So I’m currently re-watching The Benders, and I’m going to need someone who can gif to do a thing.
Because you know that scene in Kugel’s Keg, just before Sam goes outside and gets taken by the Benders? There’s this exchange:
SAM: Look, Dean, I don’t know if this is our kind of gig either.
DEAN: Yeah, you’re right. We should ask around more tomorrow.
Dean looks at Sam while he speaks, but then he shifts his gaze and winks at someone over by the pool table. Just as he steps under the “Men’s” sign.
A few seconds later he tells Sam he’s going to take a leak, and when he eventually goes outside to discover Sam has disappeared, he asks some people if they’ve been outside in the last hour or so.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Ha!
I just went back to look (I can’t gif but eh, screenshots can help you for for now until someone more talented comes along :P)…
Their table is right next to the pool table manned by like 5 different burly guys all with pool cues (I have no idea what they’re playing):
This is Dean looking over his shoulder apparently at Sam while questioning him about various body-snatching monsters:
A moment later walking back towards him he looks Sam dead on and his eye line is more direct and downwards; the camera angle is slightly different to the previous screen cap so it makes the above image harder to say where Dean was looking, but this is definitely eye contact with Sam:
He looks up and away to his right/Sam’s left/the pool table, breaking the eye contact he had with Sam to look elsewhere (his eyes turn as well, so he’s not just turning his head to direct a wink at him, as he’d keep eye contact with Sam, at least so far as all my experience of winking ever goes):
And then as he keeps on moving past the camera and turning more away from Sam, he winks (wow it is impossible to get nice screenshots of him doing it. 😛 Offered for scientific purposes as comparison to the last 2 screenshots and not for the chronicles of good pictures of him):
And then we have this:
“Saw a motel…” Sam tells him and Dean says, “Woah, woah, easy, let’s have another round.”
With a return to the earlier angle where it wasn’t clear if he was looking at Sam or not:
Oh, no, wait, THIS is what he looks like looking at Sam from this angle:
And then he does the bit where he says he’s going to stay a minute longer and loses an hour.
Conclusion: Something is really fascinating off and up to Sam’s left and Dean sucks at time management.
*jumps in* Here ya go! (I have some time to kill and a new found ability to gif :D) You can definitely see the moment he looks away from Sam to something over his shoulder and winks.
I’d just like to point out that this is a John Shiban episode and he rolled with bisexual Dean more than anybody in the history of the show has ever rolled with it.
Dean Winchester in the men’s room, for an hour or so.
So I was inspired tonight to write a post that’s actually been on my mind for some time now. And it has to do with a specifically visual element of Dean’s queer-coding that I’ve honestly never seen anyone do any analysis on. (Which is quite surprising to me actually, given how much meta exist on this topic more generally)
So, basically my thesis is that particularly from S.4 on, there has been a repeated gag which is almost exclusively reserved for Dean, and which strongly mirrors a particular gay porn trope – the (holy water) facial. Please beware, under the cut there are explicit gay porn scene GIFs. You have been warned.
Please take season 11 as your opportunity to finally surrender to Dean’s queerness. I’ve already taken the liberty of making a “primer” for the occasion Look at how easy it was. Just look.
Part of why it was always such a challenge to figure out an episode with a succubus or a siren was that with two male leads it’s very obvious very quickly where it’s going. I remember breaking that out for the first time and it only took me fifteen minutes because it’s very clear that the siren is going to becone interested in one of the boys. So you need a twist, you need someone that you thonk is the siren, which we had in Cara, that sleeps with one of the brothers, and the other brother needs to get involved with someone you don’t suspect at all. Obviously the relationship between Sam and Dean is central to our show but we’ve been building this rift between Sam and Dean all season, so that led to the idea of having this young male character that sort of idolizes Dean and does all the cool stuff that Sam won’t do, and that’s Dean’s perfect mate. Plus, it was just a really good way to hide the siren.
Cathryn Humphris in Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight. Titan Books, 2010: 79-80. (via justanotheridijiton)
this young male character that sort of idolizes Dean
and does all the cool stuff that Sam won’t do, and that’s Dean’s
perfect mate.
yeah that doesn’t stop the fact that when sam knew dean was under the effect of the siren but thought you need to have sex with the siren sam wasn’t at all like “eww dean had gay sex.” as a matter of fact sam seemed unfazed.
