#otp: calliope x juliette

[terapsina]

A comprehensive list of ALL my favorite WLW ships. PART 3 (because I have more than 10 of them)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

(canon gets a 🍪, clowned myself into thinking it'd be canon gets a 🤡, didn't actually think it'd be canon but adored them anyway gets a 🍑, happy ending gets a 🌺, they destroyed me ending gets a 😿, bummer ending gets a 💔, cancellations are a plague on this planet get a 🪦).

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21. Kahlan and Cara - Legend of the Seeker - 🍑💔🪦

22. Andy and Quynh - The Old Guard - 🤡 ...potentially. 😿 ...currently.

23. Wednesday and Enid - Wednesday - 🤡 ...preemptively.

24. Allison and Lydia - Teen Wolf - 🍑💔

25. Mel and Abigael - Charmed - semi-🍪 semi-🤡 all-💔 🪦

26. Ava and Beatrice - Warrior Nun - 🍪😿🪦

27. Juliette and Calliope - First Kill - 🍪💔🪦

28. Luz and Amity - The Owl House - 🍪🌺

29. Alina and Genya - Shadow and Bone - 🍑😿

30. Laura and Carmilla - Carmilla - 🍪🌺

[homomagi]

be thinking about these pictures a lot

[hydesjackiespuddinpop]

What I need, what I need, what I need Is for you to be sure, no no no

[firstkillers]

No because the theme song literally says “If I were a zombie I’d never eat your brain I’d just want your heart.” and Jules doesn’t want to eat Cal, and Cal doesn’t want hunt Jules. They both break from their basic instincts as hunter and vampire bc they love each other so much.

[katesharmasheart]

Calliope Burns for the ask meme? :)

do I like them: 100%

5 good qualities: loyal, #littlesister, protective, resourceful and secret sunshine

3 bad qualities: stubborn, hot headed and distrustful

favourite episode/etc: First Love

otp: calliope x juliette

brotp: calliope x tess

ot3: tess x calliope x juliette dont @ me we can make it work

notp: calliope x and a man

best quote: one of them "I think a lot about how the world treats teenage girls. Like, everything that's good about us is a weakness. Our hearts, our emotions, our empathy, means we need to be protected."

head canon: cal spent the day after the break up washing everything that had jules perfume while she cried trying not to give in the instinct to smell them before she did

[terapsina]

I don't get what people have against campiness and use of tropes. Is First Kill cheesy in places? Yeah. Does it contain a lot of popular, often-used tropes? LOADS.

But that's not a PROBLEM.

It's a fun, supernatural teen show made for a queer audience, especially for queer teenagers who deserve to see themselves represented in a show they'd actually like to watch.

Cuz like, not every kid wants to watch a serious, thematically excellent and visually flawless artistic TV series that's going to get a lot of good reviews from critics.

And it's not a bad show.

It's certainly not any worse than some other teen shows that started out a bit shaky in technical quality but then developed into something better with more time under its belt and some increase in budget.

Shadowhunters comes to mind. Because I don't know if people remember, but that show's first season had iffy VFX and lackluster fight scenes too. But they also had some great characters and excellent chemistry in the cast.

First Kill has great characters too. And if you don't see the chemistry between Juliette and Calliope I don't know what to tell you.

And it's not like the lesbian vampire/monster hunter forbidden romance is ALL that's going for this show (though even had that been the case it would deserve its place in the sun because queer girls deserve their cheesy supernatural fun too).

But the relationship that Cal has with her family, especially her mother, is really interesting to watch too. Her wish to prove herself a hunter and actually join her family in killing monsters, instead of being the lookout from a safe distance, is an interesting contrast to Juliette NOT wanting to be like her family.

And Juliette's friendship with Ben. Her relationship with HER family and how she doesn't want to be a killer but at the same time doesn't seem to have that much of a problem with them being killers. Lots of interesting ethical dissonance right there.

The fun dynamic between the mothers that's just incredibly fun to watch too. Like they're clearly these two extremely powerful women from two opposing sides, who love their kids and will cut a bitch to make sure that nothing breaks their families.

And my god is the vampire lore INTERESTING.

Like. I've seen every take on vampires imaginable by this point. Vampires who don't show up in mirrors, vampires who do. Vampires who need invitations, vampires who don't. Daywalkers. Nightwalkers. Born vampires. Made vampires. Half vampires. Unkillable vampires.

And it's not like this is a completely new take on vampires. There's common tropes I've seen before. But. It's also got some unique elements I haven't seen and that's impressive actually.

And the mishmash of the familiar things feel like they've been dropped into a blender in the BEST WAY.

My point is.

Why does it feel like this show is being compared to other queer media from completely different genres? If it should be compared to anything it should be to other campy teen shows that are lots of fun and full of cheese. More than that, it should be compared to the first seasons of those shows, not the heights those shows reached three seasons down the line when the characters and plots had had time to develop and the budgets had been increased so that the visual effects had gotten better in quality.

First Kill absolutely has a lot of things going for it. And I think it is WELL worth the watch.

[hydesjackiespuddinpop]

wlw pride day 2

favorite canon ship: calliette

"I love you and I know you love me."

[firstkillers]

“Everybody has tells if you look hard enough. And I couldn’t keep my eyes off you”.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this scene has my whole heart ❤️ 💖