The Lizzington

just lizzington related things from the blacklist no keen2 or keenlar this blog is just about red and liz and lizzington also no daddy gate as well

[meetmeatthecoda]

It's a good point that Red, apparently, just has a strong stomach – in addition to his high alcohol tolerance – and, as far as soft headcanons go, I bet it comes in handy when his beloved Lizzy is pregnant and forces him to eat (though, truth to be told, she doesn’t so much as force him... Liz just gives Red a cute look and suggests he tries whatever she's eating out and, most part of the time, he's instantly sold... and if he happens to hesitate a bit, Liz also gives him a pout that can rival his own – what a pout they child(ren) are going to be capable of... they'll have their parents and honorary uncles and aunts wrapped around their little fingers before they even start walking – and gets a little teary-eyed and Red doesn’t hesitate anymore) something... weird and vaguely nauseating, like fish and jam or pickles dipped into chocolate ice-cream)

LOL thank you, anon!! 😄 (For anyone confused, anon is referring to this ask!! 😁) Also, you're so right about his high alcohol tolerance as well, I forgot about that!! 😏 But omggggg soft pregnancy headcanon alerttttt, I love it, ughhhhh 😭😭😭 You bet that Red would 1000% dive right into all those weird pregnancy cravings of Lizzie's... (and you're also 1000000% correct that Red can't deny Liz's "cute" look, LET ALONE HER POUT OR TEARS, & Agnes & any other kids they may have will ABSOLUTELY use that look to have him wrapped around their little finger, no questions asked 🥲🥲) Anyway, thank you so much for this ask, anon, soft pregnancy headcanons are always a fav 🥺🥺 Much love to you, my friend!! ❤️

[meetmeatthecoda]

It's funny to me that people ship Liz

with Tom, who lied to her, manipulated her, held her at gunpoint (on numerous occasions), beat her up (on numerous occasions), said that he pitied her but not loved her, told her their marriage and his desire to adopt a baby was "just a job" for him, took her to the man he knew was going to kill her aka fake Berlin, used her as a shield and generally made it abundantly clear that he would always - and I mean always - put himself first, even and, especially, over her and that he had no qualms about hurting her emotionally and physically for his own benefit ( as opposed to Red, who's never intentionally hurt her or put her in harm's way, who would rather die than hurt her, who would always - and I mean always - put his Lizzy first, even and, especially, over himself, who traded his freedom, his well-being, his life for hers on a number of occasions, who devotedly waited ten months for her to wake up from her coma, barely leaving her side, I imagine, who always forgave and staid by her side no matter how much she hurt and/or betrayed him, who was more worried about Liz's mental and emotional state than his own life when she made her repeated attempts to kill him... should I continue? )

or

with Ressler, who's always been like a brother for Liz more than anything - which shows in the way they supported each other when they had problems with their respective partners, in the way Ressler asked Liz's advice about his relationship with Audrey, in the way Ressler offered to beat Tom up for her, in the way they always looked out for each other in a completely platonical way - ( as opposed to Red, who repeatedly told Liz that he is not her father - and he never lies to her, that much is unquestionable - and who is clearly not her mother for a number of reasons I don't feel like it's necessary to list ).

Yet they call us - Lizzingtons, the fans of the most healthy relationship in the whole show - hurtful words like perverts etc.

Just... isn't it obvious how utterly ridiculous it is?

In other words, anon? It's 1000% obvious... At least to us 😒😒😒 You summed things up really perfectly, I'm not sure what else I can add honestly... T*m was unhealthy & dangerous for Liz, R*ssler is brotherly at best, & we're still the disgusting ones 😐 I know the lines have always been blurred with this show (& that's TPTB's fault btw) but the fact that we receive so much hate for shipping Liz with the ONE male character that loves & protects her with his whole self & NOT the abuser OR the mannequin? K 🙄 Long story short, anon, I agree with you, & thank you for this 🥺 Much love to you, my friend!! ❤️

[codewordpumpkin]

Has anyone requested #30 'you don't see me'? Reminds me of Doctor Who, Twelve and Clara if you've watched it.

