The Official Sag Aftra Account Just Posted Misha 😳

I usually ignore “National [Fill-in-the-blank] Days,” but today happens to be two of the most important out of the year. Today is National Pudding Day and National Voter Registration Day.

So… go check your voter registration status RIGHT NOW and then to celebrate, eat some creamy white stuff!

https://bit.ly/GoVoteMC

Misha being an adorable dork at airports, and being pleased with himself about it.

The Tongue I Mentioned

not a day goes by that i don’t think about destiel

27/6 I've just finished packing for the Paris trip tomorrow!! I've been excited about it for so long - a whole week to just explore and have fun with my friends. YAY! Plus, me and Nick are sleeping in the same room!! I know we won't really be able to kiss and be couple-y much because other people will be around, but I'm hoping we get to sleep next to each other and just chat about silly random stuff all night... CHARLIE'S DIARY | HEARTSTOPPER VOLUME 3

Accidentally fell into the Sarah J. Maas universe for a hot minute. Tutorials on how to leave prythian and re-enter society would be appreciated.

Does it ever just hit you that canonically cas and dean are only ‘together’ in one universe. Like in every other universe cas is still following heavens orders blindly and dean is faithless. And even in the one universe where they together it still doesn’t work out because cas can’t admit that he loves dean to his face and dean can’t admit it to himself. And then when cas finally builds up the courage just the sheer act of admitting that he loves dean (not dean reciprocating), just the act of openly being in love with him is enough to cause his moment of true happiness so he can be sucked away from the only universe where this magical bond was even possible forever.

Well, well, well what do we have here…

How do I, without raising alarm, go up to jackles get down on my hands and knees and beg him to release the tapes or else

Isn’t it just so unbelievably funny that real words that came out of cas’ mouth while he was about to die were ‘knowing you has been the best part of my life’ even though he’s a cosmic entity that has been alive for thousands and thousands of years.

So. So. Funny.

My heart is so happy 🥹

Dean Winchester & hug dynamic analysis

I was thinking about how whenever Dean hugs someone he's almost always the one hugging the other and how this links to his psychological trauma of always being the caretaker of people, making himself bigger to protect them.

Because that's how Dean sees himself, as a shield for others, and then I thought about how Cas actually is the shield, and he's HIS SHIELD, specifically, the only one who's really there to protect HIM, which is why it hits so much when we see this:

The way Cas wraps his arms around him, trying to protect him with his whole body--that he'd use as a shield and give up in a second if he could spare him from any pain and save him.

(for context: Dean was about to go use the soul bomb on Amara there, it was a suicide mission)

Bobby is another one that hits, he hugs him as the big hugger because he's his father, he loves him and he's actually here to protect him (and Dean LETS him -barely, but he lets him *and Cas* - in a way that he doesn't let Sam)

I watched a compilation of Sam & Dean hugs to check if i was right about it, but it's almost always Dean the big hugger with Sam, except when he's about to die or Sam sees him alive again after losing him.

Even then, Dean mostly tries to hug Sam as the big hugger anyway, with at least one arm, like a way to comfort him, making him feel protected, like his body language is saying "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm still strong, i can still protect you" (because their real father failed and Dean thinks it's his job).

He rarely lets himself be the little one hugged with Sam, unless he's barely conscious. Which is why it kills me so much more now that in this moment (s14, when Dean was going to lock himself in the Ma'lak box cause he was possessed by Michael) and Sam has a desperate breakdown and punches him (to stop him) he forcefully hugs him as the little hugger, the way Dean always kept him, like a way of saying "I still need you to protect me, please don't do this to yourself".

In the scene below he gives Sam his blessing to do a dangerous (possibly suicidal) mission, and one of his arms is down, but the other one tries to stay up--he's forcing himself to do it and he struggles because he still wants to protect him, but (as the seasons progress) he slowly becomes more prone to let go.

So in this view the hug dynamic becomes an indicator of how Dean sees Sam (and himself) and his protector role, how adult and self sufficient he considers Sam, and how much he lets people around him take care of him, lowering his walls and letting himself be hugged.

This is also why i think hugs from characters like Garth or Charlie are so special, because they're just like us: they see Dean and they just know that he needs to be hugged a lot, and that he's not used to it, so they just go for it-- and it's so normal and kind and spontaneous that Dean's just not used to it-- he doesn't know how to respond (especially with Garth, at the beginning, but as the seasons progress, he learns to, and he even initiates the hug eventually).

I love the hugs where they're 50/50 (one arm up, one arm down both), feels like they're equals, both taking care of each other. I feel like with Sam and Dean, this indicates a healthier dynamic, because Dean lets go a little of the role that was imposed to him and manages to see Sam as the strong individual that he is. But the same applies to 50/50 hugs with other characters, like with Cas, where I feel like it testifies how equals they feel in terms of being fighters, there's a show of respect of each other's strength that transpires by the gesture (which is even more astounding considering that Cas is literally a powerful angel).

And just to end on a destiel note, I'd like to note the possessiveness and protectiveness of Dean (rightfully so) whenever he finds Cas after he thought he had lost him, and how that translates into his body/hug language: