#switched at birth freeform

[phantompoguefangirl]

The way Blair Redford gently takes the girl's face in his hand or hands EVERY SINGLE TIME HE KISSES SOMEONE-

I-

I am not okay.

Like LOOK AT THIS

EVERY

FUCKING

TIME

I CAN'T-

FUCK-

[perplexingluciddreams]

Thank the Lord for whoever created VPN !!!

Now I can watch Switched at Birth! It have American Sign Language a lot, and many D/deaf and HoH characters.

it makes me happy because even though it is very different between being hearing nonverbal and being D/deaf (even if nonspeaking/non-oral D/deaf person), it is still the closest thing i have to see someone who communicates a bit like me :D

There is also another TV show on Freeform (same network) called "Speechless" that have main character with Cerebral Palsy nonspeaking use powerchair and communication board with words/letters and laser pointer on his glasses to communicate. I hope to watch that too, eventually.

[thottyoptimusprime]

I'm on the last season of switched at birth and this season is focusing on black characters, racism and the white savior complex. And this is the season the show got canceled, hmmmm.

[goodvibez2k]

[purplerakath]

Toxic Ships

Before I get to the meat of this thought I can’t get out of my mind, this isn’t about Toxic Ships in the sense that ‘characters harmful to each other’ as that’s not what I care about, and often that’s good storytelling with a purpose. Lost on parts of the audience due to poor critical media literacy but that’s a fight for another day.

This is about Ships toxic to the show as a whole. With a larger ‘excuse to talk about old ABCFamily/Freeform series’ as the main course but an overall wide topic under the cut here about how these sorts of things happen to shows, books, and movies.

So overall, a toxic ship on this rubric is one that, through focus, actively harms the story it’s in. Either actively because the show is putting time into it when it has other more important plot beats it should focus on. Or passively because the nature of the ship is antithetical to the themes and message of the work.

It isn’t a measure of how pure and good the romance is, because I will say this right now: Romeo and Juliet isn’t detrimental to the plot of Romeo & Juliet. It is in fact *the plot*. And all things in it web off from this nineteen year old and this fourteen year old who really want to bone.

Like- yes, a ton of death could be avoided if they didn’t, but that’s the plot.

I’d say the most basic is a forced heterosexual love interest to avoid the active leads being seen as gay because if it was just two dudes hanging out in an adventure plot without a girl that’d be kind of gay. Usually it isn’t that damaging because those sorts of love interests aren’t given a ton of time or plot energy, but it would count as what I’m looking for.

But my comparison will be two relatively comparable ships from shows on the same network in close to the same time frame. Where both ships are equally ‘bad’ for the involved characters, held up as good in their respective fandoms, but one of the two hugely hurts its show.

Study One: Switched at Birth Bay and Emmett

So Bay & Emmett get together halfway into Season 1, break up before the end of the same season, are awkwardly possessive of each other through S2 and S3 while broken up, get together in S3 by Bay cheating on her current boyfriend with Emmett. Have the worst possible break-up in S4 for the worst possible reasoning all around. Bay gets called out on her shitty vindictive behavior, then end S5 not reunited.

They are messy, complicated, actively harmful to each other, and completely fine as a baseline relationship for the show as a whole.

While Bay and Emmett aren’t together, it’s clear they care about the other’s health and happiness (save that S4 thing I alluded to), and when they are together it’s generally sweet outside of pressures from outside of their relationship. Emmett spends all of S1 struggling with his parents divorce. And then Bay is suffering through being a main character in an ABCFamily series in S2 and S4.

It’s messy but it’s also *fine*, it doesn’t hurt the show overall, their chemistry is strong. And outside of their relationship are about the best written characters in the main cast.

And our other (less shining example)...

Study Two: The Fosters Callie and Brandon

So similarly they get together in S1, break-up afterwards. Are off most of S2 but perpetually pining for each other while trying to do their own things. Pine more for each other in Season 3 before sleeping together when both are having a rough go. Then can’t be together cause of the lede I am burying right now. Spend Season 4 doing their own thing, and then we revisit this will they won’t they in the series Finale in S5, at Brandon’s wedding. To someone else.

