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driftwccds · 5 months ago

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Is that JORDAN GONZALES ? Oh, no, that’s SEBASTIÁN DOMINGUEZ-HERRERA, a TWENTY-SEVEN year old MUSICIAN and NIGHT TIME RADIO HOST at VALPOFM who uses HE/HIM pronouns. They currently live in SANTA MOENDA in VALPARAÍSO, and the character they identify with most is ERIC MATTHEWS from BOY MEETS WORLD. Hopefully they find their own little paradise here in el país de los poetas !

tw : spiders and snakes !

tl;dr : third adoptive sibling to luna and javier dominguez-herrera. son of a mexican scream queen & tejano rockstar. cute dumb exciteable music junky who’s way too intense sometimes. the kind of person who acts like you’re his best friend even though you just met, and he means it. struggles w/ some issues mainly regarding not always being as talented and paling in comparison to the rest of his family but mostly… someone who’s very confident in himself & his identity and doesn’t shy from taking risks. can be a little weird and offputting, but there’s never really any malice behind it. he’s just a Weird Little Freak even if he is endearing.

basics :

full name : sebastián luis dominguez-herrera nicknames : seb, seba ( by his siblings & close friends ), his stage & radio name is just sebastián herrera for ease of use age : twenty-seven pronouns : he/him place of birth : miami, florida date of birth : 06/05/199X star sign : gemini

height : 5’7 scars : he was very sheltered growing up… accidents did not really happen tattoos : so many im not even sure where to start. lots and lots of different ghosties and creatures from folklore. both his arms are covered in sleeves that go all the way from his collar down to his hands, which he’s been working on since he was teenager. there aren’t as many on the rest of his body ( namely because he just hasn’t lived enough life to get them everywhere yet ) but he has plans that by the time he’s an elderly person he will have his whole body covered. except maybe his face. piercings : earlobes on both ears, though he usually only wears an earring in one ; conch ear piercing on left side other distinguishing features : n/a

career : musician ( anotha one ! ), nighttime radio host at valpofm career claim : think angel face by stephen sanchez-esque, and also the marias cinema and submarine which he did w/ luna education : n/a

aesthetics : deep purple pomegranate staining your mouth and hands ; the crackling of a record as it plays through good speakers ; the cool feeling of night time air on your skin as you step off a warm stage ; a red haze of smoke cascading around a bar ; the hustle and bustle of many bodies in one kitchen, full of laughter and sweet singing voices ; rose petals left in a path leading you somewhere romantic ; a dark movie theatre with red velvet curtains ; the gentle sound of acoustic guitar, of low piano notes, of a soft voice ; a smile that makes you feel immediately comfortable ; the darkness that envelopes you on a beach at night, drawing you towards something hopeful on the horizon ; candlelight flickering over pages of sheet music strewn across a dark oak desk ; a table full of food and loved ones ; dark snakes writhing together in a glass case ; the gentle hum of night in a radio station ; never quite feeling like you’ll be enough, but loving yourself anyway currently playing : almost ( sweet music ), hozier ; the take over, the breaks over, fall out boy ; menswear, the 1975 ; american cliche, finneas ; strangers, mt. joy

traits : airheaded, easily distractable, charming, friendly, kind, enthusiastic, passionate, morbid, flaky, loyal

biography :

I : can you state your name, age, and how long you’ve been living in valparaiso, for the record ?

S : a slow grin breaks out across his face as sebastián takes a seat across from the interviewer. making himself comfortable in the chair. there’s not even a little bit of hesitation in his movements. he’s been in the spotlight for what feels like his whole life ; a camera pointed in his face does nothing to spark nervousness. his arm comes to rest against the back of the chair. “ sebastián dominguez-herrera. i just got here, like, a few days ago. oh── and i’m twenty-seven. “

I: let’s start at the beginning : where were you born ? what was your family like ?

S : “ i was born in miami, technically, but i don’t remember being there at all, because i was adopted to veracruz, mexico when i was only a few months old, and mostly, i grew up there and in new york city. “ he explains, in fragments as the memories come to him, tilting the chair back so the front legs hover dangerously in the air. sebastián doesn’t seem to notice. “ my mom is a famous scream queen. you might recognize her as gale from scream, “ he’s clearly very proud of his family’s accomplishments, “ and my padre is a famous tejano musician ; a latin american rockstar. they adopted me so my older brother, javier, could have a sibling because they were trying to have another kid but it just wasn’t working out for them, at least until they had my younger sibling, luna, but she was an accident. we always called them the miracle baby because of it. “ a pause, “ i wanted to be a lot like my older brother when i was a kid. he was so cool. . .── like in a band, and rode motorcycles, and all this awesome stuff that seemed so cool when i was a teenager. he’s still pretty cool, but now i know he’s afraid of snakes and spiders and shit so he’s less cool. “ seba is playing coy, but the child that lives inside of him still desperately wants javi to think he’s cool, too. it’s part of the reason he’s made the jump to valparaiso : see, everyone, i can also live impulsively. i can also move countries on a whim. weirdly enough, despite his self-assurance, sebastián feels an itch to prove himself, like his whole life he’s just been waiting for opportunities to come to him instead of seeking them out.

I : what kind of kid were you ? what was your childhood like ?

