#liz and arturo

[pleasantfanartist]

"I'm the only Mexican father on this planet whose daughter is genius extraordinaire Elizabeth Ortecho."

[dr-lizortecho]

I do not feel ashamed

[smudgesticksgonnasmudgingflip]

So, I was gonna post this yesterday, but it felt mean to Charles-

Drdt animatic idea:

So ideas for characters (if you have any questions feel free to ask! Plus let me know who you would choose!):

Pop (Liz): Xander, David, Min, Ace, Hu

Six (Annie): Nico, Min, Ace, Hu

Squish (June): David, Min, Whit, Xander

Uh-uh (Katalin): Teruko, Arei, Charles, Eden, Nico

Cicero (Velma): Charles, Arei, Levi, David, Arturo

Lipschitz (Mona): J, Nico, Rose

[ppg-villains-defense-lawyer]

I know everyone agrees that the live action show that never happened would've been A Bad Idea, but hypothetically speaking, if we ever did get a live action show, it's kind of interesting to think of who would play each role.

For Professor Utonium, I think that full house era Bob Saget would've been perfect, but unfortunately that would be impossible now. I think maybe someone like Topher Grace could do well in his stead.

I've also seen someone suggest Christina Hendricks for Ms. Bellum, and I think she has the look down pat. She rocked her role in Mad Men.

For Sedusa, I think Megan Fox or Liz Giles would be great

Amy Acker would be perfect for Ms. Keane imo. Loved her character in Angel

The PPG themselves are honestly super hard for me to cast and I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, but I do think the Live Action show's choice of Dove Cameron for an older Bubbles was a decent one. I could also see Elle Fanning rocking the role.

Most of the Gangreen Gang is difficult to think of, but I think Moises Arias for Lil' Arturo would be great

Jake T. Austin also looks a bit like how I'd picture an older human!Arturo

I just discovered her when I was looking around so I haven't seen her act in anything, but Annalise Basso would be perfect for Princess Morbucks

And I know she's not a canon character, but just for fun I do kinda like Maude Apatow for Snake's sister Ivy

But yeah, that's all I got right now. I'd love to find more, so if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know!

[notsowrites]

this life is sweeter than fiction

Summary: Alex & Michael have a lunch date at the Crashdown

A/N: i said i wasn't writing again until next year, but this happened that same night and i was going to save it until i wrote the sequel to "all the stars aligned" but now it's just gonna be part of a series set within that universe instead.

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Liz places a milkshake on the table in front of him, but doesn't leave. Instead she stands there, hand on her hip, waiting for him to acknowledge her. Carefully, Alex glances across to Michael, who's brow is furrowed in adorable confusion as he glances back and forth between the two of them.

“Liz?”

“Alex.”

“Something wrong?”

She leans forward just enough to gently bump the milkshake glass again with her finger.

“Can we please take this off the menu?”

“What is it?” Michael immediately chimes in, reaching out to dip a finger into the ice cream. Alex watches as he pulls his hand back, slipping the finger between his lips and into his mouth. He's too focused on the explaining Liz is going to make him do to really enjoy the way Michael sucks on his own finger, even in the middle of the Crashdown with Liz standing a foot away.

“This is the worst selling milkshake on the menu, and Alex won't let me and Papi take it off.”

“It's good,” Michael replies innocently, reaching back over and trying it again. “Is that caramel?”

“It's Bananas Foster Ranch.”

The thing is, Alex doesn't want to let them remove it from the menu, even if he's the only one to ever order it so that it generates at least a bit of revenue. The timing of it appearing on the menu at the Crashdown had felt almost serendipitous - it first made an appearance the summer after senior year, Arturo clearly trying to add some new puns to the menu in his own effort to distract from the hurt of both Rosa's death and Liz's sudden departure. He knew it'd disappeared some time during the decade he was away - not enough people ordering it to justify keeping the option on the menu for long. But once he'd been back in town, once he'd been fully settled into Roswell once more, Alex had inquired to Arturo one day if he could whip one up for him, for nostalgia's sake.

And within a couple days, it had been added back.

