The great chronicles of season 16
I’m making the chronicles and will be grateful if you tell me what I forgot. Also there might be one day difference - chronicles were made according to CET timezone.
The 5th of November 2020 - destiel is canon and homophobic (according to memes and also kinda in retrospect), we know after tweet mentioning also Putin stepping down and. While vote counting was taking place. Spn trending on tumblr and twitter. As well as Destiel. Over the presidential election.
The 11th of November - Misha stated that Cas loved Dean romantically, and the confession was of a very homosexual nature
The 12 th of November - 15x19 - two mentions of Cas (including Lucifer impersonating him, which implies that Dean reciprocated Cas’ feelings), plot resumed, speculations about parallel to Dean being pulled out from Hell by Cas
Whole week of build-up and speculations
The 18th of November - Entertainment Weekly publishes (now most likely deleted or strongly edited) videointerview with Jensen talking about wanting to have a keepsake of sorts. So he had a crew member record the confession scene with his phone, unadulterated, unedited, with no music. To remember it as Jensen and Misha’s last moment on set, not Dean and Cas’ final goodbye. Says they had a few takes, some more emotional than others. And that some things they recorded were cut. Unlikely he’ll ever publish it, as it is his personal keepsake. In same interview he say that Kripke was the one to convince him that Dean’s ending was good and Jensen should think about how fans would react to it
The 19th of November - The Episode That Must Not Be Named airs and is bad, and instead of a long episode we got one shorter than the rest of season finales and a documentary. Canons were not confirmed on screen (Destiel and Seileen). Subplot not resumed. No reunion with supporting characters, nor with Cas or Jack. People angry. Cast silent
Multiple charity projects as an act of rage against c*w started hours after finale
The 22nd of November - Misha saying that Cas had rainbow wings
Inbetween events anger, sadness, fix-it fics, jackles’ silence, and conspiracy theories
The 24th of November - Destiel canon again but in Spanish - causes tumblr servers to shut down
“#They silenced you” twitter campaign
The 25th of November - Indian Netflix edit
The 26th of November - Misha is talking about rogue translator, and makes people angry. Apologises later that day and promises to listen to criticism. Misha remains the only one till date to address criticism at all
The 27th of November - The alleged leaked Italian dub tricks people into thinking that there was 2nd dub reciprocation on Dean’s part
The 28th of November - People freaking out because Obama followed stan twitter acc
The 30th of November - Italian dub (ofc) fake
Brazilian dub - speculations that Dean said something in ending scene, but those were only added sounds of birds tweeting
People continue freaking out cause Heller Obama
The 30th of November - Sarah Z uploads her Destiel/SPN video to youtube
The 5th of December - Misha announced fundraising for voting rights with cast and Stacey Abrams, and people were wondering what will happen, Destiel gets own ship category in hellsite’s 2020 year in review
The 7th of December - info about Misha’s nude photo floods hellsite, people making fanarts furiously
The 8th of December - Mini reversed Mishapocalypse - Misha allegedly has secret tumblr acc so everyone in here could be Misha. People frantically asking stans if they are Misha
Misha stirs the pot by tweeting about wild questions, weird acting choices, and cut scenes
The 8th of November (the evening) - meeting very uneventful, people tad bit dissatisfied, but in bloopers Jensen is making a joke about bottoming (or so I am told) . OH, and they were telling very weird story about Jared giving massage to Sebastian Roche
The 9th of December - Jensen allegedly states that Dean is bi and a bottom, no clear source tho, probably fake. End of Heller Obama
The 10th of December - denial that The Episode That Must Not Be Named even happened, shipping Jenmish as coping mechanism. Misha praised “castiel project” on Trevorproject and people thought that he donated 1000 bucks (but it was a big-hearted fan - we love ya)
The 10th/11th of December - Taylor Swift drops new album and people are looking for Destiel subtext - unconfirmed Heller Swift. And Stacey Abrams liked the ending (good for her)
The 11th of December - possible 3rd canon Destiel, because of script suggesting that something didn’t make it to the final cut, but the authenticity is hard to define. Script hinting at romantic feelings at Cas’ part including his POV “Still beautiful. Still Dean Winchester”
Authenticity of script confirmed by Adam Williams, of all people, who goes unhinged, for like 10 hours, on twitter after that.(The origin story of stuff like “pesky danglers”, “New universes created if they’d kiss”, “drunken brojobs” and “Dean clearly is alfa male. But who knows, alfas are very generous). Jared was praising the finale.
