#I don't even know which show i was watching tbh

[callingbridgerton]

"Colin didn't earn Penelope."

Ummmmm.

Okay. So, let's just start by saying that Colin Bridgerton did nothing wrong by simply not feeling the same way about Penelope for so long. I am so serious. Even if he never returned her feelings, he wouldn't have done something wrong. But that's not the story we're watching. They're meant for each other, but he didn't know that. That is not wrong of him.

He has done only one thing wrong, ever (to Penelope): give into his insecurities, alter his true self, and give way to a fake version of himself that wants to be accepted by the wrong people and make a hurtful comment to "the boys" about her.

Which he apologized for the moment he knew she knew. It is sad, indeed, that he didn't realize on his own how hurtful that was but even if he had, given that he didn't know she knew, what purpose would there be in him going "uh, I made a really mean comment about you recently and I feel bad about it." Like what? That'd be harder to come back from than how it actually played out.

Now, I don't even want to talk about this because it annoys me how annoyed people are and I have seen it calming down but I think this is worth saying. Some people, I know, are really frustrated with Colin visiting brothels and having "experiences" on his travels. Especially those that have read the books (I haven't.) I know that people were attached to Virgin!Colin, but since I never even thought about that I just didn't care. Show Colin has not offended me, it is not my favorite thing in the world but I think people's primary problem with it is that they wanted Colin and Pen to be on the same exact page when they got together (virgins.) That's very cute and sweet as an idea but show Colin lives in a time period that does not at all expect that of him and in fact expects the opposite. In his quest to take on a new persona he attempts meaningless sex as well but we are shown over and over again that he's just not that into it. He's so confused, he knows it's "supposed" to work for him (as it does/did for his brothers and friends) but it just doesn't.

I also think a lot of people have a problem with it simply because they consider him promised to Penelope when he is not. He just isn't (even though he is.) But he didn't know that!!! He had literally no idea. He didn't cheat on her, he didn't break a promise, he didn't do anything wrong. He was just trying to figure himself out.

In reality, Colin has done nothing but be exceedingly kind to Penelope. A true friend. He has shown nothing but reverence for her all throughout season 1 and 2. And 3. He earned her through being her friend, the only one who truly listens to her and notices her bright mind and kind heart and warm soul. He is literally the only one. Eloise, maybe, but tbh she doesn't truly realize how amazing Pen is (IMO).

Colin didn't need to do anything else. He apologized for his mistakes and showed through actions how much he meant it.

He has earned her since the day they met.

#colin bridgerton #bridgerton #polin #penelope featherington #colin x penelope

[castieldelamancha]

breaking hearts in the process too

#it be like that sometimes #castiel #aziraphale #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #innefable husbands #destiel #I don't even know which show i was watching tbh

[fag4dykestobin]

im actually so mad and pessimistic about season 5 from what little ive seen. lol

#im gonna have to hear about eddie so kuch they're gonna center dustins whole character around himmmm #and the worst part is that so. much. of the goddamn fandom. is going to eat it UPPPP #and they're not even bringing bavk argyle?? which is just plain racism. like ok you introduced him LAST SEASON he is IN HAWKINS #but oh we don't care about him actually... one of the only characters of color on the cast lets throw him away #and then of course. the team has zionists on it. i do not know if i'll even watch when it comes out tbh #fr my mutuals here are the only thing keeping me caring about this show. love you guys #quincy.txt

[andthebeanstalk]

ur post about queerbaiting and the dismissal of people in fandom to critical analysis is so incredibly true thank you. i feel like marcille's writing in the anime has been super misogynistic a lot of the time and every time i bring this up all anyone wants to say is "well maybe this isn't for you! and you shouldn't watch the show!" like. i don't think this is about taste lmao, i am analyzing the text in front of me and coming to conclusions about the craft of it.

[This is in reference to this post]

YES!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

It is so so frustrating!!!!

