#people will have started hearing about lara now too ay

[yvesdemetz]

10 DEATHS FOR 10 YEARS [4 of 6]:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_t9y1_WRneY

Date: May 12th, 2022. Warnings: A nice little cameo.

“This is absolutely not allowed...”

As soon as she’d stepped into the room, the woman was greeted with a certifiable French occupation.  

Of St. Catherine’s Hospital.  

From the minute he’d awoken from surgery, the French Commandant wasn’t sure that he’d truly spent a moment alone. Not that he minded much, given the circumstances. In the rare few hours of the day when his wife went back to check on their sons—boys too thrilled to be spending time with their beloved Saba Avraham to wonder why their father had fallen off the face of the Earth—he had the company of his brother, instead. Delphine, Varden, and of course, the twins, had also been commonplace at his bedside, and he hadn’t even begrudged St. Pierre stopping by with a few extra painkillers.

Apart from them, though, his mood was volatile enough that the others respected the distance.

If only he could be so lucky with the fucking nurses.

“You all need to leave. And she cannot be on your bed.”

“Wake my wife, and you won’t like where that needle ends up.”

God knew she needed the rest after the stress of him straying a little too close to death’s door.

Varden was usually the one to temper his attitude for the sake of the nurses, but the man—true to form, much more gracefully than his wife—was passed out in an armchair in the corner of the best private room the Organization’s money could bribe out of the place. It was taking a toll on him, and Yves knew it; the constant hits against them that he shouldered an unfair amount of the blame for. Even if it was all his own.

As if the man could’ve predicted some rabid little Brixton cunt would pull a knife on a Commandant...

And then repeatedly fucking stab him with it.

It wasn't until after the nurse departed—thankfully much quieter after his particularly bitter retort—that their peace was once again interrupted. Though, perhaps this time, it could be forgiven.

The familiar face of his little brother appeared in the doorway.  

Given that he hadn’t seen the man do much else but grimace since he’d been hospitalised, the fact he was wearing a grin that stretched from ear to ear left him with some fucking questions.  

“Where’s Noa?”

Yves felt his wife stir beside him, and he shot him a look that very much said indoor voice, as the arm he had looped around her tightened slightly.  

“Val is going to want to hear this, too,” Dan assured, finally stepping into the room.

“Noa went to go get more of those chocolate doughnut things...” This time it was Laurent who spoke. “What’s going on? Why do you look like you just came from a Russian funeral?”

“Of course she fucking did,” the younger de Metz brother scoffed, heading over to his best friend, still dead to the world in his arm chair. Rather unceremoniously, he dumped the bag of requested pastries in his lap. “Rise and shine, Sleeping Beauty. I want a fucking audience.”

When he felt his wife sitting up beside him in spite of his best efforts, Yves sighed in silent annoyance. Whatever it was that his brother seemed so excited to share with them better have been fucking good.  

“What’s with the suspense?”

“I thought Delphine was supposed to be here? Where’s Delphine?”

“She had some stuff to take care of in Vauxhall. She’ll drop by later,” Varden finally replied, tone making it blatantly obvious that he was not best pleased at being disturbed. “What time is it?”

“It’s time Dan shares his fucking news,” Yves pressed, wincing slightly in both pain and frustration as he moved his position in the bed to better accommodate the woman beside him.  

“Not without Noa—”

“Dan, what the fuck is going on?”

The Frenchman was glad that his brother respected their leader enough to ditch the game he was playing and finally spill whatever the fuck he was so excited about, because Yves wasn’t well known for his patience at the best of times, let alone when he was tired and hurting. There was a brief pause in which he considered getting out of the bed and strangling him, before the younger man finally spoke.

And they could scarcely believe what they were hearing.

“Lara Rutherford is dead.”

The room descended into stunned silence.

It seemed to require conscious effort from all of them to comprehend the words.  

Lara Rutherford was dead?

