Help! My slash goggles are stuck!

[melannen]

(Meta for Notcapade)
(And many, many thanks to siegeofangels and stellar_dust for readover and reassurance that I am not completely mad. I have learned why people rarely get meta betas: because they are smarter than you are, and won't stop thinking long enough to let you post!)

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[melannen]

Hmmm. I think there are factors in SPN other than the demons looking on, but I'm not sure that just the assumed gayness will do it. Because they've never run into that in a situation where it will cause them any danger, or even inconvenience, have they? (And I follow several fandoms that have had at least as much of the 'you guys are gay, right?' stuff, and they don't even *approach* SPN's level of slash-following. (Boston Legal, anyone?) In fact, those throwaway lines (while they do, oh they do, make the fangirls happy) can almost work in the *opposite* direction, by acknowledging the possibility of gay, and then textually dismissing it as being anythnig of importance or threat. Does that make sense.

On the other hand, there are so many people who do look at Sam and Dean that way: we have all the things that go bump in the night, and we have the way they dress up as official people and fake it, and now they're being hunted not just by the bad guys but by the cops and by the other hunters. They're *constantly* aware of how they're being seen, and the gay is the least important part of it because they don't really see it as relevant. Which is part of the reason why, for me, it's so much fun to *make* it relevant...