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ladysophiebeckett · 4 months

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This post is super long and idk who will read it but if there's anything I love to do on the internet its post aimlessly to no one. (anyway)

It gets said a lot that Betty was naïve in how she entered her relationship with Armando, but we fail to take into account how desperate Betty was to live her own life. From the beginning of her character arc she talks about needing a change.

It starts with Roman's invitation, saying he has a guy for Betty but she needs to ask permission (at her 25 yrs of age). Don Hermes says no.

Betty argues back. Don Hermes' excuse is 'you can't go out with strangers'. But Betty isn't really fighting about going out with some guy. Deep down she knows Roman and his neighborhood troublemaking annoying friends are up to no good. It's not about them. It's about her wanting something, asking for it and being denied.

The scene ends like this:

He says the world is dangerous for women and she doesn't understand that. She claims that she can defend herself and he says the above. Betty runs off crying. Dona Julia goes after her and when she returns Don Hermes asks if she's calmed down. From that question alone, it seems as if this isn't the first time Betty has fought with her dad about the rules he imposes upon her. Nor is it the first time that Betty has ran out of a room crying bc she fought with him and lost.

This has happened before.

I don't want to assume that everyone feels the way I feel about Don Hermes, which is that he's annoying. (I'm using 'annoying' as a broad term to describe his overprotection and the traditional\patriarchal way he runs his household, fyi, I know its there. I see it. But I'm not going to delve in that direction).

But there's a reason he's annoying (overprotective). Everything he does for Betty is laced with good intentions, but those good intentions are a double edged sword. At this stage in the story he appears overprotective and suffocating. It's when Dona Julia is pleading with him to let Betty go out that we hear a mention about Miguel (whose original name was 'Juan Ramon' but gets changed to 'Miguel' later on)--a guy who Betty cared about but 'disappeared'.

Let's backtrack to Betty running out of the room when Don Hermes says no. She cries to her mother about how overprotective and controlling her dad is. It's one of the few times Betty is open with someone about how she feels about the way he treats her. We get brief information about how he decided her education, about how she was sent to catholic school, how she wasn't allowed to hang out with the other girls bc she was too young, that the only male friend she was allowed to have was Nicolas and it was bc they were 'practically raised together' (and bc they knew his mother).

She continues to say ‘how is a man going to see me as a normal woman if you keep me treating me like a child? When the only thing I do is stay locked away in this room with only books and stuffed animals?’ The Miguel Situation gets its first mention and its foreshadowed that it hurt Don Hermes and Dona Julia to see their daughter suffer, but Betty says that one bad experience shouldn’t be a reason why she stays that way the rest of her life (which is very brave of her to say considering we know later how afraid she is of letting herself fall deeper in love with Armando).

The last thing she says to Dona Julia is key,

Betty's running theme is change. The eagerness of something to change. Either she needs to change or her dad needs to change. Something needs to change bc she knows she can't keep living the way she's living. She's desperate for something, anything to happen in her life. She goes on to say:

'Queira la major estudiante, la tuvo. La queria graduada con honores, especialiaziones, la tuvo. La queira trabajando en un gran empresa, la tiene trabajando en un a gran empresa. Yo ya les cumpli. Ahora quiero cumplir con mi vida.’

Again, it's not only about going out with some guy. It's about Betty living her own life now that she's done all the things that have been asked of her. From Betty's pov, she's played by the rules, so at what point is she free to do what she wants?

She is the quintessential good daughter, quintessential good student, and later on the quintessential loyal employee that becomes the quintessential loyal clandestine girlfriend--bc those were the rules she was told to play by. But she's at a point in her life where that's not enough to sustain her.

After hearing this, Dona Julia goes back to Don Hermes to plead on behalf of her daughter, however she says something concerning:

Dona Julia is afraid that if Don Hermes doesn't loosen his restrictions, that Betty will have a nervous breakdown and fall into a depression that will cause her to move out of the house.

Sidestepping the 'what if our daughter moves out' comment---

When Betty confides in Armando about her relationship with Miguel and how it ended, she doesn't call it 'depression'--however the way she describes it is very intune with what depression is.

She didn't want to live, she cried many nights, she missed classes at university. She lost the motivation to do anything. This is more than just a 'break up'. It's a traumatic experience and its aftermath is a period of depression that Betty almost didn't survive. Her parents watched her go through this, helplessly and Betty claims it's why her dad protects her so much.

Here we see her showing that she understands Don Hermes and why he does what he does. However, when we see Betty's childhood flashbacks post letter, we see that Don Hermes has always been this way as a consequence of how the world treats his daughter. We see that Betty gets bullied, marginalized--no loving parent wants their child to suffer. So he isolates her from that world so that nothing bad can ever touch her. He tries to provide her with everything he can--books and stuffed animals. Things to fill a void with.

No one can blame him for wanting to protect his daughter, but by isolating her he inadvertently teaches Betty that the solution to when things get hard is to lock yourself away and internalize everything.

In Don Hermes' defense his child rearing is mostly focused on ethics and math. A parent does what they can. So it's no surprise that after the Miguel Incident, he became even more tightly reigned over Betty's life. But again, it does more harm than good.

