#kate and rana

[booasaur]

Recently found the courage to go back and rewatch Kana I won’t say it didn’t hurt but I stopped before the you know what part and I’m choosing to believe they left together to go travelling.

Ah, man... The ending we could have so easily gotten and SHOULD have.

Sometimes I see notifications on old Kana posts and I look them up and read the tags and ahhhh, they were so good. Nothing can do it like soaps! You just don't get that time with characters outside of them. In fact, nowadays you can't even get 20 ep regular seasons or multiple seasons, your ship better be together by the end of 8 eps or that's it forever.

Actually, I wanted some comfort watching these last few weeks so I started watching the end of the second last Neighbours season, the one that was supposed to be the finale, because I knew they were going to reunite Chelly and I thought at least that'd be a nice ending, though I never did actually end up watching their original storyline. And it ended up being really touching and so amazing what they were able to do with all the cameos and wrapping what they thought were going to be forever endgames. Like, Mike and Jane, who were first together almost 40 years ago and getting a reunion so many years later? Played by the same actors? I adore that kind of thing.

But anyway, I ended up wanting to know more about Chelly and as it turns out, I had downloaded the full eps from the seasons they got together and have slowly been making my way through them and you truly get SO much with soaps! There are all these character and relationship building moments before the romance even starts. It's always been one of my regrets that Kana only got so much interaction before Rana's drunken kiss, but they definitely took their time after!

I was talking to my friend about Chelly and also that other Belgian soap I giffed a little while ago, Thuis, and we were discussing how rare it is that any soap couple gets the literal soulmate treatment Kana got. There are a lot of little moments I've forgotten but this one is burned in:

She was trying so hard not to give in but the mention of soulmate and she's helpless.

Sometimes I think about going back and watching and obviously also stopping before That happens, I might really do it at some point. I rewatch Otalia sometimes, the good stuff near the end of 2008, and it really isn't ruined by the trash that came later.

I also started watching this season of Ici Tout Commence, a French soap, after hearing of recent developments there, I'm still just on September but I'm enjoying the ride. Eastenders, I have all the eps downloaded from when Eve arrived but it seems too daunting a ride to get on at the moment. Keeping an eye on 4 Estrellas, I do actually love them but I tend to catch up in batches and I'd like to wait for them to get back together first. General Hospital, still not caught up at all. But yeah, it seems I'm a soap girl now, huh. :)

[sapphic-bombshell-vixen]

I have very low expectations for this soap opera, especially after being let down by previous storylines such as Charity and Vanessa's in which a promising wedding was scrapped due to Covid and replaced with a ridiculous robot plot, not to mention disappointing arcs in Holby City, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, and Skins UK. However, Alison King and Vicky Myers have already captivated me, suggesting a thrilling journey ahead and I'm ready for a wild ride - They could decide to bring back Lisa's late wife or have Peter return from his yacht trip, and while the ending will probably be terrible, I don’t care because they’re both beautiful.

[woahkana]

sapphics deserve so much better in general because they get treated so poorly compared to gay men it’s like the writers can’t get their head around that two women being in love is normal and the on going trope that the writers have of killing off one half of a sapphic ship and leaving the other traumatised with grief when two men can have a future together but two women can’t sapphic ships really are the softest though they really have something different about them

[lgbtpopcult]

Watch Some Soap Storylines Girl Please

To be clear soaps are famous for going on for ever, most couples and romances don't last that much 😂

Amar en tiempos revueltos, Spain

Valor de vida, Portugal

Thuis, Belgium

The Rich Man's Daughter, Philippines

Jogo doplo, Portugal

Neighbours, Australia

General hospital, USA

4 estrellas, Spain

Nadie como tu, Mexico

Perdona Nuestros Pecados, Chile

emmerdale, UK

Las estrellas, Argentina

Young and the restless, USA

Edificio corona, Chile

Demente, Chile

Coronation street, UK

Shortland Street, New Zealand

Salkkarit, Finland

Amar es para siempre, Spain

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

February 2024 Young Adult Book Releases

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

🩷 February 6 🩷 ✨ All This Twisted Glory by Taherah Mafi ✨ ASAP by Axie Oh ✨ I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang ✨ No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub ✨ Even If It Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn ✨ Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ✨ How The Boogeyman Became A Poet by Tony Keith Jr. ✨ Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry by Abby Elenko ✨ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender ✨ Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada ✨ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories by Various ✨ The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton ✨ Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos ✨ King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green ✨ Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo ✨ These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang ✨ The Cursed Rose by Leslie Vedder ✨ Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ✨ Out of Body by Nia Davenport

