welcome to whatever this is

returning tumblr user currently most focused on criminal minds she/her, 30+

[breealtair]

I'm really enjoying Game Changer's take on Dante's Inferno

[piscesprentiss]

my new pet peeve is people treating Emily and Rossi as though they are in the same age group in any way. Paget is still 3 years younger than Joe was when he joined the show twenty years ago. Even in universe Emily is 56 and Rossi is 70! They aren't peers, you're just so used to women dyeing their hair that you see a woman going grey and assume she must be ancient.

[jennywtheglock]

"I wouldn't want that for anyone." EMILY PRENTISS season 6 -> 19

[piscesprentiss]

19x09 in a nutshell

[prokopetz]

Folks act like "maybe the author isn't the final authority about what their work means" is some wanky post-modern nonsense and not a simple recognition that a lot of authors are perfectly prepared to bullshit about their own work. Like, leaving big-name popular media aside, I have personally encountered authors being actively disingenuous about their own work for all of the following reasons:

A true answer wouldn't fit the image they've cultivated.

They've decided they like the explanation the readers/viewers have come up with better than what they actually had in mind.

Something that was originally intended as a standalone work ended up growing into a franchise or series, and now they're pretending that was the plan all along for some reason.

They don't want to admit that the bit you're asking about is genuinely just a plot hole.

The real answer gets into some shit they don't care to discuss, so they've prepared a cover story to explain away the parts they don't want to talk about.

Their politics have changed since they wrote it, but they don't want to acknowledge that, so they're constantly trying to re-interpret everything they've ever written to be perfectly consistent with whatever their positions are this week.

They wrote it decades ago and they honestly don't remember what they were thinking at the time, so they're just making shit up; sometimes they also don't remember what shit they made up the last time, so the answer is different every time they're asked.

The work in question is at least partly autobiographical and they can't tell the truth without confessing to a crime in the process.

Most of the good bits are plagiarised and they don't really understand it themselves.

They're lying to you on purpose, for evil reasons.

[inapoemunlimited]

insp

[readsandsuch]

“you cant ship them theyre sibling coded!!” and it’s just two people who are friends

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[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.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[bigbigbigtruck]

i’ll be real, kitten, daddy needs multiple wealthy and powerful folks to die in a painful, drawn-out, and generationally humiliating manner

[jaimee-elizaa]

Emily making Garcia and Rossi work together in 19x07

[fostershyperfixator]

She had it in storage

[solardrop]

my verdict on penelope gate is that a lot of your reactions is proof that copaganda does indeed work.

[solardrop]

voit is indeed evil as hell and on a personal level because i'm not a good person: i think he desrves to die. But if in your heart you are as anti-cop and into the idea that prison and capital punishment shouldn't be the end-all-be-all way to solve things as you all say you are on the tumblr for funsies, I don't think penelope's choice should be so blasphemous? Especially not for her character.

Penelope got shot point blank by a man and left for dead and then acted like Morgan was out of his mind for giving her a gun to defend herself against him. Penelope's parents got killed by a drunk driver and then years upon years later wrote a statement to get that man released. This is Penelope. It may not be YOU or me but it's Penelope.

I don't think it's fair to point to the JJ deepfakes or Rossi's kidnapping as her not caring about her friends. She does. The same way she cares about herself and her dead Mom and Dad. But if her principles that allow her to do her job and feel like she's doing positive in the world mean that she doesn't think we should be throwing people into the chair. Those are her principles.

[major-marg]

no one crashes out like the 4077

[crydamouree]

MASH 4077 as pictures I have saved on my phone

[glassesprentiss]

she still makes her smile <3

[piscesprentiss]

That is what everyone on twitter was complaining about Garcia doing? That? The most in-character, totally precedented thing that she could possibly have done in this scenario?? Sometimes I wonder if I'm even watching the same show as everybody else anymore, because I have no idea how anybody could find that OOC.