Can you explain destiel to me? How did it become canon? How can angels be gay?
Destiel is a main fandom ship of Dean Winchester and the angel Castiel from the show Supernatural. The show has been going on since 2005, and due to the fact that basically any female romantic interest or recurring character are killed off in the show fairly quickly, the only relationship explored in early seasons was between the two brothers, Sam and Dean, who are main characters of the show.
Enter Castiel, I think around season 5? I used to be much more brushed up on the timeline but it's been literal years since I gave a shit, lol. This angel pulls Dean out of hell and has all sorts of prolific lines about it and how they share a profound bond and the people invested in the show go oh okay cool this is a relationship we can get into and explore.
Cue about 15 years of queerbaiting, with the writers always dancing around but never confirming anything and at least one of the actors outright refusing to speak or denying on any sort of lgbt+ subtext.
Keep in mind I stopped giving a shit when they killed a lesbian recurring character offscreen and dumped her body in a bathtub which was several seasons ago. Fast forward to the final FINAL season (since CW has beaten this horse to the grave and back many times) and like 3 episodes from the finale they have Castiel tearfully confess his one-sided love for Dean, who spends the scene looking constipated. Castiel then immediately dies due to some sort of plot shenanigans and goes to super hell, which is worse than regular hell because they did regular hell back in season 4ish and supernatural has no idea how to de-escalate plot so they had to make a worse hell.
So they went from 15ish years of queerbaiting to tragic one-sided gay love confession to bury your gays in about 30 seconds flat. Also angels can be gay if they want to, as a treat.
