It's like being at a restaurant and being served a bunch of delicious appetizers, but then one of the bread appetizers is literally just a plate of crumbs; and then when you're like, "Hey, uhh, why are we being served literal crumbs?", a bunch of the other folks eating at the restaurant are like,

"WELL HOW ABOUT YOU JUST DON'T EAT HERE THEN??!? YOU MUST NOT BE THAT HUNGRY, SO JUST FIND ANOTHER RESTAURANT AND DON'T EAT WITH US!!"

And maybe they say it politely, but "Aw, sorry, maybe this restaurant just isn't for you 💖" is just trading out an aggressive dismissive tone for a patronizing dismissive tone. It's the same message.

And it's like! I was honestly happy to move on from the crumbs once my complaint was acknowledged because the meal overall is still delicious, but then all these folks got SUPER WEIRD AND DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT, so now I find myself double-checking all the other dishes -- and, actually, you know what those eggs DO look a Iittle misogynistic undercooked!!!!

#original #queerbaiting #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #falin x marcille #marcille x falin #marcille donato #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi marcille #listen i like marcille but u r right she is basically there to be a wet blanket a LOT of the time and that is a sexist trope #i think the bar is super super low for female characters in adventure anime and the lack of constant ogling maybe makes the female #characters feel better written than they are. i mean falin basically has no personality. she's got an innocent heart but that's nothing. #and i think these conversations are worth having bc no piece of media is perfect and this is how we learn to do better #also like. I've seen media criticisms that make me go 'oh you straight up should reserve commentary bc you #haven't watched the show and you're wrong' or 'i see what you're saying but you are simply incorrect' but like #i don't think I'd tell someone to just NOT watch Hazbin Hotel bc they have a bad take - and certainly not bc they have accurately #pinpointed a real flaw about the show (of which there are more than a few but frankly not what became the biggest subject of Disc Horse) #Angel is actually an amazing character & i think people mistook a criticism on the way abuse is glamourized as actually glamourizing abuse #like his song about abuse is called Poison and he's trapped in an abusive performance contract - bringing to mind Britney Spears #i think it is a wildly triggering and painful scene but i think a lot of people took the pain it gave them to mean it was bad art #but tbh they are still allowed to eat at the table if they so choose!!! #sorry i got sidetracked - as an abuse survivor Angel just matters a lot to me. i have a couple serious criticisms of vivziepop's work but #Angel is very much not one of them #also in regards to the actual subject of this post i think the most audacity of the responses i got was the one that said #that by complaining about queerbaiting I was 'de-incentivizing writers to write any interaction b/t women that could look even a little gay #and I'm just like. good. I hope they stop writing entirely. if the takeaway from 'please don't sell me bread and then serve me crumbs' is #'WELL NOW I JUST WON'T BAKE ANY BREAD PRODUCT' then that person is a bad chef. they should find a different job. #or at least do a whole lot of work on themselves. but either way i wouldn't be too broken up to know i won't be getting any food from them. #'just leave then' is so obviously a gut reaction defense mechanism & it implies media criticism should only be for things you don't like

[hawkinslibrary]

the cast for the play has been announced ! you've probably seen the main players on twitter/instagram, but the rest of the cast and crew has been credited on the st on stage website

the list of characters is as follows: chief hopper, sue anderson (sinclair), lonnie byers, bob newby, charles sinclair, ted wheeler, karen childress (wheeler), allen munson, victor creel, james hopper, jr., henry creel, joyce maldonado (byers), father newby, walter henderson, claudia henderson, dr. brenner, virginia creel, and patty newby, as well as a number of ensemble cast members

