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where can I watch In the Dark?? That gifset made me super giddy!!

It’s a CW show so you could probably actually watch it on their site as long as you can get a US IP:  https://www.cwtv.com/shows/in-the-dark/

I don’t know that I’d recommend watching just for them, because they’re not the main characters, the show itself is about a misanthropic blind girl, Murphy, whose friend gets murdered but nobody believes her. One of the wlw in the gifset is the Murphy’s roommate (and also colleague) so she appears a fair amount and her girlfriend is often at their apartment but you know, overall, it’s not a lot of screentime. Honestly, I like the rest of the show too, I’d have watched even without the f/f, but I just wanted to be clear on that.

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why did Val ask Juliana if she enjoyed the sex with Sergio? was it because she had bad experience and didn’t feel anything and wanted to know if it was different for Juliana? or why would she ask such a question?

Oh, to me, there was some genuine curiosity in there in a petulant sort of way, like “oh, so was it worth it, huh, was it”, to needle Juls a bit and make her uncomfortable, but mostly? Raging jealousy. She wanted reassurance that Juls didn’t enjoy it.

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And for a split second getting that confirmation did affect her.

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Annnd then realized it wasn’t really making her feel better in the moment.

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I said jealousy and petulance and yeah, those are negative traits but Val feeling them and even acting on them doesn’t make her a bad person. It just makes her a person. She was understandably upset, acted like an upset person, and then like the super kind person she actually is and not at one point in time, took herself out the conversation:

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It’d have been forgivable if even that hadn’t happened, if she’d stewed for longer, not because Juls deserved it, but because Val was allowed it, but Val is Val.

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Not sure all the details, but Juls DEFINITELY avoided eye contact. She probably just avoided everything. Like those phone calls where Val would say “Te quiero” and Juls would just be like “bye.” Haha.

Lol, y’all are so harsh on those moments! Half the time the moment was all wrong, and she’s just careful! A novice! You can’t expect her to be returning comments without some careful thought. And that last time, on the phone, the okay was so grateful, so heartfelt and moved! 

But yeah, she totally everything in that moment (after the pool kiss), she literally ran away while Val was gone for a second. Can’t deny that, heh.

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I always wonder about the first kiss then cut to awkward scene next. Like did they say anything to each other? Did one of them stop the kiss? Did Juls pull away because she remembered Val was in a relationship and shouldn’t be kissing other people? Or because they’re both girls? During the kiss they both seem into it, and right after it seems like a mistake. But then Val keeps daydreaming about it? I need to know what happened, lol.

Eggg ZACTLY! Who pulled back first? Did anyone try to say anything? Was there awkward laughter? Avoiding eye contact? How did they get out of the pool, who followed whom? Did Val lead Juls over to sit down in the awkward positions we then found them in? 

It’s definitely one of those moments where it’d be so difficult to write it to get from one spot to where they needed them next that they just skipped it, lol. Like, you can’t imagine they wouldn’t have found a way to break the tension in the journey from the pool to the seats. I cannot imagine there wasn’t some laughter or an apology or something, with these two. If there hadn’t been, what a horribly excruciating journey it would have been. No wonder Juls ran away, lol.

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I’d say it would be her parent’s house more than hers, I think she lives in an apartment with Gonzo. Still, she’s basically a real-life Carvajal, lmao. But also… was that her family’s house? I assumed it was a hotel or something? That’s kind of creepy… how’d that fan find her address to send the band… I know the fan only meant well, but… I would be terrified…

Her house, her parents’ house, same thing in a lot of places, lol. 

About the fan knowing the address, I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s too widely known? And they didn’t seem scared but instead rather appreciative, so maybe it’s just like, a few fans who know that they actually know fairly well?

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THANK U FOR TELLING ME ELKDTAL WAS ON NETFLIX!!!! I had no idea but I’ve been wanting to see this!! Immediately went to go watch it and I loved it! I lost it at the part w the glass boxes. I’ve seen some meta on the movie so I went in with a tiny bit of the background/knowledge that the focus was on the guys, but I loved the movie! I’m gonna have to read more meta to see anything I missed in my 1st view. (1/2)

Also I knew it was a lesbian love story but somehow still missed who the girl she loved was til it was revealed/ the story was reframed! Goes to show how heteronormative everything is until we look back differently/know full story. PS sorry if this is a dumb q but I was curious, is it typical not to have any kissing shown in Bollywood movies? Wasn’t sure if that was Bc f/f kisses would be censored or if there’s generally no kisses, the hugging was scandalous in the plot but I wasn’t sure 2/2

No problem! My friend told me and I immediately downloaded it. Honestly, I’m going to have to rewatch the whole thing a few times, there was so much going on. The latter half especially, layers upon layers.

Heh, yeah, we watched the trailers wondering who it was gonna be for so long, but I think it was hinted very strongly in just the last weeks leading up to the release that it’d be Regina Cassandra’s character.

Actually, it’s not really that common to have kissing in Bollywood movies, although there’s been more recently so definitely a choice was made here. But the absence of that didn’t stand out to me.

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I loved ELKDTAL! Glad you’re into it too 🙂

Aw, thanks, and glad you enjoyed it too! Here’s to many more.

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You just drop random mentions of books in your tags, and getting me all curious ?and then I find out it doesn’t come out until summer ? thanks, I guess ? if you don’t mind me asking, do you mostly use Amazon/Goodreads? to keep track of your to be read/read books?

Haha, get a load of this one’s release date. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J6HWLPR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o05?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I preordered it in December, promptly forgot it existed, saw it on a new rec list recently and tried to preorder it like five times until I realized Amazon was telling me I’d already done so. 

But at least it’s almost summer already? I hadn’t even noticed the date for This is How You Lose the Time War, I was too busy trying to figure out if it was f/f or not. It was up front about being a romance but so coy about the genders, I had to look through so many blurbs and tweets till I finally found a review that said it was two women. And it’s not like I need books to be f/f, my two most often recommended don’t have any, but if they have a romance? Yeah, actually, yeah, then I do. 

I guess I use Amazon for remembering? I don’t read enough to really need to keep track of things but I signed up for Goodreads under my real name and then couldn’t put the gay stuff. Downloading Kindle samples is effectively my “to read” system and I started keeping track very recently of books I’ve already read as a plain text list.