struggles, humanity, dreams, and much more. Not just visual effects and cool actions.

And what I think is that what a perfect story or a plot should add their 'imperfections'. In Avengers (I still like the series), everything seems too perfect, like having conversations or jokes in a battle field, saving everybody, always about saving the world, always about high tech stuff and super actions. It makes things seem childish, and bland, and over exaggerating. I know it's pg and superhero, but you can still do more.

In my POV, even when there are plot holes, timeline mistakes, or disapproving scripts in X men, I can feel the emotional depths and struggles, as well as a strong, unyielding theme in every chapter- That how different people are treated and their struggles in society, and how we should treat difference in the right way.

And there are more emotional depths and realistic scenes. Eg. Charles and Erik's reflective views on mutant and human future. Erik could not save his mother and family, and following the path of the man he hates most. Logan's tragic life, Jean's unstable mind, guilt. Charles endless hope and love... Many characters that reflect on humanity, our choices, views, life struggles...

One more outstanding theme is that how powers affect us, like apoc and shaw believing themselves superior and meant to rule all others, while Charles and x men sees their powers as protections to the weaker ones. Just like Hitler vs Lincoln. These powerful beings in fact own a heart of humans. Sometimes what flies high still need times to stay on the ground. Disney in fact can do so, like what they did to good works.

These are but my opnions, which I would like to share. No offense to anything.

I’m afraid I dropped out of the X-Men series because I was too bored, on the other hand I literally forced myself to bear through most of the MCU and in fact there’s multiple movies I have never watched, so.

I think that the point is- like @shinychimera was saying, movies are generally made in a hybrid art/business model and that’s what Disney used to be for most of its history, there’ll be a tension between business requirements and artists’ visions but generally that gave birth to good products - with the occasional Bad Idea, meh thing, piece of weak writing, etc, but mistakes are inevitable and in hindsight everyone can tell what went wrong. Some projects would be given less funding some more, etc etc. Sometimes you expect something to be a bad idea but the audience loves it; sometimes the opposite. But overall you try to go with something that the audience will most likely like because you need the product to be successful.

The problem is that until not so long ago the idea was that for a movie to be successful it had to be good. Which kind of sounds obvious but becomes less obvious when you are a massive megacorporation that has a near monopoly on what gets aired in theaters and massive global brand power.

That’s the difference between the works we grew up with (for me at least it was Howard Ashman’s movies and the rest of the Disney renaissance) and the movies that are being produced now. I think it’s a big difference.

The Avengers are a collection of witty one-liners wrapped in CGI, yes. It’s one of the most glaring examples of fandoms that are built on potential, and as the series progressed it became increasingly obvious that that potential wasn’t going to be explored, but what was there was all there was.

[mittensmorgul]

Re: "the shattering of their very concept of free will, the purpose of their entire lives" -- did we get foreshadowing of this in 13.16? Maybe soon we'll see Dean bangiing his head on a tree, growling, "We've been stopping vampires and demons when we could've been hunting God? Are you kidding me? My life is meaningless!"

omg I was like... wait did I write that? I found the reply I typed up yesterday where I wrote that, though, so apparently I did :’D

https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/188284521260/i-kinda-feel-like-the-deancas-tension-in-the

(in my defense, I spent the next 6 hours afterward or so making the transcript of the episode, so now my brain has been squished dry and is back to WHAT R WERDS?! mode again, having been drained of all coherency) :D

BUT OMG that’s a WONDERFUL observation! I mean, Scoobynatural was the sort of in-universe wall-break I think a lot of us would LOVE to get. I know I would personally love to travel to the SPN universe and sit each of them down and tell them a few things, you know? I mean, I literally wrote 143k words of fic about it after s10. Obviously a lot has changed since then, but the main point of it stands, and was the foundation concept of Scoobynatural, too.

If you could go into a fictional world and interact with your favorite characters, what would you tell them? How would they react? How would YOU react in THEIR world? (and the first part of that fic is how would THEY react in YOURS, too)

I think we did get a bit of Dean metaphorically banging his head on a tree over feeling like his life was meaningless, with the whole maze concept:

Dean: Just when we thought we had a choice. You know, whenever we thought we had free will. We were just rats in a maze. Sure, we could go left. Sure, we could go right. But we were still in the damn maze. Just makes you think, if all of it... you know, everything that we've done... What did it even mean?

(also, high five to Last Night Me for finishing the transcript so I have something to easily quote now) :D

I think this is Dean’s version of the head-banging-on-a-tree existential crisis, since he’s not actually a cartoon character. Because just like the Scoobies, they may have questioned the greater meaning of their lives on learning about something apparently much bigger than them, but they were all MORE than happy to slide right back into their previous beliefs and understanding at the end of the episode, too. They WANTED to go back to hunting bad guys in rubber masks, because they legit DID help people that way, and the notion of fighting against something wildly more powerful had broken them. Literally and metaphorically.

