9 Chickweed Lane

12-12-2022

Seth Appleby was Edda's ballet partner and became her best friend and room mate. He's from Texas, from either oil or cattle money but I forget which. He's just absolutely loaded. His dad wears an enormous ten gallon hat and a bolo tie and is cool with his gay (lol) ballet son, his mom's a homophobe who wanted Edda to turn him straight and have 100 grandchildren. They weren't at the wedding and I don't know if they've met Seth's wife Fernanda who is Argentinian. Instead of having Seth introduce his parents and his betrothed/wife and seeing them react to his coming out as straight (???) and opening the possibility of grandkids, we got to see Seth and Fernanda fucking in a bath tub. Instead of seeing Seth's bigoted mother interact with his not-white, foreign-born, also-homophobic wife we... got to see Seth and Fernanda fucking in a bath tub. Also in a public park? Oh, and Fernanda went out of her way to insult Mark, Seth's long-term live-in boyfriend who he cheated on for quite a while with her. Did I mention that all this kicked off June 1st, Pride Month? It was a real ride, gotta say.

Anyway, he's got his leg cocked and foot arched all lady-style because he used to be gay.

Seth started out looking young, and looking like a strong dancer with upper body strength but in normal proportions. He quickly became what McEldowney considers "hot guy" which is to say just... so lumpy with muscles that he can't actually move his arms, and he has an 8 pack and a neck wider around than one of Edda's thighs. Just... not even a side of beef, a whole damn cow.

He seems to be more normally proportioned here, which is a relief.

I'm assuming that Fernanda was ushered quickly back in so that she, Xiulan, and Edda can all be pregnant at the same time. But I assumed that some of the other female characters would get pregnant around the time of Edda's first pregnancy, especially as some of them seemed to be actively trying to conceive. If she IS pregnant I'm also assuming she's going to whine the entire time and be The Bad Mom because she's been solidly established as That Unpleasant Bitch.

Anyway, this most likely kicks off a week of characters making out under a poisonous plant.

Here's the characters I figure are most likely to be featured:
Edda and Amos (again)
Juliette and Elliot Green
Xiulan and Hugh
Fluerrie and Sven
Diane and Francis
Isabel and Burkhardt (who may have been seen recently?)
Nan-Lin and her husband Arthur, who is old enough to be her grandfather which is to say McEldowney's age
Ginger Ouyang and her not-gay-after-all boyfriend

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Someone posted this on Twitter and I came back to add it to this post - LOOK at where his right hand is. LOOK AT IT. There is ABSOLUTELY some explicit contact going on there. Sometimes it's like... hmmmmm... am I reading too much into stuff that hints at the risque but isn't actually that extreme? And then no, dude's hand is doing the cootchie crawl over there.