a lot of people called the closer, sometimes quasi-paternal bond shown between raven and sinclair a retcon and it's... okay it's true, but it's not, but it is. basically, no there wasn't really anything pointing to that in season 1, to my memory, and even in season 2 it could be called a stretch. but at the same time there's nothing in them that contradict that reading (in storytelling, we're supposed to feel in the blanks!).
the reason why it feels like it's a (soft) retcon is because the progression of the dynamic from season 1 onwards obeys a dramatic change in how the writers involved wanted to portray raven. in season 1 her motherless status, and all the mentions about how her alcoholic mother didn't take good care of her, were a way to keep the character as "lesser" vis a vis clarke, as a twisted mirror of all that abby was willing to do for her own daughter in contrast. just like the traingle with finn, it was meant to elevate clarke's character status at the cost of keeping raven on her knees.
but season after season, that stopped being a priority, or even a consideration. and one thing that writers tend to do (though not always) when they love a character for themselves and want them to look good, is give them the gift of parental approval. raven didn't have any biological parents left (whoever her father was, we have no clue, and given what we know about her mother, it could've been some sleaze), but they wanted her to have that in some way, which is in direct opposition of their desires for her in season 1.
sinclair could easily be shaped to become that figure, through their professional relationship. he becomes someone who put his faith in her and advocated to break the rules for her when her physical revealed a heart defect that would've vetoed from space walks, who encourages to be her very best and thinks the world of her, who dies trying to protect her. and so in season 4, he's the person who's raven mind conjures to represent her will to live. and it's so beautiful.
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A Joyful Future Masterlist - Part I
Aaron Hotchner x Female Reader
Aaron Hotchner x Gender Neutral Reader
updated: november 15th, 2021
total finished works: 166
works in progress: 23
planned works: 107
summary: canon-divergent, big family!au
currently working on absence part ii and the mean-it era
beta’d by @ssaic-jareau, without whom none of this would be possible
resources and links:
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faq + cheat sheets
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▶ episodes i’m planning to adapt for ajf
✸ smut - explicit sexual content (18+ only, minors dni)
✦ suggestive content - non-explicit suggestions of intimacy, drinking, etc.
☰ fem!reader (all other fics are gender neutral)
◎ graphic/edit
✂ director’s commentary
☎ podfic
Part I: Cicatrize
Ao3 Link
2007
Advocate
Cicatrize ✂ | 3x01 "Doubt" - 3x11 "Birthright"
Ambition
Aaron Hotchner's Letter of Recommendation ◎
2008
▶ Working Title: Reflections | 3x05 "Seven Seconds"
▶ Working Title: Worser Instincts | 3x16 "Elephant's Memory"
▶ Working Title: Developments | 3x17 "In Heat"
Dreaming ✦
Intellectual Guesswork | 3x19 "Tabula Rasa"
Familiarity | Crossover: NCIS 5x19 "Judgement Day, Part II"
Focused | 3x20 "Lo-Fi" - 4x01 "Mayhem"
Constellations | 4x02 "The Angel Maker"
Buffer
Through and Through | 4x03 "Minimal Loss"
▶ Working Title: Milestone | 4x05 "Catching Out"
Players
Bedtime
▶ Working Title: Grounded | 4x07 "Memoriam"
Pride | 4x08 "Masterpiece"
Dead Man's Hand ☰ | 4x09 "52 Pickup"
Unfair
Midnight ✦
2009
At Risk Part I | 4x10 "Brothers at Arms" - 4x11 "Normal"
At Risk Part II | 4x12 "Soul Mates" - 4x13 "Bloodline"
A Kindness | 4x16 "Pleasure is My Business"
Part II: Fear Itself
Ao3 Link
2009
No Deal | 4x18 "Omnivore"
▶ Working Title: TBD | 4x21 "A Shade of Grey"
Collision | 4x23 "Roadkill"
▶ Working Title: TBD | 4x24 "Amplification"
Outnumbered
Fear Itself | 5x01 "Faceless, Nameless"
Enough ✂
Infirmity | 5x02 "Haunted"
Push | 5x04 "Cradle to Grave" 5x05 "The Eyes Have It"
Nightmare Realized | 5x09 "100"
Hands | 5x09 "100"
Nightmare Recalled | 5x09 "100"
Stay
Arrangements
An Unrivaled Force of Nature | 5x10 "The Slave of Duty"
2010
Exceeding Expectations | 5x11 "Retaliation"
Three's Company
Sunburnt
▶ Working Title: TBD | 5x18 "The Fight"
A Horrible First | 5x16 "Right of Passage"
Unbecoming | 5x21 "Exit Wounds"
▶ Working Title: Blackout | 5x23-6x01 "Darkest Hour/Longest Night"
An Opinion
Part III: Berry Hill
Ao3 Link
2010
A Real Hero | 6x09 "Devil's Night"
Short Notice
Berry Hill
▶ Working Title: Berry Hill (Aaron's Version)
Two Inches
Stowaway ✸
2011
No Help
A Chance of Snow
Waldosia | 6x18 "Lauren" - 6x24 "The Big Sea"
Absence | 6x24 "The Big Sea" - 7x01 "It Takes a Village"
Mean It ✸ ☰ | 7x01 "It Takes a Village"
Mean It (SFW + Gender Neutral) ✦ | 7x01 "It Takes a Village"
Firsts ✦
Impression
Gossip: A Prelude ✦ ☰
Surreal
About Time
Second Best
Obligated | 7x10 "There's No Place Like Home"
Conspiracy
The Pleasures of the Elder ✦ ☎
Not Complaining ✸
Mistletoe ✦ ✂
Bring It ✸
2012
Gifts & Notices
Symptoms
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Masterlist Part II
Masterlist Part III
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Bryan Safi
Bryan plays Josh Russo on 9-1-1, a senior dispatcher who plays a part in many interesting 911 stories. His backstory in particular was shown in episode 4x11 (find a videoclip series here on youtube)
More recently he featured heavily in the Bachelor/911 crossover episode [7x04 - gifset here] but Bryan himself has also been shown as a huge fan in a US Weekly chat about the series.
