Finished chapter 14 of Sisters of Dorley recently and it just occured to Me that Stef appears to have a massive amount of power to his "brethren"
He punched a guy into washing out, Will and Adam were making theories about him being an insider(which is now true), he knows about everything that’s going to happen and whenever cameras are off he has the power to reveal everything or nothing - Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent.
To the guys in the basement, he is literally a God amongst men. It would be really fun to watch him abuse this but it'd be out of character so
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Sinking into the couch, taking a deep breath, and muttering "I completed a PhD and a web serial already this year, I'm still overachieving even if I do Literally Nothing of note for the rest of it" as I get visibly annoyed about relaxing
Having read Helsinore's commentary on the finale I think she's way, *way* too harsh on Victoria. Half of the things Kathy's mom gets criticized for are her trying to be helpful with limited information and triggering harm that she had no possible way of foreseeing
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Cis weirdos will contrive "well what if there's a nuclear bomb that detonates if I don't misgender this trans person" hypotheticals as if there isn't a well-understood scenario where you have to misgender trans people already: they're closeted and outing them would put them at risk
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you know what bothers me most about victoria. now that i've read the entire first nichole pov up until roxanne appearing. it's the way she's so nonchalant and ruthless. she's acts as if her suspecting the girls of being girls for like a decade is just, like, something really fun and silly. she acts like her daughter should be grateful that she schemed to put her into rcbg - she can't help but mention she's the reason that kathy found it. she hears the girls tell her that the competition banned trans women, that it was for cis men, and she goes 'darn :/' and then 'sorry, guess that must've impacted your grades :/' and holds a big transition shaped carrot over nichole's face, waving it at her, then she moves onto what she actually wants to talk about, which is the fucking public meltdown video. she has drawn her own conclusions about what happened, about how nichole is actually responsible, and how kathy is basically still a little kid who is too stubborn and too fragile to be left alone. she's an autism mom. she's entirely focused on how she thinks the world works, and how to exert her control over it, and it makes her feel powerful and good.
like. maybe i would have more sympathy for victoria if she didn't behave flippant and controlling, but oops. she does. so like, i do think her not divorcing roxanne early enough (if she knew the girls were girls) is heinous. i do think her throwing her child into the torment nexus is heinous. i think her flipping from nice to grilling to nice is horrific. she doesn't behave like an adult. she behaves like a mom who deserves to have all the authority, except when there's responsibility to be had, i guess, and then it's like she acts as if she's on a peer level. you're not your child's age. have a fucking conversation with her. you treating her like she's insolent is different, fundamentally, because you're her fucking mother.
[Trying to invent a new transfeminine torment nexus] what if transition… but you had to go through some stuff… and that stuff impacted your mental health badly?
I can't believe this is the last time I'm doing this. Well, all good things come to an end, smile because it happened, all that jazz. I'll try not to be torn about it
As a matter of fact, I'm excited! Let's do this
RCBG FINALE
> Should've, should've, should've
/> Already setting out for bittersweetness with this title. It would've been stupid to expect a happy ending from this series anyway, but this just further confirms it
> Rupali
/> Feel like I've underlooked this character. For a lot of the series I just saw her as Rashmi's girlfriend, and yet in reality she's so important as to begin the very end; truly, she rivals Katherine, I'll be looking at her much more closely.
> Ice in my veins.
/> Oh right, We left on quite the tensionate point last time; I had forgotten
> Rashmi better be right about this.
/> Rashmi better be right about this.
> Mummy
/> I kind of lost track of whether this show takes place in America, England, or Norway since the last time geography was relevant. She's not supposed to be spelling it like that, right?
> a Rashmi-shaped woman
/> Amazing
> My friend. My friend, who Mummy wants to be introduced to, because I’m here in my apartment with my friend, and not the fiancé my mother’s known all my life. Because Rashmi’s a woman, unlike my male fiancé, who definitely still exists.
/> Ok, nice save, We might make it out
> Well, that’s another fucking name to keep track of
/> Stupid move on Rashmi's part ngl, We might get justification for why she did it after this but I'm not holding My breath
> This conversation really needs to end before we invent enough desi people to double the global population.
/> This is a great episode I'm having a fun last time here
> whether she knows any cis white guys she can rustle up for a free dinner
/> It'd be a really bad idea to get a white guy as a Kaalappan, right?
> And I know for a fact that Mr. Business Major would never turn down a free dinner
/> This is awful on so many different fronts I have no Hopes in this working
Dear God this is a tenth of the episode what is going on(wards!)
> Nichole
/> Perspectives appear to be continued this episode, so I'm guessing We'll get Kathy too. I'm patient
> The ramen place Victoria picked out for us is incredibly expensive
/> Another Victoria W - to the point I'd be suspicious of how seemingly perfect she is, a la flowery deltarune, but I know what Kathy's one gripe with her is and I just can't buy the idea of her being evil, for now. This is subject to change, of course, this author's never been one to shy away from subversion
> so we can see the kitchen staff work
/> Goddamn she meant that "incredibly"
> Katherine
/> Ok so she's here. I was wondering whether she'd have to choose between her moms
> but I’m baffled by the realization that she’s been capable of dressing like a normal person this whole time, and has simply chosen not to
/> You have 5 hours start running
> It’s like I’m looking at a version of Katherine that has her shit together.
/> How crazy would it be if I said Victoricole otp? I suppose I'm actually not that into the idea, Nicole doesn't deserve her
> I was considering the tonkotsu, myself.
