#latin soap opera

[icecoldoceanofglitter]

In my opinion Matilde should've been with Adolfo instead, i almost felt little to no empathy towards Manoel at all, from beginning to end (btw i still didn't finish, but we all know who she chooses in the end)

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@themousefromfantasyland

P A N T A N A L (2022)

[unplugstar]

Gabz for Harper's Bazaar Brasil, 2024 | Ph by Marina Zabenzi

[metiredlr]

Brasil finally being part of an evil plan for once and its all in a sports anime thats suppoed to be about soccer im fucking crying

[smokeandsteam]

musings #1

i want long curly mermaid hair that hugs my shoulders, but i also want a big ‘ol afro massive enough to create a gravitational pull on nearby objects, and i want pin-straight hair in a high ponytail that makes me look like a bitchy blonde secretary with an equestrian hobby, but i also want a buzz cut with a built-in alarm clock and when i hear it i shoot out of bed, march into the forest, and photosynthesize.

i want to dye it deep purple and green like some ornate water fowl, but also a deep red proportionate with the blood of my enemies, or maybe a pink and blue pastel balayage that reminds me to always eat dessert first.

i want oxford shoes in black and white, or in tan, with smart little stitches, but i also want gladiator sandals that make people think i might have armor on until they get close enough to be stopped, and i want loud sneakers made, not for concrete, but for two pairs of wheels under them, and i also want boots so long i can throw out all my pants, but i also want velvet combat boots, and really classy black high heels sharp enough to raise the dead.

i really want an entire closet of white linen clothes so i can always have that dumb rich lady look on my face, but i also want draping lace blouses the sun can shine through when i jump over that creek in my latin childhood, and i want crop tops that make my neck more attractive than my boobs, but i also want the boobs. maybe, i even want them to peek out of the bottom a little bit.

i want stiff shirt collars, no collars, and dog collars with the y2k spikes, and i want my heart shaped buttons to have a tense conversation with the mouth of my gold plated zippers. i need a harness that reminds you i can be moved, but only if you’re clever enough to know i don’t mean physically.

i want tight skirts that blur a movie screen so that you hear them before you see them, and long pleated skirts to tuck in all my dress shirts and sweaters so that i give off a vibe of innocence, but my lipstick begs to differ, and i want shiny rubber pants, but then id have a lot of power, and with power comes responsibility for things i’ve only considered dabbling in once or ten times.

i want a bespoke suit that throws out the idea of boobs all together, and i want it in a green so dark the forests will whisper “i’m home”, or a blue so soft the sky will give up. i also want it in the classic black with guns and knives hidden in all the pockets along with a glass-etching laser, a box with a single cigarette left inside, and a crumbled up note with ten or so smudged digits.

i want a satin dress that knows everything about me and kind of blinds you while i sing on a stage, but i also want a soft cotton long sleeve dress that trails the ground like flame at an overlord’s footsteps, and i want a dress with my african ancestry screaming in every vivid thread as it comforts me with the willingness to cry about how beautiful life is.

i’d like to smell like roses, but like real ones that you sometimes find dew, or the occasion bug, on, and i want to smell like vanilla and laughter, but i also want to smell like sawdust and cold air that dries out your eyes. i want to smell like sex and sugar while holding a murderous look in my eyes like the evil people in soap operas, and i want to smell like fireworks and dynamite so you know i’m coming from a mile away, or i want a smell that embodies the ocean and makes you want to swim for your life without forgetting the salt that brought you here in the first place.

so, um, what’s my style?

[anti-ao3]

soap operas sometimes feel like bad fanfics bc they have some of the worst plot twists that excuse incest bc "they're not technically siblings even though they share the same guardian(s)"

[transfagore]

I want to write for Hot Stove League and for Teresa (a mexican soap opera) but I know that anybody will read and I'm so fucking sad

[yana125]

Me @ Fucking Life, just because something sounds interesting in a fic doesn't mean I want to experience it in real life 🙃

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@obufalo @themousefromfantasyland

So, if there it is a Shakespeare play that influences a lot of the brasilian fiction, is the Taming of the Shrew. Why do i say that?

