Thanks For Tagging Me, @ellyhotchner​ !

1. I like the colour and shape of my eyes. My cleavage is also pretty awesome!

2. I have a great eye for colour and assembling outfits! Great at being by myself/ keeping myself busy or entertained. I pick out thoughtful gifts for people!

3. I am patient, creative and kind.

Hey everyone I'm starting a tag game say 1 nice thing about your body's appearance 1 thing you think you're good at and 1 personality trait you like about yourself

NO SELF DEPRECATION!!!

I'll start

I like the body's thick thighs

I'm real good at singing

I'm a kind and funny person

Tagging friends @spixi @boimgfrog @heyheyheybutlikeromantically @vang0bus @kyoutani-ily @dead-houseplants @its-oikawaig

1) Nothing, in a bit of a slump!

2) The Friends We Keep by Jane Green.

3) Some of the newer fantasy books ( Leigh Bardugo, VE Schwab...)

4) I have a book by Hank Green ( brother of John) that looks right up my street

5) I don’t think so.

6) Anne of Green Gables series,  Little Women and sequels are both regular re-reads. Babysitters Club and Nancy Drew, plus the Sweet Valley Twins series. I have by no means read all of them, so would happily do so if I were given them/found them available cheaply.

7) I love the Percy Jackson/Trials of Apollo/Roman god companion series, they appeal to my deep deep love of mythology. I think the Cormoran Strike detective novels are great too, hope there’s another one soon!

8) Fantasy! But I have not read much sci-fi...

9) Nothing for the moment ( damn my slump!).

10) Oh yes, especially when a version comes out just before the film and it has the lead actor on it! It hinders my ability to picture the character properly! I have definitely been turned on/off by a pretty or ugly cover too-I’m evidently a very visual person!

11) Yes, a JK Rowling one, her first or second adult/non Harry Potter book. Not her Cormoran Strike ones, written under a pseudonym.

12) Yes! John Barrowman, Michael Caine, Lauren Graham... Biography: Marilyn Monroe, if that counts.

13) Don’t mind, but prefer biographies as they are more objective.

14) Fiction!

15) Chick-lit, YA, crime... Impossible to choose!

16) biographies, travel journals ( love Bill Bryson), origins of words/expressions/language evolution and usage...

17) not usually a big fan, it has to be social history ( women’s rights, fashion, food) rather than political and have engaging characters to follow. Tracy Chevalier does this well, I liked Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist too, and possibly a Philippa Gregory too.

18) Read the book first, unless I am unaware that a book version exists ( First Wives Club). This means I have the right to complain when characters or settings on screen do not match the picture I had in my head, and I get annoyed at all the side plots/minor characters that were glossed over/written out...

19) Paperback

20) Yes, most of my collection is on my e-reader!

21) one very small one, due to having a Kindle!

22) By order of purchase on my reader!

23) Buying on my e-reader, as they are often cheaper than the paper versions, and take up far less space! Otherwise I try to get them second hand/previously owned.

24) Fairly happy to, although I have lost some for good, unfortunately!  25) I try to look after them as best as I can, but I often eat or drink while reading, so they sometimes get a bit dirty, oops!

26) To Kill A Mockingbird has a special place in my heart. It was assigned summer reading but we ended up studying a different text. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin I read the summer I finished my GCSEs and I still love it, even though I ended up studying it for A-Levels!

27) Love stories that end tragically, parents losing a child, abuse, friendships unravelling...

28) A happy ending, strong (female) friendships coming through, an unexpected love interest....

29) Gone With The Wind. I think the copy I had was 600-800 pages.  30) I’m most like Meg and Beth from Little Women , would love to be friends with Anne Shirley, adore Atticus Finch, and think Peeta from The Hunger Games is my kind of guy too.

Book Ask

What book are you currently reading?

What book did you recently finish?

What’s a book that’s been on your to-read list for a long time?

What’s the next book you’re hoping to read?

Is there a book you own, but aren’t planning on reading?

What was your favourite series as a kid? Would you still read it now?

What’s your favourite series now?

Fantasy or sci-fi?

What’s a book you want to buy?

Have you ever judged a book by its cover?

Have you ever bought a book because of who the author was?

Have you ever read a celebrity memoir? If so, whose was it?

Are you a fan of autobiographies?

Fiction or non-fiction?

Favourite fiction genre?

Favourite non-fiction genre?

Historical fiction: yea or nay?

Do you read the book or watch the movie first?

Paperback or hardcover?

Do you read e-books?

How many bookshelves do you have?

How do you organize your books?

Do you prefer borrowing books from friends, borrowing books from a library, or buying them?

How willing are you to lend your books to other people?

In what condition do you keep your books?

What’s your favourite book?

What books can always make you cry?

What books can always make you smile?

What’s the biggest book you’ve ever read, and how many pages did it have?

What character do you connect with the most?

1) Aaron: no, I’m a behind the scenes, an assistant to the leader ( hey, weren’t you going to mention X, or don’t forget to do Y) kind of person. I keep track of everyone else’s tasks and will help them if they have too much on.

2)spencer: I ramble about TV shows, films,  books, word origins and art. Also Greek/Roman/Norse... mythology! Yup, I’m a nerd!

3) Derek: I’m very affectionate with my closest friends and family- big squeezy hugs, shoulder squeezes, hair stroking, cheek/hair kisses...  4) JJ: not really, I get anxious giving presentations/talking to crushes ( either no words or all the words come out). I prefer to communicate through writing, and get my point across far better that way.

