Hmm now it makes sense how juliantina has remained steady as well the characters! Leonardo padron has a good record of good telenovelas and he’s not only the writer but also creator of amar a muerte so it makes sense there’s almost no one stopping him from doing good shit

Except like…the biases and instincts that have influenced every other genre writer who’s never been able to treat wlw characters as their own people and deserving of their own stories. 

I want to do like a study and compare this to soooo many other things around the world. I mean, I assume the poor treatment is the result of the intersection of female character, already pushed a bit to the side, with LGBT and really often, like double diversity points in one token character, so also a WOC. I mean, I don’t think those writers say to themselves, this character isn’t as important. But it shows, doesn’t it? We’ll see how it ends and then dissect every little thing, lol.

I just want to give a shout out to Leonardo Padron, the writer of AAM, for this incredible story. It’s a little crazy it’s not even a team of writers, just him and he’s done a great job

It’s been really great and I hope some of this current praise makes its way to him. The writing has been so, so good, in so many dimensions. It’s natural, it’s realistic, it’s as wholesome as an introductory gay couple needs to be, it doesn’t neuter their romantic attraction, it’s as educational and relateable as an introductory couple has to be, and to have all that together! While putting them in the center of this plot and never having them serve it but it serving them. 

Leonardo Padron, huh. That’s a name to remember.