Started watchin spn an yr ago. I realized I really ship wincest (fantasy) and I love the J2 ship aswell. The thing is, I’m hungry for wincest and J2 blogs & posts. But every time I go to a said blog, there’s so much Cas/Misha hate. Tbh, I don’t care much about destiel. I thinks it’s a cute ship. But I don’t ship it. I love J2 and wincest. But I can’t get myself to hate Misha/Cas. Why do y’all hate Misha so much? I can’t see any reason for all this hate.
Hello! Thanks for the ask!
I first want to call attention to this phrase you left in the ask, "why do y'all hate Cas/Misha?" I'm hoping this comment was completely rhetorical and not actually directed at me. And if it was directed at me, color me confused, I guess. This has always been a very pro-Cas/pro-Misha blog. I mean, Cas is my favorite character on the show and I spent good money at the 2018 Charlotte Conventention to get two photo op opportunities with Misha. And I can't even think of a single instance where I was anti-Cas/anti-Misha or even critical-Cas/critical Misha on this blog. I feel like the only person SPN related I've ever been anti towards is Dean but I always properly tag that. But I've never been anti any of the actors. I think they're all fabulous people. If that comment was directed at me and it wasn't rhetorical, maybe you have me confused with someone else?
But anyway, let's get on with this, shall we?
I completely understand your love for wincest and J2. While wincest is not my thing (or really any incest ship) I don't begrudge anyone who ships them. I totally understand it and I definitely don't view anyone who ships wincest as if they're incestuous in real life. It is exactly as you stated, a fantasy, and there's nothing wrong with that in my book as long as it's a fantasy happening between two consenting adults. I mean, I think we all have that fantasy of wanting to be with someone who completely understands you as only a sibling can.
It sounds to me like you've been visiting a lot of bronly/tinhat blogs. These are blogs that only like J2 and the "brothers only" storyline. Trust me, there are plenty of wincest/J2 shippers out there who do like Cas/Misha. They can be difficult to find as often times, it's the more extreme-radical bloggers that you see most often in fandom so it can feel like those are the only people who exist in the community. But trust me, there's some good peeps mixed way underneath all the bad apples, you just gotta dig for them. Trust me, it took me a while navigating the fandom to find my niche of peeps.
As to why they dislike Cas/Misha, who can say really? Perhaps it's all due to them being super passionate shippers and so therefore can't handle this new character/actor getting in the middle of their ship. Or maybe it's because they don't like Misha's popularity or his political views. Or maybe its just something as shallow as they don't think Cas/Misha is as attractive as Sam and Dean or Jensen and Jared. I mean, if I'm going to be subjective here, for me, Misha has always appealed to me more from a physical attraction standpoint, I got a weakness for dark hair, blue eyes. Tin hats and bronlys are a mystery to me. There was once a time I dug into their section of the fandom just to see what's up and try to understand them but I didn't last for very long. Their hate was just way too toxic for me. So I just gave up on them. There are some people where your views are just too drastically different that it's impossible to find middle ground with them. And if something brews negative emotions in you, why stick around, you know?
And as a former Destiel shipper, yes Destiel can be cute at times and I definitely understand why people ship them, hell I used to do it myself before I just felt like I really needed to get away from that faction of the fandom. But in reality, there really is so many fun ships within the SPN community, I've just found that multishipping is the way to go. And there's definitely no harm in not shipping Destiel -- even if there are shippers out there who may disagree with you but I just ignore those people. I understand why people ship Destiel and I understand why people don't. I don't begrudge them either way. I've really just become mostly apathetic to the Destiel ship. It's an interesting ship to be sure but it's just not something I'm super passionate about anymore. I've actually fallen moreso into Sastiel and Mishalecki when it comes to SPN shipping. But I'm generally a multishipper. Really, if I'm not shipping a character with at least three different people, I probably am not very fond of that character.
I hope this response was what you were going for. Thanks for dropping by!
