Forbidden Elephants: The Most Forbidden, Issue #4, Part One
Going for Brokeback…..
Song suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgAYFVHwY_c
So you would think that writing about Wincest would be the easiest part of this process, right? I mean, let’s face it; the show has been capitalizing on the looks o’ love between Sam and Dean since the pilot, so Wincest? A piece of cake….yeah, not so much. It’s like trying to draw up a peace treaty between the Federation and the Romulans. One slip and you’ve got some kind of Romulan (or in this case DeanSquad) fatwa on your ass and you’re looking over your shoulder to make sure the Destiel shippers aren’t carrying your visage in voodoo doll form. And no, I can’t forget about the SamGirls, but let’s be honest, Dean is kind of like ground zero for the slashing….I think because he’s pretty and he has the soulfulness….and he’s pretty.
So I decided – no I’m not going to write about Wincest. First, it’s been overdone. I can’t really add anything to the conversation. I mean there’s like 40,000 fan fics out there on Supernatural and more than half of them speculate on what Sam and Dean get up (wink, wink) to in the back of the Impala on those cold nights in between episodes. And then there’s academic treatises and pseudo-academic blogs that run into infinity about the homoerotica of Supernatural. What can I contribute, really?
Second, the whole Sam/Dean unhealthy co-dependence kind of speaks for itself. Dean sold his soul for his brother; Sam jumped into hell for his brother – end game. That’s it. That’s love, complete and total, with a side of “someone needs therapy.†It’s a little creepy, actually. I mean, I love my sister, but selling my soul? I don’t know if I can get past the great Barbie incident of ’79 enough to do that for her. A kidney? Hell yes. A soul? Eh, I might reserve that sacrifice for my soulmate….oh, wait a minute. Hmmmmmm……
Nope, not gonna do it. I don’t care if Ash implied they were soulmates. Of course they are. No one else is ever going to understand their level of screwed-upedness except each other. They are members of a very exclusive club….for two. We can call it the Winch>ester Tree House Club – “where common sense decisions go in, but they never come out.†(Notice the “come out†pun – genius) Oh, and no girls allowed because of, you know, the cooties.
Third, it’s the taboo subject in this fandom. I don’t want people looking at me like I’m either (a) a pervert or (2) a pervert. Nobody signs into a fandom and then talks openly about the incestuous love between two hot guys. That’s nutty. So, yeah, I fear the all-knowing and all-seeing looks o’ shame and disgust….because they judge me like this:
So yeah, no, I’m going to just quit while I’m ahead. No need to comment on the Wincest.
<watches “All Hell Breaks Loose, I and II,†“Playthings,†“Lucifer Rising,†“Changing Channels,†“Sympathy for the Devilâ€â€¦. “All Hell Breaks Loose†again….and then there’s season 7 with Dean’s alcoholism and Sam’s wall o’ angst in “Hello Cruel World†and then the wtf? moment when Dean guts Amy in “The Girl Next Door†– btw, second time Dean has gutted a SamGirl – just sayin’>
Dammit! Wincest! I can’t quit you. I just can’t. So I’m taking your smelly flannel shirt out of the closet, holding it close to my face (in a totally loving and not stalkerish way), and proudly proclaiming you in public.
Yes, Wincest, I believe you exist. I affirm you. You are in the world, full bodied and whole, and beautiful in your own special way. You are the subliminal bond, the silent partnership, the unspoken vow that binds us together, either as the object of our scorn, the raise in our eyebrow, or for some of us (and I know you’re here), the secret guilt of forbidden pleasure.
In fact, Wincest, I would say you mostly exist because a lot of women watch Supernatural and Kripke thought you were cute so he asked you to dance a few with him. Silly Kripke who played with a formula for forbidden love and then walked away…I would call that a certain type of tease.
And I have my own confession – I absolutely and simultaneously loathe and love the idea of Wincest. Why? Beyond the obvious reasons (loathe – kind of creepy wanting brothers to shag/love – hot guys who love each other and make love….in an Impala, or in some fanfics, on the Impala, next to it, and I don’t even want to think of the ones that have them with the Impala – you know they exist), I think it’s an interesting read of Supernatural. I mean, think about it.
Imagine reading the whole show as a love story between two really gorgeous men caught up against a world of evil and they only have each other to cling to? Imagine their love is what keeps them going even when the universe is warring against them….Imagine reading it as this complex dynamic between two souls who can’t quite quit each other, semi-Brokeback style, even though their love is what damns them each and every time….Wait a minute! I think Zachariah was onto something here…..
But what is that something? Well, I have a hypothesis, and it has a formula, and it has evidence….so let’s do an experiment and see if it pans out. If not, well then, we’ll discuss Destiel.
ROTFLMAO! Great job! 😀
Well, that’s one way to look at it, I guess.
I don’t suppose it matters but Dean says he’s Mulder.
Wow…just Wow! I think a shower might help about now.
That was too good. You know, I never even thought of the boys that way until I started reading stuff on this site. I think I’m somewhat of an innocent. Boy, the wool has been ripped off of my eyes now! I was never interested in reading fanfiction before, I certainly do not want to read it now!
Thanks so much Linda, you write with a great sense of humour.
Thanks Sylvie. I hope that you are not turned off of fanfiction, though. My observation was hyperbolic. There are many great fanfics out there, both general and “wincest”-centric. I am really offering an exaggerated sense of some of these things. Some, though, I do hold water.
Such fun. 😛 I love the way you wield a two-edged sword with words: one side sharp and biting and the other falling down hilarious. Thank you for brightening my day. 🙂
Thank you, Marilyn (make me blush). I’m glad it brightened your day!
– hot guys who love each other and make love….in an Impala, or in some fanfics, on the Impala, next to it, and I don’t even want to think of the ones that have them with the Impala –
girl, that’s gold
I just found this site & I’m really enjoying your essays. Thanks!
🙂