So I'm going to try something here. I don't have an AO3 account, I don't leave comments, I bookmark stories/authors on my phone and check for updates daily. I do leave kudos though. And since the winter, when I really started reading Swarla fics, I kept telling myself I should comment, I should start leaving comments. But what I felt like saying always felt so much bigger than a comment, and I kept putting it off. I'm going to try and change that, and one by one write about the fic writers I've read and thank in my head every time I read their work.
These are not reviews, they are appreciation posts. I don't know much about writing, I just know how it makes me feel. So I'm going to (slowly) thank each author here. Going to try anyway.
And these are not in any particular order. I am not on Twitter nor AO3. I don't know any of these writers personally. I am not, I repeat not, critiquing fics or rating them or anything like that. I'm just leaving really big comments here for people who wrote stuff that made me happy in some way.
Wrist slap! Can someone tell me what Lisa was going for? Turkish Delight, marshmallows?
Where I’m working right now I’ve got sooooo little connectivity so I’m watching new clips on lowest res. I feel like I’m in the dial-up days loading clips! 🤣
Wrist slap! Can someone tell me what Lisa was going for? Turkish Delight, marshmallows?
Where I’m working right now I’ve got sooooo little connectivity so I’m watching new clips on lowest res. I feel like I’m in the dial-up days loading clips! 🤣
I’ll be honest, even if it was Carla Connor herself I don’t think I could handle someone touching my hair EVERY single time they see me. I LOVE it for Lisa! Love love love it! But just watching clips tonight and it’s like wow pretty much every time Carla greets Lisa it’s go time on hair touching!
I don’t think I could handle that! But I love to SEE it!
Would you like near constant hair touching?
Yes
No
Yes, but only from whatever my ideal Carla Connor/Lisa Swain version would be.
Need a breather from swarla X atm because folk are doing my head in. Again.
And it made me realise how lucky I am to have been going through the Becky era with you lovely, emotionally intelligent and thoughtful Tumblr people!
I've had the most enlightening conversations with you all during those exhausting months. The sl will probably never be our favourite, but I feel like we have been really working through it as a whole. Neither by excusing every decision/behaviour nor by reducing the characters to single situations. That is the definition of moving on for me. And I'd like to think that is what Carla and Lisa have done to get where they are now. Even if we didn't get to see it (yes, I will forever criticise Corrie for not giving us at least one meaningful conversation after Corriedale, but well...). Thinking of it or seeing scenes/pictures with Becky doesn't fill me with dread now. I don't need to "forget" or ignore anything, and I am truly thankful for that!
@spacehairinthetardis this is why I adore Swarla tumblr. That storyline was brutal but the discussions here, the scene breakdowns by @cake-emu and others were sooooo helpful in deconstructing both the Becky return itself AND how it was affecting us as an audience.
Seeing how people were struggling with it in different ways, the support resources shared and promoted, the debates we had even if we didn’t agree on certain points…I honestly don’t know if I could have watched that storyline in real time and enjoyed it or have been able to process why it upset me so much without this lovely niche of the interwebtubenets!
Thank you for sharing this I think we all appreciate it. I definitely share the sentiment!
Adam Barlow is a negging asshole who insults your cousin and says “oh I’m Scottish so I can tell” if a dude is bad? What the ever living fuck man?!
I don’t see their chemistry, never did.
I know Ryan slept with Daisy, drunk or not, that was awful BUT it’s a soap opera and they forgive worse on the street. I feel like Ryan being on a different career path, taking his time to find what he wants to do (him working at the fancy hotel is excellent I love his Debbie-inspired fancy shirts!) has really boosted his self-esteem and confidence.
I think Ryan and Alya would laugh more, would have actual fun together. He’d never disrespect her family like Adam did even IF he got weird vibes he’d be respectful to Alya about it.
I dunno. I guess Adam and Alya won’t break up since they work together now. But he’s not going to marry her, and all that talk of him wanting children has disappeared after Sarah…
Seeing Brody again was great and just reminded me how much better suited he would be for Betsy, storyline wise. Dylan is a sweet kid, but he’s still such a kid. Betsy feels older than him and not just because the actress is older in real life.
So…silly fun poll time!
Betsy should…
Continue to have her fun with both and no strings.
Date Dylan
Date Brody
Stay single
Voting ended onJun 3
And this isn’t a “oh Brody is a bad boy Betsy likes bad boys”. I genuinely believe Brody is going to have very interesting arcs as he struggles to stay on a non-violent/non-thieving path. Dylan is boring in that yeah he’s a nice lad, but he’s capable of dark things to like what he did to Liam. It’s like they are opposites, Dylan is “good” but can do bad, Brody is “bad” but can go good. And Betsy floats between them.
But I honestly don’t think Betsy would ever have dated him if they didn’t have the shared Mason connection.
I think Betsy truly loved Mason and she’s not interested in falling in love again or having anything “serious” with anyone for a long time.
