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Poe + The Jacket (requested by @hanorganaas)

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I really really like Eric with Adam and Otis with Ruby. And here's why:

Obviously with their shared history Eric has a lot to work through with Adam, but I like them a lot more than I liked Eric with Rahim.

And especially if you look at the sneak peeks of s3 and see that Otis and Ruby become much closer than before, I'm not surprised. First of all, because we all saw the end of season 2, and because, well, it all forms quite a nice theme when you put these couples together.

Both Adam and Ruby are two characters that can be very unlikeable at first glance - Adam being the resident bully of Moordale Secondary, and Ruby being the queen b, and the centre of The Untouchables.

And Otis and Eric are two people, who, fully willingly or by pure chance, got a glimpse of a different side of their respective partners, seeing them in a light nobody else saw them in before. Or even bothered to see them in.

Remember what Ruby said in season 1 to Meave and Otis, when the thing with her nudes was happening?

"I'm a bitch, Meave. I'm a bitch to everybody."

And Adam?

Close to the end of season 2 he says to Eric:

"I'm very easy to not like."

Neither of them really had any other role to play, as far as we know. All we knew them to be were a bitch and a bully, respectively.

Luckily for both of them Otis and Eric are both intelligent and empathetic, so they had the tools needed to get through their shells.

Did they have to do it?

No.

But they did it anyway.

And while yes, I like Meave, I like her a lot, I don't think she and Otis would or should be endgame.

For one, it's not uncommon in media about teenagers to have a male protagonist go for the cool, withdrawn girl nobody likes.

And we already know that Sex Education is a show that loves playing with subverting different kinds of tropes and cliches.

If it were any other show that plays out known tropes in a straightforward way, Otis would most definitely end up with Meave.

But Ruby?

We already know from interviews with the cast that we are going to see Ruby in a much different light this season. I'm personally expecting myself to cry my eyes out because of her arc this season, but I digress.

What I'm trying to say here is that we already know Meave to be a cool, intelligent and nice person, who's just protecting herself from getting hurt, hence - she's built up a wall around herself. And she's only really let Otis and Aimee in, more than any other people. Well, Jackson too, but that's a whole mess for an entirely different post.

But with Ruby, we don't really know that. That is, we are expecting from the get go that yes, this mean, smart alt girl with dyed hair definitely has a softer side. But the bitch in chief that is Ruby? Nobody cares whether or not she has any depth to her. She's popular, she's hot, she has a great fashion sense. That's all people expect or want from her. She's been playing her part very well for a very long time, but even her shell has several cracks in it already. And if we're lucky, she's going to drop the shell altogether in the 3rd season, never to pick it up again. I'm really hoping for it, because you could see when her and Otis were buying the morning after pill, that her mentioning her dad wasn't easy for her. It's the first time we ever hear anything about him or her family at all, and I think it's no coincidence that Otis of all people is there to hear it. I think that, similarly to how Eric did with Adam, Otis was the one who was meant to see this vulnerable side of Ruby.

And another thing I thought about - both Adam and Ruby are not people you'd expect to have a softer side or any redeeming qualities. Otis called Eric out when he heard about his friend's most recent history with Adam, and rightfully so. And yet I can't help but think that we are going to get a similar scene in season 3 with Otis defending Ruby in front of someone, maybe even Eric, to have the situation come full circle?

Because both of them know these people have more to them than meets the eye, and if they are both committed to defending them and being by their side, seeing them grow, perhaps all four of them can grow in the process, both as individuals and as couples?

Ariana Grande is darkening her skin and changing her features to look Racially Ambiguous to sell to a wider audience and it needs to be addressed

Black people, who invented hip-hop, jazz, and rock and roll, have long been tastemakers of American cool. In many ways, fashion, music, and slang are dictated by black people no matter how little credit they get for it..

In fact:

“Our research shows that black consumer choices have a ‘cool factor’ that has created a halo effect, influencing not just consumers of color but the mainstream as well,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.

Thus, presumably, if you want to be cool and sell records, you ought to start acting black. In fact, it’s great if you’re not black and act black because you get the benefits of being cool without the baggage and limitations of being subjected to racism.

Its what the Kardashians, Iggy, Justin Bieber, Ariana, and alot of other celebrities do in order to rise in popularity as well as be accepted into the black community.

  Grande’s music is largely influenced by hip-hop and R&B, meaning that in order to build a fanbase, she needs to court listeners (ahem, black folk) with those musical preferences. Grande, who is quick to shut down any perceptions about her ethnicity being anything but Italian. Most people presume Grande is Latinx, not necessarily black, when mistaking her race, but I am here to tell you, most Latinos are part black, sis. 

Thus, for years, Latinx women have been sounding the alarm: Grande is doing brown face. Look at her tan!! Look at how she speaks! Look at her music!

The point is: Most of us don’t get to pick and choose which parts of blackness we get to have — only white folks seem to have that luxury. And we need to give her the SAME ENERGY we give the kardashians.

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