holy shit, spread this like wildfire guys before November
one of the biggest and most devious tools being used against voters now is that voting locations for lower income neighborhoods and neighborhoods that are primarily black or hispanic are suddenly closed down, in the middle of nowhere, or only open for 4 hours a day
do whatever you can to help negate that being a barrier
I’m going to actually tag this into Megstiel fandom because, while they know I’m not a fan of Meg or Megstiel, I am of Rachel Miner, and they’re the most likely to be able to answer this question.
Generally speaking my feed has been really on-point projecting character returns most of the time, but I’ve been hearing Megstiel fandom talking about huge hints of coming back and so far all I’ve found is generalized “yeah I would come back if-” con panels, but I heard something about Ruthie having puck lights ordered for Rachel on set? And I can’t find this like, anywhere? I’ve spent like an hour crawling rachel miner tags trying to find some trace of it.
I’m genuinely curious, even in my dislike of the Meg character herself, as a fan of Rachel behind the character, on if anyone can source me where this happened, since puck lights are a really versatile thing but I would love to actually have like a link or a screenshot to any of this being discussed so we can at least start discussion over Meg/Rachel’s return over in our lane.
Kelios unfollowing Alex’s cat over Brokebacknatural
“Western slash romcom with Misha” – Jensen Ackles
Kelios admitting Jensen is emotionally OK with Destiel now
HonCon/Cocklescon/Oil Rig Accent/”Don’t Let Us Down” – Jensen Ackles
2k18 gave us:
Charlie returns
Sabriel fandom even got fed
Sam dreaming of TFWfamily+domestic Destiel
Stickergate
Decade of Castiel/Misha/Destiel
Promised not to take a screenshot/picture meme
Antis already complaining from the preview about Cas pining for Dean
They are literally saying Cas is pining
Nancy the Destiel Shipper
And the next season hasn’t even started yet, we’ve got 2+ months to go on the YEAR.
Bless.
Dear Diary,
I may have to begin upkeeping daily updates.
Two days ago, we received spoilers on season 14 via pre-screenings, with promises of multiple punches in the face to antis in mere minutes.
Yesterday, we received the gift of Jensen merrily filming Misha Pieing Trump* in the face.
Today, 10/4/2018, Mitch Kosterman, brother of Clif, J2’s bodyguard, formerly in close association with the Kelloggs Club, retweeted this.
I am unsure the state the fandom will be in. There is one week left in hiatus and this shows no sign of slowing.
Honorable mention: J2 Hats are still arguing and angry about Jensen’s last interview and Jared’s lack of appearance. This storm may take the full week to subside.
Dear Diary,
It has not even been an hour, much less a full day, but the updates are still coming.
Fandom is reaching dangerous levels of JenMish. Everything is becoming rainbow. Please send some monochrome color palettes.
I am SO IN for all of this rn.
Dear Diary,
People are staring at me while I am writing in my diary and aggressively eating popcorn, enraptured. Also, it has been brought to my attention that I failed to incorporate major updates of 2k18, such as The Ineffable Post. Perhaps, of course, because it is Ineffable. Apparently I deleted the memory base due to the level of personal exposure for the subjects related to the event, but it has been restored from my mental recycling bin. This, partnered with Mitch’s retweet, is threatening to make *me* think in Cockles wavelengths.
Help is needed, situations are dire. Packaged heteronormativity is urgently requested.
I am l i v i n g
Dear Diary,
The saga rapidly continues, unfolding before my very eyes. Mitch Kosterman seems to be taking some kind of stand for and about Cockles shippers. I am admittedly shocked by this course of events.
The tweet is still there.
The follow remains.
I commit these thoughts to text to ensure come-morning that this wasn’t some sort of lucid hallucination.
*scratches in a late update* 14 years of awareness of anti behaviors cited directly from Mitch to those apologizing for the J2-hats currently hate tagging him.
Is this the real life
is this just fantasy
Shamelessly reblogging myself to add:
This is my second greatest moment on Twitter.
OMG THE “I LOVE THIS SO MUCH” IS MY TWEET I HAVENT BEEN BACK ON YET YIKES
Mitch: retweets a nice video of Jensen & Misha and may or may not have missed the caption.
Antis: do their usual and start harping on at him over something trivial.
Fandom: apologises for tinhats and supports him.
Mitch: Don’t worry I don’t care, ive known they’re idiots for 14 years nothing’s changed. Follows a bunch of cockles accounts. Doesn’t delete the original retweet.
Well this escalated quickly.
Dear Diary,
I slept. Mitch Kosterman’s rebellion did not.
