#This Is Us spoilers

[imbadatusernames666]

started This Is Us for the first time and i am dying bc milo looks so sad and i knew it was rough but i thought it would just be other people being sad that his character died but MILO IS SAD TOO I AM UNWELL WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO HIM

[iscahmckrae]

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Most horrific This Is Us joke ever...

[romanarose]

"Comfort Show"

Steven Grant x Reader

Summary: Steven has tocomfort you after your comfort show.

Warnings: *SPOILERS FOR THE LAST FEW EPISODES OF THIS IS US!!!* Dont read if you havn't seen the last 3 episodes but want to!!! Mentions of tv show character deaths. Crying but not actually sad, just sad over a show.

A/n: Inspired by the time I walked out of my room after an episode of This Is Us, bawling my eyes out to find my mommy is the living room, looking at me like :0 she asked if it was one of my shows or if something really happened. I said it was just a show and she let me explain the last 6 or however many seasons of this show lolololol

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You heard the sound of the key turning in the apartment, and knew Steven would be in shortly and very distressed at your crying, but you couldn’t help yourself, you continued sobbing uncontrollably with hands over your eyes on the couch as the Hulu home screen advertised other options to quell you.

“Hello love!” A cheery Steven walked in the door, face undoubtedly falling as he took in your crying. “Oh dear, oh no, what is it now?” He said, setting the groceries down on the counter and he rushed to you, wrapped up in a blanket on the couch. “What’s happened?” Gently, Steven takes your hands to reveal your puffy red eyes and blotchy face, you’d been crying for a little while now.

You look at his worried face and feel a little foolish, and laugh a bit. “It’s not a big-” 

“No, no don’t do that, you don’t have to mitigate it”

You laugh again, you did have a tendency to act like huge things were no big deal, or invalidate your feelings; this was not one of those times. “No, no, baby it’s actually so stupid” But you keep crying. “I watched more of This is Us”

Visibly, Steven relaxed, letting go of your hand in favor of placing it over his heart, sighing in relief as sat back on the couch. “Oh god love, darling you startled me.”

You feel bad, going to embrace Steven as he gained his breath again. “I’m sorry Steven” You said sincerely, and when Steven looked at you, it was once again with concern.

“Sweetheart, you look terribly upset still, I thought you agreed not to watch it until one of us were here, you knew damn well this was going to happen!” Steven chastised, but there was no real malice in his voice. 

You sniffle, tears welling up again. “I thought she’d die in the last episode, I was going to wait for you to watch that, but they did it early!” You break down crying, Steven taking you into his arms.

“God, no wonder you’re a mess!” Steven didn’t watch the show avidly, but he’d sit in on episodes here and there, and listened intently as you explained things from your show.

You mumbled something into his chest he couldn’t hear. “What’s that, lovely?”

Lifting your head off his chest, you repeat yourself. “Miquel died before Rebecca, his heart condition” and there, you were, ugly sobbing again.

“Oh no, not Miguel.” Steven laments. Again, he didn’t watch the show as much as you, but Miguel was his favorite.

Steven continued to hold you as you cried, and lamented to you, “Why do you watch this show when all it does is make you cry?”

“It’s my comfort show…” you mutter.

Steven laughs a bit, pulling you off him and heading to the kitchen. “You don’t seem very comforted, darling.”

“I am… so happy right now.” You joke through tears.

“I’m sure you are. How about we go visit your grandma this weekend? I know This is Us always makes you emotional about her.”

Smiling at how well he knew you, you nodded. “That would be great, Steven.”

When Steven brought you some hot tea, just how you like it, “How about we watch we real comfort show to cheer you up. New Girl? Or Are you in a movie mood”

You consider for a moment. “Star Wars Episode thr-”

“No!” Steven bursts into a laugh. “You know damn well that one always makes you cry at the end!”

“I won’t cry! I promise! I just wanna see Anakin’s pretty face!”

Steven sighed. “Fine, if you promise you won’t cry.”

By the time ‘YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKIN’ played out of the screen, you were sobbing again, muttering how it didn’t have to be this way. Steven was holding you under his left arm, ordering pizza with his right hand. No more “Comfort” movies or shows tonight.

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Anywayyyyyy just some Steven cuteness <3

My masterlsit links got FUCKED UP bc tumblr so everything is under construction so please be patient with me XD

should have another piece out this week, i have something planned for Marc for Passover, a bit with him cleaning out his dad's house an dreflecting over things. Will serve as a epilogue for my Seattle series, but not necessary to read Seattle for this <# if u arent on the Seattle tag list and are interested, let me know!

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[cynthiaserivo]

i knew miguel dying was coming but😭😭😭

[leossmoonn]

DEJA DIDNT END UP WITH MALIK? JAIL.

