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wearevillaneve · 5 months
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Luke Jennings spills the tea on why he decided to resurrect Villanelle after a talentless hack murdered his greatest character.
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no1islost · 7 months
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“When was the last time society felt united?”
Me: When people all over the world came together to cyber bully Laura Neal for ruining Killing Eve.
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queerjesusthelord · 19 days
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I've been thinking about her
You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about what happened: why did they do what they did, was there some logic in it, were we so furious because of the denial, as we were unable to accept the forlorn finale and why did it hurt that much so nobody could recover from it till now.
It’s been two years, guys. Two years of re-reading Luke Jennings books, writing songs and dedicating them to VillanEve, doom scrolling post about them, about all the anger fans still got for Laura Neal and the shitty ending (as Villanelle would say with a sexy Russian accent). 
I was listening to my beloved Unloved soundtrack of course, all this time. I’ve been on their concert in Paris recently and felt euphoric as I was sinking into Eve and Villanelle love story again and again through their divine music. Every word and sound reflected with my whole body and soul – it was ineffable. Every time I listen to “I’ve been thinking about her” it brings me to tears. I genuinely want this song to play at my funeral one day.
Well, I did my best to remain in this state of equanimity and kinda succeed. But a couple of months ago I decided to re-watch KE from season 1 and here is what happened. I happily binge-watched all three seasons and it felt like home – a perfect comfort zone, a way of my escapism. I even discovered a place where they shoot Villanelle’s apartment (here in Paris), I walked there, secretly got into the courtyard – it was AMAZING – visualizing what happened there in the 1st season, remembering their dialogue with Eve – “I think about you all the time” and stuff. It was comme la presence de Villanelle and I felt so happy and inspired there.
Lately I realised that I’ve been struggling, not wanting to re-watch the goddamn last season. Why the fuck it was so hard? I just can skip the last 5 minutes and et voilà – it would be just perfect. Plus dearest Luke Jennings has been writing and posting his new book about Villanelle and Eve (RESURRECTION) since November 2023, so we know that in his book they got their happy ending and their love story goes on, so it’s good news, right? We have something to rely on “more rock than sand” and it sounds so easy…
But frankly it’s not – I couldn’t pretend I did not see it – the ending they’ve made. I didn’t want to be in this denial any more. I was so angry, I didn’t want to go through it again. But I wanted to see the kiss, to feel their love, to embrace this fucking finale as well. The mixed up feelings were bothering me much so I decided to contemplate on them more, to write this down and here’s what I got.
For me this show, the VillanEve story, was very personal. And it started way long before the book. The book was a cure to find my peace AFTER I watched the ending, so I think it is what it is: the show is one thing and the book is another. I cannot pretend they are the same, like “Villanelle’s death was never meant to be in the book so fuck Laura Neal and her interpretation”. It’s fucking painful but I need to admit it – they ruined my favourite show, something I really loved and I feel so miserable I cannot simply rewatch it from time to time (like Twin Peaks for instance) to feel cheerful and happy KNOWING what awaits me in the end. It’s not a comfort zone anymore, it is a pure Hélène style torture. 
I’ve never felt so attached to the heroes before. I mean, I watch a lot of tv shows and movies, and I easily emphathysise to every story I love. But THIS was different. It was a mind-blowing love-journey, irrational, psychotic, driven, crazy, fun, epic, passionate, surreal, iridescent and QUEER. I NEVER felt so seen and understood on the deepest level by just WATCHING the show. VillanEve resonates with my personal life and fantasies and I was glad that I found it. I’m more of a visual person, so it was crucial for me to be able to WATCH it, to see the performance of Sandra and Jodie and their desperate game with unresolved sexual tension where should, no, MUST have been the glorious end game. The happy ending for them and for all of us. Not just us queers, but all the people.
This show was twisted, sexy and fun from the very beginning – thanks to ingenious Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And it should have stayed like that and ended like that. It shouldn’t have to be a torture. It’s not Game of Thrones for christ sake. Besides, the story of The Twelve was screwed up too, and I will explain why.
