#discorse

You are not responsible to make adults comfortable. They can do that themselves. You are still a teen/young adult and you do not have to carry the world on your shoulders. You also do not need to make an adult happy on the internet.

occasional unprompted main character monologue from a cartoon I grew up watching as a kid:

hold your horses before you shoot me- I still ship them, and I have reasonings. mini rant up ahead!

We see in canon that Gabriel is similar to Dean in the way that he just covers up his emotions with hundreds of layers of sarcasm, and in his case, tricks. Whenever someone close to him does that, it annoys Sam to no end. He always pushes people to talk, to process their emotions. Gabriel generally dislikes anything that pushes him too much.

I can one hundred percent see them arguing over how Gabriel handles things, Sam just being concerned and Gabriel just not wanting to talk about anything. I can imagine Gabe just.. leaving Sam. Not in a relationship way, just in a poof, he's gone because he doesn't want to deal. This angers Sam because he's worried, and oh, we've perpetuated the cycle.

Never mind the fact that there would be so, so many secrets- which is healthy for zero relationships. Sam keeps secrets, like with the whole Book of the Damned business, all. the. time. Gabriel lied about his identity with multiple layers. There would be constant things hid from each other, despite the fact that they're dating. Disaster waiting to happen.

To be healthy, I think they'd both need to heal from their respective issues to some extent, and properly trust each other before they'd be good at all.

With this in mind, I still think they could be a great couple, just not perfect and not at first. If they actually let each other in, I think they're so different that they could actually help each other.

Sam in cannon generally always understands first that Gabriel's way of communicating is through 'lessons' and tricks- and as long as it wasn't something like Mystery Spot again, Sam could learn to be okay with that.

Gabriel could learn how to be okay with the fact that Sam needs stability, and could find a way to give him that. When Gabriel loses hope, Sam has a speech already prepared that helps every time. Gabriel wouldn't hesitate to smack some sense into Sam if the low self worth gets to him (affectionately/metaphorically).

Oh yeah, I've got some Thoughts™ about this! Gonna be spitting some Opinions here, so be warned! There be hot takes abound! And to properly illustrate this, I will be using spites of my persona to convey the tone of this!

The hate on Charlie isn't caused by a writing issue. It's fine to have a character with her flaws because people IRL have those flaws and can learn something by seeing them portrayed in a story. The hate for Charlie is caused when people with similar flaws to Charlie see a mirror and get uncomfortable.

And because they're uncomfortable and embarrassed, they then have to justify it. It is far easier to blame an outside source than to look inwards. So they call it a piece of garbage and jump on the hate bandwagon!

"Hey, it feels like this incredibly heteronormative and amatonormative cliche of the love triangle is shoved into every story ever, even when it actively detracts from the rest of the story - wouldn't it be cool if some of those plotlines resulted in polyamory rather than this trite "she has to pick" stuff, especially since the boys' rivalry over the girl is often what makes people ship them together? Also especially since it's so incredibly rare for polyamory to be viewed as a legitimate way to have a relationship at all? Polyamory for the win!"

to

"Wow, these idiots don't know that conflict is what drives storytelling 🙄 just go watch a fish screen saver if you hate conflict, bc actually love triangles are perfect and great. How about the boys HATE EACHOTHER so polyamory has to lose!?!"

Like, at the end of the day, "she picks one boy over the other" is exactly as much of a supposedly story killing resolution to the conflict of a love triangle as "she picks both of them and they go poly". Polyamory for the win is not some battle cry against stories having conflict, it's a cry for these stories to include a broader scope of the human experience instead of exclusively resolving into the exact same boring ass hetero monogamy every single time.