✨️Shitpost-It Tristan✨️

Claire, who accidentally upset Castiel because she made the mistake of pointing out how Dean is technically attracted to Jimmy Novak (since its his vessel), except she's really not sorry.

and then there's Cas

Dean said this unprompted while he drove the Impala in the dead of the night. which, if you drive, you know it requires extra attention since you have to watch out for any wildlife jumping in front of the car - or, in their case, demons and ghosts and whatnot.

Cas pops into Scooby world and immediately examines his hands, turning them over. He makes the exact same gesture when he’s sucked back into our reality. It’s a lovely bit of character continuity, and unless it’s scripted that way, is an excellent touch by Misha. It harkens back to 4x20 when Castiel first took Jimmy as a vessel:

He does the same thing precisely two seasons later in 6x20 as everything was falling apart:

I’m sure there’s all kinds of hand meta out there, especially the handprint and hands on shoulders and whatnot. I don’t have anything particularly profound to offer, but wanted to point out these screenshots in case others have thoughts to add. 

I do think hands have been a prominent motif throughout supernatural, and we’ve been reminded of that recently with the shedim hand coming up from the earth much like Dean’s in Lazarus Rising.

For Cas specifically though, focusing on his hands seems to be a sort of grounding exercise when his reality or perceptions are altered. The gesture also speaks to his liminality. On the one hand (heh), hands connect him with humanity. With hands he can experience what he couldn’t as an angel: touch and sensation. He can feel and interact. But conversely, looking at his hands like that is surely a reminder of his otherness. Castiel’s hands are powerful: they heal and they smite.