#from Argentina with love

[harleiquina]

"May siblings be together, for that is the first law. May their union be true in anytime, because if they fight each other they'll be devoured by those outside" (José Hernández, "Martín Fierro").

So, today I found out that there was going to be a picket to support the WGA strike in my country (Argentina) and relatively close home. I wish I knew it sooner, I would've liked to join... but

I'm not a guild member (reason why I never received any kind of news about it) because...

Technically I'm not a writer (a professional, I mean. The ones that get paid to write) which leads me to...

I have a job that I hate and I can't just skip a random day because...

Even If they pay me very little, I am the breadwinner at home and every little cent counts... since...

My country's economy is a bloody mess that could be solved in over 50 years, if we are lucky.

So, here I am, making a post in solidarity to the Strike while waiting for the calls to start to ring. This might be a lenghty (and personal) one.

My journey into writing:

It was hard to answer the old question "what do you want to be when you grow up?" as a child because I wanted to be everything (except Doctor and Vet. I still don't like the idea of inflicting any kind of pain to heal someone -yes, I do know that anesthesia is a thing but it does wear off, did you know that? And painkillers too!).

At school I absolutely hated writing as homework, however I always ended up telling stories (my grandfather's folk tales) in the schoolbus for a limited audience. It wasn't until 7th grade that I realized that I was able to have original ideas and put them on paper... then I started to love writing and I would put my best effort into it. Yes, those were silly little stories usually prompted by whatever paragraph or sentence our teacher gave us (twice my aunts laughed at something I was proud of and I won't lie, it did hurt back then. Probably I would laugh now too). Still, coming up with something new was exciting.

In my senior year of Highschool I had "Applied writing" a subject that, supposedly, was there to teach us how to make our resumes, formal letters and other stuff that is "useful" in the work place or life itself. But that's not what I've learned.

I had Marcela Bullentini as my teacher. Someone that was quite scary with her desire for us to speak properly (eliminating the 'sh' sound from our bonaerense accent that changes words like "lluvia" -rain- to make it sound "shuvia", or our usual "perdón" -forgive me- instead of "lo siento" -I'm sorry- EVERYTIME she would answer with a mighty "only God forgives" to remind us that we were using the wrong term). After a few months of trying not to get on her bad side, I started to like her because I could tell that she loved writing and reading. And that's why she never gave us those boring lessons the other classroom's teacher (and school Principal, mind you) gave her students. She taught us the basics tools to write news, anecdotes, opinions and scripts for audio-drama (podcasts weren't a thing in 2009) and even TV (we did had to shoot a short film by the end of the year. Yes mine does suck). She is the reason why I considerated making a living out of writing. When the school year was coming to an end and it was time to enroll in College or the University and my classmates would ask "what are you going to study?" I answered them "I would like to be a Movie Director or Script writer". Guess what was their response... "Why?" usually followed by "that's too easy"

Too easy.

Too easy? How come? Why the Arts are "easy"? Why do you think that your dream of becoming a Sport's Journalist is better than mine wanting to tell stories? You'll still have to write something, you idiot!

Still, I did not followed my passion because making a living off the Arts is quite hard in here. You have to know someone who can "get you in" or beeing a professional boot-licker or work in the worst things ever, beeing completely stepped over and then you might ✨️MIGHT✨️ have a chance to do something true to yourself. And I wanted to be the argentinean Tim Burton, I knew nobody would've backed me up. So my aunt gave me an idea "why don't you try with Advertising? Many movie directors and writers began with Ads". So... off I went to Advertising School.

For those of you that don't know, Advertising is divided in 3 major branches: Accounting (the bridge between the Clients and the Agency), Media (the ones in charge of the budget and with the contacts to publish/play the ads everywhere) and Creativity (the ones that make the ads). I belong to the 3rd group and guess what? We're still thought off as an afterthought... as if making or writing for an ads campaing is something that is "easy", something that anybody can do. That we, the creatives, are just lazy people that every now and then receive a task, like anybody else would toss a bone to a dog, to "do something". To be fair, since I've never worked at an Agency I do not know if this kind of behaviour is present in them too... but all my classmates had this attitude and if they were meant to be the future of this profession, then I'm better off doing anything else but working as a Copywriter.

