#ressvabi

[falle-ness]

@theblacklistrareshipsweek, Day 4: “I’ll Take Care of You”.

“What happened, Ressler? You can tell me. The second chance is the least you deserve.”

“Don’t be so sure.”

Emotional whump, yay.

I loved them in s5 working together. They could’ve been this badass power couple, ah.

And the fact that it was Samar who sensed something is wrong with Ressler gives me FEEEELS *sobs*.

It’s a deleted scene BUT WHO CARES RIGHT IT WAS WRITTEN AND SHOOT IT’S CANON ALRIGHT. I resent how the writers delivered the aftermath of their hookup in s3,rrrr

Samar and Ress are my ship :D and the fact that Red flirts with Samar all the time paves a way for a threesome EHEEHEH

[windfalling]

—I can’t leave him. He’s my brother, I need to stay close. —I understand. I’ll call.

[piketrickfeet]

Ressler: Hey. Samar: Hi. Ressler: You, uh, think we should go into work separately? Samar: You don’t think they’d believe we carpooled? Ressler: No. Last night was nice. Samar: Yes. It was. Ressler: Don’t be late. I hear the boss is a – he’s a real prick.

[asktheblacklist]

I always see the same requests for keenler, or lizzington, and keen2 but what about considering AU weekends for the less shipped ones like ressvabi, lizvabi, tessler??

Requests are open to anything. We can’t always have an AU Weekend for every request, but we will certainly make sure that that our RP’ers see this and let them know the request is there, so thank you for sending it in!

I’m actually going to tag the RP’ers requested here to make sure they see it:

@askdonaldressler @confidxnteveryday @askelizabethscottkeen @askthomasvincentkeen

[unlikelyxheroes]

| @confidxnteveryday | Donald Ressler |

He’d been surprised at what he’d found out. Navabi was the one selling them out, but not in the way he was expecting. Ressler leaned back in his chair, staring at the screen of his computer. How could she do this? He found himself thinking, unsure of what to feel about the situation. He had been genuinely concerned about her when she was taken but now, now he wasn’t quite so sure. He surely hadn’t expected to encounter Levi again, not after their last meeting, but if Samar was working with Mossad - for Mossad - then it was a likely outcome. He was just confused, no, frustrated in general by the situation. He thought everything was back to normal and then here it came, smacking him in the face like a dodgeball in gym class. 

[falle-ness]

I remember it was the 25th of December in 2015 because I just finished my late night shift at my previous job, couldn't sleep anyway, wanted to watch something, and since I like procedurals, I decided to watch TBL. I caught up with the seasons quite fast, and then I was waiting for new eps.

I think I'm officially fandom old because I remember the times Diego was active on Twitter and posted some pics, did more Q&A, and what-not. And oh, ofc, the infamous shipping wars—I've seen them all :'D

I fell in love with Red/James first, watched a ton of his movies later; first few episodes I hated Ressler ( I guess love is blind), but after Anslo Garrick ep I fell into Ressler/Diego.

I have always appreciated all the ships or dynamics on this show - first lizzington, then dad - not dad thing; I was even low-key ressvabi too, ahaha, and still am, in fact. I was keenler for some time too, up until s4, I think.

As the seasons progressed, I had my issues with Liz and how she's written, but as we head into s8, I know it's not the character's fault, it's the writers fault. So I just drifted into my headcanons for now. I'm purely into resslington and pressler/resscott, with occasional Ressler/OFC.

I also met lots of cool people at various stages of shipping and fangirling, tried my hand at writing my first solely English fic about Ressler going undercover as a stripper, participated in fandom some events, etc.

Since I don't get enough Ressler content I want - a niche whump, angst, or explicit admiration of his fine sexy body, and my ships' content, I've decided to make canon my bitch my own.

I'm giffing, vidding, writing/translating stuff. I go FalleNess on YT and Ao3, or skiesfallithurts on ff.net.

Ressler and Red have always been my anchor, and lately they have become my safe place when at some point everything in my life just crumbled—my job, Mom's sickness and funeral, other family issues. I made it back thanks to them and the support of my amazing co-author, @yddraigwyllt.

Even if there's a certain hostility and bias towards m/m ships (no matter how much % slash are they, or it's just the tension) in this fandom, this doesn't really stop me :'D

I also want to mention some important people to me whom I met at certain point of my TBL hyperfixation:

@yddraigwyllt - There are no words enough to tell you how much you mean to me. You're Red/Henry to my Ressler.

@randomprivateer - Love ya, you're amazing, and thank you for introducing me to pressler and stunning James Carpinello. Pressler is love, pressler is life <3

@resslerette1 - Love ya, I live for our conversations—you're an amazing storyteller! And it's always so much fun discussing Ressler with you! Thank you for being there for me <3

@etahoffmann - Love ya to the moon and back! Your writings are splendid, and I hope the real life will let us to catch up more! You're the best!

@theythinkimabitch - you're a ray of sunshine, charging everything with your positive vibes! Thank you for your insights and support!

@kiss-my-freckle - you're awesome, and thank you for your support! You inspire me to fight for what I love!

@sparxshipper - thank you for inspiring me to keep the resslington flame burning! You're amazing!

Here's to many more fandom shit-stirring!

hey blacklist friends :D i want to get to know the community better, so out of curiosity, what first got you into Blacklist?

i’ll start; i watched the pilot episode a week after it aired bc someone in my family recorded it on the dvr, got super interested in the mystery from then on, and as they say... the rest is history! the show has had its ups and downs (and i’ve fallen behind on a few seasons ngl, but i’ve mostly caught up now) but i’m still here, seven years later :) i will definitely be watching to the very end

i’m excited to see how this fandom came to be! it’s been so fun theorizing and talking about the show with y’all for years, i’m looking forward to more of it when the show comes back!

if no one sees this, pretend i never posted it

[intoyesterdays]

the blacklist, ressler/samar, 1.7k words, complete.

