Citations:Destiel

Noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural"

 * 2011, Brigid Cherry, "Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural", in TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural (eds. Stacey Abbott & David Lavery), ECW Press (2011), ISBN 9781770410206, page 204:
 * His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.
 * 2013, Katherine Larsen & Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press (2013), ISBN 9781609381981, page 102:
 * In later seasons, slash fans split between those who shipped Wincest and those who shipped Dean with the (male) angel Castiel, a pairing known by the portmanteau of Destiel.
 * 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8:
 * All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
 * 2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21:
 * I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.
 * 2013, Sheetal Reddy, "The social politics of 'slash shipping' and fanfiction", The Runner (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), 10 September 2013, page 8:
 * As for the ships, currently the three most popular on AO3 are “Johnlock” (Sherlock Holmes/John Watson from Sherlock), “Destiel” (Dean Winchester/Castiel from Supernatural) and “Sterek” (Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf).
 * 2013, Zachary Pincus-Roth, "Slash Fiction: A Fantasy World in Which Male TV Characters Find Romance — With Each Other", LA Weekly, 31 October 2013:
 * The second — which got more than 9 million online votes and 25,000 comments — was won by "Destiel," featuring Dean and Castiel of Supernatural.
 * 2015, Alice Oseman, Solitaire, page 198:
 * Lauren frowns. “Mate! I thought we’d agreed on ‘Mori’! Or ‘Tichael’!” She sighs. “Man, your names just aren’t good enough, like, they don’t work, they don’t work like Klaine or Romione or Destiel or Merthur. . . .”