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Lowkey forgot I had a tumblr

Anyways did you know I'm fucking crazy abt them

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Castiel IS the angel of Thursday!

Castiel is commonly said in the fandom to not exist in angel mythology - he’s a version of Cassiel, who is the angel of Saturday. And maybe they made him angel of Thursday because the show was on Thursday or something.

Turns out, Castiel is an actual angel, and he is the angel of Thursday! The top image is from a scan I just made of The Encyclopedia of Angels by Constance Victoria Briggs, published in 1997 - definitely before the show. Note that Cassiel is referred to as a variation of Casziel, the angel of Saturday and tears, but Castiel is not. He’s his own thing, but the only thing he’s known for is Thursday.

Of course, I had to wonder where this lady got it.  But this book lists over 70 sources, and doesn’t specify which information is taken from which. So I turned to Google Books, and started looking for references to Castiel before 1950.

(Note: The second hit given was Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, and no, the word “Castiel” does not appear in it, proving that Google Books is apparently an asshole.)

I only got one hit that actually refers to an angel named Castiel, but it’s a solid one! It’s from a 1665 translation of Henry Cornelius Agrippa’s Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. (Note: According to Wikipedia, this book first appeared in 1559 and is likely not actually written by Agrippa, who wrote three Books of Occult Philosophy but died in 1535. But still. Old book.) As you can see above, it does list Castiel, not Cassiel, as one of the angels of Thursday. (It does list Cassiel separately under Saturday.)

Maybe whoever actually wrote this (or translated it) made him up, but at any rate he was made up in 1665 at the latest.

This is still the only information there seems to be about Castiel. So it’s possible that Kripke et al did base some of Cas’s traits on Cassiel, such as being assigned to watch over humanity from a distance. But they didn’t pull either the name or the Thursday thing out of thin air.

PG, why were you reading an Encyclopedia of Angels to begin with??

Haha, destiel reasons, of course. I was on the Cassiel wikipedia page recently and it said this:

“By many he is known to be the angel who fell in love with mankind, or rather the righteous man and began to feel human emotion.” With Briggs given as the source.

Of course, when I saw that I was like you are shitting me that can’t be real. So I ordered the book from my library.

Sadly, no, this is not real. I cannot find any reference to a/the “righteous man” at all in this book, nor does it say anything about Cassiel/Casziel falling in love or feeling human emotion. It does talk about the Grigori as having fallen in love with humans and taken human wives (which is why they were permanently cast out of heaven), but while Cassiel did watch over humanity like the Grigori, I can’t find any source referring to him as one. 

Looks like a shipper thought they were clever and could slip this in to make it look like destiel is in the folklore. If only.

I’ve edited this statement out of the Cassiel Wikipedia article, although Wikipedians are assholes so even though I put in the edit summary that the book cited says no such thing, chances are somebody will revert my edit just because I haven’t edited much.

But I did find the actual Castiel reference, so the book wasn’t a total waste of time. :)

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My biggest fear is start a fic, and realize it's Top!Dean when I read more than a half...

Sometimes the fic don't have tag about it, and it's really sad...

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happy birthday to thee dean winchester who is currently getting his back blown out by his angel husband in heaven within earshot of his piece of shit father. you deserve it babe!

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I just want people too remember this is how Destiel is described in Urban dictionary.

*The story of a man afraid of flying, and an angel afraid of falling, who somehow met in the middle. The man who denied the existence of angels came to love one. The angel who never felt began to feel. The man who was saved from an eternity in Hell by an angel. The angel who fell in every way imaginable for a man. The man, with a clear path to escape, decided instead to stay in Purgatory for a year, searching for his angel, praying to him every night. Begging. When he found him, he held him; he told him that he needed him, that he'd get him out, even if it killed them both. The angel rejected his faith, his family, his home, and everything he knew, so he could keep the man safe. They stay together despite fate, despite what they are, because they refuse to be pulled apart.

We're family. We need you. I need you.

I'm hunted, I rebelled, and I did it, all of it, for you.

"People aren't exaggerating when they call Destiel the greatest love story ever told."*

Just a reminder

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Sam as promised 😌

Tears in my eyes

Not me getting into supernatural in 2024

Its been like 3 weeks or someshit and its already consumed my life 😭

Love them too much I need to be put down

My moots are sick and tired of me 😔

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Tears in my eyes

Not me getting into supernatural in 2024

Its been like 3 weeks or someshit and its already consumed my life 😭

Love them too much I need to be put down

My moots are sick and tired of me 😔

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back at it again

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pb

Got recommended a prettyblood edit on my tiktok fyp and I stood no chance at escaping it's clutches.

I have like 8 ocs and I keep wanting to make more plz save me

Also yes I drew on a cardboard box 😭

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wb stuff

More sonc stuff, mainly a lot of Nine cuz I was loving my take on him.

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Soncs

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Yuuji 🗣‼️

Gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

Im so normal about him

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Jjk doodle dump

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Weak Hero Analysis and Meta - Wolf Keum Motives and Money

I keep thinking that the reason why Wolf joined the Union must have something to do with money, because when he tries to leave (unsuccessfully, the first time), Donald says "you should've said that before taking all the dirty money", implying that the reason why Wolf initially joined was for the cash.

This is interesting though, because everything we see from Wolf points to him not actually caring about money on a personal level. He got mad when he was stolen from, but more because of the principle of things; he was angry that someone would dare to try to take what was his, not because he was super attached to the money.

We know with some amount of certainty that he's not attached to money because he's always giving free handouts to his underlings-slash-friends (questionable whether Wolf even knows what friendship is; he blurs the line a lot imo).

(For reference, this is three separate instances where Wolf threw money at his underlings/companions. One is even from a flashback that takes place before Wolf's fight with Gray, showing that this generosity isn't a recent development.)

The alternate theory is that Wolf joined the Union just as an excuse to pick fights with people, which I personally disagree with, since I don't think Wolf ever needed a half-decent reason to get into fistfights, and its lampshaded multiple times that Wolf was coerced into joining, since he's always looking for a reason to get out.

Simply put, the puzzle pieces don't seem to add up. My current theory would be that Wolf initially joined the Union for a one-off benefit, much like Jake. He needed a large sum of money (or status?) to do something, but once whatever it was got sorted out, he no longer had any incentive to go along with what Donald asked him to.

Unlike Jake, Wolf has the kind of personality that doesn't agree with getting ordered around, even if the person giving out orders is someone he's indebted to. What is probably also a factor is that Jake cares about his friends-not-underlings a lot more than Wolf cares about his underlings-maybe-friends.

Wolf repeatedly went against Donald's rules, knowing that he'd be dragging Ganghak down with him. He treats everyone under him (sans Hayden) to a "Last Meal", a last taste of their Union benefits, before they get kicked out and probably punished severely.

ANYWAY. In conclusion I just wanted to ramble about Wolf Keum some more, also highlight that being part of his gang is the best of both worlds. You're constantly in fear of pissing him off and getting the shit beaten out of you, but also Wolf Keum is your sugar daddy, so pros and cons, really.

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ignoring my wip by making memes abt it instead 😎 anyways canon you fucking coward give wolf friends

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some silvers

Ft. A insta moots version of Silver!!

Their insta is below!