#the mothership writers were crafting destiel deliberately

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I really really doubt the obvious parallels we’ve seen up to this point for destiel are anything less than deliberate choices on Jensen and Robbie’s parts. I have no idea what it might lead to but the neon arrow they are building with this storytelling points to something at the very least.

Yes, and isn't it interesting how the show spoon-feeds this het pairing, hitting mark after mark that's increasingly obvious paralleling to destiel. Almost like they want to make a point here as one of their story goals. To further dismantle some perceptions, following in the wake of Bobo's boiling frog approach of turning the heat up slowly instead of all at once, getting audiences attuned to the idea. This is carrying on that approach, only doing it via another pairing. Not to mention Ada's interspecies love story as well.

It's like they put up a board with every anti-destiel argument and are X-ing out each one. Oh they can't because Cas isn't human? Here's an interspecies love story. Which the mothership did too but people didn't listen then either, and so the new team is keeping at it. Until such time as...gee willikers, we just can't think of a reason why they'd make these Destiel parallels so loud.

Heteronormative goggles will auto categorize John and Mary is romantic and canon just because it's m/f, while with Dean and Cas some autoslap denialism on it, call shippers delusional, and think they won. Yet Dean and Cas have even more storybeats, plot points, that code romantic, and if they were a m/f duo no one would question a romantic reading.

Anti-Destiels are so desperate they'll cite non-con demon deal kissing as proof of romantic canon interest and that Destiel can't be romantic and isn't meant to be read as romantic just because we haven't seen them kiss.