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performing!dean this performing!dean that I need all of you to understand that Jack is putting on a customer service voice so people donāt view him as a threat and you all fell for it so badly you donāt even know what his real personality is

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give me dean winchester but who doesnāt really understand social cues. dean winchester who spent his adolescence learning everything about ānormalā society through 80ās movies and tv. give me dean winchester thrown off when someone asks him something out of the blue that doesnāt further the āplot,ā dean winchester who romanticizes relationships but is terrible at actually adapting to them. dean winchester who is confident as hell until he canāt remember the lines....yeah...
Comedic Guide to Deanās Attraction Faces
We have one absolutely unambiguous Dean is canonically attracted moment and it is to..... a poodle.Ā
In āDog Dean Afternoonā Dean is attracted to a Dog and so we know itās canon, Dean makes the following faces when attracted, or at min Jensen makes the following three faces when he's acting Dean as attracted,
Hereās Dean looking at sexy!poodle:
There are a few tells that come up like a smolder,Ā a dumbfounded sheepish grin, a head tilt, and theĀ ādown upā eyes.
So now that we have a basis of comparison, Letās compare the faces he makes with other times the fandom argues Dean was attracted to someone:
Here's Dean seeing Dr. Sexy:
There was the sheepish grin with the dumbfounded face and the quick down up glance above with a bonus grin below.
And of course in the car with human!Cas before his date:
Everyone's favorite reaction to a newly shaved angelic presence
That soldier moment
Dean when he first reconnects with Lee
Let's also compare this with moments that I think Dean was faking being attracted, times when he was hitting on someone and it was a pretense.Ā
For an example of performing!Dean, letās lookĀ at 9x09 when Dean and Cas talk about āApril being hotā out of nowhere for no reason because they're covering.
Thatās, thatās a very different face Dean Winchester:
āApril, She was hot.āĀ Ā āSo hot. and very nice. ...When she wasnāt torturing me.ā
And then, pointed out by @potatolovesdestiel, Dean immediately looks sideways at Sam to see if he's buying it.
I hit the max for images so help me out by rebloging with your own gifs.Ā
When was Dean attracted and not attracted to various beings in Supernatural?Ā Someone please get us a Benny Gif in here. We need it.
SPN 1x06 āSkinā
Okay, Iām gonna try to type while I watch this time instead of forgetting this blog exists until the episode is almost over.
You can tell the footage for the previously on segment was saved on a VHS copy instead of the original film that the show was shot with because even in the HD iTunes version I have it looks low quality as fuck. And jumpy in the way that brings me back to my teens watching the WB all the damn time.
I love this song. WTF is this song. Shazam says āGood Dealā by Mommy and Daddy. I⦠have no comment, except that it sounds like everything I was listening to in college at the time this shit was airing.
Aaaaand not!Dean turns around to face the SWAT team after obviously torturing some woman. THAT is a cold open.
I wanna know what that car is in the background. Itās pretty. Maybe a convertible Impala? They have similar grills. This is not at all important.
Also, I love that with these higher definition versions of the episodes you can see that Samās email is lawboy and whatever dot com and that people in the fandom have started calling him Law Boy. Itās hilarious.
DEAN: Well, what exactly do you tell āem? You know, about where youāve been, what youāve been doinā?
SAM: I tell āem Iām on a road trip with my big brother. I tell āem I needed some time off after Jess.
DEAN: Oh, so you lie to āem.
SAM: No. I just donāt tell āemā¦.everything.
DEAN: Yeah, thatās called lying. I mean, hey, man, I get it, tellinā the truth is far worse.
SAM: So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life? (DEAN shrugs.) Youāre serious?
DEAN: Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you canāt get close to people, period.
Aaaaand now I have Dean and Cassie feelings again and we havenāt even gotten to her episode yet.
SAM: No, man, I know Zack. Heās no killer.
DEAN: Well, maybe you know Zack as well as he knows you.
Aaaaaand now I have Dean and Lee feelings and weāre nowhere near Leeās episode in season 15.
YOU JUST BLEW THROUGH A STOP SIGN DEAN WTF.
Little Becky. Oi with the reusing of names.
Of course Sam made friends with a bunch of rich kids while he was at college in a desperate attempt to try to be normal.
SAM: You know, maybe we could see the crime scene. Zackās house.
DEAN: We could.
REBECCA: Why? I mean, what could you do?
SAM: Well, me, not much. But Deanās a cop. (DEAN laughs.)
DEAN: Detective, actually.
I love that Dean was like āhow dare you call me that.ā
Okay, after a bit of research, I totally want to take a day trip to Bisbee, Arizona, but itās already in the 90s here in the desert and itās not even May so that trip is going to have to wait until⦠winter or something. There is no way in hell Iām going deeper into the desert when the weather gets hotter.
