Dear SPN fandom: NO is spelled N-O.

[glass_icarus]

Book post derailed by RAGE STROKE.

Roundups: torachan's here, amazonziti's here. bossymarmalade was a saint and collected excerpts; I want to run around stapling ephemere's Silly matters to the foreheads of everyone involved in this fail, everyone who stood by and said nothing or gave encouragement while this thing was being written, everyone who says "but she didn't intend to be offensive!!!"

The intent of the author, for the 12039872309873490586345th fucking time, is NOT THE POINT. What matters is the RESULTS, and the results of this travesty are not just offense, they are PERPETUATING HARM. So forgive me if I don't give a shit about the author's hurt feelings; forgive me if I and everyone else calling this shit out don't sound polite or nice enough for you. If you can still, after endless rounds of fail, waste your time on the (zombie) tone argument, what you are saying is that you can only see POCs as paper dolls, as puppets, as props and set dressing for your own personal dramas. You are saying that you cannot see us as real human beings with real human lives, and that... that does not make me as angry as it makes me sad for you, and believe me, I am very fucking angry right now.

Read these. Read these. I cannot trust myself to be coherent any longer, but I refuse to remain silent.

eta: via inkstone- not the first time post-earthquake Haiti has been used as a backdrop?!?!? BRB, need to borrow brass knuckles.

Comments

[kairia]

*facepalm* GOOD LORD. How the hell did the writer/betas not once think this may be problematic? Gah. Thank you for the links, I watch Supernatural but lurk in the fringes of fandom so had no idea such race fail was happening.

[glass_icarus]

And CHALLENGE MODS, dear god, I mean. You're willing to send shit back for bad formatting and SPAG issues but not for UTTERLY FAILY PREMISE, really?! WELL. I SEE THEN.

Heh, lurking in the fringes/hammering out my fandom corner is what I tend to do as well. Seems to be the safest option!

[kairia]

-nods- Btw I linked to your post here! ^_^

[lady_ganesh]

You know, I first heard about this fic and went, 'oh, well, there's good intentions gone awry,' and didn't really think much about it because I figured it would be a terrible story written out of good intentions. And then I saw your post and went over to bossymarmalade's post and OMG WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THAT.

[glass_icarus]

SERIOUSLY.

[lady_ganesh]

I am still boggled over the HUGE HUGE BIG NURSE who is, um, one inch taller than Jared Padelecki. Um. What.

[glass_icarus]

Yeah... yeah. What gets me is that it's one star of fail in a fucking galaxy.

[lady_ganesh]

I tend to hyper-focus on one or two details, so my boggles are on the GIANT guy one inch taller than Jared and the cat. The cat.

[crooked]

what. what? WHAT. IS. THIS. FUCKERY?! :||||||

idek what to say about this. EXCEPT FUCK THIS STORY UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER. what special brand of idiocy must it take to see news coverage about a devastating tragedy on the scale of the Haitian earthquake and go OMG BEST STORY IDEA EVER? I MEAN, FFS.

and, um. i know the author is familiar with Jared Padalecki and his GARGANTUAN size. he's fucking nicknamed Gigantor and shit. so it only stands to reason that Abraham's size (which is a mere 1" taller than Jared, though his weight is considerably more) is such an OMG HUGE DEAL because he's not white. OH, AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE MASSIVE BLACK CAT LOVINGLY~ NAMED AFTER HIM. :|

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[glass_icarus]

The sheer callousness is astounding, not to mention disgusting. I- right now I don't even know why I bother to have minimum standards/expectations for other people.

[merelyn]

Yeah, I thought it couldn't get worse than that story where Jared and Jensen go to Cambodia and have atmospheric, oh so exotic sex after touring the killing fields, but this is so fail on so many levels I can't even. (THE CAT?? REALLY???????? WTFF?)

[glass_icarus]

Yeah, I just found links on that and... ugh. Ugh. UGH.

[cherrybina]

I read a bunch of posts about this before I saw a single quote from the fic itself, and as bad as I imagined it in my head, IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE D:

I literally had my hand over my mouth in horror as I read some of those excerpts. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

[glass_icarus]

I would seriously have taken antacids or something if I'd had any, I was so nauseated. DDDDD: &hearts

[amazonziti]

Thank you for linking to me! Just wanted to let you know I'm linking back here. If you'd rather I not, just let me know.

[glass_icarus]

I don't mind. :) Thanks for doing the roundup!