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No wonder………

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Tonight’s episode……i’m not ready.

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#Terry

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No wonder………

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Ha just post your top 10 olitz moments now then. I miss them so much uh!!! :(

Before I start, I just wanted to say that Tony’s voice is the devil. It makes you wanna do bad, nasty things….

Anyways

I posted my #10 earlier so I’ll just proceed

#9 I’m in a giving mood tonight and Didn’t you miss me

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Almost all of Olitz scenes floor me, literally. I be on the floor squirming, but this shit do some other stuff to my body. Fitz kinda played Liv and that made it so much sexier. Got her all hot and bothered then hung up on her ass

Didn’t you miss me

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I was watching this scene earlier and my gawd Tony is just the epitome of sex. His should never whisper because that shit does things to the woman anatomy. If this man whispered in my ear…

I love this moment because he knew that she wanted/missed him as much as he wanted/missed her. Liv is always playing these stupid games acting like she don’t want him, but fitz always sees through them.

#8 Say you’ll Wait for me Olivia

This moment because those kisses fucked Olivia up!! She was moaning before he even put his mouth on hers. Olivia tried to withstand the force between them two and it clearly didn’t work.

#7 But Liv………………….is the love of my life

I like this moment because I feel like Cy thought that the affair between Liv and Fitz was just a fling, but Fitz quickly declares his love for Liv. Plus that little face he makes when he says “and she wont even talk to me” breaks my heart every time!! Double plus he’s drunk! I don’t know why but I love drunk Fitz….

#6 What am I supposed to do?  If you’re dead, how am I supposed to…..

I like this moment because in her own way she’s was telling bae that she loved him and she could’ve live without him. He knew what she was saying but damn it would be nice to actually hear her say it. Also, I love how he kind of conceded to Liv when she asked him to stay in the White House, even though in the end he did go against his word lol..

#5 Fitz, stop running for President and start being President

Because the banter between them in the shot was extremely sexy to me. It was kinda playful, but also very sensual especially the way they were banging each other against the walls. Even though she was about to get the glorious D she was still “fixing” and giving him the encouragement he needed. Let us not forget that she tugged on his buttom lip and he lifted her up…

Ok #4 is all the Gates we’ve had (Vermont-gate, Desk-gate, Hotel-gate, Shower-gate, and Closet-gate) plus Rose Garden.

Vermont-gate

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I love this one for the obvious reasons. He bought them a house and told her about the dream he had for them. If you didn’t swoon over this you don’t have a heart. Plus the sex looked amazing

Desk-gate

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I loved Fitz’s whole approach to Liv in this moment. The way he rolled up his sleeves told me he was about to tear her up. The way her body responds to him is CRAZY sexy. Fitz is just so smooth. I wonder if Shonda told Kerry to grab Tony’s booty like that ….Hmmm….

 ”I think it can happen right there on that desk…..”

Bae got game like a seasoned basketball player

Hotel-gate

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DO I REALLY HAVE TO EXPLAIN????

Shower-gate

This was a beautiful private moment.

 Closet-gate

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I love how Fitz was not paying one ounce of attention to James when he was giving his speech about Ella’s christening, but was playing peek a boo with Liv.

Closet-gate confuses me a bit. I understand the story line and why Fitz and Liv went at it like they did. But I cant shake the feeling that Tony and Kerry did a lot improv in this scene….why did Tony nibble on her arm? Why was Kerry kissing on Tony’s ear? Why were they sucking each others tongues?? Maybe it was just for the scene…

Rose Garden

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He must’ve been truly hurt by that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings comment. How was Liv not crying? This scene just hits a tender spot for me. Fitz’s declaration to Liv was beautiful. And beautifully acted by Tony. Like this shit really gets in my heart. I’ll always love this.

#3 Put down the ax…..come here

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Me =

Tony crying is sooooo heartbreaking!!! This tears me up because I feel like Fitz had so much to prove to his father. And there was so much left up in the air when it came to those two since they couldn’t properly settle it. I think Fitz just wanted an apology from Big Jerry. I love how Liv was there to support and care for him like he needed. Just hurts my heart.

#2 I love you…..I love you too

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This played at my heartstrings. This is  the second time i can recall her saying I love you back to Fitz. And i loved every part of it.

