Thanks for all the gifs you did!! Omg the Doritos scene! I only noticed how Sterling changed her breathing when April had her hand over her but did not notice that she actually tried to take a sniff to smell April with the eyes closed and everything!?? Hahah my baby gay By the way, is there any chance you gif more twins scene! I love how they being supportive of each other. Thanks! And I love that anon’s interpretation of their 5th grade.
You’re welcome! She really had a whole experience, she’s lucky April was so distracted–well, not that April would necessarily have minded.
I doooo have plans to gif twins scenes, I don’t even count that last scene one for them, but I honestly don’t even know where to start, they have so many great scenes in every single episode, it’s such a great relationship, I love them. If you had requests for individual scenes, I can at least push them up my list, but there’s just so much, it’s hard to really know what to focus on.
And heh, which anon, there are like at least three different interpretations. 🙂
Omg, so you noticed it too! (I thought I was going crazy) But April did get hotter once Sterling became interested in her and their conflict got resolved lol Oh! and speaking of the Dorito moment I kinda saw that as Sterling being attracted to April even when she was going through her lowest point (e.x Sad cause or her dad, Dorito in hair, etc) and as you mentioned her styling kinda changed. It’s sad they didn’t stay together I think Sterling could’ve been a big support for April
She did look different! More ponytails, the school polos and button-ups seemed gayer, lol, the casual woodworking and painting outfits.
And aww, you’re right! April entered the room looking messy as hell and they literally did the choral clouds parting music for when Sterling saw her and sighed dreamily:
And then had Sterling proceed to be SO mesmerized while April sat next to her acting like a wounded badger. April in any form for her, I guess.
For sure, I wish they had ended the season together, but I don’t at all think their story is over, not least because her dad will play a part. And yes, it’d have been nice to see April’s support through the family drama but I don’t think they were really in a place where April would just be there as a partner and offer support, where Sterling’d vent and April’d just be like oh wow, that’s wild. That’s not good TV drama, right, conversations work better when people are bouncing info or arguments off each other, especially these two, so I think maybe the family messiness will be more effective if it gives them a reason to reconnect, like Sterling’s acting out or feeling especially abandoned/alone, something that gives them an actual arc. I dunno, I can tolerate a lot more on TV shows as far as drama and TEMPORARILY unhappy ships go, as long as there’s some kind of journey and movement and preferably pining and thinking about the other.
I’ve watched through the 7th ep so far and I just really like how its been playing out, particularly the reveal of the root of April’s animosity. She was obviously deeply hurt that Sterling “gave” her away, because she’s still holding on to it this whole time, describing it like it was yesterday. And Sterling had no idea she hurt April like that, and was so mortified. And then Sterling caught feelings and is just immediately super dorky about it and its pretty cute.
Right, though! I loved how slowly it unfolded and you really got to see how much dislike there was and then it’s revealed why.
The whole arc was honestly like one of those fics in which we queer characters with Type A personalities, e.g., Paris Gellar or Quinn Fabray, where it’s like, there’s something underneath driving that perfectionism and unhappiness and adding all these extra layers and tension to the supposed rivalry and it’s canon here! With the added trope of the former childhood best friend who was done wrong by (although I still don’t understand how Sterling remembered it so incorrectly, is that supposed to be another reveal at some point or?) to add that extra history with a Betrayal. Although of course the Sterling we know is a super nice person and, as you said, a huge dork about her crush so you still want her to get the girl.
It’s kind of neat that we would naturally sympathize with those characters, any girl that behaved in a way that was Too Much, and write in these extra reasons and motivations for them and here this show’s done just that. And it’s especially fun to see, because usually we just have to do it in fanworks, but once Sterling started seeing her in a romantic light, she becomes a more romantically rootable figure? Styled different (barring the Dorito moment, lol), behaving differently. Like, this is how it is when the source material itself goes there, huh. Childhood friend to rival to person you have a same-sex crush on and she returns those feelings…amazing.
