#gishwhes is coming

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

Well...

Fuck.

I'm really glad I got to participate last year.

The end of an era...

[ao3feed-destiel-02]

Just Meant To Bee

Just Meant To Bee https://ift.tt/luVCwGY by Hectatess Dean is very, very busy, when Sam calls him to ask if he could come over for lunch and shyly adds if he could make enough for an extra person. That is such a big turn of events, Dean gets distracted and starts making pancakes. When the doorbell rings it’s not Sam, but the sexy next-door neighbour, Cas, with his kid. Words: 2725, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Jack Kline, Sam Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural) Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Gabriel/Sam Winchester Additional Tags: GISHWHES, Meet-Cute, Castiel is Jack Kline's Parent, Alternate Universe - Neighbors, Jack loves bees, Domestic Fluff, One Shot via AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester' https://ift.tt/ajsNLZW May 01, 2023 at 01:15AM

[gish-is-coming]

Hello, all! As Gishwhes is in a transition phase, so are we! We here at Gishwhes-Is-Coming have banded together with a couple other Gishy Tumblrs to see what you all want to get out of our pages in the future. If you could take a few minutes to click through our survey, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks for following, and stay tuned!

[rockinimpalapie]

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to respond, and so kindly, too. I never mean any harm, and I'm so glad that my post has the tone that I intended for it to have. It feels like the veil has been lifted, like the "rose-colored" glasses have been ripped off my face.

I found that post and a couple of other blogs during my initial search for proof that he'd called Cas a r*tarded angel (if I did find solid proof, like video evidence or a tweet... all other things aside, it would be the one thing to turn me into a Misha anti). I wasn't aware of those things at all. All this time, I thought Misha was just so wholesome and that he was supposedly this warm, hug-loving guy. I'd had negative experiences with GISHWHES as well, but I hadn't realized that some items/tasks involved harrassing people! It makes me feel a little sick.

I'd always been a Destiel shipper, but it's always been innocent, or as innocent as an asexual bucket of babyface can make it. I was really touched when Cas gave his final "I love you" speech to Dean. It can be hard to separate the actors from the characters, and all those gross actions and comments from Misha about Destiel and how visibly uncomfortable Jensen is about it all makes me question if it's a ship I can continue to enjoy within context (or subtext because it wasn't reciprocated) of the show, or if it's always going to be connected to "Cockles" and Misha lying and sexually assaulting Jensen.

Fortunately, this has not harmed my love for Cas. I've made his 3-episode love of bees part of me and my artist "brand" (Nenechama on here and DeviantART, if you'd like to see how I've made it part of my brand). "Dude. On my car. He showed up naked... covered in bees!"

Thank you again. I definitely feel better after having written my post and having such kind people reach out to me. I almost didn't post it because I was worried about the "Mishamigos" coming for my head... but I'm glad I did.

I need to know. CW: Not-great question about Misha Collins.

I don't want to make posts like this, but I need to know. A deeply concerning post showed up on the front page for me this morning. I've been searching for a couple of hours now for proof... because I need it. When and where did "Mishmash" say that Castiel was a r*tarded angel in relevance to the "headcanoned" autism? I'm not "asking for a friend". I'm asking for me, an autistic person who has been a blind-ass J2M fan since 2014. A blind-ass fan who doesn't pay enough attention to what happened outside the show/off set. After everything else I've learned, I feel as if someone has died. I've met this man a few times... and somehow, I continued to be his fan even when my lasting memories of him are NEGATIVE (you can read about them under the cut). I'm too old to be this naive.

I had mildly negative experiences with him at MinnCon 2017 and MinnCon 2018 (mostly some off-color comments and being ignored in favor of my louder, meaner "friend" who claimed to be afraid of him because she watched Karla), but what left me with the deep, lasting cringe (and not the fun kind) was what happened at VanCon 2019.

