Remembering that time in grad school when my advisor, a great ornithologist, got a random call:
drunk guy, bar noises in background: IS THIS THE BIRD PROFESSOR?
my advisor: um..yes?
drunk guy: DO HUMMINGBIRDS HAVE FEET?
my advisor: ...yes
*wild cheering over phone from bar*
@ingram_wallace
- and it came back w more pebbles, so we gave it more worms, then the other jays caught on, & within a week, we’d come into work in the a.m. to find a stack of pebbles under the window on our side, & all the jays lined up outside waiting for their mealworms that we “owed” them 😂
@SinCityJazz
@urrrkaj
I’ll never understand why the Trumpians can think it’s a conspiracy when literally every other nation in the world - every political system possible, every culture & language & religion & creed on Earth - is also battling this virus. Wait THEY’RE ALL IN CAHOOTS WITH THE DEMOCRATS
@ingram_wallace
I once worked at a wildlife center that raised orphaned baby blue jays. Jays love to play w pebbles. One day a young jay put a pebble through a small crack in a window of our office, & we happened to be holding some mealworms so we gave it a mealworm, back through the same crack-
When Cas died in S12, I had my first ever
@mishacollins
/
@JensenAckles
op a few days later & asked JA if he could "look like you just got your best friend back". Expected a happy smiling bro-hug type thing. Did not expect this. Blew me away.
Feels relevant again.
#destiel
A moment of silence for jack quaid, who *also* was naked & bare-assed in ep 4 of The Boys for the first ever time, and then has to see a million tweets about “jensen ackles’ butt” & then kripke himself goes and tweets “jensen ackles’ butt broke amazon prime”
The Jensen-Misha panel at
#JIB12
#JIBCon
became so chaotic that I could only do a rough pass through the photos. Jensen was supposed to just leave & Misha was supposed to start - but Jensen couldn't seem to make himself leave the stage. Phase 1, the sunglasses fight
Q: if Cas & Dean met again, how would it go
JA: (thoughtful pause) “Hopefully we get to see that at some point.“ (me:😳) JA: “I’m sure it would go how we think it would go: a big embrace. And then Dean would say, ‘Can we talk about that goodbye a little bit?’”
tbh Jensen actually saying he “doesn’t want to put Dean in a box”, that he wants us to interpret Dean however we see it, blows. my. freaking. mind.
JENSEN ACKLES, Mr. “Dean is 10,000% straight” just gave his official approval to interpret Dean as gay or bi. Let that sink in
Q: Favorite scene acting w JA?
Misha: Cas’s last scene. (applause from crowd)
Adds, “When you say I love you to someone, you want them to say I love you too. And that fucker just left me hanging” 😂
so many misha newbies!!! all right folks WELCOME TO THE ENDLESS PARTY *cracks knuckles* Misha Collins’ given name is Dmitri Krushnic, yes he was a White House intern w Clinton, yes grew up poor / occasionally homeless, dedicated now to children’s charities / food banks / etc.,
From misha’s meet & greet re 18 and Cas’s ILY scene:
- he got chills when Bobo first pitched it to him last yr. Was thrilled
- never thought the show would go there
- yes, it is romantic love
- he has been playing it that way (romantic love) “for a while”, definitely all S15
Jensen: let’s write a song! *sets up a great chord progression, fills in a hummed starter melody* *waits for Misha to fill in some words
MC: *blank stare*
MC, unexpectedly singing, “looking out over the water… just me & my little brother… where’s the angel that we need” 😂
My GISH item last year about submitting a name change for a racist place was officially approved!
@mishacollins
😁 It’s just a few miles from the White House
I was warned this would never succeed, that people had tried before & failed. maybe times are actually changing?
Misha usually does not look to me like Castiel. But every now and then at
#jib12
, Misha would happen to have a certain expression or the light would hit him a certain way and all of a sudden I see Castiel again
100% certain the reason “CASTIEL” was fully spelled out & looked so dramatically longer & bigger than everybody else’s initials is that they didn’t dare go with “CW” for...reasons, but then also got terrified about whether to put Cass or Cas 😂
Dean’s best friend says I love you, dies to save Dean’s life, and Dean never says his name again. Doesn’t ask Jack to save him. Doesn’t try to rescue him.
