emily prentiss' backwards watch enthusiast

online diary where i shamelessly ramble about all of my current obsessions at the moment <3

[currentobsessions-atm]

emily prentiss' comfort show is sex and the city confirmed

[currentobsessions-atm]

on season 8 of my rewatch now and i am absolutely mourning the friendship emily could have had with alex.

alex would have been SO good for emily to have around. A strong, calm, warm older female presence....

i just keep imagining emily finally being able to really really confide in someone and trust them. not to say she didnt trust the team but being able to confide in another woman. an older woman who could maybe understand her a little better.

and alex's personality too is just SO... comforting. her whole career, emily just needed someone like that....

are you guys understanding what we couldve had ?

[currentobsessions-atm]

whenever i think of emily prentiss and what she never got in her lifetime, i get so sad.

i know this is meta but because the network didnt allow her to be a lesbian, emily as a character will always read to me as a closeted/ repressed lesbian and there will always always be a such a deep sadness i see in emily's character because of that. because of what the network denied her character.

and thats in addition to her cannonical religious trauma from her childhood which to me, definitely contributes to the reason she ended up closeted/repressed in the first place.

i think about how she so clearly wanted to be a mother, and how she never got that.

i think about how she never got to be in a safe relationship with someone who she could believe loved her.

i think about how outside the BAU, she never got the family she so clearly wanted.

i think about how she said that she hated politics but now has no choice but to be embroiled in it.

idk man i just think she deserved and deserves so so so much more than anything she show has given her.

[sylv14]

Them not giving Prentiss any kids after S3E4 is literally cruel.

She is so good with them and I really wanted her to foster that girl if her family hadn’t taken her in.

I can so imagine her adopting a kid.

[currentobsessions-atm]

idk the cm writers are addicted to making sure emily doesnt get what it is she really wants </3

[currentobsessions-atm]

Paget Brewster behind the scenes as Emily Prentiss on the set of Criminal Minds

i have a bad habit of associating anything paget brewster does as cannon emily prentiss, so smoker!emily is cannon to ME.

[currentobsessions-atm]

emily prentiss you are so so so loved, i wish you could believe it </3

[currentobsessions-atm]

lowkey need to get taken advantage of by an older woman

[ttrntyc]

If Paget Brewster ever decides to kick her husband to the curb just know I'm next in line..

[pompompurinpie]

i need her to smoke me like a blunt

[currentobsessions-atm]

i really need to know if paget brewster intentionally portrayed emily prentiss as gay as she ended up coming off as on screen.

and this isnt even about her wardrobe (gay as hell btw) because obviously that was on the costume department.

but im talking about emily's demeanour and mannerisms in themselves.

i mean, there are the stereotypical 'cant sit in a chair properly' or her addiction to manspreading. even the way she stands, always with her feet apart, hands folded in front of her. like thats a power stance, baby.

and then there are the smaller things. the way she moves, the way she uses her hands, the way she delivers certain lines.

i'm sure im not the only lesbian to clock the way she acts for what it seems to be (whispers: lesbian)

i know that allegedly the character of emily prentiss was written to be a lesbian, or at least someone who was into women. and that there was even a storyline where emily would wake up next to a woman. i also know that paget was on board with portraying emily as such until the network nixed the idea fuck you cbs

and so im soo curious to know whether these were intentional decisions on paget's side, knowing that emily was meant to be a lesbian and whether this was her way of retaining some character integrity for emily,

or whether this was all just meant to come off as 'strong female kickass fbi agent who takes no shit' ? which i guess, in some cases could be mistaken for lesbianism ? but not this one...

in a bout of delusion and wishful thinking, i'd like to think that its the former, and that paget brewster purposely portrayed emily as the lesbian she was meant to be, even if it would never be explicitly stated out loud or on screen.

idk i guess the idea of that just really means a lot to me.

[userarmand]

Thank you. For what? For being you.  Aw, thanks. I don’t know how to be anyone else. Yeah. That’s what I love about you.

[luvgreyponytail]

“people are allowed to dislike characters” WRONG! no one is allowed to dislike emily prentiss!

[currentobsessions-atm]

i am slightly worried about the fact that i am right in the middle of that stage of hyperfixation where you feel like you need to consume content/media of your current thing like every moment of the day or else it feels like youre dying ? like you'll literally go crazy insane like some sort of rabid animal ?

which would be fine if not for the fact that in 2 days i will be off to a mainly uninhabited island for half a month to conduct research.

a mainly uninhabited island which has spotty service at best, where my unlimited data is useless ?

where i will have little to no free time in between the work i have to do on said island ?

why did i have to develop a debilitating fixation on a stupid mid 2000s procedural crime show now of all times ?

[currentobsessions-atm]

thinking about how i had a big fat lesbian crush on elle greenaway when i first started watching criminal minds and was absolutely devastated to find out she would only last a little over a season.

and so when she left and emily replaced her, i remember being sooo apprehensive about her.

well, people who know me know that my type has always been the same, long before i ever even watched criminal minds for the first time.

my type being: femmes who are tall, have dark hair, a strong nose, and a strong/commanding personality

hm.

needless to say, i did eventually end up falling head over heels in love with emily prentiss <333333

nobody is surprised.

[currentobsessions-atm]

on a criminal minds rewatch with my sister and i was genuinely tweaking for the 6 episodes between lauren and the season 7 premiere that didnt have emily in them.

like why was i literally falling to the floor in relief when the opening credits started playing and emily was back in the sequence... and why was i cheesin the whole time just seeing her back on screen...

if i could barely survive 6 episodes without her, idk how im gonna survive 4 whole seasons without her ☹️

[totallyprentiss]

Is this the moment where I make yet another rant about how the writers will never let Emily Prentiss be happy?

[currentobsessions-atm]

i will forever be bitter that the network didnt allow emily to be the lesbian she was originally written to be.

especially with other characters on the show later being openly lesbian— which of course is a good thing, but what im saying is that im bitter that emily didnt get that opportunity.

[hotchnerbau]

the way this feels like an episode of the office😂