It is no surprise if you visit my Tumblr that I "ship" certain gay couples on TV shows. If you don't know what shipping is, I highly recommend that either get off the Internet or do some research into the weird subcultures we have here.
Anyways, many of my ships are not canon and some people in fandoms have problems with this, for some reason. This is my response to all of the people who don't understand how people can romantically ship two people who are portrayed as being interested in the sex that the other is not.
Let's take my OTP: Dean and Castiel from Supernatural.
It is pointed out many times throughout the show, mainly by Dean's many sexual romps with women, that he is straight and the only person we ever see Cas romantically interact with is Meg. So, how can so many people believe that they are attracted to each other?
The way that I see it, and remember that I'm not speaking for everyone, just myself, is that if the characters would have gotten together had their sexes corresponded with their previously stated preferences, then they are canon.
Using my above example, Cas takes a human vessel, as he is an angel. He could have picked anyone, but he chose a man. Angels, at least I think, don't have a sex. Had Cas taken a female vessel, I firmly believe that Dean would have already expressed his attraction to Cas. And that's what makes it canon in my eyes, the fact that, had one of them been in another body, they would already be canon.
However, as Dean believes himself to be straight and Cas is well--he's Cas, they haven't broached that yet.
That's why I feel perfectly comfortable shipping gay couples between characters who are not directly stated as being gay.
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