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badfauxmance · 3 years

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The Blame Game (by Admin)

Sometimes when we accidentally do something, it doesn’t always mean it’s a bad thing. Sometimes we just have to make it clear what we think.

So long story short, one of us had accidentally reblogged something on to Badfauxmance (which is a side blog that is also a group one) rather than on their primary account. We’ve received a couple asks related to this original post, which I as the admin deleted.

There’s a hub bub about whether Sebastian should be blamed for being irresponsible, etc. etc. This blog has already indicated the general opinions of all three of us, but for those of you are new to us or perhaps some people don’t want to dig through our past posts, here we’re going to make it nice and clear for you. Let’s address some of the things fandom has blamed Sebastian for and what our collective response has been. Note this is based on convos I’ve had with my co-writers for weeks on end now. Cut being used because of length.

1) Sebastian is traveling on vacation like there’s no pandemic. WTF is wrong with this selfish ass?!

Yeah we agree this traveling isn’t appropriate. If he was traveling to film a project, then that’s work related and no one should be complaining about him trying to do his day job, which is acting. But there was Tulum and Ibiza. So what do we think about that?

Believe it or not it was actually work related. Considering this whole relationship is a fake PR relationship, he’s being PAID to do it. The ongoing theory we’re working off of is that he’s basically a rent-a-boyfriend for his “girlfriend” who is paying CAA money to have a way more famous guy be her boyfriend and get her attention she’s not able to get by herself. So from that perspective, he’s being paid... just like another acting job. It’s a weird, kind of pathetic job sure. But it is a paying job nonetheless.

Unfortunately travel is involved. If anyone is to be blamed for all this traveling, we really should be blaming the people responsible for this dumpster fire they call a relationship to begin with. Alejandra should also be taking some responsibility because some of the locations like Tulum and Ibiza are the kind of places she typically likes to travel to on her free time. None of us would be surprised if some of these were her idea and the geniuses behind all this agreed to make it happen for her. Ultimately she’s financing all this so what the customer wants, the customer gets I guess.

If we do put any blame on Sebastian? We would blame him for not putting his foot down and making it clear he thinks there should be less traveling going on. THAT is something we think he should have done. He wasn’t being very assertive enough in this situation and it’s biting him in the ass now. It’s a tough lesson to learn, but he had to learn it, didn’t he?

2) Sebastian is dating a racist bitch. What the hell is wrong with him?!

Considering we think this is a fake relationship and Sebastian is basically a rent-a-boyfriend, he’s not actually dating this girl. It’s a fake PR relationship, which as publicist Celeb-as-Fuck has explained in the past, is a business deal. Like any business deal there are contracts involved. Sebastian is obligated to do whatever agreed upon terms were included in said contract or else there’s probably some sort of financial penalties involved.

Based on past behavior with other people, if he was legit dating Alejandra, he would have dumped her months ago and not allow this nonsense to continue for this long. In a sense, we do kind of feel bad he’s stuck in this situation, but there is some blame on his part for agreeing to this in the first place. It’s highly likely he had no idea about her racist behavior and probably only found out when she got exposed on the internet. If we were to blame him for anything about this? He shouldn’t have agreed to do this nonsense in the first place.

3) Sebastian is playing victim when he’s being irresponsible and not admitting he’s done all this unnecessary travel and dating a racist.

Okay we can’t deny he’s being dramatic and not taking SOME responsibility for his situation. However we (and a bunch of other people not just this blog) feel that many others in his fandom are blaming him for things that aren’t actually his fault or not in his control.

I just explained in #1 and #2 that so much of this situation wasn’t organized by him nor does he have control or knowledge (until too late) about his “girlfriend’s” past. It’s the job of PR people to vet and investigate these things. Either he was not told about her past behavior or they did a sloppy job vetting her before advising him about whether or not to do this.

If there’s one thing we’d blame him for? He’s been trusting people on his team for way too long and he seriously should have fired them and gotten new staff to work for him AGES ago. More competent people wouldn’t have let him do this in the first place. Even if he did a fake romance, they would have insisted he did this with someone already in NYC and not a Spanish actress that nobody has ever heard of who insists on traveling everywhere like there’s no pandemic going on.

I can’t control what other people think, but if you feel we’re too “nice” on Sebastian or whatever, then that’s just something you think. If our opinions on Sebastian bothers you too much and you don’t want to follow this blog anymore then that’s fine. However if we receive any hate for expressing our views on our blog, they will be deleted and the sender will probably be blocked. We have plenty of regular asks to answer. We’re not going to give a soap box to someone who wants to be verbally abusive towards us.

#sebastian stan #free sebastian #free sebastian stan #when will this trainwreck stop?#we are counting down to when this contract is over

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incarnateirony · 5 years

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Time for a rant

And some hard fucking truths about this fandom. And shipping culture. And related LGBT issues.

Edit for reblog: Since everybody’s trying to be highkey mad about everything right now, if the cut didn’t warn you, or the title, that this is going to be an unpopular AF opinion you should read all of before jumping to any conclusions, let this edit notice be that. But this post includes a bunch of shit. History I more recently and more fully talked about. The LGBT men I know that won’t touch this fandom with a ten foot pole because of shipping dialogue. And the accidental two season canon Destiel RP troll that we finally snapped and voiced beyond the meta wall from PURE EXHAUSTION.