S : “ i think a lot of people would tell you i was demonic and raised in a house that was the same. “ he laughs, light and easy. “ luna remembers getting bullied── like a lot── because our family was weird, and our mom was being accused of being a witch, but i guess i thought about it differently when i was younger. i thought it was so cool that everyone was afraid of us, like we had some kind of power that they didn’t. i think i also just thought they were jealous. like my mama was in the movies that they were watching, and my papa was on the radio that they were listening too, and then they were mean to us ? “ he scoffs a little. “ our parents pulled us out of school to homeschool us instead, and it worked fine for me. i mean the teachers didn’t like me anyway. i was really chatty, and never knew how to stay still. i couldn’t focus in school for the life of me ; of course that always gets you labelled as someone who misbehaves. i liked it way better at home because i could just follow my parents around and see what they were doing. with my dad that usually ended up being music stuff, and so while luna read their scripts and books, i was learning what made a good song. we all just kind of hung out together. “

I: what was the most defining moment of your life ? how has it impacted you personally ?

S : he thinks about it. there’s never been one single moment that sebastián can point towards that he would consider the thing that changed his life, at least not yet, but there are a few little stops along the way that he thinks had an impact on who he is today. “ the move to new york was a big one for me. “ he admits, “ leaving our family, and our community, even if they were starting to get mean ; it was weird to be so far from what we had known most of our lives. “ that was probably the first thing that clued sebastián into the weird feeling that settled into his stomach. the second ? a call from his biological mother.

“ see, my biological mother gave me up because she was only sixteen when she got pregnant with me, and she wasn’t ready for kids. but by the time i was in my teens she would’ve been . . . “ he pauses. terrible with math, he tries to figure it out for a moment before giving up, “ anyway, she was older. old enough to have her own family, with her own kids and a husband and stuff. she wanted to get to know me, since i was her first kid. she kept in contact with my parents over the years, just to know i was doing okay, and they were really open to the idea of her flying in to meet me, but only if that’s what i wanted. i want to really emphasize that, “ he leans forward, suddenly serious, “ my parents never made me feel like i was adopted. they just wanted me to have my own choice in what i did with my life──. . . like, they didn’t think it was fair to stop me from having a relationship with her if i wanted to, which was probably really hard for them. “ the thought pops out, and he lets out a soft ‘ hmf ‘ before continuing, “ so she flew to new york and we met for lunch and it was. . . weird. i think especially for the time i was in my life, where i was questioning so much about myself already── you know, preteens── she had the mom haircut and she spoke to me like a mom would and i couldn’t get it out of my head that she was so nice but she gave me up. “ he knows, obviously, that she didn’t do it because she wanted too ; but at the time, it was the first time that sebastián had been exposed to the ideas that maybe there was a personal reason for it too. “ they weren’t really easy feelings to deal with. i still think about it a lot. she wishes me a merry christmas every year, and stuff, but after a few years of hearing about her other life i realized just how hard it was to keep up a relationship like that with someone who didn’t know me the first fourteen years i was alive. it's impossible to feel close with her at all. “

there’s another couple seconds of silence, his mood soured just slightly talking about it. it’s not that he holds any particular dislike for his biological mother── he knows that it’s not her fault they were in this scenario, and they were both better off. she made the right call. but it’s still left him with a sense of unease about himself── which, unfortunately, is only destined to get worse. “ there was also last summer. “ it’s fresh enough in his mind sebastián doesn’t really want to focus on it. it’s the same story as always : some girl, a whirlwind romance, and a broken heart. he was always known as being a bit of a loverboy ( in the loosest sense of the term ), and carried his reputation proudly, but he’d been head over heels for her. and she just left. it definitely threw a lot of things into question── again. he shrugs. “ it’s kind of stupid. otherwise, i don’t really know what else i would talk about. “

I : what is your job ? why did you chose to be in that specific area of employment ?

S : “ i’m a musician, but i’m not as successful as the rest of my family. yet. “ seba does sometimes worry he’ll never have the same list of accomplishments that the rest of his family seem to ; that maybe the creative talent they have just doesn’t run in his blood in the same way, and he’s doomed to be the black sheep forever. that’s never stopped him from being their number one supporter. none of that, after all, would be their fault. it was just the cards he was handed. “ my first album just came out last year and i’ve done some stuff with luna, but i’m not aiming to be famous. i already know what that’s like. i just really love music. “ and it’s true. the way he navigates the industry, and music criticism in general. . . for someone so dense, it’s borderline impressive. on air is the only time sebastián sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, even if he is always speaking with an audacious level of blind confidence in himself. “ i think i’d really be comfortable just doing radio for the rest of my life. it’s a lot of fun ! i’m a night owl anyway so i don’t mind the weird, late hours, and it gives me the chance to kind of hone my craft at the same time. “

I : what’re you doing in valparaiso ? do you plan on staying ?

S : “ luna came here because the university had the best program for folklore that she could find, and javi ended up following after her when our mom asked him to. i stayed behind in veracruz to work with our dad for a while but. . . “ he trails off, and then his face breaks out into another wide grin, “ i guess i got kind of bored. i thought maybe it was time for a change, you know, work on my music in a difference place. turns out valpofm’s night time radio host is retiring and he knows my dad pretty well so. . . “ widening his arms, seba gestures to himself, as if that’s all the explanation needed, “ here i am. “

quickfire facts :

the third dominguez-herrera sibling ! seba is adopted but was adopted as a baby so he basically grew up raised alongside javi and luna as if he was their flesh and blood. he has feelings about his biological mother but will tell you with 100% certainty that the dominguez-herreras are his family.

drives a motorcycle. javi taught him how because growing up seba always asked him for rides and then once he was old enough to get his license it seemed like a natural fit. probably on the lookout to buy one in valparaiso now that he’s here.

seba is also a trans man. his pronouns are he/him ! he also very much likes women & femmes but isn’t closed off to the idea that love, to him, could come at any time so he doesn’t always like to stick himself with labels when it comes to sexuality.

