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crazed-rambler · 2 months

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Reasons Frank should be invited to the Firefam barbecues:

1. He’s basically an honorary member of the 118 extended family at this point

2. He can get the tea straight from the source

3. He’d probably solve impending problems before anyone realises there were problems to be had

4. He still hasn’t met Chim or Buck and heard about their collective mountain range of trauma

5. He’s always so serious, he should be allowed to let loose a little

6. I reckon he’d just love to study them all in a group setting

#911 abc #911 spoilers #frank the therapist #icon #evan buckley #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #bobby nash #athena grant #hen wilson #chimney han #maddie buckley #karen wilson #118 firefam

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usersiren · 2 years

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9-1-1 PRIDE WEEK 2022 ↳ DAY ONE: PRIDE FLAGS

• 16 icons under the cut • dimensions: 150x150 • one plain and two overlays (courtesy of @evanbukley) • like/reblog if using • do not claim as your own

#911edit #911lsedit #911icons #911ls icons #911prideweek #911verse #911 icons #buddie #tarlos #henren #nancy gillian #paul strickland #hen wilson #karen wilson #eddie diaz #evan buckley #*#*icons

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soughthopearchived · 1 year

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Hello there! Thank you for choosing to follow my blog I only have a few rules. No drama. No hate. Handle your issues privately like adults. No forced ships or pressure for replies. You can use icons, big ole gifs, or nothing. I don’t care I just wanna have fun with you but please cut your posts. Last but not least I write for me if you don’t like what I do kindly leave me out of it thanks!

Affiliated with @soughtbirthright, @theolderh3nderson, @pogueland1a, @hawkinssongbird & @deermooses.

Icon credits: @tutorgirlcommissions

PSD Credit: @jaynedits

MUSES

Original

Briana Madison ( Werewolf OC )

Spencer McClaren ( Fandomless OC )

Claire St James ( Future OC )

Sylvie Nightbloom ( Human Fantasy OC )

Vanya Ulafiel ( Fantasy OC )

Ruth Rutledge ( Stranger Things OC )

Eight ( Stranger Things OC )

Cordelia Robinson ( Space Ranger OC )

Grace Scott ( One tree hill OC )

Miles Gardner ( Virgin river OC )

Seamus Graham ( Fandomless )

Diego Garcia ( Fandomless )

Jackson Harrington ( Stranger things OC )

Aniyah Stokes ( Outer Banks OC )

Charles Foreman ( Stranger Things OC )

Theodore Blight ( Fairy OC )

Annabelle Honeywell ( Human OC )

Mike Yeun ( Fandomless OC )

Mythology

Persephone

Aphrodite

Artemis

Hercules ( Headcanoned / Disney Based )

The Witcher

Geralt Of Rivia

Princess Ciri

It Series

Beverly Marsh

Eddie Kaspbrak

Arcane

Echo

She-ra

Adora

Catra

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Tony Stark

Stephan Strange

Frank Castle

Jessica Jones

Peter Parker

Kate Bishop

Carol Danvers

DC Cinematic Universe

Bruce Wayne

Diana Prince

Barbara Gordon

Selina Kyle

Pamela Isley

Lena Luthor

Kara Danvers

Disney

Maya Hart

Cassandra

Queen Elsa

Tinker Bell

Fawn

Miguel Rivera

Judy Hopps

Helen Parr

Twilight

Bella Swan

Edward Cullen

Charlie Swan

Jacob Black

Emmett Cullen

The Last Of Us

Bree Tanner

Uncharted movie

Nathan Drake

Joel Miller

Life is Strange

Dina Fonseca

Mel

Abby Anderson

Lev

Yara

Max Caulfield

Dana Ward

Chloe Price

Warren graham

Alex Chen

To All the boys

Sean Diaz

Red dead redemption

Sadie Adler

Arthur Morgan

Mary-Beth Gaskill

Karen Jones

Peter Kavinsky

Lara Jean Covey

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Eleven Hopper

Will Byers

Jonathan Byers

Dustin Henderson

Max Mayfield

Robin Buckley

Eddie Munson

Eden Bingham

Teen Wolf

Stiles Stilinski

Derek Hale

Supernatural

John Winchester

Dean Winchester

Meg Masters

Jo Harvelle

Lucifer

Lilith

The Vampire Diaries

Josie Saltzman

Klaus Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Jackson Kenner

Landon Kirby

Lizzie Saltzman

The Walking Dead

Negan

Rick Grimes

Glenn Rhee

Beth Greene

Scream

Stu Machar

Emma Duval

Tatum Riley

The Office

Michael Scott

Jim Halpert

Kelly Kapoor

Pam Beesly

Brooklyn 99

Jake Peralta

Rosa Diaz

One Tree Hill

Peyton Sawyer

Nathan Scott

Outer Banks

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

JJ Maybank

Topper Thornton

The Bear

Carmy Berzatto

Virgin River

Jack Sheridan

Lizzie

High School Musical

Troy Bolton

Rickey Bowen

Gabriella Montez

#( dossier. )#made a new one hehe ~

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ovaetion · 1 year

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pinned post . selective , private , low activity writing blog . follows back from @bluntache or @aliterary. i use icons & some basic formatting ; all muses are available upon request . i enjoy writing relationships or canon threads so feel free to send a starter , inbox meme or tag me ! all muse information found here (basic list under cut) .

