#05x14

[addictedtostorytelling]

gil grissom + just being there for sara after he knows her history

[aborddelimpala]

Whump Sam | Season 5 - Requested by anonymous

[soulmates-for-real]

05x14

[escapingpurgatorypodcast]

Amy and Annabelle talk about the ninety-sixth episode of Supernatural "My Bloody Valentine"

This week we discuss; consumed by love, Dean and Cas' buddy cop moments, and still being mad about this show.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead and Content Warnings within the context of the episode.

Art by @thepixelagora​

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[purjaxory]

[bndwboy]

One of supernatural biggest crimes is that they didnt let cas read more bible verses like in the famine episode

[serendipity0930]

text from a poem I wrote <3 // 04x04 / 03x10 / 05x14 / 05x22 / 02x11 / 04x21 / 04x22

[abbyrocks]

[spocksballz]

Garak and Worf in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 05x14, "In Purgatory's Shadow"

[addictedtostorytelling]

gsr + "class consciousness"

[vesselsofsin]

Goodies Smash - Move Over Rollers

The Goodies 05x14: The Goodies Rule – O.K.?

[soulmates-for-real]

05x14

[escapingpurgatorypodcast]

Hi Purgatory Pals!

Episode 05:14 'Bloody Valentine' is now available to listen to on YouTube!

[artificialconditions]

ok hi i want to get into ER but honestly mostly to see what the fuss is about Carcy according to you (/gen) so can you recommend to me some essential or fave Carter/Lucy episodes

i’m vibrating violently at this ask just hope u know that.

firstly i’ll say that the lucy era is only from season five up until mid-season 6, so if you’re starting there you’re missing out on a lot!! they are genuinely incredible. but you can probably enjoy these episodes without seeing the rest of the show if that’s your prerogative. sorry if this list is long, it’s also season 5 heavy.

05x05: masquerade. we’re building tension here babey. lucy and carter are caught up in halloween party madness and it doesn’t end well

05x06: stuck on you. more tension!! honestly a lot of the first half of s5 is them bickering and me going KISS KISS KISS. but in this one carter gets his beard stuck in carpet glue. that’s all you need to know

05x07: hazed and confused. incredible episode for the “argues like a married couple” lovers such as myself because that is exactly what they do.

05x08: the good fight. this is THE carcy episode. it’s required reading. they do some crazy shit looking for a girl’s father. carter dislocates some bones. lucy gets referred to as “the missus.” it’s everything.

05x10: the miracle worker. christmas episode!! very funny but also very heartbreaking moments. i don’t know how else to summarize it without giving away too much of the plot so just trust

05x11: nobody doesn’t like amanda lee. more genuine affection. jealous carter. that is all

05x14 & 05x15: the storm part 1 and 2. this is where noah wyle pulled the plug unfortunately and it drives me insane. but there’s some 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

05x20: power. lucy tries to use pheromones to get carter’s attention. i’m fairly certain this is also the episode where carter’s girlfriend straight up asks lucy if she’s sleeping with him SO.

i think both 05x21 (responsible parties) and 05x22 (getting to know you) touch on lucy’s adhd and her and carter butting heads about her use of adhd meds. lucy’s been on ritalin long term and the show presents this as kind of a bad thing but i don’t know enough about the science behind that to say otherwise, so warning for that message.

obligatory 06x13 & 06x14 be still my heart/all in the family mention. while all in the family makes me sob uncontrollably it is genuinely one of the best episodes of television ever made. it’s so tragic and horrible but like. you can’t Not watch it.

there’s little moments throughout but these sum up most of what makes me nuts. honestly the majority of season 5 is very carter/lucy heavy, pretty much every episode up until the storm is good if u just wanna see their journey but these are my faves. so thank you for asking and indulging me 💔💞

[monstermoviedean]

proposing a correlation between how attracted dean is to somebody and how much they want to drink him. benny would drink dean in a life or death situation only. crowley would drink dean for funsies. cas would do the 05x14 opening scene with him.

[hollygl125]

10+1 questions: Sara Sidle + Gil Grissom

Just look at these two—they each think the other is so sweet! They have been smitten genius fools for over two decades!

@coping-via-clint-eastwood, I started preparing in my head fairly detailed responses to these questions after I saw your posts, so for the sake of my sanity I had to put my responses in a post of my own.  (This is basically how I ended up writing gsr fanfic, too, to be honest—because I kept rewriting the same scenes over and over again in my head.)

Who’s the cuddler?

Both.  They spent so much of their working hours just recycling each other’s air that I cannot imagine them not doing the same in private.  I think Grissom wants to be as close to Sara as possible because (1) he wants to be as close to Sara as possible and (2) he wants to protect her and to take away her pain.  I think Sara wants to be as close to Grissom as possible because (1) she wants to be as close to Grissom as possible and (2) she wants to reassure him.

Who makes the bed?

Sara.  Grissom can put up with some appearance of disorder in his surroundings (see: office).  But Sara likes order and is a control freak, so she would want the bed made.  Plus she lived in such tiny apartments pre-Grissom that they would quickly become messy-looking if she didn’t.  Plus she never sleeps.  Plus she told Greg that before she left Vegas she never left the house without making the bed.  Plus….  Although, that said, I could see Grissom becoming really good about making the bed just to please Sara.

Who wakes up first?

Sara.  Again, she doesn’t really sleep much.  But I like to think that post-“Immortality” she learned to relax and to sleep in a little more and that it becomes more of a mixed bag regarding who wakes up first.

Who has the weird taste in music?

Grissom, although it’s not really weird.  I think during her original run Sara is shown possibly to have the best general, well-rounded appreciation of music of the CSIs.  (See below the cut for a little rant on Sara and music and the writers in the later years.*)  I think Grissom has an appreciation for a lot of different types of music, but his penchant for Italian opera is in this age most atypical.