(related posts in reference: (x) (x) (x) )

we know season great we know season 9 and its potential we know season 10 -- and most of us know its cut scenes humanity, being human, colette, the altar of winchester, the secret admirer, the boyfriends that strapped into the abaddon/colette parallels, all of it we know carver himself wrote the s10 finale and got it to film and then it got cut we know s9 he gave misha a note to play as jilted lovers from the showrunner but then we ask why did this never make it well nobody in fandom was paying attention nobody paid attention to SPN struggling the first seasons nobody paid attention to gamble's era almost getting nuked they all swore up and down this outdated americana show was about to have a queer pairing go canon because, yes, at that point *reads crumbled note* wallpaper

In fact that last one, to this date, no much how much legitimate structural meta or even deadass text current meta fandom breaks down, whether they just study the microcosm of Destiel or the macrocosm of the text with Destiel as a piece of it, can not escape the claims of *reads note again* wallpaper and T-shirts.

one year into Carver who was pulling the show out of the cancellation trashcan and vying for it to continue now that it was on netflix a DUMBASS EXEC wandered into twitter and opted to talk to fans

the goddamn network CEOship had just rotated even

”Well I blame” [disembodied force outside of our own]

no honestly I blame (parts of) pre S9 meta fandom, and I say that as a meta author they had been convincing people of intent for years When these showrunners and even rotating network execs were thrashing for life Like literally even the heads of the CW were changing not even just SPN but some fucking how the “sages” of that era didn’t have any gat damn insight onto how that might influence future engagements So out of the blue a newish network crew gets BLINDSIDED by accusations of queerbait and giant danger articles that are huge PR bombs and it turns into protect the product mode which turned into the new S10 press releases with the spontaneous sexuality field on the characters and half the filmed content ending up on the floor the short end of it is fandom fucked up hard Carver was fighting for them But in result he got a corporate shut down on a product he had ironically exploded globally too well that was earning too much profit too quickly to catch that kind of bad PR Chad Kennedy was a fateful fucking day Ever since then showrunners have had to pitch the idea at corporate when it was a nonissue before And prove why it's a valid move with test groups and marketing You can say "prove it" I really don't have to in this rant, I really do not give a SHIT if you believe me, I don’t CARE if you want to reject what is otherwise logic because I’m not about to throw anybody under a bus I really like not getting people in trouble, but this alone is a glint in the fucking RADAR of how I'm going off.

hell ask yourself why we went from Robbie calling Destiel canon to being eviscerated by queerbait claims because it didn’t fulfill what a specific audience wanted or expected, to deleting his post, to only annual actors free of their contracts daring to talk about Destiel, to corporate shutdowns where it’s crickets until Emily’s return where she’s started YOLO posting about it -- but why, why, why did we go from actual support and discussion to silence that you still rage about

Without the season nine kennedy explosion I'm pretty sure we would have had inarguable destiel canon in season 10 like late s10 Carver passed his torch to Dabb mid S11 where they kept stringing it out and ramping it up within restrictions which is why Dabb runs a very weird fucking line Dabb knows he has no promise of getting it as far as his forebearer wanted or even had written AND FILMED but he will hedge out as many lines, esp with the hand of Berens that Carver originally passed the directorial note with, as he can Wayward was a huge factor in that and tbh my hope died when Wayward died that was a HUGE weight in the network Berens was pulling

I'm at a point where i've conceded to our jane austen novel but want to see how far they take that to completion, though in reality that completion was 13.5/6 that's when I went from like, I passively enjoy and accept this content to screaming into the dumpster it's not the landmark people wanted but story structure wise within how SPN handles it's the sufficient one Recalling Dean's implicative hookups since like season six I mentioned on one hand The fact that they went full circle and bookended it in direct script mirror to Lisa after the S13 lead in would be amply sufficient to het drama and I refuse to enable hets running around the goalpost on queer people I would love better open blunt representation but I also recognize the genre of the show It's something Dean and I struggle with our server actually DeanCas have been canon for a season and a half here but maintaining that without taking a distracting romantic genre tilt or whatever is its own form of challenge We write established relationship openly, without bars, to the point we DMed each other for months like WHEN WILL THEY CATCH ON WTF but the problem, ironically, is that it's so parallel to the show nobody caught on

which really, though it didn't start as a conscious experiment, and was natural tells me everything I need to know even wiping what I knew on production and itk ends even if I just had that it says e v e r y t h i n g I have literally watched people laugh track completely serious content, because it's gay ergo it's funny LGBT people. Shippers.

I wrote subtle lines. They got ignored. I wrote blunt lines. They flew past heads. I wrote lines designed to be overt to the point of painful. They got laughed off. Het culture is a hell of a drug. Both in this RP and in how we interpret romances like DeanCas, even LGBT people and shippers, because people are expecting performative results and statements where either for the former they don't fit the show or genre or for the latter, there's some sort of restriction or imposition but there's authors writing their gay little hearts out and tearing their hair out after.

I've been the author tearing my hair out until I wrote a Cas, explicitly, in a moment, to be as blunt and straightforward and unmistakable as I could, to the point I felt I was bending the character to even make it happen, and debated my options for like ten minutes before doing it, just to free myself of this purgatory. And STILL got a wash of questions wanting me to *confirm* the content they just saw instead of going, gee, that’s PROBABLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.

Dabb is fighting the good gay fight and being woefully under respected for it, with Berens as his copilot, carrying a torch given to him by Carver, but people are too wrapped up in a mix of prior bitterness, performative culture, personal demands and shipping culture to see the forest for the trees, because he's deadass just writing an established fucking relationship but people would rather yell either queerbait or destroying the relationship. PR deadass pitched Absence like a het breakup drama and nobody blinked, just yelled how mean it was

Am I hinging my hopes on hammer-on-head-overt-canon-kissing-scene-DeanCas for the final season, no. Would I be surprised if it happened, knowing the execs? No, beyond breaking past corporate walls fandom dropped like a curtain in S9

But considering how "fuck performative culture" Berens is, as a gay man, fangirls absolutely should not fucking expect that either in even the most wild "the chains are broken, burn it all" method

Every queer man I know ships Destiel. Simultaneously, every queer man I know fucking loathes the sum of shipping culture with a vengeance.

Because it's grossly out of touch with MLM and is mostly WLW people trying to speak for what they think MLM should be when we already pretty much have the MLM right there.

