#ashley facts

[leyleycraves]

Andy and I are now proud kitten parents oh my god

[leyleycraves]

This is going to be better than the assmobile, pp carcaine, and the beast!!

Though I wish there was more room in the back for backshots.

Also, a picture of my and Leyley's new (used) car, completely paid with cash so we can customize it however we want.

[midnightdemonhunter]

SO EAT YOUR FRIENDS THEY'D UNDERSTAND CAUSE THEY WOULD TOO

[camalyng]

elevate good times COME ON

This Mass Effect Trilogy Appreciation Week I wanna shoutout to ME1's Citadel elevator conversations!!!! They're such a fun way of adding some characterization and hints of how the squad gets along (and more species/cultural lore I guess, but I love them for the squad). No, Garrus, you're not the only one who misses when you used to chat in the elevators on the Citadel. You're just the only squad member who does.

Some of my favorite tidbits and dynamics from the elevator chats:

Everyone checking on Tali when racists give her dirty looks, with Ashley hoping Tali's fighting Saren will help change people's minds about quarians and Liara remembering quarian contributions to the galaxy

Kaidan's dorky "I'll... try not to sneeze" on learning about quarian envirosuits

Tali's bouncy fidgetiness. Adorable!

Kaidan's hand to his head, a visual reminder of the migraines from his biotic implant

Garrus managing to make a racist assumption and/or express turian supremacism to everyone on the squad except Ashley, because she actually agrees with his critique of the Alliance military's misogyny, resulting in them getting along very well

Garrus nerding out about the Normandy's stealth capabilities

Kaidan and Ashley's verbal flailing when Wrex calls them out on stereotyping krogan as all the same

Early foreshadowing to Uncle Urdnot in Wrex and Tali bonding and his gruff empathy towards her

Liara being comforted by civilization's reminders of ordinary life as what they're trying to protect, despite being enjoying being alone on dig sites

Intersquad compliments on Ashley's fighting skills and Liara and Kaidan's biotics

Ashley's continuous dislike of politicians

How the writing managed to make the same lines work for conversations with different squadmates

"So tell me, who’d win in a fight between you and Shepard?"

For those who missed some of these: Video of all but one elevator conversation, the missing one between Garrus and Liara, and @servantofclio's transcripts of many of them.

EDIT: Additionally, @crapeaucrapeau's transcripts of the rest!

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

BAU, Brown-eyed Asskickers’ Unit

Just realized that every single agent that’s ever been part of the BAU accept JJ (and Ashley) have brown eyes, how CUTE is that? Emily, Morgan, Luke, Elle, Penelope, Hotch (green-brown mix), Spencer (hazel), Jason, Rossi, Tara, all have brown eyes!

Even people who were here for like one season, Alex Blake, Jordan Todd, Kate Callahan, Tyler Green, Matt Simmons, Stephen Walker, all have brown eyes, like every single one.

They’re a little brown-eyed squad with their blue eyed princess JJ and hazel-eyed kings Hotch and Spencer, I’m gonna SOB 😭

Reblog this with BAU eye pics, they’re all so gorgeous

[double--blind]

(SPOILERS) Ashley, self-esteem, and starvation

So, I adore Ashley. She's this intensely toxic, vicious, cruel, manipulative girl, and her psychology gives me hella brainworms. Andrew's not the only one whose head I wanna crack open and root around lol. She's thrown away the world just to keep her brother by her side, and she'll continue to do worse and worse for the same reason. She's pretty awful! I've been thinking about why, though. How did things get so bad? How did her soul get so dark?

We don't know everything (I'm waiting for those new eps patiently aND CLAWING AT THE WALLS AND FROTHING AT THE MOUTH but whatevs y'know whatevs I'm normal. I'm fine), yet what information we have been given is bumping around my brain like a DVD screensaver on hyperdrive

It's clear from the start that the roots of Ashley's issues lie in her horrible, neglectful upbringing, but it's hinted that even those outside of her family felt the same abt her. I'm lowkey even betting we'll learn later on that she was ostracized by her peers somehow. However, what's most disconcerting, I believe, is how little she was when the results of this alienation are first made apparent to us (bc kids aren't dumb; they notice this stuff oftentimes instinctively, impossibly young, before they even know what it means to be hated), and how devastating the consequences were.

(There's something decidedly childish abt her dream sequence in the "questionable" route—filled with crayon scribbles and rabbit plushies, the metaphors simplistic yet profound—which really hammers in how these sentiments are things that have made a home in her since childhood. Formative subconscious truths.)

Growing up unloved and noticeably unwanted by virtually everyone around her likely left her with a gaping hole in her heart that she'd spend the rest of her life trying to fill. She'd make friends, but she'd always worry that they'd leave her, that they'd betray her, nothing tangible or weighted enough in their connection to trust in its persistence. Why should she expect otherwise? Not even being bound by familial ties ensures affection if her parents are any indication.

Every lesson she'd ever learned had always taught her this: you are easy to abandon. You cannot love and be loved by virtue of your own worth.

