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marcmarcmomarc · 2 months ago

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Once Upon a Lamp - list of characters

In honor of Once Upon a Studio turning one year old

EXT. THE STEVE JOBS BUILDING - EARLY EVENING

The Adventures of André and Wally B.

André

Wally B.

Luxo Jr.

Luxo Sr.

Red’s Dream

Lumpy

Red

Tin Toy

Tinny

Gumbo

Flip ‘n Beth

Ace

Clocky

Spot

Zoo Train

Chrome Dome

Rallye Guy

Fire Hydrant

Helicopter Sheep

Toypot

Frodo

Bouncy

Eben’s Car

Les

RenderMan

Knick Knack

Knick

Sunny Miami

Sunny Florida

Sunny Egypt

Sunny Jamaica

Sunny Palm Springs

Sunny Israel

Surf Death Valley

Sunny Atlantis

Toy Story (Toys)

Woody

Buzz Lightyear

Jessie

Mr. Potato Head

Slinky Dog

Rex

Hamm

Bo Peep

Mrs. Potato Head

Bullseye

Mr. Pricklepants

Dolly

Trixie

Buttercup

Chuckles

Stinky Pete

Barbie

Ken

Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear

Big Baby

Twitch

Stretch

Chunk

Sparks

Chatter Telephone

Bookworm

Peas-in-a-Pod

Forky

Giggle McDimples

Ducky

Bunny

Duke Caboom

Gabby Gabby

The Dummies

Billy, Goat, and Gruff

Toy Story (Human side)

Andy Davis

Mrs. Davis

Molly Davis

Sid Phillips

Hannah Phillips

Bonnie Anderson

Bonnie’s Mom

Bonnie’s Dad

Buster

Scud

Geri’s Game

Geri

A Bug’s Life

Flik

Hopper

Princess Atta

Princess Dot

The Queen

Molt

Slim

Heimlich

Francis

Manny

Gypsy

Rosie

Tuck

Roll

P.T. Flea

Dim

Mr. Soil

Dr. Flora

Thorny

Cornelius

Thumper

Aphie

For the Birds

Bluebird Flock

Gawky Bird

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Commander Nebula

Mira Nova

Booster

Warp Darkmatter

Gravitina

N0S-4-A2

Monsters, Inc.

James P. Sullivan

Mike Wazowski

Boo

Celia Mae

Randall Boggs

Henry J. Waternoose

Johnny Worthington

Scott “Squishy” Squibbles

Don Carlton

Terri and Terry Perry

Art

Tylor Tuskman

Val Little

Fritz

Katherine “Cutter” Sterns

Duncan P. Anderson

Roz

Yeti

Jeff Fungus

Banana Bread

Roger Rogers

Suzy “Sunny” Sunshine

Finding Nemo

Marlin

Dory

Nemo

Hank

Boundin’

Jackalope

Lamb

The Incredibles

Bob Parr

Helen Parr

Violet Parr

Dashiell Parr

Jack-Jack Parr

Lucius Best

Edna Mode (E)

Buddy Pine

Winston Deavor

Evelyn Deavor

Mirage

Rick Dicker

Voyd

One Man Band

Bass

Treble

Tippy

THX

Tex

Cars

Lightning McQueen

Tow Mater

Cruz Ramirez

Lifted

Stu

Mr. B

Ratatouille

Remy

Alfredo Linguini

Chef Skinner

Colette Tatou

Django

Emile

Anton Ego

Presto

Presto DiGiotagione

Alec Azam

WALL-E

EVE

Captain B. McCrea

John

Mary

M-O

GO-4

The Defective Robots

Hal the Cockroach

Partly Cloudy

Gus

Peck

Carl Fredricksen

Russell

Dug

Charles Muntz

Alpha

Beta

Gamma

Kevin

Kevin’s Babies

Day & Night

Day

Night

La Luna

Bambino

Papà

Nonno

Brave

Merida

Elinor

Fergus

Hamish

Hupert

Harris

Fergus’ Dogs

Angus

The Witch

Maudie

Lord MacGuffin

Lord Macintosh

Lord Dingwall

Young MacGuffin

Young Macintosh

Wee Dingwall

The Witch’s Crow

Conan the Clan Dingwall Hunk

The Blue Umbrella

Blue

Red

Lava

Uku

Lele

Inside Out (Mindscape)

Joy

Sadness

Anger

Fear

Disgust

Anxiety

Envy

Ennui

Embarrassment

Nostalgia

Inside Out (Humans)

Riley Andersen

Jill Andersen

Bill Andersen

Grace Hsieh

Bree Young

Valentina Ortiz

Dani

Ally

Sofia

Nour

Coach Roberts

Sanjay’s Super Team

Sanjay

Sanjay’s Father

Hanuman

Durga

Vishnu

The Good Dinosaur

Arlo

Spot

Henry

Ida

Buck

Libby

Nash

Ramsey

Butch

Thunderclap

Downpour

Coldfront

Frostbite

Windgust

Bubbha

Lurleane

Pervis

Earl

Forrest Woodbush

Fury

Destructor

Dream Crusher

Debbie

Piper

Lou

J.J.

Coco (Land of the Living)

Miguel Rivera

Dante

Abuelita Elena Rivera

Enrique Rivera (Papá)

Luisa Rivera (Mamá)

Tío Berto Rivera

Tía Carmen Rivera

Tía Gloria Rivera

Abuelito Franco Rivera

Abel Rivera

Rosa Rivera

Socorro Rivera

Benny Rivera

Manny Rivera

Coco (Land of the Dead)

Papá Héctor Rivera

Ernesto de la Cruz

Mamá Imelda Rivera

Pepita

Mamá Coco Rivera

Papá Julio Rivera

Tía Rosita Rivera

Tía Victoria Rivera

Tío Óscar Rivera

Tío Felipe Rivera

Bao

Mom

Son

Dad

Cindy

Purl

Lacy

Office Bros.

Office Ladies

Kitbull

Dog

Smash and Grab

Smash

Grab

Float

Father

Son

Wind

Ellis

Ellis’ Grandma

Onward

Ian Lightfoot

Barley Lightfoot

Laurel Lightfoot

Corey

Colt Bronco

Blazey

Soul (Living World)

Joe Gardener

Libba Gardener

Dez

Curley

Dorothea Williams

Connie

Soul (The Great Before)

Moonwind

Terry

Counselor Jerry A

Counselor Jerry B

Loop

Renee

Marcus

Out

Greg

Jim

Manuel

Greg’s Parents

Gigi

Luca

Luca Paguro

Alberto Scorfano

Giulia Marcovaldo

Ercole Visconti

Massimo Marcovaldo

Daniela Paguro

Lorenzo Paguro

Grandma Libera Paguro

Ciccio

Guido

Machiavelli

Nona

Renee

Twenty-Something

Gia

Nicole

Turning Red

Meilin Lee

Miriam Mendelsohn

Abby Park

Priya Mangal

Tyler Nguyen-Baker

Ming Lee

Jin Lee

Grandma Wu Lee

Auntie Chen

Lily

Helen

Auntie Ping

Mr. Gao

4*Town

Lightyear

Izzy Hawthorne

Sox

Mo Morrison

Darby Steel

Commander Burnside

Alisha Hawthorne

Kiko Hawthorne

Elemental

Ember Lumen

Wade Ripple

Bernie Lumen

Cinder Lumen

Gale Cumulus

Fern Grouchwood

Clod

Brook Ripple

Harold Ripple

Alan Ripple

Lake Ripple

Eddy Ripple

Marco Ripple

Polo Ripple

Ghibli

Flarrietta

Flarry

Self

Win or Lose

Coach Dan

Vanessa

Rochelle

Elio

Elio Solis

Elio’s Aunt

Ambassador Questa

Ambassador Grigon

Hoppers

Mabel

King George

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Notes

Everybody is all smiles for the group picture, from heroes to villains and everything in-between. Even characters who were otherwise sticks in the mud like Hank genuinely smile for the picture. Villains such as Muntz, de la Cruz, Lotso, Thunderclap and his gang, Syndrome, Evelyn, Randall, Waternoose, Hopper, Skinner, and Ercole, as much of evil psychopaths they were, are seen tenderly and respectfully singing along. Even Sid, who was a massive bully to Hannah, is seen giving her a kind brotherly embrace. Also, most movies’ main cast seem to be cramped together. Even the villains stand near their respective heroes, everyone in a healthy relationship with their families and loved ones are tenderly holding each other close, and many of the larger characters offer their bodies for the smaller ones.

Forky, Heimlich, Dory, Jack-Jack, Mater, WALL-E, and one of the triplets wave at the camera.

Dim and Wee Dingwall give the camera dopey smiles.

The egg-shaped bluebirds and the gawky bird stand perched above the entrance. The bluebirds are happy to have the gawky bird with them, a far cry from how they treated him in their short.

Sulley carries Boo tenderly in his arms. Helen does the same to Jack-Jack, as do Presto with Alec, Carl and Russell with Kevin’s babies, Elinor and Fergus with their triplet sons, Embarrassment with Envy, Massimo with Machiavelli, and Izzy with Sox.

Terri attempts to dance before his other half stops him.

Hank carries Marlin, Dory, and Nemo in a coffee pot.

Voyd and Abby giddily bounce in place, clearly the most excited for the photo.

Linguini carries Remy while Colette holds Django and Emile.

WALL-E and EVE hold the umbrellas from The Blue Umbrella.

HAN-S still can’t stay still, shaking aggressively as the photo is taken.

Kevin and her babies take the time to mimic Carl once again.

Maudie and the Clan Dingwall hunk share a loving look.

Young Macintosh flexes his pecs while giving the camera a cocky smile, the same type of smile given by characters like Terry, Darby, and Clod.

The Witch has her Crow standing perched on her shoulder.

Being stationary volcanoes, Uku and Lele are unable to leave their photo. Thankfully, they have Thunderclap to hold it so they can be in the group picture.

Nostalgia sticks her head out from behind Embarrassment, clearly hiding from the other emotions.

Riley, Grace, and Bree all carry Knick together while Riley’s parents carry the Miami and Florida knick knacks, Val and the Fire Hawks carry the Egypt, Jamaica, Palm Springs, Israel, and Death Valley knick knacks, and Coach Roberts carries Sunny Atlantis in her fish bowl.

