i’m called steller • cowboy at the vampire mansion • stanford sam enthusiast • lilah morgan girl • vegan • pro reblogging • seamstrix • id rather be hacking my foot off in the saw (2004) bathroom • header from “milk drop coronet” by harold eugene edgerton & profile picture from saw (2003)
i’m going to be tragically unable to go for the first time in like probably six years and i’m genuinely sad… everyone get those free comics in my honor….
remember free comic book day in the usa is coming up everyone make your game plans
you're really right about racism & homophobia in spn like... lol. spn's homophobia is largely "we're going to make gross jokes about gay people every couple episodes" (with a few exceptions) and spn's racism is fetishization of asian bodies and "look at this violent out of control black man who needs to be subjugated by our white protagonists!" like. not the same evil or degree of it. the racism is constant & pervasive & inherent while you could write out the homophobia & have an intact show
YEAH. for the most part you can laugh off spn’s homophobia or just roll your eyes and ignore it. meanwhile racism and white supremacy are literally built into the very narrative of supernatural. the whole concept of these two white men protecting white suburbia by violently subjugating and killing the Other is a white supremacist fantasy. hunting as an institution is eric kripke’s glorification of tough red blooded white american masculinity. and they never interrogate deeper into what that means bc the writers room was completely made up of white people with, what, three exceptions?
there were many gay characters on the show who were treated with respect and care, but the characters of color—particularly black characters—were treated almost universally terribly and killed in awful ways. of course there’s charlie, but other than that, the homophobia in spn is either casual 2005 homophobia or something that fans project onto the show. meanwhile there’s no escaping the violent racism that plagues supernatural. so im real tired of seeing people act like they are at all comparable or just completely ignoring the racism to talk about the hypothetical homophobia instead
“This, my friends, is a dance number. Somewhere in the neighbourhood of fifty audiences so far this year have declined my kind offer that they get they freak on to this song. But you may freak away. I won’t tell nobody. [Audience member: Southwood Plantation Road!] That’s the fucking song, my friend!”
— John Darnielle introducing Southwood Plantation Road, Mercury on 2003-09-27