#htll

Honestly thought he was going undercover or something

Heir To Love And Lies is an extremely racist story to its core.

The love inrerests are either harmful stereotypes or key players on the violence and corruption here in Colombia.

Even if Nathalie has a Colombian father, she has failed to accurately represent the country, the spanglish abhorrent and the treatment of rural Colombia is one of the worst I've seen.

The MC is a white saviour stereotype and is such an awful character whom barely cares about the town; especially when their decisions will affect the livelihoods of workers.

Chava and his whole family are a huge stereotype of low income workers and farmers in the perifery. Their relationship with the drug cartel was unnecessary and insulting— especially when Colombian people already struggle with discrimination about being poor coca and marijuana farmers.

Sergio is literally the epitome of everything wrong with Colombia and shouldn't be romantisized as a love interest— especially as he is related to an assasination which happen in Colombia on the daily .

Val is part of the most corrupt, homophobic and racist institutions and attempting to make her a love interest makes me want to barf as an lgbt Colombian. Especially when I receive news on the daily of lgbt people getting abused by police. I'm glad her route never got released.

The whole story glorifies the foreign colonization of Colombia's economy; which have affected our country gravely— even leaving entire regions of ours in extreme poverty.

'La Dama Roja' is such an awfully constructed character; both character design and story-wise. Her dress is mexican right out of the bat. Her whole character crumbles apart once you actually learn about Colombian politics and culture.

The whole story is a complete regression for Colombian representation and a slap on the face for me, and many other latino users whom have shared their concerns privately to me. It perpetrates so many harmful stereotypes and completely misunderstands the intricacies of Colombia and its people. It ignores our pleas for positive rep after being thrown and dragged through the mud as a druggie country for upwards of fourty years and refuses to acknowledge that Colombia is more than just drugs and coffee.

If you want 'good' Colombian representation, you are much better off watching Encanto in spite of its issues.

If you want Colombian rep that is more mature leaning I would recommend;

Los Viajes Del Viento for a culturally accurate depiction of the north of Colombia

Señorita María: La Falda De La Montaña for a documentary about being lgbtq+ trans in rural Colombia

Los Colores De La Montaña for a depiction of how the drug war has affected innocent farmers in rural Colombia

These are all critically acclaimed movies that all tackle living in the small towns that HTLAL is supposed to be based upon and do a much better job at it.

Because I can assure you, Latino followers make up almost a FOURTH of the fandom and they are NOT happy with this story :)))

I JUST WANTED TO CALL THEM PRETTY. That's all lol

Masterlist

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Val

Stutters and blushes. She just shuts down for a quick moment before she just returns it tenfold.

Never gets old no matter how many times you call her pretty. It helps her especially when she feels at her lowest, and just pumps her up when she knows she looks good.

She gets this gorgeous smile on her face whenever you do she's so damn preciousssss no matter her mood she just lights up

Sergio

He knows lol but he still gets pretty damn shy about it. He just sits there with a blush and returns the compliments <3

The only time he's genuinely surprised is when he's not put together, when he just woke up and he's in disarray. When you tell him he's pretty then he knows you're serious.

Over all will not refuse any praise. You can just plop yourself on his lap and call him pretty and he'll sit there and accept it lol

Chava

You call him pretty when he does literally anything. He's just sitting there? Pretty. Working around the plantation? Pretty. Being the spectacular man he is? Pretty.

He's kinda baffled by it every time. He returns it of course but he's just usually not the one being called pretty.