And then he was only allowed this weird little 1/2 a smile on hearing Cas is alive
Dean Winchester had
#SomethingToSay
Q at
#jib11
: is there anybody from SPN you want on The Winchesters?
Drake, instantly: “oh my god I want Misha” Has loved spending time w Misha (at Drake’s one previous con), & thinks Cas is a great character 🥰
@mishacollins
JA & MC both saying that JP texted them a photo of himself floating in his pool. JA: “Apparently he didn’t actually have any other commitments this weekend. It turns out that when you’re the executive producer of the show, you decide when you work!”
fans: ship Dean & Cas
spn: no. Here is Benny.
fans: ship Dean & Benny
spn: no. Here’s Crowley. Benny’s gone.
fans: ship Dean & Crowley
spn: no..
fans: Dean has had 3 bf’s & is confirmed bi 😍
spn: fuck here’s Cas
fans: his long lost love 😍
spn: help
Your Honor, the fact that Mr. Ackles knows that “you can hear the prop girl whimpering” on his phone recordings of the scene under question confirms that he not only truly possesses said recordings, but has taken the time to sit down and watch them
Hilarious & totally unsurprising to watch The Boys subreddit’s 400,000 users (including all the straight dudebros) instantly fall head over heels for Jensen Ackles. This image is on the sub’s front page rn
Q: If Cas made a mixtape for Dean, what would be on it?
MC: A terrible mashup of all kinds of genres that wouldn’t go together at all and it would all be really sappy love songs
So in Lazarus Rising WITHOUT the background music & extra sound effects, when Cas puts Bobby to sleep, instead of the ghostly-whispers that we hear in the final version, it’s a much clearer Enochian sentence (2 ppl I think, speaking in succession - is the 2nd Misha?)
ok so I know I've posted tons of pics of Jensen Ackles being handsome (as do we all), but I feel like it gets overlooked what a great storyteller he is & how engaging his expressions are. The dude is an A-class entertainer. Pics from my "Jensen faces" folder from
#JIB12
#JIBCon
:
- Misha knew this scene was coming long before Jensen did
- he’s surprised there are people who still view Cas’s ILY speech as platonic, thinks “we made it pretty clear”
Today seems a good day to remember that Dean Winchester was named after, & given many character traits of, Dean Moriarty of On The Road, who is implied to have slept with both men & women, & who was based on Neal Cassady, a bi man who had a 20 yr affair w Beat post Allen Ginsburg
thinking about the classic storytelling guideline “show don’t tell” & just realized there’s a 3rd option, “SPN style” of neither showing nor telling, but, rather, chastising the audience later for not finishing the story on their own & assuming certain plot points happened
reminder that a fan once asked Jensen why Dean held onto Cas’s trenchcoat:
Jensen (paraphrased): “So Dean was driving a series of stolen cars then. So not only did he keep the coat, he had to move it from stolen car to stolen car...” *pause*
“...I don’t know why Dean did that”
Q: what is the most significant moment in SPN for Dean’s character progression
JA: Dean becoming the man he needed to be, and not the man his father wanted him to be
Wore my fave tee for my 1st covid vaccine shot today (woo!) & realized it’s perfect for vaccine day: Cas’s handprint & the blue heart marks the vaccine site!
& for those of us who are at lower risk, we’re really doing this for love, aren’t we?
Thanks
@Stands
@mishacollins
At airport trying to organize my photos from the last
@JensenAckles
@mishacollins
panel at
#Jib12
#JIBCon
but it is basically just an endless stream of them cracking each other up. Misha managed to keep a straight face for about 1 sec when Jensen first made his "grand entrance":
One of my grad students just revealed out of the blue that she was a “serious” Supernatural fan for years, Misha is her fave, & she was “really into tumblr” and suddenly I am ✨ CERTAIN ✨ she has read a lot of fic & I am NOT going to ask any more about this 😂
Been in fandom since 1977. I’ve had “my” shows - Galactica, Buffy, B5, Lost, GoT. There’s great new shows I love (Witcher, The Boys, Lucifer, Carnival Row etc).
