#ricardo terror

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por mais paineis bobinhos como esse

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[evilhorse]

I can’t afford to fall apart. Not yet…

(Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #2)

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LAS CENIZAS DE CROWLEY (1990)

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ (1/10)

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Ricardo Alberto Barreda - Fiant

Source:

ENG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Barreda

ENG: https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/barreda-ricardo.htm

GER: https://de.wikibrief.org/wiki/Ricardo_Barreda

Magnum Opus - Fiant:

https://beacons.ai/magnumopusfiant

[haverwood]

Terror in Europe Ricardo Pollack USA, 2016

[theersatzcowboy]

Christmas Evil / You Better Watch Out (1980)

For my money, the best (and most underrated) of the Christmas-based slashers (and one of the infamous "video nasties," banned in the UK for its conflation of a wholesome holiday with dark, gruesome themes. A man witnesses (what he thinks is) Santa hooking up with his mom on Christmas Eve and becomes pathologically obsessed with becoming Santa Claus, down to the look, ride, and list of good and bad children...terrorizing his New York community in the process. Stylish. Weird. Unforgettable!

Director: Lewis Jackson

Cinematographer: Ricardo Aronovich

Starring: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, and Peter Friedman.

[ianthedebonair]

I was thinking about Damien being very oblivion npc-pilled when he first got out of Farm, because of the soup comic... do you have any baby Damien headcanons? 🥹✨

Im sorry, this lowkey turned out to be early chargestep headcanon because i'm very normal about their pre-hb dynamic 😫 Incoherent rambling under the cut

Damien initially wore an all black attire with protective sports gear and covered his face with a balaclava and a hockey mask with a bat for his weapon. In his "debut", he wanted to stop a man from mugging a civilian walking through a back alley. He didn't want to draw too much attention so he silently creeped behind while the robber accosts the victim. Unfortunately, the victim saw him and screamed in terror, prompting the man to look behind and got scared-shitless, too. They both ended up running away for their lives. Meanwhile, Damien was like, "🧍‍♂️I'm not sure that's how it's supposed to end, but problem solved, I guess...? 🧍‍♂️."

After that, he read more about current heroes and decided to wear Rangers merch with his gear and noticed that people now reacted more positively towards him.

Now, when the Marshal caught wind of a too-competent, mysterious back-alley vigilante, he wanted to reach out and establish connections... only to find out that the vigilante is -- he assumed, based on the outfit Damien wore that day -- a Charge stan.

In the first few attempts of reaching out, Damien was initially skittish as heck (especially with Ricardo's static), but he eventually relented for a talk.

Ricardo thought Damien was too starstruck to hold a conversation so he laid out his Charm™️ to get him to talk and hoped to glean some useful info, but it just completely bounced off him. It was then when Ricardo surmised that maaaybe Damien wasn't a fan, but that got him more curious about his character. Still, he found it refreshing to find someone unaffected by his presence, so he continued the laid back, vaguely flirty banter because it's fun and he wanted to see if he could elicit a reaction from the mystery vigilante. Damien didn't mind as he enjoyed having someone to talk to and practice actual conversations with. He even ended up matching Ricardo's snark (minus the flirting part, because he didn't understand that... yet).

After teaming up a few times, Ricardo asks about Damien's alias

Ricardo: So, what do you even call yourself? Unless you want "Vigilante Wearing Rangers Merch" to stick, which isn't really good for PR. Damien: Shit. I never thought about needing a name. Gotta think fast *looks around*

Damien: Uhh... Streetwatch? Ricardo: Nice try, but you just got that from signages behind me, didn't you? *laughs and pats Damien's shoulder* Don't worry we'll workshop it.

They eventually settled with Sidestep because it matched his fighting style and also served as an inside joke from that conversation.

This video is very early Damien-coded to me, too. (Also happening in Ric's kitchen).

He "matured" a lot within the year that he got introduced to Themmy and rest of the Rangers because there were actual minds to read and imitate learn from, but the wit he observed from Ricardo made a big impression on his own personality. The feelings and yearning came at him (like a truck) in the time between fighting Psychopathor and allying with the Rangers but that requires a separate rambling, so I digress. After mastering the art of sarcasm, he was able to mask a lot his genuine oblivious moments as jokes and easily deflect questions he doesn't want to answer.