One Piece Live Action

Vinsmoke Sanji. Taz Skyler . male . 20s . bisexual . comic divergent (haven’t read it), netflix canon.

DAREDEVIL. 616 & Netflix Season 1 Based.

FOGGY NELSON. elden henson . male . 30s . bisexual . comic canon, netflix divergent. ( @enlaw )

KAREN PAGE . cameron diaz . 20s . heterosexual . comic only.

JAMES WESLEY . toby leonard moore . 30s . pansexual . canon, netflix divergent. ( info )

MATTHEW MURDOCK . charlie cox . 30s . bisexual . comic canon, netflix divergent. ( info )

NBC, HANNIBAL. S1-S2 (until i watch the rest).

HANNIBAL LECTER . mads mikkelsen . male . 40/50s . bisexual . canon.

WILL GRAHAM . hugh dancy . male . 40s . bisexual . canon.

HUNGER GAMES. Book & Movie Based.

PEETA MELLARK . josh hutcherson . male . 18 . bisexual . canon. ( info )

NETFLIX, MANIAC.

OWEN MILGRIM . jonah hill . male . 30s . straight . canon.

RESIDENT EVIL 2,4,8. Videogame Remake based.

LEON KENNEDY . male . 20s . heteroflexible . canon.

CHRIS REDFIELD . male . 40s . heterosexual . canon.

SHERLOCK . ACD & BBC .

mycroft holmes . mark gatiss . male . 40s . homosexual . canon div. ( info )

john watson . martin freeman . male . 40s . heteroflexible . canon.

greg lestrade . rupert graves . male . 40s . bisexual . canon div. ( info )

SUPERNATURAL. S1-S14 based but memory is shady.

CASTIEL . misha collins . nonbinary , he/him pronouns . pan . canon div. ( info )

JO HARVALLE .

TEEN WOLF. S1-S5 (no s6/movie, haven’t watched)

DEREK HALE . tyler hoechlin . male . 20s . pan . canon. prev. ashcoated, radevolution

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radiation-run · 2 years

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My wish for S6—before it hits the fan—is for us to get an episode where Eddie, Buck, Karen, and Bobby team up and go on some sort of completely unhinged True-Crime-To-Catch-A-Thief-Detective-esque-Spying adventure.

#unhinged icons #living for the drama #The Team With a Dream: Solving Crimes Thru 👀#eddie diaz #evan buck buckley #karen wilson #bobby nash #911 on fox #911 s6 hopes & dreams

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ravipanikkar · 3 years

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Under the cut 16 christmas icons for 911 characters

16screencap by me

reblog if you use or if you like them

send an ask or dm me for request or variations

#911 #911 fox #911 icon #911edit #eddie diaz #evan buckley #maddie buckley #chimney han #albert han #bobby nash #karen wilson #ravi panikkar #i enjoyed this so much!!#yeah i'm missing someone but i couldn't find a good screenshot #maybe i'll make another pack?#anyway feel free to ask for a personalized one!!

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theladyyavilee · 3 years

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911 PRIDE ICONS:

10 400x400 icons under the cut

please like and/or reblog if you use them

please do not use my icons outside of tumblr/ao3 without my permission <3

credit would be appreciated (please DON’T claim as your own!)

there will probs be one last small pride icons set posted tomorrow with the ones that didn’t fit with this one (mostly because of colors xD pan colors clash intensely with literally anything else xD)

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evanbukley · 3 years

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911 icon pack #1

70 icons // 200x200

+ colours & gradients

14 screencaps // 5 colours each

please do not claim as your own

#911edit #911 fox #icons*#icons: 911 #athena grant #evan buckley #may grant #hen wilson #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #karen wilson #bobby nash #maddie buckley #chimney han #michael grant #taylor kelly #harry grant #carla price #edit*

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panking-finn · 4 years

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i know in episode 5 karen says that she's like daniel, but does anyone get the sense that she's just humoring him? because in all honesty i see more sean and karen parallels than karen and daniel parallels. for example sean's first instinct in episode 1 is run. (and yes i know the situation is completely different and worse than when karen dipped, but it's still an interesting thing to consider).

