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I think the reason I prefer wincest spaces over destiel spaces even though I do enjoy both ships boils down to an average difference in approach when it comes to canon v fanon. Cesties tend to operate in a realm of suspended disbelief. Most just do not care if it’s a canon thing, if it’s widely accepted to be true, or even if it’s liked by the majority of fans. They just enjoy the ship for the expansion that it is and what text is given in show. Ofc they do care about canon wincest, but it’s just not the Focus because we know the brothers and their relationship (romantic or not) will always be the core of spn. Hellers on the other hand have this incessant need to Prove that their ship is real—that Dean and cas are canonically in a reciprocal, non-platonic love, and that it’s an undeniable Fact Of Canon. It’s unfathomable how anyone could watch the show and not see what they see. It’s less fun in my opinion

Fandom Problem #5379:

"Sherlock was queerbaiting. Teen Wolf was queerbaiting. Supernatural was queerbaiting. Now Loki is queerbaiting."

Newsflash: you shippers are the most common denominator.

You know how they say, if you meet an asshole, you met an asshole, but if everyone you meet is an asshole, then you are the asshole? That applies here.

Those shows didn't do anything but have male characters exist as friends. You decided to make it into something more. You queerbaited yourselves, and now you're trying to project it onto the creators.

It's always the same group of people shipping two male characters together, and then acting like victims when it doesn't become canon and hurling insults at creators and other fans. Y'all just migrate from fandom to fandom using the same rhetoric, parroting the same accusations, throwing around the same insults.

Have some fucking self reflection.

August 23, 2023 - You thought the rogue translator chapter ended in 2020? Try again.

On November 24, 2020, the Spanish dub came out and the chaos it brought literally shut Tumblr down for a while [x]. All because of Dean's line "y yo a ti", which reciprocated Castiel's love confession.

Almost three years later, on August 19, 2023, a Tumblr user posted that she had managed to contact the Rougue Translator who had stated that whilst he didn't remember it completely, if the translation had had the line of reciprocation, it must've been in the script as he wouldn't have added it otherwise. The OP is still trying to track down the dub director [x] [x]. This brought back the speculations and the memories from the insanity of November 2020.

As the original post is a couple days old, it's possible that the news just hasn't spread until now. Alternatively, the catalyst for the trend could be completely unrelated - the landing of an Indian lunar probe on the Moon earlier today [x] [x]. This was naturally announced on Tumblr with the Destiel meme, and the result can be seen on the trending page [x] [x]. Even if this news didn't directly cause the trend, it definitely helped.

Found in the pinned of someone who followed me unprompted 💀

I'm going crazy y'all, omfg...

Okay, so my mother said she was talking about spn to a coworker, and the coworker said, "I love d*stiel so much that I'm naming my boys Dean and Castiel."

I'M SORRY WHAT??

I'm willing to bet everything I have that she'd go off on a tangent about how wrong and bad wincest is — a fictional ship, mind you — while she's planning to name her very real children after two dudes she sees together romantically and/or sexually.

Antis claim, "Fiction affects reality." Yeah! Maybe because you let it and do stuff like this. Like that's crazy 😭

Gayest Supernatural Character, Quarter-Finals

The comments and anon messages I got on the Sam vs. Cas poll. "Cas fans never cook poll results! Prove it!" Reblogs here literally bribing people to vote with offers of fanart. Lol.

Also, one of these characters was straight up canonically eating pussy and loving women. The other one said he loved a guy once and it wasn't even declared as romantic until after the show ended.

Watch the rest of us be unsurprised if y'all manage to drag Cas's ass over the finish line.

Gayest Supernatural Character, Semi-Finals

Thank you to @heraldssrest for providing the image of Cas, it made me cackle.

Pisses me off when people go, "How can you like them both equally if you're always defending Sam?" Like Sam isn't hated by spn fans in a way that isn't even comparable.

Dean's the fandom favorite. Obviously, I'd have to come to Sam's defense more. Use your brain.

Seeing "wincesties" in someone's bio: *my imaginary dog ears perk up excitedly*

It's followed by "dni": *my imaginary dog ears flop down sadly*

Mhm. This is why I’m always deleting comments from Huskerdust shippers on my Hazbin fics. Like, fuck off, this is my work, not yours, and I don’t want to see bullshit hate comments about how your shitty ship isn’t in my Radiorose or Radiodust fic. Go away. If you don’t want to read Radiorose or Radiodust, don’t read or comment on my works.

Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

if the poe stans come for me, please contact me via oujia board when any new star wars news comes out

The scenario entitled consumerist people in fandom have created for themselves is so funny to me. You have write for yourself'd fic writers into literally not giving a shit.

All the time recently, I see people complaining that people won't write for their ship/headcanon, which deserves to be written for because [reason, reason, reason], meanwhile never leaving comments on fic that have ship/headcanon, much less recommending or reblogging fic posts much less even hitting the like or kudos button.

The only people who continue to write fic are those who literally do not give a shit because they know whenever they post they're lucky to get one comment. Why would we cater to you, random internet person??? Why? For what?

So if you're wondering why alternate ship/headcanon is so popular, it's probably because people like it or it's a small pocket of fandom where readers still interact with writers instead of treating us like tiktok/IG content creators.

If you want more of what you like, write it yourself and/or support writers who already do and stop expecting everyone to drop what they're doing and cater their hobby to what you like.

One thing I don't get is when people make a huge deal out of Tom and Dumbledore's first meeting, as if it was uniquely traumatising for Tom or it was evidence of Dumbledore's evil or literally caused Tom to become Lord Voldemort.

Look it might be because they are both my problematic faves but it doesn't sit right with me!

Yes, this wasn't Dumbledore's nicest, least judgmental and most diplomatic moment BUT do you think Tom grew-up-in-an-orphanage-with-all-the-associated-mental-health-issues-I-go-around-London-by-myself Riddle hasn't seen or dealt with worse? It is not a big deal! I guarantee his fellow Slytherin were 100x worse to him for his questionable lineage!

'why are people inserting gender politics into Star Wars' my guy the character arc of Anakin/Vader is a meta-commentary on how toxic masculinity is a literal living prison.

'why is Star Wars political now' my dude the OT is about the fall of the Empire, an authoritarian, fascist, pro-military regime. That part isn't even meta-commentary. It's called the freaking Empire.

writers: *intentionally write villain as sympathetic*

fans: *sympathize with villain*

the purity police on tumblr dot com: 

baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

so tired of Posts that are like “no more strong female characters who punch things! only write female characters who are soft and nurturing and kind and good at non-violent conflict resolution” as if those are the only two types of women: mommy and punchy

you know what I do when I don’t like a character?

I don’t talk about them.

I don’t go into their tag.

If I see an edit of them, I ignore it.

I may even blacklist their name if the dislike is strong enough.

you know what I don’t do when I don’t like a character?

go in their tag

reblog edits of them just to complain

make posts about them

in general, I don’t waste my time and breath on them

it’s….it’s a remarkably simple concept

it makes life a whole lot nicer

Not saying Tumblr has no real gauge for the human aging process but they honestly think 15-year-olds can’t have anything bigger than a B-cup and 30-year-olds should have wrinkles or else they’re “too young-looking” and start making theories about celebrities being immortal when they see a white person who doesn’t “age like milk”