2020 gets ever more surreal: SPN 15x18

[schneefink]

If I had had to guess yesterday what would most amuse and distract me today, I would not have guessed Supernatural. I wasn't even in that fandom! (I mean I did read dozens of fics and watched some vids etc., but that barely counts, pretty sure that's just normal levels of fandom osmosis with a huge fandom like that.)

That Destiel scene - or, well, DD correctly pointed out that it's not canon Destiel, it's a confirmation that Cas has romantic feelings for Dean but not the other way around, but still - had the perfect timing. Even without the Putin probably-a-hoax that came out at the same time, which made for some very confusing tweets to wake up to. A day earlier would have been too stressful, a day later more relaxed, but yesterday night was the perfect time to just be really surreal. Fucking 2020, man. Cas confesses his love and immediately gets thrown into super-hell, if I understood correctly, is just the most SPN way of doing a gay love confession *facepalm*
And all the memes! Too lazy rn to pick out individual ones but there are quite a few collected in this ff_a thread. (I thought this comment about why Destiel/SPN specifically had this big reaction is probably fairly accurate.)

Comments

[melannen]

Yeah, I think for people who are actually following the show, they're waiting until the actual finale to call anything - i think I saw yesterday that there are only, like, three people left alive total? In all of existence? So odds that Cas isn't permadead (or they get an hea in the afterlife together) seem fairly high.

People who aren't still following are just laughing at all of it, I think.

[schneefink]

Huh, yeah that does sound like they'll have to fix that with some resurrections. And if nothing else it should be a fertile ground for fix-it fic.

[melannen]

Yeah, I get why people are upset, but 'bury your gays' takes on a different meaning when this is at least onscreen death #8 for him (and that's still less than the other two mcs.) And if they are going to make it reciprocated, no writer worth their beans would do anything but drag it out till the finale.