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[idlingintheimpalapodcast]

New Episode Alert: “Fandom is my fandom.” Interview with Jules, SuperWiki managing editor

Sandra and Kasey got to chat with a very special guest who manages a legendary resource well-known in the Supernatural fandom.

Jules is the managing editor of SuperWiki, a Supernatural Canon and Fandom resource. This site about the CW show Supernatural is a collaborative archive used far and wide for decades. It’s helped the production of creative projects and settled debates worldwide.

Jules talked about her fandom journey and the monumental task of maintaining an evolving and ongoing canon encyclopedia, being an SPN advisor on The Winchesters, and so much more!

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Chapter Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:13 - SuperWiki is the podcast’s research go-to 00:04:01 - Jules’ fandom origin story 00:08:22 - Television Without Pity 00:09:50 - LiveJournal and the Whedonverse 00:10:45 - NCIS 00:12:17 - Fandom explosion and commercialization 00:17:12 - The streaming and social media age 00:19:11 - David Lynch and Twin Peaks 00:20:17 - When did Jules succumb to Supernatural? 00:22:54 - The Supernatural Delay and how people kept up worldwide 00:25:56 - How the fandom made LiveJournal work for them 00:27:37 - Controlling and curating your fandom presence within a community 00:34:11 - Simsnatural 00:35:03 - Is it Sam or Dean for Jules? 00:38:19 - Jensen is the biggest Dean fan 00:39:11 - The Sam AND Dean of it all for Jules 00:43:09 - The visual aspect of SPN in the early seasons 00:45:35 - Convention stories conservation 00:47:34 - Six Degrees of Supernatural 00:49:13 - Mourning rec and master lists 00:51:15 - How SuperWiki came about 00:55:00 - The SuperWiki is not just about the show 00:57:47 - The show and fandom feedback loop 01:00:44 - The SuperWiki managing editor role 01:03:58 - Early SuperWiki days - creating the content and shaping the structure 01:06:47 - The importance of collaborators 01:08:01 - SuperWiki as a fandom project 01:09:00 - Sandra has a SuperWiki suggestion 01:10:08 - User suggestions and changes to the SuperWiki over the years 01:14:20 - Nipples and chest hair? SuperWiki’s got a page for that. 01:20:09 - Time traveling with the show 01:21:54 - How can a fan contribute to the SuperWiki? 01:26:58 - Helping fans get the reference and feel included 01:30:32 - Being the “Super” consultant for a fandom 01:31:45 - Supporting fanfic 01:32:56 - Fandom statistics 01:36:04 - Why didn’t SPN creators consult the SuperWiki? 01:45:17 - Did the plot choices undermine or open up possibilities? 01:47:58 - Chuck Cheat Code 01:51:17 - Creators have to make difficult choices 01:52:25 - The Jensen Connection on The Winchesters 01:55:47 - J2 are pros with press and people 01:58:18 - Kasey’s secret question 01:59:26 - Tentacle tangent 02:00:42 - The hope and future of the SuperWiki 02:08:50 - Closing thoughts and outro

[runawaydr3amerao3]

🎙️ Idling In the Impala and the SuperWiki 🌐

If you've ever needed to do a quick fact check on something SPN related or felt like doing a deep-dive on some obscure detail (or maybe the former turned into the latter; not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing...), you've probably ended up on the SuperWiki before.

This week's episode of the @idlingintheimpalapodcast features Jules, the managing editor of SuperWiki, talking about an absolute mountain of interesting stuff (spanning both the show and the fandom itself), which, honestly, tracks when you think about it.

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New Episode Alert: “Fandom is my fandom.” Interview with Jules, SuperWiki managing editor Sandra and Kasey got to chat with a very special g

All hail the gatherers of knowledge! 🙌

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[fandom-hoarder]

exCUSE ME?! ARE WE JUST PUTTING THE WINCHESTERS CRAP INTO THE WIKI???

ONE HEAVEN HAS ACCESS TO THE MULTIVERSE? THEN WHY WERE THERE DIFFERENT ANGELS FOR DIFFERENT UNIVERSES

Was that supposed to be a change Jack made?

This doesn't belong herrrre

[supernaturalwiki]

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[lets-steal-an-archive]

alice e. marwick (@alicetiara) Thread:

🚨New paper:🚨 Morally motivated networked harassment as normative reinforcement. This is the result of 8 yrs of work on harassment & I feel like it's my magnum opus. In this thread I explain this model and credit the scholars who contributed to it.

