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You didn’t even see the signs.
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Trying to hang with the bad kids
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The First Arm Touch
In episode one of Teenage Bounty Hunters, when their rivalry is being established, Sterling gets an idea that leads her and Blair to April Stevens. At first, Sterling is so confident and just laying on the charm. But April has lived here all her life and known Sterling for most of it and she can tell when she is being disingenuous.
Even though April does call the twins out for their lie in front of Ezekiel and Hannah B, she doesn't eviscerate them as she could, and she doesn't threatened Sterling until the condom is visible to only her, Sterling and Blair, with her body blocking the view from everyone else.
I take away two things from this exchange, April does not want to out Sterling and she does not want to create a scene, even though creating scenes seems to be April's specially. Moreover, April seems to gently but firmly grab Sterling's hand or arm when she decides to talk to them away from her posse. And Sterling, as we know, is a sucker for an arm grab, she follows April easily. Whether that's because Sterling likes the feeling of April taking initiative and physically moving her somewhere, or because it's reminiscent for them both of the days when they were kids and held hands all the time, I think it's an important moment in their story. April chooses to touch Sterling and Sterling complies more than willingly to her touch. Upon rewatch it feels like foreshadowing for how Sterling will come to feel about April's arm grabs in the future. Plus, as expected, Blair is just the picture of confusion watching her sister so easily distracted as they try to get information out of April.
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Added a gif since I just realized how to make them 😌 that power walk after she turns is iconic, as is the smirk she gives once she gets to Sterling.
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April has Sterling's schedule memorized.
When Sterling and Blair come out to the quad just walking and talking, April is sitting on the grass with Hannah B and Ezekiel and her back is turned away from the twins who are just coming out of the building. Hannah B is facing the girls but she is singing and playing guitar. Ezekiel is distracted by his phone. When April gets up and walks away, both of them look confused. She turns and saunters directly over to Sterling who is the only one she greets. I just get very fixated on this moment. Because here April is trying to be the best for Team Stevens and show up Sterling with all her extra-curriculars. But Sterling is the reason she walked over. Sterling herself is what was on April's mind in this moment.
When I was a young gay girl in highschool, I had this obnoxious way of easily absorbing my crushes' schedules. One girl, I even committed her outfits immediately to memory every single day. I was heavily closeted and much more in denial than April. This was always a definite reminder that I looked at girls the way I was expected to look at boys.
But, the thing is, April might not realize it, but she has a crush. Honestly I think she's had a crush since 5th grade before Sterling gave her away when they were besties. And that she has, to her everlasting annoyance, memorized Sterling's schedule on campus and known her general whereabouts at all times since she met her and fell for her when they were little kids.
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Teenage Bounty Hunters (2020)
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Teenage Bounty Hunters - Stepril + Devon Hales’ quotes from interviews
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Trying to hang with the bad kids
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Coming out to herself as bi was a big step for Sterling. But I think her deep and desperate concern and love for April shines through esp in the debate episode when April blows up at her about walking away and leaving her on the swingset. She would change it all if she could. Take back all five years of how things played out, if she could just have April back and not so mad at her. Even if it meant no Luke, even if it meant Blair would hate her, nobody gets Sterling like April does. Nobody gets April like Sterling does. It seems to be a throw away line in episode 3 but it's also the episode title. "This must be how dumb kids feel." Sterling and April are both overachievers surrounded by underachievers. They both take pride in good spelling and correct pronunciation. They thrive on points and well-done projects. And once everything else falls away, they are honest with each other. Like intensely earnestly deeply honest. April about her dad, Sterling about her feelings. They are the person each of them needs to feel most completely themselves in a world that refuses to understand them.
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Ultimate Ships Challenge: [1/10] Kisses >> Sterling and April’s first kiss(es)
“You know my dad used to call my family a team. And I worked so hard to be the very best version of myself because Team Stevens wins no matter what. Team Stevens is perfect, except that it’s not because the team captain beats women, and breaks the law, and makes my mom mortgage the lake house for stupid fucking legal fees.”
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Ah my favorite genre of show. Overachiever awkwardly pining
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I think someone, not me, but someone should write a Teenage Bounty Hunters/First Kill crossover fic. Imagine Blair and Sterling meeting Juliette and Caliope?! Imagine Bowser dealing with either of the FK families. Imagine April being highly suspicious of everything, but then being the one to figure out how to save the freaking day! I need it!
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Teenage Bounty Hunters - 1x07 - “I think you should just start slow. Throw out the bait, see if she bites, and go from there.”
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What did you think of the scene of "I aim to please" "noted" and Sterling's reaction afterwards?
Hee, well, okay, what do YOU think of it, anon? I honestly just giggle when I see it, it’s just so surprising and fun with all these layers. Like, on the one hand, they’re these super inexperienced Christian kids, right, doing their little Christian project, closeted, nothing can be put out in the open, but you also have Sterling explicitly so horny for April and it is PALPABLE. 
And like, the aim to please, she’s saying it half-joking but it’s literally what she is, this good kid people-pleaser of the highest order but it’s also this proud little acknowledgement of her efforts to win over April since the debate tournament, wear her down with sheer friendliness, and like, yay, progress! Progress because she wants to DATE her.
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But god.
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I don’t think any of us, Sterling included, expected that drawn out “Noooted”, it’s just April being her bossy, overbearing self, but it’s so unintentionally aligned with the way Sterling has been approaching this convo. I think she’s caught off guard by how much it played into her little fantasies, lol, because MAKE NO MISTAKE. This kid has been fantasizing about April and is not at all opposed to her bossy, overbearing side and it was just this odd little intersection of the two and she sharply looks over and swallows as she realizes that no, April didn’t really mean anything by it beyond their usual dynamic.
In a season filled with a lot of favorite moments for just this ship, this remains in my top few just for its sheer rewatchability value. The first time we’re here, it’s all nerves and anticipation and even worry for Sterling, rooting for her but afraid of how quickly she’s running into this. And there was some relief that there’s obviously some thawing on April’s part and even a BIT of optimism, but god, on rewatching, and knowing Aprli’s this super intense lesbian and that underneath this tentative little interaction they’re both canonically starting to see the other in a new light and developing raging crushes on each other, it’s just SO much fun
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Omg that second to last gif of the Doritos scene gifset!! Did Sterling making that kiss mouth when she keeps looking at April’s lips!???? Hahaha I love how her eyes keeps going up and down looking at the eyes and the lips hahaha Bless whoever invented gif!! We see more small details that we missed while watching Thank you thank you for gifting!!
Can I just say, I love that everyone’s calling it the Doritos scene, that’s literally what I named this clip.
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Uh, huh. It looks like it! But I think it was just a little quirk, either she was thinking about saying something to interrupt this tirade (and get April’s attention all back on herrrrr) or she was doing this kind of unconscious mimicking thing with April she seems to do, like touching her hair:
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Although, to your point, she’s touching her hair because she’s imagining touching April’s, soooo I guess we’re back to your theory. :D
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YES, god, that dab. i was watching that with like an anticipation for a fight with the mom or something so i was like very serious. and she dabbed, and believe me when i say i cHOKED my way into laughing! this show, man, is so ridiculous in a very endearing way.
Right, it was like, oh, this is gonna be uncomfortable, and a little scary, just how mad is she, and then
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EVERY SINGLE TIME I see it I start laughing. It’s so random and half-hearted and dumb. Lord, Sterling.
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Some emotionally charged looks, plus this guy:
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