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MEET THE FANDOM Who do you want to meet? Hey there wolf pack! Welcome to the weekly magazine just for you, the Teen Wolf fans! This will be published ever Moonday, 2 hours before the new episode. It’ll give you time to catch up on what you missed, check out what’s buzzing around in the fandom, whether it’s theories, fics, fan art, or one of the cast members did something stupidly adorable and it’s time to fangirl or fanboy about it! The “Meet the Fandom” portion will the part of the magazine that will find out a little more about your favourite people in the fandom. But I can’t do this with out you guys, so tell me who you want me to talk to. Do you want me to talk to Tifferini who has met so many celebrities that I’m jealous, not to mention her typography skills are orgasmic. Maybe you want me to talk to Qhuinn about the Sterek campaign. Or possibly you want me talk to Michael and ask him more in depth how it was being on the set of Teen Wolf and meeting the cast. Tweet me at @allthat_skyfall and tell me who you want to learn more about. And as always, dear pack. Keep calm, it’s Moonday.
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Lycanthropy Welcome to a show about lovely werewolves and their furry problems. Right away we see Scott bit by Peter in episode 1 and then it seems that slowly the cast starts to become more werewolf dominated, as opposed to human (GO TEAM HUMAN!) We get Derek, who is a born werewolf, and his sexy psychotic werewolf uncle, Peter. And then Jackson (who because he thinks he’s entitled to everything) who becomes a kanima and then a werewolf. And don’t forget the rag tag team of misfits in Derek’s leather gang pack.
Really. Derek never gets a break, and I don’t think Jeff intends to (remember he said that the characters can’t be happy until the show ends). But poor Derek. Most of his family was trapped inside their house and burned alive by his crazy older (statutory rape) hunter girlfriend who never really loved him. And then years later, his sister is killed by his crazy uncle who wanted so much revenge it wasn’t even funny. And then on top of that, he has to kill his uncle. Not to mention the whole murder framing thing Scott did in between all that. Derek just wants a family, guys. He wants Scott as a brother and people to trust and happy fun family times... That’s all.
Derek's life sucks
ROMEO & JULIET TBH In both seasons we get a kind of on again off again relationship with Scott and Allison. Lots of secret dating and sneaking out to see each other, because they’re not really supposed to see each other. Why? Because Allison’s parents are werewolf hunters and would love to kill Scott in a heat beat. It’s really adorable for a while and then Allison goes crazy with revenge on Derek because “he killed her mom”. I think that what’s better than their relationship is how dedicated to Allison, Scott is. And how he’ll wait till she’s ready because he knows they’re supposed to be together. Kind of jealous.
WTF LYDIA? So Lydia gets bitten by crazy Peter in the first season. But nothing happens, why? Because Lydia is not even a little normal. Stiles knew that and I wonder if he liked her because he unconsciously knew there was something supernatural about her. But enough about Stiles. So it turned out that she was immune to the bite, as well as the kanima goo. Pretty helpful, not going to lie. Whether it was because she was made into Peter’s back up plan (to make her in to a horcrux really) or it was because of her supernatural immunity that Peter picked her in the first place. Jeff says we shall soon find out.
OH HELLO THERE If there is on thing that happened a lot this last season, it was people reanimating themselves. First Peter and then Jackson. But the Peter back from the dead was the big one. Because now that he’s back, he’s somewhat more normal (though we all know he has another secret plan, just not sure what). I think Peter will be fine, though. We saw him help Derek in those last two episodes, with helping defeat Gerard and kanima!Jackson, as well as helping explain to Isaac that there was an alpha pack coming. I have a feeling that Jeff just wants us to think that Peter is evil, just for a little while, but who knows.
HOT DAMN Stiles with tattoos? Where can I sign up?! This lovely artist caught my eye about 2 months ago with her “Love Me Dead” Sterek illustration. The inner Ludo fan in me went crazy over the fact that someone used that song in such a lovely way, and then the inner artist in me went crazy over her colour choices and her line quality. Most of her work is Teen Wolf themed, which is brilliant because, let’s be real, the Teen Wolf fan art is amazing, but she does do other topics. Pretty sure I saw an adorable Castiel on her art blog. But none the less, her Stiles is something that I desperately want to have as a future head canon. Talk about the definition of BAMF!Stiles~! Make sure to check out her work.
TALK ABOUT SEXY What I thought was even more amazing, is some of her own concepts. They still keep the delicate line quality and the wonderfully blended colours, but these works have more of a darker and almost Japanese quality to them that I really enjoy. And you see these 3 pieces? These are apparently doodles. Talk about being amazingly talented!
