#I am so gay for Paget Brewster

[kaimelypowaaah]

« I watch Criminal minds for the plot »

The plot :

[lovelydrusilla]

emily prentiss i am on my knees for you

[gaelic-symphony]

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Lea you are so good for sending me this, thank you!!!! She is a literal goddess. So beautiful it hurts. I love her so much, and I love you so much too! 😘😘

[blackbird-brewster]

Get To Know Me

I was tagged by @lion-cheshire (uhhh, in 2018 -- I'm cleaning out my likes and finally replying to stuff lol)

Relationship status: In Gay Love with my Doom Them, and also in gay love with my Best Friends

Favorite Color(s): Royal purple, hot pink, ocean blue (yeah, I'm bi)

Lipstick or Chapstick: Pre-Covid: Lipstick (I love a strong red lip!!!!), now I wear a mask everywhere, so chapstick (I have a chapstick in multiple places in every room of the house. Chapstick lesbian life)

Three Favorite Foods: Pizza, borgors, kraft blue box mac & cheese

Song Stuck in my head: [Bisexual Anthem] - Domo Wilson

Last song I listened to: [I Know a Place] - MUNA

Last Movie I Watched: I think Wonder Woman (2017) a few weeks ago

Time: 15:29, Tues 20/06/23

Dream Trip: I did a WHOLE LOT of travel before my disabilities took the option away, so for those experiences I'm very grateful. But now, I can't even fathom trying to travel.

Top Three Shows: Doctor Who, Legend of the Seeker, The X-Files (no, CM is not here -- I don't even like CM as a show. I'm just cursed to live my entire life in this fandom)

Books I am Reading: (Fanfics) [Here is Home], Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara

How many blankets do you sleep with: It's winter, so duvet and my massive non-binary blanket made by @bittersweet-bibliophile

Last thing I googled: Jeanne Triplehorn

Random Factoid: One time, me, Janet Varney and Paget Brewster stood in an alleyway outside a theatre in San Francisco just chatting and drinking wine from tiny bathroom paper cups. And JV insisted on taking a photo of me and Paget. So the photo of me (an irl sapphic icon) and PVB (aka sapphic icon, Emily Prentiss) was taken by Lil JV (aka sapphic icon, Korra)

Tag You're It (no pressure): @pictureswithboxes || @meanderingandrambling || @gaelic-symphony || @littlesolo

* If you don't like being tagged in these let me know :)

[ssaprentissemily]

i cannot stop th

stop thinking about Emily Prentiss in a red tank top

[nation-of-procrastination]

[onegayastronaut]

So anyway there’s a channel on TV that does random reruns of Criminal Minds, and I forgot how much of a top Emily Prentiss was (and still is, I’m sure!). I am so gay for one (1) director of the BAU. Too bad Netflix doesn’t have Seasons 13 or 14...but Paget Brewster’s voice alone does wonders to my stress.

[simonjadis]

"Subverting expectations" should be something akin to what it adds to the story and not outright replaces. In addition, a writer should employ it based on what they feel in right for their characters and story with deep consideration. It seems like with recent examples that need no introduction do it to "please the audience" when they should write the sort of the story they'd want to read and/or watch themselves. It should come from the heart if you don't mind cheese.

I had not heard of that cyborg incident, anon! That sounds great.

(And I’m behind on DuckTales – the last episode I saw was Della’s first episode; I love Paget Brewster as her voice almost as much as I loved Paget voicing Poison Ivy)

I totally agree with you!!

Sometimes, I am horrified when I learn that feedback has convinced a storyteller to go in a different direction, even if I 100% understand why. Other times, it’s a great thing.

1. Good Case: Griffin McElroy is informed by fans of the Bury Your Gays trope, and his narrative returns two Tragic WLW as dryads (I’m not there yet in The Adventure Zone; I’m so nervous about continuing The Suffering Game)

2. Bad Case A: video game creators listen to disproportionate outrage from entitled forum bros and yield to their demands to include less queer content and fewer characters of color in the next game, or to sideline that content and those characters

3. Bad Case B: Joseph Morgan is a handsome, talented actor, but his desire to go forward with the story of Klaus Mikaelson on The Vampire Diaries should not have changed existing plans. I know that this is Extremely Writer Of Me but, to my mind, that’s like putting on a puppet show and one of the puppets whirls around and tells you to not kill him off. I’m not mad that the spinoff happened or anything, I just think that Klaus is a terrible person who deserves to die, however sympathetic aspects of his backstory may have been.