( snake tw ) owns 3 snakes all named after demons : lilit, asmodeo and belfegor. did work very hard to make sure his paperwork was all in order before he shipped them to valpo so he could have his little friends with him.

though he’s not as into all of the reading and storytelling behind the myths and legends that kind of haunted his family growing up, he definitely embraces that morbid side of them. would love if someone told him he seems like he’d be in a cult. loves horror movies and that stuff.

that being said though : WHORE ! opposite to both luna and javi he has been hurt in the past after opening up his heart so quickly and easily to someone he realized he couldnt trust so now he just assumes going into every relationship that they’re just there for a good time ! not a long time ! hes starting to get a little worried that he isn’t long-term settle down material as he gets older and he’s trying to avoid spiraling about it by just turning a blind eye to the problem 🥰 but he’ll be the most fun you’ve ever had for the 3 month whirlwind of a relationship you’re in together. love songs & flowers & thoughtful ( see : intense ) dates before he’s like well this has been real ! bye ! very much the kind of person that makes you feel like you’ve been best friends/lovers your whole life even though you just met yesterday.

name an instrument and he can play it. if he can’t play it he can probably figure it out. mainly he sticks w/ guitar and piano, but he loves using things to make sound. his solo stuff tends to be very oldies-inspired ( if anyone’s listened to stephen sanchez, much like that ) and him and luna do a lot together that they release but pretend they don’t know who it is ( even though the writing credits are very obviously them )

he can speak english and mexican spanish

seba learn how to focus on something challenge! hes a bit dense and struggles with keeping his attention in one place for long periods of time. did not do well in school and did not carry on into post-secondary for that reason but he tries ! he tries very hard !

not at all the kind of person to keep his thoughts and opinions to himself. what is a filter ? seba’s never heard of that and he’s never had too. he will yap for hours about nothing and the conversation will jump 40 different topics until you forget what the original plot of the movie was. . . he can’t sit still and he can’t shut up, very useful for being in radio !

wanted connections :

ok im gonna be so real i'm brain dead but i'm sure i'll come back to this at some point.

#seba dominguez herrera : intro #valpohqintro #anyway you don't have to read anything more than the tl;dr and the quickfire facts to get a sense of his character the rest is just for me #idk why i write so much #but heyo #flashing gif tw #tw flashing gif #spider tw #tw spider #snake tw #tw snake

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theighthhorcrux · 1 month ago

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Enter Sandman thoughts

- This better be a story for the ‘grandkids’ and not because Gibbs is dying

- A new rule?

- Nice fakeout, I thought it would be the opening theme

- 1. Interesting theme 2. I don’t like how the franchise has neglected proper opening credits and the classic font

- Okay Austin Stowell, that’s a good Gibbs voice

- Franks makes his grand entrance, but his voice isn’t Franks enough. Maybe his lungs aren’t cancer-filled enough yet

- Yes, yes, he’s conventionally attractive. We know

- I like Randy already

- Gear up! It wasn’t just the Rules

- We’re going into cult territory in the first episode?

- Interesting first impression, Dominguez. Also for a Marine, she has pretty messy hair

- I feel sorry for this guy

- She doesn’t look old enough to be a 33-year-old’s grandmother. And do we really have to go the stereotypical route?

- New Shannon and Kelly for our new Gibbs

- Mute? The ‘Asians’ was bad enough :/

- Are they trying to get themselves canceled? ENOUGH

- Smitty? Reference to Schmitty?

- Never had bourbon? Gibbs?

- Is Dr. Tengalkat Native American? Hopefully he’ll be a recurring character

- So when does Vera show up again

- They could have stood further apart

- Gloves, Probie!

- A sniper’s eye. Nice one, Gibbs

- Yuck. Was that scene really necessary?

- Please tell me they become friends and there’s NO ROMANCE WHATSOEVER

- Ew, TMI

- That’s one fake-looking plane

- Ouch. Poor guy

- The theme!

- Why is it always about a girl? So Dominguez is a dead woman walking. End of the season until she gets killed or end of the show?

- No phoof even at the end?

- Put a shirt on

- Ouch. Also I don’t think that’s the same house

- No one knows what NIS is. Par for the course

- They presumably call him Dr. Tango because his last name is too complicated. I don’t like that

- Writers, a character can be a strong powerful woman without being sexist. And where’s the accent?

- What is wrong with Vera? Why are the writers doing this to her

- Stop making the good guys racist!

- So has the funeral not happened yet or what? They’re definitely talking

- Interesting tactic

- Observation!

- So she was cheating on her husband with not one but two people

- Oof. A lot to say about that conversation

- So Vera is secretly his friend?

- He better put that ring back on

Overall, these episodes were definitely engaging and the Bugs scenes were compelling. However, if the writers don’t clean up their act with the racism and insensitivity, I don’t want this show to return for a second season.

