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this is still the most funniest spencelle moment for me. spencer fucking panicking between elle and jj and he double takes on elle's chest 😭💀

Gold in the Summertime [E] [8424 words]

In which instead of the Fisher King, the BAU gets their two weeks vacation, and Reid goes to Jamaica with Elle and Morgan. For the kink bingo prompt "friends with benefits".

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“You gonna be alright in the sun, pretty boy?” Morgan teases, as he leans on the door jamb of their adjacent hotel rooms and watches Reid rubbing sunscreen on his face.

“I’m from the desert,” Reid says. “I can handle heat. I still turn red as a lobster though.”

Elle appears from the balcony, already in a bikini with a sarong wrapped around her waist and a cocktail in hand.

“Aw chulo,” she coos at him, and makes eye contact with Morgan across the room. “You could have waited until we’re on the beach, Morgan would have volunteered to lotion you up.”

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i see your bi4bi spencelle and raise you: nb4nb spencelle

happy pride month to every spencelle bi4bi truther i see you, i am with you

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.

"spencelle is a straight ship–"

literally have you seen them? nothing about these nonbinary gay mfers is straight. they share 1 wardrobe and just alternate who dresses hot and who dresses pathetic that day.

I was going through some of my old reading journals on the storygraph, and when I was going through the one I had for the starless sea by erin morgenstern (possibly my favourite novel of all time) I came across this quote i’d written down:

They peel off each other's clothes in layers. He curses at the strange clasps and fasteners on her garments while she laughs at the sheer numbers of buttons on his. […] It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. In one person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric. But doors cannot stay closed forever.

and if I said spencelle…

elle pulling her girlfriend spencer in by his beltloops. send post

goddddd motel scene time. i have a lot of thoughts on it and hopefully i'll be able to put them into some kind of order.

ELLE: After he shot me, he reached into my wound so he could write on the wall in my blood. I was barely conscious, but I...I could feel his hand in there. And sometimes it's like I can still feel it. REID: Elle, he's dead. You're...You're right here. You won.

obviously this is an unhelpful thing to say. i dont think that makes reid evil, or a bad friend, i think it makes him a twenty-four-year-old who's struggling to understand a situation he's never been in.

i dont think elle resents him for it. im sure there's frustration, deservedly so, but i dont think it's targeted at reid, more at the general sense of Nobody Is Getting Me. especially this expression here:

in the moment, this doesnt read to me as anger. it's certainly not a happy smile; she's not comforted by what reid says because it's not a comforting thing to say, and i think it sort of develops into anger later, but in the moment, she doesn't resent him for not being able to say the right thing. again, there's frustration, because he doesn't get it. he can't (not yet, anyway). a part of her wishes he did, a part of her wishes somebody did, and yet a different part of her hopes none of them ever do, because it's an awful, awful thing to understand.

i headcanon that reid and elle stay in contact after elle leaves, but i dont think its immediate. i flipflop between two reasons

reid doesnt reach out because he feels guilty, like if he had just said the right words in the right order in that motel room, she would have stayed. i think this is generally how reid responds to abandonment (and sometimes just conflict in general). if i had just said the right thing, done that differently, been better, i could have fixed it. boy is...a little emotionally stunted. if he was a stage of grief he would be bargaining. do you get me.

reid does reach out, but elle doesn't respond. maybe she's still angry about him not being able to Get It, maybe she wants to distance herself from the bau in general, maybe him not Getting It hurts in particular because they were quite close, etc.

either way, they get back in contact post s02e15, when reid texts her a barely coherent rambling apology for that night, how it was an unsympathetic and unhelpful thing to say, and he does get it now, and he's sorry, there is no winning—

she calls him.

i just like. actually need to know if the director TOLD matthew and lola to act like they were earth shatteringly in love with each other. i need to repeat ‘death of the author death of the author death of the author’ to myself to feel sane

it’s actually so important to have two bisexuals on the opposite spectrums of cool be in love

like im gonna see this and not say ‘cool, stylish bisexual gf w/ her well dressed but in a ‘college student that moonlights as a folk singer’ way, also bisexual, nonbinary gf’ . . . get REAL

☆ ☾ spencelle moodboard ☆ ☾

some m/f ships are like. that woman is a lesbian. however that man is a woman so it all works out

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 | Plain Sight (1x04)

the future in an oil slick

After a couple seconds of silence, she heard footsteps and indistinct mumbling approaching the door, then stepped back as she heard the soft metal-on-metal sound of a chain lock being undone. Huh. She’d told him he should get one after conceding that he probably didn’t have many more secure housing options within his budget, but he’d been hesitant on that, too. Probably just didn’t want to face the inevitable argument with his landlord. What had changed to— The door opened with a hard jerk, and Elle felt her stomach drop out as Spencer appeared in the entryway. The answer to her question was everything, apparently.

OR: on the anniversary of elle's shooting, she returns to D.C. spencer texts her. two ships passing in the night collide.

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the future in an oil slick

After a couple seconds of silence, she heard footsteps and indistinct mumbling approaching the door, then stepped back as she heard the soft metal-on-metal sound of a chain lock being undone. Huh. She’d told him he should get one after conceding that he probably didn’t have many more secure housing options within his budget, but he’d been hesitant on that, too. Probably just didn’t want to face the inevitable argument with his landlord. What had changed to— The door opened with a hard jerk, and Elle felt her stomach drop out as Spencer appeared in the entryway. The answer to her question was everything, apparently.

OR: on the anniversary of elle's shooting, she returns to D.C. spencer texts her. two ships passing in the night collide.

read on ao3