#beautiful Keenler

[keensressler]

5, 22, 24!

5. How long is your longest playlist? My liked songs in Spotify is about 40 hours long. I don’t make my own playlists that often now.

22. What things do you love most about the world? I love in the Summer when it doesn't get dark until late and you can drive around with the windows down, music playing and it's just so relaxing. I love animals, especially horses because they are so beautiful and majestic and but they're not afraid to kick your ass if you scare them. And I love beaches and being able to travel the world and how everywhere is so different and has it's own culture.

24. List some giftsets you like This new Keenler set by @prentissrollins and anything of hers! This Hart of Dixie set of yours - the coloring is gorgeous!! I love all your gifs! This Steroline gifset from @maliagf - love fresh Steroline content on my dash!! This LoVe set from @saw-x Nat is so talented! And this Mean Girls set by @gloriapritchetts wow! There are so many talented gif makers around <3 Thank you @katebeckets <3

#ask games #about me #thank you so much for asking! #katebeckets

[matan4il]

You had an anon mention slow burns and also Luke and Lorelie. Firstly I agree with the messiness of S5a and S6a. I wrote to you a few weeks ago its just messy timelines and I hope if they get S7 they stop this pacing. I don't know alot about the other ships but I believe in Luke and Lorelie supremacy. However..... no joke it was torture watching it real time pre-tumblr.

Listen, it took them 5 seasons to get together. Really only one season of drama free being together. They spent more time married to other people then spent together. We got the pay off in the last 5 minutes of the finale. We won, so yeah. But that shit was torture every week. Tumblr posts would have been a mess back then if it was the same now.

And I bring all this up to get to my point. I sustained it all because I was relatively certain that this straight couple would make it, I was supposed to root for them. They were at the basis each other's rocks. Buck and Eddie still are straight or the very least believe the other is. That's not just angst to get over, that's a sexual identity crisis to get over.

And hopefully like Gilmore Girls they will. One day I can rewatch the same way I do now. Spoiler alert, wanted to cry when she married Chris in Paris, now I can throw popcorn at it and laugh. Just kidding, I still FF that part.

But again, I'm like you I can't promise it will go Canon. If it doesn't its because they are cowards. However in alot of ways there is a stronger case for Buck and Eddie being soul mates rather then Luke and Lorelie. Again I love L&L but still they were messy and heartbreaking to watch.

Hi lovely Nonnie! Thank you so much for the ask. As well for keeping up with my blog and repeatedly writing to me. I appreciate the vote of confidence! ;)

As for Gilmore Girls, I have to confess that while I’ve seen an ep here or there (I never got to see them in sequence, as you’re meant to, so I never got into the swing of things. I’ve seen enough to know some basic stuff, but not much more than that). So I can’t comment on Luke and Lorelai’s love story beyond the fact that they were OBVIOUS. I could see them coming from the first sec I saw them in a scene together. They were ALWAYS going to happen. The show couldn’t have been clearer about it. And yeah, this is what a slow burn means, if we’re being honest. A lot of torture along the way, because it’s meant to make the pay off at the end that much sweeter. Does it actually manage to do it? The answer varies between ships, and probably between fans of the same ship, too. But that’s the principal, the road is usually bumpy, some parts of it are delicious angst and pining, and screaming about how these bozos still don’t get it, but yeah, some parts of it are not that fun to travel.

My deepest sympathies for going through all of that for Luke and Lorelai! I hear you, and I hope you still got to enjoy at least some of the pay off at the end of it all. I know how you feel. I went through 8 seasons for Keenler (BEWARE! SPOILERS for The Blacklist), and I can count the moments they were actually together on... let’s be generous and say two hands. But stupidly, it works. I treasure the moments that I did get all the more ‘coz I love how long and patiently and without demand Ressler waited for Liz. They had their messiness as well, but God, he loved her so profoundly. To see her realizing that and reciprocating his feelings was beautiful and worth it, even though I will forever wish they had more time together. But to tell you it was fun along the whole way? No. The parts of the story where Liz got back together with Tom were hell, seeing her re-committing herself to him was awful because HE was awful, in general and to Liz (so it wasn’t just as a Keenler shipper that I couldn’t stand that part of the show), and even when he was gone, there were almost two seasons where I survived on essentially one scene of comforting (but seemingly casual and platonic) touch. Slow burn is NOT for the faint of heart.

