For Me, The Thing I Love About Wincest Is The Love.

For me, the thing i love about wincest is the love.

like,,--

Okay. So. Back when i was young and naive and new to tumblr/fandoms, i was so confused about the concept of shipping just for hot, smutty sexual dynamics vs shipping for romantic/loving reasons. I remember exploring posts about Game of Thrones on tumblr and stumbling across the Ramsay Bolton/Theon Greyjoy ship (for the blissfully unaware, in canon the former brutally tortures the latter in cold blood). I was at a complete loss for how anyone could ship those two, because all I saw in their interactions was sociopathic cruelty and miserable trauma. I didn't realize that the BDSM vibes were sexy for some people. It was the first time in my life (I was like 22 lol) that I realized that you could ship characters just because you think the sex would be hot as fuck. And I get that. But for me, I've never been able to ship someone unless I can see the love in canon.

So. Bringing it back to our beloved brothers. At first I thought wincest was just one of those sexy ships, not romantic ships. Because both characters are tall and jacked and hot and badass and violent. And I used to be an anti because I was like "but they're brothers?? Ew??" But THEN you actually WATCH the show (or in my case, rewatch) and you see the way they interact with each other. They love each other so much. Like LOVE love. They will do anything for each other. They will die for each other, kill for each other and go to the ends of the earth for each other. Nothing matters more than each other.

I was talking to my wife about the crazy shit these brothers are willing to do for each other and she goes, "i mean, that's how i feel about you." And i'm like YES! EXACTLY! I have a brother who's four years younger than me and taller than me. My wife has two older brothers. But neither of us feel about our brothers the way we feel about each other. She is my great love. She is my forever. She is my everything. And Dean and Sam's relationship looks way more like my relationship with my wife than my relationship with my brother.

Yes, they can be codependent and possessive and toxic. Yes, they've been through some fucked up and they've DONE some fucked up shit (to EACH OTHER) and yeah that could make for some really hot sex. But for me, the appeal of wincest is the deep, abiding care and devotion they have for each other. The LOVE!! It makes me crazy.

A caveat:

I also love the dynamic between sam and dean just as canon gencest or platonic soulmates (that's for another post, lol). And there's something to be said about society's prioritization of romantic/sexual relationships over all other and the lack of representation of healthy platonic relationships in media (especially among men).

But i'm allosexual and alloromantic. So for me, my love for my wife is very romantic and includes an important sexual aspect. So because Dean and Sam remind me of me and my wife, of course i'm gonna project a sexual relationship onto that.

the real reason Dean died at the end of spn is because the narrative and writers had to stay consistent with the whole “everybody Sam fucks dies” thing

Mr.&Mr.Winchester.

A fake trailer inspired by Mr.&Mrs Smith. Music from Fifty shades of Grey.

I own absolutely nothing.Just my twisted fantasy and shitty editing skills.Watch the tags people:)

Sometimes I see badly written siblings and I'm like "it's okay, you don't have a sibling. How could you know we don't call each other 'bro' twice in a sentence?" But then there's fucking Supernatural. Like Jared, babe, you HAVE a brother. Babydoll, you have the blueprint. Just do that! When the script calls for [glances at his brother] and you give us [eyefucks Jackles while licking his lips] do you see how that could be confusing for us, the viewers?

Like what the fuck is that??

how dare you accuse me of "shipping wincest" when in fact i am observing wincest in its natural habitat (the cw's supernatural, 2005-2020)

ALSO it wasn't pointless cause sam and dean got exactly the ending they wanted: to be together, happy and content. they had each other, through everything, and at the end. it was always just the two of them. it was the point of dean's 7 minutes of incest speech. it was why sam held onto the car and dean's watch until he was old and grey. it was why the ending was them, at peace and together. like, i'm sorry your mass hallucination of gay angel and uwu hunterboy didn't manifest but if you had watched the show, you would see the ending was thematic to the entire purpose and point of the show and it was perfectly fitting. like, it was the perfect book end. i'm sorry you feel like you wasted your time i guess