#Angélica Burns

[literary-illuminati]

2024 Book Review #13 – Victory City by Salman Rushdie

One of my goals for the year is to read more proper literature (here defined as fiction I can mention reading to my mother without getting judged for it). I’ve never read anything of Rushdie’s before, but I did remember his name in the news recently due to the whole attempted-murder thing and, happily, my library actually had a copy of his newest work. So, picked this up and read it sight unseen!

The book follows one Pampa Kampana – a nine-year-old girl who, in the 14th century, witnesses her city destroyed, and her mother burning herself alive. She is then inhabited and blessed by a goddess, blessed/cursed with a lifespan measured in centuries and the destiny of raising an empire up and seeing it fall before she dies.

The narrative is framed as a modern adaptation/summary of the epic poem recounting her life Pampa completes before finally dying, finally discovered and translated after being forgotten in the ruins of te imperial capital for centuries. The story is largely a story of this miraculous, semi-utopian empire, as told Pampa’s eyes (and with a lengthy digression during the years she spends in exile).

This is a story that exists somewhere in the muddy middle ground between historical low fantasy and magical realism – it’s in some sense an alternate history of the Vijayanagara Empire, and replete with historical trivia and references, but is quite clear from the outset that accuracy is not really something the book cares about. Instead, the book’s Vijayanagara – always written as Bisnaga, as it was translated by a historical Portuguese chronicler whose also a minor character in the story, to prevent confusion – is basically allegory and morality tale with a light coating of history for flavour.

Not that I can really begrudge Rushdie for his strident politics (as far as I can tell I basically agree with him on all of it), but this really does feel like one of those old fantastical utopias, or a political treatise that gets past the censors by pretending to be the history of a foreign country, more than it does a novel. Which could definitely work! But in this case really didn’t, at least for me. There’s enough time spent on characterization and character drama to eat up pages, but not enough for it to ever feel like they’re people and not just marionettes acting out a show. I suppose the best way to get across the reading experience is that I was reading a proper 500 page history book at the same time as I read this, and this felt like the bigger slog by far.

Though part of that might just be disappointed expectations that I really had no right to have in the first place? As I said, I had Rushdie slotted in my head as a literary author, but really I don’t know nearly enough about him or his work to justify that. So I came to this expecting to be at least a bit wowed and bedazzled by the artistry and beautiful prose on display – and like, eh? Not bad, to be sure, the narrative voice and the framing device are both fun and fairly well done. But having read it there’s really not a single passage or sequence I can say has stuck with me.

The comparison that comes to mind is Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, which is also a book-length epic history of a fantastical empire that never was which laughs at all conventional wisdom about pacing, characterization and plot (and which also has been shelved as magical realism for what are basically reasons genre snobbery imo). It’s been a few years since I read it, but from what I recall that agreed with me far more. Maybe just because it abandoned the conceit of a single protagonist and family melodrama entirely, or maybe because it had a bit more subtle in its social commentary (or maybe it was just better written on a sentence-to-sentence level).

Though I should say, there’s every possibility I’m being a bit harsher on this than it entirely deserves – it’s an entirely competent book! The politics are blatant but like a) they’re politics I agree with and b) they’re nowhere near the most blatant or forced-feeling inclusion of progressive politics in fiction I’ve seen recently. However, this is also a piece of writing that’s among other things very clearly and directly about how important and sublime and world-changing the art of writing is. Which is like a movie about making it in showbuisness, or a musical about how great singing is. Automatic deduction of a full letter grade.

[89rooms]

watch us burn: possible epitaph.

Angélica Freitas, translation Tiffany Higgins

[bluecrazydriver]

Chapter 3 - Severus drawing

The day in the Hydes family dawned early at 7 am. Anasthasya quickly got ready after waking up and went to the guest room door. She knocks on the door with light punches.

— Severus, wake up. Time for breakfast — the girl said, waking up her friend behind the door.

Snape opens his eyes with difficulty, his body was tense and sweaty, when he looks down, he notices a scandalous morning erection between his legs.

— I'm on my way, Nana!...I'm going to take a shower and come down...— the boy explains.

— Don't delay. And don't call me Nana. "Is weird..."

She thinks.

Minutes later, Severus went downstairs and went to the dining room. The sunlight illuminated the room, the smell of the delicious breakfast on the table provoked Snape's empty stomach and he sat down next to it.

Everyone was already eating, except Simon, Georgina and Thomas who was not there.

— Mrs. Hydes...I mean, Paola, where are the others?— the young man asked Mrs. Hydes, who looked at him carefully.

— The Ministry of Magic is upside down, they had to rush there at dawn — she replied, then taking a sip of the orange juice in her glass — I'm glad I don't work there anymore, otherwise I'd have a headache too.

From an open window, a brown owl approaches and delivers a newspaper to the table next to Paola. The black cat, called Misft, tries to play with the bird that runs away from him.

