#lampgate

[pen-far]

One last dance

[uh-ohspaghettio]

Yeah and at one point Dean gets told by a werewolf dentist that he has a shit ton of cavities because he’s no longer God’s special princess and he needs to be put under to get them all fixed so he has a vivid anesthesia dream where he’s doing a tap number and…hey where are you going? I haven’t even gotten to the part about the speculated symbolism of the lamp he’s dancing with!

[hips-dont-lieculosis]

Guys we all remember when Dan and Phil had the argument about dan buying Phil 3 lamps for Christmas one year, well I think I might have discovered something, I was just rewatching old Phil vids and:

PHIL BOUGHT THE LAMP! This now leads me to one of three conclusions:

A) Phil pretended to buy the lamp because he already had it from Dan giving it to him and wanted to put it in his background and needed to have a few items to buy on camera

B) Phil bought the lamp actually in the video and got confused/played up the story of dan buying him three lamps when he only bought him two

C) dan actually did buy Phil three lamps but the story is even funnier because he bought Phil three lamps and one of which he already owns (the lamp he buys in the video)

Anyways whichever one it is, I love it, I love this domestic drama it’s so sweet.

[ahappyphjl]

dan and phil lied about the origins of three lamps. parasocial relationship: over, done, gone. trust: broken!!!

[destielfandomlore]

Hi! I know things are a bit crazy right now, but would you mind explaining lamp-gate? Most of the other -gates I've got a pretty clear picture of, but this one I've somehow missed. Best I've got is it's somehow to do with lampshading, but no idea of the actual details

Oh no worries! So unfortunately I was not present live during s15 airing, but from what I have gathered, why lamp/lampgate has to do with that scene in 15x10 The Heroes' Journey, when Dean goes to Garth to get his cavities filled. He hallucinates/has this dream sequence where he tap dances to "Let's Misbehave" by Cole Porter which apparently has a ton of LGBTQ+ lore attached to it (via @deanwasalwaysbi). Definitely read through that post which goes into a lot more detail.

The long and short of it is that the lamp is theorized to be a stand-in for Cas especially since at the very end of that episode he is looking at Garth and Bess dancing in their living room and is like "I always thought I'd be good at dancing" or something similar.

From there, my understanding is that fandom did lamp=light and looking back on various episodes, there are lighting shifts whenever Cas is mentioned in the context of Dean. Off the top of my head, an example is at the end of 13x05 Advanced Thanatology when Dean gets a call from Cas saying he's alive and his face both figuratively and literally lights up.

There are also often instances of Cas standing under lamp posts which are supposed to symbolize a halo since we don't see actual halos in the spnverse.

Additionally in Dean's room in the bunker, there is furniture doubling at times, can't quite remember the specifics right now, but there are times when there are 2 table lamps/end tables and times where there are not. I believe in the finale everything is doubled and in comparison the absence of Cas is LOUD especially when taken with the insane number of empty beer and liquor bottles littering the place. (Don't take my word for this though because I've seen the finale exactly once.)

I hope that helps but anyone else can add on too!!

[heller-castiel]

if regarding dean was accurate

[laskulohi]

hello heller fandom

[demonsandpieohmy]

Goncharov is what Tumblr has been training for the last 15 years. If we can create thousands of coffee shop AUs about Dean Winchester and a lamp, we can sure as hell make fanart and gay headcanons about a generic mafia movie none of us have seen.