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Isabel

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Pride 2023 Day 26: Lilith Clawthorne Image description: digital art of Lilith from The Owl House. She appears in her late Season 2 design with glasses and curly black hair, and she grins as she makes finger guns towards the viewer. Hooty holds up the asexual and aromantic pride flags behind her by draping them over his tube body, and he has an excited expression. End description.

if you think about it, the way things ended for each member of team free will is some twilight-zone levels of cosmic punishment.

season one sam wants to build a life away from his family and hey, that’s what he ends up doing. because post-finale every single member of his family is dead. the people he came to realise that he loved, that he needed, the ones who saw every dark thing he had done and been and loved him anyway - they’re gone. enjoy that life sam, it’s what you always wanted right?

and cas - it isn’t just that he learned to love humanity dean only to have that torn from him at its very culmination. what gets to me is that the empty is a return to pure stasis. his arc was defined by how much he changed - his very capacity for change and what he did with his choices. only to have those possibilities stripped from him as completely as they could be. death beyond death.

dean. oh dean. he thought he broke free of his father’s violence only to have his entire too-short life framed by it. going out bloody. caring about no one but sammy. never trying to build any other kind of life. his heaven is as mundane and limited and joyless as his father’s expectations.

and the thing is - this isn’t the way a show rounds out the character arcs they spent 15 seasons on.

this is the way that vindictive fathers punish defiant children and I will never be ok about it.

The most devastating thing about the chuck won theory is that it means Cas is still very much in the empty and chuck is oc lying to Dean and it's on Dean to figure it out but Dean is so full of self doubt he could really believe that Cas woul rather be rebuilding heaven than seeing Dean and the more time goes by without Cas showing up and him spending time driving on that endless road alone the harder would it get for him not to get caught in dark thoughts that keep telling him Cas never meant any of what he said because if he did where is he now? Why hasn't he showed up? The only way to get thru this is for Dean to finally believe in himself and his worth. So Cas, before dying did give him the weapon that could ultimately help Dean save him from the empty. Dean just has to realize that.

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

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Time to drop some links again.

https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

I fucked up so badly on this sudoku page no ones ever gonna wanna have sex with me

Listen *cups your chin* that couldn’t possibly be true *places hand on your chest* you’re attractive to someone out there and *glances at page* why the FUCK is there a 17 in one of those boxes please die in a hole

So in the past two days, the SCOTUS struck down affirmative action and legalized businesses discriminating against LGBTQ people.

Damn dude, getting real tired of living through history cycling over itself.

Story after story after story after story demonstrates SCOTUS is corrupt in plain sight.

Five justices were appointed by Presidents who, themselves, were elected undemocratically (lost the popular vote).

This court is illegitimate.

*turns a perfect 180 degrees so that my cutting board-flat ass is facing you* *i walk away with feminine swagger but masculine contempt*

you see. a lot of people on this site have started to use “broke containment” when any post gets popular outside of their circle of friends, but its original use was when it was a vague fandom post (usually supernatural) gets reblogged by people outside the fandom

anway I got whiplash noticing op’s url and realizing this was about gabriel agreste from miraculous ladybug

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Saying “my friend” is just much easier than saying “this person I follow on tumblr” so you’re all my friends whether you like it or not okay