SuperWhoLock

[Slowboat to China]

Check Ebay for SN errata items and props. Eris wept. Most of the auctions close in a hurry because the sellers put a "buy it now" price, But I've literally seen stuff like notepads the main actors have scribbled on go for like $3-4K. Actual stage props can run up to $10K, and I'm not talking anything special here- like a dagger or weapon used in a specific shot- we're talking shit like background posters n' assorted crap.

I realize this is a comment from way back in the thread, but I feel the need to bring it back because I read the whole thread and this baffled me.

I'm a complete history geek. I've sperged out about history here before. Ancient Egypt is my crack, and one of the happiest days of my life was when I finally got to own a real scrap of ancient Egyptian pottery. Price for something over three thousand years old? $150. Less if you're willing to buy something from the late period, AKA ancient Egypt's shitty final season.

Ten thousand dollars is money you could use to pay off student loans, get surgery, move across the country. (Or, to continue the comparison, buy a complete artifact from a known tomb of an important person.) I refuse to believe people actually spend that kind of money on Supernatural background posters.

 

[For The Internet]

These fandoms are invading everything. My parents told me I should start watching this great show, it was really clever. It was Sherlock. I told them Sherlock fans had put me off it for life. I like Tom Baker Dr. Who, but I couldn't care less about modern Who or Supernatural. I've watched them and neither of them piqued my interest. Admittedly the only TV shows I routinely watch are The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Toddlers & Tiaras and those are full of spergy fans, both in the book/comic and TV show communities.

I realize this is a comment from way back in the thread, but I feel the need to bring it back because I read the whole thread and this baffled me.

I'm a complete history geek. I've sperged out about history here before. Ancient Egypt is my crack, and one of the happiest days of my life was when I finally got to own a real scrap of ancient Egyptian pottery. Price for something over three thousand years old? $150. Less if you're willing to buy something from the late period, AKA ancient Egypt's shitty final season.

Ten thousand dollars is money you could use to pay off student loans, get surgery, move across the country. (Or, to continue the comparison, buy a complete artifact from a known tomb of an important person.) I refuse to believe people actually spend that kind of money on Supernatural background posters.

As a fellow ancient Egypt sperg, you have all the feels from me. Also, that is the hands-down greatest way I have EVER heard of anyone refer to the late period.

Also, those prices make me feel like the $20 bucks I paid for one of the gold hats from the opening sequence of Queer as Folk was excusable.

 

[seagull]

How did these three shows get combined into one fandom? Aren't they from very different genres?

Sherlock and Doctor Who are both BBC shows that have the same writer, who has a pretty similar approach to the protagonists. Both the Doctor and Sherlock basically go through each show shouting "Look at how much smarter I am than you!" while being massive socially awkward spergs, which is supposed to be endearing.

Also,

It's simple:

• The cast is attractive.
• It generates a lot of "feels".
• Slashfic fodder.
• They're popular on Tumblr.

I'd add another point to that: all of these shows have running jokes about main characters being gay for each other, whether it's in the actual script or shit the actors say. Some of it is in reaction to weird fans, and some of it isn't. I'm not going to try to justify the way tumblr acts about this subject, (because it's really weird how dead set they are on these dudes fucking each other) but they see it as both "proof" the relationship is real and as encouragement for their antics.

It's just wish fulfillment to mash them all together. "I like this character and that character, so it'd be really great if I had a crossover so they could fuck each other."

 

[Microlab]

A lot of the all-three fans might've found the shows through other, simular fans, and the crossover might've caused the merge.

That's probably why that ROTG/Tangled/HTTYD/Brave fandom also happenned independently, and why Homestuck stayed by itself. The fanbases are all simular, but you can't sell Homestuck to a Dr Who fangirl the same way you can sell Supernatural to her.

 

[Positron]

Both the Doctor and Sherlock basically go through each show shouting "Look at how much smarter I am than you!" while being massive socially awkward spergs, which is supposed to be endearing.

Makes you wonder why Dr. Gregory House doesn't make it into the orgy.

 

[Kitlen]

I wish these were fake...

 

[Slowboat to China]

As a fellow ancient Egypt sperg, you have all the feels from me. Also, that is the hands-down greatest way I have EVER heard of anyone refer to the late period.

