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Bloodbark fanart, alcohol markers on paper by cozy_corpse Inspired by the Bloodbark artwork by Eduardo Valdés-Hevia

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“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

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transgender victor has the possibility to be real as fuck. gus gets a man who’s completely unidentifiable even in areas where he grew up and victor gets paid well enough to easily keep up with his transition and also his boss is normal about it all and keeps all his shit private. the dream

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@deadcatwithaflamethrower​ I was just linked this and I felt you needed to see it. I cannot stop laughing and I’m wheezing from the effort of trying to stop.

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Every Better Call Saul Frame on twitter is a gold mine bc 1) it's a fountain of meme materials and 2) it's a great way to capture face journeys.

Like the three frames of Nacho's reaction to Gustavo asking what Lalo's been planning almost made me cackle at work:

That's the face of a man who had to briefly relive weeks of Lalo Salamanca Talking. He's in so much pain. It's so funny.

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Nachito que estas haciendo 🤨

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Lalo adores his esposo

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movie night 💙

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did that lalo study yet again

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"He's more like his mum than his dad, and his mum was probably a bad person too. I've kind of adopted Michael Mando's headcanon that Nacho's mom left his dad for a richer guy, and Nacho internalized that and became greedy like his mom." I never heard of that before! I was aware of TD's headcanons for Lalo but not MM's for Nacho. This is pretty interesting compared to what I see people usually write. Maybe that's me, but the fandom seems to go with the "She died when he was young" route, and of course that's not bad or anything,,

I know you just reblogged this, but still, what are your thoughts on Nacho's mother and his past in general? You did mention you needed to think about Nacho's mom more, lol.

I'm in the same boat as you, anon! I'd never heard about that until I saw @/cassowariess mention it! I went searching for wherever MM said that, and I found an answer on a reddit AMA and an answer in an interview with Vulture:

the second one doesn’t give much info, just a hint that his mother's absence may have contributed to his decision to join the cartel. the first one, though, has a little more to it; he points out that there are no pictures of Nacho's mother in their family home, which is strange for a man as family-oriented as Manuel, and again says that whatever happened regarding her might have been what drove Nacho to the cartel

he lists three possibilities: that 'whatever happened' made him want to make money, that it made him want to find belonging in a group, or that it simply made him want anything that he could use to escape his pain. he doesn't specifically say anything about Nacho's mom leaving him for a wealthier man, or even leaving him at all rather than dying or something else; I looked around a bit for a source on that but couldn't find it, would love if someone could point me in the right direction!

and same as you again, anon, I've also noticed that many in the fandom tend to go with 'she died when Nacho was younger.' it does make sense that people would assume she's dead, because it explains the literal zero mention or even implication of her in canon. she definitely can't still be in the Varga family vicinity, or Nacho would have mentioned her before bringing up Tía Rosa and the twins when pleading with Manuel to not disrespect Hector. she's gone, but 'gone' can mean different things...

I do think that 'whatever happened' took place when Nacho was young, but not too young to remember, not too young to have understood what was going on at the time. his love and loyalty to his father is very strong, a core part of who he is, and I really don't think there's room for any other recipient for those feelings, or they wouldn't be so intense for Manuel alone; meaning, he's fully dedicated to his father and not at all to his mother (or her memory, if she's deceased, or even to the hope that they'll meet again if she had somehow disappeared and her fate was unknown)

the more I think about it, the more it seems like there's at least some level of resentment here in this family-of-two towards the missing wife and mother. the lack of photos of her in the home (both homes, though aside from the fake IDs we never see a picture of Manuel in Nacho's house either, so we can't read too much into that), the lack of any mention of her whatsoever (the times Manuel attempts to get Nacho to go to the police would be perfect occasions to bring up what his mother would want for him, one would think), Nacho's overwhelming devotion to his father, which seems too strong and too focused on Manuel only to leave room for anyone else to share in it...

still haven't pinned anything down yet, haven't made a decision on what I think My Headcanon is, but 'Mrs. Varga divorces Manuel and both he and Nacho still hold bitterness towards her for it' is definitely interesting me as a possibility!

and as for my thoughts on Nacho's past in general... a lot of the basics are things most people agree on; he was born and grew up in New Mexico, worked at his dad's shop as a kid like Jimmy worked in his dad's corner store, he's an only child, he was best friends with Domingo pretty much all their lives. you know, all that

one thing I feel pretty confident about, though, is that Nacho didn't grow up with his family in dire financial straits. I think that, while they didn't have too much money to spare for luxuries, they were safely above poverty level and Manuel's business always did decently well for itself

I saw someone (on here, I'm pretty sure, but idk who) say that they'd seen people claim Nacho got into the cartel so his family could have money, and they disliked how quick people were to assign Nacho the 'desperate dirt-poor immigrant' trope (though it'd be 'from an immigrant family' in this case). I believe they said it was stereotypical and robbed Nacho of having more unique, less noble reasons for becoming a criminal, and I agree. he definitely did want to gain a higher level of wealth for himself and his father, but I think it's boring and doesn’t suit the character to say it's because he grew up near-destitute, to say that he joined the cartel to 'save' his family

Nacho was greedy! he didn't need cartel money. he wanted it. my greedy tragic fool of a snake <3

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Every unhinged fic writer needs an equally unhinged friend who "yes ands" their ideas and encourages them to write all their most far fetched and insane stories.

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I cannot believe that, aside from the flashback in "One Minute," we literally never see Hector speak to a single member of his family prior to him becoming disabled. not once! it's crazy! the closest we get is when he and Mike talk in the ice cream shop, and even then, it's just him referring to Marco and Leonel and then later making a statement to everyone present on his side, not them specifically. they never actually talk to each other! not even a phone call happens between Hector and any of his nephews pre-stroke! when Leonel calls to deliver the news that Tuco got himself thrown in solitary, he doesn't call Hector, he calls Arturo!

like at what point does it become undeniably intentional? and I don't mean that for the characters (though it kinda seems like it's true for them too), I mean the writers; it really feels like they're saying something by having the Salamancas - well - not say anything to each other. I know that Tuco was locked up by the time Hector came to Albuquerque, and Lalo was down in Mexico, and the twins are pretty silent in general, so yes, there are in-universe reasons for the lack of dialogue between them

but still! this is the prequel series for a wildly successful TV show! this is where you let people see what things were like Before! you're giving the audience a peek into the past and dynamics of the Salamanca family prior to Hector's stroke, when he was still a powerful player in the game, when he was still capable of speech, and you just... never have him say a single word to any of the cousins? think about what it means that the writers chose to portray his relationships with his nephews like that!

God. this dysfunctional fucking family. there is so much wrong with all of them

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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They tried to watch a movie, again.

reference ♥ First attempt at watching a movie here u_u ♥ ↓ no text version under the cut ↓