the way teenage bounty hunters DESERVED a second season. like what a tightly written, quippy, funny little show with so much heart. there’s so much good going on in it but things I particularly love:

Twin themes!! There’s so much good foreshadowing surrounding the big reveal (iykyk) and there’s also so much DOUBLING. Double lives especially is a big theme. Like, Debbie hiding Dana; sterling and Blair hiding their bounty hunting; the (functional) froyo shop being bowser’s bounty hunting lair; Terrance the lone wolf bounty hunter and bowser with his little “teen white savior” teammates; Yolanda’s sister who is a perfect foil for her; miles hiding Blair from his family; sterling hiding april from Blair…and then april hiding sterling period.

And I guess the doubling is kind of showing like, here are all the possibilities and here’s what happens when we let love in and here’s what happens when we shut it out

so much good stuff about being from the American south. As someone who grew up in the south and who grew up visiting close family in Atlanta…it is cool as fuck the way the south is portrayed in all of its complexity. The show does not shy away from issues of race, religion, SES, etc SPECFICALLY in Atlanta and manages to do it in a way that doesn’t come across as heavy handed. This show could ONLY be set in the south—it would be a fundamentally different show in any other setting

Also, like I said with the doubling points above, this show is full of secrets and secret keeping!!! But yet a fundamental point of the show is that being silenced is one of the worst things that can happen to a human being. There’s a scene where Blair is telling sterling that her dad yelled at her and that the worst part of all is that he told her to Be Quiet! And like in some ways that scene highlights what a loving household Blair has grown up in that the one of the worst things her Dad has ever said to her is be quiet (not even shut up)…but it really made me be like wow being told to stop questioning and be quiet IS something terrible. It’s a denial and a violation of our right to use our voices

and like it’s not a coincidence that in the final ep Dana gags sterling. Because the way sterling is talking to her is powerful and you can tell it is making her hesitate and question her whole life

so yeah anyway watch teenage bounty hunters! Or if you haven’t in a while, it’s definitely worth a rewatch

netflix once again cancelling a sapphic show that pulled incredible numbers and reviews while giving multiple seasons to mediocre het and mlm shows like

silver stake through the heart--that oughta do the trick. and that's love? actually, love can get crazier than that. silver stake through the heart--that oughta do the trick. and that's love? actually, love can get crazier than that. silver stake through the heart--that oughta do the trick. and that's love? actually, love can get crazier than that. silver stake through the heart--that oughta do the trick. and that's love? actually, love can get crazier than that. silver stake through the heart--that oughta do the trick. and that's love? actually, love can get crazier than that!!!

Diversity wins! Netflix canceled yet another show with great queer and poc representation under the false pretense of bad viewership!

If there’s any other possibilities you’d like to share, leave it In the replies pls!

you know why destiel is a great ship? bc they never tried to get them together. if cas had been a woman they would've fucked in season 5 and we wouldn't have had this 12 year slow burn of epic pining between a faithless man and a fallen angel. it's So Good bc they're not trying to get them to date or kiss or fuck every other episode and yet as new episodes aired it always felt like those things were possible. it's the greatest queerbait ever but also not bc the angel is gay and he loves that man but also the queerbaiting actually made it great it made the pining last it leaned into the Almost of it all and never let the lovers get what they yearned for like. we will never see this kind of thing ever again on tv. 12 years? good luck with all these shows being canned after season 2 or pulled from streaming before it even airs. and queerbaiting? you wouldn't get away with that shit nowadays and that's good but also bad bc there's no slow burns anymore everyone gets together by episode 8 or season 2 and it's so damn obvious and also they're all young like teens and 20s you don't see much 30s/40s+ queer characters and love stories which is another win for spn

i am very very upset about first kill being cancelled. it seems like such a simple and insignificant problem, because it IS. straight people get to see themselves in EVERYTHING, always. they don't have to look for characters that have things in common with them, they get to just put a show on and watch the characters they care about grow and go through things. they have every type of story: regular teens in high school, regular teens in magical worlds, apocalyptic situations, serious shows with life lessons, sitcoms etc.

but lgbtq people, especifically lesbians and sapphic people, get 1 in a thousand shows, and then have to watch every single exception get cancelled. as a lesbian teen, all that i want is to see myself in something as simple as the tv shows i watch, but every time i find something to care about, it doesn't last.

one day at a time made cry because it was so accurate. cancelled TWICE.

i watched everything sucks! three times. cancelled.

i am not okay with this, cancelled.

teenage bounty hunters, cancelled.

watched genera+ion twice and it also made me cry. cancelled.

didn't even start the wilds before it got cancelled.

first kill was a dream come true: something entertaining and not very deep, with vampires and other monsters, and queer fucking characters, like straight people have had for years. also cancelled.

it seems like lesbian representation is stuck. most movies we have still aren't happy, and all the shows get cancelled. even if they don't have necessarily tragic endings, we don't get to know the whole story. we can't be happily distracted from real life with these stories, because they don't get a fucking ending, which is a crutial part of every story, and this frustates me and many other people that just want enterteinment to reflect people like us.