“What are you going to do? Ground me? Take away my phone privileges?”

“Elizabeth-”

“Don’t,” she snapped, shooting him a glare that pierced him more than any bullet ever could. “Just... don’t, okay? You don’t get to-” She shook her head. “Don’t act like you’re my father. You’re not. You never will be.”

“Believe me when I say I don’t see you as my daughter, Elizabeth,” he said, and there was a dark... something in his low voice that only emphasized the danger hidden beneath his blank face. 

“That’s the problem,” she muttered under her breath. 

She hadn’t meant for him to hear the words, but evidently, he’d heard them all the same.

“I must confess, I’m more than a little confused right now,” he said sardonically, tilting his head in that familiar way of his. At this moment, she found the little mannerism infuriating. “You don’t want me to act like your father... yet you find it a problem that I don’t see you as my daughter?”

She whipped around in an unexplainable whirlwind of emotion. “The problem is, you don’t see me at all!” His dumbfounded expression knocked the fight out of her like a needle to a balloon. She suddenly felt so... drained. “You don’t see me,” she whispered, throat tightening painfully. “You don’t see me the way I want you to.”

“... How do you want me to see you?”

“As a woman you don’t just need but want.” She clenched her hands tight, hoping to hide the tremor that could be heard in her confession. After a pregnant pause, she added quietly, “A woman you might one day fall in love with.”

“Elizabeth... I can’t-”

Oh god. 

She wasn’t sure she could deal with his rejection right now.

Before he could say anything further, she continued hastily, “But how could you?” She looked down and away, hiding her face before he could see her cry. “I’m Sam’s little girl. The little girl you saved decades ago. Not to mention the countless women that trip over their feet for you everywhere we go. How could I possibly compare-”

“You’re right.”

So much for avoiding his rejection.

He took the few steps necessary to reach her, and she could see the tips of his shoes touching her own. Gently grasping her chin, he angled her face so that she couldn’t look away, and he made sure her eyes stayed on his as he spoke. 

“You are Sam’s little girl - not mine. If Sam could see the way I looked at you...” He huffed a breath of a laugh, then shook his head as though to clear his thoughts. “Elizabeth, if you choose to believe only one thing I’ve ever said to you, believe this:

I see you.

And I do need you. I do want you.

But I can’t see you as a woman I might one day fall in love with.”

She should have known, really. It was stupid of her to-

“The term ‘might’ implies an uncertainty that I just don’t have. I don’t need to wait until a ‘one day’ to know my own feelings. If there’s anything I’m certain about, it’s that I already love you, Elizabeth. I’m already in love with you. I have been for a long time now.”

“W-What-”

This time, it was he that cut her off.

“And what do those women matter when the woman that I’m tripping over my feet for can’t see the way I’ve been looking at her this whole time?” He chuckled, smiling softly as he brushed away the tears that had fallen against her will. “What do those women matter when you’re the only woman that I see?” 

“You love me,” she said in disbelief, more to herself than him. “You’re in love with me.”

“I am,” he confirmed, nodding. “And I hope one day, you’ll see me the way I see you, Lizzie.”

“I already do, Red,” she said, nuzzling his neck and feeling herself smile for the first time all day. “I already do.”

[factoseintolerant]

Luther Braxton. Season 2 episode 9 of the blacklist. How did Liz know it was Red who grabbed her? My head canon is that she either knows what he feels like or recognizes his smell..

L m a o I think about that scene at least once a week. The fact that Lizzie switches from “ohhhh boy who the hell is grabbing me rn….k cool it’s Red…huh…oh lord…am i enjoying this too much?” in a New York minute without seeing a damn thing, without a single word spoken, really tells you more about their relationship than any two-hour long convo. 

