#Prayers For Brazil

[maxedes]

kinda love that almost every driver is experiencing some form of ✨the✨horrors✨ right now & their fans are bashing each others heads in about it on twitter dot com

meanwhile my silly little guy:

[maxpadelchampion]

just found out that ferrari has no sim drivers in maranello so their set up is just basically non existent going into quali tomorrow. love ferrari quali is going to go great.

[mel-loly]

-I didn't intend to go into this subject but... I feel like I need to.. At least, my State needs...

I know that many of you don't know and maybe don't care much about the situation because you guys are foreigners, but I wanted to ask you to pray or at least wish Rio Grande Do Sul good luck.. My State of Brazil is becoming almost all water, the floods don't stop entering houses, buildings, and causing deaths... Unfortunately, as I'm underage, I can't do a crowdfunding or anything like that to ask for help here, but I still want to ask for good luck, a prayer, so that everything will be fine soon.. This is the biggest flood in Rio Grande do Sul in history, so.. The situation is really complicated and needs support...

And I'm fine, my neighborhood hasn't been affected yet, but the rest of the regions are starting to turn into pure water, so... Please, I ask you for a prayer, good luck, because this already helps a bit, as this is what my Rio Grande do Sul needs at the moment, support and unity..

[starfayy]

Pls pray for the south of Brazil now, they're suffering with powerful rainstorms and floods, any aid can help as well (i dont have any links with me rn for donations but once i find i'll edit here)

🙏

[itsallmadonnasfault]

@littlekinq 1.6 million people singing Like a Prayer

[piristephes]

Digo a Hécate quando me enveredo À casa dos idos, daqueles que não mais Sobre a terra caminham, desfrutando de Hélio "Cumprimente-o por mim, senhora de Três-Faces"

Assim confio na Deusa, em seu par de tochas No poder de estar em toda parte e levar o recado Neste dia onde lembramos de onde viemos e Para onde todos, no final, iremos.

english:

I tell Hecate when I go To the home of the departed, of those who no longer On the earth walk, enjoying Helios "Greet him for me, Three-Faced Lady"

So I trust in the Goddess, in Her pair of torches In the power to be everywhere and carry the message On this day where we remember where we came from and Where we will all go in the end.

[nick-cassidy]

x

[divinum-pacis]

People pray on the feast day of Saint George at Saint George Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before sunrise, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The Catholic saint is associated with bravery and resistance. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

[roscoehamiltons]

went on twitter to catch up on news and first thing i see is a brazilian prayer space for lewis planned in a couple hours

[arieslost]

thoughts and prayers for all my fellow ferrari fans

[viagem-pelo-brasil]

Arraial do Cabo Rio de Janeiro Brasil

[l8tof1]

[vilevampire]

Hey, you like Raimundo along with Jack, right? And you're Brazilian. Feel free not to answer this if you don't wanna okay. I just thought you'd be best suited. Like when you commented on the "Rai" nickname.

I'm wondering if you perhaps have any thoughts or headcanons on him, family, hobbies, his inner thoughts, cause I wanna flesh him out for my fic and stuff. I'll give you credit for the ideas of course

even though I'm not that active in the xs fandom currently you've surprisingly come to the right person bc I've rambled a bit about raimundo hcs before to my friends. I had to dig up some discord messages to find all my hcs

I hc raimundo to be white-passing and mixed race, which is like the majority of brazilian ppl tbh. side note: in brazil "race" is defined almost solely by skin color, so like if I left my country it's possible I'd be considered a person of color because of my features, but in brazil I'm considered white. raimundo would be in a similar situation

so in these discord messages past!lucas has said "the only mentions of his background is that he has 8 siblings with a lots of aunts and uncles" and "he mentions that the 'rough' part of rio is his 'element'". now, I, lucas of the present, barely rmr this bc it's been forever ago since I watched xs, but I'm trusting past!lucas on this I think he would never lie to me. based on that I'm a fan of the theory raimundo is an orphan and grew up as part of the lower class. I don't think I ever theorized what the fuck happened to his parents, but I like the idea of him acquiring abandonment issues because of it. since he grew up poor I think he'd also have a lot of survival skills, knowing how to make due with very little, etc.

