#rethaniel

[crazyexdaily]

top 10 crazy ex girlfriend songs voted by our followers 7. strip away my conscience (70 votes, 2%)

#crazyexedit #crazy ex girlfriend #rethaniel #rebecca x nathaniel #top10songs #strip away my conscience #userbbelcher #filmtv #chewieblog #tvedit #cinematv #musicalsgifs #otpsource #dailyflicks #s3 #3x02 #* #natalie

[notbang]

r/n + text posts

#crazy ex girlfriend #rebecca bunch #nathaniel plimpton #rebecca x nathaniel #rethaniel #cegtextposts

[medusas-daughter]

So you're telling me they had a whole "No one else is singing my song" moment as a metaphore for "no one else understands my mental state and troubles" and then Nathaniel literally sings Rebecca's song and she literally says "Someone else is singing my song" while looking at him with stars in her eyes because they want me to go feral, right? That's what they want me to do?

#just say they're soulmates #crazy ex girlfriend #nathaniel plimpton #rebecca bunch #rebecca x nathaniel #rethaniel #nathaniel x rebecca

[eyesontheskyline]

and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!) ch 4/15.

Read here on ao3.

Rating: E (for later)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton

Summary: The summer before starting law school, Rebecca Bunch needs a place to stay while she answers the call of the theatre.

Excerpt:

“I am not a neat freak,” he says, and she snorts, because she’s seen his bedroom. He rolls his eyes. “It is perfectly reasonable not to want to break my neck falling over your shoes. And I wasn’t waiting up for you, I was reading. Although now that you mention it, you do owe me five dollars.”

“Do not,” she replies.

“Are you telling me the flip flop put his calves away for dinner?” he asks, an eyebrow quirked in challenge.

She scowls at him. “He is not a flip flop,” she says.

Nathaniel studies her for a long moment, and she can feel her cheeks start to burn pink. “What?” she says again.

“Not a flip flop,” he concedes. “But not the man of your dreams either?”

“It was magical!” she says, and she’s sure she’d be more convincing if it didn’t come out so hysterical. “We had a lovely dinner, I met his friends, we kissed on his doorstep, the whole thing, okay? It was perfect.”

#omg they were roommates #rethaniel #rebecca bunch #nathaniel plimpton #aggressively writes fanfiction #i'm baaaack

[flwrblue-bella]

doing a little cxg rewatch and i CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT A RETHANIEL SOULMATE MARK AU, where her mark says "Is this her?" and his says "Heyy, what up what up what up" (their cannonical first words to each other)

i can perfectly imagine their reactions to the marks. Nathaniel would be so pissy & prissy, judging what type of low-life, peasant person his soulmate would have to be to casually use such a bullshit bro-ish greeting with someone they've never met.

and Rebecca would romanticize her words SO MUCH, creating this little fantasy in her head where her soulmate would instantly *know* she was the one from the very first moment they locked eyes, truly love at first sight.

IT FITS THEIR CHARACTERS SO WELL I WANNA DIE

#crazy ex girlfriend #cxgf #cxg #ceg #rethaniel #rebecca bunch #nathaniel plimpton #nathaniel plimption III #soulmate #soulmates #soulmarks #soulmate au #im never gonna actually write this #so if anyone feels like it please be my guest

[toloveyoumoreandmore]

Hiii so I wrote a rethaniel fanfic so if you are as in love with these idiots as I am, check it out :)

#rethaniel #rebecca bunch #nathaniel plimpton #crazy ex girlfriend #fanfic

[softdavidrose]

15 grebecca icons

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you can find more icons at softdavidrose.tumblr.com/icons ♥

icons are under read more, enjoy! <3

#crazy ex girlfriend #crazyexedit #resouces #iconfrenzy #iconsnetwork #♥mine #rebecca bunch #greg serrano #grebecca #♥icons #me? making icons in 2024? more likely than you would think!!! #actually i made these in 2023 technically LMAO on like dec 30th #anyway these were a super quick request from the cxg discord server #maybe rethaniel icons might follow? only time will tell

[musical-chick-13]

I know we’ve talked about it a little but I wanna be reminded/hear you talk more about it. Rebecca/Nate 😅

So, I'm gonna be honest, I am...not a fan of this one. I don't even think I'd say I dislike Nathaniel, exactly, but I definitely thought the other characters were more interesting than him.

