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Castiel/Misha Collins. Sam Winchester/Jared Padalecki. Spencer Reid/Matthew Gray Gubler. Haldir. Legolas. SASTIEL |
It’s officially my birthday!
Gonna try to kick the sad thoughts in the ass and have an amazing day!
The first annual (if we feel like it) Gishwhes Telethon is about to begin!
Beginning at 9 AM PT (ish), we’ll be broadcasting live from our newly remodeled call center where we’ll be answering your burning questions about life, the universe and Gishwhes… or just about Gishwhes.
We’ll have amazing talent, including some of your favorite musicians and network television stars answering the phones, performing and causing shenanigans! You could talk to some of your favorite stars!
Don’t miss the Live Gishwhes Telethon broadcast starting at 9 AM PT (ish)!
Want to be called? Register for Gishwhes right now!
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Photo by @allebsupernova on Twitter, with my edits. Subtitled: “Not the best quality, but beautiful AF.”
I want to nominate @mellygublerreid and show her some love today. We haven’t known each other for very long, but Melissa has truly become an inspirational force in my life. She is such a kind person, and is always tirelessly performing charitable acts for others; donating both her time and energy in order to help make the SPNFamily a better place. Her actions have given many opportunities to people who otherwise wouldn’t have gotten to experience the joy of an online StageIt concert, or to receive the comforting warmth and reassurance that a t-shirt can bring. Those might seem like small things, but to someone who is struggling it can make all the difference. She has helped a great many people, myself included, and having her in my life reminds me daily of the kind of person that I want to be. I am so glad to know her, and I think her amazing and selfless acts of kindness deserve to be recognized.
wow. I am speechless.
thank you so much.
There are some people in your life that are always there for you no matter what. That can see any situation for what it truly is and talk you through it. These people can give great advice and are willing to tell you what is really happening, even if you are the one in the wrong. And these people never change their opinion of you despite your flaws. You can be wrong and you can be over reacting in any given situation and these people will tell you so, but also stick by your side.
These people are there for you no matter what. They are willing to sit there and hold your hand, hug you, lift you up when you need it most. Even from all the way on the opposite side of the country.
This person for me is my amazingly kind and loving friend Tabby.
Tabby will never know how much she means to me,mostly because I find it hard to put into words. But I will try.
Tabby and I met a year and a half ago in A Very Mannly Christmas Stage it. Our group of friends banded together to sell out the show multiple times but picking up hitch hikers, We didn’t really talk much at first, but then even after the Stage it ended we would talk, all of us would. But Tabby and I slowly became closer and opened p to each other more. And before long we confined in each other things that no one else knew, and still no one does. She has become my safe place and I trust her with my entire being to keep me and my secrets safe.
A couple weeks ago I told her something that I have never told anyone. It sort of just came out. While I am not ready to tell much more of the world yet, I trust her to hang onto it for me until I am ready to.
Tabby is always there for me when I am in a bad place, even though she struggles herself. But she always knows what to say and how to get me grounded again. I do not know anyone else that is able to do that for me.
Not to say I don’t have good friends, but Tabby is always there for me. She always notices when I am not doing well and she always makes sure to check on me. Sometimes she even notices i am not doing well before I do. I will forever be thankful for her and her ability to help me when i need it most.
Tabby is always thinking of others and ways to surprise them and make them happy. For Chanukah this year she made me a box of 8 gifts that she hand made or little things she put together. They were all wrapped up and tagged 1-8 on little pictures of Jared Padalecki. I called them Padatags. Each gift was something that she knew i loved and would bring me happiness. The last one was my favorite. It was a necklace she made me and it remains one of my most favorite things in the world.
A few weeks ago she told me she gave the last of her change to someone who needed it.
And a couple days ago, she painted me a portrait of Rob Benedict because she knew how much i loved him and my birthday is coming up on the 21st of this month. She surprised me with it because she knew how happy it would make me.
Tabby is one of those people that are your friend for just a little while, but you feel like you have known them forever. Like you were meant to find each other and meant to be in each others lives. I cannot imagine life without her now and I don’t know how i made it through my first 26 years of life without her.
Tabby is always there to make sure I do not go too crazy with my kindness. Although, most days it doesn’t work. I can get carried away because I have the need to help people and fix things. But she always reminds me that that isn’t why she is my friend. I know that she is my friend for the right reasons, she has always proven herself as an amazing friend and human.
I know this is long and i am sure I am rambling. I am not sure any of this makes sense or if it a jumbled pile of words, but Tabby, i love you so very much and i am so thankful for your friendship and kindness and support.
her tumblr is:
There are certain aspects of my life I don’t usually like to talk about even with people I am close to much less the internet as a whole. A large faceless place where it is so easy to get lost and where sometimes the benefits of being yourself comes with the price tag of anonymous hate. That being said…
About a year and a half ago I was lucky enough to stumble into a group of friends online. One of those friends would end up becoming one of the reasons I am still here today.
I have this friend. Her name is Mel and she is pretty amazing and the part that is terrible is she doesn’t even know she is. I don’t know how she will feel about me writing this but I hope she understands its out of great friendship and appreciation and love that I do.
