#suze simon

I love that no matter how abrasive and “tough” she is, she’s also so GIRLY POP. You know that interview with Kristen Stewart about faux girl power and how often when people write a female protagonist they actually just write a male protagonist and give her a girl name and it’s so frustrating because they didn’t actually do any work to make the character have depth so being female doesn’t add anything and ends up making her kind of boring? Yeah, the mediator does NOT have that problem.

One of my favorite things about the first book is when she first meets and touches Jesse (grabbing the finger he angrily points at her face and threatening to break it) and he says, “what kind of…girl are you?” and she gets so offended! As she should! She’s like, “hey, you don’t get to call my gender identity into question just because I threatened you with violence” and she goes through all the things that she identifies with being a girl. Not a single thought of being “not like other girls”, not a single stray despair at being a girl instead of a Big Strong Boy TM, and nowhere in the entire series does she disparage the interests or feelings of other girls.

And there are so many different kinds of girls and women!! Suze with her leather jacket and batgirl boots and also her affinity for high fashion and designer clothes and accessories, Gina with her raw sex appeal and blazing self confidence, CeeCee with her intelligence and lack of interest in her looks but still an interest in boys, Kelly and Debbie as shallow and silly but still being shown as sympathetic, Heather as a silly and shallow girl with a legitimate mental illness that is shown as valid and Suze doesn’t let people disparage it, Helen Simon-Ackerman as this successful news lady who is also so soft and motherly, even sister Ernestine!!

And also, as confident as Suze is in some of her abilities, she’s also so clearly an insecure teenage girl!! She wonders why boys never liked her while also assuring the reader that clearly it can’t be because she’s ugly because Suze has a high opinion of her looks. And she lets herself be wooed by boys she doesn’t like simply because it feels validating!! What a common phenomenon! I would have and have done the same! I’m pretty sure that as she’s kissing tad (before Jesse interrupts them lol) she’s like “ew why does he dress like he’s from New Jersey, and also there’s clearly nothing behind his eyes” but also “wow he’s such a good kisser, I can’t believe I’m being kissed by a hot guy!!” And I LOVE that dichotomy so much.

I'm going niche but I have to get this off my chest

Dr. Jesse de Silva is a Virgo

Practical, nurturing, meticulous, patient, stubborn

Virgo loves hard, and is always in pursuit of star love the kind where souls, minds, and bodies seamlessly merge.

Um, hello, canon soulmates with Suze.

Virgo is incredibly hard working. When this sign wants something, they'll work for it.

Man from the 1850s caught up and went to medical school.

Virgos are amazing friends, always there to lend a hand and also lend advice.

Kind of his main role in the series?? Heavy on the advice.

I'm not even that knowledgeable about star signs and I immediately knew Jesse was a Virgo.

The mediator came out 20 years ago it NEEDS an adaptation. Meg kept the rights for two decades because she didn't want it to be made unjustly and then when there's finally a good enough screenplay that she's cool with it, IT GETS CANCELED???

"Why don't you comment on our picture on Insta?"

"I told you I thought it was beautiful and we can travel whenever you want."

"The point of having you tagged in the picture is that you leave a comment on it, Jesse!"

"But haven't I replied you? Why does it matter that I didn't write it on the app?"

"Because I have you tagged and people will think you ignore me."

"Susannah, we are married. My profile picture is the two of us. How can people think I ignore you?"

"Because they will, just comment on it."

"And what should I say? Just repeat the same thing I said in person?"

"Yeah, and throw some I love yous while you are it!"

"Susannah, I do love you, but for the life of me I can't understand half of the things you do."

"Thank God the other half is very easy to understand."

"Especially when you do them with your mouth 😌"

I’m writing this fic set after the 7th and last book, Remembrance. The fandom is a bit dead and most people don’t know I’m posting about it, so... I wonder if any of you like the series and would be interested in a story about a couple who had just married and are going through the process of becoming a family?

If you are, then please click on the link bellow to go to the fanfic! (And if you aren’t, give me a boost, I would love to share my story with more people!)

Existence by Polly Weasley - Explicit

Jesse and Suze are newlyweds and ready to start a new phase in their lives. Finally, they can have all the sex they wanted and were prevented - because of Jesse, Suze would like to point out - and build up the clinic that they dreamed of doing together. Except they never stopped to think that maybe living together as a couple would be quite different than living together as Mediator and Ghost.

Tags: Established Relationship, Married Couple, Married Life, Rough Sex, Vaginal Sex, Shower Sex, Oral Sex, Drunk Sex, just really a lot of sex, Pregnancy Kink, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, religious character, post-remembrance