After Betty's ghosted by Roman and his sketchy loser friend, she's disappointed and cries. Don Hermes has no idea how to comfort or understand a 25 year old woman as he does not see her as one. He assuages her like a father would a child. He says 'We'll go do something together as a family. We'll go see a movie on Friday, champ'. (Not a literal translation). Then he says to Dona Julia, 'If I hadn't given her permission to begin with, then she wouldn't be upset about being (plantada\ghosted)'. He has no problem being seen as the bad guy in Betty's eyes if it means she avoids getting hurt in a worse way.

A couple days later, Don Hermes insists on driving her to work instead of her walking to her bus stop bc he fears she'll run into Roman and his current loser friends.

Betty says to him:

'Let me handle it' she says. Don Hermes doesn't look convinced. And then immediately Nicolas shows up at her door:

Dona Julia is also looking out for Betty and off screen took it upon herself to have Nicolas walk her to the bus stop that morning. She knows Betty needs some kind independence but using Nicolas as an intermediary gives her reassurance.

Betty rejects both options and rushes out the door. Don Hermes, pulling a Dona Julia, takes Nicolas with him and follows Betty on her way to her stop just in case something happens. What they see is Betty doing what she said she would do--handle it.

When left to her own devices Betty can and will handle things on her own, but both her parents insist in their own ways, to keep her in a protective bubble.

As the series progresses we see Betty become friends with el curatel, more specifically Aura Maria. We can all recall when AM has Betty join her on a double date and said date doesn't end well for Betty. Her date is uninterested, rude--despite Betty's best efforts. She gets home late and her dad is not happy. He calls her a 'descarda' when he sees the car dropping her off and then claims she didn't ask permission, to which Betty says 'Well I called my mom and let her know bc you weren't home'. Which leads to this:

Betty becomes the sole breadwinner of her household at some point but Don Hermes reminds her that that doesn't give her any right to decide what she can do with her free time or what time she can come home at. He then makes claims about AM and the men AM is associated with. Betty then defends her and the men (even tho they were lame):

Betty's face here is trying to contain herself but you can tell she's upset. Especially bc it wasn't the best evening, so to be getting yelled at over it doesn't feel worth it. But also, you can see Betty has a fire in her eyes; quiet frustration and inner rebelliousness bc she has been reminded yet again, that she has no freedom despite having a job in a 'great company' and having all the graduation merits and on top of that, now financially supporting her family. It's not enough. And might never be enough.

Despite this, Betty reigns her anger in and goes back to being the quintessential good daughter:

Don Hermes is not fully convinced but he appears to calm down after that.

A lighter altercation between them happens when he takes Betty home after a lanaziamento. He accuses her of taking too many liberties bc of the job that she has, criticizes her being out too much, criticizes her friends. His main worry is that she forgets her traditional values (Betty: Yo sigo siendo de las casa).

As we know, all Betty does is work and get caught in whatever mess el curatel gets her into. Regardless, Don Hermes doesn't like it. He doesn't like the women Betty surrounds herself with and he doesn't like her work or its events:

'The (fashion) world is too much, it's not for you'\'I know it's not my world, it's my job'.

I don't think Don Hermes is trying to be cruel when he says this, rather, I think he fears Betty will one day throw away the values and ethics he's taught her. (She kinda sorta does) Before she leaves for Cartagena, he insists she take a picture of him and Dona Julia, which gives weight to another inner fear of his; that Betty will forget her family and where she came from.

He stubbornly refuses to see (and accept) that Betty is an adult woman who wants to act like an adult woman. She does want to go out with her friends and dance and have the occasional drink. She does wants to date and meet someone, fall in love and in return show the love she's capable of giving.

She's desperate for the opportunity but believes it will never happen for her, so she decides to only dedicate herself to work and by doing so--and out of loneliness, she embraces her fantasies of (an) Armando that we know doesn't exist bc he's the only one that sees her value as a person and a professional. But when Mariana reads her the tarot cards---

Key word here: Change. Both of your lives are going to change.

Betty has been seeking a change in her life. This feeds into her illusions but she doesn't truly start to believe anything could happen until Armando begins to start acting differently around her.

We know it's the plan taking its course but for Betty this is a dream come true. But even in the beginning she's cautious, she doesn't know if the kiss they shared was a mistake and would rather not mention it to him in order to continue keeping the work relationship they already have (and she's happy to maintain if it means to being in his life).

But because Armando seeks her out, it's difficult for her to resist despite the type of relationship he's offering her. In a similar vein to Armando post letter, when he mentally refuses to put the clues together about why she's acting differently--Betty doesn't put together the recent embargo with his sudden interest in her. Where Armando chooses to be blind; Betty's inner frustrations and illusions of having something in her life that's not just work and an over controlled life, speak louder.

There is naiveté in play. It's true that she doesn't know a lot about the world but it's at the result of the overprotectiveness of Don Hermes that Betty doesn't read the signs as clearly until she reads the letter and is cruelly brought down back to earth.

Betty thought that Armando was the change she had been yearning for and her desperation for that change, for that dream to come true---is why she accepts the relationship he's offering her. He's trusted her implicitly until then, so why would she doubt him now?

The Letter happens and Betty's first instinct, the first action she wants to take is to run away. She doesn't want to go back to work, but Catalina reminds her of her responsibilities, that she can't just jump ship when people like Armando are depending on her. Betty especially can't leave as her parents are also depending on her and to quit suddenly with no warning would raise suspicions.

