#latin representation

[lily-s-world]

Getting disappointed that Vivi's actress isn't Arab is completely valid, and I completely respect your complaints on this.

However, if with that complaint comes the "Luffy is okay because he was Brazilian and the actor is Mexican so is all the same". Then you are just like the casting people that you are complaining about!! Because you are asking for good representation for you, but then proceed to say that a region that consists of several completely different countries is all the same.

Is Iñaki fantastic as Luffy? Yes, he is. But that doesn't change the fact that the casting department also considered latinamerican nationalities interchangeable.

[krispycreamcake]

sakamaki with a latin gf!!! pleasee

From author: I fucking love poc asks so much. Also to make this just a tiny bit easier on myself since I have writer's block rn, I'll just do something a bit short today

Sakamaki's with a Latin gf

Shu Sakamami

🎻- Slightly intrigued by the culture

🎻- Would honestly ask a couple questions if he was up to listening to you rant about your customs

🎻- Honestly likes the music you play sometimes (he has a playlist of Celia Cruz but shh)

🎻- Also yes yes before you shoot me, I know he likes classical but he seems like the type of guy who could appreciate the way how salsa music incorporates different instruments to have a specific kick to the genre

🎻- Once you told him about paella and now he asks you to make it for him almost all the time

🎻- Terrified of meeting your family and avoids it at all costs but tries to pretend it doesn't bother him

Reiji Sakamaki

☕️- Extremely educated on Latin culture

☕️- Asks you for local book recommendations

☕️- Genuinely wants your opinion on Japanese culture and how much of a difference it is compared to your own

☕️- Like Shu, he enjoys the music and if he had to pick he'd say Los Tres Diamantes was his favourite band from that genre

☕️- Invested in learning Spanish and takes pride in tackling another language alongside German

☕️- Since Latino culture is extremely diverse, he'd ask you about your OWN personal experience a lot of the times

Ayato Sakamaki

🏀- "Of course the great ore-sama could obviously get any girl he wants from around the world!"

🏀- Cocky asshole

🏀- See it's one thing being able to charm those around you that you share similarities with, but it takes something special to make someone completely different than yourself fall in love with you

🏀- And Ayato knows this, takes pride in it even

🏀- Hmm when it comes to how interested he is about the culture I'd give it 5/10

🏀- He cares about you more than all those fancy songs and food, but that is YOUR culture, so by extension he kinda has to care even if it's just a little bit

🏀- Asks you to speak Spanish and if you can't, he'll make fun of you for it and tease you by telling you to go learn a thing or two from Reiji

Laito

🃏- Lorddddddd

🃏- LORDDDDDD

🃏- Well before I start, let me just say that he's also educated on the culture just maybe not as much as Reiji, so anything he does is a means to tease you by playing coy and outright stupid

🃏- Just also would like to add, if you're from Brazil and happen to have a curvy body, he WILL comment on that

🃏- If you have a flatter body type, he'll tease (annoy) you by asking how come you don't have more uh curves in certain areas because that's supposed to be what you're "known for"

🃏- Trust me, he's only saying this to get a reaction, he loves you in his own weird fucked up way

🃏- But expect a lot of comments like that and at some point you'll probably need to tell him off

🃏- Midnight salsa dancing because well, do you honestly expect anything else from him?

🃏- One of his favourite things to do is watch those cliche over dramatic Spanish dramas and eats it up every single time there turns out to be a twin brother

Kanato Sakamaki

🧸- Like Ayato, doesn't care that much about the culture, rather his main focus is on you

🧸- Probably likes to hear you tell scary folklore stories from wherever you're from

🧸- And on that note, he already knows about La Lloronoa and Sihuanaba

🧸- Makes Teddy™ cover his ears when you get to the scary parts

🧸- Comments on how he'd still love you as a vengeful ghost and might even prefer it that way

🧸- Like Laito, he has this preconceived notion that you're meant to be curvy but doesn't care if you aren't

🧸- Besides if he only liked you for your body, he'd kill you and preserve you somewhere, hiding you away from the rest of the world where only he could see you. But he'd never do that riiiiiiight?

