If that ain’t Jealous!Cas

Secret Santa gift for archiought ♥ They waited all night in the cold cellar, but the ghost didn’t show (neither really minded)

Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her. 

I can’t stop watching this. 

#I watched this for too long to not reblog

Whoa.

Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth. 

Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached  her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…

Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him. 

Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…

Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!

Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)

This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it. 

Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….

Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.

The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins… 

So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.

She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.

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Paper Moon // 10x04

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So, funny story, but I just realized that ANOTHER facet to the tragedy of Cas’ death is that it also serves to validate and drive home all of Dean’s lifelong fears of abandonment, the bleak belief he’s internalized all his life, the lesson he’s known since he was a child:

Even “I love you” still doesn’t mean “I won’t leave you”.

It’s worse than that.

Dean thinks everyone who loves him dies either because of him or because he couldn’t stop it. He is poison. He was starting to feel better, he told his mom that he saved the world, that he’s making the word a better place but now…

Cas fell and he did it all for Dean. The things that they’ve shared together have changed Cas, Cas calls him family and says he loves him, everything they’ve been through together has led him to this point in the finale where Cas has willingly sacrificed himself for them in 09, is said to have a weakness that threatens his life in Dean in 10, then almost died in 12, then continued to put them before himself out of love and finally actually did die in 23.

There’s no way Dean doesn’t now think it’s his fault.

You know, I was thinking that maybe this is the time that breaks that circle of self-blaming for Dean.

Like, the way Cas died this time is… kind of different. It wasn’t a planned sacrifice, it wasn’t a diversion, it wasn’t the direct consequence of actions made for Dean’s sake. It was just Lucifer being an evil fucker.

Aside from the very quickly-resolved death in 9x03, this is the first time that Cas’ death has no point/deeper reason to it but his killer’s sadism. Cas’ longer-lasting death was because he made himself a vessel for the souls he drew from Purgatory and that accidentally included the Leviathan. And the reason behind all of that is Dean.

This time Lucifer was just playing with them. And sure, you could say that if Cas hadn’t chosen Dean the flow of the events would have been different and Cas wouldn’t have found himself dealing with Lucifer like that, but that’s just a ‘if my grandpa had a wheel he would be a wheelbarrow’ kind of reasoning.

Maybe Dean is going to be like, well fuck it. That’s on Lucifer’s evil ass.

(If you squint you can see hints of progress in Dean through the years, although it’s generally drown out by other crap that happens, I’m thinking of him blaming Metatron of things - “I’m blaming you for Kevin! I’m blaming you for taking Cas’ Grace. Hell, I’m blaming you for the Cubs not winning the World Series in the last 100 freaking years. Whatever it is… I’m blaming you” - and the scene in 10x23 I have never seen anyone but myself talk about i.e. when he said that he blamed the girl originally for her own death but then after visiting her house he blamed her parents, it’s frigging foreshadowing for Dean’s character development but people just complain that it was ‘Dean slutshaming the dead girl’ when that was… not the point… but no let’s just say the s10 finale sucked. Basically there is a pattern but no one pays attention to Carver’s own episodes.)

In 12x22 he basically acknowledged that Mary abandoning him was fully on Mary, that she lied to him about never letting anything bad happen to him. Next is blaming John in the way he blamed Rose’s parents in 10x23 as soon as he knew them. The guy is on a journey towards fairness in his judgment of himself. And I think that the way Cas died in 12x23 looks like something orchestrated so that one can’t blame anyone but Lucifer.

Maybe it’s not going to be automatic but maybe it can happen through learning from the experience of a civilian who has lost someone (something I was musing about some weeks ago, but my ideal scenario for that is not plausible for the show) and talks to Dean about how they learned not to blame themselves for not being able to prevent it but to blame the actual agent). Of course it all depends on how long Cas is going to stay dead, so maybe it’s not something that is going to be brought up at all.

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Yes yes yes!! Someone think of a plot and get Moffat and Kripke on the phone

Wouldn’t Moffat and Kripke just kill them all though?

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