/> Not a bad choice, probably
> I… think I’ll trust the waiter’s recommendation
/> Mindless, Hollow drone, grrr
> bigger than our entire weekly grocery budget
/> Highkey that's less than I was expecting
> neither of us had the foresight to sit down and plan ahead so we could get our story straight
/> Y'know, I think the contrast between these first two perspectives is commentary on white supremacy all by itself. Both sets of characters are in the same position of being asked a question that could blow their cover, but the white counterpart is so much easier, so much less tensionate
> And I suppose the RCBG support group helped a little, as well?
/> HOLY SHIT?
> RCBG? The support group for local trans women that my employer has been funding?
/> HOLY SHIT II?
> Kathy, don’t tell me you never signed up after all the strings I pulled to get you an invitation?
/> HOLY SHIT III?
> I saw an incredibly fortuitous opportunity and took it, to help my daughter finally come to terms with herself
/> It ain't Kathy and it definitely ain't Laura, the genius mastermind character was Victoria all along, oh My God
> Nicky, I’ve suspected you two of being girls for the last decade, at minimum
/> DECADE? Honestly I'm in such a state of shock that if it was stated she had actual, genuine, prophet superpower foresight I would believe it
> I was afraid that I’d push you both further into the closet if I said the wrong thing. Especially Kathy
/> Insanely good moves- I mean, mentioning it here might've been a bad idea but she had to come clean eventually and also maybe she has 4th wall awareness or something and wants to tell the audience Idfk
> Competitive what?
/> Ok I was getting carried away with the whole Victoria knows everything bit. This sequence is still perfect though
> The apartment and the competition have felt like this isolated bubble for so long, and talking to someone from outside of it with any kind of honesty feels like it risks disrupting the whole thing
/> Yeah. This really is a finale, I wonder if it will disrupt the whole thing. I mean, no better way to end rcbg than for rcbg to end, right?
> That certainly sounds like precisely the wrong environment for transition, to me at least
/> Statistically speaking she's dead wrong and I find that really funny. When you step away from it rcbg's plot truly is ridiculous, isn't it?
> “It’s the least I could do,” she replies, matter-of-factly.
/> I get that she works a white collar job for RCBG Epstein but like, how does she have *this* much money, this is genuinely insane. This is genuinely the third or more time she's blindly agree to pay a massive sum without even thinking about it
> I won’t have to worry about deflecting tribunals
/> Isaacahedron is probably fuming right now. Oh well, this is good for them; it'll probably kill their interest in the server once they get away with that money
> She really has to let her ridiculous grudge go already, when Victoria is handing us a free ride on a silver platter
/> Kathy. You are in position of more than extreme luck right now. You literally just have to take your W without resistance, and you can live happily ever after, like actually happily ever after - if Nicole gets away from RCBG it's entirely possible her normie basic bitch fascist tendencies stop and then you can be in a healthy lesbian relationship and end the series going on an insanely luxurious vacation together you don't even have to pay for. Lock in, I implore with all the Soul I can muster, all I have
> Her saccharine assessment is hollow in the face of how she abandoned Mom, Nicole
/> Omfg bruh [Higuruma gif]
> Kathy. Sweetie. You and Nicole are nothing like me and Roxanne
/> This is an insanely collected response to your daughter holding your divorce above you. I agree with Nicole, Victoria is truly an angel
> You are treating my daughter well, I hope?
/> Alright, Nicole, it's your turn to be under fire. Atone for your sins
> “I really wish I could believe that.”
/> Ah. So the turn wheels
> Do you need to be handled, Nichole?
/> I bet it was fun, though. Walking Kathy around like some nuisance you needed to control, ripping up her work, crushing her into your normality boxes? This piper stands unrelenting in his taxation.
> Someone who is handling it rarely ends up screaming and throwing soda at some poor girl, Katherine
/> Ok this one was somewhat Kathy's fault, but hey. Also damn Victoria really out here knowing everything, where have you been this whole time?
> There was a video posted to social media of the incident.
/> Ah, ok. I mean, not ok that worsens everything but, it's more information
> Now, please understand that I love you both very much and am disappointed, not angry
/> She pulled out Ol' Reliable I can't
> It was quite possibly the worst mistake in my entire life. I cannot excuse it in any way whatsoever. It, and everything that led up to it.
/> Kathy taking accountability, yay
> You brought Kathy to a crowded, noisy space on what couldn't possibly have been a good day for her
/> It's not at all surprising that she's aware of the autism. Nicole's still getting nailed here this is almost cathartic
> Katherine is hardly difficult to spot in a crowd
/> Much to Nicole's chagrin
> “No,” I lie.
/> I think lies genuinely haven't worked once since the very beginning of this series. Why drown yourself in another layer of bullshit like this? I mean for Rashmi and Rupali it was necessary but you could survive being truthful here. Given Victoria, she probably knows and is testing you anyway
> Katherine looks like she’s about to start crying
/> Sigh
> Victoria’s eyes widen. “Kathy, please tell me she isn’t here.”
/> Katherine's worst masterplan and she had to do it in such a good moment goddamnit Kathy
> a non-binary flag pin should burn her on touch
/> A wha- huh? Well, I'll assume nothing based on this. Quinn was nonbinary
Bombshell made of bombshells, holy peak? It continues!
> Katherine
/> Oh shit? I thought We'd switch back to Rashmi and her 'pals'. Alright, give Me more!
