Thanks, anon! I appreciate you thinking of me. 🙂 I actually am watching it and you’re not wrong, I am loving it. What a cool intersection of history, Sally Wainwright’s interest in Halifax, these actresses, and the current era’s fascination with big budget f/f biopics/period drama. Really loving its (mostly) lighter tone, as I did in LTiH.
So I saw this movie on Netflix awhile back called The Firefly (la luciernaga) that was a f/f story. Decided to go back and rewatch it and it’s off Netflix now, so I figured I’d be able to find it somewhere else. But I can’t seem to find it anywhere for streaming or purchase! It’s listed on IMDb, yt has trailers, but the movie itself is nowhere lol any ideas for where to look for lesbian movies that have disappeared off the map?
Hmm, would these do (my friend found them, I had no idea where to look):
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As for Wren, I get the sense that she won’t be sticking around Bc we haven’t seen anything specifically in her POV (unless that changed this ep, I’m behind one), which makes me think she’s likely gonna be a plot point in Maddie’s story but not be fully ingrained as her own character. Which kinda sucks, but I’m used to as far as f/f stories go, so outside the usual bad tropes I don’t think anytgings gonna be a deal breaker. At this point, I’m just so curious about all of their background lol
Oh, whoops, way late on answering this one–I mean, I’m late on all of them but I had actually meant to reply and then just forgot.
Obviously, she did end up sticking around, but her role really has been so much in service of Maddie’s, and below so many other characters, it would have been difficult to say what her future was going to be. She symbolized something so huge for Maddie that I don’t think they’d just have her walk away, but I had feared they would put her back in prison and that would be used to break Maddie. Really glad they didn’t do that!
And another anon:
Oh yeah, I totally wasn’t blaming u or anything! I’m really enjoying both shows and probably wouldn’t have picked them up if I hadn’t seen that there was f/f involved Bc I get bored if shows don’t have f/f, or at least revolve more around women lol. Idk, I’m still bitter about how Maggie was treated on spg, but other than that I think most shows just have peripheral f/f so it’s easy not to get as invested & take the show for what it is. So I’m just thankful u giffed Bc I’m enjoying new stories!
Oh, I didn’t think you were, I was just putting out disclaimers, heh.
I totally get you! For me, f/f is a really simple indicator of the treatment of wom–actually, that’s literally the Bechdel test? It was created to test the potential for f/f and is used as a shortcut to measure how feminist media is. I was literally just talking to a friend who feeds me f/f book recommendations and I was like, I don’t even necessarily need f/f, I just need it to not focus on men. Even a lot of female-oriented works with a female lead will make her main dynamic with a guy, which, m/f romance is a specific genre and that’s fine but not what I’m looking for.
In TV, it’s not a sure bet of anything nowadays because it’s almost a rule that any new show must have some LGBT, so like you said, it can be pretty peripheral. Not as rewarding if it goes well, not as hurtful if goes bad. Looks like Proven Innocent turned out well, although sidelined till the end, now we look to see how In the Dark goes (aside from even more sidelining). But both shows definitely do focus a lot on women and seem earnest about trying do well by underrepresented groups, so it makes them easier to watch as the actual plot unfolds.
god i want future juliantina where they can just make eye contact across a room at some boring party juls knows val is telling her “stop biting your nails, mi amor”
Ugh, anon, the beauty in just this tiny moment you’ve painted.
I LOVE how their immediate friendship imbued this domesticity in their dynamic from the very start. Along with that crackling chemistry and the banter, there was such a sense of taking care of the other. Juls cheering up Val on first meeting, Val picking up on Juls’s eyeing the burger stall, dragging Juls over, Juls sensing Val’s unease when she saw the flask. That was the first time they met! And it never stopped, that awareness of the other’s health and comfort.
I want alllll the domestic future Juliantina, anon. Do they host parties jointly now? Do they get invited together? Do they still enter arm in arm? Does Val still go breathless when she sees Juls all dressed up? (trick question; she does every time)
