- Charlie’s real name is Celeste.

- Crowley was abandoned by Rowena at 8 years old.

- Bobby killed his abusive father at the age of 7 years old to protect his mother.

- Castiel was rebelling against heaven long before he met Dean, but doesn’t remember due to Naomi’s angel lobotomies.

- Naomi and Crowley had a fling in Mesopotamia.

- Crowley can understand Enochian.

- Jack could have remained a baby if not for the dangerous environment he was born in causing him to adapt for safety purposes.

- Crowley can juggle.

- Dean was handling firearms at the age of 4 years old, and was a more skilled marksman than John.

- Charlie, Claire, and Dean were all considered ‘problem children’ growing up.

- Castiel inherited his role as garrison commander due to Anna’s rebellion and fall to humanity, replacing her position.

- Crowley was an abusive drunk to his son Gavin.

- Bela Talbot’s real name was Abbie.

- Bela made the crossroads deal to kill her parents due to their abuse, in which SA from her father was also implied.

- Crowley owns the moon.

That’s all for now, but I’ll probably post more of these in the future just for the shits and giggles ^^

(excuse the lack of images... I'm having a really hard time finding pictures of Cas in the backseat of the impala through google since I wasn't about to watch 267 episodes just for that ahaha *cries*)

Even in 9x10, when Dean tells Cas to sit in the back with Crowley, Cas specifically tells Crowley (who had sat diagonally from Dean) to move over because he's, quote, "on my side."

So I'm guessing that this means that Cas has a side whenever he isn't sitting shotgun and that that side is right behind Sam.

My explanation for this is that that particular seat gives Cas the best view of Dean's face while talking to him (or not... it's good for just staring too) and vice versa. Dean can also turn his head back a little and see him/talk to him much easier than if Cas sat behind Dean.

We see what Dean had, what he remembers and what he lost.

But we also see what Sam never got, and why he never really understood Dean and John's bond. Because Sam never did get to "toss around a football", and he never knew what it was like to have a dad that would do that.

It's a devastatingly small thing, and it makes such a difference in how Sam and Dean view family. Cause Dean knows what its like to have that life, and he fights for it. Sam has only ever had the dad that's a soldier.

by nature, it’s incredibly predatory and we see explicitly with jimmy that castiel essentially groomed him into saying yes. obviously by picking someone already devout, proving his existence by healing him when he puts his hand in boiling water, being told he’s needed and special, but he also promises he will protect his family - a promise at best he never intended to keep or one he finds a loop hole in by assuming if the world is saved from lucifer then jimmy’s family, by default, is safe. but he never explains possession to him in simple terms; he never says what it will feel like, how long it will last, what it means for jimmy to say no or if he’s ever freed from his possession

jimmy, by definition, cannot give informed consent because he is never informed. he’s never asked in a bubble where there is no consequence from his no; it’s either jimmy says yes or the world will fall into an apocalypse, say yes or doom the world, say yes and save everyone you know and love, save your daughter

jimmy is conscious enough to feel like he’s been “chained to a comet” and to know he’s been dragged all over the earth and healed over and over. he felt bodily sensations and either couldn’t think past the physical pain to be aware of what’s happening outside of his body beyond that or was mentally suppressed by castiel but not put to sleep. jimmy’s hunger bleeds into castiel when he’s in proximity to famine so he isn’t comatose or frozen; he is starving. he is aware. he is suffering

how many vessels do angels go through, not because they burn out from contact with angelic grace, but because angels don’t care enough to look after their human needs? do they age while possessed? could jimmy have been trapped in this eternal purgatory of hunger and pain until the day castiel decides he’s done with him? a day that may never come since castiel seems to view switching vessels with the kind of annoyance one would have with having to buy a new car

jimmy is never told that even if it is over, he and his family will never be safe because demons will always want an ex-vessel; just to torture for fun even if he doesn’t have any knowledge of heaven. he and his family are never safe again from the second he says yes- breaking castiel’s promise

