What Are U Thinking Elle. If Your Thoughts Were Broadcast In This Moment Would This Show Still Be TV-14?

what are u thinking elle. if your thoughts were broadcast in this moment would this show still be TV-14?

the fox is a really good episode that i had less to say about than i thought i would. karl arnold is scary, his actor is excellent, and it's a in general a very tight episode. the ending is especially good and haunting, with the reveal that arnold has killed six other families of four (and therefore twenty-four more people) than we're initially led to believe.

i understand that karl arnold is returned to in a later episode? i've never actually gotten to that one before, but hopefully i will now.

it's getting really hard to watch just one episode a day, especially since i've already seen every episode up to 5x02. but im trying.

i do have one other thing to say about the fox, i just need to go back and grab a couple screenshots for it.

again, elle! you are at work!

what are u thinking elle. if your thoughts were broadcast in this moment would this show still be TV-14?

My brain isn't working fantastically right now so this may not be super coherent, but I'm having Thoughts on the way Morgan profiles, especially in season one, where he has these moments of "okay, I'm the unsub. Why do I..." while the rest of the team says "okay, why would the unsub..." even when he's not talking about the psychology of the unsub (which he isn't really in this scene: this scene is him realising that the victim didn't hear the unsub break the silverware because he did it after killing her) even the language he uses differs from the rest of the team.

I don't know. I might come back to this more coherently later, but I think Morgan's empathy is one of his strongest traits, and I think the fandom, and sometimes the writers, forgets that in lieu of portraying him as Macho Man #503 (can't imagine why... /s)

I think the rest of the team, as skilled as they are, tends to stand on the outside and guess what being on the inside may have felt like, while Morgan tries (and often succeeds) at getting inside.

request guidelines

do not be afraid. i am a reasonable person. probably. hopefully!

things i will not write:

general

first of all: none of this is a moral judgement on what other people write. tag your stuff appropriately and we'll get on great. everything is either in line with a personal headcanon or a personal discomfort.

adult/minor ships, even if one or more party's ages are changed to make the relationship legal.

incest

romanticized abuse

sex scenes with underage characters, even if they are aged up to be 18+

onscreen rape/"non-con"

reader-insert

a/b/o

oh also pregnancy. for some reason.

okay just to reiterate. none of the above is a judgement on what other people write or read. just things i, personally, don't want to write for one reason or another. no idea if this is something that needs to be stated—this may well be holdover from the fact that i joined tumblr in *shivers* 2017

atla

endgame zuko/any women (mai/zuko mutual beards to besties is delightful and welcome)

toph/any men

endgame azula/anyone (not because i hate her, but because i ship her with therapy. i specify endgame because i won't not write her in a relationship (esp partial to tyzula), the relationship just won't last.

zuko/sokka where sokka permanently relocates to the fire nation. most zukka i write, if i write it, will also involve sokka/suki because i adore them, but i won't not write monogamous zuko/sokka.

cm

unsub!bau (owie)

jj/reid

prentiss/any men (actually, prentiss/anyone except for me /j)

i know this is...very long. advice on cutting it down is welcome. i don't expect people to memorize this and i won't bite you if you slide into my asks asking me to write endgame mai/zuko—all of this is more so people who are looking for that kind of content know that i'm not where to look.

may or may not write:

smut and romance, for the simple reason that genfic is my shit and i'm not nearly as confident in my ability to write either or those. probably more likely to write f/f because i am a big ol' lesbian. if you do send a request for smut, i'll only fulfill it if a. your age is in your bio (incl. given as a range) and b. that age is over eighteen. i'm not your mother and i can't control what you read but i'm uncomfortable with fulfilling 18+ requests from anyone who isn't at least eighteen.

major character death. depends on how mean i'm feeling.

pleasepleasepleaseplease:

genfic

found family

mental health issues

angst

hurt/comfort

complicated relationships

expanding on what canon neglected. if that makes sense.

this is not even a little bit related to criminal minds (or atla or tma/tmagp or any other fandom I’m in) but I am on my way to a show tonight !! my friends are in a band and they’re playing at a dive bar they’ve played at a few times before. I will get a little tipsy* and show up in a couple hours with video if they’re cool with it

*before any Americans check my bio and get heart palpitations, drinking age here is eighteen :)