In other news, the Emu Mob RP Bunker caught flack for a DeanCas kiss instigated by twizzlers. Complaining was ripe, but their follower accumulation remains the same as ever.
Mitch Kosterman is more involved in the fandom than I am at the moment.
Dear Diary,
The date is October 5th, 2018. It is hard to believe the above transpired in less than one day.
It seems Mitch Kosterman’s stand has quieted, but not been forgotten. His follower gain rate increased more than six fold above his average yesterday and trickle will continue. A vast amount of Cockles and Destiel accounts have been followed since.
We leave that, for now, to instead include this released special photoshoot for Halloween, in which an inclusive photographer seems to have been chosen.
I’m fairly certain I’ve entered an alternate universe.
This is some good fucking food….
Dear Diary,
It is October 6th, 2018.
Hottopic.com is now selling licensed Destiel merch.
I repeat, hottopic.com is now selling licensed Destiel Merch.
Before my first cup of coffee, I was alerted that this shirt, with this blurb, is able to be located on the site by searching “Destiel.”
…
I found this before ingesting coffee on the morning – so early I initially attached my diary to someone else’s diary blog by mistake. I may have been doodling in someone else’s notebook in my excited haze.
IT’S GO TIME, TEAM. GET YOUR HELMETS AND BE PREPARED FOR LAUNCH. WE MUST PROTECT THIS DIARY AT ALL COST.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND THEY ARE HAPPENING FAST
Im so fucking hype. Get ready y’all, 5 more days
Dear Diary,
The majority of the fandom’s excitement is at terminal levels, and there is still five days to go. From the Destiel shirt, I have watched the narrow lane of antis shift from “it isn’t official,” to “it’s official but how dare PR let them do this,” to “but think of the JENSENS!” in less than two hours of rapid panic.
They are known for moving the goalpost, but never have I witnessed them so rapidly move it two towns and a county over.
They are actively tagging the PR team, trying to convince them that the great cry of a few dozen haters is rivaling the hundreds or thousands of sales in progress. Hot Topic is on at least its second, and possibly third, restock wave in the same day. These shirts may or may not be on an active print press. Official licensing details are visible on the inside tag of the shirt, as purchased from a local store. The local clerk reports that they were only put out this morning and have sold out rapidly.
Apparently a portion of the fandom seems to have forgotten that Jensen eagerly desired a western romcom with Misha of his own accord unprompted on a J2 panel last year, and still dismiss his oil rig Destiel fanfiction commentary as made under some form of force, possibly held to some sort of invisible penis gun. They cry that the very sight of Dean and Cas’ faces together on a shirt will shatter the fragile flower that is Jensen Ackles.
We must keep a vigilant eye on the glass statuette that is Jensen Ackles to ensure he does not exist under the pressure of seeing his own face on a shirt with Castiel. Be vigilant, my friends.
Y’all need to stop pushing an agenda on jensen. he clearly didn’t want to tackle that cream pie panties cowboy and he only reposted this video to show his discomfort.
Dear Diary,@fuckedupasusual has made the best post on this thread.
Doesn’t really ship but lowkey believes in it. *I* don’t even ship it but let me make this BETTER FOR YOU ALL.
Okay so let me put this into some context. My girlfriend until about a year(ish… maybe year and a half?) ago was violently anti-Destiel. Like, to the point that even before I fell in the trashcan, half of my rhetoric was designed to actually defend shippers from narratives I’d heard her breaking out (which she had unwittingly soaked up from the anti lanes she didn’t realize she was floating in like WinBros on FB that are so easy to casually fall into for years if you aren’t deep-exploration-fandom). I always defended Destiel shippers and understood their narrative and production standpoint, if from a literary arms’ length level. 13×5 slammed the nail in my dumpster coffin after holding out, again for literary reasons because to me it was a full series of bookends beyond bookends and a direct mirror of a few other earlier endgames and all kinds of other shit I’ve already discussed. Like I literally couldn’t hold out because as someone raised in literature, at that point, I could not negotiate the plot details as anything other than canonically romantic.
I found out a few months ago she had lowkey fallen into the Destiel dumpster recently–though I had my suspicions before that, such as her suggesting songs for me to make Destiel videos to. I had dismissed it as her deciding to be supportive rather than argumentative since we’d actually had a few spats (mostly from mischosen words like calling me her Cas while she identifies as Dean [cuz… her Sam would be gross; as antiDestiel as she was, she was 100x more antiWincest], only to turn around and a few sentences later talk about hating Destiel, so OW.); but nope, turns out she’d been trying to fight out of the dumpster.
