but what if they were space pirates
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas Eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading. People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate. How cozy and wonderful does that sound?
(More fun facts: Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country, and new books are typically published only during the Christmas season—the frenzy is called Jólabókaflóð, or the Christmas Book Flood.)
SEVEN WORD STORY CONTEST
RULES
MBF me
- must send a seven word story to my ask
- may send up to 3 seven word stories
- I will accept stories up until September 16th
- I will announce a winner on September 18th
- your story can be about anything
Winner will receive a FujiFilm Instax camera in a color of your choosing
a Humans of New York Book
A Van Gogh Sunflowers Art Print
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
This is a bad land for g o d s.
Book covers [ read in 2015 ] — American Gods by Neil Gaiman ( c ).
ABANDONED PLACES, Iceland Jan Erik Waider
😎 so cool 😎
ahhh, yes, butt dent in the couch I made while underemployed and living with my parents after graduation
we meet again
“Don’t ever change.”
Some awesome things to consider if “Wayward Daughters” (a.k.a. hypothetical Supernatural spin-off with Jody Mills, Donna Hanscum, Claire Novak, and Annie Jones) ever were to happen…
- Josephine Barnes and Krissy Chambers coming to live with at the house after they interfere with a hunt. Young adult shenanigans ensue.
- Mama/Linda Tran being a regular after they help her out with the ghosts like her son Kevin who are, y’know, STILL STUCK IN THE VEIL. She visits to give lessons in badassery and goes with Claire to get her anti-possession tattoo.
- Time travel episodes where the ladies meet Ellen and Jo, Mary Winchester, and Colette. Feels ensue.
- Not enough? Men of Letters time travel ep where they meet Josie Sands. Since Josie was possessed by Abaddon before she could ever get inducted, they bring her to their time and Alaina Huffman plays an adorable hunter-in-training adapting to the modern world (sorta like the show’s Cas.) After realizing that saving her with time travel threw off the events of today, Josie makes the decision to go back and make things right. Dean’s family theme plays. We all cry.
- Craving some angel interaction? No problem. Hannah (who’s still in charge of Heaven) is the Crowley of the show, the on/off villain but sometimes their most powerful ally. Some sort of overaching plot about how Claire was once (temporarily) Castiel’s angelic vessel.
- Charlie Bradbury is alive/resurrected (*insert Misha’s “You’re Watching Supernatural” GIF here*) and reoccurring guest star, sometimes with her now super-canon girlfriend, Dorothy Baum. There’s an entire episode dedicated to her going into full-length detail (I’m talking HD flashbacks that spend the entire season’s CGI budget) about what went down in the Battle of Oz. Because reasons.
- Tracy Bell is another regular, still using her shamelessly feminine good
lucks as a weapon against evil, and becomes sort of the “cool” older
sister to Claire and Annie. Struggles with getting along with Josie,
since she has the face of the demon who nearly killed her, but the two eventually become besties and she’s probably the saddest to see her go.- Rowena being the house’s equivalent of a Crazy Aunt who’s tons of fun
and buys them things, but is also a bad influence on them. Also an on/off villain. Tons of Grand Coven flashback episodes too.- Even one more episode with 1) Kate the Werewolf, 2) Kali the Goddess, and/or any of the precious ladies of “Fan Fiction” again.
- Just…tons of Jody and Donna becoming badass mother figures and Annie and Claire bonding over their troubled pasts to become sisters as close as Sam and Dean were. After all, family don’t end in blood.
A huge amount of MCU fic features Steve Rogers the wonderful, caring, sensitive, supportive boyfriend, and I uh. Kind of want the opposite.
Don’t get me wrong, any “Steve is a godawful boyfriend” headcanon should still start from the baseline of Steve being a good person who cares about Doing The Right Thing and treating people decently. But Steve is also:
– married to his job
– kind of emotionally constipated
– quick to anger
– prickly about receiving comfort, and awkward about giving it
– blunt and plain-spoken
– prone to expecting a lot of the people around him, and to being openly disappointed/unimpressed when they don’t come through
– going to put duty ahead of personal attachments most of the time
– withdrawn and socially isolated
– reckless, stubborn, and the kind of prideful that answers anything that can be taken as a challenge with “wanna bet?”
– a lifelong dweeb who has never been in a romantic relationship and has no experience in how they workWhich is a set of issues that could range anywhere from “highly manageable, if you aren’t afraid to go toe-to-toe with him and don’t expect him to be available 24/7″ to “un-dateable human disaster.” Going by my fairly limited experience with comics, there is precedent for the “un-dateable human disaster” option; MCU doesn’t have to follow it, but it wouldn’t be out of the blue. And let’s face it, MCU Steve could use some better-developed flaws.
And oh my lord, Godawful Boyfriend Steve Rogers. Swears he’s not trying to set a record for number of consecutive dinner dates he’s bailed out of halfway through to go Avenging. Fails epically at normal emotional boundaries–is cagey and withdrawn about the weirdest shit, but overshares about his Dead Best Friend Feelings on the first date. Goes abruptly from zero to full commitment once he decides he’s found the Right Partner. Guilt-trips like a pro, and sometimes forgets how fucking intimidating he is when he’s pissed off.
Takes an “if you get killed, walk it off” approach to almost all life difficulties. Will always come through with material and moral support in an emergency, but clams up and flees rather than be a shoulder to cry on. Wouldn’t know work/life separation if it clocked him over the head.
Don’t get me wrong, Steve’s a nice dude, and unlike most angry repressed masculinity-stereotype characters, he’s capable of being forthright about his feelings when it counts. But there’s plenty of potential there for him to be flat-out fucking terrible at romantic relationships. And even at his best… well, “sensitive” isn’t exactly the word I would use. Considerate, sure. Solicitous of whether he’s saying/doing the exact best possible thing for someone else’s emotional wellbeing, not so much.
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