#Richie minx

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Minx Season 2 episode 8……..

I am so happy for Joyce, Tina, Shel, Richie, and Bambs…. But oh my god oh my god oh my god!

Like no warning??? Tina and Doug are just done? Just like that? I don’t get nothing else?

And with Constance?

I want to say it was a moment of weakness and vulnerability of losing Tina but having a “win.” That now that his money is up! Now that he’s in his bag and he’s got the biggest deal of his life, that he might as well with the woman that gave it to him.

And clearly he likes any type of strong woman…

But deep down.. I know it’s not true.

Bambi gets to help out Shelly’s husband while she goes off with her lover. They are separating so that’s fine. Good for both of them.

Are we supposedly building up to a Shelly x Bambi x Richard? (I forgot mr Dentist man’s name😬)

If so dope, if not, still dope.

Love Richie telling Joyce to fuck off.

I knew we were getting a minx family moment at the end but fuck,,, I didn’t know Doug wouldn’t be there.

Joyce fianally following her gut and taking a stand. She should have been speaking up for herself, but I understand the “complexity” of the situation.

Tina being out as soon as Constance said “women like us” is such a mood. She’s never been more relatable to me. (She always is, but I just love it when it’s turned up to 1000x)

However, I knew there would come a time where Doug without a doubt would choose money over Tina and everyone else, and somehow it still hurts to see it happen.

So this stupid heartbreak is on me! I’m the fucking clown here, and it hurts worse because of it!!

No matter what happenes I have always been on Tina’s side.

Baby girl is still going to Paris to do the damn thing, so I am not that upset.

[booasaur]

Minx (2022) - 2x01

[aflawedfashion]

Minx 2x05 | A Stately Pleasure Dome Decree

[minxmagazine]

Minx 2x02 I Thought the Bed Was Gonna Fly

[angustully]

finding out that there will only be 8 episodes in season 2 of minx after being totally disappointed by ep 6 was really a bummer for me today.... they are not gonna get a season 3 huh

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Promptober Day 4 👻

𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐛 (𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭) : You, Richie, Syd, Carmy, Marcus & His girlfriend had decided to have a couples movie night at your apartment, but Syd had chosen for her & Carmy and picked Halloween: Resurrection. Which you personally had seen many times, so we’re already bored and it wasn’t even the second half yet.  “Carm- can I take that blanket behind you?” You asked and Richie looks at you knowingly, as Carmy silently reached behind him and tossed the blanket in your lap where your calves were laid over Richie’s thighs and he was stroking your soft legs gently.

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: Welcome to Promptober day 4!!! Here we have corruption this time being served up with a side of your favorite old man, Richie Jerimovich! I hope you love it, & As always thank you again for any and all love thats been given to my Prompt&Kinktober fics so far! As always, you can view my schedule & masterlist for this celebration right 🦇here🦇! You can also view the same for my 2024 Kinktober celebration right 🎃here🎃! If you wanted to be added to the tag list for either just comment on the according masterlist! 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 1.1k 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Smut, Swearing, Kinda public sex (there are other ppl in the room), Age diff, no use of y/n 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬: @/𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐤𝐚-𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬

“C’mon baby when you gonna stop teasin me like that mm?” Richie’s breath was hot on the shell of your ear, his stubble tickling your cheek which caused you to smile. 

“This movie is boring” you mumble in his ear softly, low enough for only him to hear before gently taking his lobe between your teeth and sucking on it gently. His grip on your thigh tightened, lips parting slightly as he sucks in a deep breath. 

You, Richie, Syd, Carmy, Marcus & His girlfriend had decided to have a couples movie night at your apartment, but Syd had chosen for her & Carmy and picked Halloween: Resurrection. Which you personally had seen many times, so we’re already bored and it wasn’t even the second half yet. 

“Carm- can I take that blanket behind you?” You asked and Richie looks at you knowingly, as Carmy silently reached behind him and tossed the blanket in your lap where your calves were laid over Richie’s thighs and he was stroking your soft legs gently. 

“Thanks” you said and he mumbles a hum of acknowledgement, eyes locked on the tv and arm wrapped around Sydney, rubbing her shoulder gently as she rested her head on his shoulder. You spread the blanket over your and Richie’s lap, and he gently pulled you to lay your his shoulder so he can kiss your forehead and sneakily whisper in your ear

“Y’know how filthy it is Y’gonna do this? Mm? All our friends right here?” He said, his voice raspy and low in such a way that it brought goosebumps to your skin. In response you just brought your lips to his, giving him a slow gentle kiss as you slickly slipped your hand under the blanket, rubbing over his bulge that was covered by his pajama pants. 