Itās a historic mining town tourist trap looking place now which is exactly the kind of shit I love.
SAM: Bec, look, I know Zack didnāt do this. Now, we have to find a way to prove that heās innocent.
I mean, not technically, technically you would 1) NOT FUCK WITH A MURDER INVESTIGATION YOUāRE NOT LEGALLY INVOLVED IN BECAUSE ANYTHING YOU FIND WOULD BE INADMISSABLE IN COURT 2) find evidence to provide a reasonable doubt for the jury that he did commit the crime. You know, like a lawyer would need to do, Law Boy.
DEAN: I just donāt think this is our kind of problem.
When I made my husband watch this show with me (heās seen it all at least once now over the years) this is the recurring thing that drove him crazy.
You guys canāt even go in through the back door? Or shut the front door behind you? Really?
REBECCA: (tearfully) Well, thereās no sign of a break-in. They say that Emily let her attacker in.
Yeah, that doesnāt even really mean that she knew her attacker. Just that it was someone she let her guard down around or got in some other way. See: The Son of Sam and Nightstalker, etc.
Love the pinup magnet on the fridge. Iād throw shade at that, but I have a pinup magnet on my fridge too so⦠pot kettle and all that.
Okay, both people in the next couple are gorgeous.
And oh wow those special effects changing eyes⦠wow.
This poor couple. I feel so bad for them in this episode.
How⦠how are the police gonna explain the way he was able to beat himself over the head with a bat??? Iā¦
I love that 5:30 in the morning on TV is clearly like⦠10 AM.
Okay, this is a really unrelated point, but the graffiti on the dumpster here reminds me of the Teen Wolf fandoms use of the name Void!Stiles when Stiles Stilinski was possessed by a Nogitsune⦠I just spent way too long digging through YouTube and my Tumblr tags from back when those episodes were airing looking for a few specific videos and couldnāt find them. The TL;DR reason I bring it up here is goofball, bi-coded main character guy getting possessed by an entity set on destroying the people he loves. SOUNDS LIKE THIS EPISODE AND A WHOLE LOT OF SPN RIGHT. I love that all these monster hunting shows call out to each other.
This scene haunts me years later and I donāt even WATCH Teen Wolf. I just watched the fandom on Tumblr collectively lose itās shit then tripped down a Hale Pack fanfiction rabbit hole.
ANYWAY
Back to Supernatural, a show that also treated its fan base, cast, and characters like garbage! Huzzah!
DEAN: Well, thereās another way to goādown. (They look down and notice a manhole.)
Iām gonna be mature and ignore the double entendre thereā¦
But I love that Dean thinks of the world in 3D. Which sounds like a dumb statement to make, but this is honestly a good example of that in action.
SAM: I bet this runs right by Zackās house, too.
Really Sam, sewers run by houses? SO WEIRD. I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED.
DEAN: You know, I just had a sick thought. When the shapeshifter changes shapeāmaybe it sheds.
SAM: That is sick. (DEAN puts the bloody pile back on the ground.)
Guys, there is a WHOLE ASS EAR in that pile of yuck youāre looking at. I think itās pretty safe to assume the shapeshifter indeed sheds its skin like a snake. A much⦠gooier snake.
Samās friend is rightfully pissed at him for fucking with the crime scene.
This is before the pearl gripped guns?! Wow. I never noticed that before.
Also, this whole episode gives me feelings.
++++
Cool. Tumblr mobile ate a whole section of my notes on this when it crashed for NO APPARENT REASON. Love that.
It always boggles my mind that actors can trust the people theyāre working with enough to let people ātieā ropes around their neck or put them in actually dangerous positions in a scene.
SHAPESHIFTER: Heās sure got issues with you. You got to go to college. He had to stay home. I mean, I had to stay home. With Dad. You donāt think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you?
SAM: Where is my brother? (The shapeshifter leans in close to SAM.)
SHAPESHIFTER: I am your brother. See, deep down, Iām just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know Iām a freak. And sooner or later, everybodyās gonna leave me. (He backs away.)
SAM: What are you talkinā about?
SHAPESHIFTER: You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothinā, just poof. Left me with your sorry ass. But, still, this life? Itās not without its perks. (He laughs.) I meet the nicest people. Like little Becky. You know, Dean would bang her if he had the chance. Letās see what happens. (He smiles and covers SAM with a sheet.)
This exchange is just⦠so much. So many feelings. And I will forever (unless we magically get a fix-it fic mini season somedayā¦) be SO MAD that none of this got resolved in that pointless, trash heap of a finale.
REBECCA: Okay, so, this thingāit can make itself look like anybody?
SHAPESHIFTER: Thatās right. (She chuckles.)
