#Tomás and the alien

[elbiotipo]

Viajaste de 2023 al Buenos Aires Biopunk de 2143? Uy, que garrón. Dejá que yo te guío, no te preocupes.

Esa cosa que ves en todos los souvenirs? Es la Torre del Tricentenario. Es como una torre de biocristal en forma de hebra de ADN montada en el Río de La Plata, un kilómetro de alto tiene. La más alta de Sudamérica. Bueno, aparte del ascensor espacial de los brasileros.

Toda esa gente rara? No seas malo. Ah, vos decís las escamas, las plumas, las colas? Sí, ponele que es medio como los tatuajes en tu época. Es la moda. Bueno, vas a ver más que nada a la gente vieja que quedó del biopunk original, y algunos pibes de ahora con eso, a mucha gente no le gusta joder con esas cosas ahora. Que es biopunk? A ver, como te explico...

Sí, casi todo el centro es peatonal. No hay tantos autos. Ah, esos coatíes? Las cotorras y los carayá? Son personas, moreaus, animales con inteligencia por modificación genética. No les vayas a decir animales. Son ciudadanos de la Confederación, chamigo. Sí, el delfín también.

Confederación? La Confederación Argentina, obvio? Ah, a ver, como te explico. Bueno, por allá por los 80, cuando reprimieron la comuna porteña, el Buenos Aires carmesí, la gobernadora Alegre... che, estás escuchando?

Obvio que se vende Guaraná Antártica por todos lados. La Coca Cola? No la hacen más desde el Ecocidio. Creo que hay una fábrica que quedó en Córdoba, pero no sé si es el mismo gusto...

DESPUÉS TE EXPLICO LO QUE ES EL ECOCIDIO CHE UN PASO AL VEZ

No, no es gendarme, es GENEdarme, porque están con todo el tema de la genética viste. No les digas Robocop. Son los del SENA. Servicio Ecológico Nacional Argentino. No, a los perros no les gusta que les acaricien, te lo van a decir. Sí, también son ciudadanos. Sí, son bien yuta.

Esas lianas y los árboles están para decoración y para las cotorras, sí, pero también limpian el aire de patógenos. Tranqui, vos estás en área segura. Buenos Aires es una de las ciudades más seguras del planeta.

Igual, por las dudas, comprate un barbijo. Tomá, 20 australes te deben alcanzar, no?

La UBA? Que, un vino? Ah, la UNBA. Sí, mirá, en los 80,

Esos bichos son las langostas del SENA. Y son como mitad helicóptero, mitad bicho. Claro, claro, algo así como los del Half Life! Juegazo. Salió la parte 5 hace poco, sabías?

Era todo avenida esto, podés creer? Mirá lo que es el Parque 9 de Julio ahora. Acá están todos los biopunks, bueno, para los turistas. Uy, mirá, mirá, los coatíes están haciendo una coreo! Dejales un par de australes.

Había un McDonalds en el Obelisco? Ah, como en las pelis viejas? No, no existe más eso.

El grafiti? Sí, son Evita y CFK. Las otras dos? La Dra. Alegre, obvio, y la del casco es Valeria Martínez, primer argentina en el espacio. El Dibu? Ah, me parece que es la nieta che.

La bandera esa es del Tawantinsuyu. Unión Andina, si no te sale el nombre. No, no son los incas, bueno, tienen esa onda... a ver, antes eran Perú y Bolivia. Son de izquierda, me parece. Sí, los equipos de fútbol siguen existiendo.

Independiente no gana nada desde el siglo pasado, pero creen que esta vez sí. Cuantas copas tenemos? A ver, si contamos el mundial de Cataluña, s-MIRÁ EL YACARÉ, siempre quise tener uno de mascota!

No, no podemos ir a Boulogne. No existe más.

No me importa si tu casa estaba ahí. Mirá, ya sé que lo de las "áreas restrictas" parece de película, pero en serio, no vayas.

Ah, no, está bien si le decís Capital, muchos se confunden. La nueva está en el sur. Sí, antes era Viedma, como sabías? Manejas toda la data vos, eh?

De que laburo? Ah, yo hago hormonas para mantener el sistema de lianas municipal. Sí, está bueno. Mi novia estudia astrobiología. A ver, si te digo que encontramos aliens te vas a desmayar también? Jajaja. No, es joda, joda. Pero sí. Los encontramos. No, están, como a 1000 años luz, no te preocupes. Bueno, dicen que en Titán...

