pack is family

it’s that time of the year (sketch dump time)

Teen Wolf FanArt: Western AU

To say Derek was tense was an understatement. Biting Stiles wasn't an easy decision, he knew how much the boy wanted to be human and taking the decision out of his hands was a trigger from the Nogitsune's time that Derek never expected to trigger.

But the fight was difficult, cruel and when broken bones became the least of the problems in Stiles' medical condition, time began to run against the pack.

So Derek did it. He saved the boy he had tried to keep away for years, with lies and growls. With a bad mood and "disinterest". He could not lose his anchor, his Mate.

The problem was that since Stiles woke up and realized what he was now he barely reacted. He avoided looking everyone in the eye, answered concisely and just followed Derek to the loft after being released from the hospital.

Derek's wolf was restless, uncomfortable watching his beta and Mate walk through the loft to the large windows with a smell of sadness and conformity emanating from him. He silently approached the boy, even though he could now hear his movements with his enhanced senses.

"Has it always been this beautiful?" Stiles caught Derek by surprise with that question.

"What?"

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teen wolf fandom was one of those first fandoms that really broke down the 4th wall. davis got run off tumblr for fuck's sake and deleted his twitter if memory serves.

so much of this context is now attached to deleted twitters and deactivated tumblrs.

perhaps one day i'll dig into my tags and hunt stuff down because i remember things. things like the actor for matt dahler commenting on his character's "pretty good pair" line in season 2 and how it got fandom in a titter because it was a shoutout. teen wolf social media was good at getting engagement by teasing all sorts of utter bullshit. they were very good at the carrot and stick method to keep fans coming back again and again and again.

but these post-show autopsies lack this kind of context and over rely on the boat videos for teen choice and posey's comments.

there were a lot of things that sort of culminated together that had people shipping the pairing and abandoning the show. it was not exclusive to be a sterek shipper to eventually leave the show.

You had to be there, because when you take away the social media aspect of how the Sterek fandom formed (a FUNDAMENTAL building block if you ask me) then it makes sense why some newer fans who weren’t here during those formative years just. Do not understand the ship or how it got so big.

Because they didn’t see the countless tweets - retweeted/reblogged sterek fanart; or the livestreams with the cast saying they shipped it, too; or the interviews where Tyler and Dylan literally cuddled in endorsement of an online SLASH POLL featuring Sterek vs. Destiel; or the answered asks from the official Teen Wolf tumblr adding fuel to the growing fire or, or, or…

I still and always will remember when back in like...2012 or 13, when Jeff Davis literally tweeted that if "enough Sterek fans demanded it" then maybe he could "be persuaded" into making Sterek canon!!!

That's the kind of shit that went on back then - and that's why it's absolutely bonkers to see people say there's no way Sterek wasn't queerbaited, because like...come the fuck on - and then how it all fell apart because someone, somewhere decided to scale wayyyy back on teasing Sterek to the fans and then in fact act like it and we didn't even exist.

I literally saw someone on twitter say the age 'ol "if you don't like teen wolf why do you have a fan account dedicated to it" and like no, you don't understand any of it. You don't understand all that the fandom went through back then and what led to us separating ourselves from Teen Wolf, but still loving the Sterek aspect as well as the good times had in season 1 and 2, and such.

If you didn't experience the absolute bonkers time of being a Sterek shipper before about 2014, 2015 or so, then you don't really understand just how wild that time was and why it became so big and how much real hope we all had for them to actually make Sterek canon, because of Jeff Davis himself - which, him doing a whole 180 on that and basically treating us like shit from then on - is what makes that even more fucking wild.

Like, you had to be there, otherwise you don't know that part of the reason why Sterek propelled itself so fast and so visibly in the faces of the TW cast & Jeff was because Entertainment Weekly decided to host a shipping poll. And before the poll started, they had asked fans to comment which ships should be included in the official poll....

well......Sterek fans filled up about 40+ pages with Sterek comments & then when the official poll got released, Entertainment Weekly not only DELETED the sterek comments but made a last minute rule that only "canon" ships could be included...which just so happened to only be straight ships.

It caused such outrage that everybody was talking about it and it eventually got back to Jeff (and back then, Jeff was kind and supportive and came to defense of the mistreatment of Sterek).

You had to be there, otherwise you don't know about how MTVteenwolf literally BRIBED Sterek shippers, saying that if we got their facebook page to 2 million likes, they'd release a whole Sterek blooper reel. And naturally, we did. And we got that blooper reel.

You had to be there, otherwise you don't know about how MTVteenwolf literally held an official TEEN WOLF FANFICTION CONTEST & that the winner was a Sterek shipper and was invited to set to meet the cast and hangout.

Like.....you had to be there, otherwise you don't know about how Jeff Davis literally said that teen wolf fans were great, but that Sterek shippers were the "alphas of the fandom".

OR that Jeff said that he frequently printed out Sterek fanart to hangup in the TW writers room for inspiration.

OR that Jeff said that he made a list of the top greatest pairings in the show and put Stiles/Derek on the top of that list.

And you don't know what it was like to go through all of that, to have a showrunner be supportive of the fanbase and the show's most popular slashship (literally the only other show at this time that treated slashfans this nicely was the Hannibal fandom) and then for all of that to switch up over night.

And to have Jeff & Posey literally tell Sterek fans to stop watching the show. And to have MTVteenwolf make a post on tumblr asking for fans to help vote Teen Wolf as TV Guide's Top Choice Show (posting it IN the Sterek tag) and then when we won them the front cover, they put Posey & Hoechlin on the front cover.

And then when the Sterek fandom won at MTV's fandom awards for OUR fandom's contributions to donations/charity, Posey took the award for himself and then gave it away to some random fan, instead of letting it be shipped to the organizers of The Sterek Campaign, who were the ones that did all the charity work.

and they ask themselves