#performing!dean

[soullessjack]

performing!dean this performing!dean that I need all of you to understand that Jack is putting on a customer service voice so people don’t view him as a threat and you all fell for it so badly you don’t even know what his real personality is

#lol .lmao even. rofl if you will #cal.txt #spn #jack kline #dean winchester #spn meta #performing!dean #sorry it’s just actuslly so annoying to see a fandom so genuinely smart about one character be so painfully stupid about another #a universal experience to be sure but holy shit guys . jack is not a precious cinnamon roll . it’s almost 2024 let that godawful trope die

[simplenefelibata]

as much as i love sam knowing about destiel before dean does, there's something about "i mean yeah my brother and his angel best friend are really weird about each other, live together, co-parent a kid, nearly kill themselves every time the other is gone, stand too close and stare at the other's mouth while they talk, but i mean to each their own i guess??" that's so special to me

#it's just so funny #and when it finally clics he's like #OH #that... explains a lot actually #he's so committed to believe dean's heterosexual act #and you know what i respect sam for it #if the dude says he's straight then it doesn't matter he stares at men lusting! he's STRAIGHT. #i'm sam btw #i had a friend who told me for 6 months he was straights while he performed in my face Telephone by Lady Gaga #and also knew the entire loona lore #but he said he was STRAIGHT okay #i had the audacity (or the politeness ig) to act surprised when he came out #i'm rambling #sorry #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #supernatural #spn #casdean #sam winchester

[clairenatural]

okay but you see sam has ALSO fallen for dean's act. sam also believes dean to be the macho, daddy's soldier, beer boobs cars guy he presents himself as. this is why sam makes fun of dean whenever he even lightly steps out of that mold and thinks it's harmless banter instead of attacking an insecurity. it's why he laughs when john talks down to dean in the early seasons and it's why he seems surprised when dean is more comfortable with himself in the later seasons. it's why he just scoffs but doesn't push it when dean puts up a front and refuses to talk about his emotions and just accepts whatever excuse he makes at face value. it's why he offers dean a strip club to make him feel better when cas dies. and this isn't his fault!! dean has spent a very long time perfecting this image in front of everyone and ESPECIALLY to sam because along with it comes safety and security and stability and the only person. who has consistently been able to see through it. is castiel

#charlie also a bit bc dean doesn't have to be desirable to her as a man or as a son #altho i would argue that she doesn't see through him he just doesn't perform as much for her. cas actively sees through it #this is why sam has never caught on to dean being queer also. btw. dean isn't closeted he's just never made a big deal of telling sam #you never really know your parents just the version of them they want you to see etc etc #anyway this is also why sam is thought to be More Sensitive in comparison #by people who have also fallen for the Act. i call this the General Audience Dean Act #because it was who he was SUPPOSED to be from kripke's pen until jensen went ummmmm no. he has trauma :) and forcibly gave him layers #this is also not samcrit btw i always need to clarify that #i am bad at sam studies but i think you could also write posts (and ppl have) about how dean doesn't truly know sam either #bc he has Little Baby Brother zoned him forever even though he is almost 40 by the end of s15

[jarpadandjensens]

Jensen Ackles appreciation week 2024 | Day 2 | Acting moments

#jensenweek #jensenedit #jensen ackles #spnedit #spncreatorsdaily #deanedit #dean winchester #supernatural #soldier boy #the boys #beau arlen #big sky #lipglosskaz #mydd #favedean #amazing performances #500

[beatsheetromanroy]

body swap episode let’s go!!! it’s a cursed object or some nasty, powerful spellwork. it zaps rowena, dean, and cas who are all in the same room together. rowena becomes dean, cas becomes rowena, dean becomes cas. jack walks into the room and with the ability to see people’s souls, recognizes everyone immediately. poor sam now has to see the woman he has feelings for in the body of his brother and he’s NOT having a good time!! rowena in dean is all loose, confident, flirty, she charms cas in her own body which drives sam and dean INSANE (for totally different reasons obviously.) it would be so fun to see rowena-cas stiff, serious, and genuine. cas realizes the deep attachment he’s grown to his body. dean’s freaking out about the possibility of needing to pee or take a shower. “I’m not gonna look at some other dude’s junk, that’s not cool!” meanwhile cas informs him that he won’t need to, “there’s enough grace left over in my vessel that will eliminate the need for bodily functions” forcing dean to act disappointed “oh, good” (he says lying) while he tries to actively avoid feeling up cas’ pecs.

