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[mccdreamys-writes]

alex blake in 8x05

- alex blake gifs | criminal minds 8x05 - the good earth

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DEREK MORGAN + THAT SHIRT

[eldrai]

Interesting unsub. And by interesting I mean what the hell is she doing

[eikha]

why are episodes in the woods always so creepy smh.

[fightingdragonswithwho]

SPENCER REID + RED

[meganskane]

A SCENE THAT NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME SOFT

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[sapphicprentiss]

Jennifer Jareau in 8x05 The Good Earth

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[captainchilly]

Economics, philosophy, political theory. Not exactly breezy, take to the beach reading.

[weewoobrainrot]

It’s been said that we really only fall in love with three people in our lifetime. Yet, it’s also believed that we need each of these loves for a different reason.

the first love: the love that looks right

Often our first is when we are young, in high school even. It’s the idealistic love—the one that seems like the fairy tales we read as children.

This is the love that appeals to what we should be doing for society’s sake—and probably our families. We enter into it with the belief that this will be our only love and it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t feel quite right, or if we find ourselves having to swallow down our personal truths to make it work because deep down we believe that this is what love is supposed to be.

Because in this type of love, how others view us is more important than how we actually feel.

It’s a love that looks right.

the second love: the hard love

The second is supposed to be our hard love—the one that teaches us lessons about who we are and how we often want or need to be loved. This is the kind of love that hurts, whether through lies, pain or manipulation.

We think we are making different choices than our first, but in reality we are still making choices out of the need to learn lessons—but we hang on. Our second love can become a cycle, oftentimes one we keep repeating because we think that somehow the ending will be different than before. Yet, each time we try, it somehow ends worse than before.

Sometimes it’s unhealthy, unbalanced or narcissistic even. There may be emotional, mental or even physical abuse or manipulation—most likely there will be high levels of drama. This is exactly what keeps us addicted to this storyline, because it’s the emotional roller coaster of extreme highs and lows and like a junkie trying to get a fix, we stick through the lows with the expectation of the high.

With this kind of love, trying to make it work becomes more important than whether it actually should.

It’s the love that we wished was right.

the third love: the love that lasts

And the third is the love we never see coming. The one that usually looks all wrong for us and that destroys any lingering ideals we clung to about what love is supposed to be. This is the love that comes so easy it doesn’t seem possible. It’s the kind where the connection can’t be explained and knocks us off our feet because we never planned for it.

This is the love where we come together with someone and it just fits—there aren’t any ideal expectations about how each person should be acting, nor is there pressure to become someone other than we are.

We are just simply accepted for who we are already—and it shakes to our core.

It isn’t what we envisioned our love would look like, nor does it abide by the rules that we had hoped to play it safe by. But still it shatters our preconceived notions and shows us that love doesn’t have to be how we thought in order to be true.

This is the love that keeps knocking on our door regardless of how long it takes us to answer.

It’s the love that just feels right.

[reidyoulikeabook]

Wait I don’t remember 8x05 very well 💀 what did JJ say/do to Spencer? 😂

sooo she asked why he didn't like the beach and then when he explained went 'sorry i asked' 💀 which in itself not that bad but it just rubs me up the wrong way when people ask him a question and then ... seem irritaited when he answers it? like don't ask 😭

tws: gore (not really but it's kinda gross n gorey what happens) / childbirth / cm violence for the next part under the cut !!!

the plot is a female unsub abducting men and she anducts a woman, performs a caesarean on her and scrapes her entire placenta out

spencer says something abt how ancient egyptians / ibo tribespeople used to take the placenta and consider it sacred or smth? and jj was just like 'ok well yeah maybe that'd be helpful if our unsub was an ancient egyptian or ibo tribeswoman'

just ... generally it irks me sometimes how they respond to his infodumping and treat it like it's annoying when it's like ... a core aspect of who he is? he knows things and shares them and being openly irritaited at him for doing it is kinda mean? this is not a jj specific issue btw i've noticed it with a few characters it just so happens this episode it's happened twice with jj !!!

but maybe that's just me taking it personally bc i relate very hard to him doing it

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Watch your back, pretty boy.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN WITH THE BAU!

[eldrai]

Henry was adorable

[fightingdragonswithwho]

SPENCER REID + CHECKERED SHIRTS

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Penelope Garcia in Halloween costume | 8x05 “The Good Earth”

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SPENCER REID + NICKNAMES

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ALEX BLAKE | SEASON 8