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This Is A Pretty Minor Gripe In The Grand Scheme Of Things And I Don't Know Much About The Subject So

this is a pretty minor gripe in the grand scheme of things and i don't know much about the subject so i could definitely just be wrong, but. i've never understood this exchange. does margery kempe not famously have one book??

Indoors, a woman in a grey cardigan and yellow shoulderbag that resembles a wicker basket. The night sky is visible through the rectangular windows behind her. The subtitle at the bottom of the image read: "Dr. Jessen gave me the book you brought. Margery Kempe."
A man in a yellow striped button-up and dark blue tie smiles. Behind him is a greenish wall. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: "She's your favorite."
The woman in the grey cardigan, although she has moved to a section of the room with a plant and couch. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "That particular book is one of her minor works."

(sidenote: i don't see it spoken about nearly often enough that diana reid's favourite authour is a woman who, if she was alive today, would likely have been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. i can't speak extensively on that parallel because i'm not especially familiar with margery kempe—i did some research on her after first watching this episode because i was curious if there was a connection, and found that out. i'm unaware of any other parallels, but if anyone more familiar with her has more insight i will love you forever if you share)

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10 months ago

reid going "excuse me, sorry" and then shoving this woman out of her desk is so funny to me. it's a pretty light shove, he honestly more pulls her out of her chair than anything, but. why is he like this. it's like that moment when he crouches by a body, clears his throat so the other person there will move out of the way, and then smirks. he's such a bitch sometimes i love him

In an office, a man wearing a brown sweater vest over a button-up bends over a desk where a woman in a black jacket sits. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "Excuse me, sorry."
The woman in the black jacket is standing up and out of her chair, arms raised in surprised, as the man in the brown sweater vest pulls/pushes her out of her chair.

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10 months ago

cant take this man anywhere he'll say shit like "betwixt" in casual conversation

In an office, man wearing a dark sweater vest over a white-patterned button-up addresses a dark-haired woman over a desk divider. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "It came down to a race betwixt the two."

on a more serious note. this can very much be an autism thing. here are a couple bits from my psychological report when i was diagnosed with autism myself featuring my not great censoring skills:

[deadname] uses a very formal vocabulary and speech structure.
Strong ability to detect patterns, which contributed to formal speech structure and ability to read at a very young age.

(not saying "reid speaks very formally, ergo he's autistic" but "reid displays a lot of autistic traits and speaks very formally, and so that might also be an autistic trait in him")


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10 months ago

headcanon that at some point in reid's early childhood (prior to his dad leaving and probably when he was too young to really understand what was happening), diana spent some time in a psychiatric hospital for one reason or another. (a suicide attempt, a severe episode, a time when she couldn't care for herself, etc)

this has occurred to me before but it popped back into my brain because i listened to my mom by kimya dawson (i love them) and the chorus. its devastating in any context honestly:

My mom's sick she's in a hospital bed I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head And all you skeletons in her closet Leave her alone Leave her alone Leave her alone, please Because my mom needs you gone My mom needs you gone As long as she is haunted she'll never get strong My mom needs you gone


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10 months ago

the way reid treats maggie lowe after disarming her makes me. i know i say this a lot but it makes me need to lay down.

Against a red background indoors, a man in a white striped shirt with a sad, serious expression aims a gun at a woman out-of-focus in the foreground. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "We're going to get you help."

(not pictured: between this image and the next, you hear the sound of what i believe is reid turning the safety on, and see him lower the gun)

The woman, wearing purple, looks down, hair tousled and expression distressed. The man with the striped shirt is out-of-focus in the foreground. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "It's going to be alright."
A wider shot, showing the two are in a bedroom, with a second woman in the background, sitting against the wall with her hands over her face and knees up to her chest. The man in the striped shirt is now aiming the gun towards the ground, and the woman in purple is leaning forwards, as if in the middle of rocking back and forth. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: (SOBBING)
The hand of the man in the striped shirt is raised, as if about to touch the woman in purple on the head. The caption at the bottom of the image reads: (REID SHUSHING)

i might come back to this later im struggling with wording. but something about the way reid treats mentally ill unsubs. hhh. do you think he sees his mother when he looks at them.

(please dont misunderstand me ! emphasis there is on the "mentally ill" not the "unsub." i think if we got a victim with severe mental illness reid would behave very similarly. im talking about unsubs because we see that a lot more because of the whole. you know. premise. i think reid can't help but picture his mother when he sees people in crisis, even when theyre different kinds of crisis, and a lot of his responses in those situations are him falling back on what he learned as a child)


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