#cxg asks

[tuiyla]

What are some of your fav cxgf songs? 👀

Mine is the absolute underrated bop that is "trapped in a car with someone you don't wanna be trapped in a car with", nothing will ever top the random dog noises during the second verse. Or the second verse in general. There are so many good lines in there I could make a top 10

Though I'm partial towards most Paula songs, I love her voice. His status is preffered also feels too underrated to me.

And of course, cxgf girl group numbers my beloved 😌

Ooh I have so many, first ones that come to mind:

Friendtopia, obvi

Group Hang

Villain of My Own Story

Miracle of Birth

REMEMBER THAT WE SUFFERED

Women Gotta Stick Together

Let's Generalize About Men

Don't Be a Lawyer

Our Twisted Fate

I'm So Good at Yoga

That was just the top 10 that came to mind but I could go on. Paula songs are fire, of course, my god those pipes. This show is so full of legitimate bangers. In general the only songs I don't tend to care for are Josh solos (nothing to do with the actor he sounds great I just don't much like Josh or his songs). Wish we had more Heather stuff, she's probably my fave.

[tristinart]

transmasc josh chan. do you see my vision

[cult-of-the-eye]

I mean this in the best way but watching your slow mental breakdown about crazy ex girlfriend is very entertaining

ok listen. pov you see me, in bed after a long day (crying, stress etc etc), i am finding ways to soothe myself. so what do i do? i go back to my hyperfixations of old i.e. crazy ex girlfriend.

it was an AMAZING show like COME ON there was so much positive representation of so many issues and not even in like a braggy way, they were just people living their lives and rebecca bunch?? oh my god don't even get me STARTED on her she represents me at my darkest times, she makes me feel like i deserve a happy ending, a good life, she makes me feel like i can be BETTER. like oh my god her arc of falling to pieces and then picking herself up again and then slowly stabilising is just so REAL to me and satisfying to watch, her self loathing and then self confidence, her fury, her sadness, her happiness, her strength like oh my goddddd

And ALSO!!! IT'S A GOD DAMN MUSICAL!! An amazing one at that!! it just is so clever and hilarious and witty and real and heart wrenching (to this day i have not managed to watch the very last episode cause i'll never stop crying, it's not a sad ending it just makes me emotional). the main cast is like well-fleshed out, they each get their moment and i genuinely love all of them

crazy ex girlfriend is a wonderful story about a woman who doesn't move to west covina, california to chase her ex boyfriend please watch it

(josh chan frustrates me, i would've loved her to be with greg but i understand why that couldn't happen, NATHANIEL MY BELOVEDDD)

thank you for enabling the rant this has been very enjoyable

[cephaloprincess]

I noticed ur rqs are open...could u draw your winner gijinka again Grins Wide (maybe loser too if u want. Maybe)

this ask made me get up and run around like a deranged beast /pos so of course i had to finish my designs for them... and draw some doodle pages while i was at it...!! i had just been thinking about finalizing their designs so it was perfect timing really :]

i feel like the vibes of my winner design is like... a cool music teacher whos secretly a retired rockstar and they dont want anyone to find out about it.. lol.. also i was going for a "dresses like Gonzo" kind of look. i think i succeeded. jurys still out if they are actually a music teacher but thats the vibe

i was so excited abt drawing them that it took me a bit bc i kept having to get up and go crazy .. hehe but yea bla bla bla i love weenor and loosr i hope u enjoy :D

[koheletgirl]

rachel bloom should have written the tortured poets department send tweet

the thing about ttpd is that i was thinking about rebecca the whole time

[talaricula]

a rly underrated thing about crazy ex girlfriend imo is that it's one of the rare shows i know of that really spends time on exploring what the process of having children is like for queer ppl/for those who go about it "non-normatively". it's not even rly a main storyline but i still find it rly well-handled and touching.

[eyesontheskyline]

me ripping out obviously hotchniss moments from jemily stans’s cold dead hands: MINE

I saw a post where someone said Emily was staring at JJ at Haley’s funeral??😭 Hello she was looking at her mans 🤨

This was inspired by the season 7 jet scene bc I just saw someone saw it’s a jemily moment😀 hello she and hotch were literally about to kiss

Ha oh god.

I honestly hate that jet scene as a Hotchniss moment AND as a Jemily moment. I can see it for both, because if you take what she's saying at face value, he's asking 'how did you get by?' and her answer is having contact with JJ. And of course there's those super warm smiles Hotch and Emily share.