#so. hopper's dad/lucas and erica's parents/bob/lonnie/ted and karen/eddie's father/victor/hopper/henry/joyce/bob's father/dustin's uncle? #dustin's mother/brenner/virginia/bob's sister #interesting #the first shadow #the first shadow spoilers #spoilers #not really ? but #twitter #lex talks #i still don't know how canon this will be #like i know they've said it could hold the key to the end or whatever but #they're obviously going to be taking some liberties #i don't know how much it's all going to fit with the version of the show that we have now #and also if it isn't available to every person that watches the show i don't think it should be considered fully canon anyway tbh #like i have zero doubts that there are fans of this show out there rn that still don't even know this is a thing #which sidenote is why all the overanalyzing and speculating doesn't usually pan out #bc everything is 100% geared more toward/written for the general audience #than people like us who spend a certain amount of time daily thinking about this show #you know #anyway

[genspiel]

...so, we know that decim got his job after the 15th floor was vacated by quin. but. was there a previous arbiter of viginti??? who were they and where tf are they now??? i'm-

#tre watches #death parade #decim #quin #ginti #...would their name have been “vi”? #sounds alright until you realize that by the japanese pronunciation of viginti their name would probably be pronounced like “whee” #(because in latin (which is where the names are from) all v's are basically u's etc.) #maybe that's why they didn't show them lol. quin is a much better name #incidentally this is basically the same reason i hope nobody ever puts their poor arbiter oc on the sixth floor #please don't do it #especially if you're creating for an english-speaking audience #do your oc a kindness and put them on some other floor skfkhdh they've already gotta deal with dead people #don't make their life(?) even harder for them #...now that i'm saying this it could actually kind of work for a crack fic or something lmao. but. yeah. |D #going back to the original point though i was under the impression that quin's situation with being moved was more or less unique/very rare #so like... what happened to make there be two openings at the same time lol that's all i wanna know #grabby hands at all of this show's hidden lore forever tbh

[bishonenspit]

every time people fundamentally misunderstand the patalliro characters i lose years off my life

#bii talk tag #this isn't about anything specific dw im just thinking in general #the amount of bad takes ive seen in my time here.... augh #mostly abt The Mawaich obviously ppl just don't GET HIM... like obviously i consider myself the CEO of him but actually #the one thing ppl get wrong imo is that he was softened and lost his bad assery later in the manga which i DISAGREE WITH #at no point in maraich's life did he CHOOSE to be trained as an assassin and do what he does that's like key lore #he was raised by larken and trained as an assassin since he was a child he didn't really WANT to do any of that business #and even post figaro he still shows up and participates in major plots more than ban does!!! tbh!!! #just bc he had a kid and started doing housework doesn't mean he became useless that's literally the opposite #and even before having figaro ppl say he got softened GOD FORBID!!! like u know!!! and he's STILL doin shit!! whatever man #i hate it fr he's not a weak character for living comfortably he's still capable you guys are just haters 🫵‼️ #also any time ppl call patalliro annoying i get annoyed bitch it's his show don't watch it if you're not here for him #also ppl give ban way too much credit he is Stupid #anyways im just Thinking

[strangesickness]

it has been so weird getting into live action film in the past little while because prior to late 2023 i was basically only into video games, comics, and cartoons (i have pretty bad face blindness so i can find it difficult to follow live action movies, especially if characters have similar hair or clothes. top gun maverick was a NIGHTMARE for me), and now i'm like? recognizing actors? it's kind of weird to think that when i'm my parents age kids aren't going to know who. chris evans or like. finn wolfhard are. and i'm going to do the exact same thing my parents always do like "what? you don't know who chris evans is? he's only captain america!" and the kid is going to be like... "why would i know who captain america is...? that movie came out before i was even born... no one cares about captain america these days gramps" and then i'll go to bingo or something and cry about it.

