On spoilers.

[seanan_mcguire]

So Chuck Wendig posted his thoughts on spoilers recently. I agree with many of them. There are entire media empires I have chosen to have no truck with because they were spoiled for me so thoroughly before I could start embracing them, as often through the intent of the people doing the spoiling as by accident. There is a whole subculture on

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[dragonsong]

I can say from hanging out on Tumblr that I've seen 99% of Supernatural through gifs alone. Watching the series hasn't been so much a discovery of the story as a discovery of, "Oh so THAT'S where that gifset came from." I'm still sitting around 3 seasons behind because there's not that much that's new to me. I was spoiled for season 9 drama about 30 minutes after the east coast episode. Shit, I was essentially spoiled by the ACTORS on Twitter.

Part of me wonders if there's some kind of divide based on your longevity as an internet denizen. The people I know who've been around forever tend to have a more rigorous spoiler filter, either using cut tags or other announcements. At least in my internet neighborhood (barring Tumblr, which is just spoilerville), the people who tend to post the most spoilers are random relatives or young cousins, neither of which grew up with any kind of ingrained internet manners. Maybe it's similar to how vigilant people are with trigger warnings, those of us who've been around a while see them as necessary kindness, while newcomers may see them as just PC silliness.

[gajastar]

I started watching Supernatural because of all the gifs on tumblr. And, ugh, I'm right there with you on the actor spoilers on twitter. If I had...whatever channel SN was on, all Padalecki's livetweeting would be great, but as it stands I have to bail off twitter for like two hours on a show night because I don't want to know what's going on and because, without context, some of it is kinda gibberish.

[seanan_mcguire]

I had to unfollow the SyFy Twitter, because they kept having actors live-tweet shows DURING THE EAST COAST VIEWING.

Fuckers.

[dragonsong]

I really don't understand this whole, "We HAVE to get people to engage with us on social media WHILE they're trying to watch the show!" thing.

Let me do one thing at once. I really don't like this whole trend.