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Yoooo…. I went through your juliantina tag from the very beginning and let me just say that I’m so glad you were convinced to check them out. This fandom is so lucky to have you. Your gifsets are ?, your tags are funny and smart, you are so respectful to a culture that you’re not part of by learning the context of things, and your responses to the ‘top discourse’ are so funny. Keep on being awesome, dear. :)

Whoa, that’s a LOT of posts and a lot of reading. Lol, me being convinced to check them out. The start of it all. Can you imagine if I hadn’t? I might not have had Juliantina OR MarVera. But I’d like to think both would have popped up on my radar eventually.

And, aw, thank you so much! Wow, you really did read through them all, I’d half forgotten some of this stuff. The ole top discourse… I think we all know now who it’d be. >_> And  oh, yesterday (or a few hours ago) was the anniversary of the TVyNovelas awards! I still don’t know why they decided to actually allow the polls to decide the winners but I’ll always love that they did and let AAM carry home every award we wanted.

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I can’t get over the bit in the last ep of desenfrenadas were it cuts from vera and marcela’s confrontation outside the club straight to that like soap opera on tv where the lady’s saying “I gave you my heart, and you crushed it,” like the blatant parallel… exquisite

Omg, right?? God, ep 10 was just so good, from start to end. I was so pleased when I realized what they were doing, Marcela and Vera’s argument and then you cut to this soapy melodramatic treatment of star-crossed lovers, reinforcing how MarVera are supposed to be seen similarly. So deliberate and effective.

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Love your gif of the strip performance! The reaction of the trio. Vera in awe, Rocio with a what I’m doing here face and also what are we going to do, Carlota being the fluffiest most supportive and adorable and of course Marcela shocked face! This scene was brillant!

Ah, thanks! My favorite scene. ;_;

Lol, yeah, that’s perfect for Ro and Carly, but you know, thinking back on Vera, she was such a mixture of so many things. Because later on when they’re waiting outside, she points out how she was yelling at Marcela while Marcela had to work there, understanding how bad that was, so I think there was definitely awe and some straight up thirst, but also some guilt and resolve, like, “I’m gonna get her out of here.” 

Man, I just didn’t expect that scene, even though the ep was inevitably building to it, I thought the point had been their reunion across the street, which I already loved, seeing how they both ended up there. But then! The music and the recognition, the one-sided recognition! And then Marcela finally looking at them! And the knowledge of the confusing, messy place Vera and Marcela were in and the inability of anyone to react in any real way. It was…masterful.

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Rocio did say they would feel over excited/aroused lol

Hah, she did, and theyyyy did. 

And you know, they had a whole beach full of non-judgmental strangers, including actually very nice men, to be ~aroused~ over but stayed stuck on each other. I actually really liked how earlier, when Vera found out she’d been cut off and was totally unfairly taking it out on Carly and Ro, they understandably bailed, knowing her mood, but Marcela stuck by and calmed her down. Like what does that say, that she’d prefer to stay with her even like that over playing around in the beach. 

And then through the trip and its effects they kept on returning to each other, whether or not Carly and Ro were there or other people tried to join in, running around, in the water, dancing around the fire. Even in that state, some part of them sought out the other.

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About that anon asking if Vera is a lesbian, well… I don’t think we’ll get labels for their sexual orientations, I don’t know exactly why but here in Mexico we are with the “I don’t need a label to love” discourse or something like that. So we’re getting our gay ships but they don’t label themselves… Just like they did with Juliantina. ✌?

Yeah, there’s a lot of that up in the US too, heh. But it’s fine, as much as labels can help with specificity, it’s also easier to not write them, or at least easier to not mess them up. 

But I just hope they still follow this up in the next season (and that there is one), and don’t go, oh, it was just two opposite but similar girls connecting in a moment of stress, nothing to see here.

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Talking about marvera this and that but PLEASE TALK ABOUT VERA’S FACE WHEN MARCELA GRABBED HER THIGH WHEN THEY WERE IN THE CAR IN THE WOODS BEFORE THE STORM AND WAS CHASED BY THAT OLD GUY WHO HELPED THEM i mean her face was like “excuse me ma’am that’s my thigh you grabbed” I KNEW IN THAT EXACT MOMENT THAT THEY’RE GONNA FUXK

This face?

That moment was great. In the middle of this hurricane, car stuck, scared of some random guy driving up behind them, everyone shouting over each other, it’s a goddamn mess, and Marcela grabs Vera and tells her to trust her and IT WORKS. It calms her down and she listens. And that face, lol. In hindsight, you’re right, it was obvious where it was gonna go from there. Instead of tearing off her head like she normally would have, that little thoughtful glance, like, hello.