Before my extremely lesbian eyes had been actually ever ~exposed~ to ”
The L Keyword
,” I’d some pretty disappointing concerns about
homosexual life
. 1st, we feared the allure might possibly be totally removed thoroughly clean from my globe the very second I came tumbling out of the closet (there have been a lot of attractive gowns for the reason that cabinet). Second, we feared there is no hypersexual, twinkly-eyed, wildly-charismatic woman users that could break my personal begging-to-be-cracked-in-half heart.
And
then
I started viewing ”
The L Keyword
” upstairs inside my bedroom because of the doors locked. Every thing I had previously thought about gay existence was actually smashed like a Fabergé egg tossed off an Upper eastern part penthouse apartment from the scorned enthusiast of a wealthy Manhattanite!
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And that I liked exactly what lingered throughout the elusive
lesbian
pavement that had broken the societal expectations of beauty, infant!
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Therefore know whom did not merely linger but *lounged* throughout the
lesbian
pavement that hit me personally like a super violent storm?
Shane
. Just ended up being
Shane
amazingly breathtaking, she ended up being
swaggy
. I had never seen swag like this â on
or
off-screen. Oh, Shane, together with the smudgy black colored eyeliner relaxing beneath this lady milk-chocolate brown eyes! Shane, just who entered the display screen hipbone initial and held you hostage together with her smoldering look. Shane, who got vulgar each evening with a separate girl. Shane, exactly who smashed minds like fraternity young men crush beers. Shane aided by the crazy charisma! Shane, which set every single doe-eyed skater
guy
I would actually outdated to shame together with her easy appeal. I would set awake at night and dream about happening some grungy style date with Shane in
Western Hollywood
immediately after which making love together with her poolside with a palm tree drifting above my head, just for the woman to prevent communicate with me once again! Call me ill and twisted, but which was my personal deepest fantasy â attain ~taken advantage of~ by
Shane
. Just how attractive is forlorn over a self-medicating hair-stylist in a leather vest?
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Then, we were introduced to
Carmen
in season two. Carmen was actually the type of girl I idolized: widely hot and naturally female with beautiful tomboy undertones.
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Carmen had been the type of lady who is the star of her neighborhood boxing fitness center additionally a
lifestyle
queen. (Girls whom DJ until three each day yet still have the ability to have apparent abs tend to be *still* these types of a mystery to me.) She was the type of girl who is able to speak her head while resisting the compulsion to throw a drink in someone’s face. The sort of woman with
tattoos
and
femme daddy vibes
and mild vision and a giant look that homes teeth as white as virgin snowflakes. She was the kind of girl i desired is but would never end up being. (I’m also artsy and unusual to get a Carmen.)
Zara weirdo.
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Whenever Shane and Carmen initial connected, we nearly died of severe jealousy. When I seethed in a green deathbed of envy, I was brought back to life by their unique riveting chemistry. I found myself always witnessing Shane have fun with the featuring part in all the girl gorgeously salacious hookups, but Carmen conducted her own. She commanded the display screen up to effervescent Shane did. Even though they fought and even whenever Shane pretended getting an emotionally remote f*ckboy at the outset of their own courtship, we with pride rooted on their behalf. What I cherished is the fact that they were both the starring parts within relationship. They were two ladies who glimmer and glitter and captivate the typical population with equivalent magnetized power.
Shane and Carmen.
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In my own fantasy-world where “The L keyword” is certainly not a work of fiction but a real-life that I’m seriously immersed in, I happen to know
directly
that Shane and Carmen both encountered the upper hand-in their particular prior connections. Because they’re both increasingly separate and jaw-droppingly hot and have the types of jobs that get one put loads, all their earlier enthusiasts were vehemently threatened by their particular seductive expertise. But once two people which burn brightly get together, they usually have the opportunity to mix flames and create a fire thus bright it lights up the screwing globe.
And for a while, they
did
.
Nevertheless they were
baby dykes
back early 2000s once they first met up! And like all
baby dykes
, they got their particular breathtaking relationship without any consideration. It is everything you would if you are youthful and radiant. You cannot deal with the temperature through the flame you have started, and that means you ruin it â afin de h2o over those pretty orange fires and snuff it right the f*ck away.
Especially
when you are used to getting the shit-stirring, drama-provoking one in the partnership â especially when you aren’t familiar with internet dating your own real and psychological equivalent. It is a recipe for a hurricane of envy and concern with vulnerability, the kind which will take down
entire
cities.
What exactly occurs? Carmen will get envious of Shane. Shane will get jealous of Carmen. Shane cheats on Carmen because she actually is harmed possesses probably never been to treatment very doesn’t have healthy tools to assist the lady manage the woman ever-exploding emotions. Carmen cheats on Shane back because screw
that
crap, she’s perhaps not likely to stay fairly and peaceful after getting cheated on! (Girls that way never carry out, only so you know.) After that Shane’s closest friend tragically dies of
cancer of the breast.
Shane hasn’t opened up to numerous folks in her life and is also having strong suffering and reduction. She comes from a dysfunctional household, so the woman pals are the woman family. She actually is in essence handling the death of a relative and it is scared of dropping someone you care about once again.
So Shane suggests to Carmen. You will need to never ever
recommend
to individuals since they are scared and feeling additional susceptible and trying to deal with a damaging reduction, but Shane doesn’t understand any better; she’s
younger
. You need ample life experience to learn advanced lessons such as that. Carmen knows within her abdomen it’s not best time and energy to get involved to Shane; Carmen is actually normally sensible. She doesn’t take Shane’s proposition initially. She knows they both have actually maturing to do before traipsing along the aisle.