Because it was a made a brasilian telenovela (soap opera) three times. All the three versions transported the story to the brasilian state of São Paulo, in the 1920s, transforming Petruchio into a farmer that originally wants to marry Katherine to pay the debts and save his farm, but eventually falls in love with her for real, and Katherine is turned into an actual first wave feminist (quite straw/carichatured, if you ask me, but considering from wich play they drew inspiration, i’m not surprised).

The first version, released by the extinct channel TV Excelsior in 1965, was called The Indomitable. Is now considered lost.

The second version, released by the also extinct channel TV Tupi in 1975, was called The Big Macho. I finded some scenes on Youtube. I don’t if there’s full chapters preserved, or if there’s only those scenes.

And, finally, in the year 2000, was released the version that i watched when i was a child, called The Gillyflower and The Rose (in reference to a popular kids song from my country). On that last version, they also included a Cyrano of Bergerac inspired subplot, where a professor of literature called Edmundo (Edmond) writes poems for the main heroine’s sister, Bianca, and another guy called Heitor (Héctor) passes them as his own.

That last one, the one i actually watched, gave me some fun memories, having tone down a bit the ‘abuse of a woman by her husband as comedy’ aspect of the original play. It was one of my introductions to fiction influenced by Shakespeare, alongside The Lion King. But i can’t deny that the clichéd portraial of a feminist woman as a shrew who needs to “relax and meet the right man to tame her strong will” keeps bothering as i grow more critical of the media i consume, and i hope that no more media repeat this kind of writing a fourth time. Please. I’m a fan of the Bard, but i still can recognize that he wasn’t perfect.

[kirbs-blurbs]

The Kirby show birthed latin meta knight, and he will forever be my favorite meta knight

Im definitely mostly projecting as a puerto-rican, but Latinx Meta Knight is my personal favorite

for those who cant decipher my tiny writing:

- Top: Hanging up flag in halberd windows “Pinche-“

- Middle: Tends to lose time talking with friends

- Bottom: Forgets certain english words / No Sabo Kirby

- Right: Watching soap operas “Oh Dios Mio.”

[crazyintheeast]

People often talk about representation as a way to give more power and visibility to minorities and this is certainly the most important part of it but I think a huge fact that is often missed is how proper representation can make things so much more fun

Take for example Wandavision which showed a complete lack of representation when it came to Eastern European culture . No people in Eastern Europe didn’t gave a shit about American sitcoms . This whole thing was solely to pander to American audiences . Do you know what was huge in Eastern Europe ? And I am talking so huge all the streets are empty because everyone would be at home stuck to their tv ? Latin American soap operas . Yup Wanda wouldn’t t have given a shit about American sitcoms she would have been all in on telenovela . Now just imagine how better Wandavision would have been if instead of the sitcom nonsense we got overtly dramatic soap opera themes ?

And this would have trickled right down into Agatha All Along . Imagine if instead of a generic cop show Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza got to act out a dramatic soap opera intro

[delhe-dalim]

She's referring to the latin soap opera* "Mijo" --> my son

Eng: BUT, BUT LUIS ANTONIO MONTERO, HOW COULD YOU!?? I LOVED YOUuUU

Cielito = little heaven -> darling Eng: Mónica... It's meEeeE!

And that's it. A drama queen™ has born (and it was not a phase)

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@themousefromfantasyland

@astrangechoiceoffavourites @princesssarisa

Its funny that while most Disney movies are willing to give the (human) couples the marriage but not willing to show them with children, while in latin american telenovelas, the heroine ending not only married but either pregnant or already with a baby is usually a staple of the genre.

[spanishskulduggery]

Any colloquialism for sex en Español?

Like in English "make love" , "a fun time", " share a bed", "slept together" etc?