“I’m sorry, what?” To his surprise, it was Val who spoke first. “How do you know? Who told you that?”

“It's everywhere,” he said, tone reminiscent of a young child excited for Chanukah. “Launceston’s version of Westminster Insider posted about it first, apparently, but it’s spreading like wildfire. I only know because that dickhead at Mistral’s heard it from one of his Porto Velho connections.”

“They’re talking about it in Porto Velho?”

“Yeah. And apparently Westminster Insider spotted one of the brothers at the airport leaving London.”

“For Launceston?”

“Who fucking knows. Probably.”

“How? Who? Was it one of ours?”

Everybody seemed to be chipping into the insane exchange bar one. Laurent St. Pierre remained in his seat, expressionless, uncomfortable almost, staring at Dan as though the man had just sprouted two fucking heads. Yves could understand not everybody immediately jumping to the conclusion that this was good news. If the Rutherford daughter—assumed by most to be her father’s favourite to one day take his place at the helm of their cancerous family—was indeed dead, then the British were going to respond poorly. Just because it’d happened in Launceston, didn’t mean the waves wouldn’t be felt in London.  

“Shooting. It was a shooting at some shit hole hotel. They didn’t say who.”

“We'd have already heard about it if it was us...” Varden sounded more hopeful than convinced, though.

Well, if they thought London was already a mess, it was going to get a lot worse now.

Laurent looked as though he wanted to say something, and given the concerned state his expression had since slipped into, Yves found himself intrigued as to what the fuck it might’ve been. To his disappointment, however, he remained silent. The Commandant didn’t even get a chance to grill him about it before somebody else knocked at the door. Bad timing. Headache inducing. What the fuck was this, a social club?

Whilst he’d hoped it would be Noa returning with more food, Yves was mistaken.

The face was familiar, yes, but not one he would’ve ever expected to see here. Now.  

Not after all this time.

With almost as much fervour as he’d revealed the news about the dead Rutherford, Dan turned on his heels, let his pea brain take the moment it needed to come to terms with what he was seeing, before he broke out into a loud cheer, throwing his arms around the man who’d joined them. Even though Yves’ attention very much remained on Laurent—watching as the man fished out his phone from his pocket, completely ignoring the new arrival—he caught Varden getting to his own feet out of the corner of his eye.

That was enough to get him look back.  

The smile of an old friend greeted him.

“How does such an ugly bastard manage to be a sight for sore eyes?” Varden chuckled.

Marcel Giroud, of all people, echoed the amusement with a laugh of his own.

“We were in the neighbourhood, and I heard the stick insect finally got the traditional London welcome. What was it, three times or four?”

In spite of the insult, Yves let out a chuckle that the sharp pain in his side immediately made him regret. Three. It had definitely been three. 

For a second, it was as if the information about Lara Rutherford had left them.

Until someone reminded them that not only was the news very much still pressing, but could indeed be worse than any of them had first thought.

“They’re going to think I set her up. They’re going to think this was us.”

Yves realised Laurent, a man he rarely saw lose his cool for anything but anger, had been slowly descending into panic during the distraction of the Parisian’s arrival.  

“Wait, what?”

“What are you talking about? Why the fuck would they think it was us?”

Marcel, now embracing his former protégé, Varden, seemed about as confused as the rest of them by the conversational segue, but Yves noted the younger man looked straight through them as he got to his feet and headed toward the doorway.  

“Where are you going?”

“St. Pierre.”

He was leaving.

Yves and Varden exchanged a look.

And during that split second in which his attention was directed away from the former Head of London, the mood shifted drastically from measured celebration to confusion to something much less pleasant. Whilst he might’ve been ignoring the questions being tossed his way—ignoring their existence generally, actually—as Laurent stopped in his tracks so abruptly one might’ve imagined he’d hit an invisible brick wall, he finally did have something to say.

And it was so full of anger and hatred, it caught all of their attention:

“Hey, she can’t fucking be here, Marcel. Get her the fuck out of here.”

