Dean walks into the kitchen one morning to find Cas making breakfast for himself. He’s spooning honey onto buttered toast and there’s a crease between his eyebrows and his hair is all pushed to one side. It’s so classically domestic, typical almost, but this is so atypical for Dean that all he can do is stare. He stares at Cas with his mouth hanging open.

“Better close that before you catch flies,” Cas says, looking up. He smiles a little and holds up the honey. “Or perhaps bees.”

Holy shit, Dean thinks. This is ridiculous. This can’t be his life.

“If I’d known you were up, I would have made you breakfast,” Cas says. He kisses Dean on the cheek as he passes by, hitching onto his tiptoes to reach. Dean can’t move, can’t respond.

This is it. Jesus Christ on a unicycle, this is it. All the planets must be aligned, or the stars, or something, he doesn’t remember how the saying goes. It can’t be the stars, anyway, because one of the stars is here, in his kitchen, eating toast with honey and butter. Cas is a star harnessed by human bones, tethered to this room, this home. Tethered by Dean.

What the fuck?

So Dean’s standing there in the kitchen thinking he must have hit his head or something. Dean doesn’t do domestic. That’s not– that’s not in his programming. But then, it probably wasn’t in Cas’s either, and here they are.

The planets must be aligned. Thousands of years of cogs and machines, angels and demons and heavenly plans, people living and dying and living and dying, and here they are. Dean’s standing in the kitchen thinking that he is in love.

Cas finishes his toast, brushes crumbs off his fingertips, and scrapes the chair back to stand. “Dean? Are you all right?”

“Yeah,” Dean says, “yeah, I’m good.”

“You’ve got something on your mind.”

“I,” Dean says, and stops. He cannot explain to Cas what he is feeling. All of the things that have happened, all of the things that will happen, and this is the most important. Dean, standing in the kitchen; Cas, taking his hand.

“Dean, what’s wrong?”

He cannot explain to Cas what he is feeling, but he tries. “I love you,” he says.

“Oh,” Cas says, smiling, “that’s all?”

“Yeah.” Dean kisses him, tasting the honey and butter on his lips. “That’s all.”

Some things we learn from experience.

We’re ending our anniversary week(ish) with a list of personal favorites by mod! The first two mods did this last year and have listed favorites from this past year. The third mod joined the team this past January. So their list is a mix of current and all time favorites.

Charlene

Rasma

Kyrie

Banner courtesy of Fea and Katie

ETA: This was from our second Anniversary in 2014.

dean and cas in season 10

What does it mean when you feel all these things? It means you love him.

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Some thoughts...

All taylorswift did today was let her white privilege and white feminism show to the masses. Systematic oppression of black people, especially black women, is why Nicki will never be a cultural phenomenon in pop culture like Miley or Taylor because they are starting from two different levels. Nicki is starting 17 steps behind Miley (who has an industry parent), and 17 steps behind Taylor - who is America’s sweetheart just by being white and traditionally pretty - because she is a black woman.

Therefore, when Nicki does something in the industry, especially in the hip hop industry, she has to work twice as long, and twice as hard, to get half of what white artists are literally handed without trying. And even then, her allocades come with the * of “black artist”, and not just “artist”. So not only does Nicki have to survive in the entertainment as a woman, which is hard enough, she has to survive in this industry as a black woman. Black women are the literal bottom of the barrel in society due to the systematic oppression of gender and race.

So when Nicki is upset that her video, which broke records, and became a hit by media standards, doesn’t receive a nomination, as trivial as the VMAs may happen to be, she has every right as a hard working black woman to be upset that white women, doing the same thing, are getting recognition for their work. 

More often than not, those women, are copying/imitating things black women have been CONDEMNED for in the past. For instance: Miley twerks and it’s a new cultural phenomenon. A black woman has been twerking since God created Earth and being told that what we are doing is degrading/too sexual/too exotic/too black/too anything but right. 

Just like black women have bigger butts, lips, or finding new ways to do our hair (cornrows/weaves etc), we get stomped on for these features or techniques that get deemed ugly or ghetto, but the minute a white woman begins to do it, it’s “edgy” and new. 

So what I’m not going to stand by and let happen is more white people sit around and say, “Nicki didn’t deserve an award anyway bc a, b, c….” When Nicki likely WOULDN’T be nominated at all because those in power (usually white people), find any black person in a position of power/creativity/uniqueness , as a threat to the way they see the power balance of the world, and will consciously or unconsciously condemn the black person for that, and refuse to give praise or awards or whatever when it’s due.

Additionally, Taylor telling Nicki to come on stage with her if she wins is her shrugging off this systematic racism that benefits HER, and maintaining her position of power as a white person, and instead showing pity toward an oppressed person. It’s truly embarrassing. 

What about us, huh?

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