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Ahaha, and then I tried to picture you as someone I love and respect? APRIL, why are you like this. She really was like, hello, fellow heterosexual girl, you look amazing! That’s what straight girls do, right, compliment each other on their looks to boost their confidence! And then unable to continue the charade for five seconds.
Although there might have been a bit of truth in that, the way she looked her up and down… Honestly, Sterling did look good that day.
Oh, I’m like that about songs too! Except I actually tend to not know any songs in general till I hear them on media so that’s my first and only association with them. I have this whole list of songs I just associate with f/f scenes. For Stepril it’s not just Slow Burn but that Hit It Hard song from ep 7 too, lol.
But no doubt, Slow Burn is definitely their song, ughhh, including ep 10. :((( April’s face in that sceeeene, like, I think because we see so much of Sterling’s interiority and Maddie has such a ridiculously expressive face, in contrast we tend to picture April as someone more in charge, knowing what she’s doing, but her expression showed how she’s also just playing this as best as she can with what she has.
Hee, well, okay, what do YOU think of it, anon? I honestly just giggle when I see it, it’s just so surprising and fun with all these layers. Like, on the one hand, they’re these super inexperienced Christian kids, right, doing their little Christian project, closeted, nothing can be put out in the open, but you also have Sterling explicitly so horny for April and it is PALPABLE.
And like, the aim to please, she’s saying it half-joking but it’s literally what she is, this good kid people-pleaser of the highest order but it’s also this proud little acknowledgement of her efforts to win over April since the debate tournament, wear her down with sheer friendliness, and like, yay, progress! Progress because she wants to DATE her.
But god.
I don’t think any of us, Sterling included, expected that drawn out “Noooted”, it’s just April being her bossy, overbearing self, but it’s so unintentionally aligned with the way Sterling has been approaching this convo. I think she’s caught off guard by how much it played into her little fantasies, lol, because MAKE NO MISTAKE. This kid has been fantasizing about April and is not at all opposed to her bossy, overbearing side and it was just this odd little intersection of the two and she sharply looks over and swallows as she realizes that no, April didn’t really mean anything by it beyond their usual dynamic.
In a season filled with a lot of favorite moments for just this ship, this remains in my top few just for its sheer rewatchability value. The first time we’re here, it’s all nerves and anticipation and even worry for Sterling, rooting for her but afraid of how quickly she’s running into this. And there was some relief that there’s obviously some thawing on April’s part and even a BIT of optimism, but god, on rewatching, and knowing Aprli’s this super intense lesbian and that underneath this tentative little interaction they’re both canonically starting to see the other in a new light and developing raging crushes on each other, it’s just SO much fun
Sorry, I forgot about this one non-TBH ask. Hmm, I gotta say, I’m very much an Andy/Quynh person myself and fully expect Quynh to not survive so I’d want more of her time to be spent with Andy, buuuut, if there is one person who’d be instrumental in bringing Quynh back to the good guys, it really would be Nile…
Not read the comics so just speculating based on the movie, but I can totally imagine scenes between just Quynh and Nile where Qunyh starts off underestimating Nile and confused and angry that Andy cares so much about her and then getting why. Okay, you’ve convinced me, but I still mean in a platonic sense, I’m not gonna give up on Andy/Quynh!
Ooh, yes, another anon said that and I can see it.
And another anon:
i don’t think she’s the one you all were discussing who she looked like but i did want to jump on that bandwagon real quick and say april looks A Lot like jodie comer imo! also i think it’s been said but sterling’s a dead ringer for eliza coupe imo
Jo-Jodie Comer? For April? I…I mean…I…well, Jodie Comer can be quite the chameleon, so maybe in some pics or videos, yeah. Hmm, yes, Eliza Coupe has been said, so that’s another vote. I don’t know if I should be keeping track of these, hee.
And another anon:
I love how we play the look alike game after every new show we’re currently obsessed with lol
I think these four actresses just really set it off for us for some reason! These three and Alba, I mean, althoughhhh, when I watched Fairly Legal, I was stuck on who Virginia Williams (the twins’ mom) reminded me of and couldn’t really land on anyone.
And other anons:
Hey, do you think April already had a secret crush on Sterling? Or she became attracted when Sterling kissed her?
Did April like Sterling when she was being mean to her early on?
Do you think April had a crush on Sterling? I think Sterling might have had one on April (if maybe subconsciously) when they were younger if only because in the scenes where they’re reminiscing on their childhood Sterling seems to remember little details that even April is surprised she remembers
Hmmm. That is the big question, right, was Sterling one of the Adeles, and if so, did it ever go away and if it did, when did it come roaring back?
