another nerdy lesbian

Chapters: 6/12 Fandom: Sueños de libertad | Dreams of Liberty (Spain TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marta de la Reina/Fina Valero Characters: Fina Valero, Marta de la Reina, Carmen Recas Additional Tags: Canon May Joss This, Exile, Buenos Aires, Canon Compliant, To a point, Reconciliation Summary:

“Wells and Bering solving puzzles, saving the day!”

Author: ash_madrone

Fandom: Warehouse 13

Ship: Myka Bering/HG Wells

Rating: M

Summary:

Myka huffed. “I’m a journalist and a visitor, you know I can’t get involved in anything illegal.” “You are going to wait on the sidelines of the revolution for your journalistic ethics?” Helena was leaning towards her now, eyes sparkling a challenge. “Helena.” Myka was trying not to smile back. OR Journalist Myka Bering meets Helena Wells in Santiago, Chile in March of 1973 as they both try to find their way towards revolution.

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Submitter's comments:

Usually homophobia on screen is presented as pure anger and physical and/or verbal violence. This more contained reaction, but one of such deep graphic disgust hits fucking hard, man. There are no loud voices, no screaming, implied barely contained violence, sure, but it is so soul-destroying because of how restrained it is. The calm disgust speaks with more force and clarity than Caps Lock and Comic Sans. But it also leaves room for Marta’s reaction to truly speak volume which is so fucking - well deserved as a viewer (and for her as a character obviously). Her response is equally calm and forceful and as destroyed you felt by Damian's response, she lifts you up and brings you higher than you were to begin with through hers.

And this is what happens when a character gets 100+ episodes to develop, there’s room to fail and then get a second chance to try again, and maybe even more than once. A six part mini-series on Netflix doesn’t give you the same kind of emotional response to the character’s journey, there’s just not enough time for it. But with this there have been. We’ve spent months following these characters, and Marta in particular. You’ve seen her fear her own feelings, you’ve seen her take one step forward and fifteen back, on more than one occasion. Forsaking herself and her relationship with Fina. It hurt, for sure, but that was the point, that’s why now as she’s had the time to develop - it then feels like such a reward to have her stand up for herself and her relationship. Watching her tell her father that “yes, she might be a homosexual, but she won’t let him insult her” or have her just straight up in his face tell him he can fuck right off, because she will not give up her relationship with Fina (not in so many words, but the intent was fucking clear, even for me whose Spanish is…undercooked). I do not as a rule cheer at my television screen, but in silence my heart probably grew a couple of sizes at her calm determination of not allowing anyone, least of all her father, to fuck with her happiness, self-realisation or relationship.

Also, that look in her eyes. I don't think you actually want to make an enemy out of Marta de la Reina, because that anger - she's seemingly never had a reason to tap into it before, but that doesn't mean it's not there. And it definitely doesn't mean you shouldn't fear it or her. Because unlike her unhinged brother, she is both intelligent, creative and strong as fucking hell. I'd say, don't test her, unless you want to fuck around and find out.

I've lived in this neighborhood for 20 years, and never seen one here, before.

In less than a decade, I've watched the proliferation of native planting, habitat planting, signs saying an area is for pollinators and no pesticides allowed, fewer and fewer monoculture grass lawns. Better raking and soil health practices. Businesses and schools are installing rain gardens and native plants all over my neighborhood, and it's slowly spilling out into more and more types of neighborhoods.

if you haven't been paying attention to gardens for the past decade you'd never notice it.

But it started slow and now it's speeding up rapidly.

Expectations here are shifting.

Tonight I took a walk at dusk to a park I've been to a thousand times before, where my daughter and I planted replacement trees this arbor day, and there were fireflies everywhere you looked!

It seemed like a lot of them, till I passed a garden near the park on my way home, that was full of native plants. It was absolutely sparkling with fireflies. It was one of those native plant gardens that've gone in in recent years, hitting it's stride and full maturity. Just glittering with this fantastic creature that's in danger of being in decline.

Just a few native gardens, a bit less raking, and not mowing the lawn in May. That's all it takes for a whole little population to thrive.

And there are so many more of these gardens going in now. More every year. Frankly the anti-ICE activity really sped it up over here. And we give each other seeds and seedlings and cuttings and advice to make it go faster. In five years the whole neighborhood will be aglow.

I can't wait till my garden is mature enough for me to sit on my porch and watch them. If I can ever go a year without significant building debris on my yard.

We'll get there. I know we will.