So I wandered over this little gem today.
Will put my thorough dragging of bronlies, especially the Kelloggs club, behind a cut to not wank up dashboards.
This. All of this. I love Jared and Sam, with all my heart, I really do. But I’ve never met anyone in the Castiel / destiel fandom that hated Jared or Sam. It just makes me sad that I can’t say the same the other way around.
Jared deserves better than what his fandom has become.
I can’t help but think that if a socially awkward (tho attractive) tree-topper is getting a person’s knickers in that much of a twist, maybe it’s time for that person to turn off the electronics, go outside, and remember that Supernatural isn’t real.
Seriously though. I’m comparatively new to both the fandom and Tumblr and I can’t figure out what the hell the point of hating Cas that much could possibly be…or how anyone could justify transferring dislike of a fictional character or plot into actual, real hatred of actual, real people. How does that even happen??
That’s just it. Their reality line is blurred. This is largely the same club that has convinced themselves that J2 are in a PR coverup for now-14-years. Most initial tinhats gave up and moved on after the first, or failing that, the second kid. But no, they continue to build grander and grander convoluded stories on already previously shattered premises they sweep under the rug, and further and further fail to differentiate the line of show-vs-reality the deeper the fall into Wonderland goes.
Under the cut will be a bunch of stuff discussing this on like, an actual psychology level.
that last part about sam content? that’s important too. “it feels like putting blogs through federal background checks” IT DOES IT VERY MUCH DOES. (sorry for the font change but man) i love sam, i love jared, but it’s so damn hard to make and find solo content for him that isn’t soiled or jumped on by that lot.
on top of that, it seems to be affecting jared and how he views sam’s endgame. only once in the past few years have i heard him actually talk about sam having a LIVING future (let me know if there’s more because i love to hear him have some positivity about sam)
more after the cut because this is getting long
and it’s not just sam that gets ruined, either. it’s his bond with dean. two essential parts of the show get ruined for people to enjoy because they know all too well how people like kelios can take the sweetest, emotional, and most innocuous thing and morph it into a monster.
a friend of mine yesterday talked about how she wants dean to say “i love you” to sam and other tfw fans were like “but they’ll take it and twist it and i don’t want that.”
these people have taken something as wonderful and quite frankly normal and uncontroversial as siblings telling each other “i love you” and made people in this fandom be scared of that; be scared of wanting that. i spent all day calmly coaxing people into letting themselves enjoy sam and dean like they want. it was like talking scared abused animals out of hiding. it was sad.
tl;dr: their death grip on sam, on the bro bond, is affecting the rest of the fandom psychology and as a result jared too.
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