— Anything new in the Daily Prophet? — Anasthasya asked, enjoying the pancakes made by the floating magic of the mansion itself.

Mrs. Hyde's expression hardened when she read the machete, but she tried to hide it.

— No, nothing very relevant — the woman says sharply, putting the paper aside — what will you do today? — she changed the subject, teenagers understand this clearly, but they are not interested enough to know why.

— I'm going to teach Snape how to ride a bike and we're going to the lake. We're not going to have lunch at home, I want to show him Angélica's cafeteria — The girl responds, seconds later she looks at Severus.

He avoided eye contact with his friend, a feeling of guilt arose in him after that morning erection. Anastasiya didn't know the reason for Severus' embarrassing look, but it was enough to make her eager for answers.

After breakfast, they leave the mansion heading to the nearby garage. The yard becomes more visible in daylight, and more beautiful.

The house was large and made of reddish bricks, the white wood in the details of the windows and balcony stood out. The beautiful backyard was flowery and full of life, with statues of people like those from the Renaissance era.

It was such a loving, familiar, cozy place. Severus would love being held captive in that house...with her.

— We're going to use Thomas and Georgina's old bikes — Hydes' voice takes Snape out of his thoughts, bringing him to reality.

From the garage, she takes a red bicycle with a basket, handing it to the visitor. Then she also takes a yellow bicycle out of the darkness with the right pedal halfway down.

The two walk to an isolated dirt road near the mansion, where they begin training.

Severus falls many, many times, scraping his knee and elbow, but Anasthasya forces him not to give up and he manages to pedal after 2 hours of trying.

— You really are a prodigy! It took me a whole month to learn not to fall — the girl said, as they pedaled on a steep dirt road to the lake.

— Well, I don't think you were hurt as much as... — Severus replies, feeling some burning in the small wounds.

— You're right, but at least now you know how to ride a bike! — Anasthasya tried to console him — You'll see, the nature of this region is so beautiful that you won't regret the injuries.

A few minutes later, Severus is enchanted by the sight. A huge lake in the middle of a small forest full of medium-sized trees, the clean air filled the young man's lungs, feeling pure and light like the breeze that moved his hair.

They leave their bikes next to where they sat, under the shade of a tree. Both felt their bodies touching, but they didn't want to change that.

Anasthasya rested her head on Severus' shoulder, who remained outwardly calm as his mind raced. He could hear her breathing, the birds singing, the sound of leaves caused by the wind and his own heart beating.

Severus closed his eyes, emptying his mind of fears, traumas, hatred and any negative feelings he had experienced. He opens it again and looks at the blue sky, that color...that color reminded him of something. "Ah yes, Anasthasya's favorite color."

The young wizard remembered the moment she said that to him. It was in the classroom, at the beginning of second year, she broke her pencil while drawing in her sketchbook. She needed any color and he gave her blue.

"Blue? It's my favorite color!" Little Snape looked at the genuine smile of the girl, who became his friend, but now matured, he wanted to be something more.

— I can't believe it... I'm going to be 17... —she murmured, with her eyes focused on the lake — I wish I was 16 forever...

— Me too. Something tells me this is going to be our golden years.

— Snape.

— Yes?

— Do you want to swim in the lake?

— With what? — he laughs — we didn’t bring bathing suits.

— We swam in these clothes.

— It'll get wet.

— So we swam without clothes — after the sentence, Severus remains silent.

The idea of ​​being naked scares them, especially in each other's eyes.

— We just... don't look down... — Severus answers, he couldn't say no to Anasthasya's wishes.

— OK then. Turn your back.

They both get up and face away from each other. Shamefully, they removed their clothes, exposing their bodies.

— Wait for me to get into the water... — Anastasiya murmured, with slow steps, she enters the lake.

The cool water makes your body relax and stay submerged from the neck down.

— I have my eyes closed, you can come in — Hydes calls him, with his vision in the pitch black.

Snape approaches in a withdrawn manner, swimming until he is on the same level as Anasthasya and in front of her.

— You can open your eyes — he says.

Anastasiya opens her eyes, smiling when she sees the boy in front of her. The girl didn't know why, but she felt comfortable around him despite the situation she put them in.

Anasthasya looked at him in an... intimate way. As if she had just kissed him or made love, she didn't know what it was clearly, but wanted more of that feeling.

Hydes starts playing water fight, attacking him by surprise with a ladle of liquid in her hand.

During that sunny afternoon, the two walked around the small town near the Hydes house, having lunch at Angélica's cafe.

"Didn't I say they were the best lasagnas in the whole world?!" Anasthasya said it repeatedly on the way home and Severus agreed with the statement.

