Pride

whelvenwings:

“Dean,” Cas says, “happy Pride month.”

And Dean, closeted and careful Dean, freezes and stares at him, open-mouthed.

“Wh- how’d - why would you say that?” he says, half-curious, half-defensive, and definitely leaving no halves for anything as ridiculous as hope.

Cas frowns. “Because… I’m proud of you. That… is what Pride month is for? Being proud of people? I haven’t… misunderstood?”

Dean’s non-existent hope is shoved away, and he snorts and shakes his head, and laughs.

“Nah, Cas,” he said. “Pride is for… you know, like, gay pride.” 

Cas’ eyebrows rise. “Oh.”

“Or - no, well, anyone who’s not straight, actually. Pride month is about not-straight people being proud of who they are.”

“Oh,” says Cas, again. And then he says, “Well - happy Pride month to both of us, then.”

And he walks away. Dean’s mouth is still hanging open thirty seconds later.

alexinbrum:

ssjdebusk:

books-and-moonbeams:

So it’s totally fine for Sam to be alone with Cas for an episode

But the moment Dean comes back Cas is nowhere in sight

The writers literally have no idea how to handle Dean and Cas anymore

they don’t even say where he is it’s just kind of like

 

I’ve been reading a book about screen writing and there’s a chapter about ‘Scene’ and the author basically says that if you know your characters well enough and you know the time, place and purpose of your scene, then the action should pretty much write itself as the characters will just start behaving in the appropriate way. The problem the SPN writers have with Dean and Cas is that they have crafted the characters so beautifully, and set up their relationship so well, that no matter what time or place or purpose a scene has, all they want to do is gravitate towards each other until they are right up in each other’s personal space, stare intently into each other’s eyes and start sharing their intimate thoughts, as a prelude to playing passionate tonsil hockey. It’s either that, or they want to start yelling ‘I love you, you dumb son of a bitch’ while punching each other into unconsciousness, as a prelude to passionate tonsil hockey. The writers are screwed because, for reasons known only to them, the programme team don’t seem to want Dean and Cas to get together, but by this point there really isn’t any plausible reason why those two characters would be in the same room for more than five minutes and NOT get together. So the only solution is for the writers to keep them apart. And that’s getting increasingly difficult too, because the characters don’t want to be apart. Basically, the writers just need to stop fighting what the characters want and just let Destiel happen. Because that’s what these two characters have been building towards for years.