TW: for brief mentions of ED.

(I talk briefly about Betty skipping meals. I don't think the character has an eating disorder per say, but if you gotten this far and this makes the reader uncomfortable, count 5 paragraphs down to skip).

Betty enters the Gaslighting Arc depressed and dead inside. She's no longer a student, she can't afford to take days off to lay comatose in her bed. She also can't let her parents find out that something like Miguel (only worse) has happened to her again.

Post letter on, the series makes a habit of showing Betty either skipping breakfast or skipping dinner. Usually this is just done to show that a character is in a rush and usually bears no importance.

But this happens multiple times. At El Meson she orders vodka and they never get dinner. At Le Noir, despite Nicolas saying they make great eggs, she has him order wine. The night of Armando's last lanzamiento, Armando knows she hasn't eaten and offers to bring her dinner which she rejects. And lastly her diary entry\ voice over from the night she buys the mercedes\rejects Armando's call:

'Desvanezco' is to 'fade'\'vanish'. '...I am fading away before him while he only cares about his company' (rough translation).

Betty acknowledges here that she's not taking care of herself. In the first entry Post Letter she states that she doesn't have the strength to resuscitate herself again. She's metaphorically dead but the reality is that she's depressed and the only thing sustaining her during this period is her anger. (and alcohol). And once the Junta Directiva happens and everything is revealed, Betty in only left with the hurt.

(TW: End of ED mention)

Audience members get annoyed with Betty in the first half of the Cartagena Arc bc she continues to put herself down--Catalina is almost the audience insert with how put off she is with Betty's self deprecation.

It's not healthy or helpful for Betty to view herself this way and yes, it's a learned behavior that she needs to break desperately. But what the audience forgets is that Betty is tired. This is a woman that has tried to change things in her life and she always gets it wrong. Her first foray into love is a failure bc he used her, her attempts at dating are another failure, when she tries to change her look it's another failure; she put all her love and hope into Armando and then he betrays her.

She's been beaten down so much by those attempts, on top of society's view of her--that of course once in Cartagena she immediately feels out of place. Of course her first instinct, yet again, is to run back to the safe haven her dad has always provided for her.

'This isn't my world' which harkens back to Don Hermes telling her a similar thing, '...That's not for you'. It's not helpful and fuels Betty's fight or flight. And she's always picking flight.

This is Betty's first time away from home. This is the first time she has ever been away from her parents. That's why the airport scene with them is so dramatic. She's never slept a night away that's not in her house. A 'niña de la casa' no more. This is the opportunity that she's been waiting for but she doesn't see that yet amid the heartbreak.

Catalina has to guide her and essentially push her out of her comfort zone; and challenge her way of thinking and seeing the world and herself. Betty's always wanted changes in her life but she never knew that in order to embrace new things into your life, you have to be open about it mentally. You can't hide and internalize everything in your entire life. It's damaging to oneself.

In the middle of her trip she tells Nicolas, "No. I can't leave. I'm living something very important here. They (the board) can wait'. Betty is finally putting herself first and putting her foot down. Had they insisted on her presence at the beginning of her trip, she would have gone back.

Betty didn't just need to get away from Armando, she needed to get away from her family, specifically her dad. The internal and external changes that Betty goes through in Cartagena would not have been possible in Bogota. Not with Don Hermes breathing down her neck and Dona Julia flustered in the background. It wouldn't have happened as he wouldn't have allowed it.

Betty needed to leave the protective bubble of her family to learn that she can put herself together, that she can handle it and come back stronger.

Don Hermes' goodbye at the airport consists of giving Catalina instructions of things Betty isn't allowed to do (she doesn't drink, she doesn't party). He, again, refuses to see her as an adult woman. But he is forced to when she comes back from Cartagena:

He goes on to say, 'I feel like I'm lecturing another person, not my daughter'.

But that doesn't stop him as he lectures her into the night:

This is inadvertently what he's taught her to do tho--run away from a situation bc it became hard.

However Betty defends herself and says she came back to deal with issue at hand and take responsibility for her part in it. She's not proud of what she did.

'Don't think I did all of that and then went on vacation. I needed a change in my life'.

This is the change Betty truly needed, the one she's been waiting for and the one that sticks. She needed to learn to see the value in herself, realize that she's not the only one who has ever suffered and more importantly learning not to abandon herself as soon she gets hurt.

No one else was ever going to give her that. Not a relationship, not her family, not her friends. Those people (specifically her family) may love her but in certain instances their love and affection is a blind spot for them and can inadvertently hold her back bc of their insistence on protecting her from the world.

My personal feelings for Don Hermes aside, he loves his daughter and everything he does is well intentioned. He's not necessarily a bad person or bad father, but his over protection is suffocating and his refusal to see that his daughter is no longer a child plays a part in Betty's arc about wanting people to see her as she is--A person that is smart and capable and deserving of respect.

He plays a big part in why Betty does what she does, her inner rebelliousness, her frustrations come from the restrictions he imposes on her. He's not wrong about certain things but he's not 100% right about how he goes about them when it comes to Betty.

As a husband...well.

Anyway.