REBECCA: Well, what is it, like a genetic freak? (The shapeshifter laughs.)
SHAPESHIFTER: Maybe. Evolution is about mutation, right? So, maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else. (REBECCA looks around, uncomfortable. The shapeshifterās eyes glint silver, and he smiles.)
It always amazes me how much of this show is a pile of accidental queer allegories parading around in an ill-fitting toxic masculinity suit.
Vulcan mind meld! I love nerd!Dean. Also, Iām rewatching Star Trek: TOS with my husband, because that is what my life amounts to these days, rewatching comfort TV and flailing over the bits I love.
This post does a better job than I can do of pairing up screen caps with the dialogue of this next scene. SIX EPISODES IN. Theyāre dumping all of this character depth SIX EPISODES IN. FUCK THIS SHOW FOR NOT EMBRACING ITSELF.
Okay, I love that he screams back in her face after he threw the phone. Itās not something to laugh at because the situation is horrifying, but I canāt help laughing at it every time.
AND THE WAY THEY CUT THESE SCENES. Going from him winding his hand back to backslap her directly to him dropping the chains on the table to show how hard he must have hit her without actually making the actors hit each other. Good job editing department!
I⦠donāt understand the shifterās motivation for killing people. If he can take over peopleās identities without killing them, why kill them? Is it just because heās a homicidal, rapist piece of shit? Cause thatās all it seems like.
How did the SWAT team even know she was being attacked? Why can the snipers aim no better than Storm Troopers?
Ugh, these kind of transformation body horror scenes are exactly why werewolf stories have never really appealed to me much. Like, I could do without watching your ribs move and teeth fall out, dude.
BUT.
THIS FUCKING SCENE.
I looked up the song thatās playing over shapeshifter!Dean being caught by the SWAT team and then going through the grotesque transformation. (And as far as I know, the iTunes version has the original music from the episodes.)
Itās a song called āMaryā by The Death Riders
Who's your mother, who's your mother here boy // Who's your mother, whos your mommy dear // Who's your father, who's your father here boy // Who's your father, who's your daddy dear
Silently screaming // Where everyone knows // Daddy's always watchin' // Where everywhere - everywhere I go
I don't wanna be a freak show pretty boy anymore // I don't wanna be a full time slave // I don't wanna be your midnight cowboy anymore // I just want to be Mary
This is⦠a fascinating choice. Here are the rest of the lyrics. The song as a whole has a weird incesty kinda vibe to it? Kinda like when SPN tries to straight-wash itself and misses the mark wildly. (Like Deanās male siren episode.)
The midnight cowboy line reminded me of 12x11 and the bull riding scene with āBroomstick Cowboyā by Bobby Goldsboro playing over it
Dream on, little Broomstick Cowboy, // Dream while you can; // Of big green frogs, // And puppy dogs, // And castles in the sand.
For, all too soon you'll awaken; // Your toys will all be gone. // Your broomstick horse will ride away, // To find another home. // And you'll have grown into a man, // With cowboys of your own. // And then you'll have to go to war, // To try and save your home.
And then you'll have to learn to hate; // You'll have to learn to kill. // It's always been that way, my son; // I guess it always will.
Because, you know, why not add tons of feelings into the lyrics, right?
Props to the people who can embrace their rewatches and reclamations of the show with ease. Because every episode seems to remind me of how hollow and tragic Deanās ending was and I just⦠struggle all over again.
Anyway, back to the episode so I can move on with my day.
REPORTER: An anonymous tip led police to a home in the Central West End, where a S.W.A.T team discovered a local woman bound and gagged. Her attacker, a white male, approximately twenty-four to thirty years of age, was discovered hiding in her home. (A sketch of DEAN appears on the screen.)
DEAN: Man! Thatās not even a good picture. (SAM looks around cautiously.)
SAM: Itās good enough. (He walks away.)
DEAN: Man! (He follows SAM.)
(CUT TO: Alley. DEAN and SAM are walking. DEAN steps into a puddle.)
DEAN: Ugh, come on.
I love that we get two tiny little back-to-back vanity moments for Dean here. One commenting on the sketch artist rendition of him being broadcasted on the news and the other tripping in the puddle. There is literally someone running around the city trying to kill people while wearing Deanās face, but Dean is still concerned with how he looks appears to others. Heās still concerned with keeping up his own performance. The shifter left him with just a t-shirt, so he doesnāt even have his usual comfort layers on and at any moment someone could spot him and call the police or try to kill him for assaulting Samās friend. His life is wildly out of control in that moment and the only thing he can try to focus on is his appearance (something semi-controllable) and finding the shifter before any of that other shit can happen.
