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@castielsbecky / castielsbecky.tumblr.com

Theresa. Pisces. Cas!girl (though I do quite love all of TFW). Mostly Supernatural with some random stuff thrown in. Ask box is always open, and this is a judgement free blog!
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Hey guys. I'm about halfway through the last episode of season 13, and I'm feeling like horrible fan. And anyone, please anyone, help me feel better. I feel like a horrible fan because I let myself get so behind. Life just got the best of me and I just really need to feel okay about the fact that I'm more than a season behind. I don't want to seem like an attention whore, but my mental health is a very unstable. I keep it hidden to my friends and family because I want them to see me as an acceptable mother to my child, but I just need to know that I'm not horrible. I'm so sorry. Also I apologize because Tumblr is my drunk... escape, I guess? It's where I go to let all of my drunk thoughts be known.

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Hey Guys!

Okay, so I'm a bit behind on Supernatural (life happens, mental shit happens, it's fine, everything's fine, lol). I'm on Season 13, Episode 22 ("Exodus"), and, I don't know, it might just be me, but I find it super fucked up that they make evil Cas come across as German. Mind you, I'm writing this in the middle of the episode (it's paused), but assuming this isn't a major plot surprise, I just think it's fucked up that they depict Nazi GERMANY as evil when, in fact, it has nothing to do with the country/nationality and instead the politics. Like, yes, what happened in Nazi Germany was horrible, but it had nothing to do with the fact that it was Germany, or that they were Germans. It had to do with the politics of the situation. So yes, the Hitler regime was horrible, but it does not reflect Germany necessarily. And it just makes me sad that people run to that as evil, when it's not that black and white. I hope this makes sense, cause it makes sense in my head. And like I said, I'm not done the episode. But I don't really see it coming across as any other way and it just made me sad. So I'm in the process of catching up, but maybe someone can relate

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Hi! I was wondering, in the tag game thingy you tagged me in am I supposed to answer my favourite characters for the fandoms already there or fandoms of my own choosing? (I for some reason need instructions to be incredibly specific lol)

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Lol not gonna lie, I haven't been on Tumblr in a while, so I'm not sure what this is referencing, but probably just favorite character in general.

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I know no one’s talking about it (or cares) but I think Claire Novak’s “immaturity” and “attitude problem” stem largely from the fact that she’s been let down, neglected, and betrayed by nearly every adult in her life before she even turned 18 and that kind of thing leaves huge emotional wounds that often manifest as anger and defiance. And I also think, rather than playing into “rebellious teenage stereotypes” an exploration of this anger and the fear, pain, and disappointment that caused it would be an excellent way to deal with her character. Just sayin’. 

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Part of what I like about Claire is she didn’t just accept everything quietly. It’s not REAL to just go oh well, all that shit happened and I’m okay. It rounded her out as a character to be bitter and hurt over things while not turning away from the people who are still there.

She still has a connection to Jody, Cas, Sam, and Dean, but she’s been dealt a bad hand many times over. She’s trying, and she’s damaged, but damn that girl went and became a kickass hunter who really cares about people instead of flitting off and just being a… I don’t know, college student?

Not that a college student is bad, but she made her own choices, took charge of things, and deals with the pain on a daily basis in the most constructive way she can. And yet she still appreciates what everyone has done for her, despite how much she’s been hurt by it all.

I really thought when we saw Claire again after she grew up a bit we’d see a wilting flower, but instead she embodies what we want from a lot of the other female characters who have died on the show. Badass female hunter? She’s it!

Claire’s still there, still fighting, and damn if I don’t respect her for it. And if anyone doesn’t like her attitude, try having an angel possess your father, then get him killed, then your mother is killed, all the while realizing the world is full of FUCKING CRAZY SCARY SHIT, and then tell me you don’t have an attitude or issues.

That got longer than I meant it to.

OMG yes! All of this. If I could physically hug a post I would hug this one. 

I love Claire for so many reasons and her defiance and her ability to go on and kick ass and do what she thinks is right and good is a huge part of that. She’s got pain and struggles but she uses that as the ground work for trying to make the world a better place and find her own way. And I absolutely love that about her. 

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But what about vampire history teachers. Vampires who read something from a text book then proceed to light the book on fire and throw it out the window because “No. that’s not even close to what really happened. Listen up nerds I’m about to teach you what really happened in France during the revolution”

I need this as a series

Vampires sharing the recipe for Greek fire.

Vampires speaking in dead languages.

Vampires being able to translate untranslatable scripts.

