#will remake this after s7 i'm sure but i've been wanting to make this for so long

[raayllum]

I think you should put the knife down. It hurts you twice, you know. Here, I'll hold onto it for you. I've got a great spot for it.

—anglerfish poem

[inmyarmswrappedin]

Posting this almost at the last possible moment, but I want to put my predictions for the next three mains somewhere. Specifically so I can be held down to them lmao.

Now, I don't pretend to be all-knowing or anything. I've had a couple predictions be right, like I predicted that Beanie Boy would be Druck's Even (I was so sure about this that tumblr even screenshot my tweets at the time as like an extra guarantee lol), that Dani and Amira N wouldn't be endgame, and that Druck's wlw season wouldn't be s5 but s6. But then I also predicted that Nora G's season would have more than 9 episodes, and that Kasim would be Amira N's love interest. So you know, I haven't won 'em all. 🤡

So what I'm going to predict is whether Mailin, Anais and Elia will be queer in their seasons.

SKAM ITALIA

Prediction: Elia won't be queer. He'll be straight.

Odds: 99 to 1 I'm right.

Reasoning: In comparison to the other remakes, Skam Italia has been one of the least willing to change things up. And specifically when it comes to how male homosexuality is portrayed in media, characters who are attracted to men are quickly established as such. (I mean, there's a reason Jonas and Elias call Isak gay in s1 ep 2 even though we only get confirmation much later.) It is very rare for a male character who has only ever shown attraction to women to show attraction to men years into the run - the only example that comes to mind really is Castiel from SPN. And even in that case, he was immediately killed off. Add to that that no Skam version has had two gay dudes (or just two dudes into guys period) in the same friend group in any version, and that queering Elia at this point would necessitate a coming out sl (because general audiences see him as straight), which they've already done with s2 and... I just don't think Skam Italia is the show to do these things.

If I'm wrong: I will eat a Toast Hawaii, a gross German dish that @wodrueckts loves to torture me with.

SKAM FRANCE

Prediction: Anais will be straight.

Odds: 3 to 1 I'm right.

Reasoning: Truthfully, skamfr is so unpredictable that Anais could be revealed in her trailer to be secretly 30 and actually a secret agent going undercover in high school, or secretly have an evil twin who's been doing mean things when Anais is actually nice, or secretly be running a dog fight ring, and any other number of things, and I wouldn't even blink. The only reason I think it's unlikely that Anais will be into women is because, much to the showrunners' shock, I know Skamfr isn't the L word and won't focus on a wlw main two seasons in a row.

If I'm wrong: I think wlw Anais is slightly more likely than mlm Elia, so in this case, I will watch Robbe and Sander's shower scene changed my mind. Instead I will eat French Fries dipped in soft serve ice cream, just to make it eating challenges all around.

DRUCK

Prediction: Mailin won't be ace.

Odds: 1 to 3 I'm right.

Reasoning: I actually see a good case for Druck tackling asexuality with Mailin in s8, and I believe that if Jünglinge/Q3 had written all 4 gen 2 seasons, Mailin would've eventually come out as ace. The reason I think this new team might not do this, is because Druck got a lot more safe with s7 - no one ever said the words "non binary" in all of s7 after all. We also know Eren had to fight for some of the more overt expressions of gender non conformity, like the pronoun clip. And so, I could see the writers doing ace Mailin, but if it's not explicitly called out as such, the network could present it in such a way that it can be read by general audiences as inexperience, or low libido, or Mailin being a late bloomer. In short, I think there's a good chance that Mailin will be written as ace, and less of a good chance that this will be explicitly referred to as asexuality (via the words being uttered, or Mailin using an ace pin, or even posting the ace colors as like a row of hearts on her ig).

If I'm wrong: I recently came into possession of an imported can of Coke from the US, made with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. It tastes awful and I will drink all of it if Mailin explicitly comes out as ace in s8.