#rico speaks

[riconas]

will somebody speak to me about the new bug's choking kink. he's seen dew and rain get up to their nasty during year zero enough times to want in on the fun.

[ricopop]

i have a lot more charaxters than what i have on art fight ansd i rly wanna upload them but that would make me hav 2 make some more flat fullbody drawings and.   uh,, mm its LITERALLY art fightng time i cant do that.  i mean i can but it feels illegal yk... i wanna finish everything first and then do my own things yk yk yk.. hmm idk i probably will if i fel insane enough.......... idk guys idkk!

[pastel-kaleesh]

BORICUA MIKU WEPAAAAAAAA

I barely saw any Puerto Rican Mikus and I was disappointed so I added another one to the little tumblr collection of her.

BONUS:

A stupid sketch of Miku planning on beating the miércoles out of Flower

IDK what I was thinking for the background XD

[0rmtz]

mermay pt 4: bumblebee as a gold gourami!

[super-duper-mart]

anyway…unite ireland and free scotland and wales and palestine and gaza and congo and hawai’i and puerto rico and sudan and yemen and give the indigenous people their land back.

[sunshine-and-moonshine]

Soap: We need you to translate this document that’s in Spanish

Sweetie: I can’t read this

Soap: ???? You speak Spanish with your mom on the phone all the time

Sweetie: First of all, that’s my grandma. Second of all, I am HORRIBLE at speaking Spanish and have no idea how to read or write it.

Soap: Are you fucking serious?

[andreafmn]

Guess who lost power in the middle of writing an update 😙✌🏼 legit started writing the sequel to Speak and another chapter for the Criminal Minds and Teen Wolf fanfic and I lost power. Don’t know when it’ll be back on 😅 just colony problems

[aceforwhatevenisthis]

there’s something about jorge’s dad and mom’s accents that just hit so hard in their verses

[blueshistorysims]

hey y'all! so my college is in hurricane helene's direct pathway. while i am not near the coast, there's gonna be a lot of rain, flash floods, and fast winds, so i'm not sure if i'll lose power or not. i already have a post queued for tomorrow so hoping nothing happens tomorrow or friday. for anyone else dealing with helene, stay safe!

[mjfass]

There are people who are fans of a company, not the wrestlers. That’s why they get so angry when someone “jumps ships”. They don’t care about how they could do better in a different place, how they could be happier and have more opportunities, they are just upset they are not in the company they like.

[riconas]

hmm thinking of aether pulling a nasty quintosis on rain so he can spank him properly without rain squirming everywhere like a wet little worm. maybe there's a gag involved. strange thoughts strange thoughts

[ricopop]

?? i had a dream where clippy and finder and. another critter idk i tnink it was bob were like. in an episode of spongebob and like. they were in a submarine and the fucmkng dhit started to flood and clippy’s face was so funny to dream me idk it was really stipid

[reading-stains]

miles morales & his spanish

I’d like to start with the disclaimer that headcanons are headcanons and if people are having fun with fluent Miles, then have fun. I’m so proud to see a Spider-Man with the blood I was raised with, with a mother who gives her bendiciones and kisses her son with the love I have seen my whole life. 

And while my discussion may be in criticism of some things, I need to communicate this before anyone thinks otherwise.

I am proud of Miles Morales and what he represents. I love to see his family really feel like the life of someone in the diáspora. It is heart melting, and it is worth so fucking much to me as someone that’s seeing the growing recognition on this small, lovable, beautiful island. He is a part of the pride of my flag and of my home.

So yeah, I love that Miles Morales is Boricua. 

But I do have some things I want to point out on Miles and the way he’s been observed within the fandom. After all, he’s kind of been discoursed into two people, neither of which I agree are accurate in the language sort of terms. 

The first point is the following.

Miles is not a fluent Spanish speaker, switching between languages in sentences because he can’t remember words or he’s lost in his own head. He thinks in English. 

Miles is not fluent enough, as observed by his vocabulary and sentence structure to think in Spanish. He is not a fluent character. He rushes words and in turn, speaks in Spanglish.

His pronunciation is the one thing that can be argued if the previous factors weren’t there. 

