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truemoondust · 11 months

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Degrassi: School's Out (1992) || the first usages of "fuck" on Canadian television

#degrassiedit #degrassi #degrassi high #archie simpson #joey jeremiah #caitlin ryan #stefan brogren #pat mastroianni #stacie mistysyn #my gifs

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jaitlin · 5 months

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"I guess this is it?" "For now."

#Degrassi #degrassi the next generation #Degrassi TNG #Jaitlin #Joey Jeremiah #Caitlin Ryan #Pat Mastroianni #Stacie Mistysyn #2000s #gifs

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zayadriancas · 7 months

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School’s Out

“Tessa Campanelli?! You were fucking Tessa Campanelli?!”

#degrassiedit #joey jeremiah #caitlin ryan #derek wheeler #snake simpson #tessa campanelli #lucy fernandez #my edit #my edits #my collage #my collages #degrassi #degrassi high

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silver-stargazing · 6 months

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Epilepticon Movie Marathon 2023

Degrassi Junior High (1987) (Stage Fright) dir. John Bertram

Summary: Coming back from vacation with a brand-new epilepsy diagnosis, Caitlin Ryan struggles to keep her seizures under control while trying out for the school play.

Representation: Caitlin is notable for being one of the first main characters of a tv show to have epilepsy. She isn't a one-off character who's only in a "very special episode" and then never mentioned again. She's part of the main cast and her epilepsy is brought up in later episodes.

Caitlin has several absence seizures throughout the episode. She also has a tonic clonic seizure while at a slumber party with her friends, right as they are holding a séance to summon spirits. We briefly see from her perspective what her vision is like before having a seizure, which is intense double-vision.

When she has the tonic clonic seizure, her friends, unaware she has epilepsy, briefly think she is joking before leaping into action to provide first aid. They quickly go over several aspects about seizure first aid such as not placing things in people's mouth and not holding the person when they have a seizure. One girl turns Caitlin to her side and places a pillow under her head while she is having a seizure, which is great first aid procedure.

The episode briefly addresses the myth that epilepsy is contagious, stating that it is in no way contagious to others.

Caitlin talks about how horrified she is that she might look "gross" to her friends because of her seizures and is shown to be worried about how her future may be negatively impacted by epilepsy.

[Image ID: Four screenshots from Degrassi Junior High Episode Stage Fright:

Image 1: Caitlin Ryan, a young teen girl with short dark hair, lies down while the wires for an EEG test are applied to her head.

Image 2: A yellow poster is on a glass window. The poster reads "Auditions for "Love's Fresh Face" Tonight!".

Image 3: Susie, a young teen girl, and Caitlin stand in front of blue and red school lockers. They are both looking off to the left.

Image 4: Caitlin has a big smile while looking off to her right.

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#epilepticon #epilepticon 2023 #actually epileptic #epilepsy #caitlin ryan #degrassi junior high #stargazer rambles #epilepticon movie marathon

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seancamerons · 7 months

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Let's talk about Caitlin Ryan!

When I watch Degrassi Junior High, I remember falling hopelessly for Rick and Caitlin. I know everyone loves jaitlin, myself included, arguably the stronger power couple that ended oddly. Most fans kind of forget about them who are short-lived Klareesque, but I'm not surprised. I saw some old jaitlin just a few minutes on my dash, and it got me thinking.

Would it be controversial to say that Clare with KC is the equivalent of Caitlin and Rick and Claudr, similar to Eli, I guess that would make Drew a bit of Joey? Not really the same but if I could I would say and suspect, now correct me if this is too hot of a take, but early Caitlin and Rick are espys for Sean and Emma, respectively apart and together perhaps their entire relationship is based on them retooled and tweaked for a "new generation" but the similarities are there.

It might be a stretch, but consider this! There was a throwaway line by adult!Lucy in 2.12 white wedding part 1, "when are you going to add a mini Spike and mini Snake to mini Caitlin over there?" Implying Emma is similar to Caitlin back in the day or coded Caitlin is intentional.

The facts are both are environmentally conscious, trope of granola girl, the girl has a big mouth and can't mind her own business or stay in her lane, crusades and causes, controversial editorial pieces that manage to ruffle feathers and a pechant for bad boy characters. Joey was more a funnyman musician type but he wasnt Mr. Academics had trouble in school, could fall into the bad boy category, and was held back a grade in high school.

For example of a similar thing, Caitlin fought for Spike to stay at Degrassi while she was ironically pregnant with Emma when the school was intending to expel her with added pressure from pta, angry parents, and school board. Who would've thought that Caitlin would be this influence on her years later. Emma was shown to know exactly who she was and even liked her and sought her (bad) advice. Emma similarly wrote that nak editorial, which offended Sean’s brother and let's not forget about the vicious rumor Emma accidentally started and then humiliated herself and Liberty. There is alot to unpack with that such as seeing Armstrong and Liberty could've triggered her trauma regarding Jordan (the pilot love interest who was a pedophile predator) she is suspect of an adult being close and hands on with a teenager no matter how preposterous it all manifested.

Sean is a similar character to Rick, but somewhat similar to Craig, too, with the whole childhood abuse thing. I do suspect that this was intentional. Joey, too , is so instrumental in the season 2 opener with this plot point, and Craig's introductory plot makes a lot of sense, such as the whole thing with Rick and Craig. It also makes a logical writing sense kind of way with Sean cut from similar cloth to both Craig in the universe and his espy Rick Munro.

