#theysilencedthem

[misspollux]

[gabester-sketch]

they deserved better

[colorfulsmayles24]

[franklanqdon]

a study in silence.

[sinnabonka]

So, you are telling me that:

there was no alternative ending, but “there was another resolution for Cas”;

“we can’t talk about the bury your gays trope until the finale”, but Cas is gay and he doesn’t come back and apparently was never meant to;

there were some things cut off the confession scene both from Cas’ and Dean’s reactions, but none of them was enough to add the context for the “rogue translator” to do their job damn well and put the “me too” out there;

Evil Corp is a huge network, but it was just one (1) heller translator that did all the work and he never needed any approval or proofreading;

Jensen/Dean wanting to tackle Cas, but it never being about Dean reciprocating in any way;

Jensen is silent, but for all the different kinds of reasons;

Danneel is silent, but it has nothing to do with her being the Ultimate Cas girl and also the wife of one (1) furious with the finale man;

Cas was never supposed to be in the finale, but Jimmy Novak did;

Misha never quarantined for the finale, but he just happened to chill in the room with a view on Vancouver landscapes and mountains at the same time we would if he was quarantining for the finale;

Misha never came back to shooting, but he knew what was going on on set while shooting Dean’s death scene;

everyone is happy with the ending, but the core cast never said their goodbyes with no reason at all;

Misha didn’t say his official goodbye even after the finale and never reacted to the fundraising initiatives (and we know how proud he is of us), just dropped one (1) article about rancid nuts, but the minute we fuck both Twitter and Tumblr up with #theysilencedyou he has the whole speech prepared?

Sorry, not buying.

[quid-is-a-skam-stan]

Destielgate

I think the weirdest thing about this Destielgate is that some people act as if this is drama exclusively for hardcore Destiel shippers. It certainly is not. I’m not apart of the supernatural fandom, but how supernatural handled Destiel seriously affects me as someone of the LGBTQ+ community. In fact, it affects literally anyone who understands the significance of Destiel.  None of my friends watch supernatural, and yet everyday we talk about the newest Destielgate updates and every single day we talk about how ridiculous it is that they are trying to cover up the Spanish dub and how hurt we are that queer characters are being treated like this. 

I get updates about Destielgate from my queer discord book club where only like, 2 people have watched supernatural and none are actually dedicated fans of Supernatural. Despite all this we have in depth conversations about what is going on and trade the information we have discovered and we all are basically waiting in suspense to see what is going to happen to Destiel. Because how this ends, affects all of us. I feel like the episode writers, or CW, or whoever was in charge of this did not fully understand the impact of having lead characters of an extremely popular tv show come out as queer. I feel like they truly had no idea what they were getting into and no idea how important it was to the LGBTQ+ community that it is handled well. Because when I say queer representation saves lives? It LITERALLY saves lives but depending on how you handle it, it could have the opposite affect.

What truly baffles me is that Destiel did not need to become canon. Destiel shippers would have ben relatively fine with the ship not sailing because that is the nature of ships; they are almost never canonized. But they decided to make it canon in the most homophobic way possible. Yes, any representation is good, but what some do not understand is that a character declaring his love, not having his love reciprocated, immediately getting sent to Mega Turbo Super Hell (the empty) and then never being mentioned again except in a throw away line? Never being grieved over? Never having any resolution? these things that happened after the confession was a rapid devaluing of a character that was apparently very important before that episode. As soon as he declared his love for Dean, he was stripped of the value that the show had been putting on him. Castiel, a character who was well loved and an integral part of the storyline suddenly does not matter to people who previously would have died and/or killed for him right after he declared his love for Dean? That is where the problem lies. That rapid devaluing of Castiel as a character sends a clear message to any queer person watching the show: they do not matter. They are not valued or wanted and its better to stay silent than to speak your truth. It is better to be a closeted gay than openly queer because when you come out you could lose everything.

Yet another Bury Your Gays (tm) trope (with the huge chance of there being queer censorship) is the business of literally all of us in the LGBTQ+ community. This is not about a Supernatural ship anymore, it is about whether or not blatant homophobia and queer censorship will continue to go unchecked. It is about whether big companies will decide that queer lives are more important than money. It is about the LGBTQ+ community no longer being something inconveniencing, but rather something precious.  

[emilyarmadillo]

[squirreljc]

This was supposed to be more of a meme, but I’m honestly a bit angered and couldn’t calm down long enough to make coherent jokes.