marz remember that post i made a while back about wanting to write a fic but the plot depends on smut and i don’t really wanna post that yet…… feeling that again😭😭😭😭 sending this to u because i remember u expressing a similar sentiment at the time so like. u get it
yeahhhhhh man i get it 😭 it sucks bc its such a good fic and its pretty much complete but i just. it doesnt feel like the right time to post it ughhhhhh
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i hate berlermo.
okay, HEAR ME OUT FIRST!! do i hate the ship? yes. absolutely. does that stop me thinking about them every second of the day? no. i am in so much pain help me.
want to start with talking about berlin. he is a straight man. martín was NOT his bisexual awakening or something. he. is. a. straight. man. they could not work and berlin made that very clear on multiple occassions. he is also an egomaniac. he has so many disorders, and while i dont want to portray him as some heartless monster (because he isn't!! he cares about himself but that doesn't mean he doesnt care about others too!), i find it hard to believe he didn't keep palermo around to mess with him.
the kiss scene between andrés and martín is the root of a large majority of martíns issues. we see throughout the series that palermo is withdraw from his emotions and love, he has attatchment issues, and he has not moved on from berlin even two years later. he hasnt let himself recover from his death, and his loss of a hopeless, unobtainable love. when berlin kissed him, they both knew that would be the last they saw of eachother. they both knew berlin was willing to let himself die (both because of his illness and his love for his brother) during the heist. it left palermo with false hope, that maybe something could have come from it. but there never could have! that is their last interaction, and that is the last thought he leaves with martín. i wholly believe berlin was fully aware what that would do to him, and left with that as a little "you won't be forgetting me :)" because everything with berlin is Him Him Him. without the kiss, martín would have been able to heal so much quicker and easier.
palermo doesn't start to heal until two years later, when he gets involved in the bank heist. up until that point he blames sergio for the "love of his life"s death, but slowly comes to realise that this group of people that berlin died for are the most caring people. he begins to understand it. they are hurt, they have losed loved ones too, they are risking everything for a loved one. they are so much like him. does he make mistakes? YES! so does everyone in the group, but it is in his nature to stir trouble when he doesn't get his way. did his actions have awful consequences because of that? unfortunately, yes! but he regrets them. he is forgiven, even by those he probably shouldn't be forgiven by!
by the end martín is so much more in touch with his emotions, he realises that he doesnt have to settle for unobtainable love, and he can be loved unconditionally. he went into the bank heist for berlin, but came out of it with so much more. palermo would not have been in the place he was in by the end of it if andrés was still around.
money heist was so refreshing to watch as a queer person. queer relationships were not perfect. i understand the appeal of berlermo, i really do, but they are so unhealthy. i understand the need to cling onto any sort of gay rep because its so scarse in mainstream media, but there is so many queer stories in this show, and none of them are appreciated as much as berlermo, which i find kinda weird!! why is a relationship with a gay man and a straight man more adored than helsinki and palermo? two gay men who helped eachother through SO MUCH! what about the beautiful platonic soulmate relationship between helsinki and nairobi? what about the amazing transwoman, who was such a genuine representation of some trans struggles? please stop prioritising the cishet in queer stories. berlin is so important to so many characters, especially martín, but him as a love interest to martín shouldn't be the main focus in his story, because his whole arc was getting over him and moving on. in reality, he made martín the most unhappiest he had ever been.
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i need to go touch grass but i promised rho yesterday i would talk abt vace+comphet so really quick. i think it's very interesting that vace is so clearly hit by the like. compulsory heterosexual desire for Spouse And Family when so much of exocolonist is like, this futuristic world where gender+sexuality are so much more fluid right
bc in some ways the helio is v forward thinking! nomi mentions it if u ask abt their gender right. theyre like 'oh i was worried there might be ppl mean abt it bc u guys are less advanced than us but u guys have nb ppl here too!!' or however the dialogue goes right. expectation internally that the stratos are going to be Less cool abt this stuff than helio but also like
idk i think the whole like. patriarchal? militaristic? vibes of the helio are really fascinating when they come up against this sort of thing. like. vace's dialogue about..... what is it. if youre not fighting, having kids, or working in engineering to help the war effort, you're a waste of resources. right. it's so like...... interesting that in both his best end (peace post therapy) and his worst (any where he and nem are still together. god) he has a family+kids right. and i think that's something that he genuinely really wants! but also the Way it's been presented to him on the helio is so damaging that he can't really have it without taking the time to self examine WHY he wants it and breaking out of hte mold of being Assigned to want it u kno
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love is real and its intertwining my wizards and my pirates storylines together in ways they don’t quite notice but are deeply fascinating to me. in another universe, my necromancer and privateer are having tea together after everything has settled, but in this one, they don’t even know each other’s names
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