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It’s funny how the plain text of the episode says that the Siren looks like “what ever floats the guy’s boat”, and then it looks nothing like his brother. If only we had other episodes to teach us about Dean’s type….
Before the Siren went after Dean, we saw 2 more guys under its spell, and in both cases the Siren substituted the person they loved the most and made them kill this person. The first guy killed his wife, the second guy killed his mother. Both of them had sex with the Siren – but note that sex is not necessarily the reason why they were eventually persuaded to kill their loved ones.
When the Siren impersonates Belle for Lenny (the second guy), it does not lure him in promising sex. Belle tells Lenny how impressed she is with him taking care of both her and his invalid mom, calls him ‘amazing’, tells him she loves him. Then she promises they can be together forever – she might be a stripper, but she’s no ‘bitch in a G-string’. She fulfills a very real emotional need Lenny has, and succeeds in taking his mom’s place in his heart. Note, the Siren does this not – NOT – by turning itself into an exact copy of his mom. It turns into a girl who needs someone to love, to take care of her. It isn’t the promise of sex that convinces Lenny to kill his mom – and yet, lo and behold, they have sex even though ‘Belle’ is a substitute for his mom, and sex is not the point for him.
Also, like f-ckyeahfutbol notes, Nick is nothing like Dean’s brother. He’s impressed with Dean’s car, likes the same music he does – he’s not, by any stretch of imagination, a little brother who looks up to Dean and trusts him. Nick does show trust in Dean, and he also does make a show of being impressed with Dean, but if what the Siren was going for was Sam, then it failed completely, because Nick is nothing like Sam, in looks or character. Like, at all. He’s not Little Brother Sammy™, he’s the type of guy Dean would easily befriend, maybe let his guard down around, maybe flirt with. And the writers may have gone with the silly sharing a drink thing to exchange saliva because they weren’t willing to do anything more textual, but this episode is a bi Dean subtext galore, and it’s fine if you interpret Nick/Dean just as a brotherly thing, but between Nick being nothing like Sam, Lenny having sex with Belle even though she was technically trying to substitute his elderly mother who was the most important person in Lenny’s life, and the fact that Sirens are inherently sexual creatures… a non-platonic reading of Nick/Dean is definitely valid and plausible.
Note also that this is the second Cathryn Humphris episode (cf. Dream a Little Dream of Me) in which Dean sharing his saliva with another man is an actual plot point.
reblogging for this excellent comment and also to fix all those typos/mistakes I made before, that response was awfully rushed and it shows omg
I was rewatching Hibbing 911, and the scene between Dean and the Deputy is even more eroticized than I remembered. It’s difficult to believe it actually exists. There’s not a part of that scene that isn’t intentional. The deputy is into dudes, and Dean went there with the express purpose of flirting the information out of him.
The contrast between the scene, and the deputy’s scene with Jody on the one hand, and the scene with the Deputy and Dean with Sam present, makes it even more obvious.
Like Dean, Jody quickly realizes the Deputy is lying. He has his hands folded against his chest, but he does the same thing he does with Dean: he looks down and up at her, twice. But he does it idly, his hands crossed the whole time. He unfolds his hands as he and the Sheriff leave, giving her a longer glance, checking her out. Compared to what happens with Dean, this is academic. But there’s a clear parallel, there’s a clear contrast. The Deputy is curious here, but he’s also self-contained. He’s unperturbed. He’s in possession of all his faculties.
In the scene with Sam present, Dean is aggressive, although he does not begin that way. Notice that the Deputy has his hand suggestively on his belt the whole time, and Dean not once glances down at it where glancing would be the natural impulse because the man’s hand is close to his gun – his actual gun. In fact, he seems noticeably uncomfortable with the line of sight, his eyes trying to focus on everything else. But this doesn’t stop Dean from cold-reading the Deputy. He can tell from their short exchange that he’s thinks the Sheriff is lying. Not that the Deputy is lying, but that he thinks someone else is lying. And Dean, a keen observer of people, can probably tell a host of other things about the Deputy, as well.
