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The team: *serious conversation about the case*

Prentiss for some reason for a full 10 seconds:

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y'all better go read death and the lady or i'm sending nukes to your house

(for legal reasons that's a joke)

read my friend's fic death and the lady or i'll blow u up with 5000 missiles. do you like spencer reid. do you like feeling miserable. do you like feeling miserable about spencer reid. yes? read it.

(sillies aside. this has one of my favourite depictions of spencer's childhood, his relationship with diana, and just. generally his characterisation. it made me eat drywall. i haven't commented on it yet because it's taking a long time to write it. so far it's 500 words. that's how deranged this made me)

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i think all of these thoughts on a regular basis.

i can just picture the team finding out about his lackluster birthdays and they all promise to like "you don't have to worry about that with us :)"

and he smiles and accepts it, but on the inside he's like "yeah, wonder how long that'll last. eventually they won't care to remember. eventually i'll be a forgotten non-priority. and so every year, he expects them to forget.

but very year they make sure to celebrate, even if it's not big. because they promised. and he slowly begins to believe, no, they will remember. and he starts getting used to it

and then... they forget. and he tries to tell himself "it's nothing new. i was expecting it. i shouldn't be surprised. it doesn't matter"

except it does. because once again, he's been forgotten by his family, even though they swore they never would. and he doesn't understand why it still hurts

reid's reaction when emily says "we missed your birthday" is so fucking. agh.

he nods and smiles and then very quickly looks down.

TIME TO READ INTO IT WHOOOOO:

when they missed his birthday, he was like. "eh. it's fine. i'm thirty now, i don't need my friends to throw me a party. i'm an adult, i'm not upset about it."

especially because i'm sure reid didn't have a lot of awesome birthdays pre-series. i always got the impression he was mostly friendless until he joined the team, with ethan as the only exception (and in my heart they met and became friends in college, despite canon suggesting it was as young children). diana loved him and i'm sure she would have been lovely on his birthday, but i doubt she always remembered it (in the flashback to william leaving in 2x15 she doesn't know what day it is—i think it's very plausible that could happen on at least some of his birthdays) and if she did, she might not have been in the right headspace to celebrate it like she wanted.

(and even if she remembered and she was doing well, i really struggle to see any version of diana and spencer post-william leaving who wouldn't have had serious financial issues)

and then after spencer moves diana into assisted living (possibly on his birthday or at least close to it) he's mostly alone until he meets gideon. (again, except for ethan)

so, in summary: pre-bau spencer's birthdays were probably infrequently celebrated, and when they were celebrated, they were probably a lot less of a Big Deal than other peoples' were, for various reasons. so spencer spends about a decade growing used to not celebrating his birthday, then joins the bau and spends about a decade getting used to celebrating it, and then...they forget. not only do they forget, they forget the big three-oh.

so he tells himself not only that he's too old now to care about his birthday, but he spent so long not celebrating it anyway, and he's fine. it's fine.

and then emily finds out. and it's not fine. and he is upset about it.

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OOOOHHHHH

After so long of wondering why Reid wears his gun like that, only to find that it's because that's how cowboys/gunslingers would wear it for a smaller target and a faster draw...well, it's changed me as a person 😅

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screaming crying throwing up

i desperately need this fic and i may just write it myself 😭😭😭

i need him coming to the realization that he loves her but never saying anything until after she's gone. i need him confessing at her grave and in his letters. i need him angry and heartbroken when she comes back and no one knows why he's betrayed *to this extent*

i need her to think of him constantly in Paris. i need her to long to come back to him every day. i need her to hug him in 7x1 and it to feel like coming home. i need for her to miss him even after coming back because he's distant with her.

i need them to finally talk. i need them to slowly rebuild their friendship. i need them to watch movies in his apartment. i need them to maybe almost kiss. i need them to have a near death experience on a case. i need them to go out with the team and get kinda tipsy. i need them to leave the bar, one planning to drop the other off (probably via taxi but hey, an excuse is an excuse). i need one of them to walk the other to their door. i need them to kiss desperately. frantically. an *i-need-to-know-you're-alive* kiss

i need them to go back to work and try to act normal around each other. i need them to get flustered and worked up just looking at each other. i need them to finally come together, secretly. on a case maybe, or maybe just when they're hanging out, or maybe when with the team outside work. i need them to start a secret relationship.

i need her to panic once they realize they are in love. i need her to flee to London. i need him devastated. i need them to fight and break up.

i need her finally visiting the team. i need them to get back together. i need them to rekindle what they had. i need them to keep it quiet again.

i need her to come back stateside once she realizes she will never outrun her feelings for him. i need him to forgive her because she came back, no one else does, and she keeps coming back, even when she leaves. i need her to promise to stay. i need him to slowly believe her.

i need them to finally settle in together. i need them showing up to a team hang out holding hands. i need them to finally be happy

just wanted to say that im happy to see a spemily shipper. it's not something I really ship anymore but UGH I was in the trenches over them. I Get It.