One day I want to put together a like top 10 episodes focusing on / explaining each TFW character from the series. Like the kind of list you could show someone whoās never seen the show, but has OPINIONS about the characters (or who hasnāt seen the whole show and seen the growth they went through⦠you know, like the people responsible for the travesty of 15x20). This episode would be on that list. Iām not sure how I could manage to make a list of only 10 episodes to understand Dean Winchester by, but eh.
SAM: What are you gonna do to me?
SHAPESHIFTER: Oh, Iām not gonna do anything. Dean will, though.
SAM: Theyāll never catch him.
SHAPESHIFTER: Oh, doesnāt matter. Murder in the first of his own brother? Heāll be hunted the rest of his life. (He picks up a sharp knife and examines it.)
Speaking of season 15 in general, this right here. This was Chuckās villain story arc thesis statement. AND THEY DROPPED THE GODDAMN BALL WITH IT. I think thatās the thing that honestly pisses me off the most these days (about 5 1/2 months from when the finale aired) is that they tried making the whole thing a tragedy but did such an awful job with it that it just ended up like a deflating condom balloon at a dive bar concert. Disappointing and gross. The finale for season 14 set them up SO FUCKING WELL and it just⦠didnāt get there.
Beckyās parents are gonna be pissed at how torn up their house is after all this shitā¦
And youāre not shooting him when you first see him strangling Sam becauseā¦?????
I like that he took the necklace back. Also, is this kinda Dean death number .5 of the show? Like it wasnāt him but it was also kinda him. Eh.
At least they left the windshield on Baby this time. Reflections are better than tearing her apart.
I just read one of your posts from 2018 about Dean calling Cas his and Sam's brother and discussing whether this would be a hurdle for destiel becoming canon.
I called a friend one of my "other brothers" all during high school because I was trying to convince myself I didn't have a crush on him. It didn't work. I 100% had a crush on him FOR DECADES.
To be fair, many teenage boys (including him) considered my parents to be parental figures (he still regularly calls my mother to chat and check up on her), but I definitely chose to introduce him as "my other brother" to cover the fact I had a crush on him and avoid examining it too closely. He was always confused when I did. Probably because we also flirted shamelessly with each other. š
Thank you, anonymous friend! I always love to hear reports from The Field on stuff like this.
For anyone who doesnāt immediately recognize it, Nonnie is talking about the ābrotherzoneā moment in 11x23 where Dean and Cas are in the car finding an excuse to be alone with one another on one last supply run. Cas looks CRUSHED and honestly we all saw through this particular bullshit. But itās good to hear some real world testimony about what Deans state of mind might have been. VERY plausible that he was simply trying to convince himself more than anyone else!

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āYouāre just a beach read. Sexy, but skimmable.ā
āLady, Iām Tolstoy.ā
This is Dean refuting the viewers that take his surface bs as the whole truth. There is more to him than beer, bacon and boobs. The arc weāre seeing the conclusion of this season is the death of performing Dean.
Friendly reminder that Dean was once and for all textualized and confirmed as NOT ājust a gruntā but an intelligent nerd/pop culture geek (as if we didnāt already know that for many, many years :P) in 14x20.
He is the multilayered Dean Winchester we adore, and Sam the truth-teller knew it here.
Tough but soft, firm but deeply affectionate. Specific but ever-versatile: pop music lover and pink comforting-nightgown wearer and closet (pun intended) fashionista who defies the endless list of unhealthy social conventions that A Real ManTM must follow. Heās indelibly caring, and generous, and emotionally apt, and instinctually sharp, and profoundly strong (āmore than strongā, as his subtextual spouse Cas says in Dean-focal 14x10), yet the prime element of himself that he has finally embraced is LOVE.
Self-love...the unconditional love he holds for his family...love waiting to be released from the prison/spiral arc of toxic psychological suppression and emotional misarticulation, waiting to be self-fulfilled as he stops rejecting what/who he WANTS to have/be, waiting to spit in the face of destiny ā was finally set free when he chose not to shoot his son Jack ā> Deanās first act of true free will - true defiance against Godās authorial Fate machine. And this act was his final rebirth, the ultimate WIN. He chose LOVE, LIFE, FOUND FAMILY, HOPE, FAITH (in himself and in his interpersonal romantic vs familial relationships) ā all intrinsically linked universal forces that Chuck was never able to control. Now S15 shall see Dean further emancipate himself from his last remaining personal shackles to achieve self-actualization/complete positive self-process, and this includes HONESTY. Using his words. Verbalizing the unsaid. Pursuing his unadulterated self (again, he HAS, and heāll continue to do so).
*dances across table*
The upper echelons of internal progression. Itās vindicating!!
Me since 14x20 aired/S14 wrapped up:
(Yes Iām still writing some more about this finale omg)
Working towards Jensen's tap dancing number