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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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why do i feel like i’ve just been broken up with by the love of my life? this weird melancholy of being happy juliantina existed but sad it’s over is the weirdest feeling i’ve never experienced with any other show before. it’s a break-up of something that was amazing and now I can’t contact them anymore or know what’s going on in their life lol

Awww, anon. Yeah, most of our…breakups are a lot more traumatic, either because a character died or they fizzle away into ignominy because of too many bad tropes and too little screentime. We got something that was pretty great and it’s done and that’s that. It was quick, too! I don’t know about you guys but just two months for me. And it was only four months from start to finish anyway. It’s wild what an effect it’s had in such a short time.

Like, first, let’s not ignore the fact that there’s still, surprisingly, a strong possibility of a spinoff, so it’s not as if it’s all over just yet. But putting that aside, there’s no way this experience will just stop now. The fandom’s going to linger, there are still the awards coming up and little tidbits that’ll be shared.

And believe me, it’s a lot better to end it like this in other ways. Clexa is the obvious comparison but we’re not done with those yet. Those of you who followed me for Juliantina won’t know but I loved Kana on the British soap Coronation Street but a while back it was spoiled that one half, the British Pakistani Muslim lesbian half, was going to be killed off. And we’ve just gotten the news that all but confirms it’s going to be on her wedding day. So…not to be all, count your blessings, it could be worse, but, count your blessings, it could be worse. 😛 

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IDK even kana didn’t really give this level of focus and attention that juliantina are getting. They did certain parts really well but then went back to old tropes or put them back in the background when it seems they were getting in the way of other storylines. It didn’t feel like they were a priority. Juliantina feels different because even though they’re secondary characters, they’re still integrated in the plot when their love story isn’t the focus.

For sure, I can think of maybe a handful of ships where if you took the two characters out, they’d fundamentally change the story (Clexa, Shoot, Heartless, Killjoys, Harlots…? I feel like the show could continue without Isabella…but I dunno, her bro is the series-long big bad…), but Corrie is a soap. That’s different. You could take out any character or family and the show would still be what it was.

We all knew Kate and Rana were junior characters, and yeah, there were some missteps but we can and kind of have to love ships even if they’re not the one and only best of all time. And I did love them. I loved how relatively wholesome they actually were, for a soap ship that started on an affair, I loved the individual characters and how they interacted within the ship, I loved the soulmate treatment they got.

But also, looking at that ELKDTAL MV, I’ll miss the desiness of Kana too. To be able to listen to desi songs and actually match them with a happy, canon ship, to think of all the little desi things that could fit with them even if we never saw it on screen, to share that all with shippers from other cultures. 

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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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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.