So Uuuuhhhh…got My Daughter A Yogurt This Morning And Learned Something New.

everyone’s trying to stump the akinator so i’m gonna try and see if he’ll know that i’m thinking of the little symbol on the front of his turban

Things Armando Wouldn’t have Done

I see a lot of people saying that, at the end, Armando didn’t change. I here want to present a few things that Initial Armando (the one we are shown at the beginning of the show) would have never done, and Final Armando (the one showed after the Board Meeting; just taking into account ysblf, as always), absolutely did:

Giving up the presidency willingly and accepting there was someone much better prepared to lead the business. Initial Armando. Armando wanted the presidency above all else. It was not only his “right” as a heir, but also the thing that his parents (particularly Roberto) valued the most. His desperation to cling onto the presidency was a mixture of ego for himself, and a need for his parents’ approval. It was both an entitled “I deserve this” and a desperate “I need this”. He saw his father’s approval in a good presidency, and was not willing to give that chance up, to the point that he held on so thight that he broke everything. Yet, after everything that happened with Betty, he understood SHE was what the business really needed. He needed to have his ego destroyed for this, that’s true, but he dtill stood up for Betty’s presidency multiple times, accepting she was way better than him.

Hit and get rid of Mario Calderón. This might not sound like a big deal, but it truly is. Mario Calderón was Armando Mendoza’s puppeteer. He was constantly messing with Armando’s head, putting ideas and plotting plans that all they did was bury Armando’s chances of happiness deeper into the ground. Mario Calderón was a manipulative a-hole who enjoyed making fun of Armando’s pain. An yet, he was algo Armando's only friend. His better-than-loneliness. It took Armando a long time to realize this, and that loneliness was definitely better than a "friend" who throws you under the bus if it benefits him, but he eventually did and got rid of him. Getting rid of this dependent, toxic friendship is a huge step.

Rejecting Alejandra. Alejandra Zing was everything Armando Mendoza always claimed to look for in a partner (and also unconsciously looked for). She was beautiful, smart, kind, of good socioeconomic class, funny and had great chemistry with Armando. She made Armando’s good side bloom. And yet, he rejected all his chances with her because he only loved Betty. He knew Alejandra liked him, and exactly because he respected her and learned to respect women (beautiful and ugly alike), that he was clear in his intentions of keeping only a nice friendship. We all know initial Armando would have absolutely gone with her.

Forgiving Marcela. This one is so important. Armando and Marcela's relationship was built on many things (compromise, appearences, dependency, fear, clinginess, etc) but not love. It was a horrible relationship that turky got the worst aspects of both of them out, constantly hurting each other as a way to shield themselves from further harm as well as a way to channel their own resentment. They were stuck together and brainwashed into believing that it was the best. It wasn't. They both became abusive, and constantly abused the other. When Armando breaks up with Marcela, he is letting go of the resentment, the harm he did to her, the dependency, the fear of loneliness-- but he's also forgiving her from all the harm she did to him. Marcela abused him emotionally and sexually throughout the whole show, possibly for years. The Initial Armado handled this through further harming her and resenting her. Final Armando understood this was only damaging them both, understood that her actions also came from a place of hurt (just like his), and forgave her for the abuse se inflicted on him.

Obviously, loving and respecting a woman regardless of her appearence. I don't think this needs much explanation. The love that you ca see in him the day after their second night speaks for itself. The way he retreated and respected her boundaries during Betty's collection launch also speaks volumes.

Armando’s final changes were a bit abrupt and were cut short, I agree. The novela should have furthered them, but unfortunately it couldn't due to time. Yet, Armando’s changes are evident. I understand so much eskepticism since real people most of the time don't change, but in this fictional novela, Armando clearly did.

benny’s obsession with male jocks and trying to get close with them is his attempt at disguising romantic infatuation as platonic masculine admiration… he’s not slick, the closet is made of glass

Just ate an entire pear that was so good and so juicy i started gnawing on it with both hands like an animal and the face my supervisor made when he passed by my desk while I was absolutely consumed by my pear fueled bacchanal was Something i have never seen someone look so tired and also so upset and also also so envious

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

Analog Horror (-adjacent) series you MUST check out

WARNING! IF YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH DEREALIZATION, PARANOIA AND ANXIETY, BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THESE!

Local 58 : *loads gun* Moon's haunted

Gemini Home Entertainment : *loads gun again* Solar System's haunted (Alien invasion type story. Ominous, original and great worldbuilding. Mostly documentary style)

The Mandela Catalogue : Doppelgangers, religious conspiracy, body horror. Remember, nothing is worth the risk.

The Walten Files : FNAF but like subtle. Cute art style too!

The Monument Mythos : Landmarks are sus in an alternate timeline. Also Suez Canal Crab my beloved.

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park : What if spelunking but meaty? (This one's here on tumblr and also reddit! Not quite analog horror but the vibe is there)

Happy Meat Farms/this place is not happy : Honestly best vegan propaganda i've ever seen 10/10 (LOTS OF BODY HORROR AND ANIMAL MISTREATMENT!)

The Smile Tapes :))))

YOURLOCALBREADMAN's youtube channel

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a customer just came in and ordered a flat white with six (6) shots in it. for clarity thats like.. a full cup of espresso with maybe an inch of milk sitting on top. this mf is trying to meet the hat man

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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