#Leyren

[laurenbloomsource]

after plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own, now you mail back my things and i walk home alone

[artmania2019]

[trashyeggroll]

I was going through the Leyren tags on here and wow they really let me down in every single way. I loved the nuance of your replies about them but seeing all the posts giving the writers the benefit of the doubt because everyone still had hope even after the weird bribe shit is still so sad. Not sure if a ship has baffled and let me down more. Hbu? Or are you smart and dip before ships get to the point of no return lol

ugh i wish i could say i was smart and dipped out but i legitimately watched the opening episodes of that last season thinking "Surely this will not be nonsensically cruel and unrealistic" and alas... ALAS. but i always like to play pretend for awhile that there's nuance, complexity, and compassion that can actually play out on television shows. Alas again.

i need like some sort of investigative podcast into these ships - or even whole shows - that just. seem to lose their collective minds at the end, whether it's the writers or the showrunners or the studios maybe?? examples of bonkers final seasons include: Wynonna Earp (w.. wh... what the fuck was that?), new amsterdam even beyond the Leyren disappointment, the resident, the l word (original), black lightning, and even supergirl.

it's not like the shows are phoning it in, because oftentimes there's a blitz of CGI and wild makeup choices, but the tone and storylines and vision just go the way of poor Lena Luthor in that one scene

the expression she's making is me going, "Lena.. what did they do to you?"

[drelizabethgreene]

Day 6 of the @februaryficletchallenge

Prompt: Time loop

Pairing: Leyren (Leyla/Lauren, New Amsterdam fandom)

My take on what would happen if Leyla showed up at Lauren’s door after Lauren’s mother passed away, trying to help in any way she could.

[ifiwere-idbe]

Because I do still love them...

I got bored and did a manip (on my phone, so it's not perfect). I'll always be bummed we never got a moment when Lauren got to comfort Leyla because these two would've done it beautifully. 

 Was kind of inspired by the "Can we go home?" scene in HGC.

[daaedoodles]

Chapter 2 of Give Me A Sign is out!

We have a Leyren cameo and Elizabeth’s patient is none other than Willow 🤭

[lesbiansayaishii]

its just something about their ship name being leyren....

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

For the ship ask: Marina, Kacy, Leyren

Marina - OTP; love them, would die for them, I just want all of them all the time

Kacy - I ship it; I used to be obsessed, but this last season was kind of meh, they're going to have to do some work this upcoming season to make me become obsessed again

Leyren - Meh; The show ruined them

[cantgetoutofmyheda]

Also, got heavily invested in this during my Tumblr hiatus 👀

LAUREN & LEYLA  |  New Amsterdam 4x21

[trustschaos]

✭ INTERACTION ✩ STARTER CALL  ✭

@rawbutprecious / l. shinwari.

"okay, settle something for me," bag drops by the door, a grin on her lips as she glances over her shoulder at her girlfriend, "is it totally biased to say you were super badass today or is that just plain old fact?"

[mangeur-detoiles]

Hi! I love your gifs! Specially the ones focused on color themes 🤗

Re: Ask a graphic / gif maker

Can you share your thoughts on 19, 20 and 37 please? Thank you! 😁

Hi! Thank you so much. I'm delighted that you love my gifs and that we share the same taste in colors :)

19.Your favourite fandom(s) to see graphics / gifs come from I follow a lot of talented gifmakers from various fandoms such as The Umbrella Academy, Star Wars, The Witcher. Although I'm not part of these fandoms, I'm a fan of these gifmakers because they are so creative and inspiring to me. Here are a few of them off the top of my head: @nataliescatorccio @cal-kestis @seance @jinxiaobao

20.Your favourite fandom(s) to make graphics / gifs for Kacy no doubt! I made gifs and graphics about clexa, Ahsoka, the English, Leyren (New Amsterdam), For all Mankind, True detective Night Country. But nothing has ever inspired me as much as kacy. I love them so much and the people in this fandom are amazing. It was a great exprerience to watch S1 with all the energy, excitement, great analysis and theories. Best experience for me since I joined tumblr. I miss your kacy posts @hatchetation @halforcdad @100hearteyes

I've already answered question 37 :)

[sextonsharpwinhalstead]

👏🏾👏🏾 Thank you for your words regarding the “WW comes first” trope. I know you’re sick of dealing with it like the rest of us but unfortunately, if it’s not called out, people will continue to be ignorant of this and it will continue to happen. As a black woman, I get exhausted seeing the same tired ass complaints from fans when the white male lead shows interest in a woc and you might as well forget it if they actually do become canon. You can literally copy and paste the things they say as to why they are against the ship across the different fandoms cause they all say the same thing when a woc particularly black woman is involved. All of a sudden we see the complaints where they start finding fault with the white male lead, things are written poorly especially the woc, they have empathy for the ww but hardly any for woc, the ship is forced even when they’ve been laying down the groundwork for that interracial ship to happen, the lack of chemistry argument or claiming there’s better chemistry with the ww even though we can see that’s not the case. The list goes on and on. Same shit, different fandom. The ww first trope is a thing and it’s frustrating cause it just adds to the toxicity that exists in fandoms. So these things need to be said cause obviously people aren’t getting the memo

Oh yes, the old usual's.

