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geekygaymerrealm · 6 months
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dandhisdolls · 10 months
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Slowly
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Sloooooowly getting something done!
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Skulls -- Museo Nacional de Antropología
Madrid, Spain -- 1/29/12
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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Dia de los Muertos 2022
Yesterday we commemorated Halloween with some wood engravings by the Mexican printmaking satirist José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852-1913). We noted that his images of calaveras and calacas have become closely associated with Day of the Dead celebrations, especially his famous engraving La Calavera Catrina (below). Today we present Posada’s print, along with details, of Gran Comeliton de Calaveras (Great Eater of Skulls) depicting a gathering of calacas enjoying a feast in a graveyard while a mourner grieves.
On Dia de los Muertos, families may gather at the tombs and graves of loved ones and offer food, toys, and flowers in remembrance of the departed. This image is from the anniversary portfolio José Guadalupe Posada, 50 aniversario de su muerte, published in Mexico City by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in 1963.
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welele · 9 months
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princeescaluswords · 2 months
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Random question, Prince but do you think Victoria or Gerard had military backgrounds? Maybe serving themselves or had parents that served?
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I want to preface this answer with a caveat: this might be the most speculative meta I've ever written. While I'm going to try to draw as much evidence as I can from canon, I don't think it would be out-of-the question for people to disregard it on its surface merits.
So, here goes. I don't think that the Argents would join the military and they would strongly discourage their children from joining the military. I'm sure that during the time of the draft there might have been some Argents serving, but it would be under duress. If you accept the same head canon that I do, that Victoria was also from a hunting family, she would not be either. I think the reasons would be historical, practical, and philosophical.
Historical: Of all the characters in the Teen Wolf series, Marie-Jeanne Argent née Valet had the most emotionally true (if not entirely rational) reaction to the discovery that her beloved relative turned out to be one of the most prolific serial killers in that world let alone a terrifying demonic werewolf. As we see in The Maid of Gévaudan (5x18), she reacted with outright condemnation, hunting him down over three years and destroying all trace of him with a damnatio memoriae, which in reality meant destroying her own past, too. We can assume that the Argent Code was written by her, including the part where any hunter who was Bit by a werewolf had to kill themselves. This is extreme behavior (even if valid) and it is echoed in the revulsion non-corrupted Argents like Chris and Allison had when discovering Kate's and Gerard's crimes. It was certainly less permissive than the Hale family's tendency to react to deaths caused by their family which ranged from outright condoning ("But still beautiful, just like the rest of you") to dismissive (after all, how many people did kooky Uncle Petey kill, including the guy he shoved alive into a burning barrel, and still have the keys to the family home?).
Considering that Sebastian became a demon wolf while he was serving in the French king's war with England across an entire ocean in their respective colonies, I don't think it's a stretch for Marie-Jeanne in establishing her code to steer her descendants away from military service. It might even have been a requirement.
Practical: While both the military and hunters use weapons, military service wouldn't seem to bear much resemblance to hunter training. It appears to me to be much closer to espionage or criminal work. Hunting werewolves requires training in specific weapons (bows, tasers, and poisons), technology (hypersonic emitters), and techniques (torture, infiltration, intimidation, and cleaning up evidence). In addition, the soldiers of the Argent family exhibit a level of discernment when it comes to tactics and targets that the military simply would not tolerate. Chris points as much out to Kate in Code Breaker (1x12):
Chris: No one asked you to murder innocent people. There were children in that house, ones who were human. Look what you're doing now. You're holding a gun on a 16-year-old boy with no proof he spilled human blood. 
Later on in Relics (6x04), Chris explains that he should have intervened when he saw how Gerard was training Kate. That implies to me that while Argent soldiers are supposed to follow the lead of the matriarch, they're also expected to do more than just follow orders. While civilization demands we hold individual military soldiers to answer for their conduct, I can tell you from personal experience that military training does not have a goal to instill a sense of individual agency.
