Anna was designed to be this idealized love interest to appeal to straight male fans, both in terms of eye candy and how her character was written It really backfired
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The extremely violent rejection of her by the fanbase (the typical fate of Canon Het Ships) made them realize they did not, in fact, have any remaining straight male fans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The character Castiel ended up becoming, after having been written to be a guest starring bit part, is basically just straight-up replacing Anna's intended role on the show If Sam and Dean needed a third wheel to spice things up it sure as hell wasn't gonna be a *woman*
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@Nymphomachy has talked at length about this amazing paradoxical phenomenon of a show getting increasingly hostile to its own female characters as its fanbase gets female-dominated)1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The fans even hated Charlie Bradbury and a loud contingent of haters kept on dogging Felicia Day's mentions over it until she was also killed off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Even though they, like, carefully constructed her to be a female recurring character who couldn't possibly threaten anyone's ship, because she was a nerdy lesbian who treats the main characters like her protective older brothers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
(Somehow the idea of the perky little sister character REALLY pushed the toxic fandom's buttons, like she got called a "Mary Sue" more than even Anna did As though Castiel is not this ultimate and overwhelming example of a "Mary Sue")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I feel like I can almost understand why but I’m not sure how to articulate it (I mean, “why” in the sense of what meaningful dynamics exist there beyond “fans have gender problems”, not as opposed to)
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
Sounds like it's the same problem all the hardcore old EU fans had with TLJ. "It's not what's in my head!" Also I am super glad I just sort of never got into that one show I saw where two dudes hunted a ghost with a shotgun now. Seems it didn't go well.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @chrysopoetics and
I mean Charlie was a "Mary Sue" in the sense that she was, in fact, written to be very demographically similar to a typical Supernatural fan who gets to live out the fantasy of hanging out with the Winchesters and being a character on the show
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"I'm in this picture, and I don't like it"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
Just like Luke. Last we saw him he was top of the world, and suddenly he's old, grey, fat, and he's hiding out in a beach house refusing to engage with the world's problems having squandered all his talents. They related to that *hard*.
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Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect and
I... do think you have that backward Not “it’s not what’s in my head” but “why were you trying to look in my head” as the point of failure
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