#Dante's Cove

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[itsmyfriendisaac]

♉ May 8th: Muscle Stud, Stephen Amell.

[myoldboyfriend]

Stephen Amell

[daimiyamoto]

DANTE'S COVE In The Beginning

[jonny-versace]

You guys, I just watched the first episode of a 2004 supernatural horror series that ran for 12 episodes called "Dante's Cove" and I NEED to tell you about it, it's a camp masterpiece.

In the opening 15 minutes, set in the 1840's, a wealthy man is cheating on his soon to be wife with his male valet in an extended softcore sex scene featuring multiple instances of full frontal. His fiance returns unexpectedly and uses her red witch eyes of death powers to kill the valet (who dies one of the most hilarious deaths I've ever seen, writhing on the floor in a blur of bad visual effects, flailing limbs and helicoptering penises), before locking her fiance in the basement and turning him into an old man vampire thing? Anyway, cut to 2004. What follows is the most incredibly awful hour of the worst acting you'll ever see (the entire cast aspires to reach porn level acting), no less than seven extended m/m softcore sex scenes, including our heroic main character receiving a blowjob from his boyfriend in the backseat of a cab while the characters leather daddy driver watches them in the rear view mirror, the most hilarious breakup scene followed by an even more hilarious scene where our hero comes out to his homophobic parents, two extended lesbian sex scenes that come out of absolutely nowhere, a straight male character who's the gayest man you'll ever see, a gay male character who's the straightest man you'll ever see, a cast who are entirely allergic to both human acting and clothes, a blowjob on the beach that gets interrupted because a trapdoor starts talking to our heroic lead, culminating in the wealthy man who was chained in the basement in the 1840's kissing our heroic lead, restoring his youth and beauty before escaping the basement to no doubt wreak havoc on the sleepy beach town of Dante's Cove, all set to the most 2004 soundtrack you can imagine. It's genuinely the worst thing I've ever seen and I'm obsessed, cannot wait to devour the next eleven episodes

[oldfangirl81]

If you didn't know the gay network HERE! had in the early days a supernatural softcore(?) show called Dante's Cove. I refuse to let this ridiculousness be forgotten.

And before he was Oliver Queen in Arrow Stephen Amell was in two episodes of this sexy supernatural soap opera.

I was obsessed with it and the spin-off The Lair but couldn't watch it often. And I don't remember much about the plot. Tempted to add it to my rewatch list.

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Dante's Cove intro

[jeandejard3n]

The Divine Comedy | Ambient Music

[the-werewolf-prince]

A year ago I made this exclusive art for my patreon. And now I can release it to the public. Prints will be available through the etsy!

Pledging $5 or more a month gives you access to EXCLUSIVE art modeled after scenes of TWP inspirations EVERY WEEK!

One of the many inspirations of TWP is Dante's Cove, and this scene with a young Stephen Amell all wet was VERY inspiring. Watching him in season 1 is quite surreal. 

Art by Sorbet Mystery

[thefrontofmymind]

havent been able stop myself from repeatedly saying "welcome to the hotel danteeeee" to myself for days on end now

[general-sleepy]

Fic writers, put in the tags what the difference in hits is between your most and least viewed fics. Mine is 7,720 (7,779-59).

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[thesweathouse]

[daimiyamoto]

DANTE'S COVE In The Beginning

[wenellyb]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel that people who say stuff like this are straight up lying? Or is there some important piece of information I'm missing?

It's unbelievable to me that some people would like that non-canon ships like Stucky or any other non-canon ships paved the way for representation in modern media. Unbelievable.

Destiel, maybe, because of how big the fandom is/was but even Supernatural and even Destiel started out small and got popular because of the fandom and the ship(s).

I feel like people who saying they started shipping non-canon couples because their wasn't any LGBT representation in the media at the time aren't being genuine. I say that because before joining Tumblr, I didn't even know shipping non-canon couples was a thing (I had heard of Destiel, but it was more of a concept to me, even though I unironically watched SPN).

I feel that was they mean is that there wasn't any representation in popular shows or maybe they mean they weren't enough main characters. But otherwise there was!!!

These are just the one I can think of on the top of my head, but there are much more and there is en more if you go outside of the US. And these are just the shows.

If we add the movies... well!!!

You want romance with a Happy Ending?

You want Murder Mystery?

You want Drama?

There are so many many more and, yes these weren't blockbusters but it's not "no représentation and Stucky and Destiel were the only options"

Grey's Anatomy started out at the exact same time as Supernatural and now has over a dozen canon LGBT characters and half of them are/were main characters (Callie, Arizona, Amelia, Teddy, Yasuda, Helm)

When I joined Tumblr, I never even for a minute thought shipping was about representation or activism because there were so many shows and movies I knew but they were barely talked about on here.

Not criticizing ships by any means but I feel like people are trying to pretend that shipping is something it isn't.

In my humble opinion, non-canon ships were never about representation. Shipping was just shipping

I wasn't on Tumblr at the time, but I was on Youtube (old school) and to me, the people who were doing edits of the canon ships, in shows and movies were the real heroes.

Some people might say : "but those characters are side characters or weren't in major blockbusters/popular shows".

But fandoms could have decided to make them more popular if they wanted. Because believe it or not, Supernatural was a niche show at the beginning and I don't think it would have been as popular or gotten as many seasons without the shippers. They chose to make the non-canon couple (at the time) popular. So the fans could have done the same with shows that have canon LGBT characters But they didn't, they focused on non-canon couples.

I have no problem with shipping non-canon couples at all, I do it too, but I'm really surprised by people who want to make it seem like it's some kind of activism... It's not.

And I know there wasn't enough representation that's true, but why focus your energy on shows with absolutely no canon LGBT characters and pretend it's activism??

You guys could have had Noah's arc or Hit the Floor renewed and you focused your energy on Marvel characters.

And some people will say they ship Destiel anyway because they want fantasy and paranormal... Well does nobody remember Dante's Cove? Was it a fever dream😂? I admit the writing was bad, but have you seen the writing in Supernatural (I say this as a SPN fan)???

And I know some people will say they ship Marvel characters because they have a bigger audience and there were no canon Queer characters in blockbusters, but I feel like that a lie too because when there were indeed Queer characters in those blockbusters, they were ignored as well. Like in the Eternals.

Fandoms can be so powerful when they want to...they can make or break a movie, so acting like the focus on non canon couples was the only option surprises me.

Shipping is just about shipping. It's a hobby.

Stucky or any non-canon Marvel ship isn't "History", it's just a ship.

Last exemple: Let's take a look at 2 popular couples from the same franchise: 9-1-1 and 911: Lone Star. Only one of the couples in canon, but Can you Guess which one is more popular on Ao3 and on Tumblr ?

The non-canon couple!

Almost 3 Times as much fics for Buddie than TK x Carlos who are an actualcouple and even got married!

Shipping non-canon couples isn't about representation but about finding a story to fantasize about, which isn't bad itself but it's bad when you pretend shipping is something it isn't?

TL:DR: Shipping non-canon couples isn't activism imo.

I would be happy to hear tour thoughts because as I said, I only joined Tumblr later so I don't have all the info.