It can be done...;)

[ash48]

Well paint me impressed. A damn fine and civilized d/c discussion was had with absolutely no wank or tears. There were some awesome points made and everyone played nice. *cheers*

Thank you.

I won't be posting anything further on it because I ended up having the discussion I wanted anyway. Plus everyone else made far better arguments and points than I could have done.

In conclusion? Fandom is cool and my flist are made of complete win.

In other news, my family is arriving tomorrow for a week long visit. The good news is YAY I can't wait to see them. The not so good news is I have no idea when I'm going to squeeze in watching the show and writing stuff up about it. I'm hoping to sneak away to take a watch and maybe post a insta!reaction, but I'm not sure (arghh...I can't believe the timing!).

Have fun! I'll catch ya all on the flipside. <3
xox

Comments

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hi,

Thanks for this and I have to say I agree with all of it.

I don't know why D/C shippers are considered confrontational. It's certainly not what I meant when I said it would depend on how the comment was made. That goes for anyone commenting and responding. For me it was all about the issue be controversial, not the D/C shippers. It is a huge shame that it has caused such wank and nastiness. I can't disagree that it's spurred on by the wincest shippers. In all honesty I hardly see the confrontation between the D/C shippers and the Wincest ones because I am not involved in it. I have only recently become more active on Tumblr and now I am beginning to see it. It saddens me greatly and makes absolutely no sense to me.

That comment was confrontational and a red flag went up when I saw it. I did my best not to incite any wank and I think it was mostly ignored. I think staying away from a comment like that is the best course of action. Putting a separate case up, as others did, was a good way of jumping into the discussion though.

I'd never say that!

Oh no no, I wasn't suggesting you were. I was being my own devil's advocate. In my mind I was thinking that because this isn't a Tumblr discussion it's some how "less". I'm not sure where I got that idea - maybe the Tumblr v Lj thing.

And your points for why it won't happen are pretty much my own.I just can't see the CW or Jensen agreeing to it. And one of my personal points would be ...why? I would want to know what that would do for the story lines. I don't actually watch this show for the romance. If this show became about that relationship I would wonder what I had just tuned into (much the way I did when I was watching Sam/Amelia - and hence my "soapernatural vid). I would celebrate their decision to explore that side of Dean's character, but I really only what "saving people, hunting things" to be what I tune into. Now Cas being part of their family is something that I warm to, and family issues and dynamics is definitely part of the story I enjoy.

Which, IMO, is actually something that hurts the show more than does it good, but that's a topic for another day.

I agree. And yes indeed, that is a topic for another day. ;D

[geckoholic]

Ack, LJ wasn't letting me comment, then rl was being demanding... Sorry for not getting back to you on this. /o\

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hey! It's cool hun. I really enjoyed the discussion. It was great to get another perspective. <333

(and me to about RL.../o\)
xx