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What is with you people hating on Jesus Reid… that man is so gorgeous- AND WITH THE CANE???!!!! AAAUUUUGGGHHHH I WANT HIM SO BAD

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reid and calculated risks. reid literally staring down the barrel of a gun, running the probabilities of the next trigger being the one with the bullet ending up on his head and at the same time deducing his location at the moment and also thinking abt how to give subtle clues / hints (?) at the team even tho he's not 100% sure he's right THEN his little smile after he asked tobias and it turns out he's right. just. reid's mind is so fast i wanna kiss him so bad

ALSO he technically only blinked once during that time so i dont think he's as much of a blinker as he claims he is after the foyet episode chuchu

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Spencer: Autistic and asexual? Call that shit neuro-die-virgin.

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it's always reid's secret girlfriend ... where's the representation for reid's secret boyfriend!!!!!!!!

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criminal minds: a comedy trailer

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GARCIA AJD MORGAN ARE MARRIED AND HAVE LITTLE HACKER BABIES AMEN AND AMEN

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Reid: You know my motto: carpe diem, carpe noctem, carpe coles.

Morgan: Seize the day, seize the night, what’s the last one?

Reid: Seize the dick.

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Reid Didn't Always Carry a Revolver & Why He Started To

Currently rewatching the show and decided to take note of precisely when Reid switches to using a revolver.

Contrary to popular belief, he didn't always have one.

Even Matt himself seemed to forget it when he said that he carried the revolver prop gun nearly every day for 15 years. x

I've kept a sharp eye on it and as far as I can tell, Reid doesn't ever have a revolver all the way up until The Angel Maker, 4x02.

Right from Extreme Aggressor, 1x01, we can see that he has a Glock just like the others that carry guns.

Here is The Boogeyman, 2x06.

A year later and still no sign of the revolver that's become synonymous with Reid.

There is a funny instance in which it seems like his gun transforms for an episode.

In The Big Game, 2x14, we can see throughout this episode that he still has his Glock.

At the end of the episode, Tobias knocks him over and takes his gun from him. We can clearly see that it is still the Glock here.

In Revelations, 2x15, it opens immediately following the last episode, it should have still been the Glock. But when they're in the cabin, it is somehow a revolver. There's no explanation for this but I'm assuming it's just for the plot so he can do the roulette game with Reid.

After this episode, Reid resumes using his regular Glock.

Here is shortly afterward, Distress, 2x17.

This would have been the easiest time to switch out his Glock for the revolver and make it his permanent gun. The whole roulette ordeal is still fresh in the audience's (and Reid's) mind and it would be easy to not even question him carrying the revolver. But it's back to his Glock again.

Here is 3rd Life, 3x12.

This is much later, almost a year has passed. He continues to have a Glock, with no reappearance of a revolver at any point yet.

Here is Mayhem, 4x01.

This is the last time we see him with a Glock.

In the next episode, The Angel Maker, 4x02, he suddenly has a revolver now. There is no comment on him having a different gun from him or anyone else.

It's about a year and a half after his encounter with Tobias Hankel that Reid actually begins to carry a revolver.

This leads me to believe in a couple options as to what happened there.

In canon explanation: That revolver in 2x15 was Tobias's own gun. Because if it were Reid's, surely he would've taken it back and continued to carry it. What happened to Reid's actual gun, I'm not sure. Perhaps Tobias disposed of it or hid it to ensure Reid couldn't get it back.

I think Reid chose to switch to a revolver later on because in his mind, this is the weapon that he used to save himself. This is the weapon that he had extreme luck with. He got three empty chambers in a row when Tobias was pointing it at his head and pulling the trigger.

Then, right as he decides to speak Hotch's name to give him the clue of where they are is when Tobias fired and it happened to be on the bullet. If he had refused one more time, he would have died. But he didn't.

Later, he finally gains the opportunity to take the gun to save himself. Tobias warns him there's only one bullet in the gun. Keep in mind, the cylinder had been spun! He fired and it happened to be right on the bullet. He not only saved himself, but he fired away the bullet meant for Hotch, metaphorically saving him too.

