Been thinking about that drawing of Cas that Dean did and idk I started projecting or smth

Infinity War Countdown : 6

The Avengers (2012)

dir. Joss Whedon

“When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn’t say what we lost.“

Things everyone forgets about Castiel:

1.  In his true form, he probably looks something like this:

These nice looking fellas here are angels, as described in Ezekiel 10:14.  They’re said to be massive in size (hence the Chrysler building remark) with at least six wings and four faces. 

When asked, Misha said that Castiel’s four faces consist of a lion, a zebra, (unsurprisingly) a sock monkey, and (even less surprisingly) a cat.  No wonder he likes cats so much – he’s literally part cat himself.  They are his people.

2.  He wasn’t just a “random foot soldier.”

I see Cas described this way in a lot of fanfics, and it never fails to irk me.  For one thing, Cas isn’t just some run-in-the-mill, middle-class angel: he’s a seraph.  According to the Christian angelic hierarchy, this is the highest-ranking and most powerful form of angel.

Here are two of them guarding the Divine Throne, literally placing the Seraphim closest to God on the Biblical hierarchy.

“Attending Him were the mighty Seraphim, each with six wings.”  (Isaiah 6:2)

Not only that, even among the Seraphim, Cas has always been exceptional:  he was the leader of his own garrison, and charismatic enough to establish leadership among the angels, leading a rebellion first against an archangel (Raphael), and then against “God” (Metatron), even after he’d already established himself as a dangerous and unpredictable figure in the other angels’ eyes.

In short, he is a legitimately terrifying force of nature.  Fear him.

3.  He’s actually incredibly smart. 

In “fanon,” it seems to be an increasingly common trope to depict Cas as a helpless, incompetent child with no life skills, completely dependent on the Winchesters for protection.  This makes very little sense, considering he not only has eons of military experience, but he’s strategically brilliant.  

Case in point:  remember that time he took out a room full of angels by carving an Enochian Sigil into his chest?

Or the time he hid from heaven for months on end in an eerily similar cluster of chain restaurants, while simultaneously hiding an angel tablet under his skin?

Or the time he escaped from the angelic equivalent of the Overly Attached Girlfriend by buckling his seat belt and crashing them into a ditch?

Even as a human, he was incredibly resourceful, getting masking symbols tattooed onto his skin, and ultimately killing at least three full-fledged angels, completely without the use of his own powers.

It’s also important to note that in this season, he also proved himself to be able to function as a hunter without Sam or Dean’s assistance.

Even his most ill-advised decisions were actually completely logic based:  his deal with Crowely was made in order to defeat Raphael and stop a second apocalypse (which he actually did), and his most recent “deal with the devil” was made in order to defeat Amara, which even Sam subsequently acknowledged to be their only option.

So don’t be a Metatron:  “mentally deficient puppy” vibes aside, Castiel is no idiot. 

4.  Even as angels go, he’s extremely unusual.

Another thing that bothers me is that I often see Cas’s eccentricities attributed to his species:  his enduring social awkwardness, refusal to wear anything but a suit and trench coat, off-beat, understated sense of humor, and Aspergers-y inability to catch social cues, perceive sarcasm, or express emotions (despite being one of the few angels to actually have them to begin with) are often attributed to being standard characteristics of the angelic race.  

But let’s have a look at some of the other angels we know.  Do we ever really see them do any of this?  At all?

And before you attribute this to the fact that Cas has less experience on Earth, take a look at the other angel who hasn’t been exposed to humanity in quite a few eons:

Bottom line is, Cas isn’t just “weird” by human standards.  As an entity, he is singularly odd.

God (literally) made him and threw away the mold.

5.  Jokes aside, there is virtually no way he’s heterosexual.

I can’t help but find debates over angelic sexual preference within the fandom to be slightly ridiculous.  While ninety percent of the fandom enthusiastically screams, “He’s gay!” there is a small percentage that firmly insists he’s straight as an arrow.  Roughly two percent of the fandom claims he’s pan or ace, which honestly are the only sexuality headcanons I find logical.

Because, not to make anyone uncomfortable, but Castiel isn’t a guy – he isn’t even technically a “he:”  Angels are canonically WITHOUT GENDER.  This means that while he obviously does experience sexual (or at least emotional) attraction, it would make absolutely no sense for him to be attracted to women exclusively.  He physically *cannot* be straight. 

Keeping this in mind, it also makes scenes like these even more suggestive (if that’s even possible):

Seriously, for those of you wearing your heterosexuality goggles, just imagine Cas had a female vessel.  Then imagine just how “platonic” these scenes would look.

All of this is so true. One of the best characters ever created.

