A reference to the classic schoolyard trope where a boy dips a girl's pigtails in an inkwell to express a secret crush, symbolizing hostility masking attraction.
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Rivals
Season 7 · Episode 6 · S07E06
“Perhaps all this "Pigtails and Inkwells" hostility is actually a veiled attraction.”
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