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January 8, Day 8

Day 8 2015

Today was especially difficult to get through. I took comfort snuggled up in my quilt my grandma made me though.

#love #lovemygrandma #handsewn #quilt #quiltedwithlove #handapplique #sickofbeingsick #project365 #day8

I really miss my Grandma. She was a kind, patient, and loving woman. Not to mention an amazing quilter.

Day 8 2016

A beautiful winter sunset.

#beautiful #january #winter #sunset #texas #bluesky #colorpop #shadesofblue #blue #clouds #outdoors #nature #picoftheday #project365 #day8

This field is now part of my parents subdivision. It was a beautiful field with a beautiful view and now houses. I hate it.

Day 8 2017

Mom's tatted circle of circles

#beautiful #tatting #handwork #create #inspire #circles #circle #circleoflife #january #picoftheday #project365 #day8

And just like her mom, my mom is also amazing at anything she does with her hands. Such detail!

Day 8 2018

I wanna see what's back there...

#tree #blueskies #nature #outdoors #notrespassing #keepout #curious #caution #keyhole #cutout #differentview #january #picoftheday #project365 #day8

Day 8 2019

Frank the Freckle

#niece #hand #freckle #skin #macro #upclose #winterskinreliefday #january #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day8

Day 8 2020

My sister abandoning me :D

#goodbye #dontleaveme #goodnightsister #car #taillights #red #color #roygbiv #rainbow #january #january8 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day8

My sister is always down to help me get my shot! No matter how long it takes! haha

Day 8 2021

Cracked open

#cracked #mug #broken #beauty #hiddeninside #ice #frozen #rose #frozenflower #lessstressmorefun #whateverthehelliwant #january #january8 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day8

I love freezing flowers and seeing what I will get. This was by accident though, I did not want to crack my favorite mug! haha. It did give me a great shot.

Day 8 2022

Bumps on a log, drops from the fog.

#grass #bladesofgrass #water #dew #nature #outdoors #january #january8 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day8

Day 8 2023

Spent such a relaxing afternoon, just walking the beach, crunching shells, and finding interesting barnacle pieces.

#galveston #beach #jetty #water #gulf #beautifulweather #relaxing #january #january8 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day8

Day 8 2024

Seashells by the seashore

#seashells #dailytheme #seashore #beach #washedup #shore #clams #blackandwhite #january #january8 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day8

The tide was high but it was a lovely afternoon walking the beach looking for my seashells to photograph. I have so many at home but it's always fun to find more!

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archivingspn · 3 years

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Nerds and Beyond: “Interview: Robbie Thompson Talks ‘Silk’, ‘Supernatural’, ‘Star Wars’ and More! [EXCLUSIVE]”

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Nerds and Beyond: So, starting with San Diego Comic Con. You were on a panel about shipping at San Diego Comic Con.

Robbie: Yes.

Nerds and Beyond: What role do you think shipping has on the viewer experience and on your writing? And also, who is your OTP?

Robbie: My OTP… I was on a shipping panel in San Diego that my friend Sam put together — Sam Maggs. It was an interesting panel to be on because I am an older human being and shipping is very new to me. I didn’t really know anything about it until I got on a show called Supernatural and joined Twitter. And then I was instantly informed by a lot of people what shipping was.

I think my only real brush with shipping before that was probably the original slash, I guess, which is Kirk and Spock. Which I had heard about as, like, a teenager going to Star Trek conventions. I was like, “Oh, that’s cool. That sounds lovely.” As far as shipping goes, I think I have sort of an antiquated point of view, because when they asked me on that panel, “Who’s your OTP?”, for me it was Dave and Maddie on Moonlighting.

Which has the unfortunate portmanteau– is that how you say it? You’re French, you know. Portmanteau? Is that right?

Nerds and Beyond: Portmanteau.

Robbie: Dave and Maddie would be “Daddy”, which is not that great. Or, it’s great. I don’t know. And then that transferred to Herbert Viola’s character and Agnes DiPesto. Herbert being, of course, played by Curtis Armstrong, who played Metatron on Supernatural.

