Beyond the Mat–is ALL THE HO-YAY

lookatthesefreakinghipsters:

obsessionisaperfume:

Okay, let me see, here.

• Dean has an obvious crush on Gunner, and this is explicitly mirrored by Sam’s crush on the show manager.
• The Casifer/Crowley scenes and the Dean/Gunner scenes flowed into each other pretty seamlessly multiple times–to the point that I was surprised a couple of times that we’d switched.
• There was ABSOLUTELY NO ATTEMPT to present that Aaron’s staff scene as anything but homoerotic, to the point that Lucifer fucking LAMPSHADES IT by saying, “Is it me, or is it getting phallic in here?”
• Dean can’t save Gunner because he refuses to be saved and insists on taking the punishment he thinks he deserves. (why does that sound so familiar…???)
• That Hand of God could have been anything, but they picked AARON’s staff.  In an unabashedely homoerotic scene.  It’s almost like they wanted to remind us of another Aaron in a different unabashedly homoerotic scene… 
• ETA: Dean walks right past a hot chick dancing on a pool table without even looking, just makes right to the bar, AND he makes an ew face at  a girl lying on her back getting booze poured down her throat as he sits down next to Gunner.
• BARING FLESH AND COMPARING SCARS

Y’all, I can’t EVEN with this episode.

But also, like, can we talk about the absurd HoYay between Gunner and Dean a bit more?

• Like when Dean walks over to the bar and Gunner hands him a shot
• Which followed the rather suggestive wink that Gunner gave to him earlier during the match
• Which followed Dean’s flirty and awkward fanboying at the funeral, including Dean just wanting to hold Gunner’s hand, to the point of awkwardness
• And if a guy hands another guy a shot after those other two exchanges, let’s just say that the first guy is probably also interested
• Like, he didn’t even order the shot when Dean got there, like he saw Dean coming in the bar and knew Dean would make a beeline for him and got the extra shot just to give to Dean (which, when you’re making $25 a match, is quite the investment)
• Gunner was interested in Dean and Dean was more than interested in Gunner

And getting away from Gunner for a bit, there’s the added point of Dean getting into the ring and pretending to be a wrestler for a few minutes.  Wrestling is extremely camp and extremely homoerotic, and Dean throwing himself into the ring is a way of embracing that world, those concepts with abandon.  Dean wants to inhabit a world where he can embrace that side of himself, but he isn’t there yet, given how he reacted to Rea showing up.