#teamraf

[jhutchersontt]

that actually hurt just a bit there... Go home with that shittt, you're grounded . #teamrafe is what you meant to type on there. actually, it's okay i'll fix it for you bro. @pankowtt

[ghostofwriting]

Thank goodness they broke up 😏

#teamRafe

Bro I’ll cry

[oniceperspectives]

Everybody digs a high ponytail ❄️ __⛸ Micha Stur @michashur __🎥 Jordan @oniceperspectives __🎓 @d_montalbano @mick_brezina __👕 @teamplusfive @plusfiveapparel __📍 @greatparkice __🎵 Everybody Wants to Be a Cat - @thearistocatsofficial ❄️ #michashur #aristocat #teamraf #plusfiveapparel #greatparkice #oniceperspectives #iceskating #figureskating #iceskate #figureskate #iceskater #figureskater #icerink #icedance #patinage #patinaje #patinadores #pattinaggio #patinajeartistico #patinageartistique #pattinaggioartistico #patinajesobrehielo #フィギュアスケート #피겨스케이팅 #фигурноекатание (at Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-GI4jLnse/?igshid=1j01hnabugcwh

[feraltits]

i’m sorry

raf all the way,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[fabianmaierbode]

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[legendinprocess]

Classic Telenovela.....

Classic Telenovela…..

[melanie5sosfam-blog]

Jane and Rafael Rant

Some of you guys are so bitter, it makes me chuckle. You’re going to stop watching jtv if you see them forming a romantic relationship? OK NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO WATCH JTV. Jane doesn’t live an ordinary life of an ordinary girl. She was, after all, artificially inseminated by her high school crush, her first kiss’s sister. Their relationship was super rushed in season 1. They jumped into a relationship without getting to know each other. But now, with the death of Michael, she needed someone constant in her life to support her. And do you know who that was?? RAF. Over the last few years, he supported her, loved her, made sure she was okay, and helped her through a very dark time. Even when Michael WAS alive, he kept his space. He could’ve told Jane he loved her at her wedding, but he didn’t. Her happiness with Michael was clear with him, and he loved her so much he let her go. Again. There wasn’t a time with Raf didn’t absolutely love Jane, and that’s not a secret. From the very beginning, their whole ordeal was confusing, complicated, and unanticipated. But they bonded, they cried, they laughed, and now they can fall in love again. Jane’s been through hell and back, and after three years of mourning the death of her first love, she deserves to be happy. If her happiness is with Raf, god bless. If her happiness is with only Mateo, god bless. Just don’t shoot down this show because Jane moved on with Raf, tf? Did you expect her to be alone forever, to deal with the grief alone?? Did you expect that Jane and Raf wouldn’t grow closer over the years? Guys, only time can tell, but what I can say is that IF Jane and Raf do end up together, that’s not a bad thing. Get off your pedestal, and get over the fact that sometimes things don’t end the way you want to. Jane and Rafael’s romance isn’t perfect, it never was, and it proooobably never will be. No one’s is perfect, so I wouldn’t expect theirs to be either. this show is so much more than their romance, and whether or not they end up together isn’t up to you, it’s up to Jennie. Ending on that note, im just going to say that I hope they do end up together, just not right now. I want them to take it slow, wait until Jane is ready, and when Raf is ready. And when they finally reach that point in their life that theyre ready to leap into a relationship, I'd support it with open arms. I suggest you watch with an open mind, and heart. I’m ready to see Jane and Raf truely happy again, like they deserve

[chicacatarina]

Well we can settle down, we'll start a family 'Cause you're my best friend and this is love song number 23! 🎵💕 | 2 years | 2 años | #TeamRafer 🐢💕🐞 https://www.instagram.com/chicacatarina_/p/BscdvvNh-YL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=104j3k7u10c9

[anathemafiction]

"And even though his fingers works wonders on locks, they were stuff when stiff whenever he tried to play the lute." Oh raf, You know there is another instrument you can play with those 'fingers that works wonders' /gesturing to #teamRaf / ಠuಠ -notsorryana-

Rafael pauses, and then a rare, sincere smile blooms on his lips. He beams at you, not even caring his tooth-gap shows, and at that moment he suddenly looks his age.

