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Boy would they ever. I just read those SPN/Grimm fics. Oh my. It’s an interesting idea and I might read more if there’s ever more. But you’re right, they would clash so much. Especially Dean and Nick. Oh my, I can just see it. But it would be rather amusing.

Right? Can you just imagine Nick trying to explain to Dean “if it’s supernatural we kill it” Winchester that he protects a lot of the Wesen he comes across? Or that to date, his social circle consists of his BFF the blutbad, whose wife is a fuchsbau, and their families…along with a couple of repeatedly-enspelled humans, an eisbieber, his boss the half-zauberbiest, and another grimm. And that he’s currently mourning the deaths of his grimm mother and accidental hexenbiest girlfriend while awaiting the birth of his child by another hexenbiest.

Just…picture the look on Dean’s face for a minute.

hello, how do you think it would play out if Ariel Eberhart ever came back? it seemed like they wanted her back sooner, but it didn’t happen. and as cool (haha, cool) as that would be, the fact the actress is rather busy might hinder a long term role.

I think if Ariel Eberhart came back it would be AMAZING because she was such a fun, unpredictable (funpredictable, forgive me) character to have around! I can just imagine her being cruel and mocking Nick over the loss of Juliette–which is terrible but it would fit with their past interactions and the history between them.

But I also agree that now that Danielle Panabaker is busy with The Flash full time, it would probably be difficult to fit filming an episode or episodes of another series into her schedule. That doesn’t keep my fangirl heart from wishing for a reappearance at some point. She’s high up on a list of seemingly one-off characters I would love to see return (I died of happiness when they brought back Lt. Orson).

Every state is different when it comes to licenses. In Washington state where I live, it’s the last name and then below it is the first and middle names. Then in Texas they don’t even put the weight down. But the way the picture of Monroe’s license looks, it does appear Monroe is his last name. We typically don’t put commas after first names. I don’t know. Maybe Monroe just likes going by his last name. It’ll likely remain a mystery for some time.

I think canon has pretty much Jossed that tie-in photo, tbh. I mean…you have Frank and Alice (his parents) calling him Monroe. When’s the last time you met parents who called their child by his last name? That would be highly unusual.

Then you have their wedding. To be honest I think that was meant to be both a tease and a reveal, because prior to that, there was still some debate over whether Monroe was his first or last name (I mean, his parents could just be really weird right?).

But then you have the officiator at their wedding announcing them as Monroe and Rosalee…and we never get a last name. Which suggests by literally everything we know about names and weddings that we got both their first names but had the last name withheld (it also suggests that Rosalee took his last name, which means we have no idea what her last name is now as well).

So to me at least, that makes the tie-in photo explicitly non-canonical. His first name is Monroe. Will they ever tell us his last name? Well they made us wait three seasons to find out Wu’s first name and whether Monroe was even his first or last name or not…so somehow I see them drawing this little mystery out as long as they reasonably can.

You said you needed fic recs? Have you read Hotel California?

I have not! Although it was on a list I made of things I might want to read at some point, so congrats! Your rec just bumped it to the top!

So next week will be Hotel California by VampirePam, which is seven chapters long, so that will take us to almost to the end of August. In the meantime, I’d still love any of your fic recs, Grimmsters! We still have over two months of Ficblog Fridays to go after Hotel California, after all!

I’m the anon who dislikes Juliette (thanks for not hating me!) I agree about the pushing us to hate her and about Nick needing some sense of normalcy. About him being better off without her though maybe he wouldn’t have been at the start of the season (putting aside personal opinion, that would’ve ruined him) or at any other point but at the end of the season with the writers pushing her so hard in that direction and all she did, I think he’s better off not being with someone who caused him pain

I hear you, anon. A person who hurts you repeatedly and takes pleasure in it is not a person you want to stay in a relationship with. And although I think the nature of human interactions is that we inevitably cause each other pain at times, I do think that if Juliette survives, Nick might forgive her for the things she did but they could never be the way they were again, even if they actually talked everything out and both admitted the places they were at fault and the places they weren’t.

One could also argue it the other way, though: Juliette would have been better off without Nick. She would have been better off not being with someone who lied to her, repeatedly put her life in danger, dismissed her emotions whenever they weren’t convenient for him, and caused her a lot of physical harm as well as emotional pain for several years.

Their relationship was very cute at times, but at others it was one-sided and extremely unhealthy, since the very first season. Nick’s greatest flaw is his self-absorption and avoidance, while Juliette’s is/was that if she loved someone, she would be too accommodating of their wants and needs, to the point of ignoring her own. It was a toxic combination that would have torn them apart eventually, in my opinion. Her transformation and all that followed just hastened things along.

I’m still not over the fact that Juliette burned down Nick’s aunts trailer, I mean that’s his whole family history and all he has left of his aunt. It still hurts me (mainly cause of all of those books that went up in flames).

Believe me, the sight of all those books going up in flames hurt me too…but then I started to think about it a little more. Yeah, it’s the Grimms’ history…but a lot of it is a history of remorseless, unforgiving brutality and ruthless murder.

The Grimms are not a long line of people like Nick, remember. They weren’t feared because they were reasonable and compassionate. Even Nick has been shown at times to be horrified and disgusted by his ancestors’ actions.

So…on the one hand yes, Juliette burned down his trailer full of vital information but on the other, she didn’t by any means burn his family history. Nick’s family history is his memories of his aunt and his father and mother, most of which actually had nothing to do with the Wesen world and the Grimm legacy. 

There’s actually no reason whatsoever to think Nick had nothing of his family other than what was in that trailer. The “normal” things, like photo albums, cherished memories of the childhood he had with Marie? I doubt they were there. Why would they be? And why on earth would he value his family’s long history of blood and brutality over that?

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.