#about how shes coming to finally feed the gays again after this hiatus

[happyendingsong]

catching up on kate nash's new album :^) the production throughout is giving sims 2 soundtrack i love it

[mrs-bartowski]

My dudes. My guys. My pals.

I’m about 10 seconds away from going feral.

So, I’m the kind of unfortunate chump whose brain requires continuity. Meaning, when I started thirst watching Supergirl during its mid-season-2 hiatus and came across the realization that it had crossovers with all the other arrowverse shows, my brain tasked me with watching them all. I won’t put you through a recount of this arduous feat, but it does leave me with the certain advantage of having immediate and full-contextual access to any parallels between supercorp and canon CW DCEU couples.

Normally, this is a good thing, because it’s just another crumb to obsess over. But I just finished watching Legends 6x02 and...I. AM. FUMING.

I literally don’t even know where to start, but know that if you’ve made it this far you’re in for a long ride because my entire being is in Scream mode right now and I’m not sure I’ll be able to stop typing until it passes.

OKAY. So.

Meet Sara Lance (lol jk y’all thirsty gays know who she is I mean look at this flawless human)

Next, meet her ******* Ava Sharpe (who is literally the definition of white European beauty standards-based perfection because she’s a clone from the future)

And finally, meet Gary Green. He’s...well, he’s Gary.

Sara started out on Arrow and is now the captain of the Legends. Ava was the director of the Time Bureau and Gary was an agent, and now they are also members of the Legends. Sara has been there (and been the show’s effective lead) since season 1. Ava and Gary both came in at the beginning of season 3. 

Gary is (as pictured) an absolute fool, but he is also kind of regarded as the one the Legends Must Protecc. The whole team is considered a family, and, while they are not necessarily labeled as best friends, Gary has been Ava’s longest and most loyal companion, and Sara has a way of adopting him because she’s the best equipped to keep him out of trouble.

So, why is all of this relevant to why I want to go feral? Because it sounds a bit familiar, yes? Member of the team that is somewhat a black sheep, doesn’t get included fully or all the time but often comes in with save-the day type shit (even though with Gary it’s more of a distraction than a save because he’s a mess of a man). Close friend to one of our two main heroes and, subsequently, that hero’s closest companion puts them at the top of their Protecc list. Has little faith in his relationships with the team so he is constantly going out of his way to help in whatever way he can to prove his usefulness. And so on and so forth.

Well, 6x01 marks exactly 3 years since Gary’s first appearance, and what did we find out in that episode? That Gary is an alien. And not just any alien - an alien who was sent (by the woman he was traded to) to get close to Sara because she has been labeled as one of the world’s most dangerous creatures. Not to mention, his species of alien feeds on humans (not him of course, he’s reformed, but nonetheless not a friendly species). And we find out all of this because he and his master abduct her.

Sara finds out in person while Ava and the rest of the Legends solve the mystery on their own. Now, I’ve drawn a lot of comparisons between Lena and Gary to make a point about the time frame and nature of their relationships, but let’s take a look at Sara, shall we? For starters, she’s been “dead” either literally or supposedly about...what, 15 times now? If you think that’s an exaggeration, here’s the link to her fan wiki which says she’s been presumed dead 10 times and actually dead 5. The sg writers tried to sell season 5 as “the fight for Lena’s soul” but Sara LITERALLY LOST HER SOUL when she got resurrected in the Lazarus pit. 90% of Sara’s character development has been based on her certainty that she is too close to death and evil and destruction (getting possessed by a demon, perhaps, had something to do with this?). She was an actual literal assassin and she has left civilization out of anger and pain to go back to that life once before.

She has always believed that she is too dangerous to have real love or relationships or friends. And now she has found and built and led this family through time and space and she’s done so with this goofball by her side that is endearingly attached to the love of her life. So, how does she react when she finds out Gary is an alien? Well, clearly, she goes down a dark path, right? She cries and screams and talks about betrayal because she’s had such a hard time with feeling like she only ever puts the people she loves in danger and now here she is finding out there’s been a human-eating alien in her family for three years that was tasked with observing her and keeping her in check because she is exactly that dangerous?

Yeah...try again. This is how Sara reacts:

And then there's another scene that apparently no one even bothered to put on YouTube where you can see the pain in Sara's eyes when she asks him “why me?” You can see how hurt she is that after 3 years she’s just finding out that their friendships is based on lies and that she has trouble keeping her faith in it. But in both of these instances where are the “crocodile tears?” Where are the fearful, shaky confessions from Gary about his fear of losing the only people who have ever really loved or cared about him and desperate justifications about how he just wanted to protect them and keep them in the dark so his master didn’t come after them? Where is the outrage from Sara about how everything Gary has reassured her about over the past three years when she was scared to let the damaged-soul assassin inside of her out was a lie and he doesn’t get to tell her who or what she is again? Where is the determination from Ava to make Gary pay for not only lying for three years but for ABDUCTING THE LOVE OF HER LIFE TO HAND OVER TO A FLESH-EATING ALIEN??????

Nowhere. Those things...they’re nowhere. There’s anger. There’s pain. There’s doubt and heartbreak and fury. There’s betrayal and helplessness and desperation. But there is no scene with Sara standing on a balcony and Gary looking up at her longingly because he wants to talk to her about the secret and he knows it will change everything between them. There is no scene with Sara and Ava lamenting over what this means for Gary and the team and the world because he’s no longer the person they knew. There are no romantically-scored scenes of them looking teary-eyed at the pictures they took together or reassurances that the others’ intentions are good and trustworthy now that the truth is out in the open. There is nothing to imply that the last several years of friendship are now entirely suspect (damaged, frayed, clouded, maybe, but definitely not voided) because Gary kept this secret to protect them. And Gary isn’t made to feel obscenely guilty or shameful because his intentions were good and he only did what he felt he had to. But most of all, the world doesn’t feel like it’s going to end.