We have a lot of this political shit in life already. Right parties, fucked up capitalism, like Russian government and its dictature. It’s no fun guys, this is really frightful and disastrous. So I believe we people do need some kind of an inspiration, a hope in the shows we watch – so we can take this hope to our lives and keep it, lean on it. In dark times like this it would be really helpful and right – so they should have caught the The Twelve gang and crush it, end it for good. But they (producers) fucked it all up so it’s quite impossible to be unfucked. 
They ruined the VillanEve AND the fiction fantasy itself. It was the Author and the Twink death at once. Why not choosing an open ending if you had no idea how to end the show? The open final is always a good way, for me it’s all about respecting your audience. Think David Lynch way. Open endings give you a possibility to rewatch the show and come up with new ideas and interpretations. But they screw this one too.
So no, I think will never accept the finale. I will be grieving for a long long time. Until some director or a show runner who loves VillanEve as much as I do, makes a come-back to fix this shit.
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villanelleskiss · 1 year
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jodie saying villanelle is alive is the best thing that’s ever happened to me
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whovianderson · 1 year
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KILLING EVE FANDOM, VILLANELLE IS ALIVE CONFIRMED!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!
Jodie did an interview for Happy Sad Confused and:
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I AM HEALED.
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willyoustrangleme · 2 years
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Never read something more true 😂😂
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butareyoureallysure · 11 months
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A Villaneve painting I finished in April. I miss them so much. They deserved better and this is how I’ll remember them.
Acrylic paint. Approx 10x16 in.
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heroinejinx · 1 year
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FANFIC APPRECIATION MEME
Post recommendations for your ten favourite fanfics and tag the authors if possible. Tell us what you like about their work.
Tag five people of your choice to do the meme too.
okay well there’s more than ten because i’m indecisive & these are all too good not to mention!!
for some sense of order, i’ve separated them by ships, and then further by if they’re canon or au, because the 2 are essentially different genres so 🤓 
i’m also not gonna expand too much on what i like about each of these because it’ll just be me waffling & saying ‘i love this ship and this person writes their dynamic so damn well’ over and over lol 
Lightcannon
~~canon-ish~~
- ‘Ill-Fortune and Illumination’ series by @questionablecuttlefish 
ft. scenes of extreme chaos and extreme tenderness, sometimes in the same chapter, always brilliant 🤌
- ‘The energy that pumps through my veins’ by @ghostofyaz
in which jinx is the ultimate masochist & lux aims to please ✨
- ‘Flashbangs and Frag Grenades’ series by @calchexxis (which there’s also a podcast on Spotify for!!🔥)
‘jinx is crazy, lux is crazier’ - a must read
~~au~~
- ‘Bright Eyes’ series by @calchexxis
college au in which jinx is a ‘tattooed punk on a motorcycle’ - need i say more? 👀
- ‘Friction Coefficient’ by @blood-lich-crow
and so they were forced to be study buddies 😙
- ‘Fight and Flight’ by @onegraycat
the closest to top gun i will ever willingly get, ft. angst and planes ✈️
Timebomb
~~canon-ish~~
- ‘My Boy Savior’ by Elssandra on AO3 (idk their tumblr)
wherein jinx’s journey to becoming a firelight is cute, dark as hell, dramatic and frequently heartbreaking - yay 🥲
Pistolwhip / CaitJinx
~~canon-ish~~
- ‘Dancing After Death’ by @prettyaveragewhiteshark
jinx and caitlyn bond over their grief & it hurts & it’s so satisfying to read 💔
- ‘Hollow bones and bird song’ series by @natsukashenby
the fic that got me into the crackship, so much angst and pining, god bless 🙏
- ‘Lithium’ series by @ravenkinnie
okay i need to re-read this asap but the angst in this knows no bounds 🖤
~~au~~
- ‘Love Sonnet aka Escort AU’ series by @ravenkinnie
this fic is so tender and their connection feels so real - idk how else to describe it other than saying just go read it right now 🥺
- ‘Lover, will you look at me now? I’m already dead to you’ by @natsukashenby
ft. caitlyn and jinx bonding a little too much at a party… gotta love the drama
Liquorbomb (Jinx x ‘Chuck’)
@unknownstellardepths has this monopolised lololol thank you for your service
~~canon-ish~~
- ‘Toy Guns with Real Bullets’
jinx turns to ‘chuck’ after killing silco and things get *complicated* ❤️‍🩹
this fleshes out thieram/chuck so so well, and the writing in this? the crafting of the fight scenes, the sex scenes, and character development? yeah, read it.
