#destiel meta

[dotthings]

Okay, yeah, spn writers getting their lines cut because certain parties wanted the subtext more buried. But Ben Edlund also full on telling us SHOW DON'T TELL matters and letting things be self-evident because it's right there so...it's there. He also said he really liked how they just said it outright with the "more profound bond" line.

So it's self-evident show don't tell And it's been said outright And he's for saying it outright

But if something self evident isn't said outright that doesn't mean it's not there and not canon and not text.

Let me repeat myself: If something self evident isn't said outright that doesn't mean it's not there and not canon and not text.

#Destiel #destiel meta #THIS IS WHY IT'S OKAY TO SAY IT'S CANON!!! AND I WILL KEEP SAYING IT IS!!!

[insanesonofabitch]

I’m not sure if someone else already made a post about this, but I was rewatching Tombstone and something just hit me. Dean wanted to stay alone with Cas a little bit longer in that cowboy hotel room. Sam takes Jack with him and pairs Dean up with Cas, after noticing how happy Dean was to get Cas back (which he even made a comment on earlier in the episode, we love a supportive brother). Dean agrees with this change of plan. Sam and Jack immediately gets up to leave and head for the graveyard. But when Cas is about to get up too and get ready, Dean does this:

And this is the same fucking goddamn episode where Dean makes Cas wear a fucking cowboy hat. And then gets offended when Cas didn’t immediately recognize his Tombstone reference. “I made you watch it,” not “we.” The same way “where Dean spread your ashes” is NOT “we.” And Dean has probably already seen ALL of those movies, probably a shit ton of times. He just wanted Cas to see them too. With him. Like a movie date night. And then Cas imitates a phrase from the movie, “I’m your huckleberry.” And then Dean, after averting his eyes and closing them and gulping down, says “Yeah, exactly.” immediately followed by “…it’s good to have you back, Cas.”

AND NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT DEAN TOOK A PHOTO OF CAS OFF SCREEN???????? AND THEN PRINTED IT OUT??????????

#THIS. FUCKING GODDAMN EPISODE. #DEAN. #YOU AND YOUR LITTLE SCHEMES #ooohh I bet his ass was (unsuccessfully) flirting with Cas the entire fucking time #and Cas didn’t really get his very subtle (cowardly) hints so he gave up somewhere on their way to meet the sergeant #but THEN “I’m your huckleberry” happens and it’s taking everything in Dean’s power not to show how badly he wants Cas #insane show for insane people #supernatural #spn 13x06 #spn #tombstone #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #deancas #casdean #dean x castiel #destiel meta #dean meta #reiotalks

[strawlessandbraless]

There were things...people, feelings that he wanted to experience differently than he had before. Or maybe even for the first time

#this is my roman empire #and also my Pompeii #dean deserved better #chuck won theory #spn #profound bond #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #insane show for insane people #deancas #supernatural #misha collins #jensen ackles #lgbtqia #spn crack #lgbt #spn memes #supernatural memes #destiel meta #spn meta #supernatural meta

[t00muchheart]

I cannot be normal about season 6 Dean Winchester fighting so desperately to believe in Castiel that he’s pushing back against Sam and Bobby, the two people he trusts most. Like—that’s HUGE. That Dean, who struggles to trust people, who has been trained not to, clings so tightly to his belief in Cas, and so obviously not only feels betrayed, but hurt when Bobby and Sam are proven right. I cannot be normal about the fact that, after everything that goes down, after Cas has betrayed them and lied to them and led to evil being unleashed on the world, 7.02 Dean pulls his trenchcoat out of the lake and carries it with him as he travels, mourning his lost friend.

Dean, who has been deeply betrayed, who does not trust easily and forgives even less easily, still clings to what he has left of Cas, and still forgives him when he comes back, even before he’s fixed his mistakes.

#spn #spn meta #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #cas #casdean #destiel meta #destiel #profound bond #it takes two to have a profound bond #7.02 #leviathan!cas #godstiel #idiots in love

[vendettasfanfictioning]

"Dean didn't love Cas," "It was platonic," fuck off, when Cas died, he handled his loss the exact same way John did when he lost Mary. It's not even subtext, it's in the dialogue. Sam points it out, loud and clear. That's literally what the narrative was conveying.