It reminds me of Dean’s comment going all the way back to early days of things being “above their pay grade,” or just “this is big” when it came to things like Specky the Wonderdemon in 1.04. Remember when the question of “what happens after death” was “way beyond our pay grade?” (it was 2.16) I think they’ve leveled up to the top pay grade at this point, you know? I think Dean would gladly opt for retirement from Chuck’s regular lineup of viewing entertainment, if it didn’t mean letting the whole planet burn in the process.

But even INSIDE their own universe, Sam and Dean and Cas ARE “fictional characters.” At least, to the readers of the Supernatural novels, they are. And in their world, words like that have power, too. “Tearing up the script,” “making it up as we go,” “rewriting the ending”-- all of these things have been the core of what they’ve been about all along. I think Chuck likes to forget those features of the “characters” he “created.” He made them into what they are, by teaching them how to run his mazes and finding it interesting when they managed to escape so many times, you know? And he might be able to lay down new mazes, but he’s not as heckin’ creative as he thinks he is.

Omg, you know how I see Chuck-As-Author now? Like some punk-ass jerk who hates that some folks are able to see the end coming, hates that his characters are able to spot the escape hatch in his stories, and out of spite wrote a “twist they never saw coming” that only he knows the rules for. But it’s too late, you know? TFW... they’re the endgame everyone is rooting for. Like Metatron trying to set Cas up as the villain but ended up proving his own villainy in the process. Like Zachariah confidently arranging “lessons” for Dean only for Dean to learn the opposite lesson to the one he tried to teach. Same with Gabriel and his lessons to TFW that backfired completely.

Chuck made the mistake, at the very start, of writing Sam and Dean as the heroes. And they’re more than capable of filling those roles, even at the end when Chuck thinks he’s got a different plan for them.

If it’s not clear, I absolute ADORE this thematic aspect of the entire series. :D

*shuts up before I end up talking about this all day*

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Title: Someone Who's Feeling For Me Author: ellispark Artist: shinychimera Rating: Mature Length: 45,878 words Pairings: Dean/Cas Warnings: Minor violence, sexual content, language, past Dean/Lisa Dean sees her for the first time in nearly six years in some no-name town in Idaho, and it's panic at first sight.

Lisa Braeden, the one woman Dean ever actually had a shot at a real life with, back from where he buried her in his mind. And her hand is on Cas' arm like it's no big deal, like it belongs there. Cas, Dean's dorky, sweet, badass, angelic best friend, and he's just standing there next to Lisa and not moving her hand away.

Dean feels the jealousy rising, and it's not directed where he expected it to be.Because it takes this exact moment for Dean to realize — he's in love with his best friend. He's in love with his best friend, and Lisa is looking at Cas like he's the best thing since automatic rifles, and Dean is utterly fucked. Link to fic | Link to art

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

shinychimera replied to your post “Excuse me gentlepersons, have you been adequately flailing about the...”

So parts of Mia were suppressed, invisible, one might say, Missing In Action?

Aah excellent point!

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Posts on: February 21st

Summary: Dean Winchester knows he has a lot going right in his life--good family, friends--but he can't seem to let go of one nagging regret. He should have left while he had the chance. Instead he's stuck in place wishing for someone he'll never see again.

Cas never thought he'd end up here-- back in his mother's house, taking care of her medical decisions. He planned to take care of everything as quickly as possible and get back home to his daughter--until he runs into a former classmate who insists that he should go to their 10-year reunion that weekend. Cas refuses the offer until he hears that Dean Winchester will be there.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!

By the time they all got to the table the food was laid out down the middle with places set at each seat.

“This one here, Jody,” Bobby said, nodding to the seat next to his. Lisa caught Dean’s eye from across the table and raised her eyebrows in question.

Dean took a seat between Charlie and Sam, and after Eileen got Mary settled in on her booster seat food started around the table.

“Oh, Sam, Eileen-- before I forget,” Lisa said. “Is it okay to drop Ben off at 5:30 tomorrow? I need to get to the high school a little earlier than I thought. I can bring pizza or something.”

“That’s fine, and no pizza necessary,” Sam said as he spooned mashed potatoes onto his plate.

“Is everything ready for the reunion?” Eileen asked.

“I think so, at least on my end. We’ll see if everyone else did their homework when we get over there to set up tomorrow afternoon.” Lisa pointed at Dean with her fork. “And you make sure you get out of work on time. No excuses for missing this.”

Dean shrugged. “You’ll have to take that up with my boss.” He grinned at Jody.

“Jody,” Lisa said. “please make sure Dean gets-”

“He won’t be able to pin an absence on me,” Jody said.

“Speaking of the reunion,” Sam said. “Did you see who’s back in town?” Sam glanced over at

him and Dean shrugged, and tried in vain to keep his neck from heating up and his ears turning pink.

“A lot of people came in for the reunion, Sam,” Lisa said. “You’ll have to be more specific.”