In Celtic symbols (which is kind of what they seem to be going with) the single spiral could mean several things. Generally it meant ethereal energy. We’re talking spiritual, heavenly, unworldly energy…. intangible energy. And what’s more intangible than emotions? More often than not, the single spiral has happy connotations, about learning or awareness. But Derek said that it meant revenge. Literally revenge and how it can spiral out of control? I mean we all remember how out of control Peter got.
Mmmmm tasty. Derek’s back tattoo. It was said that to him, the three spirals meant Alpha, Beta and Omega. Yeah that’s true, that’s totally what it could mean to him. Over all, the triple spiral is about balance and nature. So here it would be the balance of a pack and the werewolf/ human nature aka instinct. Jeff keeps relating the characters to gods and demi-gods and I can’t help that think that Derek’s tattoo is more than meats the eye. Either way, this triple spiral is what I think Derek uses to represent his pack.
The symbol used by the alpha pack. This symbol is obviously much like the triple spiral. Unlike Derek’s this can’t mean Alpha, Beta and Omega, considering… it’s an all alpha pack. The triskelion (especially with those foot like endings) generally symbolizes moving forward, action and competition. But that’s really only the first part, then you dive deeper into it and it can represent those triplets that we see with the triple spiral. In this case (the alpha pack), I feel it means something similar to creator, destroyer and sustainer or creation, preservation and destruction. Either way, I think it has to deal with how the alpha pack thinks that they can go around passing judgment onto the rest of the werewolf population, how they can keep it going strong and cut out the weak links in order to let newer and stronger links to pop up.
A fylfot. It’s the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic version of the quadraspiral (you can also see it as the gammadion in Roman and Byzantium culture) This one is a puzzle. If you look up fylfot, what someone will tell you is that it’s technically the upright version of the swastika. And as you can guess instead of representing three things, it represents four. And hell as I know what this sucker means. But sure, I have theories. Usually, these represent the high fours. So North, West, East and South; Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. And those could really all be things, it’s true. What do I think though? Could be Peters own symbol that he decided to pick up: Birth, Life, Death and Re-birth. Or maybe it’s the old Hale pack symbol. Alpha, Beta, Human, Omega.
So I might not be any Stiles Stilinski, as I have said before. But I swear, all this little hints that Jeff Davis is letting out (who is a gift, by the way) have made me want to play sleuth for about... well... months now. And I don’t know what was worse, his ask sessions with Matt on the Teen Wolf tumblr, or his one word descriptions to the first 8 or 9 episodes. All of them have me internally screaming “WHAT?!” This season will be sure to knock our socks off, and they weren’t kidding when they said “This Might Hurt”. Except I don’t know who will hurt more, us, the fans, or the characters themselves. This season, in the first half we have an alpha pack! ALPACAS! And now there’s quite some many theories around about them. Why they’re here, which we now know that they want Derek to kill one of his pack members. Not to mention the pack members themselves. I particularly like the theory going around that Dukey (I refuse to call him any other name) is blind, hence the glasses and might explain why his pupils are so dilated. Jeff also told us that the alpacas are going to mess with peoples memories and that right off the bat, Isaac is the first to be altered. And I swear to god, I hope that Mama McCall throat slashing scene is an altered memory, because if it’s not, I will never be the same.
So for sure, we know that we will still get a lot of comedy, especially with Stiles. Which is great (and heartbreaking at the same time). Also, in this first half of the season, we will find out what Lydia is. Jeff has said that there is already someone out there in the fandom that has guessed what she is correctly. IS IT YOU?!!! Either way, I’m very excited to learn more about her. Eye colours will also be explained this half, and I don’t know about you guys, but that was the one thing I had trouble theorizing about. I really had no clue.... well that’s a lie... but it was probably a bad one... Erica and Jackson might have left but it turns out that 2 of the new characters are going to stay. I’m hoping that it’s Aiden and Ethan, because Danny needs his love. Speaking of Danny, due to the supernatural boyfriend, I feel as though he’s going to be exposed to the truth now, but given his last name, and how serious he was when he said to Jackson “Maybe on a full moon.” (the weightlifting scene) I feel as though Danny might already know. Did I mention that we’re going to see Derek cry? Because that’s the one thing I’m most excited for... well not excited... but I mean. I like seeing Derek have emotions. And for all your Sterek shippers out there, Derek and Stiles are now officially allies (yay) and although Derek has a school teacher love interest, Stiles and Derek still have some Sterek-ish scenes together.