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“Wait, there are people blaming the writers?”

Are you surprised? Fandoms have become notorious anti-writer spaces. Studios love you guys. They can cut the budgets, cut the number of writers, cut the wages of the writers, and you guys always blame the writers. “The writers ruined the show!” It’s never “the studios ruined the show.”

I hate to break it to you: more than half the shows you complain were “ruined by the writers”, were ruined by the studios. Studios cut the scenes and arcs you were excited for. Studios cut the budget of the show, or even raise the budget of the show and force a “bigger, louder, bolder” tone on shows that were unexpected hits (this is where we get “the Netflix look” on every show post-Stranger Things and Queen’s Gambit).

You guys do not do your research. Half your fanfics are tagged with bad faith digs at the writers, when a few searches would reveal how strapped that show was and how poorly the writers were treated. Writers are being given a single week to write each episode—I’m not kidding, one-week-per-episode is one of the reasons for the strike. How are good arcs and scenes supposed to happen under that time limit, with a max of only four writers?

Tumblr, the self-proclaimed “pro-union, pro-worker, pro-artist” site is also a major fandom site. You guys rarely practice good faith consumer etiquette for television and film writers, because your fandom salt always turns you against writers. And studios love you for it.

Yeah, individual writers do create bad writing from time to time. But so do painters, chefs, and musicians. Directors and actors sometimes refuse to film certain scenes or follow a show’s projected style and arc, and the writers always get the crap for a bad performance or a poorly directed episode. This isn’t to blame actors or directors; it’s to point out that you guys have one villain, and it’s always the writers. You guys never give writers the same grace you give animators, designers, directors, actors, composers, and editors.

Studios love you every time you say “the writers ruined the show.” Every single popular fandom is guilty of this. View any of the “why did the writers cut this scene, they hate my characters” talk when leaked scenes hit the internet. Writers barely get paid for what they do write. You think they’re writing scenes and then happily throwing them in the shredder? You guys just eat the talk that studios put out. Always have.

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see you all next year

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Same, Jensen. SAME.

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Jensen and Rob in blue at Jib 14 by Monica D Photography

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It's the smile at the end what really gets me

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As a bonus, Jensen's reactions during the Misha zoom call, and whatever was going on with Jensen and Rich's reactions, were absolutely priceless. (screenshots of this video thread)

(yes, same, Jensen, same)

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Misha’s video call with Jensen, Jared, Rob, Rich - JIB14

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I'm Jensen 🥹

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Misha came on screen during last panel and confirmed that he will be there next year 💖💖💖💖

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Another con for Misha! — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C57xOcuv1or/?igsh=MTR3Y3BveG43a2Vu (this one also has David Tennant already announced as attending 🙌)

This is very exciting!

The English translation of their post:

Not all heroes wear capes... some just have angel wings and a long trench coat!

Are you ready to make your Supernatural dream come true? 🌟👼 Grab your chance to live an unforgettable moment with none other than the legendary Misha Collins during the summer edition of Heroes Dutch Comic Con! 🎉📸

This is your moment to meet @misha during an exclusive photo moment or autograph session and create a lasting memory.

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"Show us, not tell us."

~Supernatural Then and Now podcast. BONUS CLIP: Ben Edlund Talks

They couldn't TELL US. So they kept SHOWING US. Over and over and over again.

Dean and Cas loved each other. They were IN LOVE. BOTH OF THEM. Dean was never allowed to "tell us" but he "showed us" constantly.

"Ok, we know what the subtext is, bury is a little bit"

I'M GONNA THROW UP

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I just saw your anon asking for charity work misha has done, so I thought to compile it year wise as much as I can. This is an inexhaustive list excluding the voting campaigns.

2010

-Haiti relief funding for unicef, Free High School of San Juan del Sur in nicaragua.

-Gishwhes later Gish proceeds over the years to Rwandan women(2018), rescuing refugees in Lebanon and Syria(2021), protecting at-risk generations of Laotian children by defusing unexploded ordinances left from the Vietnam (2019), planting trees in forests in Nepal(2020), donated free meals proceeds from registering with Gish.

2014

-Ice bucket challenge (I dont know if this can be considered charity or not but it was about spreading awareness)

2016

-You Are Not Alone campaign with jensen and the Love campaign with j2

2017

-Participated in woman's march

-I wish for this campaign with Stands

-Stronger than storm campaign funding for hurricane Harvey survivors of Texas together j2 and danneel, Random Acts and Family Business Beer Company

-Donating holiday packages to canuck place together with danneel and jensen.

2018

-built a drop in shelter for the homeless in Bellingham (full video on his Instagram)

-The bad idea tour for childhood hunger, Random Acts partnered with Move for Hunger to ultimately collect over 350 canned good donations and raised over $118,000.

-Participated in March For Our Lives at Seattle-Scoobynatural shirts campaign with attitudesinreverse and randomacts

-ChangeALife Campaign with Gish and Giles Duley

-Got pied for charity and pied pretend Donald trump for charity for Greater Vancuover Food Bank.

2019

-With Adventure Eaters Club, author profits proceed of misha and Vicki went for fighting child hunger and donated to various charities that help get healthy foods to the people who need it, including The Edible Schoolyard Project.

