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You’re right, you’re right, if they’re already together and it’s not like, a punishment, but instead a way for them to like Process conflict and come out stronger, for sure. It would be very fun to see how these two handle that…or anything.
Said in Mississippi, with a history of hundreds of lynchings. She would go on to win that runoff but just barely. Two years later, they’re running against each other again and Espy is polling extremely competitively. If you live in Mississippi, please vote.
Retaking the Senate is so, so important. If you can, here’s how to donate to Mike Espy.
And other anons:
Just watched Strangers from Facebook Watch (not on FB, bc fuck FB right lol) but anyways there’s a really great pairing in season 2- Isobel and Mari. Like chemistry through the roof, angst all of it. I’m wondering if you’ve seen it? I know there’s a certain plot, don’t wanna spoil it, can turn ppl away but it reminds of how a lot of ppl didn’t watch El Embarcadero bc of the dead husband storyline. idk just wanted to share and get your thoughts!
have you seen strangers? it’s a facebook watch show with 2 seasons that’s surprisingly clever and tender about a bisexual woman. she rents half her home as an air bnb while living there still and just trying to figure life out in her late 20s. it’s not really the typical millennial antics though, and she has a girlfriend each of the seasons, i binged it all last night(20 min eps) and i loved it.
I have seen it!
Honestly, my thing with giffing it is that it’s just TOOOO giffable. It’s got too many gay moments! Especially that second season, because yes, I dooo ship them. I wish we’d gotten just a little bit more at the very end to imply a fully happy ending, if we’re not gonna get another season, although I’m not sure I could bear another season of this kind of angst because there’s just no way they’d stay together…well, hmm, they could do a lot with that last big development… But yeah, still, I’m mostly happy with where we ended things.
El Embarcadero almost has an advantage, since the husband’s dead off the bat and the whole show is about these women and the connection they have, whatever its form. By the time we meet Mari in Strangers, we’re already in s2 and think we have some kind of idea of Isobel’s relationships, and personally, even as I was rooting for them the further we went because it seemed more and more genuine and sincere on Mari’s end, I was still sure it’d end in heartbreak and the next possible season would be a new person. I shipped them way more on rewatches, since I wasn’t ready to trust Mari and invest in them.
But see, the same problem with giffing I had with El Embarcadero, where I was like, okay, if it’s this many moments, I’m just gonna do every little thing, from the start, and then totally fizzled out when I got to the actual season with most of their romantic moments. I’ll continue with them and start Strangers too, I swear! But where even to start… Especially since there are so many moments not even related to the f/f I loved. Cam, the many, many cameos, that desi family! Where to start. 😡
Well, kinda, and some other things. Maybe the ask right after yours might help.
And another anon:
Lovecraft country really made Tic a whole ass war criminal. Executed a woman in cold blood. Had a gun to Ji-ah’s face and didn’t even remember it when he saw her days later. Tortured and killed her best friend. I hate this. The first three eps were So good then it all went to hell. They’re doing the same harmful tropes to indigenous and Asian characters that white narratives do. Think I’m done watching tbh.
I was saving this to try to arrange my thoughts but I should probably answer it before I forget them entirely.
I can’t disagree, all that was there and disappointing, in addition to the handling of queerness and WOC three eps in a row, but to me that all’s a symptom of why I don’t want to watch: it’s far more about themes and messages and the plot for that particular ep than it is about the characters organically playing out a story. And that’s just not for me. In the first three eps I thought I could tolerate the distance but apparently it also means this real disregard for the characters.
It wasn’t even this ep after which I thought that, it might have been 4 or 5, I remember being kind of puzzled and telling my friend, we know less and less about these characters, this far more a characters serving the plot than the plot serving the characters kind of show. But I still watched. And the gore and body horror was a LOT but I still watched after 5. But then 6 gave me the same unpleasant feeling I got watching The Terror s2, where it’s like, we’re already in a damn war, and only now focus on these people already suffering so much, this is the only context you wanna tell this story in? I ended up pausing the ep and looking up comments to see what happened and was like, I don’t even know why I’m watching this. I don’t know or really like these characters, however much I like the actors. I hear the next ep is big for Aunjanue Ellis so I might come back for it, and to see the aftermath of the William/Christina reveal, if we get one.
one of breonna taylor’s murderers was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into her neighbors’ apartments. not for murderering a young woman in her home. but for property damage. no other charges were filed.
if you can, now would be a good time to donate to the Louisville bail fund. hundreds of protesters are currently marching with a long day ahead.
black lives matter.
There’s a paid version here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bonniebonnie
Or I guess if you search for it online maybe you’ll stumble onto it? Sorry, this one doesn’t seem very easily found.
