#mexican representation

[krizeros]

The Mexican in me had to draw Skyla after learning shes Hispanic

[aroaceconfessions]

i wish i could see myself in media

like, there is so little good rep of aroace people

and then there is also really little good mexican rep in media

so i never see myself anywhere

[din-skywalker]

imma make a new post to add proper tags but:

i, a white person, am wanting to write a book with the main character that is mexican and native american. what should i avoid while making and writing this character to not fall into stereotypes and such? this takes place in the kid 1800s btw idk if that will apply to this at all.

[futurecorps3]

Follow up to this 🔝 because I just experienced it in a massive way with Blue Beetle.

Spoilers marked with * ! You’ve been warned.

-My fucking god this was such a wonderful experience ☹️ I had the time of my life seeing language I use everyday with my family and friends being depicted in such a great film!!! Let’s dive in:

1- First of all, the use of ‘pendejo’ (something like dickhead maybe?) being mostly used between Jaime and Milagro is so relatable because YES siblings and sibling-like relationships are always marked by this word “Hola pendejo”, “Cállate pendejo”, “No mames pendejo” ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

2*-Their grandma being a revolutionary legend????? Hello????? She was so iconic for that and the whole explanation of how the plan’s gonna work!!! It’s screaming revolución mexicana, or cubana. Kind of an Adelita (women who fought relentlessly in Mexican revolution)

3*******- When Jaimes’s father dies and everyone’s having a breakdown, nana tells Milagro to wait because there’ll be a time for crying, that they need to save Jaime first. Bro. YES! Grandmas in latin culture are always so strong in that way… most of the women I know have gone through some SHIT and still manage to get past it and live life with a sexy smile on their faces MY FUCKING GOD because that’s our philosophy and we’re thought all that by our abuelas

4*- We all have an uncle Rudy in our lives <3 he’s the guy you love like a friend and supports you like an uncle!!! He listens to Cruë and Selena!!! He’s so cool!!! So supportive, always calling you ‘wey’ because he’s your carnal before your old uncle; you can trust uncle Rudys of the world

5- Even though I’m not religious, I still believe La Virgen de Guadalupe and christianity/catholicism in general are a huge part of our culture as a whole and seeing it depicted in such an accurate way in the movie was so refreshing!!

6- At some point, nana asks Milagro for help getting up since she’s kneeling on the ground. She goes; “A ver mija […] Ahí te voy, eh? Una, dos, tres […] ay mamacita *giggle*”. When I tell you we’ve all had that same exact thing said to us when helping a grownup person get up. THOSE SAME EXACT WORDS OH LORD

7-The nopales bit; if you have a big nopal plant on a pot or even your garden there’s probably a whole story behind it. Like maybe your grandparents planted it, or stole it from a valdío (abandoned land) and brought it home, maybe your uncle once ate dirt from it when he was little! (happened in my family). The symbolism in Mexican culture of nopal is huge!

Our flag has a nopal plant where the eagle is standing and it’s because, according to the legend, the first people in Mexico were told that wherever they saw an eagle eating a snake on top of a nopal was where our land should be built!!! It’s so gorgeous

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I could really make an essay on this. They got it right. Again, as a mexican woman (born, raised, still live here), I’ve grown watching very stereotypical representations of my people and it warms my heart to see everyday things in a big movie like this one <3

Damián Alcázar is a special actor for us all since he’s been in very politically controversial movies (criticizing the government, which is a whole other thing I could go on for ages) that speak to people of middle and low class in a country like ours, and seeing such a dear face acting like a dad we all know in a superhero movie made me happy!

The movie is great by itself too, go watch it!

Representation fucking matters.

Before watching the new Black Panther movie I really didn’t feel the need for it. Ofc I got why people wanted to be seen in big screens and different platforms but never really felt identified with the feeling people described. (I’m a member of the lgbt community as well but since I grew up on a very open household with a loving family that opened that part of the culture to me it was never a big thing).

Today that changed when I saw brown people on screen. I saw people who look like me and my friends and the ones I see on the streets everyday. I’m a Mexican woman, born and raised in Mexico and getting to see such a beautiful representation of my culture and people warmed my heart and made me feel exactly what minorities who were overshadowed by western media describe.

They even included Mayan legends on it, which I’ve always found absolutely beautiful. I live near some ruins (Teotihuacán, look it up) and it’s quite beautiful to see elements I saw on field trips and history classes represented on a movie. And not just any movie, a marvel movie. I grew up with them and seeing my culture developing in the same universe was just mesmerizing.

