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7:20pm: How To Lose Friends And Alienate Twits
from a mousey on wank_report:

OK, so there was an SPN convention in LA this weekend. During the Q&A session with Jesen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Ackles made a joke about sleeping with a cast member. Padalecki clarified that Ackles mean himself. Silly boys, you should know better than to throw that sort of fanservice to your tinhats. Anyway, SPN boards and LJ has been abuzz about Ackles' "confession" ever since.

Enter poor Jim Beaver (Bobby on the show). He made the following tweet on his Twitter page:
Happy Valentine's Day. Prepped 4 it Sunday by seeing Jensen & Daneel being all kissy-face in the convention green room. Love is fun to watch

Awww, nice and sweet right? If you think so, you don't know SPN tinhats. That innocent tweet prompted the following exchange between Jim and someone who calls themselves "J2_Justdoit" (the following exchange was copied and pasted for the sake of expediency, but the exchange can be followed at @jumblejim and @J2_Justdoit if you're so inclined):

just do it
nice try covering for J2 being together! We all know that Jensen & Jared are making valentine's love to each other ;)

Jim
Maybe it's just in fun, but don't post that nonsense on my page.

( Them's Fightin' Words! )

No word on when Misha Collins is making an appearance, but I believe it will be on a winged centaur, to the tune of Erasure and Copa Cabana.

9:11pm: Misha Collins Trolls His Fandom. In Other News, Water is Wet and the Sky is Blue.
Misha Collins has a really hilarious Twitter feed with some 100,000+ followers. (He's also an actor on some TV show with a cool car or something as well.) While he will sometimes make an effort to use his powers for good there are other times when he uses them for the lulz.

This is one of those times.

I can't find the original tweet, but apparently Misha claimed that if that show with the cool car got on the cover of TV Guide, the network was planning to gift him with a live rhino and he promised to share it with his followers. The minions presumably massed on whatever online poll was involved and the TV Guide cover was won and the minions were instructed to send SASEs to obtain their fragment of rhino.

So we get this tweet:

Has anyone who sent in their plastic-lined envelope not yet received their rhino bit? I'm experimenting with something weird... Being fair.

Everybody who sent in an envelope before the arbitrary & unannounced cut-off date was sent a puzzle piece with writing on the back and somehow the minions had to contact others and put together the pieces to acquire an email address.

[EDIT: This is what people were sent. Thanks to galletas for the image link.]

This was the email they got in response:

( You do remember this is Misha Collins we're dealing with, right? )

hils is very unhappy about this.

Someone asked Misha for clarification at the con yesterday and he said he hadn't really thought about the fact that he'd requested fewer items than there were team members but that he was sticking by the rule that anyone sending in a duplicate wouldn't count as being on the winning team. When asked what about the people who could only do something someone else has submitted his response was allegedly 'fuck them'.

So, naturally, the team members are now falling over themselves making sure they're the one to find whatever it is and not giving a shit about anyone else on the team. I've already had one girl jump in and submit the item I was supposed to be doing (giving me pretty much a 'fuck you' response when I called her on it). It's incredibly divisive and causing a lot of friction amongst people who were getting along just fine two days ago.

Sadly this just reeks of a social experiment to me. I'm just imagining Misha watching us all turning on each other and knowing that he made it happen with just a few words. It's just really disappointed me. I thought he was better than that.

Meanwhile on spnanonhaven, the nonnymice are laughing their asses off.

It should be interesting indeed to see how this develops, since we're not even at the deadline yet. Given that the 18th of February isn't on Saturday until the year 2012, this may be going on for a while . . .

ETA: Link to the original rhino promise has been added. Hat tip to omgpolarbear.