The 12th of December - Destiel going canon (?) for the 4th time because of rogue Heller director of LatAm dub. In his interpretation Dean was bi, and in love with Cas, and the English scene version was too subtle for love this big and obvious. Whole dubbing crew had same standpoint, so they went with it. They denied that any kind of reciprocation was in original script, there was no other audio
The 13th of December - spn trending AGAIN because of LatAm dub actors panel. There were a lot of widely contradicting statements. It looks like there never was reciprocation in any of English sources, but we cannot be sure. There was "I too” in Hispanic script changed by director to more expressive, better fitting to mouth movement version. Whole cast was on board with that version. Warner Brothers either did not check what was on final tapes or did not care, not knowing what kind of chaos would that version unleash. They probably accepted the script with “i too” but for now it is not proven to be true nor false. Talks about interview with director himself
The 14th of December - discovery of new beer from Jensen’s brewery, named “Eyes like the sky” with very flowery and fruity description. Wave of conspiracy theories stating that it is dedicated to Misha because of “11 Jenmish” anniversary. Very few reliable sources. Conspiracy, very improbable
The 15th of December - sheer pain and lil bit of PTSD drags tags from supernatural to trending yet again. Probably triggered by walker trending first. Or other unknown reason. Collective confusion keeps destiel tag on trending for a good part of a day. Fandom officially restored to 2012 state.
The 16th of December - I’m not going to try explaining that… Thing. No, I’m not mad at y'all. Just disappointed. The amount of freakout about BILL CLINTON IN 2020 is astounding. The cause better be forgotten. Jensen had to post a vid to calm you down a little (it mean he did post it, not that he posted it do distract us, that was a joke). And also you summoned to existence articles about the alleged scandal in mainstream media (Newsweek)
The 17th of December - SPN tags still trending because of the aftermath of Bill Clinton deal and Jensen’s thirst trap. Scripts from season 8 dug up. Stating that Dean and Benny “broke up” either confirming yet again Bi!Dean or blatant queerbaiting and queercoding. Misha publishes tweet related to bees (and uses Cas spelling instead of Cass), starting speculations about secret tumblr account yet again
The 18th of December - Misha addresses the Newsweek article on social media. Unknown what does he think about the whole business. Taggs Clinton and Levinsky.
The 20th of December - all supernatural materials and promos get deleted from c*w’s websites (including youtube) due to licensing deals. Full rights went back to Warner Brothers that was landing the license to c*w (an I guess who later landed that license to Chaos Machine)
The 25th of December - people analysing purgatory prayer scene from 15x09, claiming that it contains barely audible “I love you” that coincidentally or not gives a new meaning to the whole 09-18 Cas-Dean dynamic (and it even makes more sense that way)
The 31st of December - Mishapocalypse 2.0 has been started and was raging, taking spn to trending for the last time this year
The 3rd of January - Jim Michaels tweets photo from the finale, with caption that provoked people to comment with their critical opinions. Michaels blocks a lot of people that were criticising the finale (not only people that were hateful but also constructive criticism). That ignites a fair amount of drama on both platforms. Michaels likes antiheller tweets from w*ncest and b*bro accounts
The 6th of January - spn trending under US politics because of chaos surrounding Georgia election and insurrection in Washington
The 10th of January - hate speedrun with Greg Hopwood as a target - people in a span of 24 hours since the moment he confirmed that he supports destiel proceeded to spam his posts, demand his resignation (he’s a costume concept designer for the Boys), spam Kripke and other directors, and finished on a death threats sent via social media
The 11th of January - Jensen wins best actor in horror series Critics Choice Super Award, He thanks Jared and the whole crew
The 12th of January - Fandom loses it a little bit after Jensen thanks Mish and Dee on instagram
The 13th of January - Supernatural is officially the most streamed horror show of 2020 with over 20 billion streamed minutes. It’s ranked on 7th place overall
The 15th of January - interview with Jared for Variety is published. It consists of a few bad takes but also reveals that Eileen wasn’t Sam’s wife in any of the scripts he got. That triggers discussion about C*W’s misogyny and disabled representation erasure, as well as treatment of BIPOC representation in mainstream media overall. Leads to reevaluation od Jared’s standpoints and past actions taking place for next few days
The 19th of January - Chaos Machine productions gains official instagram profile and over 4k followers in one day
The 20th of January - hellers and Gen Padalecki getting blamed for rather bad reviews of Walker
The 21st of January - Walker premiers. Internet community not very enthusiastic
