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Reblog and put in the tags the stupidest reason you got told to not ship something. (Bonus: What ship was it?)

#oh god #a couple years ago anyone who shipped Barisi was told not to because a different ship (with Sonny) was canon #the people who told us not to ship Sonny and Rafael were absolute bullies #like they would go to Barisi fics and bully the authors #telling them their fic sucked #and telling them to stop writing for Barisi because ‘it will never be canon’ #and that’s exactly why I’ve distanced myself from SVU #a lot of the fans are just bullies to anyone who disagrees with them and I hate it

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Imagine Sonny calling Rafael after the events of Born Psychopath like;

Sonny: Raf, I gotta question. When you were ADA, did a defendant ever try to stab you in open court?

Rafael: Uhh no, that’s one of the one things I didn’t see during my time in the DA’s office haha. Why do you ask?

Sonny: Ummm.. I might’ve one upped you on that, then...

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Why Rafael is actually a geniusly written character

This is something I could talk about at length but I’m gonna keep it brief cause I’m on my lunch break at work lol.

After the events of Undiscovered Country, a lot of fans thought Rafa unplugging the baby was wildly out of character and the cause of bad writing (while I agree that the writers has 100 other ways to write him off and they chose *that*, sucks) but tbh I disagree. I think it was quite in character for him.

What we see of Rafael throughout the series is this calm, calculated, put-together persona that he has. He always knows what he’s doing and has a plan, right?

Well here’s the thing. If you look very closely, you’d see that Rafael isn’t all of those things. I think he’s actually a complete mess. Behind his organized facade, he actually can be impulsive, reckless, and very irresponsible at the worst of times. Like Liv or Carisi, he gets way too into his cases, and sometimes that makes him do things that endanger himself and others for the sake of a case. Consider that he’s directly caused the death of at least 2 people.

He gave a gang member his home address, he convinced a violent rapist to choke him, he bought drugs for a drug addict and it ended up killing her, he gave her daughter secret money for 10 years, of course y’all know about the baby incident, but the nail in the coffin was really 22x04, when he took Mickey’s case completely on a whim just because Carisi suggested it to him, even though he knew Liv would be mad at him for it.

TLDR Raf is a surprisingly complex character and I really like that

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Incorrect SVU #21

Barba: what the hell happened? Why have you been so secretive lately?

Carisi: some guys tried to mug me and I got lightly stabbed.

Barba: STABBED?!

Carisi: lightly.

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carisi @ barba: i think we solved it

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Sonny: Do you think we were friends in another life?

Rafael: We’re not even friends in this life

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SONNY CARISI 22.15

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Rafael: When I first met you I thought you were weird and annoying

Sonny: And?

Rafael: And you are

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Incorrect SVU #9

Rafael: I have an excellent gaydar! I can always tell when-

Fin: Sonny’s been in love with you for 3 years.

Rafael: WHAT.

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remember when peter scanavino and raul esparza did an interview about svu where they both were like “oh we’d be totally cool if they made either of our characters gay that’d be awesome” and then there was nothing said about the topic ever again

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self care is choosing to ignore dick wolf’s terrible decisions and continuing to ship someone with another character who hasn’t been in the show for two and a half seasons

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#THIS #This is why we’re pissed at the writers

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Barisi shippers are the best shippers

#sonny carisi #rafael barba #law and order svu #barisi #I will go down with this ship

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Request - Barisi domestic fluff with Rafael te one who is caring.

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Law and Order SVU: Rafael Barba in Every Episode  ⤷Sightless in a Savage Land - S22EP04

“I consider myself a nice guy, but I’m not always gonna be nice during this trial.”

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