justanotheridijiton | The Dean Is Bi Meta Masterpost by lizbobjones (elizabethrobertajones on tumblr)

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Full credit to @jenmisheel‘s masterpost, which I was looking for in my own tag, for my masterpost masterpost, and about 3/70 pages in I was like… I keep making masterposts of everything and one day I might want to do this one. Maybe today is “one day” - except “today” was “several days ago” and I still don’t think this is finished even excluding the knowledge new stuff will get added as long as the show keeps happening. But there’s enough here to get you started.
In interest of making it clear I’m not ripping off the other more famous masterpost etc here’s my usual disclaimers turned up to 11
- most of this is stuff linked on my blog unless it was under a cut anyway (because if this masterpost exists under the cut, so will all the links on my blog ‘cause you know I’m still here :P) This time I wandered around looking further afield a bit, but I linked from blogs that don’t seem likely to go anywhere (and I hope they don’t!).
- for the most part this focuses on discussion and fandom reactions more than 100% scientific proof. I mean obviously there’s loads of “this happened therefore Dean is bi” but I love the discussion and metaphor unpacking so there’s some lengthy and/or abstract posts, or things mired in fandom fun that make terrible told you so arguments but are very interesting reading.
- on the other hand a well-crafted shitpost of a paragraph to a line in length or even a no comment gifset can absolutely make the cut if it says everything as neatly as possible
- there is a great deal of discussion about how and why we ship and of course if we are “allowed” to. Most of these posts occur because someone attacks a meta blogger for saying “cucumber water makes you gay”, the meta blogger gives them a bemused look, a pat on the head, and whips up a long essay on the validity of shipping and defence of the humble sea cucumber in context as the resounding counter argument. So there’s a chunk of fairly argumentative & wanky posts.
- it’s relatively Destiel light because there’s a weird bias (addressed in some of these posts I put deliberately near the top :P) that “bi dean” meta isn’t valid when you make it all about your ship. Nevertheless I do ship Destiel and I’m not gonna punt a post from the selection process for being shippy or using Cas as an example to a wider concept than just Dean being in love with him & if you’re allergic this is not the masterpost for you.
That’s probably enough disclaiming.