"He's not just grieving about Cas, he lost Mary too." Yeah, but even when he's hellbent on blaming all of their loss on Jack, even he could see that Mary made her choice.

But to him, Cas didn't. To Dean, Cas was manipulated—deceived by some idea of "paradise," and it's easier to swallow that than to consider that Cas up and left them to protect Lucifer's child.

And you wanna know the cherry on top of all this??? Castiel's paradise consisted of them, together. Happy. Alive. Together. Castiel may have run away with Kelly to fulfill her wish for Jack, (to let him keep his powers where the Winchesters wanted to turn him human), but he only did so for that promise. In the end, he ran away so he could give them this.

(x)

#im so fucking impatient to get this arc over with already #seeing how dean treats jack makes me want to throw hands at him i hate it #(which i guess is the point) #be the change you want to see! break the cycle of generatoonal trauma by not being a shitty dad ahem dean ahem #watching spn #supernatural #spn meta #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack kline #castiel #destiel #deancas #destiel meta #13x04 #13x03 #12x19

[thefableddestiel]

Here’s a parallel I noticed that highlights the difference between Cas relationship with Dean and Cas relationship with Sam pretty well. Episodes 10x22 vs 14x15

When MOC Dean is beating up Cas, Cas doesn’t hit back even once. The most he does is try to bear hug him from behind to calm him down. But not a single punch.

When Sam is Justin Smith, Cas says he won’t hurt him, but he actually does pick him up and slam him into the ground. It’s not a big deal, obviously he knows Sam can take it, but it’s something he wouldn’t even do with Dean.

Before the actual fighting, Cas tells dean, “I’m your friend… I’ll be the one that watches you murder the world.” And then when MOC Dean is on top of Cas holding the angel blade to him, Cas holds onto the wrist Dean has on his tie and the only thing he says is, “please”. He doesn’t even try to grab the hand holding the knife. And then Dean stops.

On the other hand, when Sam is on top of Cas trying to stab him, Cas uses an entirely different approach. He’s forcibly holding back Sam’s arm that’s holding the angel blade. He tells him he understands that he wants to be happy, but that if he does this he fails the people they lost. He says “if you do this you fail Jack. Sam, you fail Dean.” And that makes Sam stop.

The difference that’s so stark is that Cas has to appeal to Sam through talking about Dean. But Cas can appeal to Dean through his own relationship to him. He doesn’t need to bring up what it will do to Sam or anyone else, because their own relationship is powerful enough and he knows it.

#I could say a lot more #and I probably will in a different post #spn #supernatural #castiel #destiel #dean winchester #deancas #sam winchester #sam and cas #spn 10x22 #spn 14x15 #spn meta #supernatural meta #destiel meta #mark of cain #moc dean #justin smith

[babygirldilf]

I think that Dean and Cas' story is truly a love story. From beginning to end, we see endless little storylines and director choices and writing choices and actor choices, we see their bond builds and builds and breaks and builds again and they ultimately have some of the most epic quotes spoken to them or by them, their story to it's core is a story about love, and how It can change even the most heartless of beings. It is also a story of so many beautiful mergings, between heaven and earth, angel and human, we see two supposed opposite beings literally fall in love infinite times over while trying to save each other again and again, and in so many ways, not always good ways, but all in good intention.

An angel of the lord saves the righteous man from hell. This is where they start. And then he continues trying to explain to him why he deserves to be saved. Why he will do it time and time again. And so he does.

They go to purgatory together, and the whole time they are there their whole mission is trying to save one another, even if it meant sacrificing oneself, because the other one is too important for them to lose, to imagine a life without, to deprive them of continuing to live like they deserve.

They always tried to keep the other one safe and close, without knowing truly why that is what they wanted.

The angel rebelled for the human. He kept doing everything for him, and the human did everything for the angel, trusted him, made him his family, and taught him what family truly meant.

They were each other soulmates, which was confusing and took some time for the angel to comprehend since he never had a soul to begin with. Maybe the human made him grow a soul, even if only figuratively, but either way, he couldn't deny the truth once it set in; it was the love he had for this human that changed him, changed everything, the entire course of the universe.

