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COMING SOON: SPN Time Travel Mini Bang! January 18th sign-ups open to everyone!

Ever wanted to write or make art about your favorite SPN ship and/or character/s that involves time travel? Well, here's your chance! Whether it's canon or au, come and join with others who share in your time travel interest for our beloved show!

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Watching spn for the 1st time in 2020 - Bisexual Dean

or,

How supernatural queerbaited itself into destroying the bi-erasure pit of darkness and i think it’s beautiful (in its own fucked-up way).

(apologies in advance for my crude language)

So I’m still in mid season 8 of spn and haven’t watch the rest but I had some thoughts about the clusterfuck that is Dean’s sexuality. 

It seems like Dean was meant to be straight? I don’t think the creators/producers/writers, in the beginning, meant for Dean to be queer. To be honest I don’t even think they questioned it one second. If I’m wrong please correct me. Did the creator, Kripke, ever made a comment about Dean’s sexuality? 

So the character is heavily presented as liking girls, wanting girls, banging chicks left and right (and all the girls he meets want to fuck him?? though i get it...). He wants to see female strippers, go to brothels, likes magazine porns, video porns, anime porns... 

But at the same time Dean, actually, genuinely, regularly checks out guys ??

So we have : the guys he checks out, the doctor sexy thing, the fetish for male cowboy wear, the seducing of a guy with his words when the lesbian couldn’t do it ?? the siren who lures him by being a guy who’s into led zepplin and it works ???? 

So the creators didn’t meant for Dean to be queer and apparently the actor neither yet he is heavily queer coded ??

Apparently you can unintentionally be queercoding your own character ?! 

Also, all of this is even without bringing up Castiel, so ...

And almost every time we have a brief apparition of queer Dean, you have in the next scene or so a big reinforcement of the “Dean wants to bang chicks” narrative. 

And here’s my theory (as I said before, I haven’t seen the whole show yet so I may be wrong here, it’s just an outsider of the fandom pov but i’m open to corrections): 

When realizing the potential of queerbaiting that they could do with the destiel situation, they reinforced the queercoding on Dean so the shipper audience could hope for a not totally straight Dean, while the general audience kept perceiving a totally, 100% straight Dean (queerbaiting at its finest, you’ve got to give it to them).

And it worked thanks to a marvelous little thing called bi-erasure. Almost every straight person do not understand that bisexuality is a real thing and not a stepping stone towards more gayer things. (Sadly enough, it’s also the case of a lot of gays and lesbians but that’s another conversation). So in their mind, (the general, straighter, public), as long as Dean was interested in girls, he couldn’t be possibly interested in guys. You could show him eye fucking Castiel all you want, if he reads an asian ladies porn magazine in the next scene, it means he’s straight (bi-erasure is a powerful thing I tell ya).

And if you think that’s not true, that people know about bisexuality and are able to put 2 and 2 together, well you would be wrong. The visibility of bisexuals really improved in the last 3/2 years but here I’m talking about 2013 and before (season 8 and before) and trust me, the kids were not that woke, I was one of those erased bisexual. 

I even suspect the creators, writers, producers, not considering that bisexuality was a serious possible sexual orientation and therefore queercoding Dean “risk free” of being perceived too gay. 

It probably sounds crazy for the gen-z (and thank god) but I swear that I lived my teenager years in a time were all bi guys were secretly gay and all bi girls just straight attention whores (you can notice how this joyful narrative comes from males being persuaded that everyone secretly want their dick...). Anyway, at the time, the general idea is that a guy who genuinely wants to bang chicks can not possibly want to bang dudes. 

And that’s how they made the “totally straight eye fucking dudes Dean Winchester” work.  

And here i’m extrapolating cause I haven’t seen the later seasons but my guess is that the years pass, the seasons keep being produced and they just kept the destiel queerbainting to cater to the hardcore fans (and the shippers, in every fandom, are always the hardcore fans, let’s not kid ourselves) without ever having the intention to make it canon.

But in the end, we come to a point where Dean has been queer coded for so many years, his relationship with Cas so emphasized, the general public made aware of the possibility of bi characters, that the only logical explanation is that Dean is genuinely in love with Castiel, and bi, and at this point, not making Destiel canon feels weird and homophobic. 

Also, the idea of Dean being a kinda-repressed, semi-closeted, complete disaster bi makes SO much sense considering the character background, upbringing and current environment (like, seriously, the hunter community is not lgbt friendly...). Hell, I live in a big city in europe with liberals all over amongst family and friends and I’m not even fully out yet well in my twenties. You can’t expect childhood trauma, emotionally abused, ultra conservative and “manly” environnement Dean to get his shit together right away when he realizes he likes guys. 

Anyway, all of that to say, that I don’t care if Dean is meant to be canonically bi or not, to me he is. Because I identify with the character heavily, and I love him and want to protect him and I don’t take arguments on that. I love the character that was created and evolved throughout the years, no matter if it is what he was meant to be or if it was unintentional (I did not expect to get emotionally involved in my “ironic” watch of spn in 2020 but fuck.)

As always, my sympathy to the spn fandom and my ever lasting admiration for the bullshit they endured through the years.

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If you enjoy outlining Sam Winchester’s pointy nose or lovingly stippling a pencilled shading of chest hair over his pectorals (or if you just enjoy the painstaking task of illustrating All That Plaid), then you will be happy to know that the Sam Winchester Big Bang is still recruiting artists for our 2018/19 round! It’s an established, friendly bang which usually attracts an assortment of pairings and gen fic and which this year will be posting from mid-January. 

Interested artists can use our handy sign up form to register interest up until 26 November, which gives us time to share story summaries before artist claims on 1 December. We will post more details about claims near the time, but registered artists will have first pick of all the stories submitted for the bang. We’ll then have a second round where registered artists can choose a second story and non-registered artists can choose a first. If you don’t fancy anything at this stage, you are free to withdraw by choosing not to claim a fic.

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Welcome to the SPN Time Travel Mini Bang!

Meet our Mod team!

Name: Nick- NEG85 on Ao3, ishipdestiel on Tumblr, Pronouns: He/Him, Fun fact about myself: hmm...well, I didn't start watching the show until Nov of 2020 and binge watched all 15 seasons up to watching the last 3 episodes as they aired, lol.

Name: HJ - an_ardent_rain on Ao3, frogsinflannel on Tumblr, Pronouns: She/They, fun fact: i have a cat named crowley and hmmm... does mystery spot count since it's a time loop ??? (lmao that's my fave, though i do like time after time after time a lot too)

Name: Saudade- entropic_saudade on Ao3, entropic-saudade on Tumblr, Pronouns: She/They, Favorite canon EP involving time travel: it's so hard to choose, a strong tie between Time After Time and The Vessel

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