YOU WANNA KNOW HOW THE ACTUAL QUEER MEN I KNOW SEE HOW THIS FANDOM HANDLES DESTIEL DESPITE BEING AVID SHIPPERS WHO SEE IT AS CANON ALREADY AND GET SCREAMED DOWN?

And since everyone likes to imagine the straight male audience as some borg, have a straight male friend exploding when someone called a fandom speakpiece a trainwreck. Bless his heart for not getting what queer or bi really mean situationally but his heart’s in the right place

I’m tired. Tired of trying to illustrate this to an audience I realized I have never once in my life been straight-coded enough to incorporate myself to much less understand the lensing of. Tired of watching queer men that I know who love this shit hide away in the recesses of DMs to hide from conversations lest they be accused of being homophobes or whatever by people refusing to read context, and/or just be smacked down by actual homophobes or just deadass rival shippers that refuse to see anybody be happy with something they don’t like in something that was never realistically a rivalry to begin with, because rivalry implies relative equality-ish and while all ships are equal in fanon, they aren’t necessarily in canon, and despite the thrashing and baying of antis this isn’t and will never just be a “fanon ship.”

Unpopular opinion but the biggest enemy to LGBT people isn't hets, it's the LGBT community, because we're too busy invalidating own own content and creators to make a truly unified front against het culture (or in this case, the network), and waving a flag with a lot of letters doesn't do anything to fix that. Yelling online into tumblr doesn’t fix that. @’ing creatives who have no power in this beyond the option to drop any attempt at queer resonant content cold turkey for you all to yell at them about THAT too doesn’t fix it.

No, yes, DeanCas are perfectly valid as Thebian warriors where one is clearly ace spectrum and the other is bisexualish if repressed as long as they are clearly enamored with and engaged with each other; no, nobody needs to fulfill anybody's migrating quota list when every romantic checkbox has been hit already that would be respected if they're het; would coming out statements in this sort of complicated relationship be great, sure, but they aren't in the kind of show that even addresses that and there's no way to make them even perform as the isolationists that they are without breaking or damaging the characters, not in the public eye, not in a show that hasn't shown a single sexual dean encounter for six-plus seasons for any other reason than to highlight a major traumatic problem in his life.

No, I wasn’t “hiding my gays.” My gays just didn’t have their bedroom times put on blast while they even openly made comments about the nature of their relationship everybody flagged down because they weren’t making out in front of everyone, even if that hand *did* drag a shoulder too long, even if Dean *Did* inexplicably drag a naked flatlining human Cas into the FUCKING med bay out of the Dean Cave at like 6 AM in the morning. Yes, your dedication to talking down content is that fucking loud even if you don’t realize it.

SPN is never going to be a show where the characters distinctly identify "I'm a nonbinary demiman ace-spectrum demisexual" and "i'm an aromantic bisexual with a female inclination", it's just not, stop trying to make it happen, it isn't gonna happen, realistically they are not the kind of people to engage gender politics, they're just going to be themselves. And it's queer, and it's beautiful. Fandom needs to stop moving goalposts because it's becoming more and more transparent. They just need to __. Go to dinner, check, have lingering touches walking past each other, check, admit love for one or the other, check, watches the goalpost run off into the horizon Kiss, you mean kiss, you want them to kiss, but Dean hasn't had that in how many years and what was the framing of the last moment of that.

SPN isn't about romance. Antis are right in that. But romance exists in SPN and one needs to mind the framework of it to not tilt the entire central focus of a genre show. One can have romance without being about romance, but people need to be conscious of what that means before they advocate about it. When Ruby or Anna were around they were dangerously close to becoming "about romance" which is why there was such a goddamn fit because these women were clearly tailor crafted to be plugged into a light/dark parallel in the back of the Impala

They haven't had a kissing-based romance in SPN for eight years. Ten if you cut past Lisa as a literal prop.

And if we wanna demand creator confirmation before we consider ace-y romances valid we'll talk about the biromantic commentary of S8 or the jilted lovers of S9 or the confirmed parallels of S10 or any of the overt shit after that, which got hit by marketing walls. We had that. They got yelled at for queerbait. Because it didn't hit people's quota. So we yet again hit a wall. Shipping fandom exhausts me. And I say that as a DeanCas shipper

I am literally watching people run their own goalposts around all the goddamn time Cas is so much more than becoming background commentary in the back of the impala like ruby and anna were geared to be He's his own goddamn individual, currently all but free of the wants and lusts of man from food to sleep to drink to urination to sex to PBJ, but deeply enamored -- per actual citation on the S8 DVD -- with humanity by proxy of a man he's given everything for Dean is a complicated individual who is growingly aware of his tug and pull with Cas on all emotional spectrums but has never once cheapened him to just being a sexual tool, reasons of which we can headcanon away, but he's never turned Cas into one of his bad coping mechanisms like Porn Star or Amazon or Deanmon's Fling And those, plus one waitress and a vague strip club incident in grief he came home from, sum up his post-lisa excursions, from a man who used to lay a different woman every episode in early seasons WelCoME to mlm cuLTURE In the actual L for love, not lust because kinda like jensen's headcanon of prostitute Dean there's even a chapter of feeling tossed away that's not what it's a b o u t and never was so performative DeanCas enrages me genuinely And if people have a genuine kink okay I guess but like, admit that's what it is. Otherwise assess the actual state and stasis of the characters in play and the cultural/gender issues involved, because it's soooo often either WLW or straight girls looking at MLM and deciding what they think it should be and it m i s s e s t h e m a r k b y a a m i l e and then the gay dudes hide in nooks or get besgieged by fangirls or are a Ben and avoid fandom entirely best Deans I've ever written with were with gay dudes tbh Kemi got the art of it enough to pre-write some scenes before they ever aired but there's elements that just vanish into the aether with either queer women or straight dudes. Different parts disappear Never had a straight girl write a Dean, don't intend to ever try wE nEed RepResEntAtiOn [sweeps hand at the show] if people stop running their goalposts around to the calls of straight girls, homophobes, and shipping culture it's right there. Is it monumental and groundbreaking, no, but SPN started as an outdated callback piece to begin with and has vaulted into the almost-current, so let's check ourselves in what we expect out of it. It's not gonna be a banner. But it's content actual queer men AVIDLY invest themselves in only to be told it's not enough/whatever in a world where there is dangerously low bi male representation, most is gay male, and most of that is hugely problematic stereotype easily replaced by a rainbow lamp wearing a boa and a sticky note pointing people towards plot. And in generous cases, are like Malec, which are a mix of creepy and stereotype. Yes let's nevermind the ancient warlock drawing the 18 year old dude into the allure of his thick eyeliner and glimmer and spandex pants, nothing to see here folks. but somehow we've reached a point as a culture that the above is considered better than "ageless deity becomes enamored with humanity through bond with one man, falling into him regardless of gender, surrendering all it knows to become like that man and protect that man, and becoming like unto a man, and learning the ways of man, through all classic romantic tropes known to man, and even classic endings and bookends of all romances given to man, only to settle in to a stable relationship baseline with a man, after sharing courtship gifts with a man" just because somebody, some fucking where, in a mix of bitterness, homophobia, and goalpost moving decided "public kiss or it doesn't count" even if we're left to wonder how that timeless thing knew what was under his pillow he kept safe that he came into his room and played him to get after a classic romantic gift.

