#he's praised lee before for his fighting skills. he's a great hunter. but he won't be doing anything with *his* son etc etc

[angelsdean]

sorry this is totally unprompted but just something i've been thinking abt and i will also preface this by saying this is just one interpretation and i am someone who loves to entertain many (often conflicting) interpretations of things ok anyways

so i really don't think john in the prequel being friends with carlos is indicative of not being homophobic, like at all. i totally get where ppl are coming from w/ that interpretation and also there really isn't anything explicitly in spn canon that says john would be homophobic however for me he just. is. there's just no world where he isn't in my personal canon. esp when you read into the metaphors abt the supernatural being representative of being Other and people on the fringes of society, and then do queer readings of that. but anyways, back to the my main point which is, i can't tell you how many times i've seen ppl (in my own family and outside of it) talk abt their "dear friend so-and-so who is gay" and they're totally fine with that ! and they love them! and "don't care what they do in the privacy of their own bedroom." and then in the next breath will parrot some stereotype abt gay people. and say something ignorant or derogatory. and when called out they insist they're not homophobic bc they love "so-and-so". but they also can't ever imagine that someone in their own family (esp their own child) could be anything other than straight. and i really think that's where prequel john falls. he's totally "fine and cool w/ it" as long as it doesn't directly affect him. but if it were one of his sons? no way. his kids just aren't like that.

#he'd be like. 'i had a buddy carlos who was queer. didn't change the fact that he was a damn good hunter' #and young dean thinks. ok. dad's cool with it. long as i'm a good hunter it doesn't matter. and he thinks maybe he could tell him #and then john sends him to burn the bones of those nuns. and maybe makes an insensitive comment abt them and dean shrinks in on himself #and this keeps happening over and over again. and maybe one day john catches dean with a guy. maybe it's lee. #and he tells him to cut that shit out bc dean's not like that. no son of his is like that. and again he doesn't care what lee does. #he's praised lee before for his fighting skills. he's a great hunter. but he won't be doing anything with *his* son etc etc #fuck john winchester #spn meta #spn prequel #vic.txt