if I were jensen ackles, even if i truly and wholeheartedly did not think destiel was a good ship and i had never intentionally played into it even once. i think i would give it lip service whenever possible. i would be like ‘yep I did that. dean is hella gay for cas. all the purposeful looks? that was me. i made dean stare at cas like that all the time. i played him that way ON PURPOSE from the beginning.’ and not because i wanted to appease the fans or because i wanted them to cheer me on. no. i would do that because if the general consensus was that dean was gay for cas as an intentional acting choice on my part, then everyone would praise me as a brilliant actor with perfectly natural chemistry instead of coming to the conclusion that yes, i, hypothetical jensen ackles, was not in fact making jenius jacting joices but had instead simply been staring at my coworker’s lips for twelve years. because that’s exactly what happened, assuming destiel was actually unintentional.