*KICKS THE MOTHER FUCKING DOOR OPEN AND STALKS IN*
…..Dean illustrated that a little too well for my own tastes.
ANYWAYS.
God I fucking love this so much okay, this is exactly my jam, my THING, and dammit there will never be enough world where I get enough wing!kink.
And just, like, Sam has no idea what he’s doing and he is mortally afraid of hurting Gabriel, despite, yanno, the whole archangel thing. So Gabriel talks him through how to groom his wings properly….
So Sam is so, so, so gentle. Gentle and careful and he slowly combs through the feathers, massing as he goes, and Gabriel just ends up melted completely against him, slumped in either Sam’s arms, or in the bed, small little pleased hums escaping him as Sam works his way through his entire wings.
And afterward, Gabriel’s wings are SHINING and Gabriel can see, just a hint of what they used to look like and before he even has a moment to feel ashamed of how darker they’ve gotten since heaven, Sam is whispering how beautiful they are, and how incredible and how lucky he feels to get to see them, let alone touch them.
Just like that, the self-hatred is gone and Gabriel is preening, showing them off to Sam, describing the different feathers, what the parts of the wing are, and other basic care for them, and Sam eats up the knowledge like he does lore, his eyes intense and focused.
Gabriel let’s Sam take care of his wings now, because Sam always ends up making him a puddle of angel-goo. And then cuddling, because no wing grooming is complete without cuddling.
~!~!~ Send me your fluffiest asks for Sabriel Fluff Friday ~!~!~
The Boxer Rebellion siege began today in 1900. Here’s our episode on it from the archive. Below is a Hermann-Paul editorial cartoon about the Boxer Rebellion, which ran in Le Cri de Paris, on July 10, 1899.
Women and Hollywood published this story on May 16th in which actor/producer Salma Hayek “dropped epic truth bombs for about an hour” about Hollywood’s gender problem:
“The only two industries where women make more money than men is fashion and pornography and in those we are treated as sexual objects. This is an ignorant way of looking at who we are. We don’t want to watch things that promote us as sexual objects.” — Salma Hayek
“We can’t take the risk of you opening your mouth and people thinking of their maids. You could have been a big star but you were born in the wrong country.” — Salma Hayek
“Movies are in trouble because [women] don’t want to see their movies. We lost the beautiful love for the ritual of going to the movies because we now watch content on tv because they abandoned us. They don’t know what we want.” — Salma Hayek
The article goes on to say that, “She told the story about how a male director fought to cast her and then gave up when the studio kept saying no. He sent her a note saying he was ashamed and we should have walked away but he needed the movie. The studio wouldn’t hire her because they couldn’t imagine ‘a Mexican in space.’”