And I’m not talking about we’re now scared Gary will take his master’s side or Sara will suddenly decide that she never wants an alien to fool her or hurt her again so she’s going to make sure he doesn’t have the choice. I’m just talking about the way they address each other. There are no sobbing tears or laments over the biggest mistakes of their lives - even though it’s quite possible Gary could see this as his. There are no screaming matches over betrayal and mistrust and years of doubt and confusion. There will be no episode dedicated to going back and seeing what could have happened - what kind of danger they could have avoided from the alien(s) controlling Gary - had he told them the truth sooner because that’s the only way to save him and the world. There will be no episode where he has to single-handedly save them multiple times as some example of redemption. There will be no adamant looks and declarations about how the team knows his intentions were good and they forgive him. There won’t be any of that. Because Sara is not in love with Gary. And Ava is not in love with Gary. And Gary is not in love with either Sara or Ava. They’re just close friends. Family. Loved ones who mean a lot to each other but whose betrayal and seeds of doubt don’t bring on emotions whose force and ferocity could be acceptable for finding out the apocalypse is nigh.

I have many, many more feelings about this but right now I’m going to go write things that will make me feel better and not things that make me want to gather every writer from every CW show in a line and run down the line smacking them all in the face while the Legends writers watch and cheer. But I’m fuming. THIS is what it looks like when a years-long, heavily weighted lie is revealed between close friends/family. So, in conclusion, Supercorp endgame or die.

[tjkiahgb]

Listen, I got so caught up in Tyrus Week, spending hours and hours going through tags and liking posts and queuing reblogs, that I pretty much pushed everything else to the side. (Plus I’ve also been working on the next thing I’ll tell you guys about in the next few days.)

All that is to say, I got a lot of stuff in my inbox this last week, so I’m just going to tackle a bunch of them in... A LIGHTNING ROUND.

Let’s go.

And before you ask, yes, I made a graphic for it.

Looks like this Andi Mack finale party has turned into... a death party.

Would’ve been a strange choice for Terri Minsky to turn the finale of Andi Mack into a murder mystery, but if that’s what she wanted, I’d trust her.

I don’t watch that show but I know some people who do and they’ve told me it’s just light and airy and pleasant, so, yeah, sounds right up Cyrus’s alley.

You guys are shouting Lightning Round! every time the graphic comes up, right?

I, like TJ, am just some guy. I tell everyone who asks to call me Jay. Jay is long for “J”, which is short for another name that I, also like TJ, only let people related to me by blood or my soulmate know about. I will say it’s not Jagger, though. I wish.

That wasn’t my intention while writing TJ and the Gals, but as with all art, or whatever TJ and the Gals was, once it’s out of the creator’s hands, it belongs to the people.

No.

Thelonious Jagger Kippen Is A Hashtag Good Boi.

Shoutout to my FAQ page, where you can find information like this and more. Not blaming you, anon, I’ve gotten this a lot and the FAQ page is hard to find. I mostly just delete the question and let the anon live in mystery because I’m chaotic something. I’m only answering this now because it’s the

You know the shook_bitch? Thank them from me for getting Disney Channel to respond to them, and congratulate them on being the subject of the best comment the Disney Channel Instagram account ever made.

Yeah, I went back and checked and Jonah only says in 3x12 that his dad made a bad investment, not lost a job or anything.

It really seems like he’s been managing the Judy Bartholomew fortune all these years. We don’t know anything else of him other than he was once a background workout video guy and he has at least enough knowledge about baseball to coach little league.

Hopefully the new job is providing him with a solid salary, but if not, I think the world is ready for a Judy Bartholomew comeback.

Judy Bartholomew: Still Trottin’ After All These Years

I’m not entirely sure exactly which girl we’re talking about here. I think this one:

I will say, she does seem into it. She’s like, oh, things are about to get gay in here.

Honestly, there were so many background actors killing it in this scene.

You’ve got this guy...

...who hears the beginning of “Born This Way” and reacts like it’s ruined his evening. I mean, I was a little tired of it, too, when it was being played on the radio over and over and over, but it’s been some years. It’s not overplayed as much anymore and it definitely wouldn’t make me this upset. (He pops up later in the song and is happily dancing, so maybe he thought it was the beginning of a different song?)

Then there’s this girl...

...who is feeling it. She’s like, hell yeah, this is my jam!

And there’s this girl in the goggles...

...who, after TJ and Cyrus sing the “be myself, respect my youth” part, is like, okayyyy. I see you.

Here’s a fun(?) behind-the-scenes thing for this blog. A few months back, I was thinking about ways to replace “Moments” if we had, by some miracle, gotten a season four, since I would’ve run out of moments weeks after the finale. What I came up with was “The Random Andi Mack Extra of the Day.” It would’ve just been screenshots of random extras throughout the show’s run. Upon some reflection, this was a bad idea.

The first problem here is that I get the feeling those posts would’ve gotten, at most, 20-30 notes each, because no one really cares about random, out of context extras and it doesn’t seem like a thing people would want to reblog.

The second problem is, knowing myself, I probably would’ve spent hundreds of hours during the hiatus between s3 and s4 making 1000 of them in the first place, just so I could have them ready to go. I would’ve absolutely done this without testing the waters first to see if there was any interest. (Just like with the “Moments.” I made like 300 of them before I made the first post about them.)

So, the most likely scenario was going to be me, two weeks into “The RAMEotD,” looking at flopping posts, then looking at my folder of 800 screenshots of Andi Mack extras and going, “Well, what am I going to do, not post them? I already did all the work!” And I would keeping queuing them up, and they would keep appearing on this blog every day, and they would taunt me with their 22 notes. You remember the work you did? IT WAS FOR BUT A PITTANCE!

So I guess what I’m saying is maybe it’s for the best. The cancellation saves me from myself.

Hey, though, heads up. If and when you go back and watch the series again, pay attention to the extras -- the unsung heroes of the entertainment industry. There are some extras reallllly putting in work on this show. It absolutely adds to the delightful quality of Andi Mack. Every time I would spot someone in the background being goofy or really overselling whatever they were supposed to be experiencing, it filled me with joy.

It’s a fun show. Everything about it is fun, including the little details.

Ooh, a serious one. This is going to be my first ever hybrid Discussion/Analysis post.

Okay, so I think we’re talking about two different things here.

I won’t argue that I think Tyrus could have absolutely happened sooner and been explored more.

