The original girl math

Crazy ex girlfriend really put themselves out there with having a female protagonist. A female protagonist that dosent have the body of a supermodel. A mentally ill female protagonist. A female protagonist that is explicitly a bad person yet is treated with sympathy AND held responsible for her actions at the same time. A female protagonist that is a more fair and accurate portrayal of mental illness then most men with mental illness in media are. A female protagonist that is allowed to exist as a complicated person and not woman™. A female protagonist that is a parody and a empathetic exploration of a sexist stereotype. they did all of that while also having a mainly POC cast with diverse body types and sexualities that are all treated as actual people and not monoliths of the minority they are representing. And they balanced all that with being consistently funny, entertaining, touching, heartwarming and having really really good music for 4 seasons. WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THIS SHOW MORE

“[…] Season four starts with meet Rebecca, and in the end, she did”

The Terror / Crazy Ex Girlfriend @sushiprecotto @glorioustidalwavedefendor

Okay i think it's time to go on my crazy ex girlfriend abortion rant that I've been thinking about for like 3 years.

Because i find that even in progressive media that shows abortion as good and important and normal still show it as, like, a punishment. Like the person getting the abortion has to because they behaved irresponsibly. They had sex with someone they shouldn't, or engaged in adultery, or it's a teen pregnancy. And of course, those sorts of stories should be told, because that's reality for a lot of people, but it does leave a distinct flavour of 'you did the wrong thing and now you have to be punished'

Which is why i find the abortion subplot in crazy ex girlfriend so incredible, because Paula Proctor is not the sort of character who gets abortions. She's already a mother, she has a good relationship with her husband and a stable home life. Having another child would put a strain on their finances but wouldn't be impossible. She doesn't necessarily "need" an abortion. But she gets one, because she is trying to improve her career by going to law school and having a newborn would make that so much harder. And that's it. She gets the abortion, and goes on to become a successful lawyer, and she clearly loves it, and it's clear that she made the right decision for herself and her family. She is a lot happier than she would have been if she had decided to go through with the pregnancy.

I've never seen anything like that before, but it's so important to portray abortion not as a last resort option, but just as an option.

THEY JUST GOT SANTA ANA WIND-ED !!

(been wanting to redraw this piece from 2020 for FOREVER. sososooso happy to see that ive actually improved hehe)

#they're so normal about each other

Rebecca Bunch and Valencia Perez in CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (2015) S1E9: "I'm Going to the Beach with Josh and His Friends!"

Cannot BELIEVE that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend really said, "Here is a female protagonist who is a mess and flawed in a painfully realistic, uncomfortable way, in a way that you cannot distance yourself from or write off, one who will do things that will worry or confuse or even unnerve you, and she is still worthy of love and support and personal peace. She still deserves to be happy and fulfilled because she is a person. And not only does she deserve to recover from everything she's been struggling with, that recovery is POSSIBLE. It's never truly out-of-reach, and it's so, so incredibly worth it for her to keep trying, for all of us to keep trying. Because we're never going to be perfect and we're never going to have it all figured out, and we're probably going to screw up a lot and there will even be times when we're downright unlikeable, but that never means that we can't still be happy."

ANYWAY I HAVE COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY NORMAL FEELINGS ABOUT THIS SHOW

the annoying thing about loving a show called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is that when you're trying to find content for the show it gets drowned by people talking about their crazy ex-girlfriends, playing into the same misogynistic archetype the show existed to add depth and nuance and sympathy to.

Nathaniel Plimpton III is just The Character of all time. I’m rotating him in my head. I want to put him in a terrarium and study what he does.

He goes to the zoo when he’s sad at night. He has daddy issues.

He hired people to hunt him for sport in the woods instead of going to therapy.

He shit himself at work once because of his commitment to healthy eating.

He did a sad strip dance in a gay bar once.

He caught a glimpse of his mom trying to kill herself as a child and he hasn’t been able to truthfully tell someone he loves them since then.

He hates ska music.

He works to grow to be a better person.

Sometimes he goes to the aquarium.

He hired a hitman on someone for his crush.

He has a stuff alligator toy.

I love him

This song is Everything to me

IT’S A LOT MORE NUANCED THAN THAT

Semifinals: Poll 1

Everyone who said the Elle/Phoenix poll was pitting two queens against each other: shut the fuck up /lh. This is the poll deserving of that sentiment.

gonna tell my kids this was the eras tour

rebecca bunch + text posts

Rebecca : My mother can't come to my wedding. She was at a yoga retreat, and she fell out of a warrior pose and broke her hip.

Paula : Should we consider the possibility that someone pushed her?

Rebecca : paula, please.

Rebecca : They were a bunch of peace-loving hippies who spent two weeks in the rainforest with my mother.

Paula :

Rebecca : Of course someone pushed her.