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Can I explain why I love Spencer James so much? It won’t take long. HE’S NICE. How he talks to people? Is just so comforting and it’s why people feel warmth from him. For a main character, this man is consistently and genuinely so kind. He leads with kindness and compassion and understanding first and then you gotta push him. It’s not like you have to have him COME AROUND to support you. He supports first. He leans towards love first. That’s a good man

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ALL AMERICAN 6.03 "Business is Business"

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IT GIRL

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The drastic difference between how NK wrote the season 5 premiere vs the season 6 premiere to me lies in the way she used Olivia. This is why I always say this may be Spencer’s show, he and his future are at the heart of it, but Olivia is the soul. This entire show and its progression and its story moves beautifully with and around the both of them, not just as a couple, but individually. Isolating and silencing Olivia in the season 5 premiere threw off the balance. Shit didn’t make sense because she wasn’t talking, for most of the season actually. She was being talked at and it made everything so much more confusing than it needed to be in every way. From her relationship with Spencer, to her motive for the article and even her dynamics with other characters (Coop/Jordan etc). It was a domino effect. The difference with season 6 is hearing her. Her thoughts, her perspective, her growth, HER STORY. It ties everything together because she is the most charismatic character. It won’t work without her and I’m glad NK was strong armed into realizing that because the writing showed it

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Spelivia 🫶🏾

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Swagger 2x06 Gif set

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Some were too big for tumblr and Twitter but I wanted to just dump these here

#swagger #JaceCrystal #Jacecarson #CrystalJarrett #isaiahhill #quevenzhanéwallis

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You think that is sappy? How’s this?

Swagger 2.06 Jace + Crystal

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miss the babies (spencer and olivia)

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Season 4 finale.

Season 5 finale

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Spencer is the same with everybody right now. Emotionally detached and unavailable and dismissive. And then there’s him with Olivia

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ALL AMERICAN UNIVERSE APPRECIATION WEEK Day 2 : Favorite Recurring Character ☼ KIA WILLIAMS "I am all of those things."

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this show don’t play about olivia’s impact 

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LivSimone is a perfect example of a female friendship/dynamic on this show where both parties benefit. Because it’s healthy. One person isn’t getting more out of the friendship than the other. Liv encourages, reaches out and keeps it real with Simone and Simone does the same thing. Liv can get on Simone’s ass about marrying Jordan and then getting cold feet at the second wedding and it still not be any hard feelings. Simone can get on Liv’s ass about being in her and Jordan’s business or not going for Spencer and they’re still cool. They have fun together. They pour into each other to make the other better. That’s what a friendship is.

Laylivia has some nice moments. Specifically during season 5. But when you look at their friendship as a whole, it appears one sided. Where Olivia is very quick to extend grace to Layla, Layla cuts Olivia off quickly. Where Olivia is quick to sacrifice for Layla, Layla will put herself first and worry about anything else after. In the season 1 finale, Layla walked up to Liv at that pep rally and asked her what she could do to make things right with them, not because she just wants to make it right. Not because she wants to be there for her bestfriend. But because “I really need my best friend right now.” Mind you, this was directly after Olivia found out her father cheated on her mother. Her world is upside down right now. Layla knew that. But she really needed her best friend. And to be fair, Layla was going through it. I get that. But so was Liv. And yet there’s almost like an expectation for her to put her shit to the side for a minute to be there for Layla. And that’s what she ended up doing by the end of the episode. That’s what she always does for Layla. Puts her wants and needs to the side for her. To make sure she’s good. If I were a Layla stan I would defend this friendship too. Because my girl has someone that loves her enough to sacrifice for her. Everyone wants that for the person they stan. But as an Olivia stan, what moment can I go off of that would make me say “yeah protect Laylivia at all costs?” All I can go off of is Layla getting with Spencer despite knowing Liv’s feelings, Layla cutting Olivia off after Vegas even though Liv once again walked away from Spencer FOR Layla, making her a hypocrite since like I said she got with Spencer despite Olivia, Layla repeatedly not noticing Olivia’s addiction spiraling while Olivia was there every step of the way while Layla was battling depression. She noticed it first. I didn’t even bring up all the shit that happened in that birthday episode because Layla was spiraling. I, as an Olivia stan, don’t hold that against her. But yet Layla stans have a grudge against Liv for sleeping with Asher, even though by LAW and by morals, a person that intoxicated cannot consent to sex. Especially with a person who was still of sound mind (Asher). I say all that to say, I wish Laylivia could’ve been our Breyton. But they are written poorly. Canonically they say they are best friends but realistically they act like 2 people who just have known each other for a long time. And that’s ok

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So proud of her 🥹

Olivia Baker doesn’t play behind anyone. She stands on her own. Her career path is proof of that. 

