Step 1: Stand in your crush’s line of sight and wait for them to see you

Step 2: Act cool and suave when they do notice you.

In my head, Romeo was around the same age as Shades and Comanche, so what, do we just age Zip down to 30 (at time of death) and say Romeo was a teen dad?

SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME...

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT BUSHMASTER IS TRYING TO SAY THAT THE WORLD ISN’T COMPLICATED...THAT THINGS AREN’T BLACK AND WHITE...THAT THIS IS HOW HE SEES THE WORLD....

BUT HE DECIDED THAT MARIAH IS TO BEAR THE SOLE BRUNT OF HIS ANGST OF HIS PAIN??????????!

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME LUKE AND BUSHMASTER ARE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT “YOU DON’T KNOW THE PAIN OF MY LIFE” BUT MARIAH IS THE ONLY ONE AT FAULT?

IF MARIAH HAD SAID THESE SAME WORDS

1. SHADES OR MISTY WOULD HAVE BEEN YELLING AT HER

2. TILDA WOULD’VE CALLED HER A MONSTER

THE FLIRTATION WAS TOO STRONG!!!: Reading between the lines

“You waiting for me?”

did you miss me? 

“No.”

no (yes, but i won’t say i did)

[hesitant disappointment. trying to find the words.]

(i’m hurt. have i lost you?) 

“I bet he told you I was dead”

I know he’s trying to separate us

“Diamondback got to you, didn’t he?”

Did it work? Are you with him now? Do you love him?

“No he didn’t it.”

This is episode 7. 

I didn’t want out

Shades still doesn’t want out. He’s been trying and he’s been wanting to stay in the game. He wants the club. He wants to keep part of the gun business. Mariah wanted out, but at this point she’s decided to engage Bushmaster, with Shades’ encouragement.

It was gonna be different this time 

Shades wanted the status quo just pre-Bushmaster. Him and Mariah rich. Darius by his side.  

I know.

Cuz you stay being trash Luke!

bonus:

With the way the OTP ends with Shades’ blaming Mariah for a lack of trust vs how much we see her confide and depend on him...

She’s yelling at him, tears on her face. They’re blaming each other. She starts hitting him and the following:

This is someone she trusts. There’s no pretense, no lies. “Yes” she says.

She tells this man all her worries. Before their lawyer quit, she wanted to wait to leave with him.  What happens next is one of the most romantic things ever. In one of the best shot, one of the most well-written scenes in ALL THE NETFLIX MCU - in the midst of his emotional turmoil, his wrecked state of self, Shades gives Mariah a pep talk (watch the scene in this video from @shadymariahmvids )

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU------------