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Why is Sterek?

Jane Mulcahy 125,694 8 months ago
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In 2011, MTV's Teen Wolf introduced the characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale, birthing-- ostensibly unintentionally-- a gay shipping phenomenon: Sterek. Over the following 12 years, a tempestuous saga would unfold, complete with age gap discourse, semi-debateable queerbait, and complicated feelings about that jeep. In this video, I pose a few hypotheses as to how and why this awkward, unassuming relationship between a teenage comic relief character and his weird adult man acquaintance snowballed into one of the most popular ships of the 21st century. 'How Teen Wolf's transmasculine fans use online fandom to build community and representation' by Ari Page: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2259/3039 Support me on Patreon if you dare: https://www.patreon.com/JaneMulcahy 00:00 - Intro/What is Sterek 06:13 - The age gap (womp womp) 14:27 - Canon 23:02 - Destielgate tangent 27:00 - Sterek and The Powers That Be 37:34 - The inevitability of Sterek Twitter: https://twitter.com/jane_mulcahy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jxnecm/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/janemulch/

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