🩷 February 13 🩷 ✨ The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna ✨ A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai ✨ This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill ✨ With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer ✨ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu, Mad Rupert ✨ The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala ✨ Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley ✨ The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

🩷 February 20 🩷 ✨ A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert ✨ Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli ✨ The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa ✨ We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller ✨ The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover ✨ Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle ✨ My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

🩷 February 27 🩷 ✨ Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard ✨ Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma ✨ Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury ✨ Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana ✨ Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye ✨ Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

[timothylawrence]

Tagged by the lovely @euryalex to take this quiz abt an oc so i did my girlie Rana! Thank you <333

Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games): 84%

Max Rockatansky (Mad Max: Fury Road): 83%

Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game): 83%

Kate Austen (LOST): 82%

Ygritte (Game of Thrones): 81%

Vi (Arcane): 81%

Natalie (Yellowjackets): 81%

Jyn Erso (Rogue One): 81%

incredibly honored by this list considering katniss was my everything when i was in highschool LOL! Pretty happy with this list of girliessss <33!!!!

tagging @katagawajr @opossum-on-the-spectrum @bluewaterlily @alexios !

[popculturelib]

It's Barbie Week at the Browne Popular Culture Library!

Although Barbie is widely known as a children's toy, there is a sizeable collector's market for Barbie dolls, and we have quite a few comprehensive books about Barbie, her friends, and accessories. They're quite helpful for people who want to learn about the history of specific dolls, design changes, and pricing.

We also have several catalogs directed at serious Barbie collectors looking for exclusive dolls and items. These are often higher quality than Barbie dolls meant to be played with -- some are made of porcelain instead of plastic. Many collector edition Barbies are tie-ins with other media or reproductions of vintage dolls. Below is one of our catalogs from 2003:

Here's a page from the catalog, chosen because the person who runs this account played with a Rapunzel Barbie when she was younger (though a way less fancy version):

A different catalog shows off more collector's edition dolls, such as a Bob Mackie Circus Barbie, complete with a swing (left) and a pair of dolls commemorating the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton (right):

For more information about these items, check out our catalog listings below the read more.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

Books:

The Wonder of Barbie: Dolls & Accessories, 1976-1986 (1987) by Paris & Susan Manos

The World of Barbie Dolls (1983) by Paris & Susan Manos

The Barbie Doll Years: A Comprehensive Listing & Value Guide of Dolls & Accessories (2001) by Patrick C. Olds and Joyce L. Olds

The Collectors Encyclopedia of Barbie Dolls and Collectibles (1985) by Sibyl DeWein and Joan Ashabraner

Barbie Doll & Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World of Fashion, 1967-1972: Price Guide (1996) by Joe Blitman

Barbie Fashion (1990) by Sarah Sink Eames

Barbie Exclusives: Identification & Values (1995) by Margo Rana

Catalogs:

Barbie Collectibles by Mail, Spring 2003

Barbie Collector, Holiday 2010 and Spring 2012

[rpking99]

Girlfriend Experiance RP's

RP's on this list are ones where your muse and the one you are interacting with have a relationship before the Rp beginins. Where you are dating and get to have some fun.

