#boricuan

[weirdalyankobitch]

Me and my (metaphorical) twin out being virgo hotties

[burninglights]

@babyhellboy 🤝 me

having fans, especially fans of The Palm Coloured Persuasion just totally fucking obliterate all the nuance and intersecting identities from our spidermen

[natalia-lafourcade]

Carlito's Way is on tv and I had no idea Viggo Mortenson and Al Pacino were in this film playing Puerto Ricans lol

[rottenpumpkin13]

I hereby now headcanon Zack as a fellow Boricuan. He’d be the guy to listen to some reguetón and immediately yell “wepa!”

Zack might be a Gongaga fellow, but his Boricuan blood shows 🇵🇷

Zack: "It's a really nice day out, pero it looks like va a llover. Ya comiste? I'm craving a burger, and estoy pensando en hacer que Angeal me lo pague, ya que he still owes me 10 gil."

Cloud, who understood about 10% of that sentence: "Gasolina."

[seeyouinthespring]

every time i meet someone and i tell them im both boricuan and filipino they go oh

[imomnba-x07]

Ok I haven’t seen across the spider-verse yet, but I’ve been hearing all the rumors about the studios plans for a live action miles morales.

And I swear to god. Marvel. MARVEL HEAR ME ON THIS.

They have to cast someone Afro Latino, I really won’t settle for anything else. They already took America Chavez away from us (I have nothing against the current actress) and all I want is someone that looks like me in marvel. If it’s too hard then fine, He doesn’t necessarily have to be Puerto Rican (but my Boricuan heart would cry tears of joy is he was) but he HAS to be Afro Latino.

PS please stop fan casting light skin actors, cmon y’all :/

[gamerdraluc]

dancing sanhina aggie.io drawing with @boricuans ♥

[sagenfrom7-11]

10 Fandoms/ 10 Characters/ 10 Tags

tagged by: @ninjafrogofhnm

Highrollers Dnd - Reynard Ferehorn

2. Destiny - The Drifter

3. Baldurs Gate - Karlach

4. Cyberpunk - River Ward

5. Promare - Lio Fotia

6. The Adventure Zone - Lucretia

7. Final Fantasy 14 - Emet Selch

8. Bloodborne - Eileen the Crow

9. Devilman Crybaby - Ryo Asuka

10. Steven Universe - Greg Universe

i rotate them in my head like one of them rotisserie chickens.

@haptism, @freedom-fights-back, @nameless-gay, @boricuans you are summoned.

[shokuto]

Miles is afro boricuan, Miguel is white mexican…all their punnet squares have beef those two were meant to be enemies

[tealisa]

highkey marvel is missing an opportunity by not having Steve be Irish & Native America (on dad and mom's side) and Bucky be Afro Boricuan/Latino whose family immigrated to the US

not b/c they'd be better like that (but it would be better ijs) but b/c it would add so much to the themes and politics of the story

or rather, the themes that story could explore of marvel wasn't so filled with white USian writers who back away from any interesting and potentially cool storyline & character development in favor of just using the Cap stories to tell really distorted references to IRL american history and tiringly centrist-at-best stories that always wrap around to patriotism and IRL status quo

it's frustrating b/c the first big story arc and potential character development of modern Cap is the whole Winter Soldier thing, and that comes the closest to what I'm talking abt: it has the whole Project Paperclip analogy and themes abt how the Western European and co. enders up "rehabilitating" and hiring the Nazis to work in their alliances and domestic industries. And the analogy is good! They have 2 WWII soldiers who fought Nazis and got pushed into modern-day USA to see the same Nazis still around, and they even have be personal w/ the characters themselves being subject to state violence and create emotional investment

but marvel still kinda does a copout and never have the characters personally question why the USA hired the Nazis and led to Hydra doing things w/ government funding, and instead marvel pushes it off as a "bad apples" thing to avoid questioning the American project itself.

And as the years go by they change the Hydra=Nazi Germany thing and add more Soviet/Communist stuff to it b/c Americans love their Double Genocide Theory (which Holocaust historians rightfully call it Holocaust Denial) b/c otherwise Americans would have to contend w/ the fact that Nazi Germany was inspired by US Segregation + Native Americans being corraled into reservations & West Europe's plundering of Africa

