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September 30, 2020

That’s one thing I’ve always liked about Barbara is that she’s always so honest in her answers. Albeit sometimes too honest! But she’s definitely come a long way in the past few years. Her willingness to learn and not taking things to heart or think the fans are attacking her (bc sometimes it can seem that way, it’s so hard to articulate online without sounding like you’re bullying someone to understand- not sure if that makes sense).

Yeah, I get what you mean! Her answers come across as something she puts a lot of thought into, not always what we wanted to hear, but it does make them seem more genuine. I mean, obviously she plays along quite often with the fandom, lots of banter, but when it’s something serious, it feels more respectful to trust the fandom to get where she’s coming from. And for sure, the amount she’s learned and grown through this is all is heartening.

And it can definitely seem, even when people are mostly being nice, overwhelming when you’re getting told a lot of one thing and it’s all about how you got something wrong. Things were so heady in the early days, you can see, as with WN and TBH recently, when actors really appreciate that boost in attention and then it can start to feel like a lot. I think she’s understood now how she wants to engage with fandom and struck a healthy balance.

September 1, 2020

This time around I don’t feel anyone pressuring them to speak english. I know it happens sometimes but this time I think it was just people knowing they both speak some english and therefore asking questions. And to be honest I feel for the people that can’t understand them in their native language, they miss a lot of content because of it and have to patiently wait for the kind souls that translate things. [1]

Obviously that doesn’t give anyone the right to be rude, but I didn’t notice anyone over the line this time around. Also about the LGBT question, they both answered it in Spanish as well precisely because they can be more eloquent that way, Maca made a joke about answering in Spanish as well because this way they can speak faster. Anyway, for the people that are waiting for translations, I believe All The Lilies is uploading it with subs. [2]

Oh, okay, that’s good, I wasn’t sure about it, I hadn’t tuned into most of it and then wasn’t watching the comments. But like, it can be just the sheer number of people asking that becomes kind of overwhelming in itself, you know? But yeah, I do get it, like I said, it’s just an individual asking, they’re not exactly bargaining collectively. And oh, okay, awesome, glad they got a chance to finetune their answer.

Ah, awesome! Ole ATL coming through again.

This is part 1, they’re doing it in big chunks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM6bipHD-eE

And I think this other user is also doing it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chMA3jU8XjY

The fact that there are like at least three different entities sitting down to do this hour long video is…so lovely, lol.