#yara martinez packs

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yara martinez packs

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[jawreguipacks]

heyy, packs yara martinez please?

sure 💗 I’ve just posted some but soon I’ll be making more

[helpersofindie]

could i please get some suggestions for faceclaims ( male and female ) that are 35+ and have some resources, like a pack of gif icons or a gif hunt, to be used? poc and non poc mixed in would be perfect!!

hi anon! i’m putting this under the cut because it got very long. under the cut there are 189 female faceclaims 35 and up that have at least one gif hunt and gif icons in the tags, and 206 male faceclaims 35 and up that have at least one gif hunt and gif icons in the tags. i hope this helps you out!

female

ruth negga (35)

constance wu (35)

melissa fumero (35)

lesley ann brandt (35)

priyanka chopra (35)

rebecca hall (35)

dichen lachman (35)

natalie dormer (35)

sophia bush (35)

anna camp (35)

kelly clarkson (35)

lauren cohan (35)

natalia cordova buckley (35)

alison brie (35)

alyssa sutherland (35)

lisa schwartz (35)

bridget regan (35)

anne hathaway (35)

alexandra breckenridge (35)

meghan ory (35)

lizzy caplan (35)

cobie smulders (35)

chyler leigh (35)

mercedes mason (35)

clemence poesy (35)

lily rabe (35)

jenny slate (35)

kirsten dunst (35)

billie piper (35)

priyanka chopra (35)

romola garai (35)

emilie de ravin (35)

krysten ritter (35)

alicia keys (36)

elodie yung (36)

meghan markle (36)

fan bingbing (36)

janina gavankar (36)

jessica alba (36)

stephanie beatriz (36)

julia jones (36)

jenna dewan tatum (36)

adriana lima (36)

beyonce knowles (36)

nasim pedrad (36)

genevieve cortese/padalecki (36)

judie gonzalo (36)

caterina scorsone (36)

alexis bledel (36)

bethany joy lenz (36)

song hye-kyo (36)

natalie portman (36)

katharine isabelle (36)

vanessa ray (36)

christina aguilera (36)

alessandra ambrosio (36)

rachel bilson (36)

kareena kapoor (37)

sarah shahi (37)

hannah simone (37)

alaina huffman (37)

olivia munn (37)

kristen bell (37)

kristen connolly (37)

maimie mccoy (37)

laura jane grace (transgender)(37)

rachel miner (37)

laura prepon (37)

eva green (37)

minka kelly (37)

tegan quin (37)

sara quin (37)

zooey deschanel (37)

sarah drew (37) 

bianca lawson (38)

rosario dawson (38)

yara martinez (38)

lee hyori (38)

karen david (38)

maggie q (38)

freema agymean (38)

jennifer morrison (38)

caroline flack (38)

danneel harris (38)

caitriona balfe (38)

morena baccarin (38)

evangeline lilly (38)

lee hyori (38)

rosamund pike (38)

rose byrne (38)

shiri appleby (38)

yasmine al massri (39)

zoe saldana (39)

michelle rodriguez (39)

michaela conlin (39)

aj cook (39)

rachel mcadams (39)

ginnifer goodwin (39)

danai gurira (39)

katheryn winnick (39)

kerry washington (40)

shakira (40)

lana parrilla (40)

andrea navedo (40)

jessica chastain (40)

liza weil (40)

sarah wayne callies (40)

amber benson (40)

jaime murray (40)

liv tyler (40)

sarah michelle gellar (40)

rashida jones (41)

evelyn lozada (41)

jessica capshaw (41)

carice van houten (41)

ali larter (41)

isla fisher (41)

reese witherspoon (41)

amy acker (41)

milla jovovich (41)

emily deschanel (41) 

angelina jolie (42)

charlize theron (42)

eva longoria (42)

marion cotillard (42)

christina hendricks (42)

sarah paulson (42)

sara ramirez (43)

eva mendes (43)

holly marie combs (43)

grace park (43)

jenna fischer (43)

alyson hannigan (43) 

aishwarya rai (44)

kate beckinsale (44)

li bingbing (44)

lena headey (44)

vera farmiga (44)

alyssa milano (44)

sarah rafferty (44)

sofia vergara (45)

gwyneth paltrow (45)

angie harmon (45)

kirsten vangsness (45)

jennifer garner (45)

darby stanchfield (46)

amy poehler (46)