Bryan has a great relationship with costar and fellow dispatcher JLH (see interview here). And of course Bryan was part of the recent 911 cast team on Celeb Family Feud!
Other acting roles include many parts in comedies such as Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and the upcoming comedy 'Poppa’s House'.
Early in his career he won an Emmy as a writer on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'. As part of the comedy studio 'Funny or Die' Bryan has interviewed Cher and Mariah Carey. He has also written, performed and produced comedy spots such as 'The First Gay Sportscaster'.
He is co-host of a podcast with Erin Gibson, 'Attitudes!' (formerly titled Throwing Shade). He also co-hosts the comedy advice podcast 'Ask Ronna', and has appeared on several others such as Pod Save America.
Bryan has been recognised in Out Magazine's 'Out 100 LGBT+ people'. He now lives in LA and New York, though he was born in El Paso.
[IMDb] [bryansafi.com] [other 911 cast bios]
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debbie baby-trapping derek.
i was rewatching the part where derek leaves, and i just felt the need to share my pov of it.
as we all know, i am a lesbian debbie truther. i 100% believe that she was expierencing comphet and didn’t love derek and season 6 is perfect evidence.
in season 6, it is revealed derek left for florida, and is going to become a pilot in the air force. derek’s sister in law confronts her about the fact that she didn’t care enough to know such a major detail about derek, and that she didn’t love derek, she just loved the baby.
i agree.
debbie didn’t love derek, she thought she did at first, and then when she met his family and saw a perfect opportunity to be in it, she took it. debbie says she didn’t “mean” to trap him, and i believe her to the extent where i think she didn’t know that she was trapping him, but she did trap him. to be fair, he never said that he didn’t want to have a kid with her, he just left- but still.
all debbie has ever wanted was a family, specifically a daughter. and she gets that. people think it was bad for her, but it was her dream, and she ended up doing really well, so i disagree. however, all derek truly ended up being was just his sperm. he is the father of franny, but franny doesn’t know him, and he was dead by the time she was four.
matty and derek are such perfect examples of comphet and i have even more reasoning:
with matty, debbie only began liking him because holly literally told her that she did.
she really wanted his validation (daddy issues).
in 4x11, she moves on EXTREMELY quickly, proving she never actually had any feelings
with derek, she saw someone defending her, and confused platonic attraction with romantic attraction (“that was the nicest thing anyones ever done for me!” -debbie)
she found out that she could get into this perfect family by having a kid so she did just that, she was more interested in the family than him
she knew basically nothing about him
her intense reaction to his absence was her abandonment issues, not her being in love
it’s honestly saddening how her whole intention was to create a family the opposite of hers, with two loving parents, but just ended up being put in a similar position where one parent runs off and the other one is left high and dry.
also i hate derek- i get he was trapped but i don’t even hate him for that i just hate him💋
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, September 18-Thursday, September 19
Master: You're dead!
Buffy: I may be dead, but I'm still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you.
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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
Nothing's The Same (Buffy, PG) by badly_knitted
bufy a girl (Buffy/Spike, M) by lottiecrabie
A Tale of Two Slayers (Buffy/Kendra, E) by Ann_Douglas
Convincing (Buffy/Giles, T) by simple_nothings
[Chaptered Fiction]
Erotic Entertainment, Chapter 4 (Multi, E) by TheInfiniteDoctor
Cat Scratch Fever, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Cordelia/Oz, E) by KNZ1
My (love) Kill, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, G) by scared_worm
Love Lives Here, Chapter 100 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Passion4Spike
Forty-eight days in LA, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Blissymbolics
Mysterious Destinies, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by EnchantedWillow
Lost in Desolation, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Melme1325
A Nice Surprise, Chapter 1 (Crossover with Riptide, FR15) by calikocat
Meanwhile, back on the farm..., Chapter 6 (Multiple crossings, FR13) by hysteriumredux
Seeing Clearly, Chapter 200 (Multiple crossings, FR13) by JoeB
Perception, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, G) by flootzavut
Champion of War, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Desicat
To All We Guard, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by simmony
Waiting for You, Chapter 21 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by honeygirl1885
A Sword in the Man, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Desicat
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Manip:moodboard: buffy summers by courtillyy
Manip:Collage #172 by thedecadentraven
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Gifset:7x15 | “Get It Done” by clarkgriffon
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