#whitney x canaan

[biboybuckley]

no one talk to me. i’m in mourning. in one episode they destroyed everything i love.

[antique-ro-man]

HI THE WHITNEY AND CANAAN PLOT FINALLY GETTING SOME FOCUS

[kittysrap]

[devisrina]

That finale was just so disheartening.

Bela- I really hated how she treated the girls at the foxy. Evangeline and Jo were one of the few people that still stood by her, she really didn’t deserve them. It made me sad at the end that she was transferring, I thought she was talking to a counsellor. I hope Bela transferring plays a big role into the plot, we need more out of campus scenes.

Kimberly- I don’t really like her and Canaan together. But I’m glad she ended things off with Jackson when she knew she didn’t think it fit. I could see why Canaan and Kimberly work since they’re both into Econ.

Whitney- Poor girl, I felt really bad for her that Kimberly lied to her about Canaan, especially since we knew how heartbroken she was over the breakup. I really wanted Whitney to end up with Canaan though.

But at least Leighton is thriving! Her mom and dad are supportive and I really love that. I’m not much of a fan of her and Alicia though, but she does appeal to me. I love how sweet Leighton was to all her roommates and I love how she applies self improvement and is an all around sweet person.

[becky5203]

Episode 3 is called ‘The Short King’ by the way. Do whatever you want with that information.

[the-paris-of-people]

For those of you that thought Kimberly and Canaan were out of left field...

Oh boy, buckle up, because I am going to explain how Kimberly and Canaan make perfect sense together and the show has been building to them since their first interaction. I'm going to be examining their scenes together, their scenes in other romantic relationships and interactions with friends, and ultimately investigate the events of the finale, which culminated in them developing feelings for each other.

In the first scene where Kimberly and Canaan are introduced, Canaan takes advantage of Kimberly's naivete by telling her he has to work multiple jobs to support his family because his mother is addicted to crack. I personally love this scene because it reveals Kimberly's lack of exposure to POC and touches on her unconscious biases prior to coming to Essex, but it also establishes the fun, banter-y dynamic between Canaan and Kimberly from the get-go. Kimberly later stands up for Canaan and this choice was 100% deliberate on the writer's part for K/C relationship building. Christopher Meyer's background reactions (in a lot of these scenes) suggest he's in awe at the different side of Kimberly that's shown to him through this interaction. Kimberly may have that sweet, kind, girl-next-door vibe but she also has a backbone and is not afraid to stand up for herself. Moreover, Canaan's being in agreement of Kimberly's speech and their shared position at Sips together implies shared values that bind them together, at least in the affluent world of Essex.

A few episodes later, when she and Bela attend the comedy gala, Kimberly understands from Canaan that he and Lila are not being tipped well as caterers. She leaves them a large tip and announces to everyone that they are on financial aid, which elicits pity tips from the attending gala members. Canaan initially doesn't believe this will work, and he's so surprised and grateful to Kimberly for her shrewd assessment of the situation, he gives her a portion of their tips later. Again, Kimberly's resourceful advice surprises and compels Canaan, setting them up for a deeper connection down the road.

For those of you who don't regularly follow my blog, I'm also obsessed with Ben and Devi from Never Have I Ever (another MK show) and love that Ben acts to "save Devi from herself" and often is her voice of reason, pushing her to be a better person. Canaan acts as this voice of reason throughout the remainder of season 1 for Kimberly, reminding to focus on her Econ homework instead of obsessing over Nico because it's likely not worth it (a hard lesson Kimberly learns on her own), imploring her not to cheat because she cannot pull it off. The latter observation suggests that over the time period of working together, Canaan knows her, knows that she cannot cheat, knows that is the least discrete person in the world and she cannot pull it off (again, Canaan is right again) He even calls her cute during this conversation, yes he compares it to when Nemo gets mad at his Dad, but it's clear during this commentary that while he may be passing it off as a joke, he genuinely finds Kimberly attractive on some level.

There's another comment in this scene Canaan makes to Kimberly that sets them both up to be together. Canaan tells Kimberly he sees her with "more of a sweet boy" and describes a nerd. All we know about Canaan at this point in season 1 is that he's funny, sarcastic, DTF (with Whitney at this point), and kind, the "nerd" aspect of his personality hasn't come up - at least for now.

