#not mafin centered

[unsettlingconclusions]

As someone currently under training to become a palliative care doctor, Isidro’s storyline is amusing to me at the moment.

Medicine was extremely paternalistic until not very long ago. Patient centered medicine is extremely new. The movement making it more popular are like 20 years old or something.

“In patient-centered care, an individual’s specific health needs and desired health outcomes are the driving force behind all health care decisions and quality measurements”

It’s a novela, so the suffering from someone going through end-stage heart disease is certainly absent. An experimental treatment is what the name says, it’s an experiment. It might work, might not work, might prolong someone’s life in pain.

It being expensive was a script recourse to add drama and involve Marta’s family, which from a text point of view is ok. As it is more than okay for Isidro to refuse a care that is uncertain and would drown his daughter in debt. And he had every right to do that.

Unpopular opinion but on this topic, seeing it from a shallow view, Fina isn’t feisty, she’s being full of herself and trying to drive her father towards an unknown treatment to ease her wrongly perceived guilt of being to blame for her father’s death. And it’s not because she just doesn’t trust Jaime (which is fair! More than fair!), but she also didn’t listen to Luz when Luz wouldn’t tell her what she wanted. And won’t listen to Marta either, all she sees is her pain and her guilt.

Being deeper, it’s also understandable for Fina to go through all this considering she has just finally grasped the gravity of her dad’s condition and being faced with the inevitability of death (as in, death is by nature inevitable, but being faced with it brings a lot of feelings of fighting it as much as possible).

On the infodump side of things, this obstinacy in fighting death is also relatively new in human culture. Interestingly, it rose as medical technology increased, it’s a byproduct of the advancement of medicine. Which is precisely what we’re seeing here.

Anyways! We have here a 2024 telenovela writing a medical arc that happens in 1958 with doctors acting more human and less paternalistic than what we see in medicine today. I don’t know if it was intentional, but I admire this route anyway.

(Another point of interest, the paternalism was adopted by Damián. He behaved much the way that would have been expected of a doctor of those days. I could provide so many examples of how pervasive paternalistic medicine can be but I’m not going to ruin everyone’s day.)

[unnaturalequilibrium]

Capítulo 6

- Mafin rewatch (Sueños de Libertad)

I like that Luis forces Marta to do the very thing Fina tried to get her to do in the job interview, let the perfume rest on her skin before giving it a whiff. Is this meant to be the thing that tipped the scales in Fina’s favour? Or do we think Fina was always going to be Marta’s first choice as new shopgirl? I wonder when Marta started noticing Fina, I mean sure I think once she got into that uniform she was forced to see her in a new light. But I’m still curious to what it was like before that. It’s clear they knew a lot about each other, but to what extent really?

As I’m watching beyond just the Mafin scenes I’m surprised to see how similar Luis and Marta are and the way their stories are structured. They’ve both got that kind of infectious drive only in different fields.  That strong sense of right and wrong too, with an insane work ethic and a desire to make the world a better place I think. It’s also super easy to imagine their siblings running around as kids, climbing a hill, kicking a ball and Luis and Marta being left behind with an antfarm, an abbacus and a lot of curious questions.

Petra put down the fucking shovel, the hole is big enough for the Titanic without you going and insulting Marta too on top of everything. This isn’t Journey to the Center of the Earth, you can stop digging now. Have I mentioned I hate her? Because I do, I really do.

Marta with a notepad or a folder in her hands is another one of those moments when I sort of feel like the Universe might be catering to me, but I don’t mind.

Marta is especially demanding in this episode, ordering Luz and Luis around - telling them to get their little butts into gear and work work. Watching the episodes back to back it now sort of stands out to me how she showed one emotion last episode and now she needs to be super competent at her work to make up for it. In her eyes at least. It actually makes me really curious about how much background the actors get on their characters and about future storylines. Because it does sort of come across as this is Marta throwing herself into her work to make up for that perceived failure of last episode, that whole business of her not being able to make her father proud through her unconventional marriage and the fact that she is childless. And knowing that she never will be able to as her marriage is mostly a cage and at best an inconvenience. Her behaviour in this episode gives a sense of - if she can’t make her father proud of who she is, then maybe she can make him proud of her achievements at least. Over-achieving daughter of an emotionally distant man, we've all been there, right?! Right?

As a rule there’s a lot of heartbreak and all kinds of personal problems being aired, but there’s always something about seeing Fina, Carmen and Claudia together in their room that makes me happy. Their room feels like a home, it’s soft and comforting despite at its core being a very spartan dormitory.

