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We all know the shitty trope where writers kill off a lesbian right after she has sex with the woman she loves, but do you ever think about how AAM instead had the queer woman suffer after she slept with the dude?? Like, Juliana’s day went from bad w sergio to worse w alacran. Obvs I’m not happy that Juliana suffered at all, but they turned that trope on its head, whether it was intentional or not. It sent a message of “look at all the bad that happens when u don’t let ur kid love who they love”

I do think about that! Not as a specific counter to that trope, I don’t even know if they were aware of it, but I do think in a very straightforward way, Lupe’s homophobia was responsible for all the troubles Juls went through. Including Sergio. That was framed as a Bad Thing to happen to Juls. Something she didn’t enjoy, something that caused trouble with her actual love, and something that put her in the position of being kidnapped.

Despite how wild the premise and actual plot was, AAM’s still a lot about morality and karma. It is pretty wild that they framed Lupe’s rejection of her kid as this clearly negative thing and then Sergio as one of the consequences of that.

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There is this song Barbie sings at minute 1:38 and i hate that i can’t find a proper way to translate it, because is such a fun song about flirting and like “try and flirt with me and i’m not responsible for what i’ll do to you” :’)

Oh, that sounds so fun! That’s the one they’re both singing along happily to (because it’s the only one they both know well? lol). 

But hmmm, those lyrics sound familiar. Where’ve I heard that before…oh, that’s right.

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Juliantina are a game changer in so many ways. I didn’t invest any time in voting in a poll Bc I was cool with where Juliantina are. We got an amazing story, Barbie & Maca keep feeding us well, we’ve gotten press about them and they even got in cosmo. We got a photoshoot. This must be what straight ppl feel like all the time lol. I voted a couple times Bc it’d be cool for Barbie/Maca to see that we appreciate their work, but I think we’ve made that beyond clear many times already so I’m good lol

Yeah, I guess we such a specific history with fandom polls, right, going back to Glee times, where they’ve provided the one opportunity to go up against other fandoms and be heard? Because we’re drowned out by m/f and m/m fans in every other context and outnumbered even here but we’re the hungriest. We vote for own selves to be validated in some way. 

And people may have wanted to carry that on, but this has definitely been one of the rare times where a f/f ship has so many things already going for it. And if it’s to thank them, well, as you said, we’ve done that in many different ways already.

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please tell people to vote for juliantina here! we’re up against the aristemos and currently are down. the poll ends tomorrow at 5. eonline(.)com/news/1035316/tv-s-top-couple-2019-vote-in-the-elite-8

Oh, just one day? For a quarterfinal? Probably for the best, lol.

Vote as many times as you want, no need for incognito or VPN, the captcha is your only enemy.

https://www.eonline.com/news/1035316/tv-s-top-couple-2019-vote-in-the-elite-8

If you’re on mobile: https://m.eonline.com/news/1035316/tv-s-top-couple-2019-vote-in-the-elite-8

You should be able to vote at least a few times just by clicking on I’m not a robot and getting the green check before it starts forcing you to solve stuff. At that point, you could switch IP but if you use a VPN it’s possible that you may still have to solve. Remember to click on Vote Now! after doing the captcha.