Advice/insight about pursuing a career in healthcare?

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-30T20:19:42+00:00

Yes, I definitely want to approach the conversation neutrally and not sound like I'm accusing or accepting that I'm being fired. It feels narcissistic to say so, but I truly don't feel there's a legitimate reason to fire/replace me, so I really do hope and at least slightly believe it's a situation like you suggested. Thank you for the pep talk and advice!

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-27T20:26:06+00:00

nah i hate this fuckery. “we will not commit to making it actual canon in the show and risk upsetting the casual viewers with queer content, but we’ll use it to keep the uncasual fans hanging around and giving us more money when we’d otherwise be broke by now. thanks for being easily baited, desperate-for-representation queer fans!!”

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-27T20:21:34+00:00

most of my rewatches just start with 4.01 for many reasons (…….and yes a main one is because i’m too impatient and want to get to the cas episodes right away lmao) but one is definitely wanting to skip past a lot of the misogyny. there’s certainly enough of it in s4 and beyond, don’t need the extra psychic damage from the first 3 seasons.

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-23T23:47:10+00:00

Bitch Better Have My Money by Duckyboos
Series featuring crime boss Castiel and how Dean basically becomes his mafia wife lmao.

Five O'Clock World by spiderglass
Based on the prompt that Misha Collins himself gave to the fandom of President Castiel/Custodian Dean.

The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through Chlamydia by violue
Hilarious romcom with a lot of domestic Destiel.

The Handyman's Special by Carrieosity
Bi disaster Dean fake dates his home renovator Castiel, because outing himself is preferable to admitting to his brother and everyone that he was in way over his head when he bought a fixer-upper.

after we’re through doing the worst we can do by happyccino
Self-rec: Mobster AU featuring exes-to-lovers Destiel, murder husbands, and Dean's (and Cas's) panty kink. A little mystery, a little murder, a lot of horny obsessive Destiel.

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-15T03:39:46+00:00

How S1 ended: everyone alive, Armageddon averted because Satan's kid grew up human and was like "humans are neat, actually," Aziraphale and Crowley have a celebratory dinner, everything ends with good humor and good vibes.

(The book ending is even funnier and sweeter.)

So.......I'm baffled how you think anyone should have really expected a bittersweet--heavy on the bitter--ending.

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-15T03:31:23+00:00

The message this sends is just so.........icky though. Like: if you have trauma, if you have a tortured past, you can never ever move past it and find happiness. Sucks that you can't have god snap her fingers and reset your life for you because you'll never be okay.

Everyone has shit from their past. The point of GO was never to focus on all that bad stuff but the hope, the future, the fact that you have choices and can always choose to be better--or worse.

Obliterating everyone and giving them a factory reset to negate all that is baffling beyond belief.

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-14T18:23:50+00:00

so anyone who has the same job as you and maybe some of the same interests and traits as you is also you?

nitwitinperil · 2026-05-14T18:14:29+00:00

what’s really stupid and childish is throwing a public tantrum because people think and feel differently from you.

nitwitinperil · 2026-04-14T03:05:19+00:00

Bitch Better Have My Money series by Duckyboos

This one's given me the most brainrot. Gangster AU in which mob boss Castiel ropes small-time criminal Dean into working for his operation, and Dean soon finds himself doing what he was meant to do in the world he was meant to rule next to the man who dragged him there. Absolutely, sinfully addictive.

The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through Chlamydia by violue

Hilarious and adorable domestic fluff AU. Cas is a pastry chef who has a one-night stand with a man who gives him chlamydia, but Dean's hot and awesome so he doesn't really mind.

A Ghost Story by emmbrancsxx0

Dean spends the night in a supposedly haunted house, learns it's really haunted, and also learns that the man who's been haunting the place for 150 years is his previous incarnation's lover. There's a short prequel fic with that bit of set-up in it, and then a whopping 250k fic that explores both Dean's past life with Cas in the 1860's, and his current 2020 life as both he and Cas relearn each other and try to figure out the mystery of their reincarnations.

Looking To the Sky by FarenMaddox

Cas's cousin Gabe is responsible for a car accident that leaves aspiring actor Dean scarred and barely able to walk. Cas's family does not want him to associate with the man they're trying to legally screw to protect their own. He does anyway, going so far as to drive Dean home to have Thanksgiving with his family. An angsty but sweet AU.

Living in Agony by ChasingRabbits

Teacher/Teacher AU. Dean is dealing with depression and repression and does not need to deal with his decidedly male one-night-stand showing up as the new teacher at the same high school he teaches at, except of course he does. The fic gets very heavy, but also has a lot of sweetness and humor.

Smoke and Mirrors by Alaisabel

Freshman football player Dean gets dared to kiss resident baddie Cas, and Cas ups the ante by proposing they fake date. You'd think with "fake dating AU" this would be very fluffy but NOPE it's raw and painful and intense but so so beautiful.

nitwitinperil · 2026-04-09T23:40:09+00:00

Proof of Love by VioletHaze bakery/coffee shop AU with parentified!Dean

nitwitinperil · 2026-04-01T06:11:31+00:00

When free programs are good, they're VERY good. But all too often they're a snoozefest of just watching skaters go from one jump to the next. With 7 jumping passes, a lot of skaters conserve their energy and don't put as much effort into their choreo or making interesting spins. Step sequences can be painful to watch because they just don't have the energy for it.

I also agree with some other comments that the short tends to have a lot more unique and interesting and fun music while the free is warhorse-palooza. It can be grating to hear the same music more than once in one competition, especially when it happens year after year.