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shannen doherty (46)

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jennifer connelly (46)

madchen amick (46)

charisma carpenter (47)

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gina torres (48)

lucy liu (48)

cate blanchett (48)

gina torres (48)

jennifer lopez (48)

ellen pompeo (48)

lucy lawless (49)

megan follows (49)

jorja fox (49)

gillian anderson (49)

lili taylor (50)

kate walsh (50)

leslie jones (50)

salma hayek (51)

helena bonham carter (51)

robin wright (51)

viola davis (52)

monica bellucci (53)

courteney cox (53)

famke janssen (53)

sandra bullock (53)

mariska hargitay (53)

calista Flockhart (53)

hulya avsar (54)

alex kingston (54)

ming na wen (54)

elizabeth mcgovern (56)

julianne moore (56)

susanna thompson (59)

angela bassett (59)

michelle pfeiffer (59)

jessica lange (68)

helen mirren (72)

maggie smith (82)

males: 

jamie dornan (35)

arthur darvill (35)

matt smith (35)

sebastian stan (35)

dan stevens (35)

riz ahmed (35)

harry shum jr (35)

matt dallas (35)

jared padalecki (35)

cam gigandet (35)

paul welsey (35)

miguel angel silvestre (35)

lee joon gi (35)

sam huntington (35)

eddie redmayne (35)

daveed diggs (35)

adam lambert (35)

ricky whittle (35)

justin chatwin (35)

adan canto (35)

chris evans (36)

tom hiddleston (36)

colin o'donoghue (36)

david anders (36)

jesse williams (36)

rami malek (36)

lee dong wook (36)

chad michael murray (36)

joseph morgan (36)

boyd holbrook (36)

frank iero (36)

taylor kitsch (36)

elijah wood (36)

brandon flowers (36)

taylor kinney (36)

stephen amell (36)

michiel huisman (36)

russell tovey (36)

shahid kapoor (36)

fawad khan (36)

jay ryan (36)

michael pitt (36)

ben barnes (36)

fran kranz (36)

hayden christensen (36)

jo jung suk (36)

tom burke (36)

brian j smith (36)

jo in sung (36)

jake gyllenhaal (36)

ben whishaw (37)

tablo (37)

ryan gosling (37)

david giuntoli (37)

sam heughan (37)

sam riley (37)

lin manuel miranda (37)

gustaf skarsgård (37)

charlie hunnam (37)

chris pine (37)

matthew gray gubler (37)

dj cotrona (37)

james mcavoy (38)

adam levine (38)

chris pratt (38)

conrad ricamora (38)

daniel henney (38)

oscar isaac (38)

luke evans (38)

gong yoo (38)

mike vogel (38)

john krasinski (38)

joel kinnaman (38)

brandon routh (38)

lee pace (38)

jason momoa (38)

jesse metcalfe (38)

travis fimmel (38)

aaron paul (38)

matt davis (39)

anthony mackie (39)

nick zano (39)

jensen ackles (39)

aaron abrams (39)

gael garcia bernal (39)

bill hader (39)

ben mckenzie (39)

andy samberg (39)

shane west (39)

dominic cooper (39)

james franco (39)

matthew goode (39)

michael raymond james (4

tom ellis (39)

charlie weber (39)

zachary quinto (40)

milo ventimiglia (40)

justin hartley (40)

michael fassbender (40)

tom welling (40)

orlando bloom (40)

matt czuchry (40)

jonathan rhys meyers (40)

matt bomer (40)

sam witwer (40)

joe manganiello (40)

alexander skarsgård (41)

cillian murphy (41)

mike colter (41)

ryan reynolds (41)

charlie day (41)

chadwick boseman (41)

ian bohen (41)

jon bernthal (41)

ryan kwanten (41)

dean o'gorman (41)

colin farrell (41)

abhay deol (41)

sean maguire (41)

daniel gillies (41)

vincent piazza (41)

noel clarke (42)

bradley cooper (42)

hugh dancy (42)

jason sudeikis (42)

pedro pascal (42)

tahmoh penikett (42)

paul amos (42)

mahershala ali (43)

burn gorman (43)

leonardo dicaprio (43)

isaiah mustafa (43)

christian bale (43)

ryan phillippe (43)

joaquin phoenix (43)

misha collins (43)

