#flaritza

[natixd]

At this point I would like to thank all the people out there who write fanfiction. I love reading stories about my favorite pairings and try to write some of my own. You are the reason why my expectations of men and women are so high and I wouldn't have it any other way. 😊❤️

[pennsatuckies]

orange texts post for the two people on this dot com who might care

[brightpuffinstuff]

Guess who got a hyperfixation on a non canon ship from a dead fandom😀😀😀

+Bonus Daya, and flaca furry sticker

[murcielagatito]

mas memes

[thatssoarrow]

I don't really like how this one came out but it is what it is

[warningsine]

[sapphicsdonowrong]

When you got into a show years after it actually came out, so all of the good fanfics are either deleted or left unfinished with like 3/28 chapters and the show is only mentioned anywhere in the context of “rEmEmBeR tHiS sHoW fRoM yEaRs AgO,” or in regards to the boring ass main ship that you don’t even like.

[9puppiesdrowninginapool]

btw i've connected the fucking dots

flaritza has the same fucking dynamic as trobed. I was sure that troy and abed's onscreen friendship reminded me of something

they are the same i'm telling you!!!

[sapphicsdonowrong]

Me when I watched season 6

you: where’s is Alex

me, an intellectual: where is maritza

[invisible-pink-toast]

christmas wlw!

[brightpuffinstuff]

Basically flaca for the rest of the series after the riot😔😔😔

Also I really want some OITNB fan moots but unfortunately my account doesn't let me message or do comments so 😞😞😞😞😞

[murcielagatito]

the writers were straight up laughing at all the latine lesbians for giving us these and then doing nothing more w em

[sapphicsdonowrong]

Flaca really got upset for like 3 minutes and then promptly forgot about it. It was the same way when they were separated, although it was at least mentioned occasionally. What was even worse was that Gloria, who was her mother figure for like two years, didn’t even seem to care that she was gone at all, being too wrapped up in her own stuff.* Maria, who actually seemed to have quite a good friendship with Flaritza, but Maritza especially (before she was made some sort of brutal gang leader), was never even told and neither was Daya, although she didn’t really like Maritza anyway.

In my opinion, this was a running theme with the Latinas, with them not really acting like an actual prison family half of the time. This was particularly highlighted at certain times, like when Maritza and Aleida supposedly had a mother and daughter relationship but never interacted, when Gloria and Aleida said barely anything about Maria’s gang and didn’t tell her off for threatening Maritza, when Flaritza didn’t care that Aleida had left and when they didn’t say anything about Rosa being in Harlem despite being cuban. However, I think what really set the faulty dynamic apart was the fact that none of the Latinas mentioned, let alone talked to each other in season 6 or 7 unless it was about an argument or sometimes Daya’s drug business. The only ones that even had scenes together, aside from that, were Daya and Aleida of course and, occasionally, Gloria and Flaca. I understand that the other groups didn’t interact as much, but at least they acknowledged each others existence and worried for those in different prisons or blocks. It annoyed me even more when Aleida returned in Season 7 and never inquired about Maritza or talked to Flaca and Maria.

*Honestly, unpopular opinion, I thought that Gloria was quite horrible when it came to Benny sometimes and her attitude towards others when he was having problems was just mean and awful.

[bakulova]

I just finished Orange Is The New Black and... what do I do with my life now? I have been crying all day and now i just feel empty. Help 😭

[forprideuses]

Me searching for the song the author of a great fanfic recommended i should listen to while reading the chapter

[sapphicsdonowrong]

Unpopular OITNB opinions because I’m bored and procrastinating

I had little to no interest in Taystee and found her outright annoying at times. She was okay in the earlier seasons and my idea of her was that she was good character that I didn’t like due to personal preference. However, in the later season, I felt that she could be irritating, irrational and depressing in an unenjoyable way and that she got far too much screen time for what I considered to be a rather dull plot.

I find it hilarious when people try to complain about people on the show being mean or bad people. Like yes, that’s why 99% of them have landed themselves in prison. The funniest examples of this complaint are when people say that Lorna, someone who grew up Italian-American in New York, could sometimes say racist things or when Flaritza, two girls who probably couldn’t even legally drink before they went to prison and, in Maritza’s case at least, didn’t seem to have parents who cared for them, could sometimes be bitchy and immature. These comments are even funnier when whoever says this then goes on to say that they love Frieda, Carol and Barb.

In my personal opinion, Season 2 was the best season quality-wise but Season 4 was better when it came down to drama and entertainment. Season 3 was actually one of my favourites aside from Alex’s whole paranoid arc and I didn’t really mind the panty storyline. Season 1 was obviously good, if a little slow and boring at first. Season 5 shouldn’t have dragged on for so long, if they were only going to cover three days, although I probably would have enjoyed it if it hadn’t felt so absurd and weird compared to previous seasons. Season 7 was depressing trauma porn from start to finish and Season 6 was dreadful n every single way and a terrible conclusion for the riot.

I felt like the family dynamics became way less cohesive it’s the show progressed and people that had once gotten on perfectly well were suddenly at each other’s throats and vice versa. A good example of this was Spanish Harlem which went from a clearly outlined family where Aleida and Gloria acted as parents, Blanca was not a part of the group and the other four ( Maria, Daya, Maritza and Flaca ) pretty much did whatever Aleida said. Contrast this to Season 4/5 where Aleida leaves but Flaritza and Maria don’t seem to even notice, Gloria just let’s Maria have control over Harlem with no complaints whatsoever, Maria and Maritza seem to be at each other’s throats one second and back to there seemingly rather good Season 2/3 friendship the next, Blanca is suddenly an active member of the group and Gloria only cares about Daya. This faulty dynamic is true for all of the other groups as well, and never gets the chance to recover after they are sent to Max.

I didn’t like how some of the seriously traumatic stuff that happened to some of these characters, especially in Season 4, was never addressed by the show again and seemed to forgotten after the episode ended by both the writers and the character themself. You’re telling me that Maritza was creeped on, forced to eat a live animal, held at gunpoint and repeatedly harassed but she bounced back after throwing up like twice and hugging Flaca. In reality, she would probably take a long while to recover or feel truly comfortable in her own skin again, maybe even experiencing some PTSD, which could have been an interesting storyline to take her character down through Season 5, instead of relegating her back to comedy bits and pop culture references.

That’s all my opinions for now, although I will probably make a Part 2 for this post. Hope you agreed with at least one of my takes and that you don’t want to kill me for some of the things I said.