Cindy, Son’s fiancée, winks at the camera as the photo is taken.

Machiavelli gives the camera his standard bored look.

Mei has her red hair, panda ears, and panda tail, continuing to embrace her panda.

Aaron Z gives the camera a thumbs up while Tae Young makes a heart with his hands.

Izzy gives Sox a neck scratch.

Alisha and Kiko’s inclusion also counts due to their backlash following the movie’s release.

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whiteshipnightjar · 1 year ago

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Does art make a difference?

Aw, sure. Of course there are degrees of extremity to the potential change that art can effect, depending on how many people are able to engage with it. The Beatles made a huge difference in the world. But Henry Darger, Jeff McKissack, Karen Dalton, Pauline Oliveros, Kenneth Patchen – there are so many folks who have made great art and not gotten massively famous for it, yet I think there are all sorts of ways their work informs and shapes other people’s work, and brains, and decisions.

Should politics and art mix?

Well, everything mixes, the New Statesman! That’s like asking if a knee-reflex hammer and a quadriceps tendon should “mix”.

Is your work for the many or for the few?

That’s for the many/few to say. I just crank out the hot jams.

If you were world leader, what would be your first law?

Gravity. I feel like we need to tighten up the constitutional protections that particular law enjoys. It’s a ticking time bomb, if you ask me.

Who would be your top advisers?

Cute angel on one shoulder, cute devil on the other.

What, if anything, would you censor?

Maybe we could all agree to not bust each other’s chops all cut-dang day.

If you had to banish one public figure, who would it be?

Don’t know, banishment might be a little extreme, but I’d sure like to take that Stephen Hawking dude down a notch or two. Right? Are you with me?

What are the rules that you live by?

Basically, “bros before hos”. I feel like if you stay true to that, everything else just kind of falls into place.

Do you love your country?

I love William Faulkner, Dolly Parton, fried chicken, Van Dyke Parks, the Grand Canyon, Topanga Canyon, bacon cheeseburgers with horseradish, Georgia O’Keeffe, Grand Ole Opry, Gary Snyder, Gilda Radner, Radio City Music Hall, Big Sur, Ponderosa pines, Southern BBQ, Highway One, Kris Kristofferson, National Arts Club in New York, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Tubman, Hearst Castle, Ansel Adams, Kenneth Jay Lane, Yuba River, South Yuba River Citizens League, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, “Hired Hand”, “The Jerk”, “The Sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, clambakes, lobster rolls, s’mores, camping in the Sierra Nevadas, land sailing in the Nevada desert, riding horseback in Canyon de Chelly; Walker Percy, Billie Holiday, Drag City, Chez Panisse/Alice Waters/slow food movement, David Crosby, Ralph Lauren,San Francisco Tape Music Center, Albert Brooks, Utah Phillips, Carol Moseley Braun, Bolinas CA, Ashland OR, Lawrence KS, Austin TX, Bainbridge Island WA, Marilyn Monroe, Mills College, Elizabeth Cotton, Carl Sandburg, the Orange Show in Houston, Toni Morrison, Texas Gladden, California College of Ayurvedic Medicine, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saturday Night Live, Aaron Copland, Barack Obama, Oscar de la Renta, Alan Lomax, Joyce Carol Oates, Fred Neil, Henry Cowell, Barneys New York, Golden Gate Park, Musee Mechanique, Woody Guthrie, Maxfield Parrish, Malibu, Maui, Napa Valley, Terry Riley, drive-in movies, homemade blackberry ice cream from blackberries picked on my property, Lil Wayne, Walt Whitman, Halston, Lavender Ridge Grenache from Lodi CA, Tony Duquette, Julia Morgan, Lotta Crabtree, Empire Mine, North Columbia Schoolhouse, Disneyland, Nevada County Grandmothers for Peace; Roberta Flack, Randy Newman, Mark Helprin, Larry David, Prince; cooking on Thanksgiving; Shel Siverstein, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis, E.B. White, William Carlos Williams, Jay Z, Ralph Stanley, Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, RFK, Rosa Parks, Arthur Miller, “The Simpsons”, Julia Child, Henry Miller, Arthur Ashe, Anne Bancroft, The Farm Midwifery Center in TN, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Harry Nilsson, Woodstock, and some other stuff. Buuuut, the ol’ U S of A can pull some pretty dick moves. I’m hoping it’ll all come out in the wash...

Are we all doomed?

If we keep our expectations pretty low I think we might be fine. I mean, we’re definitely all dying at some point. There’s no getting around that. But between now and then, things might start looking up!

— Joanna Newsom for The New Statesman, 2008

#joanna newsom #isn't she simultaneously just the most hilarious and thoughtful person?#i love her so much #a few people have asked me for that one quote about loving her country but the whole interview is a real gem i hope y'all enjoy it #love joanna #jnew

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chaifootsteps · 1 year ago

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The Odd one is here hhhhh

This will be more of a post about ideas and concepts I have on Hazbin characters and what I wanted to name them in my version of HH! I made these back in 2020 so sorry if they seem outdated and such.

Husk/Roger Alscher (German)

Nifty/Geneva Uchida (Japanese)

Baxter/Baxter Horvat (Croatian)

Crymini/Aimee Taylor (British)

Cherri Bomb/Cheryl De La Rosa (Dominican)

Vaggie or Polilla/Geraldine Vasquez (Salvadoran)

Dolly or Mimzy(by Alastor)/ Vita Ariti (Greek)

Alastor/Alexander Dubois (Creole)

Vox's/ Kenneth Cyril. (Caucasian-American)

Valentino/ Vincent Valentino (Mixed Mexican and Italian)

Velvet/ Shirley Fahlett (African-American)

(In my version it isn't in hell, it takes place in the 1920s mainly because Viv's hell functions like earth, earth itself has a lot of hellish periods and struggles, I wanna tackle on serious topics in an environment stock-filled with em, and I feel that certain restrictions and obstacles would make more sense in a setting like this! Thoughts?

Sounds promising, and I like the names you went with!

#theoddest1 #hazbin hotel mention #actual blog post

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ikea-dollies · 8 months ago

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Welcome to Ikea's Dollies, where I take my Original Characters and put them through some of the most traumatizing events of their lives :)

I'm your host Ikea and I'm the puppet master behind both the filthy smut and the mind-breaking angst you'll find below.

Have fun!

( P.S.: Some of these dollies are also present in my COD blog and I ask that if you've seen them there... No you didn't. This is an AU, okay? )

Victoria Isabelle “Whiskey” Callahan (aka Vic)

Kathleen Mary “Brass Balls” Moore (aka Kathy) w/ @bun-joint-dolls's Onyx Diamants

Three Times.

Rosalía Martina Estefania Montoya Ramirez Ortiz (aka Rosa)

Guadalupe Fernanda de la Gloria Montoya Ramirez Vargas (aka Lupe)

Gianna Valentina Moretti DeLuca (aka Gia) w/ @cod-z's Incardo Lozada Buffonge

Animals.

Spencer “Diesel” Collins (aka Spence)

Gaëlle Zoé Brogan

Damian Bernard Laurent (aka Dami)

Lucas Fox (aka Mr. Fox) w/ @goose-dollies's Kylie Rossi-Brown

Think I Need Someone Older

Bella Ciao

Dante Luis Donovan w/ @goose-dollies's Marissa Karin Romano

My Good Girl

Birthday Gift.

Tarif Nedal Hassan Rahim

Eren Orham Doukas

Dominique Colette Clement (aka Domi)

Candace Marie James (aka Candy)

Jordan Aaliyah Whitlock

#oc blog #blog housekeeping #original characters #oc fiction

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theescapistsoftheneworder · 2 years ago

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Siobhan Pelletier

Nombre: Siobhan Pelletier

Nacionalidad: Canadiense

Fecha de Nacimiento: 12/09/2009

Años: 25

Lugar de Nacimiento: Ontario

Trabajo: Ayudante en el Consulado canadiense en Seattle.

Sobre mí:

Soy la hija de cónsul canadiense en la ciudad de Seattle. Todo el mundo piensa que soy una niña de papá (incluido él) y a mí me viene bien que lo piensen. Cuando pareces tonta a la gente le suele dar igual hablar de ciertas cosas delante de ti.

Trabajo de ayudante de Gia y Patrick. Ese es el trabajo que me encargó mi padre pero lo que no sabe es que hago algo más que ayudarles.

Y lo que tampoco sabe es que me gusta. Que le odio con todas mis fuerzas y odio la política que está haciendo. No soy tonta y sé que tengo los privilegios que tengo por ser quien el y los tratos que tiene pero a la mierda con ellos. La conciencia la saqué de mi madre.

Lo que espero es que tanto Gia como Patrick me tomen en serio y no piensen que estoy jugando solo por entretenerme... porque soy joven, pero no tonta.

Likes:

Aquí si voy a sonar superficial pero me da igual. Estoy casi permanentemente a dieta. Soy una chica presumida (que el cerebro no está reñido con lucir bien) y me cuido bastante. A veces tengo mis momentos de pecado pero nadie nace siendo monja, no?

No tomo café ni ningún excitante. Solo infusiones de hierbas y cosas así.

Mi color favorito es el rosa. Sí, sorpresa.

Leo todo lo que cae en mis manos.

Canturreo mucho. Me han dicho alguna vez que es uno de mis rasgos más irritantes pero me da igual.

Adoro a los animales. Tengo una perrita, Dolly, y es mi vida entera.

Dislikes:

La lista no va a ser muy larga. Quitando el tema de la cafeína y las comidas basura (que alguna vez caen porque soy débil) No me gustan las bebidas con gas. Me sientan fatal así que eso es fácil de ignorar.

Y en temas más profundos... desde que estoy en el consulado me he dado cuenta de muchas cosas. Una, que odio las mentiras (y mi padre me las cuenta dobladas) dos, que sufro más de lo que pensaba por la gente que simplemente quiere vivir.

