#Ohio playlist

[victusinveritas]

[my-supernatural-rewatch]

Episode Five: Bloody Mary

Dean Winchester in the Supernatural episode Bloody Mary

Never one of my favorites but on this rewatch I realized it's actually pretty damn scary.

A child's game of Bloody Mary unleashes the vengeful spirit of a woman who travels through mirrors and seeks revenge on those with guilty secrets.

This one will probably not be that long either.

Right out the gate, we get concerned Dean who wants to talk about Sam and all the bad dreams he's having. Sam isn't very forthcoming. Big surprise.

I know we get a lot of "no chick flick moments" and all from Dean in the dialogue. But we also get Dean consistently saying to Sam basically "LET'S TALK ABOU THIS" so the narrative that Dean doens't like to talk about his or anyone else's feelings is already dispelled within the first five episodes of the first season yet it stuck to Dean for the entire series.

Make it make sense.

Right here is where I'm going to remind anyone who might come across this and decide to read it that I am not writing full synposes of the episodes so if you haven't actually seen the episodes there's a good chance you will be lost reading these posts if you're looking for any semblance of a plotline. This is definitely one of those posts that will completely confuse you if you don't know the episode. Sorry/not sorry.

I'm wondering if this is the only episode where we see the brothers bribe someone? It probalby isn't but at least it's the first. Sam bribes the coroner's assistant with money Dean won in a poker game.

Which gives us more of Sam trying to take the moral highground when Dean complains that it's HIS money by dismissing it becuase Dean won it playing poker. As if that isn't working for the money.

Christ, Sam.

Also on Sam: Yet another episode where he changes his voice when talking to the family of the victim so he sounds more sympathetic. How did ai never notice this before?

Cute brothers moment in the bathroom when they're both standing in front of the mirror talking about Bloody Mary and both refuse to say the words.

Okay, an important plot point: Bloody Mary only kills people with a terrible secret that they're absorbed with guilt over. Spoiler: Sam feels guility because he had dreams of Jessica on the ceiling burning for days before she died and he not only didn't warn her but he also took the fuck off with his brother to find their missing father who isn't really fucking missing. (Hey, does this mean we can pin Jessica's death on John?)

Another Dean myth dispelled in this episode is his intelligence. I mean they already pretty much have shown us Dean's no dunce, but in this ep he spends a LOT of time doing research, absorbing the material, and explaining things. And in one scene, he decides to do a national search for dead women fitting Bloody Mary's profile, against Sam's judgement...and THAT is how they figure out who she is.

Check out the big brain on Dean, motherfuckers!

They drive from Toledo, Ohio to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and back to interview someone, and my geography knowledge is so limited that I had to Google how long that would take. In one of what I would guess is one of their shorter trips, it's only about 3 hours round-trip. (THESE are the things I'm thinking about while watching the show?)

The name of this week's damsel in distress is...Charlie. I get there were over 300 episodes of this show but it drives me nuts how often they re-use names. (Amelia anyone?) Anyway...

Using his patented compassion and soft looks Dean's the one who gets Charlie to admit the thing she's guilty about (a troubled boyfriend who threatend to kill himself if she left him and then who DID kill himself after she responded "Go ahead").

In the Impala, the brothers are discussing how to call out the spirit and Sam says he has the guilt so he'll do the summoning. Dean has had enough of his emo, fatalistic bullshit so he stops the car and tells Sam to fess up his secret for fuck's sake.

Dean's concerns are that the spirit will kill Sam, and he reminds Sam that it isn't his fault that Jessica died. Someone should tell Dean we've decided it's John's fault because what does Dean say?

"Why don't you take a swing at ME? I'm the one who dragged you away from her in the first place."

Setting up a decades-long argument among SPN fans who think Sam made his own decision because he wanted to go back to hunting and those who blame Dean for goddamn everything.

To be fair to Sam, his response is, "I don't blame you."

Thanks for that, Sammy. (That's from me, not Dean.)

