#juan garza

[loscerritoscommunitynews]

Coup at Central Basin Water COntinues With Help of Newly Appointed Directors

@supjanicehahn @lamiradalewis @LMDistrict5 @mayorcamacho @LutzPicoRivera @drmonicasanchez @andrewcorban @PicoRiveraCity @cityofpicorivera @theChrisApodaca @wrdsocal @alisajjadtaj @officialcityofartesia @hgcityca @HawaiianGardens @cityofsfs

November 13, 2024 By Brian Hews It was well-known that Martha Camacho Rodriguez would lose her Central Basin Water District 1 seat in last Tuesday’s election so the new CB Board majority of Juan Garza, Camacho Rodriguez, Nem Ochoa, and Joanna Mareno violated the Brown Act, with no objection from General Counsel Victor Ponto, removed Art Chacon as president, and appointed Camacho Rodriguez as…

[lowcountry-gothic]

Posters for HBO's remake of Como Agua Para Chocolate.

Azul Guaita as Tita de la Garza

Ana Valeria Becerril as Rosaura de la Garza

Andrés Baida as Pedro Múzquiz

Andrea Chaparro as Gertrudis de la Garza

Ángeles Cruz as Nacha

Irene Azuela as Elena de la Garza

Mauricio García Lozano as Don Pedro Múzquiz

Louis David Horné as Juan Alejandrez

[bullet-prooflove]

4000 Follower Celebration Bingo Card

I am coming up to 4000 followers on the old blog and I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has taken the time to follow me, it means everything to me that you enjoy my work!

Secondly let's celebrate with a little bingo!

The Rules:

One Bingo Square per Character

One Bingo Square/Char per ask

When a character is assigned I will add them to the bingo card so you can see it.

If a Char/Square isn't working for me, the Square will be reset.

As usual check the pinned post on my blog to see who I'm writing for. I've added a few newbies recently.

Any questions just ask!

[aperint]

De la gaveta íntima

De la gaveta íntima #aperturaintelectual #palabrasbajollave @tmoralesgarcia1 Thelma Morales García

[greencruz]

demons , talk , legacy @ juan

MUSE QUESTIONS : ACCEPTING !

say  if  your  muse  was  in  silent  hill  ,  a  mystical  town  that  shows  it’s  visitors  physical  manifestations  of  their  own  demons  -  what  would  they  see  ?

nossa, eu não sei nem como começar. juan é uma pessoa muito reprimida, então os temas mais recorrentes em uma silent hill baseada nos demônios dele contaria com criaturas silenciosas e brutais, diretamente relacionado a quantidade infinita de vezes que ficou quieto em situações ruins porque foi ensinado a nunca questionar, e ele simplesmente aprendeu a nunca falar nada, só concordar. ele também é uma pessoa muito apegada a toque físico, mas ele sente vergonha do quanto ele deseja e anseia por isso (criaturas que parecem querer cuidar mas matam sufocando, esmagando etc). consigo imaginar uma cidade cinzenta, com badalares de sino, uma lembrança antiga da igreja onde ele cresceu, e os badalares sempre anunciam coisas terríveis. também teriam criaturas de semblante tristonho, desesperado (com bocas costuradas). quanto mais medo você sente delas, quanto mais o seu coração acelera, mais rápidas elas se tornam, remetendo a como juan sempre teve muito medo, e as vezes ele achou que esse medo comeria ele vivo (e, nessa cidade, o medo literalmente vai). e por último mas não menos importante, a grande figura paterna dele: o padre. que seria grande, forte e faria todos os outros monstros se esconderem. e dentro do estômago dele, por um buraco, você conseguiria ver uma outra criatura: a mãe dele. e olhar diretamente nos olhos dela te deixaria vazio.

do  they  talk  to  themself  /  objects  /  the  walls  ?  how  come  ?

sim, especialmente pra se chamar atenção ou tentar decidir alguma coisa complicada. mas ele não fala com objetos ou com as paredes, normalmente quando ele está falando sozinho ou ele está falando consigo mesmo ou ele está realizando alguma prece.