[heatherpeters-deactivated202111]

this is the most erotic thing Ive ever seen, and have thought that ever since the first time I saw it - omg, was he aroused when he wrapped her in his arms? Did she feel him and knew - oh yeah, it’s my husband, it’s ok. They could tell me for a million years that he is her ‘mother’, but I will never believe he didnt love and desire her, that she didnt love him – all you have to do is look at her eyes and you know, yes we all know the truth - look at his cheek in her hair - she knows and is thinking, “Thank God he’s safe, he’s here and we’ll see our way out of here, together.” 

[tale-xistime]

Lol it was my first ever fic but I also think about this at least once a week which led to this. So. Shameless self promo here’s a fic for ya 😂

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27932338

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[my-robot-heart]

Ahh thank you Tale! “I think about this at least once a week is a MOOD” also 😅😅❤️

[welcometolizzingtonpaintrain]

Will not watch the blacklist I honestly don’t see the point without Megan or Liz they ruined it! 💔😡 baited us and broke our hearts and it’s upsetting there is no point in even finding out who red is imho because I don’t give a shit! Liz imho was the center of who he was and is and they killed that! Season nine hopefully will be short and then over but I won’t be watching that shit! I leave with one of my favorite scenes Lizzington yeah this is not parental by the way in any fashion! Very sexually charged!

[kissthefuture]

What are they gonna do to me that hasn’t been done before? Kill me? None of it is worse than losing you.

[welcometolizzingtonpaintrain]

😭😭😭

[meetmeatthecoda]

If nothing else, TPTB should be applauded for their ability to fall so far below even my lowest expectations… every time. 

I really didn’t think they would do it. And yet. They did & in the absolute worst way possible. Just thinking of Liz’s park fantasy is making me start to cry again. At least we got that & all that it implies. I’ll treasure that forever. But the fact that they couldn’t think of a kinder, more logical, less masochistic, misogynistic & sexist way to write Megan/Liz out, when us fans came up with so many? Speaks volumes. I’m so angry. And the fact that we couldn’t even fully enjoy the poignancy of her dying in Red’s arms - her memories of him saved for last, all our favorite Lizzington moments featured on screen, her little smile as she died looking at him, & his desperate terrified kiss to her cheek - all because they couldn’t resist peppering in the previously unseen “memories” of Katarina to bait Redarina one last time for an answer they didn’t even give. It was all pointless. Liz didn’t get her answers, she didn’t get her redemption, she didn’t get her happiness. She got her fantasy for one afternoon & that’s it. The whole premise of the show was for naught. And Red lost his second chance & his redemption, his chance to share in Liz’s fantasy for more than one afternoon, & now he’ll never get it. Everything he’s been working for since the night of the fire failed & that’s tragic. But, most of all, I think the fact that they think they still have a show after this - a plot, a premise, anything worth watching - when Liz is dead after nothing was achieved? Is awful. They don’t have a season 9. Red canonically cannot deal with Liz’s death & I don’t want to see him try. Poor little Agnes is orphaned at the last second bc they can’t find it in themselves to write a happy ending for their female lead who put up with so much bullshit. Nice. A real class act. I’m so upset & devastated & can’t think straight. All I know is… we deserved better. We saw this show for something different, something it could have been, all the way back in the beginning, & they they teased just enough to let us know they saw it too & still consciously chose otherwise. For all the Redarina bait, there was also Agnesgate hints & Lizzington undertones in this finale, just bc they could. But it doesn’t even matter. Not anymore. Because they betrayed us in the extreme. 

At least we have our fantasy. At least we have that. I’m sorry Liz & Megan. It should have been different. It should have been better. It could have been great.

[tale-xistime]

So I’d just like to say a few things.

The show is dead. We al know this. And poor Red is just, he’s not gonna survive this. So in thought of all that.

FUCK THIS SHITTY SHOW. SAY IT WITH ME NOW GUYS, FUCK THIS SHOW.

good. Now that we’ve all got that out of our system, I wanna say one more thing, one thing that I’ve been saying since this all went to AU hell.