He let out a soft breath that was warm against your upper lip, pulling away and trying to focus on the tv so no one got suspicious. You continued to rub over him until he was half hard, before sticking your hand in his pants and raising your brows at the feeling of him not wearing boxers underneath. 

You looked at eachother and he gave you that classing Jerimovich ok, and? Look before looking back at the tv to keep your little sexcapade as low key as you could. Using your palm you stroked over him slowly, as any sudden quick movements would likely draw attention. When it got to the point where he was throbbing beneath your hand, you wrapped your fist around his sensitive tip, massaging it lightly with the pad of your thumb. This caused him to cover a groan by clearing his throat which made Syd look over for a moment before her gaze settled back at the tv. 

Richie looked at you, clenching his jaw as you gave him a minx like smirk, biting your lip teasingly as you rub the precum that had gushed out of his tip down his shaft. His head nearly dropped back when you gave him a squeeze at his base how he liked, your thumb being tickled by the patch of curly hair just below his navel, but he quickly stopped himself knowing that would surely garner unwanted attention, and he didn’t want it to stop. 

His eyes fluttered shut, taking a silent deep breath, trying to manage his containment and your gaze fluttered over to Marcus and his girlfriend, whom were sitting a foot next to the two of you- and luckily they, and Carmy and Syd as well- were still engrossed in the movie. 

You took the loud scene that had come up that had everyone’s attention in a vice to pump him quickly with a light touch, and you could tell how hard he was holding back by the way his hips twitched and toes curled into the carpet. 

He gripped your thigh tighter, sliding his hand up and cupping your pussy through your sleep shorts that matched his pajama pants, crinkling his brows in confusion then raising them in surprise when he realized you too weren’t wearing panties, so he could feel all the wetness that had gathered between your thighs in the time you’d been playing with him. In response you just give him that same - ‘ok, and?’ Look he gave you earlier and went back to massaging his tip with your thumb with firm slow circular strokes once the movie quieted down again. 

He sighed, more like huffed a breath of pleasure out through his nose, but anyone else in the room would likely just think it was one of his tired old man sighs, so you weren’t worried. You knew by the way his stomach muscles were twitching and he kept squeezing and rubbing at your mound in turn for not moaning out or saying something filthy to you - you knew he was close. 

To be sure you finished him off, and fast, you were sure to twist your wrist each time you got to his tip with your stroke and in response you watch his pretty blue eyes roll before flittering shut and swallowing thickly. You leaned in, planting soft quiet kisses at the base of his neck, before working your way up over the hickeys you’d left on him last night, gently nibbling on them with your teeth and he scrunched his nose in the most adorable way as his cock twitched in your hand. 

You continued your kisses up to below his ear, nibbling on his earlobe once again, before whispering in his ear 

“Cum f’me daddy- you look so pretty when you cum” In response he grabbed your wrist, squeezing it to let you know that he was close and he looks at you, a hungry lust filled gaze in his eyes. 

He lightly kissed your cheekbone before saying in your ear, your hair tickling your cheek “need it baby- always take care a’me” his voice breathy and wanton. 

You smiled a bit at that, moving your wrist a bit faster but being sure to not let it be noticeable. Before you knew it, he was covering another moan with a cough this time before wrapping his arm around your shoulder, and pulling you into his chest before kissing your head firmly. You giggled a bit as you continued to slowly but firmly stroke him, milking out every last drop and he pushed your hair away from your ear before whispering in it.  “Get ready f’me to pay you back when they get outta here” 

Fin

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also - like for a starter from one of my horror muses ( listed below ). specify muse.

anita lesnicki - jennifer's body. billy loomis - scream. beetlejuice - beetlejuice. carrie white - carrie. camille preaker - sharp objects. clarice starling - silence of the lambs. clayton riddell - cell. daniel le domas - ready or not. dana polk - cabin in the woods. dennis rafkin - 13 ghosts. graverobber - repo! the genetic opera. sheriff hassan - midnight mass. hannibal lecter - hannibal. hugh crain - the haunting of hill house. jason dean - hearhers. jeremiah hackett - the quarry oc. joel miller - the last of us. john kramer - saw. josef - creep. lee - bones and all. margot - the menu. maxine minx - x. mike schmidt - fnaf. nathan wallace - repo! the genetic opera. natalie scatorccio - yellowjackets. nathaniel james carson - serial killer oc. owen sharma - haunting of bly manor. parker nash - fbi agent oc. richie tozier - it. stu macher - scream. travis hackett - the quarry. warren hawthorne - grim reaper oc. wendy christensen - final destination 3.