does  your  muse  want  to  make  a  lasting  impact  on  the  world  ,  or  would  they  prefer  for  their  life  to  fade  away  into  obscurity  ?

ambos? juan não sabe reagir quando ele é genuinamente visto por alguém, mas ele acredita que está no mundo para fazer a diferença na vida das pessoas como alguém realmente de passagem. o que ele imagina para si é que ele vai ser uma uma lembrança querida na mente das pessoas, mas nunca constante. ele quer ser alguém que, quando é mencionado, coloca um sorriso no rosto da pessoa.

[irmagallosstuff]

Un discurso polémico y seis grandes novelas que compiten por el Premio Vargas Llosa

"Después de escuchar las palabras de David Toscana, quienes estábamos en la Sala 2 del Conjunto Santander de las Artes Escénicas nos felicitamos por haber aguantado el calor de la tarde tapatía para recordarnos por qué la literatura es indispensable".

Por Irma Gallo Fotos: Josué Nando/FIL de Guadalajara Tarde de jueves en la calurosa Guadalajara. La Sala 2 del Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas estaba atiborrada. A pesar del aire acondicionado, la reunión de cuerpos hacía que poner atención al acto inaugural de la quinta edición de la V Bienal Mario Vargas Llosa fuera todo un reto. Sólo la emoción por escuchar la conversación entre los…

[skauni]

A Tango With The Villain

!!WARNINGS!!: Strictly WLW, Dirty Flirting, Perverse Gestures/Comments, I WILL use google translate for phrases but it may not be 100% correct so I’ll put what it’s intended as next to it in Brackets(these things —> []).

!CHARACTERS!: Karla Martinez(OC), Valeria Garza, Juan, Carlos, Andreas(thugs that I named cuz I’m too lazy to find names of her thugs), and the Bartender.

The club was bustling with activity. Loud music blaring and colorful lights flying around the room. The bar was busy.

Most of the women wore simple, revealing clothes to attract the men who mostly wore a simple T-Shirt and jeans. Valeria sat in her private booth with her men standing guard by it.

She was waiting for someone.

Valeria was dressed in a black vest suit and a red button up dress shirt. Intending to match outfits with the person she was waiting for. Checking her phone for the thousandth time, she sighed in frustration. She snapped at one of her men. He leaned in to receive his orders. “Carlos, tráeme un whisky; con hielo.[Carlos, get me a whiskey; on the rocks.]” The man nodded and went to the bar. Ordering her whiskey.

Valeria checked her phone again and threw it down on the table impatiently. She ran a hand through her hair. “¿Dónde estás, mi llama?[Where are you, my flame?]” She mumbled to herself frustratedly. She’d told Karla to get ready half an hour before she was expected to leave. So where the hell was she?

It was about 15 minutes later when Karla finally arrived, much to Valeria’s frustration. But not her disappointment. When Karla finally came to the booth, Valeria got to see Karla in all her glory. Standing at a height of 5’1”(without heels). Her long, wavy black hair frames her face, cascading down her back and curled slightly at the ends—just barely enough for it to look natural. Karla's warm, caramel-toned skin practically glowing with how the club lights bounced off it, and her expressive dark brown eyes convey a look of warmth and love for Valeria.

Valeria eyed Karla up and down, shifting invitingly as she licked her lips upon seeing how Karla’s skin fitted cocktail dress that faded from red to black on the bottom of the dress accentuated some… attributes of her body. Karla was wearing the matching red high heels to the dress—though they wouldn’t stay on long before she switched to red and black sneakers so the dress didn’t drag too much.