Subaru Sakamaki

🥀- Learns how to salsa when no one is around so he could impress you one day

🥀- Like Laito, he also watches those cliche Spanish soap operas but pretends he doesn't like them and think they're overrated (He's on the second season of Monarca)

🥀- Secretly interested in the culture and would ask Reiji for some books so he could learn more

🥀- Doesn't want to seem dumb in front of you but also doesn't want make a fool of himself by saying words he doesn't understand or asking dumb questions

🥀- If you speak Portuguese or Spanish, likes hearing you talk in your native tongue

🥀- Out of all the brothers, he'd be the one to treat you the most "normally" by not pestering you with questions or flaunting you off like a trophy he just won

🥀- You try to teach him your native language so you could both shit talk his brothers right in front their faces

From Author: It has been so long since I opened this app omfg but I've been busy with a lot of irl things so now I should have a bit more time to produce more content yay (I'm this close to jumping off a bridge with how dead the fandom is rn)

[couturefaith]

kit connor stays working with latinas. :)

[hislittleraincloud]

God, can you imagine actual representation...

✨🦅🇲🇽🦅✨

[nerdby]

"What a luxurious thing, to feel."-Of Women & Salt by Gabriela Garcia

[alixx-black]

Barista Benito: A Preview

I'm writing an #youngadult #fiction #anthology series that followed Benito Ramos, an #lgbtq #latin boy as he grows up in his uncle's coffee shop. Get a sneak peek and then follow the story over on WattPad!

The shop was busier than anyone could have hoped for, and it was the biggest deal to the Ramos family ever in their lives. For Benito, though, he knew how special it was for his uncle, an immigrant, to have opened his own business. Truthfully, Benito mostly liked the idea of bringing his friends over after school. Discounted coffee? In middle school? There was nothing cooler than that! “Gracias,…

[ryandjaxon]

All minority groups have been told, “you don’t belong.” We all deserve the same mentorship and advocacy! And racialized people deserve the same defence against fratricide to maintain the camaraderie of the military.

[couturefaith]

the most beautiful boy indeed.

No royal family, no prince, no socialist, no drama! No before. No later. Only now. One last night together. We're worth it.

YOUNG ROYALS | (2021-2024)

[shitdoodler]

Nyaaaa, Konichiwa everynyan /(・⁠∀⁠・⁠)/, watshi enjoy this so much (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠), the result is so desu kawaii ♪⁠～⁠(⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠), I hope u enjoy it Nyan rawr (⁠=⁠^⁠･⁠ｪ⁠･⁠^⁠=⁠)

[lily-s-world]

Let's criticize Disney and their awful decisions, one of my favorite activities.

Apparently they are working on a new animated show called "Primos" based on a latinoamerican household. However, they had no idea what they are doing and when people call them out, they are playing the "you don't understand" "it isn't that bad card".

One of the main issues is that they are using Spanish phrases that are grammatically incorrect. If this was a person speaking Spanish in the show, then it wouldn't be that bad because you could understand that it is learning the language, but they are using it in the slogan and main intro of the series. If you are going to use a phrase in another language as your slogan, at least be sure that is correct. Someone mentioned this to the main voice actress of the show, it should had been mentioned to the official page instead and the actress could had perfectly ignore it. But no, the actress choose to call that person a grammar n*zi and say that Spanish is a conqueror language. WTF?? And that is the person you choose to voice the main character?

There are more issues like the name of the kids - specially one named as the slang for p*ssy, which I found incredibly weird that they decided to use this word for a children name. The city is named Terremoto (Earthquake), a natural disaster that had caused hundreds of deaths in Latina American countries.

They started promoting the show as a latinoamerican household, and then changed as Mexican household when people told them Latina America was more than Mexico.

And one of my main issues is the awful design of characters with curly hair and brownish skin compared with characters with light skin. I mean, look at this:

Is as if they decided to do everything wrong on purpose.