If you watch his panel at VanCon 2019, you'll hear a soft voice (me!) say into the microphone, "Hi, Misha", more than once and get talked over because even when there's a pause and it seems like he's done talking to the previous person, he just kept FUCKING TALKING! I almost walked away, and you know what? I should've.

Sure, I ended up asking the dumbest question in the universe ("do you know how to z-snap?") because it was being encouraged by my "friends", but seriously? I KNOW that asshat heard me.

He later apologized during autographs for giving me a hard time. I forgave him because that's socially acceptable, I guess. I told him that I'm autistic and how much I love Castiel and relate to his struggles (chill, I was there for like 30 seconds). I really wanted to feel like it was a good interaction, but I walked away feeling... not good. At all. This is why it's SO IMPORTANT that I get this proof... because if he said that about Castiel, how does he feel about autistic people/people with autism (depending on your preference) like me and in general? Shit, did I really air my vulnerability to an ableist creep because I thought he was "safe"?

[mittensmorgul]

GISHWHES IS COMING UP AND IT'S MY FIRST TIME AND I'M FREAKING OUT BC I'M NOT READY EVEN THO I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I COULD HAVE PREPARED FOR IT, AND I HAVE LIKE ZERO TALENTS OR CREATIVITY AND I'M WORRIED I'M GONNA LET MY TEAM DOWN PLS HELP

Okay. First off, the all caps yelling is a good start. That will be useful during gishwhes. or GISHWHES. It’s an all caps sort of week.

Second of all, CONGRATS ON SIGNING UP FOR YOUR FIRST GISHWHES!

Third of all, there probably isn’t a good way to prepare for gishwhes. Nothing can prepare you for gishwhes. I know this because this is my fifth gishwhes, and it has me doing this every single year:

Fourth of all, there’s a lot of items on the big list. Lots of them. There WILL be items you read and are like OH MY GOD THAT’S NOT EVEN HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

DO NOT PANIC! This is why there are 14 other people on your team. They’ll pick up some of those items. :P

But ALSO! You’ll see some of those items and think OKAY THAT’S RIDICULOUS BUT DOABLE. (I don’t know how your team operates, but we pick items off a spreadsheet when we feel we can do them, and go give them a try) YOU’LL DO YOUR TEAM’S EQUIVALENT THING, PICK AN ITEM AND GIVE IT A GO.

Gishwhes is like a creative muscle training regimen. By the end of the week you’ll have HUGE creativity muscles. By the last night, my team traditionally sits around our chat looking at the items we still have yet to complete, going on a mad binge of collective creativity/panic/last minute gish madness, coming up with increasingly bizarre ways to interpret and enact the remaining items.

A few years back, we sat around until the submission window closed, running around our respective homes on three continents assembling dioramas out of gingerbread, building topiaries out of houseplants, and generally having an excellent time.

You will too. :)

[gish]

'Tis the season for something strange... bit.ly/GetGISHapp

2018 #GISH Item 80: Item 80: We just don’t see enough carolers in the summer. Where do they go? The beach, of course, just like everyone else! With at least 3 other gishers, go caroling on a crowded beach. 

[mfluder42]

Includes interview with Misha Collins.

[maximumsupernatural]

Team Wayward-Sons is still accepting applications! So if you’re looking for a fun-loving, risk taking, absolutely abnosome, international group to compete alongside of in this years hunt, then we’re the team for you! 

If you want to join us all you have to do is apply here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=18Y4xDc5YNJeWZJmcNvDQeKOy4kAIxFIcoRcBHYM61Lk

[kirbyhasapencil]

ITEM #34: You’ve heard of finger painting, but nose painting is the latest rage in the art world. Using non-toxic paints, “nose-paint” a lovely realistic (not abstract!) painting on a large piece of paper or canvas. Submit a photo of the finished product next to your unwashed face. Bonus points if it’s a plein air painting you make in a busy public location.

I love the gish items whose sole contingent factor is whether or not I’m willing to make a fool of myself in public. Because, trust me, after SIX YEARS OF THIS, I definitely am.