Dean starts out cordial enough, answering the Deputy’s disbelief with “Well, we go where the FBI tells us to go.” This is accompanied with a small, fake smile. It’s not until the Deputy gives him the flirty line about it being cute to watch them try that Dean suddenly shifts gear, going from 1 to 80 in a second flat. The Deputy’s jibe about the bobcat had no effect on him, so it’s not about him making fun of them or the FBI. They were the butt-end of his joke on the bobcat, and Dean lets it roll off his back. It was the flirty gaze and the word ‘cute’, used in front of his brother, that set him off.
Unlike with Jody, the Deputy is even in this scene smiling with his teeth. His pupils are blown wide.
The Sheriff points out the bear claws with the Deputy’s hand still suggestively at his belt. He gives Dean a look before he walks away without a word.
Dean describes him as ‘Deputy Douche’ to Sam, but offers to go crack him immediately. Dean clearly felt that the conversation was not over, yet felt the need to contextualize his behaviour for Sam. Their next scene could not be more different from the initial encounter.
First of all, Dean gives him an honest smile at his teeny-weeny hand-cuffs remark, the corners of his eyes crinkling. Clearly, he thinks the Deputy is hilarious. The whole cadence of his voice is different. The way his emphasizes words double-communicates. When he says “The investigation my partner and I are here on,” he doesn’t emphasize investigation, which would be natural, nor the word partner. He emphasizes ‘here on’. While he avoided looking directly at the Deputy before, he now looks him firmly in the eye, and his gaze holds the Deputy’s. It’s a gentle, friendly domination.
Then there’s the really clever way in which Dean works the man over. He uses the word ’big’ twice, to counter the Deputy’s ‘teeny-weeny’ suggestion. The investigation is big. The boys back in DC are big. Dean is making innuendo on his huge dick for the Deputy. And the Deputy most certainly gets it, because on both uses of the word ‘big’, he checks out Dean’s crotch. First shyly, but the second time? He is so ready for it.
“You think that might be something you’d be interested in?” Dean asks. “Might be,” he says, bashfully. They’re not talking about the fucking case, there.
Then Dean tells him that he needs him, first of all, to be totally straight with him. But he says this while touching his tongue to his lower lip. Suggestively. I’m having a difficult time even imagining how he could have made the exchange more erotic. They could have played the scene as a gag, and instead it’s a straight up seduction. Dean Winchester is seducing the information out of a man. And the man was willingly being seduced.
While the Deputy had been unperturbed while Jody had been interrogating him, with Dean he’s putty. He looks away and bears his neck to Dean, and draws even further attention to his bared neck by scratching it nervously. Where with Jody his hands had been folded, with Dean they are not only open, but he actually reaches over for Dean at the end, using the word ‘straight shooter’ to describe his superior, repeating Dean’s choice of word. He’s swallowing noticeably.
At the end, Dean tells him, “When I need you, I’ll come find you, okay?” Not if I need you, when I need you.
So the question is, did he? One can only surmise that Dean would have needed to find him after the Sheriff was killed. If not sooner.
This happened. This really, truly happened. On the actual show. Last season. Dean Winchester seduced a man for information.
Commander Riker (tall dark haired blue eyed commander Dean has a type ok)
Marky Mark (despite himself)
Ok question tho – everybody in the history of bi!dean people have the Harrison Ford headcanon. Like, everybody. Any particular reason I missed or just that it’s canon Dean likes the films?
for my own part it’s def a headcanon built on the fact that not only does Dean canonically have a huge geek boner for 70s and 80s action/genre movies and that rugged hero archetype, but also young Harrison Ford is so absurdly handsome that it’s pretty unbelievable that Dean wouldn’t have a crush on him. (also fwiw Kripke himself paralleled Dean to Han Solo and Sam to Luke, and i can see Dean really idolising Han as a kid as well as crushing on him!)
I’m not going to say, on Pride Weekend, that you could do an entire thesis on this episode’s theme of internalized childhood fears and things wished-for as it related to Dean Winchester’s sexuality, via visual metaphor, but you totally could do an entire thesis.
“The Enforcement of Hyper-Masculine Traits and Expectations on Children Within the Hunter Community: A Long-Term Study of Sexual Development and Displacement.”
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