Nerds and Beyond: Yeah. He’s a phenomenal actor.

Robbie: I was invested in those couples getting together, that was my understanding of shipping. So, as an audience member… I was just talking about this with a Supernatural fan yesterday, because she asked me, “Do you ship characters on Supernatural?” And I don’t. And not really on shows in general. I think the lens that I look through it, as both a fan and sometimes as a writer, is just a little bit different.

And it’s — Again, my point of view is probably a little bit antiquated, I don’t know because people seem really tuned into romance or potential for romance. I feel like every show that comes out now, every scene that happens on a show, people are instantly online with “Make them kiss”, or one of those kind of things. And that’s not always the first lens through which I view a lot of content.

But as a fellow fan and as a writer, what I respond to is people’s passion. And people are passionate about romantic entanglements, or potential romantic entanglements. They’re excited about it and that’s getting them to, you know, talk about the show or create their own fiction or create their own fanfiction. I think that is awesome. I think it’s fantastic. Not that anybody needs my approval, or not that anybody needs my acceptance or anything like that, but I certainly welcome it. I think it’s great. As far as it affecting me as a writer, it doesn’t really affect me at all.

To me, I’m telling a story and I know… I have enough of a, I don’t know if this is the right expression, but an understanding of the audience, especially when I was working on a show like Supernatural, that there are gonna be things I write that people are gonna see in a certain light no matter what story I might be telling.

Nerds and Beyond: Mm-hmm.

Robbie: You know, if you take 24 hours in a day, you watch the 42 minutes of the show, if it’s a network show, and then you spend the rest of the 23 hours in your day engaging in fandom, which isn’t always the text of the show. It’s fan fiction, fan art, long discussions and posts online. I think it can create a really interesting relationship where the audience is in much more control of the narrative from their own standpoint than they have been in the past.

But it does sometimes, I think, create a disconnect. The 42 minutes does not always line up with the other 23 hours. And I hear about it because people are not shy online. We were talking about that the other day — where it’s like, you all aren’t hiding it; it’s on the internet. You’re posting it and sometimes tagging me.

So, I saw a lot of that stuff. But it never affected the writing. You know, I had a story I needed to tell. And it’s also almost impossible for me to react in real time, ‘cause I know in advance what’s going to happen in the story. Again, if I was on a network show like Supernatural, the writing you’re seeing air was done sometimes six months, sometimes a year before you guys would watch it. So when people would comment, “Oh, they listened to what we were saying last week and they made adjustments,” it’s like, no, we wrote that story months ago. I’m glad that you expressed yourself online, and you should — you totally should — but there’s really no way to react in real time. And I don’t think it’s always a good thing to try even if you could. You wanna make sure that you’re telling the story you want to tell.

Nerds and Beyond: Without it being, like, molded by whatever you’re hearing.

Robbie: I like to say that I like to engage with fans because I am a fan myself and I like the dialogue. I like to be able to interact with people. But I like to say that I’m listening, but I’m not taking dictation. And ultimately, I couldn’t even if I wanted to. On a show like Supernatural, I’m also not in charge. I don’t get to make all of the decisions. The feedback is important, but it doesn’t change the week to week. The show is months ahead of you guys. I think a new Supernatural’s on next week. That was probably written in April or May of last year. I would imagine they’re probably, let’s see it’s October? They’re probably nearing the end of the season, I think, just ‘cause it’s a shorter order this year – it’s 20.

I bet you they’re probably on 17 or 18 right now. Somewhere around there. ‘Cause they work really fast. That’s always been a very fast show and a very efficient show. So, yeah, it doesn’t really affect me as a writer. I’ve worked on other things like comics, where I know that people have an expectation of certain relationships and sometimes you will lean on that a little bit. But that’s also just me responding to the text. Like, you know, if I was writing X-Men back when I was a kid, Kitty and Colossus were like a thing, so I could respond to that but I’m also responding as a fan as well.

