#cas studies

[strawlessandbraless]

*Castiel’s thoughts meeting Dean for the first time after hell* Do not covet the Michael sword. Do not covet the Michael sword. Do covet the Michael sword. Do covet the Michael sword. Do the Michael sword. Do the Michael sword. Do the —

*the angels watching from heaven* damn it, I told you he wasn’t up for this! Tell Naomi to ready the bisexual lobotomy lounge!!

[kinky-cas]

cas is doing courtly love nonsense because that’s the framework for romantic/erotic love thats most compatible with his ideas of how angels are supposed to be. meanwhile dean is like hey lancelot can you cool it with the noble knight shtick for 10 minutes and just answer your damn texts?

[angelsdean]

crazy to me when ppl forget cas is Literally a jock. he has led multiple armies (teams) and he's mr. battle strategy (gameplays). he is thee quarterback. he is ruthless on the (battle)field. and every angel is obsessed with him either in a fangirl way or seething with jealousy. or they straight up fear him and fight flight fawn in his presence. thee only person who sees him as uwu soft dorky angel nerd is DEAN bc dean has pink heart-shaped glasses on at all times around him. and even then, he knows he's a badass soft dorky angel nerd.

[my-flying-sister]

You see Cas making 😐 face while killing other angels and think ruthless killer. But EYE see dissociation.

[trains-gengar]

i enjoy a lot of interpretations of cas' sexuality tbh. i don't think any of them are irrefutably incorrect as long as he's still romantically in love with dean bc that's canon. regardless of whether or not you ship destiel, it's homophobic to ignore his romantic feelings for dean when analyzing his sexuality imo.

i love the idea that dean is cas' gay exception primarily bc it's an inverse of fanon, but also bc dean is the only man he ever shows interest in. imo the evidence in his attraction to women isn't even in his canon sexual interactions with women; it's in how flustered he gets when women flirt with him.

from a doylist perspective, i'm pretty sure his sexual interactions with women exist primarily to give some plausible deniability to the homophobic audience. i'm a big fan of gay cas bc of that.

when you take goodbye stranger into account, that was very blatant bisexual coding which is laid out in this post. the bisexual lobotomy lounge alone means that overtly bi cas has strong canon evidence.

however, my favorite interpretation of all is that he's an angel, so why the hell would he bother labeling his sexuality? he's a celestial wavelength. the only important details are that he has had (dubiously consensual) sex with a woman and he's in love with dean. give up on trying to label him. stop asking him needlessly complicated questions as humans do.

[iloveyoudeanwinchester]

Do you think at least part of why cas is such a Bad Texter is he's still so unused to looking at time on a human scale? Like to dean, cas may be AWOL for several agonizing months but in cas's mind, it's like. a fraction of a nanosecond. It's like if one of those oak trees that's been alive for 20,000 years and will be around for 20,000 more suddenly has to remember to keep in contact with a mayfly who has a 24 hour lifespan. And also they are in love.

Makes me have a little more empathy for the guy despite him continuously leaving dean on read and ripping his hair out, looking at it this way.

[5x03castiel]

I will never get tired of how fascinated s4cas is with dean. he’s so present in all their conversations. “what will he say next? what is he thinking?” he’s so desperate to know, and he doesn’t even know why he’s so desperate, he just knows when he’s not with dean he’s thinking about him. millions of years old and it’s Dean who collapses all his attention (which can encompass all of space and time) into these charged cramped intimate moments on earth. in these small restrictive bodies. but for how they compel and intrigue cas they might as well be infinitely vast.

[luxmarkers]

Thinking about Lebanon…

In Paradise Lost, John Milton references Lebanon in the context of one of the fallen angels Tammuz, (an early archetype for the dying-and-rising god) whose "annual wound" in Lebanon caused damsels to mourn.

The "Adonis" river that runs through Lebanon was said to run purple with Tammuz blood, representing idolatry that seduced followers from God.

Adonis, in Greek mythology, represents extreme male beauty.

Milton uses this description to highlight the seductive danger of idolatry that lures people away from the "sacred porch," a key theme of disobedience in the poem's early books.

Oh beautiful Adonis, born from a cursed, incestuous union…

A mortal hunter who was gored and killed by a wild boar during a hunting trip…

Thank you @shallowseeker for inspiring my brain to weave some webs!