[saywhatjessie]

Dude, join my GISHWHES team

You’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore no preps allowed

[winchester-cas]

I think I found you on the gish app!!

Woah dude that’s awesome!! 

[auressea]

Daryl Davis Rev. Deborah Johnson Briona Jenkins Baratunde Thurston 

Speak Truth to Power

[theteablogger]

The Wal-Mart Parking Lot Sex Incident

That’s a hell of a subject line, isn’t it?

I’m working on the timeline again for the first time in five fucking years. The last time I touched it, I got through the aforementioned incident and then needed a  mental health break. I did not intend for it to last this long. But a lot of big, complicated real-life things happened that kept me very busy, and when I did have any free time, sitting down with my latest embroidery project and a true crime podcast beat slogging through Andy’s old Tumblr posts hands down. I always intended to come back to it, though. Andy wrote and did some pretty fucked-up things from 2013 onward, and the fact that it was so long ago and much of it happened on Tumblr doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to know about now. There’s dogwhistle racism, rape apologism, transphobia, lies and fauxpologies galore, abusive behavior toward friends, creeping on much younger people, and more. I’m trying to be as concise as possible, but it isn’t easy. 

As sort of a preview, and to show that Part VI of the timeline really is underway, here are the entries for the Wal-Mart Parking Lot Sex Incident of March 2013. NSFW. Contains fatphobia and lookism.

2013 March 16 Andy writes that his “big problem with no” has caused him to have sex with a person he met at Wal-Mart, to whom he was not attracted in any way—in fact, he didn’t even want to talk to this person and hopes never to see her again. He says he did it “because [he] felt too guilty about how behind [he is] on [his] fanfic obligations and the fact that…[he] can’t call [his] friend when she’s sad.” This is, in my opinion, a passive-aggressive means of making people feel guilty for wanting anything from him as a writer or a friend. He claims that he has a history of doing things like this not because he needs validation, but because he selflessly wants to validate other people and give them pleasure. This story is questionable, to say the least.

Andy receives two anonymous asks that point out that he’d never mentioned his alleged history of ill-judged one night stands until he started watching SPN and started over-identifying with Dean. He responds by taking offense on Dean’s behalf and his own, invoking Brittany’s murder, and claiming that the sexual encounter at Wal-Mart was “in fucky consent territory”.

When an anon asks why Andy feels that the sexual encounter at Wal-Mart was not consensual, he replies, “Because I said yes but I didn’t actually want it. It was consent, but not good consent.” It is unclear whether he means that the other person was in some way responsible for this. He then guilt-trips the anon as if they had accused him of lying.

As he begins to receive more critical asks about the Wal-Mart story, Andy attempts to shame people into shutting up and leaving him alone. He gives a litany of reasons why he’s having a hard time emotionally, including

the loss (six months ago) of the box of his and Brittany’s “important things” that he left in South Dakota and made no attempt to retrieve for over two months

his failure to finish writing A Peccatis

not many people reading his DAYDverse fics anymore

having his phone cut off because…

he gave all his money to a friend (guilt trip!) and can’t pay the bill

two of his family’s cats died within the last few months and his fish also just died

he’s supposedly banned from GISHWHES and conventions because someone told Misha’s “people” and Creation Entertainment that he’s a con artist

his sister is visiting

he’s having a hard time writing SPN meta at the moment

He also expands on the story, saying that he performed oral sex in the parking lot, on a person “[he] could hardly stand to look [at] who stank and oozed stuff under their gut fold”. This is quite a troubling description, coming from someone who claims to be “pan-aesthetic” and to have love and compassion for literally everyone in the world. It hits on three very harmful stereotypes: that fat people are ugly and undesirable, that they stink, and that they have terrible hygiene. This is fat-shaming, and it’s all the more disturbing given that he has a number of close female friends (current and former) who are plus-size. Andy also alleges that this mystery woman thought he was sixteen, which would indicate that she is an ephebophile. It’s worth noting that he seems to have a preoccupation with looking young (sometimes complaining about it and sometimes boasting), and has said that “no non-ephebophilic woman in [his] own age range would consider [him] a sexual being.”

