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| − | ==2007==
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| − | ===January===
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| − | * 01.02 - SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: "But I'm not a meeeeaaaaan person!" - The year starts off with - not a bang, but at least a wank. la_folle_allure strikes with another hate meme. sevenfists has enough and sends her an open letter in which she calls her on her behavior. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1042371.html Source]
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| − | * 01.07 - The first edition of [[Hell Quarterly]] is published.
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| − | * 01.15: More SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: echoing0icons posts icons in which [[Sam]] is shown with a Hitler moustache. Fans are offended. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1044678.html Source]
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| − | * 01.19: SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]:"It's canon: You're an asshole!" - someone posts [[Wincest]] on spn_brotherlove and people wonder about why no mod removes it. lia-van-helsing speaks up and manages to call all Wincest readers potential sex offenders. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1045816.html Source]
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| − | * 01.31: How else should this wanktastic month end than with even more SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]? - la_folle_allure talks about her kink of having black people touch Dean - offense is taken. The wank is tiny, tiny. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1049151.html Source]
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| − | * until June 2007. [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_j2_bigbang/profile Supernatural and J-Squared Big Bang Challenge] The goal of the challenge was for authors to write a Supernatural or Jared and Jensen rpf novella of at least 20,000 words. Artists and vidders paired up with the writers to create an accompanying piece of artwork or trailer vid to go along with the story. Forty-nine authors took part creating stories from around 20,000 to over 80,000 words in length. Posting of the finsihed fic and art commenced in June 2007.
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| − | * 03.19: SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: "I don't like that fic, so you better stop writing it!"-wank - azewish thinks Wincest lovers smoke crack and claims that Wincest writing is like "raping canon in the ass". There is mild dissent - then azewish says that she just doesn't see the Sam/Dean subtext, therefore it doesn't exist, and nobody should write it. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1064654.html?#cutid1 Source]
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| − | * 03.31: Volume 2, Issue 1 of [[Hell Quarterly]] is online.
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| − | * - Voting begins on this year's E!Online SOS Poll by Kirsten (who claims that she always saves the show). SPN fans participate enthusiastically in the show, a lot of them hoping that Kirsten indeed has influence on the networks. While the Veronica Mars fandom cheats quite obviously with multi-voting macros and such (www.saveveronicamars.tv/sospoll.htm), SPN fans hold back, wanting to win the poll by being honest, afraid that they'll be banned if cheating is revealed.
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| − | ===April===
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| − | * 04.07: Results of Kirsten's SOS Poll are revealed - even though they are meant to be posted a week later (maybe due to a programming mistake of the E!online webmasters?) - Gilmore Girls is surely in the lead with over 39% and Veronica Mars in second place with 33% - SPN far behind with 7% and the rest of the shows with mostly 0%. Fans claim cheating on Kirsten' poll.
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| − | * 04.13: Results of Kirsten's SOS Poll are in - Gilmore Girls wins, with Veronica Mars in second place with 1.9 million votes - interestingly enough, VM gets more votes than it has weekly viewers... SPN is in 4th place with over 400.000 votes. - No cheating is mentioned, but the SPN fandom isn't impressed, and finally, even the last hopeful fan gets that Kirsten's poll is a load of bull (about as reliable as her hysterical [[Foiler]]s). Oh - and what satisfaction, for once, Kirsten didn't get to save the show, nor the show in second place. So much for credibility and showbiz influence. [http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/927073.html Source]
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| − | ===May===
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| − | * [http://www.fanlib.com/ Fanlib] - a site for fanfiction -is launched. A commercial site for the posting of fan fiction, this site has generated a lot of controversy, in particular the fact that the site is making money from the work of fic writers. Fanlib also owns the rights to the fiction published there, while the writers still bear any issues around copyright. [http://jdsampson.livejournal.com/ jdsampson] who is active in the Supernatural fandom is an employee of the corporation running the site. For insightful articles and discussion on the history and issues surrounding Fanlib see [http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/05/transforming_fan_culture_into.html Henry Jenkins] and [http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/626928.html icarusancalion]. A number of fanfic writers join in order to 'park' their Live Journal or fanfiction nicknames and avoid other people posting under them.
