#tinhat bullshit

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Hey. Ares. Dipshit.

that's not your coat

that's not your FUCKING coat

you stole that. and now you're going to give it to me.

and then you're going to tell me where he is and what you've done with him

and maybe, JUST MAYBE

I'll consider not pounding you into a grease stain on the sand

how many parts of your human form can I remove before the rest of you dissolves back to Olympos?

*flips open pocketknife* ...I'm willing to find out.

[sgiandubh]

Contemplating Bullshit

Quick, Fandom Police, screencap this and send it to CO. ASAP:

'Dear' CO (or should I say, eh... 'Glinda'? 🙄),

You wrote what amounts to a PhD thesis about one of my recent posts (https://www.tumblr.com/sgiandubh/753845334988423168/they-watch-they-hate-then-they-copy?source=share). So long for your carefully curated 'I don't care about Those Tinhat Shippers' narrative, in the process: but hey, common sense never bothered you and your ilk, right?

You don't care, but you write. Abundantly. Prompted by a denunciation that should give your 'US progressive beliefs' pause. Between you and me, lady: our European shipper community cannot give a dead rat's ass about you systematically dragging the US politics current evolution in this TV series fandom, in an effort to-

a) brown nose the US more conservative, MAGA crowd (with which 'Erself seems to be resonating, but that is suddenly and conveniently of no social and political import to you, of course)

b) sound sophisticated towards what you think (wrongly) is a primitive, uneducated, politically unaware shipper fandom crowd.

Some of the shippers chose to go political, for their own reasons and if they are happy with it, so am I. I do happen to believe in freedom of speech and editorial choices. Many, such as myself, chose to never mix politics and mundane, private beliefs (such as all this fandom thing), just because we happen to think, in Europe, that mixing those two notions is extreme poor taste. With dramatic historical precedents to boot. So you see, I am not very sure what point are you trying to prove, spare that you somehow consider yourself superior to those who do not share your political views. Told you: so long for your progressiveness and I am sorry, but your are such a Cheap Demagogue, lady!

Then, you couldn't help yourself but tell a Big, Fat Glinda Lie:

I did not invent the Orc concept. Your running mate, BIF (the Poor Man's CO, btw) did - and proud of herself, too:

Discerning Orcs vs. Stupid Shippers, Circle of Trust vs. Rectangle of Reality. We know that song, that is so 2019. And sure, I did mention an Orc Army (five to ten blogs, the rest are parrots, unable to make the difference between 'pixilated' and 'pixelated', when talking about a blurry picture - pixie/pixel, btw). My understanding is that someone as genuinely intelligent (that, I grant you) as yourself was piqued by the irony. But you chose to be nasty. Fair enough. Your problem, not mine.

Have you moved on? It doesn't sound like you did. And yeah, you sound angry and bothered and barely keeping up a civilized demeanor, there.

I could go on and on and on, debunking everything you said, but I am merciful to my readers and I happen to think that sometimes being clear and concise is far more effective than being verbose. So, here is the deal, CO:

Take your condescending, US-centric world view and your intolerant nastiness and shove them right up your Glinda nose, ok?

As for me, I am firmly on the ship deck. You are not to tell me what I saw with my own eyes. Better stick to whatever you post on your political blog. You have a LOT of work to do there. Seriously.

PS: in the book, Glinda is the Good Witch from the South. Just pedantically sayin'.

[markofcastiel]

Remember that time years ago when a couple of fans said that Misha and Jensen were living together and said they had proof but wouldn't show it to keep their privacy and everyone thought they were bullshitting

And they were called The Inner Circle or some shit and we all thought these people had gone insane from all the tinhatting (affectionate)

And then years later Misha Collins posts a photo from the room he had in an apartment he shared with Jensen "So Do I" Ackles

Anyway... how was your week?

[laguera25]

It's funny how everybody on the Internet is willing to at least countenance the most tinhatted bullshit imaginable, up to and including reptilians ruling the world, but the minute sexual misconduct allegations roll out, everyone turns into Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and a firm believer in the infallibility of the courts they mock as machines of deceit and tyranny every other time.