Because they started as foster siblings and become adopted siblings.

Now, if this was just the first two seasons. Callie wanting to blow her life up in spectacular fashion because Callie’s bad at self-preservation, realizing things can be good, then letting this die and never touching it again I’d be okay. It’s a messy teenager feeling plot and I am fine with those. It is doomed out of the gate and not a good tension mark for the series as a whole. But the plot kept going. Forever. All five seasons. And that’s the problem. They can’t be together it undermines the very message of the show. It’s not a great Brandon character beat because his sudden lust on first meeting her is just that. It doesn’t do anything. Every time it blows up a ship with an actual chance it just feels insulting. Because of how clandestined it is they can’t be called out on their behavior.

And the writers really liked it and I cannot get behind that at all!

And both of them have better tension points to come back to. Callie’s a self-destructive mess due to years of being ground down by a system that convinced her she doesn’t matter, so she fights tooth and nail to protect others at the detriment of herself. This is a much stronger line to explore, but we can’t as we have to keep going back to this plot.

And Brandon is trying to save every pretty girl that crosses his path, which never really gets addressed out loud? The why of it. But he dates Talya (insecure basketcase), Callie (see above), Lou (token normal girlfriend), Cortney (single mom), and Grace (literally dying). Brallie makes Brandon a weaker character through how his plots warp into moony-eyed possessive jerk.

I’m not going to go so far as to utopia.meme if Brallie wasn’t a major plot beat. But it’d be way better. Callie’s plots are better without this ship. Brandon’s plots could be amazing without it. Callie and Brandon interacting outside of this specific plot would be better without this plot looming over them in the eyes of the rest of the cast.

And why bring it up in the Series Finale!?

And I guess my lesson is...

It’s great to have romantic subplots, friendships, friendship+, love, and what-have-you ground and humanize your character whatever ways you get it. But make sure that the narrative doesn’t undercut or overstay it’s welcome.

It doesn’t need to move your story forward on it’s own, but it absolutely can’t have it hold your story back. That’s kind of the gist of this.

[ao3feed-supercorp]

Switched

by Evilsnowswan

Roughly two decades after Kara took off her glasses at her sister’s wedding, she and Lena are enjoying a (mostly) quiet and (mostly) happy life with their family and the family cat in National City. Things are (mostly) good. At least until one fateful December day changes everything.

[A ‘switched at birth’ story. Established Supercorp. Original (Supercorp) children. Patchwork family. The more mothers the merrier. Eventual Superrojascorp.]

Words: 5482, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Original Danvers-Luthor Child(ren), Kara Danvers, Lena Luthor, Andrea Rojas, Original Child Character(s)

Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas

Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Established SuperCorp, Family Feels, Family Dynamics, Meet the Family, Patchwork Family - Freeform, the more mothers the merrier, eventual superrojascorp

from AO3 works tagged 'Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor' https://ift.tt/da96fKT via IFTTT https://ift.tt/da96fKT

[septembersghost]

"#i'm telling you i knew when he walked onto a silly little cw show years ago that he had whatever that it factor is #and i'm so happy he's getting to soar and prove that and wasn't relegated there" what was this?

so i reversed it in my head, the first thing i ever saw him in ages ago was switched at birth, which my mom and i watched (on freeform, formerly abc family, she remembers him specifically from that too. this predates even when i watched the incomparable mess that was pll on that network), and then i followed him over to the carrie diaries on the cw (despite never having watched satc?). i was technically older than the target audience for these, a fact which has always been irrelevant to me lol. and then he was the sole reason i watched the shannara chronicles, which i had fun with because i am a sucker for silly romantical fantasy. it's lowkey hilarious because, 1. as i've mentioned before, i'm not particularly an Actor Girl (excluding old hollywood faves), there are rare exceptions, but i tend to be a Character Girl first and foremost (and a Musician Girl), so the fact that i liked him enough to watch multiple things is significant, and 2. i never blogged about any of this since the fanbases for each of those shows was like thirteen people and a goldfish. there was something about his...aura? i can't explain, but i had this conviction that he had the potential for bigger things, i just had no idea what that would be. i knew about him doing the iceman cometh on broadway, and once upon a time in hollywood, so when he was cast in elvis, and quite a lot of the media was like, "who?" i immediately felt this surge of pride and interest. it's so good to see him breaking past those television parameters and doing projects he's passionate about. i was very consumed by other things last summer (fictional and then the really difficult rl stuff that was going on), otherwise i guarantee i'd have caught up faster. although, tbh, it was fated to turn out this way. i feel like i've been quietly rooting for him for a long time. :') it's curious too with my very strong feelings about e and the way he's glistened around the peripheral edges of my life since i was little. the universe knows things, and guides them directly to my heart when most needed.