Well, today I got asked about a few things by her, like The Ineffable Post, Mitch Kosterman’s RT, or whatever. And I sort of flatfaced, because I hadn’t even told her the contents of The Ineffable Post, so I started with a whole idle thing on why I don’t mind Cockles shippers, even if I feel like they may kinda be onto something, I just put it in the bin of “not my business” and move on without thinking about it as best I can, but don’t mind them because they’re just so benign and squii-based unlike the core of J2 Tinhat fandom. Well, she turns around and is like “I mean, I gotta admit. Yeah it’s not my business but Jensen is wayyyy more comfortable with Misha these days and like, sure, there’s gotta be something going on there but whatever is giving him googly eyes at Misha and looking at various parts of him the way he does, not my business but yeah.”
I think I almost fell over. And she doesn’t hang in shipper circles, she doesn’t do ANY of that, oh my gOD whAT. She also cited all by her onesies the difference between Cockles “omg I love boyfriends!” vs like “J1/2 needs to drop that fucking talentless cunt” attitudes what the fuck.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON THIS LAST YEAR OR TWO.
Cockles Stage 1:
Cockles Stage 2:
Cockles Stage 3:
Cockles Stage 4:
Cockles Stage 5:
Cockles Stage 6:
(Tag urself)
I guess I’m somewhere between ½, and she’s somewhere between 2/3. Pretty sure we’re gonna hang around 2 though. I really don’t consider it shipping. But – the real thing is –
I think what got me was her calling out so many J2/Cockles ship differences. Like her gaydar is going off hard on Cockles and she considers it genuine flirtation and sees it draw out a completely different side in Jensen that nobody else does, whereas she literally started – just us smoking on the porch mind you, and me weathering through it as “Yeah, Cockles shippers are pretty nice folks” – pretty much slamming on the way J2 hats read J2 because they twist any form of contact into hatting material, which – even though she hates talking concepts like “societal enforced toxic masculinity” as a woman raised extremely conservative and just now really coping with her own bi-ness – that was basically the subtext of what she was unwittingly getting at. That J2 Hats won’t even let them breathe in each other’s vicinity or pat each other on the shoulder or knee which is wildly unfair to them and to dudes, or twisting every joke they make, or moment they hang out; versus Jensen turning into a flirty, swaying gigglemonster and blatantly eyeballing certain things I don’t even have the balls to type.
I was freaking MINDBLOWN to hear this from her. MIND. BLOWN.
Because we DON’T talk about RPS in this house. We DON’T discuss it. She was once more overt about her distaste of RPS than of Destiel even. I don’t think she ever really rivaled anything against her distaste of Wincest, but, come on, it’s fucking incest. This just came up on a fluke from my recent overt laughing about Mitch and vague mention of The Ineffable Post so she got curious wtf was being talked about. (That should scale how little we talk about it – I didn’t even mention that post to her. She had no idea.) But once it came out it all came out and I’m over here like
as some of y’all may know, i used to be into the whose line rps fandom back when i was a youngin. i got older and i grew out of rps. got too empathetic, apparently.
cockles is… well… i tried very very very hard not to let it bite me. i even sent an ask a couple years ago to destieldrabblesdaily who is a cockles shipper going “i really am not into rps…. BUT THEY JUST WONT STOP”
now i’m at the stage where it’s fun to talk about and giggle over, but i still won’t read fic cause that’s still Not My Thing, tho i try (with them and several other rps ships; i just cant turn my brain off). i’m even in a group for them. A GROUP, GUYS.
they just… keep… FLIRTING
it’s so obvious that the kind of happy jensen is with misha is different than the happy he is with jared. the kind with misha is so similar to the happiness you see on his face when he’s with danneel that my brain just can’t NOT think “jfc guys YOURE IN PUBLIC”
like my god look at these two
i’ve given up fighting it and now i’m just along for the ride, wherever these assholes take me.
This morning a friend of mine asked how it was possible for the T-shirt to sold out before ‘us’ (the majority of the fandom) even found out it existed. Who bought the t-shirt?
Well, we did.
It seems unbelievable, right? How can the t-shirt sell out before the core of fandom even knows about it’s existence. Before many BNF were even awake. Well, it’s something called statistics and the fact that whoever decided the number of t-shirts to produce probably underestimated the numbers when they where running their predictions.
Click Read More for a Big Ass Explanation on Why and How. Thank!
