I draw Jon singing a lot, and people ask me a lot if Martin sings, so here’s a little comic to address that! 😁 Martin singing voice is decent, but every once in a while everything lines up so he sounds just ✨ heavenly ✨
Hey I’d like to formally apologize for this one
SCREAMS IN FEELINGS
physical contact is not inherently the highest form of romantic expression and dean and cas awkwardly just looking at each other in soft, barely contained, earnest happiness in front of their whole family is valid and gay send tweet
There was a lot said in those looks back and forth.
Dean. Cas.
That attempt at a smile from Dean in third gif. And Cas sees right through it. His face shows how his heart is breaking for Dean. This scene was so restrained but beautifully romantic.
Notice: Romantic/hero music starts up when Cas and Dean see each other. Hugs with Jack, but no hugs for Cas. Silence for Cas and Dean, except for the music. Which ends when Dean leaves. The music speaks when Dean and Cas can’t.
Yep… I mean not only was Dean jarringly caught off guard by the absolute hive of activity in what he thought of as his own personal living room, you know? Like… ALL THESE PEOPLE?
I think if they weren’t there, if Dean hadn’t felt so wrong-footed in his own home there, that reunion could’ve gone a little differently.
But even when they were packing to leave on the hunt, Cas was just… packing a bag alongside Dean like they were back to business as usual, and that just… :’)
That said SO MUCH to me, that there was just no longer even a question of whether or not Cas would hunt with them. And honestly I AM GLAD for exactly how everything has played out.
Because even if Cas had gone with them, he would’ve been in the back seat, you know? All that conversation with Sam? Sure he got some of those answers he was looking for about how Dean’s really doing, but I’m glad Cas wasn’t a literal back seat passenger for that talk, because Cas deserves to have that one face to face, you know?
Not only that but the space where they should have hugged was so idk if emotional is the word but… Like they just clearly had this silent convo like, yeah we can’t have our moment right now because we’re in “public” but we both know how we feel.
It was so personal and somehow intimate considering they never touched.
THERE WAS A VOID THERE. There was that silent moment and that chasm of space with the pillar dividing it keeping them apart. And yet, Jack and Sam stayed silent through that moment too…
When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.
There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.
When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.
what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.
There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town. But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him. He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.
So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregarded the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.
no offense but the cutest thing to me is random little kisses like not even, on the lips just, when someone kisses you on the temple or like?? the top of your head or anywhere honestly its just rlly cute and I’m suffering
We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.
And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable” “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.
As an Australian this post surprised me. I knew none of the above.
dean and cas getting handsy
Fun fact: Vulcans who learned to mind meld in the beginning were considered to be deviants and shunned by society. It was just that intimate, since essentially the act joins the two people, and they became temporarily of one mind. While already incredibly dangerous, one of the risks is an emotional transference between one person and another, a sharing of feelings that goes both ways. The whole thing was used as an allegory to homosexuality, in that badly performed mind melds performed by those who were improperly trained could cause a degenerative disorder which led to death, and a simple treatment went unknown because of the stigma attached to the practitioners.
im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers
(basically the problem with most cameras is that they dont have a very good light sensitivity in the dark, however that doesnt mean they cant detect it at all. the longer the shutter is open, the more light your camera takes in and the more burnt/light your pic will be, so in (literally) dark situations, make the shutter lag longer to get all that light you need! also i said 20 seconds but really you can make it shorter or longer depending on what kinda stuff you want for your stars)
Yes this!
Additionally, adjust your ISO to the highest number (mimics the film used for very low light and low speed images)
And set your shutter speed to the longest time possible (on my phone it’s 10 seconds).
Leave your focus settings on Auto, and if your phone camera has a timer option, turn that on (five seconds is generally enough).
Plan your shot first, then find a place to set your phone down so you can get the image you want. The less light pollution, the better; you’ll pick up FAR more stars in your picture.
Once you know what you want to shoot, tap your screen to “focus” it, then hit the button to take the picture, set your phone down, and back away from the “tripod”. Don’t touch your phone for a good 15 seconds, just to be sure.
You will not be disappointed in the results, let me assure you.
Not even a little bit.
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
My first creative writing professor banned fantasy and sci-fi in his classes, and made us buy and read and discuss his novel (probably his only sales). However my second and third year professor, Aimee Bender, a magic realism author (please read her books she’s so talented!!), encouraged exploring fantasy and sci-fi whenever possible, and the mood of the class completely changed and everyone got way more creative and comfortable in their writing. That’s the difference between a crusty elitist bitch and a real OG.
