#parkersedith

surrounded by my favorite view

read now on ao3 // by troubledpancakes (@amandabobbsey)

“I also may have told my mom you would be coming home with me… asmygirlfriend.”

“As your what?!” Nancy drew back.

Ace grimaced. “My… girlfriend.”

“How the fuck did that come up?”

“I panicked!”

“So you told them we were dating?!” It came out much louder than she intended.

Ace shushed her. “I didn’t know how else to deflect! She said Grant was bringing his boyfriend home and listen, you cannot disappoint a Jewish mother! Okay?”

or, that time Ace and Nancy fake-date their way through the holidays and they have big dumb feelings.

Stefan laughed, the sound echoing through the empty room.

“No, I’m serious. Why does this shade look better on you than it does on me?”

Stefan chuckled once more, and his hands left Caroline’s hips to find her cheeks.

“Caroline. I’m pretty sure nothing could look better on me than it would on you.” He arched his eyebrows, and the frown left her face to be replaced by a fond smile.

“Do you really think so?” Her voice was soft as she looked up at her boyfriend.

“You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen so, yeah, I’m pretty sure.” A large smile broke out on Caroline’s face, and it was so contagious Stefan couldn’t help but smile as well.

“Can I go back to kissing you now?”

i am honestly still processing like!!!! yeah you hit the nail on the head by all accounts like fhaslfkasf i really do love the way this show uses music like. as weird as the concept is on paper it’s SO good in the context of the story

honestly!!! honestly i think emily was my favorite part of the episode!!!! i like that up until now she’s just sort of been this unapologetic career-oriented grumpy pregnant lady who has been allowed to exist in all of her short-tempered socially awkward emotionally restrained glory but man!!!! man this episode was such a like !!!!!!! development for her because she’s at the cusp of starting the same journey maggie is on the cusp of finishing in terms of their relationships with their husbands and it’s like. gOD it was so neat to see their storylines kind of intersect in this episode

i will say FOR THE RECORD i prefer max over simon but. this episode made me a little more sympathetic to what’s going on in simon’s head and i did hurt a little bit at the end with their duet. idk it was def not the most emotional song of the episode (HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND????  A S L  FIGHT SONG??? PERFORMED BY DEAF CHARACTER PLAYED BY A DEAF ACTRESS???? i was in TEARS the second the cello started gn!!!!!!!!) but like....yeah idk it carved a little bit of my heart out the way this show is so good at doing

ALSO???? HAD YOU TOLD ME BACK IN JANUARY THAT BY APRIL TOBIN WOULD BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW I WOULD HAVE STRAIGHT UP LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE BUT???? GOD???? like HONESTLY they did such a good job setting you up to believe that tobin was the bad influence and lief was the well-meaning-but-naive guy trying to be supportive while also being competitive but?? the MOMENT lief started to pull away from tobin, tobin immediately became a better person?? he’s still tobin and he’s still got a LOT of room for improvement but like. ofc tobin knows sign language. ofc tobin is going to do whatever he can to help zoey get abigail an internship at sparqpoint when abigail gets back from kenya. good guy tobin!!! who knew!!!

zep is amazing. plenty of people to ship zoey with!