#cm ramble

[emberfrostlovesloki]

Emily + Poetry

All photo credits at the end

Criminal Minds Characters + Virtues - Emily and Humility

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize" - Robert Hughes

I wish Emily's character had been more fleshed out, especially because of how smart she is. She has such a talent with all of her language skills that are only touched on a few times. Really the whole team is cheated this because Spencer is labeled "Smart Boy Genius" which is deserved, but he's not the only smart one on the team. Emily is a gem, pressed so hard she became a diamond and I adore her for her strength and smarts and how humble she stays the whole show.

Other Virtue Mood Boards: Aaron + Poetry, Rossi + Poetry, Spencer + Poetry, Derek + Poetry, JJ + Poetry

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Photo Credits

Top: Left (@shakespearesdaughters) Center (@fedyasmoyalyubov) Right (@sitkowski)

Middle: Left (@academic-vampire) Center (@emilyinsuits) Right (@unrealityliminal)

Bottom: Left (@kaijuno) Center (@chainsawjoy) Right (@letsbelonelytogetherr)

[mblue-art]

someone is having thoughts (he's trying sooo hard to be nonchalant and chill)

[winterstarfall]

yall i think my kitten likes hotch lmao

[tombstoneleigh]

I love Haley as a character and the concept of her storyline, but I hate how they portray her and hotch in the show. Hotch wasn't a "runaway"father, he wasn't unavailable, he wasn't a bad husband. She knew what his job entailed when she got married to him and they had a baby together, so did he. If hotch was a woman he would be the hero in the show, he would be rewarded despite being "unavailable". He canonically calls her multiple times a day, and checks in with her constantly. He's work driven, that doesn't make him a bad person. I think it was irresponsible from both of them to have a kid when they knew how busy the job was. She isn't a bad wife for wanting him home more, she handled things poorly at times but that doesn't make her a bad person either. They're both first time parents and both need a support system that they couldn't find in one another, they are just incompatible, not deadbeat parents or spouses.

[goldenloverss]

What is it with cm punk and these muscled up men who are younger than him . What kinda catnip does he have for these men to just be out here . Slutting it up

[reidsaurora]

Prentiss, on the phone: Hey, Hotch, can I borrow $5000?

Hotch: Why do you need $5000?

Prentiss: For an escape room.

Hotch: What kind of escape room costs $5000?!?!

Prentiss:

Prentiss: Jail.

[reinanova]

the look on reid’s face when he watches morgan take out the big gun on the jet in season 5 episode 19 omg

put him down as scared and horny

(a super low quality gif that i made bcuz it was important for you to See TM)

Bonus:

[ralvezfanatic]

not to go back to like 2021 but i need all eggpire haters to lowkey explode bc fym it was overrated.. u mfs didn't pay attention to it bc it wasnt ur favs like dream or tommy or whoever. it was a great storyline and really interesting, ppl just didn't like it bc it was from bbh. yall hated on him too much also likee ???

[prettyboyweather]

maybe i’m projecting but spencer is so ace coded- he’s demisexual and biromantic to me !!

[tobias-hankel]

I love how Spencer gets defensive of mentally ill unsubs. Just imagine how many comments he probably got about his mom growing up. That was the 80s and 90s - people were less aware of mental illness, made fun of it more, and people loved to talk.

I wonder if he always stuck up for her or if he couldn't. If he knew he shouldn't snap back at the neighborhood boys that were twice his size or the teacher that talked about things she didn't know about. I wonder if people made comments like that about Diana. Saying oh it's too bad what happened to poor Diana. She is too ill to work and her husband left her... She was so sweet too. And Spencer knows she is still sweet - that she can be sweet when she is lucid enough to remember who he is, when she reads to him and calls him Crash - even though she might never know that she is the reason he is bruised.

I like to think that Spencer stood up for her but he might also be too smart for that. He would have to shoulder those comments about his mom. He would go home and cry into his pillow because the world was hating on the only person he had left for something she can't control. But then Spencer gets himself into the FBI, gets a badge and a gun and a score of degrees, and he never has to listen to another negative comment about his mom - or anyone with mental illness.

Spencer might not have always been able to protect his mom, but he sure as shit isn't going to let anyone bad mouth her now.

[seasonal-depression-of-punk]

They left pieces of each other in that cell.

Pieces that they’ll never get back.

[emberfrostlovesloki]

Emily + Poetry

Photo Credits: Left (@literarydeor) Center (@resslersprentiss) Right (@shakespearesdaughters)

"It's not that teen girls love Nine Inch Nails songs with different lyrics. It's that teen girls loved Nine Inch Nails songs with those lyrics — all that jocky, cocky, screaming rage, all that raw male power that was supposed to scare or exclude us was relatable. Teenage girls get rage; they get self-hatred. Teenage girls know what it's like to want to cuss and scream and fuck and thrash around incoherently because you don't have the agency to do any of those things. Don't open your eyes, take it from me, I have found you can find happiness in slavery: What is that but the feminine condition, sung REALLY REALLY LOUD?" (Jude Ellison S. Doyle via @transmascmikey)

How is this not Emily? I imagine that Emily had a rocky relationship with her mom. That her mom was a bit of a control freak. I think joining the team reminded her how to have fun again. Remember how Hotch characterizes Prentiss to Strauss: "Prentiss overcompensates because she doesn't yet feel that she's a part of the team." At the beginning Aaron is right, but he then goes on to say, "She needn't worry." Hotch knows his team so well. And Em gets a chance to really be herself at the BAU. I am so happy that Emily got to have a family in the BAU. At it's core Criminal Minds is a found family story, and it makes me feel good inside.

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[mblue-art]

once again i was fueled with coffee (did not sleep the whole night) but this time i doodled college au to cope bc ofc i did (also did not feel like sleeping wooo)

[happenstobehere]

Penelope saying in 3x09 “I’m not like you guys I don’t see danger everywhere” and Emily saying to her in 6x17 “I know what the world can do to a girl who only sees beauty in it like you” do you guys ever think about dying

[goldenloverss]

Cm punk vc: I dig crazy chicks

Yeah we can tell

[reidsaurora]

Hotch: Jail is not fun, I'll tell you that.

BAU: You've been to jail?

Hotch, deadass: Once, in Monopoly.