#our meta

[archivistsammy]

thinking about how core it is to sam’s personality to do less harm, that even though refusing to pull the trigger in earlier seasons leads to massive trauma (and his own fucking death), he still goes on throughout the series determined to save what life he can. this boy never did learn, and i love him for it. 

#sam winchester #supernatural #s1 #1.22 #s2 #2.22 #all hell breaks loose pt. 1 #our meta #devil's trap

[readingrude]

The general function of the Ravenstag remains the same: liminal marker, harbinger of doom. What changes is what threshold it bridges, what ruin it portends. If the Ravenstag of season one indicates the “growing liminal space between Will and those with whom he empathizes” and the subsequent “encroachment of his nightmares upon reality itself—and his increasing struggle to tell the difference,” then the Ravenstag of season two signifies the growing liminal space between Will and the guise Will assumes. And his increasing struggle to tell the difference.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal meta #will graham #ravenstag #2.9 #2.10 #2.11 #2.13 #s2 #our meta

[anxious-m3ss]

“I hope this email finds you well”

First of all the only emails that ever find me well are from AO3

#fanfiction writing #ao3 #ao3 author #ao3 stuff #archive of our own #ao3 meta #fandom culture #fanfiction culture #ao3 etiquette

[sleep-deprived-person]

So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that's when Congress is back in session and may be false.

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass Congress.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

Sorry not sorry for ranting, making you scroll through that, and swearing a probably excessive amount, but KOSA is a bill with a GLOBAL IMPACT being passed by ONE COUNTRY because some old people are scared of two guys with who were told they were girls kissing within five hundred miles of a child. Fuck this shit, I shouldn't have to worry about bad bills in America but I fucking do because I use the internet and would like to avoid mass censorship. Fuck this, fuck conservatives, and fuck the fact that some boomers make your country's policies.

Now, if you won't mind me, I'm going to be up until three in the morning downloading fanfiction or copying and pasting them into a a text file if I can't so I can read them by the end of the week.

#kids online safety act #media preservation #kosa #kosa bill #ao3 #archive of our own #tumblr #tumblr meta #fandom psa #fandom spaces #fandom #important #psa #bad internet bills #twitter #internet censorship #internet #very important post #anti censorship #anti conservative #signal boost #fanfic #fanfiction #<- these tags are relevant because they will be lost for god knows how long if this stupid bill passes #stop kosa #stop kids online safety act #tiktok #i don't like that one but censorship is censorship dammit and it's on the list

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

The products of trying to recreate what was going on outside the frame during the kiss. (for ENTIRELY SCIENTIFIC purposes)

@actual-changeling altered my whole outlook on life with this post about Aziraphale's left hand (I'd only been looking at his right hand) and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I painted the rest of the fucking owl (and his bf).

so normal about this

#good omens fanart #ineffable fanart #crOWLey #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens #lord gaiman stokes the fires of our creativity #bless also michael sheen and david tennant #i think I’ve earned my eye dropper tool merit badge #now I can go back to sobbing and writing the aziraphale meta #good omens s2e6 #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #good omens 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #good omens spoilers

[o-wild-west-wind]

ofmd is like not comedy as in sitcom but comedy as in shakespearean where it’s psychological trauma and conflicts of violence but with dick jokes and the promise of marriage in the end

#girl help I’m thinking about genre again #this show has the part of me that was an English major for one semester in a chokehold #has anyone done this yet #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd meta

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

"killing off izzy after he went through all this growth and finally got to be happy means all that healing was for nothing"

goddamn that is a bleak way to look at life. we all die, man. healing is still worth the effort.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #israel hands #s2e08 #ofmd meta #<-eh #meta #txt #mine #og #the izcourse

[ulgapodatkowa]

I have so many thoughts but I at least want to address the "for the new unicorn" note. because first of all it's so incredibly gratifying for izzy to finally be accepted into a community. it was shown before that the crew cares for him in some way but it was the first time he really saw that. that he isn't useless and alone, that he still has a place on the ship. even more so the crew WANTS HIM to be on the ship. and also that they want him to embrace his disability which doesn't make them think any less of him.

but also the choice of words. because inherently it rings queer, unicorn as a symbol of queerness. and even if it may have a negative sound when you use it differently here it is extremely positive. izzy is not only accepted to the crew, he's also accepted to the queer community, to the family. the unicorn on the revenge was also the one that was leading the ship, so one can argue that they want him to take that role in their dynamic.

and you can see that he does so immediately. he puts himself together and starts helping the crew. he's still bitchy but no longer violent and cruel. he helps stede and lucius immensely because that is what he does now. he's part of the family. twat.

