Family as in Husband

I don’t remember the episode number, but Sam and Dean went to (I think) a haunted hotel where there was a lady clerk. She mistook them for a gay couple and tried to give them a queen room; they corrected her awkwardly–which wasn’t noticeable, they’re brothers, I’d be awkward if someone mistook my brother for my boyfriend–and then Dean even more awkwardly asks why she thought they were gay. Which…still not quite tipping over the edge, he could just feel weird about, y’know, someone assuming that his kid brother is his boyfriend. Admittedly a big assumption to make, lady.

But then they come back to it. They talk about the case a bit and I have absolutely no memory of the details nor care enough to look it up. All I remember is Dean saying something to the effect of, “More importantly, why did that lady think we were gay?” He’s stuck on it. Sam breezily points out that Dean is pretty butch and maybe the clerk thought he was overcompensating for something.

AT WHICH POINT. The camera focuses on Dean’s face as he nervously laughs and looks uncomfortable.

It was played for laughs, but the joke only lands if he’s actually queer. If he wasn’t, why would he look that nervous? Sam isn’t. Sam was awkward when the lady assumed that his brother was his boyfriend, but once that was corrected he didn’t give a shit. People involved in the show will tell you that you’re delusional but they’re the ones who made Dean Winchester queer in season 1 (I think that episode was season 1? Coulda been season 2) as a joke. The comedy of that moment only works if Dean is actually queer in some way.

I love Sam and Cas’s chemistry. They are my BroTP. In later seasons where Dean is often being a dick to Cas I’d rather watch Sam and Cas together than Dean and Cas. I LOVE SAM AND CAS!!!!

Yet I absolutely cannot see them as romantic or sexual. I’ve tried to read a few sastiel fics and I just can’t get into it. Even when they get together bc they’re both mourning Dean, say, when it might make sense, it still doesn’t - because fuck, we saw them mourning Dean together at the start of S10 and they still had zero of that energy.

In honor of Dean Winchester’s birthday, I made some retro PSA posters! I’m really proud of these lol :) 

Cross-posting from my Twitter, hence the different @.

Antifa Dean wants YOU to fight fascism! And, of course, ship Destiel. I couldn’t make Dean ones without Cas to go with him. I may also add Cas without the rainbow tint later too, in order to better match Dean as a set. 

On RedBubble here. Click on “Supernatural.”