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Minx Season 2 Episode 3!!! (Spoilers?)

Just don’t read this if you haven’t seen it yet.

I love how there’s a moment for everyone to subtly check in with how success is affecting them. The way Bambi goes around asking Richie showing how they are close.

I live the way Doug let’s his be known by confiding ranting to Tina.

Tina and Constance’s conversation doesn’t show how “success” is necessarily affecting Tina because I think her story is building up to something different. When Doug is ranting to her, he is also still treating her like a secretary and won’t hire another one and that’s .. that’s scary!

The last thing Tina wants is to go back to doing what she used to do! She wants to move forward and be valued for the work she’s putting in!

Bambi wants to do something real and important! No one asks her, or checks in with her, but she has no trouble letting people know on her own where she is and what she wants.

Joyce and the reporter thing was very nice, and important for her. She needed to figure those things ut but it happening through the lenses of a reporter wanting to talk to her and her avoiding them was very clever. In the end the reporter shed some insight to something she may or may not have known she needed insight on!

Idk why, but stuff like that really excites me! I just love how connected everything is and how everything is set up to explore the characters this way and you just get it!

I fucking love good writing!😭

Shelly and her Husband crack me up. I don’t even know what to say about them! Hooray for them trying to make that marriage work! If only there was room for Bambi somehow.

They really want us to work for it!

But I say give it to me now!

Other stuff not character specific

Doug wants to do something he cares about too!

He wants to discover another big magazine like minx. He doesn’t just want the one! He wants more! He wants them all! And his source of money to do all that? Does not give a fuck about any of that!

Mug Renetti?

He’s going to snap. This man is not a hundred percent sound of mind! He’s a little crazy, and selfish, and stubborn! This is not going to end well.

My poor lil meow meow.

Constance is playing favorites. ( but probably rightfully so)

The way Doug Handled his space magazine and interview was the worst way he could possibly do something like that. However..

he did get the interview! And it was super funny to see him lock that man in a room with them for it to happen. Just anytime he brought up that Soave magazine overall was some of the funniest stuff💀

I love bribing up his right but I must also support discuss his wrongs!

[lgwifey]

THE ALBATROSS

part two | series masterlist

richie boyle x fem!reader

summary : growing up within a mob family had its benefits, it also had its downsides. one being overprotective parents... who had access to weapons and alibis... the main downside however was the secrecy of it all.

warnings : violence, gun violence, swearing (shocker), mob/mafia themes, bad 1950's slang, legal age gap ? ( 19/20 & 25), LOW standards, domestic violent - start & finish signaled by 📍

Y/n padded through her little one bed apartment, panicked hands running through her unstyled hair.

Once she'd got in from work - about half an hour ago - the first thing she'd done was unpin her hair.

As much as she loved how it looked, after a few hours it started to get heavy, more of an unneeded issue she had to work around than  a hairstyle. Any other reasonable girl would just wear her hair short and slicks, like the style, but Y/n Y/l/n wasn't just 'any other reasonable girl'.

Y/Parents/N had learnt this pretty quickly. For the most part, their daughter was quite docile. She did as she was told, when she was told and usually to quite high standards. For quite some time, her mother had been anxious that it was from being around the Boyle's too much. She was convinced her little girl had seen an execution or beating at some point as a child that had made her link the actions not obeying everything with being brutally tortured.

All this became unearthed as nothing more than worry when one morning, her first day of kindergarten, Y/n had wanted to wear her ribbons in her hair. Her mother had told her no - it wasn't within the private establishment's dresscode. Her father had joined in when the four year old threw her juice all over the breakfast table.

Fifthteen minutes later, her father had shouted her down from wherever she'd ran off to, they had to leave. He had a slight look of astonishment when the girl came strolling around the corner with the black ribbon tied delicately in the back of her hair.

Later on, he'd found out the little minx he'd raised had convinced her eldest brother to tie it for her.

The nineteen year old now stood staring at her kitchen space.

A discarded pan sat at the back of the gas hob which the previous contents of it was in a casserole dish in the oven below it.

Her eyes darted around the apartment.

There was really no need for her to be in such a panic, Richie had been to her apartment practically every other day since she'd been bought it by the father - demanding that she needed personal space from her helicoptering parents.

The light knock came as she was readjusting a cushion on the sofa, head darting unnaturally quick to the locked front door.

She patted down her clothes, a simple navy and green tartan dress that swayed outwards over her knees, before her thick sock covered made their way over to the door.

The golden chain was quickly slipped back on when the beige coated man was inside the home, the usual quick comments being left til he was in the warmth of the apartment. Although it was the best the place had to offer, the cold constantly seeped through the corridors of the stairwell of the housing block.

"Fucking freezing out there y/n/n."

The owner of the warm apartment gave a hum in agreement.

"It looks it. You want the fire turned up ?"

"Nah it's alright Doll."

The girl didn't wait for him to adjust to the warmth of the room, darting to shed the outer layer dotted with a few melting snowflakes.

Richie just stood quite constantly watching his girl remove his coat and hooking it onto the tall white coat stand next to the door. He let a smirk as she reached up, taking his hat and placing it on the tip of the stand.

As she turned to face him again, she found his face much closer than previous, his lips connecting with hers before she could think.

As she reciprocated the action, his hand came up to her jaw, gently pulling her closer.

Just as Richie began to think he was getting his way, the Y/l/n girl pulled away, turning towards the small kitchen.

"Y/n/n !"

Her name came out as a complaint, y/n just shaking it off as she opened the lit door of the oven to check on the food. As she pushed the tray back in and closed the oven door, y/n turned towards face him, her hands resting on her hips and a thin eyebrow raised on her right.

"Would you rather have burnt food ?"

He gave a muttered 'whatever', stalking towards one of the cupboards next to her to take out the bottle of whiskey he kept there.

As Richie took the bottle down, he noticed the golden liquid at a lower level than he had left it.

"Y/n/n ?"

Richie sat himself on one of the counters the girl wasn't using to chop up vegetables, an empty glass in his hand and the bottle in the other. She didn't look over her shoulder this time, concentrating on slicing the carrots she'd bought the day before.

"You want a drink ?"

"Nah 'm okay. I've got a bottle of red next to the whiskey."

He just gave a hum in return, eyes going darker. He knew y/n didn't drink anything other than wine, whenever he'd got her to try new bottles she'd make a gagging noise and then go on about he was trying to poison her.

📍

Richie swallowed the glass he'd poured out before he pushed himself off of the countertop, taking the few steps over to the relaxed girl with the bottle still in his hand.

He sandwiched her between himself and the countertop. Slipping his hand into hers, he loosened her grip on the knife she was using and placed it on the counter in-front of her, hand entwining with hers.

"Richie, I've gotta-"

When y/n turned to face him, she quickly realised that this wasn't the loving and fun moment she thought it was. The twenty five year old stared down at her with dark eyes, his regular clenched jaw expression facing her, soulless.

Her eyes drifted to the bottle he had held in his right hand.

"Who've you had over."

It wasn't a question, and she knew the answer she'd give him, he wouldn't believe.

"My parents came 'round."

His hand dropped hers, coming up to hold her jaw. It wasn't the same, delicate way he had before - this time it was to remind her that he had power over her.

"You can call my Pa if you want. Not sure how he'd react to Richie Boyle being in his little girl's apartment though."

She regretted the quip as quickly as it slipped out of her lips. Richie's jaw tensing simultaneously as his left hand moved away from her jaw and came back with added force against her face.

"Don't be fuckin' mouthy."

Just before he stepped back to go and sit back on the counter, he gave a peck to her forehead, the girl just watching emotionless before turning back to the carrots.

A quiet 'sorry' slipped out of her lips, looking over to see him pour another glass of gold. He gave her a tilt of his head in return.

The right side of her face stung slightly, not too bad though. She knew he didn't put any actual effort into the slap, she'd seen the damage he could do to someone if he wanted to.

In the back of her mind she had to tell herself that she shouldn't be grateful that he didn't beat her entirely.

He's never done it before and she was pretty sure he never would but she'd heard from her few friends how their husbands and boyfriends react to the smallest thing with deranged violence.

Her mind ran over her regular comment.

I'm a Y/l/n.