I obviously can’t say with certainty, but I assume that was at least somewhat the plan leading out of season two. The setup for their relationship was all already there by the end of it. They’d met, they had bumps, they grew really close, and they capped the whole season off with TJ looking back at Cyrus. All the elements were in place that you could jump right into this storyline in TJ’s next appearance. (Not necessarily them canoning, but at least the exploration of TJ’s feelings or some movement towards canoning.)

When Cyrus’s lookback happened, it was addressed in the very next episode (granted following a break in seasons). I don’t know that TJ’s would’ve been as immediate, but I don’t think you have him look back in the season two finale if you don’t intend on truly paying it off for 21 episodes. (Or, at least 13, if you want to say 3x13 was the real start of a storyline involving TJ’s homosexuality.)

So, yeah, look, I’m speculating wildly, but I would imagine the original creative idea was to address TJ’s lookback early in season three and start getting into it, and that, yes, that idea was likely kiboshed from above.

What I will argue is that the bench scene is subtle but not ambiguous. We’ve made the semi-joke constantly around here that there’s “No heterosexual explanation for this!” but, truly, there is no heterosexual explanation for the bench scene: two boys, one of whom has already explicitly stated he’s gay, slowly reaching for and holding each other’s hands, intertwining their fingers while they sit by the fire and stare into each other’s eyes, nervously smiling. This is something that has been built towards for multiple seasons. If you’ve been watching the show, if you’ve been paying attention to it, if you care about the characters, especially TJ and Cyrus, it’s very clear what’s happening here.

This feels like talking about people who weren’t sure Cyrus was gay after the first two times he came out because he didn’t use the word. Or people who thought Cyrus wasn’t gay anymore after he said his crush on Jonah was gone. I sympathize with some of the younger set who maybe don’t have the world sense to follow along with this, but, come on, at some point, we’re three seasons in and you have to keep up with the level of the storytelling. I don’t mean this in an insulting way, but if someone can’t get what’s happening here, then maybe this whole thing isn’t for them. Maybe if all they know right now is that Cyrus is gay and accepted and happy, then that’s good enough, and they can hold onto that idea and grow with that and catch the next train, whenever it comes along. Maybe this moment is for all the people who get it.

That’s about the kids in the casual audience. Now, if we’re talking about an adult homophobe -- one who would express the kind of outrage that we believe Disney fears -- it’s a different story. If an adult homophobe is really watching that scene and thinking, “Seems pretty straight to me” then it feels like it doesn’t matter what they would’ve done in the finale. They could’ve said “gay,” they could’ve said “boyfriend,” Cyrus and TJ could’ve lead a pride parade down the street outside Celia’s house while blasting -- well, I was going to pick a gay song here for the joke, but probably “Born This Way” would be the most appropriate one, so -- “Born This Way” from loud speakers, and that homophobe would’ve been like, “Nice parade.” As ignorant as homophobes are, even they are not that dense. An adult pretending Tyrus isn’t a couple after the bench scene requires a level of impenetrably willful ignorance.

Anyway, the truth is that angry homophobes aren’t watching the show. They never do. They like to read headlines and get mad, but they’re cowardly and, most of all, lazy, and they don’t like to put in the actual footwork. They like to leave comments on articles they haven’t read, about shows they haven’t watched. They like to post reactions to stuff they see in their Facebook feed or send one sentence responses like, “There goes Disney Channel!!!” or “What is happening to our country?!?!” And then they like to scroll on to the next thing that will feed their sad rage about how the world is changing around them.

If you want to think about Disney censorship as a way of preventing those homophobes from being outraged, it’s not the textuality of the scene itself, it’s the placement at the end. Delaying them canoning until the finale just makes for less work. Show’s over. There’s nothing to defend. No one’s signing a petition to get a show off the air that’s just aired its last episode. Most of the articles written will be about everything happening in the finale, and Tyrus would just be a part of it.

And that is more or less what’s happened. Just about every major article I’ve seen about the finale has discussed Tyrus, and discussed them as textually getting together -- again, there’s no ambiguity there -- but has also brought them up in conjunction with what happened with Andi and Jonah, with Muffy getting together, and with Andi getting into SAVA. And the articles themselves tend to largely be about the show ending as a whole and its impact. (No one needs to send me articles trying to prove or disprove this. I’ve been over a lot of them. Some are more Tyrus focused -- the ones in the gay media for sure -- and some just mention it -- more traditional media sources. This is the general gist of most of them.)

So the article headlines mostly read “Andi Mack Finale” or “Andi Mack Ends Run” or something like that. The homophobes -- who, again, aren’t watching the show and are getting all their information about it via article headlines -- see those headlines and don’t even remember Andi Mack was the show they hated from two years ago because their rage is mostly performative and short-lived. They get mad in the minute but forget about the specifics of the stuff within a day.

Like I said in the recap, I won’t argue that there’s a scene with more that wouldn’t work, but I personally don’t see the bench scene as not having accomplished everything it needed to.

Oh, that went longer than I thought it was going to be. Not very lightning round of me.

This actually got sent a while back but it was still in my inbox and I figured I’d throw it in here in case the anon saw it. Lightning round!

Sorry, anon, I wasn’t ignoring you and I appreciate you reading my old recaps, but you were the second anon to piece together that I am actually blessed with psychic powers.

I don’t really have any plans to, sorry.

I had only planned to do one set before and after the finale for Tyrus Week, but I will point you and anyone else interested in making their own TJ and Cyrus texts to this post I made that should give you the basic tools needed for the job. (Use them! You wouldn’t believe what a pain in the butt it was to get that background clean like that!)

Thank you, honestly. That’s so, so sweet. But I have no plans to do that.

Like I mentioned at the start of this post, I’m working on something now that I’ll tell you guys about shortly that’s look-backy and will hit on some stuff from those seasons. (Though not in the same vein as the recaps.)

The recaps take a long time to produce, and as much as I’ve loved this show and this fandom, I will be honest and tell you guys I am sort of planning my exit.

This blog has become something of a part-time job for me. Not in the work sense because I have truly enjoyed all this, but just in the time sense. I’ve put a lot of time in and I would like to rededicate that time back toward other things I’ve put on hold for the last year and a half.

It’s starting to feel like making you shout Lightning Round! each time was a mistake now that I’m answering stuff seriously or sadly.

