Dean would definitely make Cas put on the inflatable dinosaur suit so he could laugh about it. Then he’d reveal his real costume for Cas: a cowboy with wings made of leather.

Started this tonight. Might take some better pictures if I ever get around to finishing it.

Any second he’s going to climb right out of the page. Extremely awesome art-ing!

Once upon a time in the sixties, I played with a potato

I’m gonna call this Mr Potato Head fan fiction. Because it’s based on real toys and real life, but I made stuff up. That counts, right?

Exhibit A

See that Potato Head ^up there^ ? I played with one that looked exactly like that. Seriously - Mr Potato Head used to have a body. No, really. When my kids got Potato Head toys as gifts, I was quite appalled to find that not only had they removed all the fun, pointy parts because kids, you know, might stab it into something other than a potato, and parents can’t be bothered to tell them not to. I’ve no idea how my friends and I survived the toys of the 60s and 70s, with all the tiny parts and pointy bits. (It’s a Christmas miracle!)

Moving along….did you know that in addition to a body, Mr. Potato Head used to have friends? Many many friends. As above in Exhibit A, he had a friend with an unfortunately elongated and slightly curved head, and the obvious name of Frankie Frank. They had a mutual buddy, the disturbingly jaundiced-looking Mr. Mustard Head. Of course, Mr. Mustard Head left and joined the Marines. It was inevitable, really — he was a natural-born jarhead.

Why did his friends leave? Perhaps they had a falling out due to communications difficulties. After all, sliced onions and pickles don’t make especially good ears or mouths. And look at those bloodshot eyes on Messrs. Potato and Mustard Head – looks like maybe they set upon their other friend Mr. Bottle Of Rum Head and drank him dry.

But why does Frankie have yellow eyes? I think it’s fear - fear that his two buds are gonna get the munchies and they’re gonna realize he’s just a big weenie.

Wow. Completely forgot about this thingy I wrote back jn my early days on tumblr.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, 1931

This is hilarious. Those firesticks can’t possibly be easy on the throat. They weren’t easy on mine and I wasn’t even the one smoking them. I think it’s because they don’t have filters. They are just the most disgusting smelling cigarettes I’ve ever been around.

Back in 1987, I worked as a radio dispatcher, directing the truck drivers who moved the still-hot steel slabs from the caster line to their next stop for processing, on rotating swing shifts, at US Steel in Gary Indiana. It was a lonely job, just one person in an isolated office working the radio around the clock. One of the guys who worked the same position as me smoked these monstrously foul no-filter Camels. I think he believed they made him seem tough. I thought they made him seem more like a Nazi than just his army boots, blond flat-top buzz-cut, and long black leather coat already did.

Everyone but me who worked that job were smokers but only when I worked the shift after Mister-Camels-Chain-Smoker did I have to open up all the doors and windows for an hour before I could breathe in that office again. The other guys smoked less foul-smelling cigarettes.

Yeah, back then people were allowed to smoke pretty much anywhere they wanted to. It sucked.

Back in the 70s, my uncle had the ice bucket toilet. Those dumb seashell frogs. Yuck. Figures made of shells were ubiquitous in the 70s, and since my sister was really into shells, she received several as gifts so they sat on the shelves in our shared bedroom. Ugh.

During the summer of 1981, I was at a campground where my best friend's family spent most summers, and they had a ceramics shop, so we did that - I "made" a ceramic jeans mug similar to that last picture. (It was molded greenware that I bought, painted and paid to have fired.) I think I gave it to one of my granddaughters a couple years ago because she asked for it.

@animammal

Here’s a step by step.

First click on the you icon to pull up your page.

Then click the upper right corner, Settings.

You want the first option, general settings.

Very bottom of that is Dashboard preference. While you’re there toggle off “Best Stuff First” to make sure you’re really seeing a chronological dash. You’ll find timestamps here too.

It was a long time ago, but on Twitter I got replies or quote retweets from a few. Let’s see…

Mark Gatiss, Michael McKean, Claudia Christian, Adam Baldwin…oh, and William Shatner. Shatner’s quote retweet led to me getting attacked by Jarped’s army because I didn’t include him in the question I had asked Shatner, but i did mention Jensen and Misha.

Oh, and speaking of Misha, he noticed me during his cookbook promotionin 2019 and sent me homemade cookies. I was one of five people picked, and I’ve never had my notifications blow up so much either before or since.

Mark Christopher Lawrence is a sweetheart and has followed me back on instagram and twitter, and accepted my friend request on Facebook. We’ve chatted briefly a few times via private message. (I rewatched Terminator and spotted him - told him I was surprised to see him, didn’t know he was in it. He told me it was his first huge movie job, was supposed to be two days and lasted 6 weeks, and that he feels blessed by God to be still working all these years.)