But he was a Boyle.

📍

Richie carried the conversation throughout dinner, as he usually did. By the time they'd sat themselves going the two seater sofa, really only having up half of it with how close y/n was to Richie, the young girl had half a bottle of Rouge '07 in her.

'What's the envelopes about ?"

Richie had discarded the dark suit jacket and had an arm draped over y/n’s shoulders whilst the girl gently dragged a finger up and down the red brace closest to her, her head rested on Richie's shoulder as they made calm conversation with Frank Sinatra playing quietly on the Vynil in the corner of the room.

"What envelopes ?"

"You know what envelopes, the ones you're getting delivered to the shop. You and Francis are the most obvious people in the whole of Chicago."

As she rolled her eyes at the playing dumb tactic, he took another puff of the cigarette between his left index. Y/n shifting her head up to stare into doe brown eyes.

A single shade lighter than how he takes his coffee.

She raised her hand that had been tracing his braces to ask for a puff. Instead of passing the cigarette, Richie lowered his hand, placing the white roll between his girlfriend's lips and allowing her a single drag before he took it back.

"Urgh, Doll you know I can't-"

"If you don't, I'll just ask my Pa."

"Y/n/n-"

"I promise I won't accidentally blab. I'm getting better."

The girl did the best convincing face she could. She sat herself up before turning and throwing her legs over the suited man's. She took another drag of his cigarette before pressing slow kisses down his neck, a trail of pale lipstick forming along Richie's skin. He'd lost his tan from the summer months but still had a bit of an olive tone compared his usual winter complexion.

"Fine ! But only because your Pops would tell you anyway. And you didn't hear it from me."

"I never hear anything from you."

She gave a grin, Richie rolling his heavily bagged eyes before being entranced by another kiss, this one longer and more passionate than any of the others. Still it wasn't long enough for him when y/n pulled back slightly, pressing a peck on his cheek as she waited for the details on what was happening.

"Francis is just being paranoid and my Pops listens to him for some insane reason ! 'Francis, y'know he's so smart. You could really learn a thing or two from that kid.' "

Richie deepened his voice, replicating Roy's. Y/n just strolled her fingers up and down his braces as he let off the steam.

"Richie, Francis doesn't matter. Your Pa-"

"I keep getting told. A thousand fuckin' time ! Six marbles, but that's only because I wasn't there. Y'know if I was there that would've been me. You know that right ?!"

"Of course I do, everyone does."

"Francis thinks he can make moves with my Pops, my fucking Pops ! Without me !"

And then came the five words that could destroy the entire neighbourhood, especially with the current issue with the LaFontaines.

"He thinks there's a rat.”

part three

masterlist

[aflawedfashion]

Bambi, Joyce, & Richie | Minx 1x01

[minxmagazine]

Minx Season 2 Episode 8 Photos (Part 2)

[the-nauseabeforethegame]

all my sideblogs!!

(the ones i'm comfy sharing that are also active/i'd like to be active, at least!)

@inevitablesys - system sideblog (follow there if we're mutuals, pretty please!!)

@whenancientghostsarewaking - fictkin blog!

@yourfaveisafalloutboysong - exactly what it sounds like

@yourfaveisneurodivergentandqueer - ditto

@shitlips-makes-boards - moodboards and maybe possibly stimboards i haven't decided yet

@richies-shit-poetry - poetry blog!!

aaaand now for all the rp ones

@kingoftheocean-marvin - marvin, in trousers (high school)

@theroomisyellow - marvin, in trousers (married to trina)

@ilovemytightknitfamily - marvin, falsettos act 1

@gay-weatherman - marvin, falsettos act 2

@nananananananausea - marvin, falsettos college au

@emmettforrestofficial - emmett forrest, legally blonde musical

@dingdong-elderprice - kevin price, the book of mormon

@im-not-that-smart - leaf coneybear, 25apcsb

@theotheroneisalliveverbeen - sheila nail, love in hate nation

@rebel-gotta-raise-her-voice - kitty minx, love in hate nation

@brom-xtra-bonez - brom bones, headless a sleepy hollow story

@icantread-helvetica - helvetica gummistiefel, gutenberg the musical

@owenc1147 - owen carvour, spies are forever

@morning-glow-is-here - pippin

@apoorboywithagifttogive - orpheus, hadestown

@soundbodysoundmind - ambrose bassford, adamandi

@itsgonnaberoxie - roxie hart, chicago

@insanelycool-jaredkleinman - jared kleinman, dear evan hansen

@dipperpines-pines-pines - dipper pines, gravity falls

@cmonsugardaddybringmehome - hedwig robinson, hedwig and the angry inch

@dewin-it-with-dewey - dewey duck, ducktales 2017

@theseance-004 - klause hargreeves, the umbrella academy (pre/during season 1)

