round and round the winchesters go

I understand your concerns, and Supernatural has justified this particular worry many times in the past, but I don’t think it’s a possibility at all?

The reason for the specific wording, in my opinion, was—as I said in my tags—metatextually sending out a pretty clear beacon of “no more distractions, no detours, we’re all in on this arc”: that Hannah is our last False Romantic Lead before we get to our destination (and I will, if I’m wrong about that, admit it as I did that I was wrong about sibs > romance).

Honestly, have you ever called someone you genuinely want to be with “a distraction” when you realize they like you, telling them “none of this, focus on other important stuff” because they pale in comparison to your self-professed real “priorities”? Imo, the same as the “a dramatic narrative creates conflict and we fuck each other over cos we live in that universe” metatextual leanings Edlund (who made little secret of his issue with the S6-S7 Cas arc) made in 7x21 with his “Sorry universe” conversation with Dean, with this conversation shooting Hannah down, Carver and Cas are both asserting their priorities.

I don’t really see it as a loophole whatsoever, honestly, but then, I actively fight against heterosexist thinking (and no, there’s no maybe, babe, you and I, and probably everybody else I have ever met and plan to ever meet has some internalized heterosexism; it’s a thing whether you know it or not) at all times, and tbh, sometimes naively because I sometimes see the world as it should be over how it is. I guess time will tell which one of us is right.

I can understand that. I mean, I have #anxiety and #depression so I totally have those thoughts a lot. But that’s part of why I’m so deeply invested in something going right, as well. Contradict my thoughts, world, do it.