#anyway i still love you multishipping pals. and i enjoy other ships from time to time. but destiel is the one that has my heart

[angelsdean]

see the thing is, i don't mind other ships (though i don't like, actively ship them, but i respect them for existing and can enjoy them at times) as long as they stay in their era of the narrative. like there are many relationships that were important and formative and significant, esp for dean, but i don't think abt them outside of their confines in the narrative. they happened, they're past, and i appreciate them for where they exist within the narrative. but i don't think abt say cassie or lisa or benny coming back and suddenly being dean's endgame. by the end of the narrative there's one clear person in dean's life that he treats like a life partner in all the ways that matter, and that's cas. they couldn't let dean live and give him a blurry wife scenario bc it would make zero narrative sense by that point (and would've been a massive slap in the face to cas and his confession). it's why when at that one con where the topic of who dean could've ended up with came up and someone in the audience shouted "lisa" jensen, amused and affronted, went "LISA??!!?" because, absolutely nothing against her but, it would make no sense for dean at that point in the narrative. he's moved past that relationship and others. by the s15 he's been celibate for years, no longer portrayed as the "ladies man bachelor" (which was largely a front anyway). he's settled comfortably into domesticity and embraced the family he has, and in all way besides explicitly seeing them kiss cas as settled into the role of life partner / spouse / love interest. so, to make a serious non-shitpost-y post about this, this is why i am big destiel. not because i hate other ships but because, for me at least, there is no other logical conclusion by that point in the narrative. there is no one else in the role of love interest for dean, and dean has no interest in pursuing other people either. they are it for each other. and they killed dean, no doubt for other reasons too but partly because there is no other 'epilogue' of a life they could give him that would make sense without cas there too.

anyways i appreciate other ships for where they exist in the narrative and their purpose at the time. but the beauty of destiel is that it doesn't hinge on just one time or era. it stretches and spans over 12 yrs. and beyond. continuing to grow and evolve. it's forever.