Bueno che, te dejo que descanses acá. Este es uno de los mejores árboles de la ciudad, ombú bien pampeano y seguro, vos tranquilo. Lo atiende un par de cotorras super buena onda. Deciles que te canten algo de tu época, tipo los Wachiturros, por ahí te agarra la nostalgia.

[ofcowardiceandkings]

this is stupid but yknow what really hit for me about actually how intimate and long-term the pair of them living in the Hateno house for that 5 or 6 years ???

thats about as long as i've lived with Tomás

not to use my own life as a frame of reference for fictional characters smooching (again) or anything but by that point it gets so natural and comforting, and alien when the other person isnt there ???

idk man that just clocked me in the head and damn

[phibes]

I think it’s super cool you have a website for it. I’ve went through it, I’m looking forward to when your work is on there. I was happy to see you posted about it today too! I’m curious, could you tell me more about those two characters in particular? What’s their dynamic, who or what inspired you to create them? Whatever you wanted to share. I’m sorry if I’m being nosy I’m just genuinely very intrigued, haha. I hope today is good for you, too.

Aw, you're good. I have a lot of lore built up over time regarding the characters. I'm still trying to make it seem moderately coherent.

On the left is MICHAEL and on the right is Ben Wilkinson/The Entity.

MICHAEL, also known as Made In Christ's Holy Almighty Eternal Love, is a part of a UFO cult run by Emlee West. He is one of Emlee's closest confidants, but is still treated as an outsider by the rest of the group. He has this rivalry with Emlee's two other confidants--Charles and Lillian Armstrong. He is intended to be a kind of pathetic and neurotic character. He is desperate to be wanted by someone, to have someone's full attention and love.

This character originated from reading about Unarius and the kind of drama involved after Uriel's death. His closest real life analogue from that group is Antares. MICHAEL's real name is Tomás Cruz--which is a pun, in and of itself. Visually, he is not based off of anyone specifically. I ended up cannibalizing an old oc's design into his current one.

Ben Wilkinson experienced a severe mental break following the suicide of his sister, Margaret. After making his own attempt, he believes that his soul has been replaced by that of an inter-dimensional genderless alien being referred to as "The Entity." He blames Emlee West for Margaret's death and begins planning a poorly thought out revenge plan. He claims to have left his human life as Ben Wilkinson behind, despite clearly having strong ties. He is fueled entirely by grief and anger. His human life prior to Margaret's death was also collapsing into disappointment, her death was the thing that pushed him over into the breakdown.

Ben's real life analogue is Marshall Applewhite from Heaven's Gate. The name Benjamin Wilkinson is kind of a play on Jemima Wilkinson, properly known as the Public Universal Friend. Visually, he's just Anthony Perkins.

As far as their dynamic goes--MICHAEL redirects The Entity's anger/revenge in a way that benefits his own plans. They both see each other as means to an end. The Entity views MICHAEL as his own personal test--to see if he has truly transcended the human vice of lust. MICHAEL initially views The Entity as someone who is easy to manipulate--but ends up becoming more fixated on him over time, solely because he gives MICHAEL true attention.

[splendontcore]

hi tumblrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, im Tomás and this is my brand new HTF-sideblog.

Let me introduce yall to this comic concept I have working for a long while.

"After being victim of an assault, Flaky had decided to never feel weak and helpless ever again. Disguised as Franky Jones, they is ready to patrol and make their neighborhood safe again-with help of their ssssSuper friend Splendont, an alien squirrel who can change form, of course.

Will this lame fella show their worth? Is Franky Jones just an alterego or there's something deeper? What's inside Mole's briefcase?"

[alrightbuckaroo]

Hii ada 🥰 For nice ask week, tell me about your favorite Lone Star character, if you like!! I'm pretty sure I know who it is but just want to hear you talk about them 😏

Desi, my dear! How are you? I hope life is being kind to you <3

What if I pulled an absolute wild card and said something like Pearce LOL

No but I think you're right in the fact you already know who it is because lord knows I do not shut up about Carlos Tomás Reyes!

I don't know what it is about that man, but god there's much to explore and I want a map to all of it.

I want to know more about his sisters, I want to know if he's an uncle (I've already decided he is but whatevs), I want to know what happened to Kique the Koala, I want to know if he played JV soccer in high school or if he was a stage tech for theater.

