the gulf between how genuinely progressive and forward thinking the franchaela storyline is compared to the rest of the show and ESPECIALLY what they're doing with eloise is kind of comical. like one minute we're doing delicately written subtext that sensitively addresses the self-blame a lesbian may feel compounded on top of the self-blame from her infertility issues for not being able to be a wife to a man "the right way" in a storyline that is going to lead to self-acceptance that will come from her liberation from heteropatriarchal norms and the next we're doing a woman who has spent 4 years straight insisting she doesn't want to get married on feminist grounds having her political convictions worn down for choice feminism and The Power Of Love. like what is going on here.

'the greatest reveal in the history of media was-' no. the greatest reveal in the history of media was in the novel Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (1986), wherein after having spent the entire book up to this point in the fantasy land of Ingary, where fairy tales come true, it is revealed that the real reason that Howl is so odd, so strange, so different from everyone else is that he is not, in fact, like everyone else. and this is not because he is a wizard, or a layabout, or heartless--it is because he is Welsh. as in, he is from modern day Wales. as in, he and his pals from Magic World go for a quick trip to visit his family in Wales, circa 1984-6. and suddenly everything about Howl Pendragon aka Howell Jenkins suddenly makes a lot more sense

imagine being a dog and you think your chances are pretty good. and then you look over and there's Mitski getting her wallet out