#theysilencedus

there was no alternative ending, but “there was another resolution for Cas”;

“we can’t talk about the bury your gays trope until the finale”, but Cas is gay and he doesn’t come back and apparently was never meant to;

there were some things cut off the confession scene both from Cas’ and Dean’s reactions, but none of them was enough to add the context for the “rogue translator” to do their job damn well and put the “me too” out there;

Evil Corp is a huge network, but it was just one (1) heller translator that did all the work and he never needed any approval or proofreading;

Jensen/Dean wanting to tackle Cas, but it never being about Dean reciprocating in any way;

Jensen is silent, but for all the different kinds of reasons;

Danneel is silent, but it has nothing to do with her being the Ultimate Cas girl and also the wife of one (1) furious with the finale man;

Cas was never supposed to be in the finale, but Jimmy Novak did;

Misha never quarantined for the finale, but he just happened to chill in the room with a view on Vancouver landscapes and mountains at the same time we would if he was quarantining for the finale;

Misha never came back to shooting, but he knew what was going on on set while shooting Dean’s death scene;

everyone is happy with the ending, but the core cast never said their goodbyes with no reason at all;

Misha didn’t say his official goodbye even after the finale and never reacted to the fundraising initiatives (and we know how proud he is of us), just dropped one (1) article about rancid nuts, but the minute we fuck both Twitter and Tumblr up with #theysilencedyou he has the whole speech prepared?

I´ve been too busy! 

FULL of ideas and no free time to draw... sorry!

But I will be back soon!

hi!! so remember how we did the #TheySilencedYou tag on Twitter which gained a lot of traction? :)

essentially, while using the hashtag #OurVoiceCounts, explain how the C*W's shitty representation (or lack thereof) of POC, LGBTQ+, mental illness, stereotypes, etc. has affected you.

this'll take place on Twitter, on Saturday December 19th with peak activity from 2-3pm EST and 8-9pm EST (much like #TheySilencedUs).

Exactly!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Misha express that he wasn’t expecting certain things to happen in the final episode when he watched it with his kids?

Tell me this:

Why would Misha and Jensen encourage us with all this shipper fuel for an entire year (when they had an idea of how Season 15 was gonna go) if they ultimately knew it wasn’t going to be fully reciprocated or concluded in a satisfying way? say what you want about what Misha said on Twitter today, but him and Jensen do give a shit about us - in fact, they’re arguably the only ones who have ever completely taken us seriously when everyone else treated us like crazies. 

Both Misha and Jensen have spent YEARS going to cons and doing panels where they’ve spoken to hundreds of LGBT fans and have shown nothing but compassion and empathy towards us. There’s no way in hell that those 2 would do all of that stuff to us if they knew how the last few episodes were going to be aired. They wouldn’t intentionally bait us like that unless they really are just that oblivious (which surely they aren’t given, as I said, all of their interactions with us). 

Maybe Misha DOES believe Castiel’s final scene wasn’t “bury your gays” (even though he stated before an implication that he does) and perhaps he DIDN’T expect people to see any issues with it. BUT he 100% would have expected total backlash with how Destiel was handled - He had to.

You can not spend an entire decade of your life interacting with THOUSANDS of fans, not including other LGBT people outside of the fandom (his charity work) and still remain tone deaf when it comes to issues like these. You just can’t. It’s fucking impossible. Hell, his own wife that he has known for most of his life is LGBT herself.

Misha knew fans wouldn’t be happy with the ending of the show. He knew that we would be upset by how Dean and Castiel’s stories ended. He knew we would be upset that this naturally and beautifully developed love story wouldn’t be fully canon.

So why would he keep egging us on as fans of the pairing all this time if he knew this is where the story would ultimately lead? 

Because he didn’t. 

At the very least, he didn’t expect it to be half reciprocated. Remember when he was worried about what Jensen would think regarding ep18 and how the writers needed Jensen’s approval to go through with it?  

Approval for what? Castiel saying he loves him? that makes no sense.

No, it only makes sense if Dean was meant to reciprocate (and since Dean is an important character to Jensen, they needed to make sure he was willing to take the character this direction). And Jensen would have 100% been okay with this.

There is no “rogue translator”, people. But Misha can’t tell you all that because if he did then the CW would be trying to lawsuit his ass and the outrage would be confirmed justified from an actual legit source and how would that look to CW??

DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE TOLD.

THE CW WANTS TO SILENCE US.

IT WANTS TO FEED INTO THAT “CRAZY SHIPPER” NARRATIVE BECAUSE FROM HISTORY IT’S EASY FOR THE CASUAL VIEWER TO BUY INTO AND DISREGARD OUR CONCERNS.

They are literally trying to fuel hatred towards us so they can claim victim and put our concerns as thirsty angry “shipper” insanity when it reality the issue go beyond that. This isn’t just about our ship “not being canon”.

It’s about censorship. It’s about lies and secrecy. It’s about using the LGBT community as a piggy bank and manipulating us for their own gain when it works for them - because they know we crave representation - but then pack peddling because they don’t want to piss off the prejudiced side of their audience. Meanwhile claiming themselves as allies who want us to speak our truth when they have a firm history of killing off their LGBT characters in horrific manners or in Dean’s case, silencing them. 

That when a character does show signs of being LGBT (things that would be 100% romantic if it were heterosexual) we get told “It’s up to interpretation” (when it’s not) and then get told to write our own stories in fanart or fanfiction as if they’re being supportive when in reality they’re just feeding the homophobes and aggression towards us.

It’s about the mistreatment of actors and a corrupt network that pretends to care about you when in reality all it’s ever cared about is your money. But instead of admitting that, they’ll string you along and sing you praises until you go against them then suddenly they’ll bring in actors and people you care about and use them against you.

To silence you.

Don’t Let Them.

if heteronormative viewers watched 12 years of a heterosexual love story unfold like dean and cas’ romance did, only to see it go up in flames like that, they would straight up riot

it would be the biggest scandal on television. news articles would have headlines every morning digging into the conspiracy. years would go by and people would still be invested. it would go down in history for being the messiest finale ever (there’s a reason everybody still talks about HIMYM’s ending all the time).

the only reason these same viewers aren’t up in arms about this is because it gives them an out. they get to stay in denial, because when cas confessed his feelings, all these heteronormative fans got a jolt of reality. they were on spn reddit, arguing back and forth about what they saw, performing mental gymnastics just to squash cas’ queerness, and furthermore, squash the queerness that’s surrounded dean’s character from day one of the show. 

then the finale happened, and they continued to question where cas went. tbh, it’s not that they never saw it. it’s not that every time dean and cas made heart eyes at each other, they didn’t feel a twinge of doubt. the finale made them wiggle in discomfort when the show ended in the most senseless manner possible but they got to sit back relieved that it didn’t go “gay.” they gave spn a pass for its final episode because it told them don’t worry, we still only care about our straight fans, see? 

tbh, this is why we have to make noise about what happened. because nobody else will. nobody is going to go up in arms for queer fans so we have to do it ourselves.