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Lacho Sugar Daddy AU hot off the presses!

((I have a brain fever. It's terminal. It's called Lacho. Send help. ))

#better call saul #lacho #nacho varga #lalo salamanca #lalo x nacho #fanfiction #Sugar Daddy AU

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#interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #i can’t wait for season 2 #so excited

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"I could feel his breath on my neck"

#loustat #lestat x louis #interview with the vampire #iwtv fanart #this is so gorgeous

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just a little friendly play-fighting after work haha, nothing homosexual going on here no siree

#domingo x nacho #nacholoco #better call saul #fanart #OMG I LOVE thisss #I’m way too obsessed with Domingo x Nacho #this is just too cute!!

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"you read a lot, right?"

"yes!"

"what are some books you've read recently?"

"uhh i don't remember"

#painfully accurate #oops #been reading almost exclusively fanfic lately #should really get back into books #but i refuse to stop devouring fanfic at any point

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Hannibal (2013-2015) Breaking Bad (2008-2013)

#I'm having a category 5 gustavo fring moment right now #i've commented on the similarity before to people irl but I love the parallels here! #gustavo's dinner with walt so closely mirrors hannibal and will #even the visual parallels are crazyyyy #breaking bad #hannibal nbc #my two obsessions paralleling?? #gustavo fring #walter white #hannibal lecter #will graham

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thinking about gustavo and max

I've been wanting to write a story for Gustavo Fring and Max Arciniega for soooo long, but I can't seem to wrap my head around the when/how/where/what of it...but I just love them so much and want to explore their relationship and history.

I actually really love that canonically we know very little about Gustavo. He is so menacing, especially because we know so little about him. He's a ghost--Hank even reveals that there's no paper trail of him before he emigrated to Mexico. And sure, that could partially be due to bad record keeping during the turbulent time in Chile of Allende being deposed by Pinochet and the unrest and terror of the Pinochet regime. But...I don't think Hank believes that's the only reason; it's far more likely that Gustavo has changed his identity and is fleeing Chile because he is possibly a war criminal, or implicated somehow in Pinochet's crimes. Hector Salamanca mockingly refers to him as "El gran general" when on the phone in the flash back of Marco and Leonel as boys. So presumably Gustavo was a general in Pinochet's army? In which case, he was most likely involved in kidnapping and torturing leftists and supporters of the Allende regime. Which is terrifying to consider.

But we also know that he grew up very poor. And at some point, generated enough wealth to pay Max's way through his education at the university of Santiago. A prestigious military career would be one way to achieve that type of upward mobility. It's hard to know how ruthless Gustavo was before Max's death turned him into the shell of a man whose only motivation is revenge that we meet in canon. But it's likely that he was willing to get his hands dirty as a soldier in order to climb his way up out of poverty. We know enough about him to know that he had a cruel streak even as a child (the coati story) and that he was patient and calculating, even then. So I can imagine that, to him, the ends would justify the means in terms of being part of an awful dictatorship if it guaranteed his advancement and wealth and security for his loved ones.

I just love imagining him when he was younger and less hardened by the world and the loss of Max. It's fun to imagine them happy together and optimistic on their journey to Mexico, before tragedy strikes.

Gustavo does some truly truly awful and reprehensible things (callously sacrificing Nacho and using children in his drug operation to name a few!) that go beyond the scope and necessity of his revenge plot against the Salamancas and the cartel at large. I think by the point we meet him in canon, he's cut out any remaining scraps of "humanity" and kindness and made himself into a cold revenge machine, willing to accept any collateral damage that may occur as a result. I think even he is probably aware that Max would likely hate this thing he's become. But he can't stop; he's invested too much into it, and his hatred and thirst for revenge is the only thing that motivates him to keep breathing.

Which is why his scene with David in Better Call Saul is so devastating! We get a little glimpse there of a softer side of him, and maybe a different path he could have gone down. Maybe even a little echo of the type of happiness and warmth he had in his life with Max.

Ugghhh. They break my heart!!

#gustavo fring #max arciniega #gusmax #breaking bad #meta

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they’re going to mexico

#gusmax #breaking bad #one day I’ll get my shit together and write gusxmax fic… #i love gustavo so much I swear! #just don’t post about him as much due to the Lacho insanity #i want to know about their life together in chile!! #and if gus was a general for pinochet yikes

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"we're a family."

#breaking bad #walter white #skyler white #walt jr #this so cool!!

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a mexico

sort of a redraw of this even though i changed everything

#LOVE #gusmax #gustavo fring #max arciniega

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Ay, ay, ay, Nachitoo! Falling for sly, powerful fox!! (tea is not laced, promise!!!!!)

#better call saul #lacho #nacho varga #lalo salamanca #this is so cool!! #Lalo is so perfect as a kitsune #and Nacho as his lil snack

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El Zorro toxic old man yaoi for you

Aaah!! I’m so blessed! Muchas gracias @lourytboop!! 🙏💖 this is so beautiful 😭😍 I’m so ready to become fully obsessed with El Zorro 💖

#lourytboop #el zorro #i die #this is so beautiful

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An image of maslows hierarchy of needs hastily edited to draw over all 5 pyramid bases in a single colour so that only the words "that old man" is visible im too lazy to make the edit

#me re: tony dalton mads mikkelsen hugh dancy #also me re: pedro pascal viggo mortensen kyle mclachlan idris elba #to name a few. my thirst for old men is unquenchable

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lalo✘nacho

Nachito...

Mi pequeña serpiente testaruda

我的倔强小蛇 ​​​

#lacho #better call saul fanart #nacho varga #lalo salamanca #love this!! #yes put Nacho on his knees very good

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John Brosio, Ecstasy in the Desert, 2020

#this piece exudes BB/BCS vibes #death and decay in the desert #desert gothic #john brosio #art

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Abigail save me…

#hannibal nbc #abigail hobbs #RIP abigail you deserved better #poor abigail just wanted to be free #and she got out of the shadow of one murderous father #only to be killed by a surrogate murderous father

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The return of BCS color theory!

I've previously argued that Jimmy's color is all of them, and I stand by that. But out of all of them, yellow is the most prominent.

The two most obvious yellows associated with Jimmy are his iconic Esteem and the mug Kim gifted him, both of which have a touch of criminal red.

The Wexler/McGill logo is a mix of Jimmy's yellow and Kim's blue (notice how the office is mostly yellow, because this is Jimmy's dream, not hers.)

So why yellow? Well, it's loud, it's bright, it catches the eye. Jimmy loves to be noticed. But most importantly - it's not red or blue. It's the other primary color! Because in the beginning, Jimmy's not quite criminal red, and not quite lawful blue. He's in his own category.

In 1x01, there's yellow lighting in Jimmy's office (his attempt to play it straight), but there's also yellow when he reveals his Slippin' Jimmy past (notice the blues there, too, as his natural yellow crowds out his lawful aspirations).

What does it mean? I think it means that Jimmy's colorful approach to the law is not inherently criminal. If it was, he'd be red. The implication is that Jimmy could have made it as a legitimate lawyer while still being himself.

And to prove it, here are some shots from 1x05, when he visits Mrs. Strauss for the first time. Everything in her house is yellow - the walls, her furniture, even her teapot (although she herself is dressed in lawful blue.)

Jimmy the Elder Law Lawyer was perfectly in tune both with his natural colorful nature (his slippin' ways were what uncovered the financial abuse of the Sandpiper residents) and the law. He couldn't cut it in the stifling halls of HHM or Davis & Main. But he could have struck his own path and been happy. In a kinder universe, maybe he did. Alas. :(