#but like. realizing i can just. recall some actors names??? #like. i had a few moments where i was like “who played that guy” and i didn't even have to look up “[character name] actor" #i just knew??? #which has been like. really weird #i am chronically uncaring about celebrities #i've just never taken an interest #it gets me similar looks to the ones i get when i say “i don't have tiktok” #people will show me a picture of a popular musician and even if its one i listen to i'm like... dude idk who that is #like if you're thinking of like “big celebrities” that EVERYONE knows? i probably do not. except like taylor swift and notable politicians #and jerry seinfeld #but that has more to do with my dad having like every episode of seinfeld memorized than it does anything else #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #this is about knives out btw #i just watched knives out for the first time since it came out and i recognized chris evans AND jaden martell #i also recognized daniel craig and katherine langford but i couldn't remember their names lol #one of the reasons i didn't enjoy watching live action films for a long time is that i have really bad face blindness #if a movie has more than one 20-40yr old attractive white guy in it who dress similarly i will be completely unable to tell them apart /srs #and this makes understanding the plot of a lot of movies incredibly difficult #all of this is to say i spent all of knives out convinced that michael shannon was woody harrelson but they don't even look alike tbh

[found--family]

Helluva name for an ep! I'm thinking it's a trifecta: 

Steph dealing with her father - again, though hopefully less heartbreaking than last time; maybe something happens and he comes around to her way of thinking ie. her mom needs professional help. (I hope Steph gets someone on her side) 

Duela's mom visits her for her birthday - she got out of prison, maybe escaped? Or maybe Duela goes to visit her for her birthday. Either way, Duela's mom reveals The Joker is not her father. (I'm still on the Duela Dent train but I don't know if they'll reveal that as well; if Duela's father is fugue!Dent, her mom might leave clues for her to figure it out for herself which would mean a second reveal maybe at the end of the season, maybe just before or after Harvey's Two-Face incident leaving a cliffhanger for season 2.) 

Harvey encounters his father. The way it's worded - 'collision course' - is intriguing. Will he encounter fugue!father? Will fugue!Harvey encounter his father? Did he think his father was dead? We've only had scraps of his past and whatever the comics say, GK is doing it's own thing so who knows what could happen. If his father is alive and it's a surprise maybe fugue!Harvey will kill him? But there's still the possibility that fugue!father is in league with the owls somehow (how else would they know about the piano trigger? Unless fugue!Harvey himself gave it to them..) 

I love the crew's passion for creating this story! They care about good storytelling, they care about the details, they want to entertain and surprise us! They're taking the best bits of the DCU and giving us something new! I'm very excited for the possibilites of this ep. This story continues to keep me guessing, has me caring about the characters, and keeps me invested in how things will unfold. 

#gotham knights #thoughts #harvey dent #duela dent #just tacking on a disclaimer here to remind folks i'm not a dcu fan so that probably skews my opinion but idgaf #I've never read any of the comics or seen the various shows nor cared much for the movies (Batman bores me tbh) #so I don't have any of the annoyances or reservations DC fans have with what GK is doing with the characters and #and plot deviating from canon; they're taking the best bits and spinning their own tale and I love that because #it keeps us theorising and enjoying a true mystery! I love speculating! And I love that they've created something #that you don't have to be a diehard DCU fan to enjoy or appreciate - but which incorporates so many versions of canon #that even if you are a fan and make your guesses you still might be wrong - and that's a good thing! why watch something #new where you know everything that's gonna happen? that's boring and not what GK is about. GK is about #going on a new journey together. it's bringing a rich universe into the modern era and discovering #new ways to tell its story. it's a batman show without batman! it's a major villain before he was a villain! #its a group of young unlikley friends coming together not only for themselves but for the greater good! #this probably deserves its own post but it was in my head while speccing on 1x11 so i'm putting it here.