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Gramercy and Good Intentions

Gramercy and Good Intentions

by dionysia_does_stories

Crowley and Aziraphale lost track of The Holy Grail a millennia ago, but forgot to mention it to their respective home offices. Now Heaven and Hell are both demanding it’s return under suspicious circumstances, the three babies they switched at birth are re-uniting, and a retirement home in Florida is aging in reverse. All Crowley and Aziraphale want is to protect their hard earned human lifestyles, but it seems like there’s no rest for the wicked (or the good).

Words: 2609, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Adam Young (Good Omens), The Them (Good Omens), Warlock Dowling, Greasy Johnson (Good Omens), Metatron (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Quest for the Holy Grail, Camelot, Original Characters - Freeform, It's the end of the world again, Knights Templar, Girls being knights and lady black smiths, a three-year-old will be a main character, Florida, Fountain of eternal youth, very old people, very young people, not explicit romance, Romance if you squint

From https://ift.tt/KnfDGQw https://archiveofourown.org/works/48096580

[watchinghallmark]

This sounds like a big get for Hallmark which continues to bring on new staff with impressive resumes...

Hallmark Media announced today the appointment of Kelly Garrett as vice president of development. Garrett reports to Samantha DiPippo, senior vice president, development, and will be based in Studio City.

Garrett joins Hallmark Media after over 14 years at Disney, most recently in the role of Executive Director, Original Programming, working in both original movies and current series. Among the projects she oversaw during her long tenure are original movies The Thing About Harry, Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve, Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, The Turkey Drop, Holidaze, The Mistle-Tones, and Lovestruck: The Musical, in addition to some of Freeform’s most successful original series, including the GLAAD-nominated Good Trouble, Cruel Summer, The Fosters, Siren, Peabody Award-winning Switched at Birth, Stitchers, and Young & Hungry. Prior to joining Freeform (then ABC Family) in 2008, Garrett worked for prolific TV movie producer Von Zerneck-Sertner Films and executive producer Stephanie Germain.

[phantompoguefangirl]

Rewatching Switched At Birth AGAIN.

One really frustrating thing that I haven't seen many people talk about is that there are several times where it is brought up that Carlton School is struggling financially and the Kennishes witness them lose programs and the school itself almost close, but yet NOT ONCE do they offer to donate money to the school BOTH THEIR DAUGHTERS GO TO.

John gets so upset when they cut the basketball team but then a few episodes later complains about how much money he gives to Buckner sports or whatever. Like DUDE ARE YOU DENSE??? You have one child still attending the rich white people school and he gives exactly zero fucks about going there so what are you even giving them the money for?

And Bay remarks that Kathryn could fund raise $5,000 out of mission hills in minutes but yet she never thinks to fund raise for Carlton? Even when she is literally at the school fighting to keep the play going? Not once does this ever occur to her??

I know it is mentioned in the episode where Daphne talks to the school board that the board is just full of bigots who only give money to the schools they favor but the Kennishes had so much power and could have done so much but they didn't and it makes me so upset.

To be fair, I guess we wouldn't have had the occupy carlton storyline if they had helped and that storyline was SO important for Deaf representation and raising awareness for how Deaf people are treated in the educational system.

But still. John and Kathryn suck for being rich and not using it to help Carlton.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

The Bat Trap

by Threee

Identical twins Damian and Danny are separated after their birth. Years later, they discover each other at a summer camp and decide to switch places in an effort to learn about their lost families. Giving them a chance to meet the people they missed. If the scheme goes to plan they might just make their family whole again.

