Your fandom needs you!
@WrathOfKripke (Not The Real Kripke) tweeted this just today:
Everyone tweet your top 10s! RT @TozaBoma Thinking of top ten reasons why I’ll be attending #ChuckCon this Thursday at 9pm on the CW.
We think this is an ace idea. But what is #ChuckCon, I hear you ask?
Simply put, this Thursday’s episode of our beloved show involves our intrepid Winchesters hunting by way of a… convention. And not just any convention… A Chuck Shurley convention for all things Supernatural! No, not some daftly obscure TV show on some weeny network in the fourth largest country in the world, but the ‘so badly written it’s a cult hit‘ pulp fiction from the Supernatural series of novels by Carver Edlund – A.K.A. Mr Chuck Shurley.
While this does smack of taking metafiction to the extreme, it also makes us wonder how much fun could be had at Twitter’s expense. After all, they did screw us over by simply refusing to count any and all tweets that included the words ‘Lucifer’ or ‘Supernatural’ during the whole P Diddy debacle of September. Since then, and having learnt our lesson well, subsequent hashtags have included character names, episode titles or quotes, to slip by the watchful Big Brother presence of Twitter. So far, it’s worked – although it has been impossible to reach the Trending Topics board as the hashtags used are often disparate and disorganised.
Which is where Thursday comes in – and all Twitterers out there who like a giggle and their beloved show to get a bit of Trending Topic love.
On Thursday 12th November (that’s tomorrow for some timezones), simply tweet one reason you will / would like to / want to / need to see Thursday’s episode (5×09, if we’re counting) of the show Supernatural – referring to it as #ChuckCon, of course. My own personal favourite is:
No. 1 reason I’ll be attending #ChuckCon Thursday 9pm on the CW: Chuck Shurley is left-handed, same as Jason Manns, Steve Carlson and me. Go Southpaws!
Of course, the more bizarre and irreverent the message the better. Remember, it doesn’t matter how many times a single person tweets using the hashtag, it’s how many individual users actually use the hashtag. Retweets (recognised by the ‘RT’ within the message) also appear to count, as do any pictures uploaded to Twitpic and other picture plug-ins, using the hashtag in the caption.
So go for broke, people, if you are on Twitter and are so inclined. I know I’ll have ten good reasons on standby.
And I understand @WrathOfKripke will be posting his usual ditties containing the hashtag. I think it’s going to be fun!
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Soupdragon has been a reporter since January 2009 and she is a Bucket of the crazy variety. Some call her Hong Kong Phooey. Some call her Empress Mardy, the Crepuscular of Happy Vodkashire. Some call her a Bad Company Wh*re. The wise ones call her 'Mistress'.
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Wouldn’t people confuse this with the television show Chuck?
We did ok after all – there were quite a few people tweeting their top tens, as well as a few lovely people making up ditties a la @WrathOfKripke. It seemed no-one got it confused with the show named ‘Chuck’, so phew! on all counts. :) It went over quite well – I was surprised and humbled. :) Fandom rocks, apparently….