Semma though similar or based on Rick and Caitlin, right down to the end of Caitlin and Rick's relationship when he took up smoking cigarettes implied deviant behavior, similarly in dtng Sean was hanging with the deviant, "gangsta", Candy Bandits became his new friends and it pretty much ended Sean and Emma’s relationship in the third season.

In degrassi junior high, after the split Rick was sent to the Bermuda black hole after making him a satelite love interest territory, and of course, we see Caitlin later was paired with Joey, who was arguably a leading man in comparison. They shared a lovely relationship after that with major build up and were upgraded to power couple status, and we know the rest. Caitlin also dated the mysterious, environmentally conscious dark horse Claude who is arguably a bit more Eli Goldsworthy coded for a host of reasons which of course ended badly in more ways than one, and Caitlin and Joey got back on track after their split and Claude's untimely death by suicide. Caitlin felt guilty for the entire thing if I remember correctly and was comforted by Joey. If I remember right, I think this is what Claude had wanted, to hurt Caitlin for hurting him for not accepting his affections after their break up and moving on from him. Remember when Eli manipulated Clare in the conclusion of season 10 when he famously hit the wall inside Morty for the sole purpose of destroying the car for Clsre spelled the end of their initial relationship as we know it, was essentially a near death experience. Eli survived and manipulated Clare, and she finally left him after distancing herself, and then Eli did what he did. But they kind of subverted that a little bit obviously, but I think that was perhaps an initial plan.

So obviously Cailin has main character energy, similar to Emma her closest espy, Clare Edwards and perhaps even Maya Matlin, who are similarly cut in the same or similar cloth if there were some venn diagram there'd be quite significant overlap. Drama always follows for better for worse with these ladies. No stranger to drama, both in romance and friendships across the board.

It's kind of weird, though. Adult Caitlin is certainly aside from her rekindled relationship with Joey, a big ol' mess, and there is a lot to unpack with that. At this point, pretty heavily, it's implied she'd been through the ringer romantically (1.01 Mother Child Reunion). She is successful in her career, and it is a barrier for her. lkve glr her and mayve shes not over the her high school sweetheart and their ill fated engagement to her former flame joey who now is a widower with a child at this point in tjme working as a used car salesmen with a taxky commercial. Caitlin, as we know, began the "rebooted revival" series engaged to be married to an awful director, Keith, who had a wandering eye (Allison) and was condensending toward pretty much all of Caitlin's friends.

While Caitlin and Joey ended in a bittersweet fashion, (thanks alot Kevin Smith! </sarcasm) Caitlin resumed her career and ultimately left the series. When Caitlin eventually resurfaces in season 7's Jesse's Girl, where she hooked up with her mentees boyfriend, who is ironically named Jesse. Honestly, awful decision by the writers, and a disservice to her character who'd been around since the 1980's.

I can't believe Caitlin is the kind of woman who would get pissed at a boyfriend over cigarettes or vices when she was written to do something like that. Jesse was, at the very least, 10 or so years her junior. Cougar!Caitlin on the prowl isn't exactly what I expected to see for her future, and not really a flex for her character, a huge nosedive if you want to talk a fall from grace.

So there you have it. That's how I see it anyway.

#degrassi #thoughts #observations #caitlin ryan #rick munro #sean cameron #emma nelson #spike nelson #lucy fernandez #joey jeremiah #semma #jaitlin #clare edwards #eli goldsworthy #claude #analysis #klare #kc guthrie #eclare

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degrassiclassiclover · 11 days

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this is my first time making an edit- it’s not super smooth or anything but i tried

#degrassi #degrassi high #degrassi junior high #spike nelson #caitlin ryan #alexa pappodopolas #my edit #im sorry this is literally so bad #i tried

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fuzzychildchopshop · 6 months

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imagine if Emma introduced Sean to Caitlin

that would be a great meeting

#degrassi #degrassi the next generation #degrassi junior high #degrassi high #semma #sean cameron #emma nelson #caitlin ryan #submission

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degrassi-ship-war · 11 months

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Degrassi Ship War: Round 1B

#degrassi #polls #poll tournament #tumblr polls #degrassi the next generation #degrassi tng #bracket tournament #degrassi ship war tournament #degrassi high #degrassi junior high #caitlin ryan #spike nelson #sean cameron #ellie nash #sellie

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tomsgreg · 2 years

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Big brain shit from Me

#degrassi tng #degrassi #degrassi the next generation #taylor swift #craig manning #ellie nash #manny santos #jt yorke #liberty van zandt #spike nelson #snake simpson #sean cameron #emma nelson #ashley kerwin #joey jeremiah #caitlin ryan #jay hogart #paige michalchuk #marco del rossi

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i-can-make-it-through · 4 months

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I'm watching "Rumor Has It" and I wish they had actually made Ms. Avery gay or even better had Caitlin realize - maybe even in a later season - that she's gay or bi.

I know this was the 80s and having a gay character on a show for teens is a lot to ask (especially if the episode was initially banned by the BBC for even dealing with the topic) but I can dream.

#degrassi junior high #djh: rumor has it #caitlin ryan #i headcanon caitlin as bi #and ms avery is actually gay she just can't tell her students

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werewolfrevenge · 1 year

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