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Family Don't End with Blood: Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Has Changed Lives by Lynn S. Zubernis
I’m actually not finished. I still have Jared’s section left, but I’m actively dreading starting it, even though it’s the only chapter I wanted to read. Because one: it’s an hour long (i am obsessed with Jared Padalecki as a concept), and because I know what’s in there. Like, what I have been referring to: the summer both jared and i had a mental health crisis in europe, which i know is kind of in bad taste, but once i thought about it i just can’t stop thinking it’s so funny. this is the first reason i cannot meet him, bc i would say it and it would be so inappropriate. the second reason is like, if he ever looked in my direction i would pass away. i’m not like big into celebrities, but spn is something else. obviously, like that’s kind of the point.
i did finish his section and the book. i am obsessed with him as a concept. he’s so funny.
the whole thing is kinda much for me, as nice as it is. and it clearly comes from the top, and if it didn’t the show wouldn’t have gone on for 15 years, and considering the thousands of fan interactions j2 have every year, so many more of them would have gone wrong if they weren’t decent and conscientious human beings. i do think it’s probably best that we stop telling them, as a collective, about being suicidal, just because hearing that a dozen times is probably a lot, and i do think that it would be better to put a barrier back between fan space and creator space and that no fan environment has more blurred the lines than spn, but it’s nice. it’s nice that after 5 years away, i can slot back into fan space and resume my parasocial relationships with these grown men.
anyway, before i finish this, as promised, my spn essay i’ve been thinking about since the finale aired, which fundamentally ties in with jared’s akf campaign.
spn was not always a good show, but it meant something to people who were on the Outs. for me, it was simply a fun genre show that helped with the general Loneliness that comes w teen angst and being weird and quiet and nerdy. in some ways it stood out only bc even in 2012 there was so much of it, and in the darker times of High School it was the only thing i was looking forward to. (literally simple as: i won’t die before i find out how spn ends. i had a lot health anxiety in high school and was convinced that i simply wouldn’t wake up
i did finish his section and the book. i am obsessed with him as a concept. he’s so funny.
the whole thing is kinda much for me, as nice as it is. and it clearly comes from the top, and if it didn’t the show wouldn’t have gone on for 15 years, and considering the thousands of fan interactions j2 have every year, so many more of them would have gone wrong if they weren’t decent and conscientious human beings. i do think it’s probably best that we stop telling them, as a collective, about being suicidal, just because hearing that a dozen times is probably a lot, and i do think that it would be better to put a barrier back between fan space and creator space and that no fan environment has more blurred the lines than spn, but it’s nice. it’s nice that after 5 years away, i can slot back into fan space and resume my parasocial relationships with these grown men.
anyway, before i finish this, as promised, my spn essay i’ve been thinking about since the finale aired, which fundamentally ties in with jared’s akf campaign.
spn was not always a good show, but it meant something to people who were on the Outs. for me, it was simply a fun genre show that helped with the general Loneliness that comes w teen angst and being weird and quiet and nerdy. in some ways it stood out only bc even in 2012 there was so much of it, and in the darker times of High School it was the only thing i was looking forward to. (literally simple as: i won’t die before i find out how spn ends. i had a lot health anxiety in high school and was convinced that i simply wouldn’t wake up