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anson mount (44)

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justin chambers (47)

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paul rudd (48)

josh holloway (48)

timothy omundson (48)

simon baker (48)

norman reedus (48)

manu bennett (48)

will smith (49)

daniel craig (49)

owen wilson (49)

rufus sewell (50)

vin diesel (50)

john barrowman (50)

liev schreiber (50)

mark ruffalo (50)

jeffrey dean morgan (51)          

billy burke (51)

mads mikkelsen (52)

frank grillo (52)

mark pellegrino (52)

christopher eccleston (53)

brad pitt (53)

david thewlis (54)

donnie yen (54)

andre braugher (55)

clark gregg (55)

robert carlyle (56)

george clooney (56)

david duchovny (57)

linden ashby (57)

colin firth (57)

hugh laurie (58)

sean bean (58)

peter capaldi (59)

jeff goldblum (65)

jeremy irons (69)

ian mcshane (75)

sam waterston (77)

ian mckellen (78)

morgan freeman (80)

[comiccrusaders]

The Tick returns with more action-packed episodes! Evil is on the march, and The City is right in its way. Something terrible is going to happen, and Destiny needs her champions now more than ever. The Tick and Arthur round up the gang in a crash collision course between justice and villainy.

https://www.comiccrusaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TICK_S1B_TRLR_TEAM_PRE_AV_h264_hd.mp4

About The Tick In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an accountant with mental health issues and zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. Together, they launch into an adventure brimming with crazed archvillains, blood-soaked vigilantes, mad science, and superhuman freakery.

Created by:

Ben Edlund

Cast:

Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick), Griffin Newman (Arthur Everest), Valorie Curry (Dot Everest), Brendan Hines (Superian), Yara Martinez (Ms. Lint), Scott Speiser (Overkill), and Jackie Earle Haley (The Terror)

Look out for additional characters, including:

Midnight

(Voiced by Townsend Coleman)

Dr. Karamazov

(John Pirkis)

VLM

(Ryan Woodie)

Tinfoil Kevin

(Devin Ratray)

and

Dangerboat

(Voiced by Alan Tudyk)

The Tick is available globally exclusively on Amazon Prime Video

#TheTick

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheTick/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theticktv

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theticktv/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/primevideo

New Trailer for THE TICK SEASON 1: PART 2 The Tick returns with more action-packed episodes! Evil is on the march, and The City is right in its way.

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 027: CUBA]

Shout out to anon for inspiring this task! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 100+ Cuban faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

SOME ADVICE FROM US:

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite Cuban faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by a Cuban artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on what life is like in Cuba, Cuban culture and customs. BE CREATIVE!

LINKS:

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

Information:

Cuba by Wikipedia 

Cuban Spanish by Wikipedia

Female:

Lola Falana (74) Cuban, African American - singer.

Mercedes Ruehl (68) Irish, Cuban, German - actress.

Joanna Kerns (63) Cuban (Spanish, Basque, more distant Portuguese and Indigenous) (paternal grandfather), German, English, Welsh, Irish - actress.

Olga Merediz (60) Cuban - actress.

Saundra Santiago (59) Cuban, Puerto Rican - actress.

Gloria Estefan (59) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - singer and actress.

María Conchita Alonso (59) Cuban - singer and actress.

Oscar Nunez (58) actor and comedian.

Irene Cara (57) Puerto Rican / Cuban - singer.

Maria Olvido Gara Jova (53) Cuban, including Spanish and possibly Portuguese / Spanish - singer and actress.

Beatriz Valdés (53) Cuban - actress.

Daisy Fuentes (50) Cuban - television host and model.

Soledad O’Brien (50) Irish, one quarter Scottish / Afro-Cuban - broadcaster.

María Canals Barrera (50) Cuban - actress.

Gina Torres (47) Cuban (African, likely other) - actress.

Mariah Carey (46/47) Cuban/Afro-Cuban, African-American / Irish - singer.