#bio #siobhan pelletier #biodiplomats #RPG #the escapist

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awardseasonblog · 2 years ago

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Per la categoria #Migliorattricenonprotagonista al momento #AngelaBassett per Black Panther: Wakanda Forever parte favorita dopo aver vinto 2 premi chiave (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Awards), la insegue la favorita dalle associazioni dei critici americani, #KerryCondon (Gli Spiriti dell’isola) che può vantare anche un prestigioso National Society of Film Critics Award. Dietro di loro #JamieLeeCurtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once) che insieme alle prime due frontrunner condivide la candidatura a tutti i precursori. In siffatto contesto la vera esclusa è stata la favorita dei critici di Los Angeles, Dolly De Leon, “forza motrice”del film Palma d’Oro all’ultimo Festival di Cannes, Triangle of Sadness, anche se la sua assenza prima dai Critics Choice Awards e poi dai SAG Awards non lasciava presagire nulla di buono. Su questa lunghezza d’onda sia le candidature ai SAG Awards che quelle agli HCA Film Awards hanno centrato in pieno la cinquina degli Oscar con Stephanie Hsu e Hong Chau che sono riuscite ad entrare nella rosa nonostante la loro esclusione dai Golden Globe. Inoltre la più premiata e nominata tra le supporter escluse è stata Janelle Monae (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) che era entrata anche nella Longlist dei BAFTA oltre ad essere stata candidata come miglior attrice ai Satellite Awards. Di contro delusione per la campagna fallimentare della Universal che aveva appositamente direzionato Carey Mulligan (She Said) tra le supporter, riuscendo ad ottenere solo la nomination ai Golden Globe e ai BAFTA, e a vincere solo il Sunset Circle Award. * Al 2° posto ai NSFC Awards si è piazzata Nina Hoss (TAR) #Nominations #Oscar2022 #OscarNoms #OscarAnalysis #bestsupportingactress https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVCYz7MOdc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#migliorattricenonprotagonista #angelabassett #kerrycondon #jamieleecurtis #nominations #oscar2022 #oscarnoms #oscaranalysis #bestsupportingactress

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h-adas · 2 years ago

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spanish bios part II

a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom: una flor melodramática que florece eternamente cotton candy lips: labios de algodón de azúcar lonely in gorgeous: hermosamente sola believing in angels because i am one: creo en los ángeles porque soy uno lonely dollie: muñequita solitaria i am my soulmate: yo soy mi alma gemela prettiest girl in the morgue: la chica más bella de la morgue born 2 cry: nacida para llorar women, money and mascara <3: muejeres, dinero y rimel. babie sad hoe <|3: un zorra bebé triste <|3 girlboss complexxx.: complejo de jefaza idol’s little princess : la pequeña princesa de idol soft as a teddy bear: suave como un oso de peluche delicate as a rose petals <3: delicada como los pétalos de una rosa <3 angelic energy :): energía angelical

(C): heelody

#locs coquette #locs cute #locs messy #locs kpop #locs pack #twitter bio #twitter bios #intagram bios #instagram bio #pinterest bio #pinterest bios

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badass-at-fandoming · 3 years ago

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Just Little Malkavian Things ~

Malkavians these days can do nothing but de-conceptualize, Dement, eat hot chip, and lie.

Since people seemed to enjoy the #JustLittleVentrueThings VTMB adventure, here's a matching Malkavian one. Though I'm gonna be real with ya here, I had less fun D:

I finally figured out why I have such trouble wrapping my head around depictions of Malkavians in VTM media. Books, Storytellers, and fans say it's like having a mental illness and being linked to a massive group chat. But, listen, I've lived around and with mental illness all my life. I've been in massive group chats. Being Malkavian ain't like that.

It IS like being an early-twenties English major in the midst of an existential crisis, over-worked and cross-faded outta your skull and watching horror movies to Cope(TM)

So it's like drugs. It's like you had too much weed and too much wine and are let loose on Los Angeles. Which. My friends and I have and we, coincidentally, also "fought" a stop sign. The Malkavian PC never really seemed like a character to me: she's like a collection of cliches and dude-bros doing blunts while watching slasher movies. I named her Liotta after the Psychic Shop owner, and I'm sad Liotta didn't really get to be a person.

I wasn't surprised by any of the dialog. It's a pattern. Alliteration, allusion, animal joke. Alliteration, allusion, animal joke. It lost its charm.

Often, I didn't know what the FUCK I was saying. Which is the Malkavian Experience(TM), according to Rosa.

Anyway

Nonsense time

Most characters have an extra paragraph of dialog to Acknowledge That You Are A Malkavian. Some get an extra conversation branch. For example, there's lots of new Bertie dialog and he was all impressed Liotta knows about Gehenna and Thin-bloods <3. The Anarchs characters, especially Skelter, get a lot more. Skelter, Ash, and Liotta totally vibe.

If you sneak around the Santa Monica drug house, they talk about Mercurio?? Hello?? Mercurio, you bent Masquerade by not getting beat up real good.

Zero pretense about Voerman. Yes, I have DID; yes, I am making it your problem.

When Liotta talked to Beckett, he said the DID was "something to look forward to." Goddamnit, Beckett. That's not how the Bane or mental illness works! >:-(

I've never sneaked before!!! Did you know that the Tong AND the American gang downtown have fakes in their suitcases??? Like, Full On, "it's just stuffed with newspapers, brah." They were going to kill each other over newspapers. For some reason the Tong brought the REAL suitcase along too, but I'm so past having VTM make any sort of sense. It's fine.

Accidentally pissed off Nines. I meant farmer (affectionate) and Nines thought I meant farmer (derogatory). :(

The Dementation powers are (a) pretty purple loop-de-loops, (b) not as effective as Dominate (reaaaallyyy missed a good AOE attack), and (c) oddly enough, gave more compassionate dialog choices. I mean. In the pen-and-paper version, Dementation isn't conflict-focused, so the devs had to jigger it to use as attacks. But I was touched when Liotta made Hannah believe she was Paul, so Hannah got to say goodbye. Making Samantha believe Liotta was a pet turtle was funny and spared her the pain of her friend vanishing a second time. Heather thinks her entire experience was a dream and returns to her life, more or less unscathed.

Boris?? Asked Liotta to kill Venus for him???? DUDE, WHAT. I didn't know he could counter-offer!! What happens if you take up his offer? Who controls Confession? Does it close down??

Pro Tip: don't trust the pale woman in a cowboy stripper outfit who comes out of your vent and tells you everything's fine.

I went through an ENTIRE Ventrue playthrough without puking and Liotta ate one (1) unhoused person and blew chunks. I didn't realize Diseased Blood was a threat. What happens if you skip the Plague-bearer quest? Should you just never chomp on the Downtown unhoused community?

Strauss called Liotta "young one" and I was like, sir. You're not Beckett, you can't trick me.

A rat dances in the Downtown sewers and tells Liotta that the grass is greener in someone else's asshole.

And also will take you places.

Do you know what it's like for a Capri Sun to suddenly start speaking and offer taxi services.

LaCroix: how did Bach find me??? also LaCroix: [names his company after himself] [lives in Ventrue Tower]

Liotta told Beckett that Kindred are a joke and I got extra EXP for being so sneaky.

DMP produced snuff films even before Andrei???!!!! I thought all the blood was from the lil geo-dudes.

Liotta agreed with Andrei that Caine is here and boot-scooting around in his lil Angst Mobile. :D

As bad as Liotta was in group fights, she repeatedly made bosses cower and stand quietly while she beat them to death. Andrei had a full on lay-on-the-floor temper tantrum in his war form and Liotta just. Smacked him until he exploded. She didn't even take damage!

Imalia's computer password is ALSO "cleopatra." Just like Tawni's! Dual reference to the Embrace type

IDK why I never asked this before, but, um, who does Mitnick share the bunk bed with? Barabus..?

I went back to the Empire Hotel Penthouse suite to fetch the educational book and the Russian mob dudes were still there?? Hello, sirs, your leader is dead. You can leave now.

Liotta heard the real thoughts of the Red Dragon hostess...and also some debate about the Dark Father's presence in LA, heehee.

I thought it was fun that one of the "take me away, Cabbie!" taxi replies mentioned riding in a car like father and child. :D

"Why is the Mandarin giggling at me" is a sentence that came out of my face.

With the different dialog options, sometimes it's impossible to be polite to NPCs. For example: Liotta could only call VV "dolly/doll/toy doll" instead of her preferred names; the Chinatown gun seller felt frightened, thinking we were Police or Immigration.

Some great fourth wall breaks in the dialog: "I don't want to get involved either, but tell that to whoever is playing me!" to Beckett after the Giovanni Mansion.

"You can't spell success without whatever the hell my name is."

"If I cannot win with effort, I will cheat my way to victory. I am gone." Funnily enough, this was my first run where I didn't hack in to boost stats.

"I just want it to end. I feel like I've been playing forever."

Some nice wider lore references: "I devour knowledge like the great worm devours the corpse of society" could refer to how Salout, in tapeworm form, is devouring Tremere's body and destabilizing the Clan and/or Kindred night society.

"They should have a channel devoted to you in my head" to Beckett. In his Diary, Beckett witnesses Malkavians devouring Malkav and may or may not join the Cobweb (PS check out this great fanfic where he does).

This made me stare into space for a minute and question my life choices. During the Sabbat massacre, Liotta didn't snack on any of the blood doll ghouls (ya know, the ones with the eyes gouged out). She had such high Inspection + Finance that she had $4k in her wallet and could buy blood. I wanted to test a rumor that if you don't feed on the blood dolls, you get extra EXP. You do. BUT anywAY, right before the Tremere miniboss, Liotta was sword-fighting some goons and the blood doll...attacked him for her? Like. He moved on his own. When the goon was dead, the blood doll asked if Liotta was all right. This might have been a glitch but...the horrific implications that those men are still conscious, still willful, still feeling. ACK. I hope they got out the next morning.

RIP Ming Xiao. Flamethrower right to the tiddies.

I stole @ryttu3k's idea and noclipped through the werewolf section. Liotta still killed the Garou, but I didn't want the stress.

Caine is very Caine. "Don't you get it? We've already been judged!"

Liotta went Anarch because what little backstory I came up for her was she considered Smiling Jack her sire. Nines complimented her ability to murder.

Sheriff got sooooo dizzy that he fell over right onto Liotta's sword 27 times.

