STOP MAKING DESTIEL FANWORKS BASED ON THE ALLEYWAY SCENE AND PAINTING IT AS A ROMANTIC THING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CASTIEL IS LITERALLY BEATING DEAN ALMOST TO DEATH FOR BEING SUICIDAL AND NOT DOING WHAT CAS WANTS WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU FIND ROMANTIC ABOUT THIS
#Meta#SAME#Castiel#Dean Winchester#Dean.Cas#5x18 Point of No Return#Abuse cw#Suicidal ideation cw#This is like the one fucking thing I will NEVER forgive Cas for#A lot of the ways he hurts Dean and Sam come when he's basically /used/ to hurt them by malicious parties#But this one was purely his choice and he had more than a few different ways to try to help Dean and convince Dean not to#than what he fucking decided he had to do what he didn't stop himself from doing cos he was taught that giving up = punishment#I just#I'll never forgive Castiel for this; it's just infuckingdefensible#and the fact that people romanticize it makes me really angry#(Just as angry as I get when people romanticize/sexualize Megstiel in general)#Still: I do think there needs to be a conversation had about the difference between romanticizing this: Castiel's choice#and romanticizing the crypt scene: Castiel's choice NOT to hurt Dean#Because I think there's a huge difference personally: romanticizing the fact that no matter how hard Naomi pushed Castiel#to kill Dean he stalled and begged and absolutely outright declared that [if it were his choice] HE WOULDN'T HURT DEAN#and the fact that Dean's love broke the control (though I will forever glare at this trope in general) IS a romantic trope#(particularly when it's not between 'family')#Honestly romanticizing the alley scene is romanticizing abuse: that's not fucking negotiable#But romanticizing the crypt scene is romanticizing Castiel's growth: that angels fought to make him 5x18 Cas as hard as they could#and he absolutely REFUSED TO HURT DEAN and fought hard not to until Dean's love pulled him out of it#8x17 Goodbye Stranger#QUIT IT FANDOM#Supernatural#Fandom is#Fandom