#bakuyakusha

[defilerwyrm]

So what do we do now? Threaten to stop watching en masse for the tenth time, but in reality keep lending our support to this shit show in the form of publicity and convention-attending? scare the writers off twitter with a constant wave of criticism and biting questions like they did with Joss Whedon recently? Stick around with the hopes that they can somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, make up for this?

First off I’m gonna need you to actually read what Joss Whedon himself said about why he left before you use that as an example. That rumour/assumption needs to end.

Those who’re no longer getting any enjoyment of it at all should probably stop watching, though it’s rarely that cut-and-dry. Speaking for myself here I’ve been burned pretty fuckin’ bad but I’m emotionally invested enough in this show and in its fandom to stick around for the time being; I KNOW this show can do better, and when it’s on point it’s very enjoyable, to say nothing of the fact I’ve built my Tumblr reputation and following on SPN meta analysis.

On the other hand, I’m not a Nielsen household (I don’t own a TV lol), I don’t buy the official merchandise, and my first convention may well be my last one after all this bullshit. I’m giving them to S11. If Buckner and Ross-Leming are on the writer team for next season, I’m walking away from the live show. I’ll stick to reviewing the first 10 seasons and engaging in transformative works. Once I figure out where to send it I’m also gonna be writing an honest-to-hell strongly-worded letter to the studio and network about this.

That’s the path I’ve deemed right for me. Everyone else will have to decide on their own.

Why is the path unclearwhen we know home is near?Understand we’ll go hand in hand,but we’ll walk alone in fear.Tell me where do we go from here?

[bakasara]

"Sam and Cas will die and also Sam and Cas will be alive, Dean will be cured except not cured" yup. sounds about right, lol.

It’s a packed finale. Overachieving even :P

[defilerwyrm]

SPN is so interesting to analyse because we've wound up with a deeply layered narrative the result of, frankly, extremely inconsistent writing. Whereas in some fandoms you might find yourself comparing the complexities of the "book version" with those of the "movie version", in SPN we're comparing what one particular writer said, versus what a particular director implied, what one executive inferred versus what another writer mentioned, which contradicts what another writer said years prior...

Truth. To muddle things even more there’s the fact that the writers are the producers, and the cycle in and out, and then there are guest writers & directors, and on the whole it’s all kind of a clusterfuck to be perfectly honest. That part makes me grind my teeth because the continuity was part of what drew me in at first. Then again, what show makes it ten seasons without fucking its own continuity a couple of times? And when it comes right down to it the convoluted nature of the plotlines makes for more interesting discussion and leaves more trails for exploration.

[dinsbeskar]

and because of the disconnect between the people and their traditions it became a sort of trauma-induced apathy, like "why have lots of kids, they're just gonna be poor and homeless and die anyway..." Yeah, not the cheeriest thought.

oh my god, yeah tbh if that’s all you could give your children you wouldn’t be too keen on having any at all.  Oh but that’s so sad...  well at least after they reclaimed Erebor they did end up flourishing a little, and when they went back to Moria, they were supposed to be quite prosperous there too, so it’s not all bad.

[dinsbeskar]

Middle Earth's pandas! Ha! Exactly. I think the canon hints at dwarves becoming too interested in trade and craft and expanding their empire to worry about reproducing, but there is also the possibility that they just became stretched too thin

Basically yeah, that seems to be their problem, they’re more interested in creating things from metal and stone than their long term population growth/decline.  Ah that is true,  after all there were seven kingdoms and they suffered massive losses both at the Battle of the Five Armies and the Battle of Dale, so it’s not surprising really.

[dinsbeskar]

also from what we see, the dwarves are in no hurry to pass on their genes. Unlike irl humans it's not like "the members of the royal family must secure their precious bloodlines!" it's more like, "eh, get married, or don't"... Or maybe that's just because most of our reference comes from the company, who operate quite outside of dwarven tradition and rules. Or maybe post-Smaug, reproducing and carrying on bloodlines is the least of the dwarves' worries at the time of The Hobbit canon.

Well Thorin was 195 and had no wife or children, and no one seemed to think that was odd so I’m guessing that dwarven culture is very “get married or don’t, who cares?” but that could be because he was a King in exile and things weren’t exactly stable for a long while til they settled in Ered Luin.

But oh yeah, the weak economy and lack of trade connections coupled with the political and social turmoil of a new leader and place to live is probably more than enough to deal with, leave having babies til after everything is settled back down.

[dinsbeskar]

Dwarves reproduce very infrequently in canon, but they also don't seem to be in much of a hurry, you know? Like elves, since they are so long-lived, they don't need to reproduce so frequently, unlike humans who in the canon have the lifespan of medieval humans, which is very short in comparison even to modern humans. So I feel like dwarves don't place a lot of emphasis on "protect the child-bearing folk, as they are rare and precious!" which seems counter-intuitive, actually...

Yeah that’s so strange, and many of them aren’t really interested in sex or having families either, which also seems counter-intuitive (bc you’d think they’d want to procreate and keep the line going, but nope apparently not).  Hmm I’d actually forgotten that (I’ll blame being tired and doing a Lit essay on that tbh) so that’s probably the reason they eventually die out in the Fourth Age.  That’s actually similar to why the Neanderthals died out though, their weaning periods were too long and they couldn’t keep up with modern humans breeding like rabbits.  Natural selection I guess, it’s just a shame it looks like that’s what happened to the dwarves.

Huh so maybe they’re so gender-equal that emphasis on child-bearing is taken away, leading to their eventual extinction.  That’s a cheery thought for a Tuesday morning.

[jadenvargen]

I feel like the "plz sensor lgbt stuff" poll is nothing but a troll. The way the paragraph was written with no punctuation, like the person just wrote it up on a whim? Plus it only wanted 100 signatures? plus why would they ask that eps be "censored" and not removed from TV entirely? No one who's anti-Family Guy is like "pls make them stop saying swear words on the show, don't canceI it, I like it otherwise just no more swearing thanks" I mean it doesn't matter; if 6 a-holes took it seriously...

i dont know if its a troll or not but i know there’s no danger of anybody taking them seriously... but i know there’s lots people who are genuinely upset about gayness in children’s TV-shows, and it makes me so very angry. I can only imagine the hatemail the creator of the show probably gets. 

 I’m so happy that we’ve had two lesbian/bi couples(with women of colour no less!) in popular children’s TV shows lately, and it genuinely feels like the world is going towards a brighter place for LGBTQA+ youth. If I had seen a lesbian couple on a show i watched as a kid, i wouldn’t have hated myself so much and repressed my sexuality needlessly as much as i did, so... i don’t know, it makes me so angry that people would be against such representation, which is the main reason i reblogged that post. Not because i'm afraid a weak-ass poll of 100 signatures would affect anything, but because it makes me enraged to know such people actually exist in majority out there and hate me and people like me without any reason to.