Make tinhats, no wank!

[leandraholmes]

Sometimes, unfortunately, both seem to go hand in hand.

Remember the 'wank' we had over at _pinto? How a small handfull of buckets of beans let themselves get carried away to say a few rather unpleasant things about the ship-wrecker the new supposed boyfriend? Well, it was a bit upsetting, and it was good that we all reacted and talked about it and had the mods put their foot down to end the wank before it got out of hand.

Retrospectively though, I think we can really just LAUGH about this tiny itsy bitsy piece of mini-wank when we compare it to the enormous BRAIN-FARTING SHIT that's happening in the SPN fandom.



I used to like being a Supernatural-Fan. It was all good fun, watching and discussing the episodes, making fanrt and fanmixes, talking about the awesome music... But those of you who, like me, have had close encounters of the wacky kind with some of the J²-shippers may already know why I felt more and more ashamed and annoyed to count myself among those people.

(Note: I know not all SPN fans are J² shippers. But they're a big group)

Now I could go into detail and give you my personal account - a long history of seriously delusional tinhatting, girlfriend bashing and endorcing fake twitter accounts (remember how fandom police was suddenly the bad guy for trying to get Stephanie Ware and the other nutters of Twitter and blogs?), but you either already know the tale or aren't interested in it. Plus it would probably take me all night ;)

What I witnessed again today on twitter was something that had me literally laugh hysterically and want me to bang my head against the wall.

A Twitter-User - I won't mention her name since she's already getting enough, admittedly justified, crap - tweeted Jim Beaver:

nice try covering for J2 being together! We all know that Jensen & Jared are making valentine's love to each other ;)

Okay, that alone is an UTTERLY EMBARRASSING 4th-wall breach, but okay. It was said with a wink. Let that person embarrass herself.
Thing just is, ever since... EVER both Danneel and Gen, then girlfriends, now wives of Jensen and Jared, have had to endure so much crap and abuse by fans who state that they are just beards, or are only after J²s money and so on, that it is understandable for Jim Beaver to react a little... well, shall we say sensitively. He replied.

Maybe it's just in fun, but don't post that nonsense on my page.

Which still was pretty polite. He didn't even say 'shit', just 'nonsense' and left the possibility of it being just a joke.

Then she replied, among many other things:

just so you know, I was having the worse v-day ever & your reply made it 10 times worst! Thanks.

Oh, and right after her first @reply to Jim, she made another tweet:

It's the end of the day & I STILL wanna kill someone!!!! Would somebody please brings Danneel in front of me so I can kill her?!!!!! >:O

IF Jim went and had a look at her profile, which I'm sure isn't completely unlikely, then he SAW THAT. And even if that, too, was just a "joke", it's so way out of line, I can't even!

Long story short: She kept bitching at him for ruining her day and for hurting her so much, and that everybody was giving her crap now because of him, and in the end he even asked people to stop "sending anything unpleasant to" her.

This is just ONE example that proves to me once again that - not ALL! I will never say that - but that many, many of those fans are completely delusional lunatics that know neither respect nor seem to have any grasp of reality. Trust me, if you had seen and read everything I have in my many years of being a SPN fan, you'd know. This one here might have sounded like she was joking, but there have been so many who kept twitter-spamming Danneel for what a 'whore' she was (yes, I didn't only read that word once or twice but many times) or writing lengthy articles about why they think Jensen and Jared ARE, for a FACT, in love and just have Danneel and Gen as their beards (um, btw, even IF that were true wouldn't J² have CHOSEN them to be their beards? Still no reason to bash them. Just tell your tinhat Gen and Daneel have a lesbian love affair and everyone can be happy. Case closed! *rolls eyes*)

The bottomline of this all is that I am really incredibly thankful for the awesomeness that is the Pinto fandom. We have tinhats too, and we wear them proudly. But most of us seem reasonable enough to distinguish between their fantasies and reality, i.e. something that they can never be 100% sure about and which simply isn't for THEM to judge.

Anyway. Enough of the rant. This is actually also supposed to be a praise to all my fellow beans and to every other fan in any other fandom that thinks about this similar as I do :)

Now, happy Tinhatting and a wank-free Valentine's Day to you all! ♥


Oh and: Are you in a RPS fandom I know nothing about? Share your experience.

Comments

[takhallus.livejournal.com]

That's such a shame because I think a lot of the SPN fandom are really nice and a lot of fun, then these lunatics make the normals run away.

[leandralocke.livejournal.com]

It is a shame, and I hate to sound prejudiced, but the general atmosphere of the SPN fandom just didn't seem right to me. Of course there are many of reasonable and great people, but the whole thing in general was too much srz bznz for my taste. Be it the abovementioned hating on their girlfriends/now wives or just the way they moan and whine about the show itself. Sure everyone is entitled to their opinion and also to criticize a show, but somehow it always turned into wank or ship wars or Jared-girls vs. Jensen-girls etc. etc.
It's sad, but unfortunately the way I've perceived it.