Teenage alcoholism is so important to recognise. It is not healthy to be getting absolutely wasted a few times a week and sometimes young adults become alcoholic without realising it. If you are unable to have a fun time without drinking or you feel like you need to drink when others are in an overwhelming way then consider getting help.
No really. Get help. It starts with parties, and then it’s “lol im just sad all the time” and before you know it everything is awful and you’re spiralling out of control. Don’t get sucked in and don’t let tumblr Depression Culture make you think it’s normal.
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.
This is tomorrow!
Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.
Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow
Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.
For one day, please, avoid it.
As a worker-for-rent who’s worked during strikes or demonstrations – PLEASE, if there’s a strike DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THAT COMPANY ON THAT DAY IF THERE’S ANY WAY TO AVOID IT. Not only do folks like me get an easy day, it’s also a powerful act of class solidarity.
Also, if you’re a social media type of person, please tweet and comment at the company that you’re choosing not to use their services, in solidarity of the strike. Make sure they know.
Sam sees caging Lucifer as his sole responsibility, exactly the way he saw defeating Lilith as something only he could do. He sees his redemption as only possible via this act of gaining control over Lucifer – the two become conflated. And this hubris nearly costs the world.
something people writing post-apocalyptic fiction always seem to forget is how extremely easy basic 20th century technology is to achieve if you have a high school education (or the equivalent books from an abandoned library), a few tools (of the type that take 20 years to rust away even if left out in the elements), and the kind of metal scrap you can strip out of a trashed building.
if you want an 18th century tech level, you really need to somehow explain the total failure of humanity as a whole to rebuild their basic tech infrastructure in the decade after your apocalypse event.
i am not a scientist or an engineer, i’m just a house husband with about the level of tech know-how it takes to troubleshoot a lawn mower engine, but i could set up a series of wind turbines and storage batteries for a survivor compound with a few weeks of trial and error out of the stuff my neighbors could loot from the wreckage of the menards out on highway 3. hell, chances are the menards has a couple roof turbines in stock right now. or you could retrofit some from ceiling fans; electric motors and electric generators are the same thing, basically.
radio is garage-tinkering level tech too. so are electric/mechanical medical devices like ventilators and blood pressure cuffs. internal combustion’s trickiest engineering challenge is maintaining your seals without a good source of replacement parts, so after a few years you’re going to be experimenting with o-rings cut out of hot water bottles, but fuel is nbd. you can use alcohol. you can make bio diesel in your back yard. you can use left-over cooking oil, ffs.
what i’m saying is, we really have to stop doing the thing where after the meteor/zombies/alien invasion/whatever everyone is suddenly doing ‘little house on the prairie’ cosplay. unless every bit of metal or every bit of knowlege is somehow erased, folks are going to get set back to 1950 at the most. and you need to account somehow for stopping them from rebuilding the modern world, because that’s going to be a lot of people’s main life goal from the moment the apocalypse lets them have a minute to breathe.
nobody who remembers flush toilets will ever be content with living the medieval life, is what i’m saying. let’s stop writing the No Tech World scenario.
So, like… We interrupt your regularly scheduled shrieking about Sam with utter confusion about all this Mary hate I’m seeing? Everyone out there is allowed to love who they love and hate who they hate because preferences are things we are allowed to have without reason or explanation, but…
The reasons I’m seeing for the hate don’t really compute?
Because I mean… let’s say that, without someone’s knowledge, I just… run myself ragged for them. I work 80-hour weeks and chug energy drinks just to keep going. I prop my eyelids open with toothpicks to keep myself from toppling over at my back-breaking job, and I save up my money while sobbing into my ramen noodles. Then I go to this person—my sister, let’s say—and I tell her, “I’ve destroyed myself to save up all this money. Move to Alaska with me and let’s live a wild life in the mountains!”
And heck, Alaska is awesome, but maybe I haven’t seen my sister in years and I don’t really know her that well, and she has a job and a mission she’s passionate about, and I didn’t even ask her. I did all of this without her consent, and the effort I put in and the pain I endured was to make this possible. I did make it possible. Regardless, it in no way requires her consent.
It’s like people are taking the coercive Nice Guy™ tactics they hate and claiming Mary should consent to do what her boys ask because they’re good people and they tried so hard?
And it’s genuinely true. Her sons are good people and they tried so, so freaking hard to find her.
But she doesn’t owe them anything. They undertook the task of their own will, and sometimes the answer is no.
On top of that, I know we all love the Winchester boys, but they are grown men, even though their loss as young boys has hurt them.
Mary is, in fact, younger than they are, and she died and ended up in an unfamiliar world decades later. She’s trying to find a place in it.
And I’ll be the first to say that I want so badly for Mary to hear stories of her sons’ heroism and feel pride and form strong relationships with her boys, but… Mary is an anachronism scrambling for meaning after being torn from heaven to find her infant sons are taller and older than she is.
I love them. And I love Mary. And no one else is required to like her, not even a bit.
But there’s one thing that’s true regardless of whether people like Mary or not: she does not owe them consent to return to a world she no longer feels she has a home in. No one owes another person consent because they tried hard to get it, and they really want it, and it’ll just kill them to be without it. No one.
