#Mercedes Diaz

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

May Daye/Jasmine “Jazz” Patel- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Vanyel Ashkevron/Stefan- The Last Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey 

Yadriel Vélez Flores/Julian Diaz- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

[911women]

I was allowed to make the tamales.

Isabel Diaz 9-1-1 | "Hero Complex"

[tangerinesayswhat]

fighting the urge to write a 911 character as f1 drivers fic or is that too niche

[survivoreddie]

Christmas Spirit - bts

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🌺 Feliz Día de la Madres 🌺

inspired by this post by @suavecitodiaz

[hannahwatcheshorror]

LA LLORONA (2019)

Not to be confused with The Curse of La Llorona which came out the same year, La Llorona or The Weeping Woman is a Guatemalan horror film. This is a very slow paced political drama that also happens to be a horror movie on the side. I usually enjoy foreign films and the eerie feeling they give off but I mostly just found this to be more sad than scary (as the name would imply it isn’t a happy film, but still). 

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(Trigger Warning Rape Mention, Children Dying, Guerilla Warfare)

A native woman lays out in excruciating detail what the guerillas did to her and her people (to the children and women especially), it was a heartbreaking scene, honestly. It felt very real (because in some places it is real) so it was very sobering. After being found guilty of genocide the grandfather fakes a medical incident but then in the hospital can be seen smoking and getting poured a drink from a flask so clearly it isn’t that serious. You feel no sympathy for his character so you don’t care that he is being haunted or hunted or having all those protesters outside his door.

Nothing creepy starts happening until over 30 minutes in and even then it isn’t haunted behavior. (I guess the weeping at the top of the film was a bit suspicious but it was so quiet I needed to watch the scene again to pick up on it) You basically watch a slow paced political drama for a half hour and then the weird maid comes in and even then she isn’t that weird, just a little spooky. 45 minutes in and the creepiest thing we see is grandpa boner. One hour in and still no big scares, no big villain (other than the grandfather). I am BORED.

This is just a movie about one old man's terrible choices and how they are coming back to bite him in the ass slowly but surely. His wife has a nightmare where she is one of his victims, she just doesn’t know it yet. I feel very little sympathy for his family members except his granddaughter who is clearly innocent in all this, but the maid is protecting her like she couldn’t protect her own children, so I don’t feel like the granddaughter is under any threat.

The wrap up is basically this: asshole grandpa leads his people in Guerilla warfare and genocide and he thinks there will be no consequences. Turns out, the ghost of a woman whose kids he drowned has come back to haunt him and his family but mostly just him. She pranks him a bit before getting his own wife to murder him by letting her see the vision of what he had done to the natives. Very underwhelming, and I was actually anticipating some good creeps but just having a lady with long hair that’s wet standing around isn’t that scary. It was basically a sobering political documentary that I never intended to watch. I suppose with a title like “The Weeping Woman” I should have assumed there would be some sadness but good grief was this a somber ride. Grandpa War-machine deserved death and worse, our movie ends with the ghosts having moved on to the next in the pecking order for their revenge, they won’t be satiated until all the scumbags who murdered their children in cold blood are dead.

[rookieoneil]

The women of the rookie universe are absolutely amazing. Just wanna appreciate them

[toughpaperround]

Ana Mercedes

- is known to 911 viewers as Isabel Diaz, Eddie's abuela/grandmother. Her children are Pepa [Terri Hoyos] and Ramon [George DelHoyo].

Ana was born in Costa Rica. She danced and acted from a young age, and returned to acting fully after raising her family (around the early 90's).

She has had a large number of day-player roles on shows including CSI, Medium, Curb your Enthusiasm, Shameless and Riverdale. There have also been longer, recurring roles such as those on West Wing and Arrow.

We know that Ana's 911 character, Isabel Diaz, enjoys watching her telenovelas. In her acting career, Ana has enjoyed roles on daytime TV including three years as Connie on 'The Bold and The Beautiful'. (See image below)

In 2017, Ana appeared with Harry Dean Stanton in what became his last film, 'Lucky'. Other films include 'The Itty Bitty Titty Committee' (2007) and Sundance Award winner (Best Dramatic Short) 'Un Dia En la Vida'.

Ana has done a deal of commercial and voice-over work, in both Spanish and English (although not as much as her 911 'son', George DelHoyo).

Ana has been involved in fundraising, for example having hosted the Broadcast for the United Cerebral Palsy Starathon

[IMDb] [other 911 cast bios]

[sainztificc]

Petition for George Russell to have a role in the sequel of Red White and Royal Blue

[vercetti-estate]

When a female character in Grand Theft Auto has good dialogue (and voice acting).

Let me point out some of our more distinguished guests...

[911whatsyourgratitude]

Really the whole Diaz fam!

Send Your Favorite Guest Star/Recurring Role!

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[addictivecontradiction]

La llorona, 2019

[omnivorouscinephilia]

La Llorona: A Unique and Timely Guatemalan Ghost Story

This review was originally published on HorrOrigins.com on 8/21/2020 It might be an insulting understatement to say that 2020 has been a particularly tumultuous year, especially in political terms. As a reaction to the general creep of far-right politics, tensions mounting due to a pandemic, and continued deaths of marginalized folks via unlawful force by the police, we have seen perhaps the…

[survivoreddie]

Ryan, Gavin & Ana Mercedes selfie - 100 episode celebration

[50books50movies]

La Llorona

I’m not sure this is a horror film. It uses horror elements to apply the folklore of La Llorona to Efrain Rios Montt and the Mayan genocide in Guetamala in 1982-83 for a bit of wish fulfillment and a political statement about how a country cannot move on from history without reckoning. It’s a respectful and classy treatment of history and trauma, and the actors embody their roles well. There just isn’t even one good scare, and the film’s tension stays at a fairly low boil from start to end.