They arrived back at the mansion around 5 pm. The girl took her friend to get to know the house better, showing him every detail of the house full of magic, the clean laundry room, the library full of books, the basement with souvenirs from the Hydes family and the recreation room with desk, chessboard, easel, etc. Every now and then, they would see enchanted objects floating through the corridors, such as candles, brooms and crystals.

She also introduced him better to the yard and garden, explained about the fruits in Paola's garden, the magical motorcycle she received from Thomas on her fifteenth birthday, her father's shed full of trinkets and Georgina's (not so secret) stash of jams.

After dinner, the two spend the rest of the evening finding old books with extraordinarily strange and peculiar names.

They fall asleep on the library table next to each other and are carried to bed by Simon's floating spell.

"I don't think they're just friends" Paola murmured to her husband, they were both in Anasthasya's room, already asleep in her bed.

"Me neither, but I value Nana's safety." Mr. Hydes answered her quietly, focusing his gaze on his beloved daughter.

"Me too...but I think Severus is a good boy." Mrs. Hydes defends him.

"Maybe."

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The days pass, more fun and joyful than usual for Severus. Seeing Anasthasya in another way made him meet another half of her, the same went for her with him.

Hydes has never seen his friend smile and laugh so much, always hiding in that rigid and isolated shell, hiding the feelings likely to cause his happiness.

It was the day before Anasthasya's birthday when they were on a hill near the city.

— Hey, pose there, I want to draw you — she asks, taking a notebook and mechanical pencil from her bag.

— I don't want you to draw me — he replies, trying to back away.

— Come on, I never managed to draw your face! — the girl then goes into emotional blackmail, pouting and crying.

— Ugh, fine! — Severus rolls his eyes, standing up and facing his friend.

- That's right! Further back... — then she starts to draw what she saw in front of her.

Focusing on the small and large details, Hydes draws the figure of Snape standing with part of the view behind him. The boy stood for about 20 minutes posing for Anasthasya. It was a cloudy day with rain forecast, his medium black hair was swaying in the wind, and she made a point of drawing the movement.

- Ready! Come here and see! — she shouts, which makes Snape approach her from behind and sit nearby — Did you like it?

— It's...very beautiful....— he murmurs, impressed by the details no matter how simple the drawing is — seriously, it's incredible... so pretty that I can't see myself there...

— Well, I only drew you the way I see you... — Nana sighed, looking into Severus' black eyes before finishing the sentence — ...pretty.

Snape turns his gaze to the girl, not surprised by her words but rather honored. Anasthasya, a person he considered one of the most beautiful he had ever seen, praised her snotty appearance. Not that she hadn't said she thought he was handsome before, but there was something different. The sparkle in her eyes, the softness in her voice, everything that happened that week...

Hydes notices a red insect on Severus' cheek and carefully, she runs her thumb over the boy's pale cheek. It was a ladybug that climbs onto the girl's finger.

— So cute... — she smiles, and ends up infecting her close friend. The young woman gently places the insect on the grass and turns her eyes to her friend — how long are you going to stay here?

— The day after your birthday I plan to go, you know... I'm worried about my mother and my cat — he explains, averting eye contact.

— I understand... — Anastasiya tears off the page from the notebook, handing the drawing to Severus — here, for you.

— But...I can't accep-

— Keep quiet, it's your gift. So that you can always remember that you are not disgusting and weird as people who don't know you say... and that there is someone who sees your beauty.

— Ana... — he accepts the gift, feeling his eyes water at Hydes' affectionate words. They hug, in an awkward but still perfect way.

Affection. It was one of the things he felt for her, no matter how rude she sometimes acted, he felt a huge desire to reciprocate all her kind words, her tender looks, her joyful and unique smile and her warm embrace with the only thing he could offer her, himself.

AW: Hi, It's another chapter completed. This last part kind of came out unexpectedly after I made the drawing above. But I liked it, and here only my opinion really matters. <3

[whump-or-whatever]

Some of my favourite whump moments for Zed Martin (as portrayed by Angélica Celaya). Spoilers ahead. In order of airing…

Constantine S1E2 (screaming from having vision of man being burned to death, coming back t the present somewhat disoriented)

Constantine S1E4 (psychic transference of withdrawal symptoms from Gary, once by accident and another time Gary does it on purpose)

Constantine S1E7 (attacked by ghoul, dragged from tent, grabbed by neck, strangled)

Constantine S1E8&9 (chased, in a fight, knocked out with drugs, kidnapped, handcuffed, thrown around back of van)

Constantine S1E10 (screaming, writhing in pain on the floor, clasping head, admitted to hospital)

Constantine S1E12 (seizure, admitted to hospital, diagnosed with a brain tumour)

—don’t own the show but did take the screencaps and make the collages—

[dispatchesfromthegutter]

FAVORITE RELEASES Of 2024:

1.Soft Kill-Escape Forever

2.Uniform-American Standard

3.The Bug-Machine

4.Mildred Pierce-A Nightmare Etched in Stained Glass

5.Upon Stone-Dead Mother Moon

6.Angélica Garcia-Gemelo

7.Touché Amoré-Spiral In A Straight Line

8.The Cure-Songs of a Lost World

9.Kendrick Lamar-GNX

10.Punitive Damage-Hate Training

11.Full Of Hell-Coagulated Bliss

12.The Body & Dis Fig-Orchards of a Futile Heaven

13.LOCKSLIP-S/T

14.Blind Girls-An Exit Exists

15.Chelsea Wolfe-She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To SheR

16.Phantogram-Memory Of A Day

17.High Vis-Guided Tour

18.Thou-Umbilical

19.Gouge Away-Deep Sage

20.Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan-Scraping The Divine

21.DUHKHA-A Place You Can't Come Back From

22.The Body-The Crying Out of Things

23.Cold Gawd-I'll Drown On This Earth

24.40 Watt Sun-Little Weight

25.Midwife-No Depression in Heaven

26.Doechii-Alligator Bites Never Heal

27.Frail Body-Artificial Bouquet

28.GYLT-I WILL COMMIT A HOLY CRIME

29.Heavenly Blue-We Have The Answer

30.Waxahatchee-Tigers Blood

31.Departure Chandelier-Satan Soldier Of Fortune

32.Collapsed Skull-Father's Rage Evaporated In The Sun

33.Sara Landry-Spiritual Driveby

34.John Carpenter-Lost Themes IV: Noir

35.Sonagi-Everything Is Longing

36.Charli XCX-Brat

37. Concrete Winds-S/T

38. Nails-Every Bridge Burning

39. Infant Island-Obsidian Wreath

40. Green Day-Saviors

[mexicodailypost]

They murdered and burned an indigenous family in the community of Tepexilotla, Puebla

The authorities already have a possible hypothesis about what caused the attack. An armed group attacked an indigenous family in the municipality of Zoquitlán, Puebla. In total, four people were murdered and their home was burned down, two adults and two minors. The victims were identified as Angélica “N” and Uriel “N”, as well as their children, one nine and the other six years old. Local…

[graywyvern]

( via / @gameauras )

Soon the May green will be upon us.

"You ever think about the fact that trans people were never once an issue until the far right couldn’t milk their rubes for anti-abortion money anymore? I think about that a lot." --@thatpetewoods (via @JordanDavisPoet)

The Call.

Watching that skit last night on SNL (rerun) about art critics who couldn't name a single work from the 2020s, i felt "seen": & decided to start accumulating my own list.

So far i have: movies from 2021- Last Night in Soho, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Respect, The Power of the Dog, & perhaps best of all, The Tragedy of Macbeth; from 2022 The Whale & Women Talking.

Books are harder, but i can say Elizabeth Hand- The Book of Lamps and Banners & Joyelle McSweeney- Toxicon and Arachne from 2020 (i very seldom buy books when they first come out). Lisa Robertson- The Baudelaire Fractal (2020). Susanna Clarke- Piranesi (2020). Rebecca Solnit published Orwell's Roses in 2021, which is good, but not, i think, the milestones that some of her earlier books were. And the works (mostly published on Twitter) of Anthony Etherin--surely the greatest palindromist who ever lived.

For visual art, i can think of nothing that compares to the AI art (many, many artists, most of whom i've been blogging here). Maybe oneday i'll try to make a 10-list... Sculpture-wise, Melanie has reminded me of The Vessel at Hudson Yards in New York City. And there's the experimental filmmaker Sapphire Goss...

And music? "Burning" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2022); "Îdolo" by Adrian Queasada & Angélica Garcia (2023); & Dabda's album But All the Shining Things Are (2020)... Artists i knew from before & all had new albums out in this period include: Tash Sultana, Gary Numan, Tanya Tagaq, & Mean Mary. Wolves in the Throne Room, Björk, Tori Amos too.

Butterflies by Maria Sibylla Merian.

"We don't desire a president, do we?" --@Anthony_Etherin

#PalindromeByPairs

Future Tower - 230425.

[soundsofmiddlearth]

"Sepultura - Hatred Aside (feat. Fernanda Lira, Angélica Burns & Mayara Puertas | Quarantine Version)"

Listening this song for the 277319924738 time today. I can't believe I didn't know this version existed, it's perfect.

[sayaka-amane-blog]

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2021 - October

Short Stories

"Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard" by Aviaq Johnston (2020) // "She’s too grown up to remember the scary parts of our land."

"Uironda" by Luigi Musolino & James D. Jenkins (trans.) (2018) // "From enormous, heinous acts derive enormous, heinous hells."

"The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter (1979) // "The worst thing was, the dead lips smiled."

"Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight" by Sheree Renée Thomas (2016) // "This he believed in, this he could follow — the curved finger of flesh."