in episode 2 sean is the one who starts to get antsy about hanging out at the reynolds, he's the one who gets tired of the rules that reynolds impose on them. daniel seems pretty happy there. sean's the one who gets bored, and he wants to get out.

in episode 3 sean finds his own away with like minded people and people who he feels could become a found family to him. (and daniel). while yes he's not entirely used to roughing it in the woods he's found people who he can talk to. he's found a sense of belonging and community.

in episode 4 sean learning to trust and lean on karen again can be a parallel karen reconnecting with her parents in high morality endings like sean does with her later in episode 5 in away.

lastly, while karen has her poems and poetry, sean has his drawings and sketches. they both have different ways of capturing the world, but they capture it in a way that is unique to them.

#also just want to add that they are both bi icons #sean diaz #karen reynolds #life is strange 2 #sorry if this has been said before #just thought it was interesting

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hernandopride · 5 years

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Just a few fictional bisexual characters in honor of Bisexual Awareness Week:

Detective Rosa Diaz

Bob Belcher

Harley Catwoman and Poison Ivy

Jay and Silent Bob

Korra

Dr. Frankenfurter

River Song

Frank Underwood

Karen Walker

Lestat de Lioncourt

Feel free to add your own!

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kitkatpancakestack · 3 years

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Your thoughts on the episode? I really liked it. Maybe I'm softening with the age, but for the first time I saw Ana like an actual human being, she wasn't just this perfect girlfrend, she was scared for Eddie, she doesn't know her place in Eddie's life and knows that they're not this perfect couple, this said i still can't wait until she's gone.

Ah! Sorry I'm getting to this a bit late, I wanted to rewatch before I answered. But, I absolutely LOVED this episode.

That opening??? Hello??? Literally my favorite episode opener/season opener yet. Absolutely iconic.

Ana has never really registered to me on a level of active awareness, until this episode. I just feel bad for her. She needs to, like, get out of this relationship that is headed nowhere, and I think she realizes it too.

I've said before that I like Taylor but hate BT. What attracts me to Taylor's character is her unapologetic and unashamed devotion to her career. She literally said in Dosed that this was her dream and she fought her way there through blood sweat and tears. I was glad to see they aren't just reducing her to Buck's LI, and anyway, this inherent character trait of hers is also kind of the chip in their relationship. I don't think they're going to find much meaningful connection in a romantic relationship with each other.

Athena's plotline left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth with the whole trial thing (I think there's been some discourse on this) but I consume my media critically and move forward, and I love the potential of her character arc this season.

I cannot talk about Madney for fear of breaking down at the thought of what Tim has in store for them.

Eddie????? Having a panic attack???? Never mind it's essentially implied to be triggered by Ana's presence. This man is about to BRING IT this season and I can't wait. Season 5 belongs to Eddie Diaz y'all.

Buck and Eddie engaging in PEAK husband behavior is always a crowd pleaser. They are so married. They are literally having a domestic squabble in a public setting in front of their colleagues.

Karen. Just Karen.

Overall I am so excited for this season, I know it's going to fucking DEVESTATE us from all fronts. It will be very interesting to see what they do with Maddie's character, how Athena unpacks her trauma with/without Bobby, and of course whatever the fuck kind of soulmate shit I'm watching play out between Buck and Eddie.

#buddie #madney #bathena #911onfox #911 spoilers #S5 #ask #it's answering asks hours #5.01

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soughthopearchived · 1 year

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Hello there! Thank you for choosing to follow my blog I only have a few rules that I wish you to follow:

Personal blogs please don’t interact with my content.

This blog is multiverse & multi-ship but I ship based on chemistry.

Mun is well over the age of 21 so NSFW & Triggering topics will be here although they will be tagged.

Please do not use me as a meme or image source, I've had problems with that in the past.

If we have an issue I ask that you be respectful and speak to me about it in PMS or unfollow me if you're childish.

I use big gifs/icons, resized icons, gif icons, and gif hunts or nothing at all based on the convenience and how I'm feeling at the moment. ( Blacklist: CW: large image ).

If you need anything tagged let me know okay? I will always tag flashing images, gore, bugs, drugs, guns, etc.

Lastly, I have dyslexia and ADHD so if I miss a cue in the writing or my reply has some grammatical errors be nice! I'm sensitive, thank you lol.

Affiliated with @soughtbirthright, @theolderh3nderson, @pogueland1a, @hawkinssongbird & @deermooses.

Icon credits: @tutorgirlcommissions, find out exactly who it is on my ( credits page ), and please commission them! They're lovely.