March 17 CFC reassures Andy that he can still get back on the “no wagon” and move on with life. He responds that at least he did “make someone feel more worthwhile and valued,” glossing over the fact that according to his story, he was violently repulsed by this woman during the whole of their interaction, and afterward fat-shamed her on the internet. If the story is true, then at best, what he gave her was disgusted pity.

In response to an anon challenging the veracity of the Wal-Mart story, Andy provides more detail, which only makes the story more implausible and makes him look worse. Allegedly, a conversation about non-dairy milk substitutes turned into a grown woman, a stranger, pouring out her heart to Andy, who immediately told her (not “asked”, told) that they were going to have coffee right then and there so she could tell him more. While an earlier post seemed to indicate that this woman thought he was sixteen when they had sex, he now says that she made the comment about his age before they had coffee together, and he told her he was about twice that age. He says, “She felt unwantable, like…she’d never be someone who someone else could desire.” So Andy, the savior of women’s self-esteem, had oral sex with her in the parking lot in order to “make her feel like she mattered.” Then he came home and informed the internet that she was right, and the whole time he was with her, he secretly thought she was hideously ugly, smelly, and unwashed. “Happens to me all the time,” he says.

March 18 Someone calls Andy out for fat-shaming the woman he allegedly had sex with at Wal-Mart. Andy tells them that actually, the story wasn’t fat-shaming at all, and he immediately suggests that the anon is truly at fault. But the anon doesn’t say that a bad smell and “stuff oozing from under their gut fold” are “inevitable on larger women”, or that Andy “find[s] larger women gross”—Andy brings those ideas up on his own. This, and his patting himself on the back for finding some fat women attractive, are meant to shift attention away from the fact that Andy is the one who used harmful stereotypes to describe the Wal-Mart lady in the most unflattering terms possible.

[gish-is-coming]

Hello, all! As Gishwhes is in a transition phase, so are we! We here at Gishwhes-Is-Coming have banded together with a couple other Gishy Tumblrs to see what you all want to get out of our pages in the future. If you could take a few minutes to click through our survey, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks for following, and stay tuned!

[wordofgodcast]

since tiktok has decided it hates gay people, i'm uploading today's tiktok to tumblr!

[ID: throughout the whole video, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is playing in the background.

the video starts with a clip from Word of God episode 14:

Emma: wait! if you google misha collins height, one of the suggested questions under it, it gave me, is "misha collins guy"

ash: does the misha collins is guy?!

emma: the rumor come out!

the video shows a screencap of the google suggestion.

it then transitions to a clip of misha collins at a con, standing at a podium: he says "by a show of force, how many of you would consider yourselves introverts? how many extroverts? how many bisexuals?" the crowd cheers. misha then waves his hand and says "i'm all 3"

then, a news article from gaytimes.co.uk reading "Supernatural star Misha Colins comes out as bisexual" with the bi pride flag over it. following it are several memes about misha's apparent coming out.

then it cuts to misha's twitter apology where he clarifies that he is straight with the ally pride flag over it. following it are several memes about misha's coming out and subsequent re-closeting.

then, as the music reaches its first crescendo, a spongebob card reading "five months later..." appears. next is news articles first about Queen Elizabeth II's illness, and then news articles about her death. this is followed by memes about her death, including memes about her funeral, the Sanssweep, and the crab rave. then, a screenshot of misha collin's tweet about her death, and screenshots of quote replies making fun of him.

as the song climaxes, a tweet is shown of misha talking about the queen's participation in Gishwhes, and several screenshots from the video he posted of images edited of him and the queen together, in often romantic poses.

End ID.]

[gish]

Always be true to yourself & do what will make you happy. We're here to cheer you on.