#albisco

[nihansezin]

losing a ship in the last minutes of a show when you thought you had the endgame in the bag must be one of the most traumatizing experiences i’ve ever experienced watching tv

[scottieharveys]

— 1920’s rags to riches

[cabblegirls]

las chicas del cable be like we're feminists but we're gonna kill all of the female protagonists for dramatic effect

[almrshall]

Blanca Suárez en La Verbena

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[livinonaprayerrr]

Guapísimo, papi

Sigam o Instagram de fãs do Yon González Luna: @yongonzalez.brasil

[thatdamwisegirl]

Watch “Las Chicas Del Cable” (Cable Girls) at least if only for them. Trust Me.

[darklinaforever]

So... one of you will have a couple equivalent to Carlos & Lidia (Carlidia) from the series Las Chicas del Cable ? I swear these two should have ended up together...

The whole plot to separate them in season 4 was heavy and tiring...

I need a couple with the same vibe but with a happy ending ! Tips ?

[scottieharveys]

looks like i’ve finally got round to elaborating on this! so, speaking from personal experience, when i first started the show, i was a huge carlidia shipper. i do still adore their s1 scenes and a handful of their s2 and s3 ones, but now i feel like explaining why i switched into believing francisco was the better man, and therefore albisco the better ship.

first off, i fully acknowledge that francisco’s actions in season 1 were awful. it was disgusting that he cheated on his wife with lidia and later on blamed her for elisa’s suicide attempt, and his behavior towards and around lidia was pretty inappropriate too. he felt entitled to her because they were once together, he wouldn’t leave her alone and kept insisting himself onto her even though she told him she did NOT want him multiple times. carlos on the other hand was at his best in season 1, and his relationship with lidia did flow naturally and you could feel the special connection between them, so it was very easy to choose a lane back then. the crucial point here is that francisco grew past his actions and behavior from s1, meanwhile carlos started going downhill since then. many people argue that the writers deliberately ruined his character in seasons 4 and 5 so that the viewers would stop rooting for him in order to prop francisco up and turn them to his side, i believed it too. however, looking back, i’ve come to realize that carlos’ character did start regressing in seasons 2 & 3, just on lesser doses.

in season 2, it could be said that carlos’ actions are justified because he was truly hurt and resentful towards lidia for having tricked him and stolen from him, i get it. however, as much as i believe what lidia did to him was horrible and unforgivable, and had i been on carlos’ situation i don’t think i would’ve ever been able to trust her again, was there really a reason to trick her the exact same way, use the immense guilt she was feeling as well as the romantic feelings she developed for him to his advantage, manipulate her into sleeping with him, stealing her project and afterwards being an absolute asshole to her? the fact that he even reacted this way had to tell you something about his character. also, the fact that her getting pregnant was what stopped him from treating her like crap does not really portray him in a positive light either. then in s3, while i still find their wedding scenes and most of their scenes in 3x02 out to be adorable, it is the end of that episode that already set him up badly. they went on ONE mission together in order to find their missing daughter and he already backed off and proceeded to believe lidia was crazy (and even said it out loud!) for not giving up, even though she literally told him she felt stronger and more hopeful with him by her side. then in 3x05, when carlos discovered lidia was behind carmen’s murder attempt, he told her “if you loved me, you would’ve known how to forgive” um... excuse me? while i do believe lidia DID cross a line by having someone plan the accident so carmen would die, did he really expect the mother of his dead daughter to forgive the person who was behind her death and the fire at their own wedding? i’m sorry, but that was a huge no. seasons 4 & 5 are pretty self explanatory, in s4 carlos became a jealous and insecure man who hid the fact that francisco woke up because he was afraid to lose her, and even put their daughter’s life at risk. and s5 already killed any good qualities he may have had left by making him a downright fascist, who put an underage girl’s life in danger simply to take it out on lidia, and gave information about her and her friends to the falangists which only god knows what would’ve happened had he not have been interrupted by lidia in the attempt.