An extremely well done post (about the Destiel shirt) on a marketing level about supply, demand, equilibrium, possible reasons on initial short supply, the restocks, and generally How Marketing And Product Sales Work including consumer curves and all kinds of beautiful things that pretty much pan out to, like I been-said since I came to fandom with a thousand other statistics, the Destiel fandom is so much quantifiably huge-er than anyone gives it credit for, even the fandom itself that already recognizes how huge and in-demand it is.
(A few grammar issues but by the style, I imagine English isn’t their native language. Complain at them when you speak multiple languages flawlessly.)
As someone who has approx. 5-10% basic understanding of market economics, OP easily filled the gaps in my brain. Brilliant post.
Remember, PR/merch is not showrunning, but this gives you damn significant insight on how much potential Destiel holds. Just imagine. It seems to have massive untapped selling power.
Actually, I’m gonna add some thinkie thoughts to this with a disclaimer that this isn’t exactly my wing of niche experience once we leave the marketing and stats face of it, as much as what I can pull from common sense and a few available numbers.
I’m just gonna put out there that Hot Topic has a last reported annual revenue (that I can find off the bat) of 761 million ([2009] – which actually includes more than actual net income, it’s basically “sales”). There were 642 hot topic stores by last report in 2011 (same link, and also google). If we ignored digital since it wasn’t AS huge and mainstream back then, and gave an average of store revenue per store, assuming NONE was online around then, we’re still pulling around 3,200 revenue per store per day average (lower if we assume some sales were already online, but we’re actually gonna be generous to potential anti-argument here.)
Minding the listed sales rates of the shirt that have gone at about 100/day (sometimes like 60 on one and 40 the other etc), at 20-odd (depending which sale is being picked up on, since it’s rotated and costs have been like 23-26)… correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re looking at about a 2,300-2,600 net revenue from the digital store per day, from these shirts alone. Or the equivalent of 75% of a store’s sales (by our available numbers) pre-major-internet-boom-pre-digital-orders; and again, this . No wonder they’ve been emphasizing consecutively for two days that these are going fast.
I mean, this is extremely raw math so I’m not holding it to rule of law, but by the looks of it, this would be one of those days in a brick and mortar shop where you’re working retail and literally EVERYBODY is like “Do you have the Destiel shirt.” *sigh* “Yes here” “Do you have the-” “Destiel shirt?” “How did you know-” “We’re sold out.” “DAMNIT.” “They’re sending us another shipment in a few hours cuz everybody is selling out.” Then you get the oddball that’s there for the Pikachu wallet instead after three shirt purchases and two “Sorry, we’re out for a few hours, truck comes soon” notices.
Mind: I understand marketing, but actual sales totals (as in the business facing money management end) isn’t my specialty, so if I’m a wee bit off on the understanding of this… apologies. Feel free to correct if I’m on some kind of crack. But that is legitimately what it looks like from the numbers I can pull at a glance.
I have been told by @chill-legilimens and @casgirlsam that Dear Diary should become a series due to the rate of updates, and perhaps to divide the monolith of news lest it rival the size of Castiel’s True Form with recent shifts in the wind. And so, henceforth, I will be blogging under hashtag #dear diary.
I suppose I should begin this series by touching back on some elements and expanding on them in case anyone has been living under a rock and missed the original post, which I am convinced will continue to reblog into infinity.
2k17 gave us:
The Mixtape
The Big Win
It’s Never Too Late
Brokebacknatural/
“Western slash romcom with Misha” – Jensen Ackles
Kelios unfollowing Alex’s cat over Brokebacknatural
Kelios admitting Jensen is emotionally OK with Destiel now
HonCon/Cocklescon/Oil Rig Accent/”Don’t Let Us Down” – Jensen Ackles
2k18 gave us:
Charlie returns
Sabriel fandom even got fed
Sam dreaming of TFWfamily+domestic Destiel
Jensen snapping on Kelios at JiB
Stickergate
Decade of Castiel/Misha/Destiel
Promised not to take a screenshot/picture meme
Antis already complaining from the preview about Cas pining for Dean
They are literally saying Cas is pining
ThisIsntA(Mixtape)Meme
Halloween Photoshoot #CastielWinchester
Mitch Kosterman the Cockles Shipper Stan
JensenDean tackling a cowboywrestler in speedo/panties over spunking up the Impala with pie.
There are still two months left in the year and we are four days from the season beginning with a promising omen we quietly hold to our breast from the premiere screener, waiting for the impending anti meltdown in only a few days.
I have yet to see any major events on today, October 7th 2018, although the previous post was updated on the daily and hourly to such capacity it was becoming illegible with reblog bars.
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