Hey. Hey Morgan. You Can Stop Making That Face Now. I Kind Of Need My Heart. Yeah If You Could Stop Stomping

hey. hey morgan. you can stop making that face now. i kind of need my heart. yeah if you could stop stomping on it that would be great.

Hey guys, I wanted to talk about my friend Mohammed Al-Shaer here. I'm very lucky and blessed to be able to call him my friend these days. I just wish we had met under better circumstances. He's very sweet, kind, he's thoughtful and he always has something funny to say. Even when I'm stressed he wants to hear what I'm worried about to comfort me. I don't have the heart to always tell him "I'm worried about you."

It's very hard to hear "Habibi don't worry about me" from someone who keeps getting poisoned in the kidneys by polluted water. From someone who told you about the complete mutilation and destruction he just barely escaped during the Rafah invasion. How do you get yourself to stop worrying you won't hear from him again?

You keep working to make sure he'll survive.

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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." -Marcel Proust

gifing every single episode of criminal minds: 6x3 “Remembrance of Things Past”

I genuinely don’t get the hate around jordan todd because she was a realistic depiction of what a semi-normal** person be like in the bau. @/frankiebirds made a really good post about it here, which you should absolutely go read.

(this got kind long, the rest is under the cut)

in addition to that post, I want to add the jordan had very little training. she shadowed jj for a bit (but didn’t actually shadow her during a case). that’s it. she was thrown in the deep end with no real knowledge of what she was getting into.

and she was put in the media liaison position. over the course of the series, we’re shown just how hard that job is and the toll it takes on jj, who’s been at it for years.

in addition (and as frankiebirds points out in the post it made) the other members of the bau are varying levels of desensitized to the horror they witness. jordan isn’t. she’s completely new to this world and these horrors.

and she’s honest about it. and I feel like people see her as weak for this honesty. when, in reality, most people would be in jordan’s position—scared, unsure, and traumatized.

rossi, one of the team’s most seasoned, tells her that it’s okay to not be able to do the job. and I think she finds deep relief in that. enough relief to not feel like a coward for leaving.

criminal minds is gray area central and people just Can’t Handle It for some reason. why jordan catches all the flack is beyond me (besides the fact that she’s a woman of color who breathed).

anyway. rant over. thank you for coming to me TEDtalk.

(**she did work in counterterrorism, so she likely had some interactions with the dark & disturbing, but not like this)

when jj is saying goodbye to penelope and then says "there's one more thing i need to do before i go" with that long moment of silence and eye contact and walking slowly towards her. for the briefest moment i forgot what show i was watching and fully thought they were going to kiss

garcia tells morgan that she has this friend he would be soooo good together with and can she please set him up on a blind date with them? and then she tells reid she has this other friend HE would be soooo good together with and can she please set him up on a blind date with them? eventually they agree. and then bam it's eachother. send post.