#wow I didn't mean for this to be so bitter sam fangirly but there we go

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7 and 26!

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

In fandom: I used to be very much a 'I'll give anything a try as long as it's well-written' person and I'm not anymore. I'll only read Destiel if I have a very good reason to (author, really intriguing plot, comes highly recommended, etc), and I really can't read fluffy Destiel or Wincest anymore. In general, I'm not very interested in "healthifications" of relationships, and I'm not interested in stories where the characters feel completely OOC to me, especially Dean. If your Dean doesn't have anger issues (and there's no plotty reason for it) and it's not an AU or pre-series, I'll most likely bow out pretty quickly. In canon: I used to not mind the Dean-focus of the show and the bizarre way every other character fawns over him and sympathizes with him, whether he's wrong or right. I thought, in a way, that it was clever to have a character be so charming and good-looking that he gets way with everything. Because real life is like that too a lot of time. But somewhere there was a shift that was either within me or within the show, where it didn't feel like a morally semi-neutral depiction of events anymore ("Here is Sam and Dean, and everyone around them, this is what they do, judge for yourself") to something a lot more heavy-handed. The shows didn't just show people favoring Dean, the show did it itself. And not just with Dean. Instead of just telling me the character's actions and their feelings on things, they tried to convince me it was noble and right and moral, even when it clearly wasn't.

There's really nothing major that happened to Sam and Dean in the show or that they did that I can't make sense of in terms of their characterisation - even you need to do a lot of backwards bending to make it make sense sometimes. I think Sam's and Dean's power imbalance makes perfect sense. Sam glorifying Dean and them both having a skewed perception of their relationship makes sense. But the show did this thing where it showed me a really fucked up dysfunctional relationship (which I loved!) and then, sometimes, turned around and said: This toxic love you're seeing? Totally not toxic. The violence? Just bros being bros. The framing of Sam's and Dean's relationship drives me more nuts with each rewatch.

26. Most shippable character?

Sam. Not because he has the most chemistry with a lot of people (on the contrary, that's clearly Dean) but because he's the most interesting character to me, and that's why the relationships he does have are the most compelling to me too. Also, because a lot of his relationships are really vague. I think that helps, because you get to fill in all the blanks.

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