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it looks like redcoats, but it isn't ([info]redcoast) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2013-01-31 06:37:00


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Entry tags:fandom: supernatural, tumblr

Tumblr users take to streets; Misha Collins is world's greatest tree-murdering monster
Remember that Misha Collins Youtube video I told you about? Obviously filmed last summer, it briefly shows the exterior of the Vancouver-area building in which the Collins family is temporarily living.

A fan used the landmarks shown in the video to locate the Collins's address, and proceeds to tape the URLs of fan Tumblrs to trees around the building.

Misha fans totally flip their shit and try to arrange for Vancouver-based fans to remove any signs before anyone sees them.

Meanwhile, a new tumblr pops up defending the actions of the rogue URL-taper because Misha Collins has killed thousands of hypothetical people. Also, one time Misha cut down a dead tree and replanted it in a traffic island with a sarcastic Latin plaque on it which shows more disrespect for trees than taping paper to them.

Interestingly, as briefly mentioned in some of the above posts, there is a fan project to hand-write dozens (or hundreds) of fan's tumblr URLs in a book and give it to MC at a fan conference. What he's supposed to do with them is unclear, especially considering that tumblr users often change their URLs, and that Misha doesn't understand what Tumblr is. Then again, neither do I, and I've been using the site for two years.



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[info]scifantasy
2013-01-31 06:01 pm UTC (link)
You know, up to a point, a lot of this makes...well, not "sense," but was not un-predictable.

Obsessive fan figures out address from landmarks? Yeah, I can see it happening.

Obsessive fan does something obsessive and fannish as a result, not realizing how it could look? Oh, sure. Happens all the time, in various forms.

People respond "hey, not cool"? Points for decency and common sense, doubled for Supernatural ("So rare it's a superpower.")

And then we get "no, he deserves it," and my brain responds, "check, please!"

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[info]iczer6
2013-01-31 06:08 pm UTC (link)
What is it about Misha Collins that inspires this? I really don't get it.

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[info]redcoast
2013-01-31 06:17 pm UTC (link)
Inspires which part? Mildly stalkerish behavior or hate blogs?

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[info]themadscientist
2013-02-03 03:26 am UTC (link)
His character is either Dean's Greatest Love Interest and therefore an extension of Jensen Ackles' repressed homophobia or the worst thing to happen to Supernatural and SamnDean forever and ever amen

That's... about it.

Also he encourages wacky behavior. That seems to be a large part of it.

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[info]puipui
2013-01-31 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that alicia2343 person is kind of crazypants. And yet, somehow, this is the part that stands out for me:

One of the trees wasn’t even near his house, but by his house.

Apparently, in crazypants language, there is a difference between these two things?

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[info]rosehiptea
2013-01-31 06:39 pm UTC (link)
I read several posts and I can't even figure out what side of this she is on and why. Apparently she wants to defend this particular Misha fan even though she hates all tumblr Misha fans and Misha himself? Or possibly because of that? I am confused.

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[info]ekaterinv
2013-01-31 08:26 pm UTC (link)
"By" has a connotation of closer than "near" to me, if it's contrasted like this. Like, one tree is right by his house, on his front lawn, but the one that's near is about a block away.

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2013-01-31 11:37 pm UTC

[info]queencallipygos
2013-02-01 05:22 am UTC (link)
It could be a garbled way of saying that there's a difference between the tree being on and/or off his property. Posting something ON his property = trespassing, versus posting something NOT on his property = actually legal.

Which is technically true. Still profoundly stupid for a lot of other reasons, but that one point is technically true.

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[info]staroverthebay
2013-02-04 07:58 am UTC (link)
maybe sillypants there meant "not just near, but right by"

that or they meant to say "office" on one and said "house" instead?

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2013-01-31 06:33 pm UTC (link)
So much crazy in this fandom. So much.

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(no subject) - [info]sorchar, 2013-02-01 04:44 am UTC

[info]ashes
2013-01-31 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Many years down the line, I imagine one of his kids saying, "What's Supernatural?" To which he will either shudder in horror, or say, "My greatest trolling of all time."

Possibly both.

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[info]singe
2013-01-31 07:52 pm UTC (link)
I never, ever want to be famous.

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(no subject) - [info]kittenmommy, 2013-02-01 04:01 am UTC

[info]schrodingerscat
2013-01-31 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Props to the fans who took the signs down. That's a level of common sense I have come to not expect from Supernatural fans

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[info]phosfate
2013-01-31 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Obvious solution: We need something to replace trees. Something with the same uses, but that can replicate itself. Some sort of vN-tree.

Get on it, science!

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(no subject) - [info]redcoast, 2013-01-31 10:16 pm UTC
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[info]baranduyn
2013-01-31 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Is the whole goal of this "Whoever gets the most restraining orders wins?" Because then it makes sense.

Tracking down where an actor lives and making your presence known is creepy. I said it. Fucking creepy. He's not at a convention. He's not at a grin and grope (sorry, wrong genre) meet and greet.

Creepy. Stalkery. Not fucking funny. Not in the fucking least.

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(no subject) - [info]redcoast, 2013-01-31 10:55 pm UTC
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[info]anthologia
2013-01-31 11:11 pm UTC (link)
I don't... huh??

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(no subject) - [info]anthologia, 2013-01-31 11:12 pm UTC

[info]kittenmommy
2013-02-01 04:00 am UTC (link)

Poor Misha Collins... he had no idea what a can of worms he opened by being so friendly and accessible to his fans. *sigh*

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[info]maverickz3r0
2013-02-01 04:22 am UTC (link)
I stared at this for about five seconds because I had no idea Supernatural was filmed in Vancouver.

Then again, everything else is filmed here. Why not.

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[info]happyville
2013-02-01 05:38 am UTC (link)
I'm hoping Misha doesn't start taping his twitter URL in the same manner.

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[info]hopsandbarley
2013-02-01 06:04 am UTC (link)
I don't know what it says about me when all I can take away from this is "Damn, I want some Misha Collins vs. Treebeard fanart"

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[info]badger
2013-02-01 07:27 am UTC (link)
You know a fandom is a tad loony when the kindest thing you can say about them is "Well, at least they only put the signs NEAR his house.

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(no subject) - [info]redcoast, 2013-02-01 08:39 am UTC

[info]trinity_destler
2013-02-02 12:16 am UTC (link)
I don't... I just don't... so that blog going on about what an idiot he is and that it's okay for fans of an idiot to be idiots as long as it's to a lesser extent, is that a fan blog or?

I sincerely think fandom is actually getting stranger. Or the strangeness is just a lot more out in the open because shame and sense have gone somewhere to die. Or maybe I'm just tired.

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[info]mister_terrific
2013-02-03 03:38 am UTC (link)
One wonders what could have possibly transpired had Misha told his fans to go fuck themselves.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out..."

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[info]mcity
2013-02-05 05:23 pm UTC (link)
It seems weird to actually see Misha talking without a raspy, half-whispered voice.

Also, his son is totes adorb, but I think that goes without saying.

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(no subject) - [info]redcoast, 2013-02-05 08:31 pm UTC

[info]duraniedrama
2013-02-09 09:09 pm UTC (link)
I didn't watch the entire YouTube clip, but certainly I'm right there with Misha in terms of sheer bafflement about Tumblr. It's oddly typical of fandom that it doesn't occur to these people that the daily dose of fandom happies they get from the site has in fact nothing to do with the site itself, just the community that's accumulated there (a community that may well migrate to the Next Big Shiny whenever it comes along.)

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