#destiel discussions

[magiccharmss]

i was doing some ao3 research (don’t ask) and i have never seen supernatural but i don’t understand how destiel has such a chokehold on fandom. this is genuinely insane.

LOOK AT THEM. everyone else is so close in numbers of works and destiel is 40,629 works ahead is crazy. and it just keeps growing as well. in 2023 they had only 102,783 and were 39,397 works ahead. nobody is ever catching up to them. no ship will ever compare to the chokehold destiel has on ao3

[pollsnatural]

Dean lives but no Cas vs Dean dies but Cas appears in the finale poll

[winbred]

my best friend talking about how sam 'moving on' when dean was in purgatory was out of character and hurtful because she believes if the roles were reversed and dean thought there was no way to get him back would've just gave up and shot himself in the head.

[blanketforcas]

now i'm thinking. what if cas' halo was like a mood ring. and then he gets horny so dean asks what that color means and he goes bright red

[verysadlesbian]

Y'all think I care about canon????!!!! I was out here, in the motherfuckin' trenches, shipping Destiel!!! I don't fucking care about such unimportant things as "canon".

[lanniisters]

On Friends-To-Lovers:

I get so annoyed when people throw around the “healthy platonic relationships are so important” thing because YES THEY ARE but you don’t actually think that.

What you think is that, in this particular case, I want these two characters to stay platonic so that I can ship my ship and, simultaneously, feel morally superior. The reality is that there are multiple non-canon ships for whom this applies… but one of them happens to be queer.

Woah hold those trigger fingers!!

While this train of logic does apply to people calling queer coded relationships “besties” or, heaven forbid, “brothers”, it also applies to straight (or straight-presenting) relationships.

You do not need to write two characters as romantic interests (or *groan* enemies) for the story to be romantic. It is OKAY for those characters to form a deep, romantic and emotional bond after years of building trust and loyalty.

As a person who identifies as demisexual, I find the erasure of friends-to-lovers extremely harmful and inherently invalidating. Especially now that we are seeing screenwriters and authors being critical of the trope.

Please, sit me down and explain to me in excruciating details why these two characters - who have seen each other through their darkest periods, who have been each other’s personal cheerleaders, who have loved each other unconditionally - are not good as lovers?

“But can’t two characters just be friends anymore?!”

They certainly can and good for you for believing that characters should show genuine love for one another without having any romantic feelings. But that doesn’t mean the latter can’t exist.

Listen, I never go in expecting my ship to happen and I never expect everyone to agree with it but it drives me up the wall to be invalidated purely because friendship and romantic love can’t coexist in your world. If you want to believe that platonic soulmates should be a thing (AND THEY SHOULD), you also need to understand that you cannot use that term to invalidate another’s ship when the foundations of your own (usually rival) ship are the exact same as mine.

[ireneae]

the person in the notes of the msr/destiel poll saying the thing about mulder/scully is it went canon !!...destiel going canon literally trended above a united states presidential election.

[charcubed]

66th seal just dropped

[forsythiajo]

[theevilcactus]

I was looking for sources to use in my Greek Lit essay and you'll neverr guess what I just found

DESTIEL SUPERNATURAL???? in MY plato's symposium? it's more likely than you think

[castieldelamancha]

dean just rambling about something he loves a lot and cas is listening but with a serious case of heart eyes and dean lets out an awkward and self-conscious "what?" and cas' way of answering him is cradling his face and kissing him

[whipitgod]

i want more mutuals, how do i accomplish this because i havent used tumblr since i was like 14 and im a little rusty 🤨

[sixtynineinchnails]

i'm not going to say that dan and phil almost kissing in front of paper cutouts of gerard way and patrick stump is for phandom what poorly edited one-sided love confession superhell was for destiel. however...

[lost-and-cursed]

Some amazing analysis of themes in supernatural, how finale has broken them and how it could have been fixed

[archervale]

Ok but y'all he literally wrote his name on dean's heart

[d3v0t3dv1rtualch33s3cak3]

It's so silly to me that tiktok seems to lose their understanding of what fandom means. I have seen quite a few videos talking about how /blank/* ship doesn't make sense and how that character is straight or dead. Some I've seen are talking about shipping characters that have never met is weird or wrong. I've even seen some talking about how HEAD CANONS that make characters queer are weird because that character could never be queer.

It feels weird to see pretty much the devolution of fandom.

*most of these videos have been about destiel as well, saying Dean could never be gay because we only see him with girls, and that the ship doesn't make sense and/or is forced by the fandom. Were people not on YouTube when the biggest ship content for some people was comics being read out???