During season 2, Canaan and Kimberly embark upon parallel journeys to date a great person, but not the right person for them. We can argue Leighton goes through a similar journey in another post, but that's for another day. At the end of s1 and beginning of s2, Canaan dates Whitney (who btw I would die for, no Whitney slander in the comments please) and while the two are attracted to each other, have good conversation, and seem to get along, they seem to have different attitudes towards their family and academic goals. Canaan defends Whitney's mom to her for coming to make sure she was okay after the whole Coach Dalton (aka the most heinous man known to society) fiasco and has a much more clear plan about his career/future than Whitney while Whitney is still trying to navigate her nascent relationships with her mother and biochemistry. I want to make it clear that there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with Whitney trying to figure that out and she's amazing and deserves the best and 100% deserves all the love in the world, but it's clear from the Zoe/phone incident (although CANAAN hello you 100% should have told Whitney and not invited Zoe to the Kissmas party) that Canaan values being with someone who's completely secure with themselves in order to build a strong relationship. It's notable that when Canaan is reassuring Whitney about Zoe he calls her "A dream girl" rather than "MY dream girl" and that may be reading too much into it but I think the article choice was deliberate on the part of the writers. Also before Canaan asks Whitney to be his gf, he compliments Whitney that the study geek vibe on her is cute. Again, interesting considering how he thinks the perfect guy for Kimberly as a nerd because she is one ... and at the same time he is also attracted to them.

On the flip side, we have Kimberly who begins a little romance with Jackson. Jackson seems like a great, nice guy who really likes Kimberly, which is a refreshing break for my girl considering she had been through the ringer and back with Nico, losing her scholarship, and donating her eggs. However, yes she has this great, hot guy who's into her- the issue is, she's not into him and she feels they don't fully understand each other. Jackson initially doesn't participate in the food worker's strike even though it's near and dear to Kimberly's heart, she's incredibly passionate about social causes and is helping organize the movement as well! Once Kimberly explains she wants him to support her, he does, but to Kimberly, she shouldn't have to explain. She feels Jackson immediately should have understood how the strike was important to her- worker's rights are in her core belief system (see: her upbringing and her speech at Sips in the first episode), and she should have a partner who immediately is willing to join which again, why I think it's intentional that this episode highlighted that Canaan helped her with the strike and was her team member while Jackson did not. After a conversation with Lila and Canaan (in which Canaan seems VERY jealous, might I add), she realizes how much it bothers her how little she and Jackson have in common. She doesn't get his EDM/country playlists, his love of wrestling, and while Jackson is willing to learn about the things he cares about and doesn't think that it's a big deal, it still doesn't seem like it's fully resolved.

In the background of these relationships, Kimberly and Canaan are orbiting each other. They update each other about their lives at the coffeehouse, they complain about Lila getting drunk on power, they work together on the strike, Canaan is there to observe Kimberly being supportive and prepping Lila for her manager interview, all until their journeys converge in the final two episodes of the season.

When Kimberly learns that Canaan is getting an award from the econ department, she's so excited for him and encourages him to attend. Canaan, who initially wasn't go to, has all of these dormant feelings for Kimberly that have developed over the past year which come to a head when he realizes how grateful he is to her for being so excited and supportive for him. He nervously invites her to the econ banquet, but because he's calm, collected, Canaan and he knows she's dating Jackson, he passes it off as a back-up invite. At the banquet, Kimberly, who is of aware that Canaan is kind, funny, and handsome, discovers a different side to him and sees that he's also humble, intelligent, hard-working, and cares about his family deeply, which reflect all of Kimberly's own positive qualities and values. On a value level, she realizes they have more in common than Jackson and Kimberly. They've worked together the whole year, there's been a small flame flickering between them, and once they're finally in a more romantic context, it's the match that lights the fire. Once he and Kimberly have that conversation about Canaan's mom's Alzheimer's, which is sure to come up in the future if I know Mindy's shows, she realizes that her hot work friend is much deeper than she knew he was, and she's interested in him and wants to know more, enjoys and wants time with Canaan more than she wants with Jackson. I don't think that Kimberly broke up with Jackson because she realized she had feelings for Canaan. I think she broke up with him because she realized, upon spending time with Canaan, she didn't have feelings for Jackson. Meanwhile, Canaan enjoys Kimberly's fun energy and openness at the banquet- she constantly is talking about how much fun she's having and wants to know more about his life and his mom and even though she's not cool or chill or fun, she's so unapologetically herself and happy about the way she lives her life and conducts herself (even when she almost eats the flowers off Canaan's dessert) and Canaan's into it.