Mayte Vilán (46) Cuban - actress.

Selenis Leyva (44) Cuban, Dominican - actress.

Aylín Mújica (42) Cuban, of Basque descent - actress, mode and dancer.

Eva Mendes (42) Cuban - actress, model and businesswoman.

Vida Guerra (42) Cuban (Spanish, African, possibly other) - model.

Alicia Machado (40) Cuban / Spanish - actress.

Camille Guaty (40) Cuban, Puerto Rican, Spanish - actress.

Rosario Dawson (37) Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban / Unknown - actress.

Yara Martinez (37) Cuban - actress.

JoAnna Garcia (37) Cuban - actress.

Mayra Verónica (36) Cuban - model and singer.

Jordi Vilasuso (35) Cuban - actor.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler (35) Greek, Romanian, and Cuban - actress and singer.

Olivia Theresa Longott (35) Indian, Jamaican, Cuban, Native American - singer.

Christina Milian (35) Cuban (including African, possibly Spanish and other) - singer.

Hannia Guillen (34/35) Cuban - actress.

Melissa Fumero (34) Cuban - actress.

Dominik García-Lorido (33) Cuban - actress.

Danay García (32) Cuban - actress.

Natalie Martinez (32) Cuban - actress and model.

Amelia Vega (32) Dominican, Cuban (Spanish, distant English, possibly other) - actress, singer, model and beauty queen.

Odette Yustman (31) French, Italian / Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actress.

Tina Majorino (31) Italian (paternal grandfather), Cuban, French, Scottish, German, Filipino - actress.

Josie Loren (29) Cuban - actress.

Anabelle Acosta (29) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actress.

Génesis Rodríguez (29) Venezuelan and Cuban (both including Spanish, possibly other) - actress.

Natalie Mejia (28) Cuban, Mexican - singer.

Ana de Armas (28) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actress.

Nayer Regalado (28) Cuban (Spanish, Lebanese, possibly other) - singer.

Sessilee Lopez (27) Dominican, Portuguese, Cuban, African-American - model.

Ana Villafañe (27) Salvadoran / Cuban - actress and singer.

Cassadee Pope (27) English, Cuban, possibly other - singer.

Alexis Knapp (27) German, English, Scottish, Irish, distant Dutch / Cuban, Ecuadorian  - actress and singer.

Bianca A. Santos (26) Cuban, Brazilian - actress.

Elizabeth Ruiz (25) Cuban - Instagramer.

Dani Thorne (24) Cuban / Irish, Italian, English, German, Welsh - actress.

Kaili Thorne (24)  Cuban / Irish, Italian, English, German, Welsh - actress.

Bex Taylor-Klaus (22) Jewish, Cuban - actress.

Isabella Castillo (22) Cuban - singer.

Priscilla Star Diaz (22) Puerto Rican / Cuban - rapper, dancer, model, singer, actress, director, and disc jockey.

Lauren Jauregui (20) Cuban, likely some Basque - singer.

Herizen Guardiola (20) Jamaican, Cuban - actress.

Orion Carloto (20) Cuban, Portugese and Italian - YouTuber.

Lourdes Leon (20) Cuban / Italian, French-Canadian, with remote Swiss-French and English, extremely remote Spanish.

Emma Ferrer (?) Cuban/Spanish-Cuban, Irish, English, Austrian, Dutch (including Frisian), remote French - model.

Shyrley Rodrigue (?) Cuban - actress.

Male:

Tomas Milian (83) Cuban - actor.

Emiliano Díez (63) Cuban - actor.

Tico Torres (63) Cuban - drummer.

Steven Bauer (60) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other), as well as German Jewish (maternal grandfather), 1/32 Italian - actor.

Andy García (60) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actor.

Óscar Núñez (58) Cuban - actor and comedian.

José Canseco (52) Spanish Cuban - baseball player.

Nelson Ascencio (52) Cuban - actor.

Jorge Perugorría (51) Cuban - actor.

Carlos Leòn (50) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - personal trainer.

Robert Gant (48) Spanish, Cuban, Italian / Irish, English, remote Scottish, possibly French - actor.

Faizon Love (48) Afro-Cuban - actor and comedian.

Bobby Cannavale (46) Cuban / Italian - actor.

