if i’m in heaven

even the show instead of going "wtf fans are shipping the brothers lets ignore this and not talk about it until it goes away" they went "oh the fans are shipping the brothers lets have sam and dean being confused with a couple again and again and lets have a character writing wincest fiction and reading it out loud in an episode and also lets have two characters cosplaying sam and dean that are actually dating"

You’re insane. Yeah, it’s been said.

Spn being subtle as usual. Say hello to a big chunk of Dean’s character arc. Can you live up to your father’s legacy? Can you make your dad proud and put a bullet in your brother’s head, or are you not man enough?

And here’s where a lot of my ‘spn could have been a commentary on rejecting toxic masculinity’ thoughts come from. Because John is wrong about Sam, and he’s wrong about supernatural creatures being inherently evil or dangerous. The lack of mercy, compassion, humanity shown by most other hunters to the non-human is wrong. And if Dean kills Sam, it will destroy him. Narratively, killing Sam is only ever framed as a potential failing on Dean’s part. It’s not something Dean wants to do, and it’s not something we want him to do.

A lot of what Sam champions, in the first few seasons at least, in contrast to John and Gordon and the attitudes drilled into Dean’s head, are correct. Independent thinking; compassion; sensitivity; diplomacy; tolerance; talking about your feelings like a semi-healthy person instead of killing things to fill the void. And Dean mocks Sam because most of these qualities are traditionally feminine, but Sam encourages them in Dean, and they’re what keep Dean from becoming an emotionless killing machine.

To Dean, Sam represents family, love, home, hearth (and it’s true vise versa!), things that are also seen as traditionally feminine, maternal, soft. So it’s unsurprising that Gordon derides Dean’s love for Sam as weakness. “I’m surprised at you, Dean, getting all emotional. I had heard you were more of a professional than this.” A professional like Gordon, who killed his sister without blinking. A professional like John, who sacrificed being a good father to be a good hunter. Who has tasked Dean with killing Sam.

@swnylzonmydime You’re so right.

Sam doesn’t get enough credit for pulling Dean out of his repressed shell. “Aren’t you tired of being a good soldier? Dont you just wanna go apeshit” except go apeshit is acknowledge dad’s abuse, value your own life, drop the cool guy facade, and break gender stereotypes.