Doggust 29: Cavalier King Charles and Tibetan Spaniel. Latte hangout. 🍵☕

if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going

“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”

Ron walks into the main area of the office like “Everyone, announcement! I notice that you have been referring to me with he/him pronouns for YEARS. As I do not think the government has any business knowing my personal information, this behavior may incline them to make conclusions that they have no business even thinking about. Therefore, I request that you switch it up from now on. Keep em guessing. That is all.”

He tries to turn around and walk back into his office, but Leslie starts crying and saying Supportive Things about how proud she is to see him exploring his gender and immediately switches to they/them; she instructs Ben and Ann to do the same. Donna and Chris go for she/her, for different reasons.

Tom assures Ron that he will use only the slickest, coolest, dopest designer pronouns; he sweeps in the next day and announces that he's put together a powerpoint of the most stylish and fashionable neopronouns to come out of Milan this season. The powerpoint includes the scarf, cologne and sunglasses that pair best with each option. Jerry is the only one to attend this presentation, which leaves him even more Big Confused about the whole thing than he already was. In Jerry's efforts to clumsily be an ally, he keeps accidentally "misgendering" Ron four different times in four different ways in every interaction and apologizing elaborately for every single mistake, thereby inadvertently doing the best job out of any of them at fulfilling the brief.

Andy does not know what a pronoun is, but in the spirit of himbo helpfulness, he's made a list of Words that he knows Ron likes, such as "sandwich", "woodworking", and "bacon". (Ron snatches it, tears it up, throws it in the trash, and sets the trash basket on fire, and firmly instructs Andy to never again mention anything that Ron likes while inside a government building.)

April, of course, keeps using he/him until Ron calls her into his office to re-explain the strategy of Operation: Muddy The Waters, whereupon she blinks owlishly at him and says, "I mean, isn't that just what they'd expect you to do if you were trying to hide something from the government? If you exclude one pronoun, then they know that's the one you care about. You have to double-bluff them." Ron squints at her for a long moment and says flatly, "Hm. Go back to your desk." The camera stays on Ron watching her through his window as his voiceover says, "April is a valuable employee. I look forward to one day when she leaves this hellhole and uses her strategic genius and insider knowledge to tear down the government."

It takes Stiles an embarrassingly long time over the summer of "socializing the local alpha to mix in with the human crowd"—to realize why his well-laid plan, like most of his well-laid plans, wasn't working. And the reason was entirely out of their control.

It's embarrassing because Stiles, of all people, should have noticed the signs. Stiles, who spent the better part of his adolescent years tucked into the pale blue room of Dr. Odell, talking until he was nearly out of breath. Stiles, who needed a study plan, a bottle of Adderall, and a paper bag to breathe into every week during sophomore year. The guilt gnaws at him when he thinks about how he had poked and prodded Derek, pushing him out of his comfort zone time and time again, forcing him into places where his sensitive werewolf senses would combust. At the time, Stiles believed that socializing and normalizing Derek meant acclimatization—exposure therapy of the highest degree.

And Derek? He growled, holed up in that empty shell of a house haunted by the lingering ghosts of his family, refusing to meet Stiles’ eyes more than necessary. He became monosyllabic, sometimes not speaking at all, other times offering no verbal cues. He’d freaked out, and Stiles, almost too late, finally understood the reasoning behind the overwhelming panic, the trembling hands.

When Stiles bounds up the stairs this time, Derek is rubbing sandpaper on the corners of a door he had crafted himself. He hesitates when Derek gives him a piercing look, but it's clearer now that those stares hold no animosity (well, most of the time).

"So," Stiles starts, rocking on his heels, "I think you might be autistic."

Derek bristles, and it's almost funny because even in his human form, the dark hair on his arms stands up. He turns to Stiles, face shuttered, and says in a low voice, "Werewolves are immu—"

"But it's not a disease!" Stiles interrupts, already knowing what Derek would say. "There’s a lot of research now, and it’s not considered a disorder in that way. Just think about it."

