GOD DAMN IT SUPERNATURAL, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE
I'm.....not entirely sure I can properly articulate the full scope of all the crazy shit that's come to light in the last few days. WHAT THE FUCK HOW IS THIS MY LIFE.
Okay, so, here's the deal:
I'm taking a seminar this term with one of my favorite profs, on the topic of movie audiences/reception/censorship/fandom/etc. This prof is the one I had for my Cult Cinema course a couple years ago, and he's fantastic. He knows his shit. He also does most of his research in the area of cult movies and "fandom", and he clearly has a very honest love for that material. It's not your typical bullshit where the researchers insist on maintaining a "tasteful" distance from their subjects, to further "legitimize" their academic work. It's quite obvious he's a total fanboy, and based on what people who've been in other classes of his have told me, he has a FIERCE man-crush on Johnny Depp, which is kind of awesome :D
BUT. Here's where it gets astoundingly, breathtakingly surreal.
I ended up going out for drinks Monday evening with a bunch of friends from one of my film classes last term, and over the course of conversation, it came to light that this prof just so happens to be married to Emily Perkins, who in case you don't recognize her, is FANGIRL-BECKY FROM SPN.
WHAT. WHAT.
I was barely done dealing with THAT bombshell -- although, it certainly made his apparent love for the film Ginger Snaps make much more sense (Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle, who played Ava in SPN, were both in this film, playing the sisters Ginger and Brigitte) -- by the time class rolled around this morning. And I DID already know in advance that we were going to start discussing "fan behaviors" this week, but I was holding on to the slim hope that he wouldn't go too buck-wild today with regards to fanfic and such. So we get to the end of class, with like FIVE MINUTES left, and I thought I'd gotten out of the woods unscathed......and then up goes a PowerPoint slide with Sam and Dean, and Brigitte and Ginger (from Ginger Snaps) with the title "Supernatural Siblings".
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And then, oh and then, he starts talking about how the trend in fanfic and other fan-made materials that pairs up main characters in romantic relationships can thus in certain cases extend into the realm of incest, as seen in SPN and Ginger Snaps (yeah, just to make this whole thing even more surreal, Emily and Katherine's characters in Ginger Snaps have a very incestuous, "us-against-the-world" dynamic). Luckily, he didn't go into it much more than that, because we'll be talking more extensively about slashfic later in the term, OF COURSE. And then he cues up this clip.
D: D: D: D: D:
I DON'T EVEN. I just....yeah. That totally wasn't one of the most horrifically awkward experiences of my entire life, WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?
And I mean, okay, the Wincest stuff is awkward, but it's the super-extra-meta-within-meta-within-meta insanity that is pretty much breaking my BRAIN. Like, Emily is playing Wincest-writing-Sam-fangirling Becky, who is a fan of the Supernatural books in the show Supernatural that I watch as a fan, and Emily just so happens to be married to my film prof who uses her role as Becky-the-fan to demonstrate fan-behavior (namely, the writing of incestuous fanfic) to someone WHO IS A FAN OF THE SHOW AND WHO ACTIVELY READS AND WRITES WINCEST (i.e. ME).
!!!!!!!!!!?????????? O___________O
I wonder what would happen if I told him I'm a SPN fangirl who ships Wincest. WOULD THE UNIVERSE FOLD IN ON ITSELF?????
Okay, so, here's the deal:
I'm taking a seminar this term with one of my favorite profs, on the topic of movie audiences/reception/censorship/fandom/etc. This prof is the one I had for my Cult Cinema course a couple years ago, and he's fantastic. He knows his shit. He also does most of his research in the area of cult movies and "fandom", and he clearly has a very honest love for that material. It's not your typical bullshit where the researchers insist on maintaining a "tasteful" distance from their subjects, to further "legitimize" their academic work. It's quite obvious he's a total fanboy, and based on what people who've been in other classes of his have told me, he has a FIERCE man-crush on Johnny Depp, which is kind of awesome :D
BUT. Here's where it gets astoundingly, breathtakingly surreal.
I ended up going out for drinks Monday evening with a bunch of friends from one of my film classes last term, and over the course of conversation, it came to light that this prof just so happens to be married to Emily Perkins, who in case you don't recognize her, is FANGIRL-BECKY FROM SPN.
WHAT. WHAT.
I was barely done dealing with THAT bombshell -- although, it certainly made his apparent love for the film Ginger Snaps make much more sense (Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle, who played Ava in SPN, were both in this film, playing the sisters Ginger and Brigitte) -- by the time class rolled around this morning. And I DID already know in advance that we were going to start discussing "fan behaviors" this week, but I was holding on to the slim hope that he wouldn't go too buck-wild today with regards to fanfic and such. So we get to the end of class, with like FIVE MINUTES left, and I thought I'd gotten out of the woods unscathed......and then up goes a PowerPoint slide with Sam and Dean, and Brigitte and Ginger (from Ginger Snaps) with the title "Supernatural Siblings".
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU---
And then, oh and then, he starts talking about how the trend in fanfic and other fan-made materials that pairs up main characters in romantic relationships can thus in certain cases extend into the realm of incest, as seen in SPN and Ginger Snaps (yeah, just to make this whole thing even more surreal, Emily and Katherine's characters in Ginger Snaps have a very incestuous, "us-against-the-world" dynamic). Luckily, he didn't go into it much more than that, because we'll be talking more extensively about slashfic later in the term, OF COURSE. And then he cues up this clip.
D: D: D: D: D:
I DON'T EVEN. I just....yeah. That totally wasn't one of the most horrifically awkward experiences of my entire life, WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?
And I mean, okay, the Wincest stuff is awkward, but it's the super-extra-meta-within-meta-within-meta insanity that is pretty much breaking my BRAIN. Like, Emily is playing Wincest-writing-Sam-fangirling Becky, who is a fan of the Supernatural books in the show Supernatural that I watch as a fan, and Emily just so happens to be married to my film prof who uses her role as Becky-the-fan to demonstrate fan-behavior (namely, the writing of incestuous fanfic) to someone WHO IS A FAN OF THE SHOW AND WHO ACTIVELY READS AND WRITES WINCEST (i.e. ME).
!!!!!!!!!!?????????? O___________O
I wonder what would happen if I told him I'm a SPN fangirl who ships Wincest. WOULD THE UNIVERSE FOLD IN ON ITSELF?????