what do you mean ben edlund confirmed destiel was a thing they had to write around bc the subtext was too obvious on the same day we found out the yuri on ice movie was cancelled. what in the equivalent exchange is going on
supernatural said dean and cas can't say "i love you" because we operate from a "show not tell" storytelling perspective. okay where's the making out then.
[Image ID: There are three images. The first one is similar to a title card and shows a screenshot froom the show supernatural. Dean and Castiel stand facing each other. The screenshot is faded and superimposed with a blue background from a news show. In the front is a logo which says 'Destiel News Channel'. The second is a screenshot of Castiel from the same confession scene. At the bottom is a newsticker. The headline says 'There's much to be said about Destiel'. The subline says 'Did Ben Edlund just break the next seal of Destiel canon events?'. The third image is a screenshot of Dean from the same scene edited so that a text looking like subtitles spells out 'I love you'. /End ID]
rewatching season 4-5 is like. one part of me genuinely does think early seasons destiel was mainly aimed at jokes and thinly veiled microaggressions. HOWEVER. carver writing point of no return, where dean lashes out at everyone he cares about and hits them where it hurts most - the context of his attack on cas is waaay too carefully thought out. dean tells bobby he isn’t his real dad; tells sam he doesn’t believe in him; and tells cas to blow him, that the last person who looked at him like that means he got laid, and winks at him. nevermind the extremely tension-ridden scene it’s followed by where cas beats the shit out of him. what makes this so different is that the attack is targeted and calculated, and carver decided dean’s choice of action against cas would be - flirting. which is an insane choice. he could have chosen to make light of their friendship. or to poke at his fall from heaven. but no. instead, what hurts the most is to air out the unaddressed tension between them. this is in season FIVE!!!! carver textually decided to make cas’ treatment distinctly different from dean’s other family. destiel was baked into the show from so early on and therefore walking it back later to suggest that even if CAS had feelings, dean didn’t reciprocate is - frankly - absolutely bonkers. if anything this is a far stronger indicator that dean knew exactly what was going on between them at this point, even if cas didn’t know or couldn’t put a name to it yet
hello and welcome to a collection of images i call “cas seeing through the front dean is putting up and calling him out vs. dean’s reactions to being Seen for the first time in his life”
first off we have 8.07. the absolute classic “I did NOT leave you,” “so you think this was your fault?” exchange
saw trap voice hello, jensen ackles. your spn prequel is at risk of cancellation due to low viewership. you know the only way to save the show is to renege on 12 years of homophobia and make destiel canon for the third time. if you refuse, the show will be cancelled and you’ll have to say goodbye to your best friend dean winchester forever. which will you choose, jensen: dean winchester alive but bisexual, or dean winchester straight but dead? misha collins will tweet about cas being a top every hour on the hour until you make your decision