Joseph Antonio Cartagena (46) Puerto Rican, Cuban - rapper.

Louis Freese (46) Mexican, Cuban - rapper and actor.

Raúl Esparza (46) Cuban - actor and singer.

Mario Cimarro (45) Cuban - actor.

Carlos Ponce (44) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actor.

Eddie Cibrian (43) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actor.

Jorge Garcia (43) Chilean, Cuban - actor.

Danny Pino (42) of Cuban descent - actor. 

Laz Alonso (42) Cuban (Afro-Cuban) - actor.

Ojani Noa (42) Spanish-Cuban - actor.

Adam Rodriguez (41) Puerto Rican, Cuban - actor, screenwriter and director.

Orby Orta (39) Cuban - All Star cheerleading coach, choreographer, and judge.

Frank Mir (37) Moroccan, Russian, Cuban - mixed martial artist.

Oscar Isaac (37) Cuban, Guatemalan, French - actor and musician.

William Levy (36) Cuban/Spanish-Cuban, Jewish - actor.

Armando Christian Pérez (36) Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - rapper.

Chris Marquette (32) Cuban / Unknown - actor.

Ryan Lochte (32) German, English, Dutch / Cuban, including Spanish-Cuban and Basque - Olympic competitive swimmer and reality television star.

Yoenis Cespedes (31) Afro-Cuban - baseball player.

David Gallagher (31) Irish, Cuban (Spanish, possibly other) - actor.

Sean Marquette (28) Cuban / Unknown - actor.

Rome Flynn (25) Cuban, Irish, African - actor.

Nolan Arenado (25) Cuban / Puerto Rican - baseball player.

Blake Jenner (24) English, German, French-Canadian / Cuban.

Matthew Timmons (24) English, Cuban - actor.  

Alejandro Valdes (24) Cuban - YouTuber.

Alberto Rosende (23) Cuban / Colombian - actor.

Gabriel Conte (22) Colombian, Cuban - YouTuber.

Phillip Katsabanis (21) Greek, Cuban - rapper.

Kianz Froese (20) German / Afro-Cuban - soccer player.

Adam Irigoyen (19) Cuban - actor and singer.

Erick Brian Colon (16) Cuban - singer.

Transgender:

Angela Vanity (?) Cuban - YouTuber.

Non-Binary:

N/A

Use at your own discretion:

Perez Hilton (38) slurs.

Bella Thorne (19) supports Sam Pepper.

Camila Cabello (19) racist comments.

[newstfionline]

‘A New Reality’: Students And Teachers From Puerto Rico Start Over In Florida

Claudio Sanchez, NPR, November 9, 2017

It’s 5:30 a.m. and dark in the fifth-floor hotel room, just a few minutes drive from the Orlando airport. There are still 20 minutes before the entire family needs to be downstairs to enjoy the free breakfast in the hotel lobby, then they’ll be driving the 15 minutes north to school--first period starts at the “very early” time of 7:20.

This has been the daily routine for nearly two months since Yerianne Roldán, 17 and her sister Darianne, 16, arrived in Orlando from western Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

They’re staying in this hotel room with their mom, Yesenia González, and their stepdad, Eliud Peña. Their bright hotel room is clean and pretty standard, albeit for the food stashed under the bedside table, and the piles of suitcases and random belonging stacked in the corner.

“This is a new experience and if you don’t have experiences you don’t have a life,” Peña says. He brought the family to Orlando because he has family in the area. “It’s a story for the girls to remember forever, they can tell their children one day.”

It’s a story the girls would definitely rather tell than live through. Yerianne, the older, more reserved sister says they’re still coming to terms with their new reality.

“We only had an hour to say goodbye to our families,” she says, “I’m just really worried ... most of my family are elderly.”

Yerianne’s younger sister Darianne says the first days here were the hardest. “In my mind, I was like, ‘Ok this is only temporary. I’m only going to stay here for a month and then I’m going back.’” But that’s not what happened. This is my life now, she tells me, showing me pictures of her new school friends on her smartphone. Darianne celebrated her 16th birthday in the hotel--the cleaning staff made a three-tiered cake out of towels and room service left a slice of chocolate cake.

