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AND THEN HE KISSES HER GOODNIGHT AND THE EPISODE ENDS AND GARCIA IS HAPPY FOREVER!!!!

re one of ur last posts - what are ur nonbinary elle and spencer hcs?? :))

AH i actually dont have that many so a lot of these literally just came into my head. also i'm very sorry this mostly became "elle helping spencer realise he's nonbinary" headcanons, i'll have to think more about elle :((

this one is not my headcanon. i tried to find whose it is but for the life of me i cannot track it down, so if anyone knows please tell me so i can link them: they share a wardrobe. the only one who remembers which clothes initially belonged to which person is spencer, for obvious reasons. EDIT: got this from this post by @/spritehouse

elle has her shit figured out pre-canon but isn't doing anything about it because it's 2005. spencer does not have his shit figured out until after he gets with elle

well. he has it a little figured out. he knows there's something to figure out, he knows he isn't a cis man, but he's just like. i have way too much going on in my life already to think about that so i will ignore it <3 because that's worked out so well for him

pre-figuring his shit out, spencer is constantly (and largely unintentionally) mixing "menswear" and "womenswear". i really struggle to see a version of spencer where he and diana didn't experience serious financial issues after william left, and even as an adult, high-quality private psychiatric care like diana's is expensive. so, the majority of his clothes are thrifted (yes, i know about the $500 cardigans in later seasons. gifts from rossi <3) and he doesn't really care what section of goodwill he finds them in. so he's constantly wearing, like. a men's shirt under a women's cardigan over men's pants held up with a women's belt. post-figuring his shit out, this becomes intentional and he starts blatantly mixing styles. the kind of thing that gets him stopped in public by someone going "hey you know that's a women's...?" and he goes "yep! :D"

by contrast, elle, while she largely has things figured out, does not present the way she wants to for safety reasons. spencer helps her gradually feel more comfortable presenting the way she wants while she helps him figure out his gender stuff

as for reid's gender stuff, i think for a long time he's really overly fixated on labelling himself. the closest any label comes is bigender but that doesn't feel quite right and he has a lot of unnecessary angst about it. (not projecting at all shut up). eventually he's venting to elle one day about how he feels this and this and this about his gender and if he was to describe it he would describe it like this but he just can't figure it out. and then elle gets genuinely confused because it sounds to her like he very much has figured it out. it takes a long time for him to understand and accept that there isn't a magic word that will describe all parts of him, and he may never find one. and that's fine

elle does spencer's makeup. he looks in the mirror and cries.

penelope is the first person they come out to and she is DELIGHTED to have other trans people on the team. one more and they outnumber the cis people...

morgan is next. spencer says "we're nonbinary" and morgan says "is this like a 'we're pregnant' situation or are you actually talking about both of you" and elle hits him in the head. spencer immediately feels many times less anxious than he did before. i love u morgan

morgan asks spencer in private if he wants him to stop calling him pretty boy. spencer tells him to please never stop. calling him "pretty", an adjective usually used to describe women, paired with "boy" makes him very happy. with this in mind, morgan starts calling elle "handsome girl". elle pretends to be nonchalant about it, but it makes her really happy.

they never tell gideon. spencer can't handle the thought of him reacting badly. (gideon was under the impression that spencer was just closeted this whole time. oops!)

like i said, spencer REALLY likes being described as masculine and feminine in the same breath. when elle first introduces him to her friends, she says "this is spencer, she's my boyfriend" and spencer runs away to stim in private. elle's friends are very confused.

If you stop caring, you’re jaded. But if you care too much, it’ll ruin you.

maybe controversial opinion? whiie the directing of true night is fantastic and different and jonny is tragic and sympathetic, i really dislike this episode. this is probably my most critical cm post so far, so if you love this episode and don't want to read about someone hating it, maybe scroll away. if not, my complaining is under the cut:

post 3x01 there's this really frustrating trend of the show revealing who the unsub is and how they act early on, rather than showing them only when the team learns who they are. i want to guess at what the unsub is like. i want to guess at who they are. i want to guess when the team is wrong, i hate that they start handing that information to the audience so instead of learning things with the team, they're waiting for them to catch up.

and i think this episode is one of the worst offenders. it feels like the team gets hardly any screentime, which is a shame, because when they are onscreen, there are some great character moments! but they don't do anything, we barely see any profiling in the profiling show because the episode is too dedicated to showing us jonny. they're completely useless; they find out that jonny is the unsub because his agent calls the tipline.

and it's not a situation where the team being useless is intentional and tragic, like in north mammon (a, from what i've seen, deservedly beloved episode where the team also doesn't get a lot of screentime and the case also ends because of the actions of a non-team member). in this episode, the team is useless because everything useful they do is offscreen, which, to the audience, is the same as them doing nothing at all.

one of the most frustrating moments to me is the reveal that jonny's girlfriend is dead, he watched her be murdered, and is going after her killers. when do we find this out? not slowly. not alongside the team. we find out when they confront jonny with the information. why is the team figuring things out off-screen on the show about a team of people figuring things out? it's possible to guess that jonny's girlfriend is dead from the (imo, largely unnecessary) scenes we get with him, but the details are a surprise. at least to me—i'll admit i spent the bulk of the jonny scenes waiting for the team to show back up, so maybe i missed foreshadowing there.

i really think that had the episode not devoted so much time to showing us exactly how the unsub acted and more time to showing us the team figuring that out, i would have loved this episode. could even have been one of my favourites. i want to watch the version of true night where the team actually profiles, finds jonny...and then reads his medical records and realises what's happening. i dont want to watch the team explain what they found out after they already have, i want to watch them find it out! that's the point!

a "pretty boy" has been found sniffling and whimpering in the wilderness