We really can’t thank the wonderful Bomb Girls fans enough for sending us new V-MAIL every day. And it’s even more amazing when we are sent very personal stories like the one from Laura that we posted last week. We recently received an equally inspiring story from Australia, which we would like to share with you below. It’s incredible just how deeply the show has touched people’s lives, including ours.

I connected deeply with Bomb Girls.

I grew up in 90’s bushland Australia: the 2%. There were 24 people in my class in from year 6 to year 10.

We didn’t watch a lot of TV; there weren’t any stations out there. The channels we got were static. In any case, our Christian school thought that the devil spoke through the television. So not a lot of us even had one.

So in that sense, 90’s Australia isn’t that different from 40’s Canada. We had the radio, and we spent our days in fields with cows or horses or dirt bikes or tractors and running barefoot through bushland, exploring caves, catching bob-tailed lizards and never quite knowing what to do with an angry lizard at the end of your arm, running screaming from a newly-thrown lizard.

We lived outside. We worked outside.

When we got TV we were allowed to watch those old movies; the classics, the musicals. Ginger Rogers was my first crush closely followed by Doris Day and Katharine Hepburn. We caught up in the 00’s, but I miss that sense of waiting for the next song, of waiting for Ginger’s skirt to fly out just right.

TV’s come a hell of a long way since then, but still not far enough if a show like Bomb Girls can get cancelled. It’s an audio-visual splendorama of beautifully distress chaos. It’s everything I always wanted but never knew how to ask for.

I know that look on Betty’s face when Kate sprang away from her; I’ve been the recipient of that look. Hell, haven’t we all? And I’ve been head-butted (in a gay bar no less) for telling a man that I wasn’t interested because I was gay. His reply? ‘That’s what you get for not looking like a dyke.’ It’s confusing, but it happens. We still get beat up. That scene where Betty is dragged toward that car – it’s something we fear. And it happens. And it needs to be talked about. Every issue in this show is something that’s still relevant 70 years later. They need to be talked about, and Bomb Girls was opening the door for some heavy discordant discussions.

When I moved to the big city, I got myself some big city learning in the form of a Literature degree. I wrote. Constantly.

About 7 years ago shit went down. Heavy shit. I don’t talk about it because most of my friends didn’t need telling; they saw the CCTV footage on the news, as did I when I woke up two weeks later in hospital. If you’ve ever seen your own feet dangling helplessly… after kicking for so long…

But I digress. I drank through that, and came out the other side pretty damn broken. I got a cockatoo 3 months after I quit drinking and she keeps me strong on days I might crumble. 6 years worth of days.

At the start of this year, in the gap between Bomb Girls season 2 part 1 and season 2 part 2, my mother called and told me she thought that my abstinence from a homosexual lifestyle was honourable and all sorts of Christian junk and the word abomination was mentioned and I kinda went to the place that’s not good and then I found out Bomb Girls was cancelled so I got mad. It was something to focus all that mad on. And I started writing again.

Paint Over It All was the first thing I wrote since my deposition 7 years ago.

The support I got from the community was humbling and overwhelming. Studying engineering, I’d been living in an all-male hetero bubble for so long. I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of a lesbian for years. I forgot there were people like me out there. People like me that connected so fully to these old-timey women.

I gave them every possible happy ending, because that’s what they deserved, these cancelled characters, these heart-broken fans.

It’s not just the show, in this case, that’s important. It’s the fanbase. It’s the people this show has touched. It’s your everyday Bomb Girl. Because there’s a little piece of us in every one of them.

Bomb Girls got me writing again and if I can do that, I can do anything. I can answer an unknown number on my phone. I can open the front door to a stranger. I can sleep with the lights off. I can let someone hug me and not mind if their shoulder brushes my throat.

Not today. But one day. One day soon.

I love this show for what it is, and for what it is to me.

