Also, our amazing friend & fellow podcaster @dustylcanon.bsky.social has organized a fundraiser for charity in J’s honor, and you can support it AND get this really amazing book she helped put together of MOTW memories.

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Yeah, I was just reading about it this morning. Apparently the judge ruling on it gave them a deadline for partial fulfillment & they failed to do it, so now he’s forcing them to fully fund it, which I find incredible. Finally seeing some consequences for fucking around

You love chick flick moments

I love this whole entire thing for you so much, this is incredible! It’s wonderful you both are having so much fun!

Now let’s just see if I can actually remember to track everything
😅🙃😅🙃

I didn’t think I read that much bc I read a lot of short fics, but I learned recently that 5500 words a day is over 2 million words a year, which is double the (supposed) US average and I’m like oh, actually I read that much before I get out of bed most mornings, so… noted.

Oh yes! I think I’m going to try to figure out a way to track my reading for 2026
I want to find a good one for physical books too, but having something for Ao3 would be huge!

Awesome, thank you!!!

Oh I just meant bc it looks exactly like him 🤣 I have no idea if it’s real or not & don’t care, I was just being silly about hot dopplegangers

Are we sure that isn’t just Chace Crawford pretending to be a thief?

“I can’t seem to get a grip, no, no matter how I live with it” makes me think of them on their date at that diner & Dean talking about how Cas has to stop him if he goes dark again

HMTOD is very much the back & forth with them in those seasons to me. That hot & cold, I love you but I’m mad at you

Young & Menace talking about the madness racing through him, very Mark of Cain. Same with Bishop’s Knife Trick, talking about regrets & trying to fix things that are broken

I can’t even listen to Church without thinking of the scene in the crypt or the insane levels of pining in Heaven Can’t Wait.

Like it’s a bit grittier, a bit more angry, a bit more sensual…

I just listen to those songs & think about the intensity of Deancas in S8-10. The pining, anger, betrayal… all the big feelings that were SO present in those seasons especially.

MEANWHILE

MANIA - I don’t have particular thoughts about every track on that album like I do the other one, it’s more like I relate some of the songs & the overall general thematic concepts from that album to that era. The vibe on that is like… more intense in some ways?

YES!! EXACTLY

Idk, in my head that’s kind of how it all fits? Like… it’s a story about them in that final season & the shit they were going through

SMFS - Dean crashing out over losing Cas to the empty & thinking about what they could have been if only it hadn’t gone that way now that he knows how Cas felt. And like… it calling back to LFTOS with “what would you trade the pain for?” And like… feeling like he wasted time mad

WATTBA - more end seasons nihilism.