[dbphantom]

fuck it im watching the (other) mermaid magical girl show

<- obsessed with magical boys and girls and merpeople

#no the OTHER other mermaid magical girl show #wait ok i just looked it up on crunchyroll holy shit there's SO MANY i didn't realize this was like fi/nal fan/tasy there's so many... #not all of them have mermaids tho. wadda hell #cruddy rambles #i know this is because as a trans dude i intentionally removed myself from feminine stuff out of fear of being perceived as a girl as a kid #you know ye olde 'i HATE pink stop FORCING pink on me' -> 'actually pink is such a nice color now that im not being forced into it' #so now that i know myself im exploring it like ''hey this stuff actually slaps AND i get to be a dude 'despite' liking it'' #i can have my cake and eat it too and if you're mad about it then die mad about it bc im not changing for anyone anymore #rahhhhh rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #and im gonna watch it while beating the fuck outta people in skyrim. very much looking forward to it actually. #update: #so i didn't realize this entire show is gonna be about putting on make-up ;-; #episode 1 was uhhhhhhhh. well... they REALLY like lipstick. im happy for them don't get me wrong but this is not for me LOL #makeup gave me serious self image issues sooo i do not feel good watching this even if the message is just 'wear it and be confident' #which like. i probably could've guessed from the name? but tbh i thought it was like... magical girl 'make-up' not LITERAL makeup #happy for everyone who likes it tho! mermaids are awesome and the characters seem great i am just getting ick-ed by the focus makeup has

[maddy-ferguson]

Sick of getting called homophobic for not enjoying or shipping byler. Sorry but will stans are right for not shipping him with a guy who said his life started the day he disappeared. There is no enjoyement here aside from supporting it to piss off actual homophobes. The ship itself sucks ass.

you're so funny for sending this to me like am i supposed to agree that it sucks😭😭 but yeah i know what you mean like are people not allowed to dislike a ship anymore as long as you're not being weird it's literally fine it's A STRANGER THINGS SHIP

#people were like no this is terrible why would they do this to will i kinda hate mike now after volume 2 so they literally KNOW #it's not for everyone and like. a lot of bylers who are will stans' tweets and posts read like they don't even like what's happening that #much since their mike is like...a different mike sometimes or is portrayed as not good enough for will and not as someone who was #struggling too. idk. i feel like you have more to gain from being a byler if you're a mike stan than you do if you're a will stan which #sounds weird bc i just said that a lot of people are always like mike sucks will is the bestest ever but like. if you watch the show its #definitely mike who has the upper hand and who's 'making will suffer' even though he's suffering too if you think he's gay too which i #obviously do. but it means that you have to accept that and like that this is the story for will and a lot of bylers who are will stans #(even mike stans tbh) simply don't! so being like no i don't like this anymore because will's my favorite and the idea of it paying off #eventually doesn't make it worth it to me is like...very normal behavior lol #and when i say mike stans have more to gain i don't mean that mike has more to gain from the relationship. in universe at least (like no #omgg mike you are such a lame person how did you pull will) #because for us as a character he gets depth and an oh mike hasn't had nothing going on for two seasons plot twist. which is always fun #does that make sense #ask

[chooey]

common kendall L

#THIS IS CRAZYYYY #loved the last episode actually #also rare roman W ????? #when he said youre bullshit we're all bullshit we're nothing like wow FINALLY????? #anyway i found watching the series kind of. insufferable 😭 #and like what the hell is this tomgreg endgame lmfao 😭 #whatever they have going on i dont wanna know anything ! dont care if it's pride month #roy kids are just a bunch of losers wbk !!!!!!!!!! #not saying logan roy is a good person or that i like him i dont like any of them but according to this show he was a good business man so ? #shivtom ok then!!!!!! shiv though still a nepo baby (semi capable???) i cant really find it in me to hate her #piss babiest award goes to kendall roy idc #ok real talk theres room.... a house for nuance here #ultimately this boils down to logan being a shitty dad to all of them and building a company that encourages toxic shit to fester #but even that piece of shit had his own demons #logan roy unforgivable unreedemable literally hell if it were a man #still... i liked that the last episode at least tried to show his good side (? lol 😭) the scene was the warmest a succession scene can go #also the scene of them acting like children. it was good. it reminded me of the boat scene in s1 at shiv's wedding (probably intentional) #if i could say which character i... didn't like necessarily but people i found interesting/captivating it would be... #kendall tbh... gerri shiv stewy caroline tom (he is SO weird and fucked up) greg??? frank? roman i was on the fence Always #it's bad that in his mind he's the middle child bc im the middle child 😭 I don't identify with this i don't claim it i don't approve of it #........but sometimes........ yeah #logan was right about one thing and that they are just unserious people lmfao 😭 nice parting words huh #unblocking the tag now!!!!!!! wow finally i can see what people were thought of this show/the characters #maybe my view is more cynical and too vanilla i'm sorry i just cant excuse the heinous shit these people did hence i don't have a favorite #it's just a fictional show (!!!!!!) well ok but i just didn't love them as characters!!!!!!! 😭 #succession #izza💭

