#i know that there's some repetition regarding the news considering i've already posted about some of it in a recent ask

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

June 27, 2021 - After about an hour break when Supernatural wasn't on the trending wall, it's back again. Fourth day in a row. I love running this blog. Previous episodes posts here: June 24, June 25, June 26 part one and part two.

Over the past 24 hours a lot has happened. But let's start from the beginning.

Eric Kripke deletes both tweets related to the Twitter Drama. The first one was him congratulating on the prequel, the second one - explaining he didn't know Jared was involved and that he'd already apologized to him.

Jensen, who has virtually zero media presence, posts two more tweets. He links to this article that, despite being quite lengthy, brilliantly explains what we know about the prequel, touches on the Twitter Thing, and analyzes Mary and John's relationship and their characters in detail. Excerpt can be also found here: [x]. Jensen's tweets are here and here.

Jensen also changes his Twitter header to one relating to Soldier Boy. Both his previous one and the new one can be seen below:

After three days of people's begging Misha for a distraction from the drama, he posts a video. It's to promote GISH and features him in a bathtub with a dog [x]. Sources claim that he says "good boy" which makes some fans kinda lose it. I'm just reporting, please don't shoot the messenger.

Two more scripts are released: 12x15 and 12x16. There are some interesting bits that caught the fans' attention, mainly the internations between Crowley and Dean; confirmation that Cas texts by sending chains of emojis; the fact than when distraught, Claire debates calling Cas or her step-sister Alex; Claire calling Jody her mom.

Fans discover that Jensen's aunt has been very active on Twitter, fiercely supporting her nephew and discussing with people who were attacking him. Link to the post here. Others notice that a former advisor to Trump has been defending Jared's reaction to finding out about the prequel from Twitter [x]. I usually try to refrain from inserting my own comments, but considering how much mess the last few days have been, please remember that the actors have no control over who comments what on their tweets. So discuss, comment, criticize, but please don't attack people, especially on Twitter where they can see that. And I mean it about both Jensen and Jared.

And to sum up - Sebastian Roche (Balthazar) likes a tweet that describes what a lot of people are probably feeling right now:

#i know that there's some repetition regarding the news considering i've already posted about some of it in a recent ask #but i wanted to put everything together in an actual posts. hope that's all right #i also know i kinda brushed over the aunt and the former trump advisor thing #i was quite conflicted on that one. i linked to it as i want to deliver the news and it was explicitly mentioned in one of the recent asks #but i am well aware of how that looks and i don't want to look biased against anyone #and i know that especially because of the recent chaos many people are tired and fed up #and i've seen how messy it is on twitter. so i'm just trying to avoid being a cause for more anger and attacks #and i mean it. i have my opinions on the events and the actors and their reactions but i'm not gonna share them here and i want the posts t #reflect that #i know that most people are reasonable about these things but some do go after the cast and people who were pulled into this whole chaos #and attack them. not criticize because criticism is a whole different thing. but attack and threaten. and that's what i'm trying to avoid #causing here #i'm babbling i know #but yeah - tumblr is a safer space here but twitter can be vicious #so again - comment and criticize and discuss and honestly. post about what you want. but don't go after people on the platforms where they #can see it. you might disagree with me but i think there's been so much drama lately that we all deserve a break #so yeah. that's what i wanted to say. and if you're frustrated and tired because of the recent events feel free to scream or rant in my #messages. okay. PSA over #one more thing though! #some of the pictures are kind of glued together in this post. it's because i can't add more that 10 photos #all of these can be seen separately though in an ask that's almost right below this post so feel free to check it out #it's also linked at the top #why is supernatural trending #spn #jensen ackles #misha collins #jared padalecki #spn cast #eric kripke

[theangrypokemaniac]

I've been on Tumblr ten months now, and this blog has existed for nine of them. During that time I have noticed something.

The majority of the posts I've come across have been by and for the S&M scene, as is to be expected.

The second-most frequent are Indigo League, which I don't think is bad going considering it was broadcast before most Tumblerries were born.

Third-most popular I would say is Sinnoh, probably for being the introduction for many here.

After that I've seen bits on Johto, a smattering of Orange League (unsurprising given it's briefness) and maybe a single item on Hoenn.

No one likes that then? Is it Max? Go on, it is.

What I find odd is that, in all that period, I haven't seen anything on Unova or Kalos. No fan art, no screen shots, nothing.

I'm sure someone can point to a bounty of pieces I've overlooked, all done within the last year, but if so, they're well-hidden, as none of the people I follow have shown any interest in re-blogging them.

If you have done any, you must admit the amount has depleted considerably.

Why is this? Is it of no interest anymore?

This in itself validates my own opinion. Had I been here when Unova and Kalos were broadcast, I presume over half of the posts I'd see would've been devoted to them. If I then spoke harshly of either, that would not have been well-received.

However, if dropped, both by the audience and writers as soon as the latest generation arrives, wasn't I right to not be impressed?

If cast aside by those who claimed to worship them, were they really of any worth at all?

Well the same fate has now befallen Alola. I make no secret of how much I despise it, and can not grasp its appeal for anyone.

I don't know how Pokémon even has a fanbase anymore, given that it's ugly, boring and repetitive.

Prior to the arrival of the S.S., I suspected that Alola material would drop, vanishing altogether once a year's worth came to a close, and so it has proved to be.

It's gone from making up roughly 60% - 70% of dashboard posts to about 10% - 20%, in only a few months. Is it that bad then?

It can't be explained as excitement for the new, not with the amount of coverage Kanto gets, and even that isn't motivated by reminiscence, given the average age of the current viewer.

Why are you still posting about something that old? It reminds me of my wasted youth, but what's your excuse?