And you know what I love the most, Nonnie? Is that bit you threw in about Luke and Lorelai still having less in the way of ‘soulmate material’ than Buddie. Because I can actually make a LONG list of CANON couples that I absolutely ADORE that this is true for. And that’s exactly why we keep saying that if Buck or Eddie were a woman, they’d be inevitable, right?

Thank you again, have a great day! As always, here’s my ask tag. xoxox

#buddie #911meta #buddie meta #911 meta #9-1-1 #evan buckley #eddie diaz #edmundo diaz #evan buck buckley #911 #tbl #the blacklist #the blacklist spoilers #keenler #ask #anon ask #911onabc #911 on abc #911abc #911 abc

[rey-jake-therapist]

The Blacklist rewatch, Samar and Aram my beloved

I'm currently rewatching The Blacklist season 5 and boy and particularly the rescuing scene of Samar by Aram and boy, am I angry at how they did them dirty in the following seasons...

I didn't care about shipping in The Blacklist at all except for Amar and Samar. They HAD IT ALL: love at first sight (for him), grumpy vs sunshine (he's the sunshine), mutual love respect, height difference (she's the tallest and he loves it 😍), slow burn etc. We even had a scene where Aram told his then spy girlfriend he was in love with someone else to explain why he was acting weird (boy had just found out she was with him only to spy on him), and Samar was like, "wow you're good!" and Aram not daring to tell her he was just telling the truth 😭

And then just when they were becoming, in Samar's own words, "boring" and "blissful", they briefly broke up because of Ressler and Liz's stupid advises about a ring, but Samar was kidnapped by a psycho and Amar went absolutely BALLISTIC while he's usually the sweetest guy on earth, like... We knew he would have shot the President of the U.S. himself if it had been what it took to save Samar.

Honestly, the only thing I could criticize about this episode is that it was once again a case of a man saving the women he loves, but it would still be unfair because realistically, it should have been the other way round: Aram's the geek, who barely knows how to use a gun, is the one who's got the profile of a kidnapping victime, not Samar who's a FBI and Mossad agent and spends her life on the field. So Samar saving Amar's life would have been very predictable, unlike what we got so I easily forgive the writers for making Samar a damsel in distress.

And this scene of Samar... expressing her feelings the moment she thought she would die in this car?! OMG it was so beautiful...

"yes..."

"yes what?"

"I would have said yes if you had asked me to marry you, my love"

While earlier she was coldly offering to bring him his stuff back 😭

And then there was..

No really I loved them SO MUCH.

Aram and Samar was the only romance in this show that ever mattered to me, and that they just... teared them apart and made Samar another female victim of the show, just because the actress left?? I was so fucking ANGRY. There was no reason to make Samar sick, and there was no reasons to separate her from Aram. She was Mossad for God's sake! they could just have Samar marry Amar, then decide to leave the FBI because she was tired of Reddington, and that would have explained her absence from the show!

But no, one thing that the Blacklist writers love is to make female characters suffer or die, and bonus points if they can do both. They love it because their male characters can have their moments, we can see them lamenting on their lover's (or daughter's, for Reddington) fate and it's ohh so saaaaaad and so beautiful, poor baby boy he needs a hug, yada yada.

N.B: I never shipped Lizzington because it didn't make sense to that a woman who thought a man was his father would also want to fuck said man, or that this man who always felt paternal towards her would suddenly lust for her for that matter. Also I just never saw what shippers saw; never shipped Keenler either except for a few episodes because 1) sorry but Ressler's boring, couldn't have fun even if his life depended on it 2) Liz was.... she loved Tom that's all. There was never any room for Keenler (even less Lizzington) in Liz's heart, at least from the moment it was decided that Tom would stay in the show for longer than a season. And I think that making Keenler happen in season 8 only to take it away from shippers one or two episodes later was VERY cruel as well as very bad storytelling... I always saw that as unrequited love more than anything else, as Ressler was obviously smitten with Liz, but that's it.

#The blacklist #the blacklist samar #They did them dirty #the blacklist aram

[kiss-my-freckle]

I’ll begin with the flashback in 8x4. 

Esi: You gonna tell me about it? The washer. Back at the apartment. We nearly got caught because of it. I think you owe me an explanation. Liz: It’s my engagement ring. Tom used to have this boat he was always tinkering with, you know, repairing. And one day he just pulled this out of his tool box and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.

