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In retrospect Jensen revealing to us that there was more emotion he played into the confession scene that they cut and he didn’t know until the ep aired should have been just as concerning as him admitting to us that when they pitched the finale it “didn’t sit right with [him].”

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...The people who claimed to be watching set when they were filming for the first God confrontation scene in 15x19, who said Jensen had more emotional takes of yelling/saying Cas’ name where his voice was breaking...

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The face caress people watching set saw during the season 13 reunion, how the hug looks overly edited if you look close enough because they cut it, but Jensen cradled Misha’s face with his hand as Dean during filming..

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The face cradle in season 11 when Cas comes back from Rowena’s attack dog spell, Dean holding Cas’ body while he’s lying down and then lifting him up to hold his face in his hands in a scene directed by Jensen himself...

ladies............jackles long con but at what cost

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I’m so sorry, Jensen, the show didn’t deserve you

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would be great if everybody apologized for being so damn eager to call him homophobic.

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It always struck me in a bad way when people talked about Destiel happening despite Jensen, or as if Jensen sees Dean as straight and doesn’t understand subtext or small acting choices or whatever, like he goes into a trance when he plays Dean and comes out of it not knowing how to do his goddamn job. Especially when so many of our bi!Dean moments came from acting choices he made without being asked to.

I’m married to an actor and we’ve had a lot of conversations about this. It’s incredibly condescending, and pretty unfair to think that Noted Heterosexual Texas Man Jensen Ackles, who otherwise seems very in tune with Dean and knows the difference between himself and his goddamn character, doesn’t understand the implications of his character being so physically affectionate with another man, or doesn’t recognize the tone of his own voice, or can’t tell the difference between fraternal and romantic affection in character. There is an obvious and marked difference between the way he touches Cas in-character vs Sam, or side character, or whoever.

Given everything we know now -- about the cut footage, the market research, etc -- I think the occam’s razor conclusion is that a network exec said that Dean Winchester is A Straight Character, and that he isn’t allowed to be openly queer. We know the NDAs and corporate mandates like that affect what the actors say about their characters. Just like he’s legally bound not to hand out spoilers, it’s likely a stipulation that Jensen isn’t allowed to say that Dean’s feelings for someone are queer, or that “Destiel is real” or any of that.

It would certainly go a ways to explaining why Berens and Misha needed to get Jensen’s “permission” to do what amounted to an explicit love confession that Dean never got to react to. Because, honestly, going to an actor and saying, “This storyline you’ve been working on for years, that you personally have contributed to a lot, is getting a big emotional payoff -- but you as the actor, and your character, do not get to have an equal moment of cathartic payoff. The network said we can have Cas do a big speech and confess his love, but we can’t allow you the same type of scene and Dean doesn’t get an equal conclusion”. I can’t see a scenario where it’s hard to get Jensen to act Dean as textually queer, but I can see one where he might hesitate because of how lopsided and unfair that is, both to him as an actor and Dean as a character.

Certainly puts how Jensen reacts to questions about bi!Dean at cons into a different light, doesn’t it?

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THANK YOU DEAN WINCHESTER (2005-2020)

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I literally cannot think of a single joke to make about that episode. Come back in a few hours, I’m still in shock

#supernatural #spn 15x19 #inherit the earth #I need to go sit down #excuse me for a moment

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15x19 - Inherit The Earth

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Jensen Ackles Being Supportive of LGBTQIA+ people/community 💖

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Jensen at the Out Youth’s annual Glitz gala

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Jensen and Danneel helping to raise money for Out Youth in Austin

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Story from a trans fan (deanjksmith) who met Jensen

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Fellas, is it homophobic to let an “I love you” breathe?

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not me logging back on after months just bc i saw the memes

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not me redownloading the app after half a year for the exact same reason

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Dean Winchester in season 2: “I’m tired.”

Dean Winchester in season 3: “I’m tired and I’mma die and it’s fine.”

Dean Winchester in season 4: “I’m tired and I’m a piece of shit who doesn’t deserve to live because of the things I’ve done.”

Dean Winchester in season 5: “I’m tired and I’ve lost hope in everything and everyone and I just want it to be over. I can’t do it anymore.”

Dean Winchester in season 6: “I’m tired and I’m a failure and I can’t do anything right and everyone would be better off if I never existed.”

Dean Winchester in season 7: “I’m tired and I’ve lost hope in everything and I would like even more alcohol than usual, please.”

Dean Winchester in season 8: “I’m tired. I’m a grunt and I don’t matter as much as other people. Another person surviving and having the full life I have never had is my happy ending, while I die with a gun in my hand.”

Dean Winchester in season 9: “I’m tired and an awful person and I don’t matter so let me just put this mark on myself without listening to the consequences because I’m just a weapon.” *When he is dying* “It’s better this way.”

Dean Winchester in season 10: “I’m tired and I need to be sent to outer space to protect other people because I’m a monster.”

Dean Winchester in season 11: “I’m tired and we can just put this soul bomb in my chest and it’s cool.”

Dean Winchester in season 12: “Ow my leg.”

Dean Winchester in season 13: “I’m tired and Cas is dead and I’m sad and angry and hurt and let me just let myself be possessed so I can save my brother. Let’s really hammer home the narrative that I am a weapon and not a person and I don’t really have choices.”

Dean Winchester in season 14: “I’m tired and I would like to climb in a box and be dropped at the bottom of the ocean so I can live in eternal suffering so I don’t hurt anyone. I can’t be saved and I don’t have choices.”

Dean Winchester for five minutes at the end of 15x17: “I’m tired. I’m a hamster in a wheel. My lifetime of suffering has been manufactured for someone else’s enjoyment. I don’t have free will. I don’t have choices and never have. I don’t feel real. I’m tired I just want it all to be over and I would do almost anything to make it stop. Someone please make it stop.”

People:

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Sam: “Dean, are you okay?”

Dean: “Oh I’m fine. It’s just that life is pointless and nothing matters and I’m always tired. Also I can’t sleep, I’m overeating and none of my old hobbies interest me anymore.”

Sam, bursting in the room: anyone know why WW3 is trending on twitter?!

Jack, scrolling anxiously through his phone: oh god I’m gonna get drafted I’m gonna get drafted—

Rowena, back from her trip to iran: *walks in*

Everyone:

Rowena:

Rowena: well I didn’t have anything to do with it!