The Falling In Love Montage
Gang! We are finally back with our sixth and final episode in our LGBTQ+ series – this time with Ciara Smyth’s warm and affecting “The Falling In Love Montage”
This is just the way we wanted to finish our toughest series yet – with a strawberry sorbet of sexual tension, class one-liners and a chewy centre of aniseed flavoured existential angst (I think we can all agree that is exactly how angst tastes, fight me in the carpark later if you disagree). In discussing said flavour bomb of romantic same-sex awesome, the girls get into:
How refreshing it is (See? Strawberry sorbet!) after all the tough and US dominated reads we’ve had over the last few months, to have a current Irish love story based around someone that is the same age as the girls with the same concerns we have. Except maybe her super-hot summer girlfriend. We don’t have that... Unfortunately...
How we can get caught up in having answers and working towards huge life goals, at the expense of our own happiness and well-being
How that, when you start to get over that and open yourself up to experiences - despite romance being very much alive, true love may not conquer all
And that’s not the worst thing in the world. Not really
Clee and Sarah share how Saoirse (book Saoirse, not our Sersh – they say their names differently, it’ll make more sense when you listen to it) and her experience of family life resonated with them on a very deep level
Oh and Ruby being the ACTUAL hotness
Tangents? Sure thing:
Well K has written what might be our forever theme tune which is VERY exciting!
Chloe, naturally, went on a 5 minute monologue about JK’s see-through pyjamas he insisted on wearing on a Live cast a few weeks ago (she’s okay. Just about)
She did also share her thoughts after re-reading Twilight not that long ago (disclaimer: Chlo-Chlo was disappointed)
Clee shares her experiences with people treating her like she’s “Hetero-Girl Classic (now in cherry flavour!)” when she’s actually anything but
And, of course, how we can’t figure out what it is we liked about Love, Actually in the first place. Except maybe that Joni Mitchell song...
It's all here on our latest episode of Chick Lit 4 Life!
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More on The Falling In Love Montage:
Seventeen-year-old Saoirse has finished with exams and is facing a long hot summer before uni. She plans to party, get drunk, watch horror movies and forget all her troubles by kissing girls. Ever since the breakupocalypse with her ex Hannah, she’s been alone and angry, dealing with the hole left in her family by her sick mother’s absence. Worse, Dad drops a bombshell: he’s remarrying at the end of the summer. Enter the scene: Ruby, who might just be the prettiest girl Saoirse’s ever seen. A romcom fan and a believer in true love, Ruby challenges cynical Saoirse to try a summer romance with the serious parts left out, just like in the movies. But what happens when the falling in love montage ends?
More on Ciara Smyth:
Ciara Smyth studied drama, teaching, and then social work at university. She thought she didn't know what she wanted to be when she grew up. She became a writer so she wouldn't have to grow up.
She enjoys jigging (verb: to complete a jigsaw puzzle), playing the violin badly, and having serious conversations with her pets. Ciara has lived in Belfast for over ten years and still doesn't really know her way around.
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