You can find a WIP collection of my muses below the cut:

original

Briana Madison ( Werewolf OC )

Beatrice Lafoux ( Vampire OC )

James Barlowe ( Vampire OC )

Spencer McClaren ( Fandomless OC )

Claire St James ( Future OC )

Sylvie Nightbloom ( Human Fantasy OC )

Vanya Ulafiel ( Fantasy OC )

Ruth Rutledge ( Stranger Things OC )

Eight ( Stranger Things OC )

Cordelia Robinson ( Space Ranger OC )

Grace Scott ( One tree hill OC )

Miles Gardner ( Virgin river OC )

Seamus Graham ( Fandomless )

Diego Garcia ( Fandomless )

Jackson Harrington ( Stranger things OC )

Aniyah Stokes ( Outer Banks OC )

Charles Foreman ( Stranger Things OC )

Theodore Blight ( Fairy OC )

Annabelle Honeywell ( Human OC )

Mike Yeun ( Fandomless OC )

mythology

Persephone

Hercules

Freya

Thor

Hades

the witcher

Geralt Of Rivia

Princess Ciri

it series

Beverly Marsh

Eddie Kaspbrak

arcane

Echo

she-ra

Adora

Catra

marvel cinematic universe

Tony Stark

Peter B Parker ( OC )

Stephan Strange

Frank Castle

Jessica Jones

Peter Parker

Kate Bishop

Carol Danvers

dc cinematic universe

Bruce Wayne

Diana Prince

Barbara Gordon

Selina Kyle

Pamela Isley

Lena Luthor

Kara Danvers

disney

Maya Hart

Cassandra

Queen Elsa

Tinker Bell

Fawn

Miguel Rivera

Judy Hopps

Helen Parr

twilight

Bella Swan

Edward Cullen

Charlie Swan

Jacob Black

Emmett Cullen

Bree Tanner

uncharted

Nathan Drake

Nadine Ross

Cassie Drake

the last of us

Joel Miller

Dina Fonseca

Abby Anderson

Lev

Jesse

life is strange

Max Caulfield

Dana Ward

Chloe Price

Warren graham

Alex Chen

Sean Diaz

red dead redemption

Sadie Adler

Arthur Morgan

Mary-Beth Gaskill

Karen Jones

to all the boys

Peter Kavinsky

Lara Jean Covey

stranger things

Steve Harrington

Eleven Hopper

Will Byers

Jonathan Byers

Dustin Henderson

Max Mayfield

Robin Buckley

Eddie Munson

Eden Bingham

teen wolf

Stiles Stilinski

Derek Hale

supernatural

John Winchester

Dean Winchester

Meg Masters

Jo Harvelle

Lucifer

Lilith

the vampire diaries

Josie Saltzman

Elijah Mikaelson

Klaus Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Jackson Kenner

Landon Kirby

Lizzie Saltzman

the walking dead

Negan

Rick Grimes

Glenn Rhee

Beth Greene

scream

Stu Machar

Emma Duval

Tatum Riley

the office

Michael Scott

Jim Halpert

Kelly Kapoor

Pam Beesly

Brooklyn 99

Jake Peralta

Rosa Diaz

one tree hill

Peyton Sawyer

Nathan Scott

Haley James

Karen Roe

outer banks

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

JJ Maybank

Topper Thornton

the bear

Carmy Berzatto

virgin river

Jack Sheridan

Lizzie

high school musical

Troy Bolton

Rickey Bowen

Gabriella Montez

#( dossier. )#that new new

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gayravi · 2 years

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Taylor's not at the ceremony, Megan was not at the filming for that at all, she was at a wedding in Atlanta that weekend.But I know your joking but just in case I fully believe BT will be broken up by the vow renewal. Newly single Buck and Eddie with their son at a queer wedding and hopefully we get a hint. Since you're so good at predicting things what moment do you expect would happen at the wedding?

oh this is SO interesting i did not know that about mw!!! but also i feel like that almost confirms bt bones bc why wouldn’t buck’s longterm serious girlfriend be at the vow renewal of the people he considers family (which are taylor’s words, not mine!) so yes, actually i’m fully on board with you bt bones pre-wedding, eddie and buck go together with chris bc buck is bummed about the breakup, cue the most iconic buckley-diaz family content we’ve gotten since like. dumb luck.

i’ve talked about this ad nauseum but i am a full believer in buck and chris dancing at the wedding and eddie watching from the sidelines really softly. i just think that would heal my mental illness. but other things that i think could happen: third party confession (my kingdom for it to be to maddie or karen) OR third party nudging (by which i mean someone implies that buck and eddie are more to each other than just friends) (my kingdom for it to be maddie, hen, lucy, or ravi) OR buddie slow dance (this one is less likely but i’m a dreamer)

#reply #anonymous #911 spec #this is not as eloquent as i wanted but i’m at the doctors LOL

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writemarcus · 3 years

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HITTING NEW HEIGHTS

BY MARCUS SCOTT

ORIGINAL RENT STAR DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA TAKES YOU INSIDE THE IN THE HEIGHTS FILM

Qué quiere decir sueñito?” The disembodied voice of a girlchild ponders. “It means ‘little dream,’” responds an unseen authoritative figure, his feathery tenor with a soft rasp and tender lilt implying there’s more to the story.

