And then that happened and I was all \o/

[errant_jane]

Okay, my head is all fuzzy and muddled. My roommate has been sick for a week and I suspect I shall wake up tomorrow feeling wretchedly pathetic. Which is to say, I'm not entirely sure how coherent this is. JSYK

Comments

[missyjack]

yesyesyes all of this. Imagine the butt hurt wank if the Con had've been full of drunk stalkerish fangirls with big boobs JUST LIKE A REAL CON.

i like ur theory, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter, that the girls in the SPNBook fandom are all of having Wincon-type cons. Of course they couldnt show THAT on the CW as there'd be too much drug taking and drunken lesbian orgies.

and yes i imagine lots of Whedon fans wishing they got half the loving we do!

[errant_jane]

There's no way. There's no way they could have done it!! I mean, even if they did an accurate portrayal of wincon in all of its awesome glory, it still wouldn't have flown.

That is TOTALLY what's happening on the female side of SPNBook fandom. They have panels like, "How Does Dean Escape Hell?" and "If Supernatural Were a TV Show" and, well, Bad Fic Idol. YOU KNOW THEY DO!!! Plus, of course, the fantastic racks and orgies.

How could they not? I'm half expecting Show to send pretty pretty rent boys to our houses to service us in any and all ways we desire. SHOW IS JUST THAT GOOD!!!

[elizardbits]

DUDE. 100% YES FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

God, I cannot believe people are ranting about the portrayal of the con like it was a CRUEL AND DELIBERATE SEXIST BLOW TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE. It was portrayed as pretty much identical to ALL FAN CONVENTIONS since the dawn of time, in all fandoms except SPN and, currently, Twilight.

01. Full of socially awkward guys
02. LARPing
03. Very, very, very few women other than those who are actually WORKING there

And you KNOW if they'd accurately portrayed it as full of screaming women who have been known to badtouch the stars and behave in a truly appalling fashion, people's heads would explode.

CONCLUSION: WE PARTICIPATE IN A FANDOM WHERE THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE PISSED OFF ABOUT SOMETHING. Whatevs.

[errant_jane]

It makes me a little sad for them that they clearly did not watch the AWESOMELY AWESOME SHOW OF AWESOMENESS that we did.

I really think that, had they portrayed fangirls at all (beyond the two we've already seen, that, shockingly, half of fandom HATE), there would have been great rending of garments and gnashing of teeth and a lot of "HOW DARE THEY!!" Show is smarter than that.

OH, YOU MEAN WE PARTICIPATE IN FANDOM? THERE IS ALWAYS A FRITZ!! ALWAYS!!!

[fayemeadows]

ILU.

That is all.

[errant_jane]

Right back at you, bb! ♥

[minim_calibre]

::HIGH FIVE::

The fanboys are us, but not. They are a representation of Fannishness in a way where we can be in on the joke without feeling like we are the joke.

It's also, and I say this because I HAVE ROOTS IN THAT FANNISHNESS, highly probable that it is the representation of fannishness that more than a few of the people involved with the show were involved with, back in the day. In that, "Dude, umm. This is a scary-accurate depiction that most likely comes from lived experience, AHAHAHAHA." kind of way. It did NOT come across as a Media Depiction of LARPers and LARPing at cons, it came across as a LARPer's depiction. The fanboys are us, but not us (except for where they're some of us), but they're also THEM.

<3<3<3

They pull our pigtails AND their own! And I love it SO MUCH.

[errant_jane]

I totally agree!! But I think the fangirls have been like that, too. Done in a "one of us!" way vs. a "We think you're all batshit, but your our consumers" sort of way.

The one thing that I think would have made it more awesome was if the Supernatural books were actually graphic novels. I'm a little sad that they didn't do it that way to begin with.

Right? I really can't see a way to interpret that as anything but a huge freaking love-in. It makes me stupidly giddy just thinking about it!!

[minim_calibre]

I think the fangirls have been ONE OF US, but without as much inside knowledge, if that makes sense. We are appreciated, recognized as kin, but still something of a mystery.

[errant_jane]

*nods* I can see that. What matters is that they really kind of love us. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[ethrosdemon]

Yeah, this.

I am half rewatching as I cook dinner and I also marked the second time around that Sam and Dean being freaked out about Chuck invading their life and writing about is probably meta commentary on rps.

[errant_jane]

Right?

You know, I was thinking about that/expecting/dreading it when the show aired, but I feel like they actually sidestepped the RPS-is-bad Meta. Or, if not, did it in the gentle, loving way they did everything else.