Betty becomes more independent Post Cartagena and her dad kind of slowly accepts it, especially when it's said in passing that she as a midnight curfew. He's still annoying, but that is simply his character trait.

If you made it this far, thank you. There is no prize except for the inner satisfaction of finishing this post.

#ysblf #betty la fea #beatriz pinzon solano #note: i dont like how i ended this but im very tired of looking at this #another note: this is mostly about betty as i tired to not talk much about armando. there's def more to say when it comes #to their relationship and identical way they feel about things #but that's an entirely different post #and also i did try to look at don hermes fairly #but for the record i do hate his ass but you wont see much of that in this post #one thing i dont talk about is her birthday--i feel like that's been explored a lot so.

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el-moscorrofio-y-el-mercachifle · 1 year

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Things That Vould Have Gone Better

Ik ysblf had severe limitations in budget, time, scenery, support, etc, but imagining this wasn't the case, I would have preferred things to go slightly different in some aspects

Timeline: one of the most bothersome aspects for me was always how the timeline was so inconsistent. Did Marcela's psrents died when she was a kid, or just a few years ago? Was Betty's ffirst bf called Ramon or Miguel? Were Armando and Marcela meant to marry in a month after he took over the presidency or a year after that? You compare some dialogues from thw beginning to the end and realise some are straight up contradictory.

Emphasis on background: one of the things that I firmly believe would have improved the understanding of the characters was a bigger emphasis on their background. Why is Marcela so attached to this sick degree to Armando? We can SPECULATE that the reason is that since her parents died she became obsessed with Armando and the idea of forming a family with him, given that she had known him her whole life and we ASSUME she was constantly pushed to be with him... but we don't really know it. Even a simple dialogue from like Armando saying something along the lines of "ig my parents always wanted us together and we just... eventually got along with it" or something like that could explain SO MUCH

Following that last one: a bigger emphasis on Roberto and Margarita's role in keeping Armando and Marcela together. We know Armando’s relationship with his parents depended a lot on his marriage to Marcela, but showing it a bit more explicitly would have been fantastic.

More emphasis on Camila: she is so briefly mentioned that a lot of people just forget about her. But she is actually one of the root causes for Armando’s fear of disappointing his dad, because he knows how extreme Roberto is when he is disappointed in his children.

Reject from Margarita and Roberto to Betty: honestly, it would have been fantastic to see the repercussions that Armando so much feared. He feared that if he left Marcela, his parents would turn on him, and that they would never accept another partner for him. Instead of them quickly accepting and moving on, it would have been fantastic to see them barely and unenthusiastically accept Betty as their daughter in law. More like a "ig, ya qué chingados" than the enthusiasm they showed.

Obviously, a bit more of their time courting. I wanted so bad to see how their relationship got to rebuild. Breaking your trust in someone is something that is extremely difficult to rebuild.

Patricia's extreme poverty: actually show her in a none comedic way how she suffers from her poverty. How she's getting weak because she has nothing to eat. How she's trying to cover up her bad smell becahse she can't shower because there is no water in her apartment. How she hoards or even steals food because she know she won't be eating the next few days.

These were just a few thoughts! What else would you change in the story if you had had unlimited resources and time to do it?

#ysblf #betty la fea #yo soy betty la fea #armando mendoza #beatriz pinzón solano #beatriz pinzon solano #betty ysblf #armando ysblf #marcela valencia #nicolas mora

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augustheart · 5 months

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2, 4, 12, and 23 for cisco ramon? For the character ask game

i will be replying to this primarily from a comics perspective even though i do love tv cisco ^-^

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

i just. absolutely adore his commitment to helping people. him catching a kid stealing candy from a convenience store and then go back and give the store money for it because the kid looked so sad. him trying to hear out the supposed criminals he was sent to catch and seeing the goodness in them without question. it gets him in trouble so many times and he just keeps loving and trusting because he is the sweetest guy in the world.

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

putting cisco in my beautiful close personal friend leverage just for laughs.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

i have so many due to him being my Boy. but a simple one is that i think he visited armando's memorial to tell him about the parademon he took down that waller told him was armando's killer.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

extremely difficult choice. but maybe this

#cisco ramon #Anonymous

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hedgiwithapen · 7 months

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Tumblr messed with things so I’m going to send a batch of DHD prompts here: (hedgi: i answered two others elsewhere separately!) Alright, let’s do this one last time. My name is Cisco Ramon. I was bitten by a radioactive spider… (hedgi: Across the spiderverse Cisco fuck yeah) Cisco wanted to go home. It wasn’t that he couldn’t, of course. But Detroit always reminded him of his brother, and Miguel was right: other heroes could keep his world safe. He was the only one who could open gateways to other worlds on request, getting misplaced people back to the dimensions they belonged in. People didn’t tend to last long outside their home earth, no matter where in the web of the multiverse they landed. So he went home sometimes, to sleep, to eat dinner with his father and wait for the sun to go down so the lights on the memorial would come up, to light a candle on Sunday mornings in a half-empty chapel. And then he’d return to the nexus point, the place in the heart of the web, where the rest of the Spiders passed through on their way, keeping the multiverse safe, each line of the web strong and distinct. He’d been bitten by a radioactive spider, escaped from STAR Labs, five years ago. Ever since then, plagued by visions of danger and opening up breaches between worlds--or on the same world-- he’d been Detroit’s one and only Spidervibe.