Just say you would rather believe the people who brought you joy and comfort in your worst times instead of dozens of anonymous women and go about your business. It's less embarrassing than trying to play John Jay on the Internet.

*I do not think Rammstein is a marauding band of sex traffickers and predators, but it is impossible that all of these women, with stories going back years in some cases, are telling lies. Sorry. At some point, you have to bow to reality and accept that something happened.

[justzawe]

If you wanna hear one of the owners of Backgrid debunk bs, listen to this about 15 minutes in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deux-u/id1604255499?i=1000606556537

95% of their content isn’t staged. The people who have their PR set stuff up are very low tier celebs trying to get their name out there

Celebrities don’t call Backgrid to take their pics

Gives two examples of paparazzi following celebrities and spending hours chasing down content. Sometimes they’ll spot celebrities while they were staking out another celeb

They don’t employ photographers. These paparazzi are freelance and they work together with Backgrid to sell their photos to media outlets

They have to pitch a story to the media outlets in order for them to want to buy the photos and make an article

Celebs using the attention their relationship is getting to their advantage, doesn’t mean the relationship is fake

There are certain hotspot restaurants where celebs know they’ll be papped (just names a few in LA)

So this notion that your faves got Backgrid on speed dial to come take their pics, is complete bullshit. Do I expect conspiracy theorists and tinhats to accept this info? Of course not 🙄

[its-moopoint]

Advice: never trust a dude who wears more lipstick and more blush than you do yourself.

Advice #2: never trust bloggers who call their IG fake account eclectic shit to come then to Tumblr and share stalking lies as a troll.

Advice #3: never trust bloggers who tell you lies about stuff you can debunk yourself just exercising your gift of sight. No, everyone can see that wasn't SH at the funeral but C's brother, and her husband was sitting behind with their child. Your lunatic delusions are the least disgusting part of your bullshit posts about karma. Using the death of her father to share propaganda of your tinhat stupid theories and fanfiction is utterly pathetic and revolting.

You are the embarrassment of the fandom.

[doctortwhohiddles]

One thing the tinhaters have in common, is that they can't bother to make their lies credible. See this example about Zawe:

I call bullshit on all of this. I think this anon just confused the real Zawe and the character she played. What she describes sounds a lot like the plot to the episode. Surely, it can't be a coincidence.

[scarefox]

How to reverse brainwash my father and brother so they lose their toxic masculinity & sexism bullshit and right wing tinhat ideologies?

[insanityclause]

Like I know there are some disturbed conspiracy theorists and seriously naive individuals who think everything is fake, but I have a feeling that a lot of the people that promote and perpetuate this bullshit know better. But because of their selfish parasocial outlook, they run with the PR narrative because the thought of him being a settled family man is too disturbing to their fantasies. Same with the CB tinhats and now the CE ones as well.

Selfish is definitely a key personality trait with all of them.

[applesfallingfromblondehair]

I really don’t know what Matty is doing, he confuses me so much. Is this part of the whole sliding downwards thing he talked about at one show?

And about George drifting, yeah I kinda think that’s what’s happening and it’s definitely bothering Matty. That one instagram story about the comment about George not being fond of him anymore? He did not like that.

Oh god I hope not? If erratic behaviour and dating yet another model is part of the shtick I can definitely believe it, but also I low key hope he's done with the method acting bullshit and takes care of himself when he's not on stage (I know, pretty far-fetched innit)

As far as George is concerned, if you feel off a few layers and (yes, speculation time, grain of salt, tinhat, blah blah blah) look at it a little more closely, it does sound like another marriage crisis. It makes me sad to think about, but I am also glad that Jack is in the picture since the beginning of it now, because he's the one who held their hands through the whole of making BFIAFL and I believe he's probably the only one outside of the band who has any idea how to make it work even when it's not working as well as it was once upon a time.

Re: that Instagram story, I'm still confused tbqh. It was obviously mocking something and someone, but it was quite ambiguous too? Still haven't 100% understood what he meant by that one.