Stop. It.

Yall may be wanting to victim pose because somebody else convinced you that you were a victim here but I’m a middle aged person willing to view history and accept basic FUCKING responsibility.

Because there’s a distinct fucking difference between “victim blaming” and “have some perspective and some basic adult responsibility in the unfolding of history as it happened rather than reframing it post-event because somebody else convinced you that’s what happened”.

The only people anyone is victims of in this fandom is people they took the word of as gospel without them having any sort of actual developmental insight at the time.

You wanna play victim?

Take it up with them.

As a modern meta author that primarily deals with actual legend and theology mytharc with a side of DeanCas structure I STILL run in to walls from antis erected by the people before me that did, indeed, use the methods they whip up as excuses, so if you’re gonna victim pose, I’m just as much of a victim of those people as you are, difference is I wasn’t enough of a follower to believe them when they preached “performative queer canon gospel to meet fangirl hetnorm performative demands of MLM we mainstreamed into our basic expectations because somebody told us to” at the time or now or ever.

In fact, here’s the conversation that LED INTO THIS RANT.

CastielToday at 12:27 AM Old SPN has its values in a form of nostalgia or genre-searching it had a sort of drifter grifter americana vibe the later seasons lost

GarthToday at 12:27 AM Ah, early 2000's

CastielToday at 12:28 AM Well it's more than just year it was definitely a genre piece back then

GarthToday at 12:28 AM No, I know, but shows that span a long time you can track in it where you can tell writers styles started clashing in a way

CastielToday at 12:28 AM and that genre was pretty much dead at that point so even when it was new, it induced nostalgia "This is familiar I miss this where did this go" but in being so oldschool as it aged forward it aged worse and worse against the modern and Misha was the first bolt that really sparked a dynamic shift it was a breath of fresh air that carried it through kripke's plan and almost doubled its respective viewership in scale but still kept the old spirit Gamble desperately tried to capture that spirit but did not understand the actual essence of that spirit and budget restrictions didn't help due to twitter buzz she thought that spirit was "just duh brudders" which is dangerously reductionist

GarthToday at 12:30 AM Hey, Misha saved it in more then one way.

CastielToday at 12:30 AM the brothers were ironic vehicles for that spirit that gave it faces but it was a weird form of american dream that america hadn't realized its dream had warped into 50 years ago the american dream was a 3/2 bed bath and business degree

StarfiraToday at 12:31 AM I don't get how Gamble thought Misha's Cas was expendable. She just couldn't get her mindset out of s1-3 mentality I guess.

CastielToday at 12:31 AM but as that became labored with culture and debt the american dream drifted into freedom, exploration and the road with some sense of familiarity in classics, be it cars or music

GarthToday at 12:31 AM Funny, I can watch some episodes and go "huh... well... it gets better" and that says a lot that I view Se1-3 like that

CastielToday at 12:32 AM Once security was no longer a security, and people became anchored by their illusions of security into desperate survival to maintain that illusion of security, the idea of roadster americana was the new american dream

GarthToday at 12:32 AM Hmmm good point

Aryn Prime #TokenStraight😘Today at 12:32 AM I just looked at spn Facebook comments and geeeezzz

GarthToday at 12:33 AM I keep having to remind myself about a few details outside of SPN because being able to just wait for Netflix to get a new season then rewatch it all from the beginning has made me have a different view then others.

CastielToday at 12:33 AM So especially to the older generation older SPN has a strong nostalgic value you were lik six when it aired so that era is gone to you

GarthToday at 12:34 AM Yeah, 1996 Nov is me

Aryn Prime #TokenStraight😘Today at 12:34 AM One dude on Facebook said he resents that the actors have kids since he heard that part of the reason that it's ending is because J2M want more time with their families Wtf

CastielToday at 12:34 AM Whereas when it first aired

GarthToday at 12:34 AM I first watched when I was 14

CastielToday at 12:34 AM it was reflecting an age lost

GarthToday at 12:34 AM Aryn, wtf?

CastielToday at 12:34 AM to people desperately trying to find it but in reflecting old times it aged very poorly Gamble still didn't understand what made the appeal so regressed it to brothers without that true americana vibe while culling Cas which was a disaster

GarthToday at 12:35 AM See, it's like the same thing on how I can enjoy some older shows while understanding that it no longer works anymore. Older shows don't age well normally. And yeah, Se7 hahahahahahahhahahahahaha man once I stepped back and looked at the details of season 7 during the third rewatch I was like "hmm..... yeah. this sucks."