Liz: You want to see what else brings me luck? Agnes: What is that? Liz: Did I ever tell you how your Daddy asked me to marry him?

The comments about boats in 9x12. 

Ressler: Look, I appreciate what you’re doing, but we’re not in the same boat.

Aram: You’re right. That’s a - That’s a different boat. Ressler: It’s a different ocean.

Red’s comment to Ressler in 9x1.

Red: A life with Agnes wasn’t all she wanted. She wanted a life with you.

Liz: I am attempting to build a life with the father of my child.

Not forgetting the fact that Ressler took a pregnancy test on top of a drug test when he used Park’s urine. 

Belinda: Shopping for someone special? Ressler: I am.

Or the conversation Ressler had with the florist in 9x7. If Liz is considered special, then Agnes would be considered very special. 

Liz: Why involve me? I’m nobody. It’s my first day. Nothin’ special about me. Red: Oh, I think you’re very special…

Or how that conversation hit her funeral. 

Cooper: I’ll never forget the day I met her. It was her first day on the job. She had been offered an opportunity that most agents wait a lifetime to get. “Why me?” she asked. “I’m nobody special.” I think we all know different.

The florist continues. 

Ressler: I’m actually looking for carnations. Belinda: Oh. Honey. I think we can do better. If you ask me, carnations are the sad flower of weddings past. Ressler: Well, sad or not, they’re her favorite. She always said that people underestimate their beauty. Belinda: Okay. Understood. Did you have a color in mind? The pink and the red are both so lovely. Ressler: She likes the purple. Belinda: Ah! Is she impulsive? Unpredictable? Ressler: If it’s all the same to you, I’m in a bit of a hurry. Belinda: Of course. This’ll just be a minute. Ressler: She’s impulsive and unpredictable. 

What’s impulsive and unpredictable, but a shotgun wedding. 

Liz: Doesn’t this feel right? To do it now, today, at St. Cecilia’s, where we wanted to do it the first time? Tom: It feels kind of crazy. I mean, there’s other dates available. Liz: April 25th. I’m due on the 22nd.

Tom: Well, you always wanted a shotgun wedding.

The very definition of which centers around a pregnant bride. Back to that comment Liz made to Agnes, and how it feeds into Ressler’s conversation with the florist. 

Liz: You want to see what else brings me luck? Agnes: What is that? Liz: Did I ever tell you how your Daddy asked me to marry him?

Belinda: Well, it sounds like she is about the luckiest woman alive. To have someone give so much thought and attention to a moment like this. You - You really see her. And if she has no more sense than a titmouse, she’s gonna say yes. Ressler: Oh, this isn’t - I’m not gonna, uh - Belinda: Is she expecting it? I hope not. A proposal’s so much better when it’s a surprise.

The addition of Kate in Marvin’s arc is just as important, since that’s the moment Kate chose to betray Red... according to what she believed to be true.

Red: She never should have been at that Godforsaken church. Kaplan: Stop it, Raymond! 

Back to that florist’s comment. 

Belinda: You - You really SEE her.

How many times have I said Ressler knew Liz better than Red? He did. Red had a blind spot because he’s Liz’s mother. 

The Red Wedding leads alone sell my Keenler baby/memory wipe theory. Agnes’ “daddy” NEVER proposed to Liz. He buried her... twice. I’m saying Liz’s flashback of Tom’s proposal was purposefully placed after her sex with Ressler because Ressler is the true father of Agnes. 

Liz: And inside the warehouse was… a fake apartment! Oh, look! It’s your (fake) daddy in your fake living room.

#Anti-Tom Keen #Anti-Keen2 #Keenler baby theory #My memory wipe theory

[keenlerblacklist]

Keenler 8.01

Their First Kiss

This beautiful moment we Keenler’s have been waiting for, can’t wait for this continued Ressler & Liz Journey! ♥️

#keenler #the blacklist #donald ressler #liz keen #beautiful Keenler #I love doing their pics #the kiss #Keenler journey #Keenler feels #Johns confirmed Keenler #I’m still crying 😭 #so excited for this season #their emotions said it all #yes she took his gun but he still has to do his job #the last pic of Liz says I promise this isn’t over #8.01 #I WONT GIVE UP ON YOU

[aomine-dajki]

#keenler #donald ressler #elizabeth keen #rewatch 2018 #1.18 #beautiful keenler

[alyblacklist]

#keenler #the blacklist #donald ressler #elizabeth keen #8.19 #this scene is so Blacklist #beautiful yet bizarre #loved how they focused on the angel above them just like we had the angel on the fountain in Central Park #and they played the music from their love scene in 8.04 #the way he moved closer to her and she towards him #and their foreheads touch #my shipper heart is full #my gifs #alygifs

[rose-larkin]

Day 24 - We’re not in Kansas anymore.

