#and about fandom

[patolemus]

Sorry, if I'm being annoying' I'm just excited to have someone who likes to talk about Teen Wolf but I think the way I view Derek stems from the fact that I stared watching Teen Wolf when season 3 premiered and then went back and watched season 1 & 2. Derek from season 3 is different from season 1 Derek, I think that's one of the biggest reason why it wasn't my immediate ship.

Also, Stydia was the big ship in season 3 and that was the ship I latched on to and now I wonder how different things would have been if I had started watching it during season 1. I probably would've shipped both but had a better understanding of Derek.

Don’t apologize! I love asks and I love talking about teen wolf. You’re not being annoying in the slightest.

Ok so suddenly I understand a lot more of why you always viewed Derek as an adult lol, because he was a veritable mess in the earliest seasons and I personally wouldn’t trust him to boil water, let alone adult ANYTHING.

I have done an analysis on this before (if you want to read more about it the post is here, and it clarifies a similar issue, which is Derek’s inconsistent age in the show), but basically the thing is the show writers hadn’t planned on Derek being as important as he turned out, so they left many details unclear. As the seasons progressed, they realized what they wanted to do with him, but by then he was already established as something else (ie, he was viewed as younger) so they retconned him. That’s why you see a visible shift between seasons 2 and 3.

I love stydia, but I never saw them as anything but friends. That’s because sometimes I latch onto a ship and just don’t see anything else, but that’s merely a me thing and doesn’t invalidate stydia shippers. Sterek has just always felt more natural to me, because the progression of their relationship has a lot of undertones most relationships in teen wolf don’t have. It plays into the show vs tell that Jeff Davies loves to use, whether you view it as platonic or romantic. They have incredible chemistry, and that was clear from s1 unlike with stydia, so that’s probably why I didn’t ship them instead.

Then there’s also the ton of sterek subtext in s3. It’s the natural culmination of their relationship. Seasons 1 and 2 are much more obvious about them (because in the earliest seasons their romance was still an option they were considering) and the writers purposely tried not to give them many scenes together after that. The actors even talk about how they wanted more scenes, or how many of their scenes were cut from the final episodes. That’s on purpose, and it’s why it doesn’t feel like they have much relevance unless you’re looking for it.

Regarding Derek, the first two seasons are key to understand his character. He mellows out in the later seasons as part of his new role of being a mentor and being sided with the adults, but he was very different at first. That’s mainly due to unresolved trauma and being constantly under pressure. You can see how he slowly starts to heal as the seasons progress.

This got way too long, so I apologize if it’s annoying or overwhelming. Hope it helps, and don’t hesitate to shoot me an ask or a message if you want to talk more about teen wolf! I swear I do talk about things other than sterek lol.

[wynsvre]

hi this is a comic about me please be nice

[brawnie]

*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

[marisatomay]

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[candyskiez]

Y'all have gotta get more insane about platonic relationships like you are about romantic relationships. We need to get more annoying about them NOW. I need to see more meta and losing our minds over them. Get more annoying NOW. More than that. More than that also.

[dayasan]

He would not fucking say that but let's indulge

[lgbtlunaverse]

It's a unique type of frustration when you agree that a character is deeply flawed but other people keep missing what's actually wrong with them and assigning them new flaws that they don't even have it's like free my man he did none of that. He did a bunch of other shit tho.

[goldensunset]

a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about

[ashdoesfandomarchieved]

category of blorbo called "technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them"

[leupagus]

It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.

[thepixelatedcactus]

flying the original character artist flag with pride

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]