Maneeya Blog

I KNOW this sounds wild. Let me explain. About a year ago I (240, M) was arranged a marriage with my wife (18, F) by the gods. Neither of us were happy about it. I admit, in the beginning, I was cold (imprisoning her in her rooms, confiscating her wheelchair, threatening to kill/torture/force fem her boyfriend (19, M)) and she chafed under my boundaries (not having her face seen or her body touched by other men, me knowing her whereabouts at all times) HOWEVER over the months when she broke up with her boyfriend for making our non consensual son (its a long story) she grew closer to me and slept with me multiple times. I was so nice to her. I let 2 women into the government and even freed people being wrongly imprisoned when she asked! I even gave her a safe word!

Fast forward to THIS WEEK. My wife and I were killing the gods. Then, out of NOWHERE she STABS me. I thought at first it was due to her ex boyfriend who was there (he poisoned and falsely imprisoned me for several months so that I couldn't be with my wife and I planned to smash him to death with a hammer) but THEN my wife says that she HATES ME? and wants me DEAD? Even though she had sex with me?

ALSO also!! I would love to specifically see more of the dynamic between Shane and Svetlana, and Ilya and Rose. I’ve seen some excellent analysis of the parallels between these pairs but I so rarely see them really fleshed out in fic!

I’m imagining social media chaos as fans and shippers try to figure out who’s dating who, and chaotic group chats. Also Hollanov and Roselana acting as each others beards, anything like that.

-I get why they had to do the timeskip and I think it was the best solution to having only one more season to wrap up

-I personally like some offbeat storytelling choices like having Darren and Cash sort out their problems offscreen, dropping some ships that were set up in s2, having Amerie with an established boyfriend who doesn't get much focus and never seems like a believable endgame boyfriend

-That said, given how much I was rooting for Darren/Cash open relationship, it would have been cool to have more details or see them negotiating it...but it's fine. I loved seeing the two of them as a background, secure, mutually supportive couple. My only complaint is the not kissing on the lips thing which contradicts how Cash was very specifically portrayed in s1-s2 as kissing-favorable but sex-repulsed. It's just an odd choice. At one point there was a fakeout where they looked like they were going to kiss and then hugged instead. Why?

-I loved Missy/Spider in s2 but I'm fine with the storyline of them breaking up. I liked how it was handled.

-I don't really care about Amerie/Malakai (blasphemy) but since it wasn't given too much focus, it was fine and cute

-I think I'm the only person who likes Taz! I didn't think they could pull off a love interest for Quinni who felt natural. I really like that they bond through fandom and Taz being a fan of Quinni's writing, but also Taz has unrelated traits and subplots and feels like a person who just happens to have things in common with Qinni, so it doesn't feel like they just shoehorned in a clone of Quinni to date her a la Vickie/Robin in Stranger Things.

-Also, I like that they show an Autistic character writing porn!

-Speedrun of previous dropped threads/flat characterization that I'm glad they addressed: humanizing Zoe and Sasha, referencing Ant's mom, focusing on Darren's insecurity/performativeness, referencing Malakai's trauma (could have been done in more depth but at least they mentioned it).

-The Darren storyline was the shape of what I wanted, but strangely vague? There's this thing where Darren's character in S1 seems (to me) to be shaped by experiences with homophobia, but in the small stylized world of the show, they don't actually depict much homophobia or will have someone say one homophobic thing but then turn around and be accepting later. So we see Darren seeming to be very reactive and defensive in s1, but we don't actually see or acknowledge any of the experiences that contribute to that. Then in s3 we get a whole subplot about Darren being afraid to be genuine and hiding behind a persona but we get no specific discussion of why this is except that at one point Darren is like "well, I have to be funny, because" and just kinda gestures to themself. So the same implication. But again, just weirdly never explicitly discussed? At least they got some focus.

-I'm happy with the Sasha storyline. I think it feels natural how the other kids could have moved toward being so mean and exclusive to her based on a lot of genuinely shitty things she did, and then ended up going too far and really upsetting her. Also, having Amerie decide to turn herself in, only to find that Sasha already had, worked perfectly for me.

-The kids mostly all hung out together instead of being in splinter groups. It may not be believable, but I just don't care because there wasn't this constant jumping between 500 different pairings/storylines like in s1 and especially s2. There was an appropriate amount of plot for the show, and we got time to actually hang out with the characters.

It's still funny that the adults have no chill and I had fun this the AJ/Beau drama.

What’s a character that you headcanon as aromantic and or asexual that would upset the rest of the fandom if you said it?

I’ll go first

Eloise from Brighton : aromantic asexual

Steve Harrington : aromantic

bisexuals! bisexuals everywhere!

Cash getting out of jail - and choosing the right car to get in - when i tell you that scene had me literally screaming!

Harper and her like, entire journey

fucking RAGE callback with the aesthetic and everything!

Nan - best character in the whole show!

Zoe being a bit annoying but not being a villain

Cash and Darren just being so in love and like not even batting an eyelash at showing it to everyone (when they werent fighting that is)!

Spider's homelife - didn't see it coming but it fits

the whole commentary on masculinity and the war on "wokeness"

Chook being a good villain - as in, totally believable, totally terrifying in every scene he was in

Jojo and Woodsy just being... such good people, among the mayhem

Missy saying "petit miam" when she's speaking french

the BIRD PSYCHO mystery - kept me guessing right until the end

More Missy - what a queen!

SPEAKING OF ROYALTY HAVE I MENTIONED MY BISEXUAL KING MALAKAI!!!!!

I even liked the Dusty cameos - not too much, not too little

whenever Amerie and Harper would comfort each other in any scenario

actually any scenes with Harper - like literally whenever she was interacting with anyone it was just *chefs kiss* - Amerie, Cash, Woodsy, Ant, Quinni, Darren

SEXY DANCE FART - a slut-drop-fart was soooo not on my bingo card but thank you writers

baby Dougie adopting baby Darude 🥹

the music was banging! SO. MANY. GOOD. SONGS.

Spider's erectile dysfunction and how it was handled - not just played for laughs, but something that is obviously effecting him a lot

finding out the origin of Cash's nickname - heartbreaking!

THE FUCKING NUTBUSH!!!!! Its just not an Aussie school dance if there is no Nutbush

Even if the timeline is not very clear about how many months they have left in high school.

Anyway for that type of character, I would think that she would have start to prepare some things...