A young man, with his chest puffed with pride. "Damn right," Raf says, and wiggles his fingers at you. "Never had any complaints."

The smirk he gives you is far too smug to be worn on a face carrying that mustache. "So," you drawl, tone low, leaning in. He leans in too, to catch your sultry whisper. "Would you be willing to play with my instrument, oh master minstrel?"

The cocky, conceited smirk slowly dies. Like the sun coming down to earth, Rafael's face morphs until, as twilight, red conquers his skin. "I- what?" he babbles and nearly falls down his chair.

You can't help but chuckle as once again, he scurries away. Hood pulled over his head, eyes narrowed, lips snarling, and oh-so-delicious flush warming his ears.

[papciz-gram]

nathan_supporting_team_jpn: パパシゼさんと💫at gala on 03Nov❣️

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(04.11.2019)

[frances-baby-houseman]

I watched the last few episodes of Jane the Virgin over the weekend, and oh boy will I miss that show. If you have never seen it, on the surface it’s an over the top mexican-style telenovela (after 5 years, I STILL don’t understand the sin rostro storyline) full of amnesia, identity stealing twins, returns from the dead, accidental inseminations, and more bonkers storylines than you can think of. But beneath that, it’s the warmest show I’ve ever seen, chock full of love between the three main women-- Jane, her mother Xiomara, and her grandmother Alba (who only speaks in spanish the whole series); a beautiful exploration of the challenges of parenthood; and a very real kind of love story between Jane and both of her leading men (#teamraf forever, but obviously always actually #teamjane.) Plus Jane getting to know her father, who is silly and sweet and deeply emotional, which you don’t see often in male tv characters. I just loved this show so much.

The whole series is streaming on Netflix. Get yourself to a tv and watch it. You’ll love it. 

[fifteen-steps]

Yeah anyways I'm team-michael and always have been, but we're all stuck together in this emotional hell called "Jane the Virgin season 5" so here's a shoutout to teamRaf. we gotta stick out for each other cuz none of us are gonna make it through alive

[oniceperspectives]

Volaré! I will fly, oh-oh! __⛸ @licia __🎥 Jordan @oniceperspectives __🎵 #Volare @gipsykingsofficial __🎓 @mick_brezina @d_montalbano __👣 @d_montalbano __📍 @greatparkice ❄️ #AliciaSchuster #GypsyKings #TeamRaf #GreatParkIce #oniceperspectives #iceskating #figureskating #iceskate #figureskate #iceskater #figureskater #icerink #icedance #patinage #patinaje #patinadores #pattinaggio #patinajeartistico #patinageartistique #pattinaggioartistico #patinajesobrehielo #フィギュアスケート #피겨스케이팅 #фигурноекатание (at Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0KxMAn7BB/?igshid=272a0dk8c1mh

[lunar-years]

JTV Season 5 Discourse

(honestly I hadn’t thought about JTV in ages, but after seeing the new trailer I’m suddenly emo about this show again and I just want to put my theories/thoughts somewhere. So anyway here’s my mind vomit.)

OKAY I don’t want to be controversial but honestly what was the point of bringing back Michael from the dead if they’re only using it to cement a Jane/Rafael endgame? Like there’s only two routes the writers can be taking here: they're either just using this as added drama before eventual endgame Jafael, or they’ve decided they want a Jane/Michael happy ending after all. In my opinion only the latter justifies bringing Michael back into the picture, while the first is just needlessly cruel to everyone involved...

1) So in the Jafael endgame scenario, the assumed point of bringing Michael back is to spice up the final season by inserting a little extra drama/uncertainty into the Jafael relationship. Michael comes back, Jane decides she needs to give her marriage another go and breaks up with Rafael, Michael is an entirely different person because of his amnesia, Jane ultimately decides she can’t live in the past and must move forward with her life now, and ~bam~ jafael end goal is achieved...