The model: A member of one community/social network (far-right, fat activists, a fandom) accuses a "target" of violating that network's moral norms ("the accusation"). This triggers moral outrage & justifies harassment by framing the target as deserving it.

Frequently a high-profile person/account amplifies the accusation and their networked audience harasses the target. This reinforces the moral norm and signals network membership. (Eg I reinforce my feminist identity and values by sending nasty messages to a misogynist jerk.)

This is frequently due to context collapse: different communities with widely disparate moral norms are visible to each other on social media.

My research finds that networked harassment is done by all types of communities and people. The left, the right, and communities that aren't partisan (like fandoms or infighting in a community with shared values)

BUT: Individual attributes like race, gender identity, sexuality, religion, etc. function as "attack vectors." (tx T&S participants for that term!) So if I'm Muslim, regardless of what I'm harassed about, I face a bunch of Islamophobic bullshit.

This means that it's /more likely/ that ppl w minoritized/marginalized identities will face harassment, & this is intersectional (e.g. misogynoir)

The impact: people withdraw from public sphere, feel depressed/bad/guilty, moral norm is reinforced and harassers "win"

The key point is that networked harassment is motivated by *moral accusations*. Harassment is virtually always reframed as justified because the target did something immoral.

E.g. I'm not against Anita Sarkeesian because I'm a misogynist/anti-feminist, but because she's a scammer/liar. (She gave a great talk at XOXO festival about this) https://youtu.be/ah8mhDW6Shs

Or I'm not against the 1619 project/Nikole Hannah Jones b/c I'm racist/my white ID is threatened but because she's a liar who hates white people and white children.

B/c moral outrage is really sticky (drawing on MAD model of social contagion by @mollycrockett @william__brady @jayvanbavel) these accusations get people ANGRY and likely to act. https://vanbavellab.hosting.nyu.edu/documents/Brady.etal.2020.PoPS.pdf

Also makes them think their harassment is justified, as we see in this paper on KotakuInAction by @shagunjhaver @asbruckman & larry chan https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8232/6644 and this paper by @linguangst Tianying Chen @syardi @clifflampe https://www.cybersmile.org/wp-content/uploads/When-Online-Harassment-is-Perceived-as-Justified-ICWSM18.pdf

I worked out some of the ideas in this paper with @robyncaplan, where we analyzed how male supremacist communities constructed "misandry" to reframe "feminism" as a movement to hurt men and boys (and justify harassment) http://www.tiara.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Marwick_Caplan_Drinking-male-tears-language-the-manosphere-and-networked-harassment.pdf

And this paper w/ @beccalew @william_partin about how anti-SJW "response videos" create "blueprints for harassment" by positioning progressive YouTubers as committing moral violations https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221989781 [preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/veqyj]

I hope this model resonates with scholars and people find it useful!

Also the paper is open access!!! Thank you to @zizip for helping me find such a fitting home for it at Social Media & Society.

[winchester-cas]

The superwiki ir whatever it is called made a tweet about how disappointing that they are in the fans for leaving a bad review for "Carry On" and everyone is agreeing that the Destiel fans are horrible and how hard J2 worked on the show along with the cast and calling for everyone to leave positive reviews and I mean like for an INCEST account, you would think it was great. 🤢

Hey so I’m guessing that this 👆🏼 is the tweet you’re referring to?

Okay A) those reviews are hilarious

B) they’re called reviews for a reason?? If I don’t like the episode, I’m obviously gonna leave a negative rating.

C) no one is “purposefully bashing” anything. People were disappointed (rightfully) with the finale and they just rated it what they saw fit.

D) also, none of us are doing this out of spite. We really wanted and hoped for a decent finale (which, let’s be honest, we didn’t come close to getting). So um yeah we have every right to be upset.

E) and lmao I would rather leave an honest review than be coerced into leaving a fake positive one.

Thanks for bringing this to my notice, anon!

[eeveestoneson]

So destiel is heteronormative and homophobic.

[servicetopcastiel]

beep beep beep we have a situation on twitter, the superwiki account has been retweeting w*ncest AND ALSO...

if any of y’all have time to kill I’d suggest you go forth and “cause problems on purpose,” as the kids say