Dancing werewolf ending! Seemed fitting. :D

#vtm #vtmb #vampire the masquerade #malkavian #anarch #smiling jack #sebastian lacroix #nines rodriguez #cuthbert beckett #ming xiao #andrei the defiler #text post #my vtm nonsense

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I really want Dolly Parton to have an anime where she intervenes in peoples lives a la La rosa de Guadalupe. You can't tell me that doesn't sound amazing.

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Perfume ♡ Lingerie match: Comme des Garçons x Bully Boy Lingerie

Today’s House and Designer pairing is Comme des Garçons and Bully Boy Lingerie.

Both houses present an urban, experimental, minimalist and editorial approach with a reliable core line of pebble bottles at CdG and sheer, high cut styles with Bully Boy. They are also both priced affordably, otherwise I might have chosen La Fille d’O.

Viva x Comme des Garçons

CdG’s first fragrance, simply named Comme des Garçons, was an unusual unisex blend of spice with an animalistic purr that goes well with Bully Boy’s assymetrical use of zebra print in its Viva panties.

Delilah x Hinoki

The pale sheer green colour of the Delilah bodysuit with its clean cut lines echos the sheer wearing Hinoki, a fresh woody cypress scent with a touch of gasoline.

Rosa x Black

Black’s melange of ambery spicy woods with the house’s characteristic urban feel echos the unexpected romantic heart pattern in a youthful, pared down design with the Rosa top and matching panty.

Brick and Dolly x Concrete

The contrast between a gentle, greyish blue and white elastic lends the Brick bra and high cut Dolly panty a cool soft vibe that reminds me of Concrete, with its milky, synthetic take on sandalwood.

Brick and Ridge x Jaisalmer

The different colours of the four quadrants of the Ridge panty paired with the warm terracotta coloured brick bra calls to mind the dry hot spices and smoke of the incense fragrance, Jaisalmer.

#comme des garcons #bully boy lingerie #bully boy #perfume x lingerie

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Os 15 melhores começos de livros da literatura universal

Pedimos aos leitores e colaboradores que apontassem os melhores começos de livros da literatura universal. Cento e cinquenta e seis livros foram citados por 2,4 mil participantes, destes, selecionamos os 15 livros que obtiveram mais citações. A seleção percorre quase quatro séculos de literatura, de “Dom Quixote”, de Miguel de Cervantes; publicado em 1605, a “O Jardim do Diabo”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo; publicado em 1988.

Pedimos aos leitores e colaboradores que apontassem os melhores começos de livros da literatura universal. A consulta foi feita a colaboradores, assinantes — a partir da newsletter —, e seguidores da página da revista no Facebook e no Twitter. Mais de 150 livros foram citados por 2,4 mil participantes, destes, selecionamos os 15 livros que obtiveram mais citações. A seleção percorre quase quatro séculos de literatura, de “Dom Quixote”, de Miguel de Cervantes; publicado em 1605, a “O Jardim do Diabo”, de Luis Fernando Veríssimo; publicado em 1988. Além das obras capitais de Veríssimo e Cervantes, integram a lista: “Moby Dick”, de Herman Melville; “Notas do Subsolo”, de Dostoiévski; “Grande Sertão: Veredas”, de Guimarães Rosa; “O Complexo de Portnoy”, de Philip Roth; “A Lua Vem da Ásia”, de Campos de Carvalho; “O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio”, de J. D. Salinger; “O Amanuense Belmiro”, de Cyro dos Anjos; “A Metamorfose”, de Franz Kafka; “Anna Kariênina”, de Lev Tolstói; “O Ventre”, de Carlos Heitor Cony; “Lolita”, de Vladimir Nabokov; “As Ondas”, de Virginia Woolf; e “Cem Anos de Solidão”, de Gabriel García Márquez. A lista está publicada em ordem classificatória.

Moby Dick, de Herman Melville

Chamem-me simplesmente Ismael. Aqui há uns anos não me peçam para ser mais preciso —, tendo-me dado conta de que o meu porta-moedas estava quase vazio, decidi voltar a navegar, ou seja, aventurar-me de novo pelas vastas planícies líquidas do Mundo. Achei que nada haveria de melhor para desopilar, quer dizer, para vencer a tristeza e regularizar a circulação sanguínea. Algumas pessoas, quando atacadas de melancolia, suicidam-se de qualquer maneira. Catão, por exemplo, lançou-se sobre a própria espada. Eu instalo-me tranquilamente num barco.

Anna Kariênina, de Lev Tolstói

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira. Tudo era confusão na casa dos Oblónski. A esposa ficara sabendo que o marido mantinha um caso com a ex-governanta francesa e lhe comunicara que não podia viver com ele sob o mesmo teto. Essa situação já durava três dias e era um tormento para os cônjuges, para todos os familiares e para os criados. Todos, familiares e criados, achavam que não fazia sentido morarem os dois juntos e que pessoas reunidas por acaso em qualquer hospedaria estariam mais ligadas entre si do que eles.

Notas do Subsolo, de Dostoiévski

Sou um homem doente… sou mau. Não tenho atrativos. Acho que sofro do fígado. Aliás, não entendo bulhufas da minha doença e não sei com certeza o que é que me dói. Não me trato, nunca me tratei, embora respeite os médicos e a medicina. Além de tudo, sou supersticioso ao extremo; bem, o bastante para respeitar a medicina. (Tenho instrução suficiente para não ser supersticioso, mas sou.) Não, senhores, se não quero me tratar é de raiva. Isso os senhores provavelmente não compreendem.

Cem Anos de Solidão, de Gabriel García Márquez

Muitos anos depois, diante do pelotão de fuzilamento, o Coronel Aureliano Buendía havia de recordar aquela tarde remota em que seu pai o levou para conhecer o gelo. Macondo era então uma aldeia de vinte casas de barro e taquara, construídas à margem de um rio de águas diáfanas que se precipitavam por um leito de pedras polidas, brancas e enormes como ovos pré-históricos. O mundo era tão recente que muitas coisas careciam de nome e para mencioná-las se precisava apontar com o dedo.

Grande Sertão: Veredas, de Guimarães Rosa

Nonada. Tiros que o senhor ouviu foram de briga de homem não, Deus esteja. Alvejei mira em árvores no quintal, no baixo do córrego. Por meu acerto. Todo dia isso faço, gosto; desde mal em minha mocidade. Daí, vieram me chamar. Causa dum bezerro: um bezerro branco, erroso, os olhos de nem ser — se viu —; e com máscara de cachorro. Me disseram; eu não quis avistar. Mesmo que, por defeito como nasceu, arrebitado de beiços, esse figurava rindo feito pessoa. Cara de gente, cara de cão: determinaram — era o demo.

A Metamorfose, de Franz Kafka

Quando certa manhã Gregor Samsa acordou de sonhos intranquilos, em sua cama metamorfoseado num inseto monstruoso. Estava deitado sobre suas costas duras como couraça e, ao levantar um pouco a cabeça, viu seu ventre abaulado, marrom, dividido por nervuras arqueadas, no topo de qual a coberta, prestes a deslizar de vez, ainda mal se sustinha. Suas numerosas pernas, lastimavelmente finas em comparação com o volume do resto do corpo, tremulavam desamparadas diante dos seus olhos.

O Complexo de Portnoy, de Philip Roth

Ela estava tão profundamente entranhada em minha consciência que, no primeiro ano na escola, eu tinha a impressão de que todas as professoras eram minha mãe disfarçada. Assim que tocava o sinal ao fim das aulas, eu voltava correndo para casa, na esperança de chegar ao apartamento em que morávamos antes que ela tivesse tempo de se transformar. Invariavelmente ela já estava na cozinha quando eu chegava, preparando leite com biscoitos para mim. No entanto, em vez de me livrar dessas ilusões, essa proeza só fazia crescer minha admiração pelos poderes dela.

A Lua Vem da Ásia, de Campos de Carvalho

Aos 16 anos matei meu professor de lógica. Invocando a legítima defesa — e qual defesa seria mais legítima? — logrei ser absolvido por cinco votos a dois, e fui morar sob uma ponte do Sena, embora nunca tenha estado em Paris. Deixei crescer a barba em pensamento, comprei um par de óculos para míope, e passava as noites espiando o céu estrelado, um cigarro entre os dedos. Chamava-me então Adilson, mas logo mudei para Heitor, depois Ruy Barbo, depois finalmente Astrogildo, que é como me chamo ainda hoje, quando me chamo.

O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio, de J.D. Salinger

Se querem mesmo ouvir o que aconteceu, a primeira coisa que vão querer saber é onde nasci, como passei a porcaria da minha infância, o que os meus pais faziam antes que eu nascesse, e toda essa lenga-lenga tipo David Copperfield, mas, para dizer a verdade, não estou com vontade de falar sobre isso. Em primeiro lugar, esse negócio me chateia e, além disso, meus pais teriam um troço se contasse qualquer coisa íntima sobre eles. São um bocado sensíveis a esse tipo de coisa, principalmente meu pai. Não é que eles sejam ruins — não é isso que estou dizendo — mas são sensíveis pra burro.

O Amanuense Belmiro, de Cyro dos Anjos

Ali pelo oitavo chope, chegamos à conclusão de que todos os problemas eram insolúveis. Florêncio propôs, então, um nono, argumentando que outro copo talvez trouxesse a solução geral. Éramos quatro ou cinco, em torno de pequena mesa de ferro, no bar do Parque. Alegre véspera de Natal! As mulatas iam e vinham, com requebros, sorrindo dengosamente para os soldados do Regimento de Cavalaria. No caramanchão, outras dançavam maxixe com pretos reforçados, enquanto um cabra gordo, de melenas, fazia a vitrola funcionar.

O Ventre, de Carlos Heitor Cony

Positivamente, meu irmão foi acima de tudo um torturado. Sua tortura seria interessante se eu a explorasse com critério — mas jamais me preocupei com problemas do espírito. Belo para mim é um bife com batatas fritas ou um par de coxas macias. Não sou lido tampouco. A única atração que tive por livro limitou-se à ilustração de um tratado de educação sexual que o vigário do Lins fez o pai comprar para nosso espiritual proveito. Só creio naquilo que possa ser atingido pelo meu cuspe. O resto é cristianismo e pobreza de espírito.

