But What Are Their Thoughts On Incest?

Why is Sam always dominant in Sam/Dean fanfiction? Seriously, there are great big 'CAUTION: IMPLIED BOTTOM!SAM' warnings plastered all over fic that breaks this trend. Sam always seems to be the one who initiates the relationship shift, too, and the one who's more at ease with it. It can't just be because he's tall, surely? ...it's just because he's tall, isn't it?

All right, that's unfair of me; I'm just interested in why the idea of dominant, totally-okay-with-the-brothersex Sam is so prevalent in the Supernatural fandom, because it's not the way in which Sam/Dean works in my mind. I can see Dean having issues with it, of course, because he'd be keen to hold onto his heterosexual self-image (part of the reason the popularity of bottom-Dean surprises me; I can't see him taking what I'm sure he would think of as 'the girl's role' without a fight) and concerned about hurting Sam (and I'd say Dean's concern for his brother's mental and emotional well-being is the single largest obstacle to Wincest). But I imagine that Dean would probably be more at ease with the actual concept of incest, because he's embraced the fact that the Winchesters are Different, they are Not Like Other People, and he's so obsessed with his family that I don't think the idea of letting anyone else into his life has even occurred to him; if he wants anything remotely approaching a long-term romantic or sexual relationship, Sam is his only option. I can even see him thinking of that as obvious. "Of course my brother's the only person I could ever have more than a one-night stand with, pfft. Girls don't exist for more than two days."

Sam, though, Sam (for the first series, at least) has delusions that maybe one day he could find a nice girl, settle down, have a normal life. He doesn't view himself and his brother as being separate from the 'real world' in the way in which Dean does, and so he's less likely to think 'well, we're not part of society, so why should society's taboos matter?' I think that the concept of an incestuous relationship would freak him out far more than it would Dean, who is better able to handle the crazy.

I'm not saying 'THE ENTIRE SUPERNATURAL FANDOM IS WRONG', obviously; these are just my thoughts, how it works in my head, and I'd be very happy to hear another fan's perspective. I'm not quite half-way through Series Two yet, so there's a fair chance that episodes I have not yet seen may completely disprove the ideas I've built up about the Winchester brothers.

And 'Croatoan' broke my heart into a million billion tiny pieces, by the way. Just so you know.

Time Shifts Were A Weekly Occurrence, So Nobody Was Surprised.

'Playthings' was a rather spectacularly gay episode, wasn't it? I swear, there was one point at which I honestly thought there was going to be a kiss, before remembering that a) gay incestuous kissing is fairly rare on legal DVDs, and b) I would have seen one million icons of any Sam/Dean kissing scenes by now. (...actually, come to think of it, I think I have seen Sam/Dean kissing icons. But those are probably manips. Probably.)

That episode had about four scenes I was compelled to go back to and rewatch multiple times (the 'HEY, PLEASE LET US IN TO SEE YOUR DOLLS' scene was a thing of such joy). I think that my love for the brothers, impossible though it may seem, has actually multiplied.

Seriously, I can't even remember the last time I became this emotionally involved with a work of fiction (or, more accurately, with a particular dynamic within a work of fiction). I make 'eeee!' sounds and grin a ridiculous amount when the two of them are teasing each other. I spend scenes that show the quiet and fierce and absolute love between the boys (Sam finding Dean again in 'Hunted', oh, oh) with my hands to my mouth, muttering 'I love them, I love them so much, I don't even know, they're amazing', because I am a gigantic fangirl who is hopelessly, hopelessly in love with the relationship between two fictional constructs. Just looking at 'Croatoan' screencaps makes me emit tiny pained noises. I love the Winchesters an infinite amount.

In entirely unrelated news, Ashes to Ashes is steadily becoming more and more like Torchwood. I propose that the two of them merge into some sort of hideous televisual chimera. It could be called Torch Wood to Ashes! It's almost like the show-namers were planning it.