Sam understood that. Possibly because his life has been a litany of coercion and manipulation and violations of consent and assumptions about his choices, he is quicker to acknowledge that Mary’s choices are her own and she owes them nothing. But of course that doesn’t mean he and Dean can’t make a counter-offer. In an episode with some otherwise unsettling implications about consent, I really appreciated that scene.
This wasn’t, “Hey, I’m going to surprise you completely out of the blue by demanding you leave your peaceful suburban life and move to Alaska!” This was, “Your plane was shot down over a war zone, we parachuted in to get you, and we need to go before the occupying forces notice we’re here.” Last the boys knew, she was a non-combatant in a combat zone, who’d attached herself to the Resistance out of self-preservation.
I’d like Mary a lot better if she stopped trying to win arguments with, “I love you, but…” or, “I know what you’ve been through, but…”
She may or may not love the idea of the children she left behind. The two grown men in front of her? She barely knows them. And that’s because she’s made a point of being wherever they’re not and spending time with anyone but them. She has no clue what they’ve been through. She’s made a point of not finding out.
So she starts with some bullshit about how ‘she knows’ anything about her sons, and then says, she’s sticking with these people, ‘cause she respects them; she can’t leave them. This is in marked contradistinction to her feelings about Sam and Dean. She’s calmly willing to desert ‘her’ boys and never see again. In fact, she would literally rather live through an apocalypse than return to the universe where they live.
Everyone saying that Mary doesn’t owe her sons obedience is absolutely right. She doesn’t have to go anywhere with them, and her reasons are her own.
What I do not get is the widespread condemnation of Dean for reacting badly to a person who keeps rejecting him and will not stop gaslighting him about it.
Tbh, considering the (imo, just imo) manipulative writing in season 13 made Jack so much like a mini-Cas to endear him to the audience I am hardly surprised. For the record, I never really liked their way to woobify Cas – he’s my little murder angel, please respect that, writers.
In the end though, my surprisingly polite friend (and I mean “surprisingly polite” not as in “all people who don’t like Cas are impolite” but as in “Wait you are being nice even though we like different characters and we’re talking of this crazy-with-stanning-people fandom”, thank you for this) it’s a question of personal preference and interpretation. You do you, Imma do me
Tbh if you don’t mind, I could elaborate on this (i’m not anon but i actually have very similar feelings regarding new!cas).
I know to most people watching now, s6 and earlier are a distant memory, but at the time, those traits did NOT describe castiel. They were added courtesy of carber/dabb, because like it or not, fandom overwhelmingly loves this being-broken-made-him-kind caricature, and they can tell because fans keep yelling it on twitter. S4-6 would have been substantially different (and weaker) if that had been him from the start. I can tell you for sure he would never have retained my attention written that way from the start. Castiel is now unrecognizable. Now, i can’t really blame new watchers for feeling this new castiel is ‘more real’ but for myself? It was enough of a slap in the face and a near-total 180 on his characterization that i quit the show for years.
The fact that they modeled jack after this fake ooc caricature rather than what castiel was originally like says a lot about which they consider more relevant and what fandom gravitates to. It’s depressing, but people do prefer the soft woobie caricature to the original character with all his edges.
It never ceases to amaze me that people really think we like Cas for being naive and subservient to the Winchesters. Those are his bad qualities… they’re also Jack’s only qualities.
imo Cas is an interesting character because he’s complex. He doesn’t get to display complexities as much now because he’s forced into the same story season after season, but he did have them at one point. I can’t speak for you two, but I call myself a Cas fan because I’m still loyal to that. I may be frustrated with S10+ Cas, but I know that he has a lot of depth as a character even if they aren’t currently using it.
Jack, on the other hand, has never had depth. He’s written “like Cas,” but like S13 Cas, whom I do not like. Without the past seasons earning a place for Cas in my heart, I probably wouldn’t like him either. It’s way more confusing to me why people give up on Cas for the same things they like about Jack. Like these qualities always annoy me, but for you they are sometimes ok? That doesn’t make sense to me.
I hope that wasn’t too mean, I know you were being nice and I tried, too, but… I’m not as nice in general lol I tried, though.
I LIVE for season 6 Cas. I don’t get this pure cinnamon roll mentality that insists anyone you “stan” must be a perfect innocent.
Jack is not only boring but SHOULD BE creepy, and I can’t forgive the fact that he’s not supposed to be in the slightest.
Also, don’t worry. This whole thread has been wonderfully civil.
Entitled fans who demand a work of fiction caters to them are what ruined fandoms.
“The worst fans” back then: has virtually every collector’s item associated with a work of fiction, 3,000 autographs, basically worships the work like a religion. Probably needs to branch out their interests a bit more.
The worst fans now: Holding one of the voice actors hostage and threatening to cut off one of their fingers for every new episode that doesn’t make their OTP canon.
On the topic of being entitled, our generation is proving the baby boomers right with every harassing tweet to every artist and content creator over when/what/how they choose to tell their story about characters they created and subjects they chose.
Imagine being so entitled that you decide what’s best for an artist’s work over the original creative visions, and then harass them about it because you think two cartoon characters should kiss.
I don’t really see much difference between yelling at a service worker for not having a specific item you wanted/not running your expired coupon/whatever, and harassing content creators and telling them to kill themselves because a show/book/webcomic didn’t go how you would’ve liked it.
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