So yeah, Castiel, Angel of the Lord, Celestial being of Heaven and the Divine, let his love change him. And he became other things, like Cas and Huggy Bear and Sunshine. He let the heaven in him fall in love with the earth and never came back to the heartless soulless being he once was. He loved now and was in love, and it was so much it was enough to make him happy.

And Dean loved Cas. He loved him a lot. He saw praying as begging but only prayed to Cas. Only begged Cas to see him and understand he needs him, because love is too big a word, or too small, or too hard to let out of his throat. He let himself be hurt by Cas both physically and emotionally because as much as Cas cared for him, there were times he did not know the best ways to show it. He trusted him time and time again and gave him the benefit of the doubt until he couldn't find it in him anymore to hold against his own anger and lost it. Lost his angel to his anger while he froze in place. But he woke up in time, and prayed again to his angel to come to him, to save himself, because he loved him, he loved him so much that he let his anger die and let himself cry for his love. And Cas came to him and heard his prayer, but not the love that was too scared to be set free.

And then it was time. It was time for Cas to save Dean one last time, and the only way he could do that was by confessing his love and being happy and then abruptly being taken away forever. And he shared it all, everything they never talked about so openly before but always fucking felt and knew was there. Because not only he always loved Dean, he always really saw him, saw it all, and knew it all, but understood better than anyone that this Righteous Man did everything for love and out of love. Cas not only fell in love with the earth or with a human but with the most human aspect of this world, which was love. Dean was love incarnate, and Cas was always in Awe of him

So they loved and loved and lost each other, and it hurt like hell to think they would never have their happy ending.

But Dean and Cas had a fan base. A full on Fandom of people who loved them truly and wanted them to have a happy ending. And the writers aren't the only ones who matter in this story. We changed them too.

In my eyes, and I'm sure that in many of yours as well, Dean and Cas are happy and alive. They are together and in love, like they have always wanted to be, like they deserved to be. And it is good, and sweet, and safe, and sound.

#destiel #dean cas #dean winchester #castiel #spn #supernatural #destiel meta #spn meta

[xxc0reyxx]

dean and cas have abandonment issues but they deal with them in such different ways.

dean is terrified of being unloveable and of people leaving him, so he pushes them away before they can leave. because in his head, everyone leaves in the end, so why bother let them get close? he’ll just end up heartbroken in the end because that’s all he’s know, from his own family, his friends, partners, allies. they either end up dead or gone.

cas, on the other hand, is terrified of being useless because he had been created as a tool, a weapon for others to use, and was treated as one his whole life. every time he thinks he isn’t useful anymore he leaves because why would anyone want a broken tool? people always end up leaving when he doesn’t have power, or they make him leave with little to no explanation.

dean needs someone to stay when he’s pushing them away, to be reassured that even when he is at his worst they still love him and want to be around him.

cas needs someone to tell him to stay when he’s no longer useful. if he is asked to leave he will, because he is never allowed to stay for long and sees so little of himself.

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #destiel meta #spn meta #spn analysis #destiel analysis

[reblogging4thewin]

Hold on a second, while we're on the subject of tactical Cas...

We already know he can heal people without actually making skin-on-skin contact, and that he touches Dean just because.

But consider asking Dean to let him take his temperature in 11x10.

He could identify that the dead guy in My Bloody Valentine had a bladder infection by sniffing him. He diagnosed a hernia in a baby from a distance.

He also just had his hand on Dean's face.

Of course the Doylist perspective is that this is a funny gag, sure. But the Watsonian perspective here is that Cas is a crafty little perv (if you think it's meant as a rectal thermometer), or that he thinks he can make a breakthrough in Dean's walls by getting a finger in his mouth.

The choice of words with "let me" also....I mean great asking for explicit consent, but it also betrays that this is something he specifically wants to do.

Weird timing in context, but evidently Cas won't pass up an opportunity 😂.