But NOTHING has ever grabbed me like that Supernatural, that damn angel &
@mishacollins
M: we had a conversation before coming out here & decided to at least try to keep our pants on
J: That was literally the whole pep talk, the whole plan: Let’s keep our pants on. The bar is that low
Misha has realized he’s gonna turn 50 next year. (spoiler: Misha is actually 48 rn, not 49. He’ll turn 50 LATE next year). “We have canaries in the coal mine, like Rob & Rich, who reach certain ages ahead of us”
Jensen: “You’re my canary” lolol
Drake at Jib11: Was a huge fan of SPN, binged it w his bro when it hit Netflix. Always saw John W as just “a father trying to do his best in the world that he knew”, didn’t know the character was controversial till Jensen said “you know what you signed up for, don’t you?” 😂
- he kind of thinks Dean does not feel romantic love back; but he interrupted himself here to say “I’m speculating”, & again made the point that he does not decide people’s interpretations; he wrapped up with “I don’t know what’s in Dean’s head. And Cas doesn’t know”
ahh my Jensen autograph
#Jib12
!
So, background, I'm one of the mods for reddit's /r/TheBoys, which had ~400K subscribers when S3 dropped (now >500K btw). When S3 eps were dropping we mods were manually screening every post & omg, when JA debuted: METEOR STORM of posts about him-
- says, if Jensen had been against it, they wouldn’t have been able to do it. Said he actually can’t quite remember any details of how jensen initially reacted. But Jensen was on board w the scene, w the whole idea
Supernatural’s “happy ending”: you end up lonely, isolated, with no friends, utterly unable to summon up a real smile, your best friend’s dead, you’re binge drinking & passing out on the floor, or crying alone in a mothballed car. Then you die
things not to do: criticize someone who’s going through a life-altering breakup of a decades-long relationship for wanting to believe that even if you don’t end up with the one you love, it’s possible to be truly happy alone
@exilefromlife
@lsmith1964
@neilhimself
Had a job editing chapters for a human anatomy textbook but whenever I emailed one particular chapter back, the publishers never got it. Finally we realized it was the Reproduction chapter and the IT dept deleted all emails w attachments that mention “vagina” or “penis” 🙄
Cas: works w new god to rebuild Heaven
MC: works w new president to rebuild America
Dean: dies
JA: disappears
Sam: starts a brand-new family that none of us are that into
JP: starts a brand-new family that none of us are that into
Fan: Thank you for being here. (JA’s coming from a 16 hr shoot then 18 hr flight, came straight here from airport, it’s 3 am for him)
JA: I wasn’t gonna let you down
thinking about the angel tablet spell that sent all angels down to Earth. It had 3 ingredients:
(1) heart of a nephilim, product of love between human & angel;
(2) bow of a cupid, an angel that causes humans to fall in love;
(3) grace of... Castiel
Q about the mixtape. Misha needs to be reminded about when Cas had it & when the audience saw it. Finally he remembers, then he gets the question, then pauses and says: “Ohhhh sweetie….That implies that we think about things. That’s not how that show worked!”
Q: if SPN were more European what would it look like?
Jensen: more vampires
Misha: I think there’d be a lot more Gucci 😂 And it wouldn’t be an Impala, it’d be a Fiat 😂 😂
Jensen: And Crowley on a Vespa going “Ciao!” 😂 😂 😂
Misha holding phone up to show us his old blue 4runner: “It looked like this, isn’t it pretty? But now it looks like this” [flips photo of car’s L front corner crumpled]
fans: awww
Misha, looking at phone again: “I’m just glad I didn’t accidentally show you a nude photo just now”
Jensen totally undersold the prayer when he talked about it at that con.
