#Monterrey is for lovers

[parisandroma]

Welcome to the show live on tour! ¡Lovers!

3/5

[margarita0318]

It is what it is

[light-miracles]

hi! um, excuse me— what bellice fic is that? 👁️ (in reference to the killer bella, nm au)

Hello! I think it's How To Be A Latin Lover

In short:

Bella accidentally meets María de Monterrey two weeks after the Cullen leave and she teaches her to be a Proper Vampire™

Alice is in Biloxi having a gay awakening existencial crisis and slowly going insane over the possibility of losing Bella, since someone is trying to steal her away.

And Rosalie accidentally starts a newborn war.

[pacealme]

[escritos-crudos]

Ella Inspiración.

Estoy olvidando todo durante la sincronía de la noche, sentado en esta silla, observando el paso de todos estos pensamientos que me ciegan, que me enferman. Debería golpearme y tal vez así pueda volver a mi Inspiración, mi chica, mi Diosa, que he querido olvidar, que he querido borrar de mi vida, intencionalmente, he bloqueado mi alma y mi mente para llevar acabo lo que quiere la demás gente.

Es como un tapón en los oídos, en los ojos, en la voz y un bloqueo en el camino de ser uno mismo.

Ya no resultó atractivo ni para mi, siento que me he empolvado, mis huesos oxidados, mis músculos entumidos, los dientes cada vez mas quebrados y, mi vieja Inspiración, se secó las lagrimas y marchó.

Ya he le echo muchas llamadas de alarma, o mas bien alarmantes, muy estúpidas si me deja decir, que han sido un grito al abismo, donde no hay rebote del eco, creo que ni siquiera salieron de mi boca, creo que crecieron en mi estomago estas palabras amargas como las cáscaras.

Me he odiado en múltiples ocasiones cuando el ocaso, se asoma en la ventana, y yo solo quedo inerte intentando gritarle. Impotencia es una palabra con la que describiría la situación. Un reflejo de una mirada rota, en un espejo cruel, tu ausencia se nota en tonos azules y naranjas en una habitación invadida de silencio.

Nuestra imaginación nos hizo esclavos de aquel perfeccionismo con el que soñábamos. Las promesas nos encadenaron, los planes nos fueron separando, esta vanidad, este ego tuyo y mío, no son mas que agentes intentando destruir lo que construimos, y así poco a poco, cedimos y creímos que hacíamos los correcto. Sacrificándonos.

Mis malditos pensamientos que veo pasar esta noche...

Son carros veloces en una cuidad de noche.

A nada de que alguno se estrelle, me impacte, o me salve.

Desearía salvarte, esta noche y para siempre, y quedarme a morir bajo las luces que se difuminan... que tu seas el único brillo que perciba, la fuente de vida, la flama cálida que siempre esta al fondo de los eventos y las reuniones y espero abrazar cuando llego a casa.

Que vivas en cada una de mis letras.

Y que Inviernes conmigo hasta llenar el vacío.

- Kvasir

[karlaapuente]

Los atardeceres siempre serán mi lugar seguro 🤩🥰

[tcclalo]

I must confess that It's a little sad 🥺 come back but I wanna stay and I don't know how... So even with broken heart 💔 I stand up baby I don't wanna look back because I know I gonna lost control there’s a few reason to return but a lot to live here but now I need to wake up and live the real life with people that I hate 😂 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #lover #gay #instagram #brokenheart #foryou #parati #monterrey #mexico #gay #gayusa #gayinsta #gaybrit #gayfrance #gaycanada #gaypotugal #gayitalia #gaybrazil #gaylondon #gayaustralia #gaymx #gaysmile (en Aeropuerto Internacional De Mty Terminal C) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClYbGoju3FI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fic-recs-for-readers]

Stray Kids

Tumblr - Recommendations

Bang Chan

Beyond The Lense (Mulit-Part Series) by @jonespicy [18+ SMAU]

Bang Chan is very much Chris in this 🥵 Great little series to binge! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Safe Haven (Multi-Part Series) by @therhythmafterthesummer [18+]

If you’re into sci-fi, then this is a series for you! Even if you’re not I still recommend it!!! This was a brilliantly written piece of work! I had such a good time reading it and could hardly put it down! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

The Heart Of The Sea by @comet-falls

Siren Reader helps Chan after the sinking of his ship, a great story to binge! So fluffy!!