Teal waves crash against the white sand coastal lines of the Dominican Republic and a quartet of children plead with the voice to illuminate and tell a story. Usnavi de la Vega (played by Anthony Ramos), sporting his signature newsboy flat cap and full goatee, begins to narrate and weave a tall-tale from the comforts of his beachside food cart: “This is the story of a block that was disappearing. Once upon a time in a faraway land called Nueva York, en barrio called Washington Heights. Say it, so it doesn’t disappear,” he decrees.

And we’re off, this distant magic kingdom ensnared within the winding urban sprawl of farthest-uptown Manhattan, the music of the neighborhood chiming with infinite possibilities: a door-latch fastening on tempo, a ring of keys sprinkling a sweet embellishment, the splish-splash of a garden hose licking the city streets like a drumstick to a snare fill, a manhole cover rotating like vinyl on a get-down turntable, the hiss of paint cans spraying graffiti like venoms from cobras and roll-up steel doors rumbling, not unlike the ultra-fast subway cars zigzagging underground. So begins the opening moments of In the Heights, the Warner Bros. stage-to-screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical by composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and librettist Quiara Alegría Hudes (Water by the Spoonful) that is set to premiere in movie theatres and on HBO Max on June 11, 2021.

This stunning patchwork of visuals and reverberations combine to create a defiant and instantly memorable collage of inner-city living not seen since Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors or West Side Story, the iconic romantic musical tragedy directed on film by Robert Wise and original Broadway director Jerome Robbins. With Jon M. Chu at the helm, the musical feature has all the trademarks of the director’s opulent signature style: Striking spectacles full of stark colors, va-va-voom visuals, ooh-la-la hyperkinetic showstopping sequences and out-of-this-world destination locations.

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A Kind of Priestess

Joining the fray of proscenium stage vets in the film is Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega, who originated the role of Mimi in the Off-Broadway and Broadway original productions of Rent. She returns to major motion pictures after a decade since her last outing in Nancy Savoca’s Union Square, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. When we caught up with Rubin-Vega, she was hard at work, in-between rehearsals with her In the Heights co-star Jimmy Smits on Two Sisters and a Piano, the 1999 play by Miami-based playwright Nilo Cruz, a frequent collaborator. Rubin-Vega netted a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as the enraptured Conchita in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics; that same year Cruz was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making him the first Latino playwright to receive the honor. Despite significant global, social and economic disruption, especially within the arts community, Rubin-Vega has been working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“People around me have [contracted] COVID… My father-in-law just had it. I’m very fortunate,” Rubin-Vega said. “This collective experience, it’s funny because it’s a year now and things seem better. Last year it was, like, ‘Damn, how inconvenient!’ The one comfort was that, you know, it’s happening to every one of us. That clarity that this is a collective experience is much more humbling and tolerable to me.”

The last time Rubin-Vega graced Washington Heights on screen or stage, she acted in the interest of survival and hunger as a probationer released after a 13-year stint in prison and given a new lease on life as an unlicensed amateur masseuse in the basement of an empanada shop in Empanada Loca, The Spalding Gray-style Grand Guignol horror play by Aaron Mark at the LAByrinth Theater Company in 2015. In In the Heights she plays Daniela, an outrageously vivacious belting beautician with a flair for the dramatics, forced to battle a price-gouging real estate bubble in the wake of gentrification.

“She’s like the deputy or the priestess,” Rubin-Vega said. “Owning a salon means that you have a lot of information; you’re in a hub of community, of information, of sharing… it’s also where you go for physical grooming. It’s a place where women were empowered to create their own work and it is a place of closeness, spiritual advice, not-so-spiritual advice. Physical attention.”

She said, “Daniela also being an elder; I think she’s not so much a person that imposes order on other people. She’s there to bring out the best—she leads with love. She tells it like it is. I don’t think she sugar-coats things. What you see is what you get with Daniela. It’s refreshing; she has a candor and sure-footedness that I admire.”