The Empty and Amara’s Offer

Three times now Dean and Sam have been warned by Billie the Reaper that their next “death” is going to be permanent. She’s going to see to it personally that they get a one-way ticket to “The Empty.”

After hearing Amara describe what becoming “one” with her would entail, and having that feeling described as far back as 11.01 by Dean as “peaceful,” and in 11.05 as “ecstasy, orgasm, chocolate cake” by Sydney after she got a small taste of it, I’ve been wondering if The Empty is exactly what she’s offering.

Just like Death himself once gave Dean the unhelpfully vague hint about Castiel, telling Dean it’s all about “the souls” (but really giving him nothing else to work with until it was entirely too late to do anything about it), I’m wondering if Billie suffers from a similar sort of limitation that Death did in his ability to deliver A Helpful Clue. Reapers are apparently built in a similar mold as Death (once called “Big Daddy Reaper” in canon). It’s only fair they’re bound by similar restrictions, even when they’re actively trying to be helpful. I often find myself wondering if fairy lore is responsible for some of these weird rules around supernatural beings, because fairy lore is rife with them.

And come on, Billie was even singing O, Death the first time we met her. REMIND YOU OF ANYONE?

I’ve written a bit on Dean’s last encounter with Billie, because despite the fact she said she was there to reap him, she actually made no move to do it. It struck me as odd at the time, sort of like the end of 6.11 where Death fulfilled his bargain with Dean despite Dean technically failing his test. Dean did prove he learned the lesson he’d set out to teach him, and that was what Death actually wanted out of the deal anyway. I saw Billie’s actions in 11.17 in a similar light. 

Anyway, after seeing the latest iteration of Amara’s offer, for Dean to give up his smallness and become boundless within her, I can’t shake the feeling that THIS is actually what Billie’s warning them about. Billie keeps saying it doesn’t matter one way or the other to her, whether the Darkness takes over and devours all of creation. She’s just doing her job. But is she, really?

How long did Sam stay dead on that floor in 11.17 before Dean flipped and reached out to contact Billie? Hours? At least half a day. Yet no reaper went near him in all that time, because Sam didn’t need this particular lesson. This was Dean’s lesson to learn. He NEEDED to understand exactly what there is to fear from this final “adios,” and that his life means so much more than that. His death is pointless, just as Dean said the same thing to Chuck.

What happens if Chuck voluntarily gives himself up to her? Dean called him out on that plan, proving Dean had learned that lesson for himself.

Chuck and Amara have been involved in this game of create/destroy for so long now though that it’s literally what they are. They are Creation and Destruction. It’s not something they do, they don’t choose to do these things, it’s what they ARE. And therein lies the difference.

Chuck creates, Amara destroys. There needs to be balance, and that can’t be achieved by one of them removing the other from the equation.

But at the same time. if Chuck really does give himself over to her, it would only be completing their eternal cycle, and yeah, Amara’s right, Chuck can’t stop her, because she is inevitable, eventually. Everything will eventually return to the void, only for the cycle to begin again with Chuck creating a new universe. It’s how it goes.

But if they can achieve balance instead of complete destruction, maybe we can keep this universe for a while longer.

And maybe that’s what Billie’s warning has been about this entire time.

Oh, yes, I like this. Remember, Billie (unintentionally or maybe not) gave Sam the clue to curing the Darkness's infection too!

sometimes, random internet strangers i have never before interacted with and who are NOT following me reblog one of my random-ass shouting-into-the-void posts to give unsolicited advice about what to do with the 4.5 quarts of chili i made on sunday

and i wonder where the hell they found that post and why they think i don’t already know exactly what i’m doing with that chili

If the answers aren't "eat it" or "give it to someone in need," now I'm picturing responses like "use it for pagan rituals" or "create frozen chili art sculptures."

The Magicians, 1.01 - Unauthorized Magic

Author: jkateel

Pairing: Yami Yuugi / Yuugi Mutou (Puzzleshipping)

Length: Medium, one chapter, 3k words

Review: Certainly not very light-hearted, but it had a realness to it. The portrayal of insomnia was accurate, and when I read it, I felt as tired as they were. It’s a very well-written fic, and the interactions between Yami and Yuugi were pleasantly different from the usual sappy puzzleshipping we get from a lot of writers.

8.5/10

OH MY GOD, I wrote this in college when I was having insomnia, and I spent 8 excruciating hours on it. I just distinctly remember being in my dorm room writing this hell of OOC story and I’m still not sure why I had to get this thing out. It’s so different from any other Yu-Gi-Oh! story I’ve written too. Basically AHHHHHHH, and I would have probably given this a 8.2 for slight ooc-ness lol.