I think the reason why we all hate Metratron so much…beyond the fact that he just fucked everything up…
When he was introduced, we saw a part of ourselves in him.
kevin tran isn’t just a character
kevin tran is a movement
All he needs now is his own “BELIEVE” or “HOPE” Obama-style poster.
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So much love for Lisa in season 6.
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Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.
mierswa kluska.
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S. Ross Browne
Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!
But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.
Also holy shit I love these.
How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?
Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:
um yes
(via fuckyeahhardfemme)
someones going to have to explain to me how “sexist…but fair” is not the most disgusting thing ever uttered like who wrote that and said “yeah people won’t riot against us about it” and how are people in the fandom actually ignoring that line
“Sometimes you get to kill a whore” is worse, though, especially when you consider who said which line and what their roles in the story are.
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I’m going to be posting quite a bit more about this in the near-future, but wanted to get out some thoughts:
What Sam and Dean said during the church at the end was very interesting to me because of what was said and wasn’t said. …
Just Let It Go (spn 8x23 spoilers)
This show began with revenge, and it all escalated from there. Grief, guilt, anger, they all piled on top of each other, making each step of the journey heavier and more difficult. Those that carried that weight did their best to hoist that revenge on their shoulders and soldier on, gritting their teeth and trying to get to the top of that mountain. Some of them collapsed under the weight, and some helped others stand back up; but all of them kept moving forward, convincing themselves that if they can just take one more step they’d reach the end, and their burden would be lifted.
But the top of that mountain can never be reached, because it doesn’t exist. Those carrying that revenge with continue onwards forever, slowly rotting as the grief, guilt and anger seeps into their bones and makes them into the very monsters they’re trying to beat. They either collapse or become twisted; there is no in between.
Unless.
Perfect reading is perfect.
“I did a convention in Seattle. I don’t know what it was I said or what transpired, I don’t know what it was. But people got upset and I feel like it was really unfair, what was said.
First of all, I think the term “queerbaiting” is not accurate. It pissed me off, because I feel…
Bless this post. If there’s a post everyone in fandomland and beyond should read, it’s this one. Especially:
To answer the initial question of “what is queerbaiting”: queerbaiting is raising a queer community’s hope for textual queer representation and then ridiculing and shaming them when they actually ask for it. It’s blurring the line between text and subtext and selling subtext as honest-to-god textual representation. It’s putting scenes like the Aaron scene into the show, in the context of season 8’s queer coding of Dean’s character, and later insisting that the scene was only played for laughs.
That’s not fair. Subtext isn’t text. I don’t want to have to beg for scraps off the table of heteronormativity anymore.
Exactly. Add that to conventions where the cast plays up the “gayness” to befun and entertaining or whatever, but if you try to ask about anything related to queerness in the narrative, you get straight-up booed out of the room.
It’s to the point where (as evidenced by littlehollyleaf’s recent retelling of her convention experience) you can’t even ask about Dean and Cas’s canonical relationship without it being a “risky,” “un-askable” question — as though we’re not allowed to touch the topic or it’ll explode and get icky gayness all over the place. Oh, no, we couldn’t do that — it would make the actors uncomfortable. But look at how they’re making sexual jokes with one another on-stage! How cute! UGH.
I’m just so damn sick of all the shaming. It’s awful. Posts like yours remind me why it hurts so much, and that people have every right to be hurt by it all. Thank you for that.
The booing at NJCon of course is not the responsibility of TPTB, but it is still a symptom of the overall problem; the booing shows us why we need Dean/Cass to stop being so-heavily-implied-it’s-practically-canon and actually get some textually explicit confirmation so that such questions will be legitimized and the subject can be discussed in a mature and thoughtful fashion, in public places like cons, without derailing into “OMG DON’T BRING YOUR PORN FANTASIES HERE.” Because it’s not about porn. It’s about queer fans looking for a home, and right now this fandom is not a safe space. I don’t think we can hope that this fandom will become a safe space until Dean comes out or kisses Cass or the show otherwise drops an romantic anvil so heavy that it can’t be denied.
i received a couple of anons this past week asking if i still believed dean is bi, or that dean/cas is okay to ship, given that the actors and showrunners say and do fucked-up shit steeped in heterosexism. i’ve been trying to think of what advice to give you when it comes to how you approach…
…even though there has been a breaking down of the divide between fandom and tptb over the past five years, make no mistake: fandom is ours.
let me repeat that one too: fandom is OURS. …
THIS.
I’d like to proudly report that my sister is now seriously hooked on Supernatural. (I get a toaster, right?) Tonight we watched “Devil’s Trap” and “In My Time of Dying” and she ended up shaking her fists at the closing credits. She said she understood now why I had marathoned this show.
She also described John Winchester as “an ass” when we were three quarters of the way through “Devil’s Trap” and as “whackadoodle” at about the same point in “In My Time of Dying” — the latter caused me to nearly suffocate myself from trying not to giggle my way through the climactic scenes.
And now I’m off to read the newest chapter of Anarchy in the U.K. (XMFC, Charles/Erik), which I expect will be at least as omg awesome as every previous installment, because Yahtzee is knocking this one out of the park, omg.
Because at the end of the day, you can speculate every second of every day with the brightest minds this universe has ever known, and using all the information that has ever slipped out of Carver’s cold and cruel hands, and still be almost…
sarasarai: “…a theory I had right up until the part when he said it.”
I had exactly that thought process. If it’s good and you’re counting on it, it’s not going to happen, because this is not that kind of show. But then I thought, wait, this is our first season with Carver at the helm—what if it is that kind of show now??
—Supernatural Season 8 Finale: 8.22, The Sacrifice.
—05. 15. 13
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