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idk if you’ve been asked this before but what are your thoughts on reid lashing out at jj about the whole emily thing in season 7?
my thoughts are that it's too complicated to say i'm on either one's side </3
JJ fucking pissed me off with the later Jeid storyline but I liked her at the beginning of the show -> onwards until p much right there, so I tried not to let that letdown influence my retrospective on the s7 situation.
JJ was following highly classified, highly important government orders. Her boss told her to keep her mouth shut for safety reasons, and as someone who's seen countless friends and family members suffer because intel got loose, I can understand why she'd adhere so firmly to the guidelines. She was a good agent.
However, Reid requires stability and consistency in his environment, as he is at a high risk for slipping back into his addiction + developing symptoms of his mother's illness (which, if i remember correctly, were teased but never actually confirmed in him. My point is, he's an at-risk individual who was thrown into grief). I can completely understand how finding out that the shoulder you cried on for months and months and months was actually lying to you about the source of your grief would make someone angry. I actually think he deserved to be angry, he had the right to be angry, but then things become muddled when you ask me if i think he had the right to be angry at JJ.
Personally, I think I'd initially feel very betrayed if I were Spencer, even if i worked it out later. But again, JJ was following orders to keep Emily alive, and if she had confessed and compromised the undercover operation, Emily would have been killed.
I think, in the actual scene, JJ had absolutely no right to tell him that if he was a better profiler, he'd have been able to figure things out. I thought it was a really low blow for her, especially knowing that he'd been so devastated over his friend's 'death'. I understand that his anger caught her off guard, and she felt unjustly blamed, and I might have been upset or torn too in her position. But the way that she handled it was highly unprofessional and something a petty teenager would say and then reluctantly apologize for once they discover their actions have consequences.
I think that Reid basically pouting during work hours and letting his personal feelings affect his work (y'know, saving lives) was also highly unprofessional. However, the issue was that the entire situation revolved around his work in the first place, and Emily just like slipped right back in?? so he had zero time to process anything and I don't know if I'd be able to separate my feelings from my job either.
I don't blame Spencer for not feeling like he could trust JJ/his team after that, at least not as deeply as he used to. I don't blame JJ for feeling hurt that Spencer took his anger out on her rather than the general situation/even Hotch who gave JJ the orders, and told Spencer he was responsible for it.
it bothers me when Spencer stans will demonize JJ for it while refusing to acknowledge Spencer's missteps, and it pisses me off when JJ likers use it to call Reid a petty toddler without considering his feelings on the matter. All in all, it was a complicated, messy situation with no completely right or wrong side, in my opinion.
i have nothing to add. just look at them.
+ bonus
if there's one thing queers with crushes on their best friends can be trusted to do, it's sitting on a table
1x20 - charm and harm
7x6 - epilogue
or, elle goading reid into rambling, and emily trying to do the same over five years later
Criminal Minds | 7x6 - "Epilogue"
no thoughts just jj touching garcia's shoulder on her way out of the room to comfort her after her friend is kidnapped <33
Yeah, well, worth a shot, right?
CONVERSATION IN 7x11 : TRUE GENIUS ↳ " have any letters or ciphers been received? "
morgann. morgan you can't have chemistry with ALL your friends. you have to put some back. morgan. stop. MORGAN.
FAMILY FOUND 14
You’re in the FBI. Could you get the entire crowd to stop cheering?
death is promised to the bee
Her shoulders hitch, but no tears form. She could run, but the team will search for her. And so will Ian. And when their paths cross, he will kill them. There are no good options. Emily never should have kidded herself into thinking she could have a happy life with people she cared for and who cared for her in turn. She was never meant for it. Her team is damned for the crime of loving her. Unless.
OR: in which emily decides the best way to keep her family safe from doyle is to remove herself from their lives. permanently.
read on ao3, but mind the tags!
for @tobias-hankel's pre-whumptober challenge:
Main Whump-ed Character: Emily Prentiss Bad Thing: Suicide/Attempted Suicide Bad Person: Self One Line Prompt: "But I... I had just seen her. She gave me her... her bracelet."
thinking about what it must have been like for jj and her family after her sister's suicide. living in a small town (a population of 2136 in 2010) where everyone knows everyone. possibly quite religious. the way everyone would look at them. the way everyone would look at her. the way she can never go back, because they'll always look at her like that. and maybe that's why she keeps it a secret from the team for so long—she spent so much time with everybody knowing, once she's somewhere else, she wants nobody to know.
am i the only who has this fear that sarah is gonna dip on john b? because they talked so much about her bad commitment skills and how she always bails when she gets too close to someone. who knows, maybe john b changed her but 👁👄👁
Now, I have to draw the whole team
Ah yes, 8 characters, 3 stories, 1 universe, and 16 broken sofas.
