#Dean is bisexual

[lavenderleahy]

y'all ever think dean has a type

#benny lafitte #gunnar lawless #dean is bisexual #spn 11x15 #dean is bi

[drsilverfish]

Sex, Bugs and Drugs - Insect Aliens and The Winchesters

The Winchesters of course is a relatively PG show, we’d probably label it (thus far) “mild drug references” (to weed), “light kissing”, and “some horror”.

However, the fact it is inhabited by insect aliens (the Akrida) invites musing on other insect-alien narratives and their resonances within the show.

“This is Mugwump, he specialises in sexual ambivalence” (Cronenberg, Naked Lunch, 1991):

 “We are all insects, groping towards something terrible or divine” 

Phillip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle. 

The prominent reference to Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five in 1x01 Pilot, alerts us to the qualities of that narrative which may be relevant here; aliens (in Slaughterhouse Five, the Tralfamadorians), the impermanence of death (Tralfamadorians see space/time with non-linearity, in four dimensions, so just because you are dead at one point in time isn’t an “end of the road” moment for them) non-linear narrative, an unreliable narrator, the presence of the author/narrator in the story). All interesting resonances, regarding Narrator-Dean. 

The aliens in The Winchesters, the “cricket” Akrida, are able to possess human bodies, seemingly shapeshifting to look like humans in doing so, and they mind-control humans by pushing a stinger into their brain-stem. This kind of insect mind-control/ body-horror/ body-penetration, really made me think about Cronenberg’s film Naked Lunch (1991). 

Naked Lunch is based on William Burrough’s (1959) novel of that name (which is already semi-autobiographical) mixed in with events in Burrough’s own life. Burroughs of course, was a Beat Generation author, as well as being queer and a drug addict. His novel is very much not PG. 

Cronenberg’s film captures Burrough’s atmosphere of queer desire mixed with self-loathing/ internalised homophobia, very well. Remember, Burroughs was writing in 1959; everyone queer had internalised homophobia, that’s why we needed to develop a Pride narrative for ourselves. 

This queer desire/ queer horror is evident in the giant bug with a talking asshole on its back. It asks Bill, the main character (Burroughs’ avatar) to rub some of the yellow bug podwer on its “lips” (the rim of the asshole) and makes obscene noises of pleasure when Bill obliges: 

What the heck does that have to do with The Winchesters, you ask?

Well, in a much more PG way, we have the Ostium, which means, literally, “orifice in the human body”, the Men of Letters’ mystical box/ trans-dimensional portal which can blast the Akrida back to their alien home-world, and Carlos specifically joke-compares it to a sexual body “hole” in 1x07 Reflections:

Lata: “They call it the Ostium.” 

Carlos: “Oh. Latin for an opening in the body. What, didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday School? So is that thing organic? Is it a mouth or...( chuckles ) any other kind of hole?” 

Lata: Let's just stick with a mouth, please. https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=1550&t=58479 

In Naked Lunch, the bug reappears, as a talking typewriter, and asks Bill to type the words “Homosexuality is the best all-around cover an agent ever had...” into it, and again, it makes obscene erotic noises of pleasure as he does so. 

Bill reveals his own  self-loathing/ ambivalence, telling another character he has a family “curse... I am a homosexual... impossible I am one of those simpering things... a wise old queen... told me I had a duty to live and bear witness..” 

Later, as Bill makes out with a woman, a giant centipede alien with a long fleshy appendage (cock) and a human-looking butt slithers out of another typewriter and appears to join their love-making. 

The Naked Lunch is a subterranean allusion in The Winchesters’ subtext. It’s not name-checked in the way Slaughterhouse -Five has been, which provides a clearer indication of authorial inter-textuality. 

However, there are some interesting resonances; insect to human body-horror penetration (Akrida stinger into the brain-stem) a talking asshole/ a mystical “body hole” portal (the Ostium). 

One more, being that in Burrough’s novel, and in Cronenberg’s film, much of the story takes place in “The Interzone”, which is partly an imaginary Morocco and partly Bill’s drug-fulled hallucinatory dream-world, but is, above all, a liminal space, which is symbolically representative of the space queer people in the 1950s inhabited, as “outlawed” subjects.

Narrator-Dean currently inhabits such liminal space himself, also in two senses:

1) We saw him die in 15x20, so he is, apparently, narrating from Heaven, or from the liminal space between dying and rebirth, as Holy Ghost Narrator Dean/ Dean’s soul in the Bardo (the space, as set out in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, between dying and reincarnation). 

2) Dean continues to inhabit a liminal space with regard to his queerness in the SPN/ Winchesters narrative. He may be bisexual in a thousand ways in the narrative subtext, and in its (romantic) narrative architecture, but a heterosexual interpretation (they were best friends/ brothers) remains possible.

