#sub rosa

[trek-tracks]

No…no thank you Meta…

I think we’re good here tbh

[spockvarietyhour]

unlocking the sex candle story takes time and patience

[douglasbradburyverne]

HAPPY SUB ROSA DAY

[subterraneanna]

Sub Rosa, 2024 Pencil, gouache, and digital paint Romance novel cover commission for my dear friend @lizziakana. Just in time for Sub Rosa's 30th anniversary! Prints available!

[bevcrushes]

lmao omg this is real and it's sending me

[agent-troi]

oh my god guys just get a room already

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

I just saw Sub Rosa for the first time and I was watching it alone and cackling aloud, it truly was truly terrible in the best ways and met all of my expectations.

Apart from being a 10/10 experience, it also made me think about my great grandmother. And no, she did not have a sexy ghost candle.

My great grandmother had an imaginary lover who she fully believed was real. She called the ambulance and got them to drive to her house because she believed he was having a heart attack. She was very old but she was mentally clear in every way except for her vivid imaginary love life. The doctors diagnosed her with mild dementia, which she thought was absolute nonsense of course because she had no trouble remembering anything.

Anyway, when Beverly talks about these erotic journals that her grandmother kept, it genuinely seemed like something my great grandmother could have written. My great grandmother was completely aware that we didn’t believe in her younger very successful and handsome lover, so she eventually stopped talking about him around us.

When Beverly tells Deanna that she’s seeing Ronan, I was reminded of my great grandmother again because she had called my mother (her granddaughter) once completely convinced that her lover was having an affair with my mother. As you can imagine, when Deanna tells Beverly that her relationship with her grandmother’s ex is a bit unusual I found it hilarious because that was the tone we would have with my great grandmother when she talked about her imaginary lover before she stopped talking about him.

”I’m glad you had such a nice time at the space conference with him” was something my mother said to her once. She was truly living the best life with him haha. After watching Sub Rosa, my great grandmother’s imaginary lover seemed to be a bit more real. Thank god there’s no special candle in my family (that I know of)!

Does anyone else have any personal connection to the delightfully stupid episode Sub Rosa? I can’t believe something this dumb and hilarious could make me reminisce about my great grandmother and even make me feel a bit touched (but NOT in the way Beverly was, to be clear).

RIP great grandmother, I hope you’re traversing the stars with your imaginary lover now.

[fuzzynecromancer]