Just the Parent trap with Danny and Damian without the getting your parents back together part. Yes I did remove the romantic subplot from a romantically focused story and made it work because I'm stubborn like that. Yes I did steal this synopsis directly off the movie.

Words: 3048, Chapters: 1/25, Language: English

Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Danny Fenton, Damian Wayne, Jazz Fenton, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley

Relationships: Danny Fenton & Damian Wayne, Danny Fenton & Bruce Wayne, Danny Fenton/Damian Wayne

Additional Tags: Inspired by The Parent Trap (1998), Based on The Parent Trap (1998), but somehow without the romance, because a story about getting Talia and Bruce back together?kinda yikes, Sibling Bonding, Protective Siblings, Twins, danny phantom and damian wayne are twins, Fluff, Fluff and minimal angst, ... - Freeform, for danny phantom, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, and mostly sorta suceeds, Danny and Damian long lost twins au, Batfamily (DCU)

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/42033183

[recentlyheardcom]

Lea Thompson Wants Switched at Birth Costar on The Chicken Sisters

Freeform Lea Thompson has a strong bond with her Switched at Birth costars, so much so she’d happily bring one star over to Hallmark+’s The Chicken Sisters if given the chance. “My first [choice] would be my other kind of sister wife from Switched at Birth, Constance Marie. I love her so much,” Thompson, 63, exclusively told Us Weekly of her top pick for a possible season 2 cameo. “I think she’d…

[fairbiography]

Sharon Pierre-Louis Bio, Age, Family, Net Worth, Height, Movies and TV Shows, Switched at Birth

  Sharon Pierre-Louis Biography American actress Sharon Pierre-Louis is well-known. She is most known for her many cameo spots on the Freeform television series Switched at Birth and for playing Nisha Randall on The Lying Game. She made her debut in the 2008 television pilot Little Miss CEO, which was not picked up for a full season. Sharon Pierre-Louis Age She was born on 27 February 1984, in…

[ao3feed-destiel-02]

A Kiss of Magic - (Master Art Post)

A Kiss of Magic - (Master Art Post) https://ift.tt/e7sXPiw by casblackfeathers, CrzyDemona (EvelynRaith) In a world full of dragons, angels, and witches, the fact that Dean has been cursed from birth isn’t that unusual. But fulfilling his duties as a prince when every night he turns into a golden nine-tailed fox isn’t always easy. At least when he’s corresponding with Cas, an angel from the neighboring kingdom, he can be himself; no curses, no duties as the firstborn son of King John Winchester, and no shadow of his own self-doubts darkening his life. He has loved Castiel for years, and each letter they traded was like a tune making his heart beat at a happy rhythm. There is only one catch, Castiel doesn’t know he has been corresponding with Dean all this time, and in an effort to strengthen their realms’ alliance, he’s set to meet and marry Dean’s brother in a month. That's how long Dean has to change the path of their lives. Words: 5, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Mary Winchester, John Winchester Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: mentions of Sam/Jess - Freeform, mentions of John/Mary - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, True Love's Kiss, Dragons, Chevy is a black unicorn, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Prince Dean Winchester, Cursed Dean Winchester, Witch Curses, Animal Transformation, Nine-Tailed Fox, Spells & Enchantments, Sweet Dean Winchester, Insecure Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester Has Self-Worth Issues, Protective Dean Winchester, Jealous Castiel (Supernatural), Hurt Castiel (Supernatural), Fluff, Domestic, Two Person Love Triangle, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, John Winchester Being an Asshole, Sharing a Bed, Cuddling Castiel/Dean Winchester, Strangers to Lovers, Virgin Castiel (Supernatural), Smut, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Bottom Dean Winchester, Bottom Castiel (Supernatural), Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Bottom Castiel/Top Dean Winchester, Switching, Barebacking, Getting Together, First Time, First Kiss, wing fic, Wing Kink, Wing Grooming, Wing Oil, Wing Oil as Lube (Supernatural), Wing fluff, Winged Castiel (Supernatural), POV Dean Winchester, POV Castiel (Supernatural), Dean/Cas Switch Bang 2023 (Supernatural) via AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester' https://ift.tt/ceqTIM0 May 04, 2023 at 02:50PM

