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Smells like Roses by Orphan_Account (E)

Dean's life is beautiful. He wants for nothing, has the pleasure of his family and friends, and is desperately, irrevocably in love with his husband. Everything is perfect, just as it should be. Then he wakes up.

A Second Grace by sometimeswelose (M)

Cas dies and Dean starts referring to himself as a widower. This is somewhat confusing for everyone involved.

Ghosts That We Knew by dothraki_shieldmaiden (E)

Castiel Novak is one of the best hunters Dean Winchester has ever worked with. He's witty, whip-smart, and has enough knowledge about the supernatural to rival an encyclopedia. He's got humor dry enough to put the Sahara to shame and he's pretty easy on the eyes as well. All in all, he's the best partner Dean could have hoped for. Too bad he's dead.

These are my top three at the moment, excluding Ninety One Whiskey because so many people are already recommending it. Would I recommend them to Misha? Personally, I'd be too mortified. Are they really good? Yes, absolutely.

If you could recommend any destiel fic to Misha Collins what would it be? 📖 💙 💚

Drop a link and I’ll compile a list!

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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I think I finished my second fic. I didn't know how I wanted to end it so I've been putting it off but today I sat down and let it tell me what to do because I needed to complete it. Its been irritating me that it's been unfinished.

I'm sure as I keep practicing it will get easier for me to do endings but honestly I even have a hard time reading endings. I just really hate em lol.

Someday I might come back and think of a better ending for this fic and change it but for now it's over. I'm gonna go through and reread and see I'd there's anything else i wanna do before posting but I'm glad I did what I did!

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DADSTIEL WEEK 2022 - Day 5: father’s day / free space ↳ “Like father, like son”

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“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” - Breakdown of the “Let’s Misbehave” Dance Scene from Heroes’ Journey

Cas, as it turned out, was lamp.

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” - Gene Kelly’s iconic mop dance. Of course the difference between Dean Winchester and Gene Kelly is that Gene Kelly got to use an umbrella.

oh boy guys - strap in cuz we’re going to get deep into Old. Gay. Musicals. One of these references foreshadows Cas showing up in Dean’s heaven. If they did that on purpose then I’m ready to Misbehave. 👀

TBC - the Entire sequence is about Dean wanting what Garth has but didn’t realize he could have with another Man, or with Cas. That’s not up for debate in this post. There is a long history of characters ‘coming out’ in dance sequences, and I can not divorce this in my mind from the fact that Mac from Always Sunny, a character that had been closeted nearly as long as Dean Winchester, had recently come out in a dance number (x).

Instead I’m going deep dive on the chosen music and the dance references. 

Let’s Misbehave, Cole Porter, and Queercoded Innuendo

Let’s Misbehave was a gay anthem all about living outside the law written by Cole Porter, a gay man in a time when that was not a thing you were allowed to be. His work like I ‘Loved Him (But He Didn’t Love Me)’ or ‘I’m a Gigolo’ (“a dash of lavender found next to a passionless dowager”) is full of innuendo which is, in hindsight, extremely gay, but written ambiguously in ways that flew perfectly under the radar of censors at the time. His more famous musicals are still on Broadway regularly.  

In order to change up the pacing of some of his shows, the songs have been switched around somewhat.  “Let’s Misbehave” was actually written for the female lead in a show called Paris, where two characters who’ve been working together only now realize they are in love. I wonder whether people working on spn know that.

It was dropped from ‘Paris’ in favor of “Let’s Do It” (which the censors demanded be renamed, “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love” sure guys, you totally fixed it, GJ.)  35 years later it was added to the Second Act of the much more famous, “Anything Goes” where it joined songs with lines I know you will all enjoy such as “Baby, if I’m the bottom, You’re the Top.” More on Anything Goes at the end of the post. It’s fun stuff, there’s a lamp.

The Hays Office had a lot of issues with his titles, but ironically when they renamed works like ‘The Gay Divorce’ it became the infinitely funnier ‘The Gay Divorcee’. Bigots not getting it: funny for 100 years and counting. 

Dance Breakdown

Garth and Dean start dancing in white tuxes with straw hats and canes which could reference any number of B&W old movies. Dean is learning from Garth how to dance, copying him.  Just like Fred Astaire’s call and response solos in Top Hat White Tie and Tails which has this lil move. (This one is fun for the audio Astaire adds with the cane.)

then Dean goes to throw his cane and his partner is missing - he isn’t there. 

