it's sooo sad to see that all the 7b antis ended up being right in the end 😭i defended the fuck outta this book - because while it was contemporary, it actually had a very interesting plot with several interconnecting themes and subplots. but now it's turned into "the summer i turned my first two loves to all the boys pretty." its cartoonishness would almost be funny if it wasn't so sad.
sure, sometimes the story read as both intro feminism and capitalism for dummies, but there was heart to it, and jaynie's struggles to rectify the realities of her life as someone who's working class with the absurd excess of her ultra-rich housemates AND the goddamn "fbi" breathing down her back was compelling.
now it's turned into some rosewood pride bullshit sprinkled with teeeeny tiny bits of a half-assed class war happening in the backrgound between her classes, parties, and spontaneous get-aways plus chewing on the stale leftovers of romantic scenes you get with your LI if it isn't james. such a fucking waste of potential, i've NEVERRR seen a story, especially of langley's deteriorate this badly
hello diva i fondly remember you from the tag as one of the very few sane people in this fandom
all these people coming out of the woodwork (again) to be like i 🤓☝️ knew 7b was a flop from the first season like... not quite actually. the only reason you were all seething back then was because none of you can stand a fmc who isn't a blazing corona of strength and fight and witty one liners (but without ever getting upset at their male lis who treat like them a speck of dirt on their shoe), while jaynie made exactly the type of decisions and mistakes a 18 y/o would
7b started off as playing with exploration sexuality and bdsm and yes, like you said, very basic feminism and classism but it had a feeling of actually going somewhere. s1 jaynie struggling to keep up with academics, the fbi bullshit, her family, uni life & romance vs s3 jaynie on her fourth getaway of the week with her rich friend or rich boyfriend #whogafaboutmoney (which was introduced as the entire fucking theme?)
we had good bdsm rep that wasn't just fifty shades rewrapped! we had a wider range of sexualities for jaynie to explore, which actually impacted her relationships and didn't just eventually end up generalized and clumped together! (my oc being demisexual and actually having a proper convo about what it means for sex with tristan) healthy communication both romantically and sexually in a way that is so uniquely langley no other writer on the app could write with such precise branching!
all of this thrown away for licking that rat's ass. every theme that was picked up dropped to fuck this clown in venice and giving him an over the top 'savior' moment (genuinely burst out laughing when a friend told me about him hunting down and punching that assaulter like are you not embarrassed... @langley)
i'm mad asfkkkkkk bc i genuinely love tristan. and i loved the way his route was written (and i mean actual words on the screen writing too) and now we get... what? the whole betray and bring my friends' families down thing which was built up from the beginning to end done and dusted in one episode (do not forget LA getaway☝️). finals (studying. which still means something as a scholarship student) over in the span of three screenshots. at a party: yeah i love you let's move in together hehe anyway. like girl... and this is me complaining about the white male li. i cannot imagine what the rest of you are going through
speaking only for the two i've romanced: tristan's route had so much potential to call out and correct the type of idealistic thinking rich people fall into. him not paying for a more expensive rehab for carter could've been the perfect chance for the narrative to poke at how idealism/rich people often stick to their dreams so rigidly it doesn't materialize in real life ie making a tangible impact in the life of someone you know with your money
as for lilian, my babygirl was nuked from the beginning. i dropped her route after s1 so tell me if it got any better, but even during s1 all her interactions were just sex sex sex bdsm kink and she was never really given any depth beyond that. also several instances of walking closet for the mc syndrome which made me side eye langley HARD
i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor
7b is so frustrating to me because of how staunchly langley refuses to commit to the themes she brought up. the underage girl who nearly got sa'd getting an explosive reaction from the rosewood boys (james tracking him down and punching him, logan being horrified) being a tool to prop them up and show just how good they are, as compared to other men in the same demographic. meanwhile, the locker room talk they engage in, how they view women, james' entire existence and all he stands for are brushed off as... what? nothing?
giving up the integrity of your story and catering to lipless, white men fans is nothing new to be disappointed over but ignoring how locker room talk and microaggressions and stereotypes aren't harmless, but rather prop up rape culture and eventually land up there is almost a betrayal to the young girls whose stories she tried to voice through the character of jaynie
babying men old enough to know better (logan being upset about what happened and having an option to have jaynie comfort him? hello? you're 18 this isn't your intro to feminism), making jaynie bootlick them, giving them a poor baby backstory (jasper posting nonconsensual videos of girls online bc he wanted to be useful? are you fucking kidding me), putting their problems over the lives of women being ruined, the senseless demonization of the female characters, gender essentialism, and worst of all: acknowledging that same sex institutions are built on classism and racism and sustained on rape culture and still having jaynie defend it all to service rabid, mindless fans of anything male and white... fucking disgraceful
ngl I hate how male centered this story became to cater to the fandom.
Because, mind you, none of these men (Simon, Avery, James, Jasper) ever gave a single fuck about Jaynie's problems. Like, Jaynie spends the first two seasons trying and failing to balance being a freshman, the fake fbi cohercing to spy on Rosewood, her grandma's health issues, and Carter's addiction . And from seven people in Rosewood with way more resources than her, only two of them sorta take an interest on Jaynie as a person and/or try to help her with her problems. Jasper sells her brother drugs, James treats them horribly.
But suddenly "they're not like the other frat bros", nvm that they literally have multiple scenes discussing their "body count" and acting towards women in very mysoginist ways (and no one but Grant and Tristan comment on it). And suddenly they're better than other men and redeemed because James punched a rapist?? and Jasper is actually just shitty because his parents are just too overbearing??.
PMO that Jaynie has to mother a bunch of guys older than her when they'd neeever reciprocate or have cared about her.
my brain at 4am: MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up, we kissed for hours straight, well, baby, what was that? I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life". Well, I want you just like that. Indio haze, we're in a sandstorm and it knocks me out. I didn't know then that you'd never be enough, oh. Since l was seventeen, I gave you everything, now we wake from a dream, well, baby, what was that?
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