THE BLACKLIST IS NOT MY CANON.

This is not the ending Liz deserves, and Red sure as hell does not deserve the hell that canon keeps putting him through. And I know with this news, that most people may drop out of the fandom.

But I urge you. Please please, don’t.

I will respect you if you do, and really all the more power to you.

But I want to stick it to these fucking writers. I am going to continue writing and blogging lizzington, because it’s my OTP. And they can’t take that away from me. I refuse to let them.

Lizzington is mine. Mine and yours.

We can’t give up because of these bastards. Red and Liz deserve better than what has been given to them in this specific AU, Bc that’s all canon is a hell-fic alternate universe, so I am going to give it to them.

I hope that you guys will stick with me in this. If you guys don’t stay I will understand, but just think of all the better worlds that we can put these characters in.

Grieve Liz. I sure as hell am. Grieve this show. I sure as hell am doing that too. But just remember as you go about this, that this doesn’t have to be the end. It shouldn’t be. I refuse to let it be. As a good friend on here once said Canon is just the sandbox you choose to play in. So let’s all go and make/play in a better sandbox. This doesn’t have to be it for our OTP. I don’t want to let things end and die this way. Just because some bastard writers are terrible at their jobs.

Red and Lizzie deserve better than half-ass plots and no consistency. So I plan on giving it to them. Now as cheesy as it sounds, who the hell is with me?

[welcometolizzingtonpaintrain]

My thoughts on finale season eight one the writers suck! Fuck them two Liz keen deserved better and red as well his whole career was her protecting her! How dare they treat both their leads like that! Not to mention the rederina bait they can’t daddy bait anymore so they turned to mommy bait! Also no fucking answers and the saddest thing Liz will never get to learn them! The show may as well be canceled I mean come the fuck on!

Let’s not forget last minute keenler shit! 🙄🙄🙄

The only good thing Liz got her fantasy at least.

My ending

Season 1-310

Skip up til the walk in park holding hands with agnes

The end

Just red and Liz with agnes

No other bullshit!

[codewordpumpkin]

TBL s8 finale thoughts

I haven't actually watched the episode myself yet, but I've read enough live blogs and messages from friends to know what happened.

1. tptb really couldn't think of any other way to send off Megan? To "end" Liz's arc? A way that would allow room for Megan to make guest appearances every now and then? A way that would allow character/plot development to happen at least behind the scenes were Megan not inclined to return at all?

2. What the fuck is left of the show at this point? They've burned the premise down along with Masha's house apparently. It's not an exaggeration to say that The Blacklist - the show that we came to love - does NOT work without Liz, and it's unrecognizable with her dead.

Liz was the female lead, yes, but imo she was also the true protagonist. We got Red because we had Elizabeth. The entire show was driven by HER and her journey, her quest for answers, her dream of a normal life with the people she loves.

And as mentioned earlier, Red entered the scene because of Elizabeth. She was his life, his heart, and she was his life mission. To protect her, keep her safe, make her happy and feel loved was literally his only goal in life. He was willing to die - multiple times - and sacrifice his life in exchange for her safety. All of the mystery and secrets were "for her safety."

What the fuck left is there to do without Elizabeth Keen? What is there that will stop Red from killing himself now? Really? What is there left to live for? And what does the audience - whoever decides to remain for whatever fucking reason - have left? Does anyone really care who the fuck Red is at this point? I, for one, stopped caring about 7 years ago. But now there is really just. no. point.

3. I don't even need to say anything further about Red's utter devastation and broken heart. We all know already. But you know what? I even feel sorry for Ressler. It doesn't matter that I didn't see any romantic love or chemistry between them. Ressler was in love with her - one-sided, but still - and he lost her. The first woman he fell in love with after Audrey died, too. He lost the two loves of his life.