Who is more protective?

Both, although if forced I would give a slight edge to Grissom.  Again, especially after he learns more about Sara’s past, he really wants to make her feel safe and to take away all her pain (even if yes he makes a bunch of mistakes and inflicts a lot of pain along the way).  I think Sara most of all wants to protect him from himself, because she knows how hard he is on himself.  Post-“Immortality,” especially, I imagine her wanting to make sure he doesn’t blame himself for the things that went wrong between them, because she knows that wouldn’t be good for their relationship moving forward (and because she loves him and, again, doesn’t want him to be hard on himself).

I went kind of long on a couple of the remaining questions, so the rest of my responses are under the cut.

Who sings in the shower?

Sara.  Sara sings to herself.  (Grissom sings to Sara to amuse her, but not necessarily in the shower.)

Who cries during movies?

Sara.  Obviously (thought not often).  She is the most openly emotional of all our CSIs.  (I don’t mean this as a knock on her at all.  I too am a crier, even if the crying actually means “f*** off, you absolute pr***.”)

Who spends the most while out shopping?

Grissom.  Foster kid on scholarship to Harvard, Sara, must have learned to be really frugal.  Plus her wardrobe is (let’s be honest) occasionally not so great (that heartbreaking scene in 05x14, “Unbearable,” springs to mind), so I imagine she must have been buying mostly relatively inexpensive clothes she could chuck without a second thought if they got ruined on the job.  (Her wardrobe in CSI: Vegas was way nicer, so I headcanon Catherine having gotten them both some store credits at the Eclipse so they wouldn’t embarrass her by giving off salty sea captain vibes.)  Also, pre-relationship with Grissom she seems to have chosen pretty modest apartments.  So I see Sara still instinctively being frugal and Grissom (who is more senior professionally and otherwise and has more money and at least at one time drove a Mercedes) wanting to spoil her and buy her nice things (nice vegetarian food, necklaces, silk robes and lacy things, etc.).

Who kisses more roughly?

Neither, although if forced I would give a slight edge to Grissom as less rough.  I think, as @addictedtostorytelling has written (and apologies for any errors in paraphrasing), they are both incredibly gentle with each other—incredibly gentle and kind and respectful.  I certainly see them both as being very enthusiastic and sometimes intense in their interactions and yes definitely sometimes just fucking (pin me down, etc.), but absolutely not being rough.  That being said, I think Grissom would even basically have negative amounts of roughness.  Having seen WP’s sexual/romantic interactions in movies, I think his gentleness here is very deliberate (not that we got to see a lot of gsr kisses).  Grissom knows Sara’s past, and he wants her to feel totally safe and protected.  He knows she wouldn’t appreciate roughness or aggression (and it’s not in his character anyway, which is one of the things she loves about him).  I kind of imagine that, if she ever (after years and years and years of being comfortable with and having absolute trust in this man) playfully suggested he tell her she was a bad girl or something, his response would in essence be like, “No, you’re a good girl, Sara; you’re the best person I know, honey; you’re an angel, sweetheart; you’re a goddess, darling; sorry, my dearest, I can’t; you’re perfect.” Also, given their size (NOT height) difference, Sara could get away with a slight roughness without it really having any effect on Grissom, but Grissom has negative roughness with her.

Who is more dominant?

Neither, although if forced I would give a slight edge to Sara.  I see them as absolutely equal partners.  Especially given the inequality for many years in their professional relationship, they would strive for total equality in their personal relationship.  Given her personal history, Sara would not take well at all to someone trying to dominate her; she would be out the door.  But unsurprisingly, when she falls madly in love, it’s for someone who would never try to dominate her.  I think, because he wants to make up for all the pain she has suffered, and because he knows he was dominant in their professional relationship at the crime lab, Grissom would be okay with her being slightly dominant in their personal relationship.  But I think that, given her personal history, she would also not want to dominate him in the personal sphere.  But I can see Sara telling Grissom, like, “It’s time to fuck now, Gil,” (maybe not in those exact words) and him just being like, “Okay, great,” but I cannot imagine the reverse, on his part.  I can see her having to lift his head out of the microscope sometimes (and, post-“Immortality,” being more confident in doing so)—telling him it’s time to eat or to have sex or to whatever rather than to look at bugs or to make models of the crime lab or to try to fake DNA or to whatever.  So I guess I can see her taking the lead in some things (just like she occasionally has to smooth over what he says or to step in when he doesn’t know what to say) because he can be obtuse.  Also, through to the demise of their first marriage (and then some), they were just two science nerds in love who never fully lost their own individual insecurities in their relationship; I like to think that in their second marriage they have fully recognized their earlier mistakes and Sara especially would be pretty quick to take the lead to correct things if she saw a risk of anything going amiss.

My rating of the ship from 1-10.

1000.

*Rant on Sara’s appreciation of music: I have a lengthier note about this in something still unpublished, but in her original run Sara seems to have a good, well-rounded knowledge and appreciation of music.  Then the later-season writers (the same ones who brought us “The preposterous divorce that will crush your hearts and souls and then oh yeah we’re just going to ignore your co-favourite character’s personal development anyway”) give us the “Who’s Beyoncé?” line.  I’m not saying Sara would care much about B either way, but she would definitely know who she was.  To me the line is this really lazy, hack way to show Sara as the out-of-it nerd contrasted with the fun blondes Finn and Morgan.  And I think that’s bullshit, and I hate it.  Sara was a cool science nerd.  So my headcanon is that Sara just said that to get out of doing karaoke with Morgan. All of us have a silly hill on which we would die, and this is mine.