Nothing But You/Evergreen by @violetsiren90 [18+]

Part One | Part Two

A lovely little story of understanding and romance, include a supernatural element and I’m gonna eat that shit up! [MDNI]

Dimple by @forlix [18+]

Chan surprised his friends, falling in love was something he definitely didn't do... a cute lil' one-shot that I'm sure you'll love! [Implied SMUT so MDNI]

Lee Know

Hello Stranger (SMAU) by @mintquokka

Y/N moves into her new place, the previous tenent hasn't moved on... This was a great series 😁 Couldn't get enough!!

Lost In Translation by @moonjxsung [18+]

An unexpected guy enters your life… the older brother of the kid you babysit! Follow the story of adoration and love… [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Enchanted To Meet You (SMAU) by @f9clementine

This is a 25-part masterpiece! I loved the magical element and as a cat lover the fact that Lee Know is a cat for part of it is the funniest thing! Honestly I loved this story and could'nt get enough of it! [It has written parts as well which really fleshes out the story!]

Body Language by @moonlightndaydreams [18+]

Reader has some physical disabilities, Minho is a very attentive person. They find a spark, even through a language barrier! This story felt so personal and was written so well; I loved it so much! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Changbin

Promise Not To Tell by @cbini [18+]

Prince!Changbin just can't keep his hands off of you, even in a moving carriage where his staff can here you both... This fic was great to read, and so, so funny! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Hyunjin

Sunrise by @leggomylino

When I tell you this was so beautifully written, I mean I almost cried. The ambiguous ending was a surprise but very well done!

Two Types Of Fireworks by @chanluster

A retelling of Tangled, a Flynn Rider inspired Hyunjin along with apperences of all our favourite boys! The little details was very endering and an overall great read 😁

Worn Out Jackets (2-Part Series) by @scxrlettwxtches

One // Two

Hyunjin has a bad boy persona but seems to surprise reader with a little show of brains! 😘 Very Fluffy!

Cam Star by @baby-yongbok [18+]

Hyunjin and Reader decide to go live together... 🥵 [SMUT so MDNI]

The Strange Man Of Monterrey Manor by @quokkacore [18+]

One // Two // Three

Forced to marry a strange man, Reader has to decide whether she's going to push herself into his life or leave it... 🤩 This was a great read, so well written! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Riptide by @xxkissesforchanniexx [18+]

Forbidden romance + supernatural characters = a beautifully written story! Honestly couldn’t get enough of this! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

My Favourite Princess by @valkyriexo

Dad!Hyunjin, I mean what else do I have to say to catch your attention?! This is fluffy as all hell 🤩 Hyunjin (and friends) come to save the day after a small mishap at his daughters birthday party...

Han

Let's Fall In Love, IRL ... (SMAU) by @feelbokkie

Han is a sweetheart and Reader learns to let him in! A great little series to read, I thoroughly enjoyed this 🥰

Felix

Bodyguard by @skzdarlings [18+]

Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5 // Part 6 // Part 7 // Part 8 // Part 9 // Part 10 (Finale) // A03 Link

A cute series about acceptance and love, reader is the daughter of an awful man. Felix is her bodygaurd. They have to survive, thats their only goal... I honestly loved this series, its written really well! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Seungmin

coming soon...

I.N

4U (SMAU) by @minniesmutt

This was such a great multipart SMAU, I was literally waiting for the next part every step of the way! I.N and Reader go on a great little rollercoaster ride, which results in the cutest little friend! [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Multiple

WereRoomies (Multi-Part Series) by @therhythmafterthesummer [18+]

This is a cute little A/B/O au! 🐺🐺 Very sweet stories! {OT8} [Includes SMUT so MDNI]

Soft Launch (Multi-Part Series) by @mnwrld

A small series of soft launching your 'boyfriend', very cute! {OT8}

Uninvited (Multi-Part Series) by @jinxhallows [18+]

What do you get if you mix a Witch, two Vampires and a Hybrid? A fucking great time! This series is brilliant, I was honestly hooked from the start and I can't wait to read the sequel! You just know I'm gonna love it if it has supernatural themes! [Includes SMUT so MDNI] {Bang Chan, Hyunjin & Felix}

[faerybin]

「Hwang Hyunjin」 ♡

» So here you'll find all of my favorite Hyunjin fanfics

» For the sake of not spamming the authors, I won't tag them in my post anymore

» Hope you will enjoy and let me know if one of the links doesn't work *⁠.⁠✧

DRABBLES & TIMESTAMPS *⁠.⁠✧

7:30PM ↴

[0.6k] — fluff, sick hyunjin

12:37am ↴

[0.8k] — smut

[8:55 a.m.] ↴

[0.9k] — slight angst, fluff

[03:28] ↴

[1.1k] — smut

The small things ↴

[0.3k] — fluff

Baby fever ↴

[0.4k] — fluff, husband!hyunjin, dad!hyunjin

Morning text ʚ♡ɞ ↴

[0.4k] — fluff

Fleeting summers of love ↴

[0.8k] — fluff, comfort, (sliiightly suggestive)