#1 Rose Garden

This takes the cake every time!!! I’ll never be over this

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Scandal Season 4 Theory that’s Probably Wrong, but Still Entertaining to Me:

I’ve discussed some of these ideas with a few people and thought I’d just write them down. Yes, I’m well aware that this is written with Olitz lenses. It’s just me thinking, and most of it is probably wrong (which I’m used to), but here goes…

I mentioned the other day that I have been enjoying season four, up until Where’s the Black Lady (411), and had, thereafter been increasingly unsure of where the narrative is going. I actually love 411, but it was the first episode that required me to suspend belief about how the kidnapping of Olivia Pope was orchestrated. It does not sit comfortably with me that Andrew Nichols was the architect of this cabal. No, ma’am. And though I could (and did) create an argument for Olivia’s vehement rejection of Fitz upon her return, in No More Blood (413). But, frankly, it never curled all the way over for me. Not genuinely so. Lastly, I have struggled with post-kidnapping pivot back to the trite B6-13 story line, and re-centering Rowan in Olivia’s life.

BUT

If Rowan is connected to the kidnapping, then all three categories of my dissatisfaction begin to make sense.

The Logistics:

How could Andrew, the VP, have the entire Secret Service replaced? How does he know ex-Special OPs guys like Ian? Sure, Andrew had motive to have Fitz trussed up by the proverbial balls for the tenure of his presidency, but why was he so adamant that Olivia remain unharmed (411)? Andrew has absolutely no investment in her physical well-being, nor do I think he was just being kind-hearted all of a sudden. How could Rowan, a man that has claimed to have done everything in his life for Olivia (407), refuse to lift a finger when Jake came to him for help(413)? He said he had no daughter. Six episodes later, he’s a papa who’s proud of his “girl” because she stopped “shining” Fitz’s shoes and is “standing on [her] own” (419)?

But then I remember that Rowan knows Special Ops and Black Ops guys. After all, he ordered Fitz to shoot down a commercial airplane in a Black Ops mission (307). Rowan had already infiltrated Secret Service with B6-13 agents (Tom) in order to keep abreast of White House goings-ons (312). So, replacing the entire team: easy.  And the only person who has ever proffered Olivia’s physical safety to the detriment of her psychological, and emotional well-being, is Rowan. But why? How could he do that to his daughter?

Actually, this is exactly the kind of thing he’s perpetrated against Olivia for years. All done to toughen her up into some kind of steely, strong black woman archetype, that is only ever subservient one thing: his black patriarchal authority. This is the man who let his 12 year old believe her mother was dead, while he locked that mother away in isolation for her crime, and never let her see any evidence of her daughter’s development. Not even a fucking news clipping (not until she chewed through her own wrists (308)).  He never let that daughter come back home; he sent her away (301). Sure, she received the finest education and learned a bunch of languages that have come in handy, but she is not OK. Rowan is the guy who, when Olivia was set to see Fitz again after a painful 10 month breakup (post-defiance), had his double agent, Jake Ballard, conveniently intervene in his daughter’s life. Why? To occupy her mind before she was set to see Fitz as Ella’s christening. I guess he didn’t plan on them fucking in a server closet. Woops. He sent his guy in to sleep with Olivia (405 admission), then had that evidence presented to Fitz. The purpose? A misogynistic belief that Fitz sees Olivia as his property, and since the property has been “defiled” (310) by another man, Fitz would no longer care for that property. Russell is yet another toy for Olivia to play with, and another means for extracting information in order to stay ahead of her. Rowan is also the guy who allowed his daughter’s name to be leaked by his own B6-13 agent, Tom, (301), when he obviously had the power to quash it. Why? Because it would conveniently allow him to get Olivia away from that “disappointing” (310) Fitzgerald Grant. He insisted that she would get on that plane “come hell or high water” (301). Seventeen episodes later, Olivia was checkmated into doing so (318). Bonus points for allowing her to think it was of her own volition. Lastly, Rowan is the guy who killed Fitz’s son for a dual purpose. Doing so gave his daughter another achievement under her belt because Fitz won; and it drove–what he hoped would be–a permanent wedge between them. “What love could survive that” (405), he said, as he built a rationale for the framing of Jake Ballard for his (Rowan’s) own crime.

In light of all of that, kidnapping and war actually fit perfectly with Rowan’s MO.

The NOlitz MO:

If Rowan is involved in this kidnapping, it means he forced Fitz into a catch-22, lose-lose situation. 

Option 1) Not go to war, and Olivia would die. Fitz would forever be blamed & feel guilty for Olivia’s death (though Rowan would never have actually let Olivia die, just let Fitz think so). Fitz may have even taken his own life over it, and we know he is capable of such an attempt (401). If he attempted to do it after the simultaneous loss of his son and disappearance of Olivia, why would he not complete the job if he had to live in a world where he was made responsible for her death? If so, problem solved anyway, as Rowan sees Fitz’s unconditional love for Olivia, and her loyalty and dedication to him, as a threat to his paternal authority. If Fitz takes himself out, Rowan has his daughter back. Why do I feel like Rowan let that assassination attempt by Verna and Becky ride?  