francisco on the other hand, as i said, truly grew from his s1 and early s2 persona to become a man who was truly worthy of lidia’s love. his love for her was so selfless and unconditional, enough to take a bullet to save her daughter with another man, raise and take care of her like his own; that all he really cared about was that she was happy and had the life she deserved. it was already proven in late s2 when he decided to take a step back from his “please pick me lidia, i’ll take better care of you and your child than carlos” discourse and let her go. then in the first episode of s3, he told her “there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: i still want the best for you”, meaning he accepted her choice to be with and marry carlos and supported her on it, since it was her decision that would make her happy. then, from season 3 onwards he was ALWAYS there for her whenever she needed him; he never doubted, questioned or rejected her because she chose carlos over him. he was always willing to help her on whatever wacky plan she came up with to find eva in s3, get carlota out of prison in s4, and whilst he wasn’t very fond of the idea of her traveling back to spain to find sofía or putting herself in danger many times in s5b, it was understandable since it was indeed dangerous because they were in the middle of a bloody war and she had a family who needed her; so mainly it was him looking out for her rather than toxically controlling or questioning her every move like carlos DID do. but still, he was very happy to be supportive and help her on whatever was necessary to fulfill her goal about something that she believed in.

so, this is my take. i do agree that yon and blanca playing albisco does play an important role in people’s preference, and that they clearly are not even close to being on julivan’s level, yet now i do see why albisco are the fan favorite ship (even though i’m fully aware and respectful of the fact that there’s also a good part of lcdc’s viewers that ships carlidia), and why they were worthy of endgame. sorry that this was too long though hahaha.

do people genuinely like albisco or do they just like blanca and yon together

[ivanoirets]

albisco Icon pack

[fuckyeahcarlosandlidia]

The Family Of Love Forever

This contains spoilers, so you’re warned:D

So the show has finally ended in some way it felt like I can relax. Right after part 1 , I’ve spent months feeling very much betrayed, mad, annoyed and sad for being treated as the most significant fans, just because we picked the “wrong” side.  And I’m not saying “wrong” because we were wrong or because Carlos and Lidia weren’t worthy, but because we don’t belong to that group of people who drool over Yon Gonzalez, and believe that Blanca is supposed to end up with him, no matter what they do. It felt really annoying to be treated like that, because of fanservice.But after part 2, I don’t feel exactly like that, anymore.  Yes, I still believe they ruined their show, I still believe they turned it into something completely different than how it used to be.  After season 4, I felt like the nonsense, the bad writing and forced stuff was what kept moving the show on.  I’m more than sure that Blanca didn’t like season 4 at all, since we made pretty clear she was always on teamCarlidia and wanted the story to be that way.  I think, since the girls gave their own opinion about the ending, they decided to focus more on their friendship, not on the romance. That wasn’t the problem at all, because the girls were the core of the show, and Lidia was the main character. But  Martiño should have been there, too.

The thing is that to me they did everything in the wrong way because all about Lidia and Francisco was forced and completely random, it had no build-up at all, and they were together only because they ruined Carlos, on purpose. They were together because circumstances made it happen, not because she actually chose him over Carlos. To me, this is not how you write romance, this is not how make a couple happen, and certainly not ruining the other option, for God’s sake. They did to Carlos everything they could do to make him appear as “bad”.  Big failure!

Anyway, speaking of the finale, obviously I felt like there was stuff quite forced, too, like for example the whole Carmen’s redemption, the 2 Albisco scenes at the end – but I’ll be back to that – my God the chemistry was so bad.  And I thought the whole ending with the girls was really too much tragic. I figured out that would be the ending; their interviews made me sure of that, and even though, I get the message, they’re heroines for sure, but after everything they went through, I think it would have been fair to give them the chance to be with their children, to get a second chance. The show used to be very fresh and simple, they were simple women, and it wasn’t necessary to make the avengers and martyrs. It was very hard to watch.  But I’m glad that, at the end, it was all about the girls, their bond, and their destiny.

Speaking of Albisco, they didn’t even seem like a couple for most of the season. I would say, as it always was.  Their relationship was always based on the past and that time at train station, and they didn’t even get scenes, build-up for most of the series.  They got two scenes in the whole season.  One was the same scene again and again, with flashbacks of them as kids. And the other one was the goodbye scene, which was pretty predictable. I certainly didn’t expect Lidia to go on a suicide mission without saying goodbye, and I won’t deny that this man always meant something to her.  For many reasons.  I’ve never denied that and I never will.  And for how things went, for the circumstances, he was part of her family, too. I just firmly believe he wasn’t the love of her life, for the very same reasons I talked about above and for the story that was told us.  Lidia made her choice, she picked Carlos over Francisco, she built a family with him because she wanted to. A family of love. Not out of circumstances. And I really appreciated that Lidia told Francisco “os quiero mucho”, meaning all of them as a family. She didn’t ILY to him and only him.  Something that he did.  And for me it’s enough, for me it’s really important and it means a lot. Carlos will always be the only man she said ILY to. Again and again.

