#seeing those glimpses of 70s era john winchester. insanely fascinating.
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sammygender Ā· 10 months ago
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something about john winchester mischaracterisation just needles me inexplicably. i can deal with it if a fic is good otherwise but cmon. you have to Get Him. he loves the boys and he ruins their lives like come onā€¦.. if you donā€™t get that he loves them then how r u even getting deanā€™s character considering that dean is The Same in this manner. love can be bad love doesnā€™t change abuse it just complicates it etc etc.
unrelatedly but also relatedly, i donā€™t think heā€™d be actually homophobic because i donā€™t think he has time to care. i do however think dean would be absolutely convinced he is incredibly homophobic for unknown reasons. john probably makes like an offhanded comment about something being gay once and 15 year old dean (very attracted to men. genuinely no idea whatsoever. still feels intense rush of panic at the word) decides it must mean john desperately and intensely HATES gay people and proceeds to become worldā€™s best baby homophobe for like a year before he starts to think Maybe Sammyā€™s gay (sam likes to read books) and cools down on the homophobia. also his heart was never really in it. but he still thinks john is homophobic and has also decided samā€™s probably gay (sam is more attracted to women than dean is) so he worries about this a lot.
then one day john says extremely casually about sam Sometimes I wonder if heā€™s not a little queer, you know, and deanā€™s heart stops and heā€™s like What no of course not what and johnā€™s like If it means he doesnā€™t get into as much trouble with girls as you seem to, I honestly donā€™t mind and deanā€™s just like. What. but by this point itā€™s far too late and all fragments of homosexuality have been far buried beneath the surface by his subconscious. Also itā€™s important that john WOULD be kind of annoyed by dean being gay. he already thinks sam is weird and has decided to love him anyway (although iā€™m not sure sam got the memo about being loved anyway so the effort was useless) so itā€™s ok if sam is gay (privilege of being the family freak!) but dean is meant to be mini him. #picking up girls. see that journal entry. heā€™d get over it though.
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