Anon, you wrote “a writer should employ it based on what they feel in right for their characters and story with deep consideration“

the line about with deep consideration is especially good, and something that many of us forget to express

because I’m gay, I’m going to pick an example – there are stories I might write in which the word “faggot” appears a great deal. it’s a slur, but it might be appropriate for characterization or setting. that doesn’t mean that it needs to be part of the story that will be consumed by an actual human audience, some of whom may have heard that word yelled at them at the worst moments of their lives

I could also write a fantasy setting in which that words holds no particular meaning, and someone’s name might happen to be that. it’s not like the fantasy character speak english or have that slur – the name just happens to be that, and exists within that world’s context. BUT again, this is going to be consumed by an actual audience, and I can just … not do that

in a previous post [X], I discussed worldbuilding and narrative choices, and used a domino/marbles analogy. another analogy might be baking – you choose the recipe and the ingredients and how they’re introduced and combined, but once placed in the oven, it all has to work naturally – you can’t force a cake to rise

if you do that in a story, people will know that something isn’t right

but choosing the recipe/ingredients and how they’re combined isn’t an excuse to do whatever you want.

you can choose to, as you note, set things up so that a woman who might have been fridged will instead be in a position to become a cyborg. (I don’t know a good baking analogy for that)

there are ways to include bigotry, death, and horror in your worldbuilding without focusing upon these elements for shock value, and that’s because the storyteller also controls the perspective

for another poor analogy, let’s say that you’re using your phone to record a video tour of your house – a walkthrough. you can use camera angles to avoid showing that place where the carpet just isn’t the same as it used to be, or that side of the couch that the cats chose as a scratching post, or that place where your drunk buddy decided to throw food onto the kitchen ceiling to see what stuck and now it’s discolored. storytellers can do this by choosing who (first person or third person limited) is telling the story, by choosing an unreliable narrator (usually just someone without the social awareness to realize what’s going on around them), or by taking the story in other directions

which means, and I know that this is a tangent but you reminded me of it, that stories can avoid gratuitous depictions of sexual assault or domestic violence and focus on fun things, like werewolf violence or whatever. it doesn’t mean pretending that those things don’t exist, it’s just prioritizing what gets “screen time”

that’s another place where deep considering comes into play. what things need to be part of the media experience, and which things can’t be left aside? for example, with very rare exceptions, i recommend against following the story of anyone experiencing gastrointestinal distress and related symptoms. someone can have a stomachache and then stay in bed with a time skip or someone else’s POV for a while. with rare exceptions, we don’t need to follow that person into the bathroom. the same is true with sexual assault and domestic violence, only this time we’re adding potential reader trauma to the list of reasons to tilt the metaphorical camera in another direction; if a character says that their ex was “a bad man” or warns someone away from X tavern, I believe them

obviously, sometimes stories do include horrifying elements; there are very few absolutes in writing

[barely restraining myself from talking about showing-vs-telling and some discourse I’ve seen about it]

I absolutely do not mind cheese, anon, and I agree that stories should metaphorically come from the heart

I do think that a lot of television writing has less of that because it’s, well, a job. the story should still make sense, and ideally everyone in the writer’s room feels passionately about some aspect of the project, but any mercenary writer is going to have some things where they just do their best and then call it a day. the story needs to make sense and engage audiences, but it doesn’t have to be a passion project

if a writer does a good job of entertaining themselves, they’ll usually do a decent job of pleasing the audience. there are exceptions.

not everybody has a foot fetish, Joss

[leftoverenvy]

I stop breathing when I see Emily/Paget on my dash…which is a problem because I nearly exclusively follow Emily blogs

[kaimelypowaaah]

I’m so gay for her but the walk in this scene… bi vibes, they’re so hot each other !

[dominicvail]

thjslove replied to your post

“do you think this could be end in one of them getting killed and...”

omg what CM receipts? ��

@thjslove cm is one of the most convoluted behind the scenes messes i have ever witnessed and i am just Astounded till this day like, i’ll bullet point for you because i Genuinely will be here writing this for 3 hours if i do details;

think of all the female cast members that have ever been on cm?? yeah?? a lot! well, the only ones who left in non suspicious circumstances? Lola Glaudini (elle) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (kate). Literally. The only ones. 

one time (between seasons 8 and 9) they almost cancelled the show because aj cook and kirsten vangsness decided they didn’t like that their male costars were making $70,000 more PER EPISODE than they were (this was back when they did 24 eps a season so like... i’m not gonna do the math but that is A Lot Of Money). (they renewed it last day of renewals, it was the same year cote de pablo walked from ncis because of the same reason, legit the only reason they got anywhere was b/c they said ‘we both get raises or we both walk’. 