—Julie Verne

We’d like to share this week’s V-MAIL update with you, which includes an amazing total of 4,446 comments to date. Thank you to everyone who sent in V-MAIL and helped us collect it.

If you’d like to read all the comments, we have split the collection into parts of 1,000 comments each: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – complete file

Please keep helping us by voicing your opinion about the show so that we can add your comment to our repository:

• Tweet us or use the #SaveBombGirls hashtag
• Facebook comment us or the official pages
• Tumblr message us or post using the #Save Bomb Girls or #Bomb Girls tag
• Email us at mail@savebombgirls.com or send a link to your blog or any other platform you’ve used to write a message
• Post on our message board

We’re still trying to catch up with all the online comments, especially those on Facebook. If your statement hasn’t been included yet, it means it’s still on our to-do list.

Receiving V-MAIL from all of you amazing Bomb Girls fans is a very rewarding experience for us, because it just shows how much the show is cherished all over the world. And every now and then, there’s a message that stands out. We’ve had many of them, but this week we’d like to share one with you that we think is especially moving, inspiring and encouraging.

It comes from a fan who’d like to stay anonymous, and she is happy to let us share her story with all of you so that it can hopefully give courage to others who might be in a similar situation.  Please note that it contains sensitive content.

Bonjour,

I discovered Bomb Girls a few months ago… But, oh my, what a discovery! This show has exploded in my face, no pun intended.

Bomb Girls has taught me a lot and helped me greatly. I’ve never had the opportunity to know my grandfather, who was drafted into the Nazi army corps. He was later captured and tortured by the French army to serve for them. My mother married an alcoholic and abusive man who beat her and cheated on her. One night when he was drunk, he raped her, and nine months later my half-brother was born. His father died later from alcohol abuse, and my mother married my father, a sweet and funny Spanish man. I was born almost a decade after they met. My father then went to live in another country when I was 4 years old. He could not stand being with my mother, who was manic-depressive. I grew up with it, I helped her get through every day life and took care of her as best I could.

My brother then enlisted in the Air Force when he was sixteen. I was six . There he began to change, became violent, racist, homophobic. He wanted me to fix my failed Spanish education, because for him the fact that I love my Spanish family was not correct. I quickly learned that I am a lesbian, having my first relationship with a woman when I was 11 years old. My brother went crazy, beat me and raped me. My mother listened to him doing it every night. And every night, she remained silent. There was a time when she reacted; she first asked me what she had done to deserve this, and then she told me to make an effort.

During my teens, I fell into a life of drugs, alcohol and sex. At 13 years of age, I was going to “street teen” parties. I drank and gradually became addicted to cocaine. The sexual, sometimes degrading experiences became more and more frequent. I fled my home when I was sixteen, the legal age in France to leave school. I fled without a degree, without money, without hope or self-esteem.

And from then onwards, I began to grow. At present, I do not drink a single drop of alcohol. I take no more drugs. I have a fabulous girlfriend and three totally crazy cats (they are important, my cats!), an apartment of 90m² I pay for myself, and I study law through evening classes so that one day I might, I hope, help others and get punishment for those who do not respect life.

Bomb Girls represents to me everything I have fought for in recent years. Love, hope, equality, life. The episodes of the show have soothed me, made me smile, laugh and cry. And they have made me proud, proud of what I’ve done so far, the person I am now. The show told me that everyone, without exception, one day, will suffer discrimination. And in a sense, it showed me a sad truth, even if the show takes place in the 40’s, some themes are still valid today.

For this, for these slices of life you offered us–stories that fill us with hope, courage and love–thank you. And I wish with all my heart that Bomb Girls will come back. Thank you all–actors, directors, producers, behind the scenes crew… A big thank you. Come, give us courage again. I will fight with you, because I know that this series is worth it; because I know that hundreds, if not thousands of others have found their own courage upon seeing the show.

I give you all my love,
(and a lot of bombs for the fight!)