Pretty ↴

[0.9k] — smut, fluff, pinch of angst

Sick days ↴

[1k] — fluff, hurt/comfort

Scent ↴ ♡

[1.3k] — smut

Home.. ↴

[1.4k] — fluff

ONESHOTS *⁠.⁠✧

But "just friends" don't look at each other like that ↴

[1.9k] — fluff, friends to lovers

When I fell in love ↴ ♡

[2.3k] — fluff, hurt/comfort

Conversations with Hyunjin ↴

[2.7k] — fluff, hurt/comfort

Devil by the window ↴

[3k] — demon!hyunjin x angel!afab reader, smut

Til the end of forever ↴

[3.1k] — smut

Addictive ↴ ♡

[3.1k] — established relationship, smut, fluff

I didn't accidentally love you ↴

[3.1k] — fluff, angst

Distraction ↴

[3.2k] — smut, angst, fluff

Ice ↴

[4.5k] — angst, fluff, smut, mafia!au, stranger-to-lovers

The fwb rules ↴

[4.5k] — smut, fluff, slight angst

Come here ↴ ♡

[4.6k] — light enemies to lovers, love at first sight, angst, smut, barista!(y/n)

Boy next door ↴

[4.9k] — fluff, smut, angst, childhood friends

Back in time ↴

[5.2k] — fluff, angst, time travel au

Strawberries & cigarettes ↴

[5.3k] — angst

All yours, forever ↴

[5.4k] — smut, hurt/comfort

A train, her lips, the music ↴

[5.5k] — strangers to lovers, musicians au, fluff, angst, suggestive

After dark ↴

[6.4k] — angst, smut, fluff

Intoxicating ↴

[6.5k] — smut, fluff, omegaverse au, soul mate au (werewolf mates)

Battle of Wills ↴ ♡

[7.8k] — friends to lovers, perv!hyunjin, smut, fluff, angst

Love in Times New Roman ↴

[8k] — romance, comedy

Just in case ↴

[8.6k] — fluff, angst, suggestive, office au, coworkers to lovers, slight enemies to lovers

Pink + White ↴ ♡

[9.2k] — fluff, angst, smut, friends to lovers

The sound of your name ↴ ♡ ♡

[10.6k] — college au, enemies to lovers, academic rivals, angst, smut

Hilltops + Stargazing ↴

[12.1k] — uni!au, f2l, fluff, angst

The study of relationships ↴

[15k] — fluff, angst, volleyball!au, f2l!au, roommates!au

A throne of roses ↴

[16.7k+] — royal au, fluff, angst, a little suggestive

Demigod ↴

[18k+] — dislike-to-lovers!au, demigod!au, fluff, slight angst

Two types of fireworks ↴ ♡

[21.2k] — irritated companions to lovers, tangled au, historical au, fluff

Criminal Love ↴ ♡

[25k+] — romance, smut, forced proximity

The duke and I ↴

[32.3k] — bridgerton!au, f2l!au, fluff, angst, smut

Voicemail ↴

Part 2 ⇉ Voicemail II

[4.6k] Two-shots — angst, fluff, hurt/comfort

Fairy lights ↴ ♡

Part 2 ⇉ Tulips and Lilac

[14.3k] Two-shots — smut, enemies to lovers (if you squint), fluff

Moonrise ↴

Part 2 ⇉ Moonlight

[19.1k] Two-shots — fluff, smut, historical!au, arranged marriage!au, strangers-to-lovers

The bet ↴

Part 2 ⇉ Rules

[19.6k] Two-shots — smut, college au, established relationship, feat. Jisung

Worn out jackets ↴

⇉ Part 2

[20k+] Two-shots — fluff, angst

SERIES *⁠.⁠✧

The strange man of Monterrey manor ↴

[3/3] [20.8k] [Completed]

Genre : strangers/enemies to lovers, regency au, arranged marriage au, angst, smut, slow burn

Dangerous ↴

Part 2 ⇉ Deal

Part 3 ⇉ Deadly

Part 4 ⇉ Damaged

Epilogue ⇉ Darling

[5/5] [32.7k] [Completed]

