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[soul-wanderer]

Genuine question, I wasn't into fandom when I watched CM, and my mind is always blank with TV shows, so I rarely pin over one ship or another. I never understood why people say CM is queerbaiting. Can you please explain why? Because I'm genuinely curious, and if I'm being honest, now looking back, Emily is so shippable with anyone on the team. Maybe it's because of my view of 'not breaking a marriage, especially with kids in it', that make me never understood Jemily. I'm big on the Temily team, though.

Hey there,

I will try to keep the reply somewhat linear, but it's been so long that it's honestly going to be hard to remember everything that went down since, well, basically 2005 or so.

First off, I will acknowledge that queerbaiting looked a little/lot different on Criminal Minds than it did on other shows.

Behind the scenes, it's been both rumoured and openly talked about that the writers did consider making Emily's character queer, and I have read rumours that the same plans had been made for Reid's character as well. But, as is/was, none of that ever happened.

It's all a bit hazy now, but I vaguely remember the random queerbaiting tweets that originally showed up when the main show was still running, but I eventually tuned out of what they were posting on social media, because that kind of stuff quickly gets tiring. But I am certain they did make comments/remarks on certain pairings, only to never follow up on those, either.

But most importantly: The way some of these relationships/friendships were written, mainly the one between JJ and Emily and, to some extent, also the one between Morgan and Reid.

At some point, it felt like they weren't even trying to hide the fact that JJ was closer to Emily than she was with her own husband. If they had "just" been friends, maybe they wouldn't have stayed in such close personal contact while Emily was gone. This went way beyond JJ's duty to be there for Emily in regard to her safety. The same applies to Emily being the one to rescue JJ/the one JJ calls for help when shit goes down.

To help with the bigger picture here: In earlier seasons we do see JJ, Emily AND Garcia as a friendship group. And they maintain that, somewhat, throughout the seasons, but their friendship with Garcia is different, and it is quite obviously what we would consider a friendship.

And I will say the same about JJ and Reid. These two have known each other much longer, so it would be easy to assume that they are much closer friends. I will ignore the fact that after like fifteen years they decided that JJ randomly has feelings for Reid, because it's bullshit (in canon, anyway). They are friends, they are coded as friends and always have been. And they very clearly show what friendships are written like on the show - and it's not what JJ's and Emily's relationship looks like, at all.

They know each other in ways that are so very different from the other dynamics within the team, and most definitely different from what JJ and Will have. At some points it just became almost grotesque how close JJ and Emily were, without them being a couple, especially since Emily has a fantastic track record when it comes to tried and failed romantic relationships.

But I think most importantly, it's in the way they bent over backwards to avoid any and all queer relationships on the show. We have Hotch and Haley, Reid and Maeve and Maxine, Morgan and Savannah, Garcia and her two nerdy boyfriends, Blake and her husband, Emily and that British dude and I think there was someone else as well? And of course JJ and Will. The argument that this show isn't about their personal relationships simply does not work, when time and time again there has been such a heavy emphasis on their private lives, and much more importantly, on their very much heterosexual relationships. It's almost laughable now, how absolutely fucking straight everyone on that show was. I mean, what are the odds? What are the odds?

And another honourable mention: I remember at some point the pressure got so big, that apparently the writers/producers couldn't entirely ignore it any longer, and all we got was that iconic scene of JJ and Emily at a pride? event, like full blown rainbow flags and that big fucking ass speech about tolerance/acceptance? I don't care to remember, because nothing ever came of it, other than some laughable virtue signalling.

And let's just not mention how being gay only ever existed in relation to crimes being committed, so there is that.

So yeah, maybe it wasn't outright queerbaiting in the traditional way, but in many ways it still was, and at the very least they made it VERY clear that non-heterosexual relationships would not happen as long as they were in charge

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the ghouls should [redacted] Copia so [redacted] that he [redacted]

[ghcstao3]

another flavour of dbh au because i have a problem:

soap being several years into the military now, he knows the schtick with the android soldiers. they’re easier to order around, far more expendable than humans, and they’re deadly efficient. he’s wary of them, wary of the lack of human empathy, wary of putting any trust into a fancy computer that would prioritize the mission over anyone’s life, friend or foe. he doesn’t like androids, doesn’t think he could ever come around on that, but he’s left with no other choice but to accept it. he’s at least grateful the elite task force he’s invited to join promises no close work with the mindless drones.

then soap who meets the enigmatic, legendary ghost, and immediately views the man as someone to not only trust—to an extent, at first—but to also look up to. the lieutenant gets him through thick and thin, keeps him alive through betrayal and las almas, shows him more heart than soap should expect from a supposedly stone-cold killer, more heart than soap sees in most of his comrades. and somewhere along the way, not quite too sure how it happens, soap starts developing a bit of a crush on the man.

and then the mask is removed. it’s only for a brief moment, but it’s long enough for soap to catch a glimpse of the blue led embedded in ghost’s temple, indicative of an android status soap had never suspected him to have. a wave of nausea falls over soap, his head spinning as he grabs one of the spare balaclavas from the pile. of course he’d fallen for a fucking android.

the one thing that could never love him back.

[gjdraws]

thinking about the au where Marty is Crash's handler....

[clownpalette]

I made the memes again!!! 😲😲 with almost all ocs this time! 💫💫

[owlphibiansprite]

Steven Universe reads Sailor Moon from S1E27 "House Guest", 11:06

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Precure Season Detailed Opinion Chart 🌈⭐️💕✨

please feel free to fill this in!!! the blank hearts can be used however you like (watched checkbox, ranking, tier category, etc!) 💗

[kenmarlenn]

Heads up for those concerned about what Monty may be saying about Ballora behind the censors on recent EAPS episodes! Not meant to be references to sexual harassment or anything like that.

[bisexualcherdegre]

D:BH Rarepairsweek 7 | @dbhrarepairs

Day 3: Hank/Markus After the revolution, Markus and Hank are both trying to deal with the new situation they've been handed. Their paths cross.

[jjaydazo]

Made this but I didnt like the dialogues I came up so I left it empty

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[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa: *writes a single throwaway line in one chapter of Lost and Found that is never referenced again*

Me, completely randomly and with no prompting: Alright, bet–

[buoyantsaturn]

I hear wailing in the streets

Somebody tells me "you'd better hide"

They say marble and gayleafpool were both at your side when you died 😔

ah, my lover and my. you know.

[erstwhilesparrow]

[angsting]

[ooogai]

What's your least favorite thing to do in the Port Mafia?

*passes the microphone*

(Dont eat the microphone please)

no worries, i won’t eat the microphone i assure you. :)

i suppose my least favorite activity may be the chore that is reviewing reports. i don’t trust many others to review them before they head down to records-keeping correctly, so i do it all myself. As a result, it’s very time consuming and although majority are without major fault, i have had a few turned in to me that included several.. ahem details that i dont believe i, nor others, needed to know.