Blindspot Finale

Been meaning to post something like this for a while. Never got round to it. Now seems a good time.

BIG SPOILERS AHEAD. Like I will completely and utterly ruin the episode.

Disclaimers: Very Long Post. It's an opinion piece. This is all me; I have no issue with those who differ. 😊

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Blindspot 5x11. It’s rough. I was heartbroken; literally felt like I’d been dumped, and it took me a while. The initial shock of the mere suggestion short-circuited my brain. But over time, and some re-watching, plus thinking about earlier parts of the show more carefully during our weekly re-watch, I came to one (for me) inescapable conclusion:

Whether you view the show as a series of parallels or as a palindrome, “Jane Doe, FBI” died in that square. Jane Doe, the grown woman who was once a child named Alice Kruger, did not.

On the parallels side: Every single season of this show started with Jane in some way lost and adrift without an identity, and part of the journey of every season was for her to find herself again. In season one this is obvious. Season two, she comes back a battered outcast and discovers her past, and has to learn to live with everything that entails. Season three, she comes back having “discovered parts of herself she didn’t realize she was missing,” and has to learn how to integrate who she now knows she is as an independent individual – a separate (and honestly rather chaotic) entity from the husband and family who initially made post-ZIP Jane Doe – with that inter-dependent life she had chosen for herself in seasons 1/2. At this midpoint, the tangram has effectively reopened, and she’s finding where she fits anew. Season four it’s obvious once again – she’s Remi, stuck in Jane's life. Season five, I would argue, is where she finds herself truly split between her past and her future. Here Jane Doe, FBI, the moral and law-abiding, law-enforcing citizen, watches her team blown up by a drone sent by a corrupt government - exactly the situation that made Remi *Remi*. And she’s now forced to call on all the skills and their accompanying memories of her terrorist past – the life she had relatively recently chosen to leave behind – to do the right thing and save the people she loves. Kurt says as much right at the start of the season when he asks her to take the lead – he acknowledges that once again she’s trying to “bring down the corrupt FBI” – and this is when she has to really learn to be both at the same time, and somehow find peace with that. You can see her struggle and thrash between “this is what I know to be necessary” and “this is what I’ve held to be right” throughout the season, but especially in 5x06 and 5x07. (To me she finally resolves this conflict the moment she tells Shepherd she doesn’t care in the midst of her 5x11 “ends and means” hallucination.)

You may get the sense this is the reading I lean towards xD To me, it stands to reason that we can interpret the “death” at the end of 5x11 as a symbolic reset on her identity like she had at the end of every other season, and a literal near-miss, not unlike what she suffered at Keaton’s hands in 2x01 and at Madeline’s hands in 4x22.

On the palindrome side: Death might seem a fitting narrative end to the character, because it’s practically impossible (for me at least) to imagine how this woman could possibly claw her way back to happiness after all of this. But was she happy when we first met her? And who was Jane Doe, before she was Jane Doe? She was somebody before she was “born” from that bag. If the series is a palindrome, we could frame it that Remi “died” and was placed in a bag, only to be reborn from the same bag as someone else. I submit that this woman, on the whole, is only as dead as Remi was when she went into the duffel.

Imo there’s a lot of support right there in the episode for either of these readings. Right from the opening credits, they tell us visually that however you read it we’re going back to the beginning: the number 100 is flipped to 001. The episode is loaded with visual, dialogue, and thematic parallels, especially to 1x01. (I don’t believe it’s an accident that the parallel in the interrogation room to 1x01, 2x01, 3x01, and Jane’s dream in 4x09 is placed after the scene in Times Square. Although they don’t reveal the body bag until later, each of those callbacks represent moments when Jane had to start her life anew, with Weller finding her and effectively saying, “I know you’re lost. We’ll do this together.”) A major theme throughout the episode is Jane’s fear of what’s next. As the mission begins, they’re told in no uncertain terms that whatever the outcome, not only are they out of the FBI, but they will never again be allowed to work for any branch of the US government. That’s every version of law enforcement. That’s every branch of the military. That’s every legal outlet for not only everything this adult woman knows how to do, it’s the end of every life she has ever known. Alice Kruger was at most 12 or 13 years old when her parents were murdered. Whether she’s Jane Doe or Remi Briggs or some amalgamation of the two, this is a woman who literally does not know how to be a grown-up civilian. She must be terrified! The end of “Jane Doe, FBI” can only give way to her most difficult rebirth since that night when a stranger walked her past her mum and dad, lying in pools of their own blood. And as we know, that’s saying something.

