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Maybe it’s not Daddy issues, but you got some issues if you’ve willing put the mark of Cain on yourself!

What other people put on their body is generally no one else’s business, and they do not have “issues” for doing something that has meaning to them. Don’t reblig shit to sound condescending about people you don’t know, regardless of what personal meaning that symbol has to you. Let people be people jesus christ

What @redwing said

who cares about supernatural can we talk about the way his tits bounce

Date of origin: Apr 4, 2021

s16 ep1: The Rescue

hey uhhh but fr the concept of fallen angels existing but risen demons being an impossibility is kind of a great summary of sin in christianity

yall remember when cas got turned human and was left homeless and completely alone to fend for himself. and then talked to a crying baby and was like. “nobody told you, nobody explained. you’re just shoved out, kicking and screaming into this human life without any idea why any of it feels the way that it feels. or why this confusion feels like it’s just a hairsbreadth from terror or pain. you know, just when you think you do understand it’ll turn out you’re wrong: you didn’t understand anything at all. i guess that’s just how it is when you’re new at this.” unironically that was some of the saddest shit i’ve ever seen in my life.

The tags !! @antifacas

God gives his best monologues to his sexiest soldiers..

Hot take: the reason Cas’s monologues fuck so hard is because God didn’t write them

THESE DEVILISH GOOD LOOKS DON’T LIE, HE’S ONE HELL OF A GUY

rowena is fairy godmother from shrek 2 coded

this is the dean winchester birthday site.

there he is ! old friend 🥺

Cas is like *twirls hair* “I don’t need to know anything about cars because my man takes care of all that. Oh no, my vehicle has stopped inexplicably!”

Like several scenes in previous seasons have not taken place specifically at gas stations where Cas & Dean had conversations right at the pump while Dean was fueling up the Impala.

Remember when Castiel was in his bad bitch era?????

look at the michael sword

@cat-peach this ain't staying in the tags buddy

This is a callout gifset for everyone who writes or reads meta.  You all know you’re Cas right?  We’re basically Cas

#lmao#I fuckin love meta though#someone write this scene into meta about the overall show <tags via @casinthegarden>

Well seem as Team Free Will literally represent humanity's  fight for their own salvation and agency Castiel’s meta is pretty accurate.   They also seek a higher power (God) to help them and they try and try but still get caught in the same cycle.  With their aims just out of reach or with too high a cost.

Cas here is especially cute identifying and enjoying the meaning behind this cartoon and the fruitlessness of man’s endeavors against what he wants and needs.  This is because Castiel here?  He’s suicidal.  He chased after being the God he couldn’t have and got crushed.

Now he wishing to be human, an ongoing desire from about this point and it’s funny because angel or human he’s going to get crushed and get back up.

The camera cuts are also super interesting because we land on Dean for the comparison of man (he being the biggest symbol of humanity:  the righteous man)

Then Sam for ‘endlessly chasing the divine’, our symbolic Jesus, he who is of faith.  The boy king.

Then a crazy happy little Cas, the bridge between the two worlds, man and God enjoying the symbolic struggle unaware he is still in conflict with heaven (God) and man (Dean and Sam) via Naomi.  

Anyone else wanna weigh in?  @tinkdw

Yeah, I loved this scene, well, I absolutely love this whole episode tbh, it’s one of my favourites. 

*checks wikipedia* OMG ITS AN ANDREW DABB EPISODE *flails even more* I love this man, I really do, I need to send him a fruit basket for every time I realise he is behind a part of this show that I love, which seems to be about an 80% hit rate at the moment.

Cas is extremely depressed, BUT he has enough of a hold of himself to know what his trigger might be (Heaven) and what will help him (working, living, hunting with Sam and Dean). 

So, talking Faith:

Isn’t it ironic, that Cas had so much faith in his Father, in God in seasons 4/5, that here in s8 he is struggling with this, and we know that by 11x23 he has completely transferred his Faith from God to Dean. I’ll never not love how he completely sidelines Chuck and goes straight to ask Dean what they should do, that he ignores Chuck in the bar and his only words when GOD AND THE WORLD IS SAVED are “and Dean?”.

