When I watched SPN the first time, I didn’t see Destiel or Wincest at all. I think that’s normal people viewing experience 🤷🏽♀️ I started consuming media and that introduced shipping. I could see Destiel but only in the flirty beginning- not after Godstiel.
Wincest, I could see the extreme codependency and the something unspoken from the pilot but it felt like it would stay under the skin, not enough to burst.
I started writing and went with Samifer because the domestic non-con elements and the free-will versus destiny with a religious backdrop allow me to explore and process my own traumas related to these areas. I can make other relationships do the same things (as my Destiel AU demonstrates) but Samifer canonically is already set up for it.
Jensen Ackles, the actor, is someone I see as a really professional, nice in a detached way, actor who was the co-lead of the show I fucking love and that I create fan-fic for and participate in fandom spaces and events in. He’s very pretty but not my type. All this to say, I really don’t pay much attention to him.
When I heard this audio I was livid. Distraught. Indignada. It felt so violating. Frustrating.
I have read before that Jensen is a publicist’s dream, because he plays nice and gives answers that don’t rock the boat. Well here he said No - he was firm and he made Misha back track on his fanning the flame and fix his prior statements. He said in 15 years I never played it like that and no there is no Destiel - not for Dean and not for Jensen.
I fucking love that for him- standing up for himself. I was angry at the fans still trying to bully him into saying what they wanted and at Misha’s long winded response, to try to not seem like a liar (7 out of the 10 mins or so are him BS). I didn’t like how it felt like an attack when this is a fictional character, fictional speech, fictional intention and years ago. But if anyone knew what that character felt it would be the guy who gave him life for 15 years.
Shipping happens after the show airs, based on how you view it and how it affects you. So it’s a you thing- not an actor thing. Some people ship bc people look physically good together. Some people bc they like the dynamics. Some people bc of representation. Some times the story arc is leading to that and sometimes it’s not. You pick it up and use it- over there in your 🏝️and don’t confuse it with the actual story told.
And you don’t bully the actors!