jgp'as;lfd/s,gl;fkafpskp'skafgs

[whynot]

In lieu of an actual 5.18 reaction post, have this:


































"Blow me, Cas."




"O RLY?"







"Cas."








"I learned that from my friend Cas, you son of a bitch."
-- 5.01: Sympathy for the Devil

When Castiels Happen to Deans




Jupiter.




A blade of grass.













"Woah, wait, you're going to take on five angels?"




"Yes."
"Isn't that suicide?"




"Maybe it is. But then I won't have to watch you fail."




"Sorry, Dean."




Okay, willingly running into traps in abandoned buildings when you know you've got a snowball's chance in hell of coming back out. Is this reminding anyone else of 'The End'? But at the same time, this is vehemently NOT 'The End' because unlike this Castiel right here, Croatverse Cas totally stuck around to watch Dean fail. This Cas, on the other hand, is not yet dead inside. CAS, BUDDY, YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY. (I THINK.)














AN EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT QUESTION. Who cut the banishing sigil into Cas's chest?
A) Dean
B) Sam
C) himself


ETA: 2A. What do you call that knife thing they use to cut it?
A) boxcutter
B) exacto knife
C) something else

2B) Where do people call it that?

Comments

[maskedfangirl.livejournal.com]

Answer: C. If Cas had given the box cutter to either of the boys, the other would've gotten all pissy and jealous at missing the chance to touch naked angel chest, and with the tension already between them, it surely would've ended in a fight. No, to keep them from beating on each other, Cas carved it himself. Sam and Dean held a mirror for him, jointly, and ogled.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Very diplomatic of him!

Sam and Dean held a mirror for him, jointly, and ogled.
I FEEL YA, FELLAS.

The way the past couple of episodes have been going, I am wondering why I am not completely inundated in Sam/Castiel fics already.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

oh christ he ONLY GETS HOTTER. HOW DOES THAT WORK. JESUS EFFING CHRIST. LOOK AT THAT GLORIOUS ANGEL RIGHT THERE.

also: D) Cas starts carving, only to find it's a tough angle to gauge accuracy from, and so Dean says Fuck's sake, gimmie the knife, I'll finish it. And Cas looks him right in the eye while handing the box cutter to Sam.

where, oh where, is the horrifying/amazing porn where the hilt of an angel sword is used the way god intended? you know what i mean. don't play like you don't.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

lol @ your horribly relevant icon

and so Dean says Fuck's sake, gimmie the knife, I'll finish it. And Cas looks him right in the eye while handing the box cutter to Sam.
sfdsjfklsf YES GABBY YESSSS omggg <3

I know what you mean only because I have seen that prompt on the Merlin Kink Meme. But it is only a matter of time.

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

Man, that's a good-looking cast. Tell me, are the girls (there are girls in this show, right? Somewhere?) just as good looking or do they reserve all the pretty for the boys?

*Is not complaining. At all. I mean, look at them*

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm replying to my own comment to say that after *careful scrutiny* while I find Dean to be the most aesthetically pleasing (I swear, his face must be symmetrical, holy hell), Castiel is somehow hotter to me in ways I cannot even begin to understand.

[veggie17.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha epic manip is epic.

I had stuff to say, I think, but you have distracted me with all the pretty, and I must now go stare at Misha's Cas's nose, cheekbones, wrists and chest.

Umm, I think it had to be either Dean or Sam, because it seems impossible that he'd do it himself. I would normally assume that he'd give it to Dean, but what with the betrayal he's feeling this episode, I think it's quite likely it was Sam.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I love Mean Girls macros SFM. XD

I would normally assume that he'd give it to Dean, but what with the betrayal he's feeling this episode
Yes, Dean is the least likely to have done it. I wouldn't put it above Cas to know how to work a knife though. Cas could probably do it on his own, but the Winchesters get all concerned and have to step in. Dean being all, "Goddammit, Cas, fine, if you won't let me touch you, then let Sam before you skewer yourself."

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Ah hmm! I grew up calling it an exacto knife, and if I've heard it called a boxcutter before 5x18 episode discussions, I have forgotten. Does everyone in the US called it a boxcutter? Or is it like the pop/soda controversy.

Haha, this is basically ALL THE EP I NEED.
BUT OH SHIT WHERE IS CAS NOW D:

[lexhibition.livejournal.com]

My, Castiel. How efficient you are at ripping your clothes off. There's some practices moves, right there!

*hours later* RIGHT WHERE WAS I?

1) The correct answer is that Cas tells them what he's going to do and both Sam and Dean stare at him in disbelief. "You're going to carve it into your skin?" asks Sam and Cas smirks and says "No. You do it," while holding the blade out to Dean. Then Sam has to awkwardly hold Cas' trenchcoat while Dean barely scratches the knife over Cas' chest. "Deeper," Cas growls, and grabs Dean's wrist, drags the knife through his skin and stares Dean down.

