I am frankly bothered by the fact that Dean & Castiel might win that poll about best TV couple of 2012. For the simple fact that they are not a couple.
Had it been a poll about ‘best ship’ or ‘favourite ship of the internet’ or whatever, of course. I’d love for a Spn ship to win, even if it’s not mine. But this is different: they are not a couple (let me state it again because it seems that this fact is largely unclear), and yet it seems that the fanbase of this ship is the only one that relentlessly, obsessively keeps insisting that their ship is real, that it will become canon, that it would be canon already if Edlund ran the show/Jensen wasn’t a homophobe/Sam’s character died/whatever, that it actually is canon but we’re all too blind and stupid to see it.
I will never, ever go around preaching how wincest is canon, and how it might happen, and how secretly it should happen, and whatnot, because in all the fandoms I’ve been in, I’ve always been very clear on one simple fact: that my ship is not the canon of the show, and that’s ok. That’s what ships are for: to create my personal canon. Not, and I repeate not, to try and force my ship onto the canon, down everybody’s throat, reaching levels of pathological delusion insisting that it’s real, no seriously, it is.
So I’m bothered by the fact that a high number of viewers disrespect the show so much that they are hellbent on twisting it according to their own shipping preferences, and are ready to present it in that twisted way to the world because that’s much better than the actual canon of the show.
I love wincest. Would I want SPN to be about the big gay relationship of Sam and Dean? No. I have fanfics for that. I love Supernatural as it is, and I’d never change it. And I wouldn’t go around the internet advertising it as something that it’s not to try and validate my ship.
Ships don’t need validation. They’re ships. They’re our view, our preference, and that’s why there’s so many different ones. To crush and dismiss and hate on the canon to force the shipping-view in its place… it just really, really bothers me.
(note: I am not tagging this post because I don’t want it to show up on the shippers’ tags and rain on their parade, or start wank. sorry if this means your tumblr savious doesn’t catch it.)
Well, I’ve been meaning to talk about this ridiculous poll that has so recently consumed my energy and frustration.
First of all though—what is this bullshit nonsense about the definition of “a couple.” Why are people condemned for hoping that Destiel will become canon?
It’s weird though—my deal with the Destiel ship is that it won’t become canon because—ba-dum-pa —
there. that’s it. that’s the only reason.
and then they really try and they’re voting and the Supernatural fandom is like: 