Then there's of course just his normal disposition; it's so familiar in the sense that I know why it's stoic, but it's so alien in the sense I know there's more to it that we don't know yet.

I want to know about his relationship with religion, I want to know if there was a battle between that and his sexuality and what the aftershocks of that were. But alas, this is a 44 minute ensemble show that is also a procedural, so maybe we'll get all these answers by season 34 😭

Anyways, I just realized that I didn't say why he's my favorite character and barring everything above because I do love that there's so much to explore, I love that he's just as much a hopeless romantic as TK is.

How smitten he was when talking about TK in the early episodes of s1 to Michelle? Calling him a 10 with a smile he probably doesn't even know he's making? Making dinner in the middle of the night to a man who sees it as nothing more than a booty call? Tim Minear said we're gonna get this man some love on GOD

I don't know, I think he's just so interesting because we know he, in his own way, struggled with terms around his sexuality, but seeing that it doesn't stop him from having so so so so much love for TK, for another man, proves that they are, in fact, soulmates. He'd love him in every universe because he'll always have so much to give.

[smashpages]

Bad Idea announces ‘Planet Death’ by Derek Kolstad, Robert Venditti + Tomás Giorello

The last surviving soldier of a battalion sent to destroy an alien weapon must continue his mission alone.

[phibes-art]

GENERAL INFORMATION

(left to right--Charles and Lillie Armstrong, Shelly West, Emlee West (seated), MICHAEL, Benjamin Wilkinson, and Margaret Wilkinson)

A story of revenge, obsession, and aliens. Set in 1972 Carlsbad, New Mexico. (TW: for suicide mention and a general warning for cult related issues)

M. Leigh “Emlee” West

A widow with a deep interest in the supernatural. After coming into contact with a being she refers to as The Entity, she makes a series of predictions that mostly come to fruition. She decides to abandon her old life in pursuit of her cosmic destiny. 

Benjamin Wilkinson

He has been driven to madness after the death of his twin, Margaret. He is seemingly revived by an inter-dimensional alien being after his own suicide attempt. The being states that he was revived for the purpose of punishing those responsible for his sister’s death. With this mission in mind, he plots out his unrelenting and unfocused revenge. 

Tomás Soto/MICHAEL/Made In Christ’s Holy Almighty Eternal Love

Tomás Soto was hitchhiking when he met Emlee West. She is drawn to Tomás and states that they have met throughout several lifetimes. Tomás, sensing a possible grift, goes along with this. Emlee reshapes him in her image and names him MICHAEL. He has grown to hate Emlee with each passing day.

Shelly West

Emlee West’s daughter. She has grappled with Emlee’s abandonment of her in the past but has come through the other side seemingly confident and assured. She does not doubt her mother’s love. This is tested during the story.

Charles and Lillie Armstrong

Emlee’s first devoted supporters. They have uprooted their entire lives for her. They do not like MICHAEL. 

Margaret Wilkinson

Benjamin’s twin sister. She believed she was dying of a mysterious illness and sought out various cures. She attended one of Emlee’s seminars and made a connection. Despite this, Margaret committed suicide a year later. 

[desolades]

INT. BAR NIGHT

“  The  enormity  of  my  desire  disgusts  me.  ”  @sythegun's words  reach  out  to  him  from  across  the  table.  A  littler  of  bottles  and  ash  standing  between  them  like  an  abandoned  battlefield,  something  lost  there,  maybe, something  they  were  trying  to  kill  remains.  This  is  his  companion  for  the  night,  a  little  attempt  to  fight  off  the  loneliness  that  has  settled  over  his  days,  bottomless  and  unmeasurable.  But  this  is  a  good  deceit,  a  drink  to  blur  the  edges,  another  person  to  fill  the  silences.

Tomás  studies  him  from  his  seat,  the  set  of  his  shoulders,  the  frown  of  his  eyebrows,  the  movement  of  his  hands.  He’s  never  been  good  at  reading  people,  they  are  an  alien  species  whose  language  and  costumes  he’s  been  barely  able  to  grasp,  but  there  is  some  sadness  to  those  words,  contempt.  He  means  to  ask,  Desire  for  what?  But  that  feels  like  a  too  personal  question  for  the  setting.  A  person  can  desire  so  many  things,  intangible  things,  superficial  or  deep.  A  better  life,  another  person.  Longing,  longing  is  desire  refusing  to  die,  the  fire  stomped  on,  the  smoke  still  carried  by  the  wind.  Longing,  looking,  hoping.    

