#i tag regularly with destiel & spn even on reblogs so sometimes i forget that asks end up in the main tags sorry

[angel-fruitcake]

THİS İS CANON!

https://www.tumblr.com/horrorshow/723020084109574144?source=share

um. ok.

listen why do you actually take yourself so seriously? you are shipping two biological brothers. you want fictional siblings to have sex and be in love with each other. which, fine whatever. to each their own i guess.

but to insist that they were canonically romantically and/or sexually involved? do you hear yourself?? most of the quotes in that post were jokes or queerbaiting (would it also be considered incest-baiting??), to poke fun at the wincest shippers, the same way they did to the destiel shippers for years. but the difference is- destiel actually had a chance, and it did end up happening. there was never a chance in hell that sam and dean would ever be legitimately written as being in love. wincest was never going to be canon, because it's incest, and it's actually laughable that you believe it was.

supernatural isn't game of thrones. this was a fucking cw show. they only barely allowed destiel to become canon, and that was after over a decade of continuously feeding into it while simultaneously desperately trying to kill it. destiel essentially held warner brothers hostage until they were forced to finally acknowledge the monster that they themselves had created, and they still did a fairly piss poor job with it in the end.

i can handle people claiming that destiel isn't canon. they're completely wrong, but the baseless denial and intentional misinterpretation is something i know how to deal with. ain't nothing new there, we've been doing that for years. but for you to come on here and insist that WINCEST is canon?

my brother in christ, i beg of you. regain your grip on reality because you have fucking lost it

[awed-frog]

hey there, i'm writing an essay about how destiel is real for a friend of mine and I was wondering what you think the most important pieces of meta that i should put in? can you recommend anything?

Hi - wow, that’s some dedication. All I did for my friends was send them some links - and, on one memorable occasion, I spent one entire 30 minutes conversation occasionally glancing at my (female&blinded by heteronormativity) friend’s lips instead of looking at her eyes, and by the end of it she was uncomfortable af and half convinced I was into her, and that’s when I presented her with a list of gifsets like -

- and basically dropped my mic and sashayed out.

(Man, I wish my hair was long enough to be flicked back.)

She changed her mind after that, by the way. And it’s really weird how most behaviours and gestures are used on screen precisely because we understand them as human things we all do on a deep level, and yet we’re suddenly unable to figure out what they mean if they’re not about a man and a woman. Uh.

(That applies to me as well, by the way. We see what we know about, not what is actually there, and that’s just inevitable - but can be unlearned, with some patience and many, many mistakes.)

Anyway, here are a bunch of things - I hope they’re useful.

Because God commanded it, by @k-vichan​ (written during S4, sometimes tagged as ‘shipper zero’)

Queerness, Tropes and Proof of Love: Why Destiel is Canon, by @fozmeadows​

Parallels between Dean and Cain, a video by @codra-foymal​ (aka why S10 makes no sense without Destiel)

I don’t do the whole love and…love: A look into Dean and Cas’ sexualities and how they define love, by @angelswatchingover​

101 reasons to love Dean and Castiel, a video by @ltnivans​ which is exactly what it says on the tin and is gorgeous

Literally 10 minutes of Basically Every Time DEAN and CAS Did The Thing With The Eyes, a video by the very patient @bakasara​, and yeah  

The Destiel Masterpost by @spnthinks​ - an early collection of metas and fics

Also, the entire S8, which was basically a demented Jane Eyre AU, and the entire S11, because, again, that Amara thing didn’t make sense without Destiel subtext, and finally @deanswingsbothways’ drunken rant (spoiler: contains the line “Destiel is not a story we are telling each other. Destiel is a story we are being told.” and bless).

You should also consider pimping your essay a bit, because there are a lot of posts and gifsets about how Destiel is regularly paralleled with canon couples on Supernatural, or follows the same rules as romantic relationships in movies. Here’s a bunch of them: Destiel and Sam/Jess, Destiel vs Dean/Anna, Destiel vs Sam/Amelia, Destiel vs David/Violet, Destiel and Spuffy, Destiel and Clexa, Destiel and Phoebe/Cole, Destiel vs Charlie/Gilda, Destiel vs every other couple on Supernatural, Destiel and Lucifer having fun, Destiel and romantic movies, Destiel and the Doctor, Destiel and Belle/Rumplestiltskin, Destiel and Tangled, Destiel and Saileen, and, of course, the beautiful and despairing trainwreck that was Repo Man.

And finally, there was that one time I went crazy and spent an entire weekend mapping every single love trope they’ve ever used around those two idiots in love, because I was just that fed up and the thing’s there, okay, and the more they say it’s not the more layers of tropes and mirrors and longing glances and narrative parallels they keep slathering on top of this thing, so, whatever and who even knows. At this point, you’re free to say it’ll never go canon because they’re homophobic or assume their audience is homophobic, and you’re free to say it’ll never go canon because of internal narrative reasons (God knows both Dean and Cas are never going to believe they’re actually good enough for each other), but to say there’s nothing there at all - that’s beyond whatever.

Anyway, my post is here, and these were the final conclusions:

As you may have guessed, this is something I’m sort of interested in - I came for the monsters and started to reblog stuff out of spite when I realized I was being treated like a crazy fangirl who sees love everywhere because women (right). If you’re looking for more sugary goodness, I tag stuff as destiel, spn meta (my own opinions), awesome meta (other people’s opinions), love tropes and parallels, and you can also have a look at some excellent meta writers who have eyes and therefore see Destiel and sometimes discuss it - people like @elizabethrobertajones​, @grey2510​, @tinkdw​, @bluestar86​, @mittensmorgul​, @floralmotif​, @k-vichan, @treefrogie84, @thevioletcaptain or @postmodernmulticoloredcloak (and I know I’m forgetting someone - that’s what sleeping four hours does to you, sorry). So, again - I know this post is a bit ‘join our cult’ (which is what you asked for, but still), but really - what I like about this fandom is that we can talk about stuff and we can disagree about stuff and still be friends, but this new idea currently spreading in the real world like wildfire - that not only you can have your own opinions (totally legit), but you can also have your own facts - nope. I hope your friend reads your essay (you’re welcome to share it, by the way) and sees that yes, there’s objectively something going on. If they still don’t, the final test is, ��What if Cas were a woman? Would you see it then?” 

(And we all know the answer to that question, don’t we?)

Seriously, good luck.

EDIT - More great meta

Are Dean and Cas in love? a.k.a. The Great Season 7 Rewatch by @flutiebear (“the most competent, thorough and objective meta about deancas and i think it's an obligatory read” - thanks for the suggestion, @deanirae - this is indeed fantastic meta)

5:04 Future!Dean and Cas are Lovers and the Whole Camp Knows It by @lurea (literally made my head explode)

( @destielisgonnabecanon - you’re welcome! Go win that bet! 😁)