Why, when the writers want to wallow in nostalgia, do they hark back to Kanto, which no modern fan can remember?

Is no one looking with misty-eyed fondness at Iris and Cilan? Why not?

Or is that an admission that it was so appallingly bad even the writers recognised it, that's why it's been so hastily forgotten?

You could watch Pokémon from the beginning to the close Sinnoh, skip the next two eras, starting again with Alola, and you would never know there'd been a between.

Unova is described as a 'soft reset', with regards to its inverted nature. The arrogance of those writers is staggering:

• Trying to erase all that'd gone before, supplanted by their half-arsed efforts.

• Redesigning everyone with Fish Eye and flat profiles.

• Resetting Ash as not even knowing the basics.

• Warping Team Rocket's established personalities into disgusting, soulless lizard people robbed of all charm and charisma.

• Only new Pokémon existing.

• Catches kept with Juniper not Professor Oak etc.

The irony is that Unova Pokémon are copies of the first 151, so whilst deliberately ignoring the past, they can't resist imitating it, thanks to their own woeful inadequacy. I suppose they hoped if they didn't notice, we wouldn't either.

They then undermined their own decision by stuffing everything available into the third run, as a blatant effort to win back the crowd, including:

• Reverting to Team Rocket's actual motto, not that embarrassingly pretentious codswallop.

Too bloody lazy to make it rhyme now!

Notice they opted not for the Sinnoh one, although more recent. It was straight back to the beginning.

• Look at these hundreds of Pokémon we suddenly remembered!

Just before Giovanni's mid-life crisis, Ash spotted a Rattata, but it having been so isolated from the outside world, his brain fell to mush at the concept, and pronounced it 'retarda'.

Idiots are so easy to please!

• Charizard! Genwunners love Charizard! Give 'em Charizard and they'll forget everything else we've done! Let's condense his entire story arc into one episode of meaningless retelling!

So, Charizard was there to bait the first wave, and yet we had the plot we know repeated to us anyway?

Don't refer to the past and everyone will think it's brand-new!

It makes no sense. How could this be done with the hope of drawing in old fans, and yet filling up an episode with it as plotline isn't an issue, when the intended targets know it's been done before?

• Butterfree! Genwunners loved Butterfree leaving! Let's condense his entire story arc into one episode of meaningless rehash!

Why would they remain when finding the same thing again, absent of feeling and subtlety, not to mention upon discovering the damage done elsewhere?

Recent incomers, who might assume it's a fresh idea, have no emotional connection with Butterfree, so who is it meant to please?

Why is Mewtwo a woman?

• Mewtwo! Genwunners love Mewtwo! Let's copy its background for Genesect rather than be creative! Look, it's Mewtwo! Watch it!!!

Erm... It's not the same Mewtwo...

It's not the same Mewtwo?

You believe the way to an original fan's heart is to lie to them, and in the process smash a fundamental principle of canon that there can only be one Mewtwo?

The writers get a deserved excoriation round these parts, because someone has to, as what part of that film suggested the current crop give the tiniest toss about what matters to you and me?

I'm glad Unova is labelled 'the Dork Age' as every series since its dawn has been atrocious.

Hoenn and Sinnoh held massive flaws, but they're masterpieces compared to what followed. At least they felt like Pokémon, albeit a watery interpretation.

Unova has to be truly lowly for the dunces responsible to recognise it, and neither Kalos or Alola have been as cut off from their predecessors.

I don't believe that's a sign of contrition, more a matter of necessity. Thanks to the same personal limitations there just weren't enough new Pokémon in either era to make such insularity possible. Even between the two it'd be a scrape.

Except whilst previously invented Pokémon designs may be involved, there's no sign of actual familiar characters.

Ash took his original team to Johto, and even in Hoenn and Sinnoh, where local catches took precedent, older Pokémon were still referenced and came back for the League, but that stopped with Unova.

It's evil influence strikes again!

Despite flimsy nods to the past, which can't be avoided, each generation is now a world unto itself, to the point that individual episodes live by their own canon, a feeble web of strands unrelated to anything else.

Why is it considered 'retro' enough to say, have Forms of Kanto Pokémon, for which we're expected to be so grateful, when there's no mention of Ash's earlier squad?

Remember Tauros? And Kingler? And Muk?

Remember Bayleef? And Noctowl? And Heracross?

Remember Corphish? And Torkoal? And Swellow?

Remember Buizel? And Gible? And Torterra?

They don't. As far as I can tell none of them exist anymore, and maybe aren't meant to ever have done.

Same as Gary, Cassidy and Butch, Jessibelle, Tracey, and so on. Until they do, and don't again. Whatever is convenient to today's storyline.

My typical attitude is that the first series is the best thing ever, and it's all been downhill from there, with Unova and all that came after reaching incredible depths of tedium. I don't suppose you like that, but the ephemeral tendencies displayed on Tumblr hardly help change my opinion.

At some low ebb I'll get round to watching Galar, which I'm confident I'll hate as much as the last few generations, based on what I've already seen and heard.

There's little point doing otherwise. Why bother getting involved with the 'plot' or characters if, when it's over, they'll never be spoken of again?

What incentive is there for me to even force myself to like Galar when, once the ninth generation (Pokémon Keenan and Kel) emerges on the distant horizon, those who've sung its praises for three or four years and scoffed at criticism, will drop it without a backwards glance?

Yet talk about the Indigo League is ever present, somewhat proving its superiority. Attachment to it is a subconscious acknowledgement of the dearth of quality in the modern mentality, but which no one can bring themselves to admit.

#Pokémon #Unova #Iris #Cilan #Charizard #Butterfree #Mewtwo #Tumblr