Who wants to get married anyway?

Hey, don't be sad. Michaela-centric season 5, okay? Canonical Michaela Stirling POV coming soon, okay? Michaela Stirling getting hours of screentime instead of seconds/minutes like in the previous seasons, okay?

i know my girl modern au Michaela Stirling loves football and her girlfriend Francesca is so glad it's over and she can get back to her normal life. every time she mentions being over it Michaela remembers John thinking exactly the same things. They have a framed photo of John on a side table and Francesca turns it around so he doesn't have to suffer through any more matches. She worries she's made a mistake when Michaela looks at her but then Michaela says "thank goodness he has you."

ladies… has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine 🩷 i’m sure no one has ever ever ever reinforced this deeply held secret, that’s it’s okay for you to be feminine. 🩷 i know the world totally tries to tell you that you have to be manly and masculine and grow your body hair and eat as much as you want and get strong and stand up for yourself and make waves and take up space and show your bare face and show your anger. but it’s okay to do the exact opposite actually. 🩷 it’s okay to shrink yourself down to the exact same mold every other woman is expected to conform to. 🩷 did you know that it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you just be feminine already. 🩷🩷🩷

the big man is the masculine dom and the dom is the top and the little man is effeminate and transgender but fully passes as a cis man and has top surgery but since he doesnt have bottom surgery he literally has to be a bottom theres no way for someone with a vagina to top and the bottom is the sub and they are both uncomplicatedly homosexual with zero positive emotions for women and they both have adhd and autism but only the kind of autism that doesnt actually disable you and they also crossdress but in a specifically humiliating way (why would a MAN wear a DRESS??? 🤪🤪 etc.) and they live together in a big house that they can both effortlessly afford and they're married and have 2 kids a dog and a cat (because Big man is dog coded and Little man is cat coded) and neither of them have jobs or lasting damage from canon events they've been through or physical disabilities or PTSD that I cant turn into Angsty Ship Content and the sun has a big smiley face and birds are just V shapes on the paper it doesnt have to be more complicated than that you dont have to flesh them out. you dont have to. and if you think about it wouldn't it just be soooo much effort to draw a whole bird?? youre just having fun its mean to ask you for detail. and my teacher lives at the school and the bus driver lives in the bus and everything is exactly the same :)

by god we have got to popularize woman whump

The contrast in episode 6 between the flashback events and the current events, especially in the lighting and acting, especially when it cuts between Hulda’s administration and the nighttime stadium scene is so Jarring. I was scared that they would sanitise gilead because of this trend in the last couple years of shows being scared of presenting dark subjects seriously/realistically. But they’ve used the contrast between the sheltering of these girls and the violence enacted on the generation before them and everyone outside of their bubble to show the many different ways that gilead exerts controls over people.

agnes going from "god has a path for me, things will be okay, I can find a good match and thrive in gilead" to "I'll run away with you" as soon as she finds out becka wants to leave, she thinks could live a good life there, but she'll leave it behind if becka can't live a good life as well, because her good life necessitates becka at her side - thinking about her romanticizing pushing baby carriages with becka, she's never considered a future where she wouldn't be at her side