Twitter Exodus Friending Meme

[xancredible]

Maybe no-one besides my handful of DW mutuals will fill this out but let's try having a friending meme like in the good old days.

Comment with this form filled out, read other people's comments, chat, and friend each other :D

<b>Your username on DW:</b> <b>Your username on other social media:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age bracket:</b> <b>Geographical area:</b> <b>Interests:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>What type of posts can we expect in your journal?</b> <b>Anything else you'd like us to know?</b>

Comments

[nerakrose]

I love your Great Queer Supernatural Re-Watch project, that sounds fun as hell. I rewatched seasons 1-5 earlier this year and had a great time. :D I'd be interested in seeing your reading list for this!

wanna be friends? ETA: lol just saw your comments/requests. I take that as a yes :D

[kitewithfish]

ETA: lol just saw your comments/requests. I take that as a yes :D
Great minds think alike, and have similar timing!

Uh, this answer got a bit long! But I'm really enjoying the SPN project and I'm happy to recommend some stuff!

The Great Queer Supernatural Rewatch (and I should share credit here, I'm doing this with a friend who's not on DW and who pulled me back into SPN just in time finish season 15 live) has a loooong reading list - some of which is not things I would recommend after the fact - and an even longer watch list.

But I think the things that were really rewarding for me for the Kripke era of SPN were Men Women and Chain Saws by Carol Clover, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Sedgewick. We paired them with movies suggested either by the SPN episodes, or by the reading themselves. (If you really want to lean into the gay subtext, the "Original Scroll" version of On the Road was really fun to compare to the published version, since it preserved a lot of the overt references to queer relationships in Kerouac's circle of friends.) Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff was also great a history of gay and lesbian film and presence in Hollywood, tho I wished at the time he was more interested in gender.

A great movie to watch with Season 1 SPN would be Frailty (2001), which has a psychological take on the 'my father tells me we are called to kill demons in Kansas' plotline, and some great performances.

We're also doing little sub-fields of reading! We did a vampire section that ended up overlapping nicely with Dracula Daily. I really enjoyed both '"Kiss Me with Those Red Lips": Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Christopher Craft, and a GREAT article "The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization" by Stephen D. Arata -and we watched the restored Nosferatu version on Kanopy that has all the color grading to show which copy of the film they used to restore each scene. (I kind of pushed for this because I think "Monster Movie" is a truly fantastic episode of SPN for Overt Queer Themes.)

Right now, we've hit season 7 and we're branching out into Westerns - so the main text for reading is Lee Clark Mitchells' Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film, and we just watched Stagecoach and The Virginian (1929) Honestly, this subsection is a little less exciting for me, but I think it's good background on a genre that was really important in US film history? So, mixed bag.

[nerakrose]

thanks for this!!!! i'm busily taking notes, haha. (also yes agreed, "Monster Movie" is such a great episode!! for many reasons, but it really leaned into the queerness of the other in a way spn hadn't done before (not sure if they've done it since))