I was getting emotional multiple times while writing it, because of the show, because of the fandom, because of this whole journey we’ve all been on together.

I appreciate you saying this so much because that’s what I’ve always hoped has come through in the things I’ve written about this show. That I’ll make jokes or point out holes or goofy details or whatever, but that I couldn’t do this -- I couldn’t commit myself to this as much as I have -- if I truly didn’t love the show. That everything I’m doing here comes from a place of love and celebrating the show and embracing it for its good stuff and its silly stuff.

It wasn’t a perfect show, but that was always what made it kind of perfect.

Thanks for the asks. Thus ends the lightning round.

[animebw]

Binge-Watching: Carcaptor Sakura, Day 9, Episodes 50-53

At long last, I’m out of my self-imposed hiatus and back to this absolutely delightful show! In which the stress is getting to everyone, Sakura takes another level of badass, and FUCK ERIOL FOREVER JESUS

Feeling the Burn

Coming back to Cardcaptor after a few days of break, what strikes me the most, once again, is how different this final third feels from the show that came before. Now that Sakura and company are reacting to an enemy invasion, as opposed to actively tracking down all the Clow Cards, there’s a definite sense of the characters no longer being in full control of the plot. And the biggest impact of this change is the effect is has on the characters themselves. Sakura is exhausted from the effort of transforming the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards, and she spends the majority of these episodes sleeping or trying not to fall asleep. Kero begs her to keep her spirits high, because “What will we do if something happens and you’re not your usual cheerful self?”, which sounds more like foreshadowing every time he repeats it. Even Yuktio/Yue can’t escape it; what started as a funny gag about Yukito needing to eat more to satiate the god living inside him takes on a somber edge, at Yue opines that with Sakura’s limited magical powers not enough to sustain him, it might not be long before he fades away, taking Yukito with him. The scene where Toya begs Yukito not to disappear, aside from being about the most wonderfully gay shit ever, was a shockingly dark admission of how dire the situation actually is. If Toya is worried enough to confront Yukito directly about it, things are really in bad shape.

There’s an obvious weight hanging over everyone’s shoulders, and it only seems to be getting heavier the more magic bullshit Clow Reed throws at them. Our heroes are constantly outmatched, in the dark, trying to catch up to a challenge that’s leaving them further behind every second. And that’s all even before we get to what might be the darkest part of this new paradigm: the threat to the cards themselves.

Saving the Cards

So, it seems like Clow Reed has cut off the magic he shares with the Clow Cards, which is why Sakura can’t use them until she transforms them into Sakura Cards so they can feed off her own magic. But as Kero explains, there’s a greater threat at play here: without magic to keep them sustained, it won’t be long before the remaining Clow Cards regress to just ordinary cards, robbing Sakura of the makeshift family she’s built up. That’s a frightening concept. And with her magic still limited and every card transformation sapping her energy more and more, there’s only so much Sakura can do to help.

But fuck me if she isn’t gonna try.

The scene where Sakura throws caution to the wind and saves 8 Clow Cards at once, refusing to give in to her increasing exhaustion, was legitimately fist-pumping in a way I didn’t expect from this show. Sakura has grown in a lot of ways since the start of the show, and she’s less willing to back away from a challenge now, especially when the “people” she cares about are on the line. Her saving Dash from its panic might just be the show’s new statement of purpose. Everything sucks and it hurts like hell, but no fucking way we’re just gonna let it roll over us. And I wish Sakura all the luck in the world taking down the Asshole Triad. She’s gonna need it.

FUCK OFF ERIOL

Speaking of the Asshole Triad, it’s been confirmed that yes, they were who I thought they were. Eriol is the reincarnated Clow Reed, Glomphy Girl Naruko is Ruby Moon, and the cat from the intro is the panther Spinel Sun. What’s interesting is that I have no idea what their game is at the moment. It seems like Eriol’s got more on his mind than just sticking random curses in literally everything Sakura owns and letting them run wild. Is he testing her? Seeing if she’s worthy of being his successor? I’m not sure.

What I am sure of is that Eriol is the FUCKING WORST AND HE CAN GO DIE FOREVER. Seriously, fuck his smarmy face, fuck his condescending attitude, and fuck how casually he messes around with Sakura’s life under the pretense of being nice. And on that particular subject, my fears are not yet assuaged as to the love triangle aspect. We know for sure that he’s the villain now, yet the show still gives him moments like kissing Sakura’s hand that are framed with all the romantic flourish the show can muster. And it feels really disingenuous, especially now that Li has finally realized just how he fells about Sakura, like a ploy to keep the obvious OTP apart until the final few minutes. I pray to god we don’t have much longer before Sakura finds him out, because the more seriously the show treats this obvious non-starter of a romantic foil, the more tiresome it will become. And for a show that’s been so good at staying fresh and exciting, that would be a real shame.

Odds and Ends

-Man, I’ve been away for so long, I forgot how much I love the new OP and ED.

-Look, Sakura, at this point, you should know better than to trust Takeshi on aaanything.

-ffs Tomoyo just confess already

-OHSHIT HE BROKE THE CAMCORDER! Also, holy balls, Tomoyo, that was brave.

-Please don’t eat Toya, Ruby. I quite like him alive.

-Takeshi’s girlfriend really deserves better.

-Heh, Yue with the clutch romantic advice. You’re good on me, Angel Boy.

-WELL OKAY TEDDY BEAR KAIJU TIME

-GOD FUCKING DAMMIT NARUKO

-ffs Yue you gotta give her a warning before you take over her crush

-Well, that’s one way to handle an avalanche of stuffed sheep.

-YOU DON’T STEAL A MAN’S FRIED SHRIMP TOYA YOU ABSOLUTE BUTT

-SAKURA WE DO NOT TALK ON THE PHONE WHILE DRIVING

-That Dash card is cute as fuck.

Aah, it’s good to be back. See you later today with more Cardcaptor Sakura!

[stargleeksil-blog]

Criminal Minds S06E18 “Lauren” review - or more aptly named, FUCK!

Episode 18 – Lauren

Hey ... I know, that was a very tepid ‘hey’ and I think you guys know why. Holy fuck, I hope this isn’t going where I think this is going, but as always, trying to be hopeful.

