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Clarrisani

@clarrisani / clarrisani.tumblr.com

37-year-old Australian multi-fandom multi-shipper and mother. Fan of Supernatural, Star Trek TOS and other things thrown in. This is primarily a Destiel and Cockles blog though. Fan author.

I posted 1,034 times in 2022

63 posts created (6%)

971 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

I tagged 1,026 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

  1. #spn - 590 posts
  2. #dean winchester - 397 posts
  3. #castiel - 354 posts
  4. #destiel - 277 posts
  5. #misha collins - 207 posts
  6. #spn art - 193 posts
  7. #jensen ackles - 180 posts
  8. #cockles - 121 posts
  9. #sam winchester - 40 posts
  10. #spn fic - 29 posts

Longest Tag: 47 characters

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

When Jensen called Jared, Baby. Hmm... They are making this really easy, aren't they

https://twitter.com/Jsquaredheaven/status/1103282574967873536?s=20

He was literally quoting a film. Meanwhile, we have video of him calling Misha "babe", and Misha calling Jensen "sweetheart".

#4

I love Discord. Misha and Karl comparing notes about their submissive, Jensen. Yes, please.

#3

Talking about Jensen and Jared on “Then and Now: A Supernatural Podcast”

Rob: You two have been friends for a while now- Jared: We’ve known each other (mumbles) Rob: Sorry, sorry, sorry. You’ve known each other and been acquaintances. You sometimes answer texts. Jared didn’t sound like he was joking. It’s at the 5 minute mark of the Pilot episode.

#2

Any other interesting tidbits from the podcast? 👀

  • Well, Jensen admitted to trying to screw with Jared in the audition. As in throw him out off his groove. EDIT: Screw as in “mess with” and “sabotage”. Jensen tried to sabotage Jared’s audition by messing with his focus.
  • Supernatural had a low turn around for members of the crew. Jensen knew nearly all the names while Jared made passing remarks.
  • In "Wendigo" they talk about Dean's voice. Jensen says he was inspired by JDM after seeing the Pilot. Jared jokes about Jensen wrecking his voice, and Rich and Jensen joke that Misha had it worse.
  • Jared talks for nearly all of the podcast with Rob, Rich and Jensen just adding in things every so often. So the norm.
  • There is merciless teasing of Rob that's fun.
  • Jensen calls Robert Singer "dad". He says that you always knew "when Dad was on set". That Singer was brought in to control a young Kripke.
  • Jensen says Kripke hasn't changed much between SPN pilot and S3 of The Boys.
  • Jensen joked that Kripke took everything he wanted to do to Dean on SPN but couldn't because of network control and did it to Jensen on "The Boys", and Jensen has told his family to not watch "The Boys" because of it. But everyone else should watch it.
  • There was four months between filming The Pilot and "Wendigo". During that time Jensen and Jared did fight training.
  • They discussed the promotion circuit back in 2005 and how it was very radio orientated. They had to be up at 2am for interviews in America and do four hour shifts before going on to film.
  • The fire in the scene where Jess dies was real. They actually set the set on fire, and told the boys if they got "hot" to get the hell out of there. In one take Jensen did and he stopped saying his dialogue to say "I'm getting hot!"
  • Jared admitted to fanboying a little over some of the cast in the early episodes.
  • The boys got to meet Samantha Smith and JDM while the Pilot was being filmed.
  • They talked a lot about director David Nutter and how he was the "Pilot King". Any pilot he filmed got picked up. At the time of SPN he'd directed 11 pilots, and SPN was the eleventh one picked up
  • There was also a discussion how the crew was young when the show started, and some of them saw "three decades". aka they started in their late 20s and were in their early 40s when the show ended and they still worked there. Jensen put himself on that list.
  • I'm sure there's more, but those are the highlights.

My #1 post of 2022

Hi guys. If you can vote in the Ao3 election, make sure to not vote for Tiffany G. If you haven’t heard, this person wants to censor Ao3. Yes, you heard that right. The site created to go against censorship has someone running for the board that wants to censor content.

