this gif is literally the piece of evidence that fully swayed me into believing cockles was at least *somewhat* real.
i normally don't ship celebrities and their costars, but whatever these two have going on... it's just... too realistic, at this point, for me (or them) to deny anything.
like, if jenmish were to reveal tomorrow that all of the flirting and innuendos and constant touches were *actually* just "for the bit". or if they were to come out and say they were straight, their relationship was platonic, or whatever --- i wouldn't believe them. i would believe they were lying.
just evaluate their dynamic for the 15 years or so. this relationship is far from a labored decades-long game of gay chicken. it's foreplay.
so, on the topic of foreplay, lets return to the gif.
san diego 2016 comic con, season 12. fan asks a camping-related question to jared about having the show reflect onto their real life experiences.
direct quote: since you’ve started the show have you, for example, been camping and thought, oh what is that, a wendigo?
jared answers the question with a quick anecdote. but focus instead on jensen's immediate reaction to the word "camping". he turns and looks at misha with a knowing smile. misha also starts laughing, sneaking a glance at jensen before they return to the panel where jared has been talking.
well, looks like *something* happened to jensen and misha on a camping trip. there's a story they're not telling.
fortunately for us i've been on a cockles bender for the past 48 hours, so the "camping" reference caught my attention.
misha wrote a poem called "men in woods" which tells the story about two male friends who may or may not have kissed before going on a homoerotic camping trip where they do totally platonic things like sleep under the stars and skinny dip in a stream.
misha serves as the narrator and the other guy remains unnamed, but come on, its jensen. it's obviously jensen.
who else talks has KNEE PROBLEMS, is in a BAND, and GOES CAMPING/HIKING IN HIS FREE TIME?
the very essence of the man in the poem is jensen. the bravado, the showing off, the "whining", the contrast of his "boyish" and "grown-man" behaviors, the way jensen and misha met when they were 31 and 35, which tracks perfectly with these behaviors.
the poem is definitely romantic, but in a juvenile sense. misha sounds like a teenager. he's questioning if the other guy likes him, or LIKES him, he's flirting/teasing him about his bum knee, the other guy is going to burn him a copy of the cd they were listening to, blah blah blah. very cliche, very rom-com. it's the kind of mating ritual you'd expect from two high schoolers. so even though they don't do anything explicit in the poem, it's heavily implied --- or at least, the underlying feelings are implied.
so lets piece it together. the 2016 panel question made jen/mish both remember *that one camping trip*. That one camping trip was the one from the poem, and therefore one of romantic nature.
they laugh over it for a split second and move on. maybe they brought it up later, where of course there are no cameras.
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