I hate how wlw are treated we either have to watch a character representing us dIE or they cancel the show (despite it being successful)

the way i always end up back here every couple of years like clockwork.. tumblr still has me by the throat ig

had a fun and funky dream last night

OKAY SO picture this: sort of post-apocalyptic time frame. me: a 30s to 40s year old scientist man, who is helping a man named only "the professor" become a more competent scientist for his small group of people. the professor's science room is a classroom of an old high school, and i have been helping him pick up and gather more science equipment. i am poking through the drawers and admiring how much more we have gathered, and i note that the beaker for the first part of an experiment is not in the drawer. i turn around, and the professor is at the head of the classroom, and he has the beaker. there is what seems to be liquid light inside of it, and it is boiling. it shoots out of the beaker, and the professor angles it away from himself (ofc) and it sends this brilliant arc of molten sparking light across the room

I immediately turn around to grab a notebook (have to write it down for it to be science!) and get hit in the back of the neck by some of the liquid. i am trying to write down what the professor is saying. the professor's wife comes in and is like WHAT is happening. Unbenowngst to me, I have started to glow with a faint light blue light! Which the professor immediately starts freaking out and babbling about. I am telling him to slow down so I can write it down - and then he does! I thank him - except it's the world that slowed down??? Not him? and I still haven't noticed I'm glowing?? I go to lean against the counter as the professor and his wife run towards me, and as they almost reach me, I sort of... clip through the counter? I am VERY ALARMED by this? and the professor manages to grab me and yank me back out of the counter and i go stumbling backwards towards the center of the room and suddenly i'm not in the room anymore

I'm in a black and sort of teal-ish landscape of nothingness and i am shaking apart at the seams? I am still glowing but now I have noticed. It is agony as I shake myself apart, feel like I am being torn in two. The buzzing increases until finally I seem to - split? Suddenly in this place (which my mind labels The Burn Zone) there is me and... also me, but a silhouette of me, all black and no features and very frightening. The figure seems to look at me and then just... turns and sprints away, and suddenly I am on the floor in the classroom again and people are helping me sit up and asking me what the fuck happened

and then one of the people is like "Hey bro you got a new tattoo?" and i look down at my leg and there is a bulldog tattoo there I have never seen before. and suddenly I have a suspicion and pull up my lab coat sleeve and just as I thought - my incredibly cool science themed tattoo sleeve is no longer there? and has ben replaced by what seems to be???? someone else's tattoo sleeve? and i know that i shook myself in half and so the half of me that was gone HAD to be replaced by something, and that my arm and leg have been replaced by a stranger's arm and leg. and that the stranger is probably a criminal?

anyway the final part was after a little timeskip. i was driving a bus full of kids. i put both hands on the wheel and suddenly my not-me-hand yanks at the wheel, almost jerking us off the road before I get the bus under control. i remember just feeling so frustrated - just being like "well fuck fine i guess i'll just have to drive the bus one handed. and i can't even CALL the professor because i doubt my hand would cooperate to hecking put the phone number in right. asshole hand." and i just really vividly remember the light grey gravel of the road we were driving on, and then i took a wrong turn but i still pretty much knew where we were so it didn't really matter.

anyway then i woke up uwu

good morning y'all

white wlw just as much stories centered around them as white mlm and are also celebrated by striaght audiences. Carol, atypical, orange is the new black, booksmart, etc etc… so like the argument can be made for white wlw too. White lgbt stories are always favored :/ first kill would have probably been adored if they were two white women.

yes, there’s definitely an aspect of racism to the hate on and cancellation of first kill for sure, i agree! my only question is…. what straight people watched orange is the new black? 💀

on a surface level its kind of amusing and also very fun the way that there is a distinct migratory lesbian fandom that watches all the same gay stuff: paper girls, a league of their own, first kill, teenage bounty hunters, motherland, warrior nun, arcane (to an extent), etc. and even includes a subsect for cartoon fandom (she-ra, the owl house, steven universe (a bit), rwby). it means I can j follow the same people forever and trust they'll watch all the stuff I do.

but also kind of sad bc the only reason it exists is that almost none of these shows last a SINGLE season past confirmed lesbian content. like, a live kiss is a death wish. so we all end up watching literally all of it bc the shows that are still running are hanging by a thread and everything else got canceled. and all the stuff that lasted a long time did so bc they weren't confirmed gay for like 90% of it. eugh.

another year, another slew of wlw show cancellations 🙃

Tldr; Ted Sarandos is a piss poor leader and many of Netflix's current issues are top- down. Leadership now largely ignores employees' and customers' concerns and critisms

first kill was cancelled. i am not ok with this was cancelled. everything sucks was cancelled trinkets was cancelled. teenage bounty hunters was cancelled. and those are just netflix originals. Fun Fact: Queer woman can have full and well written stories

Fckn Netflix

Just discovered and finished "First Kill" on Netflix after a random tv binge and of course it was CANCELLED AFTER THE FIRST SEASON 😡

First Kill, I Am Not Okay With This, Teenage Bounty Hunters

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO GET A DECENT ENDING TO ONE SHOW 🤬

If someone could point out a nice fanfic to provide some closure it would be rly appreciated :)