#I would ask if this is too unhinged but that's a question for the writers really #destiel meta #spn meta #kpspn #kp spn #inflicting this on everyone now #destiel #spn #supernatural #ofc this is a joke but only partially #like - it's there. in the text. #11*10 #spn 11x10

[spnbeit-midrash]

late seasons watch through has me so deep in ‘when is dean aware of his feelings for Cas and vice versa’ and while I think it’s come to the surface to him a few times before there is no WAY post demon!Dean he isn’t thinking about it!!!! Demon!Dean was a dean that embraced all of his hedonistic instincts without shame, and we /know/ he slept with men, or at least Crowley; so he has to be aware of/attempting to re-bury his lack of heterosexuality; and then post cure we get ‘you look great’ and ‘I’m glad you’re here’ and dean trying to reach out but I think feeling a bit rebuked by ‘there’s a female waiting out in the car’ and then two episodes later a teenage girl says the word destiel to his real actual face and by the end of the episode he tells a little lesbian playing a mini-Cas to put as much sub into that text as possible!!??? like I don’t think Dean does a lot of self reflection but that is not buried deep that is AT THE SURFACE there is a degree to which he has to consider being aware of how very not normal he is about this man

#supernatural season 10 #destiel #deancas #destiel meta #spn

[insanesonofabitch]

I’m a firm believer of the idea that the writers had to get Cas and Dean to stay away from each other as much as possible in season 9, especially after everything that happened before, during, and after their time in Purgatory—like Goodbye Stranger, for example—because if they stayed together, destiel would’ve already been canon.

So just imagine if Gadreel wasn’t a dick who was being used to keep them apart, and they let Cas stay inside the bunker. Cas is human, complete with fresh, new, and intensified human desires. Who’s also canonically in love with Dean, by the way. As for Dean, that motherfucker literally almost confessed in season 8. They wrote an entire subplot about Cas being brainwashed with the intention of breaking him out of it by having Dean confess his feelings towards him. By telling him he loves him.

Do you fucking see where this is headed towards?? THE natural progression of these events??? That the writers had set up and trapped themselves in?????

Human Cas safely staying in the bunker with Dean would’ve been such a perfect environment for more intimate moments between them. And they couldn’t risk that. Dean having to guide Cas through mundane, day-to-day human things he never had to deal with before literally sounds like the plot of a cheesy romantic series I’ve seen. Which makes me wonder about what the hell took place between the night Dean stayed with and took care of Cas after their fight against Ephraim, and the morning when he drove Cas back to work. That was one of the few moments in that season where they could be alone together. And also something that they chose to skip over.

#AND THEN THEY TRY TO TELL ME ITS UNRECIPROCATED???? #well #anyway #my hc is that that’s when they watched tombstone together :) #which they both thought wasn’t a date but wished it was #maybe that’s why Cas didn’t immediately rememeber it in s13. #because he didn’t have perfect memory as a human #but he eventually does when Dean mentions the fact that he made him watch it #god I wanna draw them so bad #imagine the tension #thinking thoughts #destiel #destiel meta #deancas #casdean #dean winchester #castiel #dean x castiel #dean is bi #bi dean #spn #supernatural #queernatural #goodbye stranger #heaven can’t wait #tombstone #spn 8x17 #spn 9x06 #spn 13x06 #reiotalks

[strawlessandbraless]

I sometimes wish Cas had gotten creative and fought back when Dean was upset and lashing out in anger

I headcanon that Cas would send a swarm of bees to follow Dean around until he chilled out or apologized

They would show up in the most inopportune places at the worst possible times, pumping gas, in a bathroom stall, on a case, whenever he starts flirting with a bartender or waitress

#the possibilities are endless #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #cas posting #dean posting #honey cas #bees #headcanon #destiel headcanon #destiel meta

[t00muchheart]

How do you look at how wrecked dean was after cas died in all along the watchtower and not believe he loves him

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #cas #casdean #destiel meta #destiel #jackles acting here was everything

[hells-plaid-angel]

In theory, if Cas ever did realise he was in love with Dean pre-deal with The Empty and actually decided to shoot his shot, I’d imagine a string of hilarity and miscommunication would ensue. There’s no way Cas would try to flirt with Dean if he thought it’d be received badly, but every now and again, Dean gives him just enough hope he thinks maybe it’s possible Dean likes him back. 

