Cas puts the "sub" in "homoerotic subtext"

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Ohhhhkay, let's just bring up a little something here: Dean tells Cas to unbutton his shirt? Has Dean ever unbuttoned his own shirt to go on a date? (Maybe a gold chain in the chest hair would add to the look ....) Does Dean really care so much about the amount of chest Cas may be showing? And ladies, do you rate the quality of your dates on how far his shirt is hanging open? (I have to say, the closer to his navel my date's shirt hung open, the closer I would be to kicking him to curb before even stepping out the door.) Does Dean really think Cas will have better luck getting laid if he shows a little skin?

Nah. That was just Dean getting Cas a little more naked while they're still alone in the car, in yet another Destiel bone (pun intended) thrown to the fans.

I've been watching the interactions closely, trying to figure out where all the steamy homoerotic vibes are coming from, and I've come to these conclusions:

1) Jarpad can make any scene steamy, no matter who he's acting with or what that person's relationship to him is supposed to be. The Christmas Cottage was pretty devoid of anything titillating, trust me on that, but the scene where he and his brother are talking in the dark in their room? Mmm .... (And I am NOT a Sam/Dean shipper.)

2) Jackles acts "affection" in a way that always comes off flirtatious. Always.




3) Misha's a troll and adores the subversion of the status quo/gender roles, so any opportunity to make a scene more uncomfortable/homoerotic/inappropriate, etc., and he's SO THERE.

1 + 2 + 3 = the most semi-intentionally subtextually homoerotic show on t.v.




I will confess that Cas's vulnerable, baffled expression is EXACTLY what I picture in top!Dean Dean/Cas scenes, so thanks for that, guys! Thumbs up, nice shipping fodder, great subtext, all that jazz. May this show always be all the crazy things that make it unlike any other show ever in the history of the world.


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Comments

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I love human!Cas, too, but I miss angel!Cas in all his many incarnations. I wish I could have them both in the same show! I don't know how or why you'd watch the show if you hated one of the main characters, either, although I guess there are those people who love to hate. :-( Lately, I've been coming across loads of people who watch just because Jensen's so damn pretty.

Ah, the X-Files. S7 is about when I gave up, too, but I never was crazy about it. I mainly watched because everyone I knew did ...

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Angel!Cas was cool, true. I love his emotional side, though - although that comically serious Cas is beautiful. And it still exists in his human form, I found out last night (review pending).

Jensen IS pretty, but one of my friends doesn't like the genre of the show but just watches the ads for the pretty pretty boys. Watching the whole show seems to be taking it too far.

I was nuts about the X Files. One of my first true fandoms. I still get shippy talking about Mulder/Scully. Makes me all gooey.

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Ooh, I will have to read your review.

Aww, that's cute how X-Files makes you gooey for Mulder and Scully--but I take it shipping it was way better in fic than on film? X-Files was too scary for me, among other things.

I've LOVED LOVED LOVED shows before, but this is the first time I've ever been involved in fandom! (Well, there was a musician once, but that's a whole different animal.) Part of the problem is that, with few exceptions, I like the most obscure stuff. So there may be 22 other fans of the show out there in the world, but not enough to really feel like a community ...

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Yeah, I mean, their platonic relationship was awesome and like Supernatural there was a lot of undertones of shipping. But yeah, thinking about it and writing about it is more fun than when they got together. I grew up watching horror movies, so the X Files mostly didn't scare me. Considering you watch Supernatural I'm surprised you'd find the X Files scary.

Unless you're scared of aliens, I guess.

I've been in a few fandoms now. I was a huge fan of things as a kid with my friends, but not really in the online fandoms then. I was a member of a bandom as well, which is very different, isn't it? It's kind of odd, and, in mine, a little bitchy. Actually, a lot bitchy.

I like the larger fandoms, because you can go into niche sections and also be a little more anon in them. In smaller fandoms you kind of stick out.

I know what you mean about obscure things though. Although for me I mostly just get into things late. Goddamn Australia, we get everything too late...

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I've become far better inured to horror in the years since I used to watch X-Files, but SPN was hard for me to watch in the first couple of seasons because it was so creepy, whereas after that I could just laugh at the blood-spray and they usually left it at that and got on with the character development and plot. X-Files LOVED the creepy, though--of all sorts.

From what I read of interviews with Chris Carter, the fans clamored for romantic-partner Mulder/Scully so much the writers finally gave in, though they didn't originally intend to go there, and I SO hope the SPN producers stick to their guns, because what people THINK they want and what they actually want are often different things.

BITCHY, yes, that's a good word ... Maybe it's a music thing.

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Fair enough. I forget that people still get scared by shows like that - years of watching movies where zombies eat people's faces off has left me with a bit of a high tolerance.

There are a few eps of X Files that still creep me out. I find Supernatural about on-par, although a lot more with the violence and less with the creepy. Although still a lot with the creepy.

Yeah, I think people need to realise that shipping characters and wanting characters together in canon are two different things. A couple of people from X Files actually started Supernatural, and I think the show has learnt a lot from X Files' mistakes.

I don't know what it is about bandom. I guess it's all SRS BSNS. But it can be exhausting.

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I HOPE IT'S LEARNED FROM ITS MISTAKES!

I guess X-Files and SPN have a different kind of creepy ... ooh, and I think I just hit on it: the other thing I didn't like about X-Files was this sort of depressing emotional emptiness, which is much more akin to SPN in its first seasons (except that I like SPN because there IS love, even if it was also bleak as fuck). Then SPN got warmer and more fun, and the horror was a lot less intense most of the time, so it got much easier for me to take.

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Fair enough. There is a lot of love between Mulder and Scully in the show, but it's a lot more procedural and a lot less free in the way SPN is. So yeah, I see what you mean.

Supernatural is still going strong, so it has really learned.