#ncis #ncis origins #naval criminal investigative service

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mosthomoeroticenemies · 2 years ago

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The List

This is just a list of all the contestants, now I must go make the round one matchups (I have no idea how long that will take, bear with me please)

There’s 186 contestants so putting it under a read more

Papyrus - Undertale

Sans - Undertale

Jack Skellington - Nightmare Before Christmas

Brook - One Piece

Skelly -Hades

Skeletor - He-Man

Skeleton - Minecraft

Lewis Pepper - Mystery Skulls

Grim - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Héctor Rivera - Coco

Itward - Fran Bow

Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics

Skulduggery Pleasant - Skulduggery Pleasant

Death - Discworld

Lord Hater - Wander Over Yonder

Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson - Spongebob Squarepants

Skelita Calaveras - Monster High

Señor Hueso - Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Mr. Skully Pettibone - Scary Godmother

Gaster - Undertale

Skull Boy - Ruby Gloom

Real Magic Skeleton - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

Dry Bones - Mario

Spooky Scary Skeletons - Silly Symphonies: The Skeleton Dance

Dr Bones Cookie - Cookie Run Ovenbreak

Manny Calavera - Grim Fandango

Kravitz - The Adventure Zone

Bonejangles - Corpse Bride

Benrey - Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

Harrowhark Nonagesimus - Harrow the Ninth

Sans - Deltarune

Dry Bowser - Mario

Mamá Imelda Rivera - Coco

Houndstone - Pokemon

Rexy - Night at the Museum

Ainz Ooal Gown - Overlord

King Clawthorne - The Owl House

Clackula - My Singing Monsters

The Lich - Adventure Time

Skeletons - Skyrim

Benny - Halloweentown

The Skull - The Last Unicorn

Skellinore - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

The Dinosaur Skeleton - Dog Man

Zans - Going Under

Skul - Skul: The Hero Slayer

Ernesto de la Cruz - Coco

Royal Dominguez - Inscryption

The Skeleton Appears - The Skeleton Appears

Bonehilda - The Sims

Scraps - Corpse Bride

The Titan - The Owl House

Hector Barbossa - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Skeleton Horse - Minecraft

Samukai - Lego Ninjago

Oshare Bones - Puyo Puyo

Master Warden Palamedes Sextus - Harrow the Ninth

Skull Man - Mega Man

Cubone - Pokemon

Trazyn the Infinite - Warhammer 40,000

Death - Soul Eater

Lady Bone Demon - Lego Monkie Kid

Bone Fairies - Meme

Twelve Foot Skeleton - Twelve Foot Skeleton

Mr Death - Adventure Time

Bone Dragon - Dragonvale

Skeleton Horse Jockey - Minecraft

Skull - The Daily Object Show

Skeletons - Spy Kids 2

Skeletons that tried to kill Mr Krabs - Spongebob Squarepants

Skull on the Mantelpiece - Sherlock

Lerexus Novation - Elder Scrolls Online

Bone Monk - DUSK

The Augur of the Obscure - Elder Scrolls Online

No Name - Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon

Mortis - The Clowns SMP

Skull with Party Hat - It's Time For Comics

Yorick - Hamlet

Skeleton - The G Keyboard

Environmentally Storytelling Toilet Skeleton - Various Post-apocalyptic Games

Skeleton - Oblivion

Atavist - Slap City

Gravelord Nito - Dark Souls

Xykon - The Order of the Stick

Death - Puppet History

Bones Malone - Tumblr

Stallord - The Legend of Zelda: Twilgiht Princess

Santa Claus - Puppet History

Poco - Brawl Stars

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Just Walk Out! - The Meme

Nakarkos - Monster Hunter

Skeleton - Morrowind

Caged Skeletons - Stardew Valley

Arc - Skeleton Knight in Another World

Banjaw - My Singing Monsters

Pip's Skull - South Park: The Stick of Truth

Gregor - The Adventures of Puss in Boots

Heisenbones - Breaking Bad

Death - Gregory Horror Show

Greg the Grim Reaper - Conker's Bad Fur Day

Skeleton - Crypt of the Necrodancer

Skeleton - Danny Phantom

Pariah Dark's entire skeleton army - Danny Phantom

La Muerte - The Book of Life

La Calavera Catrina - Mexican culture

Mr. Holbrooke - Little Witch Academia

Bart without his flesh - The Simpson's

Honda - Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san

The Boneraiser - Boneraiser Minions

David S. Pumpkins' Backup Dancers - Saturday Night Live

Bonesy - Gorillaz

Skeleton - "What's a skeleton's favorite snack?"

Décor and his husband - Tumblr user liquidstar's brother's room

Toumaï - Paleontology

Princess Rita - Once Upon a Tower

The Grim Reaper - The Sims

Elias Ainsworth - The Ancient Magus' Bride

Fabro the Necromancer - Slim Gretina's Grumpy Shark - Absurd Extravaganza

Death - Horrible Histories

Mind-Boggling Effects - Playstation

Mortaccio - Vampire Survivors

Halloween Novelty Pencil - Halloween 2016

The Skeleton Head - Lockwood & Co.