4. Agnes is now an orphan now? (Yes, I'm an Agnesgate supporter to my grave, but considering this is tptb we're talking about... she's an orphan.) What the fuck is wrong with them? What the fuck was the point of even bringing her in then? If this was how they were going to treat Agnes, they should have just put her up for adoption when she was a baby like Liz initially wanted.

5. I'm not even going to talk about the alleged Redarina baiting because imo there's nothing to talk about. I won't give that hell theory another second of my time. It doesn't deserve any attention.

6. Liz deserved better. Red deserved better. Every character on the show who ever cared about Liz deserved better. WE, as a loyal audience, deserved better.

7. I'm still in disbelief. This is the one ending I truly did not expect, simply because of how stupid I thought - and still think - it was. It's a fucking slap in the face to all of us.

I actually didn't cry when I heard the news of Megan leaving, but learning that she died - really this time - did make me cry. And I'm not embarrassed to admit that. I'm truly gutted. I'm pretty sure I'm never going to just get over this. Not when this is how they decided to end it.

8. I've said it before and I'll say it again:

We make our own canon. That scene where they're holding hands in the park? Yeah, that's our canon ending.

9. Sidenote: They had fucking Van Dyke kill Liz. Are you fucking kidding me? This random guy who was an employee of Townsend? He was that loyal to the fucker that he just had to go out of his way to kill Liz, despite the fact that he knew Red would kill him for it? Really? That was the best idea they had to kill Liz?

[meetmeatthecoda]

Bless you for being so coherent, Pumpkin!! I can’t see far enough past my tears to type that much. Bless you. This is all perfect & correct. I can’t believe this, I am gutted. 

[welcometolizzingtonpaintrain]

Yes I’m am done with this show 310 and the holding hands with agnes in park was my ending will not be watching after that

[factoseintolerant]

What is your fantasy?

[theythinkimabitch]

None of this is going to be decipherable, it's been less than five minutes since what was meant to be the end of the episode and even if I predicted this since Red made the request, I'm still absolutely livid.

Here's the thing: they both lost. Red and Liz. But more than anything, Liz lost. Before I start, I just want to say that I love both of their characters no matter how badly written Liz has been at the sake of Red's character and I have never resented Red's character for that, until now.

I'm gonna start with Red here. There's less for me to bitch about with him and at the end of the day, this was meant to be Liz's episode no matter how hellbent these sexist, misogynist writers were to focus this entire episode on Red's goodbye. Speaking of, that's where I'm starting with all this. Red's goodbye. This episode started off fine and I wasn't angry. But the minute Red's request was revealed is the minute it changed. Firstly, Red was right when he started to question whether or not it was fair to ask Liz to kill him: IT ABSOLUTELY WAS NOT! You're going to ask the girl you want to protect, the girl who's innocence you've been fighting for your whole life, to kill you knowing the whole time that you can't give her the fucking letter because she wouldn't want to kill him? Are you shitting me? THAT'S NOT OKAY! Now I am not blaming Red for who Liz became, but come on, I think we can all agree Red entering Liz's life wasn't the best mistake. Berlin caught onto Liz because Red attended Liz's wedding. I'm not saying he's responsible for all that happened, but there's a certain sense of responsibility there. He cannot ask her to do this. Sure, he gave her every out, but just think of how fucked up that is. Especially if they're trying to bait the HellTheory the way they want to and say that he's her mother. Secondly, THE WAY THE SPEND THIS WHOLE EPISODE ON CELEBRATING RED KNOWING THIS WAS MEGAN'S EXIT? LIVID! This more than anything pissed me off. If we were given a proper send off, if the writer's allowed Liz to get closure, I wouldn't be as mad, but this is infuriating. This right here supports every complaint that writers have had for the way they have written Liz. They consistently, constantly, any time they can, prop up Reddington at her expense and this is the embodiment of it. Speaking of, let's talk about Liz, now shall we?