That doesn’t mean she doesn’t deserve – or, in my opinion, get – the chance to try.

A few other notes: Martin Gero himself said that dead or alive, both readings are correct. So take it as you will. Applying the bias of my own read on things, I think he was being cheeky – not “whether you think she’s dead or whether you think she’s alive, you’re right,” but literally, “whatever you think you are right, because she is both dead and alive.” It needn't be a binary. Like so many things, from the show's title on down, it's two things at once.

The last shot: One of the things that most gave me pause and did/continues to make me sad is that last visual of Jane. She says, “Yeah, I’m good,” but she sure doesn’t look convinced. Initially, my brain took that as, “Oh my god, she’s dead, it’s like ‘Keaton’ said, this is just her brain trying to give her a happy ending; she’s ‘good’ that she finished the job, but she’s realized that this is all a hallucination.” Now? Well, I’m still sad about it, because although I firmly believe she’s physically alive and that the dinner is real, I see a woman who's lost in this domestic “bliss”. Everyone was worried for Weller losing the job he loves, but he told us all the way back in 1x21 that he had another dream: big backyard, lots of little kids; he just thought it was out of his reach because it wasn't compatible with his job. He lost the job, but he's got his happy ending: that Colorado house, that Thanksgiving table, are in every sense Weller's dream, right down to the shade of paint on the walls (all non-toxic; he likes the yellow). Jane is still mourning for the person she had become, the person she wanted to be. She’s alive, but she’s only about as happy as she was in 1x01, because she doesn’t know who she is or where she fits. Geez, talk about bittersweet.

The episode title: Iunne(n) was a verb in Middle English, meaning “to grant” or “to bestow”. (Written English was not standardized back then to the extent it is now, and the third ‘n’ was sometimes dropped, hence my parentheses.) This is not the first episode title to be a palindrome (see second half of season 2), but if Iunne is NOT meant to be that obsolete verb, it’s the first title that has included a complete gibberish nonsense combo of letters. If it was intentional, then the title of the episode loosely translates as, “To bestow ennui [a sense of listlessness, boredom, dissatisfaction with the state of things, etc.]” This would be a classic Blindspot double-meaning: Jane experiences ennui in her new, quiet life; and what the hell are you viewers gonna do with your Thursday nights now?! Thanks a lot, writers’ room. -_- Cheeky bastards strike again.

One last from Martin Gero: There was an interview somewhere where he said that whichever interpretation people subscribe to, the writers wanted to leave the viewer with a sense that the story of the FBI era of the team’s lives was closed, leaving room for new chapters. Some others on here (apologies as I can’t remember who off the top of my head) pointed out back in 2020 when this was fresh, that if we interpret Jane as being literally, physically, irrevocably dead, then the dinner scene really is a hallucination – meaning we were never really given an end to any of the rest of the team’s stories. Unless you want to believe that Rich and Patterson ended in a hallway toasting over Reade and Mayfair, and Tasha and Weller ended, crying and screaming in disbelief respectively, over a corpse. (Or alternately, if she died in 5x10 and the entirety of 5x11 is a hallucination, the rest of the team’s endings would be where we left them in that episode.) I personally don’t think even this writer’s room could be quite that cruel. :P To the viewers, or to their own creations. (fwiw, MG also noted in the same interview that he would watch spinoffs of Rich and Patterson, or even a family drama starring Kurt and Jane.)

There are of course various hints that support the Irrevocably Dead interpretation, too – Boston having all of his fingers comes to mind – and despite my complete aversion to accepting that outcome (ngl, taking that on board would be bad for my mental health lol), I’m happy enough with my interpretation to also be happy to chat with anyone about the alternatives and the supporting evidence that most days I choose to willfully ignore. \😁/

At the risk of self-plugging, I’m about 24k words deep in a canon-compliant 5x11 WIP that fills in some blanks and brings the parallel/palindromic “Still Alive” scenario to a stronger conclusion. I’ve called it The Antidote both because in it, she does get the antidote “just in time” and it works, and also because it’s proven to be the antidote to my own conflicted feelings about the way the show ended. I’m hoping to have that done and posted [ideally long] before we get there in re-watch, but if anyone wants to chat on that or hear about some of the ways my head has canoned its way out of tragedy hit me up. 😊 I’ve also written several little epilogues set in the first 18 months or so post-series around Jane starting to claw her way back from that ennui and figure out how to find contentment outside a constant state of war. Haven’t printed them yet because I think without the other they don’t make much sense XD but I’m happy to chat about the general arc I see for that, too, if anyone wants to hear about it, and of course I like hearing what others have in mind after the series!

