#Air Canada live

[junotter]

Part 2 of my modern avatar au, The Gaang (part 1)

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

there's something so dismal about how so much of tv fandom's energy nowadays seems to go towards trying to prove to big corporations that their show is good enough to save. like whenever a new episode or series comes out it's "remember to watch it all in 24 hours or it won't get renewed!" "play it on repeat for a month or else it'll become another piece of lost media!" "don't stop talking and posting about it during the hiatus or else this season that's already in production might not air!" "if this tag trends on twitter for long enough we might get eight episodes instead of six!!!" it feels less like we're enjoying a show that so many people worked hard on and more like we're trying to create rituals to please the gods (which replace gods with The Algorithm and you're not far off).

like i haven't even been involved in fandom for that long but even just seven or so years ago if a show did well enough that it was nominated for awards and trending on twitter and having well attended comic con panels then it would be renewed for at least a season or two. and back then being renewed for another season meant "we're for sure going to get a new season next year!" with almost no possibility of cancelation. and even shows that did just okay ratings wise would easily get 5+ seasons.

and it was more fun. when i was watching Doctor Who or Arrowverse or whatever in 2014 i could enjoy and critique the media itself instead of constantly being nervous about whether the next season will be cashed in for nostalgia bait or have its episode count cut or be postponed for three years or just outright canceled because it was slightly less popular than last year. like the fandom would still stress out over potential bad narrative choices or whatever but we would also get excited about the future.

maybe it's just my own perceptions but i just tend to find myself favoring fandoms for shows (or at least eras, i'm looking at you Doctor Who) that have been completed. i like Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death and Strange New Worlds and Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the latest Doctor Who era but i just find it hard to get invested when there's so much anxiety around if there will be a future to those shows and so much of the fandom activity revolves around that anxiety. and then as a result when the show does end for good (whether through cancelation or design) the fandom starts to fade away too because so much of it was based on the temptation of The Future.

and i'm also quick to admit that production in pre-streaming era shows had their own problems (once popular shows running for 15 seasons and jumping the shark just because it's a cash cow, tampered down diversity in the interest of "popular appeal", the whole quantity over quality issue, etc) but at least the fandoms were more optimistic and focused on the story itself instead of just being angry about the eternal potential of cancelation or outright deletion.

(also there are obviously much larger issues to the streaming model re: residuals and everything else brought up during the wga and sag strikes but that's all been said much more coherently so i'm just speaking from my own perspective as a fan. and even then there's still definite overlap between the fandom anxiety over renewal and the real world economic anxiety for people involved with production over "will we have a job/be paid". it's far too early to tell but i really hope the strikes will help to solve this problem.)

[stylesprimes]

some americans don't see canada as a real place with real people and the way some people are reacting to this wildfire smoke shows it

[airs-headspace]

Totally random but every now and then I think about when I was about 12 years old and we were up in Vancouver I think? And I was waiting outside for someone I knew to come pick me up (can't remember if it was my dad or not), and a car pulled up outside the house I was sitting on the step of. My mom was inside, and I started walking toward the vehicle, squinting my eyes to try and see inside and I distinctly remember this silhouette of a person gesturing to me hurriedly to get in the vehicle.

I TURNED AROUND AND RAN BACK INTO THE HOUSE SO FAST.

[freelancesketchartist]

you've heard of gender reveal wildfires, now get ready for...

matrimonial wildfires?

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

...

[almost-good-at-cosplay]

Shut up I didn't get my prom suit for this specific purpose you can't prove anything!

[permanentreverie]

I swear the thing that's finally gonna convince me to delete Instagram is all of the Americans whining about the smoke and 'blaming Canada'

[ihophashbrowns]

also....guys. pray for ur moots that live in ny rn TT

[dooodle-bug]

im wishing everyone who lives in the northern US and canada a very Stay inside. close all windows and doors. Have your air conditioning recirculate air rather than intake it from outside. do not use candles or stoves. wear a suction cup mask because the regular fabric ones wont protect you from the finer smoke particles. smoke inhalation is especially dangerous for people with heart and lung illnesses, children, elderly, and pregnant. get rest. sleep with your head propped up to breath easier. limit physical activities. keep your pets inside. buy an air purifier if you can. please stay safe guys

[granitxhka]

waiting at the airport gate ahhhhhh

[alicepao13]

Gah, I almost posted spoilers about the Hudson and Rex episode that hasn’t aired yet. This is so confusing. Zero out of ten would recommend this release schedule.

[araindropshallfall]

I know we know October now but fyi Crave in Canada is starting to re-air the season on their live channels so I am taking this as an indicator promo will start soon

[saturdaynightlivedork]

Anyone gonna tell them that Alexander Graham Bell was actually born in Scotland? 🤭

[luminousjellyfishy]

I am now concerned for your air! Please keep breathing

I’ll try my hardest!

[nc-vb]

Man, if the previous generation of parents don’t take first place at emotional gaslighting and manipulation, I don’t know who possibly could.