DreamYolk

There’s ofc the issue of two out of three individuals being guys but like I’m not against them being trans women and not finding out until later on in the story. Moreover, I’m super not willing to let go of lacrosse (even though I don’t understand it as a sport really) as a plot device. The toxic masculinity is writing itself helps too, if that’s kept in. I did consider a cop out and trying to change it to volleyball or maybe even a co-ed team but idk?

At first I was gonna make Rumi, Scott but then I felt too inclined to make Allison, Jinu and that gave me a jump scare.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Jackson even makes it past season 2 and his apathy and disregard for life human or otherwise that’s not his own is completely at odds with the rest of Rumi’s character 😭

It’s starting to look like an angst no comfort theoretical fic that’ll never even get to Polytrix before it fails because Rumira fails and Zoemira never gets off the ground. At least not seriously.

@drifting-knightjar it's like... The philosophy behind American meds is just different. You can always tell the American meds because they feel like they were developed by Victorian mad scientists with access to Space Future pharmaceutical labs. The first time I tried Cepacol - which, for those unfamiliar, is a sore throat lozenge that's sort of a salt sugar lick of local anaesthetic - I thought I was going into anaphylaxis. Fisherman's Friends just blast your sinuses with menthol.

We also medicate more frequently - when I lived in Germany and asked a pharmacy for Vitamin D they told me, "Just go to Italy??"

I mean every cop show and its adjacent fields are propaganda heavy but I fear I wouldn’t even need to look that hard to find the army account sponsoring the production of this tv show 😂

Like it’s attempting to be woke on some levels and then dropping the wildest conservative dog whistles known to man.

The show was airing in the pandemic times and had the audacity to have an entire episode about Chinese spies trying to make poisons tailored to specific people’s DNA and I’m just supposed to think that this wasn’t meant to stoke xenophobia and attack communism/communist (I’m not affiliated with any party or ideology, just in case the FBI agent watching me is getting any ideas) but like shouldn’t the propaganda be a little less obvious and subliminal? It’s one step above being a slap stick comedy atp

The above is made even more jarring by the fact that they had an entire episode about “Stop Asian Hate” and how the Asian community (which was primarily Chinese) was being targeted by racist etc.

These episodes are in different seasons but the writing isn’t so drastically different that would cause me to think that the writers room has made any changes…

And five seasons later I can say that the ending was subpar and clearly they ran out of funding or will to keep going. Which is fair. I do believe in cutting one’s losses while ahead.

I’m also struck with another slight bout of disdain that not one but two of the characters ended up romantically involved with police officers but really I must have been suffering from some sort of cognitive dissonance to believe that it should’ve gone otherwise, given all the nationalism/patriotism dick riding that was going on.

They also tried to have a queer presence and seem sort of inclusive about it but there was one sapphic couple (that broke up) and maybe one side couple that was sapphic but never any mlm relationships or diverse relationships or gender identities. There was an episode about busting a conversion camp for trans kids but other than that it seems like the show was using that as a means to show how progressive their conservatism is.

Black nationalism is STILL nationalism and there was too much “change the system from within” sentiments than I care for.

Not to mention that that relationship escalator is well and truly in place. But I suppose that is the one bit of propaganda that I’m still knee deep in trying to dissolve. Condition? Hopeless romantic. Prognosis? Hopefully not terminal 😂😂😂

When she’s like, 6 or 7 years old, Hayun thinks that anything Rumi has, she should have, because they’re sisters. She learned this from watching Aeri, Jihae, and Hani share with each other. Usually this means things like food and toys, but there is a brief period of time where she thinks that includes something else, too.

Now, to Hayun, Mira and Zoey are the cool, pretty girls who are always with Rumi, and that Rumi kisses sometimes (and that her nieces and nephew call their moms, too). So, logically (in Hayun’s child brain, at least), because Hayun is Rumi’s sister, SHE should get to kiss Mira and Zoey, too. Every time Rumi kisses her wives, she rushes over to them and demands a kiss, too. No matter how many times Celine and Poppy try to explain that that’s not how that works, and that A) she should be asking, not demanding, kisses from people, B) not trying to kiss her sister’s wives, and C) not trying to kiss someone as old as Mira and Zoey are compared to her because all of that is inappropriate, Hayun won’t listen.

Mira and Zoey, for their part, just laugh it off at first, but whenever they do, it just makes Hayun pout and insist even more that she should get a kiss from them if Rumi does, which annoys the fuck out of Rumi. Things reach a boiling point where, at one point, Rumi tells Hayun that Mira and Zoey are HER wives, so she shouldn’t be trying to kiss them, and Hayun responds by telling her that if RUMI gets to have Mira and Zoey as wives, then so should SHE. This leads to the two of them getting into an actual fight, during which Rumi has to stop herself several times from telling her 6 year old sister that she “already stole [her] moms, she can’t have [her] wives, too.”

After witnessing whatever THAT was, Mira and Zoey decide that it’s time to firmly tell the 6 year old “no”.

Mira and Zoey sit Hayun down and explain to her that she can’t keep demanding that they kiss her just because Rumi gets to, because kissing isn’t like food or toys, and you don’t just deserve to kiss someone because your sibling kisses them. That when they got married to Rumi, they made a promise to her that they’d only kiss her (and each other), and going back on promises is wrong. That you can’t just demand someone kiss you, because that’s wrong, and people should get to decide what someone else does to them.

(They also tell her that if anyone tries to kiss her without asking, or anyone tries to demand kisses from her, to come to them, or her moms, or Rumi, or the girls, because they’ll beat that person up for Hayun.)

She finally stops demanding kisses from them after that.

But then she sees them give their daughters and son kisses on the forehead, and she very shyly comes up to them and politely asks if they can give her one of those kisses. Mira chuckles and Zoey giggles, but they do end up giving her a little kiss on the forehead as well. She smiles and thanks them, and then runs off.

Meanwhile, behind them, Rumi crosses her arms and pouts. “But where’s MY kiss on the forehead?”

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