2) In Australia we call it a stanley knife! I think it was originally a brand name, or something.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

If I don't watch out, I could lose years just staring at GIFs.

"Deeper," Cas growls, and grabs Dean's wrist, drags the knife through his skin and stares Dean down.
fjkdsjfdsl omfg OMFG. DO WANT. *__*

How soon can we have a deluge of boxcutter episode tags, fandom, come on come on.

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

E? Cas tried to, couldn't get the angle right, Dean took over but he kept staring at Cas' chest instead of cutting, so Sammy took the blade from him and started doing it himself, while Dean mumbled "such a control freak!" and tried to get the cutter back, which made them start a bitchslap fight, like, little girls all palms slapping palms, so Cas finished it himself, got re-dressed, asked them if they were ready to stop the apocalypse already or had better plans and then went on to be a BAMF in front of the other angles, leaving Sam and Dean to mourn the lack of Cas-chest-ness.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

lol oh boys. OH CAS. I would say "there is enough Cas to go around, ya'll" but after his last trick, he might just be giving a new meaning to "particle man".

[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

Questions:
1. http://mikes-grrl.livejournal.com/142225.html
2. exacto
3. I'm in the Southern U.S., but it is what I learned from my father, who was military. So....dunno? I use "boxcutter" now mostly because it seems everyone is more familiar with that term.

Wonderful picspam, thank you! I'm just watching this ep over and over, send help. My ghods, so much to parse. I think I'll stick with "dsskdflsdkajdfjjvd!!!! *THUD*" as a working topic.

Also, interested in your feedback on this idea:
http://community.livejournal.com/spn_mongrels/4641.html
Hmmm?

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

OMG I KNOW THE REWATCHABILITY FACTOR OF THIS EPISODE IS ABSOLUTELY CRIMINAL, simply criminal.

Do people call it exacto knife more, or just exacto? Bring on more of the boxcutter/exacto knife episode tags, fandom, seriously!

[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

Also? UNF, I could watch that gif of Castiel taking off his tie ALL DAMN DAY. Wooo.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

The GIFs from this episode are going to destroy my life.

[stubbel.livejournal.com]

Well, I call it a Stanley knife *drop*

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I was just being told that it's called a Stanley knife in Australia. Or are you in another part of the world that calls it that too?

[anniehow.livejournal.com]

It's like this episode could spawn EVEN MORE fic than The End. Wich shouldn't be possible. And Yet, here I am, completely overcome by plot!bunnies, one of which I think I might even write. If I stay home tonight and up late, it could happen.

Fanservice: ur doing it rite.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Huh. You think so? I dunno, The End was pretty inspiring. What are the plot bunnies in your head? Do you also have a boxcutter theory fic lined up?

[nyoka.livejournal.com]

THIS IS MY HAPPY PLACE.

I THINK I'LL JUST STAY HERE ALL DAY.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I wish I could live in 5x18 GIFs.

[tevere.livejournal.com]

2A: Stanley knife (Australia). I remember being horribly confused after 9/11, wondering what godawful kind of newfangled weapon a 'boxcutter' was.

I need Dean/Castiel recs, STAT.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

WELL THEN. Many of these recs are Dean&/Cas-flavored. (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/141066.html)

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

you know, I was thinking I wouldn't be able to take both this episode AND the new Doctor Who in one day (spent my free time yesterday finishing T:SCC) but this picspam, it is making me consider changing my mind! hmmmm.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if one will be able to take the new SPN either way. It's also carrying the dangerous compulsive-rewatchingitis virus, so GOOD LUCK.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Thank you. I would say something clever, but these pics have ripped the wit from my body--

If their faces were one milliliter closer in that fight scene, I think they would meet the technical definition of kissing.

1: C. I think he did it himself, while Sam and Dean watched slack-jawed, as their claims to BAMF-hood, well, shriveled.

2: B: An exacto knife (US East Coast).

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, I made a picspam precisely because the show has robbed me of all clever things to say. Attempts at coherency would devolve into me going "OMG REMEMBER WHEN EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THAT EPISODE HAPPENED??!?"

Yup, Cas is by now by far the BAMFiest TFW member.

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Thank you! <3

It feels like I shouldn't find the caps from the fight scene hot, but I do. But the scene makes me too /o\ to picspam it myself.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

<3 Thank SHOW. fjdsf episooooode, i will be rewatching you approximately forever.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

1) C (but wouldn't it be awesome if it were A?)

2A) Boxcutter
2B) Um. Everywhere? I think of an exacto knife as like that, only smaller. A boxcutter is usually like at least an inch wide, I'd say.

3) This picspam is:

a) Awesome
b) AWESOME
c) A++ AWESOME

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I see compelling arguments for all three, all of which need to be demonstrated via fic. Boxcutter theory fic! ALSO, okay, so Cas probably stuffed his tie in his pocket after he took it off, but wouldn't it be cool if Dean keeps it? Mmmmmmm.

