[tournesolsouriant]

I spend a lot of time on the Internet because I've always felt like that one person nobody really listens to or cares about what is saying.

But I've come to realize nobody on the Internet really cares about what I have to say either so 😅

[indianajoness]

You’re a feminist icon, Rafael.

Insp by x

[deeneedsaname]

The barba and benson dynamic is so crazy to me because like. You’re barba, and you are in love with your best friend, Olivia benson. That’s not that strange though because half of the men she meets fall in love with her. But the two men she has a long term relationship with while you know her, by all measures, shouldn’t be contenders — one that got upset and childish when she only wanted a sexual relationship, and the other who professionally tormented her and her friends for years. But you and she could be good together. Where will you be at 85? Squabbling with you, wouldn’t that be nice. You know it, she knows it, and it’s always right there, simmering just below the surface, the tension of but what if we did. You ask her out (never explicitly as friends but never not) and she’s busy, because she won’t take the leap, and you think you know why.

You’re Olivia, and you fell in love with Elliot Stabler a long time ago. But he’s a good man, dedicated not just to his wife but his faith, his soul, and you would never do it to him or his wife so you both just feel the devotion burn in your soul until it nearly destroys you both. And he leaves, and you could have understood it, but not the way he did it. But it’s not just the love, or even the betrayal — those twelve years seared him into your bone marrow and there’s no way to undo that. Even after the healing, the moving on, there will always be that scar tissue and beneath it a part of you that has Elliot’s name stamped on it like you breathe. So you date men who are nice, who are safe, who would never leave you, because they all fall just a little short. But you can never take the plunge with any of them. And Barba is too good, too close to it would be really good, because there’s that part of you that’s still got Elliot written on it. And you could fall in love with Barba in a way you didn’t with anyone else, but the potential of Elliot Stabler is still there, always there.

Because Elliot was there first. Elliot knew Olivia first and they irrevocably changed each other’s lives — what happens when you meet your soulmate, and you’re already married, and it’s not your wife. What then?

Olivia couldn’t date Barba, because he might have been good. He might have been real in a way Brian and Tucker wouldn’t have been, and she couldn’t let someone get that close, let that happen, because Elliot.

So when Olivia says ‘this isn’t about him’ and Barba keeps bringing it back to Elliot, they’re both right. This isn’t about Elliot now — but it is about Elliot, about the fact that Benson And Stabler is a force bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s about the fact that Lindstrom was right on the money when he said Olivia had an idealized, possible relationship in her head, and she had to preserve that, all those years, because she loved him (and he loved her, that was the whole problem) and Barba was the only real threat to that.

But maybe in a parallel universe. Not this one, not the one after it, but maybe the next.

[tournesolsouriant]

They cancelled OC and I am ENRAGED

[pret-boy]

Matching your freak is beautiful and all but what you really need is a boy who's infatuated with your freak. Down bad for your freak. Deeply intrigued by your freak. Eager to see more of your freak. Supportive of your freak. Gets bricked up witnessing your freak, even.

[halcydn-deactivated20151101]

Reblog if you write fan fiction

Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[barbra271]

"You know the problem with being an empath? it's too easy to lose yourself when other people need you"- Rafael Barba

[tournesolsouriant]

Am I the only one who thinks this line goes both ways?

Like... how she behaves when Stabler needs her is OOC and how Rafa behaves in this particular situation is also OOC, because in his mind she needed him (to protect her), that's why he took the case. And the only reason she "needed" him was because she had "lost herself" when Stabler needed her...

Am I making sense here? Haha

Was he talking about her, himself, or both?

[toptony]

Law & Order: SVU | Ep: Twenty-Five Acts

Rafael Barba appreciation ➩ 260/∞

[tournesolsouriant]

Hello, New Yorkers!

I'm thinking about visiting NY for the first time next year and I was wondering if you guys could help me figure out how many days should I stay in the city and which places I should visit and the things I should do? Also: Manhattan might be too pricy for me to stay in lol any recs?

Things you should know:

- I'm not from the US

- I love museums

- I love parks

- I love architecture

- I love musicals

[wildblues]

barson u will forever be the loss of my life.

[crowley-anthony]

Benophie's Journey (x)

[xkravyn]

Raúl Esparza went from “hello sir, nice to finally meet you. I’ll have your daughter home by 9.” To “she calls me daddy too.”

[thankunexts]

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT 19.11 "Flight Risk"

[tournesolsouriant]

You're a feminist icon, Rafael

[aeonwynter-offical]

Day 19

[jeffreycombs]

[raulshushabyemountain]

Someone feed this man!

[sillyfroggremlin]

watching/rewatching a show when you already have an established favorite character is great because every time they come on screen it's like

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