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I ship Mel x Niko too. Sooooo badly. I thought I was alone in this. There’s just something “soulmate-y” about them. And that shit is my jam. I also know I’m probably going to get hurt. (Help.)

Oh, I think a fair number of people watching are into Mel x Niko, it’s just that they’re okay with Mel x Jada too. It’s interesting you see them as soulmate-y because I think most people aren’t really seeing that, which is why they’re open to whatever ship. Even I don’t really see that, not the way I’ve seen it in other ships.

I do think it’s interesting that Niko is back in the picture, increasingly so, maybe that does add an element of destined to be together, but it also solidly works from their feelings, Mel is unable to truly resist her and Niko, somewhere in there, has a strong affinity and potential for attraction to Mel. I guess it depends on what you mean by soulmate-y. To me that feels like something where it’s the universe also working to get them together but here, it’s kind of just them? Or is it… 

I guess we’ll have to see where the show goes with it, it seems less obvious than usual when they’ve placed Jada as a pretty appealing option too, one where if Niko ultimately married Greta and went off, the audience would be fine with. I do ship Mel x Niko more but that’s because I usually tend to stick to the first one. And at the moment, it can’t be denied that Mel definitely still has very strong feelings for her.

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Book? anon now, I guess? I usually don’t read very much either, but I’ve read Rook and Stiletto, and Poppy Jenkins too! I’ll be looking for Hellspark now, thank you! If you’re still in a reading mood, I’ve enjoyed these two series – A.J. Hartley’s Steeplejack series and Robert Bennett Jackson’s Divine Cities trilogy – not much romance, lots of great world building, mostly female protagonists, and pretty gnarly plots ?

Oh, heh. Then I guess you really do approve of my taste in books. 😛 And are you not angry-sushi shouter outer anon?

I’ve read Foundryside but I’ll put Steeplejack on my list. I’d forgotten for a second but I do have Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire to read, I’d pre-ordered it and then put it out of mind but it was released a few days ago.

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?‍♀️ There was your mini tag/reply review of the Priory of the Orange Tree and very recently? that reblog of the upcoming Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure book ?between you and dollsome, that one’s now on my list ?

Aww, anon, thank you, but I’ll stop putting you in the position of defending me, lol. I actually ended up finishing Priory last night because of your ask. 

Actually, if you are interested in what books I like, in between pausing and picking up Priory again, I reread The Rook by Daniel O’Malley, No f/f but no romance at all, if that helps. Also, Hellspark by Janet Kagan, same thing. I actually do have a books tag but those two are the ones I recommend first an always. For f/f, Poppy Jenkins, while being as different in tone and genre from Priory as a book can be, is lovely.

Trying to decide what to read now, since I’m still in a reading mood.

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Hey sorry to bother you but where are you watching Skam España? I’m watching it on a webside that i found but it either doesnt have avery scene or i’m still not where you guys are. Is it season 1 or 2 you’re watching?

I’ve seen a few resources, although remember, it’s released first as clips and then an ep.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY4TDEuKb6rXPXQy4XDUS9A/videos – The altskams channel, it does have subtitles.

@skam-spain-translations also uploads them, with subtitles: [Vk] [Google Drive]

@skammovistarplus has whole ep subs

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Hey do you know what ‘barbarena con yordi’ means on twitter? The original tweet is gone for some reason but everyone’s talking about it and I don’t speak much Spanish so I’m really lost.

Hmm. Don’t they pick like, different phrases/hashtags to try to trend them and often they have to do with specific publications or shows? Scrolling through the results for that one, I guess it’s the two of them with this person (con meaning with)? https://twitter.com/YordiRosado/status/1111495913250283520

I dunno if it’s a request to them or to him or a celebration of an interview being confirmed or what, though.

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have you continued watching the OA? if so, do not, under any circumstances, let yourself get spoiled for s2!! and how are you enjoying it? Did you know it was developed aurally instead of as a written story? And when pitching to execs, the creators told the entire story aurally, acting it out over several hours? I think you can see that in the show kinda

I did finish s1 and just barely started on s2 before the week’s shows started up but lol, someone I follow has been liveblogging s2, although it’s more her feelings about it than specific spoilery things, so I’m still fairly in the dark.