Throughout the entire series, the writers set Canaan and Kimberly to get together. They always got along, were good for each other, balanced each other out, have a great platonic chemistry, and needed to date other people to realize the qualities they valued in each other as future potential partners. I know a lot of people wanted a classic "slow burn" situation and I was a little disappointed they didn't do it with them, but upon reflection, I actually like the route the writers took. They dropped little hints that Kimberly and Canaan would get together, and when they finally saw each other in a new light, away from work and their friends, and got to know each other more deeply, they realized they wanted to explore something more. Honestly, it's super realistic to have that one event that puts your hot friend in a new light and to just go for it and date afterwards instead of dragging it out. Based on the very first episode though, and even the whole first season, it's obvious they were setting up some kind of conflict between Kimberly and Whitney over dual interest in Canaan so while I think the situation is shitty and low-key devastates me, it was ALWAYS bound to happen and didn't just "come out of nowhere." Anyway, I urge you to rewatch the series and watch Canaan and Kimberly's interactions closely, it surprises me that there was so much uproar over them getting together when although not completely explicit, it was built into their arcs in s1 and s2.

[wildm00re]

personally, in *my* opinion, if mindy can listen to the s1 canaan and kimberly shippers then i feel like she should listen to the bi whitney chase truthers, as well idk

[a-member-of-minuteswithmandm]

The Sex Lives of College Girls season 2 recently ended and damn.....what the hell is going on????

Why was Whitney screwing the dickheads from Chemistry class? Why did she and Canaan break up??? What was the point of Jackson? Is Kimberly still in debt? So Tatum is just getting tossed to to side?

There was so much that happened but it also felt like nothing happened which is really disappointing

Also, Kimberly's shenanigans with Canaan are unacceptable to me. Like what the hell bro? How could you do this to your friendm and I like Alicia but I don't see how that's gonna last (also Tatum deserved better)

Weirdly enough, I actually don't have any problems with Bela's actions this season. They made sense to me (even if I didn't support them)

Anyway, the point is......New YouTube video just dropped! Lol we talk about everything we have questions about in season of HBO's hit show!!

Please watch below and let us know what you think, is Mindy doing everything right, or is it time to pivot?

[shipposterchild]

SLOCG Episode 7 Prediction

First of all....Bela, girl...what are you doing? That middle-aged man is not attractive at all and will definitely abuse his power over you.

And Whitney! Go find a cute, not rude-ass boy with nice arms. You are a varsity college athlete and HOT. You do not need this.

OK. SO, I think that Bela is going to try to keep her hook-up with Dan a secret. Everything will be going alright with her and Eric, but then Eric is going to give Bela a writing packet he compiled for her that highlights her best work because he wants her to succeed. Then Bela will feel like shit, break down, and confess what happened.

Eric, heartbroken, ends things with Bela.

OR, he's like, alright you get one free pass cuz I was an asshole about Ryan and they make up and makeout and all is well!

a girl can dream, right?

[katesharmasheart]

Okay okay okay 7&8

I like the way Kimberly's relationship with Jackson(? I'm really bad with the names of the new guys y'all)has been developing so far. I'm kinda curious if the whole egg donation will come up again, like will Kim spend the rest of college donating? Will this affect her relationship with J. Will her parents find out??

Leighton my beloved, 💗 that's it. Like what else there's to comment I like how lil by lil she is growing Tatum and her are so gooooood and well it's going to be interesting to see Alicia back but I feel there's no competition after 'there's no timeline for coming out'

It was an interesting development the whole fallout between Eric and Bela, yet I'm still mad we don't know much about how Bela's magazine is going. I was scared they were going to do a whole storyline like the one with Devi and Aneesa one side competition bc Priya was labelled as hotter but I glad it didn't go that way. Hope for S3 she shows up

Whitney x Canaan pls come back to me, I don't really feeling it with Andrew(?sorry! Idk what it is but I don't feel it flowing. I loved the scene with her mum 💜

I can't believe it's ending next week😭

[thefabulousfab-3]

Literally it seems like I am the only person who enjoyed tslocg s2 and finale! I agree it wasn't nearly as good as the first season but it was still really fun and I thought all the character journeys (including Bela) made sense. Also I could not be more excited about Kimberly and Canaan, I am ready to write all the fanfiction about them

I totally agree!!!!! I liked this season especially the last couple episodes a lot! I feel like the last two episodes really made up for the rest of the season.

I really enjoyed everyone’s character journeys as well and I think they all make a lot of sense! I have much to say about all of it. First,

• Leighton’s storyline has been so good. I’m so proud of her growth!! I am also jazzed she is back with Alicia. I really liked them together! Also I really missed the womens center group and the party they threw was SO CUTE and fun!

• I’m so happy Whitney kicked that stupid bio bro to the curb and she is now pursuing biochemistry!! I’m so proud of her for not only stepping outside her comfort zone but working so hard to succeed! Yay for women in stem!!