Lolita, de Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, luz de minha vida, labareda em minha carne. Minha alma, minha lama. Lo-li-ta: a ponta da língua descendo em três saltos pelo céu da boca para tropeçar de leve, no terceiro, contra os dentes. Lo. Li. Ta. Pela manhã ela era Lô, não mais que Lô, com seu metro e quarenta e sete de altura e calçando uma única meia soquete. Era Lola ao vestir os jeans desbotados. Era Dolly na escola. Era Dolores sobre a linha pontilhada. Mas em meus braços sempre foi Lolita. Será que teve uma precursora? Sim, de fato teve. Na verdade, talvez jamais teria existido uma Lolita se, em certo verão, eu não houvesse amado uma menina primordial.

O Jardim do Diabo, de Luis Fernando Verissimo

Me chame de Ismael e eu não atenderei. Meu nome é Estevão, ou coisa parecida. Como todos os homens, sou oitenta por cento água salgada, mas já desisti de puxar destas profundezas qualquer grande besta simbólica. Como a própria baleia, vivo de pequenos peixes da superfície, que pouco significam, mas alimentam. Você talvez tenha visto alguns dos meus livros nas bancas. Todo homem, depois dos quarenta, abdica das suas fomes, salvo a que o mantém vivo. São aqueles livros mal impressos em papel jornal, com capas coloridas em que uma mulher com grandes peitos de fora está sempre prestes a sofrer uma desgraça.

As Ondas, de Virginia Woolf

O Sol ainda não nascera. Era quase impossível distinguir o céu do mar, mas este apresentava algumas rugas, como se de um pedaço de tecido se tratasse. Aos poucos, à medida que o céu clareava, uma linha escura estendeu-se no horizonte, dividindo o céu e o mar. Então o tecido cinzento coloriu-se de manchas em movimento, umas sucedendo-se às outras, junto à superfície, perseguindo-se mutuamente, em parar.

Dom Quixote, de Miguel de Cervantes

Desocupado leitor: sem juramento meu embora, poderás acreditar que eu gostaria que este livro, como filho da razão, fosse o mais formoso, o mais primoroso e o mais judicioso e agudo que se pudesse imaginar. Mas não pude eu contravir a ordem da natureza, que nela cada coisa engendra seu semelhante. E, assim, o que poderá engendrar o estéril e mal cultivado engenho meu, senão a história de um filho seco, murcho, antojadiço e cheio de pensamentos díspares e nunca imaginados por ninguém mais, exatamente como quem foi engendrado num cárcere, onde toda a incomodidade tem assento e onde todo o triste barulho faz sua habitação?

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[TASK 163: AFRO LATINE]

In celebration of Latine Heritage Month being September 15th-October 15th, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 250+ Afro Latine faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Marina Miranda (1932) Afro Brazilian - actress.

Petrona Martínez (1934) Afro Colombian - singer.

Alaíde Costa (1935) Afro Brazilian - singer-songwriter.

Elza Soares (1937) Afro Brazilian - singer-songwriter.

Tia Surica (1940) Afro Brazilian - actress and singer.

Neusa Borges (1941) Afro Brazilian - actress.

Dja Marthins (1943) Afro Brazilian - actress.

Leci Brandão (1944) Afro Brazilian - actress and singer.

Susana Baca (1944) Afro Peruvian - singer-songwriter.

Zezé Motta (1944) Afro Brazilian - actress and singer.

Maria Bethânia (1946) Afro Brazilian - singer-songwriter.

Rosa Marya Colin (1946) Afro Brazilian - actress and singer.

Eva Ayllón (1956) Afro Peruvian - singer and composer.

Lauren Vélez (1964) Afro Puerto Rican - actress.

Lorraine Vélez (1964) Afro Puerto Rican - actress.

Rosie Perez (1964) Afro Puerto Rican - actress and singer.

Judy Reyes (1967) Afro Dominican - actress.

Melissa De Sousa (1967) Afro Panamanian - actress.

Gladys del Pilar (1967) Afro Ecuadorian - singer and dancer.

Gina Torres (1969) Afro Cuban - actress.

Ebelin Ortiz (1971) Afro Peruvian - actress, singer, and tv presenter.

Ilia Calderón (1972) Afro Colombian - journalist.

Tina Ferreira (1972) Uruguayan [Afro Uruguayan, Spanish, possibly other] - dancer, vedette, and journalist.

Trina (1974) Afro Dominican / Afro Bahamian - rapper and television personality.

Evelyn Lozada (1975) Afro Puerto Rican - tv personality and model.

Aida Rodriguez (1977) Afro Puerto Rican, Afro Dominican - comedian.

Brandi Quinones (1977) Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican - model.

Sasha Campbell (1977) Afro Costa Rican - singer, journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.

Rico Nasty / Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (1997) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Taís Araújo (1978) Afro Brazilian - actress.

Grasie Mercedes (1978) Afro Dominican - actress.

Alejandra Robles (1978) Afro Mexican - singer and dancer.

Dania Ramirez (1979) Afro Dominican - actress.

La La Anthony (1979) Puerto Rican [African, Spanish, possibly other] - tv personality.

Tatyana Ali (1979) Afro Panamanian / Indo Trinidadian - actress and singer.

Bernice Burgos (1980) Afro Puerto Rican - model.

Reagan Gomez-Preston (1980) African-American / Puerto Rican - actress.

Adriana Sage (1980) Afro Mexican - actress, model, and former porn actress.

Emayatzy Corinealdi (1980) Afro Panamanian / African-American - actress.

Ericka Cruz (1981) Afro Mexican - model and Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2001.

Christina Milian (1981) Cuban [African, some Spanish] - singer and actress.

Dascha Polanco (1982) Afro Domomican - actress.

Goyo (1982) Afro Colombian - singer.

Yaya DaCosta (1982) Afro Brazilian, African-American, Cherokee, Irish - actress and model.

Irina Castillo (1982) Afro Panamanian - model (Instagram: icastillow).

Johanna Santos Polanco (1983) Afro Mexican / Dominican - model.

Maluca (1983) Afro Dominican - singer.

Tessa Thompson (1983) Afro Panamanian / Mexican, Irish, Scottish, German, English - actress and singer-songwriter.

Karla Cubias (1983) Afro Salvadoran - singer.

Dolly Castro (1984) Afro Nicaraguan - instagrammer (missdollycastro).

Yamilka Pitre (1984) Afro Panamanian - singer.

Danay Suarez (1985) Afro Cuban - singer and rapper.

Maria Mena (1986) Afro Nicaraguan / Norwegian - singer-songwriter.

Joseline Hernandez (1986) Afro Puerto Rican - tv personality, rapper and actress.

Leiomy Maldonado (1987) Afro Puerto Rican - model, dancer, and choreographer. - Trans!

Jhené Aiko (1988) African-American / Japanese, Dominican [Spanish, Afro Dominican, possibly other] - singer.

Heather Hemmens (1988) Afro Costa Rican / English - actress, director, and producer.

Brenda Kellerman (1988) Afro Costa Rican - actress, model, and tv host.

Joan Smalls (1988) Afro-Virgin Islander, Irish / Puerto Rican [Spanish, Taino, Indian] - model and actress.

Julissa Calderon (1989) Afro Domnican - actress.

Sessilee Lopez (1989) Afro Dominican - model.

Arlenis Sosa (1989) Afro Dominican - model.

Julieta Rada (1990) Afro Argentinian / Afro Uruguayan - singer.

Iza / Isabela Cristina Correia de Lima Lima (1990) Afro Brazilian - singer.

Amara La Negra (1990) Afro Dominican - singer.

Lais Ribeiro (1990) Afro Brazilian - model.

Nitty Scott (1990) Afro Puerto Rican - emcee.

Massy Arias (1990) Afro Dominican - fitness coach and Instagrammer.

Stephanie George (1991) Afro Haitian, Afro Dominican, Salvadoran - actress (Instagram: stephshaygeorge)

Luz Pavon (1991) Afro Mexican - model.

Yomatzy Hazlewood (1991) Afro Panamanian - model and Miss Panama Universe 2014.

Scharllette Allen Moses (1991) Afro Nicaraguan - model and Miss Nicaragua 2010.

Denise Mercedes (1991) Afro Dominican - model.

Kay-Lani Martinez (1991) Afro Puerto Rican - YouTuber.

BIA / Bianca Landrau (1991) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Tylauren (1992) Unspecified Afro Latine - Instagrammer.

Destiny Frasqueri / Princess Nokia (1992) Afro Puerto Rican - singer.

Monica Veloz (1992) Afro Dominican - Youtuber and Instagrammer.

Daymé Arocena (1992) Afro Cuban - singer.

Efrangeliz Medina (1993) Afro Dominican - actress and Instagrammer.

Jewellianna Palencia (1993) Afro Guatemalan - YouTuber and Instagrammer.

Kimberly Noèl (1993) Afro Cuban, Costa Rican, Puerto Rican, Italian - model, youtuber, and tv personality. - Trans!

Yindra Zayas (1994) Afro Cuban - actress.

Cara (1995) Dominican [Afro Dominican, Arawak] / German - instagrammer (miscarolf).

Yorelis Apolinario (1995) Afro Cuban - dancer.

Mairaly Rodriguez (1996) Afro Dominican - model, actress and YouTuber (Instagram: harmonicurls)

Deja Good (1997) Afro Panamanian - model and youtuber.

Natalie Whittington (1997 or 1998) Afro Panamanian - model.

Tania Teyacapan Garcia (?) Mexican [Pame, Huastec, Apache, Guachichil, Afro Potosina] - model.

Cyn Santana (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - singer.

Anji Ray (?) Afro Panamanian - actress, comedian, and writer.

Barbie D’Ebano (?) Afro Nicaraguan - model and Miss International Queen Nicaragua 2018. - Trans!

Carmen Angulo (?) Afro Ecuadorian - actress.

Miroslava Morales (?) Afro Panamanian - actress, singer, and director.

CeCe Suazo (?) Afro Honduran - actress, director, and playwright. - Trans!

Elena Heart (?) Nicaraguan [Afro Nicaraguan, Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified Asian, German] - actress and photographer (instagram: elenaheart).

Kenia Melissa Martínez (?) Afro Honduran - model, Miss Honduras Universe 2010, Miss Honduras International 2009, and Miss Honduras Earth 2008.

Lauren Lewis (?) Afro Nicaraguan - YouTuber and model (instagram: laurenlewiss_).