Meanwhile Dean goes from having no Faith in God pre-Castiel to in s8 praying to Cas every night, then by 11x23 Chuck has made him pancakes and watched all his porn and accepted Cas as family and by s12 it’s clear there is more to it. He also discovers that he is LITERALLY made in God’s image with all the parallels, he even SAVES GOD and reconciles him with his sister, although he doesn’t idolise Chuck at all.

I mean, its beautiful how they come to kind of meet in the middle and the timeline is fantastically intertwined?

Meanwhile Sam as you say does seem to “endlessly chase the divine” albeit with some ups and downs, but he later also evolves to have (as much?) Faith in both Dean and Cas too whilst at the same time he is the one to care for Chuck in the bar for example.

And now? Their Faith in each other is metaphorically hanging in the balance. Dean knows Sam has been lying, he is about to discover that Cas is on Earth and not dead and hasn’t been answering his calls. Sam and Cas’s Faith in God is about to get tested again with the Lucifer/nephilim story and this also is going to test them on a moral standpoint.

Faith and Free Will are so core to this show and this scene shows just that, Cas’s Faith in the boys ability to help him and his choice that being with Sam and Dean is what will help him get through his difficult time as he himself stops “endlessly chasing the divine” and stays grounded with them for his sanity.

I think Cas lost his faith in God in 5.16 (but it was waning hard all through the end of s4 and into s5, even after he believed God resurrected him in 5.01 and saved Sam and Dean from Lucifer and put them on that plane). Because God refused to answer him, the one angel who still wanted to follow God’s plan and not the corrupt plan of the rest of the angels who’d decided for themselves to bring on the end of the world.

As such after 5.22 Cas took this entire burden on his own shoulders, not even turning to Dean for help or advice, getting to try and fill God’s huge shoes himself. Of course he lost his faith, because even at the eleventh hour when he begged for God to give him anything, the smallest sign that he was still doing the right thing (and he got that sign in the being of Dean Winchester telling him to stop… but he’d even lost his faith in Dean at that point, blinded by his mission and the terrible weight of taking those sorts of cosmic decisions on himself in some sort of sacrifice play to save the world… that ended up breaking the world instead) God didn’t save him from making that “mistake.”

So he blamed himself, and he blamed God even more. But after Purgatory and before he knew he was being used and brainwashed by Naomi, in this small pure window he could let himself believe that maybe God did save him, that maybe God was still listening, and maybe God had judged him to be worthy of salvation… and he began chasing after it again.

Doing those small things to earn his redemption in God’s eyes, healing a baby, staying with Fred Jones for a few days in his state of fuzzed out peace.

Before everything started falling apart for him again and the illusion shattered once and for all.

Meta Dearest

Why can’t I just comment and reblog tumblr?  Ugggh.

Anyways there’s a lot of good points here.  But for me Buffy wasn’t absolutely Buffy centric.  What did just say?  Did I eat my crazy-o’s this morning?  Nah, the other characters were given immense limelight and episodes with barely any Buffy at all.  (I personally liked the Xander focused episode).  What I’m saying is that though bright the show had a lot of nightmarish qualities.  But it was the community that saved the day, not one solo hardened hunter.

Buffy- Hand, Willow - Spirit, Xander - Heart, Giles - Mind.  I assume I got that order right it’s been over a decade since I watched the series. 

It wasn’t a dream world in respect of the people they lost and had to kill.  They all suffered just like in real life.  But it was their community that saved them.  Buffy is kind of a metaphor for growing up.  Sometimes  it feels like the world is ending, and bad things do happen and the show doesn’t shield us from that or  murder, rape and depression (Faith murders, Warren rapes, Xander, Willow and Buffy experience depression at different stages).

It’s shows us the horrors and joys of life through metaphor and even manages to make the horrors funny:

What happened to Connor however in the darker series Angel was awful.  That was definitely his nightmare verse.  What’s interesting is that after Angel gives him a dream verse and two merge Connor becomes a fluffy sweet and lethal creature accepting of his past and all the darkness.  I’m not qualified to go into the psychology of that and I don’t want to belabor a point anyway but it was love that saved his mind.  