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| − | * 05.11 - 05.13: The [[Asylum (convention) | Asylum Convention]] takes place in Coventry at the Leofric Hotel. Attendees are: Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester), Alona Tal (Jo Harvelle), Nicky Aycox (Meg) and Brooke Nevin (Kat in ep. Asylum). Incident(s): An overenthusiastic fan tackles [[Jensen]] and manages to throw him to the ground - she's banned from the convention (reportedly, Jensen feels sorry for that.) - [[Jensen]], asked about fan fiction, brings up [[Wincest]] and mentions, that [[Kim Manners]] made him and [[Jared]] read it.
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| − | * 05.29: Day 1 of the great [[LJ Strikethrough 2007]]: Livejournal suspends over 500 journals which contain keywords including "incest", "rape" and "underage", targeting communities distributing or condoning child pornography. The shit hits the fan when they manage to delete several fan fiction communities. Fandom is outraged and panicked. SPN, as one of the biggest incest fandoms, is naturally concerned.
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| − | * 05.29: Over 70 challenge prompts are available at [[SPN Harlequin]] - they get claimed immediately, iniating a second round hours after the writing challenge is opened.
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| − | * 05.30: Day 2 of the great [[LJ Strikethrough 2007]]: Fandom strikes back. The revolt gains momentum - the events are on the news. Migration to other social blogging services start.
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| − | * 05.31: Day 3 of the great [[LJ Strikethrough 2007]]: LJ's CEO Barak Berkowitz apologizes for their actions and orders the immediate un-suspending of fandom journals.
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| − | * 06.04 - 06.10: Jensen stars in the Aaron Sorkin's play A Few Good Men at [http://www.casamanana.org Casa Manana Theatre] in Forth Worth, Texas. The fandom is enthusiastic about Jensen's foray into theatre work - quite a few take on the journey down to Texas to see him (among those going to see him is no other than Jared). Reports are collected in the [http://community.livejournal.com/one_good_man/ one good man] lj community. Some fans take still photos and make audio recordings during some performances. When these were posted on an LJ community, heated debate followed. Some of this was documented on [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1087452.html Fandom Wank].
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| − | * 06.30: Volume 2, Issue 2 of [[Hell Quarterly]] goes online. [http://community.livejournal.com/hell_quarterly/10436.html Link]
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| − | * June - The charitiy initiative [[Fandom Rocks]] starts to to raise funds and awareness for charities around the globe.
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| − | ===July===
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| − | * 07.01: hanncoll announces the start of [[Operation: Winchester]], a [http://community.livejournal.com/promote_spn promote_spn] project that encourages fans to send [[Season 1 DVD]] boxes to American troops stationed in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as "comfort for the troops". [http://community.livejournal.com/promote_spn/15686.html Source]
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| − | * 07.01. SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: "LOL Draft Horse"-wank - During a fan get-together, missyjack and friends post a notice that their friend nu_breed was trampled to death by a draft horse. The story isn't immediately detected as pure and utter crack - and people don't find it very funny. [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1090911.html Source]
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| − | * 07.03: Rumors that writer [[Raelle Tucker]] is leaving Supernatural for a new show about vampires by Alan Ball on HBO originate on the [[TWOP]] boards. There's no official confirmation yet, but the fans are very sad. [http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1094116.html Source]
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| − | * 07.04: anteka starts Season 3 of the [[Plastic!Winchester Theatre]]. ([http://anteka.livejournal.com/333333.html Source])
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| − | * 07.06: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0028982/ Laurence Andries] who has written and produced for Six feet Under, Alias and Millennium, is named as a new writer. ([http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1099970.html#cutid1 Source])
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| − | * 07.10 - 07.14: [[Origins]] debate on Media Village blogs: [[Peter Johnson]] talks about delibarate and accidental mistakes made in the Origins series so far. In the comment section of the Media Village article, he engages in a discurs with the fans, resulting in admittance of the mistakes on TPTBs parts and promising changes to the Origins box set. ([http://blogs.mediavillage.com/sci_fi/archives/2007/07/changes_in_stor.html Source)] Some fans think that their input is valued too much, while others are simply happy that someone will actually listen. ([http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1109835.html Source])
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| − | * 07.11: The second [[The Padalecki Project]] comes to a close - this time around, fans were also invited to send in their videos, so a DVD could be made. 95 scrapbook entries were received. ([http://padaleckiproject.broken-faith.net/ Source])
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| − | * 07.22: [[Eric Kripke]] talks to TV Guide about the upcoming season and speaks of/to his fans: "First of all, I love our fans. I love them to death. I love how passionate they are. But they tend to worry unnecessarily. (...) We're making the show for the fans; we're not making the show for the network. We would never do anything to betray them. I'm not saying we're perfect. I'm not saying we don't make mistakes. But we're very conscious and aware. And when we do make mistakes, we course-correct." [http://seat42f.blogspot.com/2007/07/supernatural-scoop-from-tvguide-michael.html '''Source has Spoilers''']
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| − | * 07.23: SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1096538.html I didn't bugger the lj-cut, you cock-sucking whore - see my attorney!]-wank. On [http://community.livejournal.com/super_real super_real], nixthedarkelf is offended by someone telling him he "buggered up (as in messed up) the lj-cut", claiming the commenter has called him a sodomite. People try to explain, he freaks out, calling the original commenter names and threatens to sue everyone, including the super_real mod, with his troll... oops, attorney.