Genre : angst, smut, enemy au, mafia au

Super bored ↴

[4/5] [66.6k+] [On going]

Genre : college au, smut, light angst, some fluff, weed dealer!hyunjin

Star lost with you ↴ ♡

[18/?] [425.1k] [On going]

Genre : idol!hyunjin x artist!reader, friends to lovers, angst, smut, fluff, unrequited love, forbidden (?) romance, slowburn

New fanfics ♡

Personal favorites ♡

Last updated : 13/07/2024

[aquariumdrunkard]

The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

Funky crudités. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Intro ++ Larry Ellis – Funky Thing, Pt. 1 ++ Jake Wade & The Soul Searchers – Searching For Soul, Pt. 1 ++ Little Beaver – Funkadelic Sound ++ Chicago Gangsters – Why Did You Do it? ++ Wayne Carter & Organ Twisters – Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo ++ Carleen & The Groovers – The Thing ++ J.D.S. – Funky Party Time ++ Elmer & Brenda Parker – Got To Get Back To Louisiana ++ Apple & The Three Oranges – Curse Upon The World ++ Shelley Fisher – I’ll Leave You Girl ++ Michael Liggins & The Super Souls – Loaded Back ++ Detroit Sex Machines – Rap It Together ++ Soap – I Just Want To Celebrate ++ Bad Medicine – Trespasser ++ Odetta – Hit Or Miss ++ The Soul Lifters – Hot, Funky And Sweaty ++ Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham – Lover And A Friend ++ Essence – Fever (Instrumental) ++ Nina Simone – Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter ++ Eugene Blacknell – Gettin’ Down ++ The Mighty Imperials – Jody’s Walk ++ Mickey & The Soul Generation – Get Down Brother ++ Tony Owens – I Got Soul ++ Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm – Getting Nasty ++ Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Do Your Thing ++ The Monterreys – Get Down ++ Nina Simone – Be My Husband (Live, 1987) ++ Terry Callier – You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman ++ Whitefield Brothers – Rampage ++ Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Mystical Brotherhood++ Merle Saunders & Jerry Garcia – Keepers ++ Joel Vandroogenbroeck – Rocks ++ Howard Wales – Karnaval ++ Funkadelic – Biological Speculation | art formless forming

[viviraeva]

He who touched the stars.

the prophecy that awaits the Monterrey Family.

" he who held the knowledge

he who carries the guilt

held in future family image

until the last divine wilt

beware of the stars and the moons

of the love their children can feel

utter the death full of crones

death lingers upon our wheel

a child of land with the surname of the mountain king

shall be the next to touch the stars

alongside the father of light from the arcana. "

This scripture could be found in either Akkadian and Ch'olti'. It is an unknown piece of modern empowered history that daemonkind helped put humanity back together after the Sovereigns fell. The ancient civilizations were connected via the spell song and were able to gain their own independence in revealing their own history before daemonkind made their way to Elegy.

In the years to come when civilizations were formed, the scripture was first discovered in Babylon in 504 BC. It was analyzed by the wisest elders and taken apart line by line to try and find it's meaning. When the Babylonian Empire fell, the scripture was lost in the destruction.

When the Mayan Empire arose nearly 800 years later, the scripture was unknowingly found a second time in the Ch'olti language. Again, it was analyzed time and time again by the empire's wisest elders and researchers. No one could figure out what the scripture was foreshadowing. It terrified them all.

Fast forward to the fall of the Mayan Empire.

There was a man by the name of Chaac who studied the stars at the time. He prayed to them, worshipped them, and devoted himself whole-heartedly to them. During his prayers, an inchoate daemon by the name of Pleione came across his loving spell-song. They fell in love and spent hours in each other's embrace and began to forget about their responsibilities. In a fit of rage, both humanity and daemonkind forbid them from seeing each other. Devastated, Pleione was unraveled by the grief of their love and of their own. In their last moments, they rifted to Chaac, vowing to protect him and his family from beyond.

In the days before the prolonged fall of the empire, a devastated Chaac came across a lost fragment of Sovereign will. The fragment ushered him closer, promising him the chance to see his daemon lover one last time. He was trapped in a cave and possessed by the Sovereign will in which the exact scripture was pressed with charcoal onto his back. An opening formed in the cave and was shot to the stars. The last the man heard was the words, "The message is set," in his native tongue.

He was sent back to a nearby village as his home fell.