“You look good, durazno.[peach.]” Valeria commented as Karla sat beside her. “Gracias, mi amor.[Thank you, my love.]” Karla said before adding “You look good too, no doubt we’ll turn some heads tonight.” Karla chuckled. Valeria just grinned and put her hand on Karla’s thigh and softly rubbed with her thumb. “Margarita, ¿verdad mi alma?[right my soul?]” Valeria asked, Karla simply nodded and Valeria snapped her fingers, one of her men going to get said Margarita for Karla. A few minutes later he returned and gave Karla her Margarita. “Gracias, Juan.[Thank you, Juan.]” Karla said as she took a sip.

A few drinks later, Karla dragged Valeria onto the dance floor. Swaying her hips to the erotic Reggaeton music blaring in the club as Valeria chuckled and decided to dance with her. Though, it was an understatement to say Valeria’s hands simply wandered. They had aim, Karla knew that as soon as she felt Valeria’s hand possessively still on her thighs to keep her close as she danced to the music. Whispering dirty yet sweet nothings into Karla’s ear as they dance together.

As the night went on Valeria’s touches became more possessive. At some point she dragged Karla into her lap and buried her face in Karla’s neck as she practically devoured Karla’s neck and squeezed her breasts teasingly “Why can’t I just tare this dress off, ¿mi llama..?[my flame..?]” Valeria repeated in frustration every few minutes. Andreas, one of Valeria’s thugs, didn’t like the little noises he could unfortunately hear from the two women in their booth over the blaring music.

Later some more romantic music came on, and Karla dragged Valeria onto the dance floor. “Care for a dance, ¿mi amor?[my love?]” Karla grinned, Valeria chuckled and went with her. When the music for the tango came on Karla was glad she and Valeria took classes for it.

Valeria took Karla in her arms and they got ready to dance the tango. The second they started Valeria grabbed Karla’s ass VERY firmly. If you asked Karla, she would tell you Valeria was DEFINITELY drunk by that time. At the end of the tango, Valeria dipped Karla and held her there. Kissing her deeply before her lips wondered down Karla’s neck and to her breasts. “Let’s go home, mi alma…[my soul…]” Valeria murmured. Karla already knew what that meant, and eagerly agreed. Valeria signaled for her men to bring the car around and then she escorted Karla safely to it.

@valscodblog @thealtofvalleyxdoodles @seconds-on-the-clock @writing-with-moss

[mexicoantiguo]

Imagen de Francisco I. Madero con su estado mayor político y militar en el año de 1911

Fotografía tomada después de la Primera Batalla de Juárez. En la fotografía, de izquierda a derecha, aparecen de pie el coronel Francisco Villa, Gustavo A. Madero (hermano del presidente Madero), Francisco I. Madero Hernández (padre del presidente Madero), el teniente coronel Guiseppe Garibaldi, Federico Gonzales Garza, el coronel José. de la Luz Blanco, Juan Sánchez Azcona, Alfonso Madero Gonzales (hermano del presidente Madero) y David Lawrence (reportero de Associated Press). Sentados en la fotografía, de izquierda a derecha, están Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Vázquez Gómez, Francisco I. Madero (Presidente de México), Abraham González, José María Maytorena, Alberto D. Fuentes Dávila y el General de Brigada Pascual Orozco.NotasIdentificación de personajes en fotografía cedida por Miguel Angel Berumen, historiador especializado en fotografía de la Revolución Mexicana. Título derivado de la información que acompaña a la postal: Líderes de la Revolución Mexicana de 1910 posan después de la Primera Batalla de Juárez.

[cyancherub]

do you have any book recommendations for us :D

MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!

well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!

SO books i have coming in the mail:

surrealist novels:

the woman in the dunes by kobo abe

the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington

the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:

the third policeman by flann o'brien

nadja by andre breton

(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)

horror, gothic, etc:

bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach

the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans

floating dragon by peter straub

classics, short stories, etc:

french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer

in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust

selected short stories by balzac

icefields by thomas wharton

some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:

ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)

carmilla by le fanu

nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham

a king alone by jean giono

twilight of the idols by nietzsche

transparent things by nabokov

dark water by koji suzuki

selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)

trolled my goodreads for more recs

books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:

the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza

the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)

crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

carolina ghost woods by judy jordan

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien

disgrace by j m coetzee

goth by otsuichi

books i enjoyed from last year:

the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson

the vegetarian by han kang

rosemary's baby by ira levin

piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)

the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)

starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)

the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson

the devil's larder by jim crace

monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova

and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).

ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind

[marcmarcmomarc]

Camp Camp Spanish dub

Max: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez

Nikki: Lileana Chacón

Neil: Pascual Meza

David: Irwin Daayán

Gwen: Alondra Hidalgo

Neil “Niño Espacial” Armstrong Jr.: Monserrat Mendoza

Dolph Houston: Arturo Cataño

Harrison: Moisés Iván Mora

Nerris: Nycolle González

Ered Miller: Karen Vallejo

Nurf Nurfington: Raúl Anaya

Preston Goodplay: Óscar Flores

Intendente: Germán Fabregat

Cameron Campbell: Octavio Rojas

Sasha / Erin / Tabii: Carla Castañeda

Edward Pikeman: Jesús Guzmán

Billy “Serpiente” Nikssilp: Alan Fernando Velázquez

Stephan van Petrol: Juan Carlos Tinoco

Hecdor Repugnante: Eduardo Garza

Jasper: Arturo Castañeda

Bonquisha: Laura Torres

Daniel: Alan Bravo

Jen: Karla Falcón

Intenhermana: Gabriela Guzmán

Penelope Priss: Ruth Toscano

Candy: Violeta Isfel (Startalent)

Carl: Andrés López (Startalent)

Agentes Miller: Joaquín Cosio (Startalent)

Sra. Nurfington: Kate del Castillo (Startalent)

El Papá de Nerris: Kuno Becker (Startalent)

La Mamá de Harrison: Consuelo Duval (Startalent)

El Papá de Harrison: Javier Ibarreche (Startalent)

La Mamá de Nerris: Jacqueline Bracamontes (Startalent)

Teniente Stuart Houston: Salvador Cienfuegos (Startalent)

Buzz Aldrin: Rodolfo Neri Vela (Startalent)

La Abuelita de Preston: Elena Poniatowska Amor (Startalent)

Sr. Repugnante: Faisy (Startalent)

Sra. Repugnante: Favio Posca (Startalent)

Brian: Daniel Lacy

Vera: Alicia Barragán

Hwan: Pepe Vilchis

Dang: Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Clark Campwell: Gabriel Pingarrón

Muriel Campwell: Olga Hnidey

Ainsley: Alina Galindo

Louis: César Filio

Cameron Jr.: Ricardo Brust

[ausetkmt]

Billie Allen has been imprisoned on federal death row since 1998 for a murder he says he did not commit. Allen and his supporters say the case was tainted by misconduct, racial bias, and factual inaccuracies, including significant DNA discrepancies.

Allen’s team is now campaigning to push President Joe Biden to pardon Allen before Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20. The Appeal is publishing an excerpt from a graphic novel Allen recently wrote, which has been edited for clarity. 

Sixty-one days remain until Trump takes office. For information about how to support Allen, visit www.freebillieallen.com.

It was the Summer of 2021, and I was lying in bed with my eyes closed, exhausted but unable to sleep. I’d just returned from a week-and-a-half-long hospital stay, where I’d received a blood transfusion and underwent surgery. I had hoped it would fix me—or at least give me a break from being in and out of the hospital every month because of the medical condition waging a war within my body for more than a decade. 

I was still in pain from the surgery, but the pain wasn’t the reason why I was unable to sleep. While in the hospital trying to heal, I’d overheard them—my overseers, the correctional officers. I think they’d been intentionally having an animated conversation about how they had heard rumors from the prison’s executive staff that Trump’s henchman over the Department of Justice—William Barr and his staff—had been successful in the courts. Not only had new federal death warrants been signed, but new execution dates had been set as well.

