If it were me, it would of course be cake, but Stephen totally has my back there.

yeah, that's my issue. Anyone that I'm close to wouldn't be thinking broccoli, they'd be thinking bourbon.

Yeah. Absinthe, cupcakes, or berries. Broccoli, never.

I forget what you shopped for at the grocery store in that news story.

My sister, to her credit, would be thinking "Broccoli, ita, WTF?" Colin would never hear words describing vegetables from my brain, and my other best friend would be all "Remember the broccoli from second year?" and we'd never get around to shopping.

I think my mom would pass that test with me, but only because we think alike and she's forever offering me second helpings of brocolli. Whereas Dad could consider some randomly and she'd call from another room without looking, "You know you can't eat anything with vitamin K in it!"

I forget what you shopped for at the grocery store in that news story.

"Goths like asparagus".

OMG, so Dean is a bitchy little whiner that's obsessed with Sam and can't give a rat's ass about the angelic civil war.

I still don't think he needs to apologise to Cas. They're not like that. It's not like Cas apologised for beating the shit out of him.

t /frustrating discussion elsewhere

and can't give a rat's ass about the angelic civil war

I'm going to say it. Without some preordained vesseltude, what can Dean honestly bring to an angelic civil war?

I can see taking him to task for thinking his problems are bigger and Cas should drop everything.

But for not suiting up for a war in heaven?

He's a guy. Not a superpower on him. Beyond that steely gaze. But that only works on Cas, I think.

Please do not tell me where the frustrating discussion is, even if I ask in a few minutes. I am frustrated just thinking about Other People.

I like us. We're better for talkies.

Yeah, Dean's hyperfocused on Sam. And Dean and Sam gave up and sacrificed a lot at Heaven's behest, and were flung every which way by Heaven's denizens. And Dean was gunning for God in Swan Song. So no, I don't think Dean gives a rats ass about Heaven, when he's trying to undo the damage that Heaven's previous mess and damage caused to his brother.

That said, that's separate from him giving a rat's ass about what Cas is dealing with, on a personal level. I would like for him to understand where Cas is coming from*, like he finally got where Bobby was coming from in Weekend. But that's asking for a lot of objectivity. But the good stuff is where everyone's being a jackass to their friends and family and there's friction and strife amongst those we don't want it in, because we love them. And so our beloved boys are insensitive jerks to each other. But I'm expecting payoff and resolution. Not as in "I demand it", but feel that will be coming.

*and Dean's reaction to Cas' "of course, your problems come first" makes me think he does kind of get it, or at least is starting to.