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Confession time: I never ever liked Juliet but I don’t think I full on hated her until the last bit of the last season. I think Nick is better off without her (no disrespect for Nickette shippers). Please don’t hate me!!

There’s nothing inherently wrong with disliking Juliette because you don’t connect with her character, or don’t think her arc is interesting, or don’t like her choices. My problem–as I’m sure you’ve seen if you follow my rants on FYNB–is with the misogyny behind some of the reasons people cite for disliking Juliette.

But I honestly think toward the end the writers were pushing us to hate her, only to try and pull an about-face and give us emotional whiplash at the end with Nick’s grief over her “death” (I’m still in denial). It worked for me, because I love Juliette, and it worked for some people who just hate to see Nick in pain…but I’m not sure it worked as well as the writers might have hoped for those who fully dove into hating her toward the end. Or maybe the writers just wanted us to hate her and weren’t expecting Bitsie and David to sell it as well as they did. I haven’t decided yet.

But the point is, there’s nothing inherently wrong with disliking a character. I of course disagree that Nick is better off without her, and I really worry what he’s going to do without her around to provide some sense of normalcy and stability in his life…and the lives of the rest of Team Grimm to boot. He wasn’t doing so great towards the end when she was transformed, so I can’t imagine how bad off he’ll be now if she’s actually dead.

But no. I don’t hate you, Nonny.

Do you just take slash recs or are you open to het too?

Hey, if it’s good fic it’s good fic! Het isn’t something I go searching for on my own very often, but if you rec it I’ll check it out!

I also, for the record, will take threesome fic, orgy fic, fic that has nothing to do with sex or ships, AU fic, etc. I would LOVE some good femmeslash recs or fic recs that are centered on the ladies of Grimm.

The only things I won’t accept recs for are rape/non-con fic, crossover fic, and mpreg.

(The last one is just because mpreg is a really big personal squick for me, but if there’s a reeeeeeally good fic out there plot/character/writing-wise that happens to have mpreg in it, and you REALLY want it considered for the Ficblog Friday, I’ll at least take a look at it. No promises though.)

How do you imagine Grimm characters, if they were in high school ? Hahaha How I imagine: Nick= Nick would definitely be the boring nerd or the popular quarterback of the american football team ; Adalind= The bitch cheerleader, who dates Nick(obvious) ; Juliette= The ”nerd ingenue” type, who dreams dating with Nick. She became a little ”popular” after being Adalind’s bff and Juliette becames mean ; Trubel= Nick’s twin sister, who hates Adalind. I really imagine something like this, hahaha

Hi! Well, I went on a bit of a tangent with this in reply to your original post (which I posted to my personal blog here because we really prefer not to post/reblog/answer/reply to things that use misogynistic slurs to refer to the women of the show whether its the actors or characters they play at FYNB), but to sum up if you didn’t see that one:

Juliette is the cute, unassuming nerd girl who reads a lot and goes all Feminist Avenger on people’s asses when they make the mistake of messing with her.

Adalind is the Queen Bee to end all Queen Bees, walking down the hall in her head cheerleader uniform expecting everyone she passes to bow.

Nick is a weird nerd loner artist type, super smart but not motivated to do anything but art. He draws horror comics probably.

Monroe is another weird loner who dresses like an old man, has a full-on beard before anyone else their age, and likes building model trains and cuckoo clocks in woodshop. He’s Nick’s only friend for awhile.

Rosalee moves from another school and is the Intriguing New Hippie Girl at first. She’s really good at chemistry and mostly just wants to be left alone. She becomes friends with Nick and Monroe to keep them from blowing up anything (else) in chem class.

Hank would be the smart, sexy jock with a heart of gold, the kind of guy that only exists in the realms of fiction for the most part. He’s a total sweetheart and is kind of an unlikely defender of all those weird loners I mentioned up there.

Wu is probably the nerdiest nerd to ever nerd, but he’s also super funny so he becomes the Unlikely Popular Nerd/Class Clown who everybody invites to parties because he’s hilarious, but that few really get to know.

Hey, I’ve just started watching Grimm, I’m halfway through the first season, is there anything I should worry about like does it get sadder throughout the series like with supernatural just so I can get myself emotionally ready for it.

You should be fine until S4 – the earlier seasons, especially 1 and 2 mixed the darkness and sadness with humour very well. S4 is a lot darker, but still good.

Grimm also contains lots of storylines about rape, and sometimes they aren’t addressed very well. There is also the blood and gore you would expect from a show like this. If there’s anything specific you would like to be warned about, let us know. 

~ Siobhan

You have a really good music taste:) love your blog also… (your theories are really interesting). Do you think Kelly is dead or alive by the way?

Thanks! I’m sure the other mods are pleased too.

Me, personally, I think she must be. You don’t tend to come back from a head in a box, and if the show starts to go down the miraculous resurrection every season route, it would be a poor move. Sometimes death is death and has to stay that way – much as I love Kelly, I think she is dead.

My path with Juliette was a bit like a roller coaster, one minute i liked her and the next i couldn’t stand her, but the last few episodes of season 4 confirmed my dislike for her and i am glad she’s “dead” (although i think she’s not technically dead). If she does somehow survive/resurrects in season 5, i hope it’s the old juliette, and not hexenbiest juliette.

I mean…you’re entitled to your opinion, anon. I personally loved both Juliette and Jujubiest, and thought that both kind of got the shit end of the stick when it came to how the other people, in particular Nick, treated them. I hope she’s back in any form, and I hope the rest of Team Grimm will be written back into character soon.

This just freaking hurt so much and hoping she’s still alive cause Juliette’s been my fave since season 1. I just can’t see Trubel being able to do that so easily no matter what considering their relationship. But yeah, I might check in though it won’t be the same if Juliette is really gone. But if they made Nick/Adalind a couple just no, I would be so done. The message that would be sending would be disgusting.

Agreed…I think something is going on with Trubel that we don’t know about yet. There were hints all through “Cry Havoc” but there was so much else going on that I don’t think anyone, including us, had time to really process it all.

And agreed on Nick/Adalind. I would not be on board with that becoming canon at all.

I’m not suprised trubel shot Jullette cause she’s always been a a shoot first and ask questions later kind of girl. That’s what happens when you are forced to kill just to survive like she was before she met nick. Oh and that doesn’t mean she made the right choice this time.

I’m not particularly happy with that scene for many reasons, not least of which the notion of Trubel unhesitatingly firing two arrows into a woman who took her into her home, supported her, fed her massive amounts of bacon, and who Trubel very clearly adored and got attached to before she left.

There are a couple of hints in the finale that something has happened with Trubel since she was last in Portland. She’s apparently working with Special Agent Chavez, for one thing…and keeping secrets from the rest of the team about it.

For another, she seems to be way too comfortable and cavalier now about killing people…the weirdly casual way she was about the head. As pragmatic as Trubel used to be about violence, she was also deeply fearful of and traumatized by it before meeting Nick and Co. And afterwards, she was violent when necessary but never quite so…eager or casual about it?

I dunno, I just think something pretty bad is up with Trubel that contributed to her being perfectly willing to take a kill shot at a woman who treated her like family. It’s just that the hints got lost in all the other mess that was going on in that finale.