Kathryn Allison (?) Afro Mexican - actress and singer.

Calma Carmona (?) Afro Puerto Rican - singer.

LATASHÁ (?) Panamanian, Jamaican - rapper.

Lisa-Kaindé Diaz (?) Afro Cuban, French, Venezuelan - singer (Ibeyi).

Naomi Díaz (?) Afro Cuban, French, Venezuelan - singer (Ibeyi).

Alba Ramos (?) Afro Dominican - Instagrammer (sunkissalba).

DioMara (?) Afro Panamanian - singer (Instagram: diomara_d)

Sherrerazade (?) Afro Brazilian - model (Instagram: preta_zade).

Julissa Prado (?) Afro Mexican - Instagrammer and business owner.

Bethany Dani (?) Afro Cuban - actress and model.

Alexis Garcia Rocca (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Youtuber.

Flora Sofia (?) Afro Brazilian - model and actress.

Raissa Leme (?) Afro Brazilian - model.

Deja Ma'rie (?) Afro Puerto Rican - model.

Paula Almeida (?) Afro Beazilian - model.

Nikki Brath (?) Afro Panamanian - model.

Illy Perez (?) Afro Cuban - model.

Ana Flávia (?) Afro Brazilian - model.

Letty Bridges (?) Afro Cuban - model.

Daphne Lee (?) Afro Panamanian - ballerina (Instagram: daphne732)

Mel Burgos (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Instagrammer (rock_yo_rizos).

Darlen Cachos (?) Afro Brazilian - Instagrammer.

Elizabeth Acevedo (?) Afro Dominican - writer.

Dayana Copete (?) Afro Ecuadorian - model (Instagram: dayana_copete).

Tyrah Monique (?) Afro Domonican - model (Instagram: tyrahmonique).

Ilianna Ayala (?) Puerto Rican, Bolivian - model.

Briana Camille (?) Afro Panamanian - Instagrammer (therealbrianacamille).

Priscilla Flete (?) Afro Dominican - Instagrammer (shinestruck).

Juliet Cee (?) Afro Cuban - Instagammer (iamjuju_).

Denisse Myrick (?) Afro Dominican - photographer and Instagrammer.

Ada Rojas (?) Afro Dominican - Instagammer (allthingsada).

Rocio Isabel (?) Mexican, Hondoruan - Instagammer (risasrizos).

Cristina Gomez (?) Cuban, Colombian - Instagrammer (barbie_conga).

Veronica Bonilla (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Instagrammer (brooklynpetite).

Luciellen Assis (?) Afro Brazilian - Instagrammer.

Erika Parker (?) Afro Panamanian - Miss Earth Panama 2017 (Instagram: erikaparker_).

Farah Vergas (?) Afro Dominican - Instagrammer (farahpink).

Briana (?) Afro Costa Rican - model (Instagram: blvckxeuphoria)

LouLou Gonzalez (?) Afro Panamanian - comedian, actress and writer.

Linda Elaine (?) Jamaican, Mexican - Youtuber (Instagram: iamlindaelaine)

Janibell (?) Afro Dominican - Instagrammer (janibellrosanne)

Silly V (?) Dominican, Puerto Rican - model and actress (Instagram: sillyv83)

Coral (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Instagrammer (curlswithcoral)

ChimiMari (?) Guatemalan, Hondorean, Belize - model (Instagram: marirocks17)

Noelia (?) Afro Dominican - Instagrammer (Instagram: curlelia)

Yarith Ceron (?) Afro Mexican - model (Instagram: yarithceronen_)

Jorly Flores (?) Afro Puerto Rican - model and artist (Instagram: jorlyfloress)

Reina Powerlifts (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Instagrammer (boricuareina7).

TheCurlyBella (?) Afro Puerto Rican - Instagrammer.

Angelica Guillen (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - model and blogger (Instagram: angelicguillen)

Imgeishaaa (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - model (Instagram: imgeishaaa)

Carla Parra (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - model (Instagram: carlaparraxo)

Krystal (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - model (Instagram: __keysopendoors__)

Devri Velázquez (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - model (Instagram: devrivelazquez)

Thati Nava (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - dancer.

Jenelle Simone (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - actress.

Lady Dane / Dane Edidi (?) Afro Cuban, Unspecified Indigenious - author (Instagram: ladydanefe) - Trans!

Melania-Luisa Marte (?) Afro Dominican - poet and performer.

Antombo Langangui (?) Afro Colombian - singer (Profetas).

Jahaura Michelle (?) Dominican, Puerto Rican - writer and journalist.

Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez (?) Afro Dominican - author.

Zahira Kelly-Cabrera (?) Afro Puerto Rican - writer and artist.

Karmenife X (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - comedian.

Janel Martinez (?) Garifuna - entrepreneur and activist.

Miss Rizos / Carolina Contreras (?) Afro Dominican - entrepreneur and activist.

Janai (?) Afro Panamanian - model (Instagram: iam.melanin.monroe).

Karissa Hall (?) Afro Panamanian - model (Instagram: freakfrika).

Carmen Drayton (?) Afro Panamanian - Miss Grand Panamá 2019.

Leydis González (?) Afro Panamanian - Miss Darién 2019.

Luisa López (?) Afro Panamanian - beauty pageant contestant.

Ryll (?) Afro Panamanian - model (Instagram: _empress_ryll_).

Indira (?) Afro Panamanian - model (Instagram: indira_anahg).

Danlu31_ (?) Afro Panamanian - model.

F - Athletes:

María Isabel Urrutia (1965) Afro Colombian - weightlifter.

Sibelis Veranes (1974) Afro Cuban - judoka.

Yumileidi Cumbá (1975) Afro Cuban - spot putter.

Osleidys Menéndez (1979) Afro Cuban - track and feild athlete.

Izabela Campos (1981) Afro-Brazilian - shot putter and discus thrower.

Caterine Ibargüen (1984) Afro Comolbian - long jump and triple jumper.

Idalys Ortiz (1989) Afro Cuban - judoka.

Rafaela Silva (1992) Afro Brazilian - judoka.

Simone Biles (1997) African-American / Afro Belizean - gymnast.

Dominique Miller (?) Afro Mexican - surfer.

Jamie Ramirez (?) Afro Domomican - cheerleader (Instagram: jamieramirez91)

Papá Roncón / Guillermo Ayoví Erazo (1930) Afro Ecuadorian - musician, singer, and marimba player.

Yaphet Kotto (1939) Afro Panamanian Jewish / Cameroonian Jewish - actor.

Rubén Rada (1943) Afro Uruguayan - singer, percussionist, and composer.

Billy Cobham / William Cobham Jr (1944) Afro Panamanian - drummer-songwriter.

Ruben Blades (1948) Afro Cuban / Colombian - actor and singer-songwriter.

Manuel Monestel (1950) Afro Costa Rican - musician and researcher.

Alvaro Salas (1953) Afro Uruguayan - drummer.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1956) African-American . Puerto Rican - actor.

Prince Whipper Whip (1962) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Isaias Gamboa (1963) Afro Costa Rican - music producer, songwriter, musician, arranger, author and filmmaker.

Eddy Vasquez / Antonio Eduardo Vasquez (1964) Afro Panamanian - tv presenter, radio presenter, and speaker.

Sen Dog / Senen Reye (1965) Afro Cuban - rapper.

Pablo Molina (1965) Afro Argentinian - singer and percussionist.

DJ Clark Kent (1966) Afro Panamanian - DJ and producer.

Mellow Man Ace / Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (1967) Afro Cuban - rapper.

Gringo el Original / Jaime Davidson (1968) Afro Panamanian - singer.

Tyson Beckford (1970) Afro Panamanian, Jamaican [Afro Jamaican, Chinese] - actor and model.

Akinyele / Akinyele Adams (1970) Afro Panamanian / Costa Rican - rapper.

Rolando Boyce (1970) Afro Panamanian - actor.

Richard Barker (1971) Afro Ecuadorian - actor and presenter.

DJ Black / Ricardo Alexander O’Neil Weeks (1972) Afro Panamanian - rapper-songwriter and DJ.

AZ / Anthony Cruz (1972) Afro Domincian - rapper.

Erik Griffin (1972) Honduran [Afro Honduran, Indian, Spanish, possibly other], Belizean, Jamaican / Irish, possibly other - actor, comedian, and writer.

Tego Calderón (1972) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper and actor.

Matt Cedeño (1973) Afro Cuban / Scottish, Irish, English - actor and model.

J. August Richards / Jaime Augusto Richards III (1973) Afro Panamanian - actor.

Japanese / Leavitt Zambrano (1973) Panamanian [Afro Panamanian, Japanese] - singer.

Laz Alonso (1974) Afro Cuban - actor.

Samo / Samuel Parra Cruz (1975) Afro Mexican - singer-songwriter.

Latin Fresh / Roberto de los Ríos Reyes (1975) Afro Panamanian - singer.

N.O.R.E. / Victor Santiago, Jr., (1976) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Jim Jones / Joseph Guillermo Jones II (1976) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Immortal Technique / Felipe Andres Coronel (1978) Peruvian [Afro Peruvian, Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, French] - rapper.

Ricardo González (1978) Afro Ecuadorian - actor.

Swizz Beats / Kasseem Dean (1978) Afro Jamaican, Puerto Rcian, Irish / Unknown - rapper.

Don Omar (1978) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper and actor.

Gunplay / Richard Morales Jr (1979) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Aloe Blacc / Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (1979) Afro Panamanian - actor, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.

Uncle Murda / Leonard Grant (1979) Afro Panamanian - rapper and actor.

Kafu Banton / Zico Alberto Garibaldi Roberts (1979) Afro Panamanian - singer.

Sacario (1980) Afro Panamanian - rapper-songwriter and filmmaker.

Joell Ortiz (1980) Afro Puerto Rican- rapper.

Kalimba / Kalimba Marichal (1982) Afro Mexican / Afro Cuban - actor and singer.

Lloyd Banks (1982) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Kid Cudi (1984) ¾ African-American, ¼ Afro Mexican - rapper and actor.

Roofeeo / Jahphet Landis (1984) Afro Panamanian - DJ, drummer, and music producer.

Taxstone / Daryl Campbell (1985) Afro Honduran - tv personality, podcast host, twitter personality, and former rapper.