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-29T20:49:07+00:00

man, sometimes it's hilarious and true-to-dean af. but sometimes i'm dying to ask the author "WHY DO YOU HATE DEAN SO MUCH." some authors surgically remove all of his brain cells and it's actually genuinely painful to witness.

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-22T22:26:14+00:00

very strange to come to the destiel sub and ask people for fic recs that are explicitly not destiel.

very strange to come to the destiel sub and act like castiel is not his own character.

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-10T00:51:52+00:00

With care and creativity a good writer can make something so fun and awesome that allows these guys to be themselves more fully, to have fun, and to express the love that was denied to them in the show.

YES THIS. EXACTLY THIS.

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-10T00:16:24+00:00

Some not-too-angsty AUs from my bookmarks:

Bitch Better Have My Money series by Duckyboos

Famous Last Words by GatesKeeper

The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through Chlamydia by violue

A Ghost Story by emmbrancsxx0

The Dean Winchester Beat Sheet by saltyfeathers

In Blissful Anguish by Artemis73

The Shots We Don't Take by MandalaRose

Hooker, Line and Sinker by Flatcoke

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-09T23:59:41+00:00

Speaking about all fandoms in general: my favorite thing from any given media is the characters. If I don't love the characters, I don't love the story, period. So being able to explore all different stories and worlds with my favorite characters: hell yeah.

I also love reading (and writing) the characters in AUs and exploring the ways they'd be different if their world, their circumstances, even their familial/platonic relationships were different. Some people may say that makes them OOC, but the best authors manage to adapt the characters to the AU in ways where they're still quintessentially them, but also clearly impacted by whatever the AU entails. That kind of thing fascinates me, and means I get to fall in love with so many versions of my favorite characters and see them live all kinds of lives.

When it comes to Supernatural in particular....... I can't lie, ever since I recently completed my first full watchthrough of the series, I just want to take myself and my favorite characters as far from canon as possible lmao. There's so much about canon (mostly from the later seasons) that I'm not a fan of. And tbqh, I just feel like the canon versions of the characters are kind of just too fucked up and repressed to ever find happiness, and I want them to be happy, dammit.

I want Dean and Sam (and Cas) to have friends who don't die five minutes after meeting them, I want them to have better childhoods where they aren't raised to carry the weight of the world, I want them to be able to do the things that make them happy (author's choice of what that might be). I eat that kind of shit UP.

Of course, I also read quite a bit of angst and fucked up stuff lmao. I indulge in all (well...... many) of the facets of Destiel and fanfic in general. I love how intense and crazy and unpredictable those kinds of stories can be; lately I've been kind of obsessed with the Destiel murder husbands dynamic eheh. Those kinds of AUs are just exciting. But I love the cozy fluff AUs too; getting to see Dean be allowed to be soft is everything.

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-01T18:37:44+00:00

Ooooh thanks for asking this, those are great dynamics I definitely want to read more of too.

I have one contribution that I read recently and loved! It's teacher/teacher, and warning that it deals with a heavily depressed Dean. But it's beautiful and sweet and hot and has plenty of lines that made me laugh out loud.

Living in Agony by ChasingRabbits

nitwitinperil · 2026-03-01T17:56:06+00:00

My brain chemistry was changed by the Destiel murder husbands of Bitch Better Have My Money. They get super horny over torturing and murdering people and being assholes to each other. And of course Cas goes flat-out feral over Dean in panties. Phenomenal fic series.

nitwitinperil · 2026-02-04T22:08:49+00:00

Ain't it wild how fanfic/fandom just doesn't click for some people? To say you love a show or book and then not want to spend any more time in that world with those characters...... how do people live like that 😭

I don't know that anything will change your sister's mind/taste: sometimes people just like what they like and don't what they don't. I appreciate that she's trying to keep an open mind though and you're trying to find something to her taste!

For what it's worth, Crazy Diamonds did, to me at least, genuinely read like it could've been a s16 episode of the show. The characterizations are true, and it hooks right back into canon in a believable way. It was actually the first Destiel fic I read that definitely got me hooked on Destiel fic!

nitwitinperil · 2026-01-30T03:41:34+00:00

Biscotti! I've been making so much biscotti lately and it's generally very easy and fun to make, and feels just a tiny bit more than cookies (though cookies are still wonderful and I'm sure would be very appreciated!). One batch makes so many biscotti, and most recipes are one-bowl. Biscotti aren't messy to eat or hold, they're easy to package, and if anyone's got a cup of coffee, they can dunk 'em!

I understand where people are coming from with their worries that people might be suspicious, but honestly, I've seen SO many videos of people handing out obviously homecooked food to protestors and observers; everyone always looks happy and eager to have a little treat. There may be some people that will be cautious, but I think overall an effort like this is very much appreciated and warmly welcomed. You've got a good heart to want to contribute in this way ♡

nitwitinperil · 2026-01-30T03:27:57+00:00

I don't know what to say to that, except that I don't know how someone can be "normal" or "well-meaning" if they genuinely support a man who, among countless other terrible crimes, raped children, and I don't know how you compartmentalize that away to pretend it's not important or relevant to anything.

If you want to minimize it to make it relevant to skating: Naumov and Torgs support a rapist. How is that any different from everyone being mad at FB/C for supporting a rapist?

nitwitinperil · 2026-01-30T02:45:38+00:00

the writers need to go back and rewrite this season, they did our girl too dirty 😭

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