So here I am today, working as an Over the Phone Interpreter with over 20 stories locked in my head (and scribbled across many notepads and documents in my PC), too tired to write after work and trying not to sit on the computer on my free time because I spend the whole day, 5 days a week sitting in front of it. Still, sometimes I do get things done. My brain doesn't stop just because I have no time or because I'm tired. I know I'll get things done... eventually.

But Laurita, what does this have to do with anything?

This is my blog, I write what I want.

Context was needed.

As I said the whole "writing stories isn't serious enough" "it's too easy" "you can do something better" has been plaguing my life since day one. I was even able to see a glimpse of my favourite teacher's hopes and dreams for me crash in his eyes when I told him that I was studying to become an Advertising Creative. (I'm pretty sure all my teachers thought I would become one of them, or a doctor, or a lawyer, maybe even a scientist).

People!... Telling stories is important!

I dare to say that ours is the oldest profession (not the other one 😏) because whenever a lesson had to be taught, or something needed explanation, there was someone ready to tell a story about it.

Telling stories was never just entertainment. People seems to forget that even the silliest fairytale was meant to leave something behind with their audience. For ages my family and I wondered about the Magic Fish, a russian folckloric tale (a very lazy young man goes fishing in the ice for once in his life and catches the magic fish that promises that if he lets him go, he'll grant any wish he has. The guy ends up living in a palace made of gold and marrying a princess) and then it hit me: it was not the story itself... but the posibility of making many kids go fishing in the ice hoping to catch the Magical Fish that will grant them any wish. Well done, slavic people, well done 👏🏻👏🏻

I do not understand the constant dissmissal of our craft. Well... yes I do. People think it is easy because we make it easy for them. What's the point of creating something inaccessible? Why would anybody need to have a Post Doctorate in whatever field to understand a comic, a joke or a novel? We turn dozens (if not hundreds) of different concepts that fly through our minds into something understandable to anybody.

I watch Cinema Therapy where both hosts analize the psychology behind stories and characters. It is all in plain sight, we all know that Indiana Jones is resiliant, that Aragorn is a non-toxic man... but do you know how my family reacts when I tell them about any of their videos? "Isn't that reading too much into things? It's just a story, it's fantasy!"

It is a story, it is fantasy... but in order for it to work it has to be grounded in reality. Otherwise no-one would feel a thing for any of them!

And who does the dirty work? We do. We have to come up with real non-existent people so their fantastical escape is a good one. One that will make them forget their worries, one that might break their heart in a thousand pieces but carefully put it back with the warmest and stickyest-sweet glue you can find.

Oh! You know who killed the victim before the detective? That's because we feed you the clues so you can participate too.

Whenever my teammates in college had a "creativity attack" and started shooting ideas for ads, I'd step in to tell them why it would be impossible for us to use them (or at least why they didn't worked at all). They would get angry, of course, so I'd suggest them to do it themselves and what was their answer? "You do it, you are the creative one" So you make up your mind, buddy, either you trust me or not. You cannot have it both ways.

People doesn't realise the power that we hold, they think that we just come up with anything off of thin air. They ignore our investigations, how we observe the world and learn from it. They ignore our minds but get surprised even with the most obvious plot-twist (as it happened to mom, I told her something that was going to happen on her soap opera -so the bar was very low- and when it did happened she was like "how did you know?" I was tempted of answering with a "I'm a writer, I see what they are doing" but I just said "because it was obvious" If I actually tried to explain to her how I came up with that she would've thought that I needed help 😵‍💫). We accumulate knowledge like a dragon hoards gold. Anything is useful, anyone is useful. Don't make us turn you into a villan for our book or movie.

But still... we always get short-handed, stepped on, underappreciated.

We are the weirdos, the ones that live with their heads in the clouds, the "lazy" ones that spend their whole day on the computer "doing nothing" and can't close deals or use brute strenght to do their job. The ones that make up imaginary things hence things that have no value.