#i need to rewrite this so it’s not a horribly confusing run on sentence of a paragraph #HOWEVER #do you see my vision…. #spn #this episode is about performance it’s about love it’s about mirrors #i don’t think rowena would be that bothered. i think she’d just stir up chaos #supernatural #dean winchester #cas #rowena macleod #deancas #destiel #samwena #derryth.txt

[troynabed]

hey bro, is it cool if i write and perform a comedy set entirely about our life together that no one else understands just so i can see your beautiful smile

#trobed #troy barnes #abed nadir #community #community nbc #community tv #danny pudi #donald glover #screencaps #s3 #jeff winger #this end tag is so special to me #troy already knew all the jokes which werent funny at all and completely sucked because theyre all about living in apt 303 #i like to think abed just performs this routine for him when hes sad #this is at the end of the blade ep where troy got upset bc britta called him a loser for being a genuinely nice person #ep before that was pillows and blankets #so #to me this is abed saying hey. dont be sad anymore. smile and laugh instead because i love you #jeff and the dean really dont need to be there. this is all for troy

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Dean gets gender euphoria when he's dressed up as a cowboy and when he's dressed up with elliot ness and when he's flipping burgers and when he's working on his car and gets a smudge of oil on his cheek and when he's singing mouthing along to classic rock. What I'm saying here is drag king dean.

#if he's cis or if he's trans it doesn't matter he would still enjoy kinging #he likes being the centre of attention IF he's Performing #he likes to flirt and make inuenndos #he likes being sillay #he does routines to classic rock and he winks all the time and the first time he sees a drag king performance it's a transcendent experienc #(projecting for that last one sjfhahfhdj) #genderqueer dean #<not that doing drag makes one genderqueer that's just my dean is performing gender tag yk

[bloodydeanwinchester]

im not sure if you guys understand how much i love him (early seasons bloody dean)

#he is so gender and attitude and performed masculinity and loneliness and he hasn't even met the love of his life yet!! #season 1 dean #bloody dean #my beloved<3 #jenna.cap #spn 1x16 #yes i am yet again finding frames i love as i make gifs #what else is new

[particular-base-apply-perform]

#pond #Miami #citas tristes #popee the performer #soft layouts #perfect breast #art history #Rumi #funny cats #air force #betty boop #james dean

[queermania]

i really do mean it when i say that i think you should headcanon dean's sexuality in whatever way brings you the most joy but i also find it kind of baffling when people say that erasing dean's attraction to women is the same as erasing dean's attraction to men because like... 1. that's not what's happening and 2. it's like comparing apples to oranges. there is a very solid, real world reason for why a man would "perform" attraction to women despite not actually experiencing that attraction and that reason does not apply in the opposite direction. and that's not really erasing anything. that's interpreting what is happening in a very real and lived in way. saying that dean just never gave a single flying fuck about any of the women he had physical relationships with (most notably cassie and lisa) would be erasing something, but that is a totally different scenario. dean can be bisexual if that's what makes the most sense to you, but it's not inherently biphobic to view him as gay.

#and it's very telling that nobody who makes the biphobic argument #ever has anythign to say about cas #who also canonically experiences attraction to women throughout the course of the series #and he has NO reason to perform that attraction #or Gender(tm) in any way #but anyway. these are just thinky thoughts #queer!dean #mp

[opheliasam]

underrated sam moment + dean hatecriming him (bonus!)