[sisoyyoalgunproblema]

SKAM ESPAÑA SEASON 1 EPISODE 1

Sooo.... Here we go! If you’re wondering what is this crazy girl doing writing these long ass posts about episodes of a TV show that aired a year ago... Well, I explained everything here, I also analysed the Trailer, I know that in the website it looks like the first clip, so if you’re wondering why it doesn’t match, that’s your answer.

This is gonna be full of spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 because it’s impossible for me to watch it and not add all of that baggage, sorry. I’m going to do this clip by clip because I think it’s the most organized way of going about it, although I also thought about doing character by character... If you think it’s better that way, let me know. I’m also going to compare it to the OG and the other remakes and, no, it’s not because I think Skam España is the “superior remake” or whatever people call it, it’s because they are so different in so many ways it’s difficult to compare. 

SKAM ESPAÑA SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 “LAS RARAS DEL INSTITUTO” “THE HIGH SCHOOL WEIRDOS”

CLIP 1 ➡ SUMMER AGAIN

So, after all of that, we get the first clip, with Jorge, Lucas and Eva hanging out on the stairs after a day at the swimming pool, I love that they tease each other, they feel like an amazing group of friends, none of them feels isolated until Eva and Jorge start kissing and Lucas just leaves because no one likes being the third weal.

I really like how they make Lucas feel part of the group, it’s not Eva and Jorge and Jorge and Lucas, it’s Lucas, Eva and Jorge, but Eva and Jorge have sex with each other.

I don’t have too much to say about this clip, it’s a nice introduction to their dynamic, with Jorge always trying to reason with Eva and to reassure her by saying that everything is gonna be OK wile teasing her and making her laugh and Eva being scared and allowing herself to believe Jorge.

CLIP 2  ➡ ALONE

In this clip we get the mandatory slow motion walk of the Ingrid character, Inés in this case, and she at least just looks at Eva, with so much superiority she’d make an elephant feel small, but she doesn’t insult her or show her the finger. What a good way to start the school year!

Here we meet the boy-squad. I love that we get introduced to them in the first season, they all have such a chaotic energy, laughing at Hugo’s bad luck and making plans for the next big party.

I really like how much they actually wanted Eva to go to the concert, and that, if you think about it, they probably got the tickets before her and Jorge started dating, so it’s not that they didn’t tell her but that they didn’t think about her that way, not yet.

I also really like how understanding Eva is about all of this, she doesn’t get mad, she just basically accepts it and encourages Jorge and the boys to go and have fun and not worry about her.

I feel so much for Eva here, it’s really relatable how out of it Eva seems, she knows these boys, they all know her, they like her, but she is not part of the group, she isolates herself and doesn’t participate in the conversation, she tries at the beginning, but she can’t help feeling that these are her boyfriend’s friends, not hers. I love how this clip ends with the boys being loud and blocking her form their little circle without realizing it and with her being quiet and accepting it.

CLIP 3 ➡ THE NEW GIRL

Here we get the introduction of faux-Noora, but it’s not what I love the most about this clip. We get so much information about Amira in the background, people whispering about her because she hasn’t worn the hijab ever before and they think it’s weird. I love that we get this bit of info and that we see what our hacker queen must go through every day.

About Lara I’ll only say how relatable this whole thing is, I have a friend who says that you have to choose carefully who you talk to on the first day of school because you’ll never talk to them again and to be weary of people who come and talk to you on the first day because they’re probably just looking for someone to explain them the dynamics before they find their real place within the school/work environment/whatever.

CLIP 4  ➡ FRIENDS

I love when Skam posts clips like this, just the character in their room, doing absolutely nothing. She is scrolling through Instagram and eating some crackers. Her mom tells her to get off the phone and that she’s going to work. Nothing else happens, Eva wonders if she should follow Lara on Instagram and she doesn’t.

CLIP 5  ➡ AND WHO IS HE?

