#Latinex

[reasoningdaily]

[mikeellee]

I'm late to the party. No, not really. I ranted about this on Twitter but the show "Oye Primos" bc it is very racists in ways it baffles me. How a show like this could plan to air in plain 2023?

But also made me think of the whole "Latinex" and....I ALWAYS HATED THAT SHIT! It felt disrespectfull gringos try to tell us how to use our own grammar.

As I'm studying my language's grammar..I can understand on a more deep level why "latinex" bothers me. Bc it excludes trans people from their own grammar. Look, in Brazil our portuguese has genders and it has many rules, many rules indeed so a person who says "USE latinex" is actually a gringo who wants to exclude a person from their own language.

Also......for real, trans people have way more in their plate to care about than "latinex" and NEVER,NOT A SINGLE TRANS OR LGBT GROUPS HAS EVER SAID THIS.

The show "Oye, Primos"? Bad Spanish (yeah it was pointed on twitter) the bad cliches on a HISPANIC FAMILY, a girl living with tons of cousins(a rip off of a spin off no one cares) and hm, didnt like the animation. Plus, the creator has said some wild shit. (Allegly she is "hispanic" in the sense. Her parents are, but she was born in the US)

[teadrop-12]

idk why but liek,,, i think dat Raine,,liek u know how da crew said dat if Willow were born in da human realm, she would have been korean? so liek,,, 4 raine i think dat they wud also b Asian but liek,, south asian,, liek Pakistani or Indian maybe,,, idk i think dats kewl!!!!

[pascals-doll]

GATÚBELA— moodboard

✐; reader moodboard analysis

⊹ * ˚ you knew exactly what you like and how you like it. this is exactly why you found yourself drawn to bold clothing; never a simple moment in the outfits you choose, wearing your personality on your sleeves as your own personal killer accessory nobody could copy. you were catwoman-like.

⊹ * ˚ you were driven, independent, and always hard-working. you held yourself to high standards as you pushed yourself to achieve everything you have wanted. especially for others, one thing about about being raised by latino parents was sacrifice. it was a natural instinct engraved in you. everything you did was for you, your family, your culturá.

⊹ * ˚ constantly wearing what could people claimed as “too extra clothing” but everyday, there wasn’t a moment were you were considered “a statement” with your clothing, turning heads, and drawing attention with your cutthroat outfits from all genders. shit even dogs. your closet was filled with outfits for decades. it was scattered with only bold colors, being a complete deep dive everytime you get dressed.

⊹ * ˚ only gold jewelry was worn in this house, to perfectly compliment your bronzed dulce skin. you admired your infnite array of different hoops, hoops with designs, and necklaced-medallions for each and every piece in your closet. your makeup being bold, only cat-eye. you always payed close attention to the way you pampered yourself, always channeling a barbie energy as you felt your most divine when getting ready.

⊹ * ˚ your eyes being complimented by a dark wing and wispy lashes. the honey tone of your skin illuminating more with your golden highlighter. whether your hair was wavy, curly, or straight. you always had your baby hairs edged-up, doing cute designs whenever you wanted.

GATÚBELA VIBES ̗̀➛ imagine the models in these pictures as you! you are the beautiful reader. these pictures just serve you a visual rundown of the reader’s aesthetic. make it you! the way your beautiful body is shaped, your hair, your features, skin, height, size etc. you are all gorgeous! take all these pictures and reshape them into you. it is your beauty that ellie yearns in, the way you look.

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*.ੈ𑁍༘⋆ dear reader, *ੈ𑁍༘⋆

your tigeress aura meant there was never a dull moment with you. you were the golden sun the golden sun to ellie as she just made you shine brighter. ellie always made sure you knew exactly how strong and beautiful you were inside and out, she would always go on about how much she loved your bronze skin in black so none of your natural glow would wash out. ellie just swooned with appreciation for your culture and strong personality. she knew that you perfectly knew how to handle yourself on your own, having a beautiful empowering lead on your life and it made her wanna be right there with you.

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ᝰ.ᐟ to all my latinex baddies! this one is for you! esto es para ti 🩷 if you are not latinex! thats okay this story is still for you! thank you for reading and appreciating the implemented representation in this fic!

[unclevladscorner]

On sock puppets, pen names and Freydis Moon

First, lets talk about the difference between a pen name and a sock puppet becauese lots of authors use pen names. This includes me.

I use two names- Uncle Vlad is for my games and erotic short stories on itch. I do not intend to take this name off of itch or Tumblr. I will publish Sword of the Voivode under T.G. Joye. This is mostly because my legal name is used by several entities to publish other work already, and I don't want to be mixed up with unrelated works that are not my own.

Sock puppets are almost exclusively online handles used to harass and manipulate people. Freydis used both- sock puppet accounts often tended to also be pen names for other styles of writing.

While neither of these things is a crime per se, some of those alternate personas engaged in digital brown face. While also not a crime per se, it is in very poor taste.

Here's where things get absolutely FUCKED-

Freydis is an award winning latinex author who is; by all accounts, not a latinex person. Freydis also engaged heavily in multiple forms of bullying, which I have been on the recieving end myself. This bullying largely targeted minorities who are underrepresented in fiction- allowing Freydis to boost themselves as a supposedly marginalized author as they harrassed many trans, non binary, and people of color out of publishing own ownvoices work.

I've seen the effects of Freydis's predatory behavior first hