Apr 27, 2025
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?
#I’m dead serious tho courtly love is a very useful framework for understanding Cas’s ‘happiness isn’t in the having’ thing#and he hits the big points of it: transformative power of love. love as forever unconsummated. the ennobling power of love. etc#disclaimer that I am very much not a medievalist or expert in any way#genderstudiesnatural#<- not precisely but I want it in the tag bc I think arthurian chivalric conceptions of masculinity#are interesting to consider in relation to cas#cas studies#destiel studies#destiel#cas#dean#drift.txt#supernatural#spn#castiel