Option 2: Fitz goes to war for Olivia, thereby sending thousands of innocent people to their deaths. For three years, Fitz continues to be exploited into actions that make him a wildly unpopular President. Andrew would get to distance himself from Fitz’s administration in some way, without suffering blowback. It would also put him in good standing to usurp Fitz’s position for the next re-election. Olivia stays away from Fitz. But Rowan underestimated his daughter, and her ability to get herself out of tough situations. And, of course, he underestimated the strength of the Olitz’ relationship, and their ability to work as a team—even when they have no way of communicating directly with one another (411). They understand how the other person works. All major progress made in 411 was because of Olivia and Fitz.

Knowing Olivia, she would hate that Fitz went to war, sending thousands in harm’s way just for her (413). And she did. Fitz would (and did) claim that he did it for Olivia (413), just as Rowan claims he does everything for her (407,408). Olivia thinks Rowan is a terrible person and has done all the wrong things in her name (407). Rowan, then, makes Fitz into nothing but a man who is just like him:  "All men are, in fact, just like your father" (419). The kidnapping and war story line paints Fitz as a terrible President, in her eyes.  He falls in her estimation, and is no better than her father, who kills innocent people in the name of one: her.

Simultaneously, Olivia would also think of Fitz as a man who thinks she needs him to rescue her (something she vehemently rejects (308, 413)), and a disappointment, someone undeserving of the many ways in which she’s laboured for him (her warped interpretation (413)). She sees him as weak, as the one who needs protecting (308). To protect him (and her, in many ways) after the kidnapping, she puts up a cold front to create distance. She is dangerous for him (a belief she evidences in her 410 dream), but also brings pain upon herself as well, due to her emotional attachment to him.

What I described above was meant to be the byproduct of kidnapping/war. The theories I painted above were meant to lead to an idealistic wedge between our two faves. In some ways the fight, and the subsequent ring toss, in 413 become somewhat of a performance.

I believed Olivia’s anger, and her right to be angry over what happened to her, but, frankly, Fitz wasn’t deserving of it. But who else was she going to take it out on? It’s because he loves her that she was exploited and traumatized in this way. I maintain that it is the exploiter’s (Rowan, hypothetically) fault, not the fault of the persons (Olivia and Fitz) who love. I don’t care how this narrative goes, I will never change my mind about that. Hard line.  A part of me watches that 413 scene, and I can almost see Olivia preparing herself to do something she did not want to do, but it was the only way to get Fitz to stay away from her. It was the only way to ensure there would be no more blood (the title of the episode). No more causing Olivia psychological and emotional distress in order to force her away from Fitz. Already reeling from ASD, Olivia inflicts trauma on herself via the argument she had with Fitz, including the tossing of the ring. And we later see that  in addition to the kidnapping suffering, she revisits that ring toss moment as a traumatic moment in her life (417). Think about it. Having tossed the ring at Fitz (which sent a powerful message of ‘over’ to him), she doesn’t leave it on the floor, or throw it out. She puts it somewhere safe. And in a panic, she runs to find it, as if her recovery is incomplete without it. They are never over (220).

Olivia’s Distance and Coldness: 

Olivia has been keeping her distance and acting cold because it’s the only way she can keep herself (and Fitz) safe, so long as her father is still alive and free. Until she can get justice. Remember that bringing Rowan to justice is what Olivia was trying to do before Rowan decided to leave (409). Shortly thereafter, the woman gets kidnapped (wouldn’t be surprised if the plan was in place the moment she returned to DC. Rowan told her he didn’t tell her she could leave (401)). This return to B6-13 and Rowan would make sense to me if Rowan is tied into the kidnapping. Otherwise, episodes 410-413 feel like a bizarre sweeps attempt.

Olivia has pushed everyone away. She wasn’t returning Abby’s calls (415), and the rebuilding of their friendship has been a pre-kidnapping, season 4 highlight. Instead of bringing Abby back into her personal confidences, she’s kept her work-adjacent (415, 416, 418). I mean, Abby is the woman who was instrumental in bringing Olivia home (413). 

