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shiiit harlots trailer is really packed! can’t wait for July to arrive!! And as always thanks for the gifs!

It is! Oh my gosh. 

First of all, MARGARET WELLLLLSSSS. When is she going to show up? Will she just like, hover around like a masked vigilante, and thus get to have long unexplained absences, or will she make contact with her family? Harlots’ trailers go pretty deep into the new seasons, so I’m imagining with Samantha Morton’s obligations to TWD, she’ll only show up in the second half, but whatever, I’m just happy she’s going to be there.

What all is going on with Isabella, hmm? And Charlotte, like, are they jointly hosting something with other fancy people? Who’s Charlotte what a bawd is to? And Isabella’s just gonna tell people she has a daughter?? And then there’s Theon and his story and Harriet and hers and Emily Lacey and Harcourt and the boxing guys and Lydia surely going to get her revenge. And! It took me a bit to place her, but Angela Griffin from the The Detail’s that new bawd who’s teaming up with Lucy for a m/m brothel? Hmmmm. It’s weird, this is the third time very recently I’ve been reminded that for gay men, the punishment was hanging. D: 

I’m not super happy about the absence of the Scanwells and Violet, all three were so important in their own way. Just have to wait, I guess, to see what happens there. I’m going to be sooo tense during July and August, with this show and Killjoys. Really need all the wlw to survive, please. 

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Yup, dismissive of bisexuality to the end, along w having a lesbian fuck a guy Bc lesbians gotta sleep w dudes if they’re being a Nice Guy™ right?? Like!! Esp disgusting after they had the arc where Jess admits she’s never slept w a dude Bc she knew she was gay & was uninterested in men. Smfh. Idgaf if she was high or drunk, it makes it all grosser. I had a feeling it was coming Bc last couple eps had her & Felix solo hanging out, but I’m still a little surprised tbh. Thx for letting me vent lol

Yep, insulting to everyone. I thought it was coming, after that one ep where Murphy had to feel a dead body so they camped out at Felix’s house and then also when she helped him order weed, but after both those times they retreated away from it and I was like, they know better, they wouldn’t do that. Hmph.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they’ll have her come to terms with her own crappy attitude toward Vanessa, and she’ll realize she’s bi, but the road to getting here, after making such a big deal about her being a lesbian. It’s a terrible look. And no problem about the venting, I get that there aren’t many people watching and actually, I remember someone mentioning watching because I posted a gifset, so, I gotta take responsibility. 😛

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If u don’t mind the spoilers, it was seriously such bushit that I’m done even if they didn’t sleep together (which. I’m pretty sure they did Bc she was going for his belt when I turned it off). Jess told Vanessa that she cheated on her, then they broke up. Vanessa was devastated & crying about it, later Felix said Jess only cheated Bc she knew her relationship w Vanessa wasn’t going anywhere & Jess agreed. So they break up, but were still talking. (1/?)

So then Jess told Vanessa they’re breaking up Bc it was only fun for Vanessa & she needed more, & Vanessa said she couldn’t give her that (WHICH. JESS WAS THE ONE THAT CHEATED, WHY WAS VANESSA APOLOGETIC.) Also wtf was this arc! They legit said ily to each other & started out serious/domestic, then it went to as if they were just fooling around, then it went to Jess treating her like shit & Vanessa suddenly flighty/aloof?! Oh, & then Jess was upset Vanessa went back on tinder. Garbage plots.

I absolutely don’t mind the spoilers in this case, and I can understand you wanting to vent with the details, that sounds atrocious. I’m genuinely disappointed, I thought the CW had decided to do better in its f/f and in the last three years had stopped making two of its largest mistakes. It’s not just that it’s bad rep, it’s just bad writing? Flipping back and forth like that, characters being unobservant and self-centered and OOC for the plot. “Only fun” for Vanessa…so they just stuck with that bizarre dismissive attitude toward bisexual people to the end, huh.

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cw shows are so predictable that as soon as they start having a m/f friendship w solo scenes, u know exactly where it’s leading. SPoiler alert if ur not caught up on in the dark, but for real, as soon as CW shows start having a girl hang out w a guy, u know they’re setting up a hookup, even if the girl is a lesbian. ?? idk if Jess/ Felix actually slept together Bc I turned the ep off when they started making out, but in the dark did the fastest implosion of a lesbian arc I’ve seen so far.

Oh. I don’t like that. 

I wasn’t caught up, actually, but you know, in an earlier ep, I’d been thinking, huh, the friendship between these two is nice but I hope that’s how it remains, because as you said, just having a guy and girl hang out, EVEN IF THE GIRL IS A LESBIAN. Wow. Even making out, why…after all the emphasis on Jess’s being a lesbian to the point of like, shaming her poor gf for ever having been with a guy. Wow. Damn. Now I’m going to be super slow to catch up, if I ever do. But thanks for letting me know, and this is certainly a discussion point. 

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Thank you for recommending The Priory of The Orange Tree. I was hooked from the first page! Finished it in 4 days, I couldn’t put it down!! And the slow burn was so satisfying!!!

I’m glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate you letting me know. 🙂

It really does suck you in, right, and yesss, of all the books I’ve read recently, most with f/f in some form, I still really do love how romantic it was, such interesting well-written characters who really fell for each other and how it then worked into the rest of their motivations.

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i mean it gets flagged but it only demonetizes it or makes it blocked in a few countries. still accessible from most, and if not you just need a vpn. maybe now that the show is over they aren’t policing it so heavily

Oh, nice, yeah, that’s about as good as can be expected. Cool, then, let us know when you start putting up the subs. Are you putting up HD versions? I think people are interested even without the subs, if other avenues are lost (since that other link for eps suddenly seems to have gone down too).

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low key i’ve been downloading all the eps and posting them to youtube. might spend the time translating them cause i’m bored. i know everyone is kinda over the show itself but i still want it around an accessible if even just for me

Oh, wow, I would be very interested in that and so would some other people. Let us know when you start putting up the subs. 🙂

Isn’t Youtube flagging it like crazy? zeroty and AtL were having trouble with just minute long scenes, would a whole ep not be taken down? 

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I stayed up way past my bedtime to read the 9 chapters of Gideon the 9th, only to find out it’s not coming out until September?? I’m very, very excited – great worldbuilding and banter, like you said, so thank you for sharing, I guess, but also, thanks a lot! >=

Aw, whoops, but then isn’t it better for your bedtime that the full book wasn’t available? Hmm? And in my defense, anon….in my defense:

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I mentioned it in the tags, heh.

But yeah, I was so ready to be–well, not let down, exactly, but given a reality check. The book was so lauded and the ratings so high, I was like, it cannot be as good as all that. And it was!

It’s sooooo….different? I know people have said that in their reviews but I was like, they’re just saying that, but it’s just so confidently different? Like it’s just decided this is how things are going to be and we just have to accept it? This is the escape attempt we’re going to land in the middle of, this is the dirt everywhere, this is this planet, this is the incredibly dickish other girl who’s kind of endearing in how young and HOW AMAZINGLY AWFUL SHE IS, like, I wanted Gideon to punch Harrow in the face but also? I love Harrow. 

And then the rest of the story unfolded, in maybe a familiar way after all, I was telling a friend that it’s like the typical manga/anime/YA competition with a bunch of cool characters from cool places going to fight it out, but that is not at all a bad template to use. Basically, it’s really interesting characters with an interesting dynamic in a proven fun scenario. September (!) cannot come soon enough.