Entirely too many lol

Basic "make love" is hacer el amor, and "to sleep together" is usually acostarse (con alguien), and "to share a bed" is compartir cama or you can put la cama in but it sounds a bit more clinical somehow

"a fun time" is usually pasarla bien no idea why it's la sometimes people do say lo but still it's like espero que la pases bien "i hope you have a good time". There's also divertirse as a reflexive "to have fun" with una diversión being "diversion" but understood as "a bit of fun" as it "diverts attention" basically

This is a bit more of a soap opera but el amorío is a "tryst" or "fling", and la aventura is often what's used for "an affair" [this is a "love affair" kind of thing, literally "adventure" or more literally "to put to chance"; the word for an "affair" like a "matter" is el asunto]

Below you're going to find some words and terms and they'll be vulgar, so be really careful about looking these up for finding other words I missed

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The default verb for "to fuck" for Spain is follar

As far as euphemisms, Spain has one that I personally find gross but it's hacer un polvo which is "to hook up" or "to screw", but it's literally "to make dust". And el polvo / un polvo can be slang for sex or hooking up - it just sounds so dry to me

But you have to have the article there; if you say hacer polvo it means "to tire out" in Spain, like estar hecho/a polvo means "exhausted" or "wiped out" like "turned to dust" literally and it's not sexual

There's also hacer (una) paja which is slang for masturbation, and I made this mistake because la paja normally means "straw" so I thought it was straw like Rumpelstiltskin

Turns out that la paja can also mean "masturbation", and pajear can be that verb form

Worse, la paja can refer to different sex acts that are generally not penetration but rubbing up against some body part and different nationalities will show up depending on what it is. I know this because I saw la paja rusa and thought "Russian straw" but this is one of the slang terms for "tittyfucking" - I have also seen it referred to as la paja cubana

The one thing people agree on though is that la paja griega is like hotdogging because Greek is usually butt stuff - that's the only nationality people agree on

And since I did bring up not penetration stuff, be aware that mamar is usually the word for "to blow"; it's one of the words for "to milk" so it's not always vulgar, but it's related to amamantar "to breastfeed" or "to suckle"

But if you say la mamada it's always "blowjob"

The other word for "to suck" is chupar and that's usually not vulgar unless someone says it in a vulgar way like in English

frotar is "to rub", lamer is "to lick", and sometimes people will use comerse as "to eat out"

Words you should absolutely not look up though; la leche or la lefa is slang for "cum", and el lefazo is a "cumshot" or a "cumstain"

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Latin America likes culear or coger as "to fuck" or "to have sex" and that's more vulgar

[but coger in some places like Spain can mean "to grab" and is not vulgar at all which makes some regionalisms real awkward like someone is going to tell you at some point that coger una guagua could mean "to take a bus" in one country, or "to fuck a baby" in a different one so be careful whenever coger shows up and you're not in Spain because even countries that share a border in Latin America differ wildly on what regionalisms are vulgar and what ones aren't]

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I have also seen ligar con alguien and I don't know how widespread it is, but it's "to hook up" where literally ligar means "to form a bond with" or "to tie to" - it's somewhere between "connection" and "bond" and mixed with "tied up" in the etymology

This one feels a bit more like what you'd expect teenagers to be talking about, not vulgar exactly but definitely has implied physical connection

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I'm sure any of the native speakers could tell you more but what I described is a lot of the basic overall words you'd see - obviously hacer el amor is much more tame and possibly more romantic; the others go more vulgar

But acostarse con alguien isn't necessarily vulgar, it's just more euphemistic than tener sexo since it literally means "to lie down with someone"

[cryptgrrrl]

Silvia Pinal, the legendary Mexican actress passed away today at the age of 93, bequeathing a career that can be summed up in one word: ART.

In the vast library of Latin American culture, Silvia Pinal is not just a chapter or an encyclopaedia: she is an entire bookshelf. Few figures have been so versatile, managing to cover every corner of culture: cinema, theatre, television, cabaret, painting, politics, music, dance... the list is endless.

Silvia Pinal was born on September 12, 1931, on the eve of the celebration of Mexican Independence Day, a direct descendant of father founder priest Hidalgo, her destiny was marked to become an icon of the country.

As a child she studied opera and acting at Bellas Artes. Before she was 18, she had already participated in a beauty pageant, acted in radio soap operas, dabbled in experimental theatre and played minor roles in films.

In the 1950s, she established herself as a central figure in our cinema. Her theatrical training allowed her to shine in dramatic roles, comedies and musicals. Between 1949 and 1959 she filmed 50 movies. In that period she won three Ariel awards and appeared on a hundred magazine covers. Diego Rivera immortalised her in a famous life-size portrait, a gift from the painter to the diva.

