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So, I figured I would say a few things to appease you, new comers. Just to keep the space as safe as it can possibly be on a public place. So everyone keeps having a good time.

1/ For most of the complains I’ve seen : The content you are looking for actually exists. You have to look for it because it will not necessarily be recent. You’re arriving in a fandom that has significantly lowered in number of active users about the subject. You may find some people out there still digging about said characters and topics tho, but if you want tons and tons of posts about characters analysis you’ll have to dig the tags. And if you’re on computer, dig the Archives of accounts found in the tags (you can access every posts someone ever made this way, contrary to search bar on tumblr and individual accounts).

2/ Please stop screaming at shippers. We are all here to have some fun with a content we love, and each people are free to enjoy it the way they want to. You don’t like a ship or don’t understand it or don’t want to understand it? Block the ship tag. But don’t come in the related tags (characters) just to scream at us. This is a place we come to to relax and spend time on a topic that distracts us from the everyday stuff, and the last thing we need is to be faced with reproach (especially based on 5min scrolling) and aggressive behaviors.

3/ Don’t underestimate people’s actual thoughts about a character even if all you see about them is their posts. Shippers also spend a lot of time thinking about the characters they are shipping individually, and asking them about the said characters might actually surprise you in a good way. People are nuanced. Don’t think they share all of their thoughts on a tumblr blog.

4/ Ask people what they think of a character, share your headcanon and point of view with them, exchange with people. Hit the ask box. Make a post about the topic and invite people to collaborate by giving their vision. They may send you links to old posts about the topic and you’ll realize you’re not alone at all, people have been there before and shared their thoughts. Also, some people out there wouldn’t have spoken about a topic, a character, an idea, without being asked beforehand.

5/ AO3 is also a great place to find characters analysis, within a ship situation or not.

6/ Create the things you want to see exist. No one is stopping you to do so. And there is no need to be aggressive to others in the process.

Please be more considerate of spaces you arrive into, and of others.

Don’t push hate into people’s spaces.

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jimmy mcgill + movie quotes

uno, 1.01 — ‘network’ | mijo, 1.02 — ‘all that jazz’ | nacho, 1.03 — ‘the shining’ | marco, 1.10 — ‘lawrence of arabia’ | marco, 1.10 — ‘field of dreams’

Nacho WIP

The way Lalo’s palm presses heavy against the small of Nacho’s back has him bending down low, folding at the hips with his hands braced against the hood of his ‘73 AMC Javelin. It reminds him of the last time he got pulled over, only slightly less degrading.

[REUPLOAD] from buckybearart —> a-bloody-omen

“I hear the birds on the summer breeze,

I drive fast,

it's an interesting idea... I personally have always figured the Salamancas were well-connected and rich by the time he was born, but... by my count, Hector was about 20 when Lalo was born. we can say that older Salamancas were already dealing drugs/in the cartel/from well-off families by then and it kept them comfortable until later when they became millionaires officially, but then again, in canon -- I know they don't digitally de-age, so this is a little unreliable, but let me cook -- Hector looked to be at least in his 40s-50s by the time the Eladio poolside scenes began. timelines are hard... whatever, work with me here.

we also know that the cartel didn't even start dealing the (more profitable) meth until after Gus joined up and convinced them to switch gears. they were dealing cocaine before, which, sure, the cartel would still be full of millionaires from that, but maybe their operation was smaller? less of it to go around?

so let's spin a yarn: if Lalo's family was poor until at least the age of 18 (when TD says he was shipped off to a "good school" in the US, which would require both visa and school money), what would that be like? I imagine his family was always involved with drugs in some form, be that using or dealing. users becoming dealers is not at all uncommon, after all.

so, little Lalo, not yet a cartel prince, family scraping by on drug money without being affiliated with any official organized criminal groups... he knows what it's like to want for more. knows exactly why, for example, Nacho joined up (and sees himself in him).

let's think. Lalo, maybe 15, dealing where he shouldn't because it's all he knows and he wants more money he can't get in his family's tiny little patch of unofficial "territory." business-smart even in those days -- little Lalo all holed up in the sparse libraries nearby, learning English just so he has more options to read about business and money and all that stuff.

the cartel in bcs was apparently built by Eladio and the Salamancas. maybe it was Eladio's family who was rich and well-connected, but the Salamancas who worked street-level as muscle and dealers. maybe Lalo is the reason. streetwise and book-smart kid running around, making schemes to muscle out the competition, catching the attention of Eladio's family, who had been dealing longer, more, still new, still without a huge grasp on the market, but they see potential with young Lalo Salamanca and his ruthless family.

maybe Lalo is the way he is because he NEEDED to be. smiling because you make friends and connections that way, hurting people because you get their money and (frightened) loyalty that way. going off to college a few years after his actions introduced his family to Eladio's. coming back to see that they're millionaires now. letting it get to his head because he was so instrumental in it. being resentful when Hector takes the lead and the credit. (you can stay at Casa Tranquila, tio. they have such good care!)

he doesn't want to go back to that early life of smoke-thick rooms and cigarette burns and drunk parents who would rent you out if it meant getting another hit. he doesn't ever want to feel what it's like to not be able to afford something ever again. to not get what he wants.

so what if Lalo isn't spoiled because he grew up a pampered cartel prince, but because he DIDN'T? because he thinks he deserves every penny he and his family have? because he's terrified of the idea of being destitute again? because if all it takes to be rich is a little ruthlessness, a little willingness to hurt people the way he was hurt, why should he ever try to act any other way?

but it comes out, his past, just a little, when he's playing poker with the guys, or chatting with a corner store clerk, or helping an abuela across the street. it comes out in the crinkle at the corners of his eyes, and his genuine laughter, and his relatable, friendly body language, everyone's friend, people pleaser, look at Lalo, he's so nice! you'd hardly even think he was born into the cartel (because he wasn't, because he never thought his life would turn out this way, because sometimes he wonders what it would be like if he had the chance to go back and rewrite history).

maybe this Lalo would understand why Nacho poisoned his uncle. maybe he'd see Manuel working hard for an honest life, and Nacho charmed by the cartel's dazzling facade, and empathize. maybe, if Nacho were to tell him about the blackmail, he wouldn't skin him alive. maybe he'd kiss him and tell him "I get it" and "I'm sorry" and maybe even "thank you." maybe he'd try to help Nacho get free, even if that meant sending him to Canada with his father and never, ever seeing him again. maybe that's the right thing to do.

maybe he doesn't want to do it, though, because he wants to keep getting what he wants. maybe he's selfish.

maybe that's okay.