Mainly, I think this particular romantic arc dragged out too long. I understand that this show exists to-among many other things-deconstruct a whole host of common rom-com tropes, and "douchey misogynistic guy becomes marginally better because of one (1) quirky woman" is indeed a common rom-com trope, but I don't think the show spent enough time on brutally deconstructing it. Like...with Josh, we spent two and a half seasons breaking that down and showing why all of the stories that follow similar beats to their relationship don't hold up. And although we got the Nathaniel's rom-com dream episode (which is one of my favorites), and Rebecca's obsession titles shifting to Nathaniel, and "Nothing Is Ever Anyone's Fault," and the episode where he reads her diary and she goes "wtf dude, get out," compared to the amount of time they spent specifically deconstructing her dynamic with Josh and all the things that entails...this just didn't seem like enough.

If we take Greg, he went away to work on himself, and it's clear that he's a much different person when he comes back. And, yes, Nathaniel did get a few moments of "Omg, I'm so nice now" with other characters going, "But are you really" but there was so much about him that I just feel never got fully addressed. What he did to Josh's family. Cheating on Mona for months. His casual misogyny. (I also can't ever remember him like actually apologizing?) We spent a lot of time talking about why Josh and Greg weren't good endgame matches for Rebecca, and although what we were given in canon was enough to convince me that Nathaniel wasn't either, the fact that we weren't given as much time as with the other two makes it seem like the narrative is favoring him in some way. (Most of the fandom certainly thinks he was the Best Choice, even if the point was supposed to be that none of them were.)

I just...to ME, their banter was less "banter" and more "every straight white man I ever worked for insulting a woman he hates being attracted to." His support of her seemed less "support" and more "I am making this woman who did not ask into my own personal manic pixie dream girl for the sake of resolving myself of the part I played in my own issues." His "getting better for love" was canonically until almost the absolute very end. SOLELY. rooted in getting Rebecca to want to date him again.

And if, say, Josh's girlfriend we see him with at the end of the show turned out to have bpd, I believe that Josh would do the work and ask his therapist about it to understand what that mental illness is. And that if he badly handled her having an episode, he would apologize. And I believe that if Jason came back and dated Rebecca, he would do the same regarding her bpd. I just don't think Nathaniel would ever do any of that. I can't see Rebecca telling him that she's in the middle of a spiral and him taking the time to listen to and talk her through her symptoms or make her soup. (Honestly, I can't even see him, like...not getting annoyed with her for singing off-key while practicing.) And that's a really important requirement to sell me on a ship involving a mentally ill character-especially one with a particularly stigmatized illness.

Rebecca/Nathaniel is just...a little too real in the ways in which it's uncomfortable or pRoBLeMaTiC. I've met men exactly like this. I've been a woman like Rebecca (though obviously minus the more extreme behavior like arson and everything she did regarding Josh). And that makes it really hard for me to have any kind of narrative investment in this relationship. I see this exact dynamic play out in every other movie and tv show, and I gotta be honest, it is boring, if not downright insufferable every time it happens. And I'm all for people in fiction making each other worse, but we need at least one mentally ill main character who gets better. And given that "mentally ill lady gets better" was ultimately the central concept of the show, pairing her with Nathaniel in any long-term way seems directly antithetical to the story this piece of media was trying to tell.

Send me a ship and I'll give you my brutally honest opinion on it.

#oh this is. a lot of words. Idk if any of this is coherent at all. I have had my own Very Bad Mental Illness Day so #I'm in a REALLY strange brainspace rn #multi t(ASK)ing #anti rethaniel #(I think that's the ship name?) #like...this isn't the WORST thing I've ever seen (that would be raúl/sofía). but I Do Not Like It. #mc13's routine cxgf media breakdown #if I were braver I'd tag the show name but I'm not lmao

[bourbon-ontherocks]

random question time: was there ever a show you've started watching without much conviction that you'd end up liking and then fell completely in love with it?/fell in love with a ship/character from it?

Ooooh, thank you for indulging my taste for random asks!!

Yes! Absolutely, several ones, actually!

The most recent that comes to mind would be What We Do In The Shadows. My brother introduced me to the show by showing me the first episode, and I thought it was okay-ish but no more. However, I decided to give a few more episodes a try, and I ended up binging the whole show in like a month or two and absolutely loving it! I wouldn't say I exactly fell in love with a particular ship, although I do enjoy very much the dynamic at play between Nadja and Laszlo, but the whole concept of it, the universe, the whacky jokes, the way it still manages to be thoughts-inducing and emotional despite the general silliness of it all, it really got me.

I also remember cringing through the first two episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend before falling utterly and completely in love with it, and to this day it's still in the top 5 of the best shows I've ever watched. Again, shipping isn't a priority for me in this show even though I'll always be a rethanieler at heart, it's the entirety of it that just does it for me.

