i love this moment so much cause i think ian goes through lots of emotions during the whole ‘bashing mickey’ moment that byron is having. at first hes of course taken by surprise to hear that conversation. but as byron keeps complaining ian starts get pissed off at everything that he says, like he can’t believe anyone could ever badmouth mickey like that?
what do they even know about him? about everything he has done and gone through his life? the way he took care and loved ian despite everything they had to go through? who is he to judge him for not being “book” smart or simply not as pretentious as him and his friends?
as byron keeps digging his own grave, ian gets angrier, maybe realising that what the hell, they don’t understand mickey like he does, they won’t love him the way he deserves and ian wants to give that to him, wants to protect him and let him feel loved like he deserves. mickey had been bashed by everyone—
mandy saying mickey doesn’t need to do anything specific to server being beaten, terry wanting to kill him for being who he is, karen and veronica saying he’s dirty, lip saying falling for mickey means anyone else he ends up with will be better, fiona doubting mickey being there for ian after the diagnosis despite witnessing all he has done for him. and then mandy again finding out ian is dating someone else and how that’s an upgrade from mickey.
how mickey being rejected translated to him in ‘ian doesn’t love me enough, i got it it’s fine it is what is’ and the break up in s5 with mickey saying ‘this is it?’ just like he expected that to happen at some point no matter how much he tries he’s never going to be enough for ian.
but that’s not true cause ian did everything with mickey in mind thinking he’s going to be happier without ian and his bipolar but they don’t understand and love mickey the way ian does and no one deserves to be with mickey but ian cause he knows who mickey milkovich really is and he loves him more than anything in the world
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love is a battlefield // rain on me
cuddle queen jean visit before this season ends im speaking it into existence
The deeply worrying thing about catcalling is that the catcaller must know that their target isn’t going to turn around and fall in to their arms pleading ‘oh dear my please have sex with me here and now’. A lot of the time they know that. Often they don’t do it for that, someone who shouts ‘nice tits’ from a van isn’t trying to date you. They’re trying to humiliate you, reinforce their dominance over you; it’s an exercise of male power. It’s a way of communicating ‘I can say and do whatever I want to you, no matter how inappropriate or how uncomfortable it makes you feel, and you can’t do anything about it.’ Catcalling is not a compliment, it’s a threat.
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More true now with this Maggie storyline than ever before.. 😭
I'm in awe of how eloquently and profoundly expressed that was. I also want to thank you so much for sharing that! What they have done with such an amazing character and true love story is tragic and devastating but we take back the power to decide it doesn't end that way.
I was 13 when Jackson stood up at April’s wedding. I squealed and spent the whole day on twitter and on this blog that was already called queenkepner. Their love story inspired and excited me so much that I decided to try and write fan-fiction for the first time.
I was 16 when Japril The Movie came out, and I dreamily watched as a decade of their lives unfolded in front of me. While the end had me in tears, seeing their lives flicker in front of my eyes, I remained hopeful they would make their way back to each other.
I was 18 when they reunited in Montana, and though I had lost some faith in the show, I watched the episode anyway. I felt like a 13 year old staying up in her dimmed bedroom all over again. I started writing again after the episode, something I’d long forgone, fueled and excited by their love.
This year, I will be going to university to study writing and literature. I’ve started my own book, I’m in the midst of writing a Japril fic with well over 30,000 words, and none of this would have ever happened without Jackson and April’s love story.
They compelled me at an age where I didn’t know much about love, showed me what it’s like when two people become best friends after a tragedy, and when best friends turn into something more. Their clumsy relationship in on-call rooms, his stoic perseverance to let her get married, the storm inside of him when he saw the love of his life about to marry someone else. Then, a blissful marriage, she’s the one and i love our secret marriage bubble and a love so real and so profound I haven’t felt the same for a fictional couple since. Through weddings and child loss and divorces and child birth, they remained each other’s person, and I will never believe the terrible writing they’ve given us this season in order to fit their own twisted narrative.
Jackson and April are soul mates, and they are fictional, which means I choose to decide their story doesn’t end like this. I’ll leave you with this quote, which fits many of the things that I still wish to say, 6 years after I created this blog for them. To Sarah and Jesse, you remarkably brought together two characters that changed my life, I thank you. To Jackson and April, you showed me what an epic, world-shattering and soul-searing love is. Thank you.
For you, a thousand times over.