But, my G
od
, Shane’s pal just
died,
and that’s most likely throwing up Carmen’s own deep-rooted death injury (she destroyed the woman dad in a motorbike accident â that’s
heavy
), and she actually is feeling hopelessly lonely because the woman beloved mommy just disowned this lady for being gay. So,
okay;
she’s going to
marry
Shane. Right after which, because like we said, Shane never gone to
therapy
and worked through her crap, Shane becomes cold feet. Her absent daddy toxins the lady by telling the girl, to put it briefly, they are both condemned as asshole self-sabotagers the rest of their own everyday lives and takes off with a younger girl. All the small sounds in Shane’s mind that tell the lady she does not need getting delighted get actually f*cking deafening. They get louder compared to elements of her that understand she actually is worth living a wonderful existence with an excellent companion. She gives into those devil sounds and renders Carmen from the altar and proceeds to take a huge hard-partying bender. This is exactly all extremely traditional addict. At this time, it’s glaringly obvious that Shane struggles with addiction. Only, she has
no
idea that she is an addict, therefore once again, doesn’t have indisputable fact that the woman addiction is actually sleeping to the girl and it is actually positively attempting to extract the woman out from the light and into the dark. Sigh. (I am *so* happy we chat more about
psychological state
and
addiction
now than we performed during the early aughts.)
Carmen, not surprisingly, is
heartbroken
, humiliated, and not, actually desires to see Shane once more. She really does what many women carry out after a heartbreak: She extends back the place to find end up being along with her household (that since accepted her sexuality). She requires time for you to crawl in the uterus and treat these blood-oozing injuries.
That quantity of
drama
, hurt, rips, despair, and betrayal run as deep since Hudson River â therefore strong and isolated that no light can permeate its option to the core from it. The single thing for these women accomplish is actually walk away from both, begin talk therapy, become better people â be a little more self-confident people who know themselves and love themselves more than they might ever love anyone else. For this reason large heartbreak is really so crucial that you enjoy when you’re young; it makes one to actually look in the mirror and examine your life in a proper AF means. It teaches you how utterly
powerful
really love is actually and how vulnerable all of us are to acquiring all of our asses knocked by its iron fist. It makes you conscious of exacltly what the designs are and what sort of luggage you have been unfairly tossing onto someone else’s quivering right back.
Shane and Carmen are better people in order to have had their own minds smashed open by their unique epic baby-dyke love affair. And, while we discovered inside current reboot ”
The L Keyword: Generation Q
,” Shane has
truly
become the woman act collectively. She actually is the most successful hairstylists worldwide and owns salons in
Paris
. (For those of you killjoys we hold watching post on social media that it’s “unrealistic” for a high profile hairdresser is
that
wealthy: you are completely wrong, bitch. Superstar stylists make a huge amount of cash and frequently be millionaires if they begin their particular hair care outlines and possess a multitude of special salons. It’s not merely fund dykes exactly who create empires, you are sure that.) Yes, she actually is experiencing a breakup and demonstrably still has ongoing thoughts on her behalf INSANELY gorgeous ex-wife Quiara. And Quiara is
every little thing
â famous, skilled, stylish, earth-shatteringly breathtaking.
Quiara, Shane’s brand new really love interest.
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I think Quiara is actually some youthful for experienced Shane, and Quiara wants an infant â
seriously
. And Shane is not very enthused regarding the whole thing. In reality, she’s managed to make it clear she desires nothing in connection with it. And I also accidentally believe â if she truly, madly, seriously appreciated Quiara like she claims she really does â she’d get on board when it comes down to infant. I do believe the real concern is that Quiara isn’t really Carmen. No one is ever going to be Carmen. (And Quiara is deserving of a lover definitely thrilled to attempt the little one trip with her.)
We don’t understand much about Carmen’s new lease of life via “The L keyword,” but I’ve produced a very good narrative in my own mind. Right here goes: Carmen went and saw the shrink after Shane screwed the woman over. She managed the despair and reduced her pops, eventually. She dealt with the injury of staying in the wardrobe to appease the woman homophobic household. Searching for significant modification, she relocated to New York City and turned into the greatest, a lot of extensively booked DJ on Eastern Seaboard. I mean there can be
no chance
she remained in LA. Shane along with her pals would nevertheless come across her whilst out on the town, for females like Carmen never just disappear completely after a breakup! You either come across them all the time
or
they go on to another area and glitter such as the expensive diamonds inside screen associated with the Tiffany 5th opportunity shop, within their brand name, glossy brand new life.
Carmen, like Shane, has actually obtained the woman crap together. And guess what? I doubt either of these has actually ever held it’s place in a relationship with this type of excitement and sexual chemistry like theirs! Very after a decade after which a few of healing, growing, understanding themselves, why mustn’t they give it another chance? The ol’ college try features a higher success rate when you’ve already been from university for more than fifteen years. Why wouldn’t they leave the luggage of these 20s regarding the luggage cart and buy a fresh group of suitcases from Louis Vuitton (if Shane can take a trip via personal jet, she can afford Louis luggage)? These are typically now better, much more secure variations of who they were in the past.
But sexual biochemistry like they when had? That crap does not burn up.
Actually
. I am absolutely sure that they would rock and roll one another’s world during sex. All things considered this time, it might be these exciting-yet-familiar sex! (Which is the finest intercourse.)
In closing, Carmen should forgive Shane and go out with her currently. All I’m seeking is *one* day, Carmen. Both you and we both know that one time would cause another time, which could create intercourse, which would induce all of them staring in both’s vision not bold to blink â perhaps not planning to overlook a moment of each and every other peoples naked epidermis.
Therefore no less than try it, ladies. Otherwise for your needs, for teeny-bopping us! If you don’t for
me
, for the former infant dykes which learned everything lesbian from enjoying Carmen and Shane glow up an otherwise fixed television display screen.