But it doesn't make any sense for them to keep in touch that way - it's reckless and stupid, and I have a hard time believing either of them would've compromised something so high stakes. It makes me like them less as people and as a ship to think they did that, so I just. . . don't. And I also think there needs to be an actual answer to how she got by in Paris, or (preferably) some kind of admission that she kind of didn't - it was hard, and lonely, and she missed her friends, and everything wasn't okay then and isn't okay now. I think it was a bit of lazy writing, to make us feel like being smuggled away to Paris while still physically recovering from near-fatal injuries to hide all alone for months from the terrorist who nearly killed her was not a trauma, so it's fine that the show doesn't deal with it. So I kind of ignore the actual content of the scene - it doesn't make sense to me, and I think it's tonally weird considering the subject matter.

I think everyone is looking at Hotch during Haley's funeral, because how could you not be? It's devastating, and he's devastated, and they all care about him so much. I struggle with the 'truther' vibes of some of the Jemily section of the fandom a little bit, but I did used to write some Jemily back in the day, and I can kind of see it early on. But to me it's kind of the same vibe* as when people try to prove that Hotch and Emily were literally secretly in a relationship during S4-5 and here are the breadcrumbs the show dropped to prove it. . . Like, it's fine to write around what's in the show, to see the little moments and build on them, but the show is not trying to drop breadcrumbs for us to pick up on to plant the idea that they're in a relationship off screen - if they wanted the relationship to be canon, they would write it.

I think shipping is at its best when everyone just admits what we're doing is making our dolls kiss the way we want - it doesn't need to be more canon or more right than anyone else's ship, it just needs to be the one we personally enjoy. You can ship the same character in more than one ship, you can ship two characters who never even met. . . literally whatever you find enjoyable. And what's even better about it than smushing dolls together is there are infinite dolls - my Emily can be kissing Hotch and someone else's can be kissing JJ and someone else's can be starting a new life under the sea and it's literally fine.

I think what I kind of struggle with is when people watch the show looking for only their ship. Like, it's valid to watch the show however you watch it, but those are the posts I personally find grating. So like, Emily and JJ giving each other the eyes at Haley's funeral - I think that undermines the love and respect and friendship they all feel for Hotch. I've been at a bunch of funerals, and I wasn't like. . . checking out my love interest. I was thinking about the dead person and the people who loved them the most. And the moment when Emily saves Will at the bank - making that about Jemily takes so much away from both Emily and Will as characters, for me. Idk. I just like the complexity of the characters, and for me personally that's what makes shipping fun, so any time I have to ignore the complexity of the characters to do the shipping, I'm out.

(* except with an unfortunate side of 'this is morally superior because Emily was going to be a lesbian before they decided she wasn't')

[pansexual-lilychen]

CXG is literally one of the BEST shows ever made, it's been over for years and I'm still obsessed. So rewatchable, and the characters are so loveable. Rebecca >>>>

literally it is so good it still lives in my mind rent free and i do think it is somehow simultaneously ahead of its time & a progressive push in television we needed right then. rachel bloom is a comedic genius and a visionary.

also please tell me your favorite songs!!

[septembersghost]

give me a minute — lizzy mcalpine, and the soundtrack of any crazy ex-girlfriend season of your choice

give me a minute

my favorite lyric: every house looks the same in my dreams/every house feels like home for a couple weeks/i've been running 'round trying to find a place where i can breathe

my favorite song: pancakes for dinner

the song that makes me cry: nothing/sad 'n' stuff

the song that’s a fucking bop: over-the-ocean-call (it's not necessarily a bop because it's not a bop album? but that song is so vibey!)

the song i most dislike/least love: you, love (interlude) (kinda cheating because it's such a lovely album!!!)

CXG! let's do season two?!

my favorite lyric: the entirety of (tell me i'm okay) patrick lol

my favorite song: the math of love triangles, but i also think let's have intercourse is one of the funniest pieces of outright satire they ever did (same with i go to the zoo in S3, something about nathaniel...)

the song that makes me cry: it was a sh*t show (out of context that sounds so funny) and also rebecca's reprise

the song that’s a fucking bop: we'll never have problems again!!!

the song i most dislike/least love: makey makeover

[razmerry]

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is now on Netflix. I've been waiting for an opportunity to watch this for ages thanks to you promoting it

Oooh HOORAY!! I'm so glad more people get to watch that amazing show. And I'm very glad my CXG campaign worked on someone >:)

[tuiyla]

my friends let me put on my tunes in the car (a mistake) and I played some cxg songs including we tapped that ass and because my friends didn't have the show context it sounded to them like josh and Greg were talking about fucking each other. Anyway, in closer (gcv) it kinda sounds like Jake and Ryder are singing about wanting to get with each other. We love cxg x glee parallel (songs without context sounding like 2 guys who are actually fighting over a girl want each other)

Haha good on you.