OH, he also does the head tilt thing whenever he encounters something new/he doesn't fully understand! That's his major tell. I'm a big fan of that mannerism 💯😭

[swifty-fox]

can you please do a list of recs of your favorite books?

just saw @stereobone's rec list which is that of a deep intellectual.

You will not be getting that here I fear.

Evening Crowd at Kirmsers by Ricardo Brown was a huge inspiration for Kfak and Plane Crash and just in general is such a good look into 1940's gay life

An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World by Jared Gulian is a little autobiography about this gay couple who buy an olive grove in NZ and proceed to have no idea how to run it. My all time comfort read. It's pure shenanigans, feel good stories, and quite a few really yummy recipes. He's also just SUCH a sweet man I've emailed him a couple of times.

The Haar by David Sodergren is about an old woman who's being forced out of her home falling in love with an amorphous murderous blob that looks like her husband and together they kill a lot of people. Takes place in Scotland and this is relevant.

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite Drugs! Coffee!! The ghost of your families sordid past! Also some gay sex. The summary really does it more justice than I can.

In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both—his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back.

In the company of a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned to face the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons that drove his father to murder his family—and worse, to spare one of his sons. . . . But as Trevor begins to draw his own cartoon strip, he loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. Trevor and his lover plunge into a cyber-maze of cartoons, ghosts, and terror that will lead either to understanding—true understanding—or to a blood-raining repetition of the past. . . . 

pure 90's splatterpunk queer insanity. This is one of his tamest books.

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen fell in love and they killed about it? Probably not but someone did and this book is so beyond not for the faint of heart and I love it to bits

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff biography of the author of Life and Fate (which I have not read) I just think he's a neat guy and its a great lense with which to look at russian history

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don't support here lies love the musical as it comes to bway

my post on here lies love is getting rounds and while i still stand by everything i said on that post, my grievances with the musical has Grown in the last couple of weeks of me researching about it. granted, i still need to do more— i want to do an essay on it in the future because i would hate for it to run on broadway for long, but because that takes time, i thought, at least, i would need to make a post detailing what i find wrong about this musical. even if it's not the most comprehensive, i want more people to be informed about it as soon as possible.

so, have this. ramblings at 5am. i'll try my best to gather sources, but information i have regarding the marcoses comes from a lot of non-digital resources like classes, museums, and physical books. in this case, i recommend the following resources to learn more about who the marcos family is and what they did:

"the kingmaker" by lauren greenfield. native filipinos can watch this free on youtube, but if you aren't from the ph i recommend using a vpn to access it or find a pirated version somewhere else

online martial law museum

if you can buy it, "some are smarter than others" by ricardo manapat, a book detailing marcos' crony capitalism and all his faults

i'd also like to preface: i am not a saint. i am not a historian nor the smartest person who can detail everything marcos did when he was born. i'm trying to do my best with what i know, and i am down to learn more if others want to chime in.

lastly, here's a fresher on the names of people involved, because it can be confusing:

ferdinand marcos — i will try my best calling him ferdinand but most people, including myself, often call him just "marcos" despite the fact that they technically all are marcoses. he was the president from 1965-1986

imelda marcos — i will refer to her as imelda. wife to ferdinand and contributed a lot to his reign of terror. she is still alive today.

bong bong marcos — son of ferdinand and imelda. his name is often shorted to bbm, which i will use. he is currently the present of the philippines

ninoy aquino — marcos' main rival who he indirectly murdered. not a perfect guy tho, just the lesser evil. i will just call him ninoy

now, onto the real deal:

thesis statement, so this can be easy to follow: despite the intentions of the musical being anti-marcos, much of how it is written and presented will inevitably become propaganda to brighten the image of the marcoses. by putting imelda in the forefront, making her entire character do what she does supposedly out of love, audiences will come out of the theatre sympathizing with her and her family. not only is this politically dangerous, but it is incredibly insensitive to native filipinos who have not only gone through the struggle of martial law, but also is suffering through bbm's presidency today.

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despite what a lot of criticisms claim, the intentions of the musical is not to be pro-marcos. this is stated in their instagram post:

david bryne also stated these in an article from the guardian:

"The mindset of the Marcos regime and the mindset of disco music to me doesn’t seem all that distant. The hedonistic, escapist feeling of losing yourself and being transported to another world, like you feel on the dance floor and like you feel in a dance club, that’s a means to divorce yourself from the rest of the world, just as Imelda did.