There's a few really good finale/post-finale fics out there already, especially on ffn, and they're always fun. (Except for that one. That very short one. I'm not calling you by name but you know who you are. And I know you hate it too so I forgive 😘😘😘)

There's a ton of really well thought out posts, links to interviews from July/August 2020 and beyond too but I'm afraid I don't have the list to hand; I was meaning to re-compile it eventually anyway (I did bookmark several for my fic research/inspo) so if there's interest I'll try to get on that and add it.

Lastly, shout out to @guadalajara92 for her infamous make-it-better alternative ending edit which really, truly was a comfort for washing that shit right out of my hair in those first post-5x11 hours:

and her now-legendary fan-trailer for "Newton", the spin off into a series of primetime adventures that we really, sadly never got to see (double shout out for cleverly making it compatible with either interpretation* xD):

*but with a cheeky lil blink and you miss it elevator shot that however you wanna take it, also made me feel better 🙊

Homelander fans who think the show is moving towards depicting him having DID (see poll): are we just talking about having different facets of personality (inner child persona vs external messaging he’s been getting from his faux parents or a self talk coping mechanism) which can be dramatized with a conversation in the mirror?

Or are we talking about actual dissociation, like Norman-Bates-type ‘one alter doesn’t know what crimes the other one is doing while they take over’?

Because if it’s the latter, kind of dreading that Kripke et al have avoided “the Black Noir clone was the one who raped Becca and ate babies” plot point only to start going down the “it was the bad Homelander who raped Becca, not John”. Because beyond the story problems with that, it starts begging the question did Homelander down the mayor of Baltimore’s plane and not John, flight 37, killing Madelyn, killing(maiming?) Blindspot, dating SF, killing supersonic… that all feels like an icky and frankly weird copout to me…

With the season 4 spoilers about another major character having his own Tyler Durden, and how much the Gen V writers like Unreality and Manifested Inner World, I have to say I can see them going further into DID land, and I feel like it could be really bad. Like maybe drop-the-show-before-s5 bad. 😕 But maybe I’m the only one who feels this way lol.

i'm........i'm not made for multiblogging

it's only slightly better than my proficiency with touchscreens

if anyone's on this blog and think you might wanna watch NBC's Blindspot someday I strongly suggest you filter "#blindspot s5 spoilers" because i'm a fucking menace

Lucifer season 6 thoughts:

I feel better than expected. I finished Lucifer s6. My fav season, My ranking: s6, s4, s2, s1 s5 s3. I hope down the road there will be more even thou Netflix never gives movies or spin-offs to series I care about. There are chances Tom & Lauren may not come back. Tom said he would be open to it but he had a hard time accepting the contract for s6 so who knows…. Lauren said she thinks the story of her character is done and she does not think a spin-off about Chloe can be made and I agree. Who knows? Maybe she still can make an appearance. <spoiler> I would be fine even if Rory mentions Deckerstar. I am OK they did not get married. Their souls may still can get married. Question one: Why does Chloe wear Lilith's ring when she appears in Heaven? Question two: does Chloe still have the necklace after ep 8? I am glad it's stated she wears it often even if we do not see it. I hope she does even after Rory's birth and on.I hope Amenediel tells Chloe how Lucifer is doing while he is away. I am glad the producers said Lucifer checks on his family from time to time. Question three: Where is Linda in the future? Who is the Linda Martin in jail? My theory is Linda may left her job or she wrote a new book under a pseudonym. I wish to see more of Trixie and get to find out if she is mad at Lucifer for leaving. I adore Maze trained Trixie, I want her to keep doing that and may ease her anger toward Lucifer if she is really bitter. I wanna see Trixie, Charlie and Rory interact. I was over the moon when Maze and Eve had the Romeo & Juliet balcony scene, amazing! I wanna see their honeymoon and their future. Maze is my favorite character. I care like a demon.  I wanna buy Ella's t-shirt. Her development had me surprised. I love it. I knew Rory's wings shape came from Chloe's temper & her job, so good! I wanna know why Chloe was busy sometimes like Rory stated. I wanna see who teaches Rory to fly and who she gets to fall for. I want to know if Rory gets to meet Deckerstar again. I love the actress who plays Rory,  I first saw her on Blindspot. Many tears have fallen from my eyes during season 6 and I hope to rewatch the show very often. My top series on Netflix. Glad the interviews addressed where Trixie was in the final moments.

