the brightest star cluster in our skies is the one most rapidly receding.

OH GOD THE WINGS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

Dean version

Sam Version

My gorgeous Angel - he’s a joy to paint/illustrate

BEAUTIFUL ANGEL <3

With Lazarus Rising having first aired on September 18th, 2008, we are only a few months away from celebrating the tenth anniversary of Castiel’s first appearance in the CW show Supernatural. Glory! will be a collaborative zine between artists and writers honoring this last decade by donating all profit to a soon to be chosen charity.

Please help us spread the word, and don’t forget to follow us here or over at Twitter to find out how to be part of this tribute!

Woah woah woah woah <3

This is an awesome project!

Bring ‘Em back alive ∞ SPN 13X18

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I enjoyed this scene very much. Castiel looks like he is for a brief moment at home, in a very familiar place, with all this walls fill with his native language. I believe also was healed in a way. Besides Gabriel pandering a bout his adventures with Porn Stars in Montecarlo. I think he wrote all of this a way of protection and spell to regain strength. This helped Cas too.

Like a Wrecking ball

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Cas: Image Sent

Dean: Damn you!

Dean: You really turn me on, fixing that bathroom sink.

Cas: Shut up, Dean the faucet was leaking. I was trying to show you what I used to replace it. I know how picky you are about your fixtures.

Dean: I don’t give a shit about the faucet.

Dean: You’re wearing running shorts and no shirt.

Dean: Did you forget the mirror was there?

Dean: And now I’ve got a raging boner before I go on stage.

Cas: Awww, poor thing. Now you have to stand in front of thousands of people who adore you with a semi. :p

Dean: Fuck you, it’s uncomfortable. ;) You tease.

Cas: Well maybe I was teasing a little.

Cas: But I’m sure everyone in the front row would drop to their knees to help with your “raging boner”

Dean: They would. But why would I want them?

Dean: When tomorrow night I’ll have your hot mouth on me. Fuck baby, send me another pic.

Dean: Don’t make me beg

Cas: Image Sent

Dean: No you dork, I don’t want an old pic I want to see you now.

Dean: What are you wearing?

Cas: Seriously Dean? Your show is about to start.

Dean: You started it! C'mon. I’ve got a few more minutes they can wait

Cas: You are one dirty man. I’m not even sexy right now. I am just wearing your old blue robe. It smells like you.

Dean: Fuck see that’s so hot, let me see you

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I am a Bitter Cas Fan

This means I value Castiel above all everything else that has to with Supernatural. I value Castiel and his happiness above the story. I value Castiel above Sam and Dean. Even though I ship Destiel and would love to see it become canon; Cas’s happiness and his story come first. 

I am critical of how Castiel is treated both on the show and in fandom. I want to see him respected and treated like the main character he is. I would like to see him have the kinds of stories he deserves. I am upset when an episode pretends that he doesn’t exist. This doesn’t mean I don’t have a positive outlook on the show. You can be critical and still be positive.

I will forever be bitter about Castiel’s treatment. I and anyone else who feels this way do not need to change how we feel. These feelings are valid. Cas is valid. Cas deserves better, always. 

gif from @magnificent-winged-beast  

Hello fellow bitter Cas girl <3 Anyway, I try to be not bitter most of the times because Castiel in the show still remains as sweet as ever despite every torture and pain thrown at him T.T

But yeah, Cas deserves better and I’m all for Castiel’s happiness!

Hello Supernatural fandom! I’m totally new here but I love the show and I totally want to be a member of this big family.

I drew Castiel in the hope to be well welcome…?

Welcome! <3

Oh my god, he’s beautiful! You’re so talented! We’re blessed!

Handsome Angel <3

“ Castiel “

Castiel  is the angel of Thursday.

«…Angels are powerful celestial beings of light created by God to serve as his attendants and messengers, but also as his soldiers and warriors in his war against Lucifer and his demons…»

Supernatural (TV)  / Castiel /  Angel / James “Jimmy” Novak / Misha Collins / Photomanipulation

“Why do people say Misha saved the show? It’s J2′s show.”

