Oh, my GOD: [link]

That's going to be so much fun. I call dibs on the slush pile.

Wait- is that something official? I am getting old, man.

IT IS OFFICIAL!!

I'm sorry, the sheer bad ideaness of it is making me asscappy. Whoo hoo. Sorry, no, it's not a bad idea--they'll just have a lot to skim. I mean, he sees what he gets tweeted. Say goodbye to the 140 character limit, kiddoes.

I would not be brave enough to lift the 140 character limit if I were running a show where there are canonical alphas and omegas. Davis' eyebrows are going to break orbit when he gets a look at the submissions.

A new era for TV?

Also, doesn't submitting story ideas automatically and legaly strike them from being airable? Not that fan ideas of plausible stories equals potential canon stories. But, like, isn't posting your story where the creator can read it tantamount to ensuring it will never happen in canon, law-wise? But, still, the very fact that this is even on the table is incredible.

The rules might very well say they become MTV's property.

There are rules about what you can and can't send, and...knotting looks more allowable than violence and trespassing on cursory review.

It's pretty funny.

I'm trying to work out if I have magical negro feels about Teen Wolf. I was distracted by Boyd being cooler than Isaac and Erica, and not paying attention to the bit where he has no story. He's the actor off auditioning for other shows, so it's most likely he's not going to be depended on to be there in S3, so I don't know how much better that's going to get.

When Isaac turned out to be the one that came to Scott, I was surprised. I honestly thought we were supposed to think that Boyd was the one with sense. But the abuse story has to have some redemption and saving of the victim, I suppose. Can't have you go through that and then be the bad guy (even though that was marginally Matt's story). But not the way they'd set it up with the window into his life from the get go.

Deaton is definitely the support role, and has been from way before the story started. Don't know if that's a family thing--Kendra seems to disagree with his approach to things. And he's been given little to no explanation or motivation other than helping the lead--but the lead's not white. They don't say he's not white, but he doesn't look white, so...

I hadn't realised the snippet of script I'd read revealing Deaton was gay had been cut. I thought I'd just forgotten it. Disappointing. I was attached to that being canon.

I'm assuming that the Deaton family gets more background in S3--does that erase the stilted underdevelopment of S1-2, even if Boyd doesn't go anywhere? How much can you say the show underdevelops PoC if the lead isn't white? Danny doesn't have much backstory either, even though he has some nowstory.

Fandom does not seem to give a flying fuck about anyone with a touch of melanin, though. I do not see those fanworks.

Completely unrelated to any of this--is Derek the only werewolf who's less hairy when he's wolfed up?

Just caught up on Grimm. One minor point: I know their costume and special effects budget only covers sock puppets. But when your new villain is supposedly the bad-assiest to date, is "watermelon with fangs" really the look to go for?

Lost Girl: Hale seems to be the brightest of the bunch. Bringing the Naga and Trick together is very sensible given the enemy being faced. And who else both has and uses brains in the bunch?

Bo? Dumb as a post. Kenzie? probably very bright, but between the alcoholism, the kleptomania, and the impulsiveness, she does not use her intelligence enough. Dyson? probably not all that bright, but at any rate the extreme emo gets in the way of using any brains he has much of the time. Trick? Deep knowledge, an endless bag of tricks, but in any situation where he can't simply pull something from that bag of tricks it takes someone else to come up with an answer - often Kenzie. Lauren? Brilliant at fictional science and medicine, seems otherwise clueless in the face of life's problems.

Of course Hale was all "you slept with my sister? You monster!" even though Hale was wingman when Dyson slept with a bunch of other people's sisters. I'll put that down to macho fratboy-like fae male culture rather than actual stupidity. How that fits in with the Glaive's lecture on how feminist friendly Fae culture is, I don't know. Of course she did not actually say they had gender equality, just that women were occasionally allowed to step into men's roles. Which is not the same thing.

Completely unrelated to any of this--is Derek the only werewolf who's less hairy when he's wolfed up?

Isaac also goes smooth-browed when wolfing out for some reason. It's really an odd decision in Derek's case - with Tyler Hoechlin's eyebrows they wouldn't even have to do anything with makeup. (Hilariously one poster at TwoP remarked that half the time when she thought Derek was wolfed out she'd realize that was just how Hoechlin looks normally.)