#bracing for impact...

OH NOO I THINK MINE ARE MORE SILLY RATHER THAN DOWNRIGHT ATROCIOUS

The man with the yellow hat from curious george (hes just my loser bf okay)

BARNABY ELF FROM BEN AND HOLLY BUT ONLY AS A CHILD OKAY

All right, y'all. This is gonna suck to say but...we may have to brace ourselves for SCANDAL ending without a proper happily ever after. I know, I know, you're gonna be like: "BITCH, happily ever after has been a Myth in SCANDAL since late Season 2" and I agree but before, there was wiggle room. There was a little bit of leeway that offered enough hope for folks to imagine all of the bullshit culminating in a HEA.

The Winter Finale got rid of that leeway.  

Quinn Perkins' fate is going to determine what kind of endgame we're gonna get for SCANDAL in general and especially regarding Olivia Pope.  

If Quinn is really dead (and she better not be because she deserves so much better than to be sacrificed in the name of EVIL and Pope pissing matches!), then that's it. There is no way that Olivia will get be happy in the end (or alive, given how well Charlie and Huck has reacted to Quinn being gone) and even if she is redeemed, after her rightful fall from "Grace", a lot of folks, including me aren't gonna be able to dismiss or forgive Liv's actions this time. So, Quinn better not be dead but if she is, then HEA ain't gonna happen for Olivia and that sucks because she is still the Leading Lady.

And it's very plausible for SR to really destroy Olivia in the end in the name of her "Vision" and "taking back the show" and that's okay because honestly? Olivia doesn't deserve to be happy or even alive at this point. Maybe I'm just not seeing it.  Enlighten me if you do because I got nothing. After all, I've been pretty much done and dusted with "the Journey" after what happened in Season 5 but a part of me who still loves Olivia Pope, the Olivia Pope she was and not the one she is now, really wants a good endgame, a happily ever after for her, with and without Fitz. After 7 fucking years, that's what we deserve.

Sadly, what we deserve and what we get, 9 times out of 10, are two very different things and they're usually horrifying.  

There was good in the Midseason Finale. I enjoyed the return of Maya. I enjoyed what little Fitz we got and the fact that Mellie broke free of Liv's control enough to right the wrong she did re: Teddy and Fitz seeing him (can we get rid of the Mellivia "friendship" and "feminism", though? It's just disgusting at this point). I enjoyed Olivia calling Rowan out for being a shitty father/human (and thoroughly destroying what few scraps Ojokers have in the process), even though that doesn't excuse her choices. I even enjoyed Rosen and Abby reuniting. But, like I said at the outset, whatever happens to Quinn is what's going to happen to SCANDAL in its endgame.  

Look, I'm not trying to ruin your day if you're hyped about the #ScandalTrailer but AT LAST was supposed to be a thing. #Scandal #Olitz 

I still have lots of love for #Olitz but no faith in their showrunner. SR is using them as bait again and it's unacceptable. #Scandal

Explosive? So does that mean #DieJakeDie is gonna happen? Is Rowan gonna die? No? Okay, then why should (we) get hyped? Really, why? #Scandal

I do want #Olitz back together. I also want them to STAY together and grow as a healthy couple. That never happens! #Scandal #ScandalTrailer

I love #Olitz always but after seeing how simple it is for my other BWWM OTPS (#Westallen/#Richonne) to grow, I'm waiting for SR to fuck up.

"#Olitz CAN'T be together forever, it'll ruin the show!"- Turn on The Flash or The Walking Dead. #Westallen and #Richonne aren't problems.

All of #Olitz's problems aren't because they don't belong together. They're MFEO. It's bad writing that's made them this way. #Scandal

Liv needs therapy/kill Joke-Rowan before reuniting w/ Fitz. Fitz needs to be like EARN ME. Knowing SR, neither will happen. #Scandal #Olitz

NOBODY is here for another round of #Scandal bait and switch. #Olitz always ends up screwed over in the end so why bother getting excited?

My main fandom was SCANDAL but Season 5 ruined it for me. I still watch it but more out of an accident bottlenecker desire to see how it ends. 5candal from 5x05 on, especially 5x09, killed my deep love for the show and I don't think it'll ever come back, even if things finally get put right in the future, which I doubt. I'm still a Gladiator in a Hoodie, though for fanfics, Tony Tuesday/Inappropriate Wednesday fan art, liveTWEETING (NO MORE LIVEBLOGGING from 2017 onwards) and the friends I've made via the fandom.

I’ve been liveblogging since late Season 2 and it was fun as hell but after Season 5 and the turn that the show’s taken, I just don’t feel like it’s worthy of at least 5 pages of my Tumblr weekly, anymore. I feel like that space can and should be used for other things.

I will livetweet in 2017 and I will make no hesitation to throw ALL the Shade to anyone who deserves it (my ultimate goal is to be blocked by “The Titan” herself and her pet flounder, along with any other asslickers who allowed her hubris and idiocy to wreck our show) but the Tumblr liveblog is done for good, even on the off chance things get put right in 6. 

I’ll also be cutting down on leaving commentary in threads and on gif sets. I don’t have the energy or the enthusiasm like I used to, especially since any positive speculation I come up with has a tendency to be wrong. 

But, I’m still around. I said that I’ll stick with SCANDAL to the end and I meant it. I’m just dialing it back considerably.

1. So, I'm #Richonne trash now & it's all y'all's fault! I've noticed #TWD in the background but never got into it but then y'all on my TL...

2. It never fails. Give me a silver fox, an awesome black lady, give them layers, make them lovably flawed, and I'm doomed to OTP! #Richonne

3.#TWD And just going into the #Richonne tags, reading ALL the fic, looking up their story arc and I'm just...

4. And OF COURSE, I get fishhooked by #Richonne just in time for Denny from Grey's to rise from the dead to try & off them. OF COURSE. #TWD

5. Now, I'm not too worried. It would make no sense for Rick or Michonne to get got by Negan's bat of DOOM but is it October yet? #TWD

6. Why do I always do this to myself? Please tell me that #TWD's showrunner is better than #Scandal's or #SleepyHollow's! I NEED MY #RICHONNE!

7. I'ma need all Grimes Family 2.0 to live. I'ma need #Richonne to make it and kick Savior ass and for Carl/Enid to be a legit thing, too. #TWD

8. I guess it's time for me to binge watch. I've been #TWD adjacent for years but now, it's time to plunge headfirst screaming into the fandom.