Their family is not alone: Schools in Orlando have enrolled nearly 2,000 Puerto Rican students who’ve fled the storm-ravished island. Most don’t know when or if they’ll ever go back. Their stories are heartbreaking. Their future in limbo.

The district in Orlando has tried to make the process as smooth as possible, waiving documents necessary for enrollment and assigning kids to schools. And still, Orange County public schools superintendent, Barbara Jenkins, says she’s gotten angry calls about taking in Puerto Rican kids.

“They thought we were talking about immigrants,” she explains, “but these are citizens of the United States and they are welcome here and we will take every last one of them into our classrooms immediately. They are our children. We will never run short on compassion.”

That compassion runs deep at Colonial High School, where Principal Jose Martinez has already enrolled nearly 100 students from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. That’s where the Roldán sisters are enrolled. More than half of the 240 faculty and staff members there have family ties to Puerto Rico--including Principal Martinez.

That’s why every chance he gets, he reminds the students: “My family was you, my grandparents were you, my cousins were you. And though you may be leaving some of your family behind, you’re carrying them with you in your hearts.”

And it’s a welcome reminder--because the students who recently arrived in Florida are still pretty shaken up.

But the feeling of being overwhelmed is slowly subsiding, the students say. At Colonial, there’s a spirit week that culminates in Homecoming, events that slowly make the students feel connected to the school community. On Halloween, Darianne, who is sharing the hotel room with her family, even dresses up in costume--posting photos with her new friends on Snapchat.

“If you’re living somewhere and there’s an earthquake, hurricane, tornado or some kind of disaster, you might think you’re in despair,” explains Rebekah Felix Lambert, who came from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. “But there will always be help there. Something good is going to come out of the bad.”

In order for the district to support the influx of new students, they need more staff. It’s a natural progression then, that as many adults leave their homes on the island and come to Florida, the school district has been at the airport--literally--hiring them as they arrive. So far, Orlando has hired 51 people, including classroom teachers, paraprofessionals and bus drivers--all from Puerto Rico.

Because so much of the island is still in the dark--less than half of the island now has power--many recent arrivals still can’t retrieve copies of their teaching credentials, proof of employment or transcripts from where they earned their teaching degree.

“We’ll be creative in hiring them,” says Jenkins, the district’s superintendent. “That might mean they could start as a substitute teacher until we find those credentials or gather what the state requires for their license.”

Like many teachers who left Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Yara Ramos applied for a job at the airport, next to empty ticket counters in a once-vacant terminal. She’s a veteran teacher from Camuy, Puerto Rico who arrived in Orlando with her four children, still ambivalent about her career.

“I miss my people,” she says, crying. “They’ve been my co-workers for over 10 years. It’s family too ... my classroom, it’s probably there the way I left it, with everything packed in bags--all my computers were sealed.”

She pauses for a moment, “I’m not coming back,” she says, trailing off.

She’s waiting for her relatives back home in Camuy to send her the documents she’ll need to be hired as a licensed classroom teacher.

In the meantime, she’s starting over again as a paraprofessional at a middle school just west of downtown Orlando.

That’s despite her 10 years of teaching experience. And yet, it’s a full-time job, which means she can move out of her brother’s house--where she’s been living for more than a month--and start putting her life back together again.

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The Tick Brings Bold, Blue Justice to a Grimdark Superhero World

The Tick: the brightest, boldest star in the world of superhero comedy. Since the late '80s, this confused cyan crusader has doled out comedic justice across indie comics, animation, and live-action television. Every decade has a defining and beloved iteration of The Tick. This time, The Tick and his begrudging, moth-suited sidekick, Arthur, are breaking into the world of streaming television over at Amazon. But 15 years after their last foray onto the small screen, the entertainment world has fundamentally changed, and they're not the only superheroes on the scene.

In theory, even with modern media jam-packed with comic-based programming, The Tick and co. would have no problem standing out from the crowd. (A huge, blue bug suit and a rogues gallery of characters like Bat Manuel, Chairface Chippendale, and Mucilage Man will do that.) However, when the pilot for Amazon's Tick appeared a year ago as part of a vote-for-a-show-and-we'll-green-light-it campaign, the suggested series was a far cry from the happy-go-lucky satire of superheroics the franchise is known for.

