#ms anonymous

I'm assuming this is about my recent skyeward post?

Goodness, I miss them too. they really did deserve better. they were just...so perfect. for being a teenage couple on tv on a disney show, you know? but like...they were so cute, and honestly, the heart eyes every time they looked at each other was magical.

honestly? i've learned over the years to not always trust every word that comes out of a showrunner's mouth, or that they'll treat my favorite characters/ship write. I've been burned too many times. a lot of them will bend truths and sort of stretch things done in the past to make it work for the narrative they're trying to create in the present. obviously not all of them are like that, but that tends to feel like the general vibe of a lot of showrunners. say whatever you need to say to make the majority happy and keep them watching your show, even if it alienates others.

also...how soon did they know that Olivia was gonna leave the show? i doubt they knew during the filming of s1 since she didn't really start taking off in her music until s1 was released (i'm pretty sure). and it definitely felt like the plan was to always make Rini endgame, no matter what else happened. and then they gave Portwell all of these beautiful scenes through s2, after setting up their rivals to friends to lovers arc so wonderfully, showing the both of them moving on from past relationships and focusing on themselves and finding that companionship and understanding in each other that they weren't finding anywhere else. something that wasn't intended as romance, in their eyes, but they were both happy to let it go there when the realizations hit them.

i really feel for EJ too, having two girlfriends that both ended up with Ricky in the end, proving to him, in his mind, that he's not good enough to have these two girls that he thought were amazing stick around or come back. that there's something he's lacking if he loses two girls to the same guy within the span of roughly a year, a guy that both girls already had some degree of history with.

if EJ is gonna be in s4, I need the writers to treat him better, like honestly. i will write his storyline if I have to. let the boy have a meltdown finally, or something, because of all the pressure he's always under (he should have had one in s3 and i will stand by that). let him find friends who will support him unconditionally and stand by him (like yeah, the wildcats are great, but they were all constantly bagging on ej during s3 [if i remember correctly, I've only seen it once] while he was trying to direct a show he didn't want to direct in the first place and it really didn't sit right with me). let him find a girlfriend WHO WILL STICK AROUND LONGER THAN A FEW MONTHS (as much as i love gina and portwell, my boy deserves some happiness too)

Oh my goodness. That would have been such a good episode.

PLEASE!

I was never into Linc*ln as a character or as the other half of the ship. I just...he felt a little too bland for me, maybe because i'm a diehard skyeward shipper (probably). But even just as himself as a character, i wasn't feeling him. I really wasn't buying the romantic chemistry between him and skye, either. I like to believe that she was still hung up on ward but trying not to be, so she goes into this new relationship and is trying to make herself be more into it than she is.

I can say with complete confidence that one storyline they did not handle well was Ward's issues with his family and his mental health. Like...seriously. There are just so many things that could have been handled better.

And dragging Thomas into it, to try and mess with Grant was seriously not okay. And I would have LOVED to have met his sister. I have this headcanon that she's the oldest and she wasn't as affected by their parents abuse/neglect as the brothers, so she managed to get out from under their thumb as soon as she could, but always regretted not trying to take her brothers (at least grant and tommy because christian was probably too far gone) with her. (now i kinda wanna write some kind of fic where she does just that)

Yay! Okay. It was so hard to pick one, but here’s one for my MacRiley fam.

Without another word—he doesn’t know what else he can say that won’t have him on the verge of tears—he turns around and walks back to his car, his determination to find his wife finally starting to rear its head.

Handwritten letters: Love them! Don’t get nearly enough of them, which is to say that I don’t get any. I kinda wish I had a penpal so I could get and send handwritten letters. Should I find a penpal? I should find a penpal. My mom had a penpal in high school.

Swimming: Yes, I can swim. Don’t do it very often, though. Oceans are cold where I live, so it’s not very fun to get in them. And we don’t have a pool at home. And I don’t think any public ones are open right now.

Smol civilized bunny came from James, actually. Don’t remember how or why. Pretty sure we were talking and he mentioned it and I thought it was fun so I decided to use it in my social media bios.

I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s picking on me for being short. I don’t even remember how or why it started either. And I don’t think I’m the only one he likes to remind is short. I don’t really mind it, though. I’ve heard it all for years from other people.