When you’re dancing, you’re in this psychological and sonic bubble, in the same way that powerful people create a bubble around themselves. So I wanted to give an audience a taste of that feeling.

In the first half, when the play is dealing with her childhood, her upbringing and her meeting with Ferdinand Marcos, it’s meant to get the audience to empathise with her and understand what’s driving her and then they’ll understand how that manifests later on."

so, it seems promising: an anti-marcos musical that will make audiences dislike empathizing with her. initially, i really liked the concept of audiences being lost with the music similar to how the marcoses were able to play a lot of their supporters.

but, and a big but, 1.) there's a lot to pick apart from these statements, and 2.) i fucking despise how they presented imelda in the musical.

let's discuss the first point: the instagram post details that the intent of the musical is to dispel disinformation created about the marcoses. first thing's first, if this truly was a musical that aims to educate, then broadway is probably the worst way to do it. while the west and native filipinos could share the award of most misinformed about the marcoses, native filipinos are the ones most affected by it. we just suffered a terrible election last year with constant speculation and reports of vote buying. i've heard accounts from people from the province that bbm would send representatives to bribe those in poverty to ensure a vote. we are suffering in the worst education crisis, with the most corrupt politicians you can think of.

so, if this musical aims to educate, the fact that you can only access it by viewing it live on broadway is incredibly... backwards. how are you opting to dispel information when those most affected can't even access it?

what's worse is the statement that says that modern history of the philippines cannot be told without the usa. it is such a patronizing, surface-level statement that gets my blood boiling. it is true that our histories and present-day contexts are intertwined, especially since the filipino diaspora in the usa is incredibly huge, but that's because this is all a product of american colonization + imperialism. stating like the philippines owes the usa to retell our native stories mirrors much of the savior complex-esque sentiments the usa had when they colonized us.

now, onto bryne's statement. the main problem i have with it is him insinuating that imelda is a victim of circumstance. he wants us the audience "empathize" with her and understand her downfall. this is common rhetoric uninformed people, even filipinos, used to excuse imelda's contributions. that she was supposedly "poor", that marcos put her through hell. but genuinely, and i cannot emphasize this enough, imelda was an absolute ass on her own accord.

no, she did not grow up poor. her wikipedia even states that she grew up in a wealthy family, born into the romualdez political dynasty. my history professor even claimed that she attempted bribing the mayor when she lost one of her beauty pageants. despite the repetitive "i'm doing this for love!" bullshit the musical regurgitates, imelda did not even marry marcos out of love. in ricardo manapat's book, he details how marcos attempted to swoon imelda by showing her his vault of money (of course, possibly stolen). she was enraptured by marcos the moment she saw his WEALTH.

i want to emphasize: imelda is not fucking stupid. much of what marcos did to the philippines was thanks to her. i would recommend watching the kingmaker documentary for all the details, but just know she is still alive and incredibly wealthy. she is well-known for her absolute gaudiness and all of that comes from her money-centric mindset. she does not give a shit about love.

here's some accounts by ricardo manapat from his book. on imelda falling in love with marcos (btw, she had a fiance at the time and didn't tell him she was marrying marcos until said fiance found out on the damn newspaper):

imelda being aware of the wealth she accumulates in politics:

on this note, i'd love to discuss how historically inaccurate the musical is. i'd like to preface that i've only listened to the only available version of the musical which is the 2013 version on spotify. this could have changed, but either way, the general tone of the narrative already reads to me as extremely incorrect, anyway. i'd also love to detail every discrepancy of each song, but again, i'll save that for a future essay.

in general, the musical's plotline follows imelda, a "humble and poor" girl from leyte who grows up and marries ferdinand. she repeatedly expresses she's doing this all out of love. thus, the musical insinuates that imelda is merely a victim of circumstance, and that she didn't become evil on her own accord. and yet, from what i've presented so far, she was very much aware! she was not passive. you have to understand, SHE was the reason both men and women had equal opportunities to become corrupt in our government.

