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Amira voicing (as always) another clear message of the show:

"The crime isn't you taking the pictures. It's him sharing them".

You're not guilty of anything. You're not responsible for the shitty actions of the people you trust. It's their fault, not yours.

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shout out to last march when it was hell for a lot of us keeping up with 6 skam remakes at once. i’m having war flashbacks. we really did that. we are survivors 🤡 barely

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THE EVENS 

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Why the hell do the actors have to give us explanations? And why do some people in the fandom draw their own conclusions? If some things in the seasons have not been to your liking it is understandable, but you cannot go around expanding hate and also speaking as if only you had the truth. There have been things that I also didn't like but I try to take it in the best way because I know that the show is made with all the love in the world. If you go around expanding hate for free then you don't understand skam and I don't know what you do in the fandom.

Your hate does not represent me.

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“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”

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make me choose ≣ sander or robbe

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julie andem’s decision to conceal isak’s crying face at the end of the bros’ clip is not analyzed nor praised enough, yet another credit we owe to this woman… let’s keep in mind that this director’s decision goes hand in hand with isak’s psychology/development and his pov (skam is a show about POINT OF VIEWS) so this particular scene, like every other scene in the show, is presented through the main’s perception -in this season is isak, which means the things we see and how see them go through the filter of isak’s pov. and isak is a character that puts on a tough facade to the world while closeted and struggling with internalized homophobia so he wrongly associates homosexuality with femininity and femininity with emotions. so the initial isak premise, as in the one before he undergoes a major character development, is that he would not normally cry in public but if he ever did… he would not let it show.

think about the first time we see him cry: in the comfortable solitude of his room. our room is our sacred place, where we get to be ourselves without the stress of judgement. so isak, alone and cozy, allows himself to shed a few tears -not just that, but while watching the fave movie of his very male crush no less. in this sweet bubble, he allows himself to treasure this crush and get sentimental which (read above) outside of his room is unlikely. this is the isak that is feeling safe enough to invite us, the audience, into his real self. we have his approval. this is why we can see him crying openly, in all the glory of a close up no less. it’s secure for him, it’s his comfort zone, so the eyes of the camera/our eyes are allowed to make him company -i’m soft sometimes i cry too and i might like a boy but ssshh pls dont tell anyone.

and then let’s jump a few weeks into the future and think about the next time we see him cry after the bros clip: he’s already out of the closet to pretty much everyone, an evolution that goes hand in hand with the slow-but-sure destruction of his wrong conception of homosexuality (read above), so isak being emotional in public is no longer a big deal to him -and most importantly, letting it show. that’s the difference that skam establishes: he’s crying in public again but, unlike the previous time, now we can be witnesses because the character finally surpassed that barrier. i’m out now i’ve nothing left to hide so i don’t care who sees anymore.

now let’s go back to the famous “bitch im outta my coma” bit and… oh. isak is crying, in fact he lets out a pained sob, but we don’t see him. how come we can’t see him and empathize with him? because we’re not ALLOWED to do so -which, if you think about it, makes the situation more heartbreaking. beyond aesthetic reasons (the scene is wonderfully photographed and edited) julie andem gives us a back shot of isak as he drops to the floor and bursts into tears 1) because his mind is too clouded with dark pessimistic thoughts to share that moment with anybody, and 2) he just walked away from his friends, who still don’t know he’s gay, so he’s still actively hiding this side of him -the boy with feelings, feelings for a boy no less. so no, isak does not want people to see. not his friends, not the audience, nobody. stay the fuck away from me, don’t look at me, leave me alone. and the camera obeys, filming from behind, keeping a respectful distance -we leave him alone, and we don’t look.

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skam france s5 + a very serious season about very serious problems (part1/?)

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jacket  ✓ hoodie  ✓ headphones  ✓

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the cutest boy

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Dimanche 15h02

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Sit down. I’ll explain.

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This. I needed this little shot.

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healthy! communication! and! support! system! in! skam! without! going! through! a! hel! week! or! two!!!!!!! wooow never thought i’d see the day

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I don't like how they are doing 2 centers this season. I find it now really fair, is it just me that thinks that?

Hi, anon!

I’d much rather have half a Viri season, than no Viri season at all, to be quite frank with you. It’s really easy to say, “well, Viri can have her season after Nora has had hers!” and forget that it’s been more than 4 years since Skam premiered, and there have been 7 Noora seasons and one Vilde clip, across all versions. The theme of sexual assault is incredibly important and has been the subject of political discourse in Spain for the last few years. But so are the themes that affect the other characters, such as bullying, slutshaming, racism, islamophobia, homophobia, eating disorders, mental illness, financial instability. Perhaps financial instability isn’t such a societal issue in Norway, but we are talking about Skam ESPAÑA here, and the 2008 economic crisis hit the country quite hard. The Spanish unemployment rate in October 2019 was 14.2%. The unemployment rate for the same month in Norway was 3.8%.

Here’s the minimum wage for some of the remake countries:

France: 1521€ per month

Germany: 1557 € per month

Netherlands: 1636€ per month

Belgium: 1594€ per month

Spain: 1050€ per month

(There is no minimum wage per month in Norway, Italy and the United States.)

We already had this discourse when Cris’ season premiered and Isak fans felt slighted. Ideally, Skam and its remakes would give a voice to every underrepresented teen experience out there. In reality, it’s been more than 4 years since Skam premiered, and there have been 5 seasons focusing on a white cis gay boy, 2 seasons about a white cis bisexual girl (only one of which was a wlw story), 1 trans character across all 8 versions, and 1 black lesbian across all 8 versions. There have been 7 Noora seasons, and when 2020 is over, there will be 8. Only one of which will be a shared season. 

In short, I am sorry you’re not getting the full season of your preferred character that you wanted, but Skam España is making a show for Spanish people, and these are the topics that the team feels need to be addressed in the first 4 seasons. 

As a final note, you don’t have to give a shit about the issues Spanish teens face today, god no, but given that the remakes are meant to hold up a mirror to their own society, you might not ever have a better chance to learn about the struggles in other countries in a way that’s fun and educational. 

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For those interested, here’s Arthur’s audiogram. Left ear on the right and right ear on the left. He can’t hear anything below 40 dB at the moment. He can’t hear high frequencies really well (he’s at 85-90 dB on average) but it’s a bit better on low frequencies. Usually, when your loss reaches 90 dB on average, you’re profoundly deaf, but right now, it looks more like severe to profound.

The ORL said that he has residual hearing, so hearing aids could help him. However, seeing that he’s been hiding all this time that he was already deaf in one ear… I can see him staying a bit in denial.

Honestly? I love what they’ve done so far. I was a bit perplexed by the sudden hearing loss but this makes much more sense!