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Tales of an Injured Fog Rat

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Elmie. 31, they/them, Aotearoa New Zealand. Words-witch and illustrator of soft queer fiction.
"[Elmie is] not an un-charming person." - Siddig el Fadil, July 2nd 2021
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“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

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assiraphales

tbh I can’t imagine aziraphale growing attached to puppies or kittens or anything like that bc it would break his heart each & every time he lost one to age , but I can picture him palling around w a giant tortoise, who lives upward of 100 years

aziraphale, lying on the floor to be face level with his tortoise friend: when you don’t age, time has far less meaning. I could never understand the urgency—why go hurry eternity? just because the tortoise and the hare went different speeds didn’t mean they couldn’t both envision the finish line. but after the experience of almost losing him, I’ve begun to wonder, I have left him waiting an awful long time, haven’t I?

tortoise: *chews a piece of lettuce*

aziraphale @ any minor inconvenience

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A Fridge-Locker, An Enochian Puzzle Box, a Ma’lak Box... and the Closet (14x11 Damaged Goods)

I have been summoned by @savannadarkbaby and @dimples-of-discontent to talk about what the frick is up with the subtext in 14x11 Damaged Goods, to whit - these pin-up cowboy and dark-haired muscle-type dudes in Donna’s work-shed which the camera gives us an eye-full of… namely, this dude…

and this one…

[which, by the way, look SO like 1970s gay porn shoots, with those moustaches, - i.e. these are narrative (subtextual) manifestations of Dean’s gay thoughts TM]…

and Dean’s construction, in the same shed (covered in sexy dude pin-ups) of a Ma’lak (angel) box, i.e., in subtext, a closet, into which he intends to lock himself and AU!Michael with him…. uh huh…  

Here is the Ma’lak box (which, supposedly, Billy gave Dean the instruction manual for, although, I think Dean is an unreliable narrator here, regarding exactly what was in the book Billy handed him)… 

No sooner has Dean got a face-load of the pin-ups dudes, who he says are “Donna’s type” (yeah Dean, just Donna’s type...) than he is troubled by AU!Michael, locked in the fridge-locker (closet) in Dean’s mind, screaming to get out (which, just for emphasis we’ve already seen in the recap at the start of the episode)..

We also see the fridge-locker (closet) door, rattling in Dean’s mind, for further emphasis…

I’ve already written about this fridge-locker in Rocky’s Bar as a metaphor for the closet in Nihilism here:

as well as about how AU!Michael is himself a metaphor for Dean’s self-repression around his queerness here:

and about how much of the visual symbolism in Rocky’s Bar speaks to Dean’s repressed queerness (and specifically his feelings for Castiel) here:

As Dean constructs the Ma’lak box (closet) for himself, the music croons sorrowfully, “No time for a summer friend, no time for the love you send….” just as we get another shot of a cowboy pin-up dude, (wow Donna/ Dean, you are horny on main) only this time showered in sparks:

For subtext-watchers, this musical reference to lost love, combined with a dude in a (white) cowboy hat, and sparks flying are, of course, references to Castiel, and to Dean’s repressed, sexual and romantic, feelings for his angel, like so:

13x06 Tombstone…  when Dean was playing seriously happy cowboy dress-up with Cas, after Castiel’s miraculous return from The Empty…

and of course, the famous Dean/Cas meet-cute, when sparks, literally, flew:

4x01 Lazarus Rising (an episode just recently heavily called-back, in the previous ep 14x10 Nihilism)

Perez, you ain’t even subtle….

The other box (closet) representation in this episode, Damaged Goods, the Enochian puzzle box into which Mary Winchester locked the demon Abraxas, is forced open by Nick, with a drill (not the sexy kind of drilling though, right, Dean?) whilst Nick is crooning “Yeah baby, Yeah baby…” 

I mean…. ?!?!?

I have a whole lot more to say about the connection between the queer subtext in the episode and the underlying and related Jungian themes, but I’ll save that for another post…

Reblogging just to add this final symbolic shot of Dean and Sam with the Ma’lak box (aka Dean’s metaphorical repression box/ closet) in between them (blocking full communication) and one of the pin-up dudes (aka Dean’s Gay Thoughts TM) clearly lurking on the wall behind:

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mewitti

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my ability to draw things isn’t my “talent.” As Bob Ross points out, anyone who sat down and decided to practice drawing for 15+ years would (not could… would) be able to learn to draw just as well as I can. Probably way better, actually. The only thing even remotely “special” about me is that I wanted to practice for 15+ years, enough that I actually did so. 