<3

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

i uh. was not remotely a dean/cas shipper until this episode. I didn't see it. Not at all.

what this says about me that I see it now is probably not worth looking into.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the fold.

until this episode. I didn't see it. Not at all.
Well hey, this episode was really ridiculously rubbing our faces in it, like more than usual. I'm surprised there still managed to be plot between the heaping dollops of shameless fanservice. And fanservice that WORKED. \o/

[marycontraire.livejournal.com]

I KNEW YOU WOULD LOVE THAT LINE ABOUT THE LAST TIME SOMEONE LOOKED AT ME LIKE THAT I GOT LAID.

Cas has just gotten cooler and cooler. I must admit. He's currently the most intriguing character on Show. And his relationship with Dean (slash fanfic aside) is actually very interesting. I ENJOY YOUR SLOW DESCENT, CAS. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT GOOD INTENTIONS.

Also,

1) A
2A) A
3) New York

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

THE LAST TIME CAS LOOKED AT HIM LIKE THAT.

I fear the day I finally get over this ship.

[lisuli.livejournal.com]

This picspam is awesomesauce.

As for the questions, this first thing I thought about after the show was over was who cut the sigil into Cas' chest. I figure he either did it to himself or gave it to Dean and said something along the lines of "Since you have so much practice drawing the sigil, you do it."

2a.) exacto knife
2b.) new jersey

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

or gave it to Dean and said something along the lines of "Since you have so much practice drawing the sigil, you do it."
omg. TOUCHE, CAS, TOUCHE. I am loving these boxcutter theories, holy shit.

[tonicollins.livejournal.com]

Great pix; thanks for sharing them!

I call that knife a boxcutter and I'm from California. It appears to have a razor blade which gets changed out when it gets dull.

An exacto knife is smaller and the blade longer.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had fun making this post. ;)

[diskarte.livejournal.com]

this post just made my life.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Aww hey, glad you enjoyed it, thanks. 5x18 makes my life, over and over.

[l-a-r-m.livejournal.com]

My god, I have never seen anything more awesome than that Mean Girls comic strip. LOVE IT. I was laughing so hard I was close to tears. Brilliant!

As for the questions:

I think it was supposed to be implied that Castiel cuts it himself. However, since he exchanges the expositional dialogue with Dean, not to MENTION all their moments throughout this episode, I think it's a fair fangirl assessment to say that Dean assisted. Since I am a Dean girl and I adore Cas, Sam is always auxiliary anyway.

They're using a boxcutter, because it is orange (industrial safety color) and has a wide blade for slicing cardboard. Exacto knives are tools of precision and usually used by artists for fine work. They look like silvery pens with a blade instead of a felt tip. I'm from New York and the definition is pretty clear around here.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Mean Girls macros bring sunshine into my life. XD

I can see it being any of the three of them cutting it, though I am less and less inclined to think Cas did it himself because he doesn't have the optimal angle for it. There probably is teamwork going on in there somewhere.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Hoooly angelic chests. I watched that scene so many times. My vote is Cas cut it into himself. Angel's gonna go commit bamf suicide, he's gonna make sure he's done things right, and that means doing it himself.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

THIS DEF GOES UP IN THE TOP 5 SPN EPISODES EVERRRRR. The other 4 would be 5x04, 4x18, 4x16, AND OH SHIT I ACTUALLY CANNOT DECIDE. But 5x18 is definitely up there.

Yeah but what if he can't do it right because of the angle. I dunno, I can see any of them doing it actually. I guess there's a reason the show left that open-ended.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

It is after 4am and I'm being irresponsible but I JUST SAW THIS EP AND OMG I RAN OVER HERE TO SEE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT IT

CLEARLY THERE ARE NO WORDS
NO WORDS
I MUCH ENJOYED YOUR CAPSPAM


PS my first thought was, Cas does the exacto-knife/boxcutter carving. But it would be awkward and kinda hard. He would let Sam do it cos I don't think Dean would, or would be able to. (SHIT THIS EPISODE I WAS SO SO SO SO HAPPY, IT WASN'T JUST THE DEAN SHOW, IT WAS THE SAM AND CAS AND DEAN SHOW <33333)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

AS YOU CAN SEE I HAVE NOT MANY WORDS ABOUT IT, because if I even TRIED, I'd have been like, "DID YOU SEE EVERY SINGLE FUCKING MOMENT OF THAT EPISOOOODE?" OH MY GOD. THIS EPISODE was just so much fanservice and crowning moments of awesome, I cannot even. PICTURES BEING THOUSAND WORDS, I WILL JUST USE THEM TO EXPRESS MY NOVEL-LENGTH THOUGHTS ON THIS EPISODE, MOST OF WHICH CONSIST OF <33333333333333

I wish all SPN episodes were like this episode, geez motherfucking goddamn. Have you finished with finale? Are you ready for S6 spoilers yet?

My first thought was actually Sam! Because Cas wouldn't let Dean do it because he is in a snit about Dean saying yes still, but I have seen convincing ficlets where Dean helps. I buy all three options, basically.