Tag: Tyler Posey

[Stitch @ Teen Vogue] I INTERVIEWED TYLER POSEY

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Tyler Posey always wanted to return to Beacon Hills. 

For most actors, when their show finishes, that’s the end. Their character will live on in fan fiction and tweets whenever new fans come to the series or old ones get nostalgic, but for the most part, the characters don’t get to shine again until a reboot is announced in the distant future. That’s not the case with Posey, who played the titular teen wolf for 100 episodes on the MTV show that still has a devoted following years after it ended. Posey counts himself among these fans. He always wanted to come home.

Tyler Posey, Like His Teen Wolf Character, Is All Grown Up and Taking on the World

I adore Tyler Posey. Always have, possibly always will.

When my editor Claire was like “is there anything specifically you know you want to do with Teen Vogue this year” in our regular January meeting (third in a row counting our intro!!), Tyler Posey was one of five people I pitched for interview purposes.

I interviewed Tyler Posey while sitting on the floor of Miami International Airport on my way up to do a different work trip and it was such an amazing experience. Tyler is such a sweetheart and talking with him reminded me of the good times on Tumblr talking to fellow fans. I’m really excited to have had the opportunity to speak with him. Like I cannot express enough how much of a dream come through this all was.

Putting together this feature was incredible and I’m grateful for the insight and sensitivity Tyler showed as we talked. He’s just such a cool dude!

Here’s hoping I get the chance to talk to him again soon!

To The Scott McCall/Tyler Posey Anti-Fans Who Think My Comment Section Is Free Real Estate

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You literally do not know me or anything I’ve been up to in the Teen Wolf fandom – because if you did know as much about me as you claim, you’d know that my actual OTP in the show was Sterek (followed by Scott/Danny and Allison/Scott/Isaac, to be clear) and you wouldn’t all keep insisting I was somehow jealous of my own favorite ship’s popularity.

If you have something you think I need to see/know because you think I don’t have an informed opinion about it in any of these situations, there are better ways to get that information to me than leaving an essay-length comment insulting me, making up things I’ve said or engagement I’ve had over a decade, and aggressively insulting Tyler Posey or Scott McCall.

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When Does Online Harassment From Fandom Stop?

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If you’re a person of color… Never

If you’re marginalized in some way – queer, a person of color, not a cis dude – you can expect to be subject to months or even years of online harassment from people who insist that you deserved it. Mind you, you will deserve this unending harassment solely because your presence on social media, in a given fandom, writing for any platform at all, or your appearance in a show they like angers them so much that they need to punish you for it.

People will doctor screenshots, lie about their online behavior and yours, forge evidence, and just… make shit up to punish us for being in “their” spaces or in “their” way.

In September, Teen Wolf will have been off the air for four years. In December, it will have been two years since the premiere of The Rise of Skywalker. The first episode of The Flash aired in 2014. May of this year marked three years since I left Tumblr for good and three months since I permanently locked my main Twitter account after the latest escalations from a multi-fandom disinfo and harassment campaign.

Tyler Posey, John Boyega, Candice Patton, and myself.

Four people.

Years of harassment.

All for being inconvenient, for being in the way (of a ship), not playing ball, and speaking out about racism and other firms of harassment in the spaces they’re in.

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