Years passes and the many generations of Chaac to come would be burdened with the knowledge of this scripture. Although lost to legend upon the modern times, many of the empowered descendants were severely cautious near anything related to magic. Their family hid from the Department of Magical Novices after its formation in the 1700s through 1800s. It wasn't until the 1900s when a young girl from the family married a man with the last name, Monterrey. The family was prepared for doom as they remembered the line, "a child of land with the surname of the mountain king." Ever since, the family waited in fear for the scripture to finally come true.

In the 1910's, the family was found in their hideout sector by the American-Continental Sector of D.U.M.P. and was taken into custody. Since then, the Department has kept a close eye on the family, awaiting the rest of the prophecy to come true.

[goldeneyedgirl]

Ficmas22: Day 9: Mad Girl's Love Song

Happy Day 9!

A quick note, I have unexpected travel to do tomorrow, and if I cannot make it home I may not be able to post tomorrow - I'll have my iPad, but I'm unsure if I can make it work. I'll be back with Day 11 if that happens, though <3

Today with have Mad Girl's Love Song, named for the Sylvia Plath poem I've been meaning to write a fic for since I was 13. I finally figured it out! This is a WIP, but I thought this is a pretty deent start.

I hope you enjoy it!!

mad girl’s love song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I lift my lids and all is born again.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The rumours find him in one of the Dakotas, after he feeds from a reeking drunk who blinks at him and cries for someone. He wonders if it's a parent, a lover, or a child. That’s a dangerous tangent to follow, but he does it any way, the weight of grief and regret a steady drip down his spine. 

That’s how Eugene finds him. Wallowing in a sea of misery, wondering about forgotten little girls, forgotten women, worried mothers, with dried blood on his face and wrapped in a filthy, stolen coat. 

(Eugene is about six feet tall, skinny as a string bean, and rather sly looking. In another life, he’d be selling watches from a trench coat or asking ladies in furs to pick a card. In this life, he is mercurial as a tiny river fish, and slyer than an old street cat. Jasper nearly kills him twice before Eugene finds a perch and demands they use their words.)

It should be noted that the Dakotas haven’t had a coven since 1897, and anyone with their ear to the ground knows exactly what happened to Kosa and her coven, and no one has been foolish enough to claim the Dakotas since. Those states are transient areas, where people pass through for a time, and the only territory that can be claimed is that which you are standing on. The same in New York, in Louisiana (blame the Southern warlords), and oddly enough, Nevada. 

Eugene jabbers at him in nearly indecipherable ‘30s slang, sucking on a blood-stained cigarette that Jasper recognises as a desperate attempt to cling to his past, to himself. He longs for something to hold onto just the same, but he’s too old now. Nothing he carries with him is anything he had as a human. Hell, he’d be dead and buried by now, probably having lived out his life. But Eugene, Eugene would still be alive now, if not for a woman with red lips and eyes to match. Probably still doing card tricks, sleight of hand to part people with their money. 

Eugene half tags along with him, half hustles him across the Dakotas to introduce him to the current residents - Ilse, Bowie, Duncan, and Valerie. All solitary nomads, who range from almost welcoming of Jasper (Ilse), to clearly irritated (Valerie). 

That’s how Jasper, Major of the Monterrey Army, ends up sitting in a shit-covered alley in Bismarck and making some kind of friends. They aren’t Peter and Charlotte (he should have told them he was leaving, that he didn’t want to hang around them like a storm cloud of misery. They deserved the happiness that came with freedom), but they are … amicable. 

(He’s confused, later, that he was so… calm and accepting of so many strangers around him. Why it isn’t just one giant shit fight. Ilse laughs, and tells him, “that’s all Eugene. His thing. We all have one - Bowie’s got theories. But Eugene, his is creating friendship or piecing together people who fit together. We don’t know, and he’ll ignore you if you ask.”)

He doesn’t tell them much, and they don’t press, but Valerie doesn’t trust him. She watches him carefully, and he watches her back, mostly because he’s never seen the kind of scarring Valerie has over her left eye; the eye itself is clouded over and dead. Vampires are supposed to be able to heal from almost anything, and yet she stays at him, one blood red and one milky white eye. 

Ilse, Bowie, and Eugene egg each other on with outrageous stories, whilst Duncan adds sarcastic comments at random intervals. 

He and Valerie are mostly quiet.

“Whose the weirdest you’ve ever met, Eugene?” Ilse asks. She’s pretty, like all vampires, with long dark hair and eyes. He sees the necklace she wears, and holds back his questions. After all, she’s told them all she wishes to share, though he can infer what she means when she tells him she was dead either way. 

Eugene pulls the stub of his cigarette and looks thoughtful for a few minutes.

