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Look, I'm gonna have to take a rain check on this pub thing. Oh no, don't. Surely, you can come out for just one?

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I truly truly believe that the most important thing you can do in fandom is be a cheerleader. comment on fics. reblog art and rave in the tags. support the people making the things you want to see. this is how you keep a fandom alive. this is how you get more of what you want. you never know: that person could have decided to make more just because you liked it.

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when you put david gray on the jukebox for nothing

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despite the anti-climax lol i way prefer now not knowing when or how the engagement will happen. hopefully it will remain a surprise. It was lovely to see Carla so so nervous about the whole thing <3

either way, I'm not bothered about today's outcome. in fact i'm actually relieved it didn't come off because if Carla had been successful, it would have been tainted for me as i was totally consumed by thoughts about this conversion therapy storyline that Lisa has now officially been brought into. It wouldn't have felt right for Lisa to go from handling that at work straight into getting engaged

At the same time, it's not even clear if she knows that Noah is a homophobe practicing conversion therapy (if she does then she acted very blasé about it...). I'm wondering if this is to be the extent of her involvement or if she will actually become involved on a personal level. I am crying out for her to have a crisis of faith (in her role as a police officer) because of this but i do not trust itv or corrie to explore that even though it's the only way her police role could actually become interesting, and with further Becky drama looming, I can't see her being involved in two big but unrelated storylines at the same time.

Her comment to Theo in the interview room about not yet having gotten on to asking questions related to possible motive (for Noah's assault) felt pointed to me and I can't work out if it's the writers using it as a get out of jail free card to shut up people like me who are like "hang on, wouldn't this lesbian cop have some interest in what noah is doing to theo?" or if it's the writers saying "she doesn't know yet but keep watching….". Or is it neither because the writers haven't given it any consideration at all? (sidenote: surely Todd would have told her what Noah is doing??? but of course we didn't see his interview...)

(I have to acknowledge that since the last time I posted about this, we had Maria earlier this week point out that the community centre -where Noah is practicing - is supposed to be a safe space (the implication being his presence there is rendering it not safe), and I was somewhat placated by this at the time. To me it suggested there is an awareness of the impact on the wider community/the intention isn't for just theo and todd to be struggling with this... so I continue to reserve judgement until this storyline has played out... but ugh...)

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Carla making a reference to Eva today:

"Mariachi band, though? ... I think my brother's fiancé did summat similar"

first hint at Eva's return!

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"Just trying to find a ring size for Lisa." "Oh yeah? Lisa, why? What for?"

Coronation Street | Carla Connor + Ryan Connor (11th August 2025)

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Meet the new residents of 6 Coronation Street

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I just thought if me and her had matching ones, then... Sorry, you and who? Well, Betsy, for her 18th.

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August 4th // August 11th

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CARLA CONNOR & BETSY SWAIN | CORONATION STREET

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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Coronation Street | Carla Connor + Lisa Swain + Ryan Connor (13th August 2025)

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