In my Ressler AU, he and Liz are together with Agnes and away from those who can do them harm. Oh, and they live happily ever after.

#febressuary #donald ressler #elizabeth keen #Keenler #the blacklist #my edit. #yes I did repurpose my Keenler moodboard from about 8 months ago #I imagine them somewhere sunny with Agnes and a new baby having a beautiful drama free life #away from Red and the blacklist and the fbi #all they need is each other #they make each other whole

[fancycaroline]

Keenler + Enigma

Enigma is the irl name of The Russian Knot

This scene was so evocative of beautiful things ❤️ I couldn’t help but be reminded of a Cardinal with Liz bright red jacket and black cap and bc I’m a hopeless romantic, I looked up the symbolism of Cardinals. {more on that below} I didn’t even really know that bird symbolism was a thing except for the obvious ones like Eagles etc, but apparently it is. Who knew? Anyways, that was all good and well, but then, as I prepared and edited these stills, I noticed how very blue Ressler’s suit was, and I thought, CUTE! A Cardinal AND a Bluejay! lol. Then it hit me that I should look up Bluejay symbolism…..And….. I have to wonder if it’s coincidence or not. I’ll let you decide:

Cardinal:

Cardinals represent devotion, loving relationships, courtship, and monogamy above everything else in the Native American lore, while some tribes thought cardinals to be the harbinger of rain, other tribes, like the southeastern tribe, associated good fortune and sun with them. x

Bluejay:

In animal symbolism, the blue jay resonates truth, faithfulness, and solidarity because they are vigilant in their tasks. They also keep the same mate for life, which is symbolic of endurance, patience and loyalty. x

I swear I had not had any intention of talking about the Cardinal thing in this post until I noticed Ressler’s very blue attire which led me to look up the Blue Jay angle. But when I did, I just had to share it with whoever may be interested. And all that talk about birds earlier with Anne, and Anne was Red’s Island of Calm… idk. My mind runneth away with me at times. What r ya gonna do?! 🤷‍♀️

Anyways, it was these pictures that I wanted to play with and look what treasure they revealed. Gosh I love Keenler. The best ship.

#the blacklist #donald ressler #elizabeth keen #keenler #birds #bird symbolism #cardinal #bluejay #beauty #love #devotion #fancyedits

[tv-fan-girl]

Watch "MultiCouples || Nobody's Love" on YouTube

Hey everyone, This MultiCouples vid is just a about couples which one of them is either a detective or FBI and the other is a consultant. Which is great because their dynamic and chemistry is amazing I love tv crime shows. Also some scenes maybe blurry but I'm still getting there so please bare with me and I hope you enjoy my videos.

#youtube #multicouples #lucifer netflix #bones tv show #castle #the blacklist #the beauty and the beast #deckerstar #keenler #caskett #seely booth #lucifer morningstar #chloe decker #kate beckett #liz keen

[bi-ressler]

:)

#the blacklist #donald ressler #tom keen #tessler #gay keenler #it’s true beauty

[aussieokie]

Keenler in Berlin 1.21

When you’re supposed to be making gifs for Redtember, but your heart stops at beautiful Keenler :-)

#Keenler #Donald Ressler #Liz Keen #They are beautiful #Look how close they are to each other

[certainlybyitslast]

“You can’t judge a book by its cover.  But you can by its first few chapters, and certainly by its last.”  -Red

What does this last chapter tell us?

While I know we have another season to go, to watch our beloved characters mourn, change, and ultimately grow, this was the last chapter of “The Blacklist” as we know it.

This last chapter (this season) was at times: confusing, exciting, heartwarming, confounding, frustrating, and heartbreaking.  I’m still wrapping my head around it.

