and we frolicked about

Holy shit.

I missed all the bruhaha that went down today and I'm kinda glad I did.

The whole 'giving sexy fic to Misha' thing? Oh, fuck no. Why do we go through this every goddamn time there's a fucking convention? Is it so fucking hard to understand that not every actor wants to know when fans imagine them banging a guy/girl/animal/best friend/enemy/etc/etc?? Just because some actors are more open with fans doesn't give anyone the right to take advantage of that. Respect and thank them for what they give us, not what we demand of them!

And the Danneel thing. Jesus. I'm used to there being significant other hate in fandom. It happens. But most people know that the odds of them getting with one of these actors and the actor leaving their so is a trillion million to one.

But the vitriol I saw spewed between the fans was bullshit in itself. If fandom were a bar and we all had a couple drinks in us there'd be some broken beer bottles and clumps of hair flying around.

Again, respect. For both the actors and the other fans. Apparently that's a difficult concept today.

All this kind of makes me want to run off to the Sparkly hills of Twilight and hide in RPattz's hair.

And gotta say, I'm kinda fucking terrified of what's going to happen when I'm at the Vancouver con. Both for Misha and Danneel, if she shows up.

I don't want to fan the flames and I hate how this whole thing has made fandom recoil in horror at what's gone on today but I'm just so disgusted by some of fandom's reaction to this whole Katie Cassidy thing I want to comment further.

Some people have brought up what a double-standard there is in fandom because if Jared or Jensen had gotten caught for public intoxication or drunk driving or something there would be a lot of people (not all) who would be willing to over-look their indiscretion because of who they are. I'm pretty much in agreement with this assessment right now.

Recounts and videos from this past weekend's Chicago con showcase one of the questions asked of Jensen as something along the lines of, "What's the stupidest thing you or Jared have done while drunk?" Jensen didn't answer that which leads me to probably accurately infer that yeah, they'd been drunk enough to do something stupid and it's not something they want out there publically. Who knows? Maybe it's even something worse than what Katie did.

I just can't reconcile that there might be people in fandom who were disappointed, maybe a little upset, that they didn't get to hear a tale of Jared and/or Jensen's awesome drunken adventures and then would turn around and rake Katie over the coals for such a minor infraction compared to a lot of Hollywood's arrested stars and even people in this fandom. Yeah, it's fun to hear people's "I was soooo drunk" stories but not when you're going to be two-faced depending on who the story is about.

If you're so upset by this/her/her character that you want to wish her harm, call her vindictive names, hope she's written off the show because of it, etc, maybe you should step back from the show and fandom and reconsider your priorities. Violent reactions to the bad choices of someone you don't even know makes a fandom/show look just as bad as some people are accusing Katie of making Supernatural look.