what marcos did was also imelda's fault. the genocide and displacement of indigenous people, the mass torture and murder of journalists and politicians, the stealing of companies and mass wealth, the mass delivery of non-native animals to the philippines. she condoned all that. yes, marcos cheated on her, but she also used that as a means to manipulate him into doing whatever she wanted. they are both horrible people.

speaking of, marcos' song in the musical was also really bad. he could be written as lying for all we know, but his "fear" of japanese soldiers invading the philippines is also up for debate. there is speculation of the marcoses collaborating with japanese troops, which also led to the murder of marcos' father's political rival.

and while i don't know if there's actual dialogue outside of the songs, i don't think this musical actually informs us much of the marcos' faults. the songs, which will be the most accessible thing to native filipinos, express nothing but generic descriptions of what characters feel about certain situations. it's hard to understand or know what these people are actually doing because it's just so vague and ambiguous. how are you supposed to inform when none of the music details, well, anything? the information given is so minimal that i pray, at least, the musical would have more explicit scenes about marcos' atrocities.

and that's my main problem with the musical. with how much they spend sympathizing with imelda in the first act, i don't think everything the marcoses have done can be encapsulated in the second. of course, i'm not asking to give me a detailed rundown of everything they did, but let's be honest, this musical was never about dispelling disinformation. if it was, then they wouldn't spend an entire act and a half sucking imelda's dick. it's not about educating audiences about martial law. it's about humanizing imelda, with martial law and the marcoses' atrocities as a second priority. it makes me sick to my stomach seeing how pure imelda is presented when travelling to meet other world leaders, or how she's seen as the person who insisted that ninoy move away from the philippines.

it was never about education or re-information. in the end, these were such pretentious and performative statements to defend a historically inaccurate musical.

and tbh, that's just the tip of the iceberg of why i hate this musical. another thing is that, holy shit is it obvious that it's written by two white people. they mispronounce "tacloban" (should be tacLOban not tacloBAN). these characters are also just... not distinctly filipino? they're so white in mannerisms. i need more insulting humor, more grit. in fairness, the richer you are in the philippines the more connected you are to western culture, but i would have loved to see that disaparity more in the songwriting. they really peaked (/s) when they wrote these lyrics:

this is... awful, in a cringey what the hell manner. i hope they changed it for the bway production, because this was blatant evidence that the songwriters barely took the time to understand our culture before writing.

if you don't understand what it says, "titi mo" (the correct spelling is tite but i digress) means "your dick". i think imelda is trying to call marcos a dick, but they literally translated dick in tagalog. but tite isn't an insult, it literally refers to a penis. "mo" is the equivalent of "your" which also makes ZERO sense. the lyric literally goes "how can a your penis run the country?", like WHAT.

so you know, maybe there's a reason why many filipinos fucking despise this show on twitter. we are insulted for good reason. they are sensationalizing and glamorizing our suffering for their own gain. we native filipinos and other filipino diaspora who can't access the show have nothing to gain. here lies love is profiting from our struggles that we are still recovering from and experiencing today. imagine if you made a musical about hitler explaining he is a victim of circumstance to disco music. insensitive, isn't it? i'd love to ask the cast of here lies love if they'd ever show the musical to living survivors and families of victims of martial law.

and what's worse, because of course it gets worse, misinformation like this is what boosts the reputation of corrupt politicians in the first place. manapat quotes what leonard saffir wrote about how marcos built his reputation in new york via a biography filled with disinformation. the excerpt is too long but it's quoted from this article by the new york times. and now we are living in an era of another musical based on imelda being shown in new york — time is a flat fucking circle.

what sickens me is that this musical is possibly a lot of americans' first exposure to the marcoses, and what will they think? imelda is just a poor girl, imelda is just a victim, imelda is blah blah blah. that will be stamped in their head. even if some filipinos have come out of this musical dreadful that they sympathized with imelda, not everyone is gonna have the same experience.