[haberdashing]

so, i just finished watching the last episode of this is us (i know, i'm late to the game), and now that i can confidently say that they didn't address this, let me say the one thing i wish the show had gone into more:

randall's run for senator.

not how he wins it, because c'mon, randall pearson can do anything he puts his mind to, we know that. and not the nitty-gritty political stuff either, that's not really the kind of thing this is us does.

but what this is us does do, but didn't in this case, is go over how such a big life change affects randall and the family.

show me more of randall weighing the pros and cons of running--not just how it would affect his mother, but how it would affect his entire family.

show me the randall pearson family sitting down to unwind at the end of the day with some mindless tv only to be shown an ad for randall's campaign--or worse, an attack ad by the opposition.

(show me randall taping his campaign ad, second-guessing his every move and fretting about how he's taping something that will be on display to millions of tv watchers, and then calling kevin and half-jokingly saying that acting's harder than it looks)

show me tess trying to decide whether to go to homecoming with alex, or her latest not-cis-male beau, and fretting hard about how it might affect her father's campaign because obviously a senatorial candidate having an openly gay daughter still isn't a value-neutral fact. show me tess telling her father she'll hide her relationship and her identity away until after the election, and randall hugging her and telling her that that's not what he wants, of course not, she just needs to be who she is and the rest will work itself out.

show me deja writing college admissions essays about going from taking care of herself as a child to being the daughter of a senator: not just a blase rags-to-riches story, but talking about the different freedoms and limitations of both, then reflecting on how college fits into that same scheme of freedoms and limitations.

show me their other daughter... hell, show me their other daughter period, i don't even remember her name off-hand! but she's gotta have her own story, if this show taught us anything it's that everyone has their own story. and how is that affected by all this?

show me how this all affects beth's dance studio. do supporters of the opposition candidate drop their dance classes en masse when randall announces his candidacy? do people come there trying to suck up to senator pearson by way of his wife? (not that beth would entertain that nonsense for one minute, of course, but they don't know that.)

show me randall driving in to d.c. does he drive by howard, where he almost matriculated a lifetime ago, and reflect on what almost was and what might have been? hell, has he even been in d.c. since then? and that's gotta make him think of jack, too, who brought him there back then, right? show me that.

show me randall's inevitable moment of doubt just before he starts his first day as senator, and beth talking him through it, reminding him how amazing he is and how he'll do just as well here.

show me how the family adjusts to randall living in d.c. it sounds like he's gone several nights a week at least, and while philly to d.c. isn't the worst senatorial commute, it's not chump change either. how does that change the family dynamic?

show me the handwritten note from a black girl in a white family who says she now has the role model she always dreamed of, show me randall's campaign manager mentioning that his openness with his own adoption and that of deja has led to a statistically significant uptick in adoptions in the state of pennsylvania.

show me randall tearing up, and when a concerned beth asks if the stress is getting to him, him telling her that they're tears of joy as he realizes that he's really making a positive difference in the world the way he always dreamed he would.

show me more of that.

[frazzledsoul]

This Is Us headcanons, because I have decided to fill in the gaps myself

(BTW, if the showrunners contradicted any of this in their interviews, I do not care because it isn't canon if you don't put it in the show)

Randall does not become President, because I feel that is a wee bridge too far. He does not run for President at the end of the main timeline (2033) but he does run unsuccessfully two more times. Kevin, Jack Jr, and Nicky Jr (more on that later) are special guests at his campaign rallies. He saves in Congress for an appropriate length of time and then retires gracefully.

Beth runs her dance school and continues to be fabulous. She outlives Randall but does not remarry.

Deja and Malik reconnected while she was in med school and he was in law school. A few years after William Jr is born, they have a daughter they name Beth. So Malik gets his own Big Three, and has a teenage daughter and two little kids at the same time. Godspeed to you, Malik.

Tess does not marry the person she was dating in eighth grade, because that's overkill. She goes to the University of Chicago and majors in social work. Eventually she marries and she and her wife adopt a pair of siblings from foster care.

Annie goes to Howard University like Randall wanted to. She writes a series of thinly fictionalized novels about her crazy family as an adult. She becomes a single mother by choice and has a daughter named Rebecca.

Kate remains married to Phillip, who keeps that awesome mustache for a very long time. She opens a bunch of music schools for the blind. Phillip outlives her but does not remarry.

Toby remains married to Laura (aka Vanilla Parfait Lady). They do not have any other kids. He finds a job in LA that satisfies him professionally. He outlives Kate but Laura outlives him: she does not remarry.

Jack Jr struggles with weight as a young kid but Toby gets him into exercising and eating healthy so he overcomes it by his early teens. He does struggle with overdrinking in early adulthood (remember our first glimpse of him was him passed out next to a bunch of beer bottles?) He overcomes it once he starts dating Lucy and never really developed the serious issues all of his male relatives did. Both he and Lucy become the uber Pearsons: successful in both of their careers and with an adorable family to boot. After Hope is born, they have an adorable son named Toby.

Hailey meets her birth mother and sister as an adult but does not develop a close relationship with them. Because there are so many famous members of the family, she was aware that Hailey's parents split up when she was small and has some issues with it. It's disappointing, but that's life. Hailey eventually married a nice guy who is neither the famous guy she slept with or her best friend at the art gallery. They do not have kids. Hailey becomes a very successful art curator.