With the film adaptation, Chu and Hudes promised to expand the universe of the Upper Manhattan-based musical, crafting new dimensions and nuances to two characters in particular: Daniela and hairdresser Carla, originally portrayed as business associates and gossip buddies in the stage musical. On the big screen they are reimagined as romantic life partners. Stephanie Beatriz, known to audiences for her hilarious turn as the mysterious and aloof Detective Rosa Diaz in the police procedural sitcom romp “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” co-stars as the fast-talking firecracker, Carla.

It’s been a year waiting, you know. It’s like the lid’s been on it and so we’re just so ready to explode.

Where Is Home?

“Well, Quiara and Jon really expanded on what Lin and Quiara originally created and now they’re partners—and not just work partners, right? But they’re life partners,” Beatriz said at a March press event celebrating the release of the film’s two promo trailers. “What was so gratifying to me as a person who is queer is to see this relationship in the film be part of the fabric of the community, and to be normal, and be happy and functioning, and part of the quilt they’ve all created.”

She continued, “So much of this film is about where home is and who home is to you. And for Carla, Daniela is home. Wherever Daniela is, that’s where Carla feels at home. I thought that they did such a beautiful job of guiding us to this, really, you know, it’s just a happy functioning relationship that happens to be gay and in the movie. And I love that they did that, because it is such a part of our world.”

Rubin-Vega said she had no interest in playing any trope of what one might think a lesbian Latina might look or act like, noting that the queer experience isn’t monolithic, while expressing that the role offered her a newfound freedom, especially with regard to being present in the role and in her everyday life.

“Spoiler alert! I felt like not wearing a bra was going to free me. Did I get it right? Am I saying that gay women don’t wear bras? No, it was just a way for me to be in my body and feel my breasts. To feel my femaleness and celebrate it in a more unapologetic way,” she said, laughing. “To be honest, I was really looking forward to playing a lesbian Latina. It’s something that I hadn’t really explored before. Latinos [can be] very homophobic as a culture, and I wanted to play someone who didn’t care about homophobia; I was gonna live my best life. That’s a bigger thing. It’s also like, maybe I’m bisexual. Who knows? Who cares? If you see that in the film, that’s cool too, you know?”

Stand-out performances abound, especially with regard to the supporting cast; newcomers Melissa Barrera (in a role originated by Tony Award winner Karen Olivo) and Gregory Diaz IV (replacing three-time Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesús) are noteworthy as the aspiring fashion designer Vanessa and budding activist Sonny. Olga Merediz, who earned a Tony Award nomination for originating her role as Abuela Claudia, returns to the silver screen in a captivating performance that will be a contender come award season. However, Rubin-Vega may just be the one to watch. Her performance is incandescent and full of moxie, designed to raise endorphin levels. She leads an ensemble in the rousing “Carnaval del Barrio,” a highlight in the film.

Musical Bootcamp

“We shot in June [2019]. In April, we started musical bootcamp. In May, we started to do the choreography. My big joke was that I would have to get a knee replacement in December; that was in direct relation to all that choreography. I mean, there were hundreds of A-1 dancers in the posse,” Rubin-Vega said. “The family consisted of hundreds of superlative dancers led by Chris[topher] Scott, with an amazing team of dancers like Ebony Williams, Emilio Dosal, Dana Wilson, Eddie Torres Jr. and Princess Serrano. We rehearsed a fair bit. Monday through Friday for maybe five weeks. The first day of rehearsal I met Melissa [Barrera] and Corey [Hawkins], I pretty much hadn’t known everyone yet. I hadn’t met Leslie [Grace] yet. Chris Scott, the choreographer, just went straight into ‘let’s see what you can do.’ It was the first [dance] routine of ‘In The Heights,’ the opening number. He was like, ‘OK, let’s go. Five, six, seven, eight!’”

Rubin-Vega said that she tried to bring her best game, though it had “been a minute” since she had to execute such intricate choreography, noting that they shot the opening number within a day while praising Chu’s work ethic and leadership.

“There was a balance between focus and fun and that’s rare. Everyone was there because they wanted to be there,” she said. “I think back to the day we shot ‘96,000.’ That day it wouldn’t stop raining; [it was] grey and then the sky would clear and we’d get into places and then it would be grey again and so we’d have to wait and just have to endure. But even the bad parts were kind of good, too. Even the hottest days. There were gunshots, there was a fire while we were shooting and we had to shut down, there was traffic and noise and yet every time I looked around me or went into video village and saw the faces in there, I mean…it felt like the only place to be. You want to feel like that in every place you are: The recognition. I could recognize people who look like me. For now on, you cannot say I’ve never seen a Panamanian on film before or a Columbian or a Mexican, you know?”