Its even worse w/ the current "Cold War" BS going on rn, they literally retcon Hydra & the Nazis as just a "smaller" villains controlled by a bigger "revolution" and toss the word socialism around like a conservative politician. And the fact that it's called "Cold War" creeps me out b/c Marvel recently got pissed at (and later fired) Victoria Alonso for promoting a movie abt a US-supported dictatorship in LatAm (spec. Argentina, her home nation) and how Pesto Pascal was in an interview and got nervous abt mentioning that the US funded the coup in Childe and assassinated Allende & installed Pinochet. This was all part of the IRL Cold War, installing dictatorships to crush revolution in the Global South, and the way Hollywood (and even marvel comics) line up to distort the US' bloody history and try to wash it away with weak centrist "criticism" that still supports US patriotism

that's why I feel like changing Bucky & Steve's ancestry (doesn't even need to be a retcon, it can be filling in the gaps and we can just say they're lightskin jjjjjj) would help the story. Tbh, even Steve's Irish ancestry should have affected his story, but marvel doesn't even care enough to give his mother a last name or any living relatives back in Ireland, much less use Steve's ancestry to help question his loyalty to a country that doesn't stand for his stated ideals at all.

it's v ridiculous b/c almost every story arc includes Bucky or Steve being subject to state violence and used more as a human weapon than anything, and yet there's no infernal questioning or progression or character development. The stories always manage to swing around and shift the blame onto a propaganda caricaturish villain to be like "USAmerica's heart is being corrupted by evil we must restore its purity" or if not, then they act like it never happened so they can go back to being loyal American supercops b/c actually admitting that America's heart has always been genocidal is too much for American liberal writers

tldr: Bucky should have Afro Caribbean family and Steve should be Irish and Native to better fit the story, and the writers should actually let them remember the time the US hired the Nazis they didn't kill in WW2 and how those Nazis ended up torturing and experimenting on (marginalized!) ppl and also them too, so they should be mad at being used as human weapons. B/c after the 2nd or 3rd rehashed "our country is being taken over by evil" Cold War-era propaganda story they should just get together and destroy the Captain America shield b/c at what point to they realize the problem is not some "outside force" the problem is America.

Ok anon idk what sparked this very long text in my art blog, but real actually. You speak about retconning their racial identities and while I agree with that, I also have to acknowledge that Marvel is already sleeping on what is a core part of Steve and Bucky's publication history and that should've been incorporated into their characters by long now: Their Jewishness. They were created by Jewish immigrants, precisely to rally support against the nazis in the U.S. The only reason they (and other marvel heroes like Jim Hammond) weren't openly Jewish was because of the times! It makes no sense that marvel today refuses to do acknowledge that and make them canonically Jewish. Steve has his Irish heritage and sure, I guess back in the 40s he got looked at with side eyes, but that part of his lore only feels like a replacement for what REALLY should've been there, which is his Jewish identity.

Steve's entire character is believing and fighting for a dream that he quickly learns couldn't be farther from the truth, and he works in order to assure that utopic dream -- the one sold to immigrants, of a land of freedom and opportunity without prejudice -- actually takes place. This dichotomy between dream and reality and how despite that he still fights relentlessly for the rights of the oppressed (that is his biggest thing, that he's the world's #1 ally) would be SO much more meaningful if he had a Jewish heritage, like his creators.

And yes, Marvel has much degenerated from the incredibly political, punk movement that it was when it arose in the 1940s. Even with all its bullshit, up until the 80s you could see the writers weren't afraid to criticize precisely the problems of the U.S., but after that 90s buy-out, all that was gone. And then 2001 happened and Marvel became the most neoliberal shit you could imagine, and along with that came many many cases of bigotry within those comics, including MANY instances of antisemitism, and the MCU's (and the Foxverse) whole existence is just more proof of that. From completely erasing characters' Jewish identities, to making nazi characters into 'lovable bad guys' like they did with zemo, to the sheer aberration that was making Magneto's children into volunteers for the nazis, Marvel has a gigantic problem with antisemitism and it goes hand in hand with the other bigotries present at marvel (their gigantic antiblackness and misogynoir, their antiromanism and demonization of roma women, all of its racism and fetishization of woc and dehumanization of all poc in general, really; and its massive ableism) and that is also intrinsically connected to all of this stupid ass Cold War Red Scare shit. It is VERY MUCH an intentional choice to make The Commies into their new Big Bads. And now that you mention Victoria Alonso (which is their new escapegoat) - i didnt know she was involved in Argentina 1985 -, all of it starts to make perfect sense, because I think back to Avengers EMH, where they made it very clear that S.H.I.E.L.D., basically Fantasy CIA/FBI were the bad guys, and where the heroes were making points of anti-punitivism and prison abolishment, it makes total sense that Marvel, after getting bought by Disney, would shut that down and release propaganda shit instead.

Anyways, long story short, Marvel as it is now fucking sucks, the creators should all get rightfully compensated and all of its IPs should go into the Public Domain.