One can be fluent in English and still struggle with pronunciation. However, that requires well developed grammatical knowledge, which we haven’t observed enough from Miles. 

There’s only two full, Spanish spoken sentences that we see in the whole movie, which I will quickly break down. 

“¿Qué tal tío?” Directly translates to “how are you, [insert colloquial term of impersonal endearment]”. 

This is a quick greeting, not colloquial to Puerto Rican Spanish, and thus can be quickly assumed to be a class-learned thing. Which, you know, doesn’t help the argument that he is fluent.

And then there’s this:

“Te trajé una empanada.” That translates to “I brought you an empanada”.

Once again, this is a very easily taught sentence. Actually, it’s grammatically found to be a simple sentence, as it holds only one verb. But also, he pronounces the verb wrong. He pronounces it almost as “dress” instead of “brought you”. The meaning shifts with the spelling of the word (ex. papa vs papá). 

The second point follows.

Miles doesn’t need to be fluent to be a Spanish speaker. 

The Spider-Man clearly showcases understanding of his mother in the college counseling scene, and that is enough to observe him as a Spanish speaker.

People can say they speak a language after having enough knowledge to hold a conversation. The previous evidence observes Miles being able to conduct an introduction and a point. That’s enough words to be passable when ordering food, yk? And that’s good enough.

He’s definitely able to capture terms and realize what words mean, which clearly showcases how he can continue his effort to know more, but still has enough basics to communicate himself. 

And now, the final point.  

He doesn’t need to be a Spanish speaker to be Puerto Rican.

Miles isn’t explored enough in the language to show his understanding of Spanish as fluent.  

And that’s okay. Miles represents a very specific type of person. But also, he represents millions of experiences.

Being from somewhere else, being from a diáspora is an experience that while I personally haven’t been able to relate to fully, millions have. For example, all immigrants know what a diáspora is. Maybe not in the coined term, but in its significance and its pain. Being away from a motherland and living in a fundamentally different nation. 

But Puerto Rico is an interesting situation because it’s officially part of the United States’ territories, but is still experienced as a foreign place. One of its fundamental differences is the main language explored in the island, being Spanish vs the US’ English. 

And because of its particular, and very colonial-esque, nature around the island, Puerto Ricans can often find the discourse of what makes a Puerto Rican a Puerto Rican. Born, raised, fluent, and influenced by Puerto Rican culture are oftentimes the most important aspects to acknowledge someone as being from here.

Many times, people from diásporas find themselves being rejected in where they live, but are just as marginalized from where they come from (biologically, culturally, or otherwise). And this experience is what often bothers me about the whole situation regarding Miles’ Spanish. 

Because Miles, and any other Puerto Rican, doesn’t owe people a certain origin to be a Boricua. You can live your whole childhood in England after moving from the island, and still say you are Puerto Rican. You can be raised by Puerto Rican parents and never step into the island’s soil, and you are still Puerto Rican. You’re able to be born somewhere else, but be raised and loved by a family here, and you are still Puerto Rican. You are who you are, identity is in your grasp, and no one owes anything to others.

He doesn’t have to speak the language to still identify with the life of a Puerto Rican. Which is why it surprises me to observe people finalizing him as either not a speaker at all because he isn’t fluent (which btw implies he is less connected to his roots when you take away his interest in knowing) or he is fluent (which then takes away about his experience in the diáspora).

This is not to say that people in the diáspora cannot be fluent, just like they cannot be fully disconnected from the Spanish language. I’m personally identifying that Miles can be in between, and still be characterized as who he is within his canonical identity.  Final notes:

When wanting to write more Puerto Rican influenced work, be sure to inform yourself! There’s a lot of things to learn about, and it’s always lovely to know more.

Boricua is a term used in the island to refer to Puerto Ricans.

I definitely encourage people to inform themselves of the term diáspora, especially if you are of foreign descent from where you live!

And of course, thanks for reading!

[cozystars]

Funny silly penguin people

[itisbop]

I HAVE THE POWER

Time to get a free mastery

[pondslime]

amazon's adaptation of fallout is,,,,,,,,not good