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ellavaday · 2 years

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sandra screaming into the void about dres2 (with a side of almodovar film nerding added in for flavor and wordplay joke explanation bc watching this twice once without the subtitles and once with the subtitles is a trip):

i am a samantha apologist but i agree w diamante, i wish ariel had stayed (that being said, diamante my love, be smart, say that sort of stuff in confessionals, not out loud w the entire room, hay que tener una poquita de por favor de verdad), yes estrella has a point we couldn't stop looking at her but that isn't always a good thing even if it is what samantha does best

... pretty sure what juriji calls samantha is mamarracha in french when they're all walking into the workroom making animal noises (... or the lot of them, more like 🤣 which i mean.. fair enough)

the ariel joke estrella makes about cleaning the dirty clothes is close to the spanish equivalent of that saying about "washing your dirty laundry in public"

the wordplay supremme does before calling the pitcrew after introducing the goose game is bc chicks (pollitas) is yet another euphemism for dicks lmao (pollas)

sharonne's (wrong) answer was funny bc higo (fig) is a coloquialism for vagina (like eggplant for dick in english), the spanish saying is "en tiempo de higos no hay amigos" (lit. "in time for figs there's no friends"/"there are no real friends when it's fair weather") and her answer was "i don't have a fig"

ofc supremme is playing putricia lmao she used to do "supremme's diary" in the gran hotel de las reinas tour during intermissions when she interacted with the audience and you can tell she's having the time of her life, it's a parody of a trash talk show that caused controversy here (pretty long running it was like 10 years on air? the biggest controversy is that a russian girl was murdered by her ex after she said no to his marriage proposal in the show and the show was denounced pretty often bc it was on air during children's protected viewing times but it was, ofc, very much not suitable for kids)

at the end of the intro of supremme as putricia you can hear someone say 'pero usted quién es!?' (but who are you!?) which became a meme bc of this show (it's a vid of a guy telling a girl he wants to date her, her face says it all really but her asking who the hell is he makes it even funnier)

tortilleras (omelettiers) is an euphemism for lesbian so diamante, sharonne and estrella are calling themselves team lesbians (the other euphemism for lesbian in spain is bollera, which juriji said earlier in the episode when talking about being sad ariel left)

what the fuck was it with estrella and whatever was the black thing coming out of her mouth 💀 (edit: she said on IG that apparently it's supposed to be dirt from a snippet that got edited out from the show I can't lmao)

speaking of tortilla española, if you want to start a new civil war, ask a group of spaniards how does spanish omelette have to be cooked, not one of them will agree, in december one of my mutuals almost did start a war amongst our friends by accident when he posted this, another one of the mutuals decided to "settle" the debate making a poll. it did not help. but if you want to see the results here they are (and the correct answer is without onion btw <3)

sethlas is basically playing valentina in this challenge and I have to say it's hilarious and it isn't even jarring bc canarian accent sounds like an accent from latam, i liked this one lmao i think all of them were pretty good (i do however think that if someone would have been in the bottom, that'd be marina because she was sort of just... there), you have one guess for what does polla gorda (the name of sethlas' character) means (hint: f*t d*ck); and the joke jota makes about suppositories is not about jota herself but about the character sethlas is playing (why do the subtitles think she's talking about herself here idk)

when the subs say samantha, onyx and juriji are "the weird one, the funny one and the sexy one"... cachonda actually means horny lol

speaking of juriji, i am obsessed and i love you can ship her with half of the cast, including marina if enemies to lovers is your thing lmao (that being said so far my vote is for her and onyx)

the flan thing did kind of make me gag ngl but they did really good (it was horrifying but it was good)

idk if jota's shawl belonged to lola flores or not but estrella being a hater is really entertaining i have to say (also dancing flamenco with shawls is so much fun i automatically like it simply bc all i can think of is twirling but it's a damn a workout)

there are no words for how excited i was about the almodovar runway when they announced it and i am so sorry but you did click the read more knowing this was coming

the intro quote supremme says is a reference to an interview almodovar did around the release time of 'con los brazos rotos' which is a love declaration to cinema, ambrossi's intro line is also a ref to another interview (about being a young adult during the most hardcore years of la movida madrileña when drugs were rampant and everyone was dying for partying too much or the aids crisis), anna's line is actually 'i don't mind the genre (of the movie)' (not size) which i mean... fucking duh considering the theme of the runway and almodovar filmography (the word for gender and genre is the same in spanish); calvo's intro is literally the name of an almodovar movie of the early 00s named 'talk to her'

