Rumple + Textpost Memes [Part 1]

All these people going against Gabi gonna piss me off. He did one good thing for selfish reasons and suddenly everyone is on her ass as if she hasn't saved so many more people with her team. Guess my crucible theory was right though cause he is definitely witch trailing her right now.

Okay, I know Hassan, Lizzie, and Robyn's favorite DW episode was "Blink" primarily because they are caricatures of real fans, but I think they also loved it because the main character of that adventure was like them.

In "Blink", the hero is a character who only exists in that one episode, survives the monster of the week, and gets a surname! Sally Sparrow is everything they wished they could be as one-off Doctor Who characters.

The confirmation that Ethan used to be Dhan’s therapist but closed down his practice after they got together irritates me so bad. Because there’s a clear power imbalance there. And, yet, Ethan can’t understand why Dhan has an unyielding loyalty to Gabi.

Like you’re married to him after treating his trauma, and can’t understand that maybe he grows VERY ATTACHED to people who take care of him? Oh.

I love her knowing everyone to a tea to the point that she knows what they're gonna say

Sir is crashing the fuck out and I'm here for it. I know it shouldn't be but it is funny as shit watching him crash out.

Gabi x Sir Bodyguard Au part 3

Back again. I'm having a lot of fun with this so walk with me. Gabi is steadily falling for Evans but still is very much aware that the trafficking ring want her dead. Evans has grown on her and she is happy to renew his contract. I want all the soft moments for these two (right after I make Hugh Evans suffer).

Content warnings: physical injury

Gabi rushes to him without hesistation. His forehead is dripping with sweat and his breathing seems laboured.

"What do you need me to do? The police will be here soon. Once they arrest him, we can get you to a hospital." She explains.

"Gabrielle, please no hospitals. I'm fine to give a statement to the police, I just need something to clean the wound. Once the police are done here, I can seal it." Evans responsds.

Another conundrum. This is a medical emergency. What kind of grown man with blood pouring out of him refuses professional care?

Of course, she tries to reason with him. Evans looks pained as he tries to convince her otherwise. Turns out, boarding school in Virginia takes up a lot of his salary, leaving nowhere near enough for health insurance.

An ambulance at this time would bankrupt him, so, like he always does, he will patch himself up and find someway to ease the pain.

Gabi's heart breaks. This man is putting his brother through school without any help. Understanding his situation, she goes to find hot water, clean cloths, antiseptic cream, and bandages. When she returns, she finds Evans trying to sit up.

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"Please, let me" she whispers; gently easing him towards her. He almost freezes at her touch. A kind woman helping him shouldn't have such a strong effect of him, but it does. Gabi is more caring than he could've imagined. She didn't impose anything on him, understanding that her circumstances are very different to his. She gave him water while she wiped the blood from his skin and stayed with him as he told the police what happened. The police agreed that knocking the attacker unconscious was self defense and had no further questions for Evans.

After the cops left her place, dragging the attacker in handcuffs, he turned to Gabrielle.

"You can't stay here anymore. Your location is compromised and that guy has definitely already told his bosses that you have a bodyguard. We need to go." He said, still holding his side.

As frustrating as all this was, he had a point. Thankfully, M&A had a safehouse in Virginia where they could spend the next few weeks.

Gabi and Evans packed their stuff and updated the rest of the team with a brief message:

Evans was stabbed. We are going into hiding. I'll see you guys in a few weeks. Keep taking on cases. GM.

And with that, they began the long drive to the Charlie safehouse, by Smith Mountain Lake.

The zeke and sir scene was fucking amazing and what I wanted from it

Gonna be so real, gang, I kinda expected Eddie to only get three seconds of screen time but it’s kinda wild that we got a time skip and pretty much everything revolving his immediate, acute grief happened off-screen.

Actually the time skip was the worst decision of the episode tbh. Like, I’m more than fine spending most of the immediate fallout from Bobby’s death with Athena (never gonna complain about more Angela Basset on my screen), but the idea that we hardly see any of the main character’s reckoning with the loss besides Athena and Chim? Thank god we got SOME Hen in the end but fuck man. Why did we jump ahead two weeks? Why did we spend so much time on what should’ve been a B-plot? How is Bobby dead but still had more screen time than other main characters but also got a janky montage as a funeral rather than an entire episode grieving his death? Literally what. Was any of that?

And the stoic Buck of it all? Yeah, people who called that they’re setting him up for captain were right and truly I hate that with my whole heart. For seasons, so much of Buck’s character growth has been routed in realizing that he can’t always be “the guy who fixes things” and how he can’t be everything to everybody and more importantly that he doesn’t NEED to be to still be loved and accepted. And now they’re setting him up to the center point of the 118, the figure that every other firefighter looks to—listens to, follows through literal flames. Literally making him become everything to everyone. The guy whose job it is to fix everything.

Take that with the implication that Bobby was right to think LA was not his real home; just his penance, his borrowed time (burying him with his “real family” in Minnesota)—even after he insisted on his last words that he found a will to live and a new family instead? I just—

It’s like they’re undoing years of character development. And for what? For shock value and “creative decisions”? The characters are no longer three dimensional fixtures in an expansive work of art exploring joy, despair, hope, grief, and the tumultuous lives of first responders. They’re glorified baby dolls being smashed into trauma after trauma—as if the showrunners got tired of telling interesting stories and instead now chasing dopamine rushes with the next big emergency they can torture their toys with.

And I’m expected to watch season 9? Hell, the rest of this season? How? The creative minds behind the show clearly don’t care much for the characters, so why should I?

(Great acting by Kenneth Choi and Angela Bassett though. Phenomenal what pros can do even with shitty scripts.)

I had this conversation with my friend about Margaret’s reaction to Gabi.

Basically, I think everyone else can all more easily accept/come to terms with and eventually forgive Gabi, for holding Sir captive. The reason for this is that, they all at one point were held captive and probably have had moments in which they thought, “I wish I could make my abductor feel the way I felt.”

But Margaret was never abducted. Her son was, and she has never received any sort of closure. She’s being held captive by the idea of information, hope, recognition, reunion, and/or closure.

So Margaret, as the mother of an abductee, despite knowing that sir probably deserved it and keeping him captive probably kept other safe from himz Despite that, she can’t forgive (just yet at least, she barely started therapy last season) Gabi because now there’s a big part of her mind who has put Gabi in the role of the person who abducted her son.

None of the others have ever been in the position that their loved ones were, while they were missing.

The reason Lacey’s mom (despite her being a psychopath, in my opinion 😅) can be so chill with Gabi, is because Gabi is the reason Lacey was able to escape. Gabi is the reason Lacey was able to laugh and open up again.

But Margaret doesn’t have any of that. Her son was abducted and Gabi is an abductor. She can’t compartmentalization while around Gabi and that’s why her “Margaret-vision” doesn’t work in Gabi’s presence.

Anyway, that’s my amateur psychoanalysis of the Margaret/Gabi dynamic.

"Once I was told that good men get better with age... We're just gonna skip that stage" - What Would I Do?

I was finally able to finish this painting to go with this one i did of Marvin at sitting by Whizzers headstone