I'm remembering one of those "Dean meets Jess" fics where Jess serves him salmon, and it's not only the first time he's had it, he's kinda confused by it, and it made me feel defensive. It's just a kind of fish. It's not a weird kind of fish, is it? I mean, it's prettily coloured, but it's not weird in form or flavour. Of course, there was the moment when Sam remembered when Jess had first served him salmon, and then Jess wondering what was up with these boys and the salmon ignorance...

I call BS on this, because my childhood memories from the semi-rural South involve salmon from a can being used to make croquettes, and I can easily see John giving the kids a can of that and a can of some Green Giant vegetable and calling it a meal. The stuff's about as exotic as tuna, though I suppose I could see both Dean and Sam being surprised upon first encountering them in sushi form.

I'll just have to yell louder, then. And cite harder.

I do admit, one of the angles I like the outsider POV for is to show how different the boys are, but the principle that they grew up eating out of just one can and only motel rooms with no kitchens...no. I don't honestly think it was that bad. Periods with houses, John in the kitchen (he's canonically bad with...is it gadgets in general, or just kitchen gadgets?), maybe a little, Dean in the kitchen more, and takeout and delivery.

Dean doesn't have to be a gourmet chef (though some of that is cute), but he can keep a growing pair of kids and a hungry hunter fed and watered just fine.

Basically, I don't think he learnt to scramble eggs in his year with the Braedens.

I can see John slapping some frozen hamburger patties in a pan and making them, but croquettes of any kind is a stretch for me.

I think Dean knew how to scramble eggs long before the year with Lisa and Ben, too. I bet Dean could feed them all just fine when he walked in the door, even if not necessarily strictly healthy meals.

The vegetable thing is one of my little happy places, weirdly. I can't see John or Dean bothering with them, even canned, but Sam wanted normal *so much* that I can see him digging into the sweet potatoes and the green beans at that Thanksgiving dinner with his little girlfriend really happily.

See also: A Very Supernatural Christmas. When Dean throws the Funions at him and makes the crack about not forgetting his vegetables, I totally spun that into little Sam being very earnest about how they should be eating greens, and John and Dean sort of sighing and opening a can of vegetables once in a while. And I can see Sam clinging to it: normal people eat healthy food and take care of themselves, thus the salad eating even now, and the running, etc.

This is what I do in my spare time. Sigh.

I imagine Dean and I to be in similar places wrt veggies. They can be great accessories, but there's no point paying too much attention to them, because they're never the point. However, sometimes, because *people* *nag* they get served. And maybe even sometimes we enjoy them, but we'd never say so out loud.

Yes, me and Dean, DESTINY I TELL YOU.

I would guess Dean's favorite "vegetable" is the potato (fried, mashed, hashed, whatever), but I can see him loving corn on the cob in the summer. Which is also not really a vegetable as much as a starch, but still.

I want to figure out what Sam's guilty pleasure food is. Like, fried Twinkies or something, which he'd never admit to or eat in front of Dean EVER, but he dreams about them sometimes.

Hamburger garnishes also have their places, and whatever goes into relish. Also onion rings (here we'd have to part company).

Ah, Sam, there's so much I want to know about you. You too, Dean, but really...Sam. Part of the huge gut punch of Swan Song was the added intimacy of finding out some of the things they did between cases. Ball games! Concerts! Stargazing! Boys!

::sigh::

Ball games! Concerts! Stargazing!

YES! I get why we don't have episodes that are strictly, "Let's watch Sam and Dean hang out and have fun!", but I do love knowing that there is more to their existence than a laptop and pay-per-view porn and magic fingers.

Also, onion rings are delicious, stop that now.

I can see John slapping some frozen hamburger patties in a pan and making them, but croquettes of any kind is a stretch for me.

Oh, I didn't mean I see John going to that much trouble cooking. I just think it was cheap and readily available fish in spoilage-resistant packaging that you could eat right out of the can like corned beef, so they probably did. I don't imagine he did more than brown it in a skillet like hash.

OMG, I just totally read the latest Twilight movie (well, the consummation scene, anyway) in D/C, pretty much.

The start of the story was really overwrought--I only kept reading to see if a) there was a spell and b) if this was the sort of author that wrote porn. Yeah, they write porn. The sort of porn where at the very least both of Dean's wrists are broken, and he's totally down with it. At least Cas isn't, so one of them has some sense.

But there's no spell. Dean totally has these sorts of thoughts all by himself:

Dean's breath caught in his throat as he envisioned Castiel's full-fledged smile: eyes crinkled at the corners, white teeth flashing and then – oh, God! – if Dean was lucky, dimples, honest to god dimples, would appear!

Guh... Dean thought, trying not to drool at the vivid memory. Who knew ol' poker face had it in him?

I'm trying to work out if there can be a verbal version of cafe de labeill...I mean, it's so much easier to look at a well crafted piece of OOC saccharine than it is to read one (not that this is--the writing is horribly purple). I guess OOC isn't the same sort of crime in art--not even not getting the resemblance is the same, if you hit the right sort of notes that she does--it's not like she's usually drawing Jensen, after all.

I dunno.

People weird.

Problem is, I want to know how Sam feels about Dean breaking his arms during sex, and to find out, I have to tune in for a future chapter.

Rewatched I Know What You Did Last Summer thru After School Special with bon last night. I need to check my files to see how high I rated Family Remains, but I suspect it was too high. Do not like. Feral children with excellent penmanship living in the walls? I dunno...

Dean and Sam were pretty useless too. I do expect there to be casualties, but Dean came off pretty inept here, and pretty simply lost someone on his watch, while he was being wrong about just about everything. Sam didn't do anything much wrong, but he also didn't do anything much.

Checking my notes, this is the one where Dean owns up about liking torture, so I guess it's not to be missed, but there aren't really any other great brotherly notes or continuity bits in it.

And I think I'm making some peace with Dean yelling like an idiot at the end of After School Special. I guess he was normally popular in high school and Sam wasn't? That was the role reversal? He just didn't feel like John's son much there...but I guess asking an 18 year old boy to be that in the face of hormones and peer pressure is a bit much.

Ah, well.