“Weirdest that I’ve met would be Delia-Rae,” he said. “Walks around California in her old wedding dress arguing with herself. Can’t get a straight word out of her. I think she was the one that got destroyed last summer, by the old Italian bastards. Harmless but totally crackers. Should’ve kept a closer eye on her.”

“I ran into her,” Duncan muttered, leaning against the brick work. “Sad lady.”

“Very,” Eugene agreed. “I hope I’m wrong, and she’s still arguing with the voices in her head, but…” They all sit in silence for a moment; sometimes it feels like the Volturi’s reach is too absolute, too unyielding to be truly just. 

“Like that case down in Biloxi,” Valerie finally speaks. “Can’t believe that gets to happen.”

Biloxi is too far down south for his comfort, and he looks away from her one-eyed gaze.

Ilse lights up at the possibility of another story, and leans forward. “Tell us!” she claps her hands. 

Valerie looks uncomfortable at being the centre of attention. “Old factory or something; big fire there years ago. Bit of a local legend, thought I’d go poking around - apparently it’s haunted and once you go in, you never come out again, according to the locals.”

They all look at her, waiting for the punchline, the discovery.

“And?” Bowie prompts, tapping his fingers against his knee. 

“You could smell the bodies when you got close, smell whoever is there,” Valerie turned back to stare at Jasper. “I left. Not getting involved with shit like that. The place stunk of crazy.”

“Wow,” Eugene looks curious but also thoughtful. “D’you see them?”

“No. Glad I didn’t,” Valerie scowled. “Didn’t even going inside. Should’ve set the place on fire.”

“I wonder why no one does anything,” Isle asks, leaning back to look at the stars and he wonders the very same thing. 

It’s a thought that lingers.

—

He expected the factory site to be swallowed up by the forest, a forgotten and haunted place swallowed up by moss and kudzu.

He’s very wrong.

It’s definitely a haunted place, he wasn’t wrong about that. 

The forest keeps well enough away from it, a fucking wound in the middle of nowhere. The iron and stone fence around the property have long since collapsed into the grass, like something great and terrible has given up the fight. The remains of the building jut out from the ground, ugly grey concrete and smashed windows. Most of it is devastated by the fire, crumpled and forgotten - the stains of smoke still blistered on the remains. But the entrance building is somehow, just barely, standing. 

Broken furniture, even rotting doors, are scattered in the long grass around the entrance like bones jutting out of earth. Whatever figure - a saint, an angel, a god - that once adorned the cracked fountain out the front of the entrance has been rendered to rubble and dust, leaving behind only a pair of barely-recognisable feet. 

Factories don’t usually have fountains. Or bars over the windows. 

He’s amazed it’s been left like this; that no human has come forward to rebuild, to tear down, to make anew. It’s odd and uncomfortable that it is left in such a way. 

The gardens are dead and the trees withered. The grass snaps and crunches under his feet, dry and brittle. There is no moss, no mould. Some dead vines have entwined themselves through windows and the pockmarked holes in the walls, but there is nothing alive here. This is not a place where things live and thrive, almost unreal in how … how angry this place is. 

It wants him gone. It wants to chase him away and simmer in its rage. 

But for some reason, he keeps moving, pushing through the rotting doors carefully. 

And it’s like the whole building takes a breathe.

—

The bodies aren’t hard to find. 

Not that there’s a smell; well, there’s a lingering smell, but that’s the blood that has pooled on the ground and dried, the top layer powdery and metallic. These bodies are old, a collection of bones inside rotting cloth that still smells like fat and sweat and piss and blood. But nothing fresh. They are scattered around, five of them, decomposing where they fell. A single bloody handprint rests on the wall, luminous against the soggy-looking grey wallpaper. 

It’s the same throughout the first floor - more than a dozen forgotten rooms, several of them laid with bodies. He finds bones snapped clean, ground to a dust, fractured and sharp. A bloody footprint, a discarded shoe. 

One of the rooms is covered in shelves of books that dissolve at his touch, let alone have decipherable titles. But the evidence appears in the rows and rows of filthy jars. He’s not foolish enough to open one, but several have exploded (or perhaps been smashed) and left a pulpy organic mess behind, rotting fantastically, discoloured and difficult to look at, even for a man who is intimate with most forms of dismemberment. He smears off the dust of those  jars somehow still intact and is unsurprised to see a human brain, a swollen heart, a curled over foetus.

It confirms his suspicions. Some kind of medical setting, most likely for women. The desk is little more than kindling and it feels odd that these have somehow survived, unmarked. That so much of this office is untouched. The dust is layered in such a way that he can tell someone has ventured in here, but not for a while. 

