#i just got bothered by seeing a jp comment saying that they didn't like seeing overseas posts going “lets make up a name for them!” and

[petrichal]

Personally feel like the characters in Fan Letter don't need a name at all. The point of it was for us to relate to the characters, and the fact that we can be so attached to them as nameless characters is amazing to me. It's a great independent work on its own!

[brycedearings]

I’m obsessed with the new Jurassic movie! I’ve been sobbing over Beta and Blue (I am slightly disappointed that we did not get more Blue screentime) and the OG cast and the Jurassic world cast we did not get enough of them together. Clawen and Maisie have me in a vice grip. Anyway what are your thoughts?

I loved it so much! [sp*lers ahead for anyone who hasn't seen it] this turned out really long lol

I was actually really surprised there were negative comments about the movie- but then again I thought the same thing happened with Fallen Kingdom. I genuinely loved it and would rank it above FK although it's very close. I'm just such a sucker for the Jurassic movies that there's not one I don't like.

I went into it with 0 expectations or spoilers so my only wishes for the movie were 1. Claire doesn't die (I doubted she or any major character would bc Jurassic has never done that before but I was paranoid lol) 2. Claire and Owen would still be together and not another breakup/complicated thing. I worried for a second when Franklin mentioned them being 'weird' but someone pointed out to me how it made sense bc with Claire and Owen being in hiding all those years protecting Maisie, they wouldn't have seen him and Zia a lot or at all so they're not seeing the daily dose of affectionate/in a healthy stable relationship clawen.

Which points me to something else- I read some people saying they didn't like how Claire wasn't really working or seeing her career driven but imo that wouldn't have made sense in this movie. In the first JW she was working at the park, then she was handling the DPG. Now she's got to take care of Maisie so it wouldn't have made sense for her to be risking her and doing something concrete. She was helping the dinosaurs so she still very much had a purpose outside of Maisie and I didn't see any problem with it. The film also ended before we could see what she would do next but 1. There's only so much they could fit into this already jam packed movie and 2. I liked that a lot was left for interpretation.

Claire had SUCH a beautiful progression in these 3 movies. Her arc was the most prominent and it made me tear up. I also love that clawen were finally in a healthy relationship without any unnecessary drama. They communicated, they were partners. All those beautiful moments!! I hoped we would get another kiss like in the other movies but I wasn't expecting one- and then we got that long kiss moment, all those hugs! The worrying, the reunions. Sigh. That perfect plane scene with his "i love you".

I loved their reunion with Maisie as well, that hug + that other hug later with Claire and Maisie warmed my heart. If I had to get picky with anything in this movie was that I wish it had been longer lol had a Dominion part 2 but that's not that easy and they already had issues with COVID back then so I was impressed with all we got.

I wished Maisie called them "mom" and "dad" but I can also understand why they didn't. It could have been perceived as corny or too easy. Her calling them her parents was a lot already- which I loved. Even an apology scene with her and Claire would have been nice but it's not something that overly bothered me. And yeah it would have been nice to get more Blue, but again there was already so much happening in the movie.

I loved seeing Owen saving Claire for once in this movie. It didn't make her look weak, it was just realistic I mean they're surrounded by dinosaurs. They're all saving each other at some point and it was nice to have that. And I mean Claire was still really badass in this movie. That opening sequence and the jungle scene? oof.

I almost cried when the OG 3 met clawen and Maisie. The callbacks to JP were great without being cheesy. The script was smart without being corny. I'm just still on a high from it and can't wait to see it again. Normally with movies you don't really get great character writing and progression for a female character (claire) and an amazing love story without over the top drama. The most we saw was in FK post breakup but even then we got a lot of great moments between them. I just wasn't expecting all the clawen we got. At all. I was on cloud 9 repeatedly.

[angzlicas]

Hey Alexa, thought I'd try to share this here because i believe you think the same if it's not the case I'm sorry for assuming.

I think as a fandom we need to call out what both Jared and Jensen said or didn't say. I think people want to find excuses but we've been doing this for years and even though in another cases it was taken out of context this time wasn't. I would also like for people who think we're just "never" happy with what jensen will say understand that (at least for me) that i actually look up to him a lot and i really care for him, and so when all of this happened and the fact that as an ally he didn't intervene, it really made me sad and angry. And I'm not someone who put expectations on people because it's not fair but this behavior including Jared's was disappointing in so many level. I think bob wess made an amazing video explaining why so many of us are affected by this. I know for some the first thing that bothered them was the cas's part but i think it's all of it, the cas part and the rest for simply implying, with the word used, that there's no humanity in queer people.

I just think that with everything that's happening with the laws in the us, and just in general for queer people in the world, we forget that we're not accepted yet. And it saddened me to see that even within the people i trusted, our community is not safe. Because people will use this to show that we have not a place in this fandom and that the people we've been supporting for years do not support us back.

I just can't move pass this and unfortunately I'm afraid this will never be adressed by either of them...

(oh and if you or anyone reading this doesn't feel this way, our opinion on this can coexist)

hi anon! i really appreciate your politeness about the subject. i personally think Jensen isn’t as much to blame as J*red, even though he contributed to the problem. again this is my opinion and i understand why people are upset with jen, this isn’t me giving him a pass. i watched the panel without any prior knowledge as to what was going to happen, so i didn’t have an opinion on what was being said shaped by other fans. what i saw was jensen trying repeatedly to answer the fan’s question and jp wouldn’t stop interrupting until he got out what he wanted to say. he wanted to jump on the “queer inclusivity” ship and went about it in the worst way possible. i remember actually shaking my head as he answered the question. it was a very harmful ideology that he showed to us all under the guise of support. aroace people? not valid. gay love? sexual. he used the old term used on the show, basically a slur dean used for angels when he thought they had no humanity, to describe cas and declare him not capable of romantic love. i think him ranting about cas for five whole minutes, jensen metaphorically threw up his hands and gave an answer that wouldn’t completely contradict j*red. they have to play nice since the prequel thing and since it’s the first con back, and i think jensen just didn’t know how to respond to jp’s comment. it was the last question and he didn’t appear happy ie storming off stage as soon as the panel ended. i have a million more thoughts on this since again i didn’t have any previous notions about what happened. they’re all my own. thanks for messaging!