[whengeorgiawentblue]

I really do feel bad for the J*2 shippers who STILL think Jensen and JP are STILL close…well I mean, kind of bad. 😂

Yes, it can be seen from a mile away that Anon is a J2 shipper or tinhat. 🤣

Anon claims to believe both j2 and cockles shippers are wrong but he or she is obviously a bibro who probably believes that "codependence" bullshit, which is just j2 tinhatting but homophobic

[sailorsally]

I'm sure your inbox is being flooded with asks, but I want to add my support for your disappointment re: Jensen's answer to your question, and applaud you for not sipping the tinhat juice. I can't believe the most prevalent theory in the destiel fandom right now is that Jensen answered "the confession doesn't need a resolution" because..............he doesn't wanna spoil any revival secrets. Fucking, what?! Okay! Yeah, sure! He's definitely penning away a super seekrit destiel episode that he's gotta keep quiet about! This man could sit up there and say "actually, Dean wants to have sex with his brother" and parts of this fandom would still twist that into some coded proof he's long conning destiel. If there's a revival, if there was a chance of destiel being a reciprocated thing in it, he wouldn't say there's nothing to address or resolve, jesus christ. And on top of that, "he knows there are wincesties in the audience" is also a bullshit excuse. He says shit all the time that gets him jeers and boos, and if he's so mindful of the audience anyway, then he heard the cheers that outnumbered the boos. And believe it or not, those first few rows could be empty of fans and the cast would still end the con with money lining their pockets. They're not financially indebted to them. They're rich. They're not scraping by. And anyway, those rows are occupied by the same people the whole damn convention, yet Misha doesn't shudder and censor himself in their presence. Lastly. So many people want to excuse what Jensen said with: he doesn't want to spoil the revival/he doesn't want to trigger the audience. Funny, then, that in the same breath they insist what jensen said is soooo positive to destiel. If it was so damn positive, why're they grasping at straws with these excuses? (My apologies for the sarcastic tone throughout but I'm so tired of the patronizing "if you don't think Jensen wants destiel to happen, you're intentionally misinterpreting him in bad faith" posts.)

well, anon, I have a lot of the same feelings about all this. But I guess the spn revival isn’t that far away and we’ll finally see the end of the long con, whatever that will be :)

[zorilleerrant]

OK. Preface: I am not a tinhat. I do not purport to know Taylor Swift's sexuality. I also don't care about it.

What I do care about is straight default. If you don't know whether someone is queer, you Should Not label them straight, not queer, not LGBT, what have you. Because you don't know whether or not they're queer. And the truth of the matter is, you never actually know whether someone is queer, because of all the pressure to stay in the closet. Especially for celebrities, this can happen for decades after literally the whole world thought they came out already.

Now, you're free to say that someone identifies as straight, because that's a thing you can quote someone on if they've said it in interviews or on social media. Or you can just use the quote, exactly as they said it. As long as you understand many people will say that to protect themselves or just to stay private. As long as you understand many people are pressured into staying closeted and, even if you don't like the person, you should still have sympathy for how stressful and lonely that can be.

And, for fuck's sake, stop showing pictures of someone and saying they "look straight" that's the most bullshit reaction to any queer drama that has ever existed.

[purgaytorysupremacy]

I also tinhat that the big “break” happened over Jensen’s objections to Dean’s death and Jared refusing to support him when they went to the writer’s room about it. Jensen felt really strongly about the ending being the Wrong Ending, but suddenly, Jared—the dude who campaigned (and won) to drop Sam’s demon powers and demon blood thing bc he wanted to play a hero—thought that the actor’s job was to merely be a conduit for a writer’s vision and shouldn’t have any input into the characters.

I think the timeline for statements about doing the show until they won’t let them anymore, to Jensen creating a production company, to announcing the end of the series, to buying the rights… it just all feels very planned long game to me on Jensen’s end. He was the one that got Kaia an ending. He fought for that. I think he was disillusioned about what they’d be able to do with the show under current production, so he wanted to take it elsewhere. Then this was the finale they proposed after Jensen had put all his ducks in row—though none of it was guaranteed—and Jared put his hands in the air and said, it’s none of my business.

For someone who is famously as loyal as Jensen is, I don’t think he could abide that. And based on the virtual panels where he joked he wouldn’t direct an episode of Walker bc it was bad to him running off to the mountains to him not involving Jared in the reboot seem to support that he was just sick of his bullshit.

