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ladylade

I Took the One Less Travelled By

Sep 02, 2012 20:45

Notes: This is a "trying to sort out my feelings pretending to be an essay" essay, but I think, as far as the Teen Wolf fandom goes, all of the needs to be said. Basically, a roughly 2600 word essay on the pros and cons of Sterek becoming canon vs. the pros and cons of Sterek not becoming canon. (Outcome: odds heavily in favor of Sterek becoming ( Read more... )

i have so many feelings, essay, big gay love-fest, teen wolf, stiles/derek, i'm sorry i keep vomiting my feelings on

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lonerleo January 23 2013, 18:51:16 UTC

Holy shit you are a good writer 0.0 yes to everything. Agreed! AgreedAgreedAgreed

ladylade June 19 2013, 03:30:51 UTC

Thank you!

neensz April 2 2013, 06:11:29 UTC

I think I have to be your friend now. Like, it's imperative. For reals, this made me think deep thoughts about queer-baiting and the heteronormative media and its misrepresentation of LGBTQ couples. Much love.

ladylade June 19 2013, 02:36:47 UTC

Thank you! I would suggest the first and maybe second season of Hawaii Five-0 if you don't watch it, because it is rife with the shit that I talk about here. (Also, super amazing fic.) But the third season is a pile of shit and the fandom has completely gone crazy, so I'd avoid it on Tumblr. So.

This brings so much academic joy to me q1120790 May 4 2013, 06:26:34 UTC

Good Loki, I was starting to really believe the 99% crap thing about the internet,and bloomin' fan postings with nothing but weird key mashing in place of the English language to express yourself, or even the constant flailing gifs of random images to exercise a point. And why yes, before it is asked, I am one of the older gen treading into this newfangled internet place (but not that old- born in the rockin eighties my peeps ( ... )

Re: This brings so much academic joy to me ladylade June 19 2013, 02:20:05 UTC

Thanks so much for the comment!

Yeah, I get the whole "be careful of the conservatives" thing. Despite the fact that Davies' intent is for Teen Wolf to be an -ism free 'verse, he still falls into the hetero, male, white normative viewpoint of pretty much every other show ever. Teen Wolf has a lot of big issues (and frankly, between the racism and the consent issues, the issue of queer baiting kind of takes a backseat for me at the moment), and I think that it completely reflects the issues our society has right now.

I'm conflicted on the idea of killing Stiles. On one hand, Davies is famous for killing off main characters (hello Criminal Minds), but on the other hand I think he realizes just how bad the backlash from the fans will be. (Kono was just killed off of Hawaii Five-0 and the fandom is a complete shit storm of anger.) Davies has really praised Dylan for his acting, so I think he would need more than just "oh shit Sterek fans" as a reason to kill Stiles off.