#sam having absolutely no patience for the grieving widow he is soooo funny to me #early seasons sam was so . idk careless in a sense like he performed sympathy a lot of the times 😭 it’s just a job for him #not CRIT i love him and he probably had a very utilitarian approach to it #like it’s not as if an abundance of empathy would get them any closer to actually solving the case and being desensitised probably helped #to an extent #i LOVE this episode there’s just so much sam backstory reveal in it #spn #sam winchester #samdean #dean winchester

[angelsdean]

me, dean, and everyone else watching: ok sure, sammy

#vics spn rewatch #spn 1x10 #the apology is made worse by j*red's inability to actually sound sincere #he's doing his fake sympathy voice and it is so. grating #adds a fascinating unintentional layer to sam as we've talked abt before #and it's like not necessarily a Bad thing to perform rather than feel sympathy #but like. this is very much a non-apology and dean knows it and we all know it #sam DID mean those things on some level. maybe not as harshly as he said them bc his anger WAS being heightened by the ghost #but those feelings were real #and sam is allowed to feel them. but they are in many ways. a projection and also unfounded #sam literally could leave at any time and dean would let him go (as we'll see in thee very next episode!!) #just bc he feels those feelings doesn't mean they're inherently true #dean isn't keeping him trapped. dean isn't just blindly following orders. dean Does have a mind of his own #and in fact dean isn't being all that great of a dutiful son bc he actively is not all that interested in finding john!! not the way sam is #and you'd think for dean being the one to initially show up and ask sam's help that he'd be more invested in finding john #and making sure he's actually alive instead of following random coordinates to a case. and taking on every other case they find too #anyways. sam's feelings of anger are real bc he feels them and it's okay to feel things #but he's massively misinterpreting and projecting things onto dean #and then he feels guilty (like post-possession) and tries to swipe it all under the rug and claim he didn't mean any of it #but he Does. and dean knows it. everyone knows it. #his perceptions do not align w/ what's really happening. bc he doesn't have the full context. #bc he doesn't know just how complicated dean's relationship to john really is. bc he was sheltered from a lot of that. #he sees dean desperate for approval and a good little soldier #when in reality dean was playing peacekeeper and mediator and punching bag most of their childhood. #and rn dean doesn't really care that much abt finding john. he just wants to hang out with his brother #not samcr*t btw. we love all this abt him it's spicy it's crunchy it's tasty

[alaynestone]

and you are not a child.. I   NEVER   WAS   . (companion piece to this set)

#spnedit #deanedit #johnedit #deanjohn #dean x john #i'm not happy with the subtitles but i'm also sick of looking at it so i'm posting it #first and only time you will see me acknowledge brock's performance #he was a daisy fresh boy and look what you've done to him #the way he pauses when he says i'm still really involved. with my dad's work #supernatural #even the bones would do #dean x amanda #that was a big first for me #*

[deadwerewolfgirlfriend]

Supernatural 13.20 Unfinished Business

#can't get over 'he used me he debased me until I was-' (and he can't even finish it). spn writers s'il vous plait the hell #too many things to talk about at once #this episode gives us so much in 43 minutes and I don't even know where to start #if I analyze on the post I'll be here 12 paragraphs later breaking down the minutia of Speight's fantastic performance this entire episode #long story short what they're saying in this scene is: #gabriel: asmodeus tortured me (I will kill them) (I know it won't fix me) (I don't care) (Loki is mine. this is mine.) #sam: I understand (of course I would take a shot at lucifer) (I'm ready to die) (I want to die) (did I ever escape? will I ever escape?) #dean: revenge is a waste of time (with me with dad it only ends ugly) (I tried) (I'm always trying to change it) (I can never change it) #supernatural #spnedit #spn #spndaily #supernaturaldaily #supernaturaledit #spn gifs #sam winchester #dean winchester #archangel gabriel #gabriel supernatural #the trickster #spn season 13 #my edits #something about how they never joke about asmodeus. or late seasons lucifer. now that they know them they know how bad it is #and sam immediately 'i know' vs. 'haha lucifer wearing sam to the prom' from s4-s5 #sam what happened to you in hell. dean what happened to you in hell. daddy's girl broke in 30 and the reject son has never been right

[pinknatural]

some sort of teen au

(commission info in my pinned)

