it’s #BoycottGreysAnatomy Day!
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I want to put this out there we can’t stop fighting now we have to keep going. Keep signing the petition keep making known that we don’t want this. Keep sharing the petition and getting everyone you can to sign. Keep spreading the word. Keep up to boycott next week make sure the feel the pain. Keep fighting it just might work.
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.
i wish i could put things more eloquently but right now i’m too sad and i just need to air my thoughts out.
april kepner embodies a messy, often antagonistic without wanting to be, funny and lovable character. she isn’t effortlessly sarcastic like cristina yang, or simply cool like meredith grey, no, she’s a mix of characteristics that makes her feel real, like a friend - almost, like someone i’ve watched grow on screen and feel deeply connected to. in april, i found myself, i recognized myself.
april once said she “sees eight sides of everything”, and that’s how i’ve always felt, in an underlying plateau between knowing who you are, who you want to be and the endless possibilities that could sway you both ways.
i find comfort in knowing that whatever direction they decide to sway april’s end of arc in, she lived her life, she had the child she always wanted, she laughed and cried and made friends and had her big, epic love. her once in a lifetime soulmate.
i thank you, sarah drew, for the beautiful job you did at creating my most beloved character. your performances were ethereal, raw, and often left me in tears.
i laughed with april, i cried with her, i fell in love with her love story, and i will continue to love and cherish her well beyond the show that treated both actress and character wrongly.
thank you, sarah. thank you, april.
@japril @doctorkepner @i-may-have-a-point @themoonorchid
This is so fucking wrong! Not only has grey’s anatomy written off April Kepner in order to make a ship NO ONE FUCKING WANTS happen, THEY HAVE ALSO FIRED JESSICA CAPSHAW WHO PLAYS ARIZONA ROBBINS, AKA ONE OF THE FIRST TV LESBIANS
THIS IS UNFAIR TO THE ACTORS WHO HAVE HAD ONLY 2 DAYS TO PROCESS THIS AND THE CHARACTERS, NOT TO MENTION THE FANS
WE ARE NOT STANDING FOR THIS BULLSHIT ANYMORE
WE’VE BEEN WATCHING THESE TWO AMAZING WOMEN BUILD A FRIENDSHIP TOGETHER FOR YEARS AND THE FACT THAT SOMEONE CAN JUST FIRE THEM BECAUSE OF A CREATOR’S PET IS INSULTING
THIS SHOW IS ALREADY TERRIBLE, BUT WITHOUT THEM IT WILL BE UNBEARABLE
KEPZONA IS THE ONLY GOOD PART OF THIS AWFUL SHOW
FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, SHONDA. NEXT WEEK, LET’S NOT WATCH THIS SHIT
PLEASE DO THIS FOR THE JAPRIL FANDOM. PLEASE BE VOCAL ON TWITTER. THEY’LL HAVE TO LISTEN TO US
THEY THINK THEY CAN WALK ALL OVER US AND WE’LL JUST KEEP WATCHING. WELL, THAT’S OVER
@icantmovethesemountainsforyou @koffeinjunkie84 @montanasituation @eelk @carigros @minttobe @japrilforthewin @japrilfan22 @thekepnermethod
Just want to put this out here before they kill April off - Jackson Avery will not love another woman they way he loved(s) April Kepner. She is, and always will be, the mother of his children, his best friend, his soulmate, his favourite person. She is his great love. And no matter what the writers try to say, no one will ever be able to change that.
I haven’t watched Grey’s for a few years now and I honestly don’t know why it’s still on air. Shonda and Co. have repeatedly ruined our favourite characters and relationships. There have been repeated tropes and storylines, relationships we don’t want, and useless characters.
Grey’s should’ve ended long ago. That way we would’ve have to suffer these fucking stupid ass decisions and firings.
If there’s anything to take away from the recent news of Sarah and Jessica’s firings is that y’all shouldn’t watch anymore. ABC and Shondaland are no longer respecting their audience so y’all shouldn’t respect them either.
I have no words yet...
I think April is a better surgeon (just by the fact she can improvise on the spot, how she can stay impartial yet empathetic, and doesn’t risk people’s lives for the sake of professional advancement) than Meredith. I love Mer and she’s a great surgeon, but Meredith is more of a researcher and experimenter with procedures, whereas April just wants to save people.
Absolutely agree!!!
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
(via quotefeeling)
I have looked at you in a million different ways
and I have loved you in each and everyone of them. (insp.)
How can I not get this?
I don’t know how to do it, I don’t know how to shut it off. Shut what off? How I feel about her… I don’t even know if I want to.
PP 5x22 // GA 11x09 [insp.]
Japril fans, ASSEMBLE!
Jackson and April mean a lot to us. Everyone’s japril journey started at a different time but one thing we have in common is that we love them and still root for them. We have Sarah and Jesse, who have been nothing but invested in japril’s story, trying their best to deliver a performance that takes our breath away and every time they have a scene together, they own it. In the last few days a lot has happened which made everyone question if our favourite couple will ever be given another chance to be together in any sense. Whatever happens, we know we love them and we will never stop fighting for them. We would like you to help us show our gratitude and love to japril and especially Sarah and Jesse who remain the best captains ever and support us and always find a way to calm us down. We would like to have japril trending on twitter for the last two episodes before the hiatus begins!
Thursday November 9th for the 300th episode, join us for a simple “japril” trend to show that japril are an integral and important part of grey’s anatomy.
Thursday November 16th for the episode 14.08, join our trend “we love japril” to express how much japril means to us and to show that we don’t give up that easily!
*Remember that we’re NOT trying to get someone mad or angry, we’re spreading positivity about japril and our trend is for showing love to them, Sarah and Jesse, and showing our gratitude to all the writers, producers and directors who made our story happen. Please don’t tweet “I hate ___ for doing ___ to japril” but rather “I love japril for/ I can’t wait for japril to/ grateful for Sarah and Jesse and etc. giving us japril/ and etc.) Positivity, guys :)
IMPORTANT!!! Guidelines for trending:
1. We are trending a word and a phrase, NOT a hashtag (#) since it’s easier to trend something without this symbol. 2. If you don’t have your location on, it doesn’t count your tweet!! So please turn your location on! (Go to Settings - Privacy and safety) 3. Timezones!! We start trending at 5pm EST, 10pm UTC, 11pm CET, 2 pm PST, 4 pm BRT and etc. so be prepared to start! Google 5pm EST and it automatically should show you what time is it for you. Please keep tweeting AT LEAST for an hour and if possible keep tweeting during the US air time and after. 4. If you feel like you can’t come up with many tweets so quickly during trending, try preparing in advance. Every tweet counts! Use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com to schedule your tweets especially if trending begins in the middle of the night for you and you love your sleep or you have to rest before school/work and etc.
Finally, we can’t wait to see your amazing tweets and share love and positivity for japril with you! If you have any questions, please contact @16confessions, @safooa, @insideimfeelinpurrdy and @japril
Big difference.
I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves