#hello i just read a blurb about AI and was reminded how amptp is refusing to negotiate in good faith with the wga

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It's just kind of.... Odd. How dismissive so much of the spn fandom is about the writers who worked on the show. Treating them like they're talentless hacks and proverbial monkeys at typewriters but the thing is that they wrote the thing you love.

Actors will make changes to delivery or tweak lines when filming but ultimately, they are bringing words to life off the page. Words that were written by writers. I am not trying to devalue actors (bc they are also talented professionals), but they are building off of what the writers have created and are breathing life into it -- it's a collaborative partnership.

When a show runs as long as spn you're bound to have absurd coincidences like the villain of 07x12 telling Dean (on the in-universe date of 5 Nov 1944) that his future is covered in black ooze only to have 15x18 and the confession air on 5 Nov 2020. You can have happy accidents like casting an unknown actor in a guest part who is so good that he then goes on to play that role for 12 years. But to dismiss all of the themes and longer narrative arcs and every story decision as the result of writers banging on typewriters with no consideration?

You're devaluing the labor of creatives when you say everything was an accident and nothing was planned and you're playing right into the hands of networks and studios who are trying to screw over and underpay the creatives who they've made their money off of.

#drink your respect writers juice and respect the writers who've created the shows you claim to love!!! #hello i just read a blurb about AI and was reminded how amptp is refusing to negotiate in good faith with the wga #spn wouldn't be what it is and what you love if not for actual writers and writerly intent #y'all are all 'respect labor' until it comes to this one show at which point you refuse to acknowledge just how much work went into spn #assume that i'm at all times on a bit of a hair trigger for a rant about respecting the spn writers and not being a pile of raging dicks #deep breaths. deep breaths. #spn