and when he is injured outside of castiel’s influence? when he’s dying of his own accord? even when it was indirectly caused by castiel himself? instead of healing him like he easily could and has? he decides to keep possession of his 12 yr old daughter and let him die. the 12 yr old who likely only said yes because he told her he could protect her and her family

all of that pain, all of that agony, the kind of experience that leaves a scar on your soul; and castiel didn’t think twice about inflicting it on a child without explaining any of it to her. and this is when he’s at his most loyal, inferring every angel is like this. how many angels are on earth at any given time? how many take their vessels back to heaven? how many hundreds of people are screaming inside their own heads, feeling like they’ve been chained to a comet, just to be told they consented to it? they asked for it?

what if someone said a verbal yes but internally didn’t want it to happen? is the verbal consent enough to override how much they don’t want it? even sam saying yes to lucifer in s5, is his desire to complete the plan and save the world enough to outweigh how much his body and mind must have been screaming that he didn’t want this? castiel, micheal, lucifer; they all use the person they want to possess’s family against them. they will keep them safe. they will save them. they will avenge them. faced with that choice, with the power and might of an angel asking you for something they’re telling you only you can give them, how could anyone say no?

cas has no idea what his words mean. he was not there with cain in 9x11 when he told dean the story of his wife. only crowley was there, and it's not like he's going to share any of this information with cas. so when cas asks dean to stop, he's not saying it in the hopes that dean will remember what cain said and be moved by that. he's only asking, in the most heartbreakingly gentle voice, for dean to stop. to walk away from this path that will lead him into darkness. and the only reason he's saying it is out of his love for dean.

but DEAN. dean knows the story behind that word. he knows that "stop" was what cain's wife, who loved him unconditionally, who forgave him, said in an attempt to save him. to dean, this would sound like an expression of love.

i think this is why dean walks back toward cas and hurts him so much more violently than he did the first time and then tries to kill him. because he understood cas' words through the lens of unconditional love and devotion. and maybe he realised that he also loved cas enough that he would stop if cas asked him. and the mark couldn't allow that - the mark was driving dean to kill anything that stood in his way, and while it didn't interpret cas, an angelic warrior, as a threat, a loving, forgiving cas brokenly asking dean to stop - that was a threat.

look at dean's reaction here. he was on the verge of leaving, he was walking away because he didn't think cas could physically do anything to stop him. but when cas simply asks him to stop, he turns back. he realises that, if cas begged him, then he would stop, that the part of him still clinging to humanity loves cas enough to do that. and that love frightens the part of him that has been taken over by the mark. so the only solution is to kill cas, to remove someone who could actually stand in his way.

and during this second beating, the most gentle of supernatural's themes, the jay gruska dean's family dedication theme, is playing in the background - it starts right after cas asks dean to stop. the theme that specifically reveals dean's gentler, loving inner self - that's the theme they chose to play while he's trying to kill cas.

but of course, in the end, despite what the mark wants, despite it seeing cas and his love for dean, as a threat, it still cannot make dean kill cas.

PSA to younger Supernatural fans: the trenchcoat isn't ill-fitting, it's supposed to fit loose like that because it's an overcoat. It needs to be big to go over jackets or even another coat, to protect from wind and rain. Historically, it progressively lost its function as it became just a coat, as seen in Castiel's lite trenchcoat in season 10-12, and then his new one in s13-15 which almost looks like the original, but fits much more like a coat than an overcoat so it would fit the aesthetic on the late 2010s (stiffer fabric, closer fit in the shoulders and sleeves)

Compare Cas' of coat with Mulder and Scully's trenchcoat in the X-Files, or Humprey Bogart's trenchcoat in Casablanca, for example, and his direct inspiration, John Constantine's trenchcoat. They're all very similar to Cas' first coat, big and drapey. You can see in the later iteration of Constantine's coat in the 2014 series that it became tight around the arms and shoulders to follow trends. Here is the wiki for Castiel's coat, with details on screen versions and costuming.