Love At First Bite 🦇

Untouchable

Art masterpost for @dcbtv

Story by: @ellen-of-oz Art by: @fluffsnake

Untouchable, burning brighter than the sun

And when you're close, I feel like coming undone

In the middle of the night, when I'm in this dream

It's like a million little stars spelling out your name

You gotta come on, come on

Say that we'll be together

Come on, come on

Little taste of heaven

Dean was always the protector. Since age of 4. He felt it was his job. His responsibility. He felt the whole world was on his shoulders. And then Cas came into his life and was like: I'll protect you. And I want nothing in return. Because you, Dean Winchester, are my whole world.

Queercoding in early supernatural compared to late supernatural is soooo funny to me cause in season 5 its like heres ben edlund making an incredibly layered episode with subtle nods to destiel to get past censors that people write essays about to analyze its themes. Now heres season 12 where cas just said i love you and it cut to dean three times in a row but the show is just gonna pretend it didnt do that

The simple joy of her hand in mine.

BUFFY: How long was I gone?

SPIKE: 147 days yesterday... uh, 148 today. Except today doesn't count, does it?

MARY: They've only been gone for...

CASTIEL: Six weeks, two days, ten hours.

I think a destiel kiss would have absolutely ruined Dean. Like. Dean thinks he’s this broken, messed up, tortured, walking, breathing curse, and he’s in love with this guy who’s pure grace, literally angelic, and just so fucking good.

Dean’s fully convinced himself he shouldn’t have him. Even if he could—he shouldn’t.

And then Cas comes in, confesses on his death bed while portraying Dean in this holy light he doesn’t deserve and Dean’s heart is going a million beats a second, he’s looking at Cas, into him, over him, memorizing every angle, every breathe of air, and sigh. His throat isn’t working—his feet less so and none of it makes sense. It doesn’t make sense. Dean doesn’t deserve this-this love, this confession, these words—this absolute angel of a man saying them. He doesn’t deserve it.

If Cas had kissed him, I think Dean would’ve found something a lot like religion in it. Cas would taste like home. Like nectar, like forgiveness, like love. And if Dean, who prides on placing himself in front of violence, had tasted what it was like to be loved gently. I think. I think he’d go insane with it. Rip a part the universe insane.

Quite honestly, it would’ve broken the fabric of reality so i guess i understand why the writers decided not to.

FREEDOM IS A LENGTH OF ROPE. GOD WANTS YOU TO HANG YOURSELF WITH IT.

— Supernatural (2005-2020)

I was reading the draft script for 9x22 Stairway to Heaven and I found this part in it hilarious. Castiel opens the gates of heaven and finds shirtless pictures of Dean plastered everywhere. The next page cracks me up the most because it sounds like Sam is implying that this is Castiel's ideal version of heaven. Is he too ashamed to admit he's got a schoolgirl obsession with Dean? If they actually included this in the episode, it would be the most wildest thing ever.

there’s nothing more agonizing than thinking about all the casual ways dean flirted with cas. the way dean always got up close into cas’ space or the subtle ways he reaches out to brush against cas, calling cas things like devastatingly handsome and sunshine, their phone calls and movie nights and inside jokes. and this whole time. this. whole. time. cas didn’t know dean was flirting. didn’t know it was mutual. that dean was spelling it out for cas in a different way than cas was spelling it out for dean. but they both flirted in their own ways

the confession scene being in the dungeon is so fucked and meta because destiel was always supernatural’s Thing We Don’t Talk About™️ and you weren’t supposed to open that can of worms but it’s finally out in the open after 12 long years but it’s NOT because it only exists in that dark and barren dungeon where dean is loved and cas is happy for one fleeting moment because then cas is gone and dean is crying on the dungeon floor and that’s it. he never talks about it. he leaves the dungeon and locks the door behind him. their love forever imprisoned by who the fuck knows and it never sees the light of day.