“  I  fear  there’s  no  cure  for  that  one.  ”  he  offers  a  small  smile,  sad  in  the  context.  He  feels  desire  shouldn’t  be  disgusting,  but  can’t  it  though?  It  can  burn  you  out  for  sure,    consume  you,  make  you  mad.  It’s  so  human  in  its  very  nature,  so  alive,  it  feels  foreign  to  him  at  that  moment.  He  can’t  remember  the  last  time  he  desired,  wanted.  Living  people  want  things,  ghosts  just…  yearn.    “  I  don’t  think  it’s  a  bad  thing,  no  matter  how  crazy  you  feel  right  now…  the  opposite  is  not  better.  ”  The  opposite  is  dead.  He  falls  quiet  for  a  moment,  the  glass  in  his  hand  turning  in  place,  drawing  little  rings  of  condensation  on  the  table.  The  timid  smile  appears  again,  a  little  attempt  at  a  joke.  “  Unless  that  desire  is  something  bad  for  real,  then  just…  keep  it  down,  you  know?  ”

[movienized-com]

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[jaimendonsa]

O crescente interesse pelos OVNIs está influenciando as crenças religiosas, com demônios e anjos frequentemente vistos como entidades benevolentes, enquanto seres extraterrestres são frequentemente vistos como paranormais ou maus.

Todas essas entidades: extraterrestres, anjos, demônios, espíritos, guias espirituais estão interligados em nosso mundo físico, agindo em nossas vidas.

Os fantasmas persistem, sugerindo que servem a propósitos psicológicos, investigam a morte e promovem a esperança de que traços de personalidade sobrevivam à morte física.

Alguns relatos sugerem que os anjos caídos introduziram a magia, fundindo-se com os humanos para causar o caos, enquanto os anjos bons simbolizam pessoas altruístas que continuam a exercer influência positiva no mundo físico.

Os estudiosos da fé, muitas vezes, ignoram as origens das religiões criadas e organizadas sob os fenômenos sobrenaturais.

São Tomás de Aquino referiu-se aos anjos como seres inteligentes imateriais que comunicam a mensagem de Deus e são os principais agentes da ação de Deus no mundo.

A intenção deste livro é revelar as dimensões espirituais que nos cercam.

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[forget-foal]

When looking at my Letterboxd statistics (yes, I have a Letterboxd, I'm kind of a loser), I noticed that a vast majority of the films I've watched and rated over the last few years have been primarily made in the U.S. I've always liked to think I've seen a lot of foreign films but looking at this map, it's very clear I haven't.

(469 American movies. Sheesh! Also, I've definitely seen Russian films but they classified the one's I've seen as USSR. Weird.)

So today, I thought I would set a goal for myself to watch at least one film from every country. Obviously this isn't going to be something I finish in a day, but I still got a lot of life left to do it haha.

So I started today with a film from Cuba, that being 1968's Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.

Memories is a film about Cuban bourgeois Sergio after the Bay of Pigs invasion and the impact of the Cuban Revolution on him. He's a man whose view on Cuba is quickly becoming outdated, leaving him alienated from the world around him.

This film is without a doubt a character study and probably one of my favorites by far. I don't really find myself engaging with many of them, but this one makes me want to watch more in the future. Sergio is very interesting to listen to and to watch, as it's almost like watching in real time his lifestyle and attitude be brushed aside, and his instinct to do the same to the people around him. By leaving his wife and leaving his friends, Sergio is responding to Cuba's disdain for him by doing the same. Purposefully exiting from public life and looking down on the Cuba forming around him.

Incredible film, and one I thought I would be bored by. Quite the contrary, I really enjoyed this movie and I'm definitely adding it to my list of Criterion Collection physical copies to get in the future.

10/10

[elbiotipo]

How to distinguish my space settings from each other: FTL (faster-than-light travel para los que no dominan la jerga) and the Argentine Character (they all have at least one)

Campoestela:

FTL: Travelling is done in relatively short (12-72 hs.) flights through a cloudly dimension called the Aether. The feeling is much like pre-jet era flights, with frequent stops for fuelling (they need a fuel called "nafta" which is refined in special worlds). Different currents carry you faster, making for trade routes stretching across the galaxy. Ships range from space-shuttle sized to slow cargo mega-carriers.