Very enlightened third eye parallel there. I don't know if I could ever hear We Tapped That Ass that way because I know the context but I can see it. I didn't use to see the appeal of Puckerlynn but the more I think about the more valid I think it is and particularly those duets. But even when giffing I Do I was like... so is Ryder jealous of Jake or Marley, you decide. They really should have pulled a Korrasami huh.

Speaking of CXG x Glee parallels when Valencia freaked out when Rebecca fully kissed her because it's only supposed to be "cute and for attention" I was like ahh a classic case of Lopez. Luckily Valencia also has a proper Sapphic awakening. Also lmao Valencia read Lea Michele's journalling book 💀💀 gurl you're too good for that

[terrainofheartfelt]

Progress report: what are your favorite cxg songs so far?

S, I love you for asking this of me <333

okay so I am *check's netflix progress* part way through s1e07, so there's still much more music to go. That being said, my faves of these first 6.5 episodes are: "I'm a Good Person" (a banger), and the Sexy French Depression song (wee too relatable innit) and the Sexy Getting Ready song, and the song from the Thanksgiving episode where Rebecca is like "all parents love me," OH and Paula's Face Your Fears Song in which she gives terrible advice but it's Paula and I would do whatever she says.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

yes that's paula in the back she sang after everything i've done for you (that you didn't ask for)! im so <3333 but also i dont think i ever talked about that song lol how do you know it?

hi sO SORRY I SAW THIS AND CACKLED AND SHOWED GRACE AND THEN JUST TOTALLY FORGOT TO RESPOND IOUYGFCDXCFUYTFRDFTGYUI

lol YES I WAS RIGHT!!! i'm getting a good grade in mutual

so i wrote this satosugu fic where when geto killed the entire village, he also slaughtered the entire gojo clan because they were abusive to his bf and he was like "i did it for you bestie <3" and gojo was like "??? I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOU TO KILL MY ENTIRE FAMILY???" and i was talking to grace about it and she mentioned the song so i went to listen to it and it was. very catchy. iuygfcdfghujiuytfgu got stuck in my head for awhile lol

[koheletgirl]

which songs from crazy ex girlfriend do you think were the best parodies of a certain song or genre and why? i personally love feeling kinda naughty as a response to i kissed a girl

thank you so much for asking this this is literally one of my favorite things in the world to talk about.

so first of all i 100% agree, i actually started watching the show bc i saw feeling kinda naughty and was blown away by how good it was.

this has been on my mind more often bc of my current brand of insanity - but i have always said that cxg does les mis parodies exceptionally well. i dont love flooded with justice, but it is sososo good at being do you hear the people sing. and the buzzing from the bathroom is perfect, 10/10 no notes (shout out to lucy for saying that's what marius and cosette's marriage will be like).

ok now i feel like i could write 75 pages about this, so to keep it reasonably long im just going to list a few more: antidepressants/another day of sun (i despise la la land but that one is just so good), what'll it be/piano man (<- gregpilled), maybe this dream/once upon a dream (obviously), first penis i saw/mamma mia, our twisted fate/sound if silence, aeidfy(tydaf)/roses turn.

oh and my fav genre parodies are boy band made up of four joshes, horny angry tago, let's generalize about men, ping pong girl, and you go first. im probably forgetting a bunch (ha) but this is already so long.

im soso passionate about this topic in particular like i could literally talk about this forever thank you for asking this.

[kaitcake1289]

Oh of COURSE you would be a crazy ex girlfriend fan *kisses you on the mouth*

i AM!!!!!! that show is so mf good!!!!! i watched it when it aired i was like 9 years old and didn’t understand anything but i think it shaped me to be the person i am now tbh

[shewhosleepsalotincemeteries]

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Okay, just by chance this one ended up much more normal than the previous one lol

5 songs from putting my downloads on shuffle:

American Teenager by Ethel Cain

Gettin Bi from the musical TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Twisted Nerve by Be Your Own Pet

Nuns Guns & Cowboys by Blood Command

Graceland Too by Phoebe Bridgers