What are some of your favorite novelas, Petty? I grew up loving them too and personally I will ALWAYSSS show up for anything Fernando Colunga is in!
Anon, I'm not giving you some of my favorites. No. I'm giving you my favorite - If you know this bitch (affectionate and derogatory), you KNOW where this is going!
For all the BL people, this is why @italianpersonwithashippersheart, @lukaherehelp, and I are having no qualms about Twins or Playboyy.
Telenovelas, soap operas, y lakorns have trained us well for these shenanigans and hijinks.
Why y'all can't remember twenty-two people's names is beyond me, but I had them down the first episode.
Why y'all don't like the tonal whiplash is odd to me because for me, ten minutes on one couple is TOO MUCH TIME. Six minutes, TOP, and move on to the next one.
Someone getting stabbed in one scene then the next scene being someone celebrating at a birthday party is the way I like my shows, and don't let that person be getting stabbed AT that birthday party because that is my bread and butter.
Oh, and TWINS!
My favorite show includes all of these fine points, and it's the 1998 Mexican telenovela called
La usurpadora
Somewhere in fictional hell, Soraya Montenegro from María la del Barrio is pissed as fuck.
The plot: Paola is a rich bitch and wants to leave her husband for her evil lover but can't figure out how.
¡Sorpresa, cabrona! She meets a worker who looks just like her while on vacation or some shit.
Paulina is the other woman and she is too poor to contour. Therefore, rich bitch Paola convinces kind and caring Paulina to be her stand-in. Paola tells Paulina she will live the best life and be rich, while Paola can be free. It's a win-win.
¡MENTIRAS!
Paulina refuses! So Paola blackmails her into doing it, and with her mother dead, her fiance gone, and no job (since she was fired as part of Paola's blackmailing scheme), Paulina is forced to take the offer. This is like episode 2 out of 102.
In the next 100 episodes, we get forty-five other characters who are all important to the plot, amnesia, cheating, murder attempts, Paola pretending to be paralyzed, Paulina GOES TO PRISON, someone discovers they are actually twins (no duh!), and a crap ton of more drama.
Oh, and the car crash!
But God got Paulina, so she good. Even in the sequel when she had cancer, pero no, she was just pregnant.
The show is based on a 1971 Venezuelan telenovela that was adapted from the book La Intrusa, and has since had several remakes. One was in 2019, which made Paulina Colombian (or was she always Colombian?), and A MUSICAL THIS YEAR!
It holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes because the people know this was a 🎁🎁🎁 from God, and it is not up for debate because it featured men dancing around singing Celia Cruz's "La vida es un carnaval" y Selena's "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom." This movie is the moment.
The lead is Cuban actress Isabella Castillo Díaz who played in America and México's co-produced telenovela ¿Quién es quién?, which is basically the boy version of La usurpadora because of the twins plot. Do you see the theme?
But back to the musical, which also features Drag Race superstar, Valentina. If you know this bitch (affectionate and derogatory), you KNOW!
The 1998 version and musical both embrace the camp of it all. The music in the original 1998 version was peak telenovela, and even if you don't speak Spanish, readers, just watch the first minute of this video. I promise you it will be worth it, and it will give you three perfect examples of the *vibes* I'm always rambling about.
So, yeah, Anon, I hope this explains a lot of about my taste in BLs. I'm here for a show, not the show. Soraya understands.
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[ ♥ isabella castillo gif pack ♥ ]
By clicking HERE or on the source link you will be redirected to 38 (268x151) gifs of the beautiful and very much underrated, Isabella Castillo, in the trailer for La Usurpadora: The Musical. Castillo is a Cuban-American actress and is currently 28 years of age, so please play her accordingly. The gifs were sourced from the official YouTube film trailer by myself. They were intended for personal use and were all edited and filtered by me. All I ask is that you please give this a like and/or reblog if you’re using!
*Content warning : flashing lights/gifs, body image, alcohol imagery, mild violence, kissing, & eye strains.
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Okay, I also offer you this one: Miguel as La Usurpadora como Paola....
It's just a rambling, but it holds so much fun in my head!
LE GASP
Can you imagine the reader as Paulina? 👀👀👀 omg. 🤭🤭
A bit of context:
The girl in the picture has a twin sister, but she doesn't even knows it. But Paola (the cheating and evil sister) is married to Carlos Daniel (Hunky husband) with two kids., but she takes a trip and discovers Paulina (The good and kind sister). Long story short, they swap identities and everyone seems surprised at "Paola's" change of attitude, brings the family closer, helps the family's matriarch to get over her alcoholism aaand Carlos falls in love with her. The ruse is discovered, Paulina goes to jail for identity thief thanks to Gema and Willy (Two people that hate Paola from the begining. Gema is always trying to seduce Carlos Daniel btw) and Paola falls into a comma, forcing the family to take care of her. But in truth, Paola is just playing them fo them to not abandon her. She tries to kill her snitching nurse and gets in another accident, barely surviving. She dies after asking for forgiveness. And Paulina and Carlos Daniel live happy ✨
Now picture that with Miguel & Reader... 🤭🤭
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Speaking of how much I like a well written drama, Shoot me a message about your favorite telenovela. I've talked a lot about how much I like well written inlndian movies here. But I never seem to mention that old telenovelas are my guilty pleasure.
My personal favorites are The 1998 version of La usurpadora (rich Evil Twin forces poor Nice Twin to take her place and pretend to be her with the husband she hates, but Nice Twin falls inlove with the husband and the kids). Carita De Angel (cute little girl gets into lots of trouble, her dad is a hardass, the pretty nun who always takes care of the little girl, falls inlove with the hardass dad and I shipped them!), Lola Erase Una Vez (Mexican version of Floricienta, I've got OPINIONS about this one okay! Lola and Alex were bae). And of course Colombian classic, Passion de Gavilanes circa early 2000's (Franco and Sara were the perfect friends to lovers couple, in this essay I will...)
What about you guys what's your favorite telenovelas
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