The Re-reads: A Fic Rec

Words cannot describe how much I love and adore and admire this man

My TED Talk on Misha Collins

It would be the simplest thing in the world for @mishacollins​ to have a comfortable and private life as a successful actor.

But that’s not who he is.

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It would be the simplest thing in the world for @mishacollins​ to have a comfortable and private life as a successful actor.

But that’s not who he is.

The AIM of his position as a celebrity is, and always has been, to help others. He’s said so many times and he lives it every day.

In case anyone didn’t already know it, Misha started acting professionally relatively late. He did it as a creative hobby, and was surprised to find success. His lifelong ambition was not “fame.” It was politics. He got a degree in Social Theory and interned at the White House. Despite not finding it a good fit, because it didn’t represent the real-world change he dreamed of, let me reiterate. He earned an internship at the WHITE HOUSE under Clinton. Do you understand how competitive that would have been? What it represented about his passion and skill?

So Misha decides not to pursue politics because it doesn’t feel like he can do enough good there. When this hobby of acting actually starts paying the bills, he changes tack. He gets ambitious there, based on the idea that if he has a voice as a public figure, he can make change.

He has spoken openly about all of this, many, many times. Look it up. It’s all there. He has shared his history, shared intimate truths about his past. He has lived below the poverty line. He has been homeless himself, in his childhood. He is now more successful than people could ever hope to be, and the driving force behind his success is entirely based in the chance to have a big enough platform to facilitate change in a hands-on way. He’s a fantastic actor, but in bald terms, it’s a vehicle for his activism. Misha is probably - I’m not doing the specific math - responsible for the saving of more actual lives than any celebrity in history. Top ten for sure. His efforts are tireless, vast, and FULFILLED. He has put into place REAL change, from inception to execution, in countless ways.

And it’s never just one thing, one pet project.

It’s everything.

It never stops.

It’d be a great honor for most people to achieve the kind of change he does ONCE, on a project. ONE school built. ONE forest saved. ONE family housed.

It’s his life.

It’s his blood and guts and soul.

Misha’s impact on the world around him is so fascinating and unusual and positive that I followed him on social, as a human being, for YEARS before I ever even saw one episode of SPN. But he doesn’t need this credit from me - or from anyone - because that’s not why he does it. At JIB, Jared told us that Misha had a 501©(3) registered before even starting on Supernatural - Misha corrected him and said it was right after, but that’s the impression of him that people closest to him have. That’s where his head is at. That’s why he’s here.

Misha is entirely accessible. No airs and graces. He gets his hands dirty and puts his money where his mouth is. He speaks out about what he believes without any concern for public image, and uses his pedestal to enact the change he wants to see in the world.

The man spends every waking hour dedicated to being proactive about something. If it’s not charity, it’s community. If it’s not community, it’s craft. He does not know the meaning of idle, and he seems dedicated to sharing this connectedness of the world with his children.

Nobody on this planet is perfect, but if anyone could find fault with the way Misha chooses to direct his energy, I’d be taking a very long look at how they themselves choose to live and what good they’ve put into the world. Somewhere, Misha is probably picking up their slack.

If Misha wants attention drawn to something, you better believe that even the silliest publicity stunt has a higher purpose, whether it’s for a charitable cause, or personal development and interconnectivity. He puts himself out there and pushes people because he has that power. His mind is blown wide open. He grows forests from the seeds of possibility. He uses his pedestal to pull others up and steps down from it just as often. He’s an inspiration to anyone whose life he touches in any capacity.

He’s a hero, and history is going to remember him thusly.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This was taken from Natalie Fisher’s thread on twitter x  with permission x. As stated in her Twitter bio, Natalie Fisher is a writer for @Hypable and host of @NATWPodcast.

not to be “that person who stares at gifs and makes a weird whining noise in the back of their throat all day” but

I’m kinda suffering

A LOT

So here’s some gifs to drag you all down with me

You know if you feel like watching Dean quietly implode via his hand on a loop all day

That last comment is like... so wrong. It is NEVER okay to spank your children and it doesn’t matter if you do it with or without a reason. My parents never laid a hand on me and my siblings, and we didn’t grow up “throwing tantrums in Walmart”! You’d never spank your (grownup) friend because he/she did something wrong, so why should it be allowed when the one who’s being spanked ist a defenseless child?! Yes, disciplining your children is right and important but you can do that WITHOUT physical abuse - just with words. I know that children don’t always listen to what you say and more often don’t behave. But that can’t and mustn’t be an excuse for taking advantage of the fact that children are smaller and weaker than you and can easily be “corrected” by physical “gestures” you’d hardly use for a misbehaving dog.

Beside that - maybe those people who spank their children or think that it’s okay to do so should think about what physical contact means to children. When they are small and can’t talk physical contact is all they’ve got. They learn their worth and importance through this form of contact and it’s their only way to communicate. Imagine what it does to a little human being (or any kind of being) if you take that contact, that medium, that TRUST and use it against them - just because it acts in a way you don’t like.

Spanking children isn’t okay. And there’s no excuse or reason that could change this.