eduardo casanova (guest judge) compares ana locking to ana polvorosa (a spanish actress)... personally i think ana polvorosa looks more like lady camden (as in she's freaking identical) ((he became famous for playing the first openly gay kid character on the same show he acted in with ana polvorosa.. it's called aida btw))

the quotes supremme makes before announcing the runway ('existe alguna posibilidad, por pequeña que sea, de no acabar con lo nuestro?' and 'que heavy eres juana') are from the flower of my secret and kika; she also spoofs penelope cruz screaming 'pedroooo' when he won the oscar for best foreign film in 2000 (sharonne did the same in episode one when they're getting out of drag for the maja desnuda challenge)

ok now for the actual runways:

sethlas does tilda swinton in the human voice (which i have to say is freaking brilliant bc it's the one thing this man has made in english, it's a short film but it's the most likely thing to be recognizable for both younger and not spanish speaking audiences... besides juriji's penelope cruz look), the 'is that jose luis moreno?' comment casanova makes is bc jose luis moreno is a tv producer that was hospitalized bc he was attacked by two robbers with an axe in the mid 00s (yes the axe was in his head, the dude is almost 75yo, he must've been 60-ish when he was attacked, no idk how did he come out of that one alive, it's a meme)

estrella is the main character from kika and damn is that prosthetic nose identical to rossy de palma's (disgusted as i was with the sketch -which was the objective of the challenge anyway- between her performance on the sketch and this runway i was pretty sure she was going to win this week ngl), the judges make a reference to kika lorace which is another famous drag queen (she was the invited guest for snatch game last season), casanova quotes a line juana (rossy de palma) says in kika when she is on the runway

samantha starts the runway as lucia (the insane ex-wife) from women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and then turns into pepa (the lover of lucia's ex husband) which is probably one of the best known of the almodovar films? (it's definitely the one in which his films started to actually have plots for one... wacky plots but they at least started to have plots 🤣) and honestly? had samantha not been twice in the bottom already i would have been pretty content with it, it was well executed and she played to her strength bc this is what samantha does, her entire thing is changing characters and improvising, so she does reveals and plays two characters at the same time very often

venedita von dash did that, she's the main character from the 2004 bad education in which gabriel garcia bernal crossdresses for a film and it's fucking great (i don't remember what is the reference to calvo's comment on the runway but i bet you anything it was about carmen maura liking big dicks? something like that)

diamante merybrown is vera from the skin i live in which is literally the stuff of my nightmares come alive (thanks for that, pedro), if samantha got critiqued for being too simple i think the same should have applied to diamante, much as i love her (and much as it was time for samantha to go), both of them did a pretty close reproduction of the actual looks of the movies, although fake blood is always a plus (and a nice nod to the dialogue of the movie, THAT is the one thing that made it a safe for me but barely)

sharonne as marisa paredes in high heels is also fucking uncanny, the subs doesn't pick it up but ambrossi ofc makes the unavoidable marisa > marica (faggot) pun and casanova says 'oh damn eusebio poncela looks great', eusebio poncela is an actor that hates almodóvar's guts after working w him (same w carmen maura btw, she's always beefing with almodovar in public), this is brilliant bc in this movie her character is a famous singer that has a terrible reunion with her estranged daughter and they go see a drag show in which the drag queen's whole gig is imitating marisa paredes' character so she could be playing either marisa paredes or miguel bosé as marisa paredes

jota is andrea caracortada from kika; her character is the presenter of an exploitative tv show that focuses on macabre and bizarre things who wears very over the top clothes, i get ana's argument for the two tit windows being the selling point for that gautier costume design but i did like it 🤷‍♀️ (the look and 'the tampax ponytail' apparently 💀 i am sorry but i think that was rude af from ambrossi) ambrossi calls her alba flores on the runway (the granddaughter of lola flores)

juriji did that too, she's sailor pluto penelope cruz in broken embrace in a replica of vintage chanel and she looks like is a vision (i don't think i have anything else to say she's fucking stunning)

marina is zeca from the skin i live in which is still the stuff from my nightmares but given how many gender subjects are in the movie? fitting, marina is a huge almodovar fan but it would have been criminal for her to reference a different movie of his; her shoes are based on the poster of high heels (same movie sharonne's character is from); supremme makes a reference to the same lola flores song jota referenced in her intro line on ep 1 about being eaten by a tiger; idk if the 'what does she have in that bag?' 'her patience' is a ref to something else but for me it's a reference to a viral tweet by la vecina rubia, i sorta felt like she was just barely there in the acting challenge but i did love this runway (even if i don't think it's entirely on theme bc zeca is v much a straight male character not an almodovar leading lady so yay good for her)