Also, this episode was directed by Matthew Gray Gubler ... so I don’t know what to expect anymore.

Let’s see what happens.

Flashback. Wait. Is this when ...

“Jack told me you were provisional IRA.”

“Except … Ian … That’s a protestant name, isn’t it?”

“Not a lot of protestants in the IRA. Or is that how you proved you were a good fighter, defending your mother for giving you that name?”

“Right now I’m trying to get into business with a former IRA captain. He’s gone freelance. You might have heard of him.”

“Valhalla.”

It’s when Lauren met Ian ...

Oh, she is so fucking hot.

Back to the present.

“I got four names on the bottom of the list Prentiss gave us. Luke Renault, Lawrence Riley, Lila Rafferty, Lyle Rogers.”

“All with the initials L.R.”

“The CIA uses cryptograms like that to assign to non-official cover agents working the same case.”

“So do other foreign countries.”

“These last four names are covers … spies.”

Considering the gravity of the situation, this shouldn’t be turning me on so much. but Derek in an authoritative/teaching position always gets my juices flowing.

“Wait. No. This isn’t right.”

My genius goddess to the floor.

“Do you see this space? That shouldn’t be here.”

“Could it be a formatting error?”

“No, this is a spreadsheet template. Formatting doesn’t allow for this.”

“There’s a missing name here.”

“It’s another spy whose cover is L.R.”

“Lauren Reynolds is dead.”

FINALLY!

“Lauren Reynolds is dead.”

“What?”

“Lauren Reynolds is dead.”

“Prentiss said that on a phone call seventeen days ago. But her intonation wasn’t surprise or grief. It was like a mantra, like she was reminding herself.”

“Lauren Reynolds. L.R.”

“If Prentiss is the last name on the list, she’s on Doyle’s list, too.”

“That explains her behavior the past month. The secrets, the evasion.”

“She’s been biting her fingernails again, too.”

“Guys.”

Oh dear fuck.

“She left her badge and her gun? Why would she do that?”

Oh my innocent babies.

“That doesn’t make sense. Why run?”

“We’re her family. We can help.”

“Doyle’s killing families.”

“She’s not married, not close to relatives. He was read to wipe us out.”

“She ran to protect us.”

Oh my fucking god, please find her soon.

“Battery’s dead, Fahey.”

“She’s a trained spy. She doesn’t want to be found.”

“She knows all of our tricks. We don’t know any of hers.”

“All right, then how do we find her?”

“Here’s how.”

“Ian Doyle’s our unsub, Prentiss is our victim. We profile their behavior and we treat it like any other case.”

“Because terrorism isn’t an area we specialize in, I’ve reached out to an expert from the State Department, someone who can also shed light on Prentiss’s past.”

“Who?”

“Her.”

“Let’s get to work.”

YES!

“How many men does Doyle have, Jack?”

“Any surprises?”

She already knows he’s there.

“I already do.”

“What are you gonna do, tell him?”

Did Prentiss just fucking shoot Jack? HOLY SHIT!

Elizabeth Bear: “The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.”

“Okay, so I talked to a friend from Langley. He couldn’t give me Emily’s full CIA history, but he could give me this.”

“She assumed the identity of Lauren Reynolds as part of a special task force called JTF-12.”

“I heard about them. They were profiling terrorists, weren’t they?”

“Yeah, assembled after 9/11.”

“CIA and western agencies contributed their best and brightest.”

“But serial killers and terrorists have different personality traits. How does Doyle fit in?”

“He was their last case.”

“And now the JTF is on his hit list.”

“Jeremy Wolff was victim number one, from Germany’s BND. Sean McAlister at Interpol was the second. He was the one that brought the JTF in to work on the Doyle case. He was murdered last week in Brussels with his wife and daughter.”

“Tsia Mosely of France’s DCRI. She got engaged to Jeremy earlier this year. After he died, she fled to DC.”

“And team leader, Clyde Easter, British SIS. He hasn’t checked in since Tsia’s murder. He was also in DC.”

“Did JTF make the arrests?”

“No, the host countries handled that. The team moved on to the next case.”

“If all they did was deliver the profile, how does Doyle even know about them?”

“Well, considering the shadowy nature of terrorist cells, they utilize a skill we don’t … infiltration.”

“Who was undercover on Doyle?”

“Emily. She made contact with him in Boston to get intel on Valhalla. She was posing as another weapons dealer.”

“Look at how she’s dressed. She seems awfully comfortable.”

My hurt puppy.

“How close did she get to Doyle as part of her cover?”

“The recon they did on Doyle included a background of all of his romantic relationships.”

“Emily was his type.”

“She asked you to stop here yesterday?”

“Yeah.”

“Change her boots and … get whatever she needed, I guess.”

“It’s never easy, you know, having to dig through ha friend’s life.”

“But that’s not what’s bugging you, is it?”

“You’re angry because she crossed the line with Doyle.”

“No, I’m not.”

“I’m angry because a group of mercenaries just shot at me. I don’t much like being shot at, Rossi.”

“Prentiss knew exactly what was going on, but she didn’t bother to tell any of us.”

“She couldn’t without putting us at risk.”

“Come on, man, we don’t know that. All we do know is that she slept with a terrorist for a profile.”

“And instead of coming clean with us about her dirty laundry, she just ran with it.”

“You think it’s that simple?”

“Till there’s a reason not to be.”

“Well … here’s one.”

“That’s her passport, the real one. Now, if you wanted to vanish, wouldn’t you take that with you?”

“That doesn’t mean anything.”

“I worked with that woman for five years. I put my life in her hands. I called her my friend.”

“But right now I can’t even say that I ever really knew her. Can you?”

“There’s something down here.”

In the toilet? Ew.

“What do you got?”

“It’s called a Gimmel ring. The husband and wife-to-be wear individual bands during the engagement and at the wedding.”

“You see the markings in the middle? Gaelic. Doyle gave it to her.”

“The ring is more than just a souvenir. Otherwise, why hang on to it all this time?”

“Why hide it from us?”

“What makes you think she went to Boston?”

“Well, the Doyle case started in Boston. Maybe she’s going back to old locations trying to hunt him down.”

“If he had us in his crosshairs, she wouldn’t run. She’d take the fight to him.”