StarfiraToday at 12:36 AM I graduated high school in 2000 so those of you were kids when you watched SPN make me feel old. LOL

GarthToday at 12:36 AM lmao

CastielToday at 12:37 AM MOOD STAR MOOD

StarfiraToday at 12:37 AM AT LEAST I'M NOT ALONE WITH THESE YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS

CastielToday at 12:37 AM You were probably in the generation that if you had tuned in when it was fresh you would have been like OH I REMEMBER THIS

GarthToday at 12:37 AM LMAO

CastielToday at 12:37 AM I MISS THIS it's not by fluke that Dean's theme song is literally titled Americana

GarthToday at 12:38 AM Ah yes.... the theme song....

CastielToday at 12:38 AM It was a whole beautiful craft

StarfiraToday at 12:38 AM I'm actually in between Dean and Sam's ages

CastielToday at 12:38 AM But it had to get with the times and Gamble took it in the worst direction possible

StarfiraToday at 12:39 AM I was born in 82

CastielToday at 12:39 AM Carver... people have their issues with carver but IMO he recovered the show as well as he could with the plate he was handed in the times he was There were still problems sure

GarthToday at 12:39 AM It's gone through some ups and downs, yep.

CastielToday at 12:39 AM but to boot out of Gamble era into the modern world was no small task The WAY HE HANDLED THE PR he basically was like THAT SHIT WAS A HOT MESS AND I FLUSHED IT but eloquent it was some shit like REWATCHING THE LAST FEW YEARS I REALIZED THAT OUR LORE HAS BECOME A BIT DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW SO I DECIDED TO REVISIT MORE FAMILIAR ELEMENTS

GarthToday at 12:40 AM When the people working on the show go "shit, I forgot to make notes"

CastielToday at 12:40 AM It's not that Carver didn't make notes

StarfiraToday at 12:40 AM Oh man were so ecstatic when Carver was announced as a showrunner. Ultimately, he let me down in s9 and s10 but s8? Season 8 will always have a special place in my heart.

CastielToday at 12:41 AM it's that there was no kind way to voice that Gamble was a disaster He had a three year plan and for reasons™ got even derailed in that plan and half of it ended up in the cut footage Destiel fandom do not like hearing my take about it I'm a shipper but I recognize

StarfiraToday at 12:41 AM Is season 8 perfect? Nope, but I don't think it's easy to describe what breath of fresh air it was after the shit show of season 7 to those who weren't there when it was airing live and binged through it

CastielToday at 12:41 AM yall fucked up b a d nobody will ever own responsibility for it but carver's intent is clear as day on the creatives wall and season 9/10 became a fustercluck as a result I want everybody in this room to think about this from a creatives angle, first carver then corporate Carver said when he joined he had a three year plan with final notes on his desk from the second he walked in the door again he entered in season eight We know what happened seasons eight, nine, ten on screen

GarthToday at 12:43 AM Yeah, Star, I don't have as many problems with the seasons as others do because hello Netflix, but I can see where the issues are after some explaining and some insight into the PR stuff that happened with the fandom points at Min and others like her

CastielToday at 12:43 AM we know season great we know season 9 and its potential we know season 10 -- and most of us know its cut scenes humanity, being human, colette, the altar of winchester, the secret admirer, the boyfriends that strapped into the abaddon/colette parallels, all of it we know carver himself wrote the s10 finale and got it to film and then it got cut we know s9 he gave misha a note to play as jilted lovers from the showrunner but then we ask why did this never make it well nobody in fandom was paying attention nobody paid attention to SPN struggling the first seasons nobody paid attention to gamble's era almost getting nuked they all swore up and down this outdated americana show was about to have a queer pairing go canon because, yes, at that point reads crumbled note wallpaper

GarthToday at 12:46 AM Urgh, gotta go help with dinner prep. Mom doesn't like me being on Discord lately so I'm going to have to cut out now guys. Min, I'll catch up to your info drop afterwards lmao

since that still surprising some people too.

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arofili · 6 years

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legolas or celebrimbor??

celebrimbor doesn’t have a tumblr, he made that shit. he and narvi are @staff.

(well. they were @staff…)

leg …. pre fellowship

their blog url

green-leaves-in-a-green-forest

(or something equally long and horrendously hyphenated and fake poetic)

the kind of posts they reblog

random shit he finds amusing

like, cat pictures and social justice posts from 2013

no theme at all

i would never follow him

the first person they followed

tauriel

she convinced him to get a tumblr because of the memes

a year later, she regrets this immensely

she matured and has a better blog that she doesn’t even use much

legolas is the exact same.

what kind of theme they’d have

tumblr default theme

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

he will wake up in the middle of the night and post about the dreams he just had, but without any context

“made some chocolate milk with the lady who pulls the sun. tasted like weed. also, that one girl who i thought i had a crush on in 3rd grade was there. awkward.”

“sweating so much!! just ran a marathon with my dad while we were being chased by oliophaunts. the racetrack turned into a river halfway through. we won!!”

he thinks he’s funny

(he’s not.)

leg …… during fellowship

their blog url

he privated his blog for the first part of the journey because he thought it would be safer

after a few weeks he gets bored and starts liveblogging this shit

at that point his url becomes “fellowshipoftheleg”

his blog title is “Eight Idiots And A Gorgeous Elf Save The World”

“Hello! My name is Legolas Greenleaf. I am currently on a quest to save the world. The details are ~secret~ but I needed a place to vent so here we go. My companions are all idiots, except for me. My interests include….”

you know the type of subtitle i’m talking about.

the kind of posts they reblog

he basically stops reblogging and only makes original posts during this period of time

the liveblog

legolas had >300 followers before this, but his posts about his journey start to gain traction

his liveblog is pretty much petty complaints at first

he talks shit about gimli

he cracks “jokes” about boromir

(again. he’s not funny)

he reports on the weird stuff gandalf does

he gushes over the adorable hobbits

(until one day he accidentally bumps into frodo and sam tries to jump him.

