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What did you think about desenfrenadas last scene?? I love how the girls communicate without words. It starts like a circle Ro/Vera, Ro/Carly, Carly/Marcela, Marcela/Mike, Marcela/Vera and it ends with a teary eye Rocio, but you don’t feel sad like you said you feel optimistic that whatever live throws at them, they have each other backs.

Oh, I loved it, for exactly the reasons you said. It highlighted ALL the different friendships, this wasn’t just a show of one set of people, but this sisterhood, and they managed to save Marcela and show just how strong they were together, and how strong the bond was, for trying at all. A perfect place to end the season on. 

Again, I really would love for s2 to pick up directly from there, but I would understand if they didn’t want to ruin the beauty of it and just left what happened next to our imagination and did a timeskip.

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Can we talk about Vera wearing Marcelas button up? Meaning Marcela gave it to her like the good girlfriend she is.

Aw, she did! And the way Vera gave it back, all polite and awkward:

I can’t believe they deprived us of seeing Marcela offering it to her, probably, take this, flaca, you’re shivering. Their dynamic is one where it’s easier to be blunt, or even rude, even if they’re being nice underneath. Every time Vera gets all somber and quiet, Marcela cheers her up, usually with some affectionate mocking, which is their Thing and which works. She is honestly on her way to be a great girlfriend.

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Do you thing Vera is a lesbian? I’m really curious about that

I don’t know… One the one hand, she’s created this misleading idea about all the guys she’s slept with but it’s just a few and she’s never had an orgasm before, so her first and so far only is with a girl but on the other hand, she can drive, so. 😛 But really, on the other hand, there is the trauma that might account for the first part, not that she’s a lesbian.

I don’t really suppose it matters either way. But I think that as a fictional character who is the first billed of this series, it is less likely that she is written to be a lesbian.

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Are we supposed to assume that Ro and Carlota don’t know that Vera was molested as a young kid? Bc I don’t think Ro would’ve made that comment to Vera about blaming her for being attacked if she knew her sexual assault history. I mean I would hope no one would make that kind of comment regardless but idk I feel like she would be more aware of Vera’s history to not say that. Sorry I’m rambling now lol

Yeah, I don’t think they know. Surely not. And exactly as you said, Ro shouldn’t have said that in any case, but knowing that??? No. I feel like even aside from that one time, if they knew, they’d allude to it in other ways, tiptoe around it, mention it at some point, reference it in hushed whispers. I don’t think Vera told anybody, not them, not her parents.

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Just saw a post about Barbara’s accent in desenfrenadas and the difference between Juliana and Barbara’s own accent and I’m like wow

Oh? What’d it say? As I think I’ve mentioned, I’m not even that good with accents in English, people speaking in Spanish would be totally over my head. Even when y’all talked about Maca and her Argentine accent, I was like, sure, whatever you say. I guess you’re saying her accent as all three people is different? I’m impressed!

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Hi, thanks for your answer regarding Kadena. It wasn’t more negative than I expected. There’s very little positive, if anything, to say about that ship that had everyone so happy and hopeful a few years back. Now it’s just another disappointment to add to the bag. PS. i love your blog, i keep finding nice stories thanks to your gifs.

Ah, well, then sorry to be as negative as you expected! Heh, yeah… Been kind of a long downward trajectory there. Which, admittedly, did make it easier to just trail off paying attention, at least for me. And thanks! 

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Hey! I’m glad you mentioned the victim blaming. We see Rocio a kind smart woman saying this without thinking. She grew up so much during that trip. She went from seeing nothing wrong with her misogynistic dad to telling him “I love you but I don’t wanna be you”. From victim blaming Vera to yelling Joshua “fuck she doesn’t want to, fuck she doesn’t want to fucker” the way her voice cracks at the end. ?

Yeah! I liked that as much as a girl power™! kinda show it was, there wasn’t any one right way to be, except supportive of other women. That even the smart, educated one had things to learn. She had a full arc of learning, about herself, about others, even how to practice medicine better from Juana.

And I think a lot of viewers probably might have felt the same as Rocio about Vera, and about Carly sending nudes to Toshi, no matter how modern and evolved they consider themselves, there’s a part of them that might have thought, “of course the guy was wrong but you put yourself in that situation”. Which is absolutely wrong, and in both cases they called it out.