So I'm going to try something here. I don't have an AO3 account, I don't leave comments, I bookmark stories/authors on my phone and check for updates daily. I do leave kudos though. And since the winter, when I really started reading Swarla fics, I kept telling myself I should comment, I should start leaving comments. But what I felt like saying always felt so much bigger than a comment, and I kept putting it off. I'm going to try and change that, and one by one write about the fic writers I've read and thank in my head every time I read their work.
These are not reviews, they are appreciation posts. I don't know much about writing, I just know how it makes me feel. So I'm going to (slowly) thank each author here. Going to try anyway.
And these are not in any particular order. I am not on Twitter nor AO3. I don't know any of these writers personally. I am not, I repeat not, critiquing fics or rating them or anything like that. I'm just leaving really big comments here for people who wrote stuff that made me happy in some way.
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Wrist slap! Can someone tell me what Lisa was going for? Turkish Delight, marshmallows?
Where Iām working right now Iāve got sooooo little connectivity so Iām watching new clips on lowest res. I feel like Iām in the dial-up days loading clips! š¤£
Wrist slap! Can someone tell me what Lisa was going for? Turkish Delight, marshmallows?
Where Iām working right now Iāve got sooooo little connectivity so Iām watching new clips on lowest res. I feel like Iām in the dial-up days loading clips! š¤£
Iāll be honest, even if it was Carla Connor herself I donāt think I could handle someone touching my hair EVERY single time they see me. I LOVE it for Lisa! Love love love it! But just watching clips tonight and itās like wow pretty much every time Carla greets Lisa itās go time on hair touching!
I donāt think I could handle that! But I love to SEE it!
Would you like near constant hair touching?
Yes
No
Yes, but only from whatever my ideal Carla Connor/Lisa Swain version would be.
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Need a breather from swarla X atm because folk are doing my head in. Again.
And it made me realise how lucky I am to have been going through the Becky era with you lovely, emotionally intelligent and thoughtful Tumblr people!
I've had the most enlightening conversations with you all during those exhausting months. The sl will probably never be our favourite, but I feel like we have been really working through it as a whole. Neither by excusing every decision/behaviour nor by reducing the characters to single situations. That is the definition of moving on for me. And I'd like to think that is what Carla and Lisa have done to get where they are now. Even if we didn't get to see it (yes, I will forever criticise Corrie for not giving us at least one meaningful conversation after Corriedale, but well...). Thinking of it or seeing scenes/pictures with Becky doesn't fill me with dread now. I don't need to "forget" or ignore anything, and I am truly thankful for that!
@spacehairinthetardis this is why I adore Swarla tumblr. That storyline was brutal but the discussions here, the scene breakdowns by @cake-emu and others were sooooo helpful in deconstructing both the Becky return itself AND how it was affecting us as an audience.
Seeing how people were struggling with it in different ways, the support resources shared and promoted, the debates we had even if we didnāt agree on certain pointsā¦I honestly donāt know if I could have watched that storyline in real time and enjoyed it or have been able to process why it upset me so much without this lovely niche of the interwebtubenets!
Thank you for sharing this I think we all appreciate it. I definitely share the sentiment!
Adam Barlow is a negging asshole who insults your cousin and says āoh Iām Scottish so I can tellā if a dude is bad? What the ever living fuck man?!
I donāt see their chemistry, never did.
I know Ryan slept with Daisy, drunk or not, that was awful BUT itās a soap opera and they forgive worse on the street. I feel like Ryan being on a different career path, taking his time to find what he wants to do (him working at the fancy hotel is excellent I love his Debbie-inspired fancy shirts!) has really boosted his self-esteem and confidence.
I think Ryan and Alya would laugh more, would have actual fun together. Heād never disrespect her family like Adam did even IF he got weird vibes heād be respectful to Alya about it.
I dunno. I guess Adam and Alya wonāt break up since they work together now. But heās not going to marry her, and all that talk of him wanting children has disappeared after Sarahā¦
Seeing Brody again was great and just reminded me how much better suited he would be for Betsy, storyline wise. Dylan is a sweet kid, but heās still such a kid. Betsy feels older than him and not just because the actress is older in real life.
Soā¦silly fun poll time!
Betsy shouldā¦
Continue to have her fun with both and no strings.
Date Dylan
Date Brody
Stay single
Voting ended onJun 3
And this isnāt a āoh Brody is a bad boy Betsy likes bad boysā. I genuinely believe Brody is going to have very interesting arcs as he struggles to stay on a non-violent/non-thieving path. Dylan is boring in that yeah heās a nice lad, but heās capable of dark things to like what he did to Liam. Itās like they are opposites, Dylan is āgoodā but can do bad, Brody is ābadā but can go good. And Betsy floats between them.
But I honestly donāt think Betsy would ever have dated him if they didnāt have the shared Mason connection.
I think Betsy truly loved Mason and sheās not interested in falling in love again or having anything āseriousā with anyone for a long time.