Captain Bones - Crashbox

Skullastic Superintendents - Monster High

Wither - Minecraft

Stray - Minecraft

Skelly - Monster High

Bonesy - Monster High

Grim - DanTDM

Bone - Aib

High Lord Wolnir - Dark Souls 3

Christmas tree skull - Real Life

Skeleton - Gravity Falls

Me the poll maker - The Near Future

Mr Bones- Mr Bones

Lego Skeleton - Lego

Kruncha and Nuckal - Lego Ninjago

Spider Jockey - Minecraft

The Lernaen Hydra - Hades

Skeleton Champion - Oblivion

The Skulkin - Lego Ninjago

The Nightmare King - Dimension 20: Fantasy High (Sophomore Year)

Queen Elizabeth 2 - England

Stalnox - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Stalkoblins - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Skeletons - My Closet

Lord Death Man - DC Comics

Cadaver Cain - Skulduggery Pleasant

Your Own - Your Body

Righty - The Lone Necromancer

Count von Dy - The Mystery of Greveholm

Skull and Bones - Skull Chapel in Czermna

Sedlec Ossuary skeletons - Real Life

Gary the Necromancer - DnD campaign

Manolo Sanchez - The Book of Life

Death - Cultural

Boneknapper - How to Train Your Dragon

Hooty - The Owl House

Monk Gyatso - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Skullgreymon - Digimon

Inaccurate Animal Skeleton Decoration - Home Depot

Skeleton - Bones Album Cover

Skeleton-T - Puyo Puyo

Skeletron - Terraria

Mr. Saturday - Skeleton Boomerang

Da Vinci - Ghost Stories

Milo Belladonna - Monster Camp

Bones the Skeleton - Skyrim Mod user jarrodrey99

Reaper (Gabriel Reyes) - Overwatch

Szarekh The Silent King - Warhammer 40,000

Calliope - Homestuck

Jared Hopworth - The Magnus Archives

Hexxus - FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Rem - Death Note

Grimm - Grimm's Hollow

Decay Dragon - Dragonvale

Melting - Nuclear Throne

Duskull - Pokemon

Bona - My Singing Monsters

Death Phantom - Sailor Moon

Charon - Hades

Necrodeus - Kirby: Mass Attack

Jimothy - Elsewhere University

Blight - Batman Beyond

#not a poll #contestants #ik no one will read all of them but theyre there if youd like #sorry if i misspelled any I mostly went by the submissions and what it said when I looked them up #these are also just vaguely in order by number of submissions #however everything bone fairies and down only had 1

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best-magnus-archives-character · 2 years ago

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Closed the nomination form! I made a list with all nominations by category! I'll accept suggestions of stuff to move around (change a character from minor to one of the other lists, but not the other way around cause the minor list is long enough). The Main Character list is a bit awkward with 18 characters, but I'm not really willing to move any away from it even if people might disagree? Unless I see a very strong argument.

the only nominations that didn't get in were the artifacts, since people voted for those to have their own poll later on!

So here's the 3 lists I have under the cut!

Main Characters

Jonathan Sims

Martin Blackwood

Timothy Stoker

Sasha James

Basira Hussain

Daisy Tanner

Melanie King

Georgie Barker

Elias Bouchard

Jane Prentiss

NotThem/NotSasha

The Distortion

Nikola Orsinov

Peter Lukas

Gertrude Robinson

Jonah Magnus

Gerry Keay

Annabelle Cane

Minor Characters with Major Impact

Michael Shelley

Adelard Decker

Michael Crew

Oliver Banks

Jude Perry

Simon Fairchild

Robert Smirke

Mikaele Salesa

Agnes Montague

Simon Fairchild

Jurgen Leitner

Julia Montauk

Trevor Herbert

Mikaele Salesa

Breekon and Hope

Mary Keay

Minor Character

Joshua Gillespie (MAG 002)

The Admiral (Georgie’s Cat)

Major Tom (MAG 016)

Helen Richardson (MAG 047)

Karolina Gorka (MAG 071)

Graham Folger (MAG: 003)

Alexander Scaplehorn (MAG 054)

Jordan Kennedy (MAG 055)

Hezekiah Wakely (152)

The Piper (MAG 007)

Gabriel/Worker of Clay (MAG 126)

John Amherst (Corruption Avatar)

Naomi Herne (MAG 013)

Amy Patel (MAG 003)

Werewolf/Hunt Avatar (MAG 031)

Alfred Breekon (MAG 096)

Alexia Crawley (MAG 110)

Emma Harvey (MAG 167)

Elias Bouchard (original)

Evan Lukas (MAG 013)

Laverne (MAG 136)

Callum McKenzie (MAG 125)

John Haan (MAG 072)

Tom Haan (MAG 030)

Jonathan Fanshawe (MAG 127)

Fiona Law (MAG 167)

Spider on the wall (MAG 038)

Leto (MAG 184)

Nathan Watts (MAG: 001)

Sebastian Skinner (MAG 087)

Carlita Sloane (MAG 033)

Erika Mustermann (MAG 034)

Jan Novak (MAG 034)

Piotr Petrov (MAG 034)

Pavel Petrov (MAG 034)

Fulan Al-Fulani (MAG 034)

Juan Pérez (MAG 034)

Jane/John Doe (MAG 034)

Lee Kipple (MAG 042)

Robin Lennox (MAG 100)

“John Smith” (MAG 100)

Celia/Lynne Hammond (MAG 100)

Brian Finlinson (MAG 100)

Carlos Vittery (MAG 016)

Francis (MAG 172)

Wilfred Owen (MAG 007)

Father Edwin Burroughs (MAG 019)

Maxwell Rayner (MAG 002)

Rat from the Bone Turner’s Tale (MAG 017)

Sergey Ushanka (MAG 065)

Angela (MAG 014)

The Anglerfish (MAG 001)

Jan Killbride (MAG 106)

Natalie Ennis (MAG 025)

Alfred Grifter (MAG 042)

Benoît Maçon (MAG 102)

Dr Lionel Elliot (MAG 034)

Rosie Zampano (MAG 192)

Manuela Dominguez (MAG 135)

Petite Scarabée/Little Beetle (MAG 102)

Sarah Baldwin (MAG 001)

Agape (MAG 153)

Monster Pig (MAG 103)

Callum Brodie (MAG 173)

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21. If your original fiction were an AO3 fic, what would the tags be?

thank you so much for the ask!