Philosophical: In my encounters with real-life military people, it is my experience that they see themselves and the military as a whole as an immanent part of society itself. They enable civilization to exist; they uphold society's laws and mores as one of its pillars. I am sure that many people on this site would disagree with that assessment, but I'm talking about the perception within military culture itself. The military focus on being a vital part of their country, and when they err it is when they come to believe that they are the most important part and thus have a greater right to say how a country and a civilization will behave.
One of the things I've noticed about the Argents and the other hunting family feature, the Calaveras, is that they don't consider themselves part of the greater society. They see themselves as protecting it from monsters that the average person cannot comprehend, and while they certainly do infiltrate law enforcement and emergency services, they don't seek permanent authority over the mundane social institutions. This is one of the significant departures that marked Monroe as different from previous organized hunters, and one that made her more dangerous. Victoria, Araya, Chris and Allison (and when they weren't being selfishly corrupt, even Gerard and Kate) saw themselves as operating outside of it all as a necessity. They work with criminals like the yakuza; they hire mercenaries; and they understand that they will never be fully accepted.
Chris: We're gonna be pariahs in this town. Victoria: We can handle it.
Monroe, on the other hand, organized hunters to protect society, but she wanted to change society as well. She accused the werewolves not only of being monsters by virtue of their natures and by their acts, but by the power that privileged them ("No one should have this power"), and she accused people like Sheriff Stilinski of abetting that unfair advantage. (I will never forgive Teen Wolf for giving up on exploring that difference half-way through 6B.) Since Gerard was only interested in using Monroe, he didn't train to see herself the way he and his family saw themselves: protectors working from the outside.
All these things lead me to believe that the Argents wouldn't have military training, not even corrupt ones like Gerard or Victoria.
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msmoonlights · 2 months
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Calaveras. Día de los muertos by Fabián Tomasoni on Flickr
Souvenirs. México
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sweetsoulmusic · 1 year
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sailorsenshigifs · 1 year
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sailorheadcanons · 1 year
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The Spectre Sisters (anime ver) are actually Chibiusa's outer guardians while the quartet are her inner guardians in the future. Their senshi names in order are: Sailor Astraea, Sailor Hebe, Sailor Iris and Sailor Flora.
Since the Sailor Quartet are named after the four first discovered asteroid, the order reflecting their age (oldest to youngest),  the Spectre Sisters senshi form are named after the fifth to eigth discovered asteroid, also in order reflecting their age (but in their case, youngest to oldest).
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redwoodfogcatcher · 5 months
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Dia de Los Muertos
This is NOT mexican halloween.
Here, we honor and remember our ancestors. We have offerings for our ancestors on the ofrenda and put their pictures up to remember them. We put things that they liked or enjoyed. Such as pan dulce, candies, foods, or even cerveza, (beer).
The Zempoalxóchitl, (marigolds) flowers represent the sun and the beautiful road it's creates between here and Mictlán (the underworld).
Papel picado, or punched paper, represents the wind, but also decorates the ofrenda and helps make it beautiful for our ancestors.
Candles, represent fire, and light the way for our loved ones.
Water, represents the source of all life. We offer this to our loved ones to quench their thirst from a long journey to visit us.
Ofrendas will be different from family to family and no ofrenda will be the same. There really is no step by step process to make an ofrenda, rather think of the spirirts that will be visiting your house and what you would offer them after such a long journey. How would you want them to feel welcome.
At the same time you want to make sure all spiritual (and, with it, historical) parts of this belief are respected.
Understand that although this is part of a big festivity, most people are mourning loved ones and having an ofrenda is part of the painful process of mourning.
Thank you for letting me share my culture. ❤️
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dandhisdolls · 10 months
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Chilling and judging~
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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A Posada Halloween Monday
The Mexican printmaking satirist José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852-1913) often used skulls (calaveras) and skeletons to make pointed critiques of the politics and society of his day. This of course makes his imagery perfect for Halloween! Posada’s work has been immensely influential throughout Latin America, from the work of artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco to common cultural memes. La Calavera Catrina, for instance, the Elegant Skull representing the cultural elite, has become a standard icon of the Mexican Day of the Dead, which begins tomorrow.
The images shown here are from the anniversary portfolio José Guadalupe Posada, 50 aniversario de su muerte, published in Mexico City by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in 1963.
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