The 23rd of January - theories about new Family Business Beer Co. “Rainbow Road”, and spam under instagram posts result in site partially disabling the comments
The 24th of January - celebration of Dean’s birthday via social media and zoom. Chad Lindberg organises Harvella Roadhouse party via twitter. Gets adopted by fandom
The 26th of January - Kings of Con podcast with Misha premieres. People baffled by the lack of mentions of supernatural
The 2nd of February - twitter drama with Jim Michaels gets reignited. Discovery of Sky Deutchland instagram post listing Dean as Cas’ closest kin
The 3rd February - growing interest in Chad Lindberg’s roadhouse idea
The 4th of February - group of twitter fans starts first real steps into fan reshoot of the finale. As of now the state of the project is unclear
The 7th of February - Misha’s space pants get auctioned off, which kick-start a project to get those pants back to him
The 9th of February - premiere date for full 15 seasons box set gets announced
The 13th of February - Kripke reveals that in his vision Sam and Dean were always supposed to die in the end
The 14th of February - fandom celebrates Destiel wedding on both twitter and tumblr. It trends worldwide for long hours on bird app
The 16th of February - fallout with Chad Lindberg and Samantha Ferris after some very bad takes coming from them, one of which was that queer reading would damage the integrity of the story
The 20th of February - tumblr meltdown that escaped containment pushed Steve Yockey into acknowledging it by saying he is in fact not dead
The 28th of February - Kim Rhodes states that she didn’t watch nor she’s going to watch the finale
The 1st of March - celebration of Jensen’s birthday
The 3rd of March - german dub of 15x19 drops. It is romantic as well
The 5th-7th of March - first online con after the finale takes place. The reactions to the way the con was conducted as well as to its actual contents are very mixed. It invokes very strong feelings
The 9th of March - Misha joins Cameo as an effort to fund his community messages. Acknowledges “CastielMatters” hashtag and says that “Actually, CastielEnergies”
The 10th of March - premiere of 15x18 with french dub. Destiel proclaimed canon yet again thanks to more romantic reading visible in the translation. Wanek’s book available for preorders. Website containing Dabb’s letter that confirmed the big Harvella’s reunion party that got scrapped due to covid
The 13th of March - Misha tweets at amazon about shipping. A clearly not serious thing. Shitstorm rages through the fandom
The 14th of March - Misha deletes the tweet and apologises for his joke
The 16th of March - fans publish cameo with Misha saying “still beautiful, still Dean Winchester” in Cas voice
The 17th of March - fandom celebrates Seileen wedding
The 20th of March - 2nd “still beautiful, still Dean Winchester” drops
The 21st of March - Saileen wedding celebra this time on twitter
The 23rd of March - more twitter drama involving Samantha Ferris and Bi!Dean
The 31st of March - a fragment of 15x19 script with Jack’s prayer gets leaked
The 1st of April - Mishapocalypse reenactment
The 4th of April - cameo with Misha reciting deleted bit from 05x04 The End gets published
The 7th of April - whole leaked last drafts for 15x19 and 15x20 are published. Number of cut and omitted scenes astounds fandom
The 10th-11th of April - Paris DarkLight Conline 2 takes place
The 13th of April - twitter drama between Jared, people critical of him and his fans
The 18th of April - 2nd draft for Tombstone gets published, reveals copious amounts of subtext consciously written into the text
The 22nd of April - fandom celebrates Midam wedding
The 25th of April - Q&A with Jerry Wanek, set designer takes place. He confirms that ever human who died was supposed to be at the Harvella’s roadhouse
The 26th of April - Misha sighting on oscar gala causes a healthy dose of positive chaos
The 2nd of May - fandom celebrates Sam’s birthday
The 8th of May - DarkLight Conline 2 takes place
The 10th of May - footage from online con gets shared. Asked if Berens and him experienced any pushback regarding 15x18 says no, they were gradually clueing more and more people - most likely in fear of said pushback
The 15th of May - Galaxy Con Online takes place
The 18th of May - fandom celebrates Jack’s 4th birthday
The 20th of May - stuff from the box set gets shared for promotional purposes
The 21st of May - even more stuff from the box set gets shared through official channels
The 22nd of May - full gag reel and deleted scenes from season 15 are published
The 23rd of May - featurette from the box set gets leaked. Fandom very unhappy with its content. Featured cast and crew give contradicting testimonies. More deleted scenes are published
The 25th of May - the box set officially premieres
The 18th of June - Russian dub of 15x18 gets published. It as well is more romantic than the original
The 25th of June - first info regarding prequel produced by Ackles’ production company gets published. It confirms that they were in the process of acquiring rights to the series. The series itself is said to center around Mary and John and it would be narrated by Dean. And former spn writer Robbie Thompson will be involved in writing it.That reveal leads to Jared’s twitter meltdown and possibly still ongoing fallout between J2.