^ this an excerpt from one of theatermania's articles. dictators have feelings too, i guess!

objectively, there is nuance when it comes to anyone. but the problem is, we cannot afford to consider nuance in politics. we cannot sympathize with imelda right now when people are dying of poverty under the marcoses' hand. the marcoses are very much alive, very much in power, and very much willing to lend their offspring to other positions of power. they turned the entirety of ilocos into a bunch of marcos dicksuckers, and i'm afraid that this musical can make a ton of their audiences be oblivious to the true extents of the marcos' atrocities. i'm already seeing people on tiktok say that there's nothing wrong about this musical, or that this can exist when miss saigon and evita exist (which in on itself are problematic beliefs, because they are glamorizing other country's sufferings too).

i am privileged enough to be educated about marcos, and while there is much to be done in terms of disability and lgbtqia+ rights, i am lucky to be less impacted by the marcoses compared to other people. but there are hundreds of thousands of filipinos severely affected by marcos. what's worse, is that there are plenty extremely uneducated that they are unaware that marcos is directly contributing to their suffering. my history professor told us that other countries are using the philippines as their model for successful disinformation campaigns. in this era of disinformation, we cannot afford to disinform even more. as sad as it is, the usa has a lot of power and control over the philippines (and the world, tbh), so one wrong step into the wrong direction and we're fucked. this musical fails the message it attempts to preach and i cannot imagine how much more people are going to spread misinformation about the philippines like they did during the 2022 elections.

to end off, i'd like to mention to everyone that imelda marcos has actually listened to the musical. in this new york times article, she says, "i'm flattered, i can't believe it!". i don't know what to tell you— if imelda herself says she likes the musical you claim to be anti-marcos, then what does that say about the musical?

i guess i'll end with, i am willing to change opinions once i see how the musical is being executed. if they emphasize the atrocities done by marcos and give proper information about the timeline of events, then i can be more lenient. but if i still see any attempts woobifying imelda, then i stand by what i say. this musical is insensitive, disrespectful, and just fucking hurtful.

[idontknowanametouse]

Headcanons do polículo de Natal Macabro porque eu nunca vou aceitar que eles morreram :D (post grande)

Nathalia x Lila

Trocam top e bottom o tempo todo

Sáficas fem my beloved

Brincam de aprontar uma a outra o tempo todo

Primeiras a entrar em um relacionamento e se beijarem (no caso elas experimentaram no banheiro da escola e então perceberam que se gostaram)

Weirdgirls por coisas de terror e místicas

Se chamam de apelidos fofinhos o tempo todo

Lila morre de medo de filme de terror, mas assiste com a Nathalia pra poder abraçar ela nos momentos de susto

Lila x Shanyqua

Lila bottom/Shany top

As besties medrosas absolutas

Shanyqua tem medo de insetos e pede pra Lila matar eles, só que ela também tem medo e elas ficam correndo pela casa enquanto esperam o Ricardo chegar

Saem juntas enquanto o resto tá fazendo palhaçada em casas assombradas

Mulher tranquila x mulher preocupada com tudo

Vão no karaokê juntas desde a adolescência

Mística medrosa mais católica medrosa dá em: qualquer barulhinho no meio da noite elas acordam todo mundo pra fazer entrar num círculo de sal

Shanyqua x Leandro

Shany top/Leandro bottom

A Shanyqua é barraqueira... e o Leandro também

Protetores oficiais do grupo (o Ricardo é neném demais pra isso)

Agem como um casal de idosos que briga o tempo todo

Única pessoa do grupo que sabe dirigir/cara que não sabe olhar o nome das ruas nas placas

Vivem dando apelidos maldosos um pro outro por causa de piadas internas

Conseguem se comunicar só olhando um pra cara do outro

Leandro x Ricardo

Top Leandro/Ricardo bottom

Gótico x himbo top melhores tropes de casal

O Ricardo ama demonstrações públicas de afeto enquanto que o Leandro morre de vergonha

Leandro só sorri quando o Ricardo não tá olhando porque tem medo disso prejudicar sua imagem de emo gótico das trevas solitário

O Ricardo sem querer fala umas coisas que faz o Leandro perder a pose e ficar MUITO vermelho e shy e sem saber o que falar

Desde que o Ricardo descobriu que o Leandro tem uns fetiches esquisitos relacionados a suor, ele tenta chegar nele depois dos treinos, só que é de um jeito tão sem noção que o Leandro só manda ele ir tomar um banho logo

Assistem frozen juntos. Ninguém pode saber

Ricardo x Jorel

Top Ricardo/Jorel bottom

Jorel vive roubando as roupas do Ricardo e parece um palito, especialmente com os moletons gigantes