You have to rip their affection from their clenched hands if you want it so bad.

This understanding carries with it an undercurrent of degradation, instilling within Ashley a constant, biting inferiority complex which will never fail to be a source of insecurity. She will always be put last. She was difficult to raise, so her parents gave up on raising her. She was difficult to get along with, so her friends gave up on getting along with her.

It's an odd cycle. She's difficult bc she needs to be to get attention, but bc she's difficult, she can't keep it. Not without having whatever fondness she's managed to cultivate within someone fray at the seams, volatile and prone to collapse, bleeding toxicity.

Hence, her relationship w/Andrew.

By being the only reliable constant in her life, caring for her and keeping her company, Andrew essentially became her only source of happiness, and she's since learned not to bother with anyone else. Still, it's dangerous to keep all your eggs in one basket; since he is all she has, she must protect her place in his life with even greater ferocity, which becomes a torturous ordeal when coupled with her damaged self-esteem.

It's apparent in her quarrels with Andrew that she needs constant reassurance that she is wanted in some capacity or perceived in some positive light (getting pouty when Andrew says he's "stuck with her", needing to hear that she's pretty, needing him to "choose her", wanting him to say he loves her back, etc. etc.), yet her insecurity remains, bc unlike her, he's got options. She doesn't think he needs her like she needs him. He's got a gf, their parents love him, her friends love him. Why would he settle for her? What if someone better comes along? Someone she can't scare away?

Wouldn't he just leave her like everyone else?

Even before getting locked in the coffin of their apartment, starvation's been a constant theme in Ashley's life. She's constantly aching for love, and Andrew's the only one who can feed her. When you're forced to fight for a bite to eat or suffer every moment you hunger, you become ravenous—covetous—when faced with food; you don't want the hunger to return, so you lock down the source of your sustenance, wary of its retreat. Ashley's in a permanent state of intense insecurity, always anxious that the love that gives her life will leave her.

Andrew knows Ashley better than anyone else in the world, and it's obvs to everyone and him how desperate Ashley is for him, but I don’t think Andrew has truly, consciously processed the depth of that desperation. It's there buried in his head somewhere no doubt, but rn, he doesn't operate w/the direct awareness that he is everything. He is brother, mother, friend, and soulmate. He is life and love, air and water, everything that is good in the world—everything that there is to justify existence.

It's heartbreaking, in a way, that it's so difficult for Andrew to convince her of his loyalty. This goes further than his tendency to hide his true feelings, bc when push comes to shove, he's at her beck and call. Objectively, he's hers. She doesn't see that bc all she sees is all the ways she can lose him.

So, she gets bratty. She gets pushy, possessive, territorial. Manipulative. Gets under his skin, guilts him to exhaustion, bc she can't see him staying any other way, bc he doesn't get it, bc it works. He bends to her will, for her sake. For now. It's always "for now", bc he'll start slipping away again, and then it'll get worse. She does worse.

Becomes worse.

[knifefightandchill]

[melzzzzz]

that how that scene went, right?

[bamsara]

trick or treat!!!

TRICK

CHEESE BLOCK

[starsoftheeye]

one of my favourite things about until dawn is that while it may not make sense for josh to play the prank on the three people who arguably had the least involvement in the prank on hannah (ashley is ofc debatable but compared to the other 4 she was more of participant rather than an instigator), it means that those who instigated the prank receive their karma for what they did

mike, after leading a girl on and pretending to want to sleep with her has to watch his girlfriend be ripped away from him right as they are about to have sex, he then has to physically see the consequences of both his actions (shooting emily) and his inaction (being unable to save jessica in time)

emily is betrayed by someone she thought she could trust in a room full of friends who are not only doing nothing to defend or help her whatsoever but who have actively turned against and othered her. to rub salt in the wound, both times it's mike munroe commiting this betrayal

and jessica has to spend a night in the mines, cold and alone and afraid having no idea what is going on or what is in the dark with her, only that she is in danger and she is not alone. the only difference is that jessica gets someone to help her if matt survives

(am honourable mention is ashley being haunted by hannahs "ghost", plus dollhouse recreations and video proof of what she had been a part of, but that was josh not fate)

[leyleycraves]

Using a sticker of Andy as a censor. My fat fucking tits take up half the picture.

[character-smash-or-pass-3]

"It's John Halo himself. He doesn't afraid of anything."

[leyleycraves]

Hallejuiiiirrrr

I'm tired of living in shitty ass apartments. I want a house with good plumbing and wiring and central AC and structure. Im sick of having the fucking roof torn open because maintence cant finish installing the new fucking AC or having breaker blown bc a fucking socket cant handle a single vacuum.

[gwendolynnderolo]

me every time the critical role ladies do anything:

[ashleygraves-number1defender]

“I dont know whats wrong with you” andrew says, crawling into his little sisters bed (a regular occurrence)

[yashley]

“but I will tell you now that if the Raven Queen fucks with you, or hurts you, or doesn't change you for the better, then she's going to have to deal with me, and we're going to have a problem.”