Talent is not about innate ability. It’s about persistence.

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beanmom
I was talking to someone about Fury Road today and they said ‘I just hated how it had no plot. They just left and then turned around and went straight back, it was so stupid’ and I think my soul was in danger of leaving my body because really - that’s the whole point. That’s the great message of Mad Max Fury Road - they need to leave and go back because they need to understand that the Green Place doesn’t exist. Valhalla doesn’t exist. There’s no better place waiting, no Eden to escape to, nowhere for Furiosa and the wives to run to. This world, broken and damaged and war-torn as it is, is all they have, and if they want a Green Place then they have to make it themselves. They have to choose peace. They have to choose love for each other. They have to take the seeds from the older, violent generation and start again. They have to destroy the oppressive power structures holding them back, capitalism and the patriarchy that Immortan Joe represents.
The Green Place was around them all along, and it takes this long, cyclical journey to understand that, both for them and for the audience. The circular narrative structure is an absolute work of genius, and the fact that the entire plot can be boiled down to “they leave and come back” is an indication of how well this works as an action movie - that the plot is simple enough so everyone can understand what’s going on while explosions are going off and cars are racing past at 100mph - yet it’s still incredibly rich and wonderfully complex too.
And what a pertinent message to send out - the generations before us killed the world and now it’s up to us to fix what’s broken. There’s no Green Place but the one we make ourselves, which will be born out of fire and blood and rise from the ashes of the old world.
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Anonymous asked:

I dont understand Dean/Amara myself, but why do you not like it?

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Well. She was literally just a baby, then a little girl, then a teenage girl, and I so cannot touch with a ten foot pole what last week would have been overt pedophilia. Not to mention that she may have been in the body of a child, but she’s an ageless primordial conscience-less soul-eating murderous supernatural being who holds Dean in her thrall and puts advances on him that he clearly doesn’t want.

There is literally nothing romantic in this situation. This is the most unromantic situation I’ve ever seen. It is a disgusting display of heteronormativity, as though ‘of course it makes sense for them to kiss, he’s a man and she’s a woman so why not’ and a normalization of pedophilia when they laid the foundation for sexuality when she was a child. It is absolutely revolting for there to be an implied sexuality between a teenager and a 37 year old man, and all the more so when it could easily be seen as sexual assault on the man. It’s like it’s disgusting in both directions.

If this apparent kiss is somehow portrayed as romantic or titillating, I am going to be beyond pissed off. Amara was just a child, and you can’t convince me it’s not a sexual assault on Dean.

It’s just. Why. Why the fuck.

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Anonymous asked:

could you please elaborate on how you think that jensen acts differently with misha versus jared? i've noticed that j2 act pretty douche-y sometimes when they're together. thanks for answering.

Well, to start with, the Jensen that’s with Misha is a little more… open? He lets Misha cross boundaries that he doesn’t let Jared cross.

FOR EXAMPLE:

vs.

To me, the difference isn’t necessarily because there’s something romantic between J & Misha, but because Misha brings out a side of Jensen that’s a little more self-secure and relaxed.

With Jared, the vibe is very dudebro, and Jensen does a lot of over compensating. He’s got his most masculine, heteronormative foot forward.

With Misha, the vibe is far more relaxed. He’s more willing to do things that might make the audience question his sexuality. For example, Jensen is willing to dance TOGETHER vs. just on the same stage, more willing to dance suggestively than just like a goofball.

Plus the kind of humor Jensen has with Jared is sometimes (only sometimes!) kinda douchey — generally by making fun of people and insulting their masculinity by calling them “girl” (if they identify as male), etc.

But when he’s with Misha, his humor is full of sexual innuendos (particularly on set, remember 9x06) and he seems okay insulting HIMSELF. He’s willing to laugh at himself around Misha, and I just don’t see that when he’s around Jared.

And finally, when Jensen is with Jared, their joint body language is towards the audience. They’re a team, a brotherhood, facing the audience down.

But with Misha, their body language is towards each other. They’re in their own little world, and Jensen can forget about the audience and just have fun.

ETA: I didn’t answer this as a Cockles vs J2 (romantic ship) post in body language because I already have a bunch of those.

I was assuming you were referring to a recent post of mine where I said I like the side of Jensen that we see when he’s around Misha better than the side we see when he’s around Jared.

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