None of it is worse than losing you.

Melody/She/Her/What was that!

[ace-of-spaders]

If anyone's wondering why/where I suddenly disappeared: turns out, having no Wi-Fi for over a week is no fun.

At all.

I couldn't get on here (I mean, I could, technically, via mobile data, but for some reason Tumblr wouldn't let me see the activity page nor send a new post and the dashboard loaded in dribs and drabs... all in all, ugh 😤) which hit me more than I thought it would because, apparently, I fell so in love with the local Lizzington fam that I missed you like dear friends this past week, you fabulous rays of sunshine 😘

I couldn't even make gifs because I edit them via a site, not a program (double ugh 😤).

But now the Wi-Fi is finally back, so expect lots of posts from me in the approximate future! 😉

[thetwistedargent]

Glad to have you back!

[ace-of-spaders]

(gif was made by factoseintolerant but I couldn't find it via gif search)

Thank you!

[thetwistedargent]

Oh, my baby Liz is so happy. I hate the show for crushing that happiness and her.

[ace-of-spaders]

I think it would be safe to say that we all hate this show for this reason.

Among lots of others, of course, but that's the primary.

Also, for not letting Liz, Red and Agnes (and uncle Dembe who probably arranges playdates for his granddaughter and Agnes) be the cute little family they deserve to be and for not letting Agnes to have her wonderful, loving parents not fighting each other in their ridiculous wars but actually being happy together and, therefore, giving her the happy (even though it would never be normal when your parents are a spy-turned-criminal-mastermind and a profiler/FBI's Special Agent/a daughter of a Russian and an American spies/occasional partner in crime of said criminal mastermind... but that's okay – she wouldn't want any other parents and family, which consists half of FBI and Mossad agents and half of criminals and spies of all kinds) childhood that sweet, smart little girl deserves...

No, I'm not getting emotional over all the missed opportunities and all the ways TPTB let us down. I'm not. (😠😤😭)

Because I've already got a permanent residence permit of Lizzington AUs Dreamland where this cute happy little family actually stays together no matter what and where the only angst there is is an angst with happy ending:

[thetwistedargent]

Ok, now I'm sad again. Stupid. Stupid. Show.

[ace-of-spaders]

Oh, no, don't be sad! I didn't mean to make you sad!

After all, the show wasn't stupid for the first... two and a half seasons. And the 3A? It was simply brilliant!)

And then, there were other good moments sprinkled here and there, like when Liz called Red's expensive and elaborate con "cool":

And Red's gaze slipped:

And the pumpkin talk (and Lizzy's face during it, especially in the moment captured in the last gif):

And the moment from the gif I posted above, with smiling Lizzy (also, Lizzy making Red spit his coffee out – one can never forget it).

And the "I'll count to ten" moment from 7x15 which is very dear to me for some reason.

All in all, the writers just somehow lost the direction they were supposed to be going in – which was clearly Lizzington and a confirmed Agnesgate – and proceeded to stumble around in the dark, not quite finding it but bumping into it at irregular intervals...)

[thetwistedargent]

Grayson Blaise is in my top 5 favorite episodes. I’m rewatching the episode where Liz stews a guy tonight.

I’m just sad that this show had so much potential and now it’s all gone, but somehow I’m still comforted by old episodes.

[melbob26-blog]

That's my MsMeganMonday!

[ace-of-spaders]

S5E01. Smokey Putnam

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

“What is your fantasy?”

[loveandlittlethings]

He is so happy. Finally holding his little daughter :)

[misterlords]

[thetwistedargent]

This show lost it’s spark when Lizzie no longer had anything to smile about. I’d want to leave too if I were MB and my character was ALWAYS gloomy and miserable when scenes like THIS used to be much more common.

[my-robot-heart]

Oh look it’s the gifs I said I would always reblog! Thanks for making a speedy return, kind gifs!

Red spitting his coffee™ is honestly everything

[agxntkeen]

100 days of Raymond Reddington » day seventy-seven

[apicturewithasmile]

the white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red

[agxntkeen]

      I can’t believe you’re here

[roominthecastle]

RedxLiz - AramxSamar parallels

[iloveredmorethanever]

The parallels are amazing!

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

addendum: 

[iloveredmorethanever]

Reblogging again as this just says it all!

[lizzingtonclub]

[robertcurlyfornia]

if you're a freak for older men but don't like james spader i kind of don't trust you.

[ekconstantine]

Season 8 Elizabeth Keen: Strangers by Ethel Cain

I can’t express to you guys how long I’ve been wanting to make an edit of her to this song. I’ve delayed it for so long because to be honest.. I really really hate her character in season 8 and I knew rewatching the episodes was going to be painful but hey, I finally did it!

There are a couple of things I got from her final character arc and one of them is her perverted sense of justice in attempting to kill Red. She is so blinded by her quest she literally drives herself insane to the point of hallucination (Kate Kaplan). I think it’s interesting that she has to manifest one of Red’s greatest enemies to try and convince herself that what she’s doing is correct, hence. “I try to be good. Am I no good?”

