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This is not about ships. Not today. Nor is the closeness Dean and Cas have up for debate--whatever its nature Dean and Cas are very close.

“And in my mind, I was sitting there thinking that…you know, it was like this flashback—you know they say that when you’re about to die your life flashes before you. In my mind, I was flashing back to Lazarus Rising and seeing him walk through the barn with the sparks flying and all of the sudden all of these clips in my mind of Castiel and walking into the lake, and all of these things that are ingrained in my memory and seeing this now character have to say goodbye” —Jensen Ackles, SPN Ohio 2024

“I forgot to be Dean because I was all of a sudden transported into Jensen the audience member watching this brilliant performance from a brilliant actor and somebody who I care deeply about, not just the person playing it, the character as well.” —Jensen Ackles about filming Cas’s goodbye scene in 15.18, AHBL 12, March 10, 2024

“…in that moment when Cas was taken away and Dean was sitting there on the floor and realized that he—he had not only lost a brother-in-arms but had also lost one of his closest—the closest people to him. And—and I—you know I’ve said that when you find your people it doesn’t matter who or what or where or why or when they are, you find your people. And they found each other.” —Jensen Ackles, Purcon 8, May 26, 2024

“…I lost Cas but also because I didn’t say anything, I didn’t give him anything. And what I had in my head was I should have said ‘I love you, too’ and hugged him….what was in front of me? Was a family member and someone that was a brother in arms and someone that Dean truly loved, much like Sam. And so losing—I mean essentially he lost his brother, in that moment.” —Jensen Ackles, SPN Vancouver, 2022, on what was going through Dean’s mind after Cas was taken by The Empty

“I think it would have been a huge embrace.” —Jensen Ackles, SPN Dencver, Oct 2021, on what would have happened if Cas had been there when Dean opened the door in 15.19

“There is an underlying bond, there is a friendship there that supercedes whatever troubles are happening, they’re always going to look out for one another and have each other’s back.” —Jensen Ackles, JibCon 2013, in response to a question about the conflict between Dean and Cas at the end of S8

“At the end of last season and the beginning of this season we do see that Dean has just like given up, so to speak. So the return of Cas has ignited that fire again...Dean’s a little less questioning and more accepting of ‘I don’t care how it happened, we got our buddy back.’”

—Jensen Ackles, Collider, Nov 16, 2017

“I think the obvious answer is Cas. It’s not a surprise that Dean and Cas have a friendship that’s obviously unique.” —Jensen Ackles, SPN Vancouver, 2012, on which character do you empathize with more than the character you play

“Dean’s just gobsmacked…he’s probably elated to have his friend back and somebody who he knows he can count on…personally from an actor’s standpoint, I’m just glad to ahve the gang back to together, so to speak…there’s an excitement there because I think he’d lost a lot of hope when Cas went away. That was a really big blow, I think, to his motivation in this fight”—Jensen Ackles, Zap2It, February 10, 2012, on Castiel’s return in Season 7

“It’s a big loss…not just for the storyline and the show and the characters but also for carrying the weight of the show. Misha was family…he’s still family.” —Jensen Ackles, eonline, about the lack of Cas/Misha in season 7

This is Jensen stans for you. They always have this opinion about Misha being the one using Jensen and Jensen making some kind of charity for him

That’s a shitty viewpoint. Jensen isn’t going to put his reputation out there just to “sponsor” someone as a favor. Especially if he’s getting Chaos Machine involved. I get they want to clap back, but no need to do it at Misha’s expense.

What he doesn’t like is disrespectful people who go up to the mic to argue with him and Misha

destiel Twitter: “threatening physical harm to Jensen is fine. Also Dean is a homophobe if he doesn’t do what I want”. But people will still tell you blanket and their friends haven’t crossed a line and are just poor, innocent uwus

I get so sick of those types of fans. They exist across the entire fandom, from all sides. They think things like that don’t have consequences.

“Oh, they’re just kidding”, “they don’t mean it”, “it’s just a joke”, until some crazy fucker decides it’s deserved and they’re not joking. Then what?

One -- Jensen is a human being and a good bean and there is nothing enlightened about dismissing threats of harassment, assault, blackmail, even death threats from shippers who think they can force Jensen to agree with them about Dean, who degrade him and say he has no right to pov on the character he played.

Destiel shippers who are Jensen fans exist and we have every right to be furious.

The only people who think Jensen could not possibly ever be affected by all this hate aimed at him must think he's an actual robot with zero feelings who exists only to parrot what they want to hear from him about a ship.

Two -- calling Dean homophobic just for not being in love with his best friend back, and just for not being bi, is utterly degrading rhetoric, and it fits with what I vented about earlier this week, about hellers who talk about Dean as worthless unless he's Castiel's boyfriend. Who say he might as well have died on the rebar if he won't fall in love with Cas back. That is an absolutely infuriating way to treat Dean. Infuriating.