I had no idea Adam Rose was even on Instagram until he just randomly liked one of my posts 😳

I was like “nah, must be a different Adam Rose” but I checked and yeah, it was him. That was in July 2019, about a year before he started his Blue Cardigan Guy schtick.

That’s all I can remember.

Me, before I got two weekly pillboxes and marked one for morning and one for night.

What if everybody rags on Kirk tearing his shirts all the time but they’re actually designed to be the clothing equivalent of modern cars that crumple instead of letting the occupants be harmed by the collision

The Captain didn’t feel that punch at all but his shirt exploded

Ahem.

More than I had realized until I thought about it. Sheesh.

Life is Like a Malt Shop, a Star Trek reboot fanfic by a very talented writer. I might be biased, since I beta for this author. 

If TOS is more your style, then check out Take One Breath, by the same author.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6661242/1/Take_One_Breath

Both are WIP, but the stories are planned out already and will be finished - subscribe for alerts.  (Unlike my stories, which I tend to start without a clue how to proceed…)

Oh, and “THERE BE SLASH HERE” for pretty much everything by Mallus. K/S FTW!

Life is like a Malt Shop is completed and you should read it.

It’s been years and I don’t know what happened to Mallus….and I just came across this old post and now I’m crying. Please go read this oh so so funny and heartbreaking Spirk fic.

Mallus and I would chat online and beta for each other and nag each other to write. She vanished with her fic Take One Breath unfinished. Last I heard from her was an email about the beta I had complete for THIS EXACT FIC. She finished it and disappeared

Please read it. It’s worthy.

(And if you’re familiar with Discworld, there’s some references you’ll get better than I did when I was her beta reader)

spn (regretfully) fans, i’m curious…

No strong feelings but he has proved he’s a manchild who was catered to so much that he came to believe he’s more talented and extra special than he ever has been in actual reality.

Okay, so maybe a bit of strong feelings.

What if I said: Sam Control Freak Winchester? 🤔

1.01 Pilot:

Dean is using the computer and Sam immediately tries to boot him out of the way and when Dean says "No", Sam shoves him and his entire chair out of the way because HE has to be the one to type.

He smashes his foot into Dean's toe because he doesn't like how he talks to cops. He yanks Dean into a hotel room by the back of his coat. All of this in episode one. And what's the fandom analysis on episode one. "Dean forced Sam to go hunting with him in the Pilot".

Where.

1.02 Lawbitch: Forest Edition:

They are trying to find John. They think he's in the woods with some kind of creature. Dean wants to work the case like normal—visit the family of the victim like they would on any other case. Sam accuses him of "Cruising for a hookup" with someone he's never laid eyes on and knows absolutely nothing about and acts like running into the woods headfirst is the rational action and Dean is just some kind of sex crazed lunatic who can get a woman he's never met to instantly fuck him.

Sam gets into an obnoxious pissing contest with another hot head named Roy in the woods because Roy wants to be the leader and Sam doesn't like that.

1.03 Dead In The Water:

Dean is reading the news. A woman asks if he wants anything else in a flirty tone. Dean smiles back. Sam slides into the chair next to him and says "Just the check." Because Dean is not allowed to smile at women who are flirting with him.

Sam proceeds to accuse Dean of not caring about their missing father because Dean hasn't found another lead yet. Sam, who has supplied absolutely no leads on the location of their father, does care of course. Dean is just not trying hard enough to find yet another one and dared to take a break when the leads he did have dried up.

1.04 Phantom Traveler:

Sam belittles Dean's EMF meter. 😔

Sam orders Dean to calm down on the plane and instructs him on how to breathe.

1.05 Bloody Mary:

Sam uses Dean's money to bribe somebody, and when Dean objects, Sam says, "You won it in a poker game" as if that means his money has no meaning and Sam can just use it for whatever the hell he wants.

1.06 Skin:

Sam made Dean get up to go look at an alley at 5:30AM for no reason. 😔

It’s not just being a control freak. It’s Sam demonstrating how much he believes that SAM is the “smart one” — and that is at least partly why Dean always says Sam is the brains, the smarter Winchester.

Sam never really knew his brother at all, and contributed greatly to Dean’s low self-worth and seeing himself as an expendable grunt.

I said what I said.

Barely even tangentially related, but when I was watching SPN with my husband (who rarely remembers names of characters in anything, even his favorite shows) would refer to both Sam and the actor portraying him as “the gay one”

I shit you not.

I tried to be more inclusive this time. If your favourite person is not there then pick your second favourite and put your favourite in the comment or something. I'm dedicated to finding out who the best supernatural character is.

Go Dean or go home