onyx also does a look inspired by andrea caracortada from kika; casanova saying 'you won't film me anymore' is another meme quote reference (to isabel pantoja, a singer, telling off paparazzis stalking her home, it's iconic bc she basically left her house with the express purpose to beat some punks); supremme says 'kitt i need you' which is a reference to both knight rider the tv show from 1982 and a song called 'kitt y los coches del pasado' by ladilla rusa which a man called jose maria turns out to moonlight as a woman called mariví

that quote from agrado in all about my mother makes me weak i really did love this runway okay

juriji vs marina backstage? i live lmao 'no me busques que me encuentras' indeed (fuck around and find out); i in confessionals marina references 'donde estás corazón' which was a gossip show

when the judges all started to cry i wanted to cry as well; the lipsync song is a song from the movie high heels and okay damn jota did so good, samantha did what she does best but it was time, sadly

LA PROHIBIDA IS A GUEST JUDGE NEXT WEEK I CAN'T WAIT i've been waiting for her to show up on drag race since they announced season 1, she was the most famous spanish drag queen before drag race, i am so glad she'll be there next week🥰🥰🥰

watching this twice once in spanish and once with subtitles is truly an experience bc sometimes you can tell when they have a hard time discerning accents (it's not actually bad, just disconcerting bc it's close but it's not what they're saying like in episode one when onyx and samantha were messing around with the breastplates, they changed onyx saying 'my tuck is getting undone/popping up' to 'i am getting tachycardia' bc tuck is close to tach and the verb was jumping up which works with tachycardia, it really feels like them having a hard time just making out words sometimes because enunciation isn't really a thing in castilian spanish)

#personal #drag race españa #this is l o n g 💀#CAN YOU FEEL THE IMPACT HAVING TO STUDY FILM HISTORY DID ON MY SANITY #I HOPE YOU DO #rpdr spain #sandra's translator era

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beautiful-lusamine-blog · 7 years

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Lusamun, do you have any advice for someone who really wants to write something, but can't get the motivation or courage to write it? You're a really good writer, so I was wondering if you had advice.

{Ahhh! I don’t think I’m that good but thank you very much :D

Okay, so this one took me a while, because I really wanted to make sure I responded properly. Behind a Read More because of length}

{Go ahead and skip to the last two paragraphs for the answer to your question, unless you want a huge story about my life in fandoms and other random shit. Which you probably don’t.

So as you may or may not know, I haven’t been an active member of the Pokémon fandom for that long. I’ve always been a fan of the series, having played my first game at about 6 or 7. I just haven’t ever been involved in the fandom, per say. I may have read a couple of fics, but I never really got involved.

Now let’s talk about writing. Creative writing is fun, but it’s really, really hard. I wrote a lot of random stuff a few years ago - Just during Study Hall I would write little books (when I probably should have been doing homework so I wasn’t quite as screwed some nights), but I could never find the motivation to continue them. I had no idea where things were going, the characters and settings were unrealistic (Even by the standards of fantasy and sci-fi novels), and after a few chapters I just started to hate the setting, story, and characters I had created - This is unrelated, but I also wrote things that were very heteronormative and centered on relationships... Which was a super bad idea, because when I started to realize I mayyyybbeeee wasn’t interested in girls I grew to hate my protagonists even more. They seemed to taunt me, and at the time I was still very confused, so that didn’t help at all.

Then, I found fanfiction. Fanfiction is something I previously had a very skewed image of - Only what I’d heard people say about it: It was all shippy and all porn, it was all terribly written with awful grammar and stories that realistically make no sense (Why would a mom leave a fourteen-year-old at home alone for a month!), by twelve to fourteen-year-old girls, stuff like “Naruto and One Direction are all married and all adopted me now they kiss and touch each others’ butts every night and then touch MY butts!!!” (If you get that reference because you’ve seen the parody video “Welcome to Fanfiction (And Wattpad!!)” good for you. It’s a brilliant satire. Have a cookie.)

But I was so, so wrong. I just kind of, I don’t know, stumbled into fanfiction. At first I just read shippy fluff (And sometimes smut to be honest) because I thought it was all that was available. This isn’t related, but through this fanficiton is kind of how I realized that a certain type of paring happened to appeal to me a little more - I always knew I was fine with that, and would ship it if the ship was good, but I didn’t ever consider, you know, empathizing with it in a weird sort of way. Without fanficiton I’d probably still be very confused.