~~au~~
- ‘Scissors and Heartstrings’ 
more thieram and jinx antics - can’t get enough tbh 🫶
Honourable mentions for some non-Arcane fics I adore:
SPOP (Catradora)
~~canon-ish~~
- ‘Falling feels like flying (till the bone crush) by ehj on AO3 (idk their tumblr)
what if catra and adora started secretly fucking while still at war with each other? yeah this is that & it’s bloody great 😌
~~au~~
- ‘Break a Leg (and break the bed)’ by @dandyvela 
catradora as stunt workers who are secretly fuck buddies, minus the friendship & add on a whole lot of repressed feelings. genius 💖
- ‘Take me home’ by feistypants on AO3 (idk their tumblr)
exes running a farm together and slowly confronting the past… when i tell you i cried 😭
Killing Eve (Villaneve)
~~what everyone in the old fandom wishes could’ve been canon~~
- ‘Saving Eve’ by DontShoveTheSun on AO3 (idk their tumblr)
okay i’m not exaggerating when i say that this fic has improved my mental health lol anyone still reeling from that abysmal finale needs to read this. this whole thing is like the most comforting hug ever & idc it’s canon to *me* 🥹
tbh i’d also extend this rec to anyone who enjoys the murder wives trope in general, even if you haven’t seen the show - this fic truly delivers everything that kind of story needs. can’t praise it highly enough.
okay, this was super fun to do so i’m tagging all the authors mentioned here, plus anyone else who wants to do it! 💕
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biggayenergypod · 2 years
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This is so funny to me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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It’s missing Killing Eve hours
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wearevillaneve · 8 months
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The True Confessions of Eve and Villanelle (original post by Villxnelle/Twitter)
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the cowards of Killing Eve are silencing us
While we’re aware that the official Killing Eve Instagram and Twitter accounts disabled the ability to comment in the wake of the disastrous Bury Your Gays finale, it’s just as important to point out that the official YouTube account is now doing the same.
This is effectively silencing our fandom from voicing our valid criticisms about Season 4′s homophobia, in particular the atrocious Bury Your Gays ending.
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Several users have reported that their YouTube comments have been methodically deleted by the official Killing Eve account because they’ve pointed out the harmful Bury Your Gays trope and explained that it’s ruined their enjoyment of even this magnificent Villaneve kiss. Others have also been deleted because they’ve criticized Killing Eve for have so few Villaneve kisses to being with.
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Out of almost 200 comments on this video, these few critical comments that remain pinpoint the widely shared concerns of our fandom. Concerns that have been resolutely ignored since Killing Eve’s homophobic finale aired on April 10, 2022.
I know it’s disheartening to see that we’re literally being silenced by the producers of (homophobic) content, by those in power who have the ability to flip a switch and turn off criticism on their official channels.
But this is exactly why it’s important to literally speak truth to power. To create our own content, as a community. As a wounded fandom still daring to raise its voice and call out what’s wrong.
Killing Eve cannot erase the harmful impact of its horrible and homophobic writing, or diminish the many think pieces, articles, and reports that have already condemned the Bury Your Gays finale.
Killing Eve can try to keep on silencing us, the predominantly same sex attracted fandom that has empowered this show to achieve its success to begin with. That speaks volumes in and of itself.
But what Killing Eve will never be able to do, is truly take away our ability to continuously hold them accountable, to express ourselves in our own creative ways and spaces, and to honour Villaneve’s story the way it was meant to be told.
We have something to say, Killing Eve, and you can’t stop us all.
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macallisters · 2 years
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daily reminder that villanelle deserved better
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g4l-p4ls · 2 years
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jodie and kayleigh both have bafta awards and laura neal has none, how fitting
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whovianderson · 1 year
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HELLO EVERYONE I’M EXCITED BY MY ROOM’S NEW LAYOUT SO I’M GONNA INFLICT IT UPON YOU!!!
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wafturelust · 2 years
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I feel so bad for Jodie 4 years building up a character only to get nothing in return
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