Dean really doesn't want Sam to call out the spirit but Sam is damned and determined to. It feels less like he's doing it to save poor first Charlie and more like he's doing it because he feels like he shoudl be punished for what he did (or really in this case didn't) do.

And thus begins the storyline of emo Sam feels guilty about everything that isn't his fault for the next two seasons culminating in Dean going to hell...

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Inside the antique shop where Mary's mirror is supposed to be, Sam is trying to call her out while Dean goes outside to talk to the cops who have shown up since someone is mucking about in the shop. When he can't convince the cops that he is the adopted son of Mr. Yamashiro, Dean knocks both cops out.

How often has Dean (or Sam) done this? I feel like not often.

We're also on a steady stream of slowly showing how well Dean can handle himself in a fight and I'm here for it.

Hey back to smart Dean (and skipping over pretty much the rest of the story): He breaks the first mirror that Mary appears in when she seems to have Sam in his trance and it gets Sam out of his trance, but it doesn't kill her. She shows up again and Dean...not Sam, Dean, gets the idea to hold another mirror up to her...and she kills herself when she looks in it.

Dean is a smarty. Stop telling me he isn't.

But not that smart...this time he only gets a handshake from the woman he saved...not even a kiss on the cheek. Oh well, Dean. Better luck next time.

We end the episode with Dean asking Sam what it is he feels guilty about...what his secret is, and Sam says this:

"Look...you're my brother and I'd die for you, but there are some things I need to keep to myself."

Two things: Sam telling Dean he'd die for him is kind of huge. Up until now, he's been acting like Dean is an inconvenience. So I loved hearing that. But, again, we get Sam not opening up to Dean about his secret...and yet fandom lore is that Dean is the one who always refuses to open up.

Some notes for posterity:

The significant music from this episode comes from Def Leppard -Rock of Ages (the first but not the last time we hear this one!), Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down, and The Rolling Stones - Laugh, I Nearly Died.

The brothers pose as medical students from Ohio State but don’t give out their names. When they introduce themselves to the first victim's family, they give their first names and say they worked with the victim. When Dean is talking with the police he tells them he's the adopted son of Mr. Yamashiro.

This hunt takes place in Toledo, Ohio, and they take a trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dean wears John’s jacket in this episode.

[ltlemon]

hi lemo i luv luv luv u lots How are you on dis day

LOVE YOU TOO !! and im actually really good, on a plane to massachusetts, sat in the window seat and all…suns really bright, and im looking at almost disturbingly perfect and even clouds.

[chemicalarospec]

listening to "Banks" by Lincoln for the first time in a loooong time bc it's on my old "Is it love? (of course it's not) (mostly)" playlist and christ there's a lot going on in it but one thing is. wow. this song is so gay sex

[ashleywool]

Hey friends! I have some downtime today so I thought it might be fun to share my "Jessica" playlist with all of you.

My brain has been curating themed playlists for just about everything since I was in elementary school--back when a "mixtape" was a literal cassette tape that featured songs scratchily copied-and-pasted from other sources (other tapes, CDs, the radio) and presented to your friends with handwritten notes in the inside sleeve. Some of my old homemade mixtapes and CDs are still among the most cherished albums in my collection. One that especially stands out in my mind was a party favor from my friend Ilana's bat mitzvah--a mix of Broadway show tunes that was responsible for introducing me to Rent. Ain't no party like a millennial theatre kid party.

I also have certain sets of songs that I associate very heavily with certain times of the year and can only listen to at that time of year under very specific circumstances. You know how it feels bizarre to play Christmas music when it isn't Christmas time? That's me with MOST music.

The dawn of Spotify and other streaming services that allow for hours of meticulous playlist curation and customization has only intensified the autistic urge to find the PERFECT music for EVERY situation and overthink my listening experience. But it's also been an amazing tool for me as an actress, because just like music can instantly take me back to a specific time and place in my own life, it can also be a gateway into a character's head, helping me find ways for me to identify more deeply with that character's journey.