So fun fact: 

By industry standard, a show, within its first two episodes, TYPICALLY loses 15% of its demographic. (hence our high 2.5 becoming a low 2.2 between episodes 1 and 2.) It’s whether it can fight back against that bump, and how long it can. S1 performed well until episode 8. As it progressed, we waffled from mid 2.5s as low as a 1.3, ranging mid-high 1.x, and ending at 1.6. That’s why despite all the 2.2/4/5 at the start of the season, we averaged a 1.94. But that’s okay. It’s considered a solid show for the CW, even in that day. 2005-2006.

There is a rhyme, a reason, an ebb, and a flow to ratings. The fact that SPN diminished after its first season was no surprise. It’s no insult.

2006-2007: Season 2 We started just around the demo our S1 finale ended at and waned, again. We petered down from 1.7 to 1.2 and by the end, averaged 1.38. Okay. A little concerning we’re not holding the line, but not a critical loss, especially with even-then gradual loss to still-slow-moving TV decline with the infection of cable to american homes progressing like a silent cold. The issue is, this sunk us close to the bottom of the zone considered a solid investment.

2007-2008: Season 3 And then the decline continued, mostly within surrounding media averages of TV . 1.19. That’s fine. Really our average value dropped just a point or two in the industry’s eyes. The problem is, where S2 left us, that left us scraping the bottom of what was considered a solid or sound show investment, with a decently high budget investment (cited around 2-3 million/episode back then). But there were things going on outside of it. In 2008, the industry started seeing rapid conversion to cable. While social media expanded, barely any dreams were out in how to really apply it, streaming options were new ideas, but barely executed; ads devalued and more terrifyingly - the government put out the Digital Conversion Mandate.

Anyone old enough to be semi-adult around then may remember friends panicking that they wouldn’t be able to use their rabbit ears anymore. Cable, expensive conversion box, or bust. By 2009, all TVs would click off unless you had cable or the converter, because all stations were being forced to click to digital. And some were doing it early.

As TV went from being mostly 8-10 or if lucky in your area, 12 options per household into basic cable packages offering 20-30, suddenly, options diversified. Grey’s Anatomy’s 9.3 of 2006-7 gouged to 7.16 by 2007-08 within a year, and it was a leader still at the time. And with the conversion box looming like a threat on the horizon, by 2008-09, Grey’s would clip out at 5.73. And this reflected almost everywhere. Every major show, every major network. 10s became 5s within 2 seasons and those were our /top/ runners. And the industry wasn’t updated to even know how to address this.

With Supernatural floating at the bottom of the “okay” barrel for their bubble, (as cited by Kripke, “We were on the bubble, and we didn’t know if we’d make it”), this was a TERRIFYING time to be in production and a HORRIBLE place to be in.

2008-2009: Season 4 As Grey’s dropped from 7.13 to 5.73, and others like it mirrored it or worse (at losses of 10-30% being common) or more than 20% of its raw demographic in a single year, you can understand where the panic in the industry was. Nobody knew how to handle this. Advertisement and thus income was getting boned right in the taint.

Supernatural, hanging at a 1.19 and praying for its life, already in gradual decline even in pre-crisis curve, could easily become one of those 30% downs. Projected curve would have put them around 0.83. Or, at that point, roughly 0.2 points beneath what would make advertisers even consider them while everything was going up in flames.

But instead, something magical happened. As Dean pulled himself from his grave, so did the show.

We didn’t go down. We went up. And we were one of very, very few shows to do so.

Kripke said he was glad he had taken up the idea of angels, because it had rejuvinated the show, “in no small part thanks to this guy,“ as he gestured to Misha.

We rose. From 1.19. To 1.33 for the season average.

We bounced in the opposite direction as much as we were naturally slated to sink.

And as methods came to track this chaotic mess of transition, Supernatural’s actual retention in the industry shone well, well above the previous seasons. Season 4 was performing, amidst the industry crash, 18.2% better than season 3 before it, with and 15.9% percent better in respective retention than season 2.  

And as this pandemic continued through 2009-2010, Supernatural held. It held its level, its curve, and its virtue against time. We only really started sinking lower by late season 6, despite being in what was considered a bad timeslot; it was season 7 we nuked out for real; even in, again, respective industry curve. Now, fill in the blanks of what was going on in the show during this time, I’ve written much larger coverages of this since.