Eddy Lover / Eduardo Mosquera (1985) Afro Panamanian - singer-songwriter.

Big Baloy / Eric Homero Baloy Mosquera (1985) Afro Panamanian - singer and composer.

Kevin Gates (1986) Afro Puerto Rican - rapper.

Casanova / Caswell Senior (1986) Afro Panamanian, Haitian, Jamaican - rapper-songwriter.

Niv Acosta (1988) Afro Dominican / African-American - actor, dancer, and choreographer. - Trans!

El Boy C (1988) Afro Panamanian - rapper.

Laith Ashley (1989) Dominican [Afro Dominican, Unspecified White] - actor, singer, and model. - Trans!

Sarunas J. Jackson (1990) Afro Panamanian - actor.

Rome Flynn (1991) Afro Cuban, Irish - actor.

Dave East (1988) Afro Domincain - rapper.

Sebastián Yatra (1994) Colombian [Muisca, Tahamí, Afro Colombian, Spanish (Andalusian, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Canary Islander, Cantabrian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Galician, Leonese, Valencian, possibly Catalan)], Peruvian [Quechua], Italian, Portuguese [Azorean, possibly other], French - singer-songwriter.

Robert Vernon (?) Afro Cuban, Colombian / English - actor.

Donaldo Prescod (?) Afro Panamanian - actor and filmmaker.

K-per Lucem (?) Afro Hondouran - singer.

Cimafunk (?) Afro Cuban - singer.

Eli Vazquez (?) Afro Puerto Rican - producer at Pero Like.

Sessle (?) Afro Cuban - singer (Instagram: ssarpy_)

Bryce Lennon (?) Unspecified Afro Latine - singer (Instagram: brycelennon)

Lateef Santos (?) Afro Brazilian - Instagrammer (lateefcrowderdossantos).

Pablo Fortaleza (?) Afro Colombian - singer (Profetas).

Franklin Tejedor (?) Afro Colombian / Unknown - musician (Mitú).

J-Dan (?) Afro Panamanian - recording artist (Instagram: jdanistheman).

M - Athletes:

Luis Felipe Gutiérrez (1988) Afro Cuban - sprinter and long jumper.

NB:

Carolina Hoyos (1978) Peruvian [Afro-Peruvian, Quechua, Spanish] / Ecuadorian [Quechua, Italian, British] - Two-Spirit (She/Her/Her’s) - actor and singer-songwriter.

Indya Moore (1995) Dominican [Afro-Dominican, Taino], Haitian [Afro-Haitian, Taino] / Puerto Rican - Non-Binary (They/Them/Their’s) - actor and model.

Liniker (1995) Afro Brazilian - Genderfluid Trans Woman (She/Her/Her’s) - singer.

Sivan Alyra Rose (1999) Afro Puerto Rican, Creole / Chiricahua Apache - Has stated they have a complicated relationship with gender (They/Them/Their’s/She/Her/Her’s) - actor and model.

DJ Precolumbian / Chaska Sofia (?) Peruvian [Afro Peruvian, Quechua] - Genderfluid Trans Woman (She/Her/Her’s) - DJ.

Li Benedetti (?) Afro Brazilian - Non-Binary (They/Them/Their’s) - youtuber.

Problematic:

Mariah Carey (1970) Afro-Cuban, African-American / Irish - singer - abuse allegations.

Zoe Saldana (1978) Afro Dominican, Afro Puerto Rican, possibly Lebanese and Haitian - supports James Gunn.

Rosario Dawson (1979) Puerto Rican, Cuban, including African and Taíno / Unknown - actress - supports Donna Hylton.

Karamo Brown (1980) Afro Cuban, Afro Jamaican - tv host, reality tv personality, and author. - About Sean Spicer: “He’s a good guy, really sweet guy”.

Naya Rivera (1987) Puerto Rican, German / African-American, Afro Puerto Rican - abuser.

Iris Beilin (1989) Afro Panamanian - youtuber. - Did a “Native American”/”Pocahontas” (a real life 12 year old girl who was kidnapped and raped) “inspired” makeup tutorial.

Cardi B (1992) Afro Dominican, Afro Trinidadian, Spanish - singer - said she drugged and robbed men.

#black fc #latine fc #poc fc #fc list #rph #task: 163 #task: afro latine

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chiseler · 5 years ago

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“You Devilish Mummy!”: Mexican Horror in America, 1958-1963

Rosa Arenas

For some people, Cinqo de Mayo means a nacho party platter, a cooler full of Corona, plastic sombreros and a pinata filled with stale butterscotch discs. For a few of us, though, Cinqo de Mayo means one thing and one thing only: Aztec mummies. The sad part of it is that it might actually make much more sense than the nachos.

After Tod Browning and his crew left the set at the end of the shooting day while working on 1931’s Dracula, they were replaced by director George Melford and a Mexican cast and crew. Using the same sets, the same cameras, and a translated version of the script, they worked all night to shoot the Spanish-language version of the film. Those who have seen both tend to agree that the Spanish version is the superior of the two. The cinematography is more vibrant and less stage-bound than the Browning version, the atmosphere is richer (possibly because they were shooting at night), and most important of all, the Mexican Dracula (Carlos Villar) smolders with a sexual energy and menace Bela Lugosi, great as he is, lacks.

Prior to the mid-’50s, most American audiences would probably be surprised to learn that Mexico even had its own film industry. That’s when low-budget producers from Sam Arkoff on down recognized the economic advantages of snapping up the US distribution rights to existing foreign genre pictures. It made perfect sense. You didn’t need to hire any directors or cameramen or gaffers. There were no actor hissy fits to smooth over. All you needed to do was dub in some English dialogue that more or less made sense, fit the action on the screen, and approximately matched the actors’ lip movements. Or maybe not, whatever. Sometimes you might want to bring in an editor to try and rearrange a few scenes so the picture and dialogue’ll make more sense to the kids at the drive-in, but even that wasn’t always necessary. Come up with a snappy English title, Americanize some of the actors’ names, and you’re good to go. The important thing is these films could be picked up for a song, and minus a few minor expenses everything they brought in was gravy.

Suddenly US theaters were full of sci-fi, horror, and westerns from Italy, Japan, Spain, and yes indeed, Mexico. Low-budget distributor K. Gordon Murray quickly established himself as the king of marketing Mexican horror cheapies to American audiences, handling films like The Man and the Monster, The Brainiac, Curse of the Doll People, and a whole lotta movies with “Aztec Mummy” in the title. It would be nice to say these films have complex and thought-provoking storylines, that the acting is strong and subtle, that the cinematography is dazzling and the special effects on a par with any major American studio at the time, but that would really be pushing it. A lot of the films were just slapdash, flat-footed remakes of popular American films but with cheaper sets. A few of them do stand out, though, in that even the dubbed and edited versions remain uniquely Mexican, even if they do seem to tell the same story over and over again. And some of them are just plain nuts.

Genre director Rafael Portillo and screenwriter Alfredo Salazar were best known for their Aztec Mummy and wrestling pictures, and in 1958 topped even Santo Meets Dracula with La momia azteca contra el robot humano, translated as The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot or, more simply, The Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy.

As the opening narration assures us, the film is based on an “actual experiment” conducted by two scientists from “The Los Angeles University” and verified by witnesses who “signed sworn statements with a notary public” so “there is no question about this story’s authenticity.”

Please keep that in mind.

The film is told mostly in flashback and through voiceover, which is generally a sure sign you’re watching a heavy-handed bit of editorial butchery. The same sort of thing was done regularly to the US versions of Toho films, usually with a mind toward simplifying the story.

Okay, a psychiatrist (Ramón Gay) is mocked by his colleagues when he presents a paper about past life regression, so he storms home and hypnotizes his wife Flora (Rosa Arenas). We slip into a low budget flashback within a flashback as we learn Flora was once an Aztec maiden on schedule to be sacrificed when she runs off with a warrior. The village priests find them, bring them back, and bury the warrior alive after placing a curse on him. Then they fit the old Flora with a gold bracelet and breastplate inscribed with directions to the location of “the secret Aztec treasure.” Then they cut out her heart, which may say something about the effectiveness of that breastplate.

Returning to the first flashback, we learn the evil Dr. Krupp had spied on the experiment and now wants in on it. Nevertheless the good doctor decides for some reason that the best way to prove his theory is to find the bracelet and breastplate, so they all go looking. Lucky for them they find a secret passage under the pyramid that I guess is in their backyard. Moments later they find the ancient temple, the skeleton of the old Flora, and the breastplate which they take home with them. The fun doesn’t last long, though, as the warrior’s mummy shows up at the house, grabs the breastplate, grabs Flora, returns to the temple, and prepares to cut out her heart again. At this point we’re about six minutes into the film.

Then it turns out, see, that Dr. Krupp is really a sinister underworld figure known as The Bat, and...oh screw it. Over the course of the rest of the film we get gangsters, a shootout, hypnotism, a mad scientist, a pit full of rattlesnakes, that mummy again, some Aztec rituals, a few vanishing bodies, a police investigation, a stolen corpse, a stolen brain, and a stolen “machine that uses radium,” together with lines of dialogue like, “oh, you devilish mummy!” and “continuing our search we hurried to the snake pit.” Eventually we even get a robot there near the end (though it’s more of a reanimated corpse wearing a metal suit festooned with some blinking lightbulbs),and it has a brief and slow wrestling match with the mummy.

And all of it, believe it or not, is crammed into a zippy 65 minutes. No, it’s not a particularly good film as the term is traditionally used, but it is a fascinating one. As crazy as it all gets, as big as some of the plot holes and lapses in logic may seem, the craziest thing of all is that you can’t really criticize it for any of that given that it’s, y’know, based on a true story.

Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy is a pretty extreme example of what was coming out of Mexico at the time. Other genre pictures were no less strange, maybe, but a little more sane.

Three years after Bert I. Gordon’s Attack of the Puppet People and 25 years after Tod Browning’s The Devil Doll, Benito Alazraki released his 1961 film Muñecos infernales, better known in the States as Curse of the Doll People.