Networks should take notes about that Bones cyber spin-off :D I wanna see it come to life!

love, death & robots s2 thoughts

*not spoiler heavy but general LD&R spoilers*

overall: meh. i didn't hate it, but i didn't quite like it either. it felt like it just... fell short of its own concept. unfortunately it has a bit to do with how short the season was, but a season's length alone shouldn't be a reason for dislike itself so i must elaborate!!!!

what i'm primarily referring to is how it's tagged as an "adult animated anthology" and why that's been so enticing for adults who enjoy animation. s1 gave us such a diverse set of animation styles, attributed from a variety of different studios across the globe, so it felt like a long love letter to those who enjoyed the medium. but s2 seemed to focus on the Hyper Realistic Animation That Almost Feels Real style, which was disappointing. (no hate to axis studio & blur studio tho!! they make great stuff!!!) s1 had its fair share of that, too — beyond the aquila rift is a standout contender — but with s2 practically half the length of the first, you could really feel the disparity with the lack of animation styles. i really wanted to see something with the aesthetics of blindspot or fish night, and i can't say that any of the s2 episodes were comparable.

and this might just be me, but i also missed Happy episodes!!! low tension!! fun!!! s2 showed stories that ended in a nice way, but i wouldn't call exactly them Happy. i mostly missed the silly energy that three robots gave us, which let the viewer a breath of fresh air amidst all the... Death. probably not enough L in LD&R, i think.

plus, while pretty much every episode in s1 was an adaptation of some sort, s2 just felt... less than what the series intended. like, sorta in the same way black mirror s5 was — we're seeing [insert concept here] used in a different way, but since we've already heard it many times before it becomes less interesting. in LD&R's case: robots turning on humans, immortality, Wow Beautiful Woman, etc.. again, i get that they're adaptations, but even saying that feels like an excuse. zima blue from s1 was an adaptation, and that was the best episode of the series imo! so maybe it's a matter of less interesting content, or maybe i'm hard to please? just the fact that there were no original episodes at all was a bummer, especially since the concept from the witness was so wild. however i am glad that they didn't continue with the gratuitous sexual violence that was prevelant in s1... i Was Not a fan of that.

so something i also saw on twitter mentioned how s2's writing/directing credits are mostly if not completely filled by white men, and it made me think some more. s1 was a pinch more diverse in its credits: good hunting was adapted from a shory story by chinese-american ken liu, a female writer janis robertson wrote the adapted script for when the yogurt took over, etc. again, the shorter length of s2 showcases its shortcomings. it feels like the entire series has been missing the opportunity to give voice to the under-represented communities who have struggled to break through the predominantly cis straight white lens of sci-fi. like, sonnie's edge was cool and all, but it'd be a lot cooler if you had any women and/or wlw on the directing credits. i'm not surprised, but it won't stop me from being disappointed.

i repeat, overall: meh. i heard that s3 is set to release in 2022, but truth be told i don't have the highest hopes or much expectation for it. i may watch it eventually, but i'll definitely take a look at the credits first.

but some things i did like about s2, in no particular order: the pacing of the drowned giant, michael b. jordan, the full seven minutes of all through the house, GIANT GLOWING WHALES. s2 still had some good points despite my complaints!!! ahhhh!!!!!

Music of Blindspot?! 5x01!!!

Yes! Yes it is. It's been a longass time, but I had to bring it back to be the lovable scamp with your friendly reminder 🥰 (or not-so-friendly reveal 😈) that Reade and Tash, with what is surely zero musical foreshadowing AT ALL, start out the season by Doing The Do to the same music that Jane killed Oscar to - a track from the season 1 OST aptly titled "See You on the Other Side". (Weller and Jane reunite to a snippet of the same song in this episode too, tbf).