[bylertruther]

it's so fun when you talk about stranger things to someone that's normal and not homophobic because as soon as you start pointing out byler details they may have missed it's like the puzzle pieces start fitting together in their head and the little light bulb goes off and they're like waaaait... for real? 😦 and then boom. we've got another one joining the ranks, bylers 💪😌

#was talking to my mom abt will and el today not even mentioning byler #and she was like: u kno wht i noticed? it feels like at this point will and mike are different from the party #like they're a couple that happens to have the same friend group and when they split up no one knows what to do because they don't know #which one to hang out with #and like they're best friends and the others are their other best friends but it's different #AND I JUST QUIT MAKING MY COFFEE AND LOOKED AT HER AND TRIED TO PLAY IT COOL COS LIKE ....... HELLO?!?!?!?! #welcome to the byler nation ma 😵‍💫🍻 #homophobes won't wanna hear it but ppl who just watch it casually and are normal would see it if they jus had someone show them all the #things they missed. bc the show goes like a million miles an hour and throws SO much at you that you're not gonna catch everything no #matter how much u watch and study tbh #there's too many ppl on tht show tht love it so much and put their all into it tht it's just filled to the brim with hints n easter eggs #but ya :) good morning folks x

[izzy-b-hands]

I've managed to write one thing in the last few hours of just. Utter Brain Nonsense (it's fine; it's the Usual Shit and nothing worse than I've dealt with before. Just gotta ride out the emotions my brain is riling up.)

And I might. Actually feel okay about it? I don't know abt audience for it; I've read a decent amount of Venture Bros fanfic in my time, but haven't ever written anything for it that I considered publishing until literally rn lmao. So I'm not sure if anyone would be into this but...maybe?

If nothing else, I should probably try and find out if people are spoiler tagging much for post-Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart fics. I should be able to remember, but I never can when it's time for me to consider relevant tags for my own fics lmao, I'm always double checking so I don't fuck it up.

#text post #thank u guys for ur patience with me as i whinge abt writing im not posting yet #im so sorry if you followed me for writing i swear i am working to get something in publishable state it just. #the writers block has been blocking or at least making it hard to make that happen as much or as quickly as I'd like #the audience for this fic even among fans of the show would probably be. Small fdkasfjldasjf #it's literally just Feelings the Fic in which The Monarch and Dr. Venture are meeting up regularly in a diner #pretending to keep it a secret when it really isn't to anyone around them #where they try and actually talk abt how everything that happened/was revealed in the movie makes them feel abt each other #ngl it was also an excuse to write some abt The Monarch/Dr. Mrs. The Monarch/Gary aka 21 which is just. one of my faves #they technically all each have at least one brain cell at any given time (tbh usually Dr. Mrs. The Monarch has all three thank fuck) #but sometimes there's just. nothing pinging for any of them and so much going on and they care so genuinely for each other #and it's so like. usually decently to well written and realistic and just sweet that it Gets Me #similar to how Gat/Aisha/Boss gets me kfjdlasfjd #idk idk midnight emotions abt a tv show that i don't know if any of y'all following me even like or watch ignore me lmao

[biromanticbookbabe]

Why is it so hard to date women??? I am one too. This shouldn't be so hard. And yet it really is.

