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FIC: One Last Time (Thirteen PLL Endings)
I. Return to Camelot
Aria wakes up to sunlight streaming in through the wooded slats of Spencer’s barn. Last night’s storm must have blown itself out, which is great for their flight to Reykjavik probably being on time this afternoon, not so great for the present moment of the light making her eye sockets throb with pain. She puts a hand to her temple, flinching at the feel of her friendship bracelet brushing against her forehead.
She hears shuffling noises in the corner, manages to turn just enough to see Emily blushing furiously, as she zips up her blue Sharks hoodie and stuffs her bra into one of the pockets. Alison’s yellow tank top is crumpled in the corner, and Ali herself is pulling the t-shirt that Em was wearing last night over her head with a smile like the cat who ate a whole flock of canaries on her face.
Aria can’t be bothered to wonder about whatever they’re up to. Not when she’s groggy and her head feels like it’s been replaced with a bowling ball full of sand. And there’s no use trying to figure out Alison anyway. The Queen B is her own law, and secrets have always been her favorite currency.
Spencer moans as she gingerly stands up, then staggers over towards the hot plate to try and make coffee.
“What was in those drinks last night?” Aria asks, her voice cracking and a little hoarse. “I feel like I was drugged.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Alison breezes. “You gals just can’t hold your liquor.”
“Seriously,” Hanna groans, her face a delicate shade of green. “I feel like I got hit by car.”
“I woke up like three times,” Spencer yawns. “I thought I heard a scream.”
Emily starts coughing, her face bright red, as Alison pats her smoothly on the back.
“No one screamed,” Alison scoffs. “You were probably having that anxiety dream about your French final again.” She casts a sidelong look at Emily as she says it, batting her eyelashes and leaning towards her a little. Emily gives her a shy smile in return and scoots towards Ali just enough so that their shoulders are touching.
Aria feels a tingle of deja vu, a murky sense that she knows something, she’s just not sure what.
There’s a loud buzzing from underneath her pillow. She reaches for her clumsily for her phone. As she blurrily tries to focus on the text from her mom, it hits her in a flash. A nightmare landscape of anonymous text message and faceless stalkers and Alison missing and an underground bunker and long lost sisters and red coats and black hoodies.
“Aria, are you okay?” Spencer asks, a concerned look on her face.
“I’m fine,” Aria tells her, shaking her head to clear out the residual strands of panic and fear. “I had a really crazy dream.”
Why Addison’s Accusation Plot is the Worst
Within the show itself, the word predator / predatory has now been used to describe Ezra Fitz and Emily Fields an equal number of times.
The show is continuing its really fucked up messaging around this stuff. Remember the scene where Noel gets busted with the answer keys in his locker, and the audience is supposed to feel this big sigh of relief? That sigh is predicated on the idea that no one will believe him now. (Even though he'd be telling the truth about Ezria!) The idea that even if you tell, no one will believe you is exactly how abusers cow their victims into silence.
(And false accusation plots, and the promotion thereof, train people to doubt the accuser and give the benefit of any doubt to the possible perpetrator.)
That sigh of relief is the same one we're supposed to breathe when Paige doesn't believe Addison. Yes, Addison is a cretin (and I hate her name being Addison! Oh, are you trying to signal that she’s a mini-Alison? I had no idea, you were just so subtle!) But Paige's reaction is based on her personal perception that Emily is a nice / good person.
When someone says, "This person hurt me," it is never the right thing to counter, "That can not be true, because they never hurt me." That’s not evidence. That's actually the exact attitude that lets men like Ezra and Ian and Wren and Holbrook and Lorenzo and Garrett and every single adult Rosewood man on this show get away with their endless bullshit!
So it's an irresponsible story in general and then it leans hard on homophobia and homosexual panic to do its heavy lifting. It implies that LGBT teachers and coaches are more vulnerable to these accusations because as queermos in a locker room full of same gender people undressing, the possibility always exists that we could be looking at you in an unsavory way! Cue ominous music!
(If this line of reasoning seems familiar, that’s because it’s the older cousin of the trans bathroom panic sweeping Republican legislatures in a state near you!)
It equates Emily's potential guilt with her lesbianism, since Addison's story relies on the mechanical equivalence where one part is true of the lie is based on the truth (Emily is gay), so the other part is more likely to seem true (she hits on teenage girls). It feeds into the long standing idea that gay people are more likely to be pedophiles. And it doesn't do any work to refute any of that!