We know that it's not true. We know that we deserve better.

We had enough of that.

That's why we strike.

[sugawara--san]

when oikawa calls argentina v japan a family quarrel but at least they're still his family

[bellcza]

lionel messi for copa américa 2024

[akemima]

Human frank !!!! :3

[motof1bfs]

The Butterfly Effect.

[cata-strophes]

Sorry, i know these few reblogs dont go in this blog, but its my country and my life and ive been feeling like shit since yesterday.

Fascism just won in my country.

A man who plans to privatize public institutions, wants to dollarize our economy, legalize fire arms and organ trade, wants to get rid of so many rights we fought so hard for, LBGT rights, abortion, sex education. He wants to deny the vote to immigrant people.

He admires Trump and Thatcher, he denies the dictatorship that disappeared over 30,000 people and stole hundres of children from their parents hands. The dictatorship that kidnapped, killed, raped, tortured thousands and thousands of people. His vice-president is the daughter of one of the worst military men in that dictatorship.

The people voting him claim that he "won't be able to anything". He has actively said he wants to get rid of public education and public health, and they say "he never said that", or "he was taken out of context". These people lack memory, because he very much can, as so many have before. And as so many have before, we're going to have to fight for those rights again, win them all over again, go out every day to mobilize and scream and shout and cry and fight and stick together.

I've been telling myself since yesterday. We did this before, we did this in 2016, we did this in the 90s, we did this in 1976. I look at my latinamerican siblings and how they survived their own battles and I repeat to myself Brasil survived, Chile survived, Bolivia survived. We survived and will survive, and we will fight to our very last breath. But man, is it tiring to repeat this.

I know this blog is for fandom and silly drawings, but I felt the need to speak about it, I just can't be quiet about it when this is gonna set us back so many years.

[naturallawofweirdnessmagnitism]

Here are some of my Nomad headcanons!!

I based some of his clothes on traditional gaucho fashion, mainly the belt, leather, and Poncho patterns

They always seem to be unarmed in the series, so instead of a facón, I just gave him a pouch and spare cloth

The tassels and bells make all the shaking and jingling sound effects in the show

Sometimes, their critters bring him little flowers or shiny trinkets. He loves this and has some of them pinned on his poncho

The antler stubs are there to push my similarities-to-the-otgw-beast agenda

[topnotchquark]

Rosquez // Bites on My Neck, by yeule

(much thanks to @sammyche 's rosquez images series)

[everything-maxriemelt]

Tony Leung talks about the creative process working with Wong Kar-Wai on set of “Happy Together” (GQ interview, 2022)

[fan-de-las-tetas]

I've recentely started watching one piece, and i have obssesed with the clown, so in result now im obssesed with cross guild and bc im from argentina i now have a bunch of headcanons about this silly guys if they knew and understood for some reason music from here...

BUGGY would unironically listen to los wachiturros, las culisueltas, nene malo, and songs of heartbroken 50yr ladys with 6 divorces. also he would totally dance and sing along with his whole clussy to those. he would like to sing shit songs like leña para el carbon in front of crocodile and mihawk bc he knows they hate them. every summer the whole crew has to listen to marama, rumbai, el dipy and stuff bc he loves it. ALSO he would totally do a whole dramatic lipsync spectacle of him singing tita marelo's "se dice de mi" and it would be so flashy and awesome

CROCODILE gives el chaqueño. idc he just seems like the kind of guy reading the news at 6am with la ley y la trampa sounding in the back, also he listens and DANCES tango but nobody knows the dancing part. he also listens a lot of folklore, chacarera, and on chill saturdays he would listen to cuarteto like los palmeras and los tekis. he would surrender to the music and dance sabalero with buggy bc he just loves it and him and idk fluff happens. he just looks like he has my granpas music taste

MIHAWK looks like a rock guy, spinetta, los piojos, el indio solari, viejas locas, soda estereo, la vela puerca. all of that. he doesn't either sing or dance but he is vibing internally and thats all that matters. but i know he would sometimes find himself mumbling buggy's music and he would cringe and throw himself to the ocean or something, it happens at least twice a week

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

why am i so interested in south american cultures and history. and why do i keep stopping myself from learning about them

[millythegoat]

Hi, found your acc while checking the copa america tag. As an Argentinian, I'm sorry you guys are out of the competition, but y'all left an impression for sure. This tournament isn't an easy one and you guys were tough as nails, I was on the edge of my seat all 90 minutes.

