Previous askbox game...
A bit ago I got an ask for one of the bazillions askboxgame thingies I never finish. This one was asked more than once: 17) What’s an aspect of SPN people often point to as a flaw that you really enjoy? Where do I even start? There are so very many things I love about the series that nowadays, fandom points to as “toxic” and “codependent” and wrong for a million different “woke” (often disingenuously so) reasons. I am 100% a-okay with the show being about Sam and Dean, and not about any iteration of healthy, romantic experience. Give me endless highways, dirty ashtrays and dive bars and moldy motels with jittering neon signs. Sharp-toothed nightmares and no-one-we-can-trust and folklore steeped in American angst. Burn the bunker. Lock up Heaven. I want that tang of the bittersweet; leave all the uwu cinnamon rolls at the suburban malls. I love the universe that Kripke and Kim Manners styled. I don’t love the toothless, Technicolor YA novel that the show became. I’ll live with it, because it’s my main fandom and it’s what we’ve got, but I will never believe that it became a better show with age. It wasn’t perfect, 15 years ago, and certainly had some growing up to do, but it was lightning in a bottle. That they uncorked and diluted when they poured in smarm. WHOOPS. I went and salted everything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