Her own psyche has trouble in trying to justify torturing and killing Red and that speaks a lot to the weakness of her own goals (BECAUSE SHE KNOWS SHE SHOULDN’T BETRAY THE MAN SHE LOVES MOST)

Almost every other scene she’s distraught/ fighting her own subconscious on whether she should cross the line or not, and I think this song really encapsulates that internal battles she constantly has during her fight against Red. And of course, her death scene being her desperately trying to make amends but dying almost by her own hand, is definitely not a fun viewing experience 😃.

[ace-of-spaders]

*taps the mic and laughs nervously because of the major stage fright*

Lizzington shippers, fam, grandmas and grandpas, can I have a moment of your attention, please?

It's not a secret that, while some people in Lizzington community are still active, whether they write or make gifs or keep our dash full of Lizzington even in this trying times ( @melbob26-blog, thank you for this! ), Lizzington community as a whole went into hibernation over the last couple of years.

And I get it, interests change, especially when one show ends and there's another ongoing, moving on from the show that ended is totally natural, especially when it didn't give your favorite characters the happy ending they deserved.

I get it.

Hell, for a pretty lengthy while there I focused on other ships and shows, too, especially after TBL ended ended last year.

But you know what I realized earlier today, when I reread some of the old fics, browsed through gifsets and text posts, watched some fanvids?

It's the show that ended, for some in 2021, for others in 2023. And the only thing that means is that it cannot disappoint us anymore.

( it's not like we were suddenly deprived of quality content, because let's face it, the fans have been the main source of the quality lizzington content for years now, while the show gave us mere crumbs, on a good day )

But Red and Liz?

They are still out there, fighting criminals, catching Blacklisters, travelling the world, shamelessly flirting, toppling shadow organizations, raising Agnes and/or any other children they have, and generally being the sexy badass power couple they are!

Nothing changed in that regard.

So why would we mourn them, when they are out there, healthy and happy and in the middle of yet another adventure? I'm sure right this moment Red is drawing Liz into another one of his heists and she's only too happy to join him, even though she pretends that she's not, for the sake of the game.

There's literally no reason for us to stop writing, giffing, editing, sharing theories and headcanons and memes and just talking about our favorite couple.

And by writing all of this, I want to propose something daring to you:

Let's revive the Lizzington community!

Let's rewatch earlier seasons and gif the hell out of them because it's been a while and because precious moments between these two are not going to become less precious even if it's giffed 10 or 100 more times, not to mention that ever gifmaker's style is different, so there are virtually no two identical gifsets as there are no two identical snow flakes.

Let's make fanvideos, picspams, picture edits, fanart, moodboards! The amount of songs, quotes, moments etc that can inspire you is virtually endless!

Let's write fics, let's explore AUs, let's give each other prompts and challenge each other to try something new or practice some aspect of writing, like writing kisses or AUs or hugs or making up Blacklisters etc!

Let's share headcanons and theories and ideas and what our versions of Red and Liz are like, because everyone has their own unique versions of Red and Liz living in their head, and it's just beautiful, if you ask me!

Let's reblog stuff, filling each other's dashes with Lizzington!

Let's scream about Lizzington because no one does it like them!

Let's revive the Lizzington Community, we all miss it!

PS. Feel free to reblog this post – spread the suggestion!)

PPS. To assure you that I'm not the type of person who encourages others but doesn't do anything themselves, I can tell you I've already got some ideas for a couple of Lizzington events in mind. Those include challenges, thematic weeks etc.

PPPS. I'm not sure how many people are checking the tags these days, so I'm gonna tag some people I know under the cut, just in case, to spread the suggestion. If you weren't tagged, trust me, it's nothing personal!

@meetmeatthecoda @iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast @agxntkeen @factoseintolerant @tale-xistime @james-baeder @lettie1609 @withwhatiam @peace-love-on-planet-earth @missourired @felilaprivada @strawberry-pills @roominthecastle @codewordpumpkin @my-robot-heart @kitkate91060 @imyourplusone @shelly1952 @itsjustme-itsmylife @castle2cute @nancyjocom @cress-26 @lunaarlilacs @femaleoptimistic @scifi-gk @greeneyedsoul88 @figureofdismay @shippinglizzington @kissthefuture @thetwistedargent @actuallylorelaigilmore @sorrydearie @turningtimeinthetardis @buildinggsr @apicturewithasmile @windfalling @piketrickfeet

[roominthecastle]

[roominthecastle]

Red & tumblr text posts (a special “ruslan denisov” edition)

[agxntkeen]

At the outset, they are opponents. Each has something the other wants. They size one another up, assessing risk, setting boundaries, challenging each other to breach them. A sensuous battle – violence and sex balanced on the blade of a knife. Nothing given that is not earned – nothing taken that is not given.

lizzington week ≡ day four

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