¡Ay...Viri…! We meet her in this clip, when Lara still seems to be Noora and is being nice and asking Eva how to get to her next class. Viri comes so full of energy, with so many propositions and ideas, she just comes on too strong, bless her soul, she tries too hard to fit in and it shows. We see Cris for the first time here and I love how they state that Viri is new in school and doesn’t know anyone. This is a change from the OG that I didn’t understand until season 2.

And then in comes Alejandro. Can we all just stop a second to appreciate how corny all of this is? The fact that the second Eva says his name is Alejandro, Alejandro by Lady Gaga starts playing? How Lady Gaga says Alejandro the second Viri mouths Alejandro? Like, did they have the song playing on set so that she could nail the timing? How Alejandro looks right at the camera when the song ends? It’s all so amazingly corny and cheesy and right out of one of my daydreams about the moment I’ll meet the love of my life. It’s cringy and gold and I love it.

CLIP 6  ➡ YOU ARE A GRADE A ASSHOLE

I think on the 14th of September of 2018, if you listened closely, you could hear the screams of all the confused and angry fans. I remember how I felt after watching who I KNEW was the Nora equivalent hanging out with Inés, it was devastating, I didn’t know what was gonna happen next, little did I know that with Skam España it’s always better to expect the opposite to what you’re used to.

I love how, here, Eva goes to Inés and tries to apologise, doesn’t ask for things to go back to the way they were, just for forgiveness and admits that she’s made a mistake and is so sorry that she’s hurt her and that it wasn’t her intention to do so. I really like how BRUTAL Inés is. She’s so hurt and has a reason to be so, even though we don’t know what the reason is I think that here we realize so much more than in the OG that it’s Eva’s fault, both because she says so and because she is completely understanding of Inés behaviour.

But, poor baby, she basically just lost the only friend she had in school, then went and tried to fix things with an old friend and finally it all backfired and she’s left alone.

You know what I really like about Skam in general? How they make you understand why characters do what they do, so, even if you don’t agree with their actions, you can’t make them the bad guys of the story, because situations are never black and white. 

CLIP 7  ➡ All for you

Okay, let me just begin by saying that I love how they stablish the girl squad in the background even before we know they are the girl squad, like they are part of the high-school, we see them getting in and out of class, moving around.

Jorge is so sweet. That’s all I have to say, like, the way he notices that Eva is not OK? How he tries to get the truth out of her??? Just heart eyes everywhere, I honestly think he’s the sweetest Jonas of the bunch and Eva is probably up there for being the clingiest Eva, but I love her.

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

CLIP 8  ➡ End of the year trip!!!

Here we discover Eva’s love for pizza, I can relate. And I love that she’s not mad at Jorge for being out with his friends and, even though she is jealous she is not there, she understands the situation and still tells Jorge to have a good time and means it.

Also here is the first time we see something that’s become sort of a recurrent theme in Skam España, the “I post on Instagram pretending that everything is alright and that I’m having the time of my life when I’m dying inside”.

CLIP 9  ➡ Hungover

So this is a clip that changes with its second viewing, I was so sure Lucas was jealous at Eva because she was kissing Jorge and, don’t get me wrong, I still think that he’s jealous, but more at the fact that they can be out in public and kiss and no-one will bat an eye than at the fact that Eva is kissing the boy he likes.

Also, if you want a sign telling you that you need to get some friends ASAP, sitting alone on a Saturday watching your partner play football, or whatever they play, with their friends as you sit alone on the bleachers eating Cheetos should do the trick.

Oh, and I love Jorge, have I mentioned that? How supporting he is? The way he encourages her and tells her how amazing she is while teasing her and making her laugh is amazing, I’ve never had a relationship like this, but I’m pretty sure being with someone who’s self esteem is as low as Eva’s is right now must not be easy, but he does it with such an ease, he loves her so much he’ll support her through thick and thin and he’ll be by her side for whatever she may need as long as she wants him to.

