#spn is a queer show #spn queer coding #queer coding #queer history #destiel #destiel history #i cannot stress enough how huge Castiel’s confession was #and im saying that as someone who had absolutely nothing to do with the show when it happened #i still heard about it and recognized that it was groundbreaking (via @worrynoodle)
#drives me NUTS when people look down on supernatural for their queer rep #cuz it was one of the first generations of shows coming off the Hays code that could have confirmed queer characters #they were doing the best they could at the time while catering to the network and not alienating half of their audience #just remember that your beloved explicitly queer content stands on the shoulders of the media that came before it #and that includes supernatural #supernatural is intentionally and explicitly queer #always has been (via @rogue-translator)
#not enough people know how to factor historical context into their media analysis and we should talk about it more #supernatural #queer stories #queercoding #from inside the closet #stories about the closet (via @illusionremember)
#THIS #the finale sucks #but it was insane that after all that journey in a country that was and still is against anyone who isn't a white straight cis man #we got to have 2 queer men #yes i know things were sometimes far from the best #but still the representation matters #and it's still insane that cas confessed his love to dean in a show that was supposed to be the representation of a red blooded americans #it was supposed to be so macho but it never really was #the queerness was there #it started subtly until it became really loud #and yeah they tried to quiet it down #but they never could because it had always been there in the marrow of the show (via @inacatastrophicmind)
#<- yes this is so true #i hate when ppl just dismiss and insult cas' confession bc they worked SO hard to get there #like dont insult misha and bobos and everyone elses hard work #they did the best they could do and what they gave us was amazing (via @fandomtrashhh)
#context is vital #from the big stuff like the political climate #to the smaller details like 'is this show bring us male or female viewers' #it matters for many reasons and one of them -which some people keep forgetting somehow- is that tv is a business #(just the fact that network notes exist should be enough to make people think twice before blaming the creatives for things like this) (via @ironworked)
#queer things #this is why i regularly sprain my eyeballs every time someone screeches about spn being queerbaiting like... no (via @mittensmorgul) #queer coding #spn queer coding #us politics #When talking about subjects that are still illegal in part of your country queer coding is a better term than queer baiting (via @glygriffe)
#speak it #queernatural #they did THAT against THIS backdrop (via @luckshiptoshore)
#people generally have lost the ability to understand history as a concept and to contextualise events and such within it completely. #in such a serious way (via @swordsofdecay)
#sigh #'if they wanted dean to be bi they would've just said it!' pls be serious #anytime someone uses that argument I am assuming they are either young naive or unaware of lgbtq+ history in the United States #or they are being willfully obtuse #like bruh. massachusetts was the first state to legalize same sex marriage explicitly in 2004 which is ONE YEAR before spn started #god people were still making casually homophobic jokes throughout my time in high school IN MASS and I graduated in 2010 #queercoding not queerbaiting #spn #follow up: 'ok well they could've said dean was bi in 2020!!' honey did you SEE that finale?? WHO do you think that was catered to?? (via @angelkissesdean)
#I’m glad I’m not alone with my batshit takes #it’s a product of its time but also it transgresses so many norms as is indeed queer #I know it may be an ice cold take for some #but I think the ending has a meaning #and it may even be good actually (via @soobshoob)
#this is going on the main blog yup yup #spn #queer history #we are not saved we are not safe we HAVE to keep fighting (via @rachelillustrates)
#revisited some destiel fic i wrote back in 2013 #and fully surprised myself at my own reference to same sex marriage not being legal #anyway. supernatural is a show with themes and motifs (via @fallenangelblade)
#supernatural #queer rights #People forget how recent and fragile these things are (via @mundaneone)
#supernatural is gay culture (via @lovelyandmorbid)
#we were fighting real battles (via @justanotherqueerpunk)
#forever thankful for the creators who fought behind the scenes for what we got #it's easy to forget how far we've come in such a short amount of time #queer spn #spn (via @totally-not-a-dragon-in-disguise)
#i mean this wholeheartedly: spn did pave the way for many of the openly queer shows we see today #especially those like Heated Rivalry that focus on stories of gay men in an extremely masculine/repressive/competitive environment #like. sure you could point out “but- but- Friends had a lesbian wedding in the 90s!” #yes. and they were also targeting an audience of young adult liberal women in the first place #supernatural was not. #spn had a lot more barriers in place preventing them from even acknowledging who their actual fan base was (teenage girls) #until at least season 6 or 7 #MOST SHOWS DONT EVEN LAST THAT LONG ANYMORE (via @agentzeppelin)
#censorship #supernatural was fighting so much (via @onlylittleontheoutside)
#sometimes i try to explain why spn is so culturally important for the queers #this is one of the reasons (via @llama-sidekick)