I couldn’t help but take in what was being said because it affected me. I listened as they described how, only a few days beforehand, staff at the facility in which I’m incarcerated had conducted several mock executions at the death house where prisoners are killed. My overseers added that staff would soon come to the unit I’m housed in to do a mock drill for those who would receive a death date. The officers would run drills on how they would take the chosen from their cells to be read their death warrants by the warden. Staff would practice taking people to the death watch range, where prisoners are watched 24/7 on a camera to make sure they don’t kill themselves before the government can do so first. The condemned are then escorted from the death watch range to the death house in a restraint chair by the biggest officers within the prison, who would all be cloaked in dark clothing and ski masks to hide their identities.

Most of the time, it’s easy to ignore the rumors from officers or other prisoners. But the details that came with their story reminded me of the actions and protocols used in the executions of Timothy McVeigh, Juan Garza, and Louis Jones at the end of President George Bush’s term in office. So I knew in my gut that things were about to get real. And soon.

When my overseers in the hospital saw that my eyes were no longer closed, they then asked me whether or not I thought the executions would occur. Thanks to a moratorium President Barack Obama put in place, it had been over two decades since there had been a federal execution. The guards asked if I thought there would be enough time to carry out the rumored number of killings.

I didn’t respond to their questions. I had heard some of these same officers over the years talk about wanting executions to start back up and how they couldn’t wait for Trump to start killing people as soon as he took office. Some even went so far as to rank the top ten people they wanted killed first. Miserable bastards.

So I just laid there for the rest of the day. They talked about what they had heard, what they wanted done, and what they would do if those dates came. Eventually, the next shift of officers came on. But it seemed like the new overseers picked up where the first group left off. They peppered me with more questions, which I ignored.

The next day, only two days out of surgery and still in pain, I was told by the doctor that I was being sent back to prison, despite his suggestion that I stay a few days longer. After all this talk of execution, the thought that I was being discharged so soon after major surgery sent my mind wondering. I was out of appeals. One of those chosen could be me. Had they discharged me from the hospital just to give me an execution date?

[loscerritoscommunitynews]

Illicit Take-Over of Central Basin Board Meeting Led to Hiring of GM

IS THIS OK? From (l-r) three appointed (not elected) Central Basin Directors Juan Garza, Jim Crawford and Thomas Bekele with VP Martha Camacho. The group, with advice from attorney Victor Ponto, reconvened a previously adjourned meeting and then voted to hire Elaine Jeng as GM. VP Camacho reconvened the meeting without using proper parliamentary…

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Dominican Republic roster

Athletics

Robert King (Santo Domingo)

Erick Sánchez (Azua De Compostela)

José González (Santo Domingo)

Alexander Ogando (San Juan De La Maguana)

Yeral Nuñez (La Romana)

Milagros Durán (San Pedro De Macorís)

Franchina Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Marileidy Paulino (Don Gregorio)

Anabel Medina (Santo Domingo)

Boxing

Junior Alcántara (Salvaleón De Higüey)

Cristian Pinales (La Romana)

María Moronta (Santo Domingo)

Diving

Frandiel Gómez (San Felipe De Puerto Plata)

José Ruvalcaba (León De Los Aldama, Mexico)

Victoria Garza (Saltillo, Mexico)

Equestrian

Yvonne Losos (Santo Domingo)

Gymnastics

Audreys Nin (Santa Cruz De Barahona)

Judo

Robert Florentino (San Juan De La Maguana)

Moira Morillo (Santo Domingo)

Shooting

Eduardo Lorenzo (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Soccer

Josué Báez (Santo Domingo)

Ángel Montes (San Juan De La Maguana)

Enrique Bösl (Kösching, Germany)

Nelson Lemaire (Schaarbeek, Belgium)

Thomas Jungbauer (Jarabacoa)

Xavier Valdez (Faribault, Minnesota)

Francisco Reyes (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Edgar Pujol (Sabadell, Spain)

Luiyi De Lucas (Galván)

Heinz Mörschel (Frankfurt, Germany)