The 26th of June - Jensen says there will be no retconning in the series
The 30th of June - Misha posts pick of cas with rainbow wings for coming to an end pride month
The 6th of July - Great Dadstiel Wars wreck havoc on the webbed site
The 16th of July - Perfume Genius shares a self-insert fanfiction starring Jensen Ackles
The 19th of July - Fandom celebrates Jared’s birthday
The 2nd of August - Perfume Genius shares next one of his fanfictions in “I slept with all actors in spn series” series. This time starring Jared
The 9th of August - Castiel/Dean Winchester tag crosses a threshold of 100k fics on Archive Of Our Own webbed site, as a very first fic in history. Misha acknowledges that colossal event as well
The 11th of August - fandom creates hate askbloghs. For homebrew drama
The 20th of August - fandom celebrates Misha’s birthday as well as return of in-person cons
The 2nd of September - Misha posts on his tiktok acc for the very first time. Causes chaos
The 3rd of September - Jake Abel launches his ad campaign for hot sauce. Employs Michael’s and Adam’s characters
The 4th-5th of September - Momento Con takes place
The 9th of September - dubbed 15x18 premieres in Italy. Unlike its fake counterpart from December it is very sonservative with its Iloveyou’s opting for platonic version. This draws Misha’s attention, and he publishes short video with his own “ti amo”
The 13th of September - anniversary of airing of the very first spn episode
The 17th-18th of September - Fan X Comic Convention takes place
The 18th of September - Fandom celebrates Cas Day/Cas’ Birthday, commemorating his first appearance on the show
The 25-26th of September - UK Crossroads Con takes place
The 5th of October - Misha complains about the pain of playing in a queerbaiting show. Basically calling out supernatural on its queerbaiting
The 12th of October - Misha’s poetry book, containing one poem from Cas’ POV, officially premieres
The 15th-17th of October - Denver Con takes place. J2M reunite for the first time since march 2020. The highest of highs and lowest of lows
The 19th of October - The cule launches a emails writing campaign aimed at creation entertainment, taking a stance against censorship on their cons. The answer from creation being basically “we are not homophobic, we can’t be homophobic, my son is trans and he works with us. Any eventual censorship is on the volunteers
The 4th of November - fandom celebrates eve of Destiel anniversary
The 5th of November 2021 - fandom celebrates one year anniversary of canon destiel. Loudly and unabashedly. Trying to revive the spirit of that night and reminiscing the events of last year
Last updated: 5th November 2021
Thanks for the the info on the things that I’ve missed to: @clarasmoon @lostboyfromneverland5 @antifacas and @sinnabonka
And shout-out:
To the people who leaked 15x18 script (unfortunately i don’t know who you are)
To people who’ve put together 8h edit of Destiel scenes - @gaIlaghcr at twitter.com (go there for links)
To people studying confession scene with math and 3d models (can’t find ya, so can someone put a link below)
To everyone donating to charity out of sheer rage
Sources: tumblr hellsite dot co, twitter, instagram, mainstream media (pink news, newsweek and rest)
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