i need that king and queen of east high AU so bad
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If I were to sit and say the Ricky and Gina scenes weren’t cute I would be blatently lying because they were. It was adorable. And very funny.
BUT.
I am a Portwell truther, and EJ being distracted by a (very understandable and overwhelming) summer job while Gina feels slightly neglected is EXTREMELY HSM 2 Troy/Gabriella of them. So I will be here, fighting for my life, hoping for a “Gotta Go My Own Way” duet, a “Sceam” solo for EJ, and a hope that the parallels bring them back together by the end.
Also do not come to me to say EJ doesn’t care about Gina because boy brought her flowers to congratulate her because he ALWAYS shows up despite being insanely distracted and stressed out. He is trying to be everything all at once and that’s not on him!
Ok bye
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And for my next rant...
For a show as DEEPLY self-referential as HSMTMTS is, why did we get almost zero in-references for Portwell this season? No ‘babe,’ or risotto, or Duke sweatshirt. No Wonderstudies. No mention of EJ being the one to buy the plane ticket.
Because to make the path they chose make sense, they had to downplay EVERYTHING they built in season 2 between EJ and Gina.
You will NEVER convince me that the series endgame was supposed to be anything other than Rini. Plans change, and that’s fine. But even Gina’s speech to Ricky stalled out at the end of season 1. They had to disregard literally a whole season of their own canon to make it fit. That’s not an epic slow burn, it’s a hard left.
And the lovely thing they built between EJ and Gina was the casualty.
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i still don’t think we talk enough about how heartbreaking it would be for ej caswell to be not his best self and lose a girl to ricky bowen, then go on a long hard journey of self-development and self-improvement, learning to be a more outward-looking & genuine person and finally begin to gain confidence in his new, better self and STILL lose a girl to ricky bowen.
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"I kind of feel like we're having totally different summers" is very Troy and Gabriella of them
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someone PLEASE write a jock x cheerleader portwell fic or I'll do something drastic like write it myself
(literally my only requirement is that it's not canon compilant or near canon in any way, i want it to be an au hsjfjdjfjd (if it's friends to lovers though I'll give u a kiss))
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tsbu EJ’s desk
OKAY!!! this took me a while but i’m rlly happy with it. peep some of the tsbu canon callbacks <3
p.s. the gina notes on his diary are just head-canons. i think tsbu ej keeps a planner/diary and writes his thoughts down wherever he goes!!! and guess who’s always in his mind?? gina!!!! porter!!!
also… 😁 is there any chance one of the bday notes in canon tsbu contain a confession? 😛 @lovelyserpentines
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But really, imagine being EJ right now.
All you wanted was a perfect summer with this girl you've been over the moon for since March, bringing her to a place you love.
You get thrust into a job you don't want on a scale no one can imagine, which means your closest friends can go have fun without you while you're stressed constantly. Because you want to help those friends look good on TV, at least in part.
You find out your plans for next year are blown up because of your dad's continued unreasonable expectations, and see this show as the one chance you might have to change his mind, so it HAS to be perfect. Literally everything is riding on it now, at least in your mind.
You're SO preoccupied with finding a way to make all this happen, you inadvertently hurt your girlfriend by trying to protect her (and a little bit yourself), and it blows up in your face in front of everyone.
All while you're feeling jealous of a friend that you frankly, have good reason to be suspicious of his motives around your girlfriend.
And then you have to turn down your girlfriend's sweet prom ask because you're the director and a CIT and it's not like you can just say screw it. You don't have that freedom. You have no freedom, actually, in your last summer in the place you love with the people you love. When that's all you wanted, to be a kid one last time.
And this all happened in a week.
Like, what's the path forward for him from all this? Especially if he loses Gina in the process. How do you reconcile dumping all this on an 18 year old kid, and then breaking his heart because he can't handle this unbearable weight?
I'm just so sad for him. That last look at Gina broke my heart.
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