To the fans: I am sorry.  I got into this show this year.  I am heartbroken.  I can’t imagine what fans, who invested eight years, blogs, fics, lives, into this show must feel.  I ask myself, “do I wish I had never even seen this show at all?”  It’s easy to wish the pain away.  But when the pain dies down, something good must have come from it all, right?  It changed us in some ways - maybe confidence, maybe wardrobe choices, maybe friendships, along the way.  There were good stories in there through the years to inspire.

To the writers and producers:  In the wise words of Ron Swanson, “Don’t confuse drama with happiness.”  Don’t confuse high drama with good storytelling.  Don’t confuse the fact that the fandom is engaged and talking about that finale as if you have done a good job (the alternative being a flat, predictable end). Yes, you moved people, most to tears.  You broke their hearts.  You told a tragedy.  You also made your fans question the last eight seasons, and their role in it.  You didn’t inspire us with this last chapter.  You made us ask ourselves, “was it all a lie?”  Meaning, was our investment in this story all for naught?  I’d be willing to bet the majority of your female audience needed to see Liz Keen in their lives, needed her bravery, vulnerability, and ability to pick herself up and dust herself off and try again.  If what we ultimately get at the end of this show is Reddington’s redemption, that’s not enough.  We needed to see the female win something.  She lost.

Raymond Reddington said, “Value Loyalty Above All Else.”  What about the die hard fandom?  What did their loyalty get them in the end?  Where was the show’s loyalty to its fan base, still hanging on after all this time when others stopped watching?  One thing I came to love about this show very quickly, was how smart it was - it didn’t pander to the audience; there was no contrived, hokey crap.  Giving your fans a satisfying ending, does not mean it has to be puppy dogs and rainbows.  It doesn’t have to be a zero sum game.  The storytellers here decided to write the tragedy, because not all stories have a happy ending.  But after the year we’ll all had, a little ray of sunshine wouldn’t have been so terrible.

I came to this show this year, drawn in by Keenler.  I realized this love story was a C storyline, and would not get as much screen time as I would like (or it deserved), but week after week I craved more of it.  I jumped head first into the deep end.  The finale was heartbreaking.  I never cry.  I cried through the episode, I sobbed afterward.  I sobbed the next day and the next.  I can’t re-watch that last scene; I can’t listen to that beautiful music composed specifically for that scene.  It’s too emotional.  I can’t re-watch those beautiful Keenler scenes, like the Wing Yee dinner in the office.  Now, it’s tainted.

Individually, the characters on the show are great, but we found out this season that the spark of the show, Megan Boone as Liz Keen, is what ignited the story in each of them.  Yes, we will tune in to Season 9 to initially watch Ressler (I could watch Diego read the phone book), but it was Ressler as he related to Liz that made his character come to life.  Every look he gave Liz, every hero moment, was in relation to her, how it advanced their characters’ relationship from one of mistrust to complete trust.

I don’t think I will ever understand the business of show, the sausage making, the deals, the games they play.  I wish those nuts and bolts of the business didn’t interfere with the storytelling, but we all know they do. 

I have to thank Alyblacklist and her tumblr for EVERYTHING.  She fueled this fire for me.  I hope she gets some closure - the powers that be should recognize that.

I will continue to wrap my head around the “why” of it all.  I will tune in to Season 9 to see how they explain some things or at least talk through the hurt (at this point I don’t care anymore about the mythology - too little, too late).  I hope people continue to post good stories from the show - BTS, bloopers, actor info and news - those things act as a salve for the wounds left by the finale.

#lastchapter #alyblacklist #season8finale #joinedtumblrtopostthis

[kiss-my-freckle]

"But maybe reach for something a little more fun than law enforcement." 

Red giving Agnes Liz's FBI badge is such a beautiful thing. His comment gives me Keenler baby galaxy vibes. Reach for the stars, Agnes.

[resslerhatesmagicians]

Could someone please make a Keenler edit/fanvid/literally anything to the song "Love On The Brain" by Rihanna because oml it is such a beautiful song and they are a beautiful pairing and it would be absolutely beautiful :')

#also jeez the lyrics are deep #and so beautiful #and sorta fits ressler and Liz's relationship that could have been #idk i might be crazy #liz and ressler #keenler #elizabeth keen #donald ressler #the blacklist

[keenlerblacklist]

Ressler + Liz

Ep 8.15

#keenler #the blacklist #donald ressler #liz keen #Keenler is back #they’re beautiful #give me more of this story years in the making #thank you writer for this episode #my heart is happy #look at her smile at him #so much to look forward to #8.15 #♥️