I bet Dean’s read The Naked Lunch. 

#Supernatural #The Winchesters #The Winchesters meta #SPNWin 1x07 #Reflections #The Naked Lunch #Holy Ghost Narrator Dean #Meta-textuality #The Akrida #Robbie Thompson #William Burroughs #David Cronenberg #Dean is bisexual #Still subtext #But subtext is part of narrative

[shiploverr]

910 days since we lost Destiel because they were too afraid to have them together romantically 🥺💔

#destiel #deancas #heartbroken #despair #5x18 #spn #OTP #DEAN IS BISEXUAL #FIGHT ME #CASTIEL LOVES DEAN #DEAN LOVES CASTIEL

[rusticfurnace]

RECKLESS CHAINS AU//

there was just supposed to be ONE (1) fanart of umiko's shaved soap but then it spiraled into an AU inspired by it. HELPPP

#john soap mactavish #simon riley #cod mw2 #simon ghost riley #ghostsoap #soapghost #call of duty mw2 #john mactavish #biker ghost #yep mmhm iktr #and i based off soap's car from deans impala because why not theyre both bisexuals

[ppersonalsspace]

I love that I can log in to tumblr in 2024 and see supernatural trending because something gay happened on a tv show I don’t watch that has nothing to do with Supernatural.

Time is a flat circle

#and dean winchester is bisexual #destiel #supernatural #dean winchester #spn #castiel #deancas #destiel is canon #again #dean is bi #fuck the cw #time is a flat circle #911 #and on the 5th

[unhinged-jackles]

as a spn fan who lived through november 5th 2020, i am so unbelievably happy for the 911 fox abc people. happy bisexuality evan buckley.

#911 fox #evan buckley #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #bisexual #bisexuality #911 abc

[strawlessandbraless]

🍑 💜 💙

I just think th- [gunshot]

#bi evan buckley #bi dean winchester #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #deancas #jensen ackles #spn crack #911 #911 abc #911 show #911 spoilers #911 fox #911 season 7 #evan buckley #bucktommy #evan buck buckely #buddie #oliver stark #maddie buckley #bi buck #bi dean #jennifer love hewitt #bisexuality #bisexual #lgbtqia #dean is bi #bisexual dean winchester

[deancasbisexual]

Men that Dean would have had freak nasty life changing sex with if the network and executives weren't cowards and allowed him to explicitly be bisexual instead of hiding his sexuality behind subtext and implications.

#justice for dean's bisexuality #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #deancas #destiel

[drulalovescas]

I'm sure everything about this was purely accidental

#supernatural #destiel #audacity of a show #bisexual lighting #dean winchester #castiel

[lavenderleahy]

Dean Winchester would love this cake.

#dean is bisexual #dean is bi #pie vs cake #subtext #pi day

[bbxspn]

friendly reminder that dean was originally written to say “i love you” here

#destiel #dean winchester is a bisexual man #supernatural #castiel #spn #dean winchester #deancas #girlblogging #rambles #misha collins #jensen ackles #spnfamily #spnfandom #brrrrr #angst go brrrr

[destiel-news-channel]

Congratulations on the bisexuality, Evan Buckley, reincarnation of Dean Winchester.

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Sure I'll check out a hot guy's ass but that's normal.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

#911 abc #evan buckley #bisexual #destiel news channel #destiel meme #destiel #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #ryan guzman #oliver stark

[forcemasc-ed]

#ftm #trans #transgender #transmasc #forced masculinization #forcemasc #boy hypno #bisexual #supernatural #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #ftm hypno

[sky-is-the-limit]

If you're in a fandom and one of the characters turns out to be bisexual, know that Dean Winchester's shadow will always lurk in the background.

He's like the possessed old spirit haunting the old house where new people keep moving in despite the horror stories.

It might be theirs now but the 200 year old grandma still turns up in the mirrors at 3am to remind them whose house it first was like:

#we will never let you die bisexual dean #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #911 abc

[artymcart]

//When you go pie shopping because you just feel like it and your husband sends you a supportive message out of nowhere.✨✨//

Happy Bisexual Awareness Day! 🩷💜💙

We see you and you're a valid part of the LGBTG+ community, don't let you tell otherwise 💖

Or Dean Winchester will come to your home 🤨

#supernatural #castiel #dean winchester #destiel #bisexual awareness day #pride

[unhinged-jackles]

getting emotional over bisexual evan buckley even though i've never seen an episode of 911 fox and probably never will. but i look at him and i can only think of dean winchester and what could have been, and how we've finally, finally, made progress.

#911 fox #evan buckley #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #bisexual #bisexuality