bookshop:dailydot:After 200 episodes, SPN finally gets its own fandom rightSupernatural’s evol
bookshop:dailydot:After 200 episodes, SPN finally gets its own fandom rightSupernatural’s evolution has been—dare we say it?—a progressive one, a steadily shifting narrative that seems to be ever-so-slowly moving away from the many years of geek-shaming and repudiation of its mostly female fandom. In “Fan Fiction,” while Dean’s discomfort over Wincest and Destiel is still present, it’s not really played for laughs. Instead, Marie’s reaction makes Dean, not her or her ideas, the brunt of the joke. He’s the one who needs to relax, the one who doesn’t get that what’s going on around him is cool. Just as Metatron’s attempt to control the narrative of his ascendance to godhood last season fell by the wayside, so too does Dean’s objections to the ideas that fans have about his relationships with the men in his life. The plot, a silly monster-of-the-week story involving a vengeful theatre muse, explicitly repudiates the lesson from last season’s “Slumber Party“ about Charlie’s Oz fandom. This time, instead of being told to unlearn everything she believes about the universe she loves, our fan, Marie, is informed that her belief in the world of her fanfiction is a literal life-saver. Moreover, the show’s explicit embrace of Marie and her narratives is the long-missing link between the canon and its fans.In the episode, Marie proudly declares that what she and her fellow fangirls are creating is a “transformative work,” a phrase that has serious significance in discussions about the artistic and legal validity of fanfiction. The show also pays homage to noted SPN fangirl and acknowledged SPN fanfic writer SE Hinton. Hinton’s iconic young adult novel The Outsiders gives SPN a run for its money as a testosterone-fueled drama whose male bonding is often outstripped by its homoerotic undertones. The tongue-in-cheek implication is that fandom, fangirls, and their transformative works are everywhere.[No chick flick moments.] -- source link