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Jen; she/her; brocanteur @ ao3

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[huariqueje]

David Hockney , R.I.P.

British , 1938- 11 - 06 - 2026

Het iPad-schilderij ‘No. 316’, 2020

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David Hockney - Self Portrait, 1975

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Dead at 88, David Hockney

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I still can’t believe Marta never said anything about the hair or the trousers

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Marta asks Cloe what she’ll do if the perfumery closes up and Cloe admits she’ll be fired by Brossard for teaming up with the de la Reinas. Marta says she’s sorry to hear that, but it’s not over, that anything can still happen—a miracle. Cloe says she’s more the type to accept things as they happen, like the song they used to listen to, she says, when they were together: non, je ne regrette ríen. A neat little allusion to their own situation. Later, Marta runs into Andrés and he admits he knew Tasio planned on hiring Paula. He convinces her that it wasn’t Paula’s fault, and that she shouldn’t pay for their brother’s mistake. Marta relents. (I think most of her fury was on behalf of Carmen.)

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Part 1 of 2. Fina is back at the casa grande in record time. Marta is talking about all of the goings on at the factory in preparation for the arrival of Brossard. Fina is all moved in to her apartment (the great advantage of having four things). Claudia arrives to tell them Tasio seems to have hired Paula. Marta and Fina don’t like it, and Marta takes off to find out what’s going on. She confronts Tasio and tells him to get rid of a Paula. He tells her “vete a la mierda” and I am surprised he didn’t get slapped for that one. Marta goes to her office and vents with Cloe.

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sdl ep. 584

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something something la señora no sabe fregar

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Fina leaves the big house. Damián tells her it’s her house, that her father would be proud of her. He says he only wishes he had known what happened sooner so he might have protected her as he had promised her father. She thanks him for having her in his home and accepting her as she is. They share a hug. Marta doesn’t accompany her because she has a big day at the perfumery. Brossard is scheduled to show up. There’s a discussion between the de la Reina siblings about what it would mean for Damián to sell the new company he started with Tasio. Tasio pleads with them to see side of it. Marta tells him that the factory is his legacy for all of them. In the preview: Marta isn’t happy that Tasio has snuck Paula into the factory’s payroll. Marta and Cloe discuss the imminent closing (Cloe pointing out that Floral is about to buy the installations, Marta saying anything can still happen).

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[waverlyyhaught]

Favorite Marta and Fina Moments - Part 200 Sueños de Libertad, Ep. 575 Watch the scene here

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[madronash]

What Franco’s Archives Accidentally Preserved About Queer Life in Spain

"Courts required that erotic literature be read aloud in courtrooms and transcribed into judicial files, even as the original books were destroyed. A 1961 Supreme Court ruling determined that self-portrait photographs taken by two men with a camera’s self-timer and kept under lock and key were equivalent to having a scandalized witness in the room: the image itself prolonged the transgression. In 1962, a Madrid judge physically climbed onto a table to peer through a crack in a boarding-house wall to verify what sexual acts might be visible to an informant. While the state imposed invisibility on queer subjects, it simultaneously invested public resources in observing, recording, and filing their most intimate moments." Via Notches

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Derek Jarman’s scrapbook for Blue (1993) (Via Keith Collins Will Trust)1

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I haven’t been able to write an entire chapter of te escribo estas palabras every day lately because work has been kicking my ass and some days I’m too tired to think properly, let alone write an entire chapter of a story that is in its most important act. but I’m still so invested, and I’m so so grateful to see some people are continuing to follow it. if someone had said to me this time last year that I would begin something in August that would carry me through for the next 300 days (and counting), something I would work on daily—daily—that would consume my creative life, I think I would have been very skeptical. yet here I am! almost 200 chapters and 170,000 words in. and I’m still I love with it. and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.