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Hey. Sending hugs to you tonight because even though I have chosen not to watch it, it’s still breaking my heart ? #kana

Thank you, anon! That genuinely means a lot. I didn’t watch either but I was following reactions and then the subsequent arguments that sprung up and have been stewing in my own anger and hurt since, so your gentle sympathy is very welcome.

There’s no point in repeating all the reasons it sucks, we all know them already, but the worst is always all those people who jump in to claim we’re overreacting and to get over it. And then we have to go back to the rest of media that’s filled with het. Usually I’m fine with that and feel so pleased and lucky every time I see new f/f, but right now, I’m the opposite, just resentful at the imbalance in quantity and quality. How we have to scrounge for every bit of subtext, make excuses for poor writing and no screentime, celebrate the tiniest things.

At least we’ve gone through it enough to know it’s just a temporary state? 

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Wait, wasnt there another lesbian couple on coronation street that ended up with one of them dying on their wedding day? What the fuck? I started watching kana awhile back but stopped for some reason and now I’m glad :/

No, that wedding was stopped before it happened because of cheating and then leaving at the altar. It was a different lesbian who was killed off at another point.

I don’t know if I wished I’d never watched or had stopped earlier, but I’m still too angry to watch right now. I understand that this death doesn’t negate all that came before, especially since it’s happening under a different showrunner, but I’m not so good at compartmentalizing I can put it aside. It’s such a loss. And the way it’ll happen, on a wedding day. That’s just cruel.

I hope I’ll be able to go back to appreciate the good things in time but a major part of Rana’s story has been struggling to live freely and happily, so how can you go back to watch as she fights her confusion and guilt and her parents and not feel bitter at what’s to come? Her father telling her he wished she’d never been born and mother’s “your funeral” at her engagement to a woman? If you think Maca had to cry a lot as Val, triple that and maybe you’ll get a typical month for Rana. :p

I dunno, I think, as good an experience as Kana was at its best, some ships you can revisit and some you can’t, and as we get more there’s less of a need to.

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I’ve been in a bad mood since learning about rana. I mean, i don’t watch them anymore because their storyline was shit. But I still have a soft spot for rana. I just wish bhavna gets more and better acting jobs in the future.

Yeah, it’s staggering. In 2019? After the 2016 backlash? For all the research they must have done into this? 

How did they think a death is better than a breakup! That is straight people talk! I understand that they think this is going to be some soulmate forever bond sealed by a death, but that’s not how it works. Not for us. 

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rileychester replied to your post:
Have you seen the news about Bhavna/Corrie? I hope…

Wait what’s going on?

They’re going to kill off Rana soon. Bhavna wanted to leave and I guess she asked for this, thinking it’d be kinder on the fans if she died and there wasn’t a breakup. 

I had so many things still planned for them… I wanted to see what name they’d pick after marriage and was gonna change her name in my tags. I was going to make a gifset paralleling the various times they’ve talked about their future and going off on adventures. I had 294 things for them still on my to-gif list.