Nerds and Beyond: Mm-hmm.

Robbie: I guess I ship them, too, by the way. I think shipping is fantastic. I just think I come at it from a different perspective because I’m older. And, I think I engage in fandom in a way that doesn’t match the passion of current fandom. I thought I was a fan of stuff. I thought I was like a big, passionate fan and then I met Supernatural fans and was like, “I am remedial at best.” You know, people will tell me episode number, scenes, frame numbers… all this stuff, and again. I am a diehard Star Wars fan. I love Star Trek. I love Marvel comics and DC comics. But there is a level of fandom that I am not able to reach ‘cause I don’t have the skill set. Like, the skill set amongst specifically Supernatural fans and fandom is incredible high level shit. This is AP all the way, and I’m sort of like in third grade math over here. So, yeah in conclusion, I think I come at it from a slightly different perspective, but no, it never really affected my writing.

Nerds and Beyond: Have you heard of the phrase BrOTP?

Robbie: I have. I think broment is another one I heard. What was the other one….? BrOTP is one. I didn’t know any of these things. Like OT3s I didn’t know.

Nerds and Beyond: Yeah.

Robbie: I didn’t know. I had to look up OTP, I had to look up… I mean, there was a lot of things I had to look up. And I put it into the 200th episode, there was BMs and stuff like that. Internally, we would call them BMs. And I was like, “Uh, that’s kind of gross.”

Nerds and Beyond: Bowel movements.

Robbie: But it was a, you know…

Nerds and Beyond: Broment.

Robbie: And bromance I hadn’t really heard of before. I know that some people are not fans of that phrase.

Nerds and Beyond: Yeah.

Robbie: But, yeah, Supernatural was extremely educational for me as a writer because I was very inexperienced when I joined that staff, but I was also, I think, very inexperienced as a writer interacting online. I like to think I did okay, but I’m sure I made a lot of mistakes along the way and I’m still learning. I am still learning all these phrases.

Nerds and Beyond: We think you did fabulously.

Robbie: I appreciate that. I tried my best.

(...)

Nerds and Beyond: What character have you written that you most identify with?

Robbie: (...)When I was writing Dean, I was trying to relate to his perspective. You know, a guy who is deeply dedicated to family. Sam was probably the one I probably, if you wanted to get Psych 101, probably the character on that show I most related to, just because he’s the youngest of two boys and I’m the youngest of two boys. And he rebelled against his dad, I rebelled against my dad, but they ended up very similar people. I ended up like my dad, which I’m grateful for, because my dad was a fucking rockstar. He was a great dude. I’m not an older brother. My brother is very much like Dean. Just as handsome. But also very protective and also looked up to dad as well, but became his own guy, too, and all that good stuff. So, there was a core part of that show that I really, I thought Kripke baked into the Pilot, that really resonated with me in a very emotional level.

But I wouldn’t say that there’s any one character more than the other. If I had to pick one, I guess it would probably be Sam. There’s a great deal to relate to with Castiel. Again, sort of this outsider. He’s a guy that rebelled against his family in a way that I think we all kind of do. No matter how much you love your family, or not, there’s gonna be a little bit of friction there. I just try to find whatever aspect of them that I can relate to, and then I try to defend their point of view, even if it’s, you know, I wrote on shows with demons and monsters. You gotta defend their points of view. Again, it’s kind of a pretentious answer, but I try to, like actors do, I try to inhabit the character as I’m writing them and be their advocate, and be like, “No, no, no, they would say this, they wouldn’t say this, they wouldn’t do that.” I think if you can find that sort of sweet spot, where you’re kind of advocating for them but not just totally taking dictation or whatever, then I think that you’re in a good spot to steer them in the right direction. (...)

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#2019-Jan #2019:January8 #*CCTOF #*SMT #Robbie Thompson #author: Paulina #Nerds and Beyond

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