Argentine Character: Beto, a guy from Space Chaco (ironically, my most porteño character) who is a space trucker unionized on the CGT (Confederación Galáctica del Trabajo) and loves listening to history podcasts

Space Battleship Aurora:

FTL: Light speed? What's that? This is a fantasy setting. Space Byzantium (literal Byzantium) used galleys equipped with magical sails to transverse the oceans between the crystal spheres and conquer its empire. Sure, now they resemble WWI battleships, but the principle is the same, this is a star ocean.

Argentine Character: Tomás, a huge guy from Bonaeropolis, Terra who is the ship's cargo master and a communist revolutionary who adopts a couple of noble kids who aren't sure of this whole thing yet

METAL lml

FTL: jump devices are only found in old ships or automatized factories from the golden Age of Aquarius where everybody disco-danced. They are fuelled by the very energy of the universe that fuels everything else, METAL, the lml (Liquid Matter-Light), the song of the universe itself. Ships simply "jump" to their destination instantly, as long as you know the song.

Argentine character: Two, actually. One is a teen girl isekai'd from 2012 who uses the power of METAL to destroy her enemies, the other is a very chill gaucho from Space Corrientes who herded asteroids and now flies a Hind-like ship kicking ass.

The Greatest Scam:

FTL: This is a hard sci-fi setting. The only FTL is wormholes, which act with within laws of physics as we know them. The AIs who mine bitcoin in the Solar matrioshka brain use them to create incomprehensible processing systems. AIs friendly to humanity and the Socialist Interstellar maintain wormhole gates that allow limited interstellar communication and travel ('human' space is about 50 light years across). These gates are expensive pieces of infrastructure, much like space railroads.

Argentine Characters: None just yet, but many wandering habitats are of Argentine descent, flying under the flag of the URSAL.

Concordia (Star Trek Rebuild)

FTL: Depending on the date, if set in current times none at all (humanity is just expanding through the solar system, think For All Mankind), but if there is a FTL, it's an Alcubierre-like "warp drive", which functions much like in Star Trek, the main limitation is the energy required to keep the "warp bubble" stable. Interstellar travel takes days to weeks, humanity has explored just a corner of the galaxy and mostly thanks to friendly alien civilizations.

Argentine Character: A recently promoted captain born in Curuzú Cuatiá, Corrientes, who is trying to keep the balance between his Usamerican first officer and his Soviet chief engineer.

Biopunk South America:

FTL: There is plenty of space activity, but no FTL and there probably not ever be because of physics (if there ever is, it will be like in The Greatest Scam). As of 2143, there are only unmanned interstellar probes to Alpha Centauri and others which will take decades to reach destination, interstellar exploration is a long-term project.

Argentine Character: Except for Marina, all of them. Even the dolphin. Especially the dolphin.

[yu7i]

GOD I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE HOW LONG THIS ASK WAS I'M SORRY

but i'm also not THAT sorry but also THANK YOU for taking the time to answer this and i'm insane about this response and it's the best way someone could ever answer this and i have a lot to say about it

and no i will not be making my own textposts because it's way funnier if every once in a while something like this spawns in your inbox<3

First!! i want to mention how pleasantly surprised i was by your spanish- because i was not expecting an accurate representation of how the argentinian accent works at all, and also i don't know if you did that on purpose but

"Qué tomás" is correct, but it's also the rudest way you could ask someone what they are drinking, and it fits vegeta so well because old men often talk like that in argentina

Second!! vegeta and trunks drinking maté from separate cups is all of those things you mentioned at the same time but i'd also like to mention that if i saw that on the wild i would have such a visceral reaction, because it's such an unnatural thing and such sacrilege but also it's hilarious

because it's such a funny image in such a bizarre way, but also nothing in argentina is really sacred, but also dude that's not how you do it and It's something so WRONG and if you did that in front of a gaucho they would run you over with a horse but also something you would forgive because it's so... incredulous

ALSO, going on about the goten doesn't like maté bit

goten would totally drink maté cocido (yerba maté in a little tea sack and you drink it like tea and it only tastes a little different than actual maté but it's an individual thing and you can put as much sugar you want in it and it's such an iconic-ly childish version of maté to drink and most kids always have this as breakfast along with like cookies or other pastries) and i find that so funny because it would be so normal to see like, for example;

