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Heya! So, I read your post about why you like the type of endings where the future is eternal, and i agree 400%! I’m looking for a new good book (bonus if sci fi or fantasy) with a f/f ship and a GOOD ending. Do you have any recs?

New as in, new to you? Or new overall? I haven’t read much lately, I’m afraid. And when presented with this question, suddenly I feel like I’ve never read anything in my life.

But looking at my goodreads, my first suggestion would be Priory of the Orange Tree? There is A CAVEAT about the ending, but, since you’ve read my entire treatise on what I consider acceptable endings, I can say that I was all right with it, if that’s endorsement enough. Let’s see… This Is How You Lose the Time War? Some of the other books I read were the starts of series and were not particularly happy endings and some of the happier ones I did not particularly care for. Oh! The Nevernight series? The completed trilogy. Santa Olivia, which is definitely not new at all. Hmm, the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks finally put out its last book, although I found the writing somewhat abstruse. But the first in the series was my first “wait, this mainstream fantasy is gay” surprise and will always hold a soft spot for that. Ohhh, one of my favorite little books, this cute little novelette, Humanity for Beginners, just a bunch of werewolves running an inn. 

I think that’s it…for now… I’m looking forward to random stuff that’ll be released this year but this is the only lens through which time seems to move slowly nowadays, heh.

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So Grace comes back to life? I didn’t see the movie before because I accidentally spoiled myself & read that Grace died ?

Uhhh, I–well, I don’t know if you want to be spoiled without watching it for yourself, anon? If you know the premise of the Terminator movies, with the time travel and all, you can kind of figure out how the two things reconcile?

If you really want to know before you watch, I’ll put it after the cut below so you have the chance to decide for yourself if you want to read:

Future Grace, who has traveled back in time, dies. But we see at the end of the movie, Present Grace still alive, as a kid, and Present Dani vowing that this time she won’t let Grace die for her, with the implication that the future CAN be changed and they have multiple chances to get this right and this time Future Grace will continue to live. I actually have a lot of thoughts about this but–you should watch first, heh.

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I love Grace having no mercy for Border Patrol. It makes sense both because she’s basically a former refugee, and because those FOOLS aren’t RESPECTING Dani’s OBVIOUS!!! MAJESTY!!!

I mean, she seems to not care about any humans, unless they’re related to Dani, and then grudgingly, Sarah. But definitely a special contempt for Border Patrol. I don’t really see how anybody who’s seen what she has wouldn’t hate everything they’re about, but especially right now for how they’re dealing with Dani and why. 

In one of the BTS vids they talked about the shooting of the detention center scenes and Tim Miller said that the Border Patrol characters were just doing their job, that the movie wasn’t trying to vilify anyone, but you can’t really have it both ways, to say that but then have him tearfully apologizing to the actors for putting them through that scene, and all these European extras be solemn and emotional over the real suffering it represented. It’s not like it’s just an accident that nobody’s to blame for. But I assume that’s more Tim Miller playing the political game there because he absolutely knows what the choice of filming this meant. And in the movie’s universe, there is no way Grace isn’t reacting to the very real atrocities represented by the whole situation. I don’t remember if Legion did the same thing as Skynet, but in Kyle Reese’s timeline, humans were actually rounded up into camps as well, so there’s that element of it too.

I wonder if in the future, Dani told Grace about all this. Actually, I don’t know if the Dani we saw even lived through this particular experience. But present Grace might have been old enough to know what was happening in the camps, before Judgment Day hits, and then so many years later (and then so many years jumping back), realized their threat to Dani in particular. If you grow up idolizing a person and then see how and why she’s mistreated, I can’t imagine you think kindly of the people behind it. It’s kind of funny, in the Terminator scene where you had Kyle reacting to the present, he was overcome with its beauty, but Grace is not really seeing the best of us.

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So Olivia does have feelings for Saskia?

You asked this after the third ep and tbh, having seen the whole season by now, I still have no idea. I really thought from the first eps in particular, they were trying to push something. Whether it was baiting or, I suppose more accurately– setting up some kind of suspense for which way Olivia’d go–or if it was real and would have been elaborated on in a potential second season, I dunno. I think it could have been read either way and I was amused at the writers seemingly giving in to the inevitable complete subsuming by KM’s fanbase and acting like the ending was open ended, “which one” did Olivia choose being presented as an actual question instead of a foregone conclusion. If there’s no second season we can feel free to think it was Saskia.

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I love Katie McGrath. She always sells it when she’s playing gay characters. She’s one of the few that really just goes for it. Not quite at Sarah Shahi’s level, but up there. (Sarah Shahi fuckin goes for it when she’s playing queer characters and sells it so well, no awkwardness or hesitation whatsoever lol)

They’re both great! KM really sells the nonverbal stuff, like, yes, the smirking and hunger, but also the wet-eyed yearning (at her best friend, usually). I’m glad she’s found her niche. 😛

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Thank you thank you for giffing el embarcadero, have you finished watching the second season?

No problem and yep, I have. I wanted to make sure of the ending before I started giffing it. >_> I could have done without that much Conrado but I understand they needed to provide some kind of emotional stakes for the season 2 plot.

And another anon:

omg please post more of the pier I’m DYING to see what happens with alex and veronica! also love your blog!

Thank you! And yeah, yeah…stuff happens. 😮 I’m actually going to gif one more thing I wanted to do from the first ep of season 2 and then sweep back to season 1 for a bit. There were moments I liked but I wasn’t sure at the time what the intention was. This is why endings mean so much to me! S2 retroactively makes s1 all the better, to know that it was leading to this and that Alex and Veronica WERE important for their own sakes and not just Oscar’s.