While I am a fan of Jensen, this isn’t meant to be a like uncritical endorsement of everything about him, and I also don’t think it’s fair to blame Jared for every bad thing about Supernatural, but I do think we can for everything that’s bad about Sam. All the jokes at cons about the fUn PrAnKs have stopped and reveal how irritating he was to work with. He’s not embraced by the rest of the cast at cons, when he even goes. He clearly started calling it in and Sam as a character suffered immensely for it. When two main characters (Sam and Cas) can’t be in scenes solo bc of the behaviour of one of the cast members, the writing is gonna suffer. There’s no way around it.

not to parasocialise but i do kind of think jensen blames jared partially for the cancellation of spnwin (i think there are Many. Many factors that caused spnwin's cancellation. the fandom's distaste for john winchester, the lack of interest in a story focused on an m/f ship esp after november 5th, the lack of conclusion for cas's story, the lack of trust in jensen, the cw execs not appreciating the diverse and gay content in the show... but jared's reaction couldn't have helped)

sorry i have many thoughts

yeah. maybe. i mean if he’d been supportive from the start maaaaaybe more people would have watched but in all honesty the jared stans were never gonna watch a show that jared wasn’t involved in and a lot of the fandom does hate john too much to watcha show that they (wrongly) assumed was just gonna retcon all the john canon from the original show.

i think if anything what jensen blames jared for is his embarrassing and extremely public reaction to the announcement of the winchesters and all the drama that followed that. while jareds entitled to his feelings regarding not being involved in the show, NONE of that needed to be hashed out publicly the way that it was and i think we all can guess how much jensen hates those kinds of displays. so while im sure thats not the only thing that has pissed him off regarding jared im sure it’s one of the biggest ones and he hasn’t forgotten it. but like i said in my tags of that other post i dont think he hates him…i just think theres some lingering frustration and anger and resentment there that’s led to him making some jokes at jareds expense

[doctortwhohiddles]

It’s time for the people who don’t like the “new” Chris to just fuck off and just leave the fandom. You don’t like what he has become, then stop being his fan. Stop supporting him and, most of fucking all, stop using the Chris Evans tag.

Those of us who don’t give two shits about his marriage or how he supposedly changed are tired of the bull shit we have endured for the last year or so with all of their (fans) nonsense.

No one is forcing you to stay and be his fan. So just fuck off and stop spamming the Chris Evans tag with your fucking bullshit. WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE!

May I suggest using the block button? It does wonder to avoid fandom tinhats. The more people block them, the more irrelevant they become.

[astorythatwritesitself]

I want to know about Reputation and What Does A Pirate Need From God?

👀

Reputation? What Reputation?

You've actually seen a couple bits of this one! c: It's between Virmire and Ilos, where Adrian's running on fumes, grief coffee, also a lot of grief and terror and just. Kind of has a public breakdown in front of the Council, probably the most memorable moment (and one that damn near tanks her reputation, literally the only way she halfway came back from that was because Sovreign showed up in the next 48 GST hours) being when she goes fuck it, and asks Tevos to meld with her because goddamn it /she could at least gain some insight/. (Also thanks to @sparatus ' tinhatting because oh yeah the whole Beacon bullshit is exactly why she'd refuse :'D GG Tevos saving face was totally worth it)

What Does A Pirate Need With God?

More of a concept than a WIP right now, but so far it's like the... tentative 'start' of the Unnamed OC Project (I say 'start' because I think the leadup for how the four MCs wind up where they are could be whole narratives in and of themselves xD But pretending for a second I'm going for an actual novel approach, this would be the opening scene).

Elora Ryba has been a scourge of the sea for near on ten years, and has spent the last two putting together provisions and crew, intending to fulfill an old promise in what will hopefully be her final raid; after this, she's planning to merrily fuck off into the proverbial sunset in one way or another. And since that promise included the possibility of marriage... well, even if she were a legal captain, Elora can't perform her own marriage, so that's why she's taking a little extra time to find a priest before leaving: She Lives In A Society and Theocracy Is The Name Of The Game, and finding one corrupt enough to join her crew but not corrupt (or worse, moral) enough to turn her in is... tricky.

But not impossible.