I agreed to buy a Sterek and/or general Teen Wolf shirt for a thing we’re filming next weekend (we’re finally shooting our USA TV show parody. Finally). Now I have to find one that I don’t mind dropping $25 on and have a real chance of wearing again in the future.
Help.
if i was the writer for a fairly popular tv show and someone sent me six hundred and eighty cookies that had the name of their favorite yaoi pairing from my show i would not eat those cookies
Oh my god, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
(via mythicgeek)
BUT THAT’S OBV. JUST WHAT DEREK NEEDS. ANOTHER DEAD GIRLFRIEND TO PROMOTE HIS SELF WORTH.
BUT WHAT WORRIES ME IS THAT HORRIBLE THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN TO STILES ONCE HE BECOMES DEREK’S LOVE INTEREST B/C DEREK IS DESTINED TO LOSE EVERYTHING HE LOVES D:
FUCK
WHY DID I SAY THAT
NOW I’M CRYING
Female character who fans have decided exist solely for the purpose of advancing male characters?
Check.
(Source: pink-mama)
there better not be a fucking attack the block sterek au or i’m getting my blowtorch
I will fucking rent that movie for the sole purpose of writing a teen wolf fan fic. Don’t think I wont. I have terrible influences as friends. They wont stop me.
I DO WHAT I WANT!
okay but if you want to be racist go ahead just don’t get mad when people will call you out on your racism and microaggressions
lmao at the person who thinks Attack the Block works without a black protag.
(Source: jellyfishverse, via jellyfishverse)
Because I promised this 3 days ago, I’m C/Ping my coverage of the Teen Wolf panel since I figure that’s what most of my followers are actually interested in XD!
- A bit of background out of fairness: I went into the panel not looking forward to having to interact with diehard Teen Wolf fans who reside in a fandom where hating on the main character, dismissing him with ableist slurs, and telling fans of color to stop “creating” racewank is common place. While I wasn’t overly impressed with the focus on the shipping campaign for characters Derek and Stiles (known as ‘Sterek’) towards the beginning of the panel, there were a few great questions asked during the Q&A that slightly restored my faith in humanity.
- I sat with a friend of mine to my left, a Latina on my right who was a die-hard fan of main character Scott McCall and with a group of Sterek fans behind me who were giggling and referring to Scott as “retarded” before anyone even walked out on stage. I knew I was in for an interesting hour.
- Many of the fans showed up in unofficial character lacrosse jerseys and hoodies, though none of them were wearing Scott’s. Tyler Posey calling them out made for the first slightly awkward moment of the panel.
- Maybe a fourth of the audience was vocally against the idea posed by the moderator that every fan is “married” to the idea of characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale being featured as a couple.
- The biggest news out of the panel for me was when the show’s creator Jeff Davis revealed that one of the women in the main villain group for S3 is a character named Kali. The show is going to center around Celtic and Druid mythology for S3 (as confirmed by Davis), but he was quick to specify that the character of Kali is named after the Hindu goddess. Breakdowns for the characters aren’t up at my regular source yet–Davis said they should run sometime this week or next–but if this role goes to a white woman, all hope really is lost.
- One of the themes of season three was revealed to be the women of the show “finding their power.” I would think that to do this they have to acknowledge how the female characters have been consistently manipulated by the men around them…but that wasn’t mentioned, so we’ll see where that goes.
- The first Q&A question came from a bisexual fan who first emphasized how important it is to have well-written bisexual characters on television and followed up by asking if they would follow through with a bisexual Stiles plot-line since it’s occasionally been teased. I enjoyed that Davis’ answer included the defense line “one of my best friends is bisexual.”
- My favorite question started with, “I am sick of seeing white dudes coming out over and over again,” and ended asking Davis if he would be focusing on Danny Mahealani and his sexuality rather than Stiles and Derek. Here an interesting conundrum was broached: one of the best and most prevalent arguments against the focus on Stiles and Derek as a LGBTQ power couple in media representation is the fact that it erases the presence of Danny, a side character on the show who is gay and also happens to be a PoC (native Hawaiian). If fans shipping Stiles and Derek actually cared about the representation of the LGBTQ community on television, wouldn’t they be repping for the show’s only gay character? Danny was more of a background character during the first season but was more involved in season two as Jackson Whitmore’s best friend. However, it was confirmed this weekend that Colton Haynes who plays Jackson (and Kanye West in blackface!) won’t be coming back for season three. That seemingly limits Danny’s character, as Jackson was his main connection to the group. When answering the question Davis seemed to hint that Danny’s involvement in the next season might decrease, which would leave a hole in the greatly lauded supposed LGBTQ representation on the show.
- Overall, this panel made me long for the day when this sort of show (the campy paranormal teen drama) becomes more inclusive both racially and sexually and a PoC is sitting in Jeff Davis’ seat.
teen wolf au - wherever you go
ever since he was a young boy derek hale has known exactly what he wanted, or rather who he wanted, but when the stiles’ mother dies and he moves across the country, derek feels his own body being pulled along against his will. derek follows the boy to chicago and later, after stiles graduates from high school, off to new york and cornell university. derek has always found himself content just being in the same city, close enough to hear stiles’ heartbeat and know he’s safe, but things change the day that stiles stumbles into the werewolf’s coffee shop.
“and what would you say if stiles finally noticed you watching him one day?”
“i would tell him that in a city of almost three million people, his heartbeat is the only one i care to listen to, that when i pick up his scent it’s not just one sense that i feel, it’s all five of them at once like he’s somehow seeped under my skin and nestled into my bones. out of every human i’ve come across in eighteen years he’s the only one that has ever perked my interest, that has stirred up the wolf inside of me in a positive way. i’d tell him that i’d follow him across the world if it meant there’d be just the slight chance i would see him, that i could live the rest of my life simply content knowing he’s nearby.”
(via swingsetindecember)
Anonymous asked: Can I just say that, as a gay guy on Tumblr, I understand your views on Sterek, but I have to respectfully disagree. While Danny does get pushed to the background, I like how Danny isn't existing as "THAT GAY CHARACTER" on the show. He exists outside of the box created for the token gay character, so he stops being "that gay character" and starts being 'that character."
Can’t speak as a gay man, obviously, but as a POC who rarely sees major (positive) POC representations in any of the media I enjoy —let alone POCs of varying sexualities— I’m really uncomfortable with the way fandom and Jeff Davis putting two hot white guys over Danny’s existence. I don’t understand why, if we want the show to explore a homosexual relationship (which would be awesome, obviously) we’re not rooting for more Danny screen time.
Not being a QPOC myself, I’m not going to write some 10 paragraph post about it (there are plenty of capable people on my dash), but it really boils down to what I said earlier: this is the clear elevation of two hot white dudes over not only the QPOC on the show, but the POC MAIN CHARACTER. It’s a racist microagression that I’m used to dealing with in media, but am really just done with staying silent about.
Shipping Stiles/Derek is not a “win” for homosexual relationships represented on television if you then refuse to acknowledge that this has caused the erasure of the actually gay character on the same show.
They aren’t canonly gay or in a relationship.
Danny is!
Bonus fact: Elevating the needs/wants of Sterek, despite that technically being non-existent, above a canonly gay POC character plays into a reeeeeeally problematic societal framework that you might want to think twice about supporting.
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