Jav's Obsessions

[javsobsessions]

Les Miserables is my #1 special interest, but I do have others that are slightly less intense. Because my main blog is only centered around Les Mis, I decided to make a side blog where I could talk about my other special interests. I’m currently extremely hyperfocused on Touched by an Angel, a show I watched a lot as a kid, and it was something I hyperfocused on a couple of years ago too. I normally rotate between hyperfocusing on my special interests (outside of Les Miserables, which has been at the top of my focus for years now), so even when one of my special interests goes “dormant” for months (or in some cases, years), it pretty much always comes back eventually.

Special Interests:

Main: Les Miserables (primarily Javert)

Current:

Touched By An Angel (*cough* Andrew *cough*)

Criminal Minds (main focus switches between Aaron Hotchner and Emily Prentiss)

Yu-Gi-Oh! (both the card game and the animes)

I may post about other interests sometimes too.

[emilys-bangs]

Been thinking way too much about Emily in a swimsuit post Doyle. She either wears a one piece (when she notably used to prefer two pieces) or a bikini with a wrap that stays firmly in place around her waist. Constantly fidgeting with her top to make sure it lies over the brand, tightening and tying and retying the knot of her wrap even if it's still snug around her waist. Throwing on a shirt and walking around in her bottoms, trying to make it seem more casual. She knows everyone notices. She knows they don't care what her body looks like. She tries to tell herself she doesn't, either, but her fingers still too long on the hem of a shirt or the knot of a coverup for her to fully convince herself it's true.

[doctoralhashimi]

whatever you do, don’t think about the fact that if emily had been in a place to keep her baby at 15, that child would be roughly tyler’s age.

[javsobsessions]

Well, that took a turn.

[wereoz]

i think declan touching doyle’s hand and saying ‘i remember you…’ and doyle responding ‘i’m sorry’ was the perfect way to end the emily & doyle & declan arc. it’s the perfect way to show that in a horrible, dysfunctional way they were a family (forced to be!!) and even though emily and doyle wanted each other dead and declan lives without both of them, a little bit of each other will live in all of them forever. honestly including this in the same ep where it’s revealed declan was born through doyle keeping his mother captive to force her to give birth, and emily’s disgust at that really makes this arc more powerful and tragic. like - she had to live with that man and make loving him believable. she had to believe 100% she was in love for him for this to work, not to mention she was further trapped by actually caring for declan and wanting to know he was okay. it’s a painful, confusing situation with no good outcome. if it’s not believable, you die and compromise the operation. if you believe it, you compromise your morality and identity and when everything ends you feel as though you’ve destroyed your home, your family. emily was left feeling so empty. god <//3

[totallyprentiss]

There’s something quietly, heartbreakingly tragic about Emily Prentiss—about the way she’s been yearning to be loved for her entire life, and doing it so quietly, so subtly, that some people might not even notice.

It started young, with the coldness of Elizabeth Prentiss, all polished diplomacy and razor-sharp expectations, offering nothing soft for Emily to fall back on. No warmth. No trust. Just pressure and passports and places that never quite felt like home. She was always the new girl. Always trying to prove herself. Always chasing something that looked like belonging.

And then she was fifteen and pregnant - not because she was reckless, but because she was desperate. Desperate to be wanted. To be liked. To feel anything real in a world that felt so far away from her. She couldn’t even tell her mother. Not about the boy, not about the pain, not about the choice she had to make. That’s where the loss began. Quiet, unspoken, already buried under years of pretending everything was fine.

And then it just.. keeps going, doesn’t it? This pattern of aching. Of reaching. Of being the one who loves harder. Wanting to adopt Carrie not just out of duty, but because she needed to prove to herself that she could love. That she had love to give. That she was more than her job and her trauma and her silence. She wanted to believe she was capable of being someone’s person. But how do you believe that when no one ever chooses you?

Sure, she’s liked. Respected. Admired, even. But she’s never been the one anyone picks when the room is full. She’s the one people lean on, but never the one they stay for. And she carries it all with so much quiet grace you almost forget how much it must hurt. The guilt over Declan, even when she did everything right. The way she watches families from a distance, eyes soft and sad like she’s looking at a life that was never meant for her. The way she looks at JJ sometimes, wishing she had what she has. Maybe it’s just Paget’s quiet acting but it’s there.

Don’t even get me started on that damn moment in Season 15 - Emily staring at the baby stroller by that coffee cart like she’s mourning something she never even got the chance again to have. That one second of vulnerability, of wondering what if—and we move on like nothing happend.

I get it. I really do. The writers want her to be this… symbol of strength, the woman who married her job, who doesn’t need a partner or a family to be whole. And I guess that’s fine! some people really do find joy in that life. But if that’s the road you want to take her down, then at least make it look like she’s okay. Like she’s content. Like she’s not carrying all this silent grief behind her eyes. Because right now? She just looks tired. Dude they even took her freaking cat!

She deserved so much more. She still does.

[gublersangell]

Emily Prentiss

edited to boots poetry

[javsobsessions]

Not CME giving y'all Jemily just to destroy it.

[javsobsessions]

I’m not saying JJ doesn’t deserve the sympathy, but not her getting more emotional assistance and recovery time when her husband died than Emily did any of the 14 times she was kidnapped/tortured/killed. And I haven’t even reached the first commercial break yet.

[silverglimse-productions]

Criminal Minds taking a hard “generative AI is gross and will be used for evil” stance is frankly so refreshing in the current landscape

[javsobsessions]

Just watched 18x2

Cut for spoilers:

Bruh.

[neon-noir-bats]

[javsobsessions]

Watching every ending of Gotham Knights -> Having to listen to Bruce’s farewell speech 4 separate times T_T

[javsobsessions]

Cut for Gotham Knights Spoiler (kind of)

Bruce: If I had a nickel for every time I blew myself up because of an al Ghul, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

[javsobsessions]

Bruce: I can’t put myself on the line as long as there’s someone waiting for me to come home.

Well, that didn’t stop you when you had 15 kids 😑

[javsobsessions]

Watching Mask of the Phantasm for the first time and realizing this Bruce in the flashbacks is the same Bruce from Batman Beyond and now I’m crying.

[inamindfarfaraway]

Batman fun fact! Did you know that Scarecrow’s toxin doesn’t always cause fear? Sometimes it does the opposite! In Detective Comics #571, he wields a variant that completely inhibits the biochemical fear response, preventing people from feeling any concern for themselves or using basic common sense. He runs a racket administering it to star athletes, who take huge risks and get badly injured. Then they’re willing to cough up a lot for an antidote. Batman and Robin - here Jason Todd - catch on, but Bruce is dosed with the reverse fear toxin; since his intelligence is his greatest strength, being too overconfident and reckless to think twice about anything makes him his own worst enemy.

This premise was adapted in the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Never Fear”. There we see that with no fear of losing his moral integrity, Bruce becomes cold and merciless to criminals. Robin - here Tim Drake - has to catch somebody he leaves to fall off a building, tie him up to stop him endangering himself and others and give him the antidote to prevent him murdering Scarecrow.

But in the comic book, Jason is kidnapped by Scarecrow. He gets gassed and hallucinates Bruce dying and telling him that it’s his fault. He isn’t around to keep Bruce in check as he goes to rescue him through a series of death traps that he can’t resist cutting it as close as possible in. So how does Bruce not go off the deep end? How does he not lose sight of what’s important? Not lose himself?

Because even a drug designed to shut down stress at the most fundamental level can’t overpower his true worst fear. The Dark Knight might feel fearless…

but a parent never is.