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Beyond the obvious holy shit factors this season/week brought us I'm having my very own special problem:

I'm so worried for my Juicy-boy (those are Chibs' words not mine) that I'm nearly out of my mind. He's like, all I can think about when I'm riding around listening to Adele and Placebo*. I construct little mini-vids in my head all the freaking time for Juice. I had been wanting to write a Juice/Chibbs, Juice/OFC, Chibbs/same ofc, Juice/same ofc/Chibbs +Tig for a long, long time now. And then this last episode gave me SO MUCH Juice/Chibbs fodder I'm almost at a loss as to what do with it. Not to mention it gave me Tig having a daughter nearly as messed up as he is and now the OFC in my head is Tig's daughter and no, that doesn't change my desire to include Tig in the Juice/Ofc/Chibbs thing. In fact, it makes me want to DO IT MORE.

Kurt Sutter is warping me. I fully intend to write Jax/Trinity during mini-nano

Anyway. Two things really stood out for me this episode. They were shocking, to me, in a way that a lot of the show isn't because it's always shocking and brutal.

1) Gemma said: this is why all mothers should drown their daughters. I'm still not over that. I may *never* be over that. Things like this are why there a lot of people I know who used to watch the show don't anymore. Normally, I'd just roll my eyes and go merrily along, but then this happened

2) Jax kissed Ima and started leading her somewhere. I was so infuriated for Tara [seriously, y'all this is why I *do not ever ship characters*] that I said out loud, "If Jax doesn't kill that bitch I'm breaking up with the show"

I was so immediately horrified by *my* reaction that I was relieved when Jax a) didn't fuck her and b) "only" assaulted her instead of killing her.

3) I still believe she deserved it or worse.

All this indicates:
really amazing storytelling
I can be misogynistic toward imaginary characters
really amazing acting/character embodiment
I may need to stop watching ultra-violent tv shows/movies/comics/etc because I'm immune to violence. Even make-believe violence

*yes. Adele and Placebo are on eternal loop right now. Hey, it used to be Fiona Apple and Placebo. Maybe I've grown a bit.

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1) Gemma said: this is why all mothers should drown their daughters. I'm still not over that. I may *never* be over that. Things like this are why there a lot of people I know who used to watch the show don't anymore. Normally, I'd just roll my eyes and go merrily along, but then this happened

But it's in character for her to say things like this. And, given that we've seen her stand up for women, I figured this was hyperbole.

2) Jax kissed Ima and started leading her somewhere. I was so infuriated for Tara [seriously, y'all this is why I *do not ever ship characters*] that I said out loud, "If Jax doesn't kill that bitch I'm breaking up with the show"

I was so immediately horrified by *my* reaction that I was relieved when Jax a) didn't fuck her and b) "only" assaulted her instead of killing her.

3) I still believe she deserved it or worse.

She pulled a gun on the President's Ol'Lady and a Founding Member at the club house. These are 1% bikers. She's lucky that Jax only knocked the snot out her.

This show, like Oz, is about criminals being, well, criminals. It would ring false if they were enlightened and feminist.

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That said, if you ever write Kozik/Tig or any of those ideas you mentioned above? I am so there.

This show, like Oz, is about criminals being, well, criminals. It would ring false if they were enlightened and feminist.

And this is what I normally say when people get their panties in a bunch about the show. I suppose I'm mostly shocked at my own pearl clutching about this. Because it is out of character for me, and in light of the many, many, MANY other quips/punches/shootings to have been so shocked at these things.

I like to have ideas in advance of mini-nano. I intend to do at least one if not both of the SoA ideas. I also want to write something long and plotty in TVD spinning out of Disturbing Behavior. I'm disappointed in how the writer of that episode moved us from point a to b and I want to smooth it out a little.

I'm not sure I could write Kozik/Tig. That doesn't mean I couldn't put it in the background of something else though

This episode made me think some of the same things you did about being desensitized to tv violence. When Juice shot Miles in the face, I looked at my kid (my kid was watching with me for fucks sake) and said "Juice just shot the fuck out of that guys face!"

And I was HAPPY that Jax fucked up that stupid whore. She pulled a gun when the BABY was there. I fucking hate her.

The biggest thing I got from Juice shooting Miles was Juice was carrying a fully automatic pistol and I get now why gun control people are wanting those bad boys off the street. JFC.

I fucking hate her too. I wish he had gone ahead and offed her so I wouldn't have to worry about her fucking up the rest of my boys.

I fully intend to write Jax/Trinity during mini-nano
I gave up shame long ago, so I am completely on board with this idea. YES PLEZ.

You and about 5 other people on the entire planet. ;-)