i really wasn't expecting to go back there in this the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four but by god they had the juice didn't they. the sharp-tasting being so in love juice. i won't ever watch more of criminal minds than i already watched but like the gifsets of "after what he did to you if i would have found him i would have killed him" have tempted me deeply.

we were so robbed. criminal minds pacing doomed us to only get reid devastated over her fake death for like 3 episodes. i needed a whole fucking season of that. i needed her ghost to haunt all of them through every case and every late night at the same old bar. i needed her to have left them thematically significant belongings in her will and i needed JJ to have been the executor. i needed reid to have relapsed or nearly relapsed and addressed a whole collection of amends letters to her until he got through it, until he was just beginning to see the crack of light through the pitch darkness of her absence, and right then right in that moment i needed her to have come back and blown it all to shit. ah <3333 che bella

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I know it’s August but the holidays feel fast approaching and with that my mind turns to this event.

I know the Once Upon a Time and Captain Swan fandom has dwindled over the years and with that events have begun to disappear. This being one of the last standing.

I don’t wish to see the event go but I don’t know if I have it in me to run this event or even if there is any more willing participants.

If there is interest in this event maybe I can do one last year or if anyone is available to co run it/run it in my stead.

PLEASE INTERACT WITH THIS POST AND BOOST IT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS EVENT CONTINUE! REBLOG COMMENT ADD TAGS! LIKES MEAN NOTHING BECAUSE I CANT DETERMINE MEANING BEHIND THEM!

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The Solidest Things We Can Know (Chp. 2/2)

Nino feels helpless as Adrien continues to pull away at school. Getting enlisted to fight an akuma isn't exactly helping him figure out a way to help his best friend. At least he doesn't have to worry about Adrien actively being in danger.

Except. Oh. Oh no.

aka the second part of the post-Rocketear fanfic I wanted to see in canon.

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literally every time i watch the "i'm a blinker" scene i'm like, "baby boy, i watched you stare down a serial killer holding a revolver to your head and firing it multiple times. you are not the blinker you think you are"

reid and calculated risks. reid literally staring down the barrel of a gun, running the probabilities of the next trigger being the one with the bullet ending up on his head and at the same time deducing his location at the moment and also thinking abt how to give subtle clues / hints (?) at the team even tho he's not 100% sure he's right THEN his little smile after he asked tobias and it turns out he's right. just. reid's mind is so fast i wanna kiss him so bad

ALSO he technically only blinked once during that time so i dont think he's as much of a blinker as he claims he is after the foyet episode chuchu

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iconic

Killian ‘I have a new outfit. It’s all I’m going to wear for the next 300 years.’ Jones.

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i am very sane about this. i'm so normal about season 5 Reid. i am completely and totally cool and composed seeing Spencer with long luscious hair. i am not losing my mind and going feral. i-

jesus reid appreciation post

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say it louder for the people in the back! he's been taking care of himself since his dad walked out and his mom's mental health went way down the drain and she couldn't take care of herself or him anymore. like, come on. and yeah, being the youngest of the team, people are gonna be protective of him, but he's a full grown adult, guys.

also, in that same episode he's seen pouring a bunch of sugar into his coffee at the beginning. so much so that Morgan points it out (implying that this isn't normally how Reid drinks his coffee) and Reid says he needs something to wake him up (he's been dealing with nightmares). I always interpreted this as he only uses that much sugar if he's sleep deprived/desperately needs an energy boost. otherwise, his normal coffee has two scoops

I find it absolutely wild how often in fic people write Spencer Reid like he's unable to take care of himself as if he hasn't been doing that for nearly his entire life already.

(Totally unrelated, but in s1 he asks someone for a coffee, and asks for 2 sugars. Which...I take 2 sugars, that's not that much sugar 😅)

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as you should

i might be turning into a boyband reid fanpage

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The Solidest Things We Can Know (Chp. 1/2)

Nino feels helpless as Adrien continues to pull away at school. Getting enlisted to fight an akuma isn't exactly helping him figure out a way to help his best friend. At least he doesn't have to worry about Adrien actively being in danger.

Except. Oh. Oh no.

aka the second part of the post-Rocketear fanfic I wanted to see in canon.

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imagine getting kidnapped then tortured and drugged for two days running on nothing but a rice krispie treat and coffee

SPENCER REID in criminal minds 2x14 (eating a rice krispie treat 🥹)

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stop i literally rewatched this episode today. how dare you

Season 3 Reid staying in the office all night in the hopes of playing one last chess game with Gideon 😀🙃 he had so much hope back then despite everything he had already been through at that point

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not too many changes bc i'm pretty happy with how i look :)

i don't really have many people to tag bc i've never really had mutuals before (outside of may, who tagged me. thanks btw)... but i guess @apopcornkernel and anyone else who sees this and wants to hop on

starting a tag game cause i'm bored and i hate my notifications :D

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picrew: here!

tagging @random-doctor-on-the-internet @cataperat @discoveredreality @ladykiller-yt and @midnights-dragon