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made a cm/hotchniss twt acc 🚬🚬🚬 (I'm in this shit forever)

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writing academic rivals hotchniss fic, but i don't know hotch's middle name

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ekphrasis (1/3)

Read on AO3 here!

ekphrasis (noun): a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art. Or, Hotch, Emily, and five artists who bring them closer together, plus the one that is their favorite.

It’s just a brush of her lips against his cheek, not unlike the painting; and perhaps it’s because of this similarity or perhaps it’s because of something else entirely, but when she pulls away with a demure “see you around, Aaron,” he reaches for her instinctively, his hand catching her wrist. “Emily.” “Yes,” she answers—not in question, but in permission.

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Give me just a chance You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

for @dearhoneybabe, whose reply to this post on twitter promptly got all of rumours stuck in my head 🩶

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emily and her understanding of the concept of love and how she views and categorizes it into three things—platonic, familial, and sacrificial—she loves so fiercely, so deeply, something inside her knows that it will either end with death or nothing at all.

love is something that people can take and take and take from her and not give her anything back, and she's okay with that. It's just so sad and wrong, because it probably stems from her childhood: the years of emotional neglect, the loneliness, the desire to belong, and the desire to be accepted. then to adulthood: the commitment, the job, the scars, her past, her insecurities, her issues. there's so much difference between the other three and romantic love, and she knows the differences--she probably just felt that those three gave her some sort of permanence compared to romantic love. platonic and familial have some boundaries, a line she can't cross and can run away from when things get worse. sacrificial love has two outcomes: the other will live, and there's a chance that she'll die, but it doesn't matter to her anyway. romantic love, however, will strip her bare, in her truest, rawest form, and for her, what is she without her shield, her compartmentalization?

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EMILY & HOTCH DANCING in 7.24 RUN

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Emily at night would 100% be anonymously typing out an essay titled: “Do Not Sass Your Bosses Like a Daily Snacks, Younglings: Karma Is Real and Being in Charge Sucks, Fuck.”

And it would end with: “London or Paris sounds real nice.”

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pov penelope garcia sends u a mirror selfie in her new bathing suit

I NEEDHERINEEDHER 😭😭😭😭😭😭🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

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something about hotch starting a casual conversation with emily, and she just stands there speechless for a second, and he smiles and then just leaves like nothing happened. like, "donor for what?" scene and he got this dumb smiley face while looking at her, and she just stood there and tries to avoid his eyes. then, "for the flight" "what?" and he walks away like it's a normal thing for him to do what he did, and it takes her a second to follow him and speak. then, ugh the "what?" "nothing" scene AND he looks at her again and smirks, and she just had to shake her head and secretly smile because seriously what was that

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do you believe in god? (I do, please stop, there's so much blood)

Maybe she fell in love with the sun rays in his skin more than she ever did with him, and maybe he kissed her freckles because he misses the stars somewhere. Maybe it was her working so hard to fit in; it was her seeking validation from someone else. It was his wandering hands, his face on her neck. It was her desperation to be touched, her neediness to be wanted.

Or the first time Emily died somewhere in Rome years ago.

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"how's jack? I just had a feeling." em, that's mother's intuition

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EMILY PRENTISS in ‘SOLITARY MAN’ 5x17 | Criminal Minds (2005)

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Elle: I couldn't understand why you never, ever smile.

Hotch, whenever Emily breathes:

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my fave hotchniss dynamic is them being that one post, "mommy will dropkick anyone who touches you" and "daddy will bail mommy out of jail" and hotch is just so pathetically needy, practically begging for her and so in love with emily (it's scaring the whole team and emily herself) and emily is all ugh i hate him he's so annoying, I will kill for that man

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THE VISUALS ARE EATINGGGGGG

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emily's job resumè is honestly mindblowing, that woman was and still is a threat to the government