Eright - now this part - this part I want to be wrong I really do.  I really do. Now tell me this show is not referencing the one time Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire danced together when they have Dean and Garth dance together. TELL ME. 

Because here’s the thing about this number…. the one time they danced together it was to the ‘The Babbitt And The Bromide’, a song where two men repeatedly meet, beat each other up, dance together in close embrace, and then separate for decades. “they both were solid citizens they both had been around” they spend their lives with their wives, and then they meet again in heaven ….. sigh.

“A harp each one was carrying and both were wearing wings, and this is what they sang as they kept strumming on the strings, You’ve grown a little stouter since i saw you last i think, Come up and see me sometime and we’ll have a little drink” (x)

Gunna be honest. I had never once thought about the lyrics of this number before. So did the spn writers? Or were they just referencing the famous dancers? Because if it is on purpose, which is a BIG if, but if they thought about it and it’s on purpose? … Then it foreshadows Castiel in Dean’s heaven in the finale. I’m going to keep going, but that is absolutely the headline.

(This is actually not the first time we’ve seen Dean do that little heel click move. It appeared in season 6 so Jensen has had it under his belt for awhile. I just enjoy that fact.)

There is Dean doing that dance without a partner by his side. So next Dean makes like Gene Kelly - and he finds one. See the Lamp vs Mop Gifs at the top of the post. That’s Gene Kelly dancing with a mop to “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”, something we all know Dean Winchester never says and certainly has never called Castiel.  (x)

When he’s done, Dean blows a kiss at the lamp and moves on with his dance reference tour.  Dean taps up the stairs in a likely nod to Bill 'BoJangles’ Robinson, the highest paid black actor or performer of his time, famous for his stair tap dance. (x)

Back to the history of ‘Let’s Misbehave’ for a second. In '72 it was used in the opening credits of the movie ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)’. Then in '81 Christopher Walken strip tap danced to it on a pool table surrounded by women and photos of nude women until he revealed a giant tattoo of a heart on his chest in ‘Pennies from Heaven’ (x). So of course that’s the very thing that Dean does. Well, the tap on the table, not the stripping. 

The dance he does up there is almost a cross between a tap and a Charleston, the signature dances for the time and used in Anything Goes.  It’s also vaguely reminiscent of a dance Fred Astaire did in Swing Time that would only be called an homage to Robinson if we’re being extremely generous to Fred Astaire.

Jensen ends on a sequence of tap I find extremely impressive at its speed for someone who only learned for this very dance, and I just want to recognize and give cred to it.

It’s not specific enough choreography that I have placed it to any one dancer or dance yet, just presented with skill. I know there are more references & nods, including the little cane hop at the beginning, so if anyone picks more out I will be editing the post.

Anything Goes - keep reading

Like SPN, 'Anything Goes’ a show that people think of as lighter fair, a guilty pleasure - pulp - not much meat there. It’s easy to digest for a general audience that isn’t reading too much into anything… but try telling that to the people analyzing it… 

Anything Goes was the first successful Broadway musical comedy to build a story on two threads of pointed cultural satire, apparently. It was riske for the time. The show includes the “yes they really did put that on stage in 1927″ song lyric “If love affairs you like with young bears you like….”  and yes, that meant the same thing then.  

because I know this fandom, The show also includes the song “Blow Gabriel, Blow,” it’s all about sex, but is disguised as a religious hymn about the book of revelations, and it’s set to Jazz [the devil’s music] and ‘is about’ praying to an archangel to blow his horn and bring the end times already, because we’re already living through the apocalypse:  Enjoy some famous lines  (x): 

“I’ve been a sinner, I’ve been a scamp, But now I’m willin’ to trim my lamp” ;

“Once I was headed for hell, Once I was headed for hell; But when I got to Satan’s door I heard you blowin’ on your horn once more, So I said, “Satan, farewell!”; & “'Cause I’ve gone through brimstone, And I’ve been through the fire, And I purged my soul, And my heart too, So climb up the mountaintop, And start to blow, Gabriel, blow”

Remind you of any boys we know?

So, like in any spn analysis, the question becomes, “What did they do on purpose and what was an accident?”

Did they purposefully pick a gay song by a gay man?

Did they know about the original intended plot of the song?

Do they know about the duel nature of Anything Goes?

Did they just pick random famous dance numbers to reference or did they pay attention to lyrics and subtext?

