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[esmenet]

Poll #10152

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Sometimes I get so angry at Supernatural (a show I have never watched, and will never watch) that I want to set it on fire. Should I:

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do my ranting here, locked/unlocked
16 (94.1%)

rant in private, so it's out of my head but nobody has to read it
0 (0.0%)

post my ranting on Tumblr, under the fandom tag, for everyone in the world to read and argue with
5 (29.4%)

write something more happy-making, such as Echo Bazaar crossovers
9 (52.9%)

SQUEE LOUDLY ABOUT KORRA
15 (88.2%)

Comments

[ninasafiri]

MORE KORRA!

and no ranting on the tumblr tag please~ I live in fandoms where that happens and here I am happy fandom scrolling and someone is all 'blah blah i hate this fandom' and I'm all 'WHY ARE YOU IN OUR TAG THEN?! BITCHES GET OUT.' and all my happy fandom feelings are hurt and fly away :'(

but here is good because I want to know all your feelings toward Supernatural :D

[esmenet]

ALWAYS MORE KORRA.

The thing about Supernatural is that a lot of the fandom is really great—racebending fanart! Good Omens crossovers! fic where character X is trans! Catholic schoolgirl genderbend femslash!—it's just that the show is made of all sorts of horrible things. So I would be kind of interested in people's reactions to the sort of post I'm planning, actually. But yeah, even under a 'read more' cut that might be rude. So I suppose I'll post it here, unlocked. :D

[tropicsbear]

You could rant here and put the rant under a cut. That way, you get it out of your system and like-minded people still have access to it while people who may not want to read it aren't forced to scroll past it.

[esmenet]

I think I will do that, yes.

[ex_lionpyh573]

This is kind of an out-of-the-blue comment but I do want to hear what this was about! I meant to say before and forgot.

My knowledge of Supernatural is 100% derived from skimming summaries on AO3 that come up in my initial searches for a particular tag or genre before I narrow the results down to the fandoms I want and I feel like this method has gleaned me all I need to know. Actually wait also I remember this is the same fandom that keeps writing stories that are about its heroes boning on other countries' mass graves? I feel like you should not put anything under the fandom tag on tumblr because I know it has a lot of fans and there is only one of you and it seems like it would be an invitation to a lot of harassment, of you, I mean. But writing on one's own journal is different.

[esmenet]

It is basically... Well, one of the many, many problems with this show (and this is probably half the upcoming post right here; there may be some copy and paste in our future) is the way it depicts other religions; it is a White Christian Show about White Christian Men and their White Christian Apocalypse, which, fine, Good Omens did it well, other things might too. But Supernatural takes it that one extra step by saying yes, other religions exist, other gods exist in some form, but the White Christian God is the real one.

And that is just disgusting and awful to me. Because, you know, stuff like D. Gray-man or whatever is fine, Laurence Yep's dragon books are fine, even stuff like Good Omens or Marvel's Thor is fine and dandy, because those are stories set in the framework of a larger story which is that religion. But then you have things like Supernatural, which purport to be about a country or a world, which acknowledge the reality of other religions, and then say outright that no, those are inferior and wrong. All the other gods in Supernatural are referred to as 'pagan gods', and they are shown to be weaker than Christian angels. Ruby, a demon, was originally a non-Christian (and possibly also non-white) human who went to Christian Hell when she died! It's just ... ugh.

I actually know a ridiculous amount about Supernatural for a non-fan, due to that whole fiasco with its RPS subset (which, yes, is that fandom) and the really excellent Racebending Revenge art and fics that followed in response. Some of it I wish I could un-know (apparently the show is actually equating gay to evil now, which, great) but oh well.

I am actually kind of tempted to put it on Tumblr just so I can have nice long arguments about how faily the general premise of the show is (I am, in some ways, a troll at heart) but it is kind of rude to post 'reasons why I hate this show and will never ever watch it no matter what' under a tag that people probably search for cute .gifs and such, even under a cut and with caveats about the actual fandom being pretty cool sometimes (see above mention of Catholic schoolgirl genderbend femslash).