I think Dylan would marry her in a heartbeat though, so that’s gonna br a problem real soon.
Also, did anyone catch that shot Of Alya watching as Betsy told Leanne to give Dylan the job? I wondered at that shot, is Alya going to approach Betsy about an office assistant job at the firm? I just thought hmm, her expression seemed interested in what Betsy did there but ask maybe I’m giving Corrie too much credit.
Someone please please make a side by side of Carla with her hand on her hip and now Betsy doing it from today’s episode. With the dark hairrr!! It was such a classic Carla move!
i really think lisa doesn't believe summer did it (and by extension, tyrone is lying) but i guess summer does Look extremely guilty. so lisa kind of has to arrest her. i'm really hoping tyrone comes forward soon and sets the record straight, or maybe lisa finds some kind of cctv that supports summer's story?
but why would tyrone lie?? what the hell was he up to???
i see that, but why though? what's he got against carl? unless he thought he was a random burgaler?? but then he'd be better ringing the police like sorry i squashed that guy i thought he was a burgaler. unless he then saw it was carl and rang ronnie?? hmm
Okie dokie, it’s obvious now Gary and Sarah ARE being weird and I think it’s a red herring about involvement with Theo. Why did he say he’d take care of her when she was drunk and in front of Maria? That was too intimate. Especially because as her employer Carla had the duty of care there, she bought the wine as well.
So…
Gary and Sarah
Definitely at least kissed.
Did more than just kiss.
Sarah is pregnant! Kit gets a reverse Brody finds out it’s not his 16 yrs later!
They encountered Theo in some capacity.
None of the above.
Voting ended onMay 29
Also, I think she’s only missing Kit so much because she’s worried what she’ll do with Gary if Kit’s not around!
They DO have more chemistry than Maria and Gary. In my opinion.
i really think lisa doesn't believe summer did it (and by extension, tyrone is lying) but i guess summer does Look extremely guilty. so lisa kind of has to arrest her. i'm really hoping tyrone comes forward soon and sets the record straight, or maybe lisa finds some kind of cctv that supports summer's story?
but why would tyrone lie?? what the hell was he up to???
So you took my Leanne/Lisa’s brother romance away from me. That’s fine.
But this “coming of age” story for Betsy whatever that means… I know, it’s already written and done, but here’s what I hope you’ll do.
Content Warning, folks, I’m going to be talking about scary not fun stuff involving SA here. I apologize, it’s a quick reference and then focuses on the aftermath.
Okay, when Theo's body was discovered and we had those voice overs from Lisa and Kit about who could do such a thing? And since then Lisa asking could so and so be capable of murder? And when Carla pushed Rob down the stairs, Lisa said "What have you done?" Lisa seems to think murder is a really, really big thing that even when people are pushed to the brink it is an unthinkable choice.
However.
When Becky threatened to reveal herself to Betsy that first day of the return. When Lisa thought Betsy could be harmed she coldly, vehemently, told Becky that she would kill her. So it's not so far fetched an act when Betsy is involved.
Coming of age? What in the hell does that ever really mean?
Loss of innocence.
And as the comparisons between Lauren and Betsy have shown us before, Betsy has lived a life of sheltered privilege, and one where the bad guys usually get what they deserve via her mother and "justice".
Betsy runs her mouth, Lauren knows when to keep it shut. So does Dylan now. So does Brody even. But not Betsy.
Picture a scenario, Betsy and Dylan are out. Some lads, some men, shout something, Betsy shouts back. Dylan wants to walk away. Betsy doesn't see the danger. An attack happens. Not just physical, but SA on Besty. Dylan can't do anything to stop it, might be out cold.
They get away, there's no evidence, there's nothing.
Lisa would lose her mind. Carla would know what Betsy went through, both the assault and the aftermath of no justice.
Do I want that to happen to Betsy? OF COURSE NOT. But it is a soap opera and every few years we are reminded that the most awful things happen to people all the time.
It's probably going to be just a coming of age tale where two kids in love can't be two adults in love and drift apart. Something like that maybe.
Or maybe it'll be something that tears them apart, brings them back together while also tearing Lisa apart, with Carla holding both her girls through something incredibly difficult and unthinkable.
Angst that wouldn't involve someone trying to break Swarla up, but Lisa tearing herself to shreds over guilt and over the rage that would consume her. Especially if she couldn't provide justice.
Who knows, maybe Becky would provide that from prison. Wouldn't that be icky to think about?
I wanted to write so much more about the impact on Carla and Lisa, how this would forge their Connor-Swains even more, but I have no time and the storyline approaches so I needed to get this outta my brain.
Tell me your thoughts! Or not. Again, I don't WANT it to happen, but if it did happen. Well...Betsy is Carla 2.0...
Do we reckon that Carla and Lisa arranged their times on purpose in such a way that they were at home getting changed in different times so they wouldn't see each other's date surprise outfits until the actual date?
