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February 2, 2020

There’s sooo much subtext with dinah and laurel, I’ve been loving it

It’s honestly kinda ridiculous? I’m very new to it, my friend’s been telling me about it for a while, I even started downloading Arrow last year, but in a time with a lot of canon f/f I was really enjoying partly because of its canonness, I couldn’t be bothered to get into something as convoluted as Arrow for its subtext (”This is a different Laurel?”

“They’re ALL Canaries??” “They BOTH have the name Dinah???”).

But when that backdoor pilot ep was airing, even before it finished, that clip of Laurel walking into the bar just so Dinah could finish singing “I’m in love with you” like directly at her was spreading around and my friend linked it to me all excited.

Like?? That was my FIRST clip of them. That is real, true subtext, in the sense that it’s what writers genuine intend to build up to something. I watched the whole ep that night and honestly, the mistake my friend made before was never actually making me watch something of theirs, lol.

I said before that it’s still fun to get into subtext but honestly, I really meant, subtext that’ll go somewhere. I still can’t really be sure that it will, none of the other scenes really matched that first one but all put together? I could really see it. Hopefully the spinoff gets picked up and we have a chance to find out.

January 30, 2020

Hey! I just wanted to first say I love your gifs sets of The Pier. I caught onto this series because of them and now I have all of the episodes and subtitles on my external hard drive. I’ve probably watched them all at least a dozen times. Anyways, my question is: What do you think of the change in Veronica’s attitude regarding relationships? I mean she goes from someone who thinks it’s ridiculous to try and “own” someone to asking Alejandra to choose between her and Conrado.

Awesome! I’m glad you liked the show. ^_^

I…loved it. It was my secret, selfish wish after the first season, because obviously just because I’m someone who needs my ship to be presented as this soulmate monogamous thing doesn’t mean that’s what the character/writer wants, so I was willing to see where they’d go as long as it was still something Veronica wanted. I at least wanted Alex/Vero to be framed as the most important relationship, even if there was still a similar kind of arrangement with Vicent and hell, Conrado, but of course we didn’t even know going into s2 if they’d be more important than Alex/Oscar and Veronica/Oscar.

But with the show pivoting to focus on Alex/Vero in every way, I absolutely didn’t mind this shifting too. It made sense and was set up not just by s2 but by that argument Oscar and Veronica had before the show even started. She was fooling herself to think nobody would get hurt with her approach, or at least that it was infallible. No system was perfect, it would be up to the people in them to put in the effort and make it work. And that would be true for open relationships or monogamy.

To me, it wasn’t just the hurt she’d seen in Oscar that changed her mind, because that would be balanced by the damage her parents’ relationship did, but that she wanted something stable for Sol and she wanted that stable something with Alex. That was the crucial thing. As a shipper, I loved that! That she was getting both the stability AND the variety in someone like Alex, who could be so reliable and solid but also so mercurial and whimsical. I mean, to go from being afraid Oscar would always be over their heads to see her choose Alex in a way she hadn’t anyone else, and to lay out the contrast and the journey in such a thoughtful, intelligent way, I literally could not have asked for anything different for Vero this season.