The hardest part of curating the Jessica playlist was trying to determine where "Ashley" ended and "Jessica, the character" began, because I've put SO much of myself into creating this role and I've spent so much time in her head that it's sometimes easy to forget that I'm not representing myself up there. I'm telling a story about a person who is not me, and even though she's influenced by me, she is first and foremost based on a real (awesome) human being with a personality and agency of her own. Hopefully she likes this playlist too--or at least appreciates the inclusion of Selena Gomez, who was apparently her first choice to play Jessica 😂

Who knows, maybe if we make an official Ohio Mixtape we can call up Selena Gomez to sing on it.

[yelyahrodrigo]

Glee playlists no one (except me) asked for

[xechoecho88x]

Summary: Michigan knows Ohio has feelings for him, he's just so obvious. But how does Michigan feel about this? Is he ready for a relationship?

Inspired by lyn lapid's the alternative.

I hope you all enjoy :)

[dreamstates-music]

We got featured on a playlist! This playlist highlights music from Akron, Ohio, so be sure to check it out to hear not only us but also some of the other bands/musicians in our local area. Akronites rock!

[greymouse42]

@groovyaviator I, a fool, hit the wrong button on an ask several days ago and it was lost to the ether but you DID, I believe, ask for 17 for Mal & Hem!

17. Quotes, songs, poems, etc. that I associate with him

Teasing out the Mal bits of the JanMal playlist was a really fun exercise. I am...!! Not over how badly the lyrics to Ohio hurt me!!

Also this image from the Pinterest board is a Mal touchstone for me, and I hope (fear) that the Handler messes Mal up real bad about it in the prequel game:

17. Quotes, songs, poems, etc. that I associate with them

I apparently mostly make ship playlists, so teasing the Hem parts of my BG3 Tav/Astarion Sad!Paladin playlist was also really fun.

It's not a quote, but this image from Hemlock's mood board is everything to me:

Just, like, the mundane holiness of it...

I beliiiiiieve you also asked 31 for Evie—

31. If they had a tumblr what would it look like?

Honestly it'd probably look a lot like this blog, OR she'd run a fairly popular gimmick blog about carp spotting that she'd break character on by posting something cryptic and absurd a la old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary before never being heard from again.

[caterpillarinacave]

St. Bernard by Lincon could be for Orm Marius. If you even care.

[blackmarket-playlists]

NEW PUNK (2023) FROM THE MIDWEST • pure or spiced with emo, pop or hc • Emerging/ unsigned artists💥Cover: CUT YOUR LOSSES • Updated regulary, songs from 2023 only • Submissions welcome: www.blackmarketplaylists.de

Music from the Midwest states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin

[dec0mposing]

I was tagged by @milk-wood to create a 10 song playlist!

Here is my chaotic collection of songs I've put together as a spotify playlist for said challenge, its a collection of songs I am currently enjoying or have enjoyed extensively over the last year or so. It starts with a chilled out vibe, then flows through some synths right into the heavier aspects of my taste, a pretty varied collection if I must say myself!

I tag @sowhatifiliveinkyushu, @novimnet, @withnailrules if you wish to give it a go, and anyone else who wants to partake after viewing this post!

I don't know many people on this site anymore, so mutuals, please feel free to tag me in any future challenges you come across!

[ufohio]

Come back down to Earth with this silly stupid mix!

Ready for a blast from the past (from the old buzz, actually)? Here's the official playlist of the city of Earth. It's also, fun fact, the first thing I ever made for Kaleidoscope World. (Maybe this post should've been a Throwback Thursday thing... Are the kids still doing Throwback Thursday or...?)

I'm about to get in my car and drive through Ohio, so what better time to revisit this?

[djhamaradio]

[verahatesglue]

some day i’ll update that massive playlist post again but every time i think about i’m reminded the characters i choose to make playlists for are sporadic at best so a giant post about half-life playlists conveniently excluding barney would be weird