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It's ironic how the poster that they look so in love on, the one for 12x11, they end up torn apart and pretty miserable and for the sequel, they look devastated on the poster but end up in a pretty wonderful and happy place.

Japril The Movie ~12x11 || Japril The Sequel ~13x16

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Jackson and April + track record in hotels

ATTENTION

rhett mclaughlin is a beautiful man and i love him very much

that is all

Delayed rage/rant

Grey’s just completely gutted all of the Japril fans. The direction they chose to take their storyline in and they way they did it is so heartbreaking and disrespectful to the fans and all the love and emotional investment and attachment we have built for their relationship. It’s disrespectful to their journey, to the albeit bumpy but uniquely beautiful story they shared. This is disrespectful to all the amazing things about Japril: their friendship, their chemistry, their deep love for one another. Also, this is a slap in the face to what Jesse and Sarah have created, their commitment and dedication to the characters and the fans, and their own long term investment in building this relationship. Even introducing the idea of this storyline, it feels like they've ruined, or at least tainted, the beauty of Japril.

gone but not forgotten 🧡

Hanging out with Kiki at VidCon: rhettmc IG Story - 13 July 2019

“It’s My Belly Button” - Rhett and Link Live, Detroit, 27 June 2019

I'm in awe of how eloquently and profoundly expressed that was. I also want to thank you so much for sharing that! What they have done with such an amazing character and true love story is tragic and devastating but we take back the power to decide it doesn't end that way.

I was 13 when Jackson stood up at April’s wedding. I squealed and spent the whole day on twitter and on this blog that was already called queenkepner. Their love story inspired and excited me so much that I decided to try and write fan-fiction for the first time.

I was 16 when Japril The Movie came out, and I dreamily watched as a decade of their lives unfolded in front of me. While the end had me in tears, seeing their lives flicker in front of my eyes, I remained hopeful they would make their way back to each other.

I was 18 when they reunited in Montana, and though I had lost some faith in the show, I watched the episode anyway. I felt like a 13 year old staying up in her dimmed bedroom all over again. I started writing again after the episode, something I’d long forgone, fueled and excited by their love.

This year, I will be going to university to study writing and literature. I’ve started my own book, I’m in the midst of writing a Japril fic with well over 30,000 words, and none of this would have ever happened without Jackson and April’s love story.

They compelled me at an age where I didn’t know much about love, showed me what it’s like when two people become best friends after a tragedy, and when best friends turn into something more. Their clumsy relationship in on-call rooms, his stoic perseverance to let her get married, the storm inside of him when he saw the love of his life about to marry someone else. Then, a blissful marriage, she’s the one and i love our secret marriage bubble and a love so real and so profound I haven’t felt the same for a fictional couple since. Through weddings and child loss and divorces and child birth, they remained each other’s person, and I will never believe the terrible writing they’ve given us this season in order to fit their own twisted narrative.

Jackson and April are soul mates, and they are fictional, which means I choose to decide their story doesn’t end like this. I’ll leave you with this quote, which fits many of the things that I still wish to say, 6 years after I created this blog for them. To Sarah and Jesse, you remarkably brought together two characters that changed my life, I thank you. To Jackson and April, you showed me what an epic, world-shattering and soul-searing love is. Thank you.

For you, a thousand times over.