That Lupe scene, I’m not even mad, just really really sad. Cuz that’s probably how my parents will react if I ever come out.
I really get that, anon. But at least in this case, Lupe will come around, I think she definitely will. And that’s always a possibility with your parents, plus, simply seeing this on screen play out will affect so many parents like yours. That’s gotta be something.
People! Val actually consumed food!!! Jul’s influence is all powerful. All hail our mighty gay princess charming
Awww, that’s right. The mood between her…earlier that morning? vs with Juls now is so different. All shot in gray, literally unable to eat or leave the house, now chatting and eating and flirting. Stupid Lupe ruining her day.
I don’t mean to rain on Juliantina’s parade but I’m in deep fear that tonight’s talk about meeting in other life is foreshadowing some ugly bullsh*t televisa is about to pull. I grew up watching the awful TV televisa makes and was reluctant to watch aam because of that but those girls, the little touches, the looks… They got me and now I’m scared they are going to pull a March 3rd 2016 on us. I have trust issues since and I know that televisa is capable of doing something like that.
Okay, anon, I get that. I super get that . I can’t promise you it won’t happen here or in any other show you might get invested in.
But March 3rd 2016 isn’t a thing in itself, it’s not really a deliberate thing writers regularly do, reel fans in and then destroy them. It happened that time and we got hit by a whole other bunch of deaths around then too but as hard as it is to believe, it was all a coincidence. Or you could even go so far as to say that a bunch of writers influenced by the same cynical “no-pandering” homophobic and sexist Hollywood attitudes found the same targets at the same time. They wanted to kill people off (and they did, lot of white women and POC killed around that time too) and we’d just started to appear more regularly and they found us disposable. I don’t really see that attitude here?
But that’s not to say that they might not still say, oh, this is a show about death, so it’s a cool thing if it happens, in the way writers often seem to think they’re exempt from BYG no matter what new spin they put on it. The spoiler pics of the ending don’t imply that, but well, I assume that would not be particularly reassuring for a City of Light veteran
It’s just..it’s just really not going to do you any good at all to dwell on it. Drop the show or don’t, thinking on it does not make it any better. Not a single one of these deaths has ever hurt less because we thought it might happen. I don’t know if you sent this to get reassurance or to put out a warning but really, never has anything helped except to simply drop. Just wait out the last weeks?
If we really want to thanks him we can vote for him and make him win, his nominate too at the Tv y Novelas awards. (Sorry for my english ??♀️)
Ah, anon, you don’t need to apologize for that. And that’s a great idea.
https://www.tvynovelas.com/mx/
Vote for Barbara, Maca, and Leonardo is under best script.
Hmm now it makes sense how juliantina has remained steady as well the characters! Leonardo padron has a good record of good telenovelas and he’s not only the writer but also creator of amar a muerte so it makes sense there’s almost no one stopping him from doing good shit
Except like…the biases and instincts that have influenced every other genre writer who’s never been able to treat wlw characters as their own people and deserving of their own stories.
I want to do like a study and compare this to soooo many other things around the world. I mean, I assume the poor treatment is the result of the intersection of female character, already pushed a bit to the side, with LGBT and really often, like double diversity points in one token character, so also a WOC. I mean, I don’t think those writers say to themselves, this character isn’t as important. But it shows, doesn’t it? We’ll see how it ends and then dissect every little thing, lol.
I just want to give a shout out to Leonardo Padron, the writer of AAM, for this incredible story. It’s a little crazy it’s not even a team of writers, just him and he’s done a great job
It’s been really great and I hope some of this current praise makes its way to him. The writing has been so, so good, in so many dimensions. It’s natural, it’s realistic, it’s as wholesome as an introductory gay couple needs to be, it doesn’t neuter their romantic attraction, it’s as educational and relateable as an introductory couple has to be, and to have all that together! While putting them in the center of this plot and never having them serve it but it serving them.
Leonardo Padron, huh. That’s a name to remember.
you put meat instead of meet in your last gifset ???
Ahhhhhh, fuck. And thank you, other anon! I will publish this, my shame should be public.
You know I could hear my own mother’s words out from Lupe’s mouth. Latin America still is pretty religious and conservative overall and when they show this kind of scene in the most popular PUBLIC channel of Mexico that’s what makes a difference. I was watching the telenovela with my mom today and I saw tears in her eyes and for the first time since i came out months ago she actually looked at me and she held my hand. I’m still trying to understand this but juliantina literally are everything.
Oh, anon. It does, this stuff truly does make a difference. I’m so happy for you :’). And i’m really grateful, again and again, for the treatment these two have gotten.