• I’m proud of Kimberly for recognizing her feelings for Canaan and breaking up with Jackson right away. I’ve been a Kimberly x Canaan shipper since season 1, so I am very happy about that. They are the CUTEST. They have big endgame potential and I am very very excited for them. I do wish she would have talked to Whitney about it and had been honest about the kiss. That for sure will be a big conflict next season.

• Bela, my girl. I have so much to say about this. Bela’s actions make absolute perfect sense of you realize all the crap she has gone through. She was literally sexually assaulted in season one, yet somehow everyone has forgotten about that. A lot of her actions are a trauma response from that. (Thanks grace for pointing this out).

How quickly the fandom decided to demonize Bela is crazy. Especially when some other characters have done WAY shitter things. (I love Leighton but the whole std things was super shitty of her and she didn’t even apologize). Bela isn’t a bad person she is just struggling with school and finding her place. Finding out just how badly she is doing at school sheds a lot more light on her actions. She is clearly stressed and trying to avoid that particular problem.

In conclusion, I hate how fandoms think that just because a character makes bad decisions that is “bad writing” and “out of character” and “just for the drama”. If characters only made good decisions then tv and movies would be extremely boring. Sometimes things happen for drama, that’s how a story works!!!!!! This fandom annoys me. There are definitely things to criticize in season 2 (like the rushing of plot lines and the pacing), Bela not getting with Eric is not one of them. Just because things didn’t go the way you wanted them to doesn’t mean it’s bad writing.

[youranemicvampire]

SLOCG Season 2 thoughts and opinions with Spoilers

First of all, I just wanna say that all 4 of them are very funny, lovable and precious. <3

As much as i love this show, it’s hard for me to recommend it to others without sounding weird. 

They need more episodes! I’m ok with like 30 mins per ep coz it feels like a sitcom-ish, but waiting a year for 10 episodes??? TORTURE. They need at least 20 since the eps are short.

Aside from my main lesbian girl Leighton, Kimberly is my favorite until she did that thing in the finale. 

Pauline Chalamet is an underrated actress! She’s amazing even before i found out she’s Timothee’s sister. It means, she’s great on her own. Comedic timing = 10/10

So Leighton is a rich, math genius lesbian like she really won the lottery. Also, how can she be so good at math when she’s gay???? That’s unfair. 

GRACIE DZIENNY!!!!!! If you’re a First kill fan, you would understand the happiness when she first appeared on SLOCG. WLW crossover!

Why you keep pairing Whitney with mediocre white men???? I’m so tired. Also, please give her a stronger storyline and make her bi, thanks. I don’t know if i’m in the position to say this, but i feel like the writers are being too safe and scared (?) about Whitney’s arc.

Canaan is the only man i can tolerate for Whitney, but they didn’t have that much chemistry, they just look good together. 

LeighTum is sooooo hot. I know them looking and acting alike is so funny, but they are hot. 

I’m so happy that there’s no problem with Leighton’s coming out to her friends and family. I know it’s a reality for most to receive a bad reaction, but i’m glad the writers didn’t go that way coz we are tired. We deserve to see a happy lesbian on screen.

Sorry, but i have to defend Bela with the cheating issue. Eric is not an amazing man like Bela said. He f*cking stole the opportunity when we all know that it’s 100x harder for a brown woman to be in that industry. He has connections w/c he revealed during the argument, but he still did that. Bela cheating on him was nothing compared to what he did. 

Leightum x Leighcia issue: First of all, I love them both so i really don’t know where to side, but i feel like Alicia is getting hate too much? They all said horrible things including Leighton, but Alicia is the only one who’s getting massive hate and that’s unfair. I don’t think Leightum’s breakup was forced at all. What Tatum said was a big deal and them being a twincest ship was an obvious metaphor on Leighton’s old habits. I thought we only like “mean girls” for fun, but some are starting to glorify rude behavior. 

Let’s move on to the real enemy w/c is Kimberly x Canaan coz WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUk. Ok i mean we cannot choose who we love, but BOTH OF THEM didn’t think it through. Lila was right, Kimberly shouldn’t have acted on it. Or at least for a while? She didn’t even wait for a longer time and talk to Whitney about it. Same with Canaaan. Whitney asked her to give her a chance to talk and explain, but she blew it. I was rooting for you Kimberly! We were all rooting for you! How dare you???!