Sorry. I’m rambling. Point is, I found stuff that wasn’t just that! I actually found a Yogscast fanficiton with good plot to it. MindfulWrath’s “The Rise and Fall.” (She is on Archive of Our Own for those interested! If you say Lusamine sent you she will probably be very confused XD) I CRIED. Literally! Over someone else’s take on fictional characters! Anyways, I tried my own hand at writing Yogscast fanfiction.

What I did wasn’t very well written, but it got better over time. I knew what I wanted, though. I knew how it would end, and I knew the story along the way (Except for a tinnny gap at the beginning), and I had an idol to encourage me. I thought it would work great! Annnnd.... I lost motivation. I tried to come back, but the gaps between chapters became larger, and larger, and larger.

Eventually, it all stopped. I tried another one, which also kind of copied MindfulWrath. But I didn’t really care. I just wanted to write. I had foreseen such cool scenes, but I could just never get trough the exposition, never could actually write them, and that sucked. My second Yogscast fic turned out pretty much the same. So I stopped writing.

Fast-forward to the release of Pokémon Sun and Moon. I knew a few things instantly: I HAD A MASSIVE CRUSH ON GLADION. I also knew that it was one of my favorite Pokémon games of all time. I loved the characters, the darker, more personal story, the dynamic between Gladion, Lillie, and Lusamine, the complexity of Lusamine, Guzma, Gladion, and Lillie, the music, Lillie’s desire to be braver and be just like her trainer friend, which I related to a lot. The music was also phenomenal. Oh, and shirtless Kukui/Masked Royale. That was pretty nice, too.

So somehow I just found these RP blogs for Guzma and Plumeria. Don’t really remember. They led me to one of Gladion, which I of course followed. I did that on my personal account, I think. I also fell in love with branch-chief--faba’s blog. I knew I wanted to make one, to interact and write stories with others, and to understand a character in a new way.

Lusamine. I knew instantly, it had to be Lusamine. She was abusive, she was regretful, she was determined, ambitious, and obsessive; she was possessive, she was brutal, she was tender, she was awful, she was redeemed by the end, and oh my goodness, just such a deep villain. Her facial expressions in-game (Especially that manic smile one) made me certain that she was the character I wanted to RP. Definitely.

At first, things were a little shaky. I didn’t have that many people who wanted to RP with me, and since I didn’t get many Asks due to my low follower count, I didn’t really have anything to do.

But, the numbers climbed steadily, if slowly, and then I went on vacation for the holidays. While there, I started a thread with branch-chief--faba for the first time (Who was super nice and didn’t get bothered by the fact that I had literally no idea what I was doing!!), and posted a couple of Ask memes.

Within a week, I went from like 40 followers? Or maybe 30-50? TO 100. It just happened so quickly, it was crazy. People were being nice, and following, and encouraging me to keep going. I loved it. So I started actually writing things for the blog - Things that were actually pretty long, many, many paragraphs. It was a lot of work, but I didn’t feel exhausted at all - Because people always said nice things when I did! It replenished my energy easily! It became a privilege when someone sent an Ask that allowed me to write something long.

I’ve never thought about stopping the writings I do for this blog.

So what’s the moral of the story here? What does this have to do with your question, you ask?

Well, here’s the thing: Writing is really, really tough. And if you write things that no one sees or compliments - It’s hard to keep going. Really hard, in fact. But here on this blog, it’s easy for me. What I’m trying to say is... Umm...

Don’t do what I did. Don’t just get confused and angry when the words stop coming out for a particular thing you’re writing. No, the story isn’t bad, you’re not a bad writer, it’s just not happening anymore. And if it happens again someday, that’s great, but sometimes it doesn’t. That’s okay too. People grow. Writers grow and , just like all people, and sometimes you realize you don’t want to write that something anymore. Ideas are fluid, and sometimes things change - Your opinions may change, your thought process may grow and you won’t be able to write things anymore, but it’s okay. Don’t force it. And, I can’t stress this enough, get your writing out there. Because if it weren’t for people complementing me, I wouldn’t be writing for this blog. That’s why I do. You’ve all been so amazing and supportive, and if you hadn’t, I would have stopped doing this a long time ago. Don’t worry about getting motivated - Just think about all of the coolest things you plan to write, and then start. Let people see it, put it up online, take constructive criticism. And if at some point you lose motivation? That’s okay! It’s okay! You’re not an awful writer, it might just be time to reconsider things, or take a break, or maybe give up on the story - which isn’t a bad thing at all.

Try your best and you’ll accomplish it!!!

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