[lachispipreciosa]

✨Lemme introduce myself ✨

Hello, hello! Y’all can call me Chispi. I’d rather prefer to be told as (they/them), and a proud Boricuan!! 🇵🇷

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When entering my blog, expect to see:

• Nintendo (other video games too)

• Disney

• Animation

• Movies in general

• And gifs. Reblogged gifs.

Aaaaand I also like to draw! (You can find all my art in the tag doodle under this post OR visit my side account dedicated to reblogged art from here @quesodudz

•I post sometimes, so don’t expect a doodle in less than a second haha…

Anyways!!!

Thanks for stopping by and reading my silly introduction, I hope we can become friendly mutuals on this wacky place called Tumblr. ❤️💚

[wrinkly-fucking-qtip]

Weekly Tag Wednesday

thanks @mickeym4ndy for the tag 🫶🏻

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Name: Lindsay

Age: 22

Location: legs up my room sofa

If you could hang out with any cartoon character, who would you choose and why? Bokuto Koutaro from Haikyuu. I love him so much and that dude is just me fr if you even care. I'd say Mickey but I'd drive him nuts.

If you could bring back any fashion trend, what would it be? I genuinely don't keep up with fashion trends (mainly I don't remember them) but I am all for clothes that last. Please.

What sport would you compete in if you were in the Olympics? Weightlifting or Volleyball  

Which actor would you want to play you in the movie about your life? Lindsay Lohan, and I'm not thrilled about it. I don't need to explain the name, but I also looked a shit ton like her when little, and when I dyed my hair red for the first time, I looked like a carbon copy of her in Herbie.

If you were the captain of a pirate ship, what would be the name of your ship? Crisped Boricuans

If you could see one movie again for the first time, what would it be and why? Suddenly I forgot every movie I've seen. I'd say either Megamind, The Lion King, or Eight Below. Mostly Eight Below, the movie has very slow parts but fuck man, it always hits me in every emotional aspect. Dogs man, dogs. I named my first dog after the doggo protagonist.

What’s one thing on your bucket list that you really want to do?  I wanna go to a wolf conservation center or sanctuary, and I also wanna go to Omega Mart. I'm trying to aim for the least expensive lmao.

If you could have any animal, real or imaginary, as a pet, what would it be and why? A wolf, an owl, a cheetah, a fox, and a black bear.

If you could invent a holiday, what would it be, and how would people celebrate it? Country Stereotypes... Why? Sometimes you gotta loosen up, and wreck havoc. Everybody's gotta pass as a stereotype. It sounds horrible, ik, but stereotypes are there for a reason and sometimes they're true, speaking for us Hispanics or Latinos. I'd love to see that play out 💀

What’s the most interesting place you’ve ever visited in your country? For being such a small island, we have a massive rainforest called "El Yunque." That shit is wild. I'm sure there are far better places in Puerto Rico, but holy shit that place is a fantasy world.

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have no clue who to tag lmao so @thirstyvampyr @em-harlsnow @especially-fuk-u hi 🫶🏻 if y'all up for it!

[muskmelon-enjoyer-199x]

lesbian gay boricuan and transgender

[finishinglinepress]

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[sunflower-shell]

As a Boricua Indigenous woman, adding some more history, because usamericans never want to talk about us.

Borikén, colonially known as Puerto Rico, is an island archipelago in the Caribbean, and a US colony. It has 3.2 million people on it, and another 2 million+ in diaspora. The Taíno people that you mentioned? I'm one of them. Their land, our land, is Borikén.

Read about the paper genocide; about how they tried to erase our existence simply by rewriting us out of the census.

Read about Agüeybana II. How he performed the Guatiao ritual with Juan Ponce de León, and was betrayed. About the war of 1511.

Read about the Grito de Lares. Our first post-contact fight for independence, and how and why it didn't last.

Read about Pedro Albizu Campos and the independentist struggle. Read about how he was top of his class at Harvard Law, and the professors conspired to purposely hold him back so he wouldn't be able to give a valedictorian speech, because of colonial racism. How he led freedom struggles in Borikén and was imprisoned. How he was subjected to radiation experiments while in prison.

Read about the Carpetas. About how the FBI spied on over 100.000 of us. About the secret police, the monitoring, the families divided, the fear. It was one of the longest continuous targeted surveillance programs conducted on US citizens by their own government. They said it was to fight communism, but it was to stop us from becoming independent. Read about FUPI, and the two students killed, and the other one framed, in a bomb planted by an undercover police officer to discredit the movement.

