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[ivyfic]

trakkie leant me her Supernatural DVDs. Yes, that's another one sucked in. Good show, genuinely creepy, but having heard about the fandom, I resolved to watch it with a gen only set of mind. They don't make it easy.

I'm trying so very, very hard not to see the slash. I really really am. But aside from the fact that the show is about two pretty men living in each other's backpockets, driving around the country, sharing hotel rooms and staring at each other in towels, there are moments that in any other show would make my little slasher heart jump for joy.

There's the moment where Sam throws Dean up against a wall and Dean looks desperately into his eyes and says, "You're all I have." There's the moment when Sam is talking about what they're going to do after this is over, and how he wants to go back to college, and Dean wrenches out a heart-breaking confession that it isn't just about the hunt for him, there's something else. He turns away and gathers himself before saying that he just wants them to be together. There's the fact that Dean seems obsessed with his brother's love life, constantly guiltily, jealously throwing Sam at any chick that passes their way.

And, as if that's not enough, there's the conversation where Dean asks Sam if Sam won't date because of Jessica (his dead girlfriend) and Sam says yes, but that's only a small part of the reason. Dean asks what the bigger reason is. They look at each other in anguish for long moments before Dean says, "Yeah, right," and turns away. Yeah, that big reason? That fucking elephant in the room? That's your BIG GAY LOVE FOR EACH OTHER. Seriously, show, you don't leave fandom blanks like that to fill in! What were you thinking?

I'm going to go scrub my brain now and pretend that I'm watching a normal show like a normal viewer. Subtext? What subtext?

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[dotfic.livejournal.com]

Laughing so hard right now.

I have...difficulty...imagining them having sex. Or reading them having sex. Brain just won't go there.

It's not that I don't get how other people see it. I just prefer them platonic. Yes, the show itself does toy around with the slash subtext. Yes. And it's equally easy to watch the canon and read it as brotherly.

Or both, if people prefer.

I enjoy them too much as siblings to want the slash...or maybe I'm not predisposed to the slash enough in the first place--I like some slash. I also have a lot of male-male partnership platonic OTP's. *g*