I think I finally saw the "obese" Jensen pics. Whatevs. Was there actually a thing about this?

what?!! Is this part of craxy fandom?

Ian McShane and Mark Sheppard should pretty much be on every show ever, as far as I'm concerned.

I loved Paget Brewster ever since Friends. Even though I still need to dig into Criminal Minds.

I don't know, Theresa. ita'd made a comment ages ago when I was agogging at the existence of chubby!Dean fic, and I took it to be sarcasm and inferred that there were people out there who were crazy enough to consider him in any way "fat", let alone "obese" in those pics (which I hadn't seen at the time).

People have actually used the term obese?! Freaks.

I was just wandering the spnstoryfinder community on LJ, and someone there is actually doing a search for Dean/Bobby slash. Is it one of you in disguise? There can't be all that many people who look at those two characters and see sexual potential, can there?

aurelia, that or I'm reading into and blowing ita's comment all out of proportion, which is not unreasonable in regards to me.

I saw the words obese, fat and overweight applied to him. People can suck. I also read that apparently he won't be playing skins again, but I hope that was just shit.

Morgana, you made me (MADE ME) go look at the finders comm, and apparently I've read all the palatable Dobby (that underage was real underage--back click, DNW). Come on, fandom! You write Sassy!

Freaks who suck.

I wouldn't call him heavier at all. Maybe slightly less cut, but I understand that he might not want to spend his vacation/honeymoon doing crunches. And honestly, I could see it as character choice for the more domesticated Dean.

Bodies change with time. A thirty-five year old doesn't have the same skeletal structure as a twenty-five year old. They lose the razor-cut cheekbones as the facial structure thickens and coarsens somewhat, and the eye sockets become less prominent, giving the impression that the eyes aren't as large. They're the same size, the bones around them have just thickened, as has the skin, and inevitable fat deposits accumulate and redistribute. The rib cage expands, making the waist larger by comparison, even though there is no difference in the amount of body fat. The change is more apparent in males, especially in males who are not straight-lined body types (ectomorph? I forget) to start with. Jensen is by no stretch of the imagination fat. He is less ripped than his costar, but I happen to think that's an indicator of a less-obsessive personality. Or perhaps he's gotten less obsessive as he's more comfortable with his abilities and no longer feels the need to present physical perfection. He's obviously healthy and agile, and still pretty darned pretty, even if he's not Uncanny Valley pretty any more.

The LJ comm jubjubfest was closed and purged, but it went on for quite a while. People get tweaked about some really odd things.