btw while this was happening, minus Moore, the rest of the male cast was holding up negotiations so they got perks on top of being paid over 50% more than the women. 

this sequence is the kicker

u know season six, the jj and prentiss absences??? 

it was because they both got fired, listed as ‘creative decisions’ (that’s important later), which basically seemed to amount to ‘we want both less women and for her to be younger than both of you’. 

they fired aj cook flat out as her contract had expired that year, in the middle of a 2 parter, and didn’t even want to let her do an exit???? they legit had to fight for the right to have her to film an exit episode (they negotiatied 3 episodes, one for finishing the 2 parter, one exit, and one for when prentiss exited). 

brewster’s contract had Not expired (also important later), they just only decided she should be in 8 episodes. 

it’s important to the sequence of events that i mention outside influences, b/c the cm fans were PISSED. There was a straight up public outcry, i have Never seen a response like it in my many years of obsessive TV watching. People were Very fond of Prentiss and JJ and were Not impressed they were being booted as unnecessary to the narrative, those pesky creative decisions!!! the petitions and public support towards them were pretty incredible actually. 

by that point there wasn’t much that could be done about Cook, but seeing the response CBS kept making Brewster film Way more than those 8 episodes she got slotted for actively dragging her along, Still fired but p much unable to find other work realistically??? b/c they kept calling her back in???

public support was still Overwhelmingly on the actresses side. 

To the point that CBS started ardently claiming the actresses were fired for Monetary reasons. Yeah, they straight up lied, and still lie about it today. I have seen cbs affiliate websites print said lie bluntly in their articles (i no longer read cbs affiliate anything). 

I listed the pay scandal first for perspective on the money lie. At that point i think the men on the cast were wearing about $110,000 an episode, and it got out Cook was earning about £50,000 an ep, and we never heard about Brewster’s salary But when i say she made a Big Deal over finally getting paid as much as the men in the past couple of years i mean it, so we can assume she was also being paid a lot less. My point being, if they needed to save money, it would have been more profitable for them to fire One man on the show than two women. They pay gap was that much. 

so they lied, still lie, about why they fired them and it wasn’t even a good lie. 

ANYWAY

i know the show’s writing isn’t really applicable but Prentiss and Seaver  were never meant to be main characters on the show together, where they dragged out prentiss’ exit, they overlapped and Rachel Nichols had very little to do. 

Anyway, by the time the late eps of the season were airing (and i assume they looked at how many viewers cut loose when brewster left) cbs straight up rang up aj cook and asked her to sign back on (why she was in the last ep despite only being hired for 3 eps that season). She said she hated them but she had a young kid at the time and regular work that was local was helpful (plus, u know, i bet it was a great ego boost).

the season finishes airing, it goes on hiatus with the cast listed 4 season 7 as the men, garcia, jj and seaver. 

u know how i mentioned paget had a contract for s6 still but they cut her episodes down??? Well, CBS used the fact that they wouldn’t let her work on the show anymore despite being signed on as evidence that she was breaching contract if she didn’t go back as a regular for season 7. They threatened to sue her for breach of contract. The only reason prentiss was in s7 was because they used what they did against her that she had no power over to threaten her. So, u know, super nice. 

meanwhile, they fire rachel nichols, don’t bother to actually tell her they’d done it!!! and she found out on fucking twitter (and rachel is such a nice person, and she was absolutely vilified and abused by every idiot on the internet too thick to realise none of the above was her fault jeez). 

so s7 happens w/ the same cast as before, but brewster will Only work to contract and refuses to sign on again for s8. Understandable, tbh. 

they hire jeanne tripplehorn, fandom is disgusting as usual, like, absolutely vile, not surprised just disappointed. 

at the end of season 9 (they have 2 year contracts so like.. it was the end of her contract), despite everything in the  storyline process indicating otherwise and how much of a farce for her character what went down was... Blake left???? No more Jeanne???