"I see them as more of a sibling, dynamic."

"I don't know what it is, but there's just something about her that I don't like."

"Wow, that came outta nowhere. I just don't see it."

"Why can't people just be single? Why does EVERYONE have to be together romantically?"

And when it's clear the white male love interest is into the black woman then comes the dissent from the other side, "Is he even really good enough for her?" or "She can do better than him."

The way people were tearing down Max on New Amsterdam because THE WRITERS were giving Helen less and less to do was wild to watch in real time. The fandom turned downright hostile last year when Sharpwin went canon which coincided when Leyren was starting to implode too. In hindsight they were sounding a very angry alarm about Helen's treatment but for some reason it was Max's fault.

Another bit on saw on the Youtube comments for the most recent ship of Billie and Conrad now has everyone beginning to shit on Conrad. When I tell you that that situation was handled in the best possible outcome considering they forced the WW first trope in there, but they are still angry they lost and to a certain extent I understand why. It's not just the entitlement it's the fact that his fascination, his need to want save and be with Cade was written and performed very overtly. His chemistry and most importantly his desire and need for Billie was performed covertly, because it was rooted in denial, internal conflict, and confusion and of course guilt. Which was why I say I won't forgive the writers anytime soon for the way they wrote that because they hand WW ammo and then pretend to be shocked when they start shooting. The wildest thing of all is they are trying to drag Conrad when his growth came while he was with Nic and even moreso after she died. Conrad in the beginning was not my favorite but they didn't care cause he wanted Nic.

There was also an incredibly unhinged black woman who turned on Grant Gustin in the first season of The Flash on Twitter because she felt like he wasn't protecting Candace enough and started calling Ezra Miller 'Her Flash" I've been out of that fandom for years but I wonder if she's gone quiet considering recent events around Ezra.

The fact that there are multiple blogs and hashtags with insert-character-name-defense squad or advocate is not some wild or unforeseen coincidence.

There was no reason to make Conrad and Cade a thing at all. They already did the WW First Trope with another woman who fans wouldn't have been as invested in. The same could be said of Max and Helen. The WW First trope was literally written in from the beginning because he was married but that didn't stop them from writing Widow-mom in there.

But none to me were as unnecessary as Jessie and Rick. I remember watching and being apart of the fandom and thinking, "Huh, there's all these whispers and rumors and excitement of Richonne going canon, why is he making out with this woman he just met in the garage?" Then she died and less than what an episode later he was with Michonne. WHY?! He also had a wife before Michonne was even a factor.

In the cases of Conrad, Max, and Rick there was a vested interest in who they would move on with after they were widowed.

I'm just so tired of it. And what's kind of wild is this isn't a hard trope to understand. WW also discuss The Fridging treatment and it's almost always about WW or at least that's the one's they advocate for and talk about. They largely CALL for the death of WOC on shows.

They complain all day about it but have they ever asked if there was any other WW on the show? Anyone else that gets to serve as representation or full view of white womanhood? Cause the answer is usually yes. But never for us.

So tired.

[booasaur]

New Amsterdam ended this week for good and idk if you’ve watched or will watch but my spoiler free review is that it was bad and none of the later seasons developments came up in any significant way. What a loss.

Woof! I didn't watch these last few eps but I did look up what happened, and goooodness. I mean. Where even to start? For the last while we--and I'm sure all the viewers--have been trying to speculate on what led to this season, I dunno, I really have no clue. Putting Leyren aside, I would have thought at the least, bringing Helen back for an endgame, but...they just smeared her and the Max/Helen romance? Bewildering!

[ginjointsintheworld]

this might be a lost cause but you once linked this new amsterdam fic that filled in leyren moments we didn’t see from the episodes but i cannot remember the title at all just that it started with a sex scene lol i believe it was multichap and since the writer was keeping up with the episodes the chapters might be in the double digits by now but idk! TIA either way because ive been reading your older tags and you’ve given me the lauren bloom fix i needed!



i'm 90% sure it's here, you're known by inthegood

the author hasn't updated since the second chapter tragically (ran out of motivated due to the nose dive the show took) but the chapters we did get were exquisite

[raeanneapril]

my heart jumped when i heard people talking in Tagalog in New Amsterdam. 🥰

only took them the series finale to include Filipinos, huh? there is an uproar about the character assassination for Sharpe. but not having a Filipino staff there is the most unrealistic to me. 🤨

what Luna said: Sabagay, kung gagawin ko ng tama ang trabaho.. mas mabilis akong tatanggalin ng board.

btw, i am still sad about Leyren not being endgame. 😭

but i love that they did give the cast the most realistic.. and i guess, perfect ending to where they are now in their lives. just not with Sharpe. it was so out of character. they could have at least gave a proper closure for her and Max. 🙄

[tryingtofeelalivehehe]

ok so i have some thoughts that i am bi lol :| coming from a partly homophobic family, that feels weird. I cant test it too 😭 i am really not sure. but #leyren just makes me 🥺🥹