Mostly, he tried to stay out of the inter-spider-person drama. There was a lot of it. Some of them, especially the ones closer to his age, were cool. Hobie and Gwen had let him chatter about the way spiders--real animal spiders-- reacted to different kinds of music, the way tones and vibrations change the structure of webs. They’d even helped him test the theory. But there were a lot of people, and a lot of random bits of drama and he wanted no part in that. He did his job: feel the vibrations in an accidental breacher, locate the place in the multiverse that rang out the same way, and send them home. He knew it was saving lives, that it was necessary. It was exhausting, too. A new kid was around. Young, maybe a year younger than he’d been when this had started, maybe two. Cisco admired the suit. It had style. Good colors. Most of the Spiders went with reds with some accents in blue or black or purple. Ghost Spider favored white with teal and pink, which suited her. Black as a base was more rare--he’d used it for his own vest, with gold accents and bits of red. It looked good, but made him feel a bit more of an outsider. He already wasn’t a Peter. Like Miguel, like Gwen, like this new kid, Miles. Cisco thought he might like the kid, and got up to introduce himself when he saw Miguel open the holograms. Pulling up an image of the web, the one Cisco’d been working on mapping, and then image of body after body. Just Traumatize the new kid, sure, great idea. Cisco opened his mouth to protest, but then he heard what the kid was saying. “No, I have to save my dad.” And Miguel--who’d comforted him about Armando, who’d shown him how to use his powers to help people-- said no. Cisco froze, watching. That wasn’t right. Everything Miguel said to a caged Miles sounded right, but it rang hollow. Changes were what made the multiverse, not what doomed it. It wasn’t like a paradox in time, it was a branching. “I have to try,” Miles said, and something inside Cisco snapped. Cisco slipped up behind the poor kid, who was still looking up and Miguel and Gwen with broken, kicked kitten eyes. The cage of light was made to keep people in, not out, and it couldn’t dampen the vibrations that sang through the web of all the worlds. He reached out, feeling for Miles’ frequency, and reached for the lines of silk that lay just beyond vision. There was the path home. The blue light blazed as he ripped open a hole under their feet.

#dammit hedgi day 2023 #Cisco Ramon #Vibe #Across the Spiderverse

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phoenixlionme · 7 months

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Marvel Black Superheroes Part 1

1. T’challa aka Black Panther

2. Shuri

3. Okoye

4. Nakia

5. Ayo

6. Aneka

7. Eric Brooks aka Blade

8. Silhouette Chord aka Silhouette - biracial; half Cambodian

9. Miles Morales aka Spider Man - biracial; half Puerto Rican

10. Eli Bradley aka Patriot

11. Rayshaun Lucas aka Patriot II

12. Victor Alvarez aka Power Man - biracial; Afro-Dominican

13. Sam Wilson aka Falcon/Captain America II

14. Ororo Munroe aka Storm - American born but noted to be of Kenyan descendant

15. Armando Munoz aka Darwin - biracial; Afro-Latino

16. Eden Fesi aka Manifold - biracial; Australian aboriginal

17. Isaiah Bradley aka Captain America

18. Josiah X aka Captain America

19. Lucas Bishop - biracial; Australian aboriginal

20. Tyrone Johnson aka Cloak

21. Shard Bishop - biracial; Australian aboriginal

22. Cecelia Reyes - Afro Puerto Rican and depicted with dark-skinned complexion

23. Jesse Aaronson aka Bedlam

24. Roberto da Costa aka Sunspot - biracial; Afro-Brazilian

25. Nick Fury

26. Monica Rambeau aka Spectrum

27. James Rhodey aka War Machine

28. Riri Williams aka Ironheart

29. America Chavez aka Miss America - biracial; Afro-Puerto Rican Caribbean

30. Ramone Watts aka Alloy

#marvel #black supers #blackexcellence #exude excellence #my posts #lists

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harriscofics · 1 year

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Good Vibes and Better Coffee

Good Vibes and Better Coffee https://ift.tt/igNGTR6 by The_Devil_In_The_Details_666 It was January when the new coffee shop opened down the block from STAR Labs. Harrison barely registered the place at first, only even making a vague mental note of the chalkboard sign on the sidewalk advertising the place because he nearly tripped over it. ‘Good Vibes Cafe’, as the sign announced it, was in one of the old mixed-use developments near STAR Labs, squished in between a running shoe store and the ice cream shop that Dr. Snow’s twin sister apparently ran. OR: The obligatory Harrisco coffee shop AU. Words: 2003, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014), The Flash - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells, Cisco Ramon, Jesse "Quick" Wells, Barry Allen (Background), Wally West (Background), Hartley Rathaway (background), Julian Albert (background), Dante Ramon, Armando Ramon, Leonard Snart, Mick Rory Relationships: Cisco Ramon/Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells, Cisco Ramon & Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells, Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells & Jesse "Quick" Wells, Cisco Ramon & Jesse "Quick" Wells Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Slow Burn, Sorta slow at least via AO3 works tagged 'Cisco Ramon/Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells' https://ift.tt/t0ayi9X January 10, 2023 at 03:59PM

#harrisco

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joanofarccoded · 11 months

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“i wish i knew more about him” oh don’t worry you reblogged that from the world’s foremost and only armando ramon expert. what are you looking to know. i can whip up a reading list if you’d like

please that would be lovely. i would love to know more about the boom tube and the brainwashing and his relationship with his brothers!!!!!!! definitely the brainwashing for sure. thank you sm!!! 🫶🫶

#zoë.txt #ask

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, and Jennifer Jones in We Were Strangers (John Huston, 1949)

Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Amendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro, Wally Cassell, David Bond, José Pérez, Morris Ankrum. Screenplay: Peter Viertel, John Huston, based on a novel by Robert Sylvester. Cinematography: Russell Metty. Art direction: Cary Odell. Film editing: Al Clark. Music: George Antheil.

Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, ten years after We Were Strangers, which deals with an earlier Cuban revolution, was made. Castro's own revolution is probably why this film, despite its major director and stars, is so little known. It was never revived after its initial showing, and didn't become available on video until 2005 despite the reputation of its director, John Huston. It's a fairly scathing look at the failure of the United States to support the overthrow of the Machado dictatorship in 1933. John Garfield plays Tony Fenner, a Cuban-born American who works with the underground revolutionaries to overthrow Machado. He comes up with a rather complicated plot to tunnel into the Colón Cemetery and plant a bomb that will kill the regime's leaders. He enlists a group who have no previous ties with one another, including China Valdés (Jennifer Jones), a bank clerk whose brother was killed by the Havana police chief, Armando Aréte (Pedro Armendáriz), and who lives in a house across the street from the cemetery. The plan is to assassinate a high-ranking member of the regime and detonate the bomb when the dignitaries gather for his funeral. But Fenner's plan is just a little too complicated, and things go awry. It's a curious film to be made just as the red scare was heating up in Washington and Hollywood, for the script by Peter Viertel and director John Huston has no scruples about portraying the violent revolutionaries as heroic. The revolutionaries even countenance the collateral damage of killing innocent people at the funeral, although one of their company has serious reservations about it and, worn down by the hard work of tunneling, goes mad. Garfield, who would soon be threatened with blacklisting as a leftist, gives a typically intense performance, and Jones, though miscast, does a passable imitation of a determined Cuban revolutionary. Armendáriz, whom Hollywood often relegated to Latino sidekick roles, is a fine, sinister villain. Gilbert Roland, as a singing, wisecracking member of the revolutionary team, provides what levity the film possesses, and Ramon Novarro has a cameo as the chief who authorizes Fenner's plan. There's some obvious use of rear projection in which the actors are superimposed against scenes actually filmed in Havana, but Russell Metty's cinematography is mostly quite effective.

#We Were Strangers #John Huston #John Garfield #Pedro Armendáriz #Jennifer Jones

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Ramon Gay as Dr Armando Valdes in a scene from Curse of the Doll People (1961) with Elvira Quintana. Ray was born in Mexico City and had 90 acting credits 1946-64.

His other credits include The Aztec Mummy, The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy, and Attack of the Mayan Mummy.

#ramon gay #elvira quintana #curse of the doll people #munecos infernales

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Release: September 1, 2017

Lyrics:

¡Ay!

Fonsi, DY

Oh, oh no, oh no (oh)

Hey yeah

Diridiri, dirididi Daddy

Go!

Sí, sabes que ya llevo un rato mirándote

Tengo que bailar contigo hoy (DY)

Vi que tu mirada ya estaba llamándome

Muéstrame el camino que yo voy

Oh, tú, tú eres el imán y yo soy el metal

Me voy acercando y voy armando el plan

Solo con pensarlo se acelera el pulso (oh yeah)

Ya, ya me estás gustando más de lo normal

Todos mis sentidos van pidiendo más

Esto hay que tomarlo sin ningún apuro

Despacito

Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito

Deja que te diga cosas al oído

Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo

Despacito

Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito

Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto

Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito (sube, sube, sube)

(Sube, sube) Oh

Quiero ver bailar tu pelo

Quiero ser tu ritmo (uh oh, uh oh)

Que le enseñes a mi boca (uh oh, uh oh)

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro (uh oh, uh oh)

Hasta provocar tus gritos (uh oh, uh oh)

Y que olvides tu apellido (dirididi Daddy)

Yo sé que estás pensándolo (eh)

Llevo tiempo intentándolo (eh)

Mami, esto es dando y dándolo

Sabes que tu corazón conmigo te hace bam bam

Sabe que esa beba 'tá buscando de mi bam bam

Ven prueba de mi boca para ver cómo te sabe

Quiero, quiero, quiero ver cuánto amor a ti te cabe

Yo no tengo prisa, yo me quiero dar el viaje

Empezamo' lento, después salvaje

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando poquito a poquito

Cuando tú me besas con esa destreza

Veo que eres malicia con delicadeza

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito (oh oh)

Y es que esa belleza es un rompecabezas (oh no)

Pero pa' montarlo aquí tengo la pieza (slow, oh yeah)

Despacito (yeh, yo)

Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito (yo)

Deja que te diga cosas al oído (yo)

Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo

Despacito

Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito (yeh)

Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto

Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito (sube, sube, sube)

(Sube, sube) Oh

Quiero ver bailar tu pelo

Quiero ser tu ritmo (uh oh, uh oh)