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| − | * 07.28: Jensen, [[Eric Kripke]], [[Ben Edlund]] and [[Sera Gamble]] attend [[Comic Con]]. Sadly, Jared and [[Peter Johnson]] aren't able to attend, making this the 3rd consecutive convention appearance Jared has to skip because he's been working on Supernatural until the wee hours of the morning. Some fans complain about how they are tired of only ever seeing Jensen show up - most of the fandom is baffled by this reaction. [http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1123778.html Source]
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| − | ===August===
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| − | * 08.01: Posting of [[SPN Harlequin]] begins.
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| − | * 08.02 - 08.05: [[KazCon]] 2007 is held in Lawrence, Kansas.
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| − | * 08.03: [[Boldthrough]]:[http://www.livejournal.com Blogging Service Livejournal] suspends fan artist ponderosa121 (who's quite popular in the Supernatural fandom for her [[Wincest]] [[Fan Art]]) for violation of their policy, referring explicitly to a Harry/Snape pic in the recently un-suspended Harry Potter community [http://www.livejournal.com/community/pornish_pixies pornish_pixies], therefore re-enacting [[LJ Strikethrough 2007]]. pornish_pixies was one of the first victims of [[LJ Strikethrough 2007]] but was later unsuspended after massive user protests. [[http://ponderosa121.greatestjournal.com/805.html Source])
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| − | * 08.08: SPN on [[Fandom Wank]]: ckll, mod of [http://dean_sam.livejournal.com dean_sam] boasts she received an e-mail from [[Eric Kripke]]'s office, apparently telling her that she was contacted because she was an important member of the fan base. Because she failed to produce the rest of the letter, people didn't believe her - wank ensued. ([http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1100873.html Source]) - As of the mid of August, nobody knows if that letter is real - no other fan services, among them such high-profile sites as supernatural_tv (who's reportedly known by TPTB) or Winchester Journals have reported similar e-mails.
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| − | * 08.13: [[Boldthrough]]: Livejournal unsuspends users elaboration (calling it another of their "big mistakes") and probably ponderosa, too (who claimed she doesn't want to be a LJ customer anymore), and publishes part of their new [http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/242136.html policy] which states that non-photographic art will be reviewed using a two-strike policy. If they will keep their promise of warning offending parties before deletion - only time will tell.
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| − | * 08.30: TIME brings a brief article on fan fiction, claiming that #7 on the list of keywords searched in connection with fan fiction in June to August 2007 was Supernatural. ([http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1657764,00.html Source])
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| − | * 09.06: estrella and tvm start the second ever Supernatural Gleeweek, which seems to be more of a whole gleemonth, as it counts down the days to the Supernatural Season 3 premiere on October, 4rd. Gleeweek is all about the joy of being involved with Supernatural and Supernatural fandom and celebrates the show. More info at [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_gleeweek/ spn_gleeweek].
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| − | * 09.08: Supernatural is nominated in 19 categories in the Television Without Pity Tubey Awards. ([http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showforum=969 Source])
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| − | * 09.13: On September 13rd, the Supernatural Season 2 DVD is ranked #4 on amazon.com's DVD bestseller list.
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| − | * 09.13: Supernatural wins in the following categories at the 2007 [[Television Without Pity]] Tubey Awards: Best Badass - Dean Winchester and Best Performance by an Inanimate Object: [[Metallicar]]. Supernatural was runner-up in a couple of categories, e.g. for Best Relationship (Sam and Dean) and Best Chemistry (Sam and Dean) as well as Favorite Actor (Jensen Ackles). (Source: [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/portal/site/TelevisionWithoutPity/menuitem.766266d5c663f366b180b41045001d30/?vgnextoid=e3d622ec9aaf4110VgnVCM1000006dc1d240RCRD&vgnextfmt=default&ShowName=Mondo+Extras¤tPage=3 here] and [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/portal/site/TelevisionWithoutPity/menuitem.766266d5c663f366b180b41045001d30/?vgnextoid=0e5e80ee01ff4110VgnVCM1000006dc1d240RCRD&vgnextfmt=default&ShowName=Mondo%20Extras here].)
