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Thinking about what if Matthew had been around properly before Demonology. What if the team had gotten to meet him and see Emily around a person that *knows* her. What if it made it all the more harder when Emily comes into the office when he dies, soaked and cautiously wrecked, having just lost one of the few people Emily Prentiss is truly comfortable around.

Emily is shattered as it is in Demonology, but, god, what if the team knew what she had lost in him. Not necessarily what she admits to David, but just the Emily that is even slightly at peace. I need the team to see him stand next to her and afterwards see an Emily that doesn't bring her friend to functions because that friend that she would trust to stop her from embarrassing herself drunk in front of her new (maybe less new) coworkers is dead.

The Emily that shakes in front of Matthew's parents, in front of Rossi, aching for justice for the friend that threw everything away for her. The Emily he or any of the team barely know yet.

I was reading 'I walk my days on a wire' by @leavemurph (which is a must-read. Their writing always changes my brain chemistry), and -spoilers for that fic- Matthew is alive. Matthew gets to stand next to Emily as her friend, and my god, it is 7am, and the plague of these thoughts is how I am starting my morning.

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Season 3 finale: Abby goes 'he stopped waiting for me a long time ago' and we immediately cut to buck freaking out worse than eddie about chris going to summer camp. Like. That's not even subtext. It's just text. Ffs.

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I caved and started another criminal minds rewatch 💔

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why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

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Putting my years of intense Catholic school to truly henious use and writing a fic sending Emily and Rossi undercover as father-daughter into a Catholicism-based cult that's harbouring a killer.

I need Emily to get the space to work out her Catholic guilt a bit more and maybe punch some asshole priests.

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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

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I read an AITA post a few weeks back about a woman who liked having snacks in the bath when she's had a long day (a result of residual trauma iirc - the bath was her safe space). Her brand new husband of three weeks, a man twice her age who had no job, made her pay all of his bills and do all housework, and spent all day every day gaming because he wanted to make it as a Twitch streamer, had always been fine with this; but, on the day in question, had whisked her bath snacks out of her hands as she was on her way to the bathroom and tried to bin them, telling her it was time to 'break her of that filthy habit in his home'. She told him if he ever actually paid anything towards the house she owns outright he might get a say, took her snacks back, and had her lovely bath. He was since giving her the silent treatment.

(Obviously the judgement was an avalanche of 'NTA and also he's abusing you', which she agreed with, and decided to kick him out, so happy ending.)

Anyway I told my husband about this and he was outraged. "I would never do that!" he told me, furious. "I would find it adorable if you had bath snacks!"

Since then, every time I try to have a bath (which I only do as a rare treat) after about ten minutes there has been an anxious scrabbling at the bathroom door.

"Elanor!" he says. "Do you have bath snacks? Do you need anything?"

My answer is irrelevant. He brings me wine and poptarts. Now I have bath snacks. I'm a bath snacks person. Last time he was literally sleeping on the sofa when I went for the bath. Somehow this still happened. I now have an eager bathroom butler. How did this happen. I have never been so decadent yet bewildered.

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Emily Prentiss and David Rossi piss drunk went to a tattoo parlor and got matching daddy-daughter tattoos. Probably somewhere only visible sometimes- maybe lower left shoulderblade.

It's not so much a secret from the rest of the team, considering Rossi is the ultimate team parent, but it is a nice little shared thing between the two of them.

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and if Buck has his realization in the mid-season finale which kickstarts his pining arc so in 8B we see him do the 'hand almost touching but then withdrawing' thing anytime he's close to Eddie? if we see him freeze when they sit together and kinda shuffle his leg a little away? and he shares a look with Maddie when she's in the room because she is the only one who knows? meanwhile Eddie is breaking down his restrictions and it's like a happy puppy chasing a nervous one who isn't sure what they're playing.

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Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

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rewatching S7E24 and thinking about the contrast between the two conversations about leaving that Emily has before the wedding

how she earnestly asks Morgan, “can we please talk about this later?” to which he replies, “no” and persists in questioning her

and then the photo negative with Hotch. for all intents and purposes, it’s the same exchange as above but with Emily’s pride and will preserved, never escalating to a point where she has to beg. Hotch poses it as a question rather than an insistence—“do you want to talk about it?”

and when Emily replies, “absolutely. but not now,” what does he do?

he respects her answer.

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THE X-FILES | 6.06

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Emily Prentiss has a lot to disect about her character as she is, but I would love to know more about her dad. I want to know who the most prominent man in an early girl's life is to the woman that has had to deal with daily and from a young age the worst parts that men can offer.

Was he loving and caring? A total break from the stiffness of her mum- Emily Prentiss a daddy's girl? Or was he the shadow of his important ambassador wife, despite his own significant work?

Without designing his character too much, I'm assuming he at least somewhat facilitated her tough upbringing, or failed to see what was happening to her. Emily is a private person in general, but she never mentions her dad. I'd accept all theories, honestly, with the little we know about him. Maybe she mentions her mum because her team has met her, so it's information she can give up without feeling like she's giving away too much about the mysterious Emily Prentiss.

Again, without meaning anything concrete, I don't get the vibe that he was a total asshole. I feel like she would have insinuated that by now -unless I've just missed it. I may lean towards the idea that she misses him slightly, but like her mother, he's always so busy with his work that he never has time to pop in on her. The loving but unfortunately inattentive father.

Idk if in the next season with the sudden introduction of a sister or someone Emily suddenly considers close enough to be a sister, we might get more of a glimpse into the Prentiss family. It's a hope.

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Only day you can reblog this

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I think I did not quite expect Emily to have a "She used to be mine" [Waitress] moment or arc in season 17, but holy fuck was it deserved. The season 17 finale is still with me. Maybe it shouldnt, but her speech in the kidnapping talk down gave me such a pleasant shock that they were touching on that side of all the shit she's been through. Most of all the allusion to SA that really had me going "oh shit."

Emily reckless *just* enough Prentiss. Her work has taken so much from her, and she keeps trucking. Emily for 16 seasons screams "I know what's right for me. It's the only thing I've never done."

Romance doesn't have to happen for a character to get a happy ending, but if she does get one, she deserves it to be the biggest happiness. Like a coming home sort of thing. I don't really know how they would do that without background [insert your favourite Emily ship here], but I'd be so excited and so willing to see it happen with whatever character they'd introduce for her (except any of her past boyfriends, because I cannot make sense of Emily's type for the life of me, but I haven't given it close enough analysis).

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CRIMINAL MINDS 2.12 | Profiler, Profiled