Sam nudged Dean with his shoulder. “You saw his car when you came over, right?”

“Doesn’t mean he’s coming to the reunion.” Dean ran his fingers over the leather bracelet on the opposite wrist.

“Why else would he be here?” Sam asked.

“Mrs. Novak’s been in the hospital a couple weeks,” Bobby said. “Maybe he finally came back to see to his mother.”

“He wouldn’t,” Dean said, voice low. “Not unless she’s dying. Maybe not even then.”

“It’s been ten years since you last saw him,” Bobby said. “Maybe he patched things up with her at some point.”

“Point is, none of us know why he’s here.” Agitation colored Dean’s voice in harsh tones. “Or even if that’s still his car. Let it go already.” He kept his eyes on his plate, stabbing the green beans harder than necessary.

“Like Frozen?” Mary piped up hopefully.

Most of the adults laughed and the tension fled the room. “Yeah, like Frozen, honey,” Sam said.

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Posts on: February 19th

Summary: Dean sees her for the first time in nearly six years in some no-name town in Idaho, and it's panic at first sight.

Lisa Braeden, the one woman Dean ever actually had a shot at a real life with, back from where he buried her in his mind. And her hand is on Cas' arm like it's no big deal, like it belongs there.

Cas, Dean's dorky, sweet, badass, angelic best friend, and he's just standing there next to Lisa and not moving her hand away.Dean feels the jealousy rising, and it's not directed where he expected it to be.

Because it takes this exact moment for Dean to realize — he's in love with his best friend. He's in love with his best friend, and Lisa is looking at Cas like he's the best thing since automatic rifles, and Dean is utterly fucked.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!

“Dean —”

“I know, I know. You’re a big boy, you can take care of yourself,” Dean interrupts. “But let me help, Cas, Jesus. You don’t have to do everything alone. You have me. I...”

“You love me?”

It feels, for a moment, like Dean’s in a vacuum and all the air has just been sucked out. He’s not sure if he can remember how to breathe. He looks at Cas, too long for someone driving a car down a highway, and sees his own shock mirrored on Cas’s face.

“I only meant —” Cas starts, and Dean says “Of course I do,” before he can stop himself.

Silence follows.

Dean turns back to the road and counts in his head, a habit left over from when he was a kid and just starting to hunt. John Winchester would say, You hear me fire, you stay in hiding for five seconds, come around the back and shoot. Got it, boy? And Dean would nod, Yes sir, and count in his head. One. Beat. Two. Beat. Three. Beat. Four. Beat. Five.

He does it now.

One. I told him I loved him.

Two. He didn’t say anything back.

Three. But he asked.

Four. What just happened?

Five. What does this change?

It’s definitely been longer than five seconds when Cas speaks.

“Of course,” Cas repeats after Dean, and nods like yes, he just wanted to confirm it. “We’re... brothers.”

He says it like it’s something he almost forgot, like those words alone weren’t near impossible for Dean to squeeze out. Like he doesn’t understand the type of love Dean actually wants to offer up, and it sure ain’t brotherly love. Sam does not equal Cas; Cas does not equal Sam. Dean has always felt intense love for both but never quite worked out how it wasn’t the same. Never let himself think about how it wasn’t the same. Shoved those feelings in the cabinet of “Things Dean Winchester Doesn’t Think About.”

Dean’s starting to hate that damn cabinet.

He knows rationally that he can’t expect Cas to see past his bullshit and his ‘I need you’s and ‘we’re family’s to pick up on the real truth. Cas is a friggin’ alien who’s worn a human suit for all of eight years, and Dean, certified homo sapien since 1979, only figured it out like two days ago. He needs to explain it to Cas.

But if he explains, and Cas still rejects him, it would kill him. He knows it.

He thinks of the soft, fond smile Cas gave Lisa, and rejection definitely seems like a plausible response.

Besides, doesn’t Cas deserve better than him anyway? Dean’s a mess, and he knows it. It would just be wrong to expect Cas to continue blindly following the Winchesters forever, never getting a chance to experience a real life. A good life. Because no life with Dean could ever be good. He makes the people around him hurt, always.

Dean feels so trapped in this circle of thought that he doesn’t respond to Cas at all. They drive on in silence.

[shinychimera]

I've picked up a few followers lately -- just so you know, I don't normally reblog or queue as much as I'm doing right now, and it's normally spread over more fandoms than Supernatural, but I'm a wee bit hyperfocused on the SPN finale and Destiel right now. Please bear with me for another week. 😃

current alternate obsessions: Leverage 1.0, gearing up for Lev 2.0, The Untamed, RWBY; background Star Trek (always), great art from many fandoms, a sprinkling of Marvel/Stucky, The Good Place, Sherlock, Sense8, bits of Witcher, Old Guard, Good Omens, other things I'm forgetting. Also a fair dollop of political, supporting those in need of it, cuddly animals, puns, and other randomness.