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Been thinking about this a lot lately.

What is the story that you’re dying to hear but that as far as you know nobody has ever told, or at least not in a way that resonated with you? Or the elements/fragments you’d like to see.

Particularly interested in takes from queer women (including trans/nb folks who identify with womanhood) over ~35 because jfc there are not a lot of stories about us out there.

#writing #been trying to figure out what this story would be for me #so that I can perhaps try to write it #I have a lot of fragments #I’m going to just start writing them down soon and see if they take themselves somewhere #which is usually how I write things tbh

beardedmrbean

roadien60

Okay. Yes. There is something beautiful about this.

But here’s the thing: if all this apology is required for a three minute delay, think about how rare such a delay must be—and then think, in turn, about what is required to keep trains moving so tightly that a 3-minute delay almost never happens.

The Amagasaki derailment happened while I lived in Tokyo. Over 100 deaths and over 500 injuries caused by a train taking a turn too fast and jumping the track. An investigation revealed that the cause was the punitive approach taken by the train company, JR West, against its drivers when their trains ran even a minute or two late, which included subjecting the drivers to humiliating verbal abuse, forcing them to repent for their errors confession-style in lengthy written reports, and subjecting them to “retraining” in the form of menial labour such as litter collection and weeding around the tracks.

The Amagasaki driver had been running 90 seconds late because he overshot a signal, which triggered an automatic safety brake to kick in. Obviously not great, but he was human, and that’s precisely why the safety brake exists. At the time that the train jumped the track, he had managed to reduce the delay to 60 seconds. He was going too fast because he was desperate to close the gap.

So yes. It’s beautiful, in a way, that people care so much about 3 minutes.

But also: 106 deaths and 562 injuries because people cared so much about 60 seconds.

#roadie rambles #tw mass casualty #tw death #trains in Japan #don’t get me wrong I LOVE Japanese train travel and train culture #but the extreme punctuality however convenient has a real human cost

it's very strange to live in a small, random city that has a growing film/media industry because I'll be scrolling on here and be like "oop there's that random ultrafamous actor who caused me to take a full hour to get served at my fav restaurant last month" "oop there's that random ultrafamous actress who was here working on the same movie and was also at the restaurant that night" "oop there's that random mildly-famous actress who lived across the street from me all last summer while she was here shooting" "oop there's that one guy, you know his face, you know, that-guy-who-was-in-that-thing, he sublet my coworker's place while she was on sabbatical last year" "oop there's that guy who got his hair cut by my friend the day before he randomly died and was all over the news"

My (Nigerian) grad student lost his wallet. Someone posted it on a local lost-and-found group on FB. I don't have FB but my colleague does, and she texted me after she saw the post at 10 pm last night. We spent the next 25 minutes trying to figure out how we can reconnect the student with his wallet without directing him to the FB post whose comments are, according to my colleague, a cesspool of racist idiocy. So, uh, how's your day going?

#this guy has lived in Canada a long time so it's not like this shit is new to him #and he has a personality that fills every room he steps into so I suspect he has unfortunately developed the ability to laugh it off #or fortunately? It feels unfortunate but anyway #thanks for wasting my time racist assholes #I mean the wasting of my time is the least offensive dimension of all this obviously but still #I actually thought this guy was out of town for the summer so it could be that he lost this awhile ago and has already replaced everything #But it's also conceivable he came back for a brief stay #normally this stuff fills me with righteous indignation but this time it just made me sad #why are people so eager to perform the worst versions of themselves?#don't answer that I know the answer #and today it just makes my (perimenopausal?) brain want to cry

Not tagging this but I have a troubling hunch for where this is going... And I hope my hunch is as wrong as every single one of my other predictions have been. Because while I think it's clear from yesterday's interviews that mafin remains the long arc for these characters... I really hope they don't pull a began on them and break them so badly along the way that they become hard to root for as a couple.

