randomly, I love the reason the supernatural fandom ended up shortening to "spn" rather than just "sn". Because while it feels obvious now bc it's familiar, it didn't USED to be.
But the thing was, fandom was still congregating (when it did) on LiveJournal in 2005. And fandom spaces on LiveJournal loved Aaron Sorkin. Not just The West Wing but also Sorkin's earlier, 2-season show Sports Night.
Not as popular as TWW, for sure, but well-established, as the show had aired from 1998 to 2000. And Sports Night had already been shortened, for fandom purposes, to SN for years when baby Supernatural fans started shortening it to "SN". So there was an active CHOICE to switch to "SPN" so as to not cause confusion or step on the toes of Sports Night fandom.
And like. Damn, how many folks these days would even recognize Sports Night as a show or fandom? It's not many. I just. Think about that sometimes tho. The ways we accommodated each other. The ways we still do.
I love fandom. We are, mostly, pretty decent to each other, when you account for the loud assholes and ignore them. And I think we should remember that.
Okay I’m not done talking about sports night season two actually. What the fuck happened there. Aaron sorkin systematically nuked every single thing he had built up in the first season, made most of the main characters unlikeable, abandoned previous plot lines, made such OBVIOUSLY TERRIBLE writing decisions that you almost think he HAD to have done it on purpose, and created a show that was miserable to watch. For every aspect of the show EXCEPT!!!! for danny. No, he wrote Dan Rydell an incredibly emotional character-focused storyline that ONLY made sense if you interpreted danny as a closeted queer man. This storyline dealt with his mental health, trauma, and awful relationship with his father and was so fucking insane gay people are still obsessed with it to this day. And it was in the season they had jeremy break up with natalie to date a porn star
All right, come on. The gefilte fish is getting cold. Isn’t it supposed to be cold? Unh, unh. You coming? You know, we’ve got a lot of repair work to do. You know where we start? Where?
We get our show back.