Le vent se lève, il faut tenter de vivre

*Dean working on the impala, Cas sitting closely and watching*

Cas: How did you learn to fix engines?

Dean: Oh, my dad taught be the basics but it was Bobby who really showed me the ropes. It’s easy once you get the hang of it. Hey, you wanna try?

Cas: Try what?

Dean: Well she’s due some fresh tyres. I could show you how to change ‘em?

Cas: *blushing madly* You- you want to teach me a skill of your lineage?

Dean: …weird fucking way of putting it, but yeah pretty much.

Cas: :0

*Dean and Cas outside a bar at 2am leaning on the impala, Dean a little tipsy*

Dean: hey look! You can see the stars out here!

Cas: Oh, yes, they’re one of my favourite angelic creations.

Dean: You know when you properly ‘died’ for the first time I saw the North Star that night and named it Cas then when I missed you I could go out and pray to the star as if you were listening.

Cas: Dean, are you saying you- Dean did you worship me as a false idol?!

Dean: Huh, yeah technically I guess I did.

Cas: : O

*Sam Dean and almost human Cas having a movie night, Dean making them watch Dogma to critique the angel lore*

Sam: Okay, I’m turning in.

Cas: The film isn’t over for another twenty seven minutes Sam.

Sam: Don’t care, too tired.

Dean: Cas it’s okay, let him leave. Although you look tired too buddy, you wanna call it?

Cas: I’m fine. I want to see the end of the story, if I am asleep at the end you may wake me and tell me to move.

Dean: Or maybe I’ll just be the one watching over you for once.

Cas: Why would you do that? I am not your charge Dean, it is not your responsibility to-

Dean: Dude I wasn’t saying that out of responsibility, I’m happy to make sure you’re safe just whenever.

Cas: *teary eyed* You… are offering me safe rest, freely and without expectation??

Dean: *so confused* Yup, again gotta work on your phrasing but still. Yes.

Cas: I love you too.

Dean: *stunned but secretly overjoyed* Not the way I thought that would happen but alright then. I love you Cas.

And then 9 years later the same robbie thompson and jensen ackles executive produced an episode in the prequel they developed that repeated thee same speech almost line for line but this time with mary and john instead of dean and cas

And then the next episode involved mary and john getting trapped in a room and they were both gonna die and this was the absolute last chance they have to confess their feelings for each other so they smooched, directed by richard speight jr who very coincidentally directed a rather similar scene like a year and a half earlier but with dean and cas

And Dean now sees Cas in Jack

Oops

None of this cheerleader stuff for soccer, oh no sireee, I mean, no disrespect to cheerleaders who put a LOT of work and effort into their performances, but somehow "Rah-Rah! We're the best" from peppily gymnastic young things can't quite match the sheer power of entire stadiums of grown up fans yelling at the top of their lungs things like....

It's unclear if this one originated with the English of Scottish games (spelling of "old" as "auld" notwithstanding), but either way, well done.

And it's striking home too! :D

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

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