#found family, #asexual Bennett Warren, #chronically ill Shay Dominguez, #nonbinary Bennett Warren, #everyone is queer, #except Dr. Meir, #the token white cishet, #ableism, #don’t worry it’s mild and is addressed, #graphic depictions of violence, #Celeste leaves better than they found her, #animal companion

#did i do that right?#writeblr #writing #milo speaks

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I need to talk about Dr. Manuela Dominguez (from The Magnus Archives). This woman Drives Me Insane. [TL; DR at the bottom.]

She is initially presented as a textbook mad scientist: a disgraced astrophysicist bent on ending the world as we know it. But with every nuance and detail introduced about this character over the course of the narrative, my understanding of her shifted. By the end, I felt as if the person she described at the beginning of her first Statement was completely divorced from the twisted thing she became— which is the repugnant truth of what happens to Fear Avatars.

Some key details from her first Statement that really struck me: 1) I can really see myself in her love for physics and her ambition. 2) Her alienation from her fanatically religious, “vicious” parents is a big contributor to her downfall, but never remotely presented as an excuse for her actions. 3) She is so utterly unrepentant.

Regarding her parents: She saw the inconsistencies and hypocrisy in their bigoted beliefs about what is “unnatural,” likely in part because, she says, “I found myself crossing that line from an early age. Although, strangely, out of everything I was, it was always my desire to pursue a scientific career that they railed against with the most energy” (MAG 135: Dark Matter).

(I could be projecting, but this line has caused me to speculate that she might also be gay. If so, it would certainly add another level of pain &/or frustration to her home situation.)

But young Dominguez disregards her parents’ ludicrous exhortations and goes on to become an an expert on dark matter (mysterious masses that cover much of the universe and do not emit, absorb, or interact with photons) and dark energy (mysterious force which may be responsible for the expansion of the universe).

It is in the process of researching these phenomena that she has a spiritual awakening of the worst kind. She soon becomes a disciple and eventually second-in-command to Maxwell Rayner, ringleader of the cult of the Dark, the Church of the Divine Host (said Host being Rayner). As a cultist, she goes on a mission aboard the vessel of allied Fears that is the Daedalus space station. There, she creates The Extinguished Sun— a sun made of dark matter, which the Church uses as a focal point in their ritual of the same name to bring about eternal darkness.

That brings us to the point where this character loses my sympathy in the same way Callum (Rayner’s partial reincarnation?) did in S5. The Extinguished Sun ritual involves keeping Marked individuals (which events in S5 lead me to fear may be predominantly children) trapped and terrified in the dark for extended periods of time, and then sacrificing them to the Dark via drowning, in a callback to the manner in which Halley/Rayner was killed/reborn as a vessel of the infinite darkness that predates time itself.

So How Am I To Cope??? Do you know how often I come across women as mad scientists in media— let alone ones who are ambiguously implied to be gay?! Not often!

But there is a possibility she kills kids, and I can’t tolerate that shite, so all I am left with is immeasurable disappointment in her lack of conscience, and in her for joining a cult instead of getting therapy, and in her parents for being dicks, and in those who have purveyed ignorance and engaged in cruelty “in the name of God” both historically and unto the modern day, and in society for the continued existence of systemic sexism (and other biases), and in the limited number of women, POC, and LGBT+ individuals portrayed as mad (and regular, marginally less fun) scientists in media, etc… It’s quite the web of inequity and suffering, stretching between this world and the fictional.

Dr. Manuela Dominguez is a character who makes me sad that there aren’t more women mad scientist characters in media. If there were, it perhaps might not hurt so much to see her progress from someone whose trials, goals, and motivations I can understand and empathize with, to an unredeemable child killer.

To clarify, I don’t believe the author’s writing of this character was bad or sexist. I don’t feel the same morose regret about what could have been when it comes to Jude Perry; I do when it comes to Agnes Montague; I don’t when it comes to Gertrude; etc. I think that Jonny intended for the audience to at least passively ponder the person that Dr. Dominguez could have been, under different circumstances. It is a feature of the writing of all the Avatars.

One of the core themes of the series is this: How do circumstances (such as economic systems, wink wink nudge nudge) shape people? Dr. Dominguez is just one of many disheartening answers to that question.

TL;DR: Dr. Dominguez started out as a victim of bad parenting, and eventually into an even more sick and twisted version of her parents, who she despised as a child for their zealotry and cruelty. But this might not hurt me so bad to think about if 1) I didn’t relate so much to her younger self, as an aspiring physicist and a sapphic trying to shake off the message that everything that brings me joy is “unnatural” and 2) if she wasn’t the first character I thought of when trying to recall women mad scientists in media.

For those who feel like looking for other fem mad scientists in podcasts, I believe Ava the theoretical physicist from Midnight Burger and doctor/assassin Vespa Ilkay from Penumbra both count. For a sane fem scientist, try the marine biologist protagonist from DOWN. If you think of any others in any kind of media, you’re welcome to respond in the comments or tags.

