She doesn’t think Val will remember. It was said in passing, a moment of misspoken hilarity in the middle of tense family drama, surely forgotten in the wake of the immediate news that followed that Lucia and Jacobo were safe.
But Juls remembers everything about those first days of getting to know Val. She remembers every word, every laugh, every touch that led up to her heart falling so hopelessly in love. She remembers that feeling of contented joy, at being able to coax a laugh from Val again, despite all the stress and anxiety she was feeling, and Juls knew she wanted to spend her entire life trying to get Val to laugh like that again.
So when summer starts to come to a close and she looks at her calendar to see that September 14th lands on a Saturday, Juls can’t help it. Her lip starts to curl upwards as an idea starts to form. Because look— Juls kind of agrees with Val: February 14 is a made up holiday designed to make people in relationships spend extra money. But the idea behind it, of picking a random day to show how much you appreciate the person you love? Juls can get behind that.
Thank you! This experience has already been so remarkable but this movie and series on the back of its f/f couple is just unprecedented. Especially when apparently the m/m spinoff of the other recent telenovela had started airing a little before, to low ratings? So you’d have almost understood if they decided to not go for a f/f project.
I’m so sorry for how long it’s taken me to reply to this, I do have a list here, but at this point, I would probably recommend just two sources:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVdq4TJwt23ZFRJC8jxL7_A/community – zeroty’s longer compilations. zeroty originally started putting up short, individual scenes from when Juliantina met as the show was airing and by the time it finished, there was a playlist of 300+ clips but you’ll probably find it more convenient to just watch the bigger chunks linked here.
And another anon:
Just want to say it’s thanks to bbcitas like you who helped make all this happen! Bringing Juliantina around the world — all my love from NYC
Aww, anon, this has been so validating and satisfying. Thank you!
I reckon so, living like they did and as you said, at no point was she ever like, I want to talk to my Texas friends or at least tell them I’m okay. It seemed a lonely, isolated life for our Juls. And then, tbh, despite their very endearing and earnest efforts at it, she and Val seemed to have not much idea how to handle friendship, jumping into a very intimate and deep relationship like immediately.
Ah, anon, super sorry for this late reply. I keep on saying that I’m going to be late on everything so just accept a general apology for all replies and requests but…sorry.
Just to kind of explain, right as Ramadan was ending, at the beginning of June, I was hit with this headache + nausea combo that just flattened me. It was constant, it was waking me up from sleep, I just lay in bed. As the days would go by, I would think I was getting better, and that’s when you’d see an occasional post or gifset, and then a day later it’d be worse again. I thought I was good the weekend Dark came out and then on that Monday it hit again, as worse as ever.
I’ve fallen behind on everything, although when the headache wasn’t too bad I was able to get some reading done. I’m still not fully back but finally easing back into work and going to try to answer some asks and get back into the rhythm of watching things more regularly and preparing for some of my fave shows to return.
THE NEWS. The news. I was super excited! I followed it all from my phone. A movie AND a series! Ngl, if had been just a movie, I’d have been like, all right, okay, at least we get two more hours of them, this isn’t a goodbye yet, it’ll be mostly about them so it’ll be as much content as a bunch of episodes, and the plot can’t be too messy, right, there’s less chance to ruin them. Buuut, their best parts have always been in their quiet, long moments, and that’s not really something I see a movie able to give them, so I’m super glad we get a series for that. The movie can be for the fun and flirty banter and the series can have the nice long angst with the payoffs.
Oh, and none of you better be writing in cheaty/deathy ideas for the movie! For five seconds I forgot the world in which they live so I was like, at least they can’t kill them off but y’all better not be writing them transmigrating! 😛