Another Notion of Beauty

Rubin-Vega’s professional relationship with the playwright Hudes extends to 2015, when she was tapped to [participate in the] workshop [production of] Daphne’s Dive. Under the direction of Thomas Kail (Hamilton) and starring alongside Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Orange Is the New Black”), the play premiered Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center the following year. Rubin-Vega also starred in Miss You Like Hell, the cross-country road musical by Hudes and Erin McKeown, which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2016 before it transferred to The Public Theater in 2018. With her participation in the production of In the Heights, she is among the few to have collaborated with all of the living Latinx playwrights to have won the Pulitzer Prize; Hudes won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful, while Miranda took home the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hamilton. Speaking on her multiple collaborations over the years, Rubin-Vega also acknowledged having known Miranda years before they would join voices.

“Lin to me is like a little bro or legacy; he’s a direct descent to me from [Rent author] Jonathan Larson, which is a bigger sort of all-encompassing arch,” she said, though she stressed that she auditioned like everyone else, landing the role after two or three callbacks. “Quiara and I have a wonderful working and personal relationship, I think. Which isn’t to say I had dibs by any means because…it’s a business that wants the best for itself, I suppose. […] So, when I walked in, I was determined to really give it my best.”

Life During and After Rent

Rubin-Vega has built an impressive resume over the course of her career, singing along with the likes of rock stars like David Bowie and starring in a multitude of divergent roles on Broadway and off. From a harrowing Fantine in Les Misérables and a co-dependent Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire to a sinister Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, her evolution into the atypical character actor and leading lady can be traced back 25 years to January 25, 1996, when Larson’s groundbreaking musical Rent, a retelling of Giacomo Puccini’s 19th-century opera La Bohème, premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop. On the morning of the first preview, Larson suffered an aortic dissection, likely from undiagnosed Marfan’s syndrome and died at the age of 35, just ten days shy of what would have been his 36th birthday.

On April 29, 1996, due to overwhelming popularity, Rent transferred to Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, tackling contemporary topics the Great White Way had rarely seen, such as poverty and class warfare during the AIDS epidemic in New York City’s gritty East Village at the turn of the millennium. Rubin-Vega would go on to be nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as sex kitten Mimi Márquez, an HIV-positive heroin addict and erotic dancer.

The show became a cultural phenomenon, receiving several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Rubin-Vega and members of the original Broadway cast were suddenly overnight sensations, recording “Seasons of Love” alongside music icon Stevie Wonder, receiving a photo shoot with Vanity Fair and landing the May 13, 1996 cover of Newsweek. Throughout its 12-year Broadway run, many of the show’s original cast members and subsequent replacements would go on to be stars, including Renée Elise Goldsberry, who followed in Rubin-Vega’s footsteps to play the popular character before originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

When the screen adaptation of Rent hit cinemas in 2005 under the direction of Chris Columbus, Rubin-Vega’s conspicuous absence came as a blow to longtime fans. The confluence of pregnancy with the casting and filming process of Rent hindered her from participating at the time. The role was subsequently given to movie star Rosario Dawson.

“First of all, if you’re meant to be in a film, you’re meant to be in it,” Rubin-Vega said. “That’s just the way it goes. It took a quarter of a century but this [In the Heights] is a film that I wanted to make, that I felt the elements sat right. I always felt that Rent was a little bit darker than all that. Rent to me is Rated R. In The Heights is not. It’s also a testament. Unless it’s sucking your soul and killing you softly or hardly, just stick with it. This is a business and I keep forgetting it’s a business because actors just want to show art. So, it’s really wonderful when you get a chance to say what you mean and mean what you say with your work. It’s a really wonderful gift.”

Rarely-Explored Themes

Like Larson’s award-winning show and the film adapted from it, In The Heights is jam-packed with hard-hitting subject matter, addressing themes of urban blight, immigration, gentrification, cultural identity, assimilation and U.S. political history. When Rubin-Vega’s character Daniela and her partner were priced out of the rent for her salon, most of her clientele moved to the Grand Concourse Historic District in the Bronx. Her salon, a bastion of the community, is met with a polar response when she announces she’s joining the mass exodus with the other victims of gentrification who were pushed out by rising rents. The news is met with negative response from long-time patrons who refuse to take the short commute to the new location. Daniela counters, “Our people survived slave ships, we survived Taino [indigenous Caribbean people] genocide, we survived conquistadores and dictators…you’re telling me we can’t survive the D train to Grand Concourse?”

The question is humorous, but also insinuates a more nuanced understanding of the AfroLatinidad experience in the Western world. The film also looks at the American Dream with a naturalistic approach. Leslie Grace, who plays Nina Rosario, a first-generation college student returning from her freshman year at Stanford University and grappling with finances and the expectations of her community, noted that while her character “finds [herself] at some point at a fork in the road,” she may not have the luxury to be indecisive because of the pressures put on by family, community and country.