Liz had taken note almost immediately when she'd arrived back in town several months later, wasting no time demanding to know the reason why. But back then, Alex couldn't tell her. Because back then, there was no Alex and Michael - if anything there was only Alex and the mysterious Museum Guy. And to admit why he liked seeing the Bananas Foster Ranch milkshake on the menu felt almost like a declaration. It felt like once someone knew about him and Michael, it was too easy to connect the remaining dots.

“I don't understand,” Michael says, forgoing sticking his finger back in the glass again and just pulling the entire thing over towards him, straw between his lips as he sucks the ice cream up into his mouth.

“Took me way way too long to realize but-” Liz turns to look down at him, an eyebrow raised. “You want to do the honors?”

Alex wants to tell Liz to get lost, to take the milkshake with her and forget this entire exchange ever happened. But there's something in the way Michael is looking back at him, waiting expectantly for the answer, that makes Alex feel a tiny bit braver.

“It reminded me of you, Michael.”

He immediately covers his face in his hands, screwing his eyes shut and groaning at himself for the embarrassment he feels. He knows he shouldn't, that it's just another thing on a laundry list of items that have long allowed Alex to think about Michael when he couldn't actually talk about him in public, or mention him to anyone. 

He hears the familiar sound of Liz walking away from the table, boots stomping on the linoleum floor as she goes, and slowly drops his hands to see Michael watching him. Michael reaches over to gently grab hold of his hands, pulling them the rest of the way down, but not letting go and resting them on the table together between them.

“Hasn't this been on the menu since we were kids?”

“Summer after senior year, actually.”

A smile spreads across Michael's face as he tugs at their hands, pulling Alex's own up to his lips and pressing a kiss to the knuckles. It's the simplest little action, but it has Alex's heart soaring in his chest. Two years ago, he never could have imagined being able to do any of this with someone he liked - let alone with Michael. And there once was a time where he believed that no matter who he dated, who he tried to have a public relationship with, his father would always find some way to interfere. His goal became trying to be happy enough , find something he could live with so that no one else would ever know what it was like to be at the end of his father's rage.

Maria had always been his plan for happy enough, the plans made long ago sometime in high school before Michael Guerin swooped in and stole his guitar. He always knew that while he would never be in love with her, he'd never feel that rush of excitement that came with falling in love with someone - but he loved her enough, and she was the safest he ever managed to feel at a time when there was no one else in his life reminding him of his own worth. Her presence has always been his safety net, that person who no matter what, will always be there for him - and he would always be there for her in return.

But his father's death had changed everything for him. No longer did he have to look over his shoulder, no longer did he feel like there would always be someone lurking around the corner, ready to ruin any moment of happiness Alex may try and take for himself. And now, with the statue in the square gone, he didn't have to stare at the reminder each time he walked through town with Michael, the two of them holding hands and strolling down the sidewalk. For the first time in his life, Alex felt like he was starting to truly reap the benefits of the war he'd been waging since he was a kid.

“Didn't know you were so sentimental, Manes.”

Alex smiles at Michael across the table, because there's no way that's true. Not when Michael had found him last year in that portal dimension, sitting on the tailgate of Michael's truck, watching reels that contained his own memories as if they were movies.

Alex gently removes his hand from Michael's, and carefully pulls the milkshake glass towards himself across the table. He takes a sip from the straw, savoring the taste of banana and caramel. Nothing about the flavor of the milkshake reminds Alex about Michael, it's always been completely and totally about the name.

“Liked having things that reminded me of you, even before there was really an us .”

Michael chuckles quietly in response. “Would you change anything? If you could?”

It's a question Alex has asked himself before, not necessarily needing an answer, but more just a general curiosity. And while he wishes the incident in the shed never happened, Alex wonders who they both would be as people right now without it. Because he knows that, regardless of what happened there that night, there's also the incident with Noah, and Isobel, and Rosa that took place that night - a whole combination of which was the reason in the end that Michael gave up his scholarship to UNM, and stayed in Roswell for the next decade instead. Would he change his father, perhaps? But that would require going back even further and convincing Harlan that the aliens who crash landed in 1947 weren't dangerous, they weren't invaders, and they weren't here to murder humans. Everything feels like dominoes, one event after another, but all of them tied together.