How each RP will be presented will be as followed: Name of RP (Franchise, Character)

COMICS

The Hunted (Marvel, She-Venom)

Not So Invisible Love (Marvel, Sue Storm)

Say My Name (Marvel, Madelyn Pryor/Goblin Queen)

Workout Hangout (Marvel, Wolverine/Laura Kinney)

Best She Is At What She Does (Marvel, Wolverine/Laura Kinney)

Batwoman Is Your BatBabe (DC, Batwoman/Kate Kane)

The One And Only Birds of Prey (DC, Batgirl & Huntress & Black Canary)

Blackfire's Bae (DC, Blackfire)

In Brightest Day, In Needy Night (DC, Green Lanter/Jessica Cruz)

Not So Killer Frost (DC, Killer Frost)

ANIME

Kiryuin Submits (Kill La Kill, Satsuki Kiriyuin)

Sister Vs Sister (Kill La Kill, Ryuko Matoi & Satsuki Kiriyuin)

Get Away With Thorn Princess (SpyXFamily, Yor)

Forger Forever (SpyXFamily, Anya Forger (Aged Up))

18+ Pampering (Dragon Ball Z, Android 18)

Ranamon's Number 1 Fan (Digimon, Rana/Ranamon)

Riding Romance Acceleration (Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, Aki Izayoi)

Alone At Last With Scanty (Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt, Scanty Demon)

Instance Domination (SSSS//Dynazenon, Mujina)

CARTOONS

New High Score (Kim Possible, Shego)

Help Zip Me Up? (Kim Possible, Shego)

Cosplay Cowabunga (TMNT, April O'Neil)

Date With Daphne (Scooby Doo, Daphne)

Bratty WolfGirl GF (Helluva Boss, Loona)

Third At The Wedding (Hazbin Hotel, Charlie & Vaggie)

Wanna Ride? (Transformers Prime, Arcee)

WhiteRose Swap Chaos (RWBY, Weiss Schnee & Ruby Rose)

All In: Betting It All, Loosing It All (RWBY, Team RWBY (Ruby Rose & Weiss Schnee & Blake Belladonna & Yang Xiao-Long))

After The Show (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit)

GAMES

Distracting Samus (Metroid, Samus Aran)

Failed Salvation (Kingdom Hearts, Aqua)

Edenian Consort (Mortal Kombat, Kitanna)

Princess Pride's Partner (Megaman Battle Network, Princess Pride)

New First Wedding (NiER, Unit 2B)

Star's Party (Lolipop Chainsaw, Juliet Starling)

Quarian Love (Mass Effect, Tali)

Strain of Combat (Street Fighter, Chun-Li)

High-Cut Try Out (Persona 4, Chie Satonaka)

Detective Prince's Problems (Persona 4, Naoto Shirogane)

Distract The Gamer (Persona 5, Oracle/Futaba Sakurai)

Ms Okumara Getting Heated (Persona 5, Noir/Haru Okumara)

TOKU

Secret Revealed (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pink Ranger/Kimberly Hart)

Ranger Girlfriends (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pink Ranger/Kimberly & Yellow Ranger/Trini)

Visiting Violet Marine Maintinence (Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, KyoryuViolet/Yayoi Ulshade)

The Exhausted Soverign (Ohsama Sentai KingOhger, Papillon Ohger/Rita Kaniska)

AIMS For the Right Spot (Kamen Rider 01, Kamen Rider Valkyrie/Yua Yaiba)

Perks Of A Superheroine Girlfriend (Kamen Rider Geats, Kamen Rider Na-Go/Neon Kurashima)

MISC

Marriage To The Dark Elf Queen (Kuro Inu, Olga Discorida)

[triviareads]

I recently read That Scandalous Evening by Christina Dodd and I was wondering if you have read books with that kind of dynamic? Like the hero/heroine wanting to paint/draw/sculp the hero/heroine

I love That Scandalous Evening! Art in HR peaked with that book imho; that nude sculpture with only a little fig leaf covering his bits was inspired, but what really put it over the top was the aftermath when Ransom is ENRAGED and HORNY and clearly into Jane's hero worship but he's also being likened to a DOG and he literally presses her hand to his dick and says "note the difference"— all of which I was completely not expecting so that made it even better. Anyway— artist/muse recs:

My Dirty Duke by Joanna Shupe: Violet is a photographer and uses the camera her dad's best friend Ravensthorpe gifted her to photograph him nude (front and back 👏🏼).

Falling Into Bed with a Duke Lorraine Heath: The hero Ashbury likes to photograph legs and when Minerva Dodger propositions him at a sex club, he jumps at the chance to get those leg pics (I also have in my notes him saying "your foot is flawless" and between this and In Want of a Viscount I'm starting to think Lorraine Heath likes to write in a tasteful foot fetish).

