#it’s another to keep doing what so much of spn standom keeps doing to this canon and the lack of media literacy the lack of nuance

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lolol the way spn standom treats this canon it supposedly loves so much is a crisis every single day and I know the show is over so people think it’s not supposed to matter the way it once did but it matters. I’m not going to just sit here while that source text gets mangled in an endless loop by most of what’s left of spn “fandom.” It is not only record breaking as the longest running genre tv series on US broadcast history (or streaming too), it’s among the greatest genre series in US tv history. Flaws and all. It is. I am just going to say it. It deserves better than to be relegated to the chronic ~edgy hot take that it’s the worst show ever and people shouldn’t like it. GTFO if you hate it so much.

* the “everything about this sucks after S3 mentality” or “everything about this sucks since Kripke left” needs to get thrown into a hole. These aren’t spn fans. They were once upon a time probably but no longer are and they need to leave.

* the parasocialized lenses warping the canon takes, where people have latched onto any of J2M to the point where they’ve allowed it to govern how they perceive the entire show and characters instead of seeing the story as a story and the characters as they actually are in canon and where they literally think spn sprang fully formed out of J2M’s brains and writers don’t exist. My kingdom for some media literacy.

* narrow-minded warped lenses that keep thumping on like evangelists about how the show is only about the brothers and the entire rich narrative gets flushed down the toilet by these so-called bestest truest stans ever. They do not pay attention to this canon, they do not appreciate this canon, they’re fixated on a broship, and that’s the extent of their ability to comprehend the actual source text of a show they are supposedly such huge fans of. Also years of marketing is also guilty on this. Guilty!! J’accuse, marketing. Marketing is a simplistic packaged gloss and does not reflect the richness within. Some of the marketing reflects more of that richness, but mostly the standard branding line “about two brothers” gets slapped on it and reality is a whole lot more to it. People don’t really use critical thinking or media literacy to understand that’s just the backbone construct of it and not a reflection of all the actual flesh.

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Although I'm frustrated by what's increasingly jumping out as more standom masks fall as the spn universe grows ever more inclusive and the tell all truth tea starts pouring out, also I've waited a long time for this era for spn. When the table tilts far enough into inclusion that the masks of standom fall off. When the spn universe starts opening its doors more and more. The Winchesters had a broad, truly intersectional cast of characters, who were treated as people, Misha is now growing increasingly vocal about representation in the tv industry and some topics concerning spn in particular. Jensen and Danneel have made it abundantly clear they intend to have a more inclusive spn universe. The revival seemingly is looming closer and it too will open up spn more, be part of a much more inclusive era of spn. This is not an attack on the og series, which I love and always will, it's that it was dated. It started in 2005. It lasted longer than most shows should even and can even last. spn ran through multiple real world eras of immense change in the real world. While part of the base kicked and screamed and raged wanting to keep it locked in 2005. And where every attempt by the writers to make it more inclusive got blocked in one way or another by people above their pay grade. They created character after character, and they were killed, written off, and ultimately even erased from the narrative due to network tinkering on the series finale.

I'm a fan and I love a lot of genre IP's and it means a lot when these IP's back up the words about "this is for everyone" with increasing rep behind the scenes and on screen and it means a lot seeing these worlds open up more and more. spn should be one of them. I've been saying that for a long time.

So I'm glad it's here, glad we're here, the fandom masks falling and an uptick it certain kinds of rhetoric is pretty much an inevitable offshoot and it means they're doing something right.