Real Life Lesbian, Yet To Be Shot Dead

Queerbaiting drives me to drink

[ingridsumner]

That open sandwich looked banging. You can’t convince me it was minging.

[swarlapredictionblog]

hmm. the note we never got to see?

[carlaconnors]

CORONATION STREET | January 23, 2026

[ingridsumner]

Is it possible for a soap opera to gaslight you? Asking for the entire fandom.

[connor-swain]

i cannot get over this gif 😭

look at carla's little face. the entire scene she cannot contain her smiles, her excitement, her giddiness and happiness oh baby 🥺

and lisa's little face is like 'umm hmm we're taking things slow' *small nods* 'but i'm so happy and hopeful everything's gonna be okay again' 🥺🥺

gif by balfeys (link in source)

[ingridsumner]

The eye contact between Lisa and Betsy! “That’s right darling, I fixed it, I got your other Mum back.” I’m SOBBING!!!! 😭

[carlaconnors]

CORONATION STREET | January 22, 2026

[ingridsumner]

I’m getting second hand beer fear through these gifs! 😅🤢

[ingridsumner]

I know we were all distracted but Lisa mentioned her Mum today. 👀 👀 👀

[balfeys]

WE ARE SO BACK!!!!

[ingridsumner]

🚨 Spoiler Vid 🚨

So it’s not a little note or an invite card. It’s a great big A4 sized letter. At least now fanfic writers (the MVPs of fandom) can have Lisa explain everything in the letter that we inevitably won’t see on screen. It’ll have to do (I guess).

[marlagraysonn]

The nation rejoiced

[ingridsumner]

Haha! Why is this the first time I’m seeing someone say ‘Becky with the bad hair’. I must have been deep in the black cloud of doom!

[michaun]

[ingridsumner]

Stop this now Corrie! Can we just have some peace at number 6 for five minutes?

[xwandawidowx]

I can’t wait to see this , Carla’s face in the last two photos kill me 😂😭

[ingridsumner]

The hands on the hips. The “where are you getting your audacity” face. Lisa Swain, buckle up because Carla is clearly having no more of your shit!

[zhyan]

Lisa in that preview clip - "She'll say I knew we couldn't afford the kind of holidays that we had, or even the mortgage"

Lisa when the whole corruption story was first brought up - "We weren't driving around in a Ferrari or nipping off to Marbs, quite the opposite"

I guess the writers changed their minds then? Interesting?

Is it *actually* inconsistent writing, or had they not yet decided at that point to bring Falconer back?

'Cos surely they would have fleshed out a corruption storyline before it was ever mentioned on screen? Otherwise what was the point of even hinting at it? And Falconer was talking about foreign holidays pretty much immediately after her resurrection, so, lavish holidays that Lisa never questioned were always a part of the corruption story... Except, apparently not so much when they first mentioned the corruption story.

Was the original plan to have Lisa actually be a good detective, investigate Falconer & learn the truth on her own? Or was she going to have a breakthrough during therapy? Or had Lisa's guilt and grief deluded her so much that she'd completely forgotten all of the holidays she'd had with her beloved dead wife? Because the "quite the opposite" in that quote kind of implies that they were not going on any holidays at all

[ingridsumner]

I assumed that RF was working for Curtis’ gang for a long time and getting paid for info, to lose evidence, make charges go away etc in the way most junior rank police corruption works. Whether she was recruited by the gang or by Costello I’m not sure.

Then when the Counter Corruption cops started to investigate her she knew it would all come out so she stole a large chunk of money from the gang and faked her death. She told Costello in the alley “I can’t spend my money”. I feel like that only makes sense with this revelation about spending on the mortgage/holidays if she was getting backhanders for a long time but then also got a big lump that she hasn’t been able to wash maybe?

Lisa telling Carla that RF was bad with money could mean that she was living beyond their means and spending money Lisa knew they didn’t have. This should be a red flag for anyone but especially a copper who knows the signs of corruption. Even if Lisa assumed that RF was just getting them into debt with her spending habits Lisa would know that this would make them both more vulnerable to being corrupted in the future and should have put a stop to it. But then paying off the mortgage early doesn’t indicate ‘bad with money’ to me and really does make Lisa look complicit.

“We weren’t nipping off to Marbs, quite the opposite” now feels like a lie from Lisa to Carla given everything Becky has said about holidays they took. Makes her look really guilty when actually it’s probably just inconsistent writing yet again. I feel like I should rewatch to figure it out with the benefit of hindsight but I reckon I’ll just find more inconsistency which will annoy me more.

[swarlapredictionblog]

this is such interesting dialogue. betsy didnt say "like she has been this whole time"

she said "like she always does". she said "of course you know [what shes going to do]"

im giving myself a point and you cant stop me

[ingridsumner]

“Do you think she’ll ever forgive me?”

“Betsy?”

Thank you Kit! Anyone watching this from the POV of the child of a narcissistic parent needed to hear this line.

[ingridsumner]

I really hope the whole “I’ll take you down with me” only lasts long enough for Betsy to let Becky have it. I honestly cannot be arsed to watch more of this woman’s scheming.

[vampir-ka]

He's the One For Me | Corriedale | 2026-01-05

[ingridsumner]

I was Vanity before I was Swarla and still want them both to be endgame.

But if someone wrote a fic where Carla did look up ‘The Woolpack near Hotten’ I wouldn’t not read it, y’know?