“The struggle of the first-generation Americans in the Latino community is not talked about a lot because it’s almost like a privilege,” Grace asserted. “You feel like it’s a privilege to talk about it. But there is a lot of identity crisis that comes with it and I think we explore that.” Speaking on the character, she elaborated: “Home for her is where her heart is, but also where her purpose is. So, she finds her purpose in doing something outside of herself, greater than herself and going back to Stanford for the people she loves in her community. I really relate to where she’s at, trying to find herself. And I think a lot of other people will, too.”

Worth Singing About

For Miranda, a first-generation Puerto Rican New Yorker that grew up in Inwood at the northernmost tip of Manhattan before attending Wesleyan University where he would develop the musical, this speaks to a larger issue of what defines a home.

“What does ‘home’ even mean? Every character is sort of answering it in a different way,” he said. “For some people, home is somewhere else. For some people, home is like ‘the block’ they’re on. So, that’s worth singing about. It’s worth celebrating in a movie of this size.”

Given the current zeitgeist, it’s no wonder why Chu, Hudes and Miranda decided to pivot with adapting the stage musical for the big screen, leaning in to tackle the plights and predicaments of DREAMers [children of undocumented immigrants seeking citizenship] stateside. In one scene, glimpses of posters at a protest rally read “Immigrant Rights are Human Rights” and “Refugees Are People Too.” Growing up in a multicultural household as a Latina with a Black Latina mother, a white father and a Jewish American stepfather, Rubin-Vega said she was used to being in spaces that were truly multiracial. Nevertheless, there were times when she often felt alien, especially as a du jour rock musical ingenue who looked as she did in the mid-1990s through the 2000s.

“Undocumented people come in different shapes and colors,” she noted. “To be born in a land that doesn’t recognize you, it’s a thing that holds so much horror… so much disgrace happens on the planet because human beings aren’t recognized as such sometimes.”

The film “definitely sheds light on that, but it also talks about having your dream taken away and its human violation—it’s a physical, spiritual, social, cultural violation,” Rubin-Vega said. “There’s a difference between pursuing dreams and being aware of reality. They’re not mutually exclusive. What this film does, it presents a story that is fairly grounded in reality. It’s a musical, it’s over the top… but it reflects a bigger reality, which is like an emotional reality…that people that are challenged on the daily, have incredible resolve, incredible resoluteness and lifeforce.”

She said: “Growing up, looking like me, I got to ingest the same information as everyone else except when it came time to implement my contributions, they weren’t as welcomed or as seen. The dream is to be seen and to be recognized. Maybe I could be an astronaut or an ingenue on Broadway? You can’t achieve stuff that you haven’t imagined. When it talks about DREAMers, it talks about that and it talks about how to not be passive in a culture that would have you think you are passive but to be that change and to dare to be that change.”

Dreams Come True

Dreams are coming true. Alongside the nationwide release of the much-anticipated film, Random House announced it will publish In the Heights: Finding Home, which will give a behind-the-scenes look at the beginnings of Miranda’s 2008 breakout Broadway debut and journey to the soon-to-be-released film adaptation. The table book will chronicle the show’s 20-year voyage from page to stage—from Miranda’s first drawings at the age of 19 to lyric annotations by Miranda and essays written by Hudes to never-before-seen photos from productions around the world and the 2021 movie set. It will be released to the public on June 22, eleven days after the release of the film; an audiobook will be simultaneously released by Penguin Random House Audio.

Hinting at the year-long delay due to the pandemic, Rubin-Vega said, “It’s been a year waiting, you know. It’s like the lid’s been on it and so we’re just so ready to explode.”

Bigger Dreams

“Jon [Chu], I think, dreams bigger than any of us dare to dream in terms of the size and scope of this,” Miranda said. “We spent our summer [in 2018] on 175th Street. You know, he was committed to the authenticity of being in that neighborhood we [all] grew up in, that we love, but then also when it comes to production numbers, dreaming so big. I mean, this is a big movie musical!”

Miranda continued, “We’re so used to asking for less, just to ask to occupy space, you know? As Latinos, we’re, like, ‘Please just let us make our little movie.’ And Jon, every step of the way, said, like, ‘No, these guys have big dreams. We’re allowed to go that big!’ So, I’m just thrilled with what he did ’cause I think it’s bigger than any of us ever dreamed.”

Speaking at the online press conference, Miranda said, “I’m talking to you from Washington Heights right now! I love it here. The whole [movie] is a love letter to this neighborhood. I think it’s such an incredible neighborhood. It’s the first chapter in so many stories. It’s a Latinx neighborhood [today]. It was a Dominican neighborhood when I was growing up there in the ’80s. But before that it was an Irish neighborhood and Italian. It’s always the first chapter in so many American stories.”

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