Remember when only Hailey seems to be invited to Hope's birth and nobody else was around and it seemed to predict Toby and Kate's premature deaths? Yeah, that was crap, they and their spouses were down in the cafeteria eating banana pudding, that's all.

Kevin does continue to act after the present timeline ends in 2022. He never becomes a huge star, but he has a season-long arc on a streaming show, a miniseries that gets him award noms, a voice job. He mostly quits after Rebecca dies and focuses on Big Three Homes and his family, but he does still work occasionally afterwards.

After reconciling in 2026, Kevin and Sophie go to a lot of therapy and marry in late 2027. While they may have wanted kids together at some point, it was not a huge priority for Sophie in her other marriages and they recognize that it is too late now to try for it. It sucks, but that 's life.

Kevin has kind of a Tilda Swinton situation going on with his personal life. For those who are unaware of what that means, actress Tilda Swinton was rumored for years to have one partner she raised her kids with and one she traveled with. She recently revealed this was never the case: she split up with the father of her kids when they were young and remained with the other partner afterwards, but was not involved with them at the same time. Sophie has little interest in Kevin's Hollywood life and only occasionally goes with him to premieres and charity stuff: he'll often take Cassidy, or Madison, or Elijah, or the kids (including Madison and Elijah's son), or Cassidy's son Matty sometimes, or a combination of any of these people. Madison and Kevin do parent stuff together often, and we're often seen at sports events together. The entire collective makes decisions together and helps raise their collective three kids as a team. They often vacation together. Madison and Elijah live at another house in the town where Kevin and Sophie move to, but as we have seen they often hang out at the cabin on weekends. So from a distance, it looks like Kevin is at the very least polyamorous....or maybe has started a cult. Anyway, it's a weird little blended family unit and it works for them.

Cassidy remains close to Kevin and works at Big Three Homes. She does not remarry and remains happily single.

Nicky and Edie married in late 2022. They moved to the small cabin while Rebecca and Miguel moved to the big one. Nicky (who is 85 at the time the story mostly ends, in 2033) dies shortly after the twins graduate from high school in 2039. Edie lives in the cabin another ten years or so before she passes away.

Nicky Jr becomes a major football star and plays for the Steelers, because of course he does. Then he becomes an actor. He basically ends up being The Rock. He marries twice and has a daughter with his first wife and two boys with his second but never really settle down and enjoys DILF life.

Franny becomes a nurse like Bonus Mom Sophie. She marries and has two girls.

Madison and Elijah's son becomes some sort of tech wiz.

I am not sure which one of the four outlives the other, but Elijah dies first because I like him the least.

Rebecca and Jack continue to have a wonderful afterlife together.

[jakeperalta]

Enjoy TIU finale?

I did!! I actually really liked that they just went simple and kept it focused on the core family since that's who the show started with and I feel like it had a nice balance of reflecting on the past and also hints towards the future. I'm not ready to accept that it's over though 🥺

[briwatchesbadtv]

Beth's worst-case-scenario of Randall being him driving around going to other people's parents funerals had me ROLLING.

Maybe my favorite moment of the whole series right there.

[inejqhafa]

THIS IS US (2016-2022)

I mean that’s what we’re doing just... collecting these little moments. We don’t recognize them when we’re in them because well... we’re too busy looking forward. But then we spend the rest of our lives looking back... trying to remember... trying to be back inside them. Strange the things you remember. 

[brokensunsets]

This is us season 6 episode 18

I have a feeling i am about break down at any point

Jack and rebecca's dynamic is top-tier

bby Rebecca sweetie your like 2 seasons late but such a cutie

oh cool today its going swings that might make me cry

I LOVE BETH. swimming with great-grandma ghost

I love that they brought back toby's old personality back a bit but made it fit the new him

So i just realized that this might be last time we see baby big three and got sad

oh i love jack's speech

We are all just collecting moments

pause have we ever heard Deja call Randall dad? because it caught it off guard in the best way

JACK IS A 10 woo-hoo

Fuck this the last time with the big three song. oh shit i am not okay

i really don't want to be back on this train. its sad here

The last shot is of jack and just being at peace and I can say that it just felt right there

[lemmeaskthedevil]

This is Us Final Scene

[youngsamberg]

Omg I just realized that if the finale of tiu takes place in 2033 that makes the big three 53 years old which is the same age that jack was when he died. I have no idea if they said that was intentional but wow.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[sambergscott]

STERLING K BROWN MAN I’M HAPPY CRYING

[leossmoonn]

Is Rebecca in the train a hallucination? A dream?

[madlilsongbird]

Im gonna be honest…i liked the episode…but it didnt feel like an end.

Last weeks episode felt more final than this one. I get the intention. Its left feeling open to show that life goes on but it was still lacking something for me

Maybe one last jump forward with the next generation and all their kids and the big three super elderly? Have that cut between the past scene and the post funeral scene?

I dont know it just didnt quite hit me the way i thought a series this emotional would.