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Fun in the sun — Tina's doing the art-for-kids workshop. Helena shows up in her shiny snazzy car (one could even call it luminous) and saunters over. Tina's surprised that Helena's not mad at her for leaving during the argument with Winnie. Helena's actually nice about the whole thing, and apologetic, and talks about how sad it is that the kids' mummies are splitting up. Helena says that Winnie's trying to keep the kids all to herself and cut Helena off, and it all hits home with Tina:

Helena: "Winnie and I have always said that even though she gave birth to Wilson, we both equally conceived of him. For years we talked about it, we planned it... I helped dream this family into existence."

Right on.

Shane and Jenny's place — Shane is passed out on the couch. Also, the music is loud and the phone is ringing. Jenny answers it; it's Veronica Bloom. Shane doesn't want to talk to her.

Shane: "Tell her she can kiss my ass."

Oh, nice, there's Carmen. After Jenny leaves, Carmen has a few words for Shane.

Carmen: "You want to know something? You've been getting away with this shit for far too long. I don't know what that poor ass-kissing woman did to piss you off. You know, maybe you guys were walking down the street one day, and she smiled at you too sweetly by accident. Okay, but maybe she bought you a gift to let you know that you're kind of special to her. Or just maybe... maybe she really liked you. I think that that's something that you just don't know how to handle right now. And, uh... and I also think that... that we sweet simple folk will not go around kissing your ass forever."

Carmen's smile is so damn dazzling. And Shane looks really sorry, and even seems to start to cry.

Writing class — Hunter is talking about beating his cock while Jenny fathoms Charlotte's pussy for the 27th time. Okay, he's not really talking about himself or Jenny or Charlotte; he's reading a story. But he's referring to "Madelaine," so we know what he means — we're back to the prelude again. And Hunter's writing is a load of crap.

When Charlotte asks the class to comment, Jenny raises her arm so high, she practically hops out of her chair, the way Horshack used to do on Welcome Back Kotter. She compares Hunter to Henry Miller, but when Charlotte presses for more, it gets a little less friendly:

Jenny: "I actually think that it's Henry Miller lite. [the class giggles] No, no, but seriously, seriously, because, in your story, all your women, you've basically turned them into these nameless, faceless, body part whores."
Hunter: "That is not true. I honor my woman characters, and I imbue them with sexual agency."
Jenny: "Your main character, Jasmine, she like opens up Madelaine's world by giving her the best fucking orgasm she's ever had, which, I don't know if you know this, is the primary sex act that two women can actually have, and then you go ahead and you belittle it by turning it into pornography, and I think that the reason why you're doing this is because men can't handle the fact that these women can have this amazing, fucking, beautiful mind-blowing orgasm without a fucking cock!"
Charlotte: "Hmm. Sounds like you know what you're talking about, Jenny."

Indeed. And if that looked like a lot of breathless blathering, that's because it was. But it was also pretty damn cool and funny. I just wish it hadn't reminded me of Marina, with the "opened up your world" thing. Yuck.

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