#jensen: et tu brute? wow. what a truly awful thing you've done. bravo you coward

[queermania]

dont you think the jivorce jokes are kind of mean? nobody would be laughing if jensen was the one who had the public twitter meltdown but because it's jared suddenly it's a joke

i mean i can't for the life of me even imagine a scenario in which jensen logs into twitter and has a full drunken meltdown because jared didn't tell him about his production company's plans for a tv show that doesn't involve him but if it happened and he tweeted "Et tu brute?? Wow. What a truly awful thing you've done. #Bravo you coward." at some unsuspecting writer who was just hired to do a job, i can guarantee you i would still be clowning.

[darkshrimpemotions]

i don't want to be rude or sound classist or some other form of assholishness but you can literally see the people who are too young to have ever had a non - summer gig job in their life on the internet everytime actors/networks relationships are discussed and it's not specific to the spn fandom

Yeah like. Okay I don't know a TON about the ins and outs of television specifically but I know enough about gig work to know that it's NOT as autonomous as people who've never done it like to think it is.

I also think there's this idea that because actors generally have a high net worth that they can do whatever they want. And while that might be true to an extent for like, an A-list celebrity with hundreds of millions of dollars to their name (though ask ScarJo about the limits of that), it's not necessarily true for a television actor.

And like. Yes. Jensen Ackles makes more money than I will ever see in my life, but he doesn't make remotely enough to justify skipping offered jobs when he's essentially a very well-paid gig worker who no longer has a steady guaranteed year-to-year paycheck coming, and that's assuming there's nothing in his contract with Warner Brothers to prevent him from saying no.

Even if there isn't, office politics don't disappear just because you don't work in a literal office. If anything, I imagine they're stickier than ever for a gig worker in an industry where everybody knows each other and everybody talks to the press on a regular basis.

Not to mention one of the key people involved is well known for a) being unable to keep his mouth shut on social media and b) having a fanbase that thinks death threats, stalking, doxxing, and organizing targeted smear campaigns to get actors fired are perfectly acceptable reactions to anything they feel threatens or mildly inconveniences their fave.

Can you imagine a scenario where Jensen turns down another offer to participate on Walker flat and J*red doesn't take it personally and make a stink about it on social media? Especially after the very public temper tantrum he threw over not being in the know about the prequel which then necessitated the hasty PR crap to make it seem like they're still Bestest Brothers? Because I can't.

It's entirely possible that Jensen jumped eagerly at the chance to direct an episode of Walker and just couldn't wait to work with J*red again.

But given the fact he's already turned J*red down at least twice with regards to Walker, that J*red has not been involved (or informed earlier than the general public) of any of his other projects, and that he moved several states away for apparently no reason despite lifelong personal and active business ties to Texas, to me it seems far more likely that it was just easier to appease J*red by directing an episode than deal with the fallout of refusing.

EDIT: To be clear, none of this is meant to justify participation in/profiting from racist propaganda. This is strictly about the "Jensen was forced/Jensen was eager to do it" argument. At the end of the day regardless of the truth, to quote Taylor Swift, he should've said no.

[normal-thoughts-official]

[video ID: a recap of the whole supernatural prequel drama to the sound of "carry on my wayward son", mimicking the spn intro

the screenshots it includes are: the first article to announce the prequel launch; the word "Jensen" trending on twitter; the words "john and mary" trending on twitter; a gif of dean winchester saying "love loses"; a picture of Jensen ackles with the words "hate wins"; a tweet by misha collins saying "seems like this show would benefit from a time-travelling angel-in-a-trenchcoat character. just saying..."; a tweet by julie mcniven that says "agreed... oh, were you talking about cas?"; a tweet by eric kripke which says "when @JensenAckles first told me this story, I loved it. He & @DaneelHarris are the perfect people to make it. (The other perfect person is too busy Tecas Rangering). Thanks for carrying the torch, guys, go kick it in the ass. Proud of you. #SPN #SPNfamily"; a meme of sam winchester holding something labeled "John and Mary prequel" and saying "i don't want this"; a tweet by jared padalecki in response to Jensen's saying "dude. happy for you. wish i had heard about this some way other than twitter. i'm excited to watch, but bummed that sam winchester has no involvement whatsoever"; another tweet by jared, saying, "@rthompson1138, et tu brute? wow. what a truly awful think you've done. #Bravo you coward"; a screenshot that says "this tweet has been deleted"; a screenshot of "what a trully awful thing #Bravo you coward"; the meme that says "presidential alert: the girls are fightinggg"; a picture of jensen ackles with the words "what can i say? im a triple pisces 🥵💦🐟♓😘"; the same picture of dean from before saying "love wins"; a tweet by robbie thompson saying "I ❤️ you #SPNfamily"; and a picture of jensen ackles saluting as he disintegrates, saying "supernatural fandom, it's been a fucking nightmare". end ID]

happy season 16 finale everyone