I can get a man without even wanting to or meaning to (it happened unintentionally every time that way when I still dated men now I realized looking back on it). I could do that again but I never really enjoyed it before so I doubt I would like it any better now.

You're supposed to actually enjoy dating, right?

It's not supposed to be like pulling teeth, RIGHT??? :')

(I am trying to stay positive but WOW, this sucks OMG!)

#It's obvious that I have no fucking clue what I'm doing still #I think I am looking in the literal WORST places #the new app I tried for friends/dating isn't specifically gay but it has way too many men on it literally it's mostly men somehow #I'm sorry boys but I'm not interested #But I feel like I can't talk to girls on there because I don't want them to think I'm some creep :/ :/ :/ #my profile says bisexual currently but I'm not sure that's accurate #I IDed as bi for half my life but I'm still not sure if that's true #I'm thinking of quitting that app too #I got cat fished on the last gay app I tried and it happened multiple times which was frustrating!!! :/ #maybe this is all BAD Karma coming back to bite me #maybe I should reactivate my account on her any way and get catfished some more *shrug* maybe it's what I deserve #tbh I'm jealous of how easily other people seem to find each other I'll admit that #I've been watching too much of the Catfish TV show lately too which does not help either :( #I'm pissed at myself for wasting college now- I was even part of the LGBT student club at both my schools ughh #and though I liked some of the other girls in the clubs I never did anything because most of them were taken already (of course) #I have this weird feeling that I missed the train for someone on here but maybe I'm imagining it??? 0-o #I couldn't be sure and do not want to be annoying about it in case I misread some signals a while ago...? #it's okay I'm not hot and still don't know if I'm gay or bi at my age (I'm really 30 but probably don't seem it) #you can do way better than me girl is what I'm saying basically #dating apps are just...terrible? awful? the worst? #a free unhinged(?) rant for all my single friends :) #if you know you definitely know #though I hope you don't because... yikes I'm sorry if you know #any body got any other app ideas??? I tried lex taimi and her already and I won't do tindr because that's too superficial/all about hook up #wlw dating #I've known I've liked women since I was 16 but never tried dating them until now so sorry if this is obvious or you've heard it before

[niuxita21]

ClassofO7 really had a chance to do something interesting in terms of romantic pairings with so many complex f/f relationships to explore if they didn’t want to forego having a “main slow-burn ship” with an all-female cast (Zoe/Amelia obviousy but also Genevieve/Saskia and even Phoebe/Renee) and yet they went with the laziest option possible in terms of representayshun by making the one lesbian character the comic relief side character whom it’s clear they never had any intention of giving a romantic storyline to

#and whom tbh I probably would have a hard time taking seriously in any attempt at a romantic storyline #it's like characters like jason mendoza or rogelio villanueva or orla from derry girls who are great for comic relief #but who stretch the limits of suspension of disbelief when trying to sell them as capable of sustaining a romantic relationship #with someone who is actually a fully formed 3-dimensional character #le sigh #a few episodes back I was gonna make a post about how my investment in this show and desire for a second season #were contingent on how they resolved the saskia thing because my GOD she was a monster in the first half of the season #I assumed that at worst there wouldn't be any lesbian characters and that was actually something I could get past #turns out the saskia thing was resolved in a pretty stellar way (episode 5 was FANTASTIC) so I thought we were in the clear #and now I'm questioning my attachment again for the ONE reason I didn't even consider lol #I understand that not everything needs to be about romance and that a show about female relationships such as this one is good enough #I just think this was a case in which an overarching serious romantic storyline would have really worked #and now I kinda don't want to continue getting invested in all these relationships where there's SUCH great buildup #only to know it's not gonna amount to anything (and now also with the possibility of dudes being added to a potential season 2) #(I still have one episode left to watch but it's a pretty safe assumption I think) #such is life you win some you lose some I guess #thoughts no one cares about