It's inevitable...

Hai! I'm Mel, come and say hi! Completely enamoured with Alex Vause and Orange is the new black. I don't post much original content (such as photosets or gifs) but I DO post news and cast stuff and reblog sets that I find around the internet :)# Web Site Hit Counter

[ohbeauregard]

[singalongbirdsong]

“It ain’t that bad.”

[shnookumsandlovemuffin]

Reasons why I love this final scene

1. The cameo made by Piper Kerman and Larry

2. The “No Touching” sign yet Piper and Alex both sneaking a glance at the guard so that they can steal a touch.

3.The energy that Alex and Piper give off that tells you that this has been one of many visits.

4. Seeing the Ohio visitor’s tag on Piper’s top

5. The fact that everything around them is blurred giving a call back to: “I was there for Alex, she was what I paid attention to–who I paid attention to, everything else was just background.”

6. Wedding rings!

7. The fact that Alex and Piper are wearing the same clothes from the season 7 teaser and not only were they the final shot in the finale, they were also the final shot in the teaser. Which leads me to believe that they were telling us that Alex and Piper were going to be endgame the entire time.

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[ohbeauregard]

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK - 7.13 - Here’s Where We Get Off

[leeluthor]

if anyone knows of any good post prison Vauseman fanfics- send them my way!!

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The ring.

[mybodywakesup]

Alex, you’re not a detour from my life. You are my life.

[shnookumsandlovemuffin]

Season 1:

Season 7:

[tropicannafeels]

Piper Chapman: A Character Development Analysis

Going off of Larry’s monologue in the finale, here is my take on Piper Chapman, and who she has evolved to be.

‘The Old Piper’

The old Piper was a young woman in her early 20s, who as Larry put it, looked out into her future and was bored with what she saw. She knew the life that had been planned out for her, she knew what was expected of her, and she wasn’t thrilled with her options. When we meet the old Piper, she is applying for a job in a bar. At this point, Piper would have been a graduate with a degree. Realistically, she probably should have been searching for jobs that led to careers, not jobs being a waitress or a bartender. I think this represents Piper’s longing to prolong this exciting time in her life before the path that had been chosen for her by her upbringing finally took over. 

When Alex enters Piper’s life for the first time, she offers Piper an alternate path. Larry explained this as Piper wanting to be special, but I think it was Piper looking for some sort of freedom. She’d been conditioned to become this one thing for so long, and seeing Alex and seeing what she could offer her, was like watching a new path suddenly appear before her. The scene where Alex asks Piper to come with her is important, as its the exact point where Piper takes the plunge and completely dives into Alex’s world, basically leaving everything and everyone she knows behind. At this point in her life, Alex represents adventure and excitement and basically the very life that any twenty something year old craves. Alex was the short cut to the life Piper wanted. 

‘Post-Alex-Pre-Prison Piper’

This stage in Piper’s life is basically her trying her best to get back to that path she’d abandoned by taking off with Alex. I think that she could no longer see her future and it scared her, so she left Alex and tried to return to her regular life. What’s interesting in this part of Piper’s story is the striking difference between when she meets Larry for the first time, and when we see her living with him and doing juice cleanses later on. 

When we see how Piper and Larry met, Piper is not ‘the nice blonde lady’. If anything, the Piper who we saw in that scene, is the closest to prison Piper that we ever see again. She’s cold and distant and doesn’t give a shit. She’s bleeding from a dog bite, because she scolded a homeless child about having a dog he couldn’t provide for. Post-Alex piper was a tough bitch. 

That scene is so interesting because you can see how Piper looks at Larry, and suddenly that uncertainty of what is the rest of my life going to look like, goes away, and she can see this bright and easy future with him. Choosing Larry was not spontaneous like choosing Alex. Larry is not an escape, he’s her way back into a world she’d lost connection to. 

I don’t want to say that Piper’s relationship to Larry wasn’t real. I think it was. But, I also don’t think that she was ever fully in it. Making soap and having kids and decorating the house could never have been enough for Piper. I truly believe that had Piper not gone to Prison, she still would have left Larry for Alex. The phone call she makes to Alex in the bathroom proved that to me. I believe they’re soulmates, and I think no matter what, they would have found each other again. 

‘The New Piper’

I’ll admit that up until this point, Larry’s analysis and mine pretty much line up. But this is where Larry truly doesn’t know Piper anymore. This is where their connection has split too much. 