Silvia rejected Hollywood and went to Europe. In 1961 she starred in Luis Buñuel’s ‘Viridiana’. Her performance was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes, but in Spain, the Franco dictatorship considered it blasphemous and ordered the film to be destroyed. The film survives to this day thanks to the fact that Silvia hid a copy in the lining of her coat.

A visionary, Silvia revolutionized theatre: ‘Mame’, ‘Hello Dolly!’, ‘Gypsy’... she brought the best Broadway musicals to Mexico. In 1988 she opened her first theatre: Teatro Silvia Pinal, and went on to have three more.

She had already done it all, but cabaret was still missing. In 1981 she debuted as a showgirl at the El Patio nightclub, where stars such as Judy Garland and Edith Piaf shone. Her show, directed by Sergio Japino, Raffaella Carrà’s choreographer, was a resounding success.

Rest in peace, Silvia Pinal Hidalgo (1931-2024). You are and will remain unique.

[amethystamanda]

Listen To A Radio Show

Gather around the radio and listen for a while!

This mod adds a new pie menu, Listen to a Radio Show, to all regular stereos, which will give your sim the option to listen to a variety of different kinds of shows, mainly aimed at the first half of the 1900s up into the 1960s, inspired by things that they would have been able to listen to. Despite TV taking off in the 1950s, radio shows seem to have remained popular for a while after that.

There's also a new social interaction to go with one of the shows, and a new piece of deco cc to go with another.

The pie menu should show up on most things in the audio category of buy mode. It won't appear on the music box from Life and Death, Lin-Z, DJ booths, or karaoke machines. It should show up on cc stereos too, for maximum historical usefulness.

While your sims are listening to their show, they are strongly encouraged to sit (on furniture, not the floor) and listen. They may decide not to, especially if there's not enough room or seating. They might decide to dance, or chat, or put away a book. They will stay within three tiles of the radio, in the same room. They should not cancel the show autonomously unless their needs drop too low, the radio breaks, or they get interrupted by something with even higher priority (including, unfortunately, a pop up to ask if they want a new preference).

Most of the shows are two hours long. Some are available for toddlers, some only for child and older sims. Some are basegame, some require City Living (the talking ones), and Country requires Horse Ranch.

Most of the time, sims will get a buff while listening (kids don't get a buff for listening to soap operas. Some of these vary by age and/or traits. Then, once the show is over, most of the time, sims will get one of a variety of buffs from what they watched. If a group of sims watch, they probably won't get matching buffs (I'm thinking of it as they reacted to different parts. One show would generally have been shorter than they'll be watching here. For example, soap operas may have been 10-15 minutes long.). The buffs may be a reaction to a specific show, or they might be a bit generic. If they reference a specific show, it's a real show that existed. If it references a real person, I mostly substituted a sim (not necessarily from TS4), except for one singer.

At any time while the show is on, you can change the station, and sims listening will continue to act as if their show is on. You can even turn it off. If your sim or you hate the station I picked, you can switch it. If you want your News to sound like Latin Pop, well, they had studio musicians. But if your sim has a trait that makes them lose fun from listening to the show, that will continue.

Details below:

Listen to a Children's Broadcast -- with bonus CC

Station: Kids Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For toddlers, children, Childish and Family-Oriented sims, and sims who like Kids Music

Fun loss: For sims who Hate Children, and sims who dislike Kids Music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who Hate Children or dislike Kids Music, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 6 for Child and Childish sims, 2 for sims that Hate Children or dislike Kids Music, 4 for teen-elder sims who don’t hate children or dislike Kids Music, and 12 for toddlers

Bonus: A Badge to Make You Brave, a deco toy shield that a child/childish sim can get a buff to send in box tops for.Can be purchased in buy mode, under kids deco or clutter.Can be purchased on the phone, under gifts (only two swatches, because there are too many. The swatch can be changed after buying). Will appear in the inventory of the sim who bought it.Can be put into a sim’s inventory, so your sim can take it everywhere with them.Goes in small deco slots.Will not make anyone brave.12 swatches.148 polys

Listen to a Classical Music Show

Station: Classical

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike Classical Music

Fun loss: For sims who dislike Classical Music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike classical music, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 3 for sims who dislike classical music, 7 for toddlers, and 10 for everyone else