Que le enseñes a mi boca (uh oh, uh oh)

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro (uh oh, uh oh)

Hasta provocar tus gritos (uh oh, uh oh)

Y que olvides tu apellido

Despacito

Vamo' a hacerlo en una playa en Puerto Rico

Hasta que las olas griten "Ay, bendito"

Para que mi sello se quede contigo (báilalo)

Songwriter:

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito (hey yeah, yeah)

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito (oh no)

Que le enseñes a mi boca (uh oh, uh oh)

Tus lugares favoritos (favoritos, favoritos baby)

Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito

Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito

Hasta provocar tus gritos (eh-oh) (Fonsi)

Y que olvides tu apellido (DY)

Despacito

Erika Ender / Luis Fonsi / Ramon Ayala

SongFacts:

👉📖

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Vitor Roque é o maior cotado para balançar as redes; casa de apostas ainda revela principais favoritos na primeira rodada das Eliminatórias da Eurocopa Seja em amistosos ou em eliminatórias, seleções de todo o mundo voltam a se enfrentar nesta semana durante a primeira data FIFA do ano. Entre os principais confrontos está a partida amistosa entre Brasil e Marrocos, que acontecerá na noite deste sábado (25) em Tânger, no país africano. Mas antes disso, Itália, Inglaterra, França e Holanda entram em campo pela primeira rodada eliminatória da Eurocopa 2024. E a Betfair, casa de apostas especialista em probabilidades esportivas, analisou os confrontos e apontou o que deve acontecer em cada uma das partidas. Confira as principais probabilidades, cotações e favoritos para os duelos: Marrocos X Brasil No sábado (25), Brasil e Marrocos se enfrentam em amistoso às 19h no Grand Stage de Tânger, no Marrocos. Segundo a casa especialista em probabilidades esportivas, a Seleção Brasileira tem 61% de chances de vitória (odd de 1.48) mesmo jogando fora de casa, contra 16% da seleção marroquina (odd de 5.5). A probabilidade de empate é de 23% (4.0). O jovem atacante Vitor Roque é o jogador com maior probabilidade de marcar a qualquer momento, com 42% de chances (odd de 2.4). Vini Jr também está bem cotado para balançar as redes, com 39% de chances (odd de 2.6). O placar mais provável é de vitória do Brasil por 2 a 1 com 14% de chances (odd de 7.0). Mesmo com o técnico Ramon Menezes sob o comando interino da seleção brasileira, as especulações para o anúncio do novo comandante canarinho são altas. Segundo a Betfair, Carlo Ancelotti tem 37% de chances de assumir o cargo, sendo o principal nome entre todos os especulados. O próprio Ramon Menezes e o português Jorge Jesus aparecem na segunda e terceira posição, com 11% e 7% de chances, respectivamente. Itália X Inglaterra Antes disso, na quinta-feira (23), Itália e Inglaterra se enfrentam pela primeira rodada das Eliminatórias da Eurocopa pelo grupo A. E de acordo com a Betfair, não há favoritos disparados. Tanto a Itália quanto a Inglaterra tem cada uma 36% de chances de vitória (odd de 2.63). Já a probabilidade de empate é de 28% – uma odd de 3.25, ou seja, para cada R$1 apostado, o retorno para o apostador será de R$3,25 caso o resultado se concretize. O placar mais provável é de 1 a 1 com 18% de chances (odd de 5.5). Os ingleses Harry Kane e Ivan Toney e o italiano Vicenzo Grifo são os jogadores com mais probabilidades de marcar um gol ou dar assistência, com 50% de chances cada (odd de 2.0). A partida acontece às 16h45 (horário de Brasília) no estádio Diego Armando Maradona, em Nápoles. Argentina X Panamá E por falar em Maradona, a Argentina também entra em campo nesta quinta-feira (23) como favoritíssima em amistoso contra a seleção do Panamá. Segundo análise da Betfair, os atuais campeões do mundo têm 87% de chances de vitória (odd de 1.03), contra apenas 4% do Panamá (odd de 25.0). A probabilidade de empate é de 9% (odd de 10.0). O placar mais provável apontado pela casa de apostas é de 2 a 0 para os “muchachos” com 17% de probabilidade (odd de 6.0). O craque Lionel Messi é o mais cotado para marcar um gol durante o jogo com 75% de chances (odd de 1.33). O amistoso acontece às 21h no Estádio El Monumental. França X Holanda Já na sexta-feira (24), França e Holanda se enfrentam também pelas Eliminatórias da Euro, desta vez pelo grupo B. De acordo com análise da Betfair, a França tem 51% de chances de vitória (odd de 1.87), contra 23% da Holanda (odd de 4.0). A probabilidade do jogo terminar empatado é de 26% (odd de 3.6). O astro francês Kylian Mbappe é o jogador com maior probabilidade para marcar um gol a qualquer momento com 50% de chances (odd de 2.0). Do lado holandês, Memphis Depay tem 28% (odd de 3.6). Os placares mais prováveis são de vitória francesa por 1 a 0 ou empate em 1 a 1, ambos com 17% de chances (odd de 6.0).