And now let me talk about the thing that owns my heart.  Who talked to me before the ending perfectly knows I had no expectations for the last episodes. I actually believed they got rid of him, and farewell!  I truly thought no one would give him justice because of how they killed him off, and how they ruined him, too.  But I was gladly surprised I couldn’t be more wrong. ‘Cause there was someone who loved him so much who just couldn’t just let him go without fighting for the truth.  For the very moment she asked of him, to know where he was because she believed he could have helped them with their plan against Carmen, I knew there was hope.  Not only because of the sad look on her face, but because she thought of him as a potential ally to fight Carmen. Trust.  That’s what it was.  When she met him again in part 1, she was disappointed to find a different man, a man she couldn’t trust.  She even told him that.  But soon enough she realized he was exactly the same man she loved.

I was very satisfied by her reaction, too, when she found out he was dead.  That he could have killed himself. Denial, shortness of breath, disbelief, non-acceptance. She cried more for Carlos then when she had to say goodbye to Francisco. I love the passion she showed at proving the truth for him. And it was to me such a proof of love. The power of their love for each other was able to go beyond death because she immediately got everything. She remembered every word he told her about Romero, and she knew he couldn’t have committed suicide because of her, because the last thing he told her was “You’ll always be the woman of my life”.  She was never his poison, she was his life.  And as a guardian angel, Carlos was able to move the plot and help Lidia even though he was no more.  It’s because of how strong their love was, that Lidia could win the war against Carmen, and made her change her mind. The “Don’t compete with me for Carlos’s love, you have a very good chance of losing” turned out true again.

Carlos’s life were Lidia and Eva.  He spent the last 8 years of his life hoping to find a way to meet his baby again, to be the good father he always wanted to be to her. He still had the “Teddy Bear” we know so well, as the symbol of the beautiful family we had. It hurts deeply, but I was glad they gave justice to this wonderful man, who, with Elisa, just had the misfortune to belong to a bad family. The Cifuentes never had a chance, they were denied their parents’ affection, which is something monstrous, and they never got a chance. This is just unfair. Thankfully, Eva will have the chance to live the life she deserves, even though without her mother and without the chance of meeting her father. I just hope Francisco will tell her who her parents were, because right ‘till the very end Eva had a father and his name was Carlos Cifuentes.  And she will always the fruit of the love.

We got the story, we got the moments, we got everything about our ship, something others can’t say. It ended badly, yet I’m glad they gave us closure. Carlos was the only who told Lidia “te amo”, which is different from “te quiero”, because querer means caring, too. “Te amo” is much stronger. And Lidia referred to him as “alguien que había amado”, again she didn’t use this verb for Francisco, at all.  And to me it means everything.  And she never actually defined or described Francisco in any way.  OTOH, we have one of the best quotes ever.  Even if Carlos wasn’t there. “Carlos was strong. He would have faced anything.” She says it so passionately, without looking anything or anyone in particular, with tears in her eyes, only thinking about him, meaning every word. Carlos Cifuentes was indeed her hero, the one who always made her feel stronger. They changed each other’s life and they gave everything to each other. With no restriction. It was a rollercoaster, it caused so much joy and so much pain, but it was all before our eyes. "Love that overthrows life, unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rupture.” They’re the greatest story of Las Chicas del Cable, “true love, the consequence of a deep and conscious choice” that happened right at the end of season 1, when she decided to let go of the past and to embrace the wonderful future who was right, down on his knees, asking her to spend the rest of her life with him.

I had no idea this show would become such a tragedy.  There’s no real winner in this, we all lost something precious, but I’ll never let it go, for real.  This blog will always be here to remember who this couple was, who Lidia Aguilar and Carlos Cifuentes was, and to celebrate two great human beings as Blanca and Martiño.