In this version, neurotic accountant Arthur (Griffin Newman) is the show's true leading man and now has a full-blown superhero origin story. When he was a kid, he had a front-row seat as his dad became collateral damage in a superhero tragedy that also took out Arthur's favorite team, The Flag Five. But unlike the Dark Knight, Arthur didn't focus this trauma into becoming the bane of all evil-doers. He's been dealing with massive psychological baggage and mental disorders ever since, and at the epicenter is the supervillain that ruined his life: The Terror (Watchmen's Jackie Earle Haley). The Terror died several years later, but Arthur is convinced that he's still out there, running a shadow organization. So by night the pencil pusher is a paranoid conspiracy theorist. The latest lead in his campaign to expose the truth, has Arthur crossing paths with the gigantic, cartoon-like Tick (Peter Serafinowicz), who might just be a figment of his imagination.

Sound shockingly bleak and heavy-handed? It is. The Tick pilot was made the same year that gave us the pinnacle of convoluted grimdark garbage: Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Meanwhile, the industry was scrambling to pivot after the surprise success of Deadpool's rated R comedy romp. Unfortunately, the Tick team doubled-down on the grittiness of the former instead of letting their freak flag fly. However, one year later, we're happy to report that The Tick's creator/writer/artist/director/producer/jack of all trades, Ben Edlund, and his team did some tweaking. With five new episodes under their belt, they've polished this still quite different take on The Tick to a more appealing sheen of cobalt blue.

Taking The Tick seriously was the funniest thing I could think to do, Edlund said in this year's Tick panel at San Diego Comic Con. In theory, it could work. One of the Tick's indie comics bedfellows is Bob Burden's Mystery Men. Their bag was always darker, working-class superhero comedy. With that property woefully languishing in legal purgatory, and the world of The Tick only a slight tonal shift away, there's no reason we couldn't have the best of both worlds. Yet, The Tick's pilot episode is too dark, too sad, too raw. When The Tick finally shows up, his goofball lines and unwitting antics are clunky both in delivery and visual portrayal. The disparate elements have an impossible time finding equilibrium. There is satire loaded into the pilot episode, but it's not funny.

The tone of the pilot wasn't a fluke either; they went straight to the source for grim superheroics: the director of the first two episodes is Wally Pfister, Academy Award-winning cinematographer for Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy and Inception. Fortunately, the second episode does damage control for many of the failings of the debut. Most importantly: no, The Tick isn't in Arthur's imagination. As soon as the titular character gets a chance to live large in The City, bewilder the supporting cast, and deliver his trademark motivational ponderings, everything changes. Serafinowicz seems more comfortable in the role, too. Following the career-highlight performance of Patrick Warburton from the 2001 series is no easy task, and as the series progresses, the new Tick fills the suit admirably. A suit by the way that's also much improved from the pilot. It's a major change swept under the rug by a throwaway line and one that's forgivable for the tremendous visual overhaul the show has received.

What's most different between this series and prior iterations is its emotional focus. The animated series was pure surreal comedy; the prior live-action show was a slice-of-life sitcom, both taking full advantage of a supporting cast and backdrop hinging on a world of superheros. This series is more intimate. You won't see the Tick and Arthur playing off an egomaniac Batman and a patriotic superheroine every episode (the death of The Flag Five made sure that heroes steered clear of The City). Instead, they're paired with regular people, like the guy who runs the bodega down the street, a homeless dude, and most importantly Arthur's sister, Dot (Valorie Curry). This former side character has been upgraded to a major player in the foundation of Amazon's Tick. As a first responder, she's a hero in the real world, and she and Tick become the angel and devil on Arthur's shoulders, pulling him between common sense and the extraordinary.