Lamp. I’m just going to write lamp here

The episode was written by Andrew Dabb and directed by John Showalter, these questions keep coming up with the two of them. That being said, clearly the whole sequence was choreographed by someone else, and that someone else was Gordon Hart (x), who is, according to his instagram, married to a man. I don’t know about you, but if that Babbit & the Bromide stuff is on purpose, I am also ready to Misbehave.

In this case Cas was quite literally Lamp.

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Would y'all like some Supernatural Lore dropped on you that I assume was common knowledge at some point but which, as a new fan, I haven't really seen talked about? If so, settle in to learn about the origin of the phrase "The French Mistake", and some cinematic history on fourth-wall breaking that hits real differently in light of season 15.

We all know "The French Mistake" as the title of That One Episode where Supernatural goes so meta the real world becomes part of the show (also Misha Collins gets murdered?? I might as well confess now I haven't actually seen this episode, I'm still working my way through to it. Hopefully that doesn't become a problem...) Anyway, what you might not know is the title comes from the movie Blazing Saddles.

With some caveats, Blazing Saddles is an absolutely incredible movie: it's a comedy western made in 1974 about a Black man who becomes the sheriff of a racist town, defeats capitalism and gets a cute sharp-shooting boyfriend. The "boyfriend" part is subtext, but it's pretty damn loud.

So where does "The French Mistake" come in? It's the name of what might be the movie's most iconic scene. In the middle of the climax, a big western shoot-out turned brawl, the camera pans up out of the town and onto an adjacent movie set. The brawling cowboys burst through the wall of that set, out of their own film and onto the new set where they continue to fight. This is why the episode of Supernatural is named for this scene. Just like in Blazing Saddles, Sam and Dean stumble out of their fictional world and onto a film set.

Here's the part that takes this from good to GREAT: in Blazing Saddles, the set they burst onto is a musical, being filmed in the style of a Busby Berkeley number, and before our cowboys break through that fourth wall, we see a staircase lined with chorus boys. They are dancing suggestively, thrusting their hips and singing a song called The French Mistake.

Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give them a push. You'll be surprised, you're doing the French mistake.

Look. Guys. It's a song about anal sex. It's being sung by a group of gay men. When the cowboys break the wall and stumble onto the set of the musical, one of them starts out fighting with one of the chorus boys and ends up walking off arm in arm with him. Two other chorus boys go for a romantic swim in a fountain.

"The French mistake" is a reference to the breaking of the fourth wall but it's also literally a euphemism for queer sex. Blazing Saddles makes breaking the fourth wall intrinsically tied to queerness breaking into the heterosexual narrative (I could write an entire essay on how that plays out in the relationship between the leads, Bart and Jim. Suffice to say they trade their horses for a limousine and drive off into the sunset together). Worth considering: are the metanarratives and fourth wall breaking on Supernatural also intrinsically tied to queerness manifesting in the narrative?

For a whole host of reasons, Mel Brooks thought Warner Bros would bury Blazing Saddles rather than release it. He told everyone working on it to just go wild and do all the things they wanted to do but never expected to get away with, because the chances were good it wouldn't matter. He had the right to the final cut - meaning that the execs couldn't force him to make any edits - but he didn't know if the film would ever see the light of day. It did, though, and ended up being a major hit. Brooks talked about this, and in particular the French Mistake scene, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

That was dangerous because I was asked by Warners — they said I can do everything you said, but they kept saying, “Don’t do the gay scene. Don’t break through the walls and do the gay scene. You’re crossing a line there.” I said, “Don’t be silly.” There’s always these musicals being shot at Warner Bros. with top hats and tails and dopiness, you know. I said, “It’s a good mixture of cowboys and gay chorus boys.” So I kept it all in. I had final cut.

There's something kind of familiar about that, right? Don’t break through the walls and do the gay scene. Queerness and metanarratives bound together, threatening the status quo. This scene in Blazing Saddles was so threatening to Warner Bros that above everything else in a very boundary-pushing movie, this was the one they wanted to cut.

One more thing that hits different after season 15, from another really meta episode... Yeah, I'm referring to the famous "why lamp?" scene. Other people have already talked about how the way Dean's dancing sequence in The Hero's Journey recalls the Hays Code and deliberate queer-coding in classic Hollywood. But I want to go further and say that it also specifically recalls the scene I've been talking about, Blazing Saddles' 'The French Mistake' scene.