Olivia’s pre-kidnapping dick-in-a-box , Jake, has been sidelined to strictly B6-13 related business (418). Even that relationship—the one filled with convenience—has become too complicated for her. She has rebuffed his attempts to comfort her (414, 419).  “Julia” was an identity of the past, so she invented an even more “uncomplicated” one, “Alex” (419).   Everyone is being kept at emotional arm’s length. That makes her recovery that much more difficult, but maybe in Olivia’s world she justifies it as necessary. She can only deal with work-related drama right now. 

The Return to B6-13 Shenanigans:

I have been feeling like Olivia is steely, lacking any kind of warmth, and even more emotionally guarded that usual. She’s more aggressive and angry than she’s ever been. Of course all of that makes sense. Look what’s she’s been through–all alone. She killed a guy (410). She shot another, and then beat the shit out of him for the ways in which he tormented and hurt her (413). Olivia is still not quite herself, and why should she be. The ASD flashbacks attest to that. But it’s more than that.  The lack of painted, manicured nails is a small, but important, detail in this regard. As of 420, they remain unpainted. The missing warmth of which Olivia complained in 403–despite admitting to having Jake (lol, he’s her pet)–is very real post-kidnapping. (Olitz angst music plays as she and Rowan talk about this absent piece–the emotional lacuna.) Post-kidnapping Olivia still has Jake, yet chooses not to bring him in close.  

This is not a woman who reaches for personal help. For her career, sure. In some ways, Olivia can’t make a full emotional recovery while instituting a Cold War with Fitz. That coldness and anger are taxing on the body and mind because they take work to maintain. But it’s a sacrifice to freedom and justice. Olivia cannot be the woman she wants to be, or command control of her life while Rowan remains free to inflict all manner of violence and abuse in her name.  She cannot fully recover, or have anything with Fitz (the person who knows her best on an emotional level), while Rowan remains unpunished. He will destroy it.  If the kidnapping is any indication, he will truly stop at nothing to make Olivia into the woman he thinks she should be. Whoever that woman is supposed to be, she isn’t to be with someone Rowan finds threatening.

Because Olivia and Fitz have been a part for much of this season (and entirely so post-kidnapping), my instinct is to say that this Foxtail business will bring them together in the final hour to fight a mutual enemy: Rowan.  I just can’t see Olivia burning Fitz, when, in my eyes, she’s been protecting him all this time from her father.  (It saddens me that Olivia’s own father is actually her worst enemy, but he insists on running her life at all cost). B6-13, Rowan, and Foxtail need to come to a close. Olivia and this show cannot move forward so long as this narrative centers around those things. They loom too large and have too much authority. I don’t want to watch that. I want to watch Olivia navigate new things in her life, not the same trite shit against which she’s repeatedly been told she’ll lose.

So, that’s what I think’s been happening this season. And if so, it ties most things together (there are always outstanding questions). It certainly makes the ‘justice’ theme of this season workable. Of course, I’m fully prepared to be disappointed. Lol.

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#VultureFestival was such a blast! Bless #Scandal for introducing me to some awesome people @vitalinae

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Scandal Cast at Vulture Festival

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Screenshots of Olitz signs, newspapers/magazines from 703.

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Sad Bae Scandal Episode 7-03 “Watch Me”

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Scandal Promo Photos for Episode 7x03

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When Fitz showed up at Liv’s apartment, she was like

She had “no words” (shoutout to the 208 gif i couldn’t find). 

“Actions speak louder than words”

nice juxtaposition with Curtis telling her earlier that all she had were words (”you’re all about the spin”). Him telling her that led to the moment when she had ZERO words when Fitz’s actions led him to come see her. Not even “hi”, because that’s real. Taking Curtis home (after he saw through her “you don’t know the first thing about me” “but I’d like to, followed by a lip quiver (classic)), in an attempt to prove to him she wasn’t that person. She did the exact same thing in 701 when Joke said “yes, boss” and she suddenly apologized and agreed to another round of shagging. 

And obviously, we can link the above to Liv’s 610 dream wherein she was about to go on a date (in a leather jacket!) and Fitz showed up at her apartment. Shit got shut down. Somehow, I don’t think that will be the case this soon. She’s not ready to extricate a part of herself from the job. She told Mellie “this is the job”. That’s all she is right now. Even having a human vibrator (Curtis, and Joke dick) are related completely to her job and its stress. Listen to what she told Curtis about his five star servicing (she basically called him a heaux lol).

“keeping it real” is gonna be a process for Liv this season as she figures out what it means to be a real woman in power. 

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Scandal 7x02 finale

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Longing…….

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He wasn’t sleeping. Not really. Nor was he dead.

