People always talk about Dean’s “I’d rather have you, cursed or not” but I don’t think we talk enough about the next half a minute of Dean trying and failing to act normal when Cas smiles softly at him because they finally made up, tells him he’ll go with him and he’ll do his best, and then shyly asks him about the plan. Like he literally cannot for the life of him contain his smile that he had to hide his face and LOOK AWAY (several times!) throughout their whole conversation, because Cas was being so fucking adorable.
Wait…. What even actually was the “Cas, we talked about this… personal space?” Scene??? Like they’re standing so close, Dean is so clearly flustered, can’t even make eye contact, like what was the point if not love???
I really don’t get Sam at the end of slice girls. He just shot his brother’s daughter and then he is lecturing Dean on not being able to shot his own kid. Even saying Emma was not ready his. Like I get him being pissed because Dean killed Amy, but it’s not like he did do it himself.
Also the comment about Sam wondering how Dean knows so much about babies when he was literally 4 months old when Dean had to look after Sammy.
Like look at his face in the last gif. This moment did something to Dean, he wanted to get to know her and seeing Sam shoot Emma, his daughter, hurt him deeply.
Rewatching SPN and something about S1 E02 looked familiar anyway enjoy one (1) minute of Dean Winchester and his very discreet bisexual boner-shield maneuver Happy Pride
have we talked yet about how 90% of what makes dean so fucking brain-rot inducing isn't even in who he is written to be, as a character, but rather in how this character was so powerful he literally possessed jensen ross ackles into doing a series of subtle jacting joices that gave dean a depth no CW network character should ever dream of having.
Dean's appeal isn't in jackles beautiful face or in the stories the writers gave him.
it's in the way his eyes are out of focus and he shakes his head when he says "and when dad got home... ". it's in the wink and the little smile he gives Cas when he says "I got laid". it's in how flustered he gets when aaron hits on him. it's in the way his shoulders tense the second John comes into frame after being all soft with Mary at the door. It's in his decision to pick up the trenchcoat from the floating water.
there's so much power in these little things Dean just does subconsciously. Dean is the only character I've ever seen who just is and as much of a wonderful actor as jensen is, I don't even think he is aware of it most of the time. and that's why it's so beautiful.
Dean just is. And Jensen just does the things Dean would do. But I just know he wasn't planning and practicing Dean's pose change when he saw John. He just did it. Because that's what Dean would do, subconsciously. But the key is in the fact that it's not intentional. It's not like he sat down with the writers and director of the episode to decide what was the best pose change for Dean in this moment. It's not planned or strategized like that. If it were, Dean would have been just another character. But he isn't. In several ways he feels real. Because Jensen isn't acting, he's just letting Dean live through him. And every thing he does adds another layer of meaning to his trauma and who he is.
How can anyone look at Beau's fist clench moments in this 3x13 scene:
Even this scene that he played to perfection (and he admitted he & Katheryn spent a lot of time discussing it beforehand):
And not see Dean's fist movements here:
Or how Dean looks over at Cas in this important scene (Dean's expecting to die in the next minute & Mary and Sam are in the car but this is who he looks at):
Beau is angry, desperate, and worried in the first gif.
Dean is...?
Beau is allowing Jenny to hold onto him but he looks away as soon as she looks at him.
Dean is...?
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Jacting joices, y'all.
People can deny it all they want but it's right there.