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Every episode of this show waters the Maypop vines curled around my soul and it makes me want to throw up from the pressure and grin dopily at their beauty.

Thank god there’s gonna be a season two.

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this was only going to be a sketch but i. got carried away lmao. what can i say your honour, he’s just my silly little guy

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I’m screaming actually.

Because this is one of the things that’s required for rabid fan ships to become canon. The actors need to be comfortable with it.

That’s no shade on actors who aren’t, I wasn’t really in fandom for og Librarians but I know that people were apparently pretty disrespectful when it came to Cassandra’s ships which is a big part of why the thing with Jenkins happened (along with her actor [forgot her name, sorry] feeling like that was who Cassandra had the most chemistry with [iirc, the writers gave her the choice on who Cassandra would end up with])

So it’s freaking amazing that both Jessica Green and Olivia Morris seem to be not only comfortable but excited for a deep relationship between the two!

need everybody to know that liv and jess asked for more charlysa scenes next season. if nobody's got me, I know they do

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Obviously there’s a lot of inherent comedy in this scene but I absolutely LOVE Olivia Morris’s acting here, because the dead give away isn’t actually Lysa complimenting Conner (or acting straight, lol) but her voice and her face.

Lysa is by far the most expressive character in the entire show (and yeah, I’m including side characters), so it’s hella unnerving that her face is barely moving. Like, for any other character that’s a normal amount of expressiveness, but because it’s Lysa I’m like, “are you ill?? do you need a nap?? this is not okay”

The same goes for her voice, she certainly isn’t monotone in this scene, but she’s nowhere near as expressive as she normally is, so it still reads as if she wasn’t emoting at all to anyone who knows her.

Anyway, this is amazing acting on Olivia Morris’s part and I do genuinely think it’s what tipped me off earlier in the episode.

bonus +

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Alternate, slightly funnier, definitely less angsty version of this;

Lysa gets hit and falls in love with Charlie, but similar to Vikram, no one knows. Lysa isn’t acting any different, because, well, she’s already crushing on Charlie, that’s just how she acts around someone she’s into.

There is actually precedent for this too, Vikram is the only person we as the audience know who gets hit, and he acts pretty much exactly how you think he would. He’s dramatic and poetic, he’s there for his interest in everything she needs, pretty much exactly how we can guess he would’ve acted with Anya based on how he talks about her. More importantly though, as soon as Marie says she wants revenge, he’s there. He stops the flirting and works with her on the perfect revenge plan, making sure she has everything she needs. Exactly, I’m sure, what he’d do with someone he has real interest in. We can be pretty sure the arrows don’t change how you act when you’re in love because of this.

But anyway, this ain’t a Vikram post, back to CharLysa;

We, as the audience, have already picked up on a hundred little displays of love between the two. A lot of it focuses on how they are always leaning into each other, you can see it every time they’re giffed together, they are in each other’s space more than necessary, their bodies are always tilted towards each other even if they’re just walking side by side. Any time something notable or funny happens, Lysa will pretty much immediately look at Charlie, who will be looking back.

Even if you don’t read that as romantic, it is love in some way. Look at both of their backgrounds.

Lysa, as far as we can tell, is a loner. We don’t know of anyone’s she’s close to, we know her parents died when she was young, and we can extrapolate that she probably didn’t make many connections out of (probably subconscious) fear that she would lose them randomly.

We can also tell, partly as a character read and partly through Olivia Morris’s acting, that she likes to be listened to. She loves when people pay attention to her, not because she narcissistic or anything, but because that’s how she processes love. When someone is paying attention to her and taking her seriously, that’s how she knows they care about her, and thus, that’s how she shows she cares about others. Her love language (platonic and romantic) is not through grand gestures or heartbreaking poems, it’s through the little things, like paying attention, and being near people, the things you miss the most when they’re gone.

Charlie is really similar in this way. We know she gave her all, for presumably years, into getting into The Library, being a Guardian. So we can guess that she probably also didn’t have many connections outside of it (especially if she was aware of the ‘no relationships outside The Library’ rule). And we can definitely tell, through writing, through acting choices, and through some obvious character reads, that Charlie is desperately lonely. Look at how fast she folded when Lysa asked her to brunch in And The Ghost Train. That was episode 3.

And yes, part of her job is to be observant and attentive, but the degree to which that attention is paid to Lysa goes beyond her duty in my opinion. Every scene I can think of where Lysa is talking, you can see Charlie paying rapt attention. I don’t particularly recall her leaning in to anyone else the way she does Lysa (though I could be wrong on that one, Lysa’s the only character I really pay all that much attention to behavior-wise).

So while it is her job to pay attention to people, I think she pays attention to Lysa because she wants to, it makes her happy. And I think receiving attention is probably a big thing for her, as someone who was passed over for Guardian, because it’s a form of validation, a thing she desperately craves.

I could be wrong about all of this though, I’m just a casual fan and this really wasn’t meant to be a character study, so feel free to tell me if you disagree (respectfully of course), I’d love to listen to and talk to people who’ve paid more attention to these characters than me.

...and the Thief of Love

The reason that Charlie tackled Lysa was because she didn't want her being affected by one of Cupid's arrows. If she was, she might fall in love with one of the guys. Or it might have made her fall in love with Charlie, and then Charlie would never be able to trust Lysa's feelings. Were they real or caused by the arrow? Oh, how magic can mess with the head...and the heart.

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There’s just something about ‘em, man…

The Librarians: The Next Chapter S01E06 And the House of Cards.

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Okay, is no one going to talk about how all the “con stuff” in the Leverage Redemption s3 finale was in black and white but Eliot’s speech to Parker about sticking with her no matter what she chose was in color.

That was not part of the con, he didn’t know her almost killing the mark was part of the act, but he was gonna stand with her no matter what.

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Wow there’s so much sponsored content on tumblr and it’s all so ignorable

I feel empowered, truly

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Apparently I made a Tumblr at some point.

I don’t remember this.