> zie
/> Bad sign, awful sign
> there is no option but for the two to set aside their differences for my sake.
/> I still hold that Kathy is a cunt for this.
> It’s Ro now, actually
/> She'd give up a name as pretty as Roxy..
> Fine. But only because it’s for you, Kathy. Grab a chair, Ro.
/> I would cut out My eyes to have Victoria as My mom, holy shit
> As if you did not readily forgive her misdeeds at great personal cost. As if she did not hurt you more than all the others combined.
/> I still can't figure out whether I want these two to break up or just want Nicole to get over her issues. I might just settle with the hope of seeing them happy regardless of what that looks like
> Your cisgender opinion is noted and discarded for its irrelevance,
/> But We are sliming Kathy out for this one
> There’s no secret network of weirdos online tricking autistic boys into taking estrogen by promising them money
/> Holy shit
> You just have to have it your way, even if it means pulling a stunt like this
/> Yeah it's a pretty egregious flaw I don't think there's enough time left for a solution
> Don’t tell me you guys think you’re actually women? Like for real? I mean, you’ve always had a bit of an imagination, but you’re clever enough to figure out that’s not a thing you can actually be, right Daniel?
/> Yeah the perfect reunion thing was too good to be true
> “I have been so stupid,” I whisper. “I ruined everything.”
/> At least you get it, it took turning a perfectly peaceful dinner into a maelstrom, but We got somewhere
> Why does she not hate me?
/> You inherit the mercy from her; that heavenly disposition..
> She will continue refusing to get better. Nothing will improve.
/> Some people, hell, some things, are beyond repair. And when you have something that reaches that state of decay, you have to simply eliminate it and obtain a replacement. It's harsh, especially to someone like Kathy, but I think it's a lesson she would benefit from learning
Some people never learn. Moving on
> Rashmi
/> Ok let's see how this blows up
> They stopped when I started taking estrogen.
/> Very interesting
> And I need to avoid Mona being called a slur in a foreign language at all costs, lest she try to reclaim it.
/> This line was a 1-2-punch, great
> My third and final roommate is, of course, not in the country at present. ‘He’ is in Southeast Asia on a language exchange program, and so can’t attend dinner. Naturally.
/> Wow this is an extremely fucked setup, the hijinks are about to be hilarious
> Isaac’s confidently incorrect lecture at Mona about the origins of the word “vindaloo”
/> Great
> I’m reminded just how much harm they’re capable of
/> Indeed, these are unobjectionably the most dangerous characters in the entire series
> I have never once felt like a spoiled child in my life, but that’s not something I can ever say to her
/> And of course, they're also bastards
> I’m good at something that I learned on my own, and I’m so good at it that I can muscle into competitive spots on my own merit. But you don’t want to hear it because it’s not—because there’s some plan I can’t deviate from, ever? Even a little bit? Even if I’m doing good?
/> I'm glad there's a level of confrontation that "Kaal" can get into. It would be unbefitting of a finale to have this be continuation of the endless appeasement
> Ready to be a man.
/> This line is repeated four times and I think that's fair, its irony must be richly extracted
> The roar of the ocean reaches a deafening crescendo in my mind. I think about all the ways in which I could answer that question. By untying my hair. By taking off my blazer. By standing up then and there and screaming at the top of my lungs exactly what I’ve always thought of their futures and securities and plans.
/> A life of being on the brink, but never able to break out. Don't you wish the bars could be-
> Someone else beats me to it.
/> ...destroyed. I suppose it's possible they never will be. Not in this World.
> This is awkward as fuck
/> The final teaser line, halfway through the finale. What a reinvigorating healing spell Rashmi's shackles have endured; it must be undone by the end of the end
Onwards!
> Tahani
/> We refuse to cut. Ok then, let's finish this
> I’m glad I have no faith in Rashmi
/> Noo, don't judge Rashmi off of her being forced to interact with her family, you were just starting to get along
> Fortunately, I have air support of my own.
/> Fire line
> Rashmi’s got a big heart, a generous and kind spirit underneath the psyche of a starving industrial revolution orphan, and a serious inability to be anything less than sincere at all times. It’s sweet in a life partner, even if it’s completely aggravating when you need to keep a cool head around the family you’re not out to.
/> This analysis is so surgically accurate that I might just have it as My Rashmi conclusion
> Sushma shoots me the dirtiest glare an adult has ever shot me—impressive, considering she’s competing with doctors working in youth transition
/> Ah, jagged reality in My funny entertainment, damn it
> No point squandering the opportunity by sticking up for me
/> Yeah Ru kinda put dps in front of tank here unfortunately. This is a minor blunder I think
> You know, legally or whatever. Last I checked, you thought I was devilspawn.
/> Good burn
> even Mona
/> Do you understand how badly you have to fuck up for Mona to have this reaction? Holy shit
> Sushma actually sticks her tongue out at Mom.
/> Wow
> alarmed at Rashmi’s outburst
/> Stop healing your healers they don't need it fucking idiots
> That’s not my name, mother dearest
/> Ok well I'll say this - I was the one who wanted her to stop restraining herself, and I'll take accountability for this: If she gets away from this moment without her life being destroyed, I'll congratulate bravery rather than chastise stupidity. Then again, she's apparently already getting job offers, the dirty chain money isn't really necessary anymore, no better moment than this
> “Why did I fucking bother?”