This was the aftermath of riding him so hard, he passed out for a little nap.

“Mr. President…” She whispered, running her fingers through his hair. He smiled. 

Eyes still closed in complete bliss, he brought their entwined hands to his lips and kissed her hand. “Say that again. I missed hearing it.“ 

 Olivia chuckled. “Mr. President,” She humoured him, raining a trail of kisses across his shoulders before sinking her teeth into his neck, sucking on his soft skin. 

 "You still sound sexy as hell.“ He mumbled into the crisp white sheets.

 "We should get up.” Olivia kissed his cheek. “You have a country to run and I have gladiators to go gladiate and crisis to manage.“ 

 Fitz groaned. Reality. He thought. Then he had to remind himself that this wasn’t another of their stolen moment. This was whatever they wanted and right now, laying in this bed with her resting against his back- that was his reality, his dream come true, his sanctuary, his happiness. That was his everything. She is his everything.

“We have a  country to run.” He said. “Together.”

Together.

Together.

At last.

That was music to Olivia’s ears.

And then in one swift move, slick and quick as he was, he took her by surprise and flipped her over on her back, squealing. He then climbed on top of her and straddled her hips.

“I see that two terms have done nothing to tame that stamina of yours.” Olivia teased.

He laughed. A Full-wholehearted-boisterous-infectious laughter that brought a smile to her glowing features. She hasn’t seen him this happy in so long. She hasn’t heard that laugh in so long. It somehow made him look younger. It was a good look on him.

When Fitz managed to stop dying of laughter, he looked down at her beautiful face and gently caressed it with a feathery touch of his fingers. “I love you.” He said, eyes glowing with sincerity. “God, I love you. I’m in love with you. Every day, harder than the last. It consumes me, but God, I do.”

“Come here.” Olivia whispered, shiny tears forming behind her eyes. 

He did and she framed his cheeks between her two hands before bringing her lips against his. First softness and tenderness as she brushed her lips on his lightly then blissful passion as he deepened the kiss.

“Iluhyoutoo.” 

He smiled against her lips.

At fucking last!

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A little Olivia & Fitz after the lovin’…….

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Ignore the Nnobody’s desperate publicity stunt AND go to 18:12. Eisen asks “HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU HAVE?” The Nnobody: “THREE” And Nods. Then Eisen goes “and you’ve got a ten-month-old?” and Nnobody goes repeating “10-month-old” clearly without knowing ANYTHING about it. (Also that’s not accurate but let’s leave that aside)

SO the Nnobody is saying, in VERY clear and certain terms that he has THREE children.

Now let’s analyze. First off, even if you’re completely stupid and buy that he has two kids with Kerry (WHICH HE DOES NOT), this makes ME yet again CORRECT about the little girl he fathered AND ABANDONED, together with her baby mama, years ago (I think she’s now 11 but I need to check her birth date). So, at a BARE minimum, I repeat if one’s so damn stupid as to believe he has two kids with Kerry there’s a third one that I WAS RIGHT about of course, that he had BEFORE any fake marriages took place. That he abandoned, was sued and obliged to take a DNA test for, and all that. There’s a little problem here though. There’s ANOTHER child out of wedlock that he fathered that I know for a fact of, a little boy who is now probably around 5 or 6, whose baby mama followed him to Philly for, and who was also completely abandoned and that he didn’t want to pay child support for. He has NEVER even seen the child. He was sued there too and the records are sealed. And one of the material witnesses in hte trial was a former player who was HIS BOYFRIEND in Philly while he supposedly was with this “baby mama” (yes you read that right, children mean nothing, STILL GAY!) So the math here doesn’t add up. Even if he was suddenly acknowledging his children out of wedlock that he abandoned bc he is a deadbeat as we have ALWAYS known, and he was STILL pretending to ever have been anywhere near Kerry in terms of fathering children, it would be FOUR. So… is there a THIRD child out of wedlock that we never heard of?

Because that appears like the most likely possibility here. Naturally the haters will now say he was referring to the girl and Kerry’s children, after having insulted all of us TELLING THE TRUTH about his deabdeat ass for years.

But hey… I’ll be over here, sipping my tea. Their ship is being quickly sunk by the Nnobody himself AND I am being proven right by the Nnobody himself. First about the fact he OF COURSE was broke and lost all of his NFL money, now we’re on to him being a deadbeat.

Get that popcorn because this type of thing  is never coincidental. It’s most likely deliberate.

Also: @ikonics44 called stuff about this film as the turning point MONTHS ago. Kudos to her bc she may WELL have been completely right.