nowadays it’s kinda “in” to hate this show and mock it and tbh I’m not nearly sober enough to get into that, but I am sober enough to talk about the stuff I love (regardless of how much I complain about this show and how much of a spiteful bastard I sometimes am)
but, see, I started watching this show when I was barely a teenager – I can’t claim I was here from the very beginning, but I’ve been here for a solid decade – and I secretly watched the DVDs on my laptop in the middle of the night under my covers (age restrictions! very controlling mother! anyway) and it’s a feeling I cherish to this day? there’s just something different when you don’t know what will happen, when it’s a new concept and you’re not as genre-savvy yet, and you have your head under the covers where it’s hard to breathe and someone on the screen dies violently because they whispered “Bloody Mary” into the mirror three times
it was scary and breathtaking and I never knew what would happen! it was one of the first times i was truly invested in a TV show, and it had a large following, too! I was a bookworm, and I liked obscure fantasy from the 80s, and no matter how obsessed I was and how many times I read the same novel, there weren’t many people I could talk to about the thing! But with Supernatural I could, I was on Livejournal ever day for years and years, and eventually obviously I migrated to tumblr and met some fantastic people in this fandom here.
and I guess that’s just the thing, isn’t it? I loved the show, I love the show still, and it was with me through shitty traumatic things in my life, through me figuring out I was queer, through my first relationship and first breakup, through high school graduation and university applications, through moving out, and no matter what, if I feel down and sad I can turn off the lights and let down the blinds in my home and watch an episode from the early seasons and just feel like I used to
this show has given me so much and this fandom has given me so much and there’s no point to this post beyond how grateful I am
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