The fact that he’s not actually struggling but just learned a habit from watching his human buddy snap bamboo is so precious.

EMILY PRENTISS EVERY FREAKING EPISODE (2006-2020)

bless your soul

So I'm reading Fooled Around (and Fell in Love) - Part 3 for the first time since finishing it in early December. And let me tell you, the way that so much of it suddenly mirrors what's going on currently in life is WILD. Stuff I absolutely never could have predicted four months ago!

I keep sending paragraphs to @otahkoapisiakii in shock. Did writing this fic manifest these things, or does fic imitate life, imitates fic? 🤔

Either way, I am pulling such a different understanding out of this story right now. I love it so much.

If you haven't read it, do yourself a favour and bask in the joyful queer rom-com AU you never knew you were missing:

@otahkoapisiakii hadn't listened to Cowboy Carter yet -- so we had a listening party and this was their reaction hearing 'Blackbird' the first time as we screeched about Jemily

It’s 2014. I’m on tumblr and we’re screamin the biggest scream we ever scrumpt about Jemily. It’s 2024 😂

this is the one meme that manages to age like a fine wine

OK, fine, the Brits can take this one W for once.

rare occurence: tfw a christian seems to have read the same book I did

Funniest bit: OP, who is deactivated, made this post expecting people to side with the corporations

JJ & Emily + shutting guys down requested by anonymous

Wow, they really are big ol' round feet.

Propaganda

Marie Bryant (The Duke Is Tops, Jammin' the Blues)—one of many many many talented Black dancers & performers who deserved better roles! I'm including this video of her singing and dancing because I think it's the cutest thing ever and her smile could light up the sun [video below the cut]

Veronica Lake (I Married a Witch, Sullivan's Travels)—her look is so iconic they used her as a visual model for jessica rabbit in who framed roger rabbit and a bunch of other femme fatale types in cartoons and live action alike. i didnt think i liked women and then i saw her in sullivans travels and said gee i hope this doesnt awaken anything in me! every role ive seen her in she absolutely oozes an aura of "i know people would ask me to step on them" and her EYES bro every photo ive looked at for this submission its like shes piercing thru time and space to judge me <3

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Veronica Lake is my schizophrenic queen and I love her more than my own self. She deserves better at the end of her life. WAY better. But hey, we can all make it up to her a lil by rightfully voting for her in the hot vintage ladies poll

WIP Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @storiesofsvu

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

Some of these I've spent lots of time on and some are barely a paragraph or so. I'm not really one to have tons of WIP at the same time bc that's the writing killer to my brain, so I'll just dump whatever is stuck in my head and come back to it when I can. Feel free to ask questions about any of these (maybe you'll help me decide what to work on next).

Tag You're It: @gaelic-symphony || @otahkoapisiakii || @unitchiefs-blackbirdphoenix || @the-invisible-queer || @missmitchieg

I’m just gonna RB because I don’t remember anyone’s @‘s anymore lmfao but if you write, feel free to do this and pretend I tagged you 🥰

• Dancing Lessons (Jemily)

• The Devil’s Resting Place (Alcina Dimitrescu/Reader)

Tara Lewis Fanfic Stats

It's incredibly frustrating to see how this fandom treats Tara as an afterthought, if they think about her at all. I wanted to take a look at the stats on AO3 (bc I'm a nerd). [See this post for all CM fanfic stats]

Tara Lewis was in nearly 100 episodes (about 1/3 of all eps), but she's so largely under-represented in CM fanfiction. Furthermore, she is the ONLY canonically queer character in Criminal Minds' SIXTEEN seasons and yet, there are very few fanfics exploring her queer identity.

Overall Stats:

Character Tag: 1187 total

Relationship Tag: 242 total

Tara Lewis in Femslash:

In Conclusion:

I have watched people beg for a canonically queer character FOR YEEAAARRRSSS in this fandom. After Kirsten revealed Emily was originally supposed to be sapphic in a 2015 interview, the fandom pleaded for it to be addressed in canon. Of course, that never happened.

What we got instead was a queer confirmed Tara Lewis and after all the years of begging for a queer main -- the fandom went silent.

Why? I think it's mostly because Tara is a queer Black woman (and one of only four POC who have been main characters in eighteen years of this show). Racism and misogyny have run rampant in this fandom for as long as I can remember, so it shouldn't have been much of a surprise when everyone saying 'Give us a canon queer character!' actually meant 'give us a white queer'.

I'm never gonna shut up about HOW IMPORTANT it was for Tara to be our first queer character. I only hope that people start to understand why this representation matters and why it's worth writing and exploring Tara more in fanfiction.

mr. boombastic

this gets a burst of notes every friday