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My coworker is a doppelgänger for Blair. Like no joke you can’t tell them apart. Obviously I can’t prove this but trust me ?

Man, what is it about this trio of actresses that’s making people find all kinds of similarities. 

And another anon:

do you ever find yourself disliking a ship/character because an actor looks like someone you know who you don’t like? (i ask because sterling’s actress looks EXACTLY like a girl i know in real life who is, well. a massive homophobe :/ )

Honestly, not really. Most people I know don’t look like celebrities, heh. That sucks but like, I think if you watch enough you’ll be able to compartmentalize. Technically, these characters aren’t even like their actors, who they literally look like.

And another anon:

i have been racking my brain for who april (devon) reminds me of for days now and i think i’ve got it. rebecca ferguson from mission impossible. 

Hmm, this feels like the Sterling -> Jes Macallan comparison, where like, maybe a baby version, lol.

And another anon:

Sterling kinda looks like Aly from Aly & AJ when they were younger

I guess I can kinda see that. The nose, right.

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hi i don’t know if this will make sense but i just want to share it with someone. i recently finished tbh like 4 days ago and has been rewatching it again after. then i only realized this morning how powerful the implication of sterling, blair and even april on their complete acceptance of their sexuality and them being ‘right’ with their God. i was born & raised in a very devout catholic family and even the thought of masturbation or sex trigger alarm bells in my brain. (1/2)

(2/2) i’ve long accepted that it’s not to be ashamed of but the conditioning and the feeling still lingers. it was a mind blowing moment for me, when i realized the complete freedom they exude in regards to these topics. the belief that, in the eyes of God, who they are is right and is nothing to be ashamed of.

That makes complete sense and you’re right, it is so powerful! Honestly, now that you mention it, I’m wondering why it didn’t really register with me as significantly as it should have. I try to focus on the meta aspect, right, not just what it’s like in the story but outside it, as I definitely did make a super big deal about the pressure on April to come out. 

I guess maybe I glossed over it because on some level I still saw it as a very liberal satire more than a genuinely religious show? But now that I’m turning over that theory too, like, it is a gentle satire, sure, but it’s not mocking actually religious people, just the extremes. There’s nothing at all jokey in the show’s treatment of Sterling and April’s very real panic at being outed, and that also was something I related to very hard. Or maybe it’s because I never actually had the religious reconciliation problem myself, I didn’t struggle with–in my case–Islamic beliefs about being gay, I actually went the April path, all well, if I am, that’s on God, so like, not my fault.

But no, no, you’re right, it is so valuable to see these relatable but still sincerely religious girls, with not just the knowledge of the Bible and…all the rest of that, but the belief in it and the genuine acceptance to let it in and influence and affect them, to still be like, it’s all good. They didn’t withdraw from their beliefs or make trade offs, or have to interrogate it within themselves, debate it out, try to accept it with their head but still wrestle with it in their hearts, choose one or the other. It is very cool, that comfort. 

Thanks for sharing and making me think about this aspect!

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random but it seems like the umbrella academy writers picked up on the fact that a lot of people just don’t like Luther and decided the solution was to lean into how stupid and pathetic he is, and you know what, it kind of works

You know, I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if that’s exactly how it worked out. What irritated me and presumably others wasn’t even that he was acting so self-righteous and horrible but that the narrative was reinforcing it. The other siblings called it out but in the mildest of ways, they still went along with his plans. And that’s what really annoys me about oafish white men leads, where everything they think and feel is centered, even when they’re horrible, their growth and development is still central, at the expense of other characters’.

But the second season really did seem to pull back on that. It worked in two ways, by making him less intolerable and then by elevating the other siblings to a more equal level, especially Vanya. Like, I’ll usually go along with the narrative, but something really rebels in me at this kind of character getting such unearned narrative power, but this second season, when the narrative was inviting you to gently mock and sympathize with him, I was like, I guess. Heh, I mean, I’ll never love him, but I really left the first season loathing him to a point where I was unsure if I’d enjoy this season, but luckily it didn’t work out that way.

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Sterling looks like a Jes Macallan to me

Ohhh, but like, different evolutions of the same Pokemon? Maybe when there are so many thin blonde white actresses, there’s just gonna be a lot of overlap.

And another anon:

Sterling kind of looks like Sydney Sweeney in certain angles, and April looks like Angourie Rice from Spider-Man!

I can see what you mean by the first one, but the second, tbh, she also reminds me more of Sterling, not so much April. Well, looking at more pictures, maybe like, a mixture… Hmm. I mean, it just goes back to the point above, the overlap.

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i think a really underrated scene i haven’t seen enough people talk about was when sterling facetimed april after her fight with blair. april was really sweet about comforting her and didn’t panic even though she asked her not to tell blair. plus she took sterling’s ‘let’s come out’ spiral in stride or at least until her dad showed up at the door

I know! I was literally just reskimming through ep 9 and caught that again and even though she was so freaked out about anyone else knowing, AND that Blair reacting badly would just increase the chances she’d tell someone else, she saw Sterling was upset and just focused on reassuring her. Their short moments in ep 9 were pretty great, tbh, and you could really see, in their interactions with other people, that they were considering themselves a unit. 

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felt SO bad for sterling in episode 10 i mean jesus talk about having a bad day. also, blair’s “no” at the end when she held sterlings hand just about broke my heart

Seriously, whatever else everyone was going through, it wasn’t alllll this together. 

There are a bunch of asks about the ending and I was gonna do them as a batch but I was just watching random scenes before bed and ended on the finale and man, the way it built up, with the mom going, I gave you everything you asked for but I wasn’t going to let you take my daughter and Dana smirking at that and you JUST HAD THAT INKLING WHERE IT WAS GOING, all the previous moments starting to come together, when she “knew” to pick up Sterling from the lock-in and was so oddly proud and was like I guess it’s mother’s intuition, and then asked for a hug.

AND THEN IT WENT INTO TWIN VISION, for characters other than Blair and Sterling and it was like, well, of course they’d have it too, and then their convo and the audience knowing what was coming, and Debbie and Anderson, and then heartbreakingly, BLAIR realized before Sterling and as you said, that “No” and reaching out for Sterling’s hand before Dana dropped the bomb. Aaah, it was so well done.

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I feel like April flirting with Luke in the lockdown was bc of her dad mentioning Sterling, she probably thought if he knew something then other people must be thinking it too.

Oh, absolutely, she went into panic mode and it’s so understandable. Her first thought would be that he knows and is either hinting at it so she stops on her own or is going to draw it out, because really, why else would he bring them up? Of course there are other rational explanations–even aside from Sterling being one of the bounty hunters that caught him, maybe one of his church friends brought them up, everyone likes the Wesley twins–but none of them particularly likely and you know how it is when you’re a closeted gay in a homophobic environment, you become paranoid at everything, looking too long at women, avoiding looking at them, how you dress, how you interact with girls, how you interact with boys, what your hobbies are. She is absolutely correct to worry about herself. 

Of course that doesn’t give her free rein to hurt other people and she did need to apologize to Sterling about how she handled it without talking to her first and they both might end up hurting Luke some more, but it really is a situation with no good answer.

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*Spoiler alert* Teenage Bounty Hunters If the reveal at the end was true, how can S and B communicate telepathically? That baffles me. The way they ended S1 just makes you want a S2!

I know! I think they’re just gonna say that they’re so close, whether it’s twins, sisters, or cousins, they just grew up with this deep bond and that’s what gave them this, it didn’t even need to actually be an actual twin relationship. I assume they’re going to go in a sweet, heartfelt found family direction where at the end of the day, it’s the family you choose, birth doesn’t change that.