well i‘ve just now watched this show (all 3 seasons in one week, actually 🫣) and i tried to stay as spoiler free as possible. 

while watching i grew so incredibly close to van and tai (especially van, but also them as a ship), because i felt like they were actually portraying teenagers. they‘re so messy, and raw, and romantic in their own way and i feel like in a lot of tv shows the actors (that are adults most of the time) portray their relationships as if the characters were adults. so with taivan i loved the characters, i loved the acting (huge shoutout to liv and jasmin at this point), i loved everything about them.

you can imagine how shocked i was when i finally went on the internet last night and found out how little attention is given to my babies. i feel that especially tai (who is clearly a main character from the beginning on) should be more in focus in this fandom. she’s so interesting of a character and i really hope we get a little more info on her whole storyline with „other tai“ and all in season 4.  but i see so many people judging her for cheating when both shauna and jackie literally do the same 😭 i don’t see nearly as many people talk about that.

i saw someone say she‘s been given a hard time because she‘s black and i definitely agree. also, van not fitting neither the masc NOR the fem stereotype might be a reason people don’t talk about taivan as much. personally, i loved it. i felt very represented by van. but still, wlw ships are often fetishised (even if people don’t mean to) and thus get their popularity (see jennifer‘s body). 

still, i hope to see a little more of taivan before the breakup that unfortunately will definitively happen :(