Derek frowns. "I don't think this is what autism looks like, Stiles."

"What do you think autism looks like, Derek?" Stiles shakes his head. "Look, it's a spectrum. I’m not saying we need to get you diagnosed or anything, but it would explain some of your behaviors."

"Behaviors." Derek repeats, mostly to himself.

Okay so like stick with me but young Derek, alive hale fam au.

So like the Hale family finds out that Derek has a crush on Sheriff Stilinski’s delinquent son, and has mixed reactions. Talia is torn between amusement, worry and wanting to dislike stiles. Papa hale is very protective but thinks it funny that him and his son have the same tastes.

Peter is ecstatic, Stiles once beat him in chess when running from the cops. (stiles was running and sat down in the park around people for cover, turns out he interrupted a chess tournament. Peter challenged him to a game if stiles lost, Peter would turn him over to the police. If he won, stiles could use him as an alibi)

The rest of his siblings don’t really have an opinion other than using Derek’s crush to make fun of him EXPECT for Laura. Laura is in a one sided rivalry with stiles.

As the sheriff right hand deputy she was tasked with keeping an eye out for stiles and she constantly loses him. Which shouldn’t be possible because she’s a werewolf. She can never connect him to a crime he’s committed and can never prove anything. Can’t go to a judge a say “oh he left a scent trail which I followed because I’m a werewolf.”

Derek brings him home to dinner after they start dating. Unfortunately, the day that Derek brings him over, is also the day that Laura had to run around town taking reports of his crimes. She is fuming. Stiles looks her dead in her twitching eye and asked her how her day went.

The only crime she can connect him to is when he commit aggravated assault against a few of Derek’s teammates went to far with hazing. (Derek refused to fight back as not to hurt them) she lets him off.

thinking about sterek in the car… stiles’ phone bluetooth automatically links with the camaro. there’s always stiles’ small pillow and blanket on the passenger seat. derek drives and stiles stares at how handsome he is. stiles rambling about the weird article he just read and they bickering about everything like an old married couple. and stiles is such a great passenger princess. he loves playing with derek’s hair or scratching his neck while speaking. derek’s hand on stiles’ thigh at all times. he’s also holding stiles’ hand and giving it a kiss from time to time. stiles pointing out when he sees a rainbow or babies or a dog. also like that line from all too well there are countless times derek almost ran the red cause he’s busy listening to stiles talking and staring at how pretty he is

#WEREWOLF STILES WOULD BE TERRIFYING#WE HAVE TO AGREE ON THAT#dude knew a HUNTER was tailing him#dude outsmarted basically 80% of the villains#dude survived shit like the nogitsune AS A SQUISHY HUMAN when Kira’s mum was basically in deep deep shit while being a powerful and old kitsune#DUDE WOULD TAKE OVER CALIFORNIA IN 6 HOURS IF HE WAS A WEREWOLF#IM NOT EVEN SPEAKING OF ALPHA!STILES AHAHA NOPE#ALPHA!STILES WOULD GET ON THE MOON IN TWO DAYS#no but jokes apart#if the show does were!stiles they better do it right#teen wolf#werewolf!stiles#stiles#derek#great work on the gifs btw????? beautiful#v nice eyes#sterek#ishy#best#tag rambling tag via sawneesnowstar

i just love any variation of “derek indulges stiles” and it can mean ANYTHING. and you KNOW its canon because of that time in s3 when stiles is fiddling with the medical equipmenf and derek was like “you know how to use them? then no.” the FIST SCENE…? oh derek hale you are just so playful and in love.. i just know he reverts to his teenage arrogant smug confidence playful self whenever he’s with stiles…..