Say Cas shows up unexpectedly and Dean’s doing their movie night alone since Cas was away,  on some plot-relevant side quest. Cas arrives back unannounced because it’s movie night and what he’s doing can wait a day. Dean’s too thick to realise Cas has come back for him, and royally puts his foot in his mouth by asking why Cas is there, making the angel feel like he shouldn’t be because the course of true love never did run smoothly and when given the opportunity Dean will screw himself over when it comes to affection. 

Cas isn’t sure where they stand and wonders if he should stay and watch the film or leave. After awkwardly standing beside Dean’s armchair, watching the screen for longer than what would be deemed socially acceptable, Dean lets out a huff and says, ‘Just sit down,’ meaning, of course, for Cas to sit beside him in what Dean’s deemed ‘Cas armchair’. Cas takes Dean’s words literally and plonks down on the arm of Dean’s chair, smacking their shoulders together and settling in. 

The thing is, Dean lets him. He might grumble, but he doesn’t get Cas to move. He’s had a long night, having also returned from a hunt hours before and he’s beat. Before Cas knows it, Dean’s face is smooshed up against his shoulder and he’s open-mouthed snoring. Cas still thinks he’s the most beautiful human he’s ever seen and is in awe because Dean’s being vulnerable with him. He knows the man has trouble sleeping, plagued by dreams of Hell and hunts. Cas knows Dean doesn’t sleep with just anyone, even when he has casual sex, he rarely stays long after the act, so Cas looks down at the sleeping man and for the first time he thinks, ‘maybe’. Maybe Dean likes him back. He has no idea what to do with that possibility. He sits there quietly for the rest of the night because Dean’s an angry sleeper (like a bear) and Cas isn’t going to wake him up. 

He decides to tread lightly and toy with the idea of trying to flirt with Dean, without overtly flirting with Dean. He has no idea how to do this. After all his years on earth, there are still a lot of things that confuse him. While he and Dean are on a hunt sometime later, they pull over to a gas station. When Dean’s paying Cas mindlessly flips through the magazine stumbling on some shitty Cosmopolitan article about romance and flirting. They mention one way to show you are interested in someone is by showing curiosity in their likes and dislikes. 

So for the rest of the journey, Cas becomes almost insufferable with questions. He knows Dean’s top 13 favourite Led Zeppelin songs, but is Led Zeppelin Dean’s favourite band? What are Dean’s top 13 favourite bands? What is Dean’s favourite number? Does he have a favourite colour? Why is that his favourite colour? He rattles off questions for the entirety of their 14-hour trip cross country and Dean is confused as hell but decides to humour Cas because he does love talking about bands and movies, plus it’s not like anyone’s ever taken so much of an interest in him. 

Sometime towards the end of the trip, Dean realises he has no clue what Cas’ favourite anything is- do angels even have favourites? Wasn’t that meant to be the whole thing  about angels? All men are created equal and all that. Still, Dean asks. For the most part, Cas doesn’t have answers. He’s not sure who his favourite band is, though he can hesitantly say a few songs he likes better than others. It’s like they discover his favourite things together, unearthing them. Cas says with conviction his favourite colour is green and when Dean asks why he simply says, ‘Because it reminds me of you,’ and moves on. Dean goes silent for a long time after that but Cas is still left thinking that maybe Dean could love him. After all, he showed interest in Cas’ likes and dislikes as the magazine suggested. 

Something Cas learned from Dean’s movies was that humans showed affection through nicknames, strange terms of endearment that reminded them of sugary foods or woodland animals. Dean reminded Cas of neither, so he was unsure what kind of word to use to show his affection. Dean shortened his name. Perhaps this was his way of using a term of endearment, maybe Cas had missed some sign and should have given Dean a nickname of his own.  In the end, he settles for something in his mother tongue, because he’s better at expressing himself in Enochian. 