I'll undoubtedly be tagrambling or keysmashing for this and a few other remaining episodes about Gifsets I Can Hear. The fact this season's soundtrack was never released annoys me more than any other apart from 3x01 and 3x22, because Sherri Chung gave us a bunch of funky little bops and grooves all over season 5. Helpfully, a fellow fan stripped a few highlights (incl. times square and reade's funeral) from this episode and did a better job editing around the unstrippable sfx than i could do! :D thank you op, wherever you are 💕

(PSA turn off autoplay before you watch that unless you wanna be assaulted by spoilers and feels for 5x08)

You may have seen me remark before about the difficulty of placing bts photos of Sully, because Kurtis "styled by a box of biros" Weller has precisely three outfits.

I'm just gonna go ahead and call it for season 5: unless they're on location or Ennis is in the pic (bless Rich Dotcom and his loud shirts), it's more of a headache to assign pics an episode than I'm interested in bothering with anymore lol

Pics that aren't obvious will be reblogged whenever and tagged with a general "blindspot s5 bts" if anyone's interested in finding them.

4. Zapata

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

Oooooh! This is a fun one!!! Two options:

A movie. Zapata always had a hard edge to her, and the CIA sharpened her. I could see a feature-length film set between when she left the FBI and when Keaton sent her to Blake Crawford's gala, to explore what made her so much rougher and what made Keaton think she would be "perfect" for such a dark, dangerous, highly compartmentalized op that's so completely outside the lines of anything she would have considered before.

The other is a Tasha Zapata PI series. @guadalajara92 already gave us an AMAZING trailer/edit for what that might look like.* (Maybe a limited series though, because I wouldn't want them to turn it into another run-of-the-mill procedural... and maybe not NBC. xD Somewhere it could be as dark and gritty as it, and Tasha, deserve. 💕) *if anyone's reading this who hasn't finished the series and looking to be surprised at the end, maybe hold off on watching that trailer, it draws from the series finale.

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I am gonna take a day to rotate on the answers for your ask, but in the meantime I'm sending you more >:]

13, 18, and 20 for Rich!

YAY MORE ASKS THANK YOU :D

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

I thought of his flamethrower and 🔥 immediately and I'm pretty sure that would be his most-used emoji too (notwithstanding all the eggplant/aubergine he'd send to a few people, especially Kurt). xD

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Jane. Especially after 5x01/the boat, they have so much in common - both good and very bad - that the rest of the team absolutely cannot and will never be able to understand. They almost never talk about it (we hardly ever even see them alone together in canon) but when they do it always felt to me like there was a kind of "old souls recognizing each other" sort of friendship between them.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

Same answer as above. In times of real upheval and turmoil, I think Colorado would be a place he would go for rest and guidance, kinship and a particular kind of understanding.

Other best friend? Patterson, depending how you interpret them post canon. It's my personal headcanon that what we see at the end of 5x11 is one third real on paper/platonic in practice (P/R), one third not on paper/super not platonic at all (R/B), one third platonic and not on paper (B/P): there are a lot of places in the world an unwed woman couldn't go unescorted and a marriage license would facilitate their treasure hunting adventures around the world, similar to what they did in Peru. I view it as a pragmatic arrangement, not married married. (and with no disrespect to polys; I just personally didn't see marital chemistry in that trio, much as I personally don't ship Reade/Zapata) And that's only going to succeed because it's based in a strong friendship, of course - they're choosing to live together and be partners, and that's not nothing. In this interpretation they're definitely besties.

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Hide your tables folks nachos is watching 5x01

FBI 4x18 and Blindspot 5x10 have an ending in common that's all I'm saying

The real plot twist in season 5 was that Jane managed to stay fully vegan living literally underground in central Europe.

Random thought but a minor story at the bottom of my news app tells me today is the 20th anniversary of the big East Coast blackout in USA/Canada and hey shout out to the massive international cascading power grid failure for inspiring Helios 👌

So I made this in the middle of the night a while back bc it had been like 2 weeks and I was still laughing

anyway now it's online and the gifsets are happening so here you go

💥👻

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

I want Tasha to have watched Madeline die with unambiguous intent. I want her to walk onto that plane, look at the glass of champagne, listen to Madeline blab about how successful she feels, and for Tasha to go, "Drink it. You're not worthy of the air you breathe" or "At least your son will never have to relearn what a bitch his mum was" or SOME kind of snapback, and then stand by and let it happen.