Arthur's evolution from a bystander in a long line of bystanders has been a plot point throughout every version of The Tick, but this time it's the core of the show and is woven into a storyline that sees him literally facing his demons. His donning of the mysterious, moth-like supersuit puts him directly in the crosshairs of The Terror's associates, enemies, and the elderly, presumed-deceased villain himself. Miss Lint (Jane the Virgin's Yara Martinez) is a new character and the chief antagonist an electricity-tossing enforcer whose static cling makes her a literal dust magnet. She used to be The Terror's right hand, but his death left her diminished. Defeat at the hands of The Tick and Arthur is the kick in the pants she needs to get clawing her way back up the villainous ladder. Then there's Overkill (Scott Speiser) a dour, skull-faced vigilante who reads like a spin on the animated series' Punisher parody, Big Shot, but with a look and style more along the lines of DC's Deathstroke. He lives on a sentient boat, called Dangerboat, voiced by the new go-to for sarcastic A.I.: Alan Tudyk. Everyone want's what Arthur's got, except Arthur.

The new series' emphasis on serialized storytelling over episodic adventures actually brings it closer to the feel of Edlund's original comic books. The same can be said of the strong equilibrium between surreal comedy and life-and-death consequences. It's the first time in The Tick's history where a series has felt capable of adapting one of the most poignant panels in the comic; where, after a zany romp, The Tick cradles a woman who's just been stabbed, and as his personal illusion of the world breaks down, he muses aloud: This isn't supposed to happen. A moment like this hasn't happened so far, but it could.

With Marvel's Netflix shows leaning so hard on gritty realism, Amazon might have a sharply parodying antitheses on their hands. This would be doubly so if the new Tick takes on one of the comic's previously unadapted, and most memorable storylines: Night of a Million-Zillion Ninja. It's a send up of the same Elektra stories that season two of Daredevil was based on. The Tick's take on it is more relevant now than it was 30 years ago and just as hilarious. It could be Hot Shots to Daredevil's Top Gun! Again, not something even remotely hinted at, but the fact that the new series seems capable of pulling that off speaks to its success in striking the balance needed for a funny, yet serious Tick.

The best moments of the series so far are where the show's new dynamic meets what worked so well in prior iterations. The weird politics and social dynamics of a world filled with heroes was something done very well in the 2001 series and now, under a darker lens, it has a more Watchmen-like dymanic. But, like, a funnier Watchmen. For example, early on, Arthur gets arrested for being at the scene of an alleyway murder committed by Overkill. His identity is protected under an amendment enacted after a hero called Cat-Man-Dude was arrested and unmasked, allowing villains to rip his life apart. Arthur knows this, but slips up and gives his first name, thereby being stuck with his unassuming superhero moniker. Budget limitations kept the former live-action series from tackling the more absurd Tick-sized problems for instance, Dinosaur Neil, a scientist that accidentally ate some Dino DNA and grew into a towering half-reptile beast. Authorities tried to lure him with a gigantic pair of slacks. Similarly, we now have the Very Large Man, dubbed the VLM by the news. The nude, skyscraper-tall VLM doddering through the suburbs is a background crisis, drawing the attention of The Terror's arch-nemesis and Superman analogue, Superian (Brendan Hines). It's a hilarious plot point that could only happen in the world of The Tick and a great bit of world-enhancing flavor through the first several episodes.

These evolutions of The Tick's prior strengths are fantastic, but some of the series' most memorable moments are unique to this new slice of blue. In episode four, The Tick crashes Arthur's stepdad's birthday party. The quirky not-my-dad, Walter (impeccably played by Lost's Franois Chau), is delighted by the charming, childlike giant and their weirdness compliments each other brilliantly. Well look at you, says Walter, opening the door to the superhero. Impossible! plucks Tick in amusement at the strange man's request.

Classic! On a completely different end of the spectrum, the strongest scene of the pilot by far was also all-new: the horrific accident that kills Arthur's dad and The Flag Five. It's so savage. The violence is comedically overwhelming as Arthur's dad is crushed, superheros stumble around blinded by syphilis, and an inappropriately gleeful Terror executes Arthur's heroes in the streets, then eats Arthur's ice cream.

The Tick debuts on Amazon Friday, August 25th . Unfortunately it's not the entire first season, just the first six episodes. The remaining six come in early 2018, which is a damn shame because episode six feels like any other episode in the middle of a narrative - not a mid-season break. Hopefully lacking that punch will still bring audiences back next year. The team says they've got a five-year plan, and if it continues, we'll see more characters that have occurred before, and next season, the heroes will gravitate back to The City inviting in more absurd, slice-of-life superheroics.

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