Oh my god this interview. The face Belmo makes when AB jokes about Fina sleeping with a man so that Marta and Fina can raise a kid together.

#only one of these actresses understands that it's a weeeeee bit not great to suggest your lesbian character #who very explicitly has zero interest in men at all ever #have a “wild night” with a man to get pregnant #like I know Belmo doesn't talk about these things publicly and I totally respect that #but these faces are screaming TELL ME YOU'RE GAY WITHOUT TELLING ME YOU'RE GAY #if I had gif skills I'd gif it

Reading these interviews out today with Alba and I'm going to have to put a disclaimer on my next fic update that says "no, really, I've had this life in mind for her for months and months, I swear."

Price for having been so slow to finish it I guess!

#fina who gets in with artists: check #Fina who gets political: check #Fina who is no longer content to live her life contained in the small world of Toledo and the fabrica: check #Fina who is no longer willing to be the weakest link bad actors can exploit to get closer to Marta:... not articulated in these interviews #but implicitly also a check

YOU GUYSSSSS I am bored on a layover so I'm snooping the tags on xitter through nitter and

Joint Marta - Alba interview tomorrow!!!

https://nitter.net/LunesSeriefilos/status/2054302498802811027#m

#marta belmonte #alba brunet #mafin #marta x fina #sueños de libertad #interview #los lunes seriéfilos

bloomsberries

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok ok. So, Fina is back… in a dream. But AAHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. Marta deciding to rush off to Argentina. Damián understanding, offering to help!! I’m sorry I need a moment. (Also I like that in Marta’s dream Manuela clearly knows and is sweet about it.)

Alba filming this before they cut her hair!!!! (Fascinated by what Marta conjures up in a dream and the Fina that will actually return.)

Same dress!! @wirepaladin!

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!#mafin #marta x fina #marta de la reina #fina valero #sueños de libertad

huariqueje

Brettos - Aldo Balding , 2024.

British , b. 1960 -

Oil on canvas , 50 x 40 cm. 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.

syniiart

#mafin #mafin fanart #I’m not normally a vampire girl but I’ll make an exception for this one #🥵🥵🥵

clairedsfield

the wait is over: marta and fina are finally reunited and nothing will ever be the same — antena3 article + full video

#mafin #marta x fina #sdl spoilers #need this on my blog stat

As we approach the resolution of all this can I just give a shout-out to @bloomsberries for basically being the tumblr equivalent of the trusted gay elder who had the entire high school GSA/theatre club/softball team show up and occupy her living room every day, staying longer every time, and responded by going “Better here than somewhere where they’ll get themselves in trouble I guess…You kids hungry? I made cookies.”

#mafin #long live bloomsberries’ liquor cart #Gaspar’s got nothing on you

clairedsfield

lo importante siempre vuelve muy pronto el reencuentro mas esperado | sueños de libertad

#mafin #sdl spoilers #INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS

mrsdaphnefielding

METRO: Nuevos Ministerios (25)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68828996/chapters/180924446

#fic rec #mafin #more good things today!!!

bloomsberries

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS FOR SDL MAFIN REUNION

CAN WE JUST! I AM GOING TO DIE

#sdl spoilers #marta x fina #mafin #sueños de libertad #marta de la reina #fina valero

Lunchtime thoughts: it's kind of screwed up that Valentina knows about Fina's blackmail and how hard Marta is searching for her, but Claudia and Carmen don't. I assume it must be at least in part because Carmen would not leave Toledo if she thought Fina might come back, and Carmen has to be able to leave Toledo. And of course if Claudia knows, Carmen would know. I'm a bit sad that the Carmen/Fina reunion will probably happen offscreen, and that we won't get to enjoy the poetic depths of Carmen's rage when she finds out what la rata did to her best friend (at least we'll always have fanfic, shout-out to @bloomsberries).

#fina valero #marta de la reina #claudia diez #carmen recas #valentina somoza #sueños de libertad

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