“Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father’s roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.”

– On the Road, Jack Kerouac
(x)

I’m reading your meta’s about Destiel and On the Road and holy crap! It’s so close it’s seriously freaky.

ssjdebusk:

Literally if you listen to the guy’s voice that plays Dean, it’s all low and he even LOOKS like jensen it’s really fucking weird.

Famous shot of Neal Cassady (taken by Allen Ginsburg)

Dean Moriarty in On the Road

Dean Winchester in the pilot of Supernatural

Bonus: Season 1 Photoshoot

seriously freaky

Hi, i saw your post about the character that dean winchester is based on was bisexual, but who is he based on?? :))

mishcollin:

okay so sam and dean were based on sal paradise and dean moriarty from the book on the road by jack kerouac! they’re two best friends who basically travel around the entire country aimlessly and it was the most popular book of the beatnik generation in the 1950’s, which inspired kripke to create sam and dean (fun fact: sam was originally named sal and sam and dean were originally two journalist best friends, not brothers.)

dean moriarty (based on the flagrantly bisexual neal cassady, named after james dean) was bi in on the road and had sex with men as much as he had sex with women. a lot of the “racy” gay sex scenes were cut between dean and carlo and dean and sal from the original copy of OTR.

(also this is a weird fun fact so william burroughs—one of jack kerouac’s beatnik writer friends and who the character “Old Bull” is based on in OTR—lived on my aunt and uncle’s street in Lawrence KS. weeeeird huh?)