I think Dylan would marry her in a heartbeat though, so thatās gonna br a problem real soon.
Also, did anyone catch that shot Of Alya watching as Betsy told Leanne to give Dylan the job? I wondered at that shot, is Alya going to approach Betsy about an office assistant job at the firm? I just thought hmm, her expression seemed interested in what Betsy did there but ask maybe Iām giving Corrie too much credit.
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Someone please please make a side by side of Carla with her hand on her hip and now Betsy doing it from todayās episode. With the dark hairrr!! It was such a classic Carla move!
i really think lisa doesn't believe summer did it (and by extension, tyrone is lying) but i guess summer does Look extremely guilty. so lisa kind of has to arrest her. i'm really hoping tyrone comes forward soon and sets the record straight, or maybe lisa finds some kind of cctv that supports summer's story?
but why would tyrone lie?? what the hell was he up to???
i see that, but why though? what's he got against carl? unless he thought he was a random burgaler?? but then he'd be better ringing the police like sorry i squashed that guy i thought he was a burgaler. unless he then saw it was carl and rang ronnie?? hmm
Okie dokie, itās obvious now Gary and Sarah ARE being weird and I think itās a red herring about involvement with Theo. Why did he say heād take care of her when she was drunk and in front of Maria? That was too intimate. Especially because as her employer Carla had the duty of care there, she bought the wine as well.
Soā¦
Gary and Sarah
Definitely at least kissed.
Did more than just kiss.
Sarah is pregnant! Kit gets a reverse Brody finds out itās not his 16 yrs later!
They encountered Theo in some capacity.
None of the above.
Voting ended onMay 29
Also, I think sheās only missing Kit so much because sheās worried what sheāll do with Gary if Kitās not around!
They DO have more chemistry than Maria and Gary. In my opinion.
i really think lisa doesn't believe summer did it (and by extension, tyrone is lying) but i guess summer does Look extremely guilty. so lisa kind of has to arrest her. i'm really hoping tyrone comes forward soon and sets the record straight, or maybe lisa finds some kind of cctv that supports summer's story?
but why would tyrone lie?? what the hell was he up to???
So you took my Leanne/Lisaās brother romance away from me. Thatās fine.
But this ācoming of ageā story for Betsy whatever that meansā¦ I know, itās already written and done, but hereās what I hope youāll do.
Content Warning, folks, Iām going to be talking about scary not fun stuff involving SA here. I apologize, itās a quick reference and then focuses on the aftermath.
Okay, when Theo's body was discovered and we had those voice overs from Lisa and Kit about who could do such a thing? And since then Lisa asking could so and so be capable of murder? And when Carla pushed Rob down the stairs, Lisa said "What have you done?" Lisa seems to think murder is a really, really big thing that even when people are pushed to the brink it is an unthinkable choice.
However.
When Becky threatened to reveal herself to Betsy that first day of the return. When Lisa thought Betsy could be harmed she coldly, vehemently, told Becky that she would kill her. So it's not so far fetched an act when Betsy is involved.
Coming of age? What in the hell does that ever really mean?
Loss of innocence.
And as the comparisons between Lauren and Betsy have shown us before, Betsy has lived a life of sheltered privilege, and one where the bad guys usually get what they deserve via her mother and "justice".
Betsy runs her mouth, Lauren knows when to keep it shut. So does Dylan now. So does Brody even. But not Betsy.
Picture a scenario, Betsy and Dylan are out. Some lads, some men, shout something, Betsy shouts back. Dylan wants to walk away. Betsy doesn't see the danger. An attack happens. Not just physical, but SA on Besty. Dylan can't do anything to stop it, might be out cold.
They get away, there's no evidence, there's nothing.
Lisa would lose her mind. Carla would know what Betsy went through, both the assault and the aftermath of no justice.
Do I want that to happen to Betsy? OF COURSE NOT. But it is a soap opera and every few years we are reminded that the most awful things happen to people all the time.
It's probably going to be just a coming of age tale where two kids in love can't be two adults in love and drift apart. Something like that maybe.
Or maybe it'll be something that tears them apart, brings them back together while also tearing Lisa apart, with Carla holding both her girls through something incredibly difficult and unthinkable.
Angst that wouldn't involve someone trying to break Swarla up, but Lisa tearing herself to shreds over guilt and over the rage that would consume her. Especially if she couldn't provide justice.
Who knows, maybe Becky would provide that from prison. Wouldn't that be icky to think about?
I wanted to write so much more about the impact on Carla and Lisa, how this would forge their Connor-Swains even more, but I have no time and the storyline approaches so I needed to get this outta my brain.
Tell me your thoughts! Or not. Again, I don't WANT it to happen, but if it did happen. Well...Betsy is Carla 2.0...
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Do we reckon that Carla and Lisa arranged their times on purpose in such a way that they were at home getting changed in different times so they wouldn't see each other's date surprise outfits until the actual date?
