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fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

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Help a disabled Latine lesbian and their family if you can, please.

I am so fucking tired of e-begging but as many of my followers know I'm multiply disabled and I was recently fired from my part-time job for cripple reasons.

My dad recently got a job after 2 years unemployed but he's earning slightly above minimum wage when we're deep in debt and everyone in this household is chronically ill. We have no welfare to rely on, we've burned through every credit card available these past 2 years, and no banks will lend us more money again.

They just hit us with an insane increase in payments that we couldn't afford before and definitely can't now (from 70k Chilean pesos to 160k Chilean pesos).

Here’s my PayPal donation link if you can spare some

Or you can use my PayPal email: [email protected]

I’m afraid that due to being from Chile I can’t use platforms other than PayPal to receive money internationally.

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idk I think this new era of Disney systemically poaching non-white cultures to be made into Representation Movies all directed by some white guy named like Laird Bannister III is kinda fucked up and sinister

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hi friends,  rn I am struggling very hard.. being the only guardian of my sister who is autistic and a minor and the sole caretaker of both my parentns whom are both disabled, I only have enough money to reasonably survive for all four of us and nothing to rely on for emergencies, any extra food, or if anything comes up like if food and cat food runs out earlier than I expect, or for any form of leisure;; So I am opening some commissions like these for 80 usd!! please please help me spread this, it would mean the workld for any help at all. Thank you for helping me!

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reblog to give your mutuals a djungelskog

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Shut up about representation, shut up about representation, you wanna see latines? Turn to latam cinema

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A very big part of latín american cultures Is to suffer from imperialism, things like coups, genocidal dictatorships, invations, etc. marked us deeply, and in consecuence, our media and art.

On the opposite side, people from the imperial core, usa, don't know about the things that happened to us. So, how would Disney or big USA companies would be able to represent us?

Wanting Latine Rep™ should be more about supporting productions IN latín america. That media will be hard to watch, our media often touches hard topics, but it's the truest way of representing us.

Our pain is part of our identities, don't support yankees washing our cultures so it's nicer to other yankees.

I think it's kinda weird that Disney turned cultures into this marketable thing that can be trendy for one or two months until the next movie releases. And none of us batted an eye at this.

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Honestly i can't imagine how nice it would be to think of a music genre and a traditional food when people asked about my region cultureS.

The diference between people that think of reggaeton and tacos as a representative of latin culture and the people that talk about coups, desaparecidos and crisis is literally a world.

#latine tag

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Details: Shipwreck off a rocky coast on March, Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1694

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La Naissance de Vénus (“The Birth of Venus”), 1879. Painted by William-Adolpe Bouguereau, French artist (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905).

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ok so how’re y’all gonna headcanon Annabelle Cane, avatar of the web, without spider web braids?

•do not repost•

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okay but apply this to usa too, yankees love to scream this but also cry and shake on the floor if you didn't share 689 things of the power outage three houses in Alabama are suffering :((

No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD

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I’m curious about something, if you write, reblog this post and put in the tags what you write with (MS Word, Google Docs, etc)

#google keep #google doc #sometimes in whatsapp idk

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When we talk about latin culture in art and representation in the media, we definitely need to include how crucial latin america being a third world region is to the fact that you don't see much latin content in USA, or in other first world countries.

There are a lot of latin books, movies, TV shows, etc, that are FAMOUS, there are classics, there are iconic media that always is used as meme or is referenced in daily basis. All that exists even if it is not popular in first world countries, and ppl from countries like usa acting like it doesn't always ends up in a short sight analysis of our media.

It's okay to want media that represents your particular experiences as people with inmigrant parents/grand parents, or diaspora latines, but it never will be okay to over look our culture because it isn't "popular" in USA. There is no such thing as a lack of latin media, but there is a massive belief in the first world about the global south being less valuable.

#latine tag #something something do not define latin culture by how we are viewed in the global north something something

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audrey malek and cortney taylor key photographed in adriana pierce’s animals and angels by leigh-ann esty

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Woman with a candlestick, 1825, Caspar David Friedrich

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Hey I was wondering if you could help me with describing movements?

Like things like say 'she sat down gently.' Sounds so flat to me and I'm not sure how to fix it...

Apologies for sitting on this one a bit, but I wanted to get the phrasing just right.

One of the most common writing advice tidbits out there is to kill your adverbs - but in defense of adverbs, they're great! In the right context (and especially when word counts matter), an adverb works just fine to color in the scene. The problem, as you've discovered, is that they often become a crutch, creating flat sketches when you're trying to paint a picture. So when struggling with this, there's a few different ways to look at it.

Context. Take the sentence "he ran quickly down the road." If we replaced ran quickly with sped, galloped, raced, etc, and we not only have a tighter sentence, but a better picture. Consider too the type of action that's appropriate to the character - how they move, based on body shape, personality, etc. If I say "the man slithered into the room," not only are you thinking of smooth, fluid motions, but the connotations of snake-like movement in English is that of an untrustworthy, shifty person. Make your words do the work for you.

Emotion. Your character is sitting down gently. Why? Is she trying to be demure and reserved to impress others at an important function? Has she just received shocking news and is trying to repress her reaction? In this case, keeping the adverb works, but add to it. How does she feel internally versus what she does externally? What can this tell us about the character?

Action. Hand-in-hand with context here, if you're really trying to get down a scene with a lot going on, swap out those adverbs for action verbs - dodged, swiped, leaped, etc. Stronger verbs over adverbs will win the day. Now, you might not pick the right verbs at first - "Jon galloped down the hall, windmilling his arms like a madman" may be too much in one sentence, but a bit of revising can fix it. Don't be afraid to rewrite more than once - you'll get it in the end.

Another one I want you to consider is dialogue - lengthening out descriptions in intense conversations can hinder the effect you're trying to make, and shorter speech markers and adverbs will do you good here. There's a difference between hissed, whispered, said softly, and said quietly - and you're doing yourself a disservice by cutting out all adverbs from your work. Like everything else, they're tools that can aid when appropriate, but while you can use a wrench like a hammer, you can't use a hammer like a wrench. Figuring out how to use them is your best bet.

Check out these great tips for more:

Six Ways to Reduce Adverbs

How Can I Omit Adverbs?

Favor Strong Verbs Over Adverbs

Strong Verbs: An Easy Guide

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