This scenario is surface-level good. Sure, it makes for a suspenseful season, but if you look even remotely more deeply, all it really does is 1) bring back a widely loved character only to screw him over again by using him as a pawn, causing their main character intense turmoil in the process. 2) demonstrate that they as writers do not want, or cannot, create an actually interesting plot for Jafael in which they remain in a long-term, committed relationship. One of the best parts of the Michael/Jane storyline (in my opinion) was the early season 3 stuff in which they began life as a married couple and learn to become domestic partners, as well as romantic ones. If they didn’t bring back Michael for season 5, they could have explored a similar route with Jafael, having simply continued on the current storyline of having them move in together and navigate the new struggles and challenges that come with that change. In my opinion, that they don’t do so only demonstrates that the writers struggle to create internal disagreements or conflicts (and successful resolutions) between Jafael (something they never had a problem doing well with Villadero). Like many TV writers before them, they claim they cannot write a dynamic, interesting married (or nearly married) couple with the characters they have created, so they instead decide to rehash an old love triangle, inserting an external source of conflict to stir relationship drama instead (and like, it’s not even good drama...no one wants to see the love triangle plot between these three AGAIN...) 

The major benefit I’ve seen people in favor of this plot argue is that it would ultimately solidify that Rafael isn’t Jane’s second choice. Having her ultimately select him over Michael would alleviate Raf’s insecurities and make it clear that Michael wasn’t Jane’s “true love” after all. I gotta say this doesn’t add up. Sorry, but if they have to kill Michael off, have Raf undergo major character growth by sending him to prison, AND skip ahead 5 years just to create a circumstance where Rafael and Jane would get back together, Rafael IS Jane’s second choice. Only bringing Michael back years later, oh yeah, and with amnesia, to create a scenario where Jane would choose him, does nothing to overturn that verdict. 

2) in a Villadero endgame scenario, the writers instead brought back Michael for a final, grand, romantic, telenovela arc. Michael has amnesia. They struggle to reconnect. Jane does go back and forth between her long “dead,” newly revived husband and her current boyfriend. But slowly, She and Michael begin to fall in love again. She gives up trying to make him remember everything about their past, and when she does, it becomes clearly that really he hasn’t changed, not in any fundamental way. He is still just as sweet, just as caring, just as brave and kind. And he has fallen for her all over again, in fact he is just as in love with her as he was then—and that’s what matters, not that he remember every little detail about their past together. And she loves him just as much in return. They build a new future, together.

There are downsides to this from an overall show perspective, I won’t deny. In this scenario, Michael’s “death” plot instantly becomes even more unnecessary and stupid than it already was, because if the plan was to keep Jane and Michael together all along, why kill him (thus isolating the fans that supported Jane/Michael), bring back Jafael, and string Jafael fans along with revived hope for naught? Admittedly, they’ve kind of lost both sets of viewers at that point. However, since they DID kill Michael, since they DID skip 5 years, and since they’ve now decided to bring him back, this seems like the best scenario. While it would upset #TeamRaf, this endgame quite frankly screws them over far less than it would #TeamMichael, should they carry out option 1. In this second proposed season plot, Rafael is able to demonstrate just how big of an impact the years since Michael’s death have had on him, changing him for the better. The positive change in him that progressed across season 4 can culminate in him finally letting Jane go once and for all, accepting her choice to be with Michael in a way he was never able to before Michael’s “death”, and hopefully  at last finding happiness outside of her.

Either way, I maintain that the dumbest thing JTV did was kill off Michael. It changed the show, and has honestly made everything since seem so...senseless.... With that said, because they did make that choice, I see the only real way forward as option #2. They’ve essentially put Rafael in the position to receive a happy ending even without Jane, in a way that WOULD be satisfying to a lot of viewers because it would be the ultimate culmination to his immense character growth arc throughout the series. This is not really so with Michael. They’ve already done him so dirty once, frankly, by killing him off in the first place (just so they could put Jafael back together, but I digress), so bringing him back only to strip him of his memory, then using that as a means for him to also lose his wife just seems...so relentlessly cruel. If they wanted a Jafael endgame, it would have been SO much kinder to just never have brought Michael back into it at all. 

Obviously I’m biased. I am a Jane/Michael fan myself and I want them to be together in the end, but given the writers’ strange choices leading up to this, it also just seems like a much better ending for the show as a whole. 

[fabianmaierbode]

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