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My dad and… “Why do you ship Destiel?”

ME: Dad, I need to ask you something.
DAD: What? Do you need money? I cannot give you money.
ME:
ME: I don’t need money.
DAD: So?
ME: I need to ask you something in order to write it on tumblr…
DAD: Where?
ME: Tumblr… that site with the people who love you…
DAD: Got it, go on.
ME:
ME:
ME: Well, it’s pretty simple…
DAD: You are using paper and pen, like a journalist!
ME: Yeah….
ME: Whatever, dad… WHY DO YOU SHIP DESTIEL?
DAD:
DAD:
DAD:
DAD: Why do I what who??
ME: Destiel… Dean and Castiel…
ME: And shipping, like… why do you want them to bang?
DAD: Perfect.
ME: I am looking for dudes shipping them, and you’re a dude…
DAD: I am your father.
ME: Yeah yeah, my father who is a dude. Just tell me why.
DAD:
DAD: This is gonna to be long…
ME: No problem.
DAD:
DAD: Ok
DAD: I want them to bang…
ME: Say “I ship them together”.
DAD: Why?
ME: It’s more romantic.
DAD:
DAD: *rolls eyes*
DAD: I SHIP THEM TOGETHER becaaaaaaause… it’s obvious for me Dean means the whole universe to Castiel, and Castiel means more to Dean than he can understand. And when you mean that much to someone else it means you are in love.
DAD: Dean never had someone to trust to besides his brother and Bobby, and he never let anyone to cross that family-confidence circle before. But he let Castiel, slowly and progressively. I think he didn’t notice it, it was natural for him. And Castiel, who was an angel for what?? Millenniums? He allowed Dean to give him advices, to teach him stuff, to CHANGE him completely. And… when you let someone change you it means, again, you are in love.
DAD: I didn’t see a lot of episodes this season, but if I’m not wrong Dean told Castiel he needed him… and when someone like Dean says something like that… it means more than what he is saying literally. Look, when Castiel made that mistake and he disappeared, Dean was a mess. When did you see him like that? Never! It was like he was all depressive and he didn’t want to live more. And when do you think he changed that?? When Castiel appeared again. Even crazy, he was there again and Dean had nothing to worry about. Apart from that in Purgatory, he was months looking for him, super angry and worried and he didn’t stop until he found him. Even when he had a route to leave Purgatory, he was very decided to die instead of abandoning him. And, again again again, when you sacrifice this much in order to save someone else and nothing else matters to you… it means you are in love.
ME: You’re making me all emotional, do you know?
DAD: Of course.
DAD: Look, I am a guy and I don’t care about romance. You know that. I find almost all love stories cheesy and corny and stupid. But this one is an exception. And I don’t care they are theoretically 2 dudes, what I’m trying to say is… they have such a great love story than even I care about them and I can see what they are trying to show. I really think if they end apart from each other or separated… it will be shit. I don’t think producers will do that, it would be horrible and people wouldn’t be comfortable with that idea. I think they will really pair them in the end. Kiss or not kiss… but together. Other way all this would have no sense at all.
DAD:
DAD:
DAD:
ME: Is it all?
DAD:
DAD: Yeah, I think so.
DAD: Is it useful?
ME: You have no idea!!!
DAD:
DAD:
DAD:
DAD: And take into account I didn’t start talking about the faces they make, how they look at each other, or that necessity they have to be around one another and touch each other… because seriously the actors are doing it on purpose.
ME:
ME: Maybe next time.
ME: Today you already made Internet people die.

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Play it again, Sam: Why are Destiel AUs so popular?

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Caveat: I’m not into them. I don’t read them. I don’t write them. I’m in this story for THIS story, but I’m in this story in general for reasons that are probably not your reasons or this person or that person’s reasons, and that’s ok, because I’m not you or this person or that person.  

THAT SAID…

I think that they’re popular on one level because for all that the fandom likes to grouse that Dean and Cas need to get together already and it would be so easy for TPTB to just do it for fuck’s sake, we also understand somehow that it’s not that easy.  Dean and Cas happening as Dean and Cas is going to be long and slow and ugly and hard for reasons that have to do not only with inside themselves things, but all the outside themselves things that have been standing between them since Dean was Cas’ mission objective…like, oh, all the different motherfucking species things from perceptions of reality to duties to an age gap that’s literally wider than the existence of mammals.  

Not to mention it’s hard to tell a love story in a world and a storyline that eats love stories and burns them on the ceiling.  Hard and ugly and you have to work around a lot of story you may not want to tell to get to the ones that you do, because for a lot of this branch of the audience, the MotW stuff and even the A plot is “just filler.” 

But I think they’re more popular on a second level, and that is that when humans want something really badly, they lie find a story they like, they treat it like ice cream, trying it with every possibile flavor and topping they can think of to make it theirs as individuals and yet keep it a common and bonding thing.  This is why we have archetypes, this is why we have common story-shapes, this is, on its most basic level, why storytelling itself exists. 

Dean and Castiel’s story compels despite itself – and somehow works as a teenaged firefighter and drag queen on Mars in the fifteenth century with wildly different personalities – because it’s the story that the big romance trope has been trying to sell us for the last Very Long Time, but by presenting it by accident and non-heteronormative, most of the really disgusting bullshit that sexist tropes tend to shove in there got stripped away.  

Stripped down of all the trappings that I already mentioned above are really, really hard to write and not interesting to a lot of the audience anyway, it becomes this: Person meets person, they were never intended to love each other, they seem wildly unequal and impossibly different, they are damaged, they hurt each other a lot, there are many things that stand in the way from outside forces, but they have to work together, and they come to respect each other, to see that they are equals in ways that no one noticed but matter more, that the differences matter less than they thought, that the damage matters a fuckton and not at all, that damage can be dealt with and sometimes even heal, that hurt can be forgiven but doesn’t have to be forgotten or excused.  They come to then care about each other, then love each other, then fall in love with each other, and loving each other is so much the most important thing that people can do that none of the seemingly huge things that try to make them stop mattering to each other can matter against it.

That’s it.  That’s the Master Recipe.  The Big Love Story.  The ice cream base.  They did the Thing without even meaning to do the Thing, (maybe better than most storytellers do the Thing because of that), and it makes people scream and jump up and down and yell “the Thing the Thing the Thing they did the Thing!” and then run off with it and make the Thing do their thing and at the same time get very, very invested and very, very scared, because this is THE THING, and if it doesn’t work out in the end, that says dark and frightening and ugly things about whether or not The Thing ever can have a happy ending in a way they can dream of, because this is the least bullshitty version of the Thing they’ve ever seen.  

TL:DR – Cas and Dean have accidentally hit upon a story we like at its base.  And we want to hear the same story over and over differently, because we are, as humans, the same over and over…but differently.  

SO FAR I’M HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE. I LOVE MY DASH TODAY. This is beautiful!