[bloodvline]

lidia never loved francisco the way he did i hate it here

[almrshall]

Blanca Suárez en Los 40

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[livinonaprayerrr]

Yon González Luna

[sapphicmayfields]

i’ve always been team carlos (although a fan of francisco as well) and even i hated the way they made albisco come “full circle” only to ruin in it right after. what even was the point? not to mention the whole train scene just felt so random? the scene could’ve been nice under other circumstances but it felt weird to me.

and as you say, they fought for their rights during the entire show, so why not FINALLY give them a happy ending? the message of the sacrifices they made would still be just as strong, just not as poorly written or tragic.

also i would love to read your fanfics !!! i just want to delete s5 from my mind jsjsjs literally anything would’ve been a better ending than the one we got

I have never watched a show with an ending that was this bad, after all they’ve been through they’re just gonna give up like that??? Why did the train already leave, they could have waited 10 seconds and they could all be perfectly fine...

The 4 strongest characters I think I’ve ever seen in any series ever and they all get shot, what the fuck, I get that they sacrificed themselves for the greater good or something but I for one am pissed af that they dragged us along for 5 seasons for them to kill all of the main characters.

[abrente]

A medida que me fago maior, tamén me fago máis conservador. E, por iso mesmo, a miña maior preocupación na actualidade é o ascenso do fascismo en Europa e no mundo todo. Non é algo de hoxe, para min a preocupación ven de lonxe e non albisco aínda un final.

Procurando luz para a miña angueira, rematei hai algunhas semanas o libo de Sebastian Haffner Historia de un alemán, publicado por Destino. Foi un fermoso agasallo de Elena Alonso e Antonio Cardenal, que desfrutaran antes da súa lectura. Haffner trata de comprender, desde o punto de vista da intrahistoria, os motivos que levaron á maioría social na Alemaña da posguerra a aceptar o ascenso ao poder do partido Nazi e do seu histriónico líder, Adolfo Hitler. E de como ese ascenso levou á destrución dos valores sobre os que se asentara a cultura alemá ata o momento, para continuar coa destrución da convivencia, comezando polo asasinato ou reclusión en campos de concentración e do comezo da política que levaría ao exterminio dos xudeus.

Debo salientar que Raimund Pretzel, que así se chamaba en realidade Haffner, foi membro dunha familia prusiana conservadora, e que non escribe como militante de ningunha ideoloxía progresista. As súas (escasas) críticas aos comunistas son moi fondas. E parece aceptar con ironía o tráxico final da liga espartaquista, sendo consciente que na masacre comezaron os asasinatos políticos que serían frecuentes no verán de 1933 e afectarían a socialistas e sindicalistas.

A súa conciencia real do perigo nazi chega porque se decata axiña de que o boicot aos negocios xudeus do 1 de abril de 1933 e a lexislación posterior vai implantar un antisemitismo implacable que pode rematar nun exterminio. Haffner, que escribe en 1939, cando aínda non comezou propiamente a Shoah, insiste na seguridade de que se estaba a implantar unha política de exterminio, e das dificultades para a fuxida establecidas desde o comezo no novo réxime. Esa conciencia aparece porque fai prevalecer os sentimentos humanitarios, entre os que inclúe a amizade e o amor, por persoas e familias xudeas,  así como por figuras públicas que son denigradas pola súa condición étnica. Insiste en que un amor pasaxeiro por unha muller de orixe xudeu dálle acceso a un nivel de conciencia que para o resto da poboación parece negado.

Recomendo esta lectura porque desde o meu punto de vista ilustra como as políticas baseadas no odio e na exclusión, sostidas por Estados autoritarios, especialmente en contextos de crise social e económica, poden levarnos a un retorno do horror. Teño a certeza de que estamos a tempo de evitalo. Pero non se non tomamos conciencia, cada día, de que a humanidade está en xogo e debemos poñernos, sempre, do lado das vítimas.

Unha historia íntima do chegada do nazismo A medida que me fago maior, tamén me fago máis conservador. E, por iso mesmo, a miña maior preocupación na actualidade é o ascenso do fascismo en Europa e no mundo todo.

[sapphicmayfields]

ok but am i the only one who loves both blanca and yon and think they have a lot of chemistry irl and on screen, except for in las chicas del cable? i mean it’s not that the chemistry wasn’t there, but compared to their other projects (el internado especially) and to blanca and martiño in lcdc, it just didn’t get to me at all. probably why i prefer carlidia tbh although i would love to see blanca and yon in even more projects together