#*spn 9x03

Context: Season 9 episode 3 “I’m No Angel” aired on October 22 at 9/8 central. The episode was written by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming, and directed by Kevin Hooks. After watching the episode, Destiel fans were upset that Castiel had sex with the female reaper, April Kelly, as an exploration on his newfound humanity. Some fans felt like April coerced homeless, powerless Castiel into sleeping with her, making it rape. Not helped by April lying about who she was and then torturing and killing Castiel later in the episode. And, though it’s not mentioned in these tweets below, some factions were also upset that Dean told Cas he couldn’t stay in the bunker at the end of the episode because Gadreel threatened to leave Sam if Cas stayed. All in all, several fans invested in Castiel and/or the Dean/Cas relationship felt like they were being specifically singled out/slighted by the spn direction and tptb.

(Supposedly, before the episode aired Adam directed people to talk to Chad but we do not have evidence of this currently)

Chad Kennedy happened to be tweeting fans around the time 9x03 aired. Where he then revealed to fans that canon Destiel wasn’t in the plans as of then (2013). Below are the are screenshots that were taken by various fans before Kennedy decided to delete his twitter account:

chadfkenn: “This will not end well” xceteras: “chadfkenn No kidding. East coast viewers already found that out in abundance! Sad how platonic Dean/Cas seem to have ended up.” chadfkenn: “xceteras oh, c’mon!!!” xceteras: “chadfkenn Woah wasn’t expecting a response! Not sure which you object to though- that it seemed platonic, or that being platonic is sad?” chadfkenn: “xceteras i’m always listening” xceteras: “chadfkenn Well that addresses the first part but not the second. Thanks for listening though. I appreciate it.” chadfkenn: “It’s the community’s comments about Dean and Cas being platonic. But what you do with slash fiction is your biz... #supernatural” xceteras: “chadfkenn Which community says what? Confused. Slash fiction is great but it would mean a helluva lot to me to have an actual bi lead char.” chadfkenn: “xceteras I support the idea of bi lead chars. But on this specific show, it is not our intention for these chars. Clearer? #supernatural” - 9:35 PM 22 Oct 13

xceteras: “chadfkenn Thank you, that’s very clear. I appreciate it a lot. Would have loved to have heard it earlier, but now is better than never.” Arielle_san: “chadfkenn xceteras Oh must u say with such certainty? We know its not a priority but the hope of D/C means alot to many of us lgbt fans” chadfkenn: “I’ll put it this way: don’t know if we’ll ever go there, but don’t know for sure that we never will... #Supernatural” batalene: “chadfkenn xceteras I’m glad you were honest, we were needing it. It would be nice if someone had said it earlier. But thank you, really.” destiel_my _otp: “chadfkenn Thank you for your honesty. Wish rthompson1138 adamglass44 TheJimMichaels had just come out and said this months ago.”

chadfkenn: “Yotsubii I never said bisexual characters couldn’t happen on SPN. There is not, nor has there ever been, an issue with lgbtq chars” chadfkenn: “I have never been pitched Destiel. If it were pitched and the story made sense, I would not block it. I do not create story.”

M_Bow: “chadfkenn If the show does go platonic with them, it will lose a LOT of viewers--the destiel fandom is huge!” chadfkenn: “M_Bow the show goes long enough, I suppose anything is possible. Keep watching? #supernatural” M_Bow: “chadfkenn You just said there was on intention of making the characters bisexual. Which means to me that the show intends to queerbait.” chadfkenn: “M_Bow that would be awful if it were true. I hope you don’t believe that. I do believe they have a closer-than-friends rel #supernatural” M_Bow: “chadfkenn Going there would be groundbreaking and historic for television. chadfkenn: M_Bow you are preaching to the choir. I STRONGLY support better representation of the gamut of sexual orientation on TV. I hear your frust.

(for more tweets that occurred during this time please visit the FandomDebunker’s tumblr post: [source])