okay, also, the way i HAD to laugh when ben said that he and devi didn’t make each other better but only made each other more insecure/competitive… the latter is true, to a degree, but as we’ve seen across the seasons, they understand each other so deeply and only feel the MOST seen/heard/supported/validated with the other.
ben, sweetie, that emotion you’re feeling is called “delusion” it’s okay!!!
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hey i'm putting this in its own post @themself wants me to do a thing where you put your spotify on repeat playlist on shuffle and post the first ten songs anyway here's mine
After The Earthquake - Alvvays
Open Heart - Devi McCallion and Katie Dey
Majorette - Beach House
Dark Spring - Beach House
STATIC - Black Dresses
Go Home - Girls Rituals
FAITHFUL SERVANT FRIEND OF CHRIST - Lingua Ignota
Mirror - Devi McCallion and Katie Dey
Belinda Says - Alvvays
GRAVEYARD SONG - Jeff Rosenstock
i'm not tagging anybody but if you see this and think it sounds fun then you should just do it
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“shit, how am i going to get back into my sari?”
“oh, uh. i’ll pull up a youtube video?”
your honor, i love these idiots
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wait actually quasi-rewrite of paxton's s4 arc:
starting this off by saying that I do genuinely enjoy the "people don't like me? oh shit i have to leave immediately" plot point (slaps the top of paxton's head: this boy can fit so much adhd coding in him), though I think it should've been longer than two weeks (and maybe not Just social problems)
also I liked miss thompson and thought she and paxton were fine together, but daxton owns my heart and soul, so she's just living her best life being a sub at the school, completely unaware of paxton's existence
with that out of the way, alt paxton arc:
I think it would've been fun and sexy for there to have been some sort of swim team tryouts/meeting at ASU, where paxton could blow everyone's times out of the water (pun intended) and then have some of the people on the team dislike him specifically for the thing that made him super popular in high school, in addition to his roommate's total apathy, but that's an optional change
first major change is don't have him go straight to working at the school. I'd either have him get a job at a community pool or maybe work out some sort of deal with the coach to sometimes get access to the school pool (the latter is logistically harder, so I'll be going the community pool route for the rest of this)
as in canon, devi needs something athletic for her applications. she reaches out to paxton to ask, and he suggests the girls swim team (does their school even have a girls swim team? who knows, but I'm going to say that it exists and has openings) ((I also think it would be good for devi to do something she’s BAD at. we got a bit of that from the relay race, but it was overshadowed by her scheming re: aneesa. and that was a one-time event, compared to training to join an actual team and participate in competitions))
devi is obviously leery of the prospect but paxton reassures her that he'll be right there and wont let anything happen to her
insert fun reference to him pulling her out of the pool at ben's party and probably a joke about the role reversal from when devi tutored him
also a deeper discussion about how she became paralyzed in a pool and could've drowned (this is a show about processing and healing from trauma, so let them Talk About The Trauma. the emotional and narrative through-line of "devi loses feeling in her legs" -> "devi regains feeling in her legs because of paxton" -> "paxton rescues devi from a pool" -> "paxton helps her feel safe to swim again" do you see the Vision?)
paxton teaches her to swim again. there is a pool kiss, obviously.
and at this point we can bring eric in (preferably with less fatphobia). he's noticed that paxton has been giving devi private lessons and also wants private lessons. paxton isn't sure because, yes, he really liked helping devi, but well, he lov really likes devi. also eric is annoying
devi encourages him to give it a shot, since he's a really good teacher (aka fun parallel of them both encouraging each other and pushing each other to be their best)
like canon, paxton teaches eric and realizes, oh shit, he might actually like teaching. like, in general and not just teaching devi specifically
the coach sees how he successfully trained eric and then tells paxton about the job opening, which segues into Daxton Drama (do they breakup so he can take this job? do they try to hide their relationship while paxton works at the school, and does that bring up old insecurities for devi, or has she gotten past those? does he turn down the job and go back to school right away? and in that case do they try long distance?)
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