I actually just thought abt this but it's very uncommon for latino people to only have two names. I myself have four, bc the family names just keep adding on top of each other when u marry instead of being absorbed into the husband's name. so realistically raimundo would probably has at least one other family name

not exactly a hc but something interesting to note about mundo is that he is a good example of something we call a "malandro" in brazil. a malandro is a brazilian concept of a cunning anti-hero who outsmarts, deceives and takes advantage of others, usually for personal gain. describing it like this makes it sound like a bad word, but it has a positive connotation. like culturally being malandro is considered a good thing. we even have a saying that goes like "every day a malandro (in this case a scammer) and a sucker (in this case the one who gets scammed) leave their houses.", implying that if you're not the one taking advantage of others, you're the one being taken advantage of. I don't think this was intentional on the xs writers' part to make raimundo embody these traits so perfectly that r culturally significant to brazil but and I find it interesting.

similar thing to above we also have something called "gambiarra", which is like achieving something through improvised means instead of the "correct" (and usually more expensive) way. also very important to brazilian culture and I think raimundo would be adept in it

[mkstrigidae]

This is about to be a Shilese Jones stan account I don't make the rules

[ugartecoco]

its time to spike spank and smack balls (vnl quarter finals)

[beardedmrbean]

The death toll from devastating rainfall in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Monday, official figures showed, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the region and said homes should no longer be built in areas at risk of landslides and major floods.

Authorities in the state of Sao Paulo said on Monday four more people had been killed in addition to 36 tallied a day earlier, but more casualties were still expected to be reported as three dozen people remained missing.

Lula flew over the coastal town of Sao Sebastiao alongside Cabinet ministers and pledged to help rebuild the town of some 91,000 people by constructing new houses in safer places.

He also said the government must work to restore key infrastructure facilities such as roads damaged by landslides.

The floods in coastal Sao Paulo state were the latest in a series of such disasters to have recently struck Brazil, where shoddy construction, often on hillsides, has tended to have tragic consequences during the country's rainy season.

"Sometimes nature takes us by surprise, but sometimes we also tempt nature," Lula said in a speech after meeting with Sao Paulo Governor Tarcisio de Freitas and Sao Sebastiao Mayor Felipe Augusto to coordinate their response to the disaster.

"I think it's important that neither happen," he added. "I express my solidarity with the people of Sao Sebastiao and I hope this never happens again."

The deluge happened during Brazil's Carnival holiday period, when thousands flock to the region's beaches, likely aggravating the human toll of the natural disaster.

Sao Sebastiao was the epicentre of the flooding as 39 of the deaths were reported there, but heavy rainfall also affected nearby towns such as Ilhabela, Caraguatatuba and Ubatuba, where one casualty was reported, according to the Sao Paulo state government.

More than 2,000 people have been forced from their homes after rains of more than 600 millimeters (23.62 inches) pounded the coast of Brazil's richest state, the government said, adding that was the highest cumulative figure ever in Brazil.

"It had been raining since Friday. The landslide reached one of the walls of our building, my mother's and brother's vehicles were damaged," said Ligia Carla Samia, who was rescued by helicopter. "It was like an avalanche. Thank God we survived."

Many others remained stranded with roads blocked by landslides.

"At some points we don't even know what's left of the Rio-Santos highway," Freitas said after his meeting with Lula, referring to the main road linking the region's towns. "We even raise the possibility that it collapsed, that the highway no longer exists."

He declared three days of mourning in the state and a 180-day state of calamity for six towns after the disaster, the latest in a series of recent natural disasters in Brazil.

More than 200 people were killed by mudslides and floods in the colonial-era city of Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro roughly a year ago. The states of Bahia and Santa Caterina also suffered from similar disasters recently.