Hot Prentiss doing surveillance.

And shoot, now I’m gay.

“You always ride in the second car, why?”

Cuz the first car is always the one to get hit. God, that Ian is scaring me.

“Are you going to … take care of me?”

“Good.”

“I just … assume you’ll tell me when you’re ready to tell me.”

“It’s … it’s beautiful.”

I’m going to barf up my tea.

“Sir, Tsia got a hit on one of Clyde Easter’s cover. He’s on a plane to Boston as we speak.”

“Have him detained as soon as he steps off. We need to go. “Garcia, you’re coming with us.”

“Okay, yes.”

“Step back, sir. You’re being detained as a suspect in a murder investigation.”

Well, that’s gotta suck.

“Hey, it’s me. Hotch asked me to try all your numbers, and I have this as an old listing, and you probably don’t even use it anymore, but if it is you and you’re out there, come home, please.”

“God, Emily, what did you think, that we would just let you walk out of our lives? I am so furious with you right now!”

“Then I think about how scared you must be, how you’re in some dark place all alone.”

“But you’re not alone, okay? You are not alone. We are in that dark place with you. We are waving flashlights and calling your name.”

“So if you can see us, come home. If you can’t, then …”

“Then you stay alive. ‘Cause we’re coming.”

My fucking heart. I’m going to take it out of my chest and put it on hiatus.

“I only want Doyle.”

God, she’s fierce.

“Where’s Doyle?”

HE FUCKING SHOT HER!

“Emily walked into a trap.”

“It looks like Doyle got into the SUV, but from this angle, you can see that he didn’t. Which I wish the Boston PD would have told me before I started watching it.”

“Sorry again for the screaming.”

Oh my innocent honey.

“She threw a flash-bang grenade into a car.”

“She’s lucky the three people inside didn’t die.”

“Is anybody else bothered by that?”

“Well, three bad guys.”

“Illegal as it is, I think Prentiss knows she has to be as ruthless as Doyle.”

“He’s come to the US to wage a public vendetta and hired a group of mercenaries to remain loyal to him. He has nothing to lose, so she has to act the same way.”

“So how did Doyle know she was waiting for him?”

“Well, the mole must have told him, right? The same guy who’s been feeding Doyle the contractors and agents?”

“And our best suspect was just arrested with a suitcase full of cash.”

“How do we get Easter to talk? He won’t cooperate willingly.”

“I’ll handle that. The rest of you focus on Doyle’s location.”

“I hate to be the one to ask this, but how long does Emily have?”

“Her best chance is also the most troubling. Doyle saved her for last because he views her as his stressor. Which means he’ll take his time.”

I’m seriously worried right now. I am not liking this at all.

He’ s seriously asking her about the ring? It’s that important to him?

“I flushed it.”

She has tattoos?

“Yep.”

“And that’s enough ink, thanks.”

Oh my fucking god, he’s going to sear it into her flesh. STOP IT!

“Who’s that?”

“Jack Fahey, Irish mob. He called Easter’s call phone twelve times in six hours.”

“Any connection to Doyle?”

“Boston PD says he’s low level.”

“But the Irish mob has long-standing ties to the IRA, see if you can get anything out of him.”

So basically their only connection and possible lead is a fucking moron loser. Nice.

“Why are you doing this? Why are you keeping me alive?”

“I know what you want.”

“You want Lauren Reynolds back.”

“I can do that. I can be her.”

“I have no illusions. But I’m tired of this. Of being afraid.”

“October 2006, ‘In closing, I have never worked with a finer agent that Emily Prentiss. Her skill at analyzing and predicting terrorist behavior is unparalleled.’ Signed, name redacted.”

“You used all the right buzzwords, told us everything we wanted to hear.”

“You sold her to us the same way you sold Doyle to the North Koreans.”

“It takes a skilled sociopath to betray his team and the cause he held dear for self-preservation. If you cooperate with us and we save Agent Prentiss, then maybe we could talk about a deal.”

“But if anything happened to her, I will destroy you. You can count on that.”

“We’ll get Doyle with or without you. Pack lightly. Guantanamo gets humid.”

“You’re not the sociopath. Doyle is.”

“I thought you were a better profiler.”

Ooh, burn.

“Why were you calling Clyde Easter so much, Jack?”

“What do you think?”

“Narcissism masking deep-seated insecurity.”

“So if we puncture his self-image, this hood rat will talk.”

XD

“Well, you look like one.”

“You smell like one.”

“You smell that?”

“Hood rat.”

“Hey, Jack. Do you know what a hood rat is?”

Nope.

“See what I mean? He’s just gonna have to learn the hard way.”

“What happened to it?”

Prentiss happened to it.

Oh shit!

“Where’s Prentiss?”

“Lauren Reynolds. Where is Lauren Reynolds?”

“You tell us where she is right now, or I swear, I’ll send you to a prison where they’ll teach you what a hood rat is.”

Son of a bitch, I’m terrified of Rossi right now.

“200,000?”

“What other leverage do we have?”

“Is he an addict?”

“He’s having a nicotine fit.”

“We wouldn’t let him smoke.”

“We could use that. He’d relax, open his big mouth.”

“Is that enough?”

”Well, I’m pretty good with narcissists. Dated a few.”

“I’m looking to get into business with a former IRA captain who’s gone freelance. Valhalla.”

“I just wanted …”

Someone get Doyle already. Damn.

I love Rossi’s defensive side

“Mind your manners.”

“You’re already extorting us for Prentiss’s location.”

“So, just out of curiosity, what’s it like working for Doyle?”

“No! This was about you and me! That’s what you said! You and me!”

“Whatever you want to do to me, I accept, but leave them out of it.”

“Shoot Fahey. If he dies, my team doesn’t have anything.”

“Wow. I bet you’re his hookup, aren’t you? I mean, after all, you’re the man.”

Bad cop/sexy cop? Really?

Fuck. They took out Fahey.

“Down!”

FUCK!

“That’s not going to come out.”

“I know.”

“Ashley, we have a problem. Without Fahey, there’s not much left.”

“We all want to save Prentiss so bad that we can’t see this case straight.”

“We depend on the team member with the freshest eyes.”

