No-Homo Intern

The No-Homo Intern is a fan-created meta character in the Supernatural fandom. Typically, the intern appears as a caricature of showrunner Jeremy Carver dressed in various disguises in order to conceal his identity in the writer's room. His mission is to further the Destiel agenda by acting as a double agent. 
==Origin==
After Season 10, Episode 10 'The Hunter Games', many fans on Tumblr were amused by the angel Castiel's admission that he could respond to feelings of longing as well as formal prayers. from Geeksout Episode Recap, 2015 This created a retcon on the show which explained how Castiel was constantly at Dean Winchester's side (his longing). Many slash fans speculated that the show's writers were unaware of the obvious Destiel-heavy implications of this change in the show's mythology.
==Development==
The meme spread within the Destiel fans on Tumblr quite quickly. An anonymous user suggested that the No-Homo Intern was actually Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver working undercover-boss style.
A similar meme, The NSA Shipping Agent was generated by tumblr user GrandpaDean:
Which led to fireintheimpala and others to chronicle this exact struggle in the form of a comic-style fanart from Tumblr post, 2015.
An anonymous Tumblr user suggested that they shipped the No-Homo Intern and the NSA Shipping Agent from Tumblr post, 2015. The NSA Shipping Agent was later named 'Gilbert' and duly slashed with the No-Homo Intern. The premise of their relationship is that the NSA Shipping Agent doesn't realise that the No-Homo Intern is Carver playing double agent for the Destiel agenda and thinks he's trying to remove all Destiel subtext from the show. The heartbreaking truth is that both the No-Homo Intern and the NSA Shipping Agent are on the same side but don't know it. from Tumblr Post, 2015 Fans have taken to referring to this AU as well as other related writer's room RPF as the Supernatural Fandom Fandomfandom-fandom Tumblr tag or meta meta.meta-meta Tumblr tag
The first image of the No-Homo Intern was 'a true hero', an image of a fake mustache projected onto the nights sky reminiscent of the bat-symbol from Batman from a Tumblr reblog by fireintheimpala, 2015. The first image of the No-Homo Intern as Jeremy Carver was an edited photograph of Carver in a sombrero and beard. This image is used as a reaction image paired with the expression 'seems pretty heterosexual to me' in response to many Destiel-heavy gifsets and images on Tumblr. from a Tumblr post by elizabethrobertajones, February 1, 2015 In more recent times, the no-homo intern's hat has changed away from the sombrero to a variety of other silly disguises, most notably the squid hat.
==Visual Fanworks==
Image:nohomo1.png|on a phone case
Image:nohomo2.jpg|on a t-shirt
==Example Fanworks==
* original No-Homo Intern image
* original Jeremy Carver as No-Homo Intern image
* revised Jeremy Carver as No-Homo Intern image
* most recent Jeremy Carver as No-Homo Intern image
* No-Homo Intern Fanmerch
* tagged at AO3 here and here
==References==
For a full chronological recording of all NHI posts: http://nohomointern.tumblr.com/tagged/The-NHI-Case-Files/chrono 
Category:Supernatural
Category:Destiel
Category:2015 Memes