My point which has taken many turns and tangents is that Buffy and Angel are dark.  Very dark.  It’s the verse, the community, the love the characters have for one another.  That’s why you can argue it’s light.   Supernatural on the other hand murders or misuses anyone that could be a positive influence on the brothers.  Which as far as messages go isn’t exactly healthy.  You’re alone in the world Winchesters!

Damn…..I meant to leave a two sentence response.

To end my entry in our odd conversation I bring you the most epic fight scene of the series.

Most epic fight scene? Allow me to respectfully disagree.

Actually, it just occurred to me, the saddest Joss characters are the perfect way to explain Supernatural to a Buffy & Angel fan. Just pretend Sam and Dean grew up in Quor'toth, oh, Cas is Angel but a virgin, and Crowley is like if Cordelia went to Hell and came back the boss of it.

That one always interested me, partly because no one else really noticed it. While Crowley has the same issues as Faith (I wouldn’t be shocked to find out they had the same mother) Crowley is more like Cordelia in his function as a threshold guardian. They both embody the temptations for the hero to take the “untrue” path, and are a vision of what you’ll become if you do.

Crowley is more literal in the way he’ll sell you power for your soul, but metaphorically speaking, Cordelia made Buffy the same offer at the beginning of season 1. After watching her casually tear Willow apart for no reason, Buffy made up her mind about Cordelia. The untrue path would hurt people.

I actually think the biggest difference between Crowley and Cordy is the fact that Crowley’s protagonists routinely fail to pass their tests and avoid the untrue paths he represents. Sam, Dean, Cas, and Bobby all succumbed to temptation and made (or tried to make) deals for power.

Now that’s interesting.  Comparing Sam and Dean to Connor I mean.  Raised by an obsessed, single minded hunter who was undoubtedly abusive as well as loving.  The love was there but so was the very real danger to these children who were raised almost as weapons.  A hunter to boot who lost his wife to Supernatural forces, raises children in his likeness and who at least suspects he may one day have to kill his own child.

So when then, do we see the brainwashing unravel?  In Connor’s case he showed very positive signs on more than occasion.  The same goes for Dean and Sam really, but it all became too much for sweet Connor in the end….the brothers are different though.  They have each other and repeating those deadly cycles?  What is that if not a little sacrifice of themselves and others?  Connor fell into cries for help, they fall into each other.

Castiel as Angel?  Never ending cycles of guilt and wanting to help.  Castiel feels guilty for everything, he always wants to be of use.  It’s the only time (when he’s useful) that his life has meaning and makes him happy. But to be truly happy, that is to say, to be human.  Is disastrous as well as tempting to him.  As a human he feels useless, which is as good as killing himself.  He doesn’t feel as humans do, but he definitely and deeply feels.

Cordelia as Crowley?  Most definitely, both lacked empathy and were raised (poorly) by the powerful, magic versus money.   Neither had any real empathy to begin with.  Why would they?  They didn’t suffer.  They ruled.  With great style, power and frankness at that.  That level of sass and honesty is to be admired.

Yet as we see power come under threat and money disappear our anti-heroes begin to develop empathy and side with our heroes.  They largely serve their own interest but in time develop feelings for our heroes and become a force for good in their own, wayward right.   Majestically so.

As to the most epic fight.  I acknowledge and giggle at your entry.  In return I offer.

Puppet!

cas pls

I can't find it but to the person who posted that Sam and Dean should've fought in 15x19 while they grieved Eileen and Castiel respectively, I am kissing you on both cheeks respectfully or giving you a high five if that's not your style.

The idea of Sam saying, "I lost Eileen!" and Dean rebuts with, "well I lost Cas!" and Sam going, "that's not the same thing!" and Dean landing the killing blow, "of course it's not. At least you got to tell Eileen you loved her back!" all of that exploding in the stillness of the bunker, of the world without life, is fucking beautiful cinematic astounding magnificent glorious I am living for it.

How in god's name am I supposed to answer this

sorry but ur not a true destiel supporter unless you acknowledge that dean and cas are both objectively toxic individuals and have inflicted immeasurable damage upon the other. they are also both little meow meows who have never done anything wrong ever. hellers contain multitudes beyond mortal comprehension