Vampires who react to straightwashing historical figures like “Are you kidding me everyone knew that man was queer!”

Vampires from cultures who were once antagonistic towards each other stubbornly maintaining a friendship that’s lasted longer than their civilizations.

Vampires who honour forgotten deities you won’t find in mythology books.

Also, vampires who secretly saved stuff from the Library of Alexandra.

A vampire show that does not revolve all around sex and eternal cursed love.

nerd vampire whose knowledge of current events is terrible but they can always remember everything that’s considered “history” so they have a super-detailed knowledge of everything up to about thirty years ago and then ?????

vampire who couldn’t tell you what caravaggio was known for but duelled with him at least three times and slept with him at least ten. “cara-who OH YOU MEAN MICHAEL yeah he was cool”

vampire who spent 100 years in a convent and is still so bitter that in all that time they never made her mother superior “GODDAMMIT I HAD SENIORITY! I HAD SENIORITY!” “okay so first off janet, that was six hundred years ago, but more importantly, maybe if you didn’t always start those complaints off with blasphemy…”

vampire professor who just sort of showed up at oxford when it was founded and is still there (and nobody’s noticed because he still never actually shows up to his lectures)

vampire politician who lifts all their campaign speeches wholesale from speeches given 200 years ago and just waits for someone to catch them out (nobody ever does they’re prime minister and their approval ratings are through the roof)

WAIT I HAVE MORE

queer vampire who constantly talks about the fashion for straightness and you need to be really careful because if you tell them straight is default they WILL scream at you for five days straight about what a modern concept heterosexuality is

vampire hoarder who has an entire town where they just kept having to buy new houses to keep their stuff in and some of it’s probably worth tens of millions by now but you’ll never find it in among the 1950s kitschy kitten sculptures and boxes of newspaper (the newspaper is a wonderful mix of yesterday’s guardian and daily courants from 1725)

vampire sailor from manderville’s time who just has so many stories and some of them might even be true

vampire bluestocking girl who took to the internet like a fish to water and spends her whole unlife engaging reddit antifeminists about women’s rights because that’s one fight she’s determined to see through. also with the advent of cheap dyes she literally wears blue socks every day and hopes one day someone gets the joke

vampire doctor who just gets SO CONFUSED about the literature because do you know how hard it is to keep up with medicine kevin? when i got my doctorate we thought leeches were good and then they were bad and now they’re good again? i was published in issue one of the lancet kevin that is 387 lancets kevin how the hell am i meant to remember which one’s current kevin why are they saying cannabis is good for pain like this is news??? (but also lives in a state of wonderment every day in hospital because wow look at all this stuff we can do now look at it kevin!)

entire coven of vampires constantly quibbling over manners because they’re all from different periods: “HATS OFF AT TABLE” “SCREW YOU LEONARD ONLY PEASANTS EAT BAREHEADED” “TABITHA THAT HASN’T BEEN GOOD MANNERS SINCE THE 1500S NOBODY HAS LICE ANY MORE” “IT ISN’T ABOUT LICE LEONARD IT’S ABOUT GOOD MANNERS YOU NEED TO HAVE GOOD MANNERS WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE OVER FOR DINNER” “I SWEAR TO GOD TABITHA IF YOU MAKE THAT PUN ONE MORE TIME I WILL SHOVE YOUR STUPID HAT DOWN YOUR THROAT”

vampire musicians who might not have been child prodigies but goddammit 500 years of practicing an instrument is bound to get you somewhere (also knowing the composer and being the first person to start playing a song doesn’t hurt either)

my favorite will always be vampires who know fuck-all about the standard major historical events because they were always somewhere else whenever big shit was going down:

“yeah i heard about the hundred years war but i was in northern african at the time so…”

“the roman empire fell??? how did the fucking roman empire fall??? i spend a fucking handful of decades in india and i come back to this???”

“russia needs to stop having revolutions, i can’t keep them all straight…”

“when did france become a democracy?? and america’s now it’s own country??? i’ve spent the last century in a forest in wallachia scaring small children so––wHat dO yOU meAn we’re calling it romania now??? when the fuck did it become romania???”

“WE HAD A WORLD WAR??? WE HAD TWO WORLD WARS???? well obviously ‘world’ is an exaggeration because i heard nothing about it while i was lost in the amazon rainforest for the last fifty years…”

“listen i spent most of the fourteenth century as a pirate in the south china sea so someone’s gonna had to clue me in on all this ‘black plague’ nonsense.”

Drunk history but the guests are vampires

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radioproxy

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