tw slight mention of sex trafficking
ok so I know this has probably been brought up a lot here but I just saw someone on twitter make an AMAZING point about Klaus's character growth from s1 to s4. The tweet boiled down to the fact that through the seasons, Klaus's character lost a significant amount of his queerness/ feminity. In season 1 we see him wear skirts, makeup and traditional feminine things much more freely than we ever do after s1. I understand why this was done for seasons like s2 where he was literally in 1960's Texas and at risk of being hurt for how he presented himself but strangely his self-expression becomes tied to his drug abuse pretty early on.
In s4 we see Klaus as a new sober hypochondriac version of himself that formed from the lack of his powers and newly acquired mortality. He loses a lot of his self-expression too in this season only ever wearing less traditional male clothes when he's literally being sex trafficked and high for the first time in about 3 years. His queerness becomes linked to his drug abuse and tendency to have unhealthy sexual relationships which I've always found odd.
I've kept this thought in my drafts for a while because I thought I was looking at his character the wrong way but now I'm reconsidering. St*ve Bl*ckman's newly found out transphobia and homophobia are definitely changing my previous opinion because now the way Klaus's character has progressed,,,,,, makes more sense.
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I think my ultimate thoughts re; Kipperlilly is that I wish we got a scene where a character was allowed to show her... sympathy. I know there's a tone you wanna hit with a victorious season finale, and a somber note of a teenager falling into a deep well of rage doesnt match that tone but it would've been nice to see.
In my dream world, we get an extra epilogue scene where Riz goes to see Jawbone to go and talk to him, and brings up the thing he mentioned about "seeing Kipperlilly in himself" -- relating that to what Jawbone said at the beginning of the year, and wanting to talk about that deeply set in need for control, and the latent anger he has, and all the ways he is like Kipperlilly, and doesn't want to be.
And in response, Jawbone is able to address the ways in which he failed Kipperlilly, and let her down. That she needed more help than he could provide, that she needed someone who wasn't too afraid of their own biases to shut down her anger, someone who could maybe have given her a support system to turn to instead of Porter. Someone external to the school and the social dynamics within it. Just an acknowledgement from, as far as we know, the only adult in Kipperlilly's life who earnestly tried -- and earnestly failed -- to help her find a better path than her rage.
Just a small moment of acknowledgement that Kipperlilly was a child, an angry, scared, biased and deeply insecure child who was looking for help when she first walked into Jawbone's office, and because of all the adults who failed her, she was turned into something unrecognisable by the time she was 17.
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Vox died in the 50s and Valentino died in the 70s. We don't know how old they were or when exactly during their decades that they died but its possible that their lives briefly overlapped.
Anyway, consider tiny baby Val watching the TV while growing up in the 50s and being absolutely glued to the screen because he was blind ass 6 year old and wanted to be able to see his fav newscaster's face(Vox)
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the mh comics open up such an interesting narrative for our few surviving characters. to them, what happened in the videos was real, but to everyone else its a cool creative web series. when all of that is viewed as fiction, fans have a freedom to speculate about and invade the lives and privacy of real people. and that would be so uncomfortable and terrifying. imagine someone irl having headcanons about YOU. writing fan fiction about you and your real friends. assuming things about you PUBLICLY ! IN MASS!
wouldnt it be so cool to see a character grapple with that in like a self-reflective way? fans asking questions the muse is too afraid to ask themselves. of course, theyre the only person the answer matters to.
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Sassy was The realest character on ted lasso
wanted to fuck ted on sight (and did)
hated rupert until the end (correct)
raised a great kid (nora is so cool)
did not wanna date ted (smart, never over his ex)
insulted rupert at every opportunity (dream)
loves rebecca (same)
forgave rebecca no questions asked (true friend)
loves keeley (same)
had a bad feeling just before rebecca met boatman (visionary)
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LOOK AT THEM READING TOGETHER,,,i can hear them bickering already. jj constantly telling reid she wasnt done and him bitching before turning the page back. the reason theyre making the faces they are is because reid has read this page five times already and jj has told him a thousand times to wait until she says she's done before turning the page but he doesn't LISTEN!!!
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