Armário x palito my beloved

Jorel pula em cima do Ricardo pra abraçar ele, não importa onde eles estejam. Até no banheiro

Às vezes o Jorel tem medo de sair de casa, mas é só o Ricardo ir junto que ninguém nunca incomoda ele

Jorel sempre leva repelente e protetor solar pro Ricardo quando eles saem porque ele esquece

Jorel já pediu pro Ricardo ajudar ele a treinar pra não ser mais um palito. Não deu nem um pouco certo

Jorel x Nathalia

Bottom Jorel/top Nath

CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO LOVERS-

Muito nerdolas sobre qualquer coisa de terror

Cuddling depois de pesadelos é bem frequente

Se conheceram em festas de gente rica e eram as crianças esquisitas do lugar, e o bonding veio disso

Conhecem muita coisa um do outro e têm um monte de piadas internas que ninguém mais entende

Muito fofoqueiros, adoram falar mal dos outros, em especial gente rica

Nathalia x Shanyqua

Bottom Nath/Top Shany

Shany é toda ciumenta com a Nath e gosta de assustar as pessoas pra longe dela, a Nathalia acha fofo

Shanyqua assistindo filme de terror com a Nathalia só pra agradar ela enquanto fica de olho fechado o tempo todo

Menina rica que não tem noção do dinheiro/menina pobre que tem que controlar cada centavo que essa galera gasta

A Nath é uma das poucas pessoas que a Shanyqua deixa abraçar ela (junta com a Lila e o Leandro)

Nathalia sempre percebe quando a Shany tá estressada e gosta de mimar ela um pouco pra ajudar a relaxar. Interprete como quiser

Saem pra tomar suco juntas todo domingo desde o ensino médio

Lila x Leandro

Trocam top e bottom o tempo todo

Jovem mística com gótico, duplinha maravilha

Leandro é cadelinha da Lila, ela manda e ele faz

A Lila impede o Leandro de ficar fazendo merda o tempo todo e se metendo em confusão (segura a coleira dele)

Leandro protegia a Lila de bullying no ensino fundamental

Uma das poucas pessoas que ele nunca xinga porque se ele xingar ela chora

Mulher altona x homem baixinho

Leandro x Jorel

Leandro top/Jorel bottom

Leandro sendo o protetor do Jorel mesmo xingando ele o tempo todo, isso sim que é amor

Jorel pega galhos, insetos e pedras na rua e entrega pro Leandro. Ele faz pouco caso, mas guarda tudo e protege como o maior tesouro da existência

O Jorel tenta pagar de durão e maneiro (nunca funciona), mas é MUITO horny pelo Leandro, o cara fala um a e o Jorel já tá todo shy

A presença do Jorel deixa o Leandro idiota. Interprete como quiser

Twink x gótico

Leandro tsundere com o Jorel cem por cento

Ricardo x Nathalia

Ricardo bottom/Nathalia top

Ricardo vive carregando as coisas pra Nathalia porque ela olha pra ele com a cara mais doce do mundo

A Nathalia não sabe perceber o perigo enquanto que o Ricardo é extremamente superprotetor e quase tem um ataque cardíaco todos os dias

Ele é o golden retriever da Nathalia. É isso

Assistem filmes da disney juntos e sabem todas as músicas. Ninguém aguenta mais eles colocando let it go pra tocar no carro

Gostam de fingir ser o casal hétero padrão porque é MUITO engraçado

Têm alguns vasos de flores em casa e adoram passar tempo juntos cuidando delas

Nathalia x Leandro

Nathalia top/Leandro bottom

Girlypop x gótico

A outra dona do Leandro (divide ele com a Lila)

Leandro chama ela de princesa e é a única pessoa que ele beija em público sem ter vergonha

Sonham um com o outro desde que se conheceram

Nathalia adora fazer a maquiagem gótica do Leandro

Ela ama ficar falando por duas horas sobre terror e monstros e horrores cósmicos enquanto ele escuta e olha pra ela com cara de cachorrinho

Lila x Ricardo

Lila bottom/Ricardo top

Ela é muito esquisita e ele apoia cem por cento as esquisitices dela

Às vezes as pessoas ficam encarando a Lila, mas tá tudo bem, porque o Ricardo encara elas de volta

