#our thoughts

They watched it get deleted in real time.

Lex Luthor is G(a)linda because he only really thinks about himself and what will be good for him/what he can get others to do for him. He also convinces others (largely government people, in this case) that his actions will benefit everyone when really they will mainly be good for him.

Clark Kent/Superman is Elphaba because he’s misunderstood and people see him as “alien” and “other” without trying to understand him as a person and his own views. He also will fight for whatever he believes is right, no matter what anyone else thinks, and stands up for those in need of help without question.

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We are very aromantic so this is how we very aromantically watch and see Yo soy Franky

Sofía and Wilson don't marry or date anyone if they don't meet each other (that's implied in the episode where Franky and Clara change the past). Very gray-romantic of them.

Paul doesn't care about romance at all (at least at first) before he meets Margarita, kinda the same as the Andrade actually!! Also it's implied that he doesn't marry Margarita without Sofía and Wilson getting together. It doesn't relate to anything here we just love this random fact 🤣

Roby (S1) doesn't care either, has multiple scenes with Loli and Delfina where he doesn't get what they want.

Kassandra has no love life, no friends and no interest in either (Kassandra is literally anattractional YAY). She is also repulsed by any typical couple stuff like kissing or hearing people talk about their partner.

Clara (S1) tries to date Benjamín for a day and finds it boring immediately.

Lorenzo has zero love interest or any partner in his life.

Margarita doesn't prioritize romantic love in her life, she thinks about her kids first and is looking for friends her age more so than a lover (and then she meets Paul).

Marxism tends to talk about how we derive our purpose in life through the labor we create. Alienated labor is as a result something that we don't extract direct value from, because all the work we do is for the sake of people we'll never meet. We work for a corporation and our labor is thusly alienated.

Now we could be enjoying this lovely time with a gross corporation and praise them for their oh so generous progress in the world. But that progress is a load of crap to get their profit margins to increase. And that's a pretty obvious point for us from every company we've worked for so far.

And well, for little old us, we find that video games and even house work and errands or doing something for a friend tends to be a lot more rewarding than whatever is offered from some stinky employer. I'd go as far as to say that the labor we put into intimacy is heck of a lot more fun and engaging than getting the socks off of some profit chart or whatever.

Now of course, we're aware that these processes are like babies first Marxism. Yet it's something that has continued to strike us as fascinating every time. We gain no monetary gain from playing these cozy games. We are, for all intents and purposes, doing something that could be considered a job task in itself. But because we're seeking to accomplish it by our own, it ends up holding value to us and being important. In regards to the, let's use the economist's "great" wording here, more productive tasks we can do, those still give us more satisfaction, even if we'll never be directly paid for any of this. The alienating nature of money and how that money will always be in favor of the house, means that for us, the players, the workers, we'll never gain much. And what we can see as people that fit into all sorts of labels for fun minority groups, but we're considered even more potentially exploitable by the few willing to hire us. And that's just not okay.

The world should be collective. The world should be communal. The world should be communist and it should be anarchist. And it certainly shouldn't force people into labor, whether caused by MLM styled state policies or by liberal, neoliberal, conservative or authoritarian styled ideas of capitalism.

So much “enjoyment” around me in my life has felt performative and inauthentic, of both the mundane and of the more niche- consumerist culture, especially pertaining to short lived trends, and societal expectations and values are some factors at play here (I could get into this more, but what I’m saying now is meant to be more about the effects of broader socialpolitical contexts on how people approach recreation, and how people are affected on an individual, or at least a smaller scale, rather than an analysis of the contexts themselves).

I think about trends that come in go within months, or even less, and how people will buy piles of cheaply made slop just to throw it all away a year later and make TikToks about their “cringe phase(s)”. I think about how making art and posting it for other people to see is referred to as “content creation” and artists of all sorts are expected to pump out work like machines, unless they want to be punished by algorithms, maybe even berated by their own fans. So many buzzwords with so little substance.

To me, all of this reeks of people starving of things that actually make them feel enjoyment in a way that feeds their soul and leaves them fulfilled and replenished. I don’t deny the possibility that this could be a projection of my own experiences, but to me, it looks like trying and failing to fill a void, at least in part.

I am trying to learn to enjoy things again with the wonder that I used to have as an autistic child- before school, before I started to become aware of the these contradictory, empty unsaid expectations around things- that in theory, should be about having fun. I’m trying to learn how to play again as an adult and what that means for me. Trying to learn to embrace my intuition instead of ignoring it (in general, but in this context, specifically in regards to what I do or don’t enjoy, how I enjoy it, etc). Play is important for development and emotional wellbeing in a child, but I think it’s very easy to underestimate how important is for adults, too.

It brokes our heart, it felt so real and relatable that we almost cried. Seeing him losing time, fearing going to bed because he doesn't know who is gonna wake up, failing at relationship, loosing dates, not remembering who you are, noticing things that you didn't left like that, being so confuse to the verge of crying, desperately wanting to enjoy life just to feel someone else pushing to take the front and cry because you don't want to left already, hearing voices that scares the shit out of you, seeing all of these was like watching a reflection of our life. We can't remember most of it but those moments are very clear to us. We felt seen, we felt real.