If you read this all the way, thank you. Means the world <3

[ifwewere-stories]

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[mischiefbuckley]

see I’m excited for “Confessions” in the way of seeing this storyline play out of a Mexican character who grew up in the Catholic faith and culture on a network television show and how we have seen him time and time again how this faith has directed the decisions he has made like “Confessions” will be an interesting watch for sure. Especially with the call backs it has with the “Eddie Begins” episode and huge Eddie storylines in general with big decisions he has made because of the Catholic religion and one of the biggest one’s being he got married young because he got his girlfriend pregnant and how he immediately ran away from home and joined the military and became an Army Medic and we have been getting this referenced time and time again throughout season 8 and him getting married wasn’t even a decision he wanted to make in the first place it was more influenced by his parents because again of the faith of it all and how even towards the end of his relationship with Shannon she was the one that had asked him for a divorce and how in the episode they are responding to a call with a divorced man like it will be interesting to see the direction that they decide for Eddie to take in terms of approaching his religious background with his childhood and current life and what that means for him and how Eddie starts to accept the truths in his life

[isthisareablog]

Natlan characters nationality headcanons

[hersheysmcboom]

I have good news for all of you. My president oc in my marvel rewrite will be a nonbinary Jewish mixed black Dominican Indian lady based on Kamala Harris, Jill stein, Claudia de la Cruz, and Jasmine Sherman! Even better part! The Vice President will be a genderfluid mixed Mexican Native American based on Tim walz, Katrina Garcia, and tandia blubear! What do you think?

[lilithsaga]

The new Helluva Boss short was literally the GOAT!! 🐐

That ending though... 👀

[miguelswifey04]

miguel x mexican/black fem! reader

fluff/silly hcs

favorite thing to do together is talk shit/gossip in spanish knowing damn well that the people you’re talking about wouldn’t understand a damn thing in spanish LOL

spanish endearment words! miguel loves to refer to you as “querida, corazón, muñeca (sometimes), mi sol, mi vida, mi alma, mujercita” while you refer to him as “guapo, mi amor, cariño, hombre,”

he loves the way you say his name. it’s like a lullaby to his ears. i think he loves your accent and the way you accentuate his name with love.

he’s surprisingly good at braiding your way when you make him braid your hair before going to bed. well, you sometimes forget that he used to braid his daughter hair a lot…☹️

miguel loves it when you rant to him about anything quite literally anything. whether is about some person you don’t like or a new hyperfixation he will be all ears.

you purposely piss him off…you love when men get mad…you find it funny when miguel is annoyed with you BUT he doesn’t get extremely mad at you. you push it because you wanna see if he would actually get mad at you but surprisingly enough he doesn’t! just annoyed, “stop being annoying y/n.” he says it with a smirk but his voice is dripping with annoyance.

he learned your whole hair care routine. he payed attention when it was your hair wash day. he secretly loves to watch you wash you hair and take note of the different hair products that vest suits your type of hair whether it’s afro, curly, textured, thick you name it.

that’s why when one day you asked him if he could wash your hair, he happily obliged and you were so surprised he knew which products where which and in the specific order that you used them. HE LIKES TO GIVE UU SCALP MASSAGES 💆🏽‍♀️ sometimes you’d end up falling asleep on the sink and he’d wake you up, “okay mi vida, your nap time is over.” he’d make fun of you for falling asleep HAHA

miguel loves loves loves it so much whenever you where long acrylic nails 💅🏽 it’s just something about the way they make your hands adorned and pretty. he’s always grabbing your hands and just awestruck by the artwork done on your nails <3

suggestive: when miguel and you were making out and in the heat of the moment, he hadn’t realized that his claws came out and they were digging into your hips + his fangs were more prominent which grazed against your lips. you jolted from the sharp pain of his claws digging into your skin and he felt really bad. “i’m so sorry, i didn’t mean to.” he apologized profusely throughout the day after that because he would never hurt you. of course you told him you didn’t mind it one bit, and that you kinda liked it which left miguel was dumbstruck by it 😭

“please please please!! i wanna see your fangs oh my god, please please please.” you begging him to show you his fangs and he would be reluctant to, “what? no, not here.” obviously he gave in and you we’re literally literally so intrigued by his fangs. you were awestruck and he kind of blushed because of that.

he was invited to your family’s cookout 😭 the black side of your family definitely had fun with him, showing him the good stuff. he fell in love with the food and he could not get enough of your grandma’s cooking. not him dancing to cupid shuffle with your uncles, aunts, and cousins 😭

now of course, your mexican side of the family would invite him to go to trips to mexico with all of you. you can say it was the most chaotic experience in your life BUT SO MUCH FUN!