Also, those prices make me feel like the $20 bucks I paid for one of the gold hats from the opening sequence of Queer as Folk was excusable.

Heh, thanks. Considering all the shit that went down in the last 600 years of Egyptian history, it really does feel like they were desperately trying not to get canceled. New dynasties! Sexy Persian guest star! Crossover with that hot new property, Macedonia!

And I can see $20 for a prop from a favorite show. Heck, I can think of a few shows I'd pay to get props from. It's the three or four zeroes on the end of the price that confuses me.

Makes you wonder why Dr. Gregory House doesn't make it into the orgy.

Medical terminology too hard to keep straight? Either that, or he's not pretty enough.

 

[For The Internet]

Heh, thanks. Considering all the shit that went down in the last 600 years of Egyptian history, it really does feel like they were desperately trying not to get canceled. New dynasties! Sexy Persian guest star! Crossover with that hot new property, Macedonia!

And I can see $20 for a prop from a favorite show. Heck, I can think of a few shows I'd pay to get props from. It's the three or four zeroes on the end of the price that confuses me.



Medical terminology too hard to keep straight? Either that, or he's not pretty enough.

Oh man, yeah. Stay tuned for the new face in Egypt! He's young, he's sexy, he rules a massive empire but who rules his heart? Is his true love Roxana the Persian beauty? Or is it his loyal right hand man and best friend, Hephaistion? Will his sense of duty win out? Or will the young pharaoh let his loins do the talking?

I thought the 20 bucks was a pretty decent deal for a very iconic prop. I found out after I got it it was made of straw and spray-painted gold, it had originally been jade green with a snake print, LOL. I got that and a pair of Emmett's pants from the prop sale they had when the show ended in 2005. They came with authentication, which was cool.

I once saw a coffee mug that was supposedly from the set of Supernatural on eBay and the bidding was over $500 when I saw it. I don't think there was even any authentication, the person had sold a couple of other things from the set before and people seemed to believe they were genuine. It blows my mind that people will pay huge money for things the Superwholock actors have had contact with. I mean, if the guy who plays Dean picks up a pen and then you buy it, you're not going to be extracting his DNA and no matter how much you make out with it, it won't magically make it so that you 'exchanged DNA' with him.

 

[SuperFilter]

I've thankfully not had much contact with these particular spergs. Where I live people are bigger on stuff like GoT, Walking Dead, and anime. And those "sexy super-powered young adult underground subculture" shows that are all over the place, but not as much.

I did have lunch with a girl who was big into this at my uni once. She asked me if I watched all 3 shows and some others I don't remember, and then rambled for about an hour about why I should watch them and pretty much spoiled everything that happens in them for me. She wasn't rude or anything, and didn't really seem offended by my lack of interest, she was just ... overly enthusiastic.

 

[Thranduil]

I remember seeing a post that I unfortunately cannot find from back when gay marriage was finally made legal in England. You guys probably already know where I'm going with this. Some sperg made a post saying something like "Gay marriage is legal in England!!! *whispers* johnlock*". The response was mostly "Or, how about real non-fictional gay people?" The spergs were not deterred by this and were still more excited at the idea of John and Sherlock marrying.

As for Hannibal appealing to them it might have a lot to do with Will mentioning that he falls on the spectrum closer to autism and aspergers than narcissism and sociopathy in the first episode. That's just a guess though. He's also wildly mentally unstable a lot of the time and that might be something they identify with too.

Here's a pic that just about sums up my feelings about Humperdink Croydensnatch

 

[Dudeofteenage]

Supernatural is definitely the weak link in this triad.

To me, the point when fandom becomes ridiculous is when the actual show as it appears on TV becomes almost incidental in the fan's minds when compared to the fanfiction/fanwank/fan theories/fan art/general fan detritus.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

Makes you wonder why Dr. Gregory House doesn't make it into the orgy.

The House character is a very loose reworking of Sherlock Holmes.

I suspect that there is actually a fairly high degree of crossover, but House isn't airing anymore.

