misty’s gay little smile after saying natalie looks like she’d stab you. “stunning.” the fact that misty calls nat her best friend and she means that. the implication that misty probably doxxed the motel worker a while ago just in case and has had his address and social security number memorized since. yeah. (x)
I knew I had to draw this as soon as I heard Ken said he didn't know who he was without Barbie and my first thought was Rebecca saying she didn't know who she was without Josh and Greg back in season 2. I really think she's got the range. She starts out as a super successful lawyer, the main character, and a girlboss, but she defines herself through her relationship to Josh, feeling like she'll never be complete without romance, and starts doing messed up stuff to get his attention, before she gains the resolve to be okay on her own. So I think you can tell Barbie made me think a lot about Crazy Ex Girlfriend again, haha.
but genuinely you can’t be doing the whole ‘oooooh two divorcees looking for emotional connection after heartbreak!’ and ‘I believe in romcommunism’ and ‘is it Ted that Rebecca is texting on banter???’ and ‘watch as they grow independence and self love but constantly with the feeling they’re intertwined in some lovely, chosen way’ just to go ‘actually they never get to together and Ted fucks off back home to the place that is now shaped by not great memories’. The fuck??? I’m bisexual, I was so there for the deeply unlikely TedTrent but I always thought TedBecca would happen because it makes more narrative sense. For two whole seasons they orbited around each other with this impending sense of collision, this hope they could find love in the strangest of conditions, in a stranger they’d never have chosen, only for that to be completely ignored??? This isn’t about ooooh heterosexual couple didn’t kiss (I will die on the bi4bi or at least Bi Ted hill fuck you) it’s about the fact that now, tons of moments are stupid as fuck! You played that with a hint of romance! You played that like something was going to happen! You wouldn’t shut up about Rebecca’s love life and Ted’s need to let go and have somebody else handle it all for him, they seemed made for each other from the start and you went ‘nah fuck it’????? WHAT IS THIS????
how is watching cxg going btw? do you like 4th season?
ok, so i actually had to take a little break from this show cause i realized i watched s3 too fast (in like two days...) & i just don't want to say goodbye yet... if that makes sense? 🥺
i am currently on ep 5 & i only watch one episode once in a while. it's really good so far but like i said, i'm trying to control myself cause i'm just not ready for it to end! i know there are other shows to fill the void, but it's never easy so i'm just taking my time!
(Yellowjacketsposting again)
I love Shaunajackie to bits, but I am honestly completely unbothered by it not being canon. In this context? In a show where we already have canon f/f ships and are generally drowning in sapphic pairings with incredible chemistry? I don't mind!
I feel like it's just... so true to the experience of queer girlhood that it goes unrealised. Sometimes you're a teenager and you're in love with your best friend and it makes you act in crazy, horrible ways. And you never realise why you feel this way - because there's no language for it. And even if there is, you can't face up to your own difference. Not yet. You're not ready.
So you sleep with her boyfriend - because that's allowed, kind of. You fight - because hurting her is a kind of intimacy, right? And she becomes this gap in you, this thing that could have been. This path not taken. The things you know you're not supposed to think.
Anyway fingers crossed for a '2021 Shauna realises she's queer and has to deal with that' arc.