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fandom: supernatural, paranoia

Supernatural fans use their decoder rings
I thought I'd write about the SPN fandom doing something that wasn't horrendous, but, rather, harmlessly crazy.

Jerry Wanek, a/the production designer for Supernatural, Tweeted after episode 8.17, "Goodbye Stranger," aired on March 30 2013, hinting that a clue had been included in the set design for Naomi's office. Naomi is a new character played by Amanda Tapping, and, naturally, a lot of people in the fandom hate her character. (Youtube link.) She is a lady. Coincidence?! Anyway, Naomi (Tapping) hacked into Castiel's brain and has been controlling him most of the season. She tries to use this mind control to force him to kill Dean, but Dean's Love For Castiel breaks the spell.

No, I'm not kidding. That's an objective description of what happens.

You can watch the scene on Youtube here if you want, but I must warn for violence, gore, and somewhat disturbing content.

Jerry Wanek tweets, "Speaking of detail! Naomi's office windows have a certain pattern no one picked up on?"

A fan named Neinka takes some screencaps and notices that the lighting on the windows changes from white to blue/purple/pink. She writes, "OK I will bite…what’s with the different colors?" dean-man-of-feathers replies,

I’m not saying that when the control this place and Naomi had over Castiel [broke] the colors changed into the bisexuality pride flag, but

IT LITERALLY CHANGED INTO THE BISEXUALITY PRIDE FLAG

Indeed, the Bi Pride flag is pink and blue with a purple streak in the middle, though the color scheme is reversed in the episode (pink's on top for the flag, blue's on top for SPN). Andythanfiction - yes, that Andythanfiction - weighs in:

*blink*

Ok. I’m usually the first guy at the head of the “you’re reading too much into that shit” line, and I still freely admit that it sure as fuck could be that we’re still missing the point. But damn. Um. When we’ve been told by the set design staff to look for a hidden message in Naomi’s office windows in this episode, and when Cas’ love for Dean breaks through Naomi’s control in the same episode we learn he is in fact sexually interested in women and a sexual being the windows in her office change color abruptly into the bi pride symbol with no other apparent impetus and when it makes for ugly-ass and awkward lighting?

I give in. That theory is definitely legit plausible.

Before you can type "Sounds legit," Wanek shoots the theory down: "My dear friend Serge [Ladouceur] controls the lighting. It was about emotion and the passage of time. Although I am happy to support LGBT."

The fans have not stopped seeing Jesus in soap stains, of course. @SingSimpleSongs on Twitter asks Russ Hamilton, who is a location manager or something, if his erratic capitalization has any kind of hidden meaning to it, and takes his reply as a confirmation:

Notice that Y, U, and S are capitalized spelling “YUS” [sic]. So either the guys fucking with us, or there’s something there. I say we give it a shot. Could be fun.

So here’s the rules:

Find a tweet on Russ’ twitter that he has made about Supernatural and note if there are any capital letters in the tweet (starting with the first one he made about 8x23)
Screenshot it and then submit it to me with the timestamp and the capital letters he uses as the caption. (Example found here)
I have made a page on my blog to compile all the tweets. Make sure you check that before you send me your screenshot so we can avoid doubles.
As they all come in, I’ll see if anything pops out at me.
Have fun. Let’s show Russ Hamilton how hard [sic] it is to mess with us. It’ll be like a twitter treasure hunt.

casswantsthe-d-ean scours his twitter and comes up with the message "He IS BI." When they tweet the theory at Russ, he replies that it's an "impressive body of work." Or rather he replies "I think I shall call you Sherlock Reptar. it IS an impressive body of work, but I cannot comment on it beyond that." The secret message there is "IISRISI."

221bowties has had enough of this nonsense and selects the capital letters of one of Hamilton's tweets to spell out "BUTSEKS." And then they must clarify that they were making a joke because people are taking them seriously.

I have only one thing to say and that thing is TSTFBUTSEKAS.