The story goes away because Addison is a liar, and Emily is a good guy. It's tagged as messed up that Addison did that, but it's messed up because she was trying to fuck with Emily, who is a Good Gay Person -- not because of all the ways her story is perpetuating negative ideas about gay people.
Like, if Addison was the secret kid sister of one of the Liars and the gay coach was a Nefarious Gay Character like Sara Harvey or Shana - I think the show would/could use this exact same plot point, because they're giving no indication that it's inherently bad. All the badness of it revolves around the moral positioning of Emily and Addison.
Compare that to when Spencer told Coach Fulton about Paige's homophobic comment about the breast stroke. Coach Fulton's response and Spencer's immediate reaction were entirely on the side of homophobia is bad. This plot, it's like lying is bad and doing bad things to Emily is bad, but homophobia is a morally neutral plot device.
This plot line is like the Trump administration. I hate it so thoroughly, and it's being awful in so many directions it becomes hard to know what to rally against. I choose all of it!!!!
This plot is also the ultimate nail in the coffin of OG Alison DiLaurentis. They defanged her. They had an entire episode full of sex take backsies for her. They took away her plane. They had her make soup for Lorenzo during his terrifying tennis ball elbow injury. They married her off to Rollins and had her sign herself into a mental institution and then topped it off with an unplanned pregnancy. And now, now - she doesn't even have enough of her old mojo to help Emily Fields best a tenth grade wannabe mean girl? SERIOUSLY?!?!
Also, the show was bending over backwards to push this Addison is the new Alison parallel, but does it really work? Alison was consistently shown using her sexuality and her brains and her instincts to bring down adult men. Yes, she manipulates the other liars, and I'm sure Addison manipulates whatever pseudo liar group she is the leader of, but Alison (back then) had complexity. She did bad things for good reasons. This little twerp appears to have no agenda except being terrible and skipping swim practice to make out with her boyfriend? So making her the stand in for teenage Ali is yet another retcon oversimplification of who Alison was back then.
Finally this whole thing MAKES. NO. SENSE.
What is Addison's motivation? That she doesn't want to be benched? Okay. I mean, if swimming is so important to her, why did she skip practice? If she's a top shelf liar, why didn't she come up with a better cover story when Emily asked her about it the first time? If she overheard Paige and Emily talking, which she certainly did, she heard Emily talk about her "intense history" with both Paige and Alison. So why would she even spin that story for Paige? Doesn't it seem like she should have known that Paige wouldn't buy it? Or was she randomly trying to cause trouble for the Paige/Emily/Alison love triangle by activating Paige's jealousy towards Alison? But why? Because Chaos Theory?
Or is she - this new character who we have never seen prior to the ninth-to-the-last episode - somehow mixed up in the 'A' game, as the possible Jenna text and board game video suggest? (She was ten years old when the Liars were being messed with before. As Austin Carr would say, "Get that weak stuff outta here!")
In addition, what on Earth is AD getting out of this? What do they care if this girl is benched from a swim meet? Why are they trying to help Emily out of trouble? Why didn't Emily take the AD video to Paige instead of confronting Addison? Was AD's big plan to make Emily yell at this girl?
OOOOOHHH! They've engineered Spencer visiting Toby in the hospital and Emily shouting at a kid! What will this dastardly genius do next?!?!
Although the "get in touch with your darkness" quote was mildly interesting, but darkness is Spencer fake kidnapping Malcolm. Darkness is Mona draining her own blood every night for months and storing it in a mini-fridge in order to fake her own death. I get that Emily is not generally a dark character, but raising your voice in a heated way at a tenth grader is just not on anywhere near the same level.
Maybe I wouldn't be as worked up about it if the track record of the show post jump didn't include the deaths of Charlotte and Sara Harvey and Jenna’s involvement putting another queer woman as one of the final villains.
And now, in the final episodes, we get this story that's a throwback to The Children's Hour. Boo x 1,000,000.
Seriously.
Within the show itself, the words predator/predatory have now been used to describe Ezra Fitz and Emily Fields an equal number of times.
Made these in anticipation of the final premiere tonight!

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FIC: Close Your Eyes, Give Me Your Hand
It seems like everyone is always assuming they're a couple. A story where Paris and Rory begin to realize that everyone, in this case, might just be on to something.
A/N: I wrote this fic as a holiday gift for my friend lco123
Spoilers through the end of the Netflix revival.
Hi there! Were the Gilmore Girls fics I found on Ralst yours? They were great!
