#i literally cannot tell if tumblr is eating the quality rn but i think it is

[profffessionally-trained-ducky]

Soulbound

@hot-scarian-summer-2024

DAY 3 - Through The Rift / Murder Mystery / Haunted

[almaasi]

reaction post typed while watching SPN 13x11 “Breakdown”

(not what I expected!! which is a good thing)

04:00pm

soooo i’m pretty sure this episode is about cannibalism and that’s among my top squicks so i’m likely to watch this with my eyes closed and my headphones pulled out

just a heads up

i’m leaving my curtain open with all the blazing summer daylight, and i got basic quality video rather than 720p because the less i see of this the better

i’m essentially just here for donna tbh

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04:04

i forgot how homoerotic the dean!vampire thing was

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04:04

opening scene with the sound of screaming and a bonesaw and i’m already watching with this window halfway in front of the video one

who needs full screen when you can watch tiny things instead

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04:06

ah this must be donna’s sis--

WAIT NOPE 

stolen card i guess

(edit: did this ever get explained? why did she have donna’s ID card??)

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04:07

look this situation is legit terrifying

too fucking real

monsters aren’t scary, people are scary

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04:09

ah, dean does indeed make pancakes

i’ve written that so many times in my fics but i don’t think he ever did it in canon before

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04:10

oh a neice

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04:13

dean: “the victim... she’s my cousin”

sweet

like in terms of family members to assign the niece to, that’s a nice one. kind of makes donna his.... sister?? aunt?? (my brain cannot family tree maths though so i’m a wee bit tangled)

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04:19

someone tell me how dean knows so much about truckers

and knows how to talk on their radios so effortlessly

how many truck stops has he... yknow... stopped in

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“67... midnight rider”

sexy

(edit: frick now i wanna use this for a fic idea i’ve had for years, based on a russian folk tale, except this moniker would put dean as the character i was gonna use for cas)

(actually wait no, that works, ‘cause cas is the sunshine anyway)

(also no promises because i have like 34 other things to work on rn, mostly offline)

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04:25

dean dressed as a trucker... weirdly good look for him

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04:34

oh man this “everyone online loves to see people being tortured live” thing is such a weird niche trope that somehow keeps coming up??

it was in “almost human” and also... “castle” maybe? i’ve definitely seen it at least twice

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04:35

urhg god this is so bleh ksflkdg

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04:36

MUSTACHE GUY HITS THE DUDE AROUND THE HEAD

OMG. THIS GUY. I kind of dig him a lot

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04:37

dean: “takeout for monsters”

OKAY GOOD NOT CANNIBALISM THEn

somehow that’s way easier for me to deal with

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04:39

also i’m watching full-screen again, but when i pause to type i have the tumblr post open in a half-screen window. this works better for me that switching tabs entirely, idk why i never thought of this before

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04:43

(fbi guy shows up and sam’s like !!! “why are you here”)

i mean, the obvious thing is that the fbi guy is the bad guy

idk if that’s just a writer’s trick or whether it’s a totally overdone trope

(i.e. he spends 12 years “hunting” the monster, just to cover up the fact the monster is him)

but there’s nobody else who fits the profile right now, because the asshole kid is WAY too obvious, and he wouldn’t have given them the website link if it was him

unless it’s the trucker lady who dean met at the diner, given there’s basically no other characters and this is essentially a whodunit

(i don’t want it to be her though)

i’ve watched too many whodunits and i’m 99% sure it’s gonna be the fbi guy

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04:49

then again, how would the fbi guy get changed so quick

no maybe it’s not him

like i said, i’ve seen too many whodunits and this episode fit the profile up until now

(as in, the bad guy is always someone you’ve seen before and probably didn’t suspect, rather than a random new person)

(which honestly makes guessing the bad guy really easy on a show like “castle” because it’s always the secretary that comes in to ask the main suspect to sign something, or the boyfriend who got in a one-liner and then was never seen again for the rest of the episode, unlike literally every other character with a speaking role, who the audience is made to suspect at some point)

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04:51

WAIT NO FBI GUY HIT SAM I WAS RIGHT

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04:58

you know the writing is good when even the bad guy has a motive that sounds perfectly sane and reasonable

everyone’s the hero of their own story and quite frankly he’s doing a pretty decent job...... kidnapping and violent, painful murder aside

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05:01

oh come on, fbi guy is way too recognisable like that, with the pig mask and nothing else

how he’s gonna explain that to the other fbi people

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05:02

although to be fair, the whole “i’m feeding the everyday monster masses” shtick isn’t even accurate since these auctions are pretty pricey for a single meal

AND WHAT ABOUT SHIPPING

gotta ship a tiny freezer cross-country??? excuse you

so do monsters need to eat way less than humans (e.g. 1 meal a week rather than ~3 meals a day) or what??

because i mean

if they needed blood i feel like there’d be a lot of it at, like, a chicken farm or something

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05:06

i like that lil whistle dean does to tell donna which way he’s going

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05:08

doug: “fine? i was a vampire???”

oh my god i love him what a sweetheart

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05:10

a thought: so donna’s been hunting vampires for quite a while, the winchesters know that, and yet only TODAY she gets informed there’s a reverse potion thing?? *squints*

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05:12

me: *makes accidental out-loud noise of sympathy when donna goes :(*

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05:14

sam: “it ends bad”

..........oh dear :c

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well that was way less gory and terrifying than i expected at the start, which i’m glad about !!

but also dark and depressing in a way

hm

i mean, 9/10 for story, but 5/10 for enjoyment tbh

good but not my thing

i like how we never saw the face of the faceless guy. that gave more weight to the fbi guy being the worse one

also i’m curious whether the “person assigned to hunt the baddie is secretly the baddie” trope is actually overused, or whether i just think that because i used it myself once? i feel like it would’ve had more impact if i wasn’t a writer myself

YAY DONNA, but sad donna :c :c :c

she needs some of dean’s breakfast pancakes and lots of hugs

(has donna ever met cas? i forget. i feel like that particular beam of sunlight would cheer her up a bit)