Not one peep from bts over what happened.

if that sounds suspicious to you, it is, one of the crew members let slip they’d all been gagged and were not allowed to talk about it. So cbs learnt it’s lessons in as such that they learnt to hide their shitty actions rather than not do anything shitty.

p sure there was another pay scandal in here somewhere too??? 

in terms of The Gay(tm), Reid was like, conceptualised as bi from the get go but that thing in season one with Lila happened so the execs said he could not possibly be bisexual. Yeah. Yeah u read that right. Most ppl laugh at that one and say uhm do you not know what bi is??? but honestly it was just an excuse they knew full well what they were doing imo

why? they did it again! the writers, producers and Brewster all agreed on a scene where an episode opens w/ prentiss waking up in bed with another woman, guess who nixed it!!!! cbs. They also put a gag order on That little fact too! Kirsten Vangsness, bless her, did a podcast a few years ago on afterellen (before it got fuckawful and was with it’s original owners) and, i’d say ‘let slip’ but she knowingly dropped that truth bomb knowing full well she shouldn’t have. I love her. 

lately they’ve made brewster do “interviews” with some of those cbs affiliates where they try and get points??? for saying prentiss was gonna be gay??? like they’re not the ones removing the rep from the show??? and expecting a pat on the back for... refusing to have any kind of gay rep in a show that is by this point conspicuously straight (not that LA isn’t, but it’s not nearly as bad as cm). 

the whole mess with Gibson is... Wild b/c as much as i Loathe the dude he supposedly attacked cbs would not just fire their white guy show lead for no reason and i didn’t see any above the level sites claim any funny business there, but he got fired and cbs rang up Brewster and asked her to be the show lead which, honestly, after being fired for being old and irrelevant must have been AMAZING.

she also takes the time to point out to anybody who asks about her and aj being fired for money reasons that no, it was not about money at all. She basically calls her bosses out for being liars in public interviews frequently and it’s Amazing. 

i’m sure there’s more crap but i’m not recalling it rn

honestly cm bts drama is Wild and this doesn’t even get into the Patinkin drama (which while drama, is not actually anything to do with cbs). 

Interestingly enough, it’s super hard to find out all this stuff unless u were in the fandom the whole time because they’ve bloody lied So Much it’s all everyone even believes anymore. It’s disgusting. 

Still can’t believe  ncis:la’s female cast has done this well for so long???? These are just CM’s reciepts, they have a history of doing this stuff over and over on multiple shows, i know of it as far back as when trek tng was airing in the 80′s and can name more in between. 

[ssa-sapphic-inactive]

Paget Brewster is so beautiful it should be illegal 🥵 I am so gay for her

nonnie, truer words have never been spoken ✋😩

[wonderboygenius]

so I said I was done but I am a liar. top six celebrity crushes??

mgg (obvi)adam rodriguez (i blame cm for this)taylor lautner JASON MAMOA paget brewster (i’m so gAY for her but i’m pan?!)selena gomez (i don’t like her or her music but she’s hot af and beautiful)zendaya

[ssaalexblake]

s/o to our actress and saviour paget brewster whom i am 99.9% positive is acting Prentiss as gay as is humanly possible for her to do so without spontaneously making out with another woman in the middle of a case this season

[jockjenniferjareau]

Q & A - thanks @criminalmindsfml and @jenniferr-jareau love yall :) a - age: 17 b- biggest fear: hm i have many fears but probably one of my biggest is.. failing ppl who believe in me c - current time: 10:11 d - drink you last had: tea e - every day starts with: groaning then getting dressed for skating  
f - favorite song: stop i dont know.......  g - ghosts, are they real: i mean probably not but i wouldnt b surprised if they were like h - hometown: minneapolis  
i - in love with: daslkfj madi chock, paget brewster, camila mendes  j - jealous of: ppl who like, have motivation k - killed someone: no  
l - last time you cried: i feel like it was last week or like i teared up or something idk 
m - middle name: rose n - number of siblings: 3  o - one wish: like personally or like worldly? lets just say personally and that its for my sister and her family to move out of my damn house p - person you last called/texted: my cousin ruth q - questions you’re always asked: 'wait ... you’re left handed’ and ‘two ns or ...?’  r - reasons to smile: wonderful friends
 s - song last sang: this feels like the fav song question but anyways it was rockabye by clean bandit bc its stuck in my head 
t - time you woke up: 7:13 am rip
 u - underwear color: galaxy print bc im a space gay w - worst habit(s): my procrastination ass self  
x - x-rays you’ve had: ankle and knee  y - your favorite food: hMMMM love ice cream, pasta, so many other things z - zodiac sign: aquarius ✌🏻

everyone i kno has been tagged rip so just do it if u want 

[leftoverenvy]

hey katieeee, don’t mind me and my innocent self. just leaving you a little gift 😇 pt 2 is being sent to your nsfw, hope that’s okay! (i know it will be because of what the content is lol)

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Tiana my god. You already know how long this took me to answer because holy FUCK. The one with her legs up the wall? I had never seen it before and it made me 🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank –

I literally cannot breathe when I look at these. You blessed my ask box twice today but I'm gatekeeping the other one because I'm too horny over it lol

ILY SO BAD FOR THIS. You are such an angel