Goku and Chichi and Gohan maybe too, all sat on the table drinking maté, and Goten is there too and he has his little maté cocido cup and he's eating vainillas (i had these for breakfast all the time and i think goten would like them) and they're chatting about whatever and it's natural and it's normal, average argentinian family, goten doesn't think too much about it.

but then when you add trunks into the equation and it suddenly has such an mature aura goten has never thought about before and he feels alienated from and he's sitting there with his silly little ACTUAL cup and not passing the maté around like it's a blunt with everyone else

shortly after he stops giving a shit again when pan comes over to their house too and videl tells her "Decile al tío goten que te haga un maté cocido :)" (tell uncle goten to make you a maté cocido) and pan does and she's like "TIO GOTEN ME HACES UN MATÉ COCIDO? :)" (uncle goten, can you make me some maté cocido?) and goten and pan drink maté cocido together and life is good again and trunks can go fuck himself

and bulla probably tries to drink maté too because all the grown ups do that and she looks like the type of girl to want to be an adult so bad but she really doesn't like it but she's trying and she drinks it with her family once they aren't estranged with each other and build a routine of drinking maté in the morning all together but when she's over at goten's she also asks him to make her some maté cocido and now it's this little thing they share because they don't drink maté, fuck that noise

ALSO THE TETERÉ THING WAS LITERALLY WRITEN WITH NOTHING IN MIND it was vaguely Tsundere Trunks Moments inspired but also Trunks Sos Un Forro Moments, it was really just left to interpretation, trunks is still chill enough to start offering goten tereré after this happens though and he even drinks it when the weather is particularly hot and he can't stand to drink normal maté, vegeta and bulma are old though and they still drink maté on summer because old argentinian people do that. we live in a country of insane people

also only vaguely related but i would like to mention that goku is a gaucho and goten and gohan are too to some degree and goten often talks like one and trunks cannot for the life of him understand what the fuck he's talking about

Hello tumblr user dballzposting, i've had a terribly latin american goten and trunks idea while thinking about making myself some maté (weirdass boiling tea-esque argentinian-paraguayan-uruguayan concoction served in a little rotund cup-esque thing that is drank with a metal straw-like thing that isn't really a straw but works like one but better so you dont swallow the leaves and herbs in the little rotund son of a bitch, anyway big part of it is that it's bitter and you drink it while its HOT as balls) and i'm hoping you do not mind the completely cultural dissonance of this ask, i will try to make this make sense

but thinking about mate and how i personally think the Son family is very rural and whatnot and it's canon to some extent but i like to give it some third worlder campo flavor- anyway, i don't think Goten likes maté, but i think Trunks loves it, and Goten kinda resents him for that (its not that serious but trunks can get a little annoying)

because maybe one day trunks comes over to their house and chichi and gohan are there having some maté and like facturas(pastries, see "facturas argentinas" for a clearer picture) and toast with dulce de leche(it solos nutella, change my mind) and trunks never tried maté because bulma doesn't really drink it even if she likes it cause she has a shitty rich ppl coffee machine so trunks drinks that, and vegeta too.. maybe. So trunks has never really tried maté and gohan offers him some because he's nice and goten looks at him expecting him to either burn his tongue or not like it because it's so bitter (he's projecting.) but trunks actually really likes it and he asks gohan how to make it and goten is flabbergasted

days later trunks starts drinking it while he's doing his machine tinkering thing or maybe doing homework (cause the maté thing is like a young teen issue) and he becomes really good at it and at some point he's outside maybe just laying in the grass in some capsule corp garden and drinking maté and vegeta finds him and he usually wouldn't give a shit but he asks to try whatever the fuck has the boy addicted and he likes it too because trunks drinks it bitter and boiling and i think vegeta would too, so it kinda becomes a father-son bonding activity to wake up everyday and have vegeta yell "BOY. MAKE ME SOME MATÉ" or the objectively funnier spanish version: "NENE, CEBAME UN MATE." ("nene" is way closer to meaning "kid" or "child" than it is to "boy" tbh and that just makes it better) and trunks is like "sure" and he makes some and they drink some in silence together (because you don't use individual "cups" for it, you both have to drink it from the same one and refill it from a thermos. maté drinking is a social activity.) and then vegeta flies off to train and trunks goes to school and maybe bulma is there sometimes because she misses drinking maté (and maybe trunks forgets that yamcha fucked his dad, maybe.)