Fina telling them she’s going out with Petra and at least Carmen has the decency to not say anything, Claudia on the other hand runs straight for the idea that the two of them will be so pretty together they’ll immediately attract boyfriends. Oh Claudia. I love a good running joke so I sort of hope they never tell Claudia about lesbianism. Let her live her life without knowing that is a thing that exists so that we as an audience can keep mocking her forever and ever.

[neopronouns]

flag id: the left flag has 7 vertical stripes, with the third and fifth being twice the size of the rest. they are very dark blue, medium dark blue, red-pink, light orange, red-pink, medium dark blue, and very dark blue. the right flag has 11 vertical stripes, with the third, fifth, seventh, and ninth being larger than the rest and the sixth larger than those. they are very dark blue, medium dark blue, very dark blue, light orange, red-pink, light orange, red-pink, light orange, very dark blue, medium dark blue, and very dark blue. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

mafin | mafingender

edit: i previously had these labeled as new terms, but an equivalent already exists (mafin(gender)) that didn't come up in my original search, my bad! consider these alt flags for those terms based on the fingender and maingender flags.

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[revenant-coining]

MAFIN and MAFINgender

[pt: MAFIN and MAFINgender /end pt]

[ID: a rectangular flag with 7 vertical stripes. stripes sizes as follows, medium, medium, thick, medium, thick, medium, medium. colors in this order from left to right: dark blue, light blue, pink, light yellow, pink, light blue, dark blue. End ID]

[ID: a rectangular flag with 11 vertical lines. sizes in this order from left to right: thick, medium, thick, medium, 3 thick, medium, thick, medium, and thick. colors in this order from left to right: dark blue, light blue, dark blue, light yellow, pink, light yellow, pink, light yellow, dark blue, light blue, dark blue. End ID]

MAFIN: MAIN and FIN (while not being LIN); male-in-nature and feminine-in-nature; an in nature for terms that have the shared characteristic of being male/male-related and feminine/feminine-related in nature at the same time.

MAFINgender: an umbrella term for genders that are MAIN and FIN at the same time. Can also be used to refer to a gender that is not fully defined, but is definitely MAIN and FIN, or a gender in which male-hood and femininity is its defining feature.

i wasn’t able to find anything like this, so please let us know if this has been coined before ^^

@radiomogai , @imawanokiwaaa , @in-nature-archive

[ID: a purple-pink line divider. in the center is a purple-pink circle outline in purple, with a purple play-button in the center. End ID]

[unsettlingconclusions]

I mostly use this account for my very lesbian side but my bi heart is screaming with this show??

I’m in love with Marta, I’m in love with Jaime. I want to protect both of them from the hurts of this worlddddddddd

Now that I got that out of my chest, I’m in love with the text. The actors are giving life to very well written characters and conflicts my god. Idk much about the lore surrounding Spanish novelas as a whole, but there’s a somewhat new genre of novelas here in which the villain is life itself. Mafin and Jaime’s storyline is peak life as the villain. None of them are evil, none of them are asses, they’re just screwed up by circumstances beyond their control.

(Bonus point for Luis’ class consciousness)

[neopronouns]

flag id: two flags with 7 stripes. the left flag's stripes are very dark pink, medium dark pink, soft indigo, light sky blue, bright orange, medium dark red, and near-black. the right flag's stripes are very dark blue, medium dark blue, red-pink, light orange, bright orange, medium dark red, and near-black. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

dangefmein | dangemafin

dangefmein/dangemfein: a min (masculine-in-nature) and fein (female-in-nature) gender that feels dangerous, with that danger feeling intertwined with their masculinity and femaleness

dangemafin: a fin (feminine-in-nature) and main (male-in-nature) gender that feels dangerous, with that danger feeling intertwined with their femininity and maleness

[pt: dangefmein/dangemfein: a min (masculine-in-nature) and fein (female-in-nature) gender that feels dangerous, with that danger feeling intertwined with their masculinity and femaleness

dangemafin: a fin (feminine-in-nature) and main (male-in-nature) gender that feels dangerous, with that danger feeling intertwined with their femininity and maleness. end pt]

more terms like dangemmin and dangeffin for anon! the top four stripes are from the mafingender and mfeingender flags and the rest represent danger. the terms are 'dange' from 'dangerous' + 'fmein'/'mafin'!

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @fem-mogai, @narcette, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai | dni link