"The Remorse of Professor Panebianco" by Greye La Spina (1925) // "Why does she look at me so? She is pitying me—me!"

"The House Party at Smoky Island" by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1935) // "Of the dead nothing but good; so I will say of Susette only that she was very beautiful and very rich."

"Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" by Poppy Z. Brite (1992) // "I could have crawled all the way into that wet crimson eternity, and kept crawling forever."

"Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" by Julio Cortázar (1951) // "Vomiting bunnies wasn't so terrible once one had gotten into the unvarying cycle, into the method."

"The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler (2009) // "Humans do everything we did. Humans do more."

"Cargo" by E. Michael Lewis (2008) // "A noise sounded—a moist 'thunk.' From inside."

"The Erl-King" by Elizabeth Hand (1998) // "He's got her now and he won't want to give her back."

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges & Norman Thomas di Giovanni (trans.) (1940) // "We found out (inevitably at such an hour) that there is something unnatural about mirrors."

"The Show" by Priya Sharma (2011) // "The world was ripe. She'd weighed it in her palm."

"Teratisms" by Kathe Koja (1991) // "What color does blood burn?"

"Kerfol" by Edith Wharton (1916) // "I can see the exchange of glances across the ermine collars under the Crucifix."

"Demon" by Joyce Carol Oates (1996) // "No he was loving, mad with love."

"The Other Place" by Mary Gaitskill (2011) // "She did not have a wedding ring, which meant that maybe no one would miss her. "

"Absit" by Angélica Gorodischer & Amalia Gladhart (trans.) (2013) // "The girl didn't move, she didn't speak, she did nothing against the black, black sky full of stars."

"Guess" by Meg Elison (2020) // "I am beginning to think we should drink all there is while we still can."

"Ghosts of August" by Gabriel García Márquez (1980) // "Just then the smell of fresh cut strawberries made me tremble."

"Aura" by Carlos Fuentes & Adrian Ziegler (trans.) (1962) // "They have forgotten that in solitude, temptation is greater."

"The Follower" by Nuzo Onoh (2014) // "Chairs tumbled to the ground; someone moaned. All was madness."

"The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce (1891) // "Halpin Frayser was a poet only as he was a penitent: in his dream."

"The Shadow" by Edith Nesbit (1905) // "The most horrid ghost-story I ever heard was one that was quite silly."

"The Story of Ming-Y" by Lafcadio Hearn (1887) // "Then their lips separated no more;—the night grew old, and they knew it not."

"What You Eat" by Alys Hobbs (2020) // "Look at all this cream and sugar..."

Poems

"Ammutseba Rising" by Ann K. Schwader (2015) // "Perhaps our daughters will walk in shadow gladly, holding hunger inside them for a weapon."

Comics/Single Issues

"Heavy Fog" by Abby Howard (2021) // "I can barely taste the burning."

"Tatter Up!" by Graham Ingels (1955) // "Such beautiful rags..."

"Rasberry Surprise" by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran, Good Old Neon (2018) // "The process only lasts for as long as you're alive."

"Strung Along" by Richard Corben (2016) // "Ever see a skinned rabbit?"

"Free Ride" by Cameron Morris & Nina Matsumoto (2016) // "Always pay my debts."

Video Games

Silent Hill 2 dev. Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (2001) // "I'm not your Mary."

Little Nightmares II dev. Tarsier Studios (2021) // Not a word.

Maneater dev. Tripwire Interactive (2020) // "Shark hunters kill for the same reason we all do: to feel complete."

Twelve Minutes dev. Luís António (2021) // "Be honest with yourself. You knew this would happen."

Nightmare Collection: Dead of the Brain dev. FairyTale (1992) // "I don't think he can reply... he doesn't have a brain."

Movies

The Babysitter dir. McG (2017) // "Probably when your body starts to reek like cheese."

Dracula dir. Tod Browning & Karl Freund (1931) // "There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

Venom: Let There Be Carnage dir. Andy Serkis (2021) // "I have tasted blood before, my friend, and that is not it."

Titane dir. Julia Ducournau (2021) // "Can't you feel the energy? Between you and me?"

Frankenweenie dir. Tim Burton (2012) // "I don't want him in my heart. I want him here with me."

Gretel & Hansel dir. Oz Perkins (2020) // "What eats with its teeth, but never feels fed?"

Deep Red dir. Dario Argento (1975) // "It seems that there are some things which you just cannot do seriously with liberated women."

LandLocked dir. Paul Owens (2021) // "Somebody's been back here."

The Lure dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska (2015) // "Put your hand deep inside me and drag me onto the shore."

Lamb dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson (2021) // "She's not used to strangers."

Population 436 dir. Michelle MacLaren (2006) // "We are the union of the divine."