@nogooddeedwillido - elphaba thropp, wicked

@hesays-im-just-ridickalous - sweetheart, in trousers

rp blogs run by larry (another alter)

@happyhomewrecker-impossiblesob - larry, the boys in the band

@orandges - karen smith, mean girls

@audiowitha-g - bob gaudio, jersey boys

[akajustmerry]

uhhhhhh minx s2 finale literally being richie and the girlies seizing the means of production from the evil girlboss??? I didn't think it could get any sexier as a show but here we ARE

[booasaur]

hi! hope you’re doing well :) wanted to share some thoughts on the latest episode of minx, so heads up for spoilers below!

okay so — as of 2x04, I was kind of hesitant with where they were going with Bambi and Shelly’s relationship but I’m intrigued so far. From what I can gather Shelly is scared/intimidated by her attraction to Bambi and the potential it has to upend her life, so she’s exploring other avenues to express her sexuality in a way that doesn’t negatively affect her marriage. For Bambi’s part she seems to genuinely like Shelly but also wants to respect her boundaries, so she isn’t pushing anything even if she gets her feelings hurt. Bambi’s actress one said something along the lines of she loves with all her heart and man it does seem like she fell hard in a short amount of time. It’s an interesting dynamic that isn’t like a straight-up affair, so even though I have some reservations I’m excited to see where they go with it. Also Bambi telling Shelly “I just want you to be happy” aww :( also peeped the fact that Richie apparently knows about their sexual relationship but presumably no one else does, his friendship with Bambi is nice.

I really really like Tina but it seems like she’s taken a backseat to the narrative, which is funny because that seems to be her conflict with Doug this season? She had a brief exchange this past episode with Ritchie about how unappreciated they are but not at a lot else. Not entirely sure what they’re doing with her but there is definitely room for that to change and I could be reading this wrong. Also the woman who is funding the magazine — Constance? — is fun to watch, her actress is doing great things on The Afterparty, which I recommend to watch, no spoilers but they also have some queer stuff going on this season :)

Hi! Thank you, doing all right, hope you are too!

Yeah, I've seen people who were looking forward to Shelly/Bambi this season be disappointed with how it's going, but I feel like this is the best case scenario at the moment? Bambi already emotionally invested, and she's actually the one I had some concern about, because she can be so easygoing and casual about things, it could have just as easily been a lovely night for her with no feelings, but there are feelings.

We knew Shelly was definitely gonna struggle and I'm actually pleased that whatever else is going on in her relationships, she's also very affected by Bambi, especially with apparently how free loving the rest of her life is. Not gonna lie, I was a bit disappointed and a lot surprised not by the direction her storyline this season's taking, but that some really crucial stuff happened off screen. If season 1 was about her feeling stifled in her life and marriage, and Lenny being such a stick in the mud, how did the coming about of them being swingers not something valuable to see?? Who brought it up, the initial reaction of the other person? I get that they wanted it to be a surprise and for the comedy of it, but Shelly took an enormous step and we didn't see it. Like, were key parties such a huge thing in the '70s that it wasn't a big thing to have them...? I don't think so...

But on the other hand, it does establish, that Shelly's feelings for Bambi aren't just about an escape from her humdrum life, because she IS finding fulfillment at home and even at her job now, and still, she doesn't trust herself to be alone with Bambi. You summed it up really well, that what she feels for Bambi is something emotionally significant enough that it could affect her marriage, and doesn't fall within the sexual part of swinging.

So far, Tina has definitely not gotten much to work with. On a show like this, you get more screen time by having problems that you work through, and they've written her as the competent problem-solver. Even with Doug, it's all his issues, she's left to be frustrated with him, justifiably, but on screen it's pretty thankless. They've really boxed her in, there's no room for real personal growth because she's already kinda there, and they're not giving her an external issue to deal with big enough that the audience gets invested. Maybe she gets her turn soon.

