#wileyburn

[shaunashipmn]

– and ain't it funny how you ran to her the second that we called it quits?

[turtleneckseve]

EXCUSE ME

[sexeducationfans]

Otis and Maeve

[wheresthespunkadam]

Thank you, Netflixuk for this roller coaster knowing full well Otis don’t like them 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

[theonewhonothingknows]

Sex education

Oh, how do I hate these will they won't they narratives, but oddly enough I actually enjoy that plot in sex education.

The main problem with this kind of story , to me at least, and like many other tropes, it's not the trope itself but it being badly handled. Usually " will they won't they" either writes one or both characters as having nothing else in their lives, as if their whole character is there only for the relationship, so when the writers put effort in keeping the characters apart it feels to much like characters themselves stagnate, because, like I said , there is nothing else in their lives.

Luckily Sex Education feels very aware of that to me. In that while Maeve and Otis are always almost becoming a couple but it never feels like they aren't developing. Back in season one Otis' victory was not about being with Maeve it was about opening himself to associate sex with happiness and pleasure instead of a trauma. Maeves victory was about opening herself more to the people around her. Like looking back at her friendship with Aimee, it always feels weird that she would settle for being the secret friend, hidden away, but it totally makes sense that Maeve would accept that when we see her fear of being alone. In the end her victory is opening the door to her home and allowing Aimee inside.

Season 2 is much the same. Again their stories aren't exclusively about them getting together but their handling of their own lives and their bonds with people. Otis has to deal with his need to do the right thing ( he feels a lot like Chidi from the Good Place) and hurting others in the process. He grew up listening to his parents fighting, seeing his dad move away so when he finds himself in a situation of causing harm to a established relationship he goes down hard on trying not to be his dad, getting frustrated untill he lashes out.It is sort of something that was hinted by season 1 when he couldn't decide between heping Maeve and going to Erics birthday. His inability to be honest to himself hurt people, so his victory in season 2 is about defending his mother exposing his own flaws in public. It was about offering Jakob a sincere apology, something he could have very easily avoided, and finally letting Maeve know about his feelings. That was his honesty, him fighting for the ones he loves as Adam's Mother said.

For Maeve, a lot of season 2 is about what she wants as well. She is so used to dealing with everything on her own she needs to learn to be part of a team. She gets the chance of having a family again with her mother, but in the end she also pushes herself in doing the right thing. She also pushes herself to pursue a future, but doesn't have much hope for it. So her victory in the quizz and her ultimately letting that chance of family go for the safety of her sister are the balance she needs, her victory in her own right. Like Otis there is a lot about honesty to maeve's story, honesty that she needs other people, that Ola is actually cool and she tried to steal Otis, that she has things in common with others, that wanting her mother in her life is not that easy.

So yeah, these characters victories in the end of each season are not tied to their possible romance. Having an episode about honesty, of feelings and admitting mistakes, also makes it clear Isaacs actions are bad in the end of the episode itself.

I think that is all really great, and am looking forward to future seasons.

[thesocialpariahtable]

in a house with big windows

a future!Wileyburn fic

So, as promised, I’m writing that Maeve x Otis fic I’ve been going on and on about... if anyone knows me, I’m a sucker for angst so there’s a lot of that in there... I’m just enjoying not writing R*verdale for the moment.

Otis’s feet hang off the end of the bed, she still smiles at his mismatched socks he wears to bed, even when his back is turned. It’s probably just as well, she hates the way he seems to be able to tell she’s been crying.

She slips into the sheets next to him, back to back. Unsteady breaths escaping both of them. She squeezes her eyes shut, wishes away the tears and focuses on their daughter in the next room, sleeping peacefully in the house with both her parents. Everything Maeve never had. Everything she ever wished for.

In the house with big windows.

There’s an unsteady shiver in her when her crying seems to catch up in her throat. When it shakes the bed, Otis’s long body feels it. He sighs heavily, rolls over onto his side and she feels his breath on her neck. His hand finds its way along her hip and finds her hand, holding it in his.

His touch is soft. Not too hard, almost wary. Probably worried. All he does is keep her hand in his, unsteady breaths this time on her skin. It makes her eyes prickle more. Because she can’t speak, she doesn’t know what to say. And he doesn’t speak, so she doesn’t know what he’s thinking.

But she lets the tears roll silently, no words spoken yet again. Another night lost to the silence, but at least this time, he’s there for her for the first time in what feels like forever.

He still feels like her house with big windows, keeping her safe when his hand holds hers. Nothing was more all-consuming than a love that never seems to die. When she’s with him, she never feels alone.

But why does it feel like the windows are no longer protecting her?

Read the rest and show me love over on AO3!

[uncleknickknack]

i NEED more Sex Ed fanfics. Otis and Maeve are the ultimate slow burn someone FEED ME

[turtleneckseve]

Why do they act like they’re married

[turtleneckseve]

Maeve Wiley behave yourself right now

[turtleneckseve]

[turtleneckseve]

Just try and stay honest. Cause once you start lying it’s very hard to stop. You know, when you’re young, you think that everybody out there really, really gets you. But, you know, actually, only a handful of them do. All the people who like you, despite your faults. And if you discard them, they will never come back. So, when you meet these people…You should just hold onto them. Really, really tightly. And don’t let them go.

[turtleneckseve]

You can’t choose who you’re attracted to. You don’t engineer a relationship.

[turtleneckseve]

👀

[turtleneckseve]

I wanted you to know how proud of you I am. And how unbelievably stupid I’ve been.

Bonus:

[turtleneckseve]

That was withering.

[turtleneckseve]

Trouble in paradise?