“You haven’t worked with Prentiss for five years. You’re unprejudiced.”

“Now, what’s been bugging you since we left Quantico? How about the affair? That bugs me.”

“How does the two of them sleeping together change Doyle’s profile?”

“I don’t know.”

“Come on, Ashley. It’s textbook.”

“I haven’t read every textbook.”

“You want me to hold your hand?”

“Fine. What doesn’t fit?”

“Just say it!”

“What are you thinking?”

“Spit it out!”

“Why families?”

“Keep going.”

“Prentiss is Doyle’s stressor. He wants revenge on the woman who betrayed him, and I understand that. But why kill that child in DC?”

“There’s the agent I’m looking for.”

“Come on. Let’s get you a new shirt.”

One of the best scenes so far.

“So, assuming Clyde isn’t the mole, we looked through the JTF’s personal records again, and Jeremy made some fancy plans before his death.”

“Specifically, he bought a large estate in Spain …”

“He signed all the documents with one of his covers. Made a down payment in cash, deposited the rest.”

“So Jeremy sold the list to Doyle.”

“He was the first victim, killed quietly.”

“Doyle didn’t any attention until he was ready.”

“Did Tsia know?”

“I can’t tell.”

“If I were running from a terrorist, I would cash in my IRA. Not that one. The other … you know what I mean.”

“My point is, Tsia didn’t touch that money, so I don’t think she’s in on it.”

Lordy, I needed this scene. Both information and preciousness.

“Did you know that Jeremy sold the list to Doyle?”

“So when you got to DC, you couldn’t trust Tsia either. Prentiss read your doubt as duplicity and so did we.”

“Would you have told me?”

“Someone we both care about is in trouble. I need the original profile when Doyle was a terrorist. We combine that with who he is now as a serial killer.”

So they’re going to work together. About fucking time.

“Okay, so how does this fit in with who he is as a family annihilator?”

“And Prentiss’s role in it.”

“Annihilators have a romanticized view of who their family is.”

“Well, they think of their family as their possession, until some law shatters that and starts them killing.”

“Children?”

“You run your profile that he carried out his murders with surgical-like precision.”

“With no collateral damage.”

“Perhaps this child was a surrogate for one he had.”

“Say Doyle had a child and you didn’t know about it. Is it possible that Prentiss did?”

“Who else was in the compound the day that you arrested Doyle?”

“All Irish?”

“That’s a start.”

Oh dear fuck, that is so fucking cute!

“Four, five, six … Seven, eight, nine, ten. Ready or not, here I come!”

“Aww, I’m gonna get you!”

“I don’t see you. Ahh! I’m gonna get you!”

“Having kids?”

“Be a little hard with what we do, don’t you think?”

“I ... I thought he was your housekeeper’s.”

“I can’t do that. Not here.”

“Or … I could get you out.”

“I have resources. Contacts. He would be safer. And he’d have a father.”

“You want me to raise your son so he can have your life?”

“There are so many things I would do to make you happy. But … I can’t do this.”

So Emily gave Interpol photos of his dead son? WHAT THE FUCK?

“There’s something you don’t know about those photos.”

“I got him! Matched Irish immigration records based on Doyle’s employees.”

“Declan Jones, he’s the only boy who matches. He settled in Boston eight years ago, adoptive guardian Louise Jones.”

“Are they still alive?”

“Declan and his mother went missing seven years ago. Bodies never found.”

“Wait, what is this?”

“God, someone took pictures of them being shot.”

“Is there an address?”

“That looks like a warehouse.”

“It’s gotta be big enough to house a small army. That’s weapons, supplies.”

“Let’s see … which means, it has its own perimeter. I got it, 1518 Adams Street.”

“After your arrest, I relocated Louise and Declan. And then I got a call.”

“Interpol had sent back our profile. The Head of the Terrorism Division wanted more dirt on you so they could break you.”

“No. I wouldn’t let him be a pawn.”

“The things they would have done to get you to talk …”

“But I knew, even if I didn’t cooperate, they were going to find him eventually.”

“So I had to …”

“I had to end his suffering before it could begin.”

Did he just fucking slap her?

“Wait, wait, look at that.”

“Morgan, come look at this.”

“I put him in the profile after the pictures were taken.”

Okay ...

“It’s black clothing and a hand, Reid.”

“No, look at the fingernails.”

“Oh, my God!”

Oh shit!

“You don’t know when the pictures were taken. You don’t know that.”

“I’m the one holding the gun.”

“You want to hear his last words to me?”

“He said, ‘I looked pretty good for a dead kid, didn’t I?’”

“And then he got on the plane and I never saw him again.”

“Just because I held a gun to him doesn’t mean I shot him.”

“I only had to make you and the North Koreans believe he was dead.”

Hold up. She made it look like she killed Declan, but he’s actually alive? And they tortured Ian with it? OH MY FUCKING GOD! People are awful.

“Agent Prentiss is the only friend in the building. Rescuing her is our primary objective.”

“Our only advantage here is stealth. Once they know we’re on site, there’s nothing to stop them from killing her. So we keep it quiet until we get her.”

“I beat you, Ian.”

“Before you even got out of North Korean. I beat you.”

“’Cause I gave Declan his life back.”

“No, you won’t.”

“Ever since you told my people about Fahey, I’ve been stalling you.”

“Cut the power.”

FUCK!

“I got her!”

“I got her in the basement on the south side.”

“I need a medic.”

“Prentiss.”

“Hey, it’s me, I’m right here.”

“You’re gonna be all right.”

“Stay with me, baby.”

“Come on, stay with me.”

“Let me go.”

“No, no. I am not letting you go.”

“Help me!”

“Listen to me, I know why you did all of this. I know what you did for Declan. I’m so proud of you. Do you understand that?”

“I am proud of you because you are my friend, and you are my partner.”

“No, Emily!”

“Come on, stay with me.”

“If you can hear me, please just squeeze my hand.”

“Just keep squeezing.”

“No.”

The perfect word.

“She never made it off the table.”

“Spence.”

“I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye.”

“Come here.”

This is too much for me. I don’t have anything to say.

Why are they talking behind closed doors?

Fuck.

“Passports from three different countries, and a bank account in each one to keep you comfortable.”

