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My hot take for the day is it takes dedication to truly read Destiel because there's just so so so much and the characters are extremely complex and people who got into it and gave up in earlier seasons were not into dean and cas at all. They were into a version of dean and cas+
they made up in their head that perfectly fit the m/m tropes that were in fashion during 2010s and they went so wild with these fanonical versions, that the moment s10 hit they could only see what it wasn't, not what it was and they just up and left bc the dynamic changed+
from repressed macho man and angel who is awkward to something deep and serious and they just... Did not sign up for that at all. They exclaimed destiel died but destiel was actually born again into something less sexualizable and more.. domestic, real. Their version of it died.
And this is all really clear to me because I read a lot of fanfiction for many years and I remember being really annoyed at the amount of AUs that flood the tags for the simple reason that canon deancas has SO MUCH to offer and explore but I somehow always ended up reading what+
might as well have been a completely different pair?! Fanfic writers do this for free, it's their right to write what they want...But that pattern deeply concerned me and I understand now, I understand why. Because the show is over and I open the tag to see people who have +
NEVER watched a single episode write ABO or some shit and I get it. I see people who haven't watched since s8 tag their fic as homophobic dean hs au and i get it. Destiel is made unrecognisable by more casual fans so it can be consumed easier?! It's no wonder it's the most+
written pairing in ao3 yet the tags are hellfire. It's m/m sexualization fest. And i am bitter, no sad actually because there's such beauty in their complexity but I had to spend years in fandom to find people who get that?! Who didn't see black hair short top/light hair bromo
This is the greatest love story of all time but when they said those words I don't think they knew what they meant 
bc now years later they are calling Dean homophobic because he had his tongue cut and the entire concept of the show being essentially rewritten to make them+
bc now years later they are calling Dean homophobic because he had his tongue cut and the entire concept of the show being essentially rewritten to make them+
"married" , to make them complete each other in a way that Cas's confession became the high end of the show and the narrative collapsed the moment they were removed as a fuck u to censorship and as a queer narrative wins anyway, is flying over their heads.
WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS IDK the broader versions of deancas discussed by fandom are trash I guess!!! That's the hot take. Canon deancas fucks and you should earn the secrets to it to really appreciate it, my finale message gbye
