#soft jensen

I had to redraw the preliminary sketch so many times, the perspective here was something crazy. I've never worked so much on a preliminary like with this one, and yet there are so many mistakes 🙄

Hi friend!

Listen, if I knew which exact bar those two went to and took a candlelit picture at I’d be there all the fucking time just on the off chance that they might show up. Heck, if I’m ever in Vancouver when they are I might just rush around to different candlelit bars on the off chance. So I don’t know where they took it.

But your real question is one I got–in a consistently panicked tone–from other anons here so I’ll address it. Were Jensen and Misha maybe not on a date at all but actually just sitting very close together at a candlelit table taking a ten-year anniversary pic and tagging it on social media…when there were other cast and crew (including Jared around) in the restaurant??? PERISH THE THOUGHT!!!

I jest, anon, and I get why y’all are worrying b/c the inevitable backlash of people being like “your joy is too much, Cockles shippers! for God’s sake, cut back on the joy!” is unpleasant. But here’s the thing, friends: it doesn’t matter. Yes, we’d like to imagine maybe it was the night of the three least ordered items and it’s at an overtly datelike and romantic location and it was just them but…if it was the two of them cozying up at a cast party that’s…not a problem. It doesn’t invalidate the romance of it or our happiness.

What makes the whole thing romantic is the way it happened, not whether anyone they knew was nearby. Say it was at a holiday cast party both times (maybe one held in the same location in 2009 and 2019, hence the caption). That STILL means that 1) Jensen took the first pic of them; 2) Jensen SAVED the first pic of them, either across multiple phones, or in the cloud, or (as I speculated) by printing it out; 3) Jensen remembered the anniversary of that picture; 4) Jensen thought to recreate that picture and asked Misha to; 5) Jensen decided to post it to social media with a sentimental caption. The fact is that that shit is fucking romantic and it doesn’t matter one bit whether their castmates were at the same event. In fact, maybe it’s WORSE! Imagine Jensen pulling Misha away from a party to recreate this photo he has on his phone…so much more obvious, in a way, then doing it if they just went to dinner together. 

I actually believe the photos are both from cast and crew Christmas parties! For one thing, I think Misha is wearing that same checked shirt that you can see in this photo where they are doing…whatever it is they’re doing:

Looks like it to me! (Kudos to @jensensitive for having that other xmas party photo on hand.) Sure, it’s later in the night so they are drunker and sweatier and have some seriously blown pupils, let’s be real, but that’s the same shirt and even though Misha likes to recycle it’s sufficiently…distinctive that makes sense. 

ETA: @jensensitive says it’s a different shirt and def not from the party...she’s probably right, since she is about most things, and the check looks narrower (which isn’t something, like the colors, that could really be affected by lighting and filters). I’ll let you fashionistas decide for yourself. But my original point that the presence of other people at a cast party where this picture may have een taken does not invalidate its romantic context totally stands.

You know what else makes sense? Jensen being able to remember the date and the place b/c there was a party there and because after the party…maybe…something happened between them. (Or maybe it happened before. Or maybe not yet. This is all conjecture and headcanoning and I hope you all know that!)  All I’m saying is that if you’ve been trying to work up the nerve to hit on your coworker who you’ve already spent a year being fascinated with what better chance to do it than at the office Christmas party? (Plus Cockles historians know) some tension between them was evident in the moment captured above and the whole emcee act that they did that it is taken from.)

To recap and reassure, then, I’d go one better on your question and say that yes, it’s more than possible both times were at the SPN cast and crew holiday party or afterparty. That’s why Jensen could confirm things like the date, location, and table. And that fact makes zero difference to how sentimental and romantic it is to recreate the photo and post it in that particular way. I would certainly believe you if you told me this was also an anniversary for them because it provided a catalyst to take their flirtation into something else…but that also doesn’t HAVE to be true to make it romantic. (Also: this would mean that the “three least ordered items” story is from a DIFFERENT NIGHT, probably the previous year, and that means they have multiple romantic night stories and we are all dead.)