#Dean is Bi

[sweetonsugden]

If Sam wouldn't have dragged him, I guess he would have asked for a telephone number

Every time I’ve seen this episode, I notice that Dean attempts to put his hand in his pocket just when Sam pulls him away.

I’ve always wondered what he was going to do. He was drunk and being flirty. Was he about to start searching for a business card to give the deputy? Was he starting to search for a pen to give the deputy his number?

Dean wasn’t fumbling for his pocket for no reason. He had an intention before being interrupted by Sam.

Supernatural Notes: Dean & Deputy Linus

I just love these interactions, so I giffed the whole thing.

Deputy Linus is so young and fresh and looks like he hasn’t worked much time in this department, but he’s trying to be confident, especially in front of FBI Agents, but it’s a little ashamed because his boss is taking too much time.

So he smiles and gets caught on Dean’s sight because he returns the smile very nicely.  His boss comes out and reprimand him, like if it was his mistake when in fact it was his boss’. And Dean notices that from the very first moment, and what does he do? He gets mad, looks at Sam, and Sam knows which little mistake the Sheriff did to piss off his brother. It’s just that Dean has issues with authority. 

Dean walks to the Sheriff’s office, but not without offering an empathetic smile to Linus, telling him with just his eyes that “everything is alright, you did a good job.”

It’s such a great detail to see later an outcome to this encounter. And Dean didn’t miss the opportunity to raise Linus’ spirit with a nice comment.  Linus is so flustered, and surprised an FBI Agent looks up to him, and Dean is proud to make someone happy, cause no one deserves to be treated as they’re less.

Of course, this is part of Dean’s personality when he’s happy with himself, and when he likes certain people. But in the middle of this interaction he’s under the Yellow Fever influence, which makes his comment to Linus one that maybe he wouldn’t have done if it’s not for the fever.

One can think the fever makes him feel free. And a free Dean is a happy Dean. Which says so much about the fever’s symptoms, considering its main pattern was to provoke fear. 

So what I love about this episode and this specific interaction is that I can read it in not just one way. And what we know about Dean in this episode is that he feels fear about things that usually would scare normal people.  He feels free to say he doesn’t like his job, and even that it’s not normal to be with his brother 24/7. That he himself knows his own personality is insufferable, and that he doesn’t want to die.  It’s just such a wave of personal information that makes me want more and more, and oh, Dean, please keep talking.

But Dean wasn’t infected at the very first interaction with Deputy Linus. And his smile and gesture, and “can’t take my eyes off you” attitude was all Dean’s natural state. So I’m going to think he liked him. He liked him so much, when he got the fever he dared to make the nice comment and flirt with him. Because why he would be afraid of his orientation when it’s not something bad? Bad are monsters, bad is the codependency, bad is repressing what is just healthy, bad is thinking about suicide! Not try to flirt with the cute Deputy.  Flirt with the cute Deputy is what Dean would normally do when he likes a person.

Free Dean is one of my favorite Deans. If Sam wouldn’t have dragged him, I guess he would have asked for a telephone number, and got himself a date, cause apparently Linus felt the same about him.

[whelp-gay4angels]

Every time Jensen trends put me down as scared and horny

[deancasforcutie]

it's science

[drulalovescas]

Society if Dean Winchester was able to act normal around handsome men

[ppersonalsspace]

[marz-rm]

I love soft boys this is a mini comic of 6 pages, all of them only on Patreon

[arabella-s-arts]

Scenes/Things in Supernatural that genuinely don't make sense to me if Dean was straight:

The confession booth scene.

Sam just rolling with the fact that Dean's siren is a guy while still thinking sirens infect people through sex.

Dean being flustered by several men: Gunner Lawless, Aaron, Doctor Sexy, etc.

All the parallels between Destiel and other couples. (A big one being "last night on Earth" bc how do you do that accidentally.)

Having all the gay jokes be on Dean instead of Sam.

Paralleling Sam meeting his childhood celebrity crush with Dean meeting Gunner Lawless.

The boner Dean got when Cas cleaned up.

Dean gulping after Cas does an impression from a Western movie.

Charlie, a lesbian, calling Castiel "dreamy."

The way Mary looks at Dean and Cas when they hug.

Dean wondering why everyone assumes he's gay, while Sam not caring.

The logic that Charlie can't flirt with guys because she's only attracted to women, but then having Dean flirt with the guy for her.

Dean seeming disappointed when learning that Aaron's flirting was fake.

The amount of time Dean and Cas spend staring at each other.

Dean canonically having an orgy with Crowley.

A woman saying that she knows when someone's pining for someone else to Dean, just for us to learn that Dean was never in love with Amara.

The set design and script choices that lead to a cross in the background while Dean said "I do." to Cas after he came back to life.

That time when Dean wanted to say something and Cas was like, "It's okay, I heard your prayer." But Dean still looked like he wanted to say something important.

Amara: [about Dean] "I can see inside your heart. Feel the love you feel. Except, it’s cloaked in shame.”

If you want to have a more expansive list, @destiel-is-real-idgaf added to this one quite nicely.

[strawlessandbraless]

He’s a work in progress but he’s trying ok

[naturegirl555]

Do y’all ever just think about how in the script it’s said that dean spread castiels ashes by a windmill in a meadow with a garden near it cause he thought that cas would like it there. Also the fact that Sam says that’s where DEAN spread your ashes after we burned you. Like shut up. I think about this way too much for it to be sane.

[youchangedmedestiel]

If Dean not bi then why Cas in a cowboy hat and dressed as a doctor?

[virtu4l-di4ry]

holy fuck dean winchester is canonically queer and died in the closet. he never experienced true self-acceptance or queer joy. oh and how he yearned for it. someone sedated me

[dean-is-love]

dean and cassie doing their nails and being bisexual

[markofcastiel]

When was someone gonna tell me that we're labeling out bisexuals now?

[drulalovescas]

Supernatural was really like: bisexual colours are Dean Winchester's colours

[ppersonalsspace]

I love that I can log in to tumblr in 2024 and see supernatural trending because something gay happened on a tv show I don’t watch that has nothing to do with Supernatural.

Time is a flat circle

[deancasforcutie]

"Now you live in a secret bunker with an angel and Lucifer’s kid", AKA queering domesticity par excellence