Olivia’s mother is a lawyer, her father is a football player. Olivia chose journalism on her own. Nobody guided her in that direction. The show didn’t force her to be a lawyer like her mother. She chose her own dream. It was a passion and direction Olivia found all by herself. All on her own.

Olivia got her interview for the LA Tribune on her own. Her mother didn’t help her. Her father didn’t help her. Nobody even knew she applied. She went got that internship interview herself. On her own.

Olivia’s now boss said in the interview that she knows all about Olivia because she was impressed by Olivia’s podcast. Olivia’s podcast is something Olivia created all on her own in S2. Again, nobody guided her or gave her that idea. She made it all on her own. She built it all on her own. She worked on it all on her own. Nobody helped her with Liv The Truth.

Olivia wrote an article that had nothing to do with the assignment they gave her and they hired another writer who met the requirements of that assignment and created a whole new position for Olivia anyway because they liked what she wrote. She literally wrote off topic but it was written in a way that they felt they couldn’t lose out on a writer like Olivia even if she was writing off topic. Olivia got her first job off her writing and just her writing. Not her name. Not because she people pleased. She did the literal opposite. She was herself. She got it for being herself.

Olivia moved up from getting coffee to being allowed in pitch meetings because her pitch ideas were constantly being chosen for others to write and Spencer said most of the articles he sees he knows were Olivia’s ideas and Olivia said that’s something only they know because they aren’t written by her. They have yet to give her an assignment where she writes with her name on it. She had to work towards that. And she did.

Unmasked By Olivia Baker was her first published article. With her name.

Olivia made up the name “Jayden Davis” because she wanted the work to be seen and speak for itself and protect her loved ones from the backlash and even with a made up name, Olivia broke LA Tribune records, was trending, was picked up by 8 several different news stations and then was nominated and won an award for excellence in sports journalism off an article that wasn’t even tied to her or being Billy Baker’s daughter. The eyes on her article with a made up name. It could have flopped because who is that? Jayden Davis don’t even go to GAU. They had no idea who it was. Billy Baker wasn’t even in the equation. Just her work. And her work shined just as bright. Her first ever award in the field she chose herself was something she can honestly say she earned on her own with her own writing and not because she’s Billy Bakers daughter and that makes her more trustworthy in the sports journalism world or gave her her start. It can never be said she got attention because of him.

Olivia doesn’t just stand on her own, she thrives on her own.

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Spencer James Issues: Abandonment issues & Savior Complex Reason: His father left him at 8 years old without an explanation and for the next 10 years proceeded to blame himself for not being good enough for him to stay which directly caused both of his issues. His inability to process people leaving and feeling like everybody is getting ready to leave causes him to be insecure with his place in peoples lives and he overcompensates by doing whatever other people want, people pleasing and never saying how he actually feels because he doesn’t believe in peoples love for him. Even if they tell him that they love him (like Olivia did) because his father, a person that was supposed to love him, just up and left for no reason. To him, a loved one doesn’t need a reason to walk out and he can’t trust anybody to stay just for him. Because of his father leaving, his mother leaned on him as the man of the house and Spencer had to become responsible and take care of his family, he began to associate his worth and job with taking care of others at an age where he shouldn’t be leaned on at all. Because Spencer still blames himself for his father leaving, when things go wrong he inherently believes he is not good enough and he is the reason so he overcompensates for that, he overextends himself to be there for people excessively and feel needed/wanted which makes him feel more secure of his place in their lives, which developed into his savior complex.

Enter Olivia: Spencer clings to the people he loves and so does Olivia. They are equally clingy with the other. They love being together all the time. When Spencer had two snack breaks from training, he was running to see Olivia two times during the day. Not including seeing her in the morning and sleeping together at night. He is that attached to Olivia. And then Olivia got a job, she got busy, she got a new friend group. Spencer watched Olivia begin to pull away from him for her career and thought it meant she was unhappy with him and it was his fault that she wasn’t trying to see him as much because he believes he is not good enough for anyone and he knows how this ends, with her leaving him. So he beat her to the punch. He was like you’re leaving me, everybody leaves me, just go and be happy. Only to realize he fucked up because for the first time, Spencer can genuinely see past his trauma and see Olivia’s love for him. Spencer genuinely believes Olivia and began to see he got it wrong. That it was all him. That this is rooted in something else. Because Olivia didn’t go anywhere. She didn’t leave. Olivia would never leave him. He doesn’t have to ever doubt her. And Spencer can trust Olivia to go and come back without panicking. And Olivia should be able to physically leave to somewhere like to London and Spencer can trust her. And he did. He genuinely believes his love for her is reciprocated for the first time in his life. 

The fact that it’s literally not an exaggeration to say that Olivia completely altered Spencer’s view on love and loving someone because that’s exactly what she’s doing for him.