LET’S GO LESBIANSSSSS

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Episode 5

possibly my favourite thing about the rotpl finale is getting confirmation that lydia already knew she was gay. cynthia was going through such a time, and we finally know that lydia was actively protecting herself and in control of the whole situation. the rehearsal kisses? she instigated that with the knowledge that it wasn’t two straight girls, because she clocked cynthia from the get-go and still offered to kiss her for the play, because it was no commitment. she couldn’t be abandoned because the play already had a strict deadline. when cynthia ran away after the pre-play kiss, and avoided her at the dance, she knew she’d gone too far, and that she’d have to pull away and not talk to cynthia so that she could maintain the boundaries that would protect her from heartbreak again. the whole situation gains a whole extra layer because while cynthia might not have had the words to express who she was, lydia did, and the words were deviant and invert and sick, so of course the poor girl, this seventeen (maybe sixteen?) year old girl knew that the world wasn’t safe for her. despite all this, cynthia pulled it back. everywhere lydia hid behind behind femininity and long hair and theatricality, cynthia stuck out like a sore thumb, short haired and feisty and so butch without even knowing what it was, that overtness represented that hope, that the bit of lydia that was hiding could be a little freer. the glances that we see when the teacher suggests more rehearsals can turn into the active looking for each other that we see in the finale because that’s where the balance is, and it shows lydia that cynthia will never deny her. she will see her in public, around her friends, and will say she loves her to nancy, and that is what lydia needs. she spends so much time acting as these characters that she is virtually never herself, and in the hall of mirrors, surrounded by her own reflection, she gets to see that being who she is, a young lesbian in love, might be worth it. that the girl in the mirror, kissing cynthia, can exist and be happy.

Cynthia & Lydia (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies)

WE'LL BE TOGETHER #5 Cynthia and Lydia

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies - Season 1

Our favourite Thesbians in (almost) every episode of the first season

I hate hearing people talk crap about ROTPL being "too woke"

Do they not realize that POC, queer people and feminism existed in the 50s? May have had different names for them back then but they all existed.

I'm irritated.

I will never get over being robbed of seeing more of Lydia in S2, her past, her development, her own story outside her relationship & her passion GOSH I wanted to see her heart, her thoughts, her family, her hopes & dreams, her fears, her accomplishments, her growth! NOT TO MENTION we were robbed of watching Niamh Wilson perform SOLO in S2 😭

LOOK AT HER!! We all know she would come through! Look. At. HER! She would slay & she would eat & we would be brought to our knees! WE. WERE. ROBBED

Niamh talking about Ari (x)

Cynthia + Gathering up the nerve to talk to Lydia

they're in love

GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES 1.05 ♡ You Can't Just Walk Out of a Drive-In

cast members of GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES in front of their trailers

something so personal about two non-binary actors playing nineteen fifties lesbians

Niamh Wilson as bitchy theater gay thespian Lydia ↳ Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

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Cynthia and Lydia + kissing | 01x10