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Where I look for everything: Twitter. I found so many similar but slightly different versions (the first half was the same from everyone but the second was “she won’t admit it yet”, “she hasn’t confessed it yet”, “she doesn’t want to admit it yet”),
I just took it as true, instead of if it were one possibly wrong translation spread to everyone. Scrolling back through the searches, at first people only knew some of it but eventually more and more landed on the whole thing.
Damn. This is just so heartbreaking and terrible. And these are huge groups, SHINee, f(x), Kara. Not that it’s worse but if even they can’t be protected and helped…
Hmmm, that’s certainly possible. She was definitely aware of her feelings by that time, and while the situation was too serious for her to actually say something, it also offered the opportunity to be close with Juls and give her affection without it being taken for anything more.
Though, I do think Val is the type who’d use that with friends, the way some people use “babe” with just significant others and others for friends. Val is so affectionate and open with everyone, I absolutely think she’d use it casually (which makes it all the worse when Nayeli took that totally platonic affection and put a sordid slant on it when outing her). It’s probably a mix, her own impulse to comfort any person in need, and that it’s Juls making the urge all the stronger.
(2/2)The way they build their characters, each of their interaction, their respect, support and worries for each other, their conversations are so well-thought and so many small details I love. I could feel their love for each other. Their journey is so epic I don’t think I’ve seen it on any shows. And lastly, thanks for all the beautiful gifs you made!
Awesome! I’m glad it’s still helpful.
Awww, yeah, it does so many little things so well. I remember how much we discussed why we fell so hard for it, what worked and why, and in the time since, we’ve had some more great ships and been able to add them as sample points, but it’s really crazy how this one telenovela ship took us so much by storm. It just offered us so much them, we got to see their story and their feelings and fears and hopes and dreams. It doesn’t hurt that they were flat out gorgeous and had ridiculous chemistry that made the relationship seem natural, but I will always advocate for more screentime and more focus and more centering on f/f stories.
Yes! Yes, exactly. While season 5 was airing my friend and were discussing why (one of the reasons) it wasn’t as big a hit as other campy, fun, smart scifi shows among certain people was that it had such a female gaze. Like you said, Dutch is treated like how male leads are treated, everyone wants her, everyone wants to be with her, everyone wants to be around her. But at the same time, she doesn’t abandon compassion or treat people the way many male leads do.
And all the men around her, all the good guys, have such a baseline of decency. No matter how grumpy and surly they may actually be, whether it’s Turin or literal Fancy “Asshole” Lee, they start from a place where you can absolutely trust them around Dutch or any woman. Johnny and D’av are like, fantasy versions of guys, just filled with devotion and respect and love for Dutch. She is the center of the show in a way we so rarely see. Even in many female-led series, you have writers using those women to prop up male characters. But this show loves Dutch. It is about her and it treats her so well.
With other female characters, who are all very much their own person, there isn’t that frisson of rivalry or jealousy because that love for Dutch carries over. She’s just that cool and smart and pretty, of course women are going to love her too. Of course Zeph’s going to have a major crush on her. When literal villain Delle Seyah was introduced, it ended with her being IMPRESSED by Dutch and flirting with her, as suspicious and selfish a person as Delle Seyah was. And because they’ve had this seasons-long soulmate true love arc with Delle Seyah and Aneela, they’re able to play around with it for Dutch without any kind of sourness because it’s only ever teased.
It’s set in an alt reality that veers off around the time of the first moon landing, so it starts at around 1969, and then through time skips, they’ve arrived at 1974 in the latest ep, 1×06.
For Harrison Ford’s character?? No way they’d do that.
Sure, UK anon, feel free to message me off anon. 🙂
I know! I saw her tweet about it and I was like, wait, what movie? By which company? With which costar?? Casually calling him “Harrison”, lol. Hitting the big times. ;_;
Do you mean Inhuman Condition? I haven’t, not yet!
Heh, it is loaded, and a bit general. Even within the Muslim community, my experience isn’t at all universal or representative. Being one is restrictive, for me, my parents are fairly conservative religiously so I don’t plan to come out, but they also emphasized school first for all their kids, daughter or son, and let us have the freedom to develop our own minds, so my path was a lot easier than a lot of other people’s, Muslim or not.
Outside of family, it’s also tough because it’s two identities that are so at odds. It’s difficult to find support for one, let alone both at the same time, and in fact there are people from both sides that specifically hate the other. And it doesn’t at all feel like at least you’re getting support from both those sides individually, it just feels like you’re hated by both.