i am currently obsessed with a brazilian telenovela about a prostitute that falls in love with a monk. he is in love with her too but he thinks its a sin so he whips himself for looking at her shoe. its all very romantic.
anyways she only became a camelia as they call it because her family wanted to put her in a mental hospital after she left her rich fiancé at the altar, (and also i think to punish herself because her ex commited suicide) so she had to run away still in her wedding dress and ends up arriving in the red light district to become the new mayor of whoretown. there she befriends a cross dressing gay prostitute called Thin Waist and some other colorful characters and together they practice the noble art of holding their heads high in the face of hardship and ruin, which i think is very RuPauls drag race-coded in a way… its all very beautiful, i highly recommend. u can watch all episodes with english subtitles here: https://jabutranslations.blogspot.com/p/hilda-hurricane-episodes.html
i think brazilian portuguese sounds so soft and lovely, to my ears it sounds like a mix of russian, swedish and portuguese kind of. i will learn it on duolingo and one day i will Come To Brazil….
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