and now when goten comes over to his house trunks offers him maté as a joke to bother him because he knows he doesn't like it (he doesn't like it the way trunks drinks it, or his family drinks it, there's a different version of maté that instead of boiling water has some sort of fruit juice and ice called tereré and i think goten would love that) and goten is done with him and he tells him "SABES QUE NO ME GUSTA EL MATE SOS UN FORRO TRUNKS NO VENGO MAS A TU CASA DE MIERDA" ("YOU KNOW I DONT LIKE MATÉ YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE TRUNKS I'M NEVER COMING OVER TO YOUR SHITTY HOUSE AGAIN" but its funnier knowing the insult "forro" is also another word for condom) and he says so as he's turning on the playstation and sitting down on the couch so he has no intention of leaving but he wants trunks to know that he's being a bitch about his newfound love of maté and that he's deleting fortnite off his ps5 if he keeps this on

also i think videl and gohan would have those shitty picnics some argentinian families have all the time in like those big ass parks and they drink maté and eat these very specific argentinian cookies and i came up with this bit of the delusion solely on the basis of "yeah this would be great enrichment for pan because when i was tiny like her they took me to those shitty picnics all the time and i turned out ok." and also they could invite goten and trunks so they can pick up a football or something and trunks is like sitting with them on the dumbass picnic banquet like "can i make the maté :)?" and he's so happy about it like in his relaxed cool guy wannabe way but he's also like genuinely happy about it and gohan can tell and he's like "sure :)" and trunks does that and every time they are passing around the maté trunks passes it over to goten who looks like he wants to explode him with his mind

and trunks could make some tereré for goten i guess but it's not like he made it FOR HIM specifically while THINKING ABOUT HIM or thinking about what GOTEN would ENJOY or whatever, yknow?

yours truly, yu7i, i'm sorry

I...

I want to play Miitopia with you. So bad

Hey this post is long I hope y’all don’t mind me sticking a readmore on this sonofabitch. Whatever my response is gonna be doesnt matter much .. It’s done and said right there innit.

- I didn’t know that the character limit on asks was so ... liberal.

- Thank you for the description of maté.. My only exposure beforehand has been the yerbe maté on Tomodachi Life (3DS game).

- I dont know what to fucking say. This is so important. First paragraph alone is both engrossing and lethal.

- I like the things you say and the way in which you say them.

- You cant just put this in someone’s inbox and expect them to be okay.

- You can make your own textposts and @ me in them and then other people can access your genius without having to trudge through my response .. for your consideration. You don’t have to. Whatever you’re comfortable with

- This is so real ... so in-character and believable.

- We can cross this with the dballzposting cinematic universe and point out that Vegeta had boobs (for fashion purposes) for around 2 years and he got rid of them when Trunks was around 14 I think. That is to say, it wasn’t too long ago compared to this. And during that time Trunks and Vegeta didn’t really talk much or hang out much because Trunks was perturbed by the boob thing because no one ever bothered to explain it to him. So his relationship with his father took a hit. And now it’s being healed by maté time! :D 

- Trunks lying outside enjoying the sun enjoying maté time and his father just quietly manifests. Arms crossed. Standing out of Trunks’s peripheral. Catching the breeze in his hair. (ok this is baby’s first spanish so be gentle. Here I go.) “Qué tomás.” (I put an accent over the ‘a’ becasue I’m under the impression that you do that when conjugating in the vos form. I learned of this form only an hour ago so please correct me if I’m wrong / if it’s of minor importance...)

- I’ve been trying to answer this ask on and off for three hours now. ((editor’s note: as mentioned at the end of this post I am hitting post in the morning so that people will see it. But this post stole sleep from me last night))

-  "NENE, CEBAME UN MATE." Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

- THE IMAGE OF THEM DRINKING IT IN SILENCE..... I had the thought though that if Vegeta doesn’t know what it is or the custom about it then he could have very well expected his own cup. And when Trunks was like “No we gotta drink it together it’s how you do it” he could’ve assumed that Trunks was just fucking with him. And then I had the thought of Vegeta still insisting on his own cup and then the two of them sitting AT THE SAME TABLE but drinking maté in SEPARATE CUPS and I need you to please tell me if that would be so disturbing and jarring to see and definitely symbolic of a deeply disconnected relationship OR if it would be SOO PETTY and THE FUNNIEST VISUAL GAG EVER or if it would be yknow just not a big deal given the context. Or even maybe just a little funny. Let me know.