#destiel #deancas #sometime later on cas pierces dean's ears and dean dyes cas' hair #and cas sneaks out of the house to go see dean's ballet performances #and also john thinks dean is in baseball not ballet #and dean is so offended that john never goes to his imaginary baseball games #and cas and dean walk to the middle school together to pick up sammy after school #also cas is trans and that's why he's wearing girl shoes #goodbye #arttag

[samdeancrimespree]

it’s time to overanalyze the impala destruction scene <3 with actual screencaps this time. my analysis of the shot will be Above the screencap. hopefully that makes sense

so sam tries once again to talk to dean about dad. dean yells at him again for suddenly wanting to do what dad would’ve wanted and sam opens up to him about feeling guilty. then sam says he’s dealing with dads death, but dean isn’t. dean doesn’t say anything, just looks at him like This.

we don’t know yet, what john said to dean before he died. but it’s hanging over dean. i think sam’s reaction to dad’s death makes dean want to keep johns words a secret even more. if he tells sam that’s what dad wanted, sam might go along with it.

every time someone brings up john, dean hears his words again, and he feels even worse. he can’t deal with dads death because that means acknowledging what he said, and it’s just too much. he already lost dad, he can’t lose sam too.

sam says “i’ll leave you alone.” and walks away. we only hear a few steps, but that might just be for clarity. who knows. or he just. took a few steps then stopped.

either way, dean turns around and calmly picks up a crowbar. he smashes the window of a random car. takes a few breaths.

as he turns around, he looks up from the ground. looks at something in front of him. it seems for a second like he’s going to stop.

then he looks down at the impala. he glances back up, just for a second. right where sam was standing before. it looks like he’s making sure sam is watching him. you want me to deal with it? fine.

“next time someone asks me if i’m okay, i’m gonna start throwing punches.”

so he goes crazy on the impala. we all know that part.

he destroys the car right after he fixes it. specifically the trunk of the car, where they keep their hunting arsenal. maybe that was just the closest part, or maybe he’s had enough of his family dying because of hunting. he didn’t want to find the demon if it meant sam would die, but now sam might die anyway. no matter what he does, the car/his family will be destroyed. he can’t fix it, and it’s futile to even try. all his work, all the time and love he put into sam might have been worthless.

when he finally stops, he looks wrecked. this is the most emotion he’s allowed himself since dad died.

this is the last shot of the episode. him staring for a good 10 seconds, still on that same eyeline. he seems like he’s looking at something.

he lets himself look sad for a second, but he doesn’t turn away like he normally would. he wants sam to see. this was all for him. it’s like… there. i’m upset. was that enough? can you stop asking now?

then his expression hardens, shutting down and covering his emotions again. it’s like he’s warning sam. dean can’t be sad, only angry. only destructive. this time, it’s the car. next time, it might be sam. the two things he’s supposed to look after, both ruined. and dad isn’t here to fix it. dean has to figure it out on his own.

it looks like he’s asking sam to just leave it alone. don’t ask me about this. i can’t talk about it. and for now, sam believes it’s just about dad dying.

and then the episode ends. i genuinely cannot tell if im supposed to think sam is there or not. but like its the same eyeline!!! and the shot is pushed in and to the right!! sam could be standing in the same spot for all we know !! also what else would he be having a silent convo with in bobby’s junkyard? the dog? his own reflection? the only thing that makes sense to me is that sam is there. that he’s doing this For sam. maybe this is something everyone noticed but me until rn but. im going insane

#im so obsessed with him #he belongs under a microscope. #also he looks so pwetty in this scene GOD #the car is Thee metaphor for their family js #also this goes with my post about dead man’s blood sorry if it doesn’t make sense #sorry just. can’t get over dean performing his emotions for sams benefit #everything he does. everything he shows or doesn’t show is for sam #and it only gets worse when john dies #there’s nothing else. no secondary loyalty #only sam #he’s crazy <333 #2.02 #everybody loves a clown #spn studies #spn #daddy’s blunt little instrument #samdean #dean #mars.txt #s2