and another thing.. this is why i will never believe in those “derek hale is cold” etc whatever persona u people put on him.. that guy experiences any positive feelings towards stiles and hes instantly sporting basketball shorts and a smug smirk i know it annoys scott (overprotective beta wolf) so bad.. did i mention i love scott and derek being overprotective over stiles.. whatever… anyways i firmly believe that derek is just so silly Nd playful when he accepts/realizes he likes stiles… i just KNOWWWW he whispers the most perverted dirty jokes to stiles during pack meetings just to see him blush and laugh

People seem to forget that Stiles literally refused to be a message for Scott. Gerard beat him to send a message to Scott, Stiles knew this. So when Scott wordlessly questions the marks on Stiles' face, Stiles, also wordlessly, assures him he's fine and that it's nothing.

Honestly, Scott should have pushed because that was not nothing, that looked incredibly painful. But a lot was going on so it makes sense he didn't push for answers. Still, Stiles never gets any credit for this. He could have easily went to Scott about it but he chose not to. He knew Scott would feel guilty, and even after finding out that Scott basically double crossed Gerard and Derek, Stiles still didn't say a word.

He didn't want Scott to feel guilty for something he couldn't change, he didn't want to be the reason Scott gave in, and he didn't want Scott to be hurt by the fact that Stiles was used to attempt to force Scott to comply with Gerard.

Sounds like a good friend to me. Not saying either of them were never a bad friend to each other at times, but damn, Stiles really took one for the team there.

It seems like he never told anyone, that the only people who knew were Chris, Erica, and Boyd. And only one of them lived throughout the whole series.

Stiles lies to protect his friends and family. Stiles bottles up trauma and feelings to protect his friends and family. Stiles shows he cares in an unhealthy (for himself) way, and yet all some people see is a lying liar who lies.

I feel like Stiles should get a little less hate for lying because it's almost always to protect others.

me: can you imagine how much more powerful merlin would have been if they'd let him have colin's curly hair?

my partner: can you imagine how much more powerful he'd be if they'd let him have curly hair AND be irish??

me, nodding: you're so right. arthur wouldn't have died

them, overlapping: —wouldn't have died, exactly

The best part of the percy jackson books is that from percy's perspective hes just an easygoing funny cool guy who seems pretty harmless but the moment you see him from someone elses pov hes terrifying. Just a crazy good fighter, a force of nature killing machine, literally gets mistaken for a god in disguise. But he doesnt see that side of himself at all because hes too busy arguing with authority figures and respecting women. I love him

bitty and lardo having a quiet moment 🍂🏠🧡

i need it to be fall so bad ….

getting back into check please has been so weird bc the line between cannon and fannon is just so thin it is impossible to know what is actually part of the source material

the comic is easy enough to check but the tweets? the update notes? the extras that only some ppl have actually read? word of mouth from ngozi???

whoever came up with the term omgcp hivemind was correct bc like p much all the fan interpretations are in line with each other but how much those things actually line up with cannon? who knows

anyway tell me your favorite thing that you think fans just decided was true bc you never actually saw evidence for but maybe it's from somewhere. I'll start: Kent's cat is not actually named Kit Purrson

Web-weaving and zimbits ❤️

(from Eden Roberts, "Son of a Trickster" | @mjalti | Anne Sexton | from Richard Silken "You Are Jeff" | Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma | @littlespoonsokka | Chen Chen, "Elegy" | Welcome to Nightvale, Episode 100 "Toast")

The first Falconers game after Bitty and Jack get married, the falconers pull off a big prank on them. In which every player on the starting line (and everyone else) is introduced as [Last Name]-Bittle. Like in that friends episode where Courtney gets married and asked for the opening credits to be changed to CoxArquette to show it and instead they changed everyones last name to Arquette

And they all have jerseys made special for that first game and Jack is laughing the whole game and Bittle’s in the line up just cheering on everyone.

At the end the Falconers social media channel posts a picture with everyone in their Bittle jersey and the caption is like “The Falconers and their husband, food network star and author Eric Bittle”

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.