- Yeah maybe Trunks forgets about the boobs and about how Yamucha fucked his dad .. Maybe things go back to normal ...

- Bulma would definitely like maté. She drinks so much coffee on the original dragon ball. She loves bitter shit 

- This was such an important section:  “’SABES QUE NO ME GUSTA EL MATE SOS UN FORRO TRUNKS NO VENGO MAS A TU CASA DE MIERDA’ (’YOU KNOW I DONT LIKE MATÉ YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE TRUNKS I'M NEVER COMING OVER TO YOUR SHITTY HOUSE AGAIN’ but its funnier knowing the insult ‘forro’ is also another word for condom) and he says so as he's turning on the playstation and sitting down on the couch so he has no intention of leaving but he wants trunks to know that he's being a bitch about his newfound love of maté and that he's deleting fortnite off his ps5 if he keeps this on”

I KNOW they have a ps5. And I didn’t recognize the verb “sos” so I spent like an hour (my computer is slow) googling it and reading what I could find and now I know about it & that’s why I put that accent on that “a” earlier and if that’s stupid you can tell me but if it’s good and fine and accurate then that’s thrilling too.

Why did you send this in today. I did not have the time for this today. It’s now been like 3 and a half hours. I didnt HAVE THIS TIME TONIGHT..!

- The way you went on about the picnics is so funny to me becasue you exclusively described them with pejorative adjectives like it’s just something you KNOW ABOUT and SEE but it’s not something that you DO but also you used to but it’s WHATEVER it’s just a THING that people DO in these huge ass parks like who CARES ugh. Adds character and makes the post shine. Really solidifies the tone

-  “and he's so happy about it like in his relaxed cool guy wannabe way but he's also like genuinely happy” SO HIM UGH. So him. I’ve seen it. On screen

- I CAN SEE GOTEN WANTING HIM TO EXPLODE HIM WITH HIS MIND ... IN MY OWN MIND... Hold on. 

ok i tried.

- “and trunks could make some tereré for goten i guess but it's not like he made it FOR HIM specifically while THINKING ABOUT HIM or thinking about what GOTEN would ENJOY or whatever, yknow? “ <- I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. Maybe, like all great literature, it is up for interpretation. I think that he would make it and then not ever pass the mug to Goten and when Goten sheepishly tries to grab it, Trunks moves it away and is like “But you didn’t want any earlier! You didnt WANT social drink time!!” and Goten is like “That was A DIFFERENT DRINK..” and Trunks is like “Well how do you know!” and Goten is like “I watched you make it” and Trunks insists “You don’t know!”  and drinks it in front of him. You know 

- Goten didn’t HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST maté before, he did not like it but he wasnt BITTER about it or anything he wasnt that BIASED. He was just like “yeah no thanks I think that that shit is foul” yknow? Like he thought it was YUCKY and he couldn’t believe when people took to it so readily but it wasnt a big part of his personality or anything. But Trunks made it a thing. And now it’s a thing 

- Not my estadounidense ass typing alt+0233 on my keyboard every time to get that “é”

It is my bed time. I shall hit post on this tomorrow morning so that people have a chance to see it. Thanks for the shot of dopamine. I consider your asks to be a dense pill of vitamins. IDK maybe you do make a bunch of textposts and I just don’t know it. Feel free to @ me any time. My followers and more would love you I think 

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Durge was an ancient Gen’Dai bounty hunter who did work for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. As a Gen’Dai, Durge was incredibly long-lived and difficult to kill, a talent he used to unleash himself upon the galaxy without fear. Durge hated many, but the Jedi ranked high on his list.

Source: Republic 51 (Art: Tomás Giorello; 2003)

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[trashsoph]

My OCs!

•Tomás, a 22 y/o dude who’s a huge space nerd. One day, he was coming home from work (he works waiting tables in a hotel) when he met-

•Iván (human name), an alien with three eyes who had just crashed on planet Earth.

I don’t have a title yet, and I’m still writing the story. My idea is to make short, funny comics, but I don’t know where to start lmao All in all, I want to make character sheets so you can meet everyone that way and know more about their story!

•Samuel, he’s a transboy tired of his roommate (Tomás) bullshit.

•Pedro, next door neighbour. Basically the voice of reason of the group (and also a science nerd).

Also they’re gay.