In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti: Ashford is Matilda's accidental(?) muse in that her erotic cartoons of dirty profs tying gals up were subliminally inspired by Ashford, but then the publisher took some liberties to make it a more exact likeness, namely adding an ass tat, which is why Ashford hunts down Matilda to "make her pay" or something.

The Marquess Method by Kathleen Ayers: I forget if Theo actually ends up painting a miniature of Haven but she definitely wanted to, so she informs him in the middle of having sex, down to the paint shade she'd use. This is the same woman who painted a miniature of herself with one(?) tit out in order to lure a guy she liked... only to get compromised by Haven.

Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt: The funny thing about this one is that Asa is all "oh Eve is suuuuuch a shrew" but then the second she asks to paint him but clarifies it's not a nude, he's super butthurt and is like "is it because I'm a COMMON LOUT? too ugly to be painted naked??" and if that doesn't inform their dynamic idk what else will. Also, there's this whole subplot of Bridget Crumb being *enthralled* by Val's tasteful nudes in his house.

Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert: As of today I can confirm Orpheus did a series of paintings of Eurydice's vaj but kept them private, even after they broke up. There is also a body painting/edging sex scene.

Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai: Rana kinda stalks Micah but he's aware and very into it and eventually asks her to be his muse for his paintings/fuckbuddy for the duration. It's actually SO HOT and Rana's the kind of crazy heroine I wanna see more South Asian girlies written as.

Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase: Leila is an artist and she either does paint Esmonds or wants to paint him.

[okovic]

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Good morning ❤️ good Sunday Day Friend

[booasaur]

I was randomly suggested a Kana compilation vid and watched the entire two hours (and stalked your tags) and now I’m actually bereft. Not a big soap watcher so while I did note the change in show quality after Aiden, I didn’t see Rana’s death coming AT ALL. Especially on their wedding day?? What! I’ve only been invested for hours and I’m pissed. Can’t imagine how it must have felt to watch that in real time. We’ve come so far but in some ways rep is still so lacking.

Oh, no, anon! I can't tell which experience is worse. No warning but invested for a couple of hours, vs us who were watching for a couple of years, but we actually DID get some warning, plus quite a few of us, me included, were a bit cooled off on the ship because of the weird baby obsession they'd given Kate, to the point of trying to sleep with a guy.

They did seem done with that, though, and I was warming up again but around that very time, Juliantina was on the rise so I was getting sucked into them and then the Rana spoilers came out. :x I didn't watch any of the eps leading up to it, but I will always remember them in such a conflicted way.

They were SO good when they were good, and for such a long time. And I know the writers didn't do what they did out of any kind of malice or even just apathy, it was more just a well-intentioned but very thoughtless gesture to them and the fans. I just wish they'd researched a bit more or listened to more queer voices... :x

Heh, you dropped this ask in the middle of a tumultuous weekend for wlw fandom, but hopefully you can jump into something more fun to watch instead

[sapphic-bombshell-vixen]

Remember how back in the Kate and Rana era, and all I could think about was Kate's hot older sister? My past self would be so thrilled!

[waitingforeddyneddy]

That tweet had little to no engagement before Rana had quoted it. This white saviorship complex towards Simone and then being condescending towards her woc especially her desi fans is nauseating. Simone deserves better fans cause all yall do is make her a target with your constant hate towards the rest of the cast. The hate that some of you still have for Charithra especially just tells me that yall do not care about woc or desi women and just use Simone as means to project your weird hatred towards her after over an year.

Lmao what are you even talking about? I’m not going to address all this bullshit that has nothing to do with me, you have clearly some other blogger in your head cause I never talked about CC on this blog if not to say that I didn’t agree with the way she handled promo and the way she talked about her character and Kate. That’s not hate tho. Also you people need to accept that fact that some of us are not here to stan every member of the cast. That does not equal hate lmao.

[justmanic03]

since soaps have a huuuggeeeelllyyyy terrible track record of ruining lesbian couples all the way back to Sophie and Sian, then there was Kate and Rana, so I swear if anything happens to Suki and Eve there will be hell to pay on my end (in the form of me making a whole ass blog post about it lmao)