“Only if you and I still ended up here,” he replies, carefully considering his words.

Liz comes back over to the table, looking slightly impatient. There's a brand new stain on the front of her uniform - something that looks like rocket relish, Alex thinks.

“Everything okay, Ortecho?”

“You have ten seconds to order.”

Michael laughs out loud, smiling over at him across the table. “Such great service here.”

Liz thrusts her arm out in front of Michael, showing him the face of the watch on her wrist.

“May I remind you, I have a life outside this diner. And a date with a very handsome, very sexy cowboy tonight. So god help you if I don't clock out from my shift in exactly 28 minutes.”

They both quickly place orders - hamburgers, fries, extra flying sauce. Liz glares at both of them as Michael asks for another Bananas Foster Ranch milkshake, but Alex decides to opt for Abducted by Chocolate instead. 

Better to dip his fries into.

“I'd ban both of you if I didn't think Papi would just ignore it.”

Alex watches Liz head towards the kitchen, pausing the scribble their orders down on her pad and sticking it in the window. The cafe is busy - a typical midday lunch rush, and Alex had been working from home today, so he'd shown up at the junkyard unannounced to ask Michael to grab something to eat with him. It felt like one of the perks of working from home instead of commuting out to Deep Sky for the day, because that would mean he wouldn't be home until closer to dinner if he did a full day at the office. Plus, he's certain that Sanders doesn't mind him dragging Michael away for an hour or so. The old man might be a crank, but Alex is convinced there is a soft spot buried somewhere deep inside him.

He turns back towards Michael, only to see him watching him, as if there is nowhere else to look in the whole of the diner. The milkshake glass is at the end of the table, Michael having finished the last of it off rather quickly, like now that he's learned why it's still on the menu he actually likes it.

“How'd you get them to keep this on the menu if it doesn't sell?” Michael asks, bumping the empty glass with his hand for emphasis.

Alex doesn’t know the answer to that question, only that every time it has been taken off, he's come into the diner and tried to order it. Perhaps it's less trouble to keep it on the menu than deal with explaining to each new waiter that gets hired why if a certain customer orders that one specific milkshake that isn't actually on the menu, they still have to make it for him.

“Guess Arturo just likes me,” he replies with a wink and a smile.

[bekkachaos]

Malex Ever After AU for RNM Big Bang 🥰🥰🥰

If you don't feel like commenting on the fic my sweet anon, please come back to my inbox and let me know what you think 🥰 for now, I will leave you with the below!

Prince Michael (of course), downtrodden but brilliant Alex living with the awful Jesse Manes and the "better brothers", Kyle as his best friend, an all-rounder and an artist. And he's learning to paint better from Rosa, who along with Liz and Arturo work in the Manes mansion.

Max is the head of the Guard, usually that means chasing Michael when he escapes. Isobel is highborn, her family one of the richest in the country and as part of an alliance for more resources, it has been arranged for Michael to marry her.

Michael obviously rebels, and one night escapes from the palace and runs into a rather forceful young peasant who he pays to keep quiet about his visit. As he's trying to get away he runs into a group of travellers being overrun by bandits, but the guard has almost caught him. He doesn't know why his conscience kicks in, but it does, and he rescues a painting for an older man, an inventor, Sanders, who's on his way to the palace by invitation. Travelling with him is a psychic, Maria, and accompanied by Max and the guard they head back to the palace.

Meanwhile, Arturo has been shipped off to pay Jesse Manes' debts, but Alex has an idea to get him back with the money he got from the prince to stay quiet. Kyle works in town and helps get him dressed up like a nobleman to fight for Arturo. The shoes don't fit, but Kyle assures him no one will notice.

And Alex is good, damn good, he doesn't back down even when he's almost being spat on by the man driving the cart. And then he hears a voice behind him, and he's frozen, because what if the prince recognises him as the man from earlier?

He turns, looking up at the prince sitting on horseback, wind rustling those beautiful curls. But the prince let's him fight his case and even demands that Arturo be released. Sanders and Maria share a knowing look as Alex tells Arturo where they should meet.