(I know of Poison Ivy, as well as the more sane Dr. Sattler from “Jurassic Park” and Dr. Calvin from Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot,” and I appreciate them. You may leave them out of the replies.)

#the magnus archives #tma #tma spoilers #Dr Manuela Dominguez #manuela dominguez #tma dark #mad scientist #representation matters #yes i know #this is long #I am asking for more female mad scientists in media

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Odessa Cox (June 8, 1922 - October 27, 2001) is the principal founder of Los Angeles Southwest College, which serves a predominantly Black and Brown community in South Central Los Angeles. Born Odessa Brown in Whatley, Alabama, she was a second-generation community activist. Her father, Chester Lee Brown, was a union organizer. Her mother, Alma Burroughs Brown, the couple imbued her and her brothers with a desire to help mankind and improve themselves through education.

She married Raymond Cox (1941). They became avid students at the local community college, they opened Utopia Cleaners in Watts. For forty-eight years, they were in the dry cleaning business, while she worked as a member of the PTA to push for better education for their three daughters. She worked to improve the image of African Americans in California state textbooks. She worked with her husband in the California Progressive Party’s campaign to hire Blacks and Latinos for the first time at the Farmer’s and Merchant’s Bank and Safeway Stores in Watts. She led the community effort to build Henry Clay Junior High School in Watts.

She became involved in the campaign to locate California State University, Dominguez Hills near South Central Los Angeles. It was the first four-year institution to serve African Americans in the Watts area.

The 1965 “Watts Rebellion” was the incident that led the Los Angeles Board of Education to finally agree to open LASC. On July 11, 1967, at 3:30 A.M., she, Adele Canno, Dr. Agnes Moreland Jackson, and Sue Acosta met on-site to witness the arrival of the first of thirteen bungalows that would temporarily house the college.

She organized the New Spirit Democratic Club and was a member of the Martin Luther King Democratic Club, as well as the California Democratic Council. She served as a delegate from the Los Angeles Chapter of the World Peace Council to the World Assembly of Builders of Peace in Warsaw. She was selected due to her work in the American Association of Afro-American Relations. She became chairperson of the United Front for Justice in South Africa. She received many honors over her lifetime. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Community Spotlight: Iya Dr. Funlayo E. Wood

Summer Magick Fest 2024 is right around the corner… and that means we’re coming to a close with this series. It’s been quite a journey, hasn’t it? Today, I’m going to introduce you to Iya Funlayo E. Wood, PhD… but just in case you missed one of the earlier articles, they’re all centering around the talented teachers and presenters that will be headlining at SMF 2024, including: Ivo Dominguez,…

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#festival #headliners #ifa #iya funlayo #lucumi #lukumi #magick #occult #orisa #orisha #pagan #summer magick #summer magick fest #witch

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Adamson University Commence Agreement for Student Internship at Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Adamson University signed a student internship agreement with Academia Sinica, Taiwan on April 30, 2024, at the President’s Conference Room.

In a Facebook post from Adamson University on April 30, 2024, the University President, Fr. Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, CM, the Dean of College of Science, Dr. Eleanor Austria, the Chairperson of the Chemistry Department, Mrs. Katrina De Paz, the students, and their parents, attended a signing ceremony at the President’s Conference Room for the student internship program between Adamson University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

In Taiwan, the students will be trained by world-renowned scientists from the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, and the Institute of Biological Chemistry, while also conducting research for thier thesis.

Significance of Academia Sinica in scientific community

Academia Sinica is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan known for its contributions in multiple fields of research, such as biomedical research, molecular niology and genetics, computer Science, physics, astronomy, and etc.

The institute is known for its recent breakthrough in computer science for the invention of the first 5-qubit superconducting quantum computer. In January 2024, Academia Sinica achieved another milestone of connecting the quantum computer to the internet, becoming an advancement in Taiwan’s field of computer science.

The institute is among the leading teams of the Event Horizon Telescope, renowned for capturing the first image of a black hole, proving predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Additionally, the institute studied amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) on a molecular level. Through the institute’s research, they found a potential approach to stop or slow down the damage they cause to patients.

Selection of Intern Students

The students were selected for the internship program in Taiwan through the recommendation of Dr. Todd L. Lowary, an adjunct professor at Adamson University and a Canadian chemist affiliated with Academia Sinica. To apply, submitted their transcript of records, CVs (curriculum vitae) and recommendation letters from other professors. The principal investigators then evaluated them through their qualifications for the program.

BS Biology students Jhem San Pedro and Sharon Allison Dominguez, along with BS Chemistry student Mearelle Kate Alfante, arrived in Taiwan on May 2, 2024. They are currently under the guidance of Taiwanese principal investigators (research advisers) who are instructing them on research projects aligned with the principal investigators' interests.

Adamson Students at Academia Sinica

In an interview with the interns on May 09, Jhem San Pedro mentioned that upon their arrival in the Academia Sinica, the principal investigators were already working on ongoiong research. The Adamson students will learn necessary lab works and techniques taught by the principal investigators to complete their thesis. Their on-the-job training is included in the process of constructing their thesis as they learn the techniques being used in Academia Sinica.

According to the interns, they’re currently working on the specialities or research interest of the principal investigator they’re being instructed under;

For Ms. Dominguez, her principal investigator is Chen-Hui Chen, who specializes on natural regeneration and enhancing the regenerative capacities of human tissues and organs.

Ms. San Pedro’s principal investigator is Shu-Ling Chiu who specializes in brain behavioural studies, diseases, learning and memory.

