Whaaaattt?
Omgggg?
Awwww!
Just two queer IRL (and hopefully in-universe) Trek pilots. :))
I think the person playing detmer is queer :D. I reaalllyy hope they go for detmer/jowo. I’ve been shipping it since season one lol
Why some anons are pressuring you to watch Bly manor? If you said once that you dont want to watch,then that is it. period. At least they have to respect you. I am in the same page with you about Bly manor, i couldnt watch for same reasons. I even understand hype and everything on twitter (i support them) but sadly i feel like i am alone about not watching it. Have a nice day/night.
Oh, I don’t see it as pressuring! I take it in totally good faith, especially since mostly I’ve only said I’m not going to watch now (or soon). And I get wanting others to like what you like, I find it nice that people want to share that. And who knows, maybe I will watch it one day. I don’t tend to have feelings tooooo strong about this kind of thing, but if I did, I’d be firmer myself and then I’d expect people to follow my lead. Plus, I am choosing to answer each of these, heh.
But I do also understand how it feels when of the few BIG f/f things we get doesn’t resonate with you and you feel like you’re missing out, if not on the thing itself, then the community and experience. I feel like that too, more so earlier when I was really torn between watching and not, but now that I’m more decided, it’s like, well, I don’t want to watch, so…what are my options? Just the one, right, not watching. There’s less conflict. It is what it is and sooner or later it’ll be something else.
Yeah I agree with that other anon. I know Away probs wouldn’t like convince countries to work together but it was nice imagining a reality where we all worked together towards a common positive goal. It was a nice optimistic future and made me feel hopeful in this hopeless year. I miss Away ?
Oh, yes, absolutely. When that kind of thing happens in shows or movies, I actually tear up, people who would gain nothing and possibly even lose from helping out still reach out and do so. I do think most people are mostly good…haven’t we seen so much goodness this year, even with everything? So many people trying to improve things, trying to hold on. But yeah, it’s always nice to see it in fiction, especially something like this, representing the big factions of the current world, able to sort their differences without stakes like possible war or death.
I love you with all my soul and I respect your opinions even if sometimes we don’t agree on. I hope someday you watch Bly manor and the half of it. Luv
Awwww, Anon. :)))) If it matters, it’s people like you who do make me inch closer to watching.
I’m sad cause I feel like Away was something the world really needed right now. Showing what we can accomplish if we actually worked together as countries. Since every country seems to be mad at every other country currently.
And within each country mad at each other. Yeah, buddy, it sucks. But you know, the people who most need to watch wouldn’t be in the first place, so. And there’s so much other popular media where people overcome their differences and unite and it hasn’t seemed to have taught them a damn thing.
But I do hope we’ll see more ambitious projects like this, so diverse and multinational. I think even with everything, large swathes of so many countries veering toward the right, other parts will still continue progressing, and while media in the next year’s going to have to curb itself for covid, we’ll still see more interesting projects in the near future.
The difference with bly manor for me in terms of their ending is the fact that i never felt like dani and jamie were written for anyone other than us (and definitely not for straights) and that happens so rarely, almost never. The lesbian wrote the last episode and you could feel it. Combine that with the fact they were central to the story, the very soul of it, and you get something special. That said I understand why you don’t wanna watch it, this is just my veiw on it. Btw looove your gifs :)
Yeah, I can understand that! The feeling of even existing for the writers, let alone being the main consideration is so rare in anything with a budget, let alone a big Netflix franchise. It’s super validating!
It’s just, you know me… Heh. And thank you so much!
kajillionaire was such a strange weird movie but the romance was so cute and sweet. i really loved that scene where melanie is trying to flirt by saying old dolie must have lonely housewives throwing themselves at her
It really was! I was expecting it to be more a very random hipster kind of movie but it ended up so earnest and honestly, rewatching, knowing what’s coming, romantic. My friend’s currently watching it and is really loving it and I’m having fun watching it through her eyes. She’s really connecting to OD, lol.
And hah, yes, that scene, Melanie playing out that cliche to hit on OD, it was cute. It was just nice in general seeing such a deprived person receiving the attention Melanie was showering on and start to soak it in.
What’s your fave thing about Lu and Mei?
Oh, hmm. You know, as much as I have a hard time picking favorite things in general, this kind of thing I can immediately pinpoint for ships.
For these two it’s gotta be how much they truly respect each other? Not in this shallow, subservient way but where they truly know and understand the other and the way they respect them extends to caring about what’s important to them, too.
When you look at them from the outside you’d have no idea of the depth of their feelings, oh, they spent two years not acting on their feelings, oh, Lu went off to space without doing anything but like, the restraint and adherence to duty and sense of responsibility is part of what they love. We get the inside look and know it wasn’t easy at all to hold themselves back or for Lu to leave like that, but there’s just this like…understanding of what they both want and even as it shifts and grows, they make sure to be on the same page, all while having to factor in the major external factors that they care about and know the other cares about too.
There’s this trust, always rewarded, that they can request things of the other and know it’ll be listened to and taken seriously. Even from the start, Lu asking Mei how she learned to speak English so fluently, Mei asking Lu for the calligraphy demonstration and lessons, but even the serious things like Lu saying they couldn’t be together, Mei asking to stay the night, and then most crucially, Lu asking for a future together and it’s just…so mutual and open and trusting and thoughtful. :’)
Have you seen ep 3 of Soulmates? It has WLW! The show is an anthology each ep is separate like Black Mirror. Sadly no one is talking about it except the MLM ep.
I did! I did, and as I mentioned, I was expecting it to go with poly and it did, so not really my thing, even with Georgina Campbell in another f/f role. I did see that the mlm ep was gonna have the Pennywise actor and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in a kind of romcom ep and I kind of wish we’d gotten that as well, heh. I do have some thoughts on how, considering the rules of this world, every other couple–whether or not they choose the person who’s their soulmate–is monogamous, just not the wlw couple, but I’m more just observing the pattern than making any judgment on it.
What I liked about bly manor is that finally for once there are a lot of straight people who recognize a wlw relationship. Not that it hasn’t happened before but my straight friends said that they actually cried at the ending, so it was refreshing to see that they were actually moved by a wlw plot line! It really doesn’t happen that often which is really sad
I get that but the bulk of our stories in mainstream have always* been sad precisely to inspire this sympathy in straight people. “Realistic” homophobia, whether it’s in coming out stories now or historical drama, has always been for straight people. Queer characters suffering, being separated, dying frequently, that’s constructed for their benefit already. So it is a little sad that it takes this approach for them to recognize us.
And of course, if it’s sad enough even the straights are crying, there’s no hope for me, lol.
*ETA: Well, not always, of course first they were sad because it was a cautionary tale. I meant the ones where they’re sympathetically told. Although of course…therein lies the rub, even sympathetic stories can be cautionary. But that’s a whole different convo, I just wanted to address my inaccurate generalization.