#Shay x Tally

[adamsvanrhijn]

Brianne Tju as SHAY & Joey King as TALLY Uglies (2024)

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[susiephone]

If the Uglies books came out today, toxic yuri fans would be obsessed

[madge-niusminusthegenius]

Okay look. Uglies was not the best series, had some questionable messages etc. the film was much the same. BUT. Toxic lesbians, okay? So uhhh shay and tally may get some rbs

[lavenderleahy]

ahh. jealousy over boys. the homoerotic tension is very strong

[tallysgreatestfan-art]

I have no illusions that they actually make Tally/Shay canon, but I hope they at least let the overall focus on their relationship and these small homoerotic moments stay.

[tallysgreatestfan]

Uglies Trailer: Tally/Shay

[taus-inc]

thinking back on it tally and shay are very disaster bi coded in the books and i love that for them

[runningwolfpup]

If we get a specials movie, and they don't show the scene where Tally catches those arrows in both her hands, scares the shit out of David in the process, then says fuck it to chaseing after them becasue David threw Shay into the river, ( cause he knew she'd only stop the chase for Shay) I'll burn Netflix to the ground. That shit has lived rent free in my brain since I was like 14 and I could rant about it for hours.

[numptypylon]

Commission for @tallysgreatestfan of Shay and Tally from the Uglies series. I don’t know the series, but not complaining about getting to draw badass women kissing

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[adamsvanrhijn]

"And everyone is exactly who they're born to be. They're free."

Brianne Tju as SHAY & Joey King as TALLY Uglies (2024)

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[susiephone]

So glad to see a fellow Tally/Shay shipper in the tag. Their relationship is just so good. Its such a gigantic mess. I felt so seen with my messy, queer, neurodivergent teenage female friendships, even if I needed until a reread two years ago until I acknowledged this this feels extremely queer and that is okay because I am queer too. Until then, all the female friendships I read were always just harmonic and nice and only ever threatened by boys, not these codependent, jealous messes.

The idea to center a YA dystopia around two girls who are deep friends with each other and maybe in love but are pitted against each other by the dystopian system (read: patriarchy, read: beauty culture) again and again is just absolutely amazing. I mean, there is a more traditional love triangle too, and its even well written enough to not drag down the series, unlike in most YA dystopias, but its not the center. At least not for me. For me, Tally and Shay are.

I could go on about them because I have thoughts (see: all the fanart and fics I have either already published or wait to publish until the trailer for the movie comes out), but the ask is already pretty long

first of all - i'm so sorry, i saw this message and fully intended to reply later that day i was like "oh i'll get to this after dinner!"

anyway! i was really struck by HOW different the love triangle in uglies is compared to other YA (especially YA dystopia). like the fact that tally doesn't definitively end up with either of them, and that neither boy turns evil (or at least antagonistic), and that both guys were good for her in their own way. but i especially loved that they both took a backseat to her friendship with shay, since that was by far the most interesting relationship in the whole thing

i'm cautiously optimistic about the movie (assuming it even happens). i personally think it'd work better as a series, but, well, after the shadow and bone debacle, i'm weary to trust any streaming service to actually follow through. i'm a bit worried about how mainstream actors who are all gorgeous anyway will be able to play the characters, and how they'll handle stuff like the specials' body modifications without looking silly (obviously there has to be an element of uncanny valley there, but i do worry it could look corny if they don't have a very good makeup artist).

i'm also VERY worried they'll make both tally and shay white. my personal hc is that tally is white and shay is asian, but tally could be any ethnicity, and shay was imo pretty clearly a woman of color. though i wouldn't be surprised if the movie cuts the parts that indicate that the pretty committee's standards are super racist- i wouldn't be surprised if they cut the themes of self-harm, too. (though tbh i'm of two minds about how that was portrayed in the books; i see what they were going for, but i do agree with some criticism i've seen that it could've been handled better.) any YA adaptation is bound to have some of its edge taken out. like the hunger games movies were pretty damn edgy in some aspects, but they're downright sanitized compared to the books.

one thing's for sure. if a movie happens and if they portray the tally/shay relationship at all competently, there will be an influx of shippers. i can see the angsty lyrics edits now.

[agentark]

I was certain the Uglies movie would be absolutely awful, but it was much better than I expected

[lavenderleahy]

giiving each other piggy back rides

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