But by S8/2012-13, we were back on our feet to the S4 retention value in curve. By S9, we went higher than SPN had ever been before. We experienced a minor waffle in S10, but it still kept us higher than even season 1 with its high averages; S11-12, we crept up and stayed level in retention, while streaming options that mark sales and digital calls but fail to pour into demos skyrocketed in options and shows continued to sink. And season 13 is a beautiful beast so far; at our lowest possible projections short of unexpected crash and burn, we will at least match S9’s retention; we have a chance of completely shattering it.

September 18th, 2008, when Misha Collins waltzed into the show, a new dynamic saved it from dropping through the floor both in ratings and even adapted industry curve while the entire television world turned on its head. And the only time it has fallen through that floor since is in the season they tried to remove him.

So whenever someone numbly, blindly asks, "where did this come from?” you don’t even have to just say “Eric Kripke said it.” It’s true. Eric Kripke said it. But there was a reason he said it.

And he said it because Castiel inevitably saved the show.

And Kripke isn’t the only one who’s said it.

There is Ben Edlund,

And there is even Robert Singer as of last year,

both quite interesting statements with all the “Castiel isn’t a lead”, a point I’ve already shredded by-standard here: (Link - Re: Trivial Arguing on Leads)

People say Castiel rejuvinated or saved the show because Kripke said he did because he did, and it just takes paying attention to history outside of the SPN bubble to understand why.

BRILLIANT!

Misha/Castiel saved the show and that fact has been accepted all over except by the haters in denial.

Cas in Syria - AGAIN

Guys. GUYS. You know how I bitched after 13x15 that an episode devoted to Cas’s adventures in Syria would have been better than the actual episode?

You know how we all pondered on how that adventure might have actually gone?

Well seeing as Scoobynatural is the GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING I did NOT EXPECT that we would get an ACTUAL STORY FROM CAS THAT I REALLY NEED TO HEAR IN FULL!

“Sam! Dean! I’m back from Syria with fruit from the tree of life! The tree was guarded by a pack of Jinn, I killed most of them, bargained with the rest. I think I’m technically married to their queen now”

I NEED MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CAS. WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS GETTING FAKE MARRIED CAS? WHAT WILL YOUR HUSBAND THINK CAS!!!

Sometimes these writers are far more clued into fandom than we give them credit for. How did they know that we would pick up on the one Cas comment from 13x15 and take it to heart and obsess about it? How did they know to therefore bring it up in THIS episode and give us such a wonderful and amusing summary about Cas’s adventure there?

(I assume that the actual script for this live action section was probably written AFTER the 13x15 script rather than a year ago with the rest of the Scooby stuff)

I mean what even is this? Other than a really interesting side commentary about Cas and his random fake marriages (one of which was to a woman named Daphne and therefore is another very apt callback in this episode)

How many people are you actually married to Cas?!? If anything this is yet ANOTHER nod to Cas being so desirable to all creatures in the SPN universe that getting married to a queen was a good deal for the Jinn even after he killed their kin!

But now I just feel even MORE robbed of an episode which sounds like it would have been one hell of wild ride from start to finish. I swear to god sometimes I think they should film a mini series for the DVD extras of just Misha as Cas doing all the things they reference him doing when he’s not in episodes…

…Riverboat Gambling

…Digging up pre-biblical lore in Gaza

…inadvertently marrying Jinn Queens in Syria in exchange for fruit from the tree of life…

I’ve been musing on this idea for ages about Cas making a load of allegiances in Season 6 with various powerful creatures and pagan gods to support his war efforts against Raphael, and I dreamed up this whole idea of him basically coming across Aphrodite, and winning her favour because he was so blindingly beautiful and fascinating that she took a major liking to him. I need more scenes of insanely beautiful queens and goddesses basically fighting to be with Cas and the whole time he is oblivious because Dean. lmao. Anyway I’m going off on a tangent…

I just can’t believe we were robbed of such a fascinating story where Cas accidentally got married to a Jinn Queen and it was literally a one off line in an episode about Scooby Doo.

What even is this show

Oh gosh, a spin-off of Castiel’s adventures off-screen would be so cool! I could imagine the Jinn Queen was left gaping as Cas went BAMF left and right killing their numbers in his determination to get the fruits. I mean, I can’t blame her for wanting to marry him despite that because Cas is always so stunningly beautiful in action.

So, is Castiel technically a royalty now? :D All hail king Castiel!