-His contribution and participation in the arts department at Upcoming LA's dandelions at Bell Gardens

-Clam Let Go proceeds to Jacmel Children

-On valentine's day donated with his kids sweets to homeless in the drop in centre in Bellingham

-Gave way cookies for free at San Diego comic con and raised funds for SpnFamilyValues campaign benefitting migrant families

-Giving back tour at burcon funding and supporting faceforwardLA, an organisation supporting domestic violence survivors

-Spn "obsessed possessed shirt" funding relief funds hurricane dorian survivors together with j2

-Benefit Concert organised with Random Acts at NYC

-Raised funds with spn cast and crew for van food bank over $46k

2020

-The Supergood campaign with Michael sheen-Dropped off sleeping bags at drop in centre Bellingham

-Part of NOH8 Campaign

-Made and donated homemade masks during covid together with his friend and Gish

-Funding campaign with NAACP during Black Lives Matter together with GISH

-Conversation about racial inequality and injustice with Daryl Davis, Breona Jenkins, Baratunde Thurston and Rev. Deborah Johnson together with jensen and danneel

-Donated and raised fund for 10 charities that support justice for Black people

-With help from Northern Sparrow participant in GISH changed a street name from Negro Point to Freedom Point during Black Lives Matter

-Raised funds for relief to fight malaria in africa raised over 50k

-Campaign with Lydia Place together with Shoshannah Stern

-On thanksgiving made and donated free and take away meals at Bellingham together with Random Acts.

2021

-Hearts for Housing Campaign with Lydia Place

-GISH funding for Ecuador and campaign with Amazon Watch supporting indigenous people

-GISH funding for India during coronavirus when that gish livestream reunion with jensen happened

-Gave away cas' shirt for benefitting True Colour United supporting LGBTQIA youth experiencibg homelessness.

2022

-Supporting and funding for Legacy of War Foundation of Giles Duley with Gish and Random Acts for ChangeALife Campaign in Afghanistan funding Emergency Children Ward Trauma Centre in Kabul

-During Road food filming in Louisiana funded a home for someone affected by Hurricane Ida together with Random Acts and Hello Foundation

-Visiting Ukraine during the war, Funding for Ukraine with Giles and now with United24. Funding for wheelchairs and demining in Ukraine.

2023

-Participated in WGA and SAG-AFTRA's March

-Funding with Random Acts and Creation Entertainment for Maui at Hawaii together with j2.

2023/2024

-Project with INARA supporting funds and relief for Gaza refugees

-Auctioned off Impala's plate for raising funds supporting Lydia Place.

Additionally he also gave away and auctioned off signed scripts, ties, stunt department hats funding various charities over the years.

Thank you for this!

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You know who I feel sad for right now is Misha, because I think he wanted to be able to speak much much earlier than he was able to about Cas’s confession. We know he drafted an essay about Cas’s coming out…and then wound up not publishing it. Misha deserved to be able to talk about it in interviews the way Oliver Stark is able to about Buck. Misha mentioned it on zoom calls, briefly. And then it seems like he got yanked back by the PR machine and the nature of Cas’s confession wasn’t discussed on any SPN PR materials and for a time Misha was restricted on what he could say on CE Con stages.

At first, back then, for a few glorious days, I thought the stigma about queer Cas, about Destiel, had been lifted, finally, and then WB/CW brought the restrictions back down via PR. Oh you can have your confession scene, SPN, but corporate will control the narrative on how it’s spoken about or not.

We saw this thaw over time. (Anyone who claims otherwise or that Misha was always able to be open about it, is lying). Now Misha can speak openly about it and that shift began around the time when Chaos Machine really set up shop and changed a few con policies. So I’m happy for Misha that he can speak only about Cas being queer and what the confession means and Cas coming out, but he still has yet to be able to speak in depth about it in major PR. The openness about it comes out on con stage. At first it was non-CE Cons. Then finally he was more able to speak freely on CE Con stages.

Which leads me to another point, which is that, in fact, any of us who thought Cas was supposed to be in the series finale? We were right all along. The PR Misha filmed meant to mislead and misdirect about his last episode…PR misdirect to cover up so it could be a surprise, which makes sense and is sometimes how PR is run. Remember that the production shutdowns of the pandemic happened during the first days of filming 15.19. We found out eventually Dean and Cas were planned to be seen at the Roadhouse bar in Heaven together.

When they filmed 15.18 everyone thought Cas would at least cameo in 15.20. During the filming of 15.18 nobody directly involved knew how far Cas would be shoved out of the story, the actors didn’t know, the writer didn’t know, the director didn’t know, how far 15.20 would be stripped back, no one knew how reduced even mere mentions would be in 15.20.

I’ve talked about this before but a reminder how screwed the spn creatives who worked on 15.18 were, how screwed over the actors were.

You were right. If you thought that there was going to be at least some satisfaction and closure and Cas was going to have one more appearance before the end and it wouldn’t be able to be loud open canon, but something that implied mutual canon Destiel.

We were right. We were right all along.

Antis on twitter dot com can keep scratching and clawing and harassing and gaslighting and spewing phobic comments, denying what Jensen’s views are and dening that corporate censorship is real and that bi Dean is canonical via queer coding and queer Cas is now loud open canon and Destiel is mutual, via canon queer coding. Won’t change what happened here or that the intent was so, so much better and more than what 15.20 delivered, and the reason it fell apart was the production shutdown gave some parties high up too much time to think and then interfere and cut Cas out.

There is no more room to indulge media illiteracy and malicious denialism and trolling from antis.

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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missing them a lot lately❤️‍🩹