#these days all i think about is aubrey plaza and this damn gay witch show…

[sage-lights]

two part amangela au where there story is amanda is kathryn hahn and angela is aubrey plaza and they're doing the press junket and everyone's like 👀👀 their chemistry is crazy but then the other part is amangela as agathario in! the! show! (again w amanda as agatha and angela as rio) (because also sarah christ!agatha and cop cameron!rio)

[child-of-the-danube]

Agatha All Along in general but especially Agatha and Rio are so fucking special to me and I cannot be normal about this...

We are finally not being queer-baited. Whether they seal it with a kiss or a flashback scene or a happy ending it doesn't matter. We have confirmation that those two women were and still are deeply in love.

It's two mature women. No weird age gap, no mentor-pupil dynamic, no disproportionate power play. I find coming out and setting into your queerness stories incredibly important but it is so refreshing to see a story where the discovery and accepting that you're queer isn't the focal point. They just are who they are and neither them nor the people around them had a big dramatic reaction to it like it's something strange or unexpected. They just ARE and my god is that beautiful to witness ❤️

Their softness, connection and care for eachother is so heartbreaking. Agatha smiling and leaning into Rio when talking about her scar cause Rio already knows, Agatha melting just by having her hair played with, Rio refusing the kiss cause that would be taking advantage of Agatha's weak moment, making sure she knows that Teen isn't her son, Rio regretting what she had to do for centuries. I am losing my mind over here

The whole cast is mature women (well, + Joe haha) which again, refreshing as hell to see. And I love how the focus isn't just completely on Agatha. We get constant glimpses into everyone. Jen saved the day twice already. Alice had her beautiful moment in e4, Teen is basically their spirit guide with his spell book. Adore that lil funky boy Agatha technically kidnapped but whom she very obviously cares for more than she would like to. Lilia is my favourite of this new found coven family. Her and Agatha are the oldest and have seen the most and suffered through so much. I think that's why she softened up to Agatha and vice versa. Beside Teen, Agatha seems to be the softest towards Lilia like when she had her hallucinations and she didn't mock her but reassured her it's ok and Lilia's constant blurting out of prophecies like "Protect Agatha" 😭😭. I could go on for ages about all of their dynamics.

And everything about the production and the actors themselves being SOOO invested into the story and clearly loving what they do.

I don't give a shit about Marvel in general but damn, they got me with this one. Canonically gay witches, Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza, musical numbers and then they throw in miss icon legend mother Patti Lupone on top of it all. I am in every possible way the target audience

The talk about how witches, monsters and in general creatures feared by the wider population are so very deeply queer coded is for another day but AAAAAAAAAAA I love everything about this show so much I might just explode

[sapphoshands]

ONE THREE SIX TEN AND FIFTEEN but you're only allowed to talk about Agatha

oh no oh what a hardship

1 Song of the year?

ha ha ha ha haaaa oh man i have listened to "the ballad of the witches' road" so many times. you know how many times! but i refuse to admit the actual number in public. and uhhhh i still have it on repeat? at least when i go outside. i listen almost exclusively to the ep 4 rock'n'roll version and i just love it. i especially love how rough agatha's voice is. and i think a lot, still, about how well the lyrics map to agatha and rio.

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

lollll hey guess what! it's kathryn hahn, patti lupone, sasheer zamata, ali ahn, and joe locke! things what i love about them: how well their voices blend; patti refusing to sing anything other than the high notes but modulating her voice to everyone else's; the way they manage to make each version of the ballad emotionally distinct. truly it's ridiculous how much i've listened to them.

6. Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

ahhhhh you know what, i can't believe it's not agatha ep 4, but it's actually agatha ep 7? WHAT AN EPISODE. that is why you cast patti fucking lupone!!! my post about the ep is still slowly racking up notes almost every day and i still stand behind it. the ep totally inverted our expectations, a great trick made better by being a non-linear narrative. that we all, including lilia herself, had to be reminded to value her experience and knowledge just broke me. the lines 'i'm a forgotten woman!' / 'so remember yourself' are frankly fucking iconic. and 'i loved being a witch' STILL chokes me up. oh, and watching lilia and jen get along? and lilia's history! and i'm not even TOUCHING on AGATHA this ep. 'i like the bad boys'? (side note: the other thing in the french subs that i loved was translating that as 'je les aime vilaines.' OKAY DYKE.) dressed like THEEE wicked witch of the west? and the start of the ep has the most incredible series of exchanges with her and billy. as i mentioned... still not over the whole overt queer mentorship analogy! god damn. god damn!! what a fucking show!

10. Something that made you cry this year?

stoppppppp!!! the entire show. agatha's face. 'sometimes, boys die.' marvel fucking using 'you want straight answers, ask a straight lady' as part of their social media promo. marvel posting fucking agatha/rio edits on their tiktok! half of what i mention about ep 7 above. 'please, my love.' looking back at wandavision with all the knowledge we have about agatha now. how much kathryn hahn loves agatha. 'you i made from scratch.' (this show gave me feels about a kid? like! fuck! how!) rio's face (also cannot believe i have an aubrey plaza problem now). the kiss.

15. What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

sending people endless pics of kathryn hahn all day long so we can commiserate about how incredibly gay she makes us feel. wait, no, that's a great habit. how else can i be sure that in these trying times, i am maintaining an appropriate level of queerness? no, my bad habit is not having enough time to write agatha fic. yep. also maybe watching endless kathryn hahn podasts even though i hate podcasts. but mostly the fic thing.