miguel bonded really well and was fully accepted on both sides of your family. your mom almost fainted when you brought miguel to your house because it’s the first time you bring a good man. your mom knew you had terrible taste in men but when you brought miguel, lord. she was like “¡¡estoy tan feliz de tu novio!! siempre traes hombres feos a mi casa!!” while your dad was just happy you got a good man, finally. “nice to meet you, miguel. i’m sure you’ll make my daughter happy.” miguel happily nodded, “of course, your daughter’s happiness and well-being is my first priority.”

he takes you out on dates a lot…he plans them more than you do, and he always bringing you flowers with every visit. got you a promise ring and vowed to marry you one day (he’s a man of his words) it took him time to figure out his feelings but he did it!

he always encourages to reach for your goals and dream & promises to be by your side through it all, and you promised him you’d help him overcome his past traumas which really made him soft. he always cried when you said :(

lyla loves you!! she exposes his secrets or confessions he had about you, out loud…he gets super embarrassed and red about it, and you just tease him about it. one time it was something suggestive…he literally had to disconnect lyla for A WHILE LMFAO it was awkward as fuck 😭 “miguel um—wow i didn’t know you had that in you..” he looked down at the floor than at you with an embarrassed face gawd did he want to disappear. “well yeah…” he chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck.

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a/n: if this gets enough reach i’ll make a pt. 2

[mannyblacque]

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[mcyt-rep]

RACE REPRESENTATION*

*note: this is technically ethnicity/race/nationality representation because i'm not sure about some things. please don't kill me I am one person

BDoubleO100/Bdubs (Assyrian)

Ironmouse/Mousey(?) (Puerto Rican-American)

Bigbstatz/Bigb (Black, unsure of ethnic group)

Tinakitten/Tina (Korean-American)

Etoiles (French-Algerian)

Jaiden Animations/Jaiden (Japanese-American)

Quackity (Mexican-American(?))

[pastara-cell]

God this blog may just turn into a tmf blog for a bit- Sorry hermitblr/trafficblr peeps

Just listing some basic drew headcanons here because I feel like I see the same ones over and over again so I’d like to combat that 🤺🤺/lh ofc, I love all headcanons

>Drew is Bengali, His great grandparents came to the uk from Kolkata (Whether it be from partition stuff or not) And since then, his family blood has still been entirely from west bengal

>Drew isn’t necessarily religious, however, He enjoys Hindu religious holidays (Like Diwali and Holi) and Pujas and He especially loves the food. His parents (who are Hindu) are fine with him being non religious, But do wish for him to participate in events just to spend time with him, which he doesn’t mind at all

>Adding onto that, he doesn’t eat beef or pork. Not for religious reasons, but because he just wasn’t raised on them and doesn’t enjoy the taste or texture.

>His parents love him, but are absent quite a lot due to work and business meetings. The only times he’ll see them for more than a months on end is during the winter months, mainly because thats holiday season. Other than that, 2 weeks at home, 2 weeks on a business trip, repeat

>His parents try to show their affection to him via gifts and food, because its really all they can send over while they’re away. Because of this, drew developed Gift giving and cooking food for people love languages

>this man can COOK. I know I said its one of his love languages, so you’d assume so, but oh my LORD this man can cook. Its half the reason henry and liam come over so often! He best at more traditional bengali food (although he hates doing it), but he can make pretty much anything if you give him a heads up, the ingredients, and enough time to tinker around with the recipe!

>His hair is actually wavy/loose curls, but he hates having curly hair, so he either straightens it so it doesn’t poof up, or uses a bit of hairspray. The only people who really know his hair is curly is the jomies (including jake, lia, and zoey) because they’ve slept over at his house, and have probably seen him when his hair was wet and curly again.

>He’s 15 feet into a glass closet. My sexuality head-canons for him change a lot, but I’ve sort of settled on omni/ace for now. However, For the most part, I think if he were to come out, he’d just be queer. I dont think he’d care for labels too much

>Obvious attachment issues, slight separation anxiety, although, I can see it being more leaning towards henry and liam than jake for that. He might have had an obsession with jake, but I think it’d have hurt more if henry and liam left him, considering they had been there the longest.

>He loves zoey, even still. He really does. He’s terrible at showing it, but he does his best.

>Zoey, knowing his love language is gift giving, and he’s rich, befriended him in late middle school/early high school, and they started dating seconds year odd high school. Drew definitely was the one who confessed after being hyped up about it by henry and liam and jake. Zoey definitely wasn’t planning on dating him, but shrugged it off as being able to get him to do more stuff. She eventually did develop feelings for him, but she was too far into the mess she had created to stop, so she kept pushing

>He has such an rbf guys, like, he would be thinking about the happiest thing ever and his face would be just this 1000 yard stare

>He definitely drinks energy drinks guys, probably monsters but I can see him bringing an alani to school because he knows he’s gonna get called emo if he brings a monster to school

>He is called emo quite a bit at school, although he isn’t. It doesn’t bother him much anymore.

