Okay, see, this is why I needed to consolidate my to-read list in one place because I DID actually have this recommended to me before at some point and I added it to one of my lists and then just…I don’t know what happened. Let me specifically add it now to goodreads. Woohoo, done!
It’s six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it’s hide or fight, and the creatures aren’t the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.
I’m glad you liked it! Welcome to the club. Because, uh, heh, we’re all stuck trying to find something that good and f/f that sucks us in and I don’t really think there’s anything similar. Personally, I went into A Memory Called Empire, but that’s scifi and the romance isn’t as epic. Anything I’ve read or liked recently is in my books tag, you can get an idea of what I’ve been reading or looking into from there.
I said that? I don’t remember saying that… In what context, that I thought they were acted like straight girls? I definitely don’t remember saying that, or do you mean I thought they were straight characters at first? Considering I started watching for them, I don’t think I said that either…? Are you sure it was me?
Ahh, this is super late, but I actually was trying to save this for when Book Catalogue went back up on the Google Store. I’ve been checking periodically but haven’t seen it go back up yet. If you want it, you can get the apk from that link as we wait.
Oh, wow, I’d focused on the books part when I first read and totally missed that their were English subs for the earlier Juls and Val scenes! Shoutout and huge thank you to @angry-sushi and @andreafloresgr.
Lastly, the reason I decided to go ahead and answer this ask now, anon, is because I actually did end up making a goodreads account! At first I tried to add everything I could remember reading at any point but that honestly seems a bit of a lost cause. At the moment, I’m mostly using it as a to-read list instead of scattering random new books on gmail, my phone, or my desktop.
I do! I actually do vividly remember, probably in far more detail than you care to know, when I tried it for the first time–both times. Yepppp.Twice! The first time I got an ask about it, I did actually try it and at the time, it was just the not great wlext subs and it was of course the opening scene where Juls and Lupe walked past Val and Lucho arguing and I was like, hmm, maybe not.
It was a couple of WEEKS later that I tried again and I remember that day perfectly. It was at the very end of December, when a bunch of holidays string together and work is slow because so many people are out. And around this time every year, I binge through something I’ve been saving. In previous years it’d been Heartless and then Crownies + Janet King (the first season) and then Los Vecinos en Guerra. It’d just become something of a tradition to watch these very canon very satisfying f/f stories during that break.
This year, since New Year’s fell on a Tuesday, we didn’t get Monday off. So I was sitting there the Sunday before, trying to find something to do that wouldn’t take that long and then got the second ask about trying Juliantina and was like you know what, this actually could be perfect. I started the clips again, still wlext, though i would discover some hours later that zeroty had started their subbing, but by that point I’d already passed what they’d done.
I had no idea what those two were going to mean to me. I hadn’t seen any gifs, at the time it hadn’t really caught on in SM so I went in completely blind and god, how they gripped me! I was swept AWAY by the chemistry, by how natural their dynamic was, how romantic the slow burn ended up being. I remember wanting to gif so many things, millions of tiny little things as well as all the epic moments, but I just kept on watching. And then it was Monday and the show was back on again. I still would have started giffing from the beginning, but it was the Monday of the 41st ep, which as you might remember, hit a pretty significant milestone in their relationship.
Obviously I didn’t understand the dialogue, but immediately I knew the significance of them returning to the pool. You don’t do thematic callbacks for no reason. And then they stopped floating and stood up again, laughing and I was just soooo….aahhhhhhh.
Do you remember how long the buildup for that kiss was? How the laughter slowly drained away?
How Juls pulled back?
And it just went on forever
and ever! I didn’t even know if it’d happen or not, what with censorship at all. Would they get interrupted again?
Nope! This happened.
I wish I’d started watching earlier so I could have enjoyed the slow burn live, but I can’t help but love that was my intro to live viewing. Could you imagine not knowing this was coming?
Man, that show took over my life. You’re absolutely right, anon, we used to actually look forward to Mondays. Eesh! And the fandom energy! Whan experience it was.
The kind of blog I am now, this is far more representative of how I usually am, flitting from one show to the next, with perhaps Harlots, Killjoys, The Expanse, Killing Eve, and at one time, Corrie, The Rich Man’s Daughter, and, lol, The Mentalist, being the few exceptions. But Juliantina was in a class of its own. And I know it feels right now as if I’ve moved on, and I definitely don’t want to let down the people who’re still heavily invested and who send me asks and would still like gifs, I just…tend to focus on the most recent thing. With the most genuine of intentions, I’ll sit down to do something for Juliantina and wind up doing something else completely. At this point, I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep, but I really, really do hope to get through as many of the Juliantina asks and gifsets as I can, alternating them with newer media. So bear with me on that, guys. 🙂
Yes, I want to see it tooooo, I want to see it actually on screen and preferably taking like, half the season. As long as that’s their arc, I don’t have to worry about even more nefarious things happening. But really, under that shell Charlotte’s super nice and forgiving so if Isabella even just said the truth, I did it to keep my daughter safe, Charlotte and her love for family would probably like, fair enough.
But let’s see how they do it so it’ll be fun for TV. Maybe they’ll be forced to make an alliance, so it’ll be an uneasy prickly fake friendship and then will thaw? I just hope it won’t have happened off screen between seasons.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was just a few people, and maybe they only thought of it as a clever ploy in a poll war, not fully realizing the repercussions of people losing their accounts. Maybe. It is crossing a line and so unnecessary. Over a damn poll.
