#Mendoza

[eopederson]

Aconcagua, Mendoza, 2022.

At 6961 m Aconcagua is the highest point in both the Western and the Southern Hemispheres. The photo was shot from a viewpoint at about 3000 m.

[fishfingersandscarves]

mendoza doodles

[manessha545]

Army of the Andes Monument, Mendoza, Argentina: Monument to the Army of the Andes sits at the top of the Cerro de la Gloria in General San Martín Park. It was created by the Uruguayan sculptor Juan Manuel Ferrari, who had developed two models and picked the most important aspects from both of them. It is a bronze monument of fourteen tons that pays tribute to the Army of the Andes for its successful campaign of liberation...Mendoza is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina. Wikipedia

[morenasoraya]

[heartblobs]

July, 1890

🎶She's the sunshine of Paradise Alley Ev'ry Sunday down to her home we go, All the boys and all the girls they love her so, Always jolly, heart that is true I know, She is the Sunshine of Paradise Alley🎶

Evaline and Walter were deeply infatuated with one another. When all of the housework was over and done with, the young couple would dance to their hearts' content well into the night, happy to have one another as their dance partner.

Then the two would whisper sweet nothings to each other, acting like bashful teenagers sneaking around their parents. Evaline loved the gentle way his hands would hold her, the way his eyes never faltered from her gaze whenever she spoke. She especially enjoyed when her husband would whisper close into her ear, "Eres el cielo mismo, mi amor." You are heaven itself. It ran chills down her spine and flutters throughout her heart every time. How lucky she was to have such a romantic for a husband, she thought to herself.

🕰️ / 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 / 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡

(Also special thanks to @aheathen-conceivably & @surely-sims for inspiring me with the songs linked with their posts! I listen to every song y’all link to 🥰)

[cartoonishly]

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[love-me-some-mcog]

Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E25

He flourished his cape, there's no going back

[selva-misionera]

Mendoza Argentina.

[solar-serpent]

Hello, ghouls and gals!

I took a few weeks off from social media due to a decline in my health, but I’ll be slowly coming back. I’m starting by replying to my pending private messages (please don’t hate me 🥺).

I’ll be posting photos from my vacation. I went to Argentina a month or two ago, and I’m so excited to share my experience with you guys💕. Plus, I’m working on overcoming my fear of exposure and will share some pictures where you can actually see my face.

I want to reconnect with Tarot from a creative and relaxed perspective, so I'll be posting some wild or really abstract pick-a-card readings for November. Keep an eye out for my lunacy!

Free readings might open up for a while soon 👁️👄👁️

(Obviously they are not all the photos I'm going to post. It's only a heads-up 😂).

Los quiere mucho,

Pao

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 55: Mendoza vs. Soundwave

Submitted kids:

Mendoza: Esteban, Zia and Tao

Soundwave: Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage, Ratbat, Garboil, Enemy, Wingthing, Beastbox, Squalktalk, Glit, Howlback, Slugfest, Overkill, Sundor, and Autoscout but there's bound to be more I'm forgetting.

Propaganda under the cut!

Mendoza:

1. “Mendoza did not exactly *begin* as father material, what with him being a character with a very grey morality at first and both a help to the children and someone they couldn't trust fully, but his entire arc in the first season is him becoming a better person. None of the kids are biologically his but he just went and unofficially adopted all three of them. Their story is inextricably bound up with the show's story.

He first met Esteban when Esteban was a baby and was handed to him in the middle of a storm at sea (then Esteban's father seemingly died in said storm), but because Mendoza was young and interested in gold he let a local (?) church raise the child. He then met Esteban again twelve years later, on the same day he would be kidnapping Zia (for money, because Zia knows how to read quipus that the Spanish hope will tell the way to the Inca's gold) (the show takes place in the early 16th century). So he begins by kidnapping a child and manipulating another to hide in a ship and cross an ocean. They all meet Tao later, and this one is wary of him too at first, but he ends up winning their trust while bettering himself.

He's the only parental figure these kids have: Esteban's father was lost at sea after his mother was killed, Zia spends most of the first season looking for her father only for him to get killed an episode or two after their reunion, and Tao lost both his parents years ago. In the beginning of the show he's completely using them to find a legendary city of gold, and even admits it, but as the story goes he's caring more and more for them and puts himself in mortal danger just to help them, when just running away would have been much more beneficial to him. In later seasons this pattern keeps up and he's not even a grey character anymore, he's just their dad who's scheming and plotting sometimes. With the cities of gold having been revealed to be monetarily worthless he wouldn't have any reason to still accompany them, but he loves them so he stays with them. He's much more of a dad than Esteban's birth father (who miraculously reappears but keeps getting pushed out of the way by the plot), he's teaching them stuff and protecting them and cheering them on and worrying about them and helping them every step of the way. He makes dad jokes. When random people ask if Zia is his daughter he says yes, and he would say the same for Tao (and for Esteban too but he's hung up about Esteban's "real" father being alive and a nice guy).”

2. “He took Esteban on his journey because he needed his medallion, Zia because his commander requested it, and Tao because he was useful. But then he fought so much at their side that he pretty much betrayed the Spanish army and everything else to protect those kids. They didn't like him much at first, but eventually grew to love him in return, especially in later seasons.”

3. “Sly Spaniard looking for some gold in the New World accidentally adopts the three children he more or less uses to find the Mysterious Cities of Gold, but he also cares about them and accidentally starts caring about them so much that by the end of the first season he realises how much he would miss them if they weren't there.”

Soundwave:

1. “This is a dude who stores smaller dudes in his boob and he usually launches them out at high speeds to commit crimes. Fandom loves to headcanon them as a dad and his horde of kids and pets.”

2. “Forgot buzzsaw (yellow bird) lol

Bro really do be adopting”

3. “#he literally is a single mother of like 18 and they all live inside of his chest #and the only time he gets close to showing emotion is when something happens to one of them”

[eopederson]

Aconcagua por la ventanilla sucio, Mendoza, 2022.

[solosonletras]

Arte

[wine-picks]

🇦🇷 🍷 It's Thursday night and I'm loving this 2020 El Enemigo El Mirador Single Vineyard Bonarda (92 pts, $28) from Argentina. Arrived in LCBO VINTAGES two weeks ago. Full review: https://rebrand.ly/51ckuqh

[lulu2992]

I played this mission (and subsequently finished HITMAN 3 even though it was very late because I simply couldn’t go to bed after the “Necessary Evil” cutscene) three years ago today.

On Valentine’s Day.

It was a coincidence, but because I’ve been obsessed with whatever is going on between these two (i.e. an ineffable and seemingly unbreakable bond that is neither really romance nor friendship but is so strong and special it feels to me like it transcends the concept of love itself) for years, I thought it was a funny one.

[morenasoraya]