Maybe this is just because it's drawing on the same frame of reference, or maybe it's more deliberate, but either way, the parallels are there, down to the suggestive song playing (We're all alone, no chaperone... let's misbehave). It's really telling to me that this dance sequence so closely parallels a scene that was almost censored for being too gay.

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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Yes, if you really need to.

But I also think it might be a good idea to do some soul searching on why you feel there is some sort of shame or other negative connotation to liking smut. And how that might inform your opinion on the author who came up with it, wrote it, and shared it publicly.

I'm not saying this to be mean or anything but I do think it's worth looking inward on your reservations against smut especially on a platform like ao3 that is fairly sex-positive.

As far as I'm aware, the only people who would see that you Kudos-ed a fic is people who also gave it kudos in that little list section and the writer who would love that feedback.

There's no need to be embarrassed or anything! Like that fic!

so many people not wanting to give kudos to ao3 works that they like if said works contain smut, because they're not comfortable having their accounts attached to the works. and the intention of this post is in no way to guilt trip or manipulate people into doing anything. that being said, I'd like to let you know that if you want to give your favorite authors kudos on their works that contain smut (or works that do not contain smut), but are not comfortable with your name being attached to the works, you can still give them kudos by logging out of your account before doing so. this way your kudos will appear as kudos from a guest user, your favorite authors will still receive your kudos, and your account will not be attached to the works ♡

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My dog gets to eat the same shark-tooth-shaped pellets every day twice a day and it's his favorite part of the day. He looks forward to it. He's so excited.

I have to eat leftovers and I get sad 😔

it's actually sick you get tired of eating the same food over and over when some animals they just eat grass all day mind you. just another pointless challenge mechanic added in by big universe to get you to go to the grocery store

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If you could experience one season (spin the wheel to get a spn season) of Supernatural in another format

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💖💜💙 jensen's destiel or bi!dean auto/op/general con stories that spark joy 💖💜💙

*ofc i can't decide for you how much of this you find performative, it is a simple compilation. get your serotonin or get out ❤️

**incomplete so i'll add stuff as i (re)discover more

2016

jensen calling misha a slut because he didn't give him the destihl beer yet + jensen being gifted even more destihl beer and geeking out over the name to his handler + misha 2 years later saying jensen once offered him this beer in his trailer

2021

his reaction to someone's emotional resonance with the confession (dec)

jensen being excited about jackie's art

jensen wrote Watching Over Me about cas/destiel

jensen confirming dean was always thinking of cas and trying to find a way to get to him

2022

jensen winking at someone wearing a destiel pin

jensen really digging "totally platonic bros" destiel art

jensen wants a hellercon sticker too

"cope" photo op

jensen basically confirming WOM is about destiel

2023

can we talk about that goodbye a little bit?

choosing which tarot card to sign, picks the destiel "lovers" one ("oh, obviously")

jensen loving a "bisexuals with bad knees" shirt

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This is what they deserve

they are alive, in love, living their best lives and celebrating their wedding anniversary in their own little home <3

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@ms-flood your efforts are in the Breaking News, thank you for making destiel alive again

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I found this on Pinterest and I wanted to add to it

Dean winchester shipped Bert and Ernie based on the subtext and years later Bert and Ernie are a couple

There's hope for you and Cas, Dean, just hang in there bud.

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Look at this that I noticed!

I made the first gif and I've never done that so bear with me

Dean watching Jimmy say goodbye to his wife:

Cas watching Dean say goodbye to anna

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I can't handle thissss

Yes, Destiel is going strong and always will.

Cope.

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Imagine it.

This has been THE ship for seventeen years. Seventeen years!

It's one of the most popular ships I've ever heard of (the fact that i heard about it as a sheltered conservative christian teenager SAYS SOMETHING), it's THE top ship on ao3, rating number one in 2024, four years after the show finished. It's so insanely popular. They hinted at it for years in every way they could making it as close to canon as they could.

Now just IMAGINE how incredible the moment would be when it is finally put on-screen.

I mean, people apparently shipped Crowley and Aziraphale from the Good Omens books for thirty five years and they finally got to kiss on screen. And look how that went! Everyone went nuts about it. And when the show was almost canceled so many people fought for it. They are adored!

I think in a time where queer lives are under attack by people in power, something like this would be an incredible way to show that we matter. To stick it in their faces that love wins every time.