Pet Sematary Two dir. Mary Lambert (1992) // "No brain, no pain. Think about it."

The Slumber Party Massacre dir. Amy Holden Jones (1982) // "She drinks too much milk."

Messiah of Evil dir. Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz (1973) // "And they're waiting. They're waiting for you."

Track of the Vampire (aka Blood Bath) dir. Jack Hill & Stephanie Rothman (1966) // "The horror of death is that you desire it."

Halloween Kills dir. David Gordon Green (2021) // "There's a big fella in our bathroom, and he's wearing a monster mask!"

The Hitch-Hiker dir. Ida Lupino (1953) // "You guys are gonna die, that’s all. It’s just a question of when."

Office Killer dir. Cindy Sherman (1997) // "There now. He's a much more handsome boy."

Tigers Are Not Afraid dir. Issa López (2016) // "Bring him. To us. To where the dead wait for him."

Shin Godzilla dir. Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi (2016) // "This is the reality. All else is just a dream."

Wolf's Hole dir. Věra Chytilová (1987) // "I'll tell on you! Monster! Pig!"

Saint Maud dir. Rose Glass (2020) // "Please don't let me fall again."

The Cursed Palace dir. Hasan Redha (1962) // "Do you see what money does? How it makes brothers eat one another's flesh?"

Dream Home dir. Pang Ho-cheung (2010) // "The market is extremely volatile, but the worst is yet to come."

Viy dir. Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov (1967) // "The devil take you and your wretched tongue."

Halloween dir. John Carpenter (1978) // "Death has come to your little town, Sheriff."

La Llorona dir. Jayro Bustamante (2019) // "She asked me not to drown."

Last Night in Soho dir. Edgar Wright (2021) // "I didn't want any of this."

The Invisible Man dir. James Whale (1933) // "I might even wreck a train or two... just these fingers around a signalman's throat, that's all."

The Wolf Man dir. George Waggner (1941) // "You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men didn't have all eternity."

Blood Diner dir. Jackie Kong (1987) // "Seems like the work of pathological weirdos."

Antlers dir. Scott Cooper (2021) // "We found a part of a man in the woods today."

Single Episodes

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (2021) // “Seeing all that horror and poverty makes me think... we should lower the corporate tax rate even further!"

Bob's Burgers - "The Pumpkinening" (2021) // "You live by the weird old candy, you die by the weird old candy."

[esuemmanuel]

Porque eres tú lo que siento, eso que se me vuelca en los pulmones y llena a mi sangre de una agitación que entibia a mis extremidades. No, no eres ardor ni fuego, tampoco locura ni demencia. Eres eso que se siente como caricia de una pluma angélica en las sienes, en el pecho, en el vientre y los pies. Me bañas del perfume de los cielos magistrales y de sus jocosas nubes, en ésas en donde bailan los ruiseñores en compañía de esos ni��os desnudos con alas en la espalda; esos traviesos que lanzan al aire sus flechas de colores para llegarnos al corazón y endulzarnos el alma con la inocencia del amor.

Esu Emmanuel©, For it is you that I feel, that which pours into my lungs and fills my blood with an agitation that warms my limbs. No, you are neither burning nor fire, neither madness nor insanity. You are that which feels like the caress of an angelic feather on my temples, my chest, my belly and my feet. You bathe me in the perfume of the masterful skies and their playful clouds, in those where nightingales dance in the company of those naked children with wings on their backs; those mischievous ones that launch their colored arrows into the air to reach our hearts and sweeten our souls with the innocence of love. 

[cardest]

Mexico playlist

Hola! This is my Mexico playlist. Mi encanta Mexico!!  That’s me, on the right, on top of the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan. Mexican music is like no other. Unique to that part of the world. Hit play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HNgZkL9SYjyrDfq_F1vTt  Mi Espanol es malo! I hope you enjoy this Mexican playlist. Gracias.

