its all a garden to me

eka, 25, lesbian, she/her, filipino

[shugcelie]

too lazy to switch sideblogs for each new hyperfix lol. follow only if you're 18+ please! nothing nsfw tho. also i make cool edits sometimes, if you care. unfortunately i am more active on twitter. fuck terfs and free palestine.

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Sketches of the two characters i am borderline unhealthily obsessed with

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text from this post /first sketch referencing Rest Energy

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alla siciliana

a Barbara Howard/Melissa Schemmenti oneshot (6963 words - rated E - Abbott Elementary)

Summary: When someone suggests that Barbara and Melissa are not just work wives but actual wives, it complicates things between them to a new level.

Tags: Mutual Pining, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Post-Divorce, divorced!Barbara, Friends to Lovers, in this house we love and cherish Gerald Howard, work wives wifing too close to the sun, Explicit Sexual Content, #Justice4Melissa'sBranzino

[avaniine]

my girls are back tonighttt :33

[shugcelie]

i am absolutely feral about ur barlissa sketches on ao3 oh my god. i literally check occasionally if there's an update or anything

also im sososo glad there are people who match my freak on barbara too! i need that woman super bad istg 😭😭 not enough people are freaky about her :((

AWW I LOVE UUU no fr i would think about barbara getting her freak on all the timeeeee 😮‍💨 she makes me insane

i got really busy irl for pride month but an update should be up soon, i just need to color it lol here’s a sneak peak just for u bc ure so sweet to me!

[shugcelie]

sneaky kiss at PECSA

1/? barlissa doodles

[dailywoc]

DANIELLE BROOKS 📷 Instagram

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[antiquepearlss]

Something I love about Abbott Elementary that you don’t see very often in other shows, is that the kids act like kids, but they’re not villainized for it.

Of course the younger kids are treated well, that’s to be expected. But the middle schoolers are often disrespectful, talk back to their teachers, don’t take things seriously, they rebel, etc. They act like middle schoolers. And they’re not shamed for it. They’re not the ones expected to change, the teachers are.

Middle schoolers are almost always villainized as being annoying and insufferable, so I appreciate that Abbott Elementary let them be annoying and insufferable without having to face any sort of consequences for a natural part of being human and growing up.

[bronx-nome-librarian]

Quinta and cast did magic in the simple portrayal of letting Black kids be KIDS!

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#My Favorite Running Gag Is Barbara Dressed In Other Peoples Clothes

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parted from me, and never parted

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some assorted datas,,,,

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[nessa007]

Sad and drunk Janine is ruthless! ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021- ) Season 5 | Episode 20 "Night Out"

[shugcelie]

shit if i were part of the faculty and heard barbara would be spending the night at melissa’s house and seeing her the next day with melissa’s clothes on i would think they fucked

[forlorn-kumquat]

I found Janine and Gregory's fight so fascinating - and completely in character for them both.

Janine has always had issues with her relationship to money; her mom was almost certainly financially irresponsible and neglectful throughout her entire childhood, and now that Janine is an adult, her mom routinely uses money as a form of emotional manipulation. Then there's Tariq, her first (only?) relationship before Gregory, where Janine bore the entire financial burden of supporting him even as a grown man.

Gregory grew up in a very strict household where money was probably regarded as something not to be "wasted" on frivolous things.

It makes perfect sense that their first big fight, the one they can't easily reconcile, is over money.

They probably never even talked finances before they moved in. Because why would they? Everything else between them has been so easy, they've been in agreement about nearly everything, and the few things they haven't have been small things they've been able to talk about.

But this is so much bigger, and it's something they clearly can't talk about without both sides getting emotional. It's clear neither of them can see the other's side right now, and when they try to compromise, they fail.

Janine's version of compromise is "let me take on the burden without asking you" and Gregory's is "here are two options that I want, and if you don't want to do either, than we just won't do anything" - echoing both their childhoods, maybe?

It's obvious they're going to find their way back from this - they're the main couple of the show, how could they not? - and I'm excited to watch them grow as people.