/> I greatly appreciate your attempt to clutch, Tahani. If this were not the finale you would have been the episode's saviour, as you've been on other occasions
> Mom snatches the phone out of Sushma’s hands and holds it up high, using her other arm to push Sushma down as she yells and struggles to stand up
/> Treating her like the child she is, wonderful
> Mom hits Sushma with a glare that puts all of hers to shame
/> I can only imagine the sheer flame. Intensity outmatching even the hatred bigotry creates
> But they did
/> Maybe Kathy was right in a way? I mean, I believed Sushma was worse than Roxanne. If she can be redeemed here, perhaps there's hope for everyone. Maybe after she actually soul searches instead of pretending to do it to curry favor, Roxanne could genuinely become a good person. Have I been wrong the entire time? Is the World not evil?
> they probably should have headed out four screams ago, if I’m being honest
/> One of the funniest time measurements in all the fiction I've consumed
> Ka—I mean, sweetheart
/> Y'know, I'll let go of the fact she couldn't even pronounce Rashmi's name, this once. When your greatest influence was people like Sushma choosing ambivalence over clear malevolence is an admirable step
> But that’s a good thing. And I will pray that you never understand what it is like to be in my shoes
/> Jaya was secretly good is a plot twist I did not see coming
> “You’re more my family than they are,” she says, and I hate her for how long and how much I’ve wanted to hear her say that.
/> I believe the Rashmi-Rupali-Tahani story ends here. You did amazingly, all 3 of you. I'm glad you are what you have become now.
Ok, now I know We'll have Nicole-Kathy-Victoria and I'm hoping for something regarding Laura-Isaac
> Laura
/> Good start. Please tell Us how the competition ends, dearest author
> A long time ago, I believed that you could only get what you wanted through conquest.
/> And have been greatly diminished since dropping that belief.
> Projecting the impression that everything that falls from your lips is the unerring, unvarnished truth, because when you believe that, so will everyone else, irrespective of what you’re actually saying. A conquest of minds, wills, of language itself
/> And you were magnificent in those moments
> I knew how to shout the best, in fact. No one could do it like I could, which meant that I could do things nobody else could
/> And the grief you made by ceasing to shout
> Sometimes, people’s beliefs are what they are because that’s what’s most lucrative
/> It's hard, is it not? Living in a world of people with lucrative beliefs. Being crushed not because it's right, but because it amasses more of something that is pointless without the ideology that prevents this circle
> I’m not as smart as I think I am
/> Not anymore, at least
> that I could only be fulfilled by an eternal cagematch, a perpetual standoff where each and every word carries life-and-death stakes
/> You know, I can't really asperse Laura for disavowing this. Ultimately, I cannot, in a finale where the series' messages and morals are so neatly and grandly engraved, propose with a straight face that in your life you should choose the path that would be most entertaining to an audience. The idea that real life is a show is quite fringe, and Laura, despite being a character, depicts a person - A person who would rather be boring and happy than My favorite and miserable. I hate her for this, but good for her; in her place I would've done the same
> The subject is, “Admin contacted me.”
/> Peak?
> It ended with a swinging competition about who could swing around a full 360 degrees first, and a hospital trip at 6 a.m. Nothing major broken.
/> How characteristic
I'm almost satisfied. Onwards
> Katherine
/> Ok. Everyone gets 3. Isaac got one kind of by proxy then another through Laura, there's definitely an Isaac perspective after this
>[You can no longer message user ‘Rashmi’]
/> Well, I've been there and done that. For what it's worth, I thought it was a heartfelt apology. What matters is what you intend to do on the server
Another perspective? Already? Onwards, I suppose
> Nichole
/> I mean, Kathy's perspective was short cause they already had one, but so does Nicole. Is this also gonna be a moment's conclusion? I won't oppose it if so
> The server isn’t as active as it used to be. The mods try to keep things running and act like they know what’s going on, but it’s obvious they’re pretty unnerved too. Isaac’s account has been inactive for weeks—corresponding with him moving out of the apartment to who-knows-where. He hasn’t replied to my Accord DMs, provocative or otherwise, for just as long.
/> A death I had not expected for the competition, but it is something I can envision. A wasteland, dying not in a heroic blast, but by bleeding out, losing all of its competitors as they realize it's not worth it; the admin, a kid left alone by the other kids at playtime, one by one, despite having the ball
/> We end on a discursive combat? Phenomenal. The high point of the series, reprised in a mortal battle between two characters who have a series' worth of reasons to turn on each other. I'm ready, readier than I've ever been
> Despite still, technically, being a couple, Kathy and I basically don’t spend time together anymore. You can chalk up some of that to finals and the inevitable end of the school year, but she stopped bugging me about everything: anime marathons, dates, her fixation on ‘fixing’ her TERF mom.
/> Hmm. It's premature to comment on this
> She literally called Discursive Combat on me from within walking distance.
/> Absolute Cinema
> Because I have irrevocable proof that you, Nichole, are a trans woman, and therefore do not belong in Ranked Competitive Breast Growth
/> It's actually an interesting reprisal. Both DC's were not what they seemed, but the side that had an ulterior motive last time was the one that lost? What will We see now?
> Did we, at any point, have an actual relationship, Nichole?
/> LINE! It's possible, that while indeed still being verbal combat and meeting all the requirements for a DC to be exhilarating, this is not going to be about trans women at all. Just two people trying to kill each other with their mouths, sentence by sentence, each hit constructed with a lifetime's worth of personal knowledge about each other's flaws.