 

[Meowthkip]

I remember seeing a post that I unfortunately cannot find from back when gay marriage was finally made legal in England. You guys probably already know where I'm going with this. Some sperg made a post saying something like "Gay marriage is legal in England!!! *whispers* johnlock*". The response was mostly "Or, how about real non-fictional gay people?" The spergs were not deterred by this and were still more excited at the idea of John and Sherlock marrying.

Yes, I remember that. Mostly I come across Superwholock nonsense like this being reblogged from people raging at it.

You guys remember when the Sherlock fans said that Moriarty planned that Boston Marathon bombings?

 

[Picklechu]

You guys remember when the Sherlock fans said that Moriarty planned that Boston Marathon bombings?

Yep. I cringed at that. They'll inject their fandom into anything, regardless of whether or not it's appropriate. Terrorist attack? "OMG u gaiz it was Moriarty!!1! LOL " Random picture of a statue? "OMG don't blink!1!!! XD"

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

Ugh, I adore supernatural. But there are too many SJW fans who for some strange reason ship incest for me to enjoy it anymore, it's really disturbing
Why the hell are there so many SJWs that are into twincest/incest?
you would think that they would hate it with a burning passion

 

[For The Internet]

Ugh, I adore supernatural. But there are too many SJW fans who for some strange reason ship incest for me to enjoy it anymore, it's really disturbing
Why the hell are there so many SJWs that are into twincest/incest?
you would think that they would hate it with a burning passion

I have to wonder if A Song of Ice and Fire got the ball rolling with the whole twincest thing. The show is predated by Supernatural, yes, but not the books. Cersei and Jaime have been twincesting it up since 1996. I know twincest existed way before then, but a lot of early fans of the books (as in the ones who started before the show) were prolific fanfic writers who did crossovers with popular tv and book series

I did have lunch with a girl who was big into this at my uni once. She asked me if I watched all 3 shows and some others I don't remember, and then rambled for about an hour about why I should watch them and pretty much spoiled everything that happens in them for me. She wasn't rude or anything, and didn't really seem offended by my lack of interest, she was just ... overly enthusiastic.

That was why I ultimately didn't join the anime club at my uni. Also, I don't really watch anime. I just figured people there would read manga and I didn't know anyone on campus and wanted to meet people. Then I realised I'd have to listen to a ton of anime sperging for hours a week and noped out of there.

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[Gerion]

These guys are the remora of the fandom world.

My ex moved back in with her parents and, at 29, got way too far into this stuff, specifically Supernatural, specifically the Dean-Castiel pairing. Her entire blog is about it. She calls herself a 'transformative fiction critic' or some such malarkey. And to think, her big beef with me was that I was pretentious. She's also a big Amanda Palmer fan. Can we consider Amanda Palmer a cow? I consider Amanda Palmer a cow.

I tried watching that BBC Sherlock once and didn't know whether to be bored by how bad it sucked or offended by the bob-obvious queerbaiting. Either way, no thanks. Fuck Bimblehorn Crunchyroll and the horse he rode in on.

 

[Meowthkip]

Ugh, I adore supernatural. But there are too many SJW fans who for some strange reason ship incest for me to enjoy it anymore, it's really disturbing
Why the hell are there so many SJWs that are into twincest/incest?
you would think that they would hate it with a burning passion

I legit think that it's not that incest turns their crank so much as it is that they just want to see the two hot boys fuck, regardless of whether or not they're related. But this is more about Wincest and Thor/Loki. The Twincest people are totally in it for the twins being related and looking like copies of each other.

 

[plasticine]

http://pornstarswholooklikethecastofspn.tumblr.com

 

[Kitlen]

Oh God, I just found something deliciously lulzy.

Apparently in Portland (Hipster Capital of the USA) there is something called The Tardis Room. Apparently it is a rather sad form of pub dedicated to Dr. Who and all sorts of fandoms which has gotten hysterically bad Yelp reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-tardis-room-portland
Along with this interesting Word Press blog aptly labeling it "Sadder on the Inside."

The pictures and accounts reek of Tumbtards, and the raving and "positive reviews" seem a bit suspicious.
http://kitchenoverlord.com/2014/04/02/portlands-doctor-who-themed-bar-its-sadder-on-the-inside/