An archaeologist interested in ancient rights and such and her physician husband (Ramon Gay again) visit an art collector friend who regales them with the exciting tale of his recent trip to Haiti. While there, see, he and two friends witnessed a secret voodoo ritual that included human sacrifice. For all the crazy goings on though, the art collector couldn’t take his eyes off the idol the voodoo priests were worshipping. He thought it would make a fine addition to his collection, so the next day he went back and stole it.

(Given that the story is not told in flashback, just by some guy sitting in an easy chair, I’m tempted to think the whole Haiti angle was an invention of the screenwriter for the American version. Maybe the producer was a little tired of Aztecs by this point.)

It’s not hard to guess that stealing a revered idol from a voodoo temple is not without its repercussions, and sure enough before you know it the children of all the men on the Haiti trip start receiving new dolls in the mail. Real nice, realistic-looking ones too. None of the parents seem a bit concerned by the arrival of anonymous gifts for their children, merely handing the dolls to the tykes and sending them off to bed. After a few cuts to an oddly Mexican-looking Haitian voodoo priest, well you guessed it. the dolls start coming to life and knocking off the parents in ways that can’t easily be traced back as the work of an evil dolly.

The one surprise here is given the budget, the special effects (midgets in doll clothes on oversized sets) are really, really good. Better than Bert Gordon’s, even. It’s just too bad the story around them doesn’t have a bit more zing to it. It’s a little flabby and obvious. Still, you start to get the sense a pattern is developing.

El baron del terror (released in the States as The Brainiac in 1962), directed by Chano Urueta, marked a bit of a break from the simple revenge plot. Oh wait, no it didn’t. But it was still a break from the standard storyline.

As the film opens it’s 1661, a comet has appeared in the sky, and an evil baron (Abel Salazar) is being burned at the stake by Inquisitors for practicing black magic. As evil barons are so wont to do when finding themselves in circumstances like that, he places a curse on all those who condemned him, vowing he would return in 300 years when the comet reappears and kill off all their descendants. The Inquisitors, for some reason, don’t seem terribly concerned by all this and go ahead and burn him anyway.

Cut to three hundred years in the future and true to his word the comet has reappeared and so has the baron, who starts snuffing people who didn’t even know they were related to Inquisitors. Yes, it’s a plot we’ve seen how many times already? But the Brainiac, as the title might hint, does offer a twist or two. First, before he kills his victims the Baron transforms into a kind of hideous horned demon monster (the doll special effects were better). Then during the murders he sucks out his victims’ brains, which he keeps in a big salad bowl in the kitchen. When he lures someone over to his apartment and confirms their identity, all he needs to do is excuse himself to the kitchen for a moment, have a spoonful of brains, and shazam. No more descendant and more brains for the baron.

A year later Ueueta returned to more standard form with La cabeza viviente, aka The Living Head. Here again he opens with a long prologue in which he went to some pains to at least give the illusion of historical accuracy. When a great Aztec general dies, not only is he buried, but so are a few of his servants and a high priestess to help him on his way in the afterlife. That those others weren’t quite dead yet doesn’t seem to matter much. It’s all quite a big to-do.

Cut to 450 years in the future, as an incredibly bad archaeologist and two assistants stumble upon the tomb. First they completely destroy the mummy of the high priestess and shrug it off. Then when he finds the invaluable Ring of Death, the archaeologist immediately announces that he’s going to give it to his daughter, “who likes ugly things like that.” Then after reading aloud the very clear curse that will befall anyone who desecrates the tomb, the trio scurry’s off with the general’s mummified head and the mummy of his servant (the one still clutching the knife). Do they then deliver them to the museum where they can be properly cared for and kept in carefully climate-controlled environments? Well, almost: he brings them back to his apartment and keeps them in the living room.

Yeah, it’s not really hard to see where this is headed. The daughter starts wearing the Ring of Death and gets a little kooky in the head . Then the servant and head come to life and all three of them (the daughter carrying the head) go tracking down the desecrators in order to cut out their hearts.

“I know what you’re thinking,” a police inspector says after the first murder. “But I don’t believe in legends. Or in superstitions either. All I know is that this is a very difficult case.”

That’s the real killer in The Living Head. Even more so than most, the dubbing is miserable, with most of the lines either being non-sequiturs, or so plainly obvious and logical they come out sounding like non-sequiturs. I get the feeling sometimes that the voice actors they brought in were never given scripts, simply shown the film and told to make it up as they went along.

Ah, but this is merely a taste of what’s out there in terms of Mexican horror. We haven’t even considered the Santo pictures yet, and there are hundreds of those. I’m not sure if the likes of Robot Meets the Aztec Mummy would really enrich anyone’s appreciation or understanding of Mexican independence, but there are doubtless lessons to be learned here. Namely, should you happen to find some neat stuff in a sacred temple next time you’re in Mexico, for godsakes just leave it there, no matter how cool it is. Those Aztecs mean business.

by Jim Knipfel

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Doctors describe black box of medical care in detention facilities

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/health/migrant-conditions-doctors-bn/index.html

Doctors describe black box of medical care in detention facilities: 'That is not medical care. That's malpractice'

By Jen Christensen and Michael NEDELMAN | PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019 | CNN | Posted July 3, 2019 |

(CNN) - Pediatricians who have volunteered to work with migrants in El Paso, Texas, are walled off from any contact with "whoever is providing the medical care to these individuals" in government run migrant detention centers, pediatrician Dr. Carlos Gutierrez said Tuesday.

"That is not medical care. That's malpractice," said Gutierrez, who has helped treat families received by Annunciation House, a nonprofit that runs temporary residential centers that receives migrants released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or US Customs and Border Protection.

During a press conference on Tuesday in El Paso, the doctors said they know of dozens of additional doctors that would like to provide care, but the centers aren't allowing any of them in, as they have in the past.

The doctors said migrants report that agents take away their medicines that the migrants lacked proper nutrition.

They "describe a situation no human being should have to go through," said Gutierrez. "This is coming through the mouths of the refugees," not through media reports, he added.

Roughly six to seven weeks ago, Annunciation House was receiving between 600 and 1,000 migrants per day, according to Ruben Garcia, the organization's director. Now, it's about 100 per day -- sometimes less.

"I keep hearing that CBP facilities are overwhelmed ... and we are not seeing that," Garcia said Tuesday.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Friday that it appears there will be a 25% decrease in June in the numbers of migrants crossing at the US-Mexico border, for which McAleenan credited Trump administration initiatives.

Pediatrician Dr. Jose Manuel De la Rosa said that among migrant children seen recently, they're treating problems typical of any children.

There are "no exotic diseases being seen," he said. "We see runny noses and runny bottoms. We see chickenpox, we see other childhood diseases."

In 2014, the doctors said they had access to the government facilities that were clean and well managed at the time, but De la Rosa said CBP has told them this time that "it is not current policy."

That's left Gutierrez "upset" and "angry."

"I don't think they get any of the care," Gutierrez said.

When the children are released, the doctors have no idea what kind of treatment they have had. US agencies told the doctors that they want to "respect the privacy of the refugee." But, Gutierrez said a lack of continuity of care "is piss-poor medical care."

Gutierrez said he has been deeply upset by the government centers' practice of taking away medicines that migrants arrive with, and medicines are not given back when they're released.

Overcrowding at these facilities has also been a public health problem, the doctors said. Dr. Blanca Garcia described seeing a boy about two months ago with a high fever who was eventually hospitalized.

"How could nobody have noticed that this child was so sick?" she asked. "When you have so many people in custody, I'm sure that it's easy to miss something like that.

"Unfortunately, that's how tragedies happen," she said.

Dr. Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez said she has treated patients who haven't received "basic human needs" inside the facilities. One mother complained that she couldn't keep her child warm with the onesie and plastic blanket she was given.

"Despite her best efforts, her little newborn's fingers and toes were still blue," she said.

The mother's milk supply had dropped and she was dehydrated, Ayoub-Rodriguez said. The doctor asked if she had been given water or had asked for water and the woman told her no.

"I see this often in the population, they are afraid to ask for help," Ayoub-Rodriguez said. "This is a basic example, a very simple case of a family not receiving basic human needs, access to water and warmth. This is why children should not be in a detention centers."

Asked about the government's practice of taking medicines away and if they would allow doctors into the facilities in the future, CBP spokesperson Roger Maier said in an emailed statement:

"Our facilities are secured locations, where the employees and contractors are thoroughly vetted before they are allowed to interact with anyone in our custody. We have [US Department of Homeland Security] personnel and contracted medical staff at several locations throughout our sector who perform initial screenings and provide medical treatment when required. If the determination is made that anyone our custody needs additional medical attention, we will transport them to a local hospital where they receive the necessary attention."

AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN HAVE DIED IN US CUSTODY

Since September, at least six migrant children have died in federal custody, including three that were taken into custody around El Paso.

In June, a team of doctors, lawyers and advocates warned that there were major health and hygiene problems at several US Customs and Border Protection facilities in Texas.

Many of the children lived in what they called "deplorable conditions" and didn't have access to soap to wash their hands or toothbrushes to brush their teeth, according to a legal filing in federal court in which a group of lawyers asked a judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt and to order the immediate improvements to conditions at US facilities where children are being held.

According to the filing, some of the children said they hadn't showered in weeks. They lacked access to adequate nutrition, stayed in cold facilities and slept on the floor.

The team had visited the children because it is monitoring the government's compliance with the law.

An agreement gives children the right to "safe and sanitary conditions of detention." The Flores Agreement, as the 1997 settlement is known, also requires the government to release children from immigration detention without unnecessary delay to their parents, other adults or licensed programs. It's a settlement that the Trump administration has been pushing to end, calling it burdensome.

In addition to a lack of "basic hygiene," cases of flu were reported and lice was an issue. Medical screenings have been criticized as "inadequate."

Last month, a federal judge ordered US Customs and Border Protection to urgently permit health experts into detention facilities holding migrant children to ensure they're "safe and sanitary" and assess the childrens' medical needs.

US District Judge Dolly Gee set a deadline of July 12 for the parties to "file a joint status report regarding their mediation efforts and what has been done to address post haste the conditions described."

The American Academy of Pediatrics has long had an opinion that "children should not be in detention centers," pediatrician De la Rosa said on Tuesday.

"These are not little adults," he said, adding that children need a trained eye to handle their medical conditions.

"This is life and death," Ayoub-Rodriguez said.

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