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Ava, yelling at Beatrice from the bedroom: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Beatrice: IM SLEEPING ON THE COUCH! GOODNIGHT!!

Ava: FINE!

Beatrice: FINEE!!!

-20 minutes later-

Ava, walks to the couch and lays on top of Beatrice: I don’t want to hear it

Ah, just the Warrior Nun and her Sisters

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So much to unpack in this series. I think I found my fav style of writing and it's definitely Simon's (Director) & his writers'.

Apart from contrasts, the show managed to discuss sensitive topics & I'm in love with it.

The show also emphasizes the concept of duality. You'd go from "Watch your language" to "Fuck that shit up" LOL Plus the show's humor is so dry I can't believe it's THAT charming lmfao.

yo, the warrior nun's girlfriend is mad.

A father, a nun, and a halo bearer walks in Madrid

But I must find them first All the sweetest words For my hymn for her Amen

The growth!!!

Uncomfortable hug from Beatrice who barely knows Ava, but, although hesitantly, still comforts her.

Beatrice’s absolute pride in Ava’s success

(bonus: Bea realizing her feelings)

The emotional support hug. They are grounding each other. They are each other’s person.

The we did it! The oh thank god you’re okay hug. Both Ava and Beatrice latch on so quick and tight. They cannot bear the thought of the other getting hurt at this point

The absolute relief from Beatrice that she did not loose Ava, and Ava so happy Bea is there to support her. (Bonus the little neck kiss)

And finally the kiss. Ava has been pining over Beatrice all season. Beatrice who is struggling with her feelings because of her vows. But Ava is about to go, and she cannot leave her love without letting her know she loves her and just how much she means to her. While also simultaneously showing how much she has grown because of Beatrice (“once you realize everything is not about you”, and then easily dodging Bea’s attack to pull her into her arms in the the smoothest way possible. Lastly, her new faith. She tells Bea “in the next”. After putting on the crown she realizes that there is something else out there, something that will bring Beatrice back to her when Bea’s time comes. She isn’t running, not like she did before, she is saving her sisters and her love despite knowing she is going to die). Beatrice made Ava better, but Ava also made Beatrice better. Beatrice opened herself up to get close to someone again, not just her sister Warrior’s who, even then seemed to keep them at arms length. Beatrice in the first season would do anything for the OCS. In this season, Beatrice would do anything for Ava.

So THIS, your honor, is character growth and slow burn at its finest.

Thank you, Warrior Nun.

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

the jasmine throne by tasha suri

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

the falling in love montage by ciara smyth

not my problem by ciara smyth

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

one last stop by casey mcquiston

she drives me crazy by kelly quindlen

some girls do by jennifer dugan

perfect on paper by sophie gonzales

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

siren queen by nghi vo

city of dusk by tara sim

i’ll be the one by lyla lee

flip the script by lyla lee

watch over me by nina lacour

we are okay by nina lacour

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

loveless by alice oseman

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

a memory called empire by arkady martine

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

ophelia after all by racquel marie

Calliope: *snorts* Sure, Jules

Juliette: *offended* I can be!

Calliope: *sarcastically* Ah yes, you're so scary that I flinch at the mere sight of you. Please don't eat me, tiny vampire!

Jules be thirsty for more than just blood. I love it. I love when gender stereotypes just go out the fucking window when it comes to proper WLW representation. You know you love to see a GIRL actually be a fuckboy. And as if that varsity jacket she borrowed off Ben wasn’t indication enough that this player personality was representative of Jules’ character. I just think Cal is the first girl that made her commit. Likewise Jules is the first girl that made Cal commit.

I need people to understand that Juliette and Calliope are a queer version of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are the equivalent of horny teenagers that rush into a relationship because they want to fuck. Romeo is the original fuckboy and Juliet is the original play hard to get but would drop her panties in a moment’s notice for Romeo only. Their feelings are real and true but it’s a young and naive love. Neither of them know what they’re really doing. Neither of them really ever think things through. They’re just risking it all to be together because they can’t keep their minds and hands off of each other. Their characters start off the non-committed type but they find a need to commit to each other because the connection they share is so striking and enticing. They learn to be better people through the influence of being in each other’s lives.

Tell me that’s not how they write Jules and Cal. Tell me that’s not how Sarah Catherine and Imani play their respective characters. The only difference is because it’s a queer love story, both of them are Romeo and Juliet. Both of them hold traits of both. So what ‘First Kill’ is doing is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ but adapting it for a modern paradigm and audience. Because gender stereotypes are a thing of the past. Today a girl can be a fuckboy AND play hard to get. These gender stereotypes and roles assigned to specific genders simply just do not exist anymore and ‘First Kill’ is fixing a lot of the shit young adult romance stories had wrong with it due to this. It’s not only subverting done-to-death harmful tropes. It’s also fixing disrespectful gender stereotypes and roles.

By making parallels to Romeo and Juliet and the Twilight Saga, ‘First Kill’ is balancing the scales between what is typically depicted of “men” and what is typically depicted of “women” in a teen romance. I am here for Jules the fuckboy and Cal the play hard to get. I am also here for Cal the confident dominant top and Jules the socially awkward bottom because these completely contradictory personality traits are mutually inclusive in the depiction of a whole ass woman. Women are horny. Women are insecure. Women never say sorry but also say sorry too much. Women have so many dimensions to them that they’re a million contradictions at once and none of it is ever “wrong” for women to be. And when it comes to love between two women, it’s just as flawed and abusive and simultaneously as valid and loving as the love between two men or a man and woman can be.

When I say ‘First Kill’ is proper WLW representation… what I mean is that the love story is an accurate one! Why is it accurate? Because these gay girls are whole ass women that are down so bad for each other that they’re such idiots and their whole world will pay the price for them deciding to give it a shot and risk it all. That is the star-crossed lovers story they’re telling. So the fandom needs to understand that their ship is not going to be smooth-sailing but it will keep sailing on regardless of whatever obstacles are put in it’s way. And it will take time and hard work but it will fix itself. It will reassemble all its parts after the storm passes. As all well-written and well-performed romances do whether they be WLW or MLM or MLW or ENBY. It’s about time TV made representation equally balanced.