O Ricardo sempre sai com a Lila pra comprar as coisas místicas dela e carrega tudo, então ele tem constantemente cheiro de incenso

Às vezes, ela fuma maconha e ele tenta dar uma de proerd

Ela é quem remenda todas as roupas dele (ele rasga elas muito)

Os únicos que lembram das datas dos aniversários da galera e fazem alguma coisinha

Lila x Jorel

Lila top/Jorel bottom

Os t4t é real

Todo mundo ama a comida da Lila, enquanto o Jorel não sabe nem fazer um miojo da turma da mônica

Os dois malucos dos pets, têm que ser segurados pelo resto pra não adotar qualquer cachorro e gato de rua que veem por aí

Cuidam do cabelo juntos e não deixam mais ninguém fazer isso porque não sabem mexer com a química direito

Mulher altona x cara baixinha parte dois

Os únicos com um gosto musical bom, só eles têm o direito de escolher as músicas pras viagens de carro

Shanyqua x Ricardo

Shanyqua top/Ricardo bottom

Ricardo vive matando baratas pra Shanyqua

Mulher baixinha x homem gigante

São os mais velhos do grupo (só por alguns meses, mas ainda assim) e tecnicamente os mais responsáveis (preocupados)

Por mais que não pareça, a Shanyqua é MUITO forte, e só perde pro Ricardo na queda de braço

Já foram presos uma vez (foi um acidente. A maior parte. Provavelmente)

Uma vez a Shanyqua torceu o pé e só tinha o Ricardo por perto. Ele ficou desesperado e carregou ela até o hospital. Ela diz que a única coisa que saiu ferida naquele dia foi a dignidade dela

Shanyqua x Jorel

Shanyqua top/Jorel bottom

Afeição por ações/afeição por palavras

Shanyqua vive brigando com o Jorel, mas já deu um soco em alguém que xingou ele

Shanyqua já namorou muito enquanto o Jorel nunca beijou

Ama muié/geralmente não liga tanto assim pra muié

Teve que dar pra ele uma aula sobre economia e sobre porque ele não pode simplesmente comprar uma edição de luxo de Drácula

Sempre que a Shanyqua tem cólica, o Jorel sai pra comprar doces pra ela

Bônus: trio Shanyqua/Lila/Nathalia saindo pra fazer compras, skincare, girls night out versus trio Leandro/Ricardo/Jorel quase morrendo enquanto caem de um barranco (ninguém sabe como eles foram parar lá)

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Arslan Senki Chapter 127

The long-awaited encounter with Zahhak is here! I'm tagging my posts for new manga chapters with 'arslan senki spoilers' but here is your reminder to look away (and probably avoid my blog until you've read the chapter) if you don't want to find out what happens.

Turns out I was right about a few things and my suspicions about something else seem likely to be correct, too.

The chapter opens with the legend of Zahhak and his defeat by Kaykhusraw as the Parsians know it. The title page features Kaykhusraw's open sarcophagus with his wrapped body and Rukhnabad inside, inside the tomb. This is clearly from an earlier time (presumably his burial?), well before Hilmes ventured down there, and given the chapter title it feels... ominous. (And it's right to feel that way, as you'll see when you get to the end of the chapter.)

The legend is conveyed in the typical stylised carving/illustration style that Arakawa has used for mythological history before.

Look what appears as a decorative border to one of the panels!

It might just be a nod to the existence of these creatures in the novels, but I really hope that their presence here makes it more likely we might actually encounter them before the end of the manga... DARK TEMPLE PLUS CREATURES, ARAKAWA PLEASE

Very much has the feel of something that has been mythologised, the details probably don't match up exactly with how it really went down, but the main points are there...

...and 300 years later, the Snake King appears to have returned

Farangis's raishal reacting like this is a nice touch and shows just how extreme the presence of evil is here. (Also I didn't know it could do that so I'm filing this detail away very happily.)

Those snake heads are really very freaky, the fact that they are so humanoid yet totally animalistic and driven by instict and hunger for human brains. Top notch horror!

Daryun's warrior instinct comes to the fore and overrides his shock!

The Zot do their best but one gets chomped pretty quickly, sadly. I'll go ahead and say it now, the Zot being the only casualties in this encounter was exactly as I called it, but Arakawa does her best to ensure their deaths don't feel trivial, as we later learn the names of those who fell, and even though we never got to know them it's clear that they meant something to their comrades.