In another time, Samar might have joked with him: we have to stop meeting like this. (This: her standing in dark rooms and hallways, lost and alone and unguarded, the hitch in her voice stripping her bare.)

Now, though, Ressler is the last person she wants to see.

[windfalling]

3.07 / 4.13

[windfalling]

[alyblacklist]

I’m finally asking my doozy question: Regarding the “Samessler incident”, it occurred to me that it was basically a plot device used to ELIMINATE the possibility of Ressler and Samar EVER hooking up again. This way, they know going forward that any attraction between them is purely just that and nothing more and the fans will not wonder about them. In a way, it humanized them. Samar had a life altering loss and Ressler feels forever separated from Liz. What do you think?

I don’t really think that incident was meant to be quite that significant in terms of Ressler and Samar and ruling them out as a future couple, etc.  I don’t think the idea of them as a couple was really on anyone’s radar prior to that ep - hence why the whole scene was so jarring at the time.  I’ve never seen such an outpouring of perplexed rage from both Samar and Ressler fans.  You’d be hard pressed to find many who thought it was a great idea then or now.  

I think they were teasing a Tom/Liz/Ressler triangle initially towards the end of S2, early S3 (the whole “what are you, her boyfriend?” line and Tom calling out Ressler for caring about Liz even if he wouldn’t admit it.  JB indicated as much in an interview or two.  But then they abandoned all of that once Megan’s pregnancy was on the radar (though I’m grateful they kept the fight at Cooper’s house even if they never aired the second one at the cabin in 3.09).  It seemed like once they had the idea of a triangle in mind, they swiftly switched to a Ressler/Samar/Aram triangle instead for the sake of some side plot drama.  Then again, they’ve also admitted they toyed with the idea of hooking up Meera and Ressler in S1 (so glad they didn’t) so maybe they just had the whole idea fixed in their minds on some level regardless.

I  tend to think the hookup was intended to show that they were both just at the end of their respective ropes that day and they turned to each other in a way they otherwise wouldn’t have (and of course to set up the plot of Samar running the search on Ressler’s laptop - which honestly could have been as easily accomplished in the war room!).  I still think it was a bad idea - especially with how it played over the back half of 3B with Samar switching from taking responsibility for her part in the whole thing to sniping at Ressler constantly.  But I guess I’m hesitant to ascribe any deeper motive to it.  Either way, I’m glad it seems to be firmly in the past.  I’d say there’s virtually zero chance of a repeat performance on that front at this point (thank goodness).  

[windfalling]

i’ve been skimming old episodes for gifmaking purposes for samarch and i ended up rewatching The Incident that made the tbl fandom lose their shit in zal bin hasaan, and i just--i’ve never been able to understand the level of vitriol that samar got afterward. (i mean, i do. i get it, i know why, this fandom is transparent as fuck. but still.)

you see ressler’s clear concern and consideration for samar in that episode when she sees her brother again. there’s that moment when she’s staring at the image of her brother on a screen and he touches her shoulder and she watches him walk away. and then later, he’s the one who comes to her when she’s grieving, he’s the one who offers his own sympathy and understanding and comfort. 

and then we see that in the next episode, she stays. she’s still there in the morning, and he’s smiling and joking around with her and he’s the one who goes in for that kiss. (my point here is that of the two of them, ressler is def the one who would be more emotionally invested lmao.)

i love that ressler gets those moments with her, that he’s the one to ask her about her brother, to be with her in that interrogation scene, to find her afterward. i love that they circle around to parallel that last scene with samar finding out about ressler’s brother in turn. i think that’s really why they make sense to me and always have? they’ve seen each other at their most vulnerable moments. they know what buttons to press, where to hurt each other. but they also reach out to each other comfort when they need it.

[windfalling]

Has he been admitted yet? Has the doctor said anything? Let me see if I can come out. No, I wanna be there.

[windfalling]

i’m rewatching their scenes and that woman’s face omg i’m dying

[bi-ressler]

i have Opinions on that, and i shouldn’t be here discussing this bc i‘m procrastinating again (it‘s 1.30am and i still have at least one page of monologue to learn for tomorrow, not to mention the 15+ pages of dialogue, but i‘m not gonna think about that for my mental health‘s sake), BUT here i am anyway.

I have thought about that too and idk tbh.

Always hc‘ed them as wlw/mlm solidarity

BUT! They‘re probably both closeted bi disasters so it‘s alright

(The reason why i‘m not 100% on this ship is my love for Ressvabi and my fear that this will become the ship Ressvabi should have been. Which is a stupid fear bc that would have been amazing to see (power couple ftw) but. Idk where i want to go with this, i might be drunk again.)

Okay but here’s the thing. Comfort sex. It starts as just chilling with each other and realizing „hey, we could be friends or sth“, and bed sharing („You don‘t need to stay on the couch tonight, it‘s uncomfortable. My bed is big enough for two and I promise to behave.“), starting to trust each other with secrets n stuff, until one night „what if i don’t want you to behave tonight?“ and Ress is like. Hoo boy i have bad experiences with sleeping with coworkers :)

They do it anyway bc they‘re both touchstarved and need the comfort.

Waking up is awkward at first but since they‘re both professionals at work, they keep ending up in bed somehow.

It just happens, no questions asked. No relationship talk or sth. Just them confiding in each other about past trauma and old wounds and fresh ones and all the shit they‘re going through at work.

I could probably write some more about them but i should really get back to work, here goes me crying and regretting all my life choices.

(Not really, i love my job. I just hate my brain lol)