“Thank you.”

“Good luck.”

You have GOT to be kidding me! And Hotch knows

Walter Langer: “People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one. And if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”

So ... once again I’m speechless. I just .. I can’t come up with a witty ending for this. So I’ll leave this hear, with me emotions frazzled, and I’m seriously hoping that this will rectify itself soon.

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Riverdale Chapter/Episode 8: My Thoughts.

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Note: I’ll be completely honest, I only discovered Riverdale about a week into the hiatus, so I have been frantically watching and re-watching everything to get up to date and develop my own theories. So this is the first time I have watched a new episode as it aired (in Australia). —-

First thought is pretty simple:

I do not trust anyone on this show. The writers have done an amazing job of keeping everything very vague and open-ended. Almost too good though. It has very much left me a little jaded about the motives of every single character.

I don’t trust Polly. She has been presented as the innocent girl who got pregnant and sent away. The problem is, she has so heavily been represented as a victim in all of this, that I don’t believe her to be one. At least, not to the extent that she has been made out to be. She was given a choice between Thorn Hill and home, and in my mind, regardless of anything I don’t think her choice was for the better of her baby. I feel like she has an ulterior motive.

Alice Cooper on the other hand has definitely started to win my favour. Based on my own distrust for what we’re being shown, I had suspected for a while that she was less a matriarch and more a figurehead for a much greater darkness, and Chapter 8 really cemented that for me. Seeing her defend her daughter and herself, and kick out Hal was a big deal. I don’t like that she got physical though. I don’t want to be a social justice warrior, but I really can’t stand representations of domestic violence where there don’t need to be any. It’s good to see her getting some character development, and being humanised, but not at the expense of straight up assault.

I have no sympathy left for F.P. I could write a novel on the reasons why, but I feel like this episode explains it well enough for me. I’m especially not okay with what he’s doing with Joaquin and Kevin. Again, not wanting to come across as an SJW, but honestly being gay is hard enough. Being manipulated by it is just straight up shitty. I doubt that Joaquin’s hesitation is sincere though. I don’t trust them at all.

I don’t think for one second that I could ever believe the motives of the Blossom clan to be anything less than self-serving. They’ve done nothing to make me believe that they could be anything more than plain old evil. There’s not a shred of heart or soul in that family and I don’t think I could possibly be convinced otherwise.

Hiram, my god. Allegedly he has sabotaged his own build for the fact that he learned of Fred and Hermione’s infidelity. F.P. Asked the question “Who ratted you out.” The obvious answer is of course, Veronica. She knew, and Hermione betrayed her. Which of course means it wasn’t her. We’re not looking at a case of Occam’s razor, that’s not how the show works, and they know that we’re not going to suspect Veronica for a second. My bet is either on Hermione herself coming clean, or the Blossoms operating a takedown, but both options seem a little too much of a stretch, even by Riverdale standards.

The episode alluded to two possible culprits, potentially a third, as far as Jason Blossom’s killer is concerned. F.P. Be it the trigger man, or at the very least responsible for someone from the serpents, or Alice Cooper with her claim that she and Hal both know what she’s capable of by now. The third being Hal himself due to his incendiary reaction to Polly getting pregnant. Again though, by Riverdale standards, they seem TOO obvious. Even a tenuous link is starting to be too obvious now though. I think they have done such an incredible job of writing a genuine mystery that it’s impossible to trust your own theories as well as those that they are spoon feeding you. I want for the killer to come out of the subtleties of the show, that seems to be out of left field, but after they’re revealed, it’s actually reasonable to assume, and almost like a massive “oh shit, duh”. I doubt that’s how it would go down though.

For me, they’re relying a little too heavy on a false narrative and red herrings. They’ve become too good at slight of hand and it’s beginning to get a little bit exhausting. I’d like to see the characters actually get some real answers, because if the season finale doesn’t reveal the truth about Jason Blossom’s murder I think it’s going to grow tired and boring very quickly. There’s only so far you can take the suspense of this particular storyline before it loses too much touch with reality.

Archie still hasn’t redeemed himself in my mind, either. I feel like a single heart-to-heart with his dad and offering to help out on the job, or going to the bar to get answers isn’t going to redeem how much of a complete pubic hair he has been so far, between being so self-involved he managed to be completely oblivious to Betty’s issues, making out with Veronica the night Betty told him about her feelings, the Grundy thing, the taking Betty for granted things and the general Archiness of himself, I’m really struggling to have any kind of faith in the character at all.

I’m assuming that Jason’s killer’s identity is going to generate a whole new mystery to solve for the next season, but at the same time I think the characters need an episode or two next season where they don’t face drama to this scale. I would like to see them just living their lives before shit inevitably hits the fan.

I saw a post recently that I agree with whole-heartedly and I’ll retroactively link it here if I can find it, but it basically said that they want Bughead to be the anchor couple and I agree with that. We need an anchor couple, otherwise Archie’s drama is going to lose its value fast.

I have high hopes for this show going forward, and I REALLY don’t want to be let down.

[oltnews]

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Even if the union member Ellen the crew has the means to switch to home broadcasts, the DeGeneres team has made the decision to hire from the outside and even plans to reduce the salary of the regular crew by 60%, which has already experienced reduced hours. DeGeneres, who has a net worth value of $ 330 million, does much of the charity work on her show and recently announced that she and his wife Portia de Rossi would donate $ 1 million to charities related to COVID. But, unlike his football encounter with Bush, it is always much more instructive to understand how powerful people treat the non-powerful people on whom they depend, those who make their isolation possible. In its latest special stand-up - after a long hiatus from the industry - DeGeneres answered the question of whether it is still close enough to do stand-up in the first place. The result was a kind of meta-special with details of the minor downsides of her rich lifestyle - some ironic, others which she genuinely seemed to believe made her "normal." In fact, the question of relativity is one on which his portfolio depends, not only for a special stand-up strewn with strategic profanity, but also during a family daytime show. The more close Ellen can be to ordinary people on her show, the more she can get their attention. This mask however started to slip. https://oltnews.com/people-are-finally-starting-to-see-the-real-ellen-degeneres-and-its-not-pretty-the-daily-beast?_unique_id=5ea0411ec7696