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| − | * 09.19: Supernatural on [[Fandom Wank]]: [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1111070.html Oh noes, you cancelling the hotel room is my death sentence!]-wank. ckll looks for a new roommate for the Creation Con in Chicago after her old one had to cancel the con. It doesn't go over without wank.
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| − | * 09.21: anteka and her [[Plastic!Winchester Theatre]] are featured a second time on the CW blog [[The CW Source]], this time with an interview of anteka. ([http://blogs.trb.com/network/cwsource/2007/09/meet_the_genius_behind_plastic.html#more Source])
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| − | * 09.26: By way of pimping from [[Supernatural Underground]] and cross-posting, Supernatural came out on top in the [http://heynielsen.com Hey Nielsen!] list, earning an increase in interest of over 7.000!!!%. [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_underground/3559.html (Source)]
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| − | * 10.01: Supernatural on [[Fandom Wank]]: stele3 investigates the [[Stephanie Ware]] rumours.
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| − | * 10.2: Episode [[3.01]] is available for download from iTunes for US residents for free in advance.
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| − | --> anteka from [[Plastic!Winchester Theatre]] releases [http://anteka.livejournal.com/388340.html Plastic!Winchesters: The Musical].
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| − | <br>--> Fans mirandler43 and kandkl paint the streets of their hometown with chalk in order to promote the Season Premiere of Supernatural. [http://kandkl.livejournal.com/7688.html?view=94216 Source].
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| − | * 10.04 - Episode [[3.01]] is broadcast on the [[CW]], starting Supernatural's 3rd Season. <br>
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| − | --> The [[Supernatural Postcard Campaigns]] community calls for a campaign to celebrate the start of the 3rd Season. ([http://community.livejournal.com/spn_postcards/10148.html Source])
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| − | * 10.12-14 The second [[WinchesterCon]] is held in Los Angeles.
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| − | * 10.21: DarkHouse initiates the first [http://community.livejournal.com/spnfgawards Supernatural Fangirl Awards] for excellence in Supernatural fandom; the same phrase which has been used for the [[Lawrence Awards]] a year ago. Nominations will open in November, voting goes through December, 1st to December, 20th.
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| − | * 10.30: Dick-Cheney [[Wank]]: lj user supernation writes a letter of complaint to the Supernatural Producers (and posts it to dean_sam) because of the implication that Dick Cheney has a seat reserved for him in Hell. A (so far) minor wank about what is and what isn't political satire ensues. [http://community.livejournal.com/dean_sam/2813850.html Source]
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| − | * The [http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2534 Writers' Guild of America] calls for a strike, if the studios won't raise the writer's shares. Key Issues are DVD and Home-vid residuals. For more info on the strike see the main [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike Wikipedia entry]].
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| − | * 11.05: hancoll from the Supernatural Underground contacts [[Sera Gamble]] about the [http://unitedhollywood.com/ Writer's Strike] that's threatening to stop production of tv shows and films. Sera answers, telling hancoll, that she feels she's not the right spokesperson to speak up about the strike, but that she is happy that Supernatural fans are supportive and that she hopes the strike will be a short-lived one. <sup>([http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1258071.html Source])</sup>
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| − | * 11.06: [[Please Do Feed the Writers]]: Supernatural Fandom supports the writer's strike. Some fen donate money to send a fruit basket to the picket lines. ([http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1259106.html Source])
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| − | * 11.08-11.09: [[WGA Strike]]: spadada and devidarkwolf meet [[Sera Gamble]], [[Ben Edlund]], [[Jeremy Carver]], [[Cathryn Humphris]] and [[Eric Kripke]]at the rally. Eric tells them how they have shot episode 11, and have another script ready for episode 12, but after that, they run out of scripts to shoot. (Report found [http://spadada.livejournal.com/110333.html here] and [http://devidarkwolf.livejournal.com/176035.html here]). Meanwhile, [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_postcards/12142.html spn_postcards] has started a postcard campaign, to let the writers and cast&crew know, that they support the strike.