Sobre a Betfair Uma das maiores provedoras de apostas esportivas on-line do mundo, a Betfair é patrocinadora oficial das equipes do Cruzeiro e do Palmeiras. A empresa, fundada em Londres (ING) no ano de 2000, foi pioneira na oferta de apostas peer-to-peer (Betfair Exchange) e gerencia um conjunto completo de apostas esportivas, eventos de entretenimento e produtos de jogos on-line para mais de quatro milhões de clientes maiores de 18 anos em todo o mundo. Graças à sua tecnologia de ponta, a plataforma oferece um amplo catálogo de produtos que permite apostar com suas próprias cotas e cotas oferecidas por outros usuários. A Betfair está licenciada para operar apostas on-line e outros jogos em 19 países, incluindo Espanha, Itália, Malta, Colômbia e Grã-Bretanha. Foto: Rafael Ribeiro/CBF

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can i have some trivia please?

You May

catman is so bizarrely good at cards that he's capable of consistently beating notorious cheaters like the gambler

ralph did extra credit geography as a kid and was bullied for it (i love this one and have mentioned it before)

gehenna loves uwe boll movies and jason hates them

it's heavily implied that the origin of all earth telepaths can be traced back to martians

no matter how many of them he loses, ted grant always has nine lives

sand demon completely coincidentally looks exactly like martin stein. like, identical to the point that the people closest to martin could barely tell them apart. they aren't related, they just look like that. sadly, when dctv adapted him, they were not both played by victor garber :(

mr. bones keeps a picture of infinity, inc on his wall and a separate framed photo of sky on his desk

aquaman can survive getting dehydrated if he slathers blood all over himself. this one is just kinda weird

kate spencer and jack knight are cousins

snapper carr and rick jones are interdimensional besties

greg saunders is a werewolf

the most people we've seen operating simultaneously as one firestorm is three

pre52 armando ramon owned a nightclub and was briefly considered for titans membership

bart watches late night comedy shows and conan is his favorite host (or at least, the host he prefers to leno and letterman, the latter of which is wally's favorite)

#honestly idk what counts as 'trivia' and what is just 'a character fact i know' so i just went with a bunch of different things #long post #Anonymous

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brookston · 1 year

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Holidays 1.23

Holidays

Archery Day

Birthday of the Grand Duchess (Luxembourg)

Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island)

Cold, Cold, Cold Day

Django Day

Ed Roberts Day (California)

Fundación del Estado Plurinacional Holiday (Bolivia)

Grandmother's Day (Bulgaria)

International Integrative Health Day

Maternal Health Awareness Day

Measure Your Feet Day

National Fay Day

National Freedom Day

National Handwriting Day

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Musician Day (Día Nal. del Músico; Argentina)

National Reading Day

National Report Pharmaceutical Fraud Day

National School Nurse Day

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Parts of India)

New Year's Celebration, Day 2 [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …

Chinese New Year Holiday, Day 2 (Bhutan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan)

Public Sector Holiday (East Timor)

Second Day of the lunar New Year (Hong Kong, Macau)

Tet Holiday (Vietnam)

One-Tooth Rhee Landing Day

Paul Pitcher Day (Cornwall)

Ranked Choice Voting Day

Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day

Wakakusa Yamayaki (Grass Burning; Japan)

Women in Medicine Day

World Freedom Day (South Korea, Taiwan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Sticky Toffee Pudding Day

National Pie Day

Rhubarb Pie Day

4th Monday in January

Better Business Communication Day [4th Monday]

Community Manager Appreciation Day [4th Monday]

Independence Days

Foundation Day (Lichtenstein)

Kingdom of Abrus (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Wellington Province Day (New Zealand)

Feast Days

Abakuh (Christian; Saint)

Agathangelus (Christian; Saint)

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Cunning Linguine Day (a.k.a. Get Your Tongue Round Some Linguine Day; Pastafarian)

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The Peasants (Muppetism)

Phillips Brooks (Episcopal Church (USA)

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Samuel (Positivist; Saint)

Sergei Eisenstein (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 23 [9 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The A-Team (TV Series; 2003)

Boys For Pele, by Tori Amos (Album; 1996)

Bushfire Fairytales, by Jack Johnson (Album; 2001)

The Butterfly Effect (Film; 2004)

Casablanca (Film; 1943)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco, recorded by Tony Bennett (Song; 1962)

Inkheart (Film; 2008)

Material Girl, by Madonna (Song; 1985)

Mythbusters (TV Series; 2003)

Neck ’n’ Neck (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

The New Spirit (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

Roots (TV Mini-Series; 1977)

Spice World (Film; 1998)

Star Trek: Picard (TV Series; 2020)

Station to Station, by David Bowie (Album; 1976)

Suspicious Minds, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1969)

They’re Off (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Trust, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1981)

The Way You Do the Things You Do, by The Temptations (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

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Ema, Emercijana, Vjera (Croatia)

Zdeněk (Czech Republic)

Emerentius (Denmark)

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Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 23 of 2023; 342 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 4 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 2 (Xin-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 1 Shevat 5783

Islamic: 1 Rajab II 1444

J Cal: 23 Aer; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 10 January 2023

Moon: 5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 23 Moses (1st Month) [Samuel]

Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 34 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 3 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Rajab [رَجَب] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 7 of 12]

Šəḇāṭ (a.k.a. Shevat, Shvat, Shebat or Sebat) [שְׁבָט] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 11 of 12 or 13]

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