Also, Eva not being mad that he forgot that they where supposed to hung out together is something I have conflicting feelings about because, OK, you shouldn’t put on a show and scream and all of that, but it was important to her and she doesn’t say anything because she’s afraid that she’ll lose him if she does, she should have made it clear that she was hurt and that it was okay, for this once, but that she hoped it never happened again because she was counting on spending the day with him and now her plans are ruined and that’s not OK.

So I think this clip shows how much Eva depends on Jorge, so much so that she won’t stand up for herself for fear of loosing him, and that’s sad, but also so fucking relatable. And I’m not blaming Jorge here for forgetting it, I’m sure that to him the “I’ll be all yours” comment was just not as important as it was to Eva, he should’ve remembered though, and Eva should’ve shown him he hurt her.

CLIP 10 & 11  ➡ Shitty meeting

That meeting was painful to watch, but can I just state how much I hated Viri during that first season and how much she’s changed and improved, like here she is: “I don’t get you and you don’t follow the society’s way of thinking or acting so you’re weird” and now she’s all: “I don’t get you and you don’t follow the society’s way of thinking or acting, but you’re my friend and I’m here for whatever you need”.

I also love the little hints they drop here and there about Amira and her hijab being a new thing, like how she says she’s planning on buying a burkini and Cris is all like WTF? But then Amira looks at her like saying, are you my friend or what? And Cris is all like, OF FUCKING COURSE AMIRIS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, so she ends up supporting her.

And Nora’s introduction, I think it’s amazing, and I was so FUCKING confused on my first viewing, like, girl, she’s literally called Nora so she MUST be Noora, but, then, who the fuck is Lara? Little did we know…

I’ve also noticed how much Amira’s changed, she’s so closed of and defensive in this episode, both clips, like she is not sure whether the girls will accept her or not, so she puts up this wall between them to guard herself and is brutally honest, maybe even cruel. Looking at this clip now feels so weird, because this is not the Amira I know now, the Amira I know is quiet, and loving and caring, and loves to talk about her religion and her culture, and is always ready to help her friends, or to fight for them… It really takes me back to what Skam really is about, loving one another and creating safe spaces where we can grow and become who we are meant to be free of prejudice.

Final thought on this clip, I really, really, really hate Cris’ make up here, like, girl, WE are supposed to be the clowns here, not you.

CLIP 12  ➡ The weirdos

So, Eva and Nora, I love their friendship, the way Nora picks up on the fact that Eva is NOT okay, and asks her if everything is alright a couple of times before she leaves???? Heart eyes everywhere.

Also I’m going to use this to address the criticism about Nora’s introduction, honestly, I don’t remember where I saw it, it was more than a year ago, but it basically said that it was the least gay out of all of them and I’m like, WTF???? People, aren’t you tired of being queer-batted? Because I am, I’m so over queer-batting, and that you’re asking for it is weird. Because, if they are not meant to be anything more than friends, I’m grateful that they don’t have any kind of interaction that could be considered as “gay” (although I don’t really know what a “gay” interaction actually is, I guess I would already have a girlfriend by now if I did, instead of sitting in a coffee shop writing very, very, very long Tumblr posts about things no-one really cares about).

In defence of anyone who likes Noreva, I get it, we are all starved for good wlw representation, and on the original the only thing remotely close we had to that was Noora and Eva’s friendship during the first season, but here we’ve got Cris and Joana, so having Eva and Nora be just best friends is totally fine by me.

The clip ends with a heartbroken Eva watching as Jorge laughs with Inés, I don’t know. I have nothing to say about it, other than the fact that I’m glad I’m no longer 16 and have better communicating skills and higher self seem than Eva, not that I did at 16, I was an absolute mess at 16, still am, in a different way.

Sooo... This took longer than I expected,  if I’ve said anything you don’t agree with, tell me and we’ll chat for a bit😘