A file is scattered on the floor, and he stops to pick it up. Most of it is indecipherable from the elements, but a smudged photo of a woman - naked and haunted and emaciated and with enormous bruises overlapping has survived. Even in a cloudy photograph, her eyes bored into his. 

Some kind of medical facility, and not a kind one. 

— 

The basement is a place he doesn’t venture.

The doors hang limply from the frame, the glass broken and long gone. The cold air that blows up the rotting stairs smells fouler than anything else. He can’t see anything in the darkness, and something about it just makes him turn away. 

He’s not a superstitious man, even if some of the men he had soldiered with as a human were. Maria had her own beliefs and traditions, usually from hard-worn experiences. 

But this place, this fucking tomb… the anger that this place wraps itself in… it makes him wonder about a lot of things he would have dismissed in the harsh light of day.

Another room, more bodies. 

But younger, this time. Fresher. Newer than many of the others. 

That makes him pause. The clothes are a giveaway, how modern they are. The heads thrown back against the wall, limbs entangled, the dried blood stain blooming on the wallpaper behind them like some kind of demented halo. A plastic hair ornament clings to a clump of brittle hair, a bag open at their side and the items scattered around. 

He’s not foolish enough to write off all the bodies he has seen as victims of a fire. But these ones… they make him wonder. This is not the practice of someone who wants a long life. This is a huge mess, one the Volturi will be forced to clean up. 

They’ll have to come soon. There are just too many bodies. 

—

He looks back once and nearly trips over as he spins back around to regard the older building. 

A split second of a face, pale and bloody, appears at a window. Fast enough that even with his senses, he wonders if he really saw it. 

Them. 

Her.  

He watches a while longer before he turns to leave the hospital behind to its rage, the glimpse of her face. 

He tries to pretend he’s not planning on coming back. 

Who are you?

—

She watches him leave from the shadows, behind a filthy window. 

(He wasn’t supposed to leave.)

Her head starts to ache again, and that means the pictures will return soon and it’s very, very bad if she’s out of the dark when that happens. 

And she folds herself back down into the dark of the basement, hair stiff with rotting blood and dotted with maggots, black eyes wide and barely seeing as her fingers guide her back down to safety. 

She’s glad he’s gone. 

(But he wasn’t supposed to leave. That’s not how it happens.)

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LATIN LOVER | LUCHANDO POR TUS SUEÑOS PODCAST W/ LA Park pt 1 notes

LA Park who comes from a city 40 miles north of Monterrey Mx. with a population of 200k. There are other interviews that detail his origins than this one. So I will only highlight things not brought up before.

PODCAST LINK: https://youtu.be/LIcetBzv80c

LA Park - Mil Mascaras

Mil Mascaras would never think I'm more than an idiot. (Imitates Mil Mascaras) "Get over here motherfucker. Sit down right here."

He would always tease LA Park at every show they were working on.

One time Nicho (Psicosis) would ask LA Park if he thought that professional sports were really rigged?

Park: Of course they are. Anything that has money flowing around it has to be influenced by some sort of manipulating power.

Nicho: I don't believe it. After spotting Mil Mascaras in the locker room he blurted that Adolfo (Park) doesn't believe that sports are rigged.

Mil Mascaras: What the fuck! Don't be an idiot! How can there not be! In football, boxing, everything!"

Park: Fucking Nicho! Your the one that believes it's all real. You asked me!

Mil: Get the fuck over here and take a seat stupid boy. I'm going to teach you one more time. Are you really that stupid or what?

Park pleaded with Mil Mascaras while Nicho ran away.

Park bumped into Nicho later on in the show and asked him why he did that. Nicho said he did it because he knows Mil always schools him when he sees him and think's he is really that dumb.

LA Park started out very young. Training in his hometown gym under local wrestlers. He finally wanted to take his wrestling to the next level. After being exposed to stars from the Mexico City coming into his town to perform.

LA Park worked under another name and lost the mask to Hijo del Santo in 1987

He latched on to Herodes, who would go the bar for drinks with other wrestlers. Park would keep his distance but, also spy on him as a fan and hang around to see what he could learn. Herodes would boast about his successes internationally that really caught Park's attention.

Hearing about Herodes being on a boat and wrestling in Africa is what opened Park's eyes to what was possible in wrestling. So he wanted to accomplish the same things.