Also,,,, why is your manager kinda...??? He was the biggest Hear Me Out in the group chat with my friends. Jesse got all of us argentinian ladies thirsting over him- [shh no you didn't hear this from me- okay bye]

i still feel bitter from that lost tbh, but damn! it's very interesting no matter what team you play against, your team always adapt to them and get on top of their own game. Also, can I kidnap De Paul and never let him see the sun again please? I just- I can't- *went manic* he's such a menace in society yknow- I just want to- *clocking a gun* AAAAACCHH *get bodied tackle from his body guard*

*takes a deep breath* okay that was so unhinged of me and I apologize. But- he deserved it! *get thrown into mental institute*

*twirling my hair, kicking my feet in the air* AWWWW..you girls/guys got the bug as well!!! I take it as my highest compliment and I feel honored to do the lord's work for youuus! 🥰🥰🥰

[jalluzas-ferney]

Oí @onicole come get your food. It’s finally my Rio Gramde do Sul gaúcho, Eduardo Monteiro‼️‼️‼️ and his wife Maria Juliana Cocenzo‼️‼️🤭

I actually love him sm look at him he’s such a gentleman yet silly guy. (You can see it in his eyes)

[funtimespringscare101]

@chaosverse-mainblog I finished these official R0tten.XML sketches and studies recently and I wanted to show them off!

Sketch 1: One of R0tten’s new habits due to her glitched world is that she found cigarettes as a means of coping. I can imagine GF going "You do know that those are bad for you, right?" and R0tten just replies with "GF, I have 7 years worth of Existential trauma and babysitting 6 people, let me cope with this". Also she's a lean back on a chair and feet on the table kind of girl.

Sketch 2: R0tten and Yourself are two that become very close due to having trauma regarding the death of their loved ones, and they met through Herself being best friends with R0tten. You would find them venting and chatting with each other in an alley somewhere. the two would also probably introduce R0tten to Peril/Parker ( who belongs to @hexdoodlez) who would be chill about her, and because they're both mercenaries, have a little harmless rivalry with her.

Sketch 3: Here we have the gremlin of R0tten's crew herself, NuSky! for her, I went for the non-canon redesign by her current owner and to be honest, I loveeee it! With her, I would imagine R0tten having a "any BFs are off limits" rule for her which NuSky doesn't like at all. Luckily, my Reg BF has become an exception by some miracle bonding with NuSky. I had so much fun developing the "older sister"/Gremlin younger sister relationship that these girls have, it's nice for R0tten to have someone to care for along the 5 other guys in the crew.

Sketch 4: A study on R0tten's appearance in Reg GF's universe (which is in my regular art style), i'm particularly proud of how she ended up turning out here, especially the hair! That's one good R0tten sketch right there! Pico's gun turned out a little wonky but still I love this sketch a lot. also R0TTEN GIRLY

Sketch 5: A study sketch on the monochromatic dead body of R0tten's BF. As established before, BF's sprites are not in the songs of R0tten's mod resulting in us players having a one on one with R0tten herself, although I could update this to have "BF" show up and unnerve R0tten. The best thing about this sketch is definitely the eye here, I really went for the hyper-realistic look that the horror eye PNG i used in the Game Results Redraws post and I'm so proud of how it came out. This sketch is based on BF's classic idle sprite from the base game.

[where-the-sabia-sings]

Since I really enjoyed doing BraMex what do u guys want for me to now? My OTP still is BrArg but it’s so much fun diving into other dynamics and damn we desperately need more latam related content in this fandom

[pulquedeguayaba]

Struggling a bit with my Friday class but I'm loving listening to all the accents ☺️