so a theory is that haters are reporting popular (or infamous?) destiel shippers’ blog posts so that would explain why my reblogs got flagged but not @intelligentshipper’s. what DOESNT make sense tho is why they also then wouldn’t report her original post because they are also a thorn in the antis’ sides
While Cas hasn’t been around that much so far this season, I’ve noticed any time he is, that he comes and goes in the bunker without it being any kind of big deal. There’s no Event to Cas showing up.
It’s a safe assumption that Cas is around a whole lot more than we’re shown on screen. Yes I know, SPN needs to actually show it. But people are quick to slap the label on this that “Cas isn’t there” but he is. The bunker is now his stable point home base. He comes and goes. How many times do Dean and Cas sit down in that kitchen and it’s no big deal, or Dean goes to the bunker library and Cas is just…there…looking at some book. We know for sure Dean and Cas have conversations we don’t get to see because at some point, Cas told him about evil Cas from the AU because Dean knows about it. There are other examples.
We do need to get to see far more of that on screen. But in the build of Cas’s life right now, there has been a whole slow arcing over time about Cas in relation to the bunker, from the first awkward visits, to it being a space Cas only went to in a time of dire need of shelter, to Cas referring to it as “home” to the current era thing which started in early S12 where nobody is at all surprised that Cas is there.
The fact that no one wrote what Cas was doing when Jack returned to the bunker and Cas didn’t, after Cas and Jack had been on a hunting trip together, but there is no mystery where Cas is. Team Free Will are in constant contact this season. So Cas just comes back to the bunker as he pleases, checks in, goes to do whatever thing he feels that needs doing.
I don’t think Cas is missing in Dean’s life, as part of his home, we just aren’t seeing their interactions and I don’t think, even off-screen, they’ve had any heartfelt discussions they need to have.
But to dismiss this as just “Cas isn’t there” is overlooking how this is being presented and filmed and written by canon. Not everything has to be bludgeoned over viewers heads, there is such a thing as context and inference.
We know for certain Cas has the bunker as his home base and is there frequently. There is zero ambiguity about that from canon.
I’m going to raise another point here while in complete agreement.
I’m curious.
Where do people think Cas stays if NOT in the bunker?
He can’t go back to heaven (yet; there’s always a plot hook about that but in general, it’s very clearly not his base of operations.)
Do they think he just stands under a street light “wait(ing) here” then?
Even during times Sam and Dean were gone, such as the season 12 imprisonment incident, Cas was there. The bunker was the safe space to act and think, but without them, without any hint of where to find them, it was painted grim, dark, and lonely. Cas sat alone as a low, fading beacon of hope, face in his hands in frustration and I may argue near-tears, because the bunker did not have the life it needed as a HOME without them.
The bunker is absolutely Cas’ place to go back to. He just has other benefits, like not needing sleep or food so he comes and goes for longer periods and takes up more things outside the doors. On occasion we get a glimpse of what those are. Tada.
This exactly. Do people think Cas just goes into an interdimensional fold with his downtime? When we keep seeing him around the bunker on a casual basis? He knows where they keep stuff. I’ve also noticed a lot of Cas bunker scenes have been in the kitchen. It’s his safe haven now, his home, someplace he touchstones before wandering off again, as he does, because that’s still a component of the character (for contractual reasons that the writers have worked in as an arc).
SPN has given reasons for Cas’s disappearances where he simply can’t get back to the bunker. S13 locked him in a demon dungeon cell. But short of something that dire, it’s being made abundantly clear by canon the bunker is his home base and Sam and Dean just assume it will be.
This isn’t hand-waving or headcanon. This is what’s being shown to us on screen. Inference based on things canon has plainly shown is canon. It’s not not-canon. It’s season 14 and the bunker is Cas’s home and he hasn’t run off or vanished or abandoned or not been there for anybody. (He may wind up separated from his TFW family this season but as of now…no).
The kitchen is absolutely Cas’s safe space. That’s where he retreated to when he was possessed by Lucifer, after all. I think the kitchen means home and family to him. It’s where the more intimate conversation happen in the bunker. The War Room is for strategizing, the Library for research but the kitchen is where they talk about themselves. If the bunker were a person, the kitchen would be its heart.
13 years ago today, Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial starring Beyoncé, BritneySpears, Pink & Enrique Iglesias was premiered. #PepsiGladiators
Damn these were simpler times
so lemme break this down
-lord caesar iglesias, who does not sing in this musical commercial, has captured britney spears, pink, and beyonce to battle it out gladiator style -our trio decides instead of fighting, they will instead rock so hard that the audience forgets about their battle to the death -their musical prowess is so damn powerful they rock the foundation of the earth and overthrow caesar iglesias along with his stash of ancient roman pepsi -beyonce, britney spears, and pink drink pepsi while the audience cheers -enrique iglesias is eaten by a lion
To really appreciate the significance of this commercial, it’s important to understand the cultural context surrounding it.
OK, so to some extent musicans have always been treated like competitors in modern culture (and perhaps to some extent they are) but this was especially pronounced in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
It seemed like everyone had an opinion about whether Backstreet Boys or N’Sync was better, and for female pop singers, it was even more ridiculous. And it was all pushed HARD by entertainment news and media.
I first became aware of this as a young teenager when Christina Aguilera released her first hit single. You have to understand that just months before that, Brittany Spears had hit the Top 40 scene BIG. Nobody could even handle this young singer with her hypnotic voice, clean choreography, masterfully engineered and modern-sounding instrumentals, and flawless skin.
And then some OTHER singer with blonde hair has the nerve to think she can ALSO make pop music?! Obviously these two must be the bitterest of rivals!! (Ignoring the fact that it was the same people writing the music, and the two already knew each other from their days on the New Mickey Mouse Club.)
Magazines, radio shows, and television entertainment “news” all served up this narrative and ate it up like it was an all-you-can-eat-everyday buffet. And it extended beyond Brittany and Christina to practically any female pop “queen.” Because after all, there can only be ONE queen, right? RIGHT?!
OK, so now imagine this scenario where you’ve got an American audience who, for years now, has been fed the line that these singers are all bitter rivals. They just all HATE each other, y’all! In fact, if given the opportunity, they’d probably kill each other to finally get rid of the competition.
And then this commercial comes out, and we see the three most popular and polarizing female pop singers of the day, DRESSED IN ACTUAL(totally unrealistic, impractical, and unhelpful) GLADIATOR GEAR, ARMED AND READY TO FINALLY BATTLE IT OUT ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
…And of course they don’t. Because they were never each other’s enemies in the first place. It was the people pulling the strings who were driving that narrative and baying for blood. The singers just wanted to make awesome music, and most of the audience just wanted to listen to awesome music.
So Pepsi basically pays for this huge cinematic allegory music video that basically calls out the entertainment news industry for its crappy treatment of these women, and a lot of people GET IT! There’s this huge positive reaction to the video, not just because the music is great, but because it resonated with so many people who wanted to shout, “YEAH! WE’RE TIRED OF ALL THIS CRAP TOO!”
Now, did the people at Pepsi know that’s the message they were sending when they created this commercial? I honestly have no idea. But I have to believe the singers all knew exactly what they were doing, because you can see it in the smiles on their faces.
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