Óscar Ureña (Figueres, Spain)

Rafael Núñez (Madrid, Spain)

Edison Azcona (Boca Raton, Florida)

Peter González (Madrid, Spain)

Joao Urbáez (Móstoles, Spain)

José De La Cruz (Rubí, Spain)

Fabian Messina (Stuttgart, Germany)

José De León (Madrid, Spain)

Nowend Lorenzo (Santo Domingo)

Swimming

Javier Núñez (Santo Domingo)

Elizabeth Jiménez (Santo Domingo)

Taekwondo

Bernardo Pié (Bayaguana)

Madelyn Rodríguez (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Volleyball

Alondra Tapia (La Vega)

Geraldine González (Santo Domingo)

Madeline Guillén (Santo Domingo)

Cándida Arias (Santo Domingo)

Brenda Castillo (Santo Domingo)

Ariana Rodríguez (Miami, Florida)

Niverka Marte (Santo Domingo)

Yonkaira Peña (Santo Domingo)

Bethania De La Cruz (Santo Domingo)

Brayelin Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Jineiry Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Gaila González (Santo Domingo)

Weightlifting

Beatriz Pirón (San Pedro De Macorís)

Yudelina Mejía (Santo Domingo)

Crismery Santana (San Pedro De Macorís)

Wrestling

Luis Pérez (Santo Domingo)

[sim7mfv]

Latina girl core/ Mexican fairy core/ Catholic core

As the title of this post suggests, what I will be describing is more of a trending aesthetic sensibility than a clearly identifiable hashtag such as #cottagecore or #darkacademia. I noticed the influence of Latin American Catholicism first in fashion in brands such as Mirror Palais and Willy Chavaria: both designers are latino and their Spring/Summer 2023 show took place in a Catholic church. On TikTok, the stylings associated with the above aesthetics often include long ruffled low-rise skirts paired with dainty crop tops, rosaries on neck or waist, white, cotton, two-piece maxi skirt ensembles, gold jewelry (particularly hoop earrings), and scarves and flowers as hair accessories. The visuals include catholic churches, crosses as wall decoration, white lace, warm-tones, and hair ribbons. Evidence for consolidating the tree aesthetics is the fact that these visuals appear when searching for either, hence if there is little to no aesthetic distinction between aesthetics what makes them different? I say not much. I was expecting to find a lot of controversy and accusations of cultural appropriation under the #latinacore and #mexicanfairycore, however most of the people who used them were latina. Most of the accusations of appropriation were made by non-latina white people under #catholicore. Oh the irony of catholics being angry about cultural appropriation when it's been the church’s favorite conversion tactic for centuries. I find the catholic angle of the aestheticization of latinamerican imagery very interesting since TikToks hashtagged #catholiccore use latinamerican cultural catholicism instead of a European catholicism. For example, in addition to Selmya Hayek and Danelia Garza, another ubiquitous latina in the aesthetic is the Virgin of Guadalupe. According to a legend written in Nahuatl, the image of the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 to a Mexican man named Juan Diego and spoke to him in Nahuatl. The legend helped popularize catholicism amongst a resistant ethnically Aztec and Mayan Mexican population. I believe that Mexican catholicism is so aesthetically appealing because it is a mixture of indigenous and European catholic influences, hence it has the grandeur gothic European churches and the rich colors of Mexican life such as bright marigolds and painted skulls. Additionally, Gen Z is the least religious generation yet, and the visuals of Mexican catholicism offer the visual splendor of religion without the conservatism and shame.

[john-bracket]

Significant Jother Prelims!

The prelims for Jacket 4 will come in two waves after the winner’s bonus poll ends on Sunday, so get your votes in there.

First, there will be the prelims to decide between love interests for Johns/Jacks/Variants who had multiple submitted. There are eight of those matches, and they will be released throughout the day on Monday, July 10.

