#caslighting

Hi! A little intro. My name is Zaquira and you can call me Z. I use they/them pronouns, 27 years and neurodivergent.

Here's my first ever post on here. I made my first CAS lighting mod. It's more on the purplish side.

Below are samples. Just normal EA CAS Lighting

Vespertine lighting

Vespertine with reshade: here's the preset I'm using - Minty Fresh

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‼️You can only use one lighting mod at a time.

download links: sfs / patreon

Project CAS Light

These are the results of my little foray into CAS lighting... You don't wanna know how many hours I spent staring at a loading screen to test these fuckers lmao.. but! It's pretty fun, I'll probably make more at some point.

4 CAS light variations: nightgaze, slush puppie, pennyroyal tea, putricide

use ONE at a time

download: patreon; free | sfs

It's about queer narratives being the only ones writers and studios deny are clearly written into the text. It's about needing to deny what your story is about to get it made. It's about saying it's "up for interpretation" being progress after years of dodging, denial, and derision of fan readings.

CAS Lighting - Spotlight & Daylight variants

Sharing 3 more variants for the CAS Lighting.

"Spotlight” is similar to my CAS lighting “Golden Light”, but smoother and with a more subtle glow. The “Daylight” variants are basically my “Torchlight” turned around in a way that it appears like the light is coming from the sun.

CAS Lighting “SPOTLIGHT”

CAS Lighting “DAYLIGHT A”

CAS Lighting “DAYLIGHT B”

Download: SFS folder

🔔 Only use one CAS Lighting at a time!

Refusing to entertain a romantic pairing possibility on a show because it's not straight is already not acceptable, but it was the norm at creation con before this.

Now, however, it is an explicit canonical part of the story. of the plot of the show. and the policies have not changed.

CAS Lighting - City Light 🌃 , Neutral Light 🏠 & Torch Light Variants 👻

With Halloween around the corner I wanted to try & create an eerie kind of CAS Lighting. 

Made a set of 4 new CAS Lighting mods: 

CAS Lighting “CITYLIGHT” (angled light with a red & blue glow)

CAS Lighting “CITYLIGHT - TORCHLIGHT” (torchlike effect)

CAS Lighting “NEUTRAL LIGHT” (angled neutral light)

CAS Lighting “NEUTRAL LIGHT - TORCHLIGHT” (torchlike effect)

Download: SFS folder

🔔 Only use one CAS Lighting at a time!

Other Lighting mods:

CAS Lighting “Golden Light”

CAS Lightings “Spotlight” & “Daylight”

Luumias CAS Lighting mods: HERE and HERE

In-Game Sim-Lightings

@maxismatchccworld

@dubiousculturalartifact was a hero for 1) noticing the ships the restaurant is decorated with during The Things We Left Behind, 2) finding the restaurant, & 3) confirming that the ships were added to the decor for the shot.

It reminds me of a possible ship audio easter egg I found in my rewatch of Mother's Little Helper, Misha's directorial debut, 9x17 where the TV plays an informercial about a product to cure the 'chipping yips' (x)

So in season 10, a season after the 'jilted lover' direction from Carver, the nightstands, the 'Who Do You Love?' amv road so far setting up a triangle with drowley and destiel, the deleted pine triangle motel scene, the heaven full of half naked Deans, and the brokeback jacket hug cut away, we got what fans refer to as the destiel date & the bisexual shirt, with intentionally placed ships that are not in the shot when Cas is shown with Claire.

This gets followed by the deleted 'maybe he's your boyfriend', the deleted second drowley proposal with a side of bi panic, the freaking Collette parallel, and for whatever reason these ships are now haunting my mind. Ever since I saw their post my thoughts keep bringing me back to what Misha said last month at galaxycon:

"I think that him making that declaration of love... I cared about that. I thought it was important, I kinda fought for it. and ya know five years prior would've said, 'There is no fucking way they will let us do that.' "

Original Tweet (x) | Original Post on Ships (x) Misha cameo gif (x) from this creation con video (x)

Happy Pride Everyone. You weren't crazy.

Thinking about how he said the fact that Castiel’s Declaration of Love at the end of Supernatural gave queer and trans fan some validation was super important to him. "made my arc on the show feel relevant and worthwhile."

Thinking about how other people might have said representation. How articles talking about Destiel paid lip service to how important queer or bisexual representation on television is, but how that's not what he said.

How on any other show it would be merely about the fact that the character exists, but on this show the characters have always existed, basically always been queer, but the fans who saw that had been invalidated by the network and creators.

Thinking about the fact that he didn't say Cas's arc, how he said "my arc." and now I'm thinking I'm feeling things about this