castiel and gabriel, once both happily settled into the bedrooms of their respective winchesters, frequently get into arguments over whose winchester is better.
however, one day this argument takes an unexpected turn
cas is talking about how dean always makes sure the room is clean and nice for him, when he pauses and then says “…actually, dean does spend a LOT of his time cleaning. in fact he vacuums very loudly, sometimes when I am trying to sleep. it’s distracting.”
and gabe just goes, “RIGHT?! and sam always tells me he’s going to take a quick five minute shower, but then leaves me waiting for ages while he spends an hour washing his hair!”
and all of a sudden their fight over whose winchester is better becomes a massive millennia old angel bitchfest about whose winchester is WORSE
“dean always chews with his mouth open and talks while halfway through eating. it’s very unappetizing.”
“sam prefaces every sentence with ‘according to the lore’, even during sex! that’s not hot at all!”
I had to read Cod my freshman year of High School and my brain nearly leaked out of my ears to escape. So. Dry.
^^I can’t tell if that’s a pun re: salted cod or not.
But also too mark kurlansky starts out super cool and then it’s like GOD I’M RUNNING THROUGH MUD MUST FINISH TO SPITE EVERYBODy
100% a pun XD
Yeah I mean as I recall some of it wasn’t TERRIBLE but eventually I was like “I get it, I get why I should care, but I’m not going into environmental policy I’m sorry about your fish and their impact”
I’m going to recommend Scurvy by Stephen R. Brown because it will fuck your shit up
THANK YOU JESUS AND ALSO JEREMIAGOESWHOA FOR FINDING THIS POST FOR ME
I dunno if The Ghost Map counts for this but that history of cholera is amazingly done.
I’d recommend The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby. And I’d second the above recommendation for The Ghost Map.