I do actually remember reading that! It’s interesting, after another big Netflix cancellation and seeing more about how it renews shows, to also get an insight into how it picks up shows, because my gosh, how niche and oddball is this show. How meta, though, that it developed and was pitched the same way the story unfolds.

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There wasn’t a lot of interaction between Chivis with Lucho and Sergio, but judging by how Chivis acted when Val first told her that Juliana was coming over she didn’t seem like the biggest fan of the people Val surrounded herself with. When Val said a friend was coming over Chivis was a bit apprehensive, but when she said it was a new friend Chivis was really happy. This was right after Val drowned and im guessing Chivis didn’t want people around who encouraged her drinking problem 1/2

2/2 but then Chivis had that vision of Juliantina being chased by who she told her husband she thought was the police and then it all went downhill from there. It’s so unfortunate because our bb Juliana didnt deserve that judgment but because of how obviously unstable Val was at the time everyone was defensive to the point of being patronizing and infantilizing her & some of their class prejudice made it even worse for Juls. The ppl who cared like Leon came around. I think Chivis would too 2/2

Yeah, but she never took those other friends aside and told them to cool it, did she. And we’d know for sure if she did because they’re the kind of people who would make a big deal about it, which is exactly why she never did it. But Juls sober, well-behaved, poor Juls, oh, she’d be more receptive to a quiet whisper. Like, fair enough, she thought she was protecting Val, but so quick to jump to the worst conclusions when it was about Juls. 

Still, much of that was to set up a bit of conflict that they could then get through. And I’ll take that over some of the other drama, lol. She’d have to get over it, because there’s just no other choice, she loves Val and Juls is going to be in Val’s life forever, so.

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But i dont want her to treat her badly, id never want or expect that from juliana. Shes too much of an angel That said, i just want her to make out with valentina in front of her ? jdjdjd but i get u, i get u i just cant stand anyone who dares look at juliana weird or treats her wrongly or thinks less of her for absolutely anything hdjfjf

Oh, gotcha, gotcha. That protectiveness over Juls, I totally get. One of the first people to pile onto poor Juls and her motivations coming purely from a place of care about Val must have made it even harder to stomach.

On the one hand, I can think, well, she didn’t know it was a romantic relationship back then, she was trying to stop what she thought was a harmful friendship before it got deeper, but lol, no stopping friendships with Lucho or Sergio, huh. I can’t help but think Juls’s class came into it, which I don’t like.

But, people can grow from their mistakes. She does know about their relationship now, either from watching on TV or with Val happily skipping up to her hand in hand with a sheepish Juls and proudly reintroducing her girlfriend. I think at that point, if Chivis loves Val as much as I think she does, she’d submit gracefully and her attitude would change. Maybe she’d still gossip a bit with her husband but with Eva in jail, Lucia dead, and Jacobo revealed to be Leon, she can hardly claim the violence surrounding them is due to poor Juls. 

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And in front of chivis, please in front of chivis. Bitch deserves to know whos the boss hdjdk

Heh, your anger at Chivis. But anon, anon, that’s actually probably exactly why Juls WOULD never do that. She effectively is kind of the boss? She’s at a level higher than Chivis, anyhow. You can’t act like that with someone your gf’s family employs. That’s actually something I super love about Juls, how polite she always is with the staff. 

I was going to elaborate on this when I giffed it but anyway, remember when Alerio said that Juls couldn’t use the Carvajal car after instruction from Eva and Val was understandably losing it a bit, after the day she’d been having, and Juls stepped in and was like, it’s not his fault, don’t take it out on him? That was actually one of my favorite Juls moments. That kind of awareness and sense of fairness, after being so shocked by Eva’s visit herself and then the humiliation only burning deeper at being told she couldn’t even get in the damn car, it’s such a clear sign of what a fundamentally good and kind person she is. 

I think she’d basically wait out Chivis until she accepted them, like, it’s not as if Chivis is trying to turn her away out of malice, more…well, it is wrong of her, because even if she’s doing it out of protectiveness, there certainly seems to be a part of her ready to believe the worst of the Valdeses. But I think she’ll come around, she’ll have to, and she and Juls will probably end up great allies as people who adore Val and have to tolerate that grump Eva. 😛