Supernatural Had The Opportunity To Do Something Great. To Send A Message Of Love And Validation To A

Supernatural had the opportunity to do something great. To send a message of love and validation to a whole community. Not only to the part of the community that liked their show, but to all of us. But instead they decided to pander to the people, who never had to fight for their representation.

I support #TheySilencedYou, #TheySilencedThem and #TheyWillNeverSilenceUs and I'm in awe of all of you. Of your eloquence, passion, coordination and decisiveness. And I feel like your message goes beyond this particular TV show and the CW.

It's about protesting a pattern of disrespect towards otherness in Mainstream Media. It's about demanding meaningful, unmistakably queer representation, that enables discourse and furthers understanding in a heterogenic audience. It's about asking Networks to not only hire diverse staff but to also give them the freedom to tell their stories the way they want to. It's about telling creators to own up to the inherent messages they leave us with in the end.

And that's inspiring and should be celebrated.

Stories matter.

I don't want to write a full fledged essay about this because that's a lot of work and I have an actual essay for school that I'm procrastinating on but I really need to ramble about all of the similarities between the Tuskens and the Mandalorians and how they're used in this episode.

The Tuskens wear mask and rarely ever unmask themselves—and never in front of outsiders. The Mandalorians, or this specific sect of them, similarly wear masks and never remove them.

Mandalorian armor is an inherent part of a Mandalorian's identity and considered sacred to the culture. Cobb is wearing armor that he has no right to wear and Din seeks to take it as it belongs with the Mandalorian.

Tuskens believe all water is sacred and promised to them. The settlers steal their water in their minds and why they often raid moisture farms.

Cobb wears Mandalorian armor but he has no respect for it as portrayed in the episode and no understanding of the culture. He offers Din a drink and sits down and removes his helmet, effectively telling the audience that he isn't a Mandalorian and he blatantly says it as much later. I think the most important aspect of this scene is the way he offered Din a drink and removed his own helmet. To him its a polite offer, but in order to accept the drink Din would have to remove his own helmet which disrespects his culture. So, the story is telling us that Cobb is wearing sacred armor that he has no right to wear and he doesn't even understand the culture it belongs to.

I feel like a scene with the sand people parallels this moment later on when Cobb shows disgust towards being offered a drink by the Tuskens. He consumes, steals, their sacred water and then when it's offered by them he refuses to even drink it.

Part of me thinks I'm reading too much into this, but like ... the parallels between the Tuskens and the Mandalorians are there, right? And I think this episode definitely mades some commentary on cultural appropriation even if it wasn’t a major theme or anything.

THIS COULD'VE BEEN EVERYTHING

So I decided to step into the editing room and make one little change…

You’ll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend

JACK'S "GOODBYE" AND WAVE PARALLELING WITH HIS NORMAL "HELLO" AND WAVE SENT ME

and tHEN! REMEMBERING CASTIEL'S "GOODBYE DEAN" IN PARALLEL TO ALWAYS SAYING "HELLO DEAN"

the father-son parallel left me dead

For those of you that think this is just about Destiel, I'm sorry you're wrong.

This is about Lily, who was the first of the special children to die. She was murdered and hung on a tower for shock value.

This is about Corbett, who was the first and only of the ghost facers to die. who's sexuality was used for comic relief (yes, I know we all enjoy the "Gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day" line, but let's call a spade a spade.

This is about Demian and Barns, whose relationship was used for comedic shock.

This is about Charlie, our first recurring LGBTQ+ character, whose brutal off screen death was used to "move the story along."

This is about Max Banes, whose story was forgotten about, even though there was obviously more to tell.

This is about Kaia, who was killed after expressing interest in Claire. And claire, for being almost erased from the narrative after the confirmation that she felt the same.

This is about AU Charlie, who lost TWO separate girlfriends and then was killed herself. (And erasing the scene where she awkwardly talks to Sam about her tryst with ROWENA)

And yes, it is about Castiel. The NB Angel in a Male vessel who fell in love with a man, and was killed after confessing said love.

And Dean Winchester, because honestly, who knows, but all signs point a certain way, but it is not our story to tell. it was his. And he was killed before he could. Before he could even explore what it means to be truly free, he was killed.

These aren't the only instances on the show either. There are several throughout ALL of the seasons where LGBTQ+ people have been used for comedy or shock value and then never heard from or seen again.

They could have done so much by just letting three little words, Hell, two fucking words, on screen, but they refused to make a stand and chose to pander to a dying audience.

So yes, we will celebrate the "Y yo a ti, Cas." We will try to figure out what went wrong in translation or editing, because this is so much bigger than Destiel.

For those of you who see these examples and say " see, you've always had rep, you just wanted to see Castiel and Dean together." Let me ask you? Is killing or writing off every LGBTQ+ member on your show really good rep?

For those of you who say " Well, Dean was always straight and changing it this late in the Game would have been pandering!" While, I know alot of people saw him as uber heterosexual, some of us never did, but that's not the point. People do come out later in life you know? Being anything other than strictly heterosexual is terrifying. There are so many risks. It takes years to build up the courage to be yourself, some people never even get the chance.it would not have been pandering, it would have been groundbreaking. It would have let people see that it is never too late to be free. But they didn't want to do that.

For those of you who think it was fetishization of two "hot dudes"..... maybe for some, and those people should be ashamed, because sexuality should never be fetishized. But get this, the story of Destiel was loved by all members of the community, as well as straight people too, and believe me, some of those members have no desire to see two dudes getting it on. It was the story of unconditional love and respect that drew us in.

This isn't just about Destiel. It IS about showing people that it's okay to love who you love and being free to be who you are, regardless of what society thinks.

So yes, we will go feral. We deserve it.