Thank you! Yes, that's me. I had two Rory/Paris fics over there, and I also wrote a third one for a challenge that I have in the archives here. I just finished watching the revival, and there's a pretty good chance I am going to write a new post Fall story with the two of them. :)
Emison 7b Scorecard
Okay! Emison fans finally got a kiss in the 7a finale! Ten episodes are left!
What magic do I think the show has in store for Emily and Alison?
Here are my extremely scientific predictions:
7 hugs
5 hand holdings
2 kisses, one of which (finale) will be open mouth
1 actual conversation about their relationship
0 sex scenes, which will allegedly be due to Emison baby on board rather than queer viewers getting shafted
Plus 1 Paily kiss, due to Emily being a sweetly confused total player.
Meanwhile, for the HMS Heteronormative, I’m going to say:
3 Haleb sex scenes
2 Spoby make outs, and a sex scene in the finale.
2 Spencer kisses with not-Toby (Marco or Wren)
1 Jaria sex scene
1 Ezria sex scene (probably wishful thinking, I’m sure there will likely be more)
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Am I overestimating the conversation? Underestimating the sex scenes? Only time will tell!
Expectations for The DArkest Knight: How Low Can You Go?
Here we are, the last mid-season finale of ever! The last time we’ll ever hear Marlene promise us all the answers are just around the next corner! The last time we’ll hear about how many wonderful and romantic and dramatic and mysterious things are no-really-I-am-not-fooling-this-time deAd AheAd!
I really want to enjoy this episode. I do. I’ve loved this show for a long time. I love the characters, I love the complexity of their relationships with one another, and the way their bond shapes the entire story.
So I’m making a list of things I want from tonight’s episode. No grand hopes and dreams. No last lingering wishes for it to be that one magical codex of an episode that will finally make sense of everything that has happened. No hoping that Ezra will be trampled by a herd of elephants ridden by animatronic dolls.
This is me, trying to set the bar as low as I can, in the hopes that it will increase my ultimate chances of happiness:
- I want the episode to entertain me more than it annoys me. Ideally by a ratio of at least 70/30 entertainment. But I’ll settle for 60/40. Or even 51/49, tbh.
- I want all the queer women to make it to the end of the episode alive. This means Emily, Alison, Sabrina, Paige, and Jenna and Sabrina’s ex-girlfriend who she was having lunch with and all the rainbow bridesmaids that Pam is having book club with, okay? This is especially important as it seems clear there could be some stray bullets whooshing around.
- I want BAMF Mona to be kicking ass and taking care of business.
- I want some good ensemble interaction with all the Liars in the same place.
- I want a scene that reminds me of all the reasons why I want Emison to be endgame.
That is all.
Plus bonus points if no one has been impregnated with Emily’s eggs.
Anyone Can Die vs. Bury Your Gays: PLL by the Numbers
Let’s take a quick look at the idea that PLL doesn’t really have a problem with killing off queer ladies because it’s one of those shows where anyone can die. It’s a battle of the tropes! Except not, because the Gay Reaper has got this one hands down.
The show, to date, at this moment has had 64 straight cisgender characters, and 11 LGBT characters. (I’m counting only characters who have appeared in at least three episodes, and who I think were significant enough that fans would remember them without having to rewatch anything.) That’s 75 characters in all, of which 14% are LGBT and 86% are not.
Out of 75 characters total, the following have died: Garrett, Wilden, Jessica, Ian, Rollins, Wayne, Nicole, Cousin Nate, Maya, Shana, Charlotte, and Sara Harvey.
See? Anyone can die! And they’ve killed off eight straight, cisgender characters, which is twice as many as the four LGBT characters! No problem here!
Except no. We’ve got 12 total deaths out of 75 characters. If you are a PLL character, and we don’t take any other variables into account, you have an overall 16% chance of dying.
Except no again. If you’re a straight, cisgender PLL character, death has come to 8 of your 64 fictional souls. Congrats! You have only a 12% chance of dying!
But if you’re an LGBT character on PLL? Get your affairs in order! Your death rate is 4 out of 11! That’s a 36% chance of ultimate doom!
Looking at it from a strictly representational stand point, LGBT characters are 14% of the total cast, but make up 33% of the overall death rate.
If you take things from the first episode of the time jump, it’s even worse.
Counting all characters who’ve been alive on screen since the time jump as of right now (so eliminating Nicole and Wayne, as well as people who are coming back later on like Paige and Jason), there are 30 characters. Of those, 24 are straight cis characters and 6 are LGBT characters.