Mels has always been an extremely kind person with a heart for giving and a need to do the right thing and make people smile. When I first met her it was in an online venue, she was part of a group of friends and we had decided to try and sell out Jason Manns Christmas Stage it. We had a goal, to make sure everyone who wanted to see the show could even if they had no money. So we started picking up “Hitchers” people could couldn’t afford the show. We sold it out…more than once. That was just the beginning.
When so many people are doing things just for attention, her roots are sunk a little deeper. She is always collecting items to give to the homeless or people in need. Sanitary items for women’s shelters, bags of food, water, Every time there is an #AKF campaign a #Yana campaign a #RandomActs fundraiser it is Mels holding contests on her twitter so people who cant afford items can have them. I have seen her order food and have it sent to someone who cant afford to eat that day. I have seen her give up things she wanted to make someone else happy. Its always Mels sacrificing of herself for the bigger picture. Every year she is the one waiting to donate Gishwhes scholarships to people who cant afford them so they can join. Always trying to help. Never wanting to let anyone down.
If you are having a bad day…bless her heart she will look out for you. Make sure you are okay. Even if you are hundreds of miles away. .
Last year my depression was hitting me hard. Too hard, Mels could sense something was wrong when I was texting her on the phone. She understood my “thanks for always being there for me” was a little more final than it should be, And she went to my friends, and she went to someone close to me and she told them she was worried. And I was upset. But she was right. She didn’t call the police and have them drag me out of my house but she told people she knew could help me realize my worth. It was a hard time for me. And I know with her personality “backing off” when someone is in trouble is almost impossible…but she gave me the space when I needed it. She knew I was ashamed of my depression. She understood I felt like an outcast and didnt want people to see this side of me. But she still loved me, like all my friends did. She still supported me.
A few weeks later I got a package in the mail one of the items was a cute 8x11 piece of yellow paper with stickers on it.. It read “You are loved,. I will always be here if you need to talk. Never be afraid to show us all of you.” I put it up on my wall.
TRIGGER WARNING - thoughts of suicide
What a lot of my friends don’t know, is that on New Year’s Eve I was planning to kill myself. I had a plan. I had a place picked out. And it wasn’t a plan that went away. I knew I was going to do it for weeks before hand. And everyday I woke up and I saw that sign. And everyday when I went to bed I saw that sign. And I took a chance. I opened up to someone about my feelings. I didn’t tell Mels I didn’t tell my friends I didn’t want them to be hurt at the idea that I didn’t want to be around anymore than the ides of one more breath on the planet was terrifying to me. The person I talked to, really helped me. And Obviously I made it…Im still here. I am still fighting and trying. And every night…that sign…and every morning that sign. That gift from her. The things I keep from my friends because I worry that they might see me differently but they deserve to know how they all save me a little everyday. They all hold me up and keep me steady in an unsteady world and there in the pack is Mels asking nothing for herself. Silent and steady and never wavering in her friendship to me.
END TRIGGER WARNING
I know this is a really long read and I want to say I am sorry…but I won’t because Mels deserves however long it takes to read this, she deserves it a hundred times over again beyond that. Because so often when people have kind giving hearts people forget that they are just that…hearts. They can be broken need to be handled gently and respectfully. I have seen her heart broken so many times by people who abuse that kindness that she has about her, that take advantage of this innocent wonderful gift she gives the world, And I watch her pure heart ….I watch her fight against how it starts to dim, fight against a world that at every turn seems to try and jade her against it. And I watch her continue to be kind. If everyone turned their backs on me in this world I know that in the end of it all…there would be Mel standing with me. Helping me up again. And what makes me the most proud of her is the fact that it has nothing to do with me. That I know if given the chance she would give help to anyone who asked. No strings attached.
There are far too few people like her in the world and I have seen her get taken advantage of way too much. I would love for her to win this because I think she deserves someone to say “We see you” “You matter as much as those people you try and help”. Even if she doesn’t win…I think people should read this. I think people should see how amazing she is and see that you can be just one person and make a difference. People might look at their lives and think how every small their impact might be and wonder if they will ever change the world. To that I say you can. My world is forever changed because of her.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this. Her tumblr is :
Mellygublerreid.tumblr.com
I keep fighting Melly. Every day. Always
My dearest Tabby. i love you so very much. This means the world to me. Thank you. I am not sure I have the proper words right now to reply. Just….thank you.
| Brave self: | HEY SELF YOU SHOULD TRY THIS NEW THING |
| Anxious self: | BUT NO. It is scary and new and I can't do it. |
| Brave self: | But if you try this new thing you will not be as afraid to try new things. You will be more open to new things in the future and you will gain confidence. |
| Anxious self: | But it is scary and i don't know anyone. New things are scary. |
| Brave self: | LISTEN SELF! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BS. GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THIS HOUSE AND DO THE THING! |
| Anxious self: | WOW. Okay I am guess i will go do the thing. :( BUT I do so under protest. |
| Brave self: | FUCK YEAH I WIN. |
| Anxious self: | :/ wow. |

Bloom.

Jared Padalecki Press Room at Saturn Awards 2016 (x)
gonna have a freakin’ panic attack while watching the damn meet and greet...


((Bats start spazzing out and flying around scaring Zak))
Guy: If you hold your hand up they’ll land on it.
Zak: They’ll WHAT!?
Guy: They’ll land...


