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resident fandom pessimist

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i want to wear his initial on a chain round my neck
not because he owns me, but cause he really knows me

you don’t need to save me
but would you run away with me?

[Mo || Daily Meloni @MeloniDaily]

Chris Meloni describes Benson and Stabler’s relationship at this point.

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just wondering if we have talked enough about this parallel. like the change in their faces, the camera going from shaky to steady, the chaotic atmosphere around them to total peace and silence

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sorry to all the other ships but you’re losing me is actually about luke and lorelai

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sorry but both of these in a WEEK? wo hop was my second longest partnership? both scenes even have the same vibe i will truly never get over this

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both eo and my only other current ship both having an extremely pivotal scene involving wo hop in the same week is really fucking with my mind

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@micayla_zee CATAPULTING MYSELF INTO OUTER SPACE

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like talk about the tragedy of a relationship that never got its happy ending but also of two people that jumped in headfirst even with so much to lose like god damn i want to imagine olivia intrigued by that dollar as she contemplates all her possible futures with elliot

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both eo and my only other current ship both having an extremely pivotal scene involving wo hop in the same week is really fucking with my mind

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and to the zero people who know what i’m talking about, the fact that there’s a dollar bill on the restaurant ceiling with midge & lenny written on it that’s been there since the 60s and that eo have definitely seen during their years frequenting there is even more of a mind fuck

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@morgs6313 it’s giving he’s looking at her while his fingers…nvm

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@MeloniacsUnite i only *hope* they thought about it this much 😂 i’ll happily live in the delusion that they did, i guess.

not in this fandom (only watched the show for the first time in like 2018) but i was in other ones back then

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god i can’t believe i just spent a solid 30 minutes doing nothing but typing all this. like lowkey kinda fucked in the head it’s like the tumblr days all over again

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i think we should unpack the idea of olivia not being “ready”, because this season has actually been her journey wrestling with this idea. this became clear to me after watching all their scenes from this year in a row (s/o @morgs6313).

but let’s start with elliot. 🧵

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@StaceyGray11 see i was *very* convinced for a minute that he had taken off his own wedding ring and was giving it to her like a promise

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i just feel like the symbolism of him handing her a little black box while dressed like that…

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in the middle of making a depressing/emo eo edit when i saw this again and now have the urge to edit them to paris like…yes, they are so in love that *i* might stop breathing

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@MayaZapata i went from feeling *devastated* at the compass scene to feeling like it might be one of the best pieces of television i’ve ever seen. so. truly iconic.

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you guys i am generally a wedding anti they do nothing for me and i never cared about seeing eo married in a traditional sense but after this scene i might be devastated if they don’t idk 😭 girlie needs rings and a special day and to be carried out by her man

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i just feel like the symbolism of him handing her a little black box while dressed like that…

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@MayaZapata believe me as someone who will go on a rant about marriage/divorce any day and has to dodge way too many immigrant relatives’ questions about it, i do not like the idea of marriage 😂 SO WHY DO THEY MAKE ME FEEL LIKE THAT 😂

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@MayaZapata i think i watch/read fiction (including this stupid show) because i want to see worlds that don’t exist in reality - & relationships that exist in ways that absolutely do not mirror reality. so maybe feeling giddy at the idea of these two old cops marrying is part of that.

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@MayaZapata honestly i’m having an identity crisis about this as someone who generally hates the concepts of weddings and proposals and all of it. please talk some sense into me?? 😂

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@MayaZapata honestly i don’t know 😂 when i tell you i’ve NEVER been one to think eo needed or would even want a wedding…but idk they both just came off as such big romantic sops in the finale (in a good way) that now i could see it maybe? 😂

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@TEvermore93 yep. let’s hope!

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i think we should unpack the idea of olivia not being “ready”, because this season has actually been her journey wrestling with this idea. this became clear to me after watching all their scenes from this year in a row (s/o @morgs6313).

but let’s start with elliot. 🧵