PSA

[dotfic]

Sigh and this is what happens when I get re-engaged, and now I have an OPINION on something. Please, please feel free to scroll by. I'm not cut-tagging this. I apologize for engaging on this at all but I need to make a few things clear

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[dotfic]

*squish* Thank you for being you.

[nyoka]

I love Sam&Dean and Sam&Dean&Castiel and Sam&Dean&Castiel&Bobby and Castiel and Dean/Castiel and Dean/Lisa and Lisa and Ben and Dean and Lisa and Ben and I love Sam and I love Dean and I love the Impala. I don't care if you're just here for one pairing only, or here for all the things, I'm just sick of my lens getting bitchslapped.

Word.

And I love you ♥

[dotfic]

♥

I don't think I should spend any time on this nonsense but it's my fandom too.

*goes back to the business of squeeing*

[smilla02]

*hugs* Well said. <3
I'm so sorry this is happening again, darling, and that it's ruining your joy for fandom.

[dotfic]

LOL, I am so traumatized. This is giving me bad fandom flashbacks. Oy.

I would say I need to go look at the pretty on tumblr as an antidote but...sigggghhhh.

[geckoholic]

Uhm, I hope a specific post on my Tumblr didn't offend you, then? The one about Dean + Sam being the core of the show, I mean. Because that was just reblogging and not ment to upset anyone. :/
Though, I do stand by the opinion that I can deal with anyone leaving SPN but Dean and Sam. But that doesn't mean I WANT that to happen, as you know I'm a happy, gleeful multi-shipper, and I'd never actually spill wank on someone for thinking differently.

Other than that, you also know that I agree: The only thing that ever really ruins fandom is wank and ship wars, not squee or even reasonable discussion.

[dotfic]

It wasn't that in itself, hon. I've seen one too many posts that seem to be trying to educate fans who don't get what the show is about and I found too many ship war posts and "sit down and shut up" and "you are ruining the fandom don't you know what the show is really about" while I was searching for eye-candy and squee. It's a by-product of how tumblr works and maybe it's not a great platform for me.

It needs to be drummed into people's heads! And they're going to keep giving fandom the memo until everyone shuts up, drinks the kool aid, and parrots "Supernatural is about two brothers." Good grief.

For the record, I'm the same as you re: Sam and Dean -- bottom line is I can't imagine it without them. The rest are not merely extras to me, but that's just my opinion.

[geckoholic]

Every kind of drumming a certain opinion into anyone's head is bullshit, and I will never, ever get why some people even spend time on trying to do that. I do know what you mean, if your dash looked any like mine after the last episode . . . Apparently I follow a good number of people how have, errr, strong opinions. :/ Mostly I just scroll past the wank, maybe have myself a good laugh, and then move on to the pretty, and I'm not half as strict with what I reblog as I am with what I'd post myself (not that I have much of a desire to broadcast my own opinion on Tumblr). From that angle: I do agree with the post, but not . . . IKD, to the extreme. Believe me, I'd be heartbroken if Castiel or Bobby would be written off the show. There are a few people I know, here and on Tumblr who only watch SPN for Cas, and while it's not my opinion, I'd never shoo them off for that.

But I get how all that can get too much and make you want to turn your back on Tumblr for a while.

[dotfic]

Tumblr worked for me for a while -- I have this rule, no reading text posts, LOL. But spn fandom has kind of ballooned over there, which I guess is going to be fun for most folks, but with it there's a lot more wank and it gets harder to unsee. I scroll and ignore and scroll and ignore and sometimes vent but I've seen so much crap lately I finally decided it was getting like LJ used to be for me and more stress than fun. I'm tired of sucking it up. And I was sorry to realize that people who aren't aggressive on LJ will be on tumblr.

The best solution is to not put myself in a position where I'll see it. So I'm doing that. Life's too short.

[torigates]

Ugh, has there ever been a wankier fandom? Sorry you have to go through this game again :(((

[dotfic]

Hee, actually there has, but SPN is the one that can piss me off the most since I am still IN the fandom.

And intend to stay in the fandom but...there are ways I'm going to do that and ways I'm not and I am so disgusted right now. I think it's the newness of spn fandom on tumblr. Some of my irritation is already having seen this nonsense on LJ, and it got pretty hurtful and I thought it was done. So...sheesh, no more tumblr for me for a while. The logistics are very very different from livejournal and it's harder to avoid the wacky.

*hugs*