#ofmd #also don't talk to me about the shark or the cigarette scenes. i need 3-5 business days to recover #our flag means death #izzy hands #once again feral bc of con o'neill's acting choices #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta

[lightbluetown]

i just love that ed asked for stede to stop

i love that stede was finally able to tell ed that their first kiss happened too fast and that he panicked. i love that when they kissed again, when ed leaned in for a quick peck but stede got passionate, ed was able to break the kiss and say "hey man, let's take this slow". i love that stede, of course, immediately stopped. i love that it didn't feel weird and they kept playing with each other's fingers and talking about their day

that was the most healthy, natural, realistic kiss i've seen. it wasn't romanticized for tv, it wasn't forced to be something it didn't have to be. it happened under a moon that wasn't full, on the deck of a messy ship, after ed complimented a piece of fine clothing that had lost most of its charm. it was as awkward as it was graceful

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #ofmd meta #i'm quite literally eating my windows #🏴‍☠️

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

thinking about how ofmd took blackbeard, a historical (almost mythical) figure that has pretty much always been depicted in media as a super hypermasculine white cishet man, and turned him into a gay man of color who wears crop tops and silk gowns, paints his nails and pines for his boyfriend

#ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ed teach #blackbeard #our flag means gay #gay pirates #taika waititi #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd meta #loving edward teach hours #my posts

[thetardigrape]

I wanna take a minute to talk about the Looks of the entire cast of OFMD S2.

I think we're all pretty familiar with the male gaze. Lots of skin, tits and ass, that sort of thing.

The female gaze has been debated, but it looks something like a sexy college professor or himbo househusband.

What OFMD S2 absolutely nails is the queer gaze.

Look at this man.

An absolutely beautiful man. Who wears crop tops and leather pants. Long hair up in a messy bun. He's wearing eyeliner. And pearls.

And here.

Drawn on facial hair. Spaulders. Bracers. Fishnet sleeves. A MOTHERFUCKING MULLET.

These badasses.

The teeth and chains. SO MUCH MAKEUP. Big fancy coat with nothing underneath. Glam met goth and fucked out these looks.

And THE SWEDE!

Cropped jacket. Ponytail. Asymmetrical button fly. Decorative chains (again).

All of this screams queer. If I saw any of these people in a bar I'd be like "Yep, one of us." The gender fuckery of it all. The feminine and the masculine all thrown in together in perfect combinations. Decoration for its own sake. Jewelry and flashy adornment and gorgeous peacockery.

And we love it. The fandom is going absolutely feral over these looks, these actors, as we very well should. There is not a single member of this cast who has not had beautiful art lovingly made depicting them.

Fuck the male gaze, fuck the female gaze. Give me the queer gaze. Give me queer creators making queer media for queer audiences and absolutely nailing it. These people are not at all what Hollywood usually thinks sexy looks like, yet we want to devour every one of them. This is what queer beauty looks like. What queer sex appeal looks like. What queer desire looks like.

Fuck yes. It's about time.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta

[archivistsammy]

people being real nasty to amelia in the tags of this post lately so allow me to defend samelia by sharing two things about their relationship that make me absolutely insane.

1) her asking “you want to talk about it?” in 8.6. bc when WHEN has sam ever been given the space to talk about his grief? talking about mary was seemingly verboten growing up and dean usually shuts down such prompts from sam (e.g. dean turning sam’s questions about how he feels about john’s death back on him or refusing to discuss the possibility of bobby dying in 7.10). having no one to talk to about your grief makes an already lonely experience that much more lonely and isolating and sam is possibly at his most lonely and isolated when amelia meets him. so her asking him this (and him returning the favor by giving her the space to talk about don) is miraculous. 