Then, there will be the prelims to decide which single nomination significant jothers will make the bracket. If a nomination was submitted multiple times as the only love interest, they are already in. There are 11 polls of four significant jothers, and the winner of each will make the bracket. Prelims were seeded by submission order, and those polls will be released throughout the day on Wednesday, July 12.

Match-ups below the cut!

Monday Match-ups: Who shall win the jand?

Prelim #1: Martin Blackwood (11) vs Georgie Barker (1) for Jonathan “Jon” Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Prelim #2: Jason Mendoza (5) vs Derek (1) for Janet (The Good Place)

Prelim #3: Mercymorn (2) vs Alecto (1) vs Augustine (1) vs Mercymorn + Augustine (0 but throuple rights) for John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Prelim #4: Zatanna Zatara (2) vs King Shark (2) for John Constantine (DC)

Prelim #5: Nisha Kadam (2) vs Moxxi (1) for Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Prelim #6: Brad Majors (2) vs Frank-N-Furter (1) for Janet Weiss (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Prelim #7: Shayera Hol (1) vs Mari McCabe (1) for John Stewart (DC)

Prelim #8: Rafael Solano (1) vs Michael Cordero (1) for Jane Villanueva (Jane the Virgin)

Wednesday Match-ups: I don’t have a funny name

Prelim A: Phryne Fisher for Jack Robinson (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) vs Kitty for Johnny Thirteen (Danny Phantom) vs Marguerite Baker for Jack Baker (Resident Evil) vs James “Jamey” Emerson Fletcher for Mary “Jacky” “Bloody Jack” Faber (Bloody Jack)

Prelim B: Naomi Herne for Evan Lukas (The Magnus Archives) vs Pete Tyler for Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who) vs Agnes Montague for Jack Barnabas (The Magnus Archives) vs Eric Bittle for Jack Zimmermann (Check, Please!)

Prelim C: Anna Bates for John Bates (Downton Abbey) vs Rose DeWitt for Jack Dawson (Titanic) vs Wendy Torrance for Jack Torrance (The Shining) vs Samatha Carter for Jack O’Neill (Stargate SG-1)

Prelim D: Joan of Arc for JFK (Clone High) vs JFK for Joan of Arc (Clone High) vs Elvira for Don Juan (Moliere) vs Pocahontas for John Smith (Pocahontas)

Prelim E: Penta Roujeat for Jack Wright (Namesake) vs Jethro Bodine for Jane Hathaway (Beverly Hillbillies) vs George Jetson for Jane Jetson (The Jetsons) vs Peter Parker for Mary-Jane Watson Parker (Marvel)

Prelim F: Thor for Jane Foster (Marvel) vs David Read for Jane Read (Arthur) vs Marla Singer for Jack/The Narrator (Fight Club) vs Sophie Aubrey for Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander)

Prelim G: Jay Nakamura for Jon Kent (DC) vs Satinder Hall for Ivo Keys (Shaderunners) vs Edward Rochester for Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre) vs Co Bao for John Rambo (Rambo)

Prelim H: Rosemary for Jack/Raider (Metal Gear Solid) vs Vriska Sekret for John Egbert (Homestuck) vs Maddie Fenton for Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Minnina for Jonathan Ratker (Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse)

Prelim I: Clary Fairchild for Jonathan Christopher “Jace” Herondale (The Mortal Instruments) vs Marisol Garza for Jonathan “Jon” Cartwright (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Jo Lupo for Zane Donovan (Eureka) vs Robert Martin for Janet van de Graff (The Drowsy Chaperone)

Prelim J: Rebecca St. Claire for Jack Secord (Warehouse 13) vs David for Giovanni (Giovanni’s Room) vs Lucy Moderatz for Jack Pullman (While You Were Sleeping) vs Petra Solano for Jane “JR” Ramos (Jane the Virgin)

Prelim K: Scott Summers for Jean Gray (Marvel) vs Hessa for John the Baptist (The Wife of John the Baptist) vs Helen Wick for John Wick (John Wick) vs Patrick Bateman for Jean (American Psycho: The Musical)