#and my barbiewanda feelings. Caught up in the combination pizza hut and taco bell the junipero barbiewanda au feelings-

[lucienne-thee-librarian]

*Jolts up and grabs you by the collar, urgency and panic in my voice as I try to tell you my vision before the morphine overtakes my system once again* BARBIE/WANDA SAN JUPERINO AU BARBIEWANDA SAN JUPERINO AU!!!!!

God. Yes

Barbie is going to a gay bar for the first time and she's feeling shy...until she meets another young woman in the gay club, a tall, pretty redhead called Wanda.

They flirt and dance and talk all night although when they're about to kiss, Wanda panics and flees. Hurt, Barbie avoids her the next time she sees her again, but Wanda finally meets her to apologize, and confess she was afraid of Barbie rejecting her if she found oht she was trans. They end up making out in a car in the most shadowy part of the back row of a deserted drive in movie theater. In the afterglow, Barbie admits she used to be married, but no longer is.

They meet a few more times but then it's Wanda's turn to pull away. Flash to the real world and we find out Barbie ended up in San Junipero after a failed suicide attempt left her paralyzed when she found out her husband Ken, was cheating on her, with her best friend who she'd had a secret crush on too, just to drive the knife in deeper. But she had survived, and when San Junipero was created she immediately wanted to escape there, so she did.

Wanda goes and visits Barbie in the care center, in person. Both of them in the real world are old, and Wanda didn't get to transition until much later. In the process she lost her wife. Later she met her husband and they lived happily together for over 20 years but he died too suddenly for his consciousness to be uploaded to the system. Hence, why Wanda has visited but never wanted to stay in San Junipero.

The doctors explain to Wanda that Barbie is starting to show signs of the early stages of dementia and they have to upload her now or risk losing her mind entirely. Barbie requested shortly before to be euthanized so she could go live in San Junipero permanently. So they do, but Wanda still hesitates on whether she wants to be put in permanently.

Then one day she doesn't show up for the meeting. Barbie waits at their favorite drive in, at the bars, but no Wanda.

In the present, the "real world", Wanda finds an old note from her long lost husband who said that he wants Wanda, but more than anything he just wants to see her happy, even if she hadn't chosen him.

And soon one day when Barbie is at the beach, she sees a familiar figure coming towards her. They begin running towards each other and hug. Wanda decided in the end to upload herself. Now she and Barbie can live in San Junipero, forever.

#barbie/wanda #barbie the sandman #wanda the sandman #sandman #im gonna drag you all into my barbiewanda agenda so help me #dunno if my thoughts are anything groundbreaking I just. Got caught up in my San Junipero feelings from years ago #and my barbiewanda feelings. Caught up in the combination pizza hut and taco bell the junipero barbiewanda au feelings-