#the usual suspects

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Inverse Buttons jacket SPOTTED

(saw The Usual Suspects for the first time)

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The usual suspects

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spn20rewatch 2.07 the usual suspects

i like the format of this episode! but i'm always a sucker for any vague gesture at the ole *record scratch* now how did i get here. or the classic 17 hours ago, etc etc. like yes the emotional weight that can be achieved with non-linear narrative!

anyway, my profile pic on every other side is from this ep. maybe i should change it on here too...?

but what always sticks out to me about this episode is the sick twist in my gut watching dean, chained in the back of the police van, realizing pete is taking him out in the woods to kill him.

it's interesting because dean has been to some extent playing along with pete's narrative about him all episode. when his lawyer comes and tells him he could be facing the death penalty, dean is still more focused on solving the case. when he needs to make a scene to give sam a chance to escape, he pretends to be confessing. he is, superficially, not all that concerned with his own safety.

but it cracks a little...

DEAN: Can we make this quick? I'm a little tired, it's been a long day, you know, with your partner assaulting me and all.

and then a lot. when pete drags dean out of the van and dean can't even catch himself because the chains connect his wrists and hands. it's a visceral reminder that dean is, by our carceral societal metrics, disposable. he's had a string of murders he didnt commit connected to his name since episode 6. he has a whole heap of other charges that were unavoidable because of what hunting requires but don't look good on paper.

it reminds me of this interaction from 2.19 about how well dean is fitting in in prison

SAM: Dean, does it ... bother you at all, how easily you seem to fit in here? DEAN: No, not really.

dean has said and will say numerous times that he doesn't think he's different or better than anyone else. and i think it's important that dean is including even the parts of society that are more readily cast off and maligned.

i also want to point out that while pete is very much a cop gone rogue here, the episode makes clear that the outcomes for dean - or claire - aren't all that different whether is at the hands of the system or pete's alone.

dean is still facing the death penalty and though it might be more drawn out through the bureaucratic justice system, it still ends with him just as dead as he would be in the woods. claire too is murdered by pete but is also clearly a victim of a broken system that she's been cycling in and out of without the help and support she needs.

though there is nothing supernatural dean is being offered up to here, it still rings true with the theme of him as the sacrifice to the American Dream.

[gentlenmensarts]

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, he's gone" - Verbal

[spookytuesdaypod]

it’s a CLEAR reference to scream // i know what you did last summer // carrie // the sixth sense // scream 2 // the blair witch project // i still know what you did last summer // a nightmare on elm street // the matrix // the usual suspects // final destination

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Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects, 1995

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where things stand..

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is ed nortan incapable of playing characters who arent freaks

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[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 29/326

Supernatural 2x07//The Usual Suspects

[harpercireth]

I'm the funniest person on earth

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The Usual Suspects (1995) x Tuntematon sotilas (2017)

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Scenic Supernatural 2.07 The Usual Suspects

[inexplicablymine]

Seven Sentences Sunday Monday

I am currently on the tarmac in an airplane to do a short term move across the ocean for a work project… So I am a little harried (on mobile) and a lot excited for both this move and all of the INSANE snippets yesterday.

As a little treat for all the amazing words I was fed here is the first (slightly nsfw) look at my multichap magical realism soulmate au “Mind Over Matter”

Alex’s stomach plummets out of his ass and settles somewhere in the southern hemisphere, about three thousand miles from where he is currently nursing his only drink of the night.

He scrutinizes the image in front of him, a prince and a first daughter, twirling around on a croquette floor inside a Swarovski laden venue that inexplicably cost enough to feed a medium sized country if the seventy-five thousand pound cake is anything to go by.

It’s a waltz in 3/4 time, and Alex’s fingers twitch at an approximation of the one-two-three step that he perfected through one-too-many lessons on royal etiquette with Zahra in the last three months in preparation for propriety at this “event of the century.”

Propriety is the last thing on his mind in this very moment.

Because tell him why the fuck Mr. Straight- and-Narrow isn’t thinking about June right now.

Instead, Alex can hear, clear as a bell, with more lucidity than he has ever heard anyone’s thoughts before that Henry, yes the god damn Prince of England, does not want to have his arms around June.

Instead, he’d much rather they were gripping Alex’s head, hands tugging on tousled curls as he pulls Alex onto his cock.

Well… I’ll leave you with that to ruminate on while I disappear across the ocean till Wednesday to give you more <3

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