2) samelia GET A HOUSE. sam FINDS THEM A HOUSE TO MAKE A HOME. the boy has lived in liminal spaces and only liminal spaces since he was six months old. sam does not have dean’s memories of their childhood home. what does the word “home” even really mean to him? the closest thing to a home he has ever known is probably bobby’s house and, guess what? that is physically and emotionally gone now too. so sam looking through listings and going on tours? picking the house he envisions he and amelia having a life and a future in? moving in? maybe all the furniture was amelia’s and they didn’t have to buy any of their own, but for sam to have a couch? a dining table? a back deck with plants and a grill??? THAT. IS. HUGE. sam says he was “living in a dream world” in 8.8 but he WAS happy and he WAS healing gdi

#LET THEM BE BORING #supernatural #sam winchester #amelia richardson #sam x amelia #samelia #our meta #katharine has a lot of sam feels ok

[readingrude]

Hannibal has performed a miracle. He fucking reversed time. He raised Abigail from the grave and “made” a place for her in another world as if he is THEE CREATOR. Will has thus not only spoiled their romantic getaway but also spurned Hannibal’s divine benevolence. How dare Will not accept this “rare gift” our Lord Hannibal has so graciously bestowed upon him—the gift of knowing, of seeing divinity?

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal meta #2.13 #s2 #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #our meta

[contactlessdrivethru]

there is something unique and deeply special about monkey d luffy as a protagonist. he’s overwhelmingly ADORED by the fandom. he’s consistently the most or at least top 3 most popular characters in the whole series. peoples takes about him are gushingly positive. and that’s… really uncommon.

a LOT of fandoms i’ve witnessed or been in have a tendency to favor characters other than the main character. especially in anime. the main characters are often written as a blank slate for readers/watchers to project onto, but that makes them not as interesting and so they don’t get the fan attention.

but luffy is so far from that. and he’s ALWAYS been this way. we love him so much. he’s the heart of the story and the heart of the fandom in every single way. and i think that speaks to how well-written he is as a character. he’s fun and charming and complex and interesting and he makes us laugh and cry and cheer and hope and love. he’s able to inspire so much joy in people, both in his world but also in this one. and i think that’s really special. i feel so grateful to have found this story that means so much to me, and i’m so grateful that luffy exists.

#i’m in a very emotional mood tonight and i was just. musing #about how wonderful our best boy is #and how much true and genuine joy and hope and wisdom he has given me #i feel like i’ve learned so much from him about how to love people #and that’s. freely. enthusiastically. easily and without abandon. #love you monkey d. luffy. you saved my life #one piece #monkey d luffy #one piece meta #personal

[stedebonnit]

Can I also say how touching it is that Stede said he believed Ed would he happier without him, who, even in his fantasies, could only picture Ed wanting him as a picture of masculinity with a beard and no hesitation to kill. Stede still, deep down, doesn't understand why Ed would ever want him as he is.

But who did Ed see coming down to rescue him? It wasn't a manly recreation of Stede with a beard, masculine style and a killing spirit, it was a merman. Someone bright, colourful, by all accounts a rather feminine perception of Stede.

That was who rescued Ed. It wasn't who Stede thought he needed to be, it was someone soft, and bright, and graceful, and expressive. Someone feminine, someone queer.

I just think that's beautiful.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #merman stede #mermaid stede #d speaks #mine #ofmd meta

[blakbonnet]

Ed baiting Ned Low </3 oh i get it. the tally marks, ‘we’ve got a record to break.’ ed was baiting ned low deliberately. he had to know low would come after him: low was ed’s original passive suicide plan - @forpiratereasons

#ofmd #ofmd gifs #ofmd edit #ofmdedit #ofmdgifs #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmdaily #ofmdsource #dailyflicks #televisiongifs #edward teach #my gifs #ofmd meta #our flag means death