That’s an 80/20 split. But since the time jump kicked off, the LGBT characters have been two corpses out of the three - 66% of the deaths!
The full metrics post-time jump give an average Rosewood resident a 10% chance of death, which drops to 4% if you’re a straight cis character and jumps to 33% if you are not.
It’s like climate change, denying the facts doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This isn’t Anybody Can Die. In the world of PLL, death discriminates.
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Sara Harvey (yes, even Sara Harvey) Deserved Better
This is not a post about mourning the death of Sara Harvey. This is a post about mourning the Show That Was. The show that was about a group of young girls growing into strong ass women in a world set up to break and devour them. The show that had Emily Fields and her Magnetic Lesbian Super Powers front and center, where queer women came and went and had complex identities outside of their sexuality.
To paraphrase Buffy: We’re not looking at that show anymore. We’re looking at the thing that killed it.
The death of Sara Harvey is, I fear, the latest sign that my beloved show is not poised to go out on the kind of high note that I've been hoping for all these years.
It feels like a punch in the face, after sticking with the show post-Charlotte's death, that - in spite of the increasingly mainstream discussions about the deaths of queer women on television - PLL would just go ahead and kill Sara Harvey off so casually.
Considering that she was barely around this half season, there doesn't seem to be any reason in the world that they couldn't have simply written her out. She was never super important to the plot - despite trying to shoe her in as Black Widow and Red Coat and Emily's duplicitous former love interest and the spiritual heir of Jenna but with useless hands instead of blinded eyes. For that matter, they didn't really need her around in 6b, I can't think of a single thing that she did post 6a finale that couldn't have easily been handed off to a different / more interesting character. And death is literally the least interesting thing that you can do with a character! Now she's dead and it seems like our chances of ever getting more information about her motivations have died with her. Weak!
The worst thing about it, in my mind, was the way her death was set up. Maybe it seems like a small point, and I'm sure they did it as a wink to the fans, but having her dead body in the bathtub with the shower running? They were playing it for laughs! They were actually encouraging us to get a nice chuckle over her death. It's true that her character was loathed by the fans - but that's because her reveal as BW/RC was so unsatisfying and her story arc over all was nonsensical. To be fair, it may also have been because the actress wasn't a super strong choice - but doesn't the responsibility for the writing and the casting fall squarely at the feet of the show itself?
Like, what is the message here? Haha, we created this queer character, made everyone loathe her, and now want you all to laugh and cheer at her bloody demise! Fuck. That. Noise.
I had no love for Sara Harvey as a character, but she deserved better from the show all the way through. Of all the deaths on the show - Ian, Wilden, Garrett, Maya, Shana, Charlotte, Bethany, Jessica, etc - I can't think of any others that were played out in such a mean spirited way. It's stupid and cruel on the same level as making 'A' a trans woman and then promptly killing her off to kick start the next mystery.
Sara Harvey is not Lexa. She’s not Tara. She’s not even Bridey from The Family. But she’s dying on the exact same hill they did, the one that’s made up of 40 years worth of buried gays. She deserved better.
I’m running a Bring Them Back fic challenge over at AO3 as a counterpoint to the idea that any of these LGBT women had to be sacrificed on the altar of television narrative necessity (or, lets be real, expedience). However much you might have disliked Sara Harvey on your screen, every time they kill off a queer fictional character, they’re reinforcing the idea that queer lives are expendable in the larger world. Which they are not. Our lives are not expendable. Our stories are not springboards. Representation matters. Sara Harvey deserved better. As do we all.
Bring Them Back Fic Challenge
Help bury the Bury Your Gays trope! I’m running a Bring Them Back challenge over on AO3!
Ever since Julie chased her love interest into traffic on Executive Suite, queer women on television have been dying in droves. From Xena's beheading to the stray bullet that took out Tara Maclay - we've been shocked and saddened. We've endured years of LGBTQ women appearing on our television screens only to serve as cannon fodder, falling victim to poisoned needles, serial killers, house fires, and even the occasional ax-wielding puppet.
The body count has been climbing for 40 years, and 2016 has seen the Gay Reaper strike women on sixteen different shows. This trope has claimed so many characters - Lexa, Mayfair, Root, Poussey - not because their deaths were the only way to advance the plot, but because far too many writers seem to view queer female characters as expendable.
This challenge is being set up as a fannish counterpoint to the idea that these deaths were creatively necessary. It's a place for stories that turn the narrative around and explore what could have happened if these women had lived.