he’s a little afraid of them after that.)

he quotes aragorn like there’s no tomorrow

some of these are like, actually deep

most of them sound like stuff from inspirobot

or they’re stupid inside jokes

everyone gets code names, cuz legolas isn’t that stupid

gandalf is “old man”

aragorn is “the bro”

boromir is “angstlord”

the hobbits go through tons of nicknames

“itty bitties”

“curly boys”

tiny monsters

eventually they get their own, but by that point the fellowship has split

gimli is “asshole dwarf”

after a few weeks… he becomes weirdly popular.

his story reads like a trollfic, with stupid plot twists and bizarre anecdotes

this mostly is anecdotes, not the full scope of the quest

he mostly makes text posts, with a few pictures here and there

every now and then he’ll post a snapshot of the fellowship roasting marshmallows

or a selfie of him in lothlorien

or a sneaky pic of him drawing dicks on boromir’s face while he’s asleep

he used to be low-profile, but shit’s gone whack.

he’s gaining hundreds of followers a day

his top post has half a million notes.

he’s a tumblr “cewebrity”

everyone on tumblr thinks this is just a story, not real life

people dig through his old posts looking for clues and foreshadowing

they’re baffled by the dedication the mod of the blog has to building up this “legolas” character

or they’re puzzled by the mod’s decision to turn this shit blog into a dedicated storytelling platform

legolas is bombarded with asks and @ mentions

but like…this bitch don’t actually know how to use this website.

he can make a post and reblog one

but that’s literally it

he’s the kind of blogger who leaves stupid captions on popular posts

he can’t figure out how tags work

he’s never heard of xkit

all his asks go unanswered

he’s only sort of aware of what’s going on

he’s blogging 100% from mobile, which makes it even worse

the Legolas Fandom goes buckwild

there is not enough time in the day to over it all

ship wars.

fan theories.

headcanon drama.

it’s a mess.

and again, legolas has no clue that this is going on.

when he catches feelings for gimli…things get insane.

he writes gushy, cringy, angsty posts about gimli

he posts pics of gimli with flower crowns

he composes bad poetry about gimli

the fan base is infuriated.

they’d all been shipping him with aragorn.

and like, no one in the fellowship has a fucking clue this is happening.

at least, not until they get to

it’s ironic that Isolated Horseblr User eowyn is the first one to recognize legolas

she finally gets up the courage to ask him about it

“has someone been stealing your selfies, or…?”

he is astonished.

if Leg could, he’d shut down the whole thing

even if eowyn had wanted to help him do that, he’s just in too deep

he’s in this for the long haul.

now, Legolas starts to make shit up.

that’s when his popularity tanks.

he’s getting callouts

he’s everyone’s “problematic fav”

people dig through his blog to find dirt instead of clues

Legolas is more aware of this now, and he pouts for days

then gimli, a Twitter-Only lad, finally sees a masterpost explaining everything

he connects the dots way quicker than anyone else did

and oh fuck.

he’s frantically tweeting–

“wtf do i do??”

“i think i’m the asshole dwarf??”

“but he’s like in love with the asshole dwarf now??”

“oh my god, my crush likes me back??”

“has he been liveblogging EVERYTHING??”

eventually he deletes it all and decides to confront legolas

the leg boy caves under pressure and spills the beans.

they figure their personal shit out

of course, aragorn knew everything all along.

at least, that’s what he says

gimli takes over the liveblog for a day and everyone goes nuts.

together, he and leg decide that they’ve got to end this fake-ish story

even though they don’t know the ending of the real one.

for someone who’s never used it before, gimli picks up tumblr etiquette quickly

and on mobile. that’s a whole nother level of perseverance.

he starts streamlining shit, collecting information, making use of fan masterposts

he ties all the loose ends together

with a little bit of help from legolas to make it suitably weird, they close the story strong with a bang and a kiss.

aragorn finds their version of events…amusing.

after the real dust settles and the news stories about the Real Quest hit the press…

now legolas is a Real Actual Celebrity

his fans new and old start to see…similarities between the two stories

plagiarism?

insider info?

conspiracy?

coincidence?

no one can decide.

leg ………… post fellowship

their blog url

Legolas has three blogs now.

“fellowshipoftheleg” is kept as an archive. he doesn’t post there anymore.

he has a secret personal blog, “greenwood-gossip”, that he just posts random shit on like before.

and finally he has a Real Life Famous Person Tumblr Blog, “legolasgreenleaf”

the kind of posts they reblog

with the help of gimli and tauriel, he figures out how to actually use this website.

like most celeb blogs this one doesn’t post much

but he does reblog edits of himself and of his friends

every time he’s asked about fellowshipoftheleg he answers that he is not responsible for it and has no idea about it and would you all please stop asking about it.

the first person they followed

aragorn’s new Famous Person account.

this blog is deactivated after two months because he never uses it.

what kind of theme they’d have

something that should be really classy but with awkward shades of green

like, it had potential but again…legolas has a terrible eye for design

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

he doesn’t usually make original posts

but sometimes he’ll complain about gimli’s weird habits

and once - just once - he confessed that he was the one who ran that liveblog all those years ago

he deleted the post an hour later, but there were screenshots.

legolas is the Ultimate Troll.

#leg #legolas #tolkiensquad #cirth ithil #tefain nin #my writing #this got OUT OF CONTROL #this is why ive been taking so long to answer these lol #answers #ask games #celebrimbor #LONG POST #id put it under a cut but it would mess up the format #also it would get less notes that way rip #my fic #beyond the battles

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Someone blocked me!