MEXICO

001 Motörhead -  Going To Mexico 002 Brujeria - Mexico Campeon 003 Chingon -  Se Me Paro 004 ZZ Top -  Goin' Down To Mexico 005 Montgomery Gentry - All I Know About Mexico 006 Le Butcherettes -  Bang!   007 Queens of the Stone Age -  Mexicola 008 J. Zunz - Júpiter 009 Kevin Ayers - Fake Mexican Tourist Blues 010 Malagueña/Brian Setzer - (Once Upon A Time In Mexico) 011 Katrina And The Waves - Mexico 012 Herb ALPERT - Mexican Shuffle 013 Asesino - Matando Güeros 014 Rich La Bonte - Mayan Canals 015 Jefferson Airplane - Mexico 016 Carlos Santana & Willie Nelson - They All Went To Mexico   017 Yaotl Mictlan - Tezcatlipoca Espejo Relumbrante 018 Sammy Hagar & The Wabos - [Livin' It Up] Mexico 019 Ween -  Fiesta 020 Chingon -  Cuka Rocka 021 Brian J Ramos -  Telele 022 Southern Culture On The Skids -  Meximelt 023 Chandelles - El Gato 024 Brujeria - cuiden a los niños 025 Tilts - Mexiqo 026 Tito Tarantula - Machete Main Title Theme 027 Oliver Nelson -  Baja Bossa 028 Once Upon a Time in Mexico OST - Guitar Town 029 Cocteau Twins - Mizake the Mizan 030 Ennio Morricone -  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 031 El Simbolo - Levantando Las Manos 032 Mabe Fratti - Todo Lo Que Querías Saber 033 The Tepetatles - Los Tepetatles 034 Salma Hayek - Siente Mi Amor 035 The Kills -  M.E.X.I.C.O. 036 Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon 037 Nazareth - Mexico 038 Toño Quirazco - Merida 039 Sun Ra - Yucatan 040 Trio Los Caribes - Ay Cosita Linda, Mama 041  ASESINO - ASESINO 042 Luis Mariano - Acapulco 043 Corrosion of Conformity -  Senor Limpio 044 Jorge Reyes y Antonio Zepeda - A la izquierda del Colibrí 045 Gerardo Ortiz - Quien Se Anima 046 Le Butcherettes  - Burn the Scab 047 Neil Young - Mexico 048 Beasts Of Bourbon - New Day of The Dead 049 Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Dead Leaves 050 Korpiklaani - Tequila 051 Soy De Rancho - El Komander 052 La Adictiva Banda San JosÃc de Mesillas - Un fin en Culiacán 053 Brujeria -  Pititis, Te Invoco 054 Sammy Hagar -  Mas Tequila 055 Jorge Negrete - ¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! 056 Tori Amos-  Juarez 057 Aztec Drums of War - Tambores de Tenochtitlan 058 Desperado Soundtrack - Antonio Banderas  - Cancion del Mariachi 059 James Taylor -  Mexico 060 The Coasters - Down In Mexico 061 USA/MEXICO - Matamoros 062  Los Tigres Del Norte - Mi Distrito Federal 063 Le Butcherettes - "La Uva" (feat. Iggy Pop) 064 Cheech Marin - Born in East LA 065 Tom Jones - The Young Mexican Pupetteer 066 Dead Can Dance - Cantara 067 Ketzal - Musica Maya 068 Waylon Jennings - Ain't No God In Mexico 069 The Mars Volta -  Cotopaxi 070 Los Concheros de Ernesto Ortíz Ramírez - el Ãguila blanca 071 ZZ Top -  Mexican Blackbird 072 UNLEASHED - The Rise Of The Maya Warriors 073 Alejandro Jodorowsky/Ronald Frangipane /Don Cherry - The Holy Mountain/The Tarot 074 Itzamkan - Ometeotl 075 A Fistful of Dollars OST - Theme by (Ennio Morricone) 076 Mexican Radio - white trash 077 Konex-Konex -  Canción de Cuna Maya 078 Brujeria - Vayan Sin Miedo 079 El Topo OST - Bajo Tierra (Under the Earth) 080 Jorge Querol con Los Go-Go - Rudi Enamorado 081 Chingon -  Cascabel 082 Allah-Las  - Could Be You I Saw Last Mexican Summer 083 West End Motel - El Myr 084 Charles Bogart Field Recordings - Mexican Leaf Frog 085 Santana - Corazon Espinado 086 Elvis Presley - Fun in Acapulco 087 George Strait - El Rey 088 Hell Fire - Destroyers   089 La Vaca Vieja - Rufo Garrido 090 Angélica Vargas - Atotonilco 091 Butthole Surfers -  Mexican Caravan 092 Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey B - La Aran~a 093 Tom Waits  - Mr. Siegal 094  Xavier Quijas Yxayotl - Xipe Totec 095 VUUR - Valley of Diamonds - Mexico City 096 Chingon - Mexican Sausage Link 097 Mayan -  Human Sacrifice 098 Nirvana - Mexican Seafood 099 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sexy Mexican Maid 100 Iron Maiden -  The Book Of Souls 101 Ween - Buenas Tardes Amigo 102 The Cramps - God moster 103 J.J Cale - Bringing It Back   104 SEROCS  - 106   105 Cedric Imbrooks & The Sound Dimension -  Mun-Dun-Gu 106 Ennio Morricone -  The Ecstasy of Gold 107 Brujeria - La migra (Cruza la frontera II) 108 The Holy Mountain OST - Trance Mutation 109 Le Butcherettes - la/SANDÍA 110 Heino - In einer Bar in Mexico   111 Pierrots Gang - Mexico   112 Molotov ft. Anita Tijoux - Hit me 113 Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - These days 114 Thin Lizzy - Mexican Blood 115 Juan Gabriel - La Frontera 116 Hellnite - Midnight Terror 117 Septic Flesh - Temple Of The Lost Race 118 Chingon -  Severina 119 Riot -  Swords And Tequila 120 Transmetal - México Bárbaro 121 Rodrigo y Gabriela -  Juan Loco 122 Mr. Bungle - Habla Espanol O Muere 123 Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox - Canto! 124 Los Bitches - The link is about to die 125 Brujeria - Leyes narcos 126 Papo Lucca - Hachero pa' un palo 127 Today is the Day - Mexico 128 CORRUPTED - UNBENDING PILLAR 129 Shadow Willber - The Fifth Era 130 Pungent Stench - Aztec Holiday 131 Ry Cooder - Cancion Mixteca 132 Acidez - Waiting the end 133 Control Machete - El Son Divo 134 Spit On Your Grave - Sodomy 135 Running Wild - Conquistadores 136 Jaguares - Viejo el mundo 137 Caifanes - Aquí No Es Así 138 Hocico - sex sick 139 Paul Gilbert - Down to Mexico 140 Texas Tornados - Adios Mexico  666 Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HNgZkL9SYjyrDfq_F1vTt