Considering all of this, he was extremely lucky the way it all played out with that revolver roulette.

We know that despite being a logic loving genius, he does a lot of things that fall outside of his love of rules, order, and logic. And this might be one of the instances that ingrained the luckiness in his mind.

In 3rd Life, 3x12, he was alone and trying to talk Jack Vaughn out of shooting his daughter's captor. He couldn't convince him and witnessed Jack kill the guy in front of him.

Then later, in Elephant's Memory, 3x16, he actually leaves his Glock behind. He hands it to Emily and walks out to try and talk down Owen Savage, completely unarmed. Later when Hotch is talking to him about his reckless actions and asked what he was thinking, Reid responds by saying he was thinking about how it would have been the second time a kid died in front of him.

So we know that these things remain and weigh heavily on Reid's mind. He might have started to think and agonize over all his perceived "failures" and "bad luck" in the field.

He could have started to have some illogical thoughts about how he kept failing whenever he had his Glock. And since he managed to successfully talk Owen Savage down after getting rid of the Glock, this could have further cemented that little idea in his head.

And he might have thought back to how incredibly lucky he was with that revolver in 2x15. Maybe this is why he decided to start carrying one himself, in the hope that it would help him be "better" and "luckier" in the field.

Real life explanation: The creators of the show needed to have Reid in a tense roulette situation where Tobias kept pulling the trigger over and over and realized this wouldn't work with a Glock. So, they gave James Van Der Beek a revolver for that episode and didn't think anyone would notice or particularly care that the gun changes magically from one moment to the next lol

No matter the case, interesting to think about!

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When he smiles like this:😁

(Also sorry for not posting so much, school has been taking my attention it’s hard studying to become a teacher🥲)

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Fluffy Jemily Headcanons

They link pinkies when they kiss, especially before going out into the field or in dangerous situations

Henry and Michael started calling Emily ‘Momem’ after Michael slipped up, starting to call her mom, but caught himself and ended up calling her ‘Momem’ and it just stuck

JJ wears Emily’s old Yale t-shirt, which she stole the first time she slept over, to bed so often that it’s threadbare and almost unwearable now

Emily loves gummy bears, she bites off their heads and switches the bodies (she freaked Reid out the first time she did it) and now Henry and Michael do it too

Emily is an insomniac and even though she is prescribed sleep meds, she doesn’t like to take them, so most nights she lays awake for a while and watches JJ sleep.

JJ talks and mumbles in her sleep. She’s also a stage five clinger and will wrap herself around Emily unless she’s all touched out from the boys hanging all over her.

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okay y’all. spencer reid fans buckle up, cause i have some thoughts. i wanna talk about post-prison era reid. we all love him, but i've been having some major thoughts about it. one of the main things about post-prison era reid, is that he masks so heavily, and none of his autistic traits are shown anymore. now i'm all for trauma making a character mask more, but cm didn't really view it like that, and i dont like that. another thing about post-prison reid is that he no longer gives any fucks and will fuck you up. i love this, because it personally feels like, after years of being ridiculed for his autism and how it affects him, he fights back against it. you can try and ridicule him, but he's gonna put up a fight, and you're not gonna win. a lot of people like post-prison era reid because of his hair- which is completely valid,, fluffy haired reid is amazing. but i feel like we as a fandom are not talking about the drastic changes in his character enough. yes! post-prison reid is awesome! but let's talk about why. how he went through trauma and it changed him fundamentally. how he masks so much he's almost unidentifiable. everything that made reid him before, doesn't anymore, and reid has to figure out who he is without that. he has to figure out IF there is a him without it.

in conclusion: post-prison era reid is so so interesting, and we as a fandom don't go into WHY post-prison reid is, if not the best, one of the best, eras of reid enough.

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unset texts x jemily (jj’s pov)

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me when someone accuses me of something i definitely did

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lesbianism is my favorite kind of ism