I don’t know what the show’s version of the timeline would be, I’m not even entirely sure of my own thoughts, but here would be my current feelings:
In the first few eps, there’s a genuine resentment from April toward Sterling, for the reasons I mentioned earlier and obviously the 5th grade thing. Mixed up with all that was probably also a buried attraction, Sterling’s pretty, but she’s also a good enough student to be an actual rival and on some level that’s something April responds to. April also seems strong-minded enough to appreciate how principled Sterling is, except it makes her even more resentful, thinking it’s fake.
So you enter ep 6 with this swirling maelstrom. teen hormones, resentment past and present, having to suppress any gay feelings, probably hiding them from even herself, the recent agitation of her father’s situation and the resulting social humiliation. I don’t think she’d like, been sitting there examining her feelings and being like, omg, I have a crush, damn, I wish I didn’t have this crush on this snake, I think she just had complicated messy feelings about Sterling, former friend and current rival, who can hold her own against her but also keeps reaching out and being nice. And then it all comes to a head at the competition, where she’s actually teaming up with her, having to think of her as an ally (if grudging), and then the 5th Grade Betrayal comes up again and Sterling seems to genuinely have no idea about it and immediately and earnestly wants to apologize. When Sterling refused to use the info against Craig, April was furious in the moment but I think that really was when everything really changed.
She’s yelling at Sterling, right, angry at her and also at herself for trusting her to do this and being hurt again and you can see that moment where she catches herself and pulls back:
As much as we (understandably!) talk about Sterling’s reaction here, April was having a Moment of her own. I mean, don’t think she went home and had a Clueless fountains realization, I’m in love with Sterling Wesley, but I think she did realize she’d been overreacting, over a lot of things, as she said in 1×08, her anger had been “misdirected”, and that might even mean that Sterling had been an Adele. But now the realization gave her a lot of room to think about Sterling’s good qualities without always stopping short because of the bad (or what she thought were bad). Because with everything else, refusing to use that info against Craig was actually super admirable.
I think a lot of Sterling’s flirting over their project actually DID get a response from April, the way she grudgingly admitted she didn’t think Luke was right for Sterling, the whole conversation about Naomi and Ruth with her confused about Sterling’s motives but also curious in so many ways about her thoughts on it. At that stage and with the specific complexity of this situation, it’s hard to really define it, I don’t think she was in a place where she had fully decided her feelings and was just waiting for a sign to act on them, I think even then she was ready to remain alone for the whole of high school, at the very least, buuuut, to answer all your questions, I think she absolutely did have increasingly positive and warm feelings about Sterling at that point, maybe some wistful what-ifs, and then the kiss opened up a whole world of possibilities.
That’s an interesting observation, last anon, about Sterling having a thing for April and that’s why she remembered things like what she’d quoted to Luke. It’s definitely possible, I do think she has a great memory in general and can probably quote all kinds of stories like that, but that was SO specific. i do agree, though, if it was there, it was subconscious.
Ooof, yeah, the lost season. So unfair, and at least now it’s because of something external (although the US’s handling of it didn’t have to be so poor), back then it was just people not coming to an arrangement about money. So much potential art lost, so many careers shuffled into different paths. Capitalism, huh. Well, it’s capitalism that’s stopping these shows now too, they could have just waited it out. It all sucks and I really feel so sorry for people in creative fields right now, to see so clearly how much they’re needed and providing the content we’re consuming but who’re provided even less support and resources than usual.
I do think it’s very much related to covid (and their greed, so like, they’re still not entirely innocent in this) and while those shows have LGBT rep, pretty much all their shows do at this point, so I don’t think that’s a factor.
As I saw somebody point out, it’s most likely that those shows were the ones that should have been taping soon and Netflix didn’t want to eat the cost of continuing to delay, so in that sense, TBH (and WN) are definitely luckier. If this continues well into next year, then that’ll be bad news for TBH (and many other shows–maybe at that point they’ll have to rethink their decision-making).
Ohhh, I definitely see that one. I wonder if…maybe that’s who I’ve been thinking of. I don’t think so but very close.
And another anon:
bRUH people saying april looks like ava from warrior nun are fully glossing over the fact that she is IDENTICAL to maggie rogers
I’ve only heard of comparisons to Camila but let me see this Maggie Rogers. Hmm, I guess I see what you mean, especially when smiling, but this might be another case where you have to see ‘em in motion.
And another anon:
Blair reminds me of the actress who played Spencer Hastings from PLL
Hmm, I get that one, like, if you blended together several faces to get Blair, Troian would be one of them.
