Tuesday, October 28, 2014

[one silkwood shower, please]

I had notes for this, but this is the sort of thing that I do better when I sort of do it off the top of my head, and for that reason, it's going to be a bit all over the place.I'm so sorry.

The TL:DR version of the story is this:Emily Rose, who is part of the Supernatural fandom, got kicked out of a con(convention). Her crime?A tweet of hers that was a pop culture reference. Said tweet was taken to the bodyguard of two of the show's actor's. It was perceived as a threat,

To be fair, the bodyguard was just doing his job(and I agree with the people that say we shouldn't send him hate). But the fact that they didn't do their due dillegence before acting in the manner they did is disturbing.

However, the back story behind this(that it was some fellow fans who have a beef with Emily that did this) I find disturbing. The bodyguard(and the organisers of the con) just assumed that she was a threat-and she wasn't! The convention organisers have claimed that they are "looking into it" and that they will make some sort of statement eventually. They know they're guilty, and don't want to admit it..they're trying to stall whilst they think of some way to spin this that doesn't make them look like douchebags. I want to hear the bodyguard's side of the story.

Oh and another thing? This *isn't* the first(or the last) time that the Supernatural fandom has gone a bit 'splodey(and probably won't be the last, either.)

Emily has some unorthodox opinions about ships, which has made her a lot of enemies.I don't mind shippers(hell,I'm a Hannigram shipper, but I don't make a big deal about it.

The time when it becomes a problem is when it starts affecting the show(House had Huddy shippers, who made it impossible to enjoy the show at a certain point. If you didn't like Huddy, it was like GTFO of the fandom. Really. And when the writers of the show ended that ship,it was like a cyber- angry mob with pitchforks. And they're still upset about it 3 years later. I can understand it when it initially happened, but holding a grudge? for that long?However, that's just my opinion/take on it and your mileage may vary.

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