#april stevens

[fern-parallels]

[noreturnz]

What if regina george was queer coded and hooked up with cady? Well that's how you get teenage bounty hunters

[cannibal-heretic-cult]

April: I feel like doing something stupid.

Sterling: I’m stupid, do me.

Sterling: Who said that?

[lezrrrrrrr]

omg rory x paris is 1000% the inspiration for sterling x april and i cannot believe i didn't realise it sooner!!!!!

they're academic rivals. they do debate together. there is a lot of tension. april/paris inevitably hate sterling/rory's boyfriends as they are "not good enough" aka april/paris are in love with them!!!!!

tell me i'm wrong right now. i dare you

[dragonbinx]

"And now you've got me."

"I've got you?"

"And I've got you."

Day twenty-eight is Sterling Wesley and April Stevens, aka, Stepril!🩷💜💙🧡🤍🩷

[emp13]

I may have zero followers but that’s not gonna stop me from talking about teenage bounty hunters. It is one of my favorite shows of all time and everyone who hasn’t seen it should. April Stevens is an amazing character and she’s so tragic, she knows she’s a lesbian but can’t act on it because of her dad. Then her dad gets sent to prison and the girl she’s had a crush on for years kisses her. She’s able to go on secret dates with her awesome girlfriend, they were even going to sleep next to each other at the lock in, she is finally in a good place and her homophobic piece of shit father named John Stevens who I will murder with a club comes knocking on her door. For some reason unknown to April he asks about her girlfriend, she’s scared and makes a cruel decision because it’s all she can think to do to save herself.

On the other hand there’s Sterling who figured out she was gay a week before she kissed April. While we never see a lens into what her parents think about gay people Anderson and Debbie are likely to at least tolerate it. They’re both shown to be flawed parents but they truly unconditionally love their two children. She also was the person who put away John Stevens. She is the sweetest person ever and is too good for this world while also being a somewhat repressed Christian girl who’s incredibly horny. She’s such an interesting character because that’s messy and something that isn’t really shown much.

Both April and Sterling are messy queers who just want to date each other but can’t because of stupid John Stevens and their homophobic community. The messiness of these characters is what makes them so interesting, neither April nor Sterling lose their faith because they’re gay despite being taught that queerness was antithetical to their beliefs. The chemistry between them is also perfect, they feel like soulmates. I just love this show so much, it’s so campy and fun and fuck Netflix.

[hatchetation]

the way teenage bounty hunters DESERVED a second season. like what a tightly written, quippy, funny little show with so much heart. there’s so much good going on in it but things I particularly love:

Twin themes!! There’s so much good foreshadowing surrounding the big reveal (iykyk) and there’s also so much DOUBLING. Double lives especially is a big theme. Like, Debbie hiding Dana; sterling and Blair hiding their bounty hunting; the (functional) froyo shop being bowser’s bounty hunting lair; Terrance the lone wolf bounty hunter and bowser with his little “teen white savior” teammates; Yolanda’s sister who is a perfect foil for her; miles hiding Blair from his family; sterling hiding april from Blair…and then april hiding sterling period.

And I guess the doubling is kind of showing like, here are all the possibilities and here’s what happens when we let love in and here’s what happens when we shut it out

so much good stuff about being from the American south. As someone who grew up in the south and who grew up visiting close family in Atlanta…it is cool as fuck the way the south is portrayed in all of its complexity. The show does not shy away from issues of race, religion, SES, etc SPECFICALLY in Atlanta and manages to do it in a way that doesn’t come across as heavy handed. This show could ONLY be set in the south—it would be a fundamentally different show in any other setting

Also, like I said with the doubling points above, this show is full of secrets and secret keeping!!! But yet a fundamental point of the show is that being silenced is one of the worst things that can happen to a human being. There’s a scene where Blair is telling sterling that her dad yelled at her and that the worst part of all is that he told her to Be Quiet! And like in some ways that scene highlights what a loving household Blair has grown up in that the one of the worst things her Dad has ever said to her is be quiet (not even shut up)…but it really made me be like wow being told to stop questioning and be quiet IS something terrible. It’s a denial and a violation of our right to use our voices

and like it’s not a coincidence that in the final ep Dana gags sterling. Because the way sterling is talking to her is powerful and you can tell it is making her hesitate and question her whole life

so yeah anyway watch teenage bounty hunters! Or if you haven’t in a while, it’s definitely worth a rewatch

[freegrain]

rewatching teenage bounty hunters and sobbing at stepril's "I meant though did you tell anyone... about us? That we're... gay." "...We are?" 😅😅