JA said: Dean would explain why he was mad at Cas
What I expected: “I’m mad at you bc of these shitty things you did”
What I got: “I’m mad at you bc I’M WRONG & I SUCK & I’M BROKEN, I’M SO SORRY”
It’s such a pity that Supernatural never managed to restart shooting again after covid. I guess we’ll just have to live with the show ending on a cliffhanger in ep 18, and write our own endings
imagine thinking that deliberately torpedoing the careers of 5 hopeful young new actors from diverse backgrounds, by leaving hate reviews when you didn’t even watch the show, just to “get back” at an EP, could EVER somehow be an appropriate, good or right thing to do
Eileen: “Been trying to get you guys to see me for a while now”
*4 wks earlier*
Eileen: hello
Cas: Something always goes wrong!
Eileen: yo
Dean: Why is the thing that goes wrong always you?
Eileen: awkward...
Cas: You used to trust me
Eileen: I wish I couldn’t read lips
@mishacollins
the issues were with 19/20, NOT with 18.
It’s 19/20 that hurt. The total lack of emotional continuity from 18 did help bring 19&20’s flaws into focus (no acknowledgment of sacrifice, no grief, no recognition, no attempt to save Cas from Empty, or find him once in Heaven) - but-
that was verbatim. He then joked that Dean might not be anywhere near that articulate (like just yank Cas into a hug kind of thing). Then said “I don’t know, maybe we won’t see it” - but intriguing that he thinks there’s a possibility that we might l!
The year is 2065. Out in the burning wastelands of civilization’s final collapse, a scuffle breaks out between two elderly refugees. You creep closer to try to see what they’re fighting over. Water? Food? You get closer and hear “But he was NUMBER ONE ON THE CALL SHEET!”
ok, someone at our table was a nonshipper & recently has become a Destiel shipper; just suddenly started “seeing it”, you know how it happens. so I ask, when did you start seeing it, & she says, TONIGHT AT THE COCKLES PANEL when JA was playing “Angelus” to MC 😂 🤔 🥹
The highest the Supernatural hashtag got in the US was
#5
. It’s on its way back down now (
#8
now).
#Supernatural
during the series finale was beat out by
#destiel
during 15x18, lmao.
#CastielForever
thinking of Misha at cons last yr all apprehensive about how “fandoms don’t last” when a show ends. We were all thinking the issue was, will the fans move on
We never thought about the possibility that the cast would never want to talk about the show ever again in their lives
me reading the
#gish
#BookBash
list:
gish: “Write a Castiel fanfiction story…”
me: I’M ON IT
gish: “1 or 2 paragraphs”
me: … I’m sorry, I can only write epic length Cas fanfics that are longer than the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy
@mishacollins
omg. dear god 15x18 was brilliant, was SO SO SO validating, is my favorite ep of entire series, also you were amazing just btw; it was brave & gutsy & spectacular. NEVER doubt you left a great legacy & it was all worth it. It makes me want to cry to think of you doubting that 🥺
misha: it’s so sad Cas is alone
writers: um we went to a lot of trouble to put him near Dean
misha: all alone in Heaven
writers: …Dean’s ALSO IN HEAVEN
misha: so lonely
writers: DEAN’S RIGHT THERE, CAS CAN POP OVER FOR COFFEE ANY TIME HE WANTS
misha: *sniff* so poignant
Was going through pix from the yr & ran across pics from last live SPN con, Vegas. No contact allowed (pandemic was in news but hadn’t fully hit) so I saved other fans’ “no touch” poses. Among them... this fan pretending to read last script. argh Jensen’s expression - HE KNEW
Misha had an audition once where he was trying to super-suavely take off a button-up shirt, but he couldn’t get the cuffs undone & ended up w the shirt just dangling from both wrists.
Fan: did you get the part?
Misha: Let’s just say I was available for Supernatural!
I think
@mishacollins
deserves this so much. For anybody who doesn’t know, here’s a partial list of Misha’s influence (snicker) on the world this year:
Jensen talking about Rapture, couldn’t remember when in The Boys it was - I said “it’s not in the show” & he realized it was an extra online-only thing. Said, “Yeah, we did a lot of those. I just did another one.” 👀