This has to be the first person to ever block me, or at least the first person I noticed that has blocked me. I actually have no idea why because I never actually spoke to them before. I only noticed because they are still showing up on my dash from my followees as the OP, but when I try to reblog them, I get a “this post cannot be reblogged” error. At first, I was like “Wtf is this error? Oh welp,” and I would just forgo reblogging it. This error kept happening and for just one specific user so I was like “Hm? Why’s that?” so I directly went into their blog in a new tab and tried to reblog from them. Same error. Then I checked their blog from the dash by clicking on the OP’s username via my followee’s post, and it's an empty blog that says “this tumblr is content-free.“ I put two and two together and realized “OooOOOoOoOOoooHHHh, I’m blocked!”

Oh man, this is irking me because, like, I WANNA KNOW WHY. But I also don’t wanna send someone over there to ask because it might seem creepy and/or aggressive. Also what if the reason why is stupid and/or it’s something that I might not want to hear? Although I’m curious and so I shall provide a list of my theories to sort of work it out.

1. I actually recognize their blog because they used to tag the crap out of me in an attempt to get me to reblog them and I guess give them some more reblogs and/or follows from my own followers. They would have an image and a huge list of other blogs tagged in the text area (not the tag area) trying to get their attention. I would just ignore them because I didn’t want to reblog that huge list of tags. Maybe they are offended that I was ignoring them.

2. A bunch of blogs used to do this, but I don’t see that anymore. I can’t remember if they were one of the ones I reblogged from my followees, but I deleted the entire block of text with the 20+ tags of other blogs and reblogged just the picture a few times. If they were one of those blogs, maybe they’re pissed I deleted their block of tags and/or source info. I mean, I always leave source info. but I can’t edit it and leave just the source while deleting the tags, so I was left with deleting the entire thing. Now, if they were to make an original post with the source, then reblog that post and add their huge list of tags, then I can go to the original post and reblog that instead. But they didn’t do that, so *shrugs*.

3. @celestinesane said that it might be I said something they didn’t approve of. I don’t make many personal posts anymore, but maybe they went into my archive, found some personal posts from way back when, read it, and realize they didn’t like me. That’s fair, that’s fair. Though does that really warrant a block? I mean, if it was me, there would be a few things I would do besides blocking. I feel that blocking is quite a big-dealtm and should be reserved as a last resort. See, if it was me I would just scroll on by the personal posts if I continue to like other content. If I just cannot agree with what kind of person they are in their personal posts, and that feeling prevents me from supporting their other content, then I would just unfollow (though I’m not sure if this person ever followed me to begin with). If I don’t even want to see them on my dash at all, I would blacklist them on tumblr savior. The only time I would block anyone was for bullying, harassment, spam, bots, plagiarizing my fanfics, etc. The only time someone’s personality would completely put me off is if they were just a horrible, evil human being, so bad that I don’t want anything to do with them, that I don’t even want my name on their dash via them reblogging me, then they would warrant a block. I don’t think I’m that bad, but maybe they feel I am.

4. Maybe I offended one of their friends somehow and they decided to block me in support of their friend. I know there’s a few people I have offended, but most of them were years ago, and they fell out of the fandom years ago as well. This user hasn’t been around that long, only been here a few months. Though, if it was me, if someone offended my bestie, and that bestie decided to ask me to cut ties in solidarity with her, then I would just unfollow the offender and blacklist them so I won’t accidentally reblog them (as long as this is a person that I don’t know. If a friend offended a friend, then I’m staying out of it and not picking a side, unless the offender did something genuinely horrible). If I was being super supportive and the bestie requested that I delete everything I ever reblogged from that person, I would do it up until a few months because I’m too lazy to go through my entire archive. Though my bestie here wouldn’t do that for me; won’t even delete the reblog that was just posted today lmao. Though if my bestie requested I block the offender, I won’t do that unless they did something pretty damn terrible and a block is necessary.

5. I was accidentally blocked. That’s all I got *shrugs* I can’t think of other reasons.

#personal post

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cath100 · 6 years

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My personal Sherlolly fanfic bests so far...: 2017

I started making this list in 2014 and updated it in 2015 and in early 2017 as 2016 update. This is 2017 update, belated again, with a few additions to each category. The new items (not necessarily published in 2017) are in bold.

The categories have been developed out of those in the original SAMFA held in 2012 and 2013, but now looks rather different. This list is based on my personal preferences. Also, I haven’t read ALL Sherlolly stories. (Who can?) So it is never intended to be authoritative or exhaustive.

The stories with an asterisk are not complete. (M) indicates respective author’s own rating, some for explicit sexual expression, others for some other reasons.

Please reblog if you like it! Many many thanks!

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I Told You So by Writingwife83

A saga here refers to a series of multi-chapter fics that traces the couple’s history.

By coloradoandcolorado1

The Lonely

Broken Pieces

The Distance

Innuendo (M)

Monster

Overkill

Dark Reaches of the Night

What Lies Ahead*

By Flaignhan

Schoolgirl Crush

Nadir

Miracles

Full Circle

Honesty

Dust in the Air

By Gypsy Rose2014

Gabriel’s Wish

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M)

Ginger Lollipops*

Wishes (M)

A Summer Story* (M)

Trimming the Tree

Under the Mistletoe* (M)

By thedragonaunt

Life After Death - A Post-Reichenbach Trilogy

Part One - Aftermath (M)

Part Two - Consequences

Part Three - Unfinished Business

Demon (M)

Mother Love (M)

The Other Woman (M)

Loose Ends (M)

Gold (M)

Stolen (M)

Fatal Breath

Holmes for Christmas

Until Death (M)

Grounded*

Quiet Sunday

Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Blue Christmas (M) by MrsMCrieff