5) Elle: People being abused/mistreated. Arts and practical life skills being taught in schools, education being about developing all aspects of your personality.

6)Penelope: Art, crafts, writing, singing, swimming, cooking and baking, finding the perfect present(s) for someone, buying a gift just because it reminded you of that person, being with my family...

7) Rossi: risotto and pavlova.  8) Prentiss: N/A

9)Ashley: It’s pretty good! They are super supportive and helpful,  I can always ask them for help ( which I have struggled with in the past)

10) Blake: I am bilingual English-French, then have a good grasp of Spanish and some basic Italian, plus a smattering of Dutch. I can pretty much understand simple written Portuguese and Catalan too! So 4 I can actually communicate in!

11) Callahan: I Will Survive/Dancing Queen/Don’t Stop Me Now ( by Queen). Purely theoretical though, as nobody wants me to do karaoke, unless you want the room to empty extremely quickly!

12) Steven Walker: See above! Musically challenged in every possible way!  13) Tara: Modern Languages BA in French and Spanish ( majors) with Italian (minor)

14) Luke Alvez: Growing up, yes ( rabbit, guinea pig, gerbil and a cat). Right now, no.  15) Matt Simmons: Desperately, since I was about 9, but I’m chronically single and not financially able ( can just about support myself!). I have a niece and nephew, am unofficial godmother/ non biological aunt to various friends’ offspring and I nanny, plus doing  creche work, so have plenty of children in my life to fill the hole in my heart.  16) Gideon: Yes, peacocks, parrots, hummingbirds and anything exotic and colourful!

criminal minds asks

 aaron hotchner: are you a good leader? 

spencer reid: what do you ramble on about?

derek morgan: are you affectionate with your friends?

jennifer jareau: are you a good communicator?

elle greenaway: what issue are you most passionate about?

penelope garcia: what do you do that makes you happy?

david rossi: what would you cook if you were hosting a dinner party? 

emily prentiss: what’s a secret that you haven’t told many people?

ashley seaver: do you have a good relationship with your parents?

alex blake: how many languages do you speak?

kate callahan: what’s your karaoke song?

steven walker: do you play any instruments? 

tara lewis: what did you / are you going to college for?

luke alvez: do you have any pets?

matt simmons: would you like to have kids someday?

jason gideon: do you like birds?

I love her, she is just so sweet! Her relationship with Hotch is really special, they clearly care for eachother a lot. I adore all the different names she gives him, like Bossman, My Liege, Oh Captain my Captain… as they are always said with such affection. I like that they listen to eachother too, as she asks him very early on to not call her sweetheart ( though he meant it in the nicest way possible) and, later, he tells her to not call him honey. Neither of them uses that particular term of endearment when speaking to the other ever again! 

penelope garcia, known hotchgirl

SVU Season 24 thoughts and OC musings

Not so interested in the actual cases this Season, and find a lot of the new characters indistinguishable/hard to keep track of. Velasco seems to look different every episode, then there is Duarte too…

Churlish has a stupid name, it means petty, moody, rebellious. They could have gone for Furnish or Cornish!

I quite like Muncy. I think she comes from money and was expected to be perfect growing up so is now applying that to the job, and it’s not working!

Fin’s mentoring skills are excellent, I think he really does a great job.

I like that Stabler and Rollins have a close friendship, but would love to see Stabler bond with Carisi, as Carisi is what Stabler could have been with a non-abusive childhood. Those two at a bar having a beer talking about their kids would be fab. 

I only really watch for the Rollins-Carisi relationship, and they had some lovely moments this season. Loved how Carisi told Liv about the pregnancy, he was clearly bursting to tell someone. 

I have been thinking about OC, and how Eli wasn’t in New York for the award ceremony. I think he’s at soccer camp in Italy of staying with a friend, so never got to see his mum in hospital or say goodbye to her properly. That’s got to have screwed him up emotionally, especially as we don’t know how or when he was told, as would Elliot have told him over the phone ( about the accident) or waited until Eli arrived in New York to tell him, as the window of time between the accident and her passing is fairly small, a day or two, I think? However Elliot tells him is going to make him sad and angry. I would have liked to have seen more of the 5 stages of grief from all the Stablers, maybe with Bernie’s Alzheimer’s making her confuse Kathleen or Maureen  with Kathy and Dickie or Eli for Elliot. 

Lots of fanfic ideas of the sad variety are now percolating in my brain!

My drawing of Alex Miller going on her first date in the PSOLC universe, created by the incredible @themetaphorgirl . The blush is too dark, but I think I nailed the hair, the rest of the m1keup and the outfit as a whole. I haven’t done any drawing for ages, but I was inspired

Please reblog and put in the tags your hair type (straight, wavy, curly, coily) and if you sleep with your hair in a ponytail/bun or leave it down PLEASE I’m so curious

How could Gotcha be anything else? They get eachother and I can picture Penelope saying it when she gives Hotch a surprise hug or kiss or if she’s played a sweet prank on him, it’s what she’d say! Thank you Sumayyah for your sweet words, you’re an angel!

As a new mutual, could I ask for 🪴, please?

Of course you can!

🪴and i’ll write you a little love letter

[IMAGE ID: Louisa, It feels very fitting that your name begins with an L. Because lovely- which is what you are- and lucky- which is what I am to know you, you're so sweet and kind, which is just so nice because it gives me hope that you don't need to get crueler as you get older. Your comments and thoughts that you leave on my posts make me smile so, so much. Please don't ever change and thank you for a) Gotcha as a ship name and b) proving there is indeed a bravery in being soft - Sumayyah]

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