Haha, Elizabeth Perkins, of course I'm a fan. I HAVE also been following The Afterparty and am quite hooked. [redacted]'s ep, it was so gorgeous! Except the end where [redacted] was like, yeah, it was a nothing fling. >_> I mean, that doesn't seem to be the end of things, but either one or both could still be the murderers, or it could still be fully one-sided.

Actually, I've been having the same issue with The Afterparty as for Minx and other shows like Warrior or Durian's Affair, where I want to gif but I'm not really sure if I'm giffing a pair that's already fully broken up forever or doesn't even love each other. I know that being together or even being canon isn't required to ship, but the way I've always approached giffing is if it's something that affects me and that I want to share. And it's slowly become more of a responsibility what I choose to share, I don't really want to get people watching something and then have it implode (jeez, Durian's Affair). That's 100% NOT how either I or people seeing my posts should approach things, but it's been hard to shake that mindset.

It's also gotten more complicated, in a good way, because by now we've gotten enough rep that just being canon isn't necessarily enough to be Worth Giffing, and there are more nuanced and messy storylines where you're no longer getting the 1 minute of fluff every ep that made for a good gifset but not much more of a storyline. Obviously the romantic stuff is still pretty easy, but otherwise, while before I'd find it notable if a show was actually Going There, or was a big project, or had a big actor, or was a big moment for primetime TV or for rep in whatever country, etc, now it's often this emotionally fraught stuff that doesn't make for a neat little contextless set of 10 gifs.

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March 2022. An intermittently amusing but frequently infuriating Ellen Rapoport sitcom, launched on HBO Max and then switched to STARZ for its second season, MINX is set in the early '70s and follows the misadventures of an idealistic white woman named Joyce Pritchard (Ophelia Lovibond), who reluctantly transforms her plan for an intellectual feminist women's magazine into a high-profile adult magazine for women, published by good-natured sleazebag Doug Renetti (Jake Johnson), who sees it as a weird but potentially viable addition to his existing magazine line. Joyce is deeply uncomfortable with Doug's world of nude centerfolds and sex toy ads, but as the magazine takes off, she finds she loves being famous — and enjoys taking advantage of her position of power over attractive, often none-too-bright men. Meanwhile, Doug's long-suffering Black girlfriend cum business manager Tina (Idara Victor) wants more respect; gay photographer/art director Richie (Oscar Montoya) struggles with his aspirations to do something better — and editorial directives not to make a magazine full of naked men seem too gay; and Joyce's married older sister Shelly (Lennon Parham), who resents Joyce for leading a kind of life she never got a chance to experience, has an unexpected affair with former nude model Bambi (Jessica Lowe) that leads to a midlife gay awakening.

Like the earlier G.L.O.W. streaming series (which it strongly resembles in structure and tone), MINX wants to be titillating, but its smug middle-class disapproval of porn and sex work is like a millstone around its neck: It's willing to concede that Doug and Tina, who are strictly on the business side, are pretty savvy, but it stubbornly refuses to entertain the notion that anyone who poses for or performs in porn could harbor any real intellect — the male models are all hunkier versions of Lenny from OF MICE AND MEN, and even Bambi, who's arguably the show's most likable character, is presented as a kind of idiot savant. Moreover, the show walks a weird line of expecting the audience to laugh at Joyce's second-wave feminist priggishness while also presuming that she's ultimately right, morally if not practically, in ways the narrative doesn't really support. The problem with Joyce is not that she's a feminist buzzkill, but that she's an entitled, classist snob who struggles to conceal her obvious contempt for anyone she considers her social or intellectual inferior (and who becomes an increasingly terrible boss as the magazine takes off). However, for the show to really engage with why Joyce is terrible would require the writers to reexamine their own prejudices, which they're obviously unwilling to do.

MINX remains watchable mostly on the strength of its supporting characters — Tina, Richie, Bambi, and Shelly are more interesting and far more appealing than Joyce — but it would be nice if the show were less eager to make them the punchline of the joke. The show also further strains goodwill with the unwelcome addition of the intolerable Elizabeth Perkins as a wealthy widow who becomes the new owner of Doug's publishing empire (an insufferable rich bitch completely indistinguishable from the insufferable rich bitch Perkins played in the second season of the agonizing comedy-mystery THE AFTERPARTY), a character whose narrative function is make the tug-of-war between Joyce and Doug largely irrelevant and to add an additional layer of smug white lady entitlement to a storyline already top-heavy with it.