[mikahorror]

Sepultura - Hatred Aside (feat. Fernanda Lira, Angélica Burns & Mayara Puertas | Quarantine Version)

[marcopolorules]

"Es el amor que el corazón me abrasa y provoca este viento con sus alas / It is love that burns my heart and causes this wind with its wings."⠀ ⠀ Andrea Camilleri⠀ La sonrisa de Angélica / Angelica's smile⠀ & @_cicadaa_ (artist)⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #surrealportrait #popsurrealism #popsurreal #retroart #newcontemporary #digitalcollage #digitalcollageart #collageart #collage_art #collageartist #collageartwork #collagework #collagecollectiveco #c_expo #collagemaker #surrealcollage #photocollage #contemporarycollage #collage_guild #collagetash #collagelife #collagecollective #collages #collagedesign #collageillustration #faceless #marcopolorules #vagabondwho #jesuislesurrealisme #cicadaa https://www.instagram.com/p/CCldBALnBxR/?igshid=13cwnxsuaxbr7

[childrenoftheisleisms]

About the Muse: Angélica De La Cruz

Name: Angélica De La Cruz

Nicknames/Titles: The fallen queen of Latin Music

Canon Family: Ernesto De La Cruz (Great Grandfather)

Common phrase(s): Hijo de Puta , Chucha Madre

Hails from: Mexico , Auradon

Iconic Color: White, red lipstick

Trope(s): Money to Burn, every man has his price, sugar baby

Pet: Mariposa, Maria, Mauricio, and Marisol. All purebred Chihuahuas.

About: Angélica comes from a line of scandal and luxury, stemming back from her Great Grandfather Ernesto De La Cruz. A figure who has been identified by many as one Mexico’s greatest actors and musicians. His most memorable song being that of “Remember Me” , a song he claims to have come to him one night early into his career when he saw two lovers saying goodbye at the train station.

Ernesto De La Cruz was not the type for a conventional romance. He was known to dote on his pet chihuahuas for the most part. Then came Rosa. Rosa Hernandez Mariposa was a Bailarina Folklorico who knew what she wanted and not afraid to- for lack of better words- seize her moment. Through months of being on tour together, the two started a compelling affair. Tabloids called her a groupie, she preferred the title Sugar Baby. The same tabloids had a field day when a pregnancy was announced. Carmen De La Cruz became the royal baby of Latin music.

Rosa’s tactics were what inspired Angélica. There was a lot of money that came with the De La Cruz name, but it was always nice to have someone to refill the wealth every so often. Based off the way people treated those with the name De La Cruz, you would assume the name to be synonymous with royalty. She needed a benefactor, someone who could keep her lifestyle up to her standards. Between of course creating her own music, such as Ceasar (pronounced like seize her) her most recent single based around someone seizing their moment, even if it means stabbing a friend in the back.

How ironic of a piece then, as recent discoveries have been made about Angélica’s great grandfather. Ernesto had not just stolen his songs, but had killed someone in the process! Thus raising a big question, what should be done with the descendants of the newly discovered villain?

During one of her lavish Parties, police raided the De La Cruz Mansion and a warrant was put in place to search the estate. Angélica was put in chains, and escorted to the isle, never forgetting that it was Belle personally who had signed her deportation papers.

[mexicodailypost]

They murdered and burned an indigenous family in the community of Tepexilotla, Puebla

The authorities already have a possible hypothesis about what caused the attack. An armed group attacked an indigenous family in the municipality of Zoquitlán, Puebla. In total, four people were murdered and their home was burned down, two adults and two minors. The victims were identified as Angélica “N” and Uriel “N”, as well as their children, one nine and the other six years old. Local…