We are currently living out a WIP AU of The Neverending Story

So I’ve concluded that the destiel/dean is bi parts of the fandom is currently living out a WIP AU of The Neverending Story (the movie version) that we all desperately hope hasn’t been abandoned and that arrival of the No Homo Intern is what we are all desperately hoping is the conclusion of the story.

Hear me out, Fantasia is Supernatural. We are Bastian, Destiel is Artax, Dean and his bisexuality is Atreyu. The Empress is the Story of Supernatural. The Nothing is the show’s constant insistence that it’s a show about two totally hetro dudes in a car and John was a great father and ahaha rape joke so funny and that is the only way to get ratings. Gmork is the portion of fandom/writers/directors/etc that insists that the Nothing is absolutely right.



Seasons 1 to 6 happen prior to the opening of the movie where destiel/dean is bi is more subtextutal than textual but it’s there. The movie starts when we’re told to stop imagining things much the same way Bastian is told to keep his feet on the ground, stop drawing horses in class (it’s not a horse it’s a unicorn!). And is then promptly set upon and dumped in the trash but since most of us have embraced the fact that we’re trash we clamber out of the dumpster and go to a bookstore where we’re told by a cantankerous old man that the book he’s reading is not for us.



We take it and read it anyway.

The Nothing that is plaguing Fantasia is responsible for the season 7 ratings drop and is making the Empress sick (with the constant rehashing of the same themes and plots over and over). No one knows how to save Fantasia so Atreyu (Dean and his bisexuality) is summoned to save Fantasia and the ratings, he just so happens to bring Artax (destiel) along with him. He’s given the Auryn of Ratings to carry with him.



Then we have season 8 which is basically Bastian (we the desitel/Dean is bi portions of fandom) happily reading about the adventures of Atreyu/Dean and Artax/Destiel as the try to stop the Nothing. They think they get a lead and head into The Swamps of Sadness.

The Swamps of Sadness is season 9. Artax dies. Castiel is tossed from the bunker. It is horrible and we don’t like it. Let us never speak of it again. Atreyu is almost killed by Gmork (who is the embodiment of the fandom/writers that are against any and all interpretation of the show as anything other than “hetrostraight two brothers in a car”). Basically every horrible thing that can happen, happens in the Swamps of Sadness that is season 9.



Season 10 is where all the weird characters show up trying to help Dean/Atreyu and we (as Bastian) read along kind of confused but interested but the Nothing is starting to come back and Gmork is after Atreyu again. And what do we do? The answer? The Sphinx Southern Oracle! The Sphinx will figure this out! The Sphinx will clear up all the is Dean bi or what? (The Sphinx that is part human part animal but is neither because it’s a Sphinx)



But first Atreyu/Dean has to make it through the gates.



The First Gate: Dean doubts his self worth but we all scream at him to just RUN! To just plough through the gate and not doubt himself. You can be Bi Dean and still like your car! Liking more than one gender doesn’t mean you have to give up who you are! Dean runs through the gate but doubts himself. He just barely makes it.



The Second Gate: The episode Fanfiction. Bastian and Atreyu come face to face just as Dean collides with how Fandom views him. The same is true for Fandom as we find out how Dean views us.



Finally we’re at the Southern Oracle. The Southern Oracle tells us that what the Empress needs is a new name/plot. A new name/plot will save Fantasia/Supernatural. The Nothing promptly destroys the Southern Oracle.

Atreyu/Dean goes on a search for a new plot but can’t find one. He’s isolated from his friends and loses the Auryn of Ratings. He comes across people who are mourning the loss of others who succumbed to the Nothing (various POC/Queer/Women characters who have died). He continues to travel alone until he comes face to face with Gmork, agent of the Nothing. Dean is bi battles it out with Gmork.



Gmork is defeated but Atreyu doesn’t actually win. Instead Dean is bi is lost in a sea of chaotic scraps of Fantasia/Supernatural continuity that don’t make sense. A friend finds him and returns the Auryn of Ratings but it all appears too late. He looks for the Ivory Tower of Plot to find the Empress (of our Story).



He finds the Ivory Tower. The Empress is waiting for him. Atreyu/Dean is sure he failed, look at all the suffering that he’s caused. The Empress explains that he needed to suffer in order for Bastian/fandom to understand him and his plight. Atreyu/Dean is suitably mad that we don’t do anything to help him.



Then! The last of Fantasia is ripped apart, Atreyu dies, we scream No! The Empress begs us to just figure out how to save Fantasia already. We scream into a raging storm of The Nothing: Dean is bi!!!!

And yet the world still falls away and goes black. All is lost! Woe! Woe to the destiel/Dean is bi fandom!



But the story isn’t complete. There’s a question mark where The Nothing wants an end. And now here we are sitting in the dark with the last lines of the current chapter making us twist our hands, the story not quite finished but everything seems lost.

“Why is it so dark?” The desitel/Dean is bi fandom asked.



“In the beginning it is always dark.” Whispered the Empress of the Story. She lifted her hand. In her palm was a single glowing grain.



The desitel/Dean is bi fandom peered down at the faint light of hope, “What is that?”

And that’s where the story has been sitting at for months. The author hasn’t touched the story and doesn’t respond to questions except for some vague subtext once in awhile. So we stand in the dark desperately hoping that the opening line of the next chapter will be the Empress saying: The No Homo Intern, he grants destiel and bisexual wishes.