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Oh in the Dr RoJuls AU Vera and Val totally know each other from the party scene and Lucho and Juanpi travel in the same douche-circle but the sweet responsible Dr who just wants to make her parents proud and the most of the opportunity because she KNOWS her life could be very different doesn’t have time to frequent such places… until a very grateful Val invites her out

Oooh, that’d actually be a really good source of motivation behind RoJuls’s drive and need to excel. And Vera and Val both in the party circle works so well, and omg, Lucho and Juanpi would TOTALLY be douche bros. Both bitching about their girlfriends and thinking the other has it better and then Val and Ro meet and hit it off and they think it’s actually a good thing at first. >_> 

That actually sounds like a really fun AU, if someone wanted to explore all the fundamental differences that kind of background would give RoJuls, but the same inherent goodness and kindness and mom-friend maturity from growing up too fast.

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In Chapter 6, when Vera asks Marcela if Joshua was her first boyfriend and Marce replies that she only used him to fuck, Vera’s expression changes before asking if she has fucked many men. I wonder if she felt any jealousy? Or maybe I’m being dumb and Vera was just genuinely interested in that…

Hmm, it does change quite visibly, but I think my first reading of it was that she was thinking about her own relationship with guys, which was pretty terrible (for understandable reasons).

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It looks like she’s turning her thoughts inwards, you know? And especially since Marcela isn’t even talking about the depth of her feelings for Joshua, instead highlighting the physical aspect. While Vera seems to be thinking over how she doesn’t seem to enjoy the physical side at all.

But later on, when she asked about him in ep 7, “How’s it going with, what’s his name, Joshua?” I think then there might have been a little something. And then definitely in ep 10 at the hotel room when Carly tried to make her laugh about Joshua bringing Marcela to that room and instead just ended up making Vera really jealous. Also later on in the same ep when they were outside and Carly called him handsome and Vera was so irritated and immediately went no, mames. 

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Parveen Kaur is gorgeous! It’s ridiculous! (and bless now we have her plays a wlw in manifest lol I was hoping that she would!)

She is! I confess, I wasn’t really taking much notice of her at first, she was added along with several other people to Saving Hope at a time when I was still focused on the established characters’ stories and then the big arc she got was at first terrible for her character, but by the end I really liked her. It was great to see her pop up on Manifest and even before the pronoun hiding with Alex or the explicit wlw story she was a compassionate, kickass character, solving those Callings with her medical skills.

I saw some people are scared that the current arc will lead to her death and I don’t know why, unless I missed some promo, but I’d be furious if so. Aside from being a wlw it’d be such a loss to the show, the one main character who isn’t a Stone and who uses science to such a degree. No way they’d punish her to this extent for looking at a different avenue… 

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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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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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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.