Oh and I couldn't not mention Engrenages/Spiral. I still don't know where my obsessive completionist ass found the strength to endure the entirety of the first season before finally getting to a more palatable filming/writing, but then, oh my gosh then!! Not only did I fall a little bit harder in love with the show with every season, but I got totally destroyed by Laure and Gilou's (relation)ship.

Pretty sure I have more examples but here are the first three I could think of! What about you?

#oh hey let's start a tagging game with this one! #ask #majoris #what we do in the shadows #crazy ex girlfriend #engrenages

[pictureofsoph1sticatedgrace]

I think I might be back on my Rethaniel bullshit after this weekend with @heartbash. 👀😂

#now what to do… #write? edit? hmmmm…

[crazyexdaily]

#crazy ex girlfriend #feedback would be swell

[angrymac]

tag 9 people you want to get to know better

thank you @gaypanicmac for the tag ✨

three ships: macdennis (duh), ness, rethaniel

first ever ship: jake and eddie from the boy girl battle series (real ones know)

last song: lonely by rm 💜

last movie: your place or mine. I LOVE aline’s writing and the CXG cameos were fun but it was just meh

currently reading: I’ve been neglecting books recently and spending way too much time on ao3, but as of last month I was a few chapters into Bunny by Mona Awad and I will hopefully pick it up again soon (I have heard that the whole thing is like a trippy fever dream but in a good way)

currently watching: sunny (duh), & you season 4 (but it’s boring and i miss my girl)

currently consuming: last thing i ate was pop chips

currently craving: i can’t eat gluten so of course i crave it all the time. lo mein, doughnuts, fried chicken, pigs in a blanket, pretty much all things that come fried or wrapped in puff pastry. beyond food, i am desperately craving sunny season 16

tagging @ricketycr1cks @piss-off-erik @andysambcrg @safe-sun @23meteorstreet @vinegarshoney @handbasketmain @vianbarnes @macgirlism

#get to know me tag

[ghostmaggie]

💯

coriiiiiiiiii! given that i’ve already been stretching the rules of this game (and correct me if i’m wrong, i don’t think you’re into nancy drew? that’s all i’m really writing currently), i’m just going to give you a rethaniel snippet i wrote ages ago from a fic that will probably never be. so it can see the light of day just once. 

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Rebecca Bunch  precedent suggests that if I get arrested for murder, you’ll represent me despite the fact that you’re a real estate lawyer 

Rebecca Bunch  pls confirm? 

Nathaniel Plimpton  Well for starters, I’m not a real estate lawyer anymore. I could now logically be involved in a murder trial, but only if said trial involved a zoo animal.  

Nathaniel Plimpton  Did you murder a zoo animal? Bear in mind that if you did I would be prosecuting you on behalf of the animal.  

Rebecca Bunch  there hasn’t been any murder YET 

Nathaniel Plimpton  Reassuring.  

#post #mag writes fic #i do miss them

[eyesontheskyline]

and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!) ch 3/15.

Read here on ao3.

Rating: E (for later)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton

Summary: The summer before starting law school, Rebecca Bunch needs a place to stay while she answers the call of the theatre.

Excerpt:

“I lied about making dinner.”

“Uh, okay,” he replies. “I didn’t want any, so –”

“I actually didn’t buy any ingredients for dinner,” she continues.

His eyebrows raise and he waits for her to explain why that’s relevant to him, but she just looks up at him, her expression turning slowly more pleading with each second of silence. “Are you asking me to buy you dinner?”

#omg they were roommates #rebecca bunch #nathaniel plimpton #rethaniel #aggressively writes fanfiction #listen i disappeared for several years #but i have returned to smash these two idiots together #now that the embryo who made me too sick to write is old enough for sleepovers

[godofsmallthings]

Just passing by to say the song you wrote A home you make is absolutely lovely, I'm very much in love with it, it warms my heart so much and I will listen to it while reading lots of rethaniel fics 🥰🥰🥰 you are very talented thank you for putting your heart into this 🥰❤️

omg you are the sweetest!! thank you so much <3 i loved writing it and i'm so glad you liked listening 🥰

#ask #humanbra

[toloveyoumoreandmore]

I had a dream last night and I think I’m starting to write another rethaniel fic jsjsjs it’s time to stop 

#rethaniel #crazy ex girlfriend #rebecca bunch #Nathaniel Plimpton #fanfic #ylaperraseguiayseguia