/> I'm truly glad to be here, reading this episode. I feel thought about, even though I know realistically the author barely knows about My existence, let alone who I am and what I want
> Did you enjoy having sex with me, Kathy? Is that the problem? Am I not putting out enough
/> That's... I don't even know what to say, I'm speechless
> The very idea of touching you in an intimate way nauseates me
/> Good parry
> Kathy says, with genuine anger in her voice. Genuine feeling, for the very first time since I’ve known her, instead of ironic detachment or impenetrable scheme-logic. It’s refreshing
/> Maybe if you didn't find Kathy's anger "refreshing" she would be your girlfriend, I don't know
> By the way—what fucking stroke of delusion made you consider for even a moment that you were somehow capable of fixing me, you complete basket case?
/> I quite possibly agree with Nicole here. I've changed My view on this a lot, but with mere seconds left on the clock, in this moment, I believe that Kathy should've left Nicole to rot the moment she first tried her conformist sociopath bullshit
> My screen goes blank
/> Kathy.. won? KATHY WON! Idk how the fuck she did that, Ig the evidence server was really good, which it ought to be by this point. This, to Me, thematically, is a win of progress against the social order. Trans as she may be, Nicole represents all of the flaws of conservatism - Unjust repulsion at anything that breaks their ugly ass mould, unfair attempts at exerting control over another's expression and even essence, and the unyielding boring gray that's innate to the ideology's very core. I'd say this would lend Kathy great cred, given the sway Nicole used to have back when the server actually existed as something else than a shadow of its former self, but there's literally no reason for Kathy to even hang around the server after this. It's all over
> that made me think you’d ever improve as a person!
/> Hard finisher line, what can I say? It's a satisfying end to the server as a whole. Discursive Combat brought about its golden age, and brings about its end
> She hates me so much. She’s always hated me so much.
/> Very, VERY, ***VERY*** fucking rightfully so
> Kathy pushes past me, shoulder-checking me hard enough to make me stumble
/> More strength than I expected
> I am disposing, not destroying. These gifts all represent my interests, my time, my labor, my affection. None of which you have ever shown the slightest appreciation for. So I am reclaiming them, Nichole—I’m reclaiming every misspent moment and cent from you, so that I can be well and truly gone from your space, your life!
/> Let's meet again someday. I'll glow from the other side of the table, and you'll stand across from Me, next to someone who deserves it or surrounded by yourself. We'll play cards, and both of Us will be happy. We'll have no worries, Nicole will have never existed, like all things must fade away, present becomes past, and the future gives way to serenity - for both you and Myself.
> 'No’ is also a one-word response.
/> Because your head starts spinning after hearing more than 7 syllables. Dumb bitch, how did you ever even chance upon someone like Kathy?
> Less than five minutes to search, scan, scrape my room for every trace of our lives together and toss it into a trash bag that doesn’t even fill up to capacity
/> It never meant anything, anyway. A year's worth of episodes spent together on screen, another 20 out of it, all for less than a single trash bag. To hell with it all.
> “Why wouldn’t you?!” Katherine peels off her cat ear hoodie and shoves it into the rubbish, with everything else. “You judge me for everything else, don’t you? You seethe with envy over my feelings for Rashmi, but I have never, not once, been good enough for you! You’ve never been proud to claim me—you never loved me!"
Stella
Holy shit, it's over. I'm mostly satisfied, the indian crew(I genuinely don't have a good way to refer to that trio) had the best conclusion. The competition got more attention than I expected, and I'm glad We actually got to see it off. I think Emmy won, she wouldn't have been messaged by Admin otherwise
Usually I give thoughts on the characters that appear in this episode. But for the finale, I want to think about all of the characters' full journeys. I will also, as is typical of Myself, talk a lot about My impression of the characters; not because I have to be the center, but because this series dug into My Soul, and I've attached Myself very deeply to this story. I lived and breathed and fought alongside some of these characters, so I'd be bottling My thoughts if I didn't do that. I won't be talking about My predictions from last episode either. Right now I don't really remember them and won't bother checking, but if even a single person cares enough about that to read this and tell Me to, I will scroll to those predictions and make a post about them
Ranked Competitive Breast Growth
I want to treat the competition itself as a character, because of its significance and its transformation. Of course, We know that this was made to symbolically mirror the infighting trans people go through, the bellicose instinct oppressed people can have, the transphobia left over in some of Us. Its death is a symbolic rebirth; left a barren land by its constituents, they heal from the wounds inflicted upon each other, they become more adjusted people
Laura
When I first met her, I believed I was staring at Myself. I couldn't have been more wrong, for We are complete opposites - she is a character who behaves as a person and I'm a person who behaves as a character. I think she appears in the story to show the flaws in vanity, or even pride itself. The author, through her, alongside making commentary on the lives of some women who are worshipper, makes a case against trying to be a larger than life figure. "Narcissism will fuck you over, even if you're good at it" she says, and while I disagree with that message, I concede that it is executed impeccably. I'm left to dream about a world where she stuck around for it, ended up winning the money and remained a Divine Figure - It would've probably felt hollow to her, now knowing who she is. Or maybe, she wouldn't even have one, perhaps her rival would've overtaken her, and all that additional suffering would've been worthless
Emmy
The Winner of RCBG. It seems, through sheer luck, that this is the only character that has proceeded correctly with regards to this series. Beat everyone, get your massive sums, then realize your own womanhood and walk away hotter and richer than everybody else, in a vessel you can call your own. She even seemingly ends up discovering the Admin, possibly leading to that grandiose death We had envisioned for the competition, long after it was already a corpse. It's crazy to think this, having seen her mind, knowing what she's like, being aware of all the mistakes she's made. I think the happy ending was necessary though, to tell viewers that repression can be broken through, and you won't be punished for it. "You don't have to be achieve perfect femininity, you don't even have to want bottom surgery. You're a woman by virtue of your own Soul"