Liz Keen. My beloved. My character wife. My sweetheart. I adore her. I didn't love her for the way she was written, I loved her despite how she was written. Elizabeth Keen was the most hated character on this show--hell she's the most hated character I've ever seen anyone talk about. But the more people hated her, the more I loved her. She has been through hell and back and now that we've reached the end for fucking what? From the beginning, all Liz asked for was the truth. The premise of the show was the truth as to why Red was in Liz's life. It started off being dependent on Tom and Berlin and it ended because of love. All Liz wanted was honesty. Slight tangent, but the way Red conditioned the truth on Liz to kill him? I know that was for the sake of keeping up the mystery the writer's somehow expect the audience to give a damn about, but that was cold. The truth doesn't fucking matter without Liz. The story of The Blacklist is the story of Raymond Reddington, the man we come to know as Raymond Reddington and the truth of their relationship. For as upsetting as that has been, for them not to have answered it before killing her off, was a slap in the face. It does not matter. There's no moving forward after this. Liz lost. Everything Liz hoped for, she didn't get. She lost everyone--she lost Sam, she lost Tom, she lost her innocence, she lost Jennifer, she lost her job, she lost her daughter, she lost the truth, she lost everything. There wasn't a moment in the show that Liz won. The moment before she was killed, Liz was on the path toward forgiveness. Liz was ready to have her normal life, Liz was going to have that. But no, she lost that too. Her whole fight since the beginning and she didn't get the answer. She died before she could get it. She forgave Red, she loved Red, she truly and finally accepted him for whoever he was and she was killed before the truth could finally be let free. The only thing she asked for, the one thing she wanted. Forget about all of Liz's failings as a character and a person, she died with nothing and that more than anything is what angers me.

[meetmeatthecoda]

I DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY EXCEPT 1) YES. AND 2) THANK YOU.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[factoseintolerant]

Let’s just be.

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

cooper’s still a better father figure than anyone since sam

[meetmeatthecoda]

This past week has been the craziest fucking week of my fandom life. And here, now, at the end? I’m not sure what else to say, other than… Thank you all. I love you. See you on the other side.

Team Lizzington.

Let’s go.

[moneypowxrglory-deactivated2022]

you bet your ass things have changed since episode one bitch. I have a 250-page dissertation titled “The Blacklist and the Dangers of Incoherent Storytelling: How Blatant Disregard for Structuring a Plot Affects Fan Base Loyalty” sitting in my filing cabinet

[meetmeatthecoda]

The exact season is escaping me, but didn’t Red tell Liz years ago that her mother committed suicide bc she couldn’t bear that Liz had killed the only man she ever really loved? That alone would disprove HellTheory bc 1.) Red never (intentionally) lies to Liz, and 2.) what sort of despicable human being would let anyone, let alone someone they love, think they were responsible for their parents’ deaths if they weren’t? Even pretending that Red is Kat and the goal was to make Liz believe she was dead so she wouldn’t go trying to find her...why make her think it was HER fault? That’s a completely unnecessary (and cruel!) lie.

I completely agree with you, anon!! 🙏 Red did indeed say this to her at some point (season one, maybe? can't remember either lolz) along with the explicit statement that her father is dead, just adding to all the parent CRAP that has dominated this show over the past 8 seasons bc clearly a 30-40 year old woman desperately needs at least 7 parental figures in her life, even after a relatively happy childhood with her beloved adoptive father *rolls eyes to Mars* ANYWAY, you're absolutely right, anon, with both points!! Red never lies to Liz (we'll see if they manage to retcon that steadfast rule tomorrow night) & him lying about her mother would be evil, but for some reason people want Red to either be a parent or the bringer of unforgivable betrayal to Liz's life, when all he actually wants is to love & protect her. It's baffling 🙄 (ALSO, speaking of letting someone believe they're responsible for a loved one's death, that's exactly what Red was trying to avoid when he had Liz's memory erased of shooting her father on the night of the fire. Assuming they haven't retconned that either. Sooo... yeah, nothing checks out.) Anyway, I fully agree with you, anon, thank you for this ask, & much love to you!! ❤️