[eulascl]

Switched at birth season 5 episode 1 youtube

SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 5 EPISODE 1 YOUTUBE SERIES

It is a running gag on the show that Adriana likes to watch telenovelas, and she quips that they cannot compete with the real-life drama caused by Angelo. Ivonne Coll as Adriana Vasquez, Regina's mother.Marlee Matlin as Melody Bledsoe, Emmett's mother and Regina's friend who is also deaf.Gilles Marini as Angelo Sorrento (recurring season 1, regular season 2–3): Bay's biological father and Daphne's legal father.Lea Thompson as Kathryn Kennish: Bay's legal mother and Daphne's biological mother.Moffett as John Kennish: Bay's legal father and Daphne's biological father. Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez: Bay's biological mother and Daphne's legal mother.However, she gradually gets better in accepting that Regina and the Kennishes are both her family. Bay can be very impulsive at times, and, at first, does not take the news of the switch well. Bay is a very talented artist who has a particular love for Frida Kahlo. She was raised in the wealthy neighborhood of Mission Hills by John and Kathryn Kennish. Vanessa Marano as Bay Madeline Kennish: the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento.She also speaks without the accent through almost the entire episode 15 of season 2, "Ecce Mono", which is an alternative reality in which Daphne was raised by the Kennishes from age three and got a cochlear implant. She developed a deaf accent for her role as Daphne, but speaks without it briefly in a scene in season 1, episode 9 where Daphne dreams the switch never occurred, and she was raised as Bay Kennish and retains her hearing. Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, before she was diagnosed at age 20 with Ménière's disease which runs in her family. Katie Leclerc as Daphne Paloma Vasquez: the biological daughter of John and Kathryn Kennish.Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish: Bay and Daphne's older brother.Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe (regular season 1–4, recurring season 5), Daphne's best friend who is also deaf.Bay is driven by a need to find her biological father, Angelo Sorrento, who left Regina shortly after Daphne went deaf. John learns to relate to his new-found daughter by coaching her deaf school's basketball team and employing her in the office of one of the local chain of car washes that he owns. Both mothers learn to bond with their biological daughters, while often unintentionally angering the ones they raised. Bay discovers that she has inherited her artistic talent from Regina, and Daphne discovers she has inherited John's athletic skill and Kathryn's love of cooking. The girls sometimes struggle with their identities. This arrangement forces the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and embrace their similarities. The Kennishes invite Daphne and Regina to their home, and after learning that Regina is struggling financially, propose that they move into their guest house with Adriana, an offer that Regina accepts. Daphne is deaf, having lost her hearing as a result of contracting meningitis at age three. It is revealed that the hospital mistakenly switched Bay at birth with Daphne, who has been raised by her single mother Regina and grandmother Adriana in the low-income neighborhood of East Riverside, Missouri. Genetic testing confirms Bay is not the Kennishes' biological daughter. Main article: List of Switched at Birth episodesīay Kennish, a teenage girl living in the Kansas City suburb of Mission Hills, Kansas, discovers from a school lab assignment that her blood type is incompatible with that of her parents. In October 2016, the network announced that the final season would premiere on January 31, 2017. On March 19, 2016, it was announced that the fifth season was bumped from a March 2016 to a January 2017 premiere date.

SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 5 EPISODE 1 YOUTUBE SERIES

On October 21, 2015, ABC Family (now rebranded as Freeform) confirmed the series had been renewed for its fifth season, which was later confirmed to be the final season. On August 13, 2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6, 2015. The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, ABC Family ordered a third season which premiered on January 13, 2014. The show's debut was ABC Family's highest-rated series debut to date. According to ABC Family, it is "the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in American Sign Language (ASL)". The one-hour scripted drama is set in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and revolves around two teenagers who were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments: one in an affluent suburb, and the other in a working-class neighborhood. Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011. Productions (from "This Is The Color Of My Dreams")