Some very exciting combat scenes follow and Team Arslan enter the fray and get to grips with their frightening new enemy! Some key details about Zahhak rapidly become apparent: his blood is corrosive, and his wounds can heal.

The key is to keep moving! Alfarid realises this; one of the Zot tries to encourage her to flee, but is struggling with his terrified mount, but thanks to Elam and Alfarid loosing arrows at one of the snake heads he is spared.

Don Ricardo is in abject terror, but his behaviour later this chapter was a surprise for me, in a good way!

Estelle saving Don Ricardo just in time, and putting her life on the line to stand before him even though she's trembling in fear! 👌👌👌

She's so brave!

She doesn't know that the snakes have spotted/sensed Rukhbanad... but Don Ricardo does! Let's hope he will now give that 'junk sword' the respect it deserves. Anyway this is the part where he surprised me, as he breaks out of his terrified state to call out to everyone to rally to him and gather round the sword! Remember when I said 'quick, everyone group hug Don Ricardo'?

Of course, he's speaking in Lusitanian, but Estelle translates in an instant... and Gieve quickly grasps why!

"Is it truly Zahhak...?" This is the line that makes me think I might be on the mark when I say that Zahhak, although freed from Mount Damavand, may not have returned to full consciousness yet. I think those head jars may have something to do with a final ritual to bring about his true return.

So, it's now a stalemate. Zahhak cannot attack them, but they can't attack it either. But there's an ominous shape in the mist (and you can take one look at it and just KNOW it's going to be fucked up and even take a pretty good guess at how)

Before Team Arslan can get a good look at it, Zahhak withdraws, whether due to the arrows they fired at it it because of some other unknown reason isn't clear... Team Arslan leave without even being able to spare time to bury the bodies of the fallen, which clearly weighs on them, but night is drawing closer and they can't remain safely.

(I wonder whether they will still continue to Mount Damavand? Perhaps Arslan will appeal to Kaykhusraw's spirit to seek his approval to wield the sword? Or maybe priorities will have understandably changed and they'll change directions. Personally I think we'll at least get a scene that indicates Arslan has the right to wield Rukhnabad!)

Anyway Zahhak's also in a hurry to get somewhere and although Team Arslan didn't manage to glimpse the true horror, we do!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Well, now we know what happened to Kaykhusraw's mummified body? I did think that Team Zahhak would use him as a vessel for the Snake King, thinking this might occur in Ecbatana, but nope, that looks to be the case already.

The torso ending in a cluster of snakes, ugh.

I wonder whether Kaykhusraw's spirit is aware of what has happened to his body now that it has been possessed like this?

I wonder whether the intention is for Zahhak to retain this form? Because at the end of the chapter you see the host body's brittle-looking arm disintegrate where one of Team Arslan's arrows struck it, and it looks different to Zahhak's snakes pushing arrows from their bodies and regenerating. So maybe this takeover of Kaykhusraw is a temporary thing, and Team Zahhak are planning to transfer Zahhak to a new body once he reaches Ecbatana? And that new body... who better than another descendant of the Parsian royal line? 👀

I feel like with any luck I might get my wish for Hilmes to come face to face with Zahhak and in a moment of horror realise exactly what the sorcerers have been using him for and what he's helped to bring about...

(I want Team Zahhak to be planning for Hilmes to be a host for Zahhak but I don't want for it to actually happen! I'd love it if Team Arslan managed to step in just in time... augh my brain is racing into visions of Hilmes captured for a head jar ritual below Ecbatana)

Oh and Zahhak really is heading towards Ecbatana as I thought, so it looks extremely likely that all final showdowns are going to take place there. I feel like this direction was actually hinted at when the corpse of Kaykhusraw was slithering towards the setting sun. It's a panel I really like, as it both indicates the sun (which represents the Shah) setting on the royal line and Pars alike, and as the sun sets in the west and Ecbatana is west of Mount Damavand, you can tentatively extrapolate where the Snake King is heading.

So now Team Arslan have seen the Snake King. One day soon, they will have to defeat him for good. And given that everyone survived this time, can we hope for the same to happen again when they next meet in battle?