>He loves cats and really really wants one, but he’s severely allergic. Like, your throat closes and you die unless you get to the ER or have an epipen level allergic.

>He has Two bearded dragons (Each around 18 inches long, a boy and a girl) named Jevin and Pearl, his two favourite hermits

>he watches hermitcraft. Probably the life series and Empires and Outsiders and Life steal and all that stuff too, but He watches hermitcraft RELIGIOUSLY (He’s watched every episode that Jevin, Pearl, Grian, and Xisuma have put out, and he’s working on Mumbo’s pov right now)

>His favourite broadway musicals are Heathers and Six. Mean girls is up there too, but those are his favorites

>He didn’t cry during the titanic because it was sad, but because he watched it with zoey and she was crying, which made him cry

>i’m not gonna diagnose him with anything necessarily because i’m in no way qualified for that, but he definitely has mood swings and his opinions change a lot depending on who else he finds has them. He can go from hating something for years to immediately liking it if Liam says its good, or go from liking something to hating it if Hailey likes it.

>He listens to music, heck, one of his main designs are airpods- So, I think that he definitely listens to electronic stuff, scenecore type shit (Asteria, Barely human, Odetari, Clover!, and allat jazz) Not because its his favourite, but because Liam and henry both listen to it, so drew likes it.

>He really cares about his friends, but is really shit at showing it.

>He’s not good at communication, and is not often sure how to communicate what he wants or what he needs without sounding blunt or rude. He often rehearses how talks will go.

>This mf does not regret bullying that music club guys- I love him but i’m not even gonna attempt to justify him bullying them because I feel like it takes away from his character a lot

>He hates Hailey and Zander, Mainly because he finds them annoying and freaky.

>He’s only bullied luke because of his connection to zander and the music club, he doesn’t really mind luke as a person

>Milly Is his second cousin, they really only have their families meet up on holidays, so they never grew up close. Drew and Milly dont view eachother as family, so they dont care about bullying eachother/doing stuff to eachother’s friends. Drew and Milly do both occasionally pull the “I’m going to tell Thamma (grandma)!”, which does admittedly stop the other from doing whatever they were going to do.

>Drew has picked on pretty much all the club members, except for sean. Whether this be because Sean is taller than him, older than him, Or because they simply just have never really talked, drew mostly leaves him alone. He forgets sean is there most of the time

>Insecure as shit, do I even need to say it lol?

I have a lot more, but these are my main headcanons. Ofc, I fluctuate a lot with them, I’m like a multishipper but instead of shipping its with headcanons.

[cupcakesmoothie]

Sometimes I wanna draw and then I realise I can't draw

Anyway. WIP! I feel like this'll be fun if I keep going but I have a tendency to lose all motivation if I leave it so I usually do things in one shot. However, I need to go to bed.

I feel like this is a lot of research that people will never see unless they themselves are Mexican but one of the reasons I make/draw things like this is so people feel seen. I looked over a couple things for this, quite fun! This is supposed to be a chiapaneca dress, but I am not used to this more "realistic" style so the dress actually needs to spread out more. It's so pretty though! Will either be very fun or very torturous to colour

This is Paloma! I haven't started on her wings and at this point I'm not sure how to add them in. She's Mexican and was a fashion designer. I'm using that as an excuse to continue putting eyeliner on Alexis, who she is friends (?) with. She's older than him.

I have seen somewhere that Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish are slightly different, the two should still be able to communicate. I don't know what you call a "big sister/miss" in Spanish, or if that's even something you do. I guess Senorita would be it? I'm trying to convey that Alexis is showing respect to her though, so that feels like it's not it.

I'm debating between wing styles also. I think colourful wings (Like a parrot) would be pretty, and not as common as dove wings (Which are her namesake). Also it was while I was looking those up that I found out the Mexican flag has an eagle on it! The golden eagle wings sound pretty interesting, if a little bit drab, but having her be tied to the national bird would be fun I think. And lastly, wood pigeon wings, which are also her namesake, only in Latin.

[panchaparro]

every time I hear about the oye primos trailer that came out i actually lose my mind, simply because it was so much easier just not to be stereotypical towards Latinos and latinas but they just had to put the breaking bad yellow filter on it, didn't they. they named two of the characters nacho. the place where they live is called terremoto heights. the name of the show is grammatically incorrect.

regardless of the creator's nationality, disrespecting other groups like this and then arguing that there is no better representation out there reeks of bullshit to me

(good vidya that explains the whole thing better than me: https://youtu.be/qH3wPQRwyhs)

[ladywordfighter]

It's been a long time, Tumblr! I debated whether to even share this here, since I have no idea how many of my remaining followers are still active, but I figure some of you might enjoy it.