Ms. Alfante’s principal investigator is Jui-Hsia Weng, who specializes on drug development and inflammatory disorder treatment research.

Internship Significance

In an interview with the interns, they mentioned that according to Dr. Todd Lowary, one of the goals for the internship program is for the students to gain valuable experience, and possibly to pursue career opportunities at Academia Sinica or other research facilities in Taiwan in the future. They also added that the program is a breakthrough for Adamson University, as students commonly chosen for Academia Sinica’s internship program are selected from students of the Philippines’ Top four universities.

The 3 interns are expected to stay in Taiwan for 4 months. They will be followed by Adamson interns from other bachelor programs such as Pharmacy, and master’s programs, sometime in August or September. The bachelor interns are expected to stay for about 4 months, while the master’s interns are expected to remain in Academia Sinica for a year.

Written by: Marco Agas

Pubmat by: Francheska Ivana Piñon

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Rev. Dr. Cecil 'Chip' Murray was L.A.'s fixer

(News4usonline) - Rev. Dr. Cecil "Chip" Murray, an icon to the Los Angeles community during the 1992 riots, passed away at the age of 94 on April 5, 2024. He was the first pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles in 1977. During his time as a pastor, he transformed a small congregation of 250 into an 18,000-person church with multi-million dollar community and economic development programs that brought many jobs and housing, according to the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture website. We are humbled and honored to continue the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Cecil L. Murray. His family has asked donations to be directed to Rev. Murray’s Circle of Support: https://t.co/D9ZLdZ2KhG. We will share the livestream for his funeral services here next week. pic.twitter.com/Udvosn5iSQ— USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture (@usccrcc) April 18, 2024 He later was appointed as the John R. Tansey Chair of Christian Ethics in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, who is the Executive Director of the Mervyn Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute (MDAAPEI) on the campus of California State Dominguez Hills, said Rev. Murray was a lot of things to a lot of people. “Reverend Murray was not just a icon in the Los Angeles community,” said Samad. “Not just the Black Los Angeles community, but the Los Angeles community. But he was also a personal mentor.” Samad first joined First AME Church in 1981 and when he left the church, Rev. Murray was a senior pastor at the time. The significance that Rev. Murray was that he continued the tradition of Black radical Christian theology from a church that had religious activists. “What projected First AME into the national limelight was on the day that the four police officers were pronounced not guilty, April 29, 1992,” said Samad. “Tom Bradley was holding a town hall gathering, sort of to pray for the city. And we came out of the church and the church was on fire.” California mourns the passing of Reverend Dr. Cecil Murray—a landmark civil rights activist and spiritual leader. He was a tower of strength for the Black community in Los Angeles. His impact will continue to be felt by millions for generations to come.https://t.co/wS67HnFJsc— California Governor (@CAgovernor) April 11, 2024 First AME Church became “the center of the frustration and expressions of the Black community” according to Samad. However, it was not just the Black community that Rev. Murray had a direct impact on. He also reached out to the Latino and Asian communities as well. Under Rev. Murray's leadership, First AME Church grew from roughly 250 members to more than 18,000 members by the time he retired 27 years later. “Cecil Murray basically took what was a dying congregation and built it over a 28-year period,” said Samad. Rev. Murray was born on September 26, 1929, in Lakeland, Florida. He grew up in the segregated South. He graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and then earned his PhD from the School of Theology at Claremont College. After the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Rev. Murray and First AME Church began to rebuild the L.A community. “Through a grant from State Farm, (they) built a nonprofit called L.A. Renaissance that began to build housing and build businesses and rebuild what had been destroyed in the L.A. riots of 92,” said Samad. “So first AME became the go-to location for community mobilization. And Reverend Chip Murray was that focus.” “Rev. Murray became the model for using religion and using churches to advocate for the poor,” Samad added. After Rev. Murray retired from the First AME Church after 27 years, he then began teaching his theology around social advocacy and fighting social injustice where he would teach young ministers how to use the church to address social injustices. I was honored to celebrate the distinguished career of Rev. Cecil Murray. Incredible legacy of bridging communities and uplifting our world. https://t.co/HBHXiWfMtl pic.twitter.com/aekja08DGo— Carol Folt (@PresidentFolt) September 23, 2022 He also had a center named after him, the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement. The center helps faith leaders to transform underserved communities. But besides being an icon to the greater Los Angeles community and being the backbone of the Black residents during a time of instability, Rev. Murray was a person with a good heart, Samad said. “He was a beautiful person, always positive. There was a lesson in every engagement with him in terms of helping people sort through differences, mitigating conflict,” Samad remarked. “He never closed the church doors when the community was trying to address an issue.” “So he was a person who basically sought to bring people together and he'll be remembered for that. He'll be remembered as a builder, as a peacemaker. Blessed are the peacemakers, so that they will inherit the earth. So that will be his legacy and his memory,” added Samad. Top Image Caption: FILE - The Rev. Cecil Murray delivers a benediction at the conclusion of a memorial service, at the Shrine Auditorium, Wednesday, April 18, 2012, in Los Angeles. Murray, an influential pastor and civil rights leader who gained international attention for his efforts to help Los Angeles recover from one of the country's worst race riots, died Friday, April 5, 2024. He was 94. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File) Read the full article

#FirstAMEChurch #LAriots #MervynDymallyAfricanAmericanPoliticalandEconomicInstitute(MDAAPEI)#Rev.CecilMurray

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