Happy Thanksgiving

[karadinart]

Giving thanks for my kids, my spouse, my brother and sisters, my friends, my neice and nephew, my president, misha, jared, jensen, (spn family) benedict, gackt, my new job, my son’s teachers and aides, Gillete Children’s Speciality Healthcare, Emergency Food Shelf Network, my County Human Services Department, everyone who buys my stuff to look at or wear and leaves me nice comments. Fandom on a good day. :D

Comments

[koshien.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good day! Fandom on a good day......hmmm I might just start having a look back into the madness. BTW - I bought SN DVD boxsets for my mother in law for Christmas and the woman behind the counter went all gooey over the pictures on the boxes. I then told her about your fanstuff, but she was already a follower on your tumblr. Small world!

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding me? That's nuts, I never meet anyone from fandom in RL! Haha. You'll have to tell me if your muminlaw is a Dean Girl, a Sam Girl or a Misha Wife.

(not certain why fans call Jen and Jared by their character names and Mish with his rl name, but there you go)

[koshien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was really surreal. She worked in a shop in Plymouth and tried to get me into a conversation about the show, but sadly I didn't know much more than to mention your fanart and she said she knows your art through tumblr, which was cool.

I'm not sure about muminlaw and SN dudes but she IS a Snapeho that I DO know. LOLOL.

I do wish I could get into SN, but the whole Angel theme freaks me out because of a RL experience.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

It's funny that some see the show as a before angels (seasons one to three) and after angels (I guess as there were only fans of Sam and Dean (J2) and the fandom was 'whole' whereas when the angel storyline came in season four, with Misha as Castiel and suddenly people were shipping Dean and Cas together (!)

I see season four as my fave, because the storyline was tight and the acting and writing really amped up, and it was all things epic. Season five capped off that arc in a great way.

In seasons six and seven there was a new showrunner who experimented with different things and the execution was sketchy, but right now in season eight, then went back to the runner from seasons three four and five, and so far, it's been a really good season.

But you could watch seasons 1-3 and skip the angels entirely.

[koshien.livejournal.com]

I might give it another look then and see if I can follow on through the angel stuff. I'm not uptight about it or anything, it's just subject matter I find uncomfortable.

I know from a very brief look at the fandom that there is A LOT of wank, fan entitlement and shit flung at the actors if they don't do what is "expected" or "desired" of them. That didn't really put me off because I know it's worth looking chiefly at the subject material and the fact that there will always be some decent fans lurking about!

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I don't know of a single fandom that doesn't have wank. *sigh* but I tend to go places that avoid it, I mean, we all like what we like, you can't do it wrong.

[koshien.livejournal.com]

that's true, but SN is the first fandom I've heard slammed for mass amounts of wank outside fandom circles, I think that was mainly due to fans being mean to the actors etc.....which makes Misha extra special for diverting their energies into GOOD things. ^__^

[karadin.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of the younger fans that cause wank, in Misha's case last week because he promoted a fan event that wasn't directly linked to a charity. He was going to do a livestream mockerie of his SyFy film 'Stonehenge Apocalypse' which you could view for $8, if you paid more you could get an autographed poster and chat with him live, but the proceeds were also going to fly 15 fans from wherever in the world to be audience members.

but yeah, some fans bitched that it wasn't for charity (for which he is well known) so he was 'taking advantage of fans or milking the fandom' or whatever - (honestly for $8 a pop?) then a few days ago, Misha canceled, we don't know why, but hopefully it wasn't because of these fans who are self-entitled wankers of the first degree.

But to give credit to J2 and Misha, they still go to conventions - which can't pay them that much considering the aggro - but they know they owe the longevity of their little show that could to the fanbase. Why do people have to be assholes???