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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
18. The Bletchley Circle – Millie and Susan

I considered leaving this one out, it’s by the far the least overt moment on the list, and really, it’s an ending. Whatever could have happened between them happened long ago and this was just for closure. And whatever could have happened was subtext at most. But it’s about solid a confirmation as we’d get about that past. I love the show and
I’ve loved them from the start when their opening scenes were so suggestive
but then we cut immediately to a future where relations were strained.
They’d barely talked or even communicated and it turned out that they’d
planned to do so much together but Susan abandoned the plan and Millie,
and now she’s married with kids and the implications were quite clear.
Whatever she felt for Millie hadn’t been strong enough to compete with
her fears and the appeal of a more “normal” life. But no! We get this
treasure of a scene that confirms it was the opposite, she felt too much. It’s obviously too late for it to affect anything but it changes so much for Millie and she acknowledges that. It’s a complete shift in her thinking too, after all, she would have assumed the same as we had, that Susan picked the other life over her because she wasn’t enough. For the show to include this moment before Susan left was so significant.

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
18. The Bletchley Circle – Millie and Susan

I considered leaving this one out, it’s by the far the least overt moment on the list, and really, it’s an ending. Whatever could have happened between them happened long ago and this was just for closure. And whatever could have happened was subtext at most. But it’s about solid a confirmation as we’d get about that past. I love the show and
I’ve loved them from the start when their opening scenes were so suggestive
but then we cut immediately to a future where relations were strained.
They’d barely talked or even communicated and it turned out that they’d
planned to do so much together but Susan abandoned the plan and Millie,
and now she’s married with kids and the implications were quite clear.
Whatever she felt for Millie hadn’t been strong enough to compete with
her fears and the appeal of a more “normal” life. But no! We get this
treasure of a scene that confirms it was the opposite, she felt too much. It’s obviously too late for it to affect anything but it changes so much for Millie and she acknowledges that. It’s a complete shift in her thinking too, after all, she would have assumed the same as we had, that Susan picked the other life over her because she wasn’t enough. For the show to include this moment before Susan left was so significant.

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
18. The Bletchley Circle – Millie and Susan

I considered leaving this one out, it’s by the far the least overt moment on the list, and really, it’s an ending. Whatever could have happened between them happened long ago and this was just for closure. And whatever could have happened was subtext at most. But it’s about solid a confirmation as we’d get about that past. I love the show and
I’ve loved them from the start when their opening scenes were so suggestive
but then we cut immediately to a future where relations were strained.
They’d barely talked or even communicated and it turned out that they’d
planned to do so much together but Susan abandoned the plan and Millie,
and now she’s married with kids and the implications were quite clear.
Whatever she felt for Millie hadn’t been strong enough to compete with
her fears and the appeal of a more “normal” life. But no! We get this
treasure of a scene that confirms it was the opposite, she felt too much. It’s obviously too late for it to affect anything but it changes so much for Millie and she acknowledges that. It’s a complete shift in her thinking too, after all, she would have assumed the same as we had, that Susan picked the other life over her because she wasn’t enough. For the show to include this moment before Susan left was so significant.

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
19. Faking It – Amy and Karma

Ahh. Faking It. When MTV first announced it was making a show in which two best friends pretended to be lesbians for popularity, the reception was not…positive. Then the first ep aired and it was clear that at least one of the girls maybe wasn’t pretending so much. So suddenly instead of the tired old myth where girls were only together for attention, this a TV show with a queer main character, and we’re about to see how she deals with it.

It is still a teen show, and on MTV at that, so relationships are at the center of it, namely Amy’s realization that she is kind of in love with her best friend, who is happily crushing on a guy. That’s one of the iffier parts of the series, Karma actually playing into that harmful trope where she IS pretending to be a lesbian to seem hotter to a guy, and that guy has outright stated that he IS more interested because he views her as a challenge. Gross behavior all around, and then they go further by arranging this threesome. But from the way the show’s gone about things, in a mostly encouraging way, we’re assuming it won’t be a straightforward matter and that it’ll be actually reveal some things about the triangle. At this point, while Amy’s not only accepted she’s in love with Karma but deciding to do something about it, we’re also slooowly beginning to see some signs that it may not be entirely one-sided.

After the two rehearse for the threesome adorably, we finally get to this scene, and it is focused entirely on Amy and Karma, and Karma is stunned, at what Amy’s wearing, at Amy’s approach, at the kiss. Had this been a fake dating romcom, as at least I was hoping it would be, this would have been the perfect midpoint where the oblivious half suddenly becomes aware of their feelings.

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
19. Faking It – Amy and Karma

Ahh. Faking It. When MTV first announced it was making a show in which two best friends pretended to be lesbians for popularity, the reception was not…positive. Then the first ep aired and it was clear that at least one of the girls maybe wasn’t pretending so much. So suddenly instead of the tired old myth where girls were only together for attention, this a TV show with a queer main character, and we’re about to see how she deals with it.

It is still a teen show, and on MTV at that, so relationships are at the center of it, namely Amy’s realization that she is kind of in love with her best friend, who is happily crushing on a guy. That’s one of the iffier parts of the series, Karma actually playing into that harmful trope where she IS pretending to be a lesbian to seem hotter to a guy, and that guy has outright stated that he IS more interested because he views her as a challenge. Gross behavior all around, and then they go further by arranging this threesome. But from the way the show’s gone about things, in a mostly encouraging way, we’re assuming it won’t be a straightforward matter and that it’ll be actually reveal some things about the triangle. At this point, while Amy’s not only accepted she’s in love with Karma but deciding to do something about it, we’re also slooowly beginning to see some signs that it may not be entirely one-sided.

After the two rehearse for the threesome adorably, we finally get to this scene, and it is focused entirely on Amy and Karma, and Karma is stunned, at what Amy’s wearing, at Amy’s approach, at the kiss. Had this been a fake dating romcom, as at least I was hoping it would be, this would have been the perfect midpoint where the oblivious half suddenly becomes aware of their feelings.

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and Rose

This was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.

But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.

Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.

(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)

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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and Rose

This was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.

But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.

Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.

(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)

(Source: http://booasaur.tumblr.com/)
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26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and Rose

This was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.

But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.

Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.

(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)

(Source: http://booasaur.tumblr.com/)