The Supernatural Fandom: Cult

Cults influence society in many ways. They shape people’s behaviors and emotions to get them to align with the cult’s beliefs and thoughts. The people that join cults are usually very insecure about themselves and want to be accepted by then group. Cults offer people acceptance, friendship, community, and family. These qualities often appeal to someone who feels the need to be accepted by others. Cults are groups that use tactics such as the foot in the door phenomenon, entrapment, and obedience to achieve the leader's ultimate desires as seen through the cults of Jonestown and Family International.

Instead of being the sexually deviant bisexual character that is usually portrayed on television shows, she is the realistic monogamous, relationship-oriented bisexual who holds all of her relationships to very high importance. This progressive take on a bisexual character has only allowed for Grey’s Anatomy to open its audience’s eyes to a whole new take on queer characters. The fans and critics on After Ellen held an interview with one of the writers of Callie’s bisexual storyline and their response was that, “The story line offered both the drama Grey’s is known for and — despite some marginally exploitative threesome talk — a truthfulness network television has rarely achieved when it comes to lesbian relationship” (AFTER ELLEN Behind). Not only that, but Callie Torres’ character has given LGBTQ-identifying people a flicker of hope for a character on TV to actually understand their struggles and accurately depict their lives. With positive audience reception to Callie’s character, the progression of her bisexual identity only added more to the shows overall relevant and real depiction of a queer persons

A total of 74 members of Order of the Solar Temple died from various mass murder-suicides between 1994 and 1997 in Switzerland, Canada and France. The first known instance was the murder of Tony Dutroit and his wife and son. Dutroit was a member of the cult, but spoke out against it upon realising its hypocrisy and deception and left. Soon after, he, his wife Nicky and son Emmanuel were the victims of a grisly murder in Morin Heights, Québec, committed by members of the cult. It was believed that this was upon Di Mambro’s orders, apparently on the basis that Emmanuel was the Antichrist and had come to stop Di Mambro from doing his spiritual bidding, but evidence shows that it might be due to Dutoit’s unwarranted exposure of the cult’s

Cults are the groups that exhibit intense and unquestioning devotion to a single cause. All the group members have a same goal or mission, and the group thinking helps the group members to stick on the same goal. For the Heaven Gate, their goal is to enter the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom level above human. The documentary of “Heaven Gate Cult” perfectly shows the four ways for the cult to promote their group thinking.

Everyone knows about supernatural and teenagers nowadays are so interested in it. The reasons supernatural is popular in teenage group are because of their dependency on technology, their minds of self and their future that they are getting closer to. Teenagers who are interested in supernatural are also affected by it and are changed their mind to their society.

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.” (Manson). American cults have been around for thousands of years. Cults can be religious, spiritual, or based on common interests. American cults have driven themselves into American culture; tearing apart families, towns, and driving people mad. The Mason Family cult, Heaven’s Gate, and The Peoples Temple are just a few of the horrific cults that have been stained this country over the past 50 years.

When asexual people are represented in the media, they usually are not explicitly called asexual, or their lack of sexual attraction to others is driven by emotionlessness, detachment, or apathy. The association with asexuality and mental health disorders such as sociopathy fails to understand the key component of asexuality, which is asexuals do not feel sexual attraction, and just that. Asexuals can be completely able to feel romantic attraction, although some do not. No part of the definition of asexuality says asexuals must be completely cold and heartless. People are able to be kind and compassionate without forming sexual or romantic bonds with other people.

Within television, there is often a sense of heteronormativity that is shown through heterosexual relationships and a lack of representation of LGBT+ community. While “New Girl” has four main characters, all who have active social/sexual lives, all are interested in the opposite sex. In fact, there is not even talk about any sexual orientation other than being attracted to the opposite sex. As Jess is juggling two men interested in her; Schmidt and Nick tell her that “there comes a time in every person’s life when for no reason whatsoever they are irresistible to the

It’s late at night and you are up with your friends telling scary ghost stories or daring them to do the classic game Bloody Mary. Eventually the fun ends sending you back into reality until you turn on one of the best supernatural shows or movies out there escaping once more. Supernatural shows and movies are all good , but the best share similar qualities.

Bisexual people tend to date and have preferences based on society’s terms and categories. Being bisexual can be an exemplifying experience when determining your sexuality for the first time. But being in one of the most marginalized communities within the LGBTQ it can be very hard to navigate relationships from both sides of the spectrum. “Being bisexual can be a marginalizing experience in both queer and hetero spaces” (Rogers 1). Relationships are hard, relationships are harder navigating with a non-monosexual orientation.

Misha Collins is a beloved American television actor and philanthropist (Random Acts). Collins was born on August 20, 1974 in Massachusetts (Contemporary Theatre). His alma mater is the University of Chicago, where he acquired a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Social Theory (the study of patterns in social phenomena). Collins is most famous for his role as the angel, ‘Castiel’, on the popular television series, Supernatural. He has also appeared in several movies including Karla and Girl, Interrupted. In addition, he helped produce the LA Film Festival Award winning documentary, Loot (Random Acts). Furthermore, Collins is the host and director of GISHWHES (Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen), which has broken several Guinness

The individuals portrayed in the story all illustrate some of the characteristics and contradictions the fans embody along with issues of contention within the Brony fandom and some elements of concordant masculinity, as well as my own blinders to aspects of the fandom during my work on this project.

In 2008, women from all around the world began to become fanatics of the well-known book Twilight and disputing with their fellow “Twi-hard” fans if they should be on team Jacob or team Edward. However, before there were “Twi-hard” fans fighting over a sparkling disco ball that was called a vampire (A dark day for fans of the gothic vampire literature) and a werewolf that always had its shirt off, there was what we call “Wayward Sons” or “Hunters” in the fandom universe in 2005. “Wayward Sons” or “Hunters” are what fans from the TV series Supernatural like to call themselves considering that the fans prefer not to fight over which character is more aesthetically pleasing, but to actually enjoy the series content. Ever since I started watching

I am very well aware that as an actor it is his job to perform his absolute best. His acting is beyond anything I have ever seen so far. I know that Jensen Ackels and Dean Winchester are two completely different people; however, the actor’s character is certainly what I am interested in. His attributes, mannerism, not to mention his loyalties are what appeals to me. In more than one way I can relate myself and those I hold dear to myself. I love everything about the Supernatural, but I don’t think that the show would be the same without Dean Winchester. Dean Winchester’s character means a lot to me. We all have this one thing that brings us joy on darker days. He is not just an actor to me. He is everything that I want to be in life apart from

Some says that a person who has intimate relationships with both men and women doesn’t consider herself bisexual or of any sexual orientation for that matter. I think that today, we are seeing more people displaying an attraction to another individual based mostly on what their personality has to offer, rather then their ‘plumbing’. I find this an interesting concept and I think I do believe that what it boils down to is the love you have for the person despite their anatomy, though I have yet to experience feelings like this myself.One of the main problems that bisexual people face is the idea that bisexuality is not a “real” sexual orientation. This belief is held by not only the heterosexual community but by the homosexual community as well. Many people think of bisexuality as a transition into becoming gay or as a denial of oneself being gay. This belief is damaging not only because it refuses to acknowledge that bisexuality exists, but it also restricts a person’s love and affection to only one gender (either same-sex or opposite) and it refuses to take into consideration that someone could be attracted to or love people of