We proudly present this week’s V-MAIL update! Our collection has increased to 4,090 comments to date. Thank you to everyone who sent in V-MAIL and helped us collect it.

If you’d like to read all the comments, we have split the collection into parts of 1,000 comments each: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – complete file

Please keep helping us by voicing your opinion about the show so that we can add your comment to our repository:

• Tweet us or use the #SaveBombGirls hashtag
• Facebook comment us or the official pages
• Tumblr message us or post using the #Save Bomb Girls or #Bomb Girls tag
• Email us at mail@savebombgirls.com or send a link to your blog or any other platform you’ve used to write a message
• Post on our message board

A quick note to those of you who have already sent in V-MAIL: We’re still trying to catch up with all the online comments. If your statement hasn’t been included yet, it means it’s still on our to-do list. Just bear with us, we’re going to get there.

It’s a bit of a bittersweet day when the Bomb Girls production team announced today that principal photography for Bomb Girls: The Movie has wrapped. Check out the official Twitter and Facebook for lots of photos and statements from the set during the last few weeks. There have been many sad moments, like Meg Tilly posting photos of the dismantled Corbett house, or Ali Liebert’s puffy-eyed face after saying her goodbyes to the cast and crew. There’ve also been happy moments of reunions and birthday celebrations or high-waisted pants. It’s been a fun ride for the fans, following all the on-set shenanigans despite the cancellation’s bitter aftertaste that still reverberates.

There’s more waiting in store now—first and foremost for Global TV to announce an airdate. Word of mouth is that it might be around February or March 2014. So take a deep breath, Bombshells, and be encouraged to produce many fan fictions, animated GIFs and fanart until then to tide us over into the new year. And most importantly: Keep sending us your V-MAIL so that we can expand our collection and let the networks know just how much the show is loved by fans all over the world!

And just for those who are getting excited to see Bomb Girls on the big screen, sadly we’re not talking about a theatrical feature film. Bomb Girls: The Movie will be a 90-minute TV movie (2 hours if you add commercials) to air on Canadian network Global TV. It will not be coming to cinemas, as much we’d all like to see that. There’s no word yet on whether Reelz or any other non-Canadian network will be airing it at a later point in time.

Have you always wanted to ask Ali Liebert, Charlotte Hegele or Jodi Balfour a question? This is your chance! Ali, Charlotte and Jodi will answer five questions exclusively for their respective fansites Ali Liebert Fan, Charlotte Hegele Fan and Jodi Balfour Fan.

To submit your questions, all you have to do is to e-mail webmaster Veronique with the subject line “Ali Liebert, Charlotte Hegele or Jodi Balfour Fan Exclusive Interview”. Submission deadline is Sunday, November 24th.

Ali, Charlotte and Jodi will each be answering five questions, so it can’t be guaranteed that all of your questions will be answered. The answers to the five questions will be published on the respective websites, ali-liebert.com, charlottehegele.com, jodi-balfour.com.

We proudly present this week’s V-MAIL update! Our collection is ever growing, with 3,605 comments to date. Thank you to everyone who sent in V-MAIL and helped us collect it.

If you’d like to read all the comments, we have split the collection into parts of 1,000 comments each: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – complete file

Please keep helping us by voicing your opinion about the show so that we can add your comment to our repository:

• Tweet us or use the #SaveBombGirls hashtag
• Facebook comment us or the official pages
• Tumblr message us or post using the #Save Bomb Girls or #Bomb Girls tag
• Email us at mail@savebombgirls.com or send a link to your blog or any other platform you’ve used to write a message
• Post on our message board

A quick note to those of you who have already sent in V-MAIL: We’re still trying to catch up with all the online comments. If your statement hasn’t been included yet, it means it’s still on our to-do list. Just bear with us, we’re going to get there.

In other news: Our viewers in the UK might be happy to hear that Bomb Girls has recently been added to Netflix, so you can now stream it if you’re a Netflix subscriber in Great Britain.