Happy birthday my favorite babygirl! ๐พ๐พ๐พ
I know, what I'm doing
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being an artist is so strange sometimes one period you're completely destroyed and it'll be a huge success if your subscribers see you more than once in a month and another time you've got multiple drawings in queue a few more in working and a hundred more ideas in your head and it's a cycle
they are so silly, I can't๐ญ๐๐ฝ
it's so sad and cold without him... without a key to the house...
๐๐๐ฎ, ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ? ๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ธ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฃ๐บ. ๐๐ฉ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ?๐
I really honestly believe that thereโs not enough appreciation for internal contradiction and conflicting elements both in terms of characterization and relationships.
Like Cas both wants to belong and has the impulse to just go out and do things on his own. He is both proud and ashamed. He is ancient and new. Etc etc.
Dean both feels the need to be the moral authority and is crushed by the burden of it. When he needs the people around him is exactly when he pushes them away. He clings to this rough-and-tumble individualist masculinity, but all he really wants is his family to be together.
And the main thing I've been thinking of is how with Dean and Cas, we always talk about how thereโs a fundamental disconnect and miscommunication between them. But I think that sometimes we forget that their relationship is built on their fundamental similarity, on them relating to one another. Like thereโs at least a couple of things Misha has said about Cas that I disagree with, but one that i find really interesting is (and I wish I remembered when/where this was) that sometimes Cas feels like Dean is the only one in the world he can relate to.
Like these are contradictory things, but they are all true, and it's important that theyโre all true, because contradictory things being true at the same time is was creates tension and creates movement, it's what keeps things dynamic and interesting.
The other day I mentioned a post that had a quadrant chart with a war criminal-angel axis and a virgin-slut axis, and how someone said that Cas was in the middle. But heโs not in the middle, he's at the extremes simultaneously. Like heโs not in some milquetoast little-bit-of-both center. He is all the way at the edges. And you would think it's untenable but that's exactly what makes it interesting.
And I guess thatโs also my number one critique on Cas mischaracterizarion. When he's just one thing. When heโs just the poorest little self-doubting wet cat, or just a badass bamf, or just understanding and wise and empathetic, or just alien and clueless. None of those are right. And heโs not in the mushy middle of these things. He's flipping between them, he exists in the overturn, in the revolution.
Castiel is the best, most loyal soldier, and he is the most zealous rebel. He is inhuman and the most human. He is full of self-doubt and he has the courage of his convictions.
This started out as a general post and then became a Castiel post. Because Castiel. But yeah, I donโt think you can fully understand Cas, and therefore understand destiel, unless you embrace internal contradiction.
Do you guys ever sit and then randomly think 'damn what the sense of my life'
my meowmeow because I love his colour palette
oh where did he take that fancy green robe... no idea
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