So with these last episodes, we would wait a year to know what will happen to the dynamics of the 4 girls now that Bela is transferring and Whitney wanted to move to the Kappa house. Faaaaaaaak. Leighton is the only who has a real happy ending. Their friendship is my favorite part of the show so i hope things will get better for Season 3. Also, i know it's unrealistic for roommates to have a perfect relationship, but i just don't like that it will be ruined for a man. :\

[radgalniya]

i’m so late but my thoughts on

sex lives of college girls s 2 ending

(spoilers duh)

okay first off, leighton is my favorite character. i mean her growth is just *chefs kiss*. her personality, her style, her character is everything. her and alicia getting back together is everything. her finding herself and realizing she actually loves the womens center and the work they do is also everything. i just love the way her storyline played out. 10/10

whitney is my second favorite character only by default. really want to like her cus black girl representation but she falls so flat. she was boring w canaan. but i did kind of like the friends w benefits thing w the science dude and then her realizing she had feelings for canaan only to find out kimberly is a backstabbing bitch. like yes drama, emotion, some real true conflict for her. im excited. i think ill like her more now in season 3.

bela bela bela. at first i hated her bc shes done some horrible things this season that just make her a flat out asshole but somebody pointed out that bela has yet to really heal from the sexual assualt from the first season. and i think the part about her 1.8 gpa makes that clear bc shes not only being a bad person to other people but shes very self destructive rn in general and just overall spiraling. and so now even tho she deserved the consequences of her actions she got like getting cancelled, dumped, & kicked off the foxy, i still feel so bad for her. like i just want her to heal so bad. poor bby bela.

kimberly>:( you backstabbing bitch. i cant stand her. she plays the sweet innocent role so very well but it is all for show, she is clearly a very terrible friend bc how could she do this to whitney and then lie to her fucking face about it. of all the men kimberly are you serious??? i hope whit rips her apart next season. shes disappointed me. i liked her character:(

sidenote: i saw a lot of leighton x whitney content and i qdid not even consider that but why am i lowkey here for it

[vicontheinternet]

I’m sorry to all the Kimberly x canaan fan but as much as I didn’t see whitney x canaan I don’t see them either.

[homemade-ghosts]

No one else is going to write a needlessly long post about Kimberly & Canaan? I have to do everything myself around here.

After everything that went down with Nico & how Nico handled it after the fact (not apologizing to Kimberly + taking no personal responsibility for the fact that he cheated on both Kimberly & his girlfriend & instead choosing to blame Leighton for being a good friend & telling Maya that he had been cheating) even if Nico & Kimberly ever got back together, I don’t see them getting an endgame. Even though they’re not officially dating, Whitney & Canaan are cute & I’m glad Whitney’s with someone who genuinely cares about/will not take advantage of her (get fucked, Dalton) but I don’t see them lasting.

...but then we have Kimberly & Canaan. I’m not going to sit here & say they have, like, insane romantic chemistry (we’re not there yet, give it another season or 2) but they have really great platonic chemistry that could build to something eventually. Not having money, like so many of the other Essex students do, is something Kimberly has been consistency insecure about & Nico, who grew up rich with an au pair & told Kimberly, “I don’t think of you as, like, poor or whatever.” (without making eye contact like it made him uncomfortable just to say that) was/is never going to truly understand that. The only people in Kimberly’s life right now who do understand what that’s like are Lila & Canaan. Not to mention, it was Canaan who told Kimberly she needed to do her econ homework instead of going to that frat party to hang out with Nico & while Nico gave Kimberly that midterm like it was nothing, it was Canaan who knows Kimberly well enough to tell her not to even try to cheat because she isn’t that kind of person, she won’t get away with it. He was right.

+ I can’t be the only one who thought Canaan constantly getting distracted by all of Kimberly’s stuff while he & Whitney were hooking up wasn’t just for laughs 👀(that was hilarious though lmao) 

All these interactions could easily be taken in a platonic way & if they’re only ever friends, I’m cool with that (Canaan, Kimberly & Lila are probably my favorite trio on the show) all I’m saying is that Canaan & Kimberly are different in ways that make their dynamic so interesting & fun to watch, but they also understand each other in a way that could eventually make for a very sweet (romantic) relationship at some point.

(+ think about how cute it would be if they got together & they could joke about that time Canaan said Kimberly should only date sweet nerdy guys!! okay, now I’m done.)

[greta--gill]

(she might be) the love of my life

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Summary:

Leighton likes their other arrangement that started recently: a private — aside from amongst her roommates ever since they got caught in a very compromising position that included Leighton on her knees in their tiny kitchenette and Alicia sitting on the counter — and consensual form of relief that’s just meant to fill that touch-starved loneliness that began to set in at the end of the first quarter.

Honestly, she doesn’t just like it. She loves it. It’s everything she’s been needing.

(Or, a friends with benefits au.)

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