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monsterfuckermilligan · 2 months ago

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i have a theory that the baby!jack fanaticism in the fandom partly comes from the fact that on june 26th, 2017 (less than two months after jack was introduced as a character) the us supreme court ruled that queer couples were allowed to adopt in all 50 states. so naturally, as kelly died giving birth to jack, dean was in the midst of his widower arc, and the fandom thought that jack was going to be a baby, we had a wave of romanticization of infant adoption for destiel.

#also yes i say romanticization for infant adoption because it causes brain damage. i am an infant adoptee. i can almost guarantee that i #know more than you about how infant adoption affects adoptees. no. even as a queer person im sorry but i do not #care as much about our ‘right to adopt’ (nobody has the right to someone else’s child) versus how it affects adoptees #infant adoption is still harmful even if the adoptive parents are queer. this is not meant to be about that but i will not be argued with #about this. if you have complicated feelings and want more information then please do your own research. but this isn’t #supposed to be About That. this is just looking back on how real world events effect fandom #and how this ruling affected the queer community and thus our largely queer fandom. there still needs to be a conversation about how #adoptees don’t have access to their original birth certificates in all 50 states #(because this ruling was about queer couples being shown on the new birth certificates as parents. which is great for adoptive parents. but #adoptees still have our birth certificates amended to where our biological families are erased. those records are still sealed for at least #18 years but sometimes indefinitely. the ACLU still doesn’t think adoptees deserve that because their board has adoptive parents and works #with the adoption industry so they financially benefit from queer people being allowed to adopt)#or how infant adoption is harmful but most people are not ready for that conversation. it’s cute to have make destiel dads. i get it.#but they’re dads in canon already and we really need to at least look at adoption as the nuanced topic that it is instead of #making it this cutesy thing or all about dean or cas. adoptees deserve stories about us too #so yeah anyways. this is just a theory and i obv can’t confirm if but it just makes a lot of sense to me. thoughts?#supernatural #jack kline #adopted jack kline #adoptee issues #adoptee voices #the romanticization of adoption in fandom #dadstiel #destiel #baby jack kline #castiel #supernatural fandom #dean winchester #s13 #hw.txt

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