one of the things i love about the hands of the emperor is that both the setting and cliopher himself is batshit in very subtle ways. absolutely funniest possible pov character for these events. cliopher has such strong Just Some Guy energy that he had to mention that one time he was stuck in a thousand-year fugue state doing paperwork like three times before i realize "oh he actually literally means he's over a thousand years old." he's like "oh it didn't feel like a thousand years while we were doing it haha" and i was like "haha sounds legit" and it was only later that i was like "wait what? a THOUSAND years??" the crisis of the first part of the book is trying to take his boss on a vacation. he legitimately could get executed at any point if he does this wrong but he looks at a guy whose whole schtick is to be god on earth and is like "gosh that guy seems like he'd like a vacation" and not only was he right he also didn't do the sane thing which would be to bury that thought six hundred feet deep and throw away the map. no. he said well if my boss seems like he'd enjoy a vacation i guess i'll give him a vacation. he got the job that made him the most powerful man in the world by cracking a joke in front of a guy that previously wouldn't have been able to help burning cliopher's eyes out if they made eye contact. the relentless competence is def a big thing but the relentless normalcy is i think his real superpower. he's like hi yes my boss would like to book a vacation bungalow for the week. yes the whole week. well he's the god-emperor of all seven worlds so he would really like a place where he could get away from it all, you know. i mean yeah implying that he's human enough to feel things like "work stress" is high treason and i could be killed for this but he looked kinda tired so what's a man supposed to do but take him to the beach.

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This might just be me stirring the pot, and this is just my opinion, but if you want to be angry with someone over the new limit on the number of tags allowed on an AO3 work, be mad at the assholes who decided it would be funny to create "fics" where the tags were the entire text of Moby Dick. Or The Great Gatsby. Or the Bee Movie.

AO3 got trolled hard and they still took the time to do the research, look at the numbers, and implement a fix that affects 0.5% of works on the Archive. Yes, that's 40,000 fics but considering the number of people who were unable to use the Archive at all during tag-pocalypse or whatever you want to call it, I think that's a fair trade.

I'm not someone who will ever get close to 75 tags on a work, and I'm sorry for those who are affected. I'm doing some research and I'm planning to write up some posts and make some tiktoks on how authors can still get their full meaning across within the tag limit.

But seriously, if you want to be pissed at someone? Be pissed at the assholes who ruined it for the rest of the class.

this fandom has all the best people and you cannot change my mind.

Here’s a nicer one though reblog and tag it with everything that comes up when you type “i love”

Red rarely ever gets mad, but when he does, he is really scary. Not even Blue will bother him when he’s angry.

As I get older the more I appreciate straight forward people. Like if you’re mad at me I will respect you if you tell me. I don’t understand adults that would rather stomp their feet and use passive aggressive behavior to communicate. Life does not have to be this difficult fam

no but consider this: asexual aziraphale and crowley 

asexual aziraphale and crowley viewing sex as just another of those quirky little things that humans do, like touching their mouths together and sending each other flowers

asexual aziraphale and crowley slowly slipping from friendship to something else and losing track of when the line was crossed

asexual aziraphale and crowley moving into a cottage with two bedrooms until the extra bedroom gradually becomes unnecessary

asexual aziraphale and crowley sharing inside jokes that date back millennia 

asexual aziraphale and crowley trying sex and deciding that, while it’s an enjoyable way of passing the time, it’s nowhere near as good as that salmon and watercress mousse they do at the ritz

asexual aziraphale and crowley arguing over whether to celebrate their anniversary on the day they met, or the day they formed the arrangement, or the day they first kissed, or the day they started living together

asexual aziraphale and crowley sharing a kind of ancient, almost telepathic understanding that’s infinitely more intimate than a mere slotting together of body parts could ever be

asexual aziraphale and crowley

Supernatural and Consent: Why Season 9's Writing Team Has No Excuse

So I recently found out that when Sera Gamble was still writing for Supernatural (up until the end of season 7) she reached an argument with the rest of the writing team in season 4 with the reintroduction of Ruby. Ruby’s sexual relationship with Sam was to be a part of the plot but Sera Gamble was put off by it since Ruby was possessing someone’s body and that would mean that that someone was conscious while intercourse was happening, making the whole act non consensual.

Ok so regardless of the really horrible wording of the question (“ridiculous fan debate”) and the fact that Gamble was essentially pushed around by her (misogynistic) coworkers into seeing her issues with the episode as “silly” my anger does not come from the shitty writing team of the past but from that of the present. When Gamble was there in season 4, she made sure that the soul of the body that Ruby was using had already left it. Unfortunately, Gamble was not there in season 9. I know that everyone has discussed this already when the episode came out but I feel like bringing this up again because of the above interview.

When Castiel has intercourse with April in episode 3, she is being possessed by a reaper (I’m not sure when reapers possessing bodies became a thing but whatever). Human April is still there while the reaper that’s possessing her body and Castiel have intercourse. Human April is being raped.

The excuse that a lot of people had for what happened in that episode is that the writers probably didn’t think about it that way and when the fandom shitstorm happened, it was too late to change anything. However, the same fucking issue had been brought up five seasons earlier and there is no way that everyone in the writer’s room forgot that. Basically what happened was that there was no one who stood up to say “hey, this is rape” so the whole thing was ignored. It wouldn’t have taken long for them to establish that human April was no longer there either, all it took for Ruby was three short lines of dialogue between her and Sam:

I’m not going to talk about why this happened because the only answer I can come up with is that the current team of writers are all misogynistic assholes who couldn’t care less about how uncomfortable they make the fandom since the fandom’s concerns are “ridiculous”.

My main point with this is that the writers have no excuse for what they let happen with April. To make matters worse, not only did they not apologise for what happened or even have the characters in the show discuss it and feel remorse (something that I think would have been in character for Castiel) but they brought up the rape again and in the most uncomfortable way ever.

Really? Are you being serious right now Supernatural writers or are just fucking with us? You bring up April in conversation for basically a whole awkward minute and all you have to say about her is that she was “hot”? They could have had Castiel show remorse for doing something that he never intended to do. They could have shown him feel guilty for having raped a woman who was then murdered by Dean. I mean even Hannibal, a show about a man who eats people refuses to have rape be a part of it.

But no, our “heroes” only care that she was so hot and what a shame that she died because it was really fun for Castiel to bang her because, you know, Castiel is not and has never been a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent, he is a heterosexual man who just loves to have intercourse and stare at women’s cleavage (nice waste of 5 seconds on screen there by the way).

Not only that, but when you think of it, Castiel was being violated himself. Rape by fraud is a very legitimate thing, and while yeah, in the real world, that fraud isn’t going to be as intense as the person you think you’re having sex with is being possessed by a supernatural creature, that almost makes it worse. He should be upset. He shouldn’t be fine with it. The Castiel from earlier seasons WOULD NOT BE FINE WITH IT. In any form. It’s just ridiculous how low the writing has fallen. And this, children, is why I pretty much stopped watching after that episode. It upset me too much as a survivor of sexual assault to continue watching the show. There, I said it.