Michael is intrigued by Alex, following him down the road and realising that Alex finds him arrogant all the whole trying to get his name out of him. And Alex can't do that, so he leaves him with the only name he can, the name of a man who was more a father to him than his own ever was.

Sir James Valenti.

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[tofeelthecold]

bruises and bruising || accepting

@labyriinths said: “Let me guess, I should ‘see the other guy’?”

"Yes," Michael replied as he looked at Isobel. "But if it helps it was one of Wyatt's friends..." he said and paused before adding more. "He was going after Liz and Arturo and the diner...I didn't have a choice but to defend them."

[ulkaralakbarova]

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[pleasantfanartist]

Sunrise on Crashdown - Our Intrepid Leader: A Celebration of Liz Ortecho

[dr-lizortecho]

Why have Max die sooo many times if I don’t get to see Arturo cry at his funeral???? get to see him put a chipped coffee mug on display at the Crash Down, one Max dropped and then proceeded to trip over himself to clean up the mess and apologized a million times- but he’d was Juno scared by Arturo sharing Liz’s graduation photos. Get to see him give Isobel and tell Anne how sorry he is- in a way only a parent who’s lost a child could.

I wanted to see him wrecked- I’m sorry.

[acapulcopress]

Confía Añorve que con Liz Tapia "Zihuatanejo tendrá una gran alcaldesa"

ZIHUATANEJO, Gro. * Mayo 17, 2024. ) Especial “Con Liz Tapia Castro, Zihuatanejo tendrá una gran alcaldesa que sabrá dar buenos resultados”, afirmó el candidato al Senado de la República, Manuel Añorve Baños durante una caminata de más de cinco kilómetros, que encabezó la candidata a la alcaldía por este puerto y a la que también asistió el candidato a diputado por el distrito local 11, Arturo Arzeta Serna. Añorve Baños dijo que así como en Zihuatanejo con Liz y Arturo, en todo el estado de Guerrero se percibe el triunfo de los candidatos del PRI, PRD y PAN. En su mensaje en la concentración en El Coacoyul, expresó que el ��nimo y las ganas que Liz tiene, las transmite a las personas, quienes no dudaron en abrir las puertas de sus casas y además, se sumaron a caminar junto a ellos. Añorve Baños, afirmó que Zihuatanejo tiene un mejor rostro, pero que es necesario seguir mejorando día con día, y con Liz como alcaldesa, a esta ciudad y sus comunidades les va a ir mejor. Por ello, pidió a los ciudadanos no confiarse, y salir decididos a votar el próximo 02 de junio por todos los candidatos de esta gran alianza ganadora. ) acapulcopress.com Read the full article

[thestoriesincoffeestains]

"Can't you ask her what's bothering her, or does that overstep said boundaries?" That little shrug wasn't fooling Arturo. There was a fine line between patient and being passive. Not asking could very well backfire, leaving Liz to wonder if Wally really cared. Women were...complicated, in a word, that required a certain amount of nuance. "Just don't give her too much space."

Arturo scoffed and waved a hand through the air. "That's definitely giving me too much credit." Growing up, the desire to build his reputation and rise in the ranks overshadowed anything else--especially his heart. "I asked for her number and she laughed, so I moved on to talking to her friend instead, which she decidedly didn't like." It'd gotten her attention, but unfortunately in all the wrong ways.

"Complicated. We're currently taking a break, we've hung out a lot over half the year. I always told her I'd respect her boundaries and it's just been quite a week. Just wish I knew what it is that is bothering her." Shrugging he knew he'd have to be patient and let Liz work out whatever was needed to be worked out. "Maybe I'll find out when she decides to open up. I'll try next week after I've given her the space. I don't want to pressure her you know? But this isn't the time for my sad sack story. We've got a club to turn upside down." Wally did his best to show a brave face even though he had injuries and missed hanging out with Liz. He tilted his head and hummed. "Be that as it may. You're still one of the few that lead with heart and have a no bullshit type personality. What did you do that came off like a game to her?"

[maycanady]

MARIA DELUCA WEEKEND | day one favorite dynamic ✦ Maria + The Ortechos

[bisexualalienss]

Roswell, New Mexico | 4.09 "Wild Wild West"

[maxortecho]

Ortecho family recipes