Yes, Castiel has taken over my brain, too. In RL, I don't believe in God, souls, or what have you, but in terms of SPN, I really want to, because the alternative just sucks for Cas too much. It's definitely interesting to try to think about those things from his perspective, although I don't know how successful at it I really am.
Red tape is definitely not fun to read/write about. (Unless Connie Willis is involved, and then only sometimes. I bet she'd write awesome Dean/Cas fic though.) If someone ever manages to write an interesting/exciting 'restructuring Heaven' story, I will be very impressed.
I'm surprised that much/part of fandom thinks of falling as a bad or mostly-bad thing. It always seemed like a good option to me, but I guess it wasn't until S5 really kicked into gear that it started seeming to me like the only option. I wish I could pinpoint the exact moment I made the mental shift. It may have just been the result of a lot of small things that built—or Zachariah & Co. being such utter tools in 4x22 took a while to sink in.
The End made this even more difficult than it already was because it seems clear that if Castiel stays on earth after the other angels return to heaven, he won't even have the option of holding on to his angel mojo.
That's a really good point and it may also be a contributing factor. I want Cas with Dean, on Earth, so even canon is making a fall seem inevitable in that respect.
I was thinking, it would be interesting to challenge myself/others to write a more inhuman/angelic Cas, and make the relationship work that way; I feel like I was going for something like that in "Faraway, So Close," but that was my first real fic in this fandom and I haven't attempted/wanted to attempt anything all that like it since. Maybe it's partially that Castiel just doesn't seem that inhuman to me—I mean, he's delightfully odd, and his perspective on things is unusual, and I hope those things will always be true. But on the show, anyway (and this may be in some respects the limits of the medium) he still feels more human than not. I don't know. It would be an interesting challenge, anyway!
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Date: 2010-02-03 07:50 am (UTC)Red tape is definitely not fun to read/write about. (Unless Connie Willis is involved, and then only sometimes. I bet she'd write awesome Dean/Cas fic though.) If someone ever manages to write an interesting/exciting 'restructuring Heaven' story, I will be very impressed.
I'm surprised that much/part of fandom thinks of falling as a bad or mostly-bad thing. It always seemed like a good option to me, but I guess it wasn't until S5 really kicked into gear that it started seeming to me like the only option. I wish I could pinpoint the exact moment I made the mental shift. It may have just been the result of a lot of small things that built—or Zachariah & Co. being such utter tools in 4x22 took a while to sink in.
The End made this even more difficult than it already was because it seems clear that if Castiel stays on earth after the other angels return to heaven, he won't even have the option of holding on to his angel mojo.
That's a really good point and it may also be a contributing factor. I want Cas with Dean, on Earth, so even canon is making a fall seem inevitable in that respect.
I was thinking, it would be interesting to challenge myself/others to write a more inhuman/angelic Cas, and make the relationship work that way; I feel like I was going for something like that in "Faraway, So Close," but that was my first real fic in this fandom and I haven't attempted/wanted to attempt anything all that like it since. Maybe it's partially that Castiel just doesn't seem that inhuman to me—I mean, he's delightfully odd, and his perspective on things is unusual, and I hope those things will always be true. But on the show, anyway (and this may be in some respects the limits of the medium) he still feels more human than not. I don't know. It would be an interesting challenge, anyway!