Some of you know I write a lot of metas on spn. I’m doing my first rewatch of the show, which started post finale just to evaluate at what point deancas/destiel and Bi!Dean became intentional canon.  l’ve ended up analyzing the shit out of this show, finding more subtext, queer characters,  canon ships, and easter eggs than I ever thought possible. I’ve ended up most interested in the extensive queercoding I’m uncovering as I rewatch, something I truly hadn’t studied in detail before. 

SPN played a lot with the genre it was born from, the Hays era horror movies that coded queer characters as villains and vice versa.  The only means of inclusion at the time, caricature rather than silence.  I love teasing out when SPN subverts these tropes or pays homage to pieces of media that were radical or daring.

What I am not interested in is queercoding that is not tongue in cheek, is not playing with films of the classical era, but is rather actually repeating the idea that gay people are villains that the public needs to be protected from.  I write a lot of posts about tiny or hidden moments that punch you right in the feels. So when I tell you that one of these lil queercode references disturbed and upset me so much that I decided not to write it up and publish it, you might understand that’s bad.

When I tell you that the ‘homage’ in 14x02 ‘Gods and Monsters’ reads, in hindsight, like someone told BuckLeming, ‘yeah, we’re queercoding everything now and it’s your turn, get on board’ and then didn’t explain to them that the idea was not to play into the idea that homosexuals are predators, just believe me when I say that I am irate and I am disgusted and I am wondering - If this was a move to a coordinated effort and, if so, why the hell nobody was supervising them?

Is this my proof that Dabb was giving the whole staff the memo? Is this a fluke? Did it not occur to him? Did Dabb not know any f’ing better?