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What Happened:

In this recent ScreenRant article, "Paramount+'s Criminal Minds Format Change Finally Backfires", the reporter criticised the new format of CME only having 10-episodes per season. They mostly discussed how Evolution keeps falling flat in terms of plot, because it keeps introducing too many characters and subplots without actually having the time to wrap everything up nicely.

Paget saw this article, then, completely unprovoked she got on Twitter to publicly belittle and insult the reporter who wrote the article. [She later deleted the tweet, but here's a screenshot]

This immediately caused an outrage from a lot of people who follow her. Yet, not everyone was upset by her comments. She's always had absolutely unhinged stans (who think she can do no wrong), and those people not only backed her up, some of them allegedly started sending the reporter hate mail & threats. (If people have sources for this, let me know and I'll add them)

The controversy ultimately led to Paget posting an apology on Twitter [X]

Following this incident, multiple entertainment news outlets picked it up and began publishing articles about it. Which, only added more fuel to the fire, by spreading the incident and it's controversy beyond the containment of Twitter.

Reports: [Variety], [Deadline], [The Wrap], [TMZ] (there are so many more than this)

My Thoughts:

Paget's mean-tweet and the subsequent fallout are just another reminder of why I still believe in drawing a line between fandom and the powers that be.

With the rise of social media over the past 20 years, it's now become the norm for actors, writers, showrunners, etc. to publicly interact with (and in this case, lash out at) fans. Call me old school, but I miss when those interactions were extremely frowned upon by both the fandom and the PTB.

it's also evil that despite June being pride month, the cm social media team has yet to make a single post about tebecca on instagram, especially as it took weeks for them to post a Tara reel while Rebecca has yet to have one yet they make all these random reels of all the unsubs in s19 so far, despite not making these unsub reels for past evolution seasons

hello old CM-head I'm a very new CM-head I just got here. wheres the bathroom

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I think I played MK World with JJ last night 🤣👀

I have always loved this ship. Their chemistry is off the charts and I love how easily they can keep up with the other's flirtatious banter.

All that being said, I can't really imagine them in a serious commited relationship. Ive always imagined them as being queer besties who happily wingperson for each other when they go to a bar, but if they strike out they will just go home together instead.

Casual sex, with a deep, devotion, and love for one another is my favourite flavor of Morcia 😚👌

Fave Morcia Fic (ft. Bonus Jemily):

Dreams, Schemes, and In Between

Me, focusing on the renewal news instead:

Like, imagine being Spencer, you're on the job and walk into a virtual stranger's kitchen and see the way it's set up to prioritize access for a child and you recognize that fact because the kitchen in the house you grew up in was probably set up the exact same way. And the memory surely must thrust you back in time, back to being an alone 10 year-old child who has to take on the weight of the world, cooking and cleaning and taking care of your mentally ill mother all on your own. Hearing others criticize your mother and not being able to defend her, because while you love her fiercely and with every ounce of devotion in your body, you know that a mother-son relationship should not be like this. You do everything in your power to convince outsiders that everything is okay because you know that if they knew the truth, they'd intervene and things would only get worse. But you want someone to intervene, to help, to make things better. You need that someone. But that someone never comes.

* This doesn't even filter down to fics actually ABOUT Tebecca btw. If I did that it's about 40 total fics

It's been THREE years since Tebecca became the first and ONLY canonical queer ship in 20+ years of Criminal Minds history, yet they're still treated as an after thought by the fandom.

We have a canonically queer Black female MC... But people ignore Tara and her relationship, in lieu of exclusively caring about the two skinny white women 🤔

I have 184 Criminal Minds works on AO3, spanning back 10+ years.

55% of those are Jemily, the other 45% includes many different femslash ships (including 24 Tebecca fics)

AND. YET.

I ONLY ever get kudos on Jemily fics. 🙃

I often see the same reader leave kudos on 5-10 separate fics in a single day.... All Jemily. Always Jemily.