Catching a Runaway Bride by TheSapphireSky

Days May Not Be Fair by darthsydious

Her Own Tale of Love by theheartofadetective

Sleepy Beauty by PlatinumNib

So This is Love by onceinabluemoon0013

The Knight’s Return by theSappyireSky

The Professor and Mr Holmes by likingthistoomuch

The Pulse Says It All (M) by SherlollyShock

The Queen’s Man by writingwife83

Always Molly by LaMorenaReina

Back-up Plans by EllisHendricks

Not So Little by PhoebeSnow

The Sherrinford Tale by Millie 1985

Did You Miss Me, Molly Hooper? by Sherlocked-Fangirl-x

Fireplay for Beginners* by hobbitsdoitbetter

Landing on His Feet* by Vitawash

Outlaw by AsteraceaeBlue

Sorcerer’s Apprentice* by patemalah21

The Ghost and Molly Hooper* by Doctor WTF

The Honest Thief by hobbitsdoitbetter

The Pirate and the Doctor (M) by Petra Todd

When White Petals Fall* by Irisang

City of Dreams (M) by MrsMCrieff

Double Cross by steffy2106

Fatal Breath by thedragonaunt

Just Human by Lanceletta

Monster by coloradoandcolorado1

The Return by D. A. Smith

The Detective and the Debutante* by EloiseAtThePlaza

The Lark Ascending by whirligigkat

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Blind Ambition by OpalSkyLoveDivine

Dear Sherlock, by MudbloodPride

Deconstructing Death by Emmyjean

Demon (M) by thedragonaunt

Dust in the Air by Flaignhan

In the End (M) by Lono

Long Way to You by Lanceletta

Pulling Strings by AuntDidi

Racing Daylight by Flaignhan

The Journey by Abisian

Through the Looking Glass by SherlollyShock

Down Under by cactusnell

Gentlemen at War by Quarto

Message Received by Emmyjean

My, How you’ve grown, in a world of pure imagination by lilsherlockian1975

The Accidental Boyfriend by lizzieBdarcy

The Custody Agreement of an Adorable Calico Demon by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The Million Dollar Shot by milkforthesouffles

The Natural Science of Happiness Hormones by cactusnell

The Wiggins Chronicles by lilsherlockian1975

Winds of Change by Writingwife83

I haven’t been in the mood to read angsty stories for quite a while. So no addition to this category this time. Sorry!

Always and Never (M) by theheartofadetective

Asylum (M) by Adi Who is Also Mou

Far from the Tree by Petra Todd

Our beginnings Never Know Our Ends by Elixir.BB

Return to Me by MizJoely

Schoolgirl Crush by Flaignhan

Telling the Bees by satin_doll

The Beekeeper by Ditsypersephone

A Beautiful Mind by jankmusic

As You Wish by Alydia Rackham

Beyond Words by SilverGlimmers

Delicious by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

I Will Try to Fix You by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Louder than Words by Samwise221b

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

Smoke Damage by cactusnell

The Attribute of the Strong by Bellarsam Chrisjulittle

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

More (M) by Liberi Ad Somnia

Mother Love (M) by thedragonaunt

Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

On Paper by MizJoely

On the Side of the Angels by Supervillegirl

The Family Detective by I 4 2 write

Tiny Ways by Flaignhan

WillyougooutwithmeMollyplease by Dreamin

Each in Its Own Fields* by dietplainlite

Fireplay for Beginners* by hobbitsdoitbetter

Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Mr Holmes and His Maid by Silencebeyondthestars

(The author has deleted this story on major fan fiction sites and it is not available anywhere on the web now. I’m keeping this in my list, though, because Molly in this story is so powerful and convincing. Hope the author will put it back somewhere in the future.)

Pulling Strings by AuntDidi

Secrets by Fiji Dreamer

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

Tinderbox by Anne Louise 2000

Training Session by cactusnell

Arthur in Of Bellstaff’s and Twigs by rainbow letters

Benjamin in I’m Out Here by Fayth3

Gabriel in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Georgina in Uncle Mycroft by TheSapphireSky

Lydia in Lydia Listens by MizJoely

Melisande in Daughters, Sherlolly Family by Maejones

Olivia in All You Have by blogyourfeelings

Penelope in Sherlock’s Near Death Experience by jankmusic

Scarlet in Ginger Lollipops* by Gypsy Rose2014

Scott in All We Have by writingwife83

Will in Defining Family by GunterRae

William in Life after Death Part Three: Unfinished Business by thedragonaunt

A Dogs Life by TheSapphireSky

Gentlemen at War by Quarto

Overdressed for the Occasion, in The Anthology by jankmusic

Sherlock v Toby: Winner Take Molls by MizJoely

The Cat Clause, in Negotiations by HeayPuckett

The Diary of a Small Angry Pathologist by lilsherlockian1975

The New Doctor by writingwife83 (Toby makes his appearance from Chapter 4 onwards.)

Toby and His New Pet by Moonunit

Whose Flat Is It Any Way? in A Window into Change by Writingwife83

Blackbeard in A Dogs Life by TheSapphireSky

Cat in Of Small Boys and Sandwiches* (M) by Gypsy Rose2014

Delfina in Untitled Tumblr post by jankmusic

Molly Cocker in New Can at the Pack, Sherlolly Archives (M) by MoniMcCoy

Redbeard in Benefits of Boredom by Writingwife83

Redbeard in Epilogue of In the Quiet Places (M) by Kyerie

Readbeard in Quiet Sunday by thedragonaunt

Smaug in A Dog Fit for Sherlock Holmes by FluffySherlollyFan119

Toby in Loss Restored by Amalia Kensington

I don’t normally read many of this kind, but these are so compelling as a story. I have no addition this time, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good fics in this category. I just don’t know about them.

dreams, like soap bubbles (M) by broomclosetkink

Holiday Romance (M) by MrsMCrieff

Love Stories and Tournaments of Lies (M) by Nocturnias

Parva Victoriis (Little Victories) (M) by MizJoely

The Boyfriend Experience (M) by hobbitsdoitbetter

#Sherlock #Molly #sherlolly #fic rec #my personal sherlolly fanfic bests so far

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