[mydreamysummerstudio]

uh-oh. new hyperfixation unlocked: Blue Beetle

[elbiotipo]

It's also funny that in Victoria 2, if you play as a developing nation outside of the great powers (say, Argentina) and if you implement liberal laissez faire economics, your economy goes to absolute shit. The only good way to play Victoria 2 is with state capitalism or a command economy, because otherwise the invisible hand of the market screws you.

If the Liberals get in charge of Argentina, it ruins the country for generations. 10/10 excellent realism.

[metiredlr]

Brasil finally being part of an evil plan for once and its all in a sports anime thats suppoed to be about soccer im fucking crying

[jetwhenitsmidnight]

Till the Last Beat of My Heart by Louangie Bou-Montes

Release date: 15 October 2024

Genre: young adult contemporary fantasy with horror elements

If you like:

Cemetery Boys

Necromancy

Ex-friends to lovers

Grumpy Nerd x Himbo Jock

Synopsis

The teen son of the local mortician accidentally reanimates the dead body of the boy he had more than friendly feelings for, but can he keep him alive for good before their time runs out?

When you grow up in a funeral home, death is just another part of life. But for sixteen-year-old Jaxon Santiago-Noble, it’s also part of his family’s legacy. Most dead bodies in the town of Jacob’s Barrow wind up at Jaxon’s house; his mom is the local mortician, after all. He doesn’t usually pay them much mind, but when Christian Reyes is brought in after a car accident, Jaxon’s world is turned upside down.

There are a lot of things Jaxon wishes he could have said to his once best friend and first crush. When he accidentally resurrects Christian, Jaxon might finally have that chance. But the more he learns about his newfound necromancy, the more he grasps that Christian’s running on borrowed time—and it's almost out.

As he navigates dark, mysterious magics and family secrets, Jaxon realizes that stepping into an inherited power may also mean opening up old family wounds if he wants to keep the boy he may be falling for alive for good.

Content warnings

Death, parental death, animal death

Car accident, injury/injury descriptions

Blood, nose/ear-bleeds, self-harm for magic purposes

Hospital, medical content

Anxiety, panic attacks

Bullying

Descriptions of dead/decomposing bodies and animal carcasses

Review

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC!

This book is the perfect Halloween read!

While this book is definitely not a horror novel, there were plenty of spooky moments and horror references that feels just in time for Halloween season. I hadn't expected that based on the cover, so it was a pleasant surprise!

The characters read as realistically teenager-y to me. Jaxon is moody and anxious and stubborn (same, dude) while Christian is upbeat and cheerful but is also putting up a front to hide his fears. Also, I really appreciate that Christian is a glasses-wearing jock.

There were certain conflicts that I feel got brushed off/didn't get resolved fully, but for the most part, everything gets resolved pretty well.

I feel that the necromancy aspect isn't fully fleshed out, but as Jaxon is new to this/still figuring things out, I think that's fine.

Overall, a pretty solid YA fantasy, I will definitely be looking forward to see what the author writes next!

P. S. I love Grimalkin the cat so much 😭😭😭

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Happy Latine Heritage Month

hey friends I need some help collecting resources for Latine Heritage month! Please tag us here at fhpoc or at @fansofcolor or just drop the urls for the posts you want reblogged!

I'm sorry I'm not more prepared but I'd really appreciate the submissions/mentions/ tags if you have a minute to help out!

mod ali

[blackynsupremacy]

happy hispanic heritage month to all those who identify and celebrate the beautiful cultures of spanish speaking countries and communities!!

🇵🇷🇨🇷🇨🇴🇳🇮🇭🇳🇲🇽🇻🇪🇨🇱🇨🇺🇦🇷🇧🇴🇩🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪🇸🇻🇬🇹 🇵🇦🇵🇾🇪🇸🇺🇾 🇬🇶 (if i missed any flags, i’m sorry!)

shoutout to colombia because barriletes are so good!! 😭🇨🇴 it’s a sweet taffy like candy that tastes like bubblegum and they’re addictive. i 10/10 recommend it 🫶🏾🫶🏾