aesc: (dean and cas)
aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2009-07-21 06:57 pm

.art: Religo (Dean/Castiel)

Religo (Bind) (Dean/Castiel) Rish, dark side
For the "bondage (held down)" prompt on my kink_bingo card. This is possibly not very kinky, depending on your interpretation, but the R is there for some hinted violence, although in my head everything is consensual... just kind of messed up.







text:
"Me subliga ut videam, me religa si currendum me obsidet": "Hold me up, so I can see; hold me back, if I want to run" (loosely). Translation of some Dave Matthews lyrics.

"Totum tibi subdo me": "I give myself to you wholly." From an anonymous Latin poem, probably famous for being one of the pieces in the Carmina Burana oratorio by Carl Orff.

I got to thinking about this piece because one of the running tropes in the newly-developing SPN angelology is that angels, particularly angels like Castiel (maybe less so for Zachariah and the manipulative higher-ups), require a focus for their loyalty and belief. At least, Castiel seems to. That need to have something--someone--to follow and obey, and to be bound to, is what's at play here.

.sources: Caps by oxoniensis and shea. Textures and brushes by elli, dearest, newkidfan, kiho_chan, and me.


.in other news: Meh, I have jury duty next week. My plan to get out of being selected for an actual jury involves suggesting to the prosecuting and defending attorneys that trial by ordeal, involving the accused reaching into a boiling vat of water to retrieve a burning-hot iron rod and then waiting to see if the resulting burn will fester, is a preferable form of jurisprudence. Trial by combat would also be more entertaining, especially if it involved an obstacle course. I'll let you know how that goes.

Also, I'm now officially tired of summer. I want it to be fall so I can be on fellowship and have more money, and so I can have new episodes of SPN and Bones. Of course, once fall comes I have to start postdoc applications and job applications and do not want. Damn it.