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Amanda: Counselor? Counselor!

Rafael: Yes, Detective?

Amanda: You hurt Carisi’s feelings

Rafael: Okay…Will you tell him I meant it?

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the idea of barhoun is funny enough in the context of them being exes, but it's so much funnier if it's current. i'm not even sure if that's something that's allowed, but whenever they're pitted against each other in the court room you can just imagine them both being like "i'm gonna hear about that one later so help me god"

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For some reason this man:

Reminds me of this man:

I don't know. Just crossed my mind.

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Straight up think that Liz has to take migraine meds when she gets a call to say that Alex needs to speak with her i know Alex be stressing Liz out more than any other ADA in existence

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Cubans leave manhattan and come back with beards, that’s so iconic

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Imagine these Four in a Room

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I think Rafael Barba should get to be angry, to be bitter.

He’s a good man who works hard and he’s loyal to his friends’ best interests; he’ll even fight for them. But the majority of the people in his life treat him badly.

Alex and Yelina Muñoz, Olivia Benson; even Amanda and Carisi, who didn’t invite him to their wedding or their son’s christening.

He should be able to be bitter, to stand up to himself more. He deserves good friends, people who want him, who won’t drop him the moment he becomes an inconvenience.

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No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

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If it sounds like the composer is trying to blast you with the orchestra until you're as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.

If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.

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✨Barhoun✨

They’re such a married couple and you can’t tell me otherwise

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hyperfixations are so crazy because you never know whether this next thing you like is going to be a short-term interest or if it's going to change your entire life forever

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

When Tatiana was about five years old she had a long illness, and, being very weak, was ordered a great deal of nourishment, beef-juice among other things. But it was difficult to get the beef-juice swallowed. She asked me one day if I had made it. I thereupon drew a picture of the cook in the kitchen making it; his “big knife” figured in it conspicuously.  She was greatly interested in it and said– “Would it give the cook pleasure if I drank it?” I, of course, said it would give him the greatest pleasure; so she said feelingly, “Send for the cook then.” I obliged, and the chef came into the room. She asked him: “Monsieur Cubat, did you make this beef-juice?” He told her that it was one of the young cooks who had actually made it.  “Well, send him up and tell him to wear his big knife,” was her next demand. The beef-juice was put to keep hot. The little cook came up.  “Little cook,” she said, “you made me this beef-juice. Well, stand there and see me drink it.” She did so, and she gave him the empty cup, and let him go.  I told her that in my opinion it was very naughty of her to give so much trouble, but she only replied– “Well. You said it would give him pleasure if I drank it, and I certainly did not want to make him cry.”  Margaretta Eagar, “Further Glimpses of the Tsaritsa’s Little Girls,” The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, 1909.

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Ok, last night I went back and rewatched 'The Long Arm of the Witness' because you suggested it at the end of SSS ch 15. At this point I had read through ch 17 of SSS. Keeping in mind what I knew from SSS, I watched the episode and holy crap it fits with canon perfectly! Not only does it fit, but I feel like canon doesn't even make sense without SSS.

Like in SSS when Carisi mentions that Rita was acting different during the Gallagher trial and didn't seem bothered at all when the prosection brought new evidence last minute. She really did look relieved. And when the judge changed the verdict, Rita wasn't even mad. She just sat there calmly and once again had a look of relief. Normally she would've been so mad if that kind of thing happened. I also noticed the comment she made to Olivia in the elevator at the end of the episode, and then you brought that up in ch 18. Like Rita said in SSS, it definitely felt like she was saying that to Olivia, almost hoping she would figure out what Rita was trying to tell her without actually having to say it.

It all makes so much sense. SSS is canon and no one can tell me otherwise. It explains everything.

Babbbbeeeeyyyy!!

THANK YOU!! Seriously. My viewings of that episode went like 1. RITA RITA IS BACK. I was so distracted I didnt notice the subtle acting/directing choices. I IMMEDIATELY watched it again and 2. “This... isnt the same rita we remember...”

And then I got to thinking about ms marvel herself. She’s TOO GOOD of a fucking actress to just drop 90% of traits that Rita had just cause it had been a few years/Barba wasnt there to bounce quips off of.

Plus her comments about Gallagher in the first scene?? And then she reps him???

Sorry for the delay cause I had to go dig up gifs LOL

Thats the moment the judge allows the recording Holmes took in the bathroom. She doesn’t glare, she doesn’t scoff, she doesn’t even cock a brow. Her lips don’t purse. And there’s even the *slightest* curve up of them as if she’s not only relieved but HAPPY knowing he’s going down.

Then we get Chip allocuting saying he now realizes his “advances weren’t wanted” or whatever. There’s hesitancy? Almost in her eyes, a near glare before she focusses on nothing. The tiniest little nod.

THIS ONE???

The FACT THAT SHE CANNOT EVEN LOOK OLIVIA IN THE EYE WHEN SHE SAYS THE “lie back & take it”????!!!!!!! Her gaze is downcasted, it’s submissive. And when she leaves the elevator its not her normal power walk, she’s defeated, exhausted, trying to keep up a front.

And NOW. Let’s go back.

S17.

The downland case. She doesn’t just send Abby & her parents into svu. She goes in herself & drags the detectives back to their house. She’s there every moment, sneaking her way into finding out the dna matched. She’s waiting outside for Barba, assuring him of Abby doing the right thing, how she “was answering his texts” how Abby was “introverted, shy, doesn’t know how to act about it cause theyre teenagers still seeing each other at school”. She’s there for the entire trial, and m’am is acting her ASS off in the background of shots that aren’t even in focus 😂 (which also makes me wonder if the rita we know is so sharp & abrasive because she was shy back as a teenager & she didnt really know how to say no kinda thing)

Next time we see her is s18ep 1 terrorized. She takes on a client who (imo, shouldnt have even been being charged) was forced/coerced into a crime because she was being abused & raped. THIS is Rita’s expression while the girl’s telling her story. I dont think that’s “lets look extra symphathetic for brownie points for liv” i think this is a “i understand...really...”

We do see her again in Spellbound, which I’ll have to go watch again & properly analyze lol. But it’s a solid win for her & a tricky case cause the girl did vocally say yes to sex ON TAPE. (Though she was hypnotized)

I TRULY think they were setting Rita up to have the arc that Nikki Staines ended up taking in s19 because ms marvel went off & got signed on to HOC/Homeland and wasn’t available.

BUT I do think they’re revisiting it now because those tiny little subtle things ms marvel does in the s22 ep just aren’t the Rita we’re used to. (Not to mention she almost gets thrown in contempt & that has NEVER happened. She would get her “withdrawn”’s out before Barba could even object!) and ms marvel (and i quote from an article) “has more acting ability/power in her jawline than most actors do their entire career”

Anyways!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk & I do believe that SSS should be canon 😂😂

I knew I wanted a story to cover the s22 ep stuff, and it was when I rewatched A Misunderstanding that I froze & was all “wait... Rita went to dowland.... is... her name on that wall?” Abs BOOM plot.

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lili reinhart they could never make me hate you or even slightly dislike you 🤍

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I love this photo so much because of Rita’s excitement to ruin Barba’s soul.