(Sorry for writing so much in probably so bad English. I’m not a English native, but I couldn’t scroll past this without commenting on it.)

the spanking debate isn’t all that complicated. you’re either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or you’re not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but there’s no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is

Is there a specific Peter/Tony overprotective moment that warms your heart the most?

YES!

All of Infinity War. 

He was so overprotective with him in this. Always standing between him and other people, standing close by, standing in front of him. Never taking his eyes off of him, getting defensive all the time for him, not minding the close contact at all (probably because he needed it too)

never taking his eyes off of him…

Dean’s back appreciation post

SEBASTIAN STAN as Mickey Henry in MONDAY (2019) — Dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos

J-I-M-K-I-R-K [the kirk chappell roan edit]

soft things Tony did for Peter

1. Made a Stark Industries program to announce new scholarships for promising students from urban city schools like Midtown of Science and Technology only to get a chance to meet Peter.

2. Made a user interface to the entire Stark Industries network, databases, and satellite systems for him. Practically his legacy and company.

3. The same interface allows Peter backdoor entrances to some of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. Kid’s set for life. 

4. EDITH contains incredible hacking capabilities to a large amount of communication systems. Peter has protection for life. 

5. Built Item17A a.k.a the Iron Spider Armor by taking inspiration from his own Mark XLVI armor and similar to his Mark L armor incorporating miniature arc reactors and a neural-reactive interface that responds to Peter’s mental input. The suit has self-contained environmental protection and the capacity to be stored in a container larger than Tony’s housing unit for the Mark L armor. 

6. Made a natural-language user interface a.k.a. Karen, not only designed to work alongside and aid Peter but to provide comfort and safety in case Peter needs someone to talk while doing the superhero gig.  

7. He practically gave all of his artificial intelligence interfaces and Iron Man armors to Peter given that the glasses he gifted him enable communication with FRIDAY, EDITH and can command any armor to protect Peter. 

8. Installed and created security features such as the Baby Monitor and Training Wheels protocols to restrict, protect and aid Peter in any given situation. 

9. 576 web-shooter combinations.

10. The first suit he made for him contained not only a reconnaissance drone, x-ray vision, a heater, a parachute function, and retractable wingsuit components but the suit tracks and records everything Peter does as Spider-Man so he can have protection 24/7.

11. He had a suit synthesizer suite full of schematics of various Spider-Man suits taking inspiration from Peter’s first homemade version to variants of suits in-between. He was ready to make more for him or build some of them with Peter.

12. Tony protected Peter’s identity and minimized his involvement as Spider-man so the Accords didn’t affect him by not only asking for daily updates on Peter’s life but tracking his every move in the superhero gig, recording his lastest interactions with criminals/villains and overseeing/covering every mistake Peter made by using his joint venture with Damage Control. This means that if he was alive, Quentin Beck would be toast. 

13. Built a nanite infinity gauntlet, a time machine, cracked time travel for Peter using him as his main motivation. 

14. Tony second-guessed everything he did, even his own life as a superhero believing nobody could live up to Iron Man, not even himself but he never second-guessed Peter to the point that he didn’t have a problem sacrificing himself because he was sure Peter was up to taking over the job and his legacy. Tony sees and will always see Peter as his better half. 

15. Had a room ready for Peter at the Avengers Compound.

16. Years of trying to convince Tony to give up the superhero life, the suits, and all the madness, it wasn’t Pepper the one that made Tony give it up. It was, unfortunately, Peter’s death. He officially walks out of the Avengers, retires, lives in the middle of nowhere and cuts himself off from civilization and only comes back when Peter gives him the inspiration to do it all over again. 

17. Indirectly called Peter his first chance at parenthood and often refers to Peter as his kid. ‘My guy’, ‘I lost the kid’.

18. Remembers random details about Peter’s life like his apartment floor, his daily reports and the clubs he’s attended in school.

19. He has invited Peter to his lab to show him stuff he thought Peter would be interested in. 

20. Takes responsibility of Peter despite being afraid or damaged in any way. Taking Peter back to his apartment despite having one of the most heartbreaking fights of his life, laughs with Peter and makes sure he’s ok. Goes to space to get Peter despite that being one of his main fears for years.

21. Pulling out the biggest weapon ever at the first sight of Peter being in danger. 

22. Vowing to protect Peter the same day he was willing to have another chance to love him.

23. Makes every experience a teachable lesson for Peter. Always taking him to school in every situation.

24. Cute nicknames like ‘Pete’, ‘Young buck’ and ‘Spiderling’. 

25. Knighting him into an Avenger.

26. As stated by the directors, Tony considers his personal life becoming fuller and more important to him the moment Peter enters in it.

Feel free to add more.

Not gonna lie, I cried writing this 

YEESSSS!! 😩😩

And then you’re so excited about all your new ideas but you’re also so frustrated!! ☹️

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

Words cannot describe how I feel about this (and how true this is) 😍😩😍

Bucky really went from a cranky scowling old man who never smiles to that Cool (gay) uncle who pulls up 2 hours late to the family cookout with sunglasses, cake and level 100 swagger

Now that's character development