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| − | * 11.09: [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_santa/2007/11/09 spn_santa], a Secret Santa community, starts with a sign-up period until November, 25th. Gifts should be send out starting November, 27th.
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| − | * 11.10-11.11: [[Creation Cons|Creation Con]] takes place in Chicago. [[Jensen]], [[Jared]], and fan-favorites [[Frederic Lehne]] and [[Samantha Ferris]] attend.
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| − | * 11.12 - SPNMedia reopens, stating "Five months ago SPNMEDIA had a disagreement with the LJ Community about the future release of additional photography and also some hosting problems." The disagreement came along, when fans complained that SPNMedia only distributed content to people who had joined the message board "Seek the Truth" AND, to prove they are really interested, had a certain number of posts on their agenda. This didn't sit well with a lot of fans who were of the opinion that fannish content should be made available by other fans to everybody without exclusion. Following a hissyfit from the site's management, the former site was closed. <sup>([http://repro-network.net/super/index.html Source])</sup>
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| − | * 11.15: [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1115071cassidy1.html News] mags and blogs report that [[Katie Cassidy]] got nabbed for underage drinking two weeks ago, also lying to the officers about how she was [[Taylor Cole]] (fellow Supernatural actress, who played [[Sarah]] in episode [[1.19 Provenance]]). Fans general consensus is along the lines of "we never got embarrassing stories when it was just Jared and Jensen." Obviously, it doesn't take long until [http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1122335.html Fandom Wank] takes up on this story, mocking the need to hate the new female additions. ([http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural_tv/1273334.html Source])
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| − | * 11.15: [[Truckzilla]] is sold on [http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/car/480193855.html Craigslist] for 5500 Canadian $.
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| − | * 11.17: [[WGA Strike]]: Hollywood United runs with the idea of several fan sites and blogs and starts [http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/pencils2mediamoguls.html Pencils2MediaMoguls] where fans can buy boxes of pencils in a support to the WGA Strike.
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| − | * 11.19: [[WGA Strike]]: Media reports that Supernatural will be shutting down December, 5th. ([http://firefox.org/news/articles/893/1/Production-on-Supernatural-Shutting-Down-Dec-5/Page1.html Source])
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| − | * 11.19: Firefox.org starts a campagin called "Driver picks the music (and raises funds for charity)" which gives 100% of Firefox's affiliate sales from music purchases at iTunes to the Actor's Fund to support the strike. [http://firefox.org/news/articles/894/1/Buy-The-Classic-Rock-of-Supernatural-Support-the-Striking-Writers/Page1.html source]
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| − | * 11.23/24: "Putsch" in the dean_sam community: oncidium and lostandalone, former-co moderators, post an entry about how ckll "is unable to maintain dean_sam with us any longer..". The post later is deleted. (Apparently, they took actions agains ckll, because she defendend another fan who made lewd and hateful comments about Jensen.) Various sources report that ckll didn't know that she had been kicked out of her own community by her co-moderators and stripped off her maintainer rights. Following a (not-so public) outcry on dean_sam, the community was handed back to ckll in an almost "Western-ish" showdown at noon. ckll remains the sole maintainer and moderator of dean_sam. <sup>([http://community.livejournal.com/dean_sam/3039971.html Source: ckll is back in business])</sup>
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| − | * In the next couple of days it is revealed by different sources, that something similar happened in the supernatural_tv community about a year and a half ago - although the community was never returned to its first owner. Interestingly enough, neither the dean_sam nor renewed supernatural_tv kerfuffle makes it to [[Fandom Wank]].
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| − | * The first couple of days leading up to the most wonderful time of year are filled with frustration for many Supernatural fans. Mid-October brought the idea of "[http://notthequiettype.livejournal.com/327584.html chubby Jensen]" (see also: [http://memphis86.livejournal.com/41153.html here]) - a fascination that seems quite a puzzle to a lot of people - following this, [http://community.livejournal.com/fatty_jared/ fatty_jared] is born (albeit with only 3 members to date). By the start of December, the situation has kind of escalated, with one half of the fan base not only disgusted by the notion of overweight being something to fawn over, but also by using the boys to transport that notion, and the other half claiming - shouldn't we be entitled to gentle mocking, because we love the boys so much? The [http://dodger-winslow.livejournal.com/115160.html?format=light RESPECT campaign] is started by dodger-winslow, adding to the controversy.
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