Larry thinks that the old Piper would stay and wait for Alex, while the New Piper would pack up and go with Zelda. But the truth is, choosing Zelda over Alex, would be Old Piper’s choice. 

10 years prior, Piper chose Alex because of the life she offered. She chose her because she wanted this life of travel and adventure and risk. Alex was everything 20 year old Piper wished for. And now, saying almost the same lines, was Zelda. Offering 30 year old Piper a short cut to the ideal 30 something year old life. “I want you to come.” She had a cool job and a nice apartment and a real future. Choosing Zelda now would be the equivalent of choosing Alex then. 

But staying put, and just waiting for Alex wasn’t an option either. 

Staying put and waiting, was what Larry was prepared to do for Piper. It’s what Larry’s version of Piper would have done. But that’s not who Piper is. She can’t just stay still and wait for life to happen. 

So new Piper chooses Alex. But this time, she chooses the struggle. She chooses the harder path. Piper chooses to move her life and start over and really work to keep this relationship. New Piper chooses a path she cannot see, with Alex lighting the way. 

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“God, I love saying that.”

[bonemommyowo]

I had to highlight all the references in Danielle Brooks’ song “Seasons” that she wrote about OITNB bc it made me cry at the end so here we go

(My notes are in bold)

[Spoken Intro]

What came first?

The chicken or the egg? (Of course a reference to Red’s magical chicken, I’m sad that they never got a reunion)

Some things are just unexplainable but

One things for sure...

I'll miss you

[Chorus 1]

Puff Puff Pass

Wish I could play that moment over

Eyes red and crazy (Pretty straightforward, references to Red and Suzanne (who everyone called Crazy Eyes))

We were dumb broke and hungry

So we scraped up all our nickels (or Nichols, like a certain junkie philosopher we all know and love)

And went out to Spanish Harlem (where all the Latina girls slept in minimum security)

Got drunk off hooch from Gloria's (referencing Gloria and her hooch, I forgot that she also made hooch)

I replay these stories 'cause

{Chorus}

Seasons pass us by

And we think that we've got time (A reference to the theme song “You’ve Got Time”, but this song argues that, no, we don’t have time)

But here we are

At the end

It's hard to let you go

I'll miss you more than you’ll know

And I won't forget

How you made me feel

[Verse 2]

Remember that time

We jumped in the lake (reference to the season 3 finale, which I think is easily one of the best scenes of the show)

Your black frame glasses fell right off of your face (And what tall hot lesbian do we know who wears black frame glasses?)

Just like kids we were kissin' (This reminds me of Piper and Alex’s time before prison, when they were young and traveling the world together)

Peter piper tongues twisted (Of course Piper, you can’t write a song about OITNB and not mention her)

Too tasty to let you go (TAYSTEE, but also this makes me sad bc Danielle does have to let Taystee go now that the show is over)

{Chorus}

Seasons pass us by

And we think that we've got time

But here we are

At the end

It's hard to let you go

I'll miss you more than you know

And I won't forget

How you made me feel

[Bridge]

The Creator made you for me (Jenji Kohan of course)

Every sentence of our story (I know that sentence means an actual sentence, but sentence could also have to do with prison sentence)

And every story must come to end

Lost loves and lessons learned

It's bittersweet and brown to burn

No pages left to turn

We'll fade to black (or technically fade to orange, since that’s what they always do, but maybe this time it’s truly fade to black since it’s really the end. I’m also reading way too much into this)

{Chorus}

Seasons pass us by

And we think that we've got time

But here we are

At the end it's hard to let you go

I'll miss you more than you know

And I won't forget

How you made me feel

Seasons pass

And we think we've got time

We are at the end

Hard to let go

More than you

Know how you made me feel

Seasons pass and we think we've got time

We are at the end

Hard to let go

More than you know

How you made me feel

Feel free to add anything onto this if you want to!!! I only got into this show a few months ago, but I watched it so quickly, and it’s one of my favorite shows now, and I’ll miss it so much.

[ohbeauregard]

[mehargreeves]

[iwt-v]

I’ve always loved getting clean. But now, when I say clean, I’m not talking about baths and showers anymore. I’m talking about a clean sweep. Clean living. A clean conscience. And a clean slate.

final vauseman / final shot ↠ 7x13

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7x01 || 7x04

[bob-belcher]

BEGINNING OF THE END (S07E01): Orange is the New Black