I have 1k followers on my writing twitter account. I can’t believe it. I’ve also finished writing book three of my original series, and book one will be out in 2023.

All skirt/dress wearers when we discover they have functional pockets 😍

It’s also worth mentioning that this is the guy who posted this: 

His name is Jim Sterling and he is a rather… colorful games journalist who actually uses his platform to report on stuff like horrible working conditions, abuse and even stuff like sexual assault in the games industry.

He also raised concerns about the addictive nature of stuff like loot boxes and micro transactions long before anyone else did. 

They recently came out as non-binary “gender trash” (his words, not mine) and uses he/they/any pronouns according to his Twitter. Give their videos a look see if you are interested in hearing about workers rights in the creative industry.

we love and appreciate James Stephanie Sterling in this house

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i would like to share that they are using exclusively they/them pronouns at this time :-)

Jim used to be a relatively big name reviewer back in the Angry Trillby Reviewer Days until they suddenly ‘quit’ their job with the very prominent games journalism company they worked for and were summarily blacklisted by the entire AAA industry.

Why? Because a massive scandal broke at the major game publisher Ubisoft revealing a culture of systematic sexual abuse, including high-ranking officials within the company that would regularly drug and rape female employees, which management and HR seemed fully aware of and would protect and move around the perpetrators Catholic-church-style. Reviewers were told not to talk about it and, when it became impossible to contain, to not talk about it where it’s “irrelevant” – that is, never mention or hint at any such stuff when actually reviewing and promoting Ubisoft games, because it’s a separate thing, see, no need to distract from the game (Ubisoft’s goal here was to be able to continue to advertise their games to players who hadn’t heard about it, and wait out the scandal until those who had just assumed everything was dealt with and forgot, which worked).

Jim refused. They knew this would tank their career, they knew they were throwing away an incredibly promising future. They did it anyway.

James Stephanie Sterling in one of a very small number of game reviewers out there with an actual fucking spine and a moral code made from titanium. They’re still effectively blacklisted from the industry, because since then they’ve refused to reform and play Good PR Robot like reviewers are supposed to do (because the AAA games industry thinks ‘reviewer’ and ‘critic’ are synonyms for ‘PR person in a gig economy’), shining light on repeated abuses and scandals in the industry, both internal scandals like this (discrimination, worker abuse, fraud, the normalisation of crunch culture and not paying workers) and ways at which the AAA industry scams players (abuses of early access, loot boxes and ‘pay to win’ mechanics that used to be the realm of free-to-play games now dominating paid titles while the prices of those titles also go up, abusive subscription models and ‘always online’ services, fun little tricks that companies love to pull with “remastered” games, and lately NFTs). Jim’s usually a good six months to a full year ahead of the curve on spying out this bullshit, able to see and warn about it before it becomes trendy enough for other reviewers to touch, and the result has been being continually silenced by game companies and passively buried by algorithms due to illegitimate DCMA takedowns, incorrect copyright strikes spurious lawsuits, being frozen out of gaming news, and whatever other nasty tricks people can pull. They came out as nonbinary very shortly before hitting a million subscribers (despite the forces agaisnt them) and then suddenly lost a lot of subscribers over a short period of time. Which was surely a complete coincidence. Yep. Just a coincidence. Have they backed down on literally anything? No. Because they decided to do this properly despite the cost and they are NOT fucking around.

They also call out particularly bad bullshit of indie developers (we’re talking the con artists and bigots in indie development in particular), not just AAA, which once hilariously resulted in a tiny no-name developer attempting to sue them for TEN MILLION DOLLARS. (Well, I found it hilarious after the fact. It was incredibly frustrating and somewhat stressful for Jim at the time, if one of the more ridiculous silencing tactics.) You can see them report on that here:

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Sounds like somebody worth supporting.

Followed them for years, genuinely awesome.

They’re also a professional wrestler.

I’m not kidding.