Katherine
"Let go of that which hurts you, even if it's gathered enough dust to matter to you" Transition is a painful process. Not literally for the most part, but figuratively. As in, as a result of how Our reality is shaped, you will necessarily lose a lot. You may think the name change is just to get rid of the maleness associated with a man's name, but really that's an entire identity you're declaring as expired - to transition you will become a new person, and it will destroy so much of what you used to have, but there’s no price you can place on being your true self and in a series about the consequences of hiding, Katherine manages to remain sincere all the way throughout, regardless of how pressured she is or how much she has to gain by masking or lose by not doing it. It's not a sad ending, to Me. She's freed from her tormentor and still in her youth, still with plenty of time to find someone else or figure more of herself out, still has the greatest caretaker in the world at her side, using all her power to ensure Kathy grows into who she wants to be. You'll lose everything you have, but in exchange you'll gain *everything*
Nichole
Some people can't change. Decidedly, rcbg's position on forgiveness is not an entirely positive one. Kathy's idea that everyone can be fixed if you just try hard enough fails, and the only way for her to win, the one she finds out, is to take all of herself(and therefore everything Nicole has) away; dispose of it forever. I'm glad she ultimately lost, her attitude cost her the climactic final battle and ultimately the series itself as she walks out of it much more beaten than she goes in. Ultimately, she's about how being trans, or any flavor of lgbtq+ for that matter, doesn't absolve you from the thought patterns of those that would have you wiped from the face of the earth. *Being* cannot save or cleanse you from bigotry. You must *do*. As a modern philosopher once said, "You may be gay, but you sure as fuck ain't queer"
Rashmi
But people *can* change, ultimately. Rashmi, philosophically, is a more nuanced Kathy, which probably doesn't say good things about Me as one who relates to the latter much more than the former. While also employing the concept of forgiveness, she understands, like the show does, that redemption is not universal, and that you can harm people you care about by extending more hands than you have(ultimately her evolution is learning to apply this concept less to herself and more to others). "Turning the other cheek may just double the amount of slaps you receive, but sometimes it grants you more power than hitting back" - this understanding allows her to get through to her religion-nut parents(to some extent) and break the charade without self-destruction
Rupali
"There is no virtue in deceit" is one of the central themes of rcbg, but this character is an especially potent conduit for it, starting out with involvement in a masquerade that likely spanned years which she must perform in order to survive. She exits stage with all performances broken, everyone around her having transitioned, and the entire world around her seemingly having reformed into a truer version of itself. It's possible that the only reason Rashmi got away with cheating was because he was fully honest about it
Tahani
"Mild manners get you nowhere in a world of cannibals" Initially I was at odds with Tahani. She seemed to have this overinflated sense of self with which she declared everything and never entertained the notion of ever being wrong without the dramatis persona that made that same trait entertaining for Laura. But then I saw where her brashness comes from. I saw the rest of her family, and understood how little she'd get from keeping an even tone in her environment. Ultimately you discover the people she deals with don't deserve that consideration - Yelling at someone like Quinn or Shosma is simply correct
Victoria
"Right now, in a place, regardless of how small it may be, there is good. Benevolence has not left the World" she's only properly introduced right this episode, so I don't have much to say about her, but I highly appreciate her. It's great to have an adult character that isn't completely awful. As a teen it can be pretty easy to see everyone older than you as an enemy but there could be grannies right now who want the same Fate for The World as I do, and just have less time to achieve it
The rest of the ensemble
Wrapped together not necessarily because they're irrelevant or because I don't care about them but a lot of what I could say about them overlaps with what I've already said, what with RCBG having a set of core themes I've already gone through and all(e.g. The Show's stance on forgiveness with Shosma, when I already wrote about it in My Kathy and Rashmi entries), but I have one general thing I have left to say and it goes here: It’s amazing, nay, brilliant how the characters in this show all manage to be so vibrant. Everyone feels like a person and has thoughts and interiority no matter how few lines they get, and it creates this all encompassing sense of somber that makes the setting of rcbg very, very vivid. As a writer who struggles with making credible characters, concepts who pass as people, reading about concepts that have been so well characterized it made Me enter their skin has been absolutely enlightening and while I still struggle with it even having rcbg as an example, I at least know that it is possible; that the goal I'm reaching for exists, it is achievable
One thing I hope is that rcbg remains relevant after the public release of its finale. The fanbase seems to barely exist with posts about it appearing rather infrequently, and I fear that once it ends it'll stop getting talked about at all
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I haven't read Sins of the Mother yet so I don't know how much character work it does but it's way too early for a finale right? Two episodes is surely not enough to tie up all the loose ends from 33
Please tell Me it doesn't end with Tahani winning the election that's not what the series is even about when are We even gonna find out all the stuff about the competition the founder the funding the purpose there's so much untouched ground
Well I definitely have different expectations now. I'm glad it's not all about the GSA. I suppose the thing it is all about is the characters, which makes sense. It was never about The Competition, that was only ever a device for the characters to change and grind against each other(both figuratively and literally)
Can you believe it's almost over? I can't, but let's see if the episode can convince Me otherwise
RCBG 34
>Sins of the Mother
/> Ooh, are We going to see Kathy's parents?
