When did you start shipping Jenmish?
The day Despair aired. So, Nov 5? Lol
It was an accident. I was so overcome with emotion after Cas died that I came to tumblr for Destiel because I knew the fandom was big here and I could find people to commiserate with.
And I found the posts and stuff to help me with that.
But... in searching Destiel, I also got cockles.
At first I was confused and like what?
I laughed and read a couple posts about it. Brushed it off and thought it was weird.
Then I found a post about how in 2013 Misha had accidentally tweeted the cockles love story post - but never deleted it.
There was a link to that post. And by the time I was done reading it, I had dipped my toes into the dumpster that is the cockles dumpster mansion... Then I read something about how Misha’s mom had come up with the cockles mansion thing (or something like that) for GISH.
But then... then I had to dig around and look for myself. I’m an analytical person and needed to see things for myself and figure it out on my own.
I watched some gif sets people posted along with their thoughts and little video snippets. But I knew things could be taken out of context or manipulated to show what you want people to see.
I reblogged some stuff because they were cute and it made me go aww. But I still wasn’t buying it that they were a couple.
So I decided to watch the con videos myself, which is mostly from JIB for cockles only. But there were a few all cast panels I watched too.
And whoa... yeah. I’d watched a few all cast panels in the past when I’d gone through my Mark Sheppard is gorgeous and I need to consume everything he’s ever appeared in, and thanks for that Mark because you’re what finally made me watch doctor who and I loved it phase. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still absolutely enamored with Mark, but I’ve seen almost everything he’s done now lol.
But the point is, I watched some of those panels and saw the Misha and Jensen goofing but I wasn’t focused on it. I was mostly paying attention to how the others were with Mark. Because he’d been my fascination at the time lol.
But then I watched Jensen. And I watched Misha. And I watched Jared. Together.
And the difference in how they acted towards each other was obvious.
Watching the panels, it really didn’t take long to see there was something there. Jensen has always come off as kind of quiet and reserved. But put him with Misha... and he was acting all cutesy and flirty (and also annoyed) like I do with my husband.
By the time I got to jib...4? The one with the paper airplane, I was like maybe.
I forget exactly what it was that sold me. But it didn’t take long. It was maybe 20-30 min of tumblr that had me convinced enough that I needed to look at things myself and figure it out.
But I knew in the past Jensen didn’t like talking about Destiel. But watching him with Misha at JIB, I had no idea how that Jensen and the no-Destiel Jensen were the same person.
Then, I also discovered Nesnej. lol.
But the heart eyes and the social media comments and the almost confirmations from cast mates - plus all of the JARED KNOWS content. He is truly being the little brother who has a secret and isn’t saying anything, but also isn’t not saying anything. And plans to keep making fun of them and saying as much as he thinks he can get away with, without actually saying they’re together.
2019... that was just a year for cockles content. And I’m working on this whole timeline theory thing, of how with the show about to be over, Jensen just stopped giving a fuck and literally said “let the world know, for all I care.”
When did you start shipping JenMish, and what sold you on it?