He uses a word for Dean which is both very intense and oddly specific, something that translates roughly to ‘Evergreen lover, formed of star ash’. Like a golden retriever, after having the stilted cacophony of consonants and vowels thrown in his direction for long enough Dean simply shrugs his shoulders and answers to the name. I’m talking a name that trembles like a sub-bass and causes stray dogs to howl and Dean just looks up of a morning from his bowl of Fruit Loops and goes, ‘oh yeah that’s me. Mornin’ Sunshine’. Bonus points if others around him know exactly what the name means, other angels, demons, maybe even Sam when he gets curious and looks through the bunker’s archives for an Enochian Dictionary. 

After all this, Cas is no closer to working out if Dean harbours affection towards him or not. So after some exasperated brainstorming, Cas decides to meet Dean where he’s at and attempts to express affection the way he knows Dean does. He cooks Dean’s breakfast and makes his coffee every morning because Dean expresses his love through security, caring for others and he especially loves food. It should be noted the bacon is burnt, the egg is raw and the coffee tastes like dishwater, but each morning Dean gives Cas a goofy, lopsided grin and thanks him. He’s grateful, Cas realises but he still has no idea if Dean’s in love with him. 

With his one last-ditch effort, Cas decides to try physical touch. Dean’s a tactile creature. He loves touch. So Cas tries to give it to him. He rests his hand on his shoulder or his side as he walks past Dean. If they are parting ways Cas pulls Dean into a hug. He’s stunned at first, but he lets it happen and even gets used to it after a while, so Cas gets more brazen. He wraps his foot around Dean’s ankle when they sit together at the map table. He pushes his palm into Dean’s when they’re sitting alone in their armchairs for movie night and that’s what finally pushes Dean over the edge. 

“Look man, I know you’re not human and you don’t get how stuff works but you can’t do junk like that. It’ll give people the wrong idea,” Dean would warn because his self-loathing, self-deprecating, still very closeted self would never in a million years dare to let himself think Cas knows what he’s doing.

“And what is the wrong idea?” Cas would ask. 

“You know, dude. That you like me. More than a friend like me,” Dean would explain and Cas would give him the most world-wearied, withering look and  sigh, “That is very much the idea I’ve been trying to get across,” He’d explain. 

And Dean would need about an hour for his brain to stop short-circuiting, long enough for him to reply, 

“Oh.” 

#destiel #Destiel fanfic #deancas #dean #dean winchester #cas #castiel #destiel drabble #spn #supernatural #my writing #destiel meta #destiel flash fiction #random thoughts #dean and cas #dean x cas #look a while ago I wrote a post #about Dean flirting with Cas #I thought it was about time #I made a post about Cas flirting with Dean

[castielific]

Still not over the fact that Cas' true happiness came from telling Dean he was worth being loved.

Because Castiel didn't just tell Dean he loved him, no, that wouldn't have done it. Cas needed Dean to believe, even for an instant, that he was good, and that someone saw who he truly was, the good and the bad, and still loved him. Still cared about him above everything else.

One of the first thing Cas realized about Dean was that he didn't think he deserved to be saved, so Cas spent the rest of his life making sure that silly human knew he was the most precious thing in the world.

Cas didn't just tell Dean he loved him, he tried to teach him to love himself too.

#damn I made myself cry again #destiel #dean/castiel #dean/cas #deancas #supernatural #spn #castiel #dean winchester #spn meta #destiel meta

[emeraldsummers]

Thinking about Dean's happy mind place in 14x10 Nihilism.

Specifically talking about this conversation he has with his own subconscious:

Dean's flirting with women is purely habit at this point, something he likes to do for fun. His whole ladies man persona had been a schtict for years at this point and I love that it's being called out.

His subconscious knows he wants someone else, but he's pushing it down. Thinks he can't have it anyways. But that's okay, he's content with flirting and having a friend. And that's the word they use: contentment. It's not bliss, but it's enough.

I find it especially interesting that he sees Pamela in his mind. She's "neutral" in that she was not someone he considered family (i.e. Charlie) but she was also never a love interest, and she also isn't really someone Dean holds regrets about.

His contentment is a platonic female friend, a business of his own, and knowing that Sam and Cas will be home soon.

#spn meta #i mean not really just a random stream of thoughts lol i just love when dream sequences are done WELL #like PLEASE use those to give me character study #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #spn 14x10 #spn nihilism #destiel #destiel meta #14x10 nihilism #pamela barnes