Read about the Navy--Culebra protests. How your bombs were tested on our islands. How the US navy occupied our land, turned our beaches into shooting ranges, poisoned our soil, murdered civilians for protesting, killed the marine life, our kin, and starved us off our land. About how we fought to get them to leave, and how they agreed to, and two decades later they went back, to the island of vieques, and did it again. And then, 15 years later, they did it again.

Read about Mano Dura Contra El Crimen. About the police raids into overexploited, predominantly Black neighbourhoods, the caseríos. About the obscenity laws under which the reggaeton you covet and consume was born.

Read about the betrayal of the PROMESA bill. How it set up the Junta, the unelected colonial oversight board that closes our schools, slashes our pensions, denies us our healthcare. About the horrific mismanagement of the disasters that were to come. About Austerity.

Read about LUMA, the corporation that privatized our power grid under the auspices of the colonial government. About the blackouts.

Read about Hurricane María. About the houses without power, without water. About the potholes in the roads, the homes without roofs. The 4645 bodies, which the government lied about, and is still lying about. About the rivers choked with mud. The palm trees shredded to shrapnel. About the protests that ousted Ricky Rosselló. About perreo combativo, how our music is more than just entertainment. About the rage.

Guaka Taíno. Guaka Borincano. We are Taíno. We are Boricuan. We are Black, Latino, Indigenous. We are colonial subjects; exploited, murdered, sterilized, spied on, bombed, experimented on. Our land becomes your tax haven, our music becomes your sex fantasy, our beaches become your vacation spots, while the rents go up, and the power goes out, and fucking Jake Paul builds another mansion on our soil and americans privatize our beaches and our water and poison our wildlife and pretend we don't exist.

We are the oldest and most populous colony. We are the people of first contact; the descendants of the other side of the stories you tell about Columbus. We have a long history of resistance, and of oppression.

I could go on, but the rage and grief are getting to me. I'm tired of the ignorance. I'm tired of the microaggressions I'm tired of talking to americans and finding they know nothing of us, even though Bad Bunny is the most-streamed artist of the year on Spotify and reggaeton fills your sex playlists, even though rich americans are quietly taking over Ponce, even though there are over 2 million of us in your country because you drove us out of ours. The way that no one ever says the word "Taíno" when talking about Columbus. The way that conversations about U.S colonialism only make it as far as Hawai'i even though we're half the distance from the U.S and twice the size. How USAmericans don't know that we can't vote, even though we're citizens. How they don't know Puerto Rico from Portugal.

Remember us. Talk about us. Learn about us. Read about us. We're still here, and we're still fighting for no more yanquis on our fucking islands. Still fighting to not be called extinct.

Borikén libre.

i am reading this paper about all the bombs and missiles and other weapons the USA govt gives to Israel, because I am trying to understand why we are doing this, and it makes me sick at heart—all this money and advanced technology, all poured into blowing human beings up. "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"—how could billions and billions of dollars worth of the tools of violence NOT result in violence?

I don't feel any closer to understanding what is happening in terms of how it connects to concrete reasons in people's heads. The connection between giving a government billions of dollars in weapons and that government solving all of its problems with extreme violence seems very clear though.

USA policies toward the rest of the world keep being like "Yeah, we want to promote peace, but, like, this group of people is SO uniquely threatening and unreceptive to normal propositions of peace that we HAVE to wage endless war against them and commit atrocities." First it was "Japan will never surrender so we HAVE to nuke civilians," then it was Communists, then it was Terrorists, but it's the same thing.

I don't remember the world before 9/11, but I can look at and listen to art and music from before 9/11, and it seems like something terrible happened in USA culture, where once there was a strong "anti-war" sentiment and understanding of what war does to people, but within my lifetime, it's like no one has the audacity to imagine a world where endless war isn't "necessary." In high school my class mates were talking about seeing videos online of ISIS sawing peoples heads off and that was basically all I knew about "what was happening in the Middle East."

Does anybody even think about why peace signs are part of the 60's "aesthetic?"

I don't have any conclusion here. Have we lost the power to imagine anything different?

[bbunnybirdd]

Rules: shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

Tagged by@grandarcanist

1. Tourner dans le vide by Indila

2. My first kiss by 3OH!3 ft Kesha

3. GUY.exe by Superfruit

4. Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga

5. Moth to a Flame by Delain

6. Dizzy by Balduin, Woldgang Lohr, Alanne Lyes

7. Monster by Imagine Dragons

8. Iconic by PrototypeRaptor

9. Nothin' On You by Dante Klein

10. Out Came The Hummingbirds by Diablo Swing Orchestra

Tagging @routahukka @gaymarisa @sonski96 @norpanhautajaiset @look-at-dem-feet @tsundahre @endragoneel @rockonmayyay @boricuans @stack-of-all-trades

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