> Rupali
/> Interesting, okay!
> I don’t think I’ll ever tire of her taste.
/> This might be insensitive, but isn't it so lucky that of all the people they could've been in arranged marriages with, Rupali and Rashmi got each other? Think of how many people in that system get married off to people they hate, people that abuse them - There is good in the World, even if you have to find it at the bottom of the Dark
> playing video games online with Tahani like we’re still young teens
/> I'm still really shaken about RCBG apparently being completely over, so everything I say will probably be through that lense, but would I be right in saying RCBG was about these 3 rather than about Kathy or Nicole or even The Competition? I mean, if you think about it starts with the 3 of them being broken apart(Rashmi cheating on Rupali, breaking off one of the last bonds in the triangle) and ends with them all being reunited. Am I onto something or on something? Perhaps.
> before replying that I’m acing all my classes
/> It's still insane that any RCBG character manages to have time for school while being involved in All This
> “I simply present the facts as they stand,” Rashmi says airily, affecting a faux detachment. “Maybe you can tell Kim tonight she needs to not look away so quickly when I catch her.”
/> It's insanely refreshing seeing Rashmi be confident for once
> “I’m game if you are, but it still kinda hurts—”
/> They are using protection though, right? I mean, E decreases your fertility, sure, but you really don't want to gamble on that
That was possibly the horniest rcbg section to date including the actual sex scenes, onwards!
> Tahani
/> Ok, the election stuff. Let's see
/> Wow Bradquinn might be the most toxic relationship in the entire thing, which is a *flying* bar if I've ever seen one
> I am not taking relationship advice from Ms. Debatefucker, got it?
/> Ngl like, indeed I don't think Laura's qualified here. At least her and Emmy actually *liked* each other
> you’re a more deeply repressed trans woman than I ever was
/> Again, winged bar right there
> keep you idiot trannies from ruining everything
/> Ok I retract every good thing I ever said about Brad these guys Laura and Tahani should actually jump this mf like Mahito
> As are you. I am respecting your identity as someone who will never, ever be a woman, so please respect mine
/> Ok Brad kind of got played lmao. Laura's still got debate skills to some extent
> Something in the ancient wood finally gives in, and there’s a loud crash
/> CHEKHOV'S CHAIR!
I suppose that wasn't *un*pleasant. Onwards!
> Katherine
/> At last, the juicy part. Hit Me with all you have, Ms. Writer!
> in the absence of anyone who will assign her responsibilities, Nichole rapidly makes herself comfortable leaving the full workload to me
/> Katherine literally getting the free trial of being Rashmi lmao
/> It is kind of disappointing that We just kind of timeskip past the part where Nicole finds out Kathy was the one who got into a fight at the gsa party, it would've been pretty good drama and I was actually looking forward to it. Oh well
> Is she truly worth this? Is this truly what you were hoping for, when you so callously threw away everything you could have had with Rashmi instead?
/> There's only two episodes left for her to fix this I don't think We're making it kathybros
> Well, Katherine? Is a woman who misses half the exposition and then complains when she cannot follow the plot truly who you intend to stand by, to the point of salting the earth of your previous relationships?
/> Ah
> “No, let’s just keep watching, I’m not making this even more of a chore by having to deal with subtitles.”
/> It's incredible how much worse Sephicole has gotten. It's an exponential poison. Pretty obvious at this point that the finale is gonna have them break up
> “Shut up!”
/> We need to exorcise the alter that keeps Kathy from examining her biases
> Whatever. Just make sure you start seeing a therapist before these random outbursts start becoming a problem.
/> "Start becoming a problem" such controlling language, it's like she's Kathy's abusive mother more than her girlfriend. It's possible that's how she sees herself
> Coward
/> So, so unfortunately true
> Thinking you can’t just come out to people who care about you, dumbass!
/> Ok if Kathy's mother is actually supportive that would flip things on their head
> She then interrogated me on how I was handling my living situation and asked prying questions about how my cohabitants were taking the news. It was utterly exhausting!
/> I ***really*** don't want to give Nicole ground here but Kathy cmon
> SHE ABANDONED MOM, NICHOLE!
/> Ok this is like 5 twists at once I'm kind of reeling give Me a moment
> She was rambling about radical gender ideologues sneaking Y chromosomes into vaccines to erase women from existence!
/> Ok so both parties here have unreliable testimonies I have no idea who to side with
> She is my Mom no matter what horrible things she believes
/> I went so hard to defend you Kathy, god fucking damn it
> I know it really fucking sucks to see someone you care about turn into an irredeemable piece of shit.
/> Hh.. HAH!
> “You had plenty of notice! I texted you on Wednesday, and you replied!”