Listen to a Comedy Show

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims

Fun loss: For sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination, Comedy

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 3 for sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims, 4 for toddlers, and 8 for everyone else

Listen to a Country Music Show

Pack: Horse Ranch

Station: Ranch

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike ranch music

Fun loss: For sims who dislike ranch music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike ranch music, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 2 for sims who dislike ranch music, 8 for toddlers, and 11 for everyone else

Listen to a Radio Play

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: No

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 13

Listen to a Soap Opera

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes, with extra for sims with these traits: Love Bug, Romantic, Family Oriented, Nosy, Family Sim, Home Turf, or the Clingy childhood phase

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: No

Currently Listening buffs: For teen to elder sims

Follow-up Buffs: 5

Listen to a Winter Holiday Broadcast

Station: Winter Holiday

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike Winter Holiday music and don’t have the Grouch trait

Fun loss: For sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 2 for sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait, 8 for toddlers, and 8 for everyone else

Extra: If you have Seasons, only available in Winter

(There were two, but they're very similar, and I didn't notice until now.)

Listen to The Farm Radio Forum -- with bonus interaction

The National Farm Radio Forum was a Canadian adult education program after the Great Depression. Local groups would register, and then they would be sent reading material to review before the weekly broadcast, with questions included to discuss. They would then return their answers to the provincial office, which would sometimes forward summaries to the government.

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Mental, Herbalism, Gardening, Logic, with extra for sims with these traits: Genius, Loves Outdoors, Rancher, Animal Enthusiast, Super Green Thumb

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 5

Extras:

Sims will take notes during the show

New social interaction: Discuss The Farm Radio Forum, under Deep Thoughts in the Friendly category

Child to elder

Always available, but only autonomous if you have any one of four of the follow-up buffs from the show (the other is a generic one used in multiple places) or the currently listening buff, and only for young adult to elder sims

Encouraged or discouraged for sims with certain traits and relationships, but must have met the sim

Can succeed or fail, with 4 succeed and 3 fail buffs, which apply to both the sim initiating the interaction and the sim they’re talking to. They may not match (you can have different perspectives on the same conversation, after all), but both sims should get a buff

Listen to The News

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: No

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Mental, Logic

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 9 possible buffs (75% chance a teen to elder sim will get one, with increased chance for an adult or elder sim, not available for sims who have the traits Childish, Irresponsible, or Uncontrolled Emotions) OR 6 possible buffs (75% chance a sim who has the traits Childish, Irresponsible, or Uncontrolled Emotions will get one), PLUS 4 possible buffs (50% chance a teen to elder sim will get one).

A sim might get one, both, or neither.

Listen to the Sports Play-By-Play

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1.5 to 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Motor and Fitness unless the sim is Lazy, with extra for sims with the Active, Bro, Physically Gifted, or Gym Rat traits

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who don’t dislike Fitness, and one for sims who do dislike fitness

Follow-up Buffs: 6 for sims who don’t dislike fitness, 1 for sims who dislike fitness

I'm going to say this requires City Living. Technically, I think you could use it with just base game, but you'll be missing some text and some images will be llamas. You can try to use it without City Living if you want, but I won't be providing support for that. You'll have 3 of the 10 shows available, and you'll have an overall poor experience. The Country show requires Horse Ranch, but that shouldn't affect the rest of the mod.

Requires Lot 51's Core Library

Download: https://simfileshare.net/download/5216335/

Updates:

Jan 20, 2025: PlumbBuddy manifest updated

Known issues:

If a sim gets interrupted on their way to the stereo, they'll (probably) still listen to the show, but they may not get the buff for it. This is most likely to happen if there's little room. If they don't get the currently listening buff, they might not get the follow-up buff either. If you want them to get the currently listening buff, you can cancel the interaction and tell them to listen again.

This was inspired by my Horse Ranch radio as BG TV. The problem with that one is that it's tied to one specific radio. The idea was to inject TV interactions into stereos, but video is not compatible with audio devices. This is not a replacement for the TV, since it does very different things, and won't count for a bar's requirements or for holidays that require TVs. It's more of a companion.

Thanks to Kuttoe for the original idea, which then spiraled out of control, and to the kind people in Creator Musings for helping when I forgot how to mod.