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THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY 2.02 - "Love Scene"

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This is possibly the most attractive thing Conrad Fisher has ever done.

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THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY 2.02 "Love Scene"

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Where's mine? You always say they're too sugary. Yeah, well, I'm thirsty, so too bad.

The Summer I Turned Pretty || 2.06

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I want it to be with you.

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY 2.02 "Love Scene"

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BELLY CONKLIN & CONRAD FISHER The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-) season 2

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DARREN BARNET as Paxton Hall-Yoshida NEVER HAVE I EVER (2020-2023)

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I read this again myself after season 4 and I'm actually very pleased with how well it holds up

I did it, I finished my fic High School Makes You Crazy with TWO HOURS TO SPARE... six months after the last update.

So here you go, the conclusion to my Daxton fic.

Ch. 11 - Never Have I Ever... Been Caught in the Act

Devi and Paxton are forced into introspection about what they want. And there's a pool kiss.

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same, bestie. same.

The way Paxton ended up being the most supportive and sweetest guy and liked Devi for who she was 🥺 always hyped her up and saw her worth and never thought she was too much!! He never saw Devi as below him or not good enough 🥹

I feel like season 4 Devi would have been ready for a real relationship with Paxton bc she’s started to become more confident and her self-esteem and self-love has grown so much. I wish we got to see that develop but they had like 2 interactions the whole season!!

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omg thank you for sharing "dynamite areolas"

someone pls gif this video of maitreyi, darren, and jaren swapping each other's roles in the hospital scene from season 3. they are PRICELESS

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Handling it like Devi would love to see it

NHIE S4 Spoiler

*Throws a chair across the glass window and smashes anything that is breakable and screams *

That's it...

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THANK YOU FOR CALLING OUT THE ERIC FATPHOBIA it bothered me too

LOL if Paxton had actually acted like that as a teacher both Ms Thompson and Coach Noble should have done something about it. Love that the writers treated that with absolutely no sense of seriousness. “I’m not a narc” girl you’re supposed to be protecting the children but like I can’t even get upset about it because everything feels so washed out and blah and I just don’t believe any of it where are the stakes

Also I am SO SALTY that they cast as BRILLIANT an actor as Pete Gardiner as coach Noble AND GAVE HIM NO JOKES ARE YOU KIDDING ME everyone go watch him in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend NOW he’s amazing

wait actually quasi-rewrite of paxton's s4 arc:

starting this off by saying that I do genuinely enjoy the "people don't like me? oh shit i have to leave immediately" plot point (slaps the top of paxton's head: this boy can fit so much adhd coding in him), though I think it should've been longer than two weeks (and maybe not Just social problems)

also I liked miss thompson and thought she and paxton were fine together, but daxton owns my heart and soul, so she's just living her best life being a sub at the school, completely unaware of paxton's existence

with that out of the way, alt paxton arc:

I think it would've been fun and sexy for there to have been some sort of swim team tryouts/meeting at ASU, where paxton could blow everyone's times out of the water (pun intended) and then have some of the people on the team dislike him specifically for the thing that made him super popular in high school, in addition to his roommate's total apathy, but that's an optional change

first major change is don't have him go straight to working at the school. I'd either have him get a job at a community pool or maybe work out some sort of deal with the coach to sometimes get access to the school pool (the latter is logistically harder, so I'll be going the community pool route for the rest of this)

as in canon, devi needs something athletic for her applications. she reaches out to paxton to ask, and he suggests the girls swim team (does their school even have a girls swim team? who knows, but I'm going to say that it exists and has openings) ((I also think it would be good for devi to do something she’s BAD at. we got a bit of that from the relay race, but it was overshadowed by her scheming re: aneesa. and that was a one-time event, compared to training to join an actual team and participate in competitions))

devi is obviously leery of the prospect but paxton reassures her that he'll be right there and wont let anything happen to her

insert fun reference to him pulling her out of the pool at ben's party and probably a joke about the role reversal from when devi tutored him

also a deeper discussion about how she became paralyzed in a pool and could've drowned (this is a show about processing and healing from trauma, so let them Talk About The Trauma. the emotional and narrative through-line of "devi loses feeling in her legs" -> "devi regains feeling in her legs because of paxton" -> "paxton rescues devi from a pool" -> "paxton helps her feel safe to swim again" do you see the Vision?)

paxton teaches her to swim again. there is a pool kiss, obviously.

and at this point we can bring eric in (preferably with less fatphobia). he's noticed that paxton has been giving devi private lessons and also wants private lessons. paxton isn't sure because, yes, he really liked helping devi, but well, he lov really likes devi. also eric is annoying

devi encourages him to give it a shot, since he's a really good teacher (aka fun parallel of them both encouraging each other and pushing each other to be their best)

like canon, paxton teaches eric and realizes, oh shit, he might actually like teaching. like, in general and not just teaching devi specifically

the coach sees how he successfully trained eric and then tells paxton about the job opening, which segues into Daxton Drama (do they breakup so he can take this job? do they try to hide their relationship while paxton works at the school, and does that bring up old insecurities for devi, or has she gotten past those? does he turn down the job and go back to school right away? and in that case do they try long distance?)

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NEVER HAVE I EVER

4x06 "...had my dream stolen"

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*sigh*

NEVER HAVE I EVER

4x06 "...had my dream stolen"

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SHE WAS DONE SO DIRTY I NEED A SPINOFF

NEVER HAVE I EVER | S4 Megan Suri as Aneesa Qureshi

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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Devi) from Never Have I Ever chooses which love interest is most likely to date her.

Full video

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Bestie which fanfic is this, I'd love to read it, if you could give me its title or link? 🛐

i am so excited to share this one with you (fyi it’s explicit) it is canon in my mind -