/> I.. I give up. Fuck Kathy, Fuck Nicole, Fuck Laura, FUCK EVERYONE. EVERYONE IN THIS SERIES IS A PIECE OF SHIT GODDAMNIT
> failed to even consider my preferred Mediterranean cuisine, that of the Moroccans
/> Something's broken in My lenses, I'm seeing Kathy like everyone else sees her now. Can you like think about other people(that you supposedly care about) for one second? This is exasperating, and it's a fucking Kathy segment I'm supposed to be agreeing with her
> The nature of my medical conditions is none of your business, Nichole
/> Ok so I would normally defend Kathy here because Nicole habitually encourages lotus eating but Kathy 100% needs those meds and then some what the fuck
> Mom
/> I'm guessing this is Roxanne, interesting finale setup. Given it's mentioned in every perspective I'm guessing this parent weekend thing will be the finale's setting. Interesting
This was exhausting. Another perspective? Ok, onwards
> Rashmi
/> This feels unnecessary given We already know what Rashmi is doing from Rupali's perspective. I'll give it a shot though
> while Rupali has likely already finished both her history papers and has moved onto writing fanfic again.
/> Amazing. Also, more school focus, nice
> toes interlaced
/> The teaser!
> It’s Mona
/> I had all but forgotten about her
>“Amma’s here."
/> Dear God.
Stella
What an episode! So, My guess for the finale is the trials all these characters have gone through were supposed to prepare them for this specific moment - "Can you, a trans woman, face your family despite all the issues that drive you apart?" which is not the final challenge I expected. How does RCBG tie into this? It's possible that in each of the encounters set up, The Competition would have to be mentioned either as a test of integral resolve or as a panacea to the conversation; that would be a satisfying end to the competition, the secrecy it has relied on up until this point breaking down completely, maybe with authorities investigating, and everything about its systems being ultimately leaked. Seeing as this is the penultimate episode, instead of thoughts on the characters that appear in the episode I'll be giving predictions on the characters of the series, what I think and what I Hope will happen
Quinn
Hope: Death, in some sort of way. This seems to Me like the one character in this series that is truly irredeemable
Prediction: With them having had their final moment of going out with a bang and just eliminating the GSA entirely, it seems their story is finished more or less. It's possible they don't even appear in the final episode. If they do, it's gonna be a resolution to the relationship between them and Brad, which will be interesting
Laura
Hope: Whatever direction Laura ends up going in, I'm just hoping she actually manages to figure out who she actually is. We saw the character of Laura the Impenetrable break, but as far as I saw there was no replacement for that character, and she's kind of just a pretty face who remembers she used to be cool sometimes now
Prediction- She gets fully absorbed into the Tahanicule, with the two managing to break the competition caused distance between themselves. As We saw in this episode she's planning to go somewhere else so that might just be the last thing We see her doing, fucking off and leaving everyone else behind, like she did with the server
Emmy
Hope: Given the time she has spent being so devoted to this, all she's cast aside, it would be extremely unfair for them to not win the prize, even if it would be realistic to some extent. My preferred path here would they get all that money and then realize that without the server they have nothing left, because they traded everything away for the competition. Also maybe her egg cracks that'd be nice
Prediction: The author will probably think it'd be really funny if they did all that and then didn't even win - Although, given the amount of relevance the Competition has left, the result might not even be mentioned. Maybe her egg cracks that'd be nice
Mona
Hope: I want her to be able to be less weird about brown people in the end.
Prediction: I highly doubt there's enough time in the final episode for her to be relevant. We'll get a couple lines and she’s not gonna get much change out of it
Tahani
Hope: I’m honestly not sure. I guess I'd want her to actually fix the GSA with Quinn's tantrum turning out to be ineffective, but that probably wouldn't be satisfying narratively. I guess she'll have the break she deserves
Prediction: There really is nothing left to do for her other than sit around and tend to her lovers. I guess We'll have Tahani moments but none of them will be especially conclusive, her life goes on after all
Rupali
Hope: The first character here that actually has to contend with something as far as Parents' weekend is concerned. Well, I guess as a cis woman she isn't necessarily compromised. I hope she passes her exams, I suppose
Prediction: She'll manage. I believe in her.
Rashmi
Hope: Emmy spreads out the money to her roommates and she's able to no longer depend on amma for financial support. That or she actually manages to whip up a disguise that fools her family but for a finale that would be pretty unsatisfying, a mere continuation of the charade. Best but most unrealistic case scenario is she actually manages to convince her mom to not be a piece of shit anymore
Prediction- She reveals the competition at some point. I think that might just be crazy enough to work as an excuse. The mother is then the one to take down RCBG(this last part is kind of crazy but the competition has to end somehow right? It'd be crazy for RCBG to end without RCBG ending)
Nicole
Hope: She becomes less conformist, maybe through Victoria? Kathy's mom is presented as a nice person so far so it's possible she can enlighten Nicole. She gets points with her daughter for making their relationship better Idk
Prediction- She breaks up with Kathy. It simply does not make sense for the relationship between people this diametrally opposite to go on
Kathy
Hope: The main character of RCBG, I'm hoping she becomes hardier in some sense. Right now she's in this state of apparent insanity where everything everyone does is an affront to her and any action she could take has this perceived unplayable emotional tax. Maybe the pills could help? I'm metronomically swaying between wanting her to get a better relationship with Nicole and wanting her to gather enough power to become self-reliant
Prediction: She ditches Victoria and Nicole to go hang out with Roxanne, fraying the relationship between her and both of the former, and then realizing Roxanne isn't all that great either, being left with nothing. Maybe Victoria extends a hand in her darkest moment despite everything? She'd hardly take the offer though. Either way I feel in My bones she will reveal the competition to one of her moms
Thanks for Reading, see you at the end of the tunnel