I want Tasha to come full circle and go, "You know what? I was wrong. Life isn't as black and white as 'Terrible people do terrible things and good people stop them.'"

I want her to walk away in the end fully embracing the lone wolf she's been grappling with for the whole second half of the series. The one that was able to join Keaton, of all people, despite his very personal involvement in what was done to Jane. The one who was able to hide Thornton's survival from Patterson and even work with him; who was able to lie to Reade and the team, disappear and let her family believe she had turned. The one that walks in the grey spaces in between.

I want her at peace with and empowered by her ambiguity.

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

Maybe Boston's finger is in Valhalla......... xD

In seriousness though, I don't know that any of my headcanons are particularly "wild", they mostly plug various little story holes to make them make sense, and most of those, I've been writing as fics.

I've got one that I've been sitting on for a while... I guess you could call it more of an "alternate headcanon", because I don't really adhere to it, but the wild part is, it's fully canon compliant based on what the screen gave us, so it could be a real headcanon. I have lil picture in mind that I want to put with it, but I haven't managed to draw it to my satisfaction yet D: I'll try to finish it and make a separate post for that early in the new year. Please look forward to it, I guess? 😅 (I would almost consider ficcing it too, but..... I have too many WIPs already, and it would have to be a multi-chapter to make it work. So maybe not lol)

Thank you for the ask!! :D I think that's the clearest I've ever written out the Tasha thing, and the headcanon one I think is gonna hopefully spur me to action on something creative. xD

I'm trying to find my mojo and inspiration to start creating again, and I find these memes are a really good exercise to think critically about my ideas and hopefully get the juices flowing. If anyone else is curious, please check here and consider sending me an ask!

I've also recently done a WIP ask meme, which you can find here if you'd like a peek at what I've been working on before the words left me..... :)

For the fanfic emoji ask: 🥺 ❌ 🎨

Hello!!! Sorry I took a while to answer!! I had to take a little time to think about these, especially the one about tropes. I’m still relatively inexperienced - I think 9 stories so far, and 5 or 6 more in draft stage - so I’m still finding my strengths, weaknesses, comfort levels, etc. Thinking about how to answer was a really EXCELLENT exercise to think critically about my own writing habits and goals, so thank you SO MUCH for these questions!!

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

On screen, if I think about which episodes ALWAYS get me emotional, it’s 3x22, 4x12, 4x17, 5x01, 5x08, 5x10, 5x11, so there might be a pattern there…. xD Especially those silent lip-read conversations through the windows, such as 5x08/10. Those writers are CRUEL and the cast/directors/camera etc knocked it out of the park every time. The other main “feels” moments for me would be any moments of connection between Roman and his sister. Their entire story is just so tragic. 😢

And 2x01. Both the content itself and my sheer awe of the absolute genius of every single element of its creation. It is my spicy comfort food that hurts but also I want to eat it again and again. I could honestly gush about it all day. I have ALL the feels for that episode. The whole range of human emotion. If it was a person I would marry it.

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

I don't like saying 'never', but I’m a ‘color inside the lines’ type. So far I mainly specialize in writing canon-compliant things, within and between what’s already on screen. So I doubt there would ever be big AUs or crack fics from me; they require a lot more thinking outside the box and too big a commitment for me xD I think that makes some common tropes unlikely too, apart from ones that already appear in canon like "enemies to lovers" etc.

I think I'm pretty good at angst, but romance and physically affectionate moments are proving really difficult for me to find the words, so I don’t really see myself ever writing smut and I think I would struggle with a pure romance, for example an Only One Bed trope. 

Lastly, the one I know for sure is that I like the kids that exist in canon and I use them quite a bit especially in my current WIPs. I’ve also written events around their births in two of my fics. BUT childbirth itself is and always will be firmly off-page from me. You’ll also never catch me making anyone pregnant. It doesn’t rise to the level of squick for me, it’s just really not my thing. 

🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?

Ohhhhhh my gosh, well it’s never happened, but if it did I think it would be the most flattering thing ever?! My stories so far are all very close to canon, so I think the show itself is kind of a related art xD