If you’re a fic writer, I’d love for you to head over there and claim one of the prompts. (See the FAQs for instructions on how to claim if you don’t have an AO3 account yet.) If you’re not a fic writer, but you’re excited about the idea of the challenge, I’d love for you to reblog this post to help get the word out. (And check out the challenge page as it picks up steam and stories start to get posted.)
Bring Them Back Fic Challenge!
Because representation is important. Because violence against queer fictional characters contributes to and encourages a climate of real danger that queer women face every day in the actual world. Because writing fics where these characters survive helps. Because the creativity of fans is the best antidote to the idea that these deaths were inevitable or necessary to advance a particular story line. Because there are one zillion things that an author can do with a character who is lesbian or bisexual or transgender woman that are more interesting than killing her.
but if rollins is dead, who’s “coming for ali” in that flash-forward scene at the end of season 6????
Some new character we know nothing about probably
I think it’s a nightmare and it’s Alison dreaming of Uber A. Because the girls are saying we came back for you. But they have been in Rosewood for awhile now.
Andrew probably 😜
Marlene in a mask. Run, Ali, run!
What’s Important
Yes, yes - one woman’s evil psychiatrist husband is another woman’s hood ornament. But the really important question is:
Has Alison seen Emily in those suspenders?
Because that could maybe save us from whatever Sabrina drama is A-Brewing. That’s all I’m saying.
FIC: Real This Time
"We're gonna miss our flight."
"We'll take the next one."
A story where that's exactly what they do.

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the writers are so gross i am so upset with them. after seasons of ezra taking advantage of aria they finally address the obvious - that he was an adult, her teacher, when they got together. that he went after a minor. and that it was wrong, he’s a predator, aria was manipulated, etc
but they spin it to make liam look like he’s the bad guy. that he shouldn’t be saying what he is, that he’s just trying to ‘come in between’ ezra and aria and ruin their book. they frame things as if since aria is an adult now that it’s fine how their relationship started
ezra LITERALLY manipulated her IN THIS EPISODE. it is not a thing of the past! their relationship was and always has been toxic and abusive. he is a predator, he did take advantage of her as a minor, and he is still manipulating her now and he is still an unhealthy presence in her life
he makes liam seem like the bad guy to aria, makes it seem like he ‘can’t work with liam’ if liam is 'going to be like this.’ he makes it seem like liam is 'attacking’ the book, aria’s work, ezra’s work. that ezra 'can’t see’ where liam is coming from and liam is just absolutely out of left field with his claims
they addressed it just so they can’t say they didn’t. they had aria’s monologue to liam at the end to make everyone sleep at night with 'if aria is okay with it then it’s fine.’ their relationship is a power imbalance. this was not the right way to handle any of this and the writers using this as an excuse to 'discuss’ ezra’s abuse and pedophilia and using it as a way to sweep it all under the rug before the series ends is disgusting
like everyone saying it’s fine because aria is of age now like, it’s not fine. their relationship still started with ezra preying on a minor that does not disappear because aria hit 18 in addition to that, ezra is STILL abusive to aria. he is and he always has been and their relationship will ALWAYS be like that. there is no variation of them that will not include abuse
On. The. Nose.
LIST: 5 Things I Would Rather See on PLL than Caleb Jerking Spencer Around for One More Second.
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Sara Harvey rips off her mask and reveals that she is not only Red Coat and Black Widow, but ALSO Tippi the parrot.
This blank look? I need birdseed, bitches!
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The Liars turn out to be burying Aria’s wardrobe. Because they can’t even with the feathers anymore.
Not my animal prints, you monsters!
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Rollins turns out to be not a British guy secretly pretending to be an American psychiatrist, but actually a Russian guy impersonating a German guy who is faking being a French guy who is acting like he is a British guy who is secretly pretending to be an American psychiatrist. And he’s actually after Alison because of, like, Putin.
In Russia, yellow tank top wears you.
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‘A’ has actually spent this whole time plotting ways to raise the dead and kick off the zombie apocalypse, forcing the Liars to flee from Bethany, Ian, Mrs. Potter, Maya, Garrett, Wilden, Shana, Jessica and Charlotte - all of whom are super interested in eating their brains.
Give me my welcome basket full of BRAINS!
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An entire episode where the little ghost girl from the Halloween episode haunts Liam and Jordan. While they attempt to adopt Ezra’s fake son Malcolm.
Wait till I tell Moaning Myrtle about this!