One day he convinced Herodes that he could become someone important in wrestling and ask if he would take him under his wing. (not cited in this interview the exact retelling but found in others) Herodes would take Adolfo on and be a mentor to him while allowing him to stay at his Mexico City home.

Park would train but not have success when he first was living in Mexico city. It was a struggle just to get by as a young man all alone in the city.He would not make any notable impression for a while and this would be one of the motives why Herodes would have to kick him out of his appartment.

Lucky for LA Park, Jerry Estrada and La Fiera (legendary workers) would become his new mentors and trainers. Which he noted that Jerry and La Fiera were opposite personalities. Jerry would like to drink and party. La Fiera would be strict and straight laced.

Park brings up a side story about Antonio Pena creating his fame and opening doors for him into the entertainment industry. Being able to network with Televisa (biggest TV network in Mexico) celebrities.

Antonio scolded Park for getting too into that life and that if he didn't stop he would unmask him.

Jerry Estrada got Park into EMLL/CMLL

One meeting he had with CMLL promoter Paco Alonso.

Paco: I want you to start training for your match with El Modolo. It will be for the light heavyweight championship.

Park: I was fucked. I could not even make that weight. I was so poor. So Jerry would tell me to put coins in my boots. To gain enough weight. That's how I did it.

One day in preparing for the match vs El Modolo. Tapia was in the ring practicing dives from the top rope. Moonsaults and other things. An old man standing ringside called him over.

Old man: Come over here young man. (Park comes over) What the fuck is that shit that your doing?

Park: I'm just training.

Old man: You don't do those things. Wrestle on the mat. Stop jumping around like a grasshopper.

Park: Ok sir. As you say.

Old man: That better be the last time I see you do that in the ring. Because the next time I do, I will get i in there myself and kick your ass.

Park: Why hit me? I'm just training because they sent me to.

Old man: Who sent you? Paco?.. go get dressed and get out of here!

Park: But the boss ordered me to…

Old man: So if the boss orders you to shit your pants in the ring, you will do it?

Park: If I get a reaction, and the people like it, I will shit myself.

Old man: WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!(starts climbing into the ring)

Other wrestlers around the ring were egging on the old man.

La Park quickly got out and went to Paco's office.

Paco: Didn't I send you to go train?

Park: Yes but, there's an old man out there who told me to leave.

Paco: Alright. Let's go.

Park and Paco Alonso arrive to the training ring and Park points out the old man to Paco.

Paco: So, why did you tell my wrestler to get out and stop training? What is this about shitting their pants for the fans I heard about too? You have no authority here. I am giving you the chance to train here. This kid has to train to work on Sunday. If you don't like it. Leave.

Paco leaves after telling off the old man.

Old Man: Listen here boy. There is only one door to get out of here. I will be waiting for you when you get out.

Gran Cochisse was there and asked if Park knew who the old man was. Park did not have a clue at the time. He told him the old man was Blue Demon.

Park: Holy shit! The guy that fucked up those mummies. He's going to kill me.

Park was freaking out. He was still new and very young.

The other wrestlers training were telling Park that it was bad news. How Blue Demon was going to hold this grudge against him.

Park had arrived at 11AM but stayed until 7PM because he was so afraid of the confrontation. The cleaner had kicked out LA Park who had not eaten all day to avoid leaving the building.

When he finally stepped out through the exit he was looking around and scouting the parking lot. Park would get on his stomach to see if he could see Blue Demon's feet behind a car.

Park: I know I'm such a pussy. But we all are. We just don't show it.

Park did not have a confrontation that day.

3 months later a promoter booked Park as a sub for a wrestler that could not make it. Blue Demon was on this show. The promoter wanted to introduce him to Park, but he was still afraid. Park said it was fine if they did not meet beforehand.

Blue Demon came around and introduced himself to everyone. When it came to meeting Park, he said he remembers seeing him somewhere. Park was praying that he didn't remember.

Blue Demon asked where he was from. Park replied. He remembered that a young wrestler he knew from before was from there. While trying to remember, Park insisted that he meant Jerry. Demon agreed it must have been Jerry.

LA Park noted that wrestlers were very jealous of Latin Lover's instant success.

It took Latin Lover to finally fight back to gain the respect of some wrestlers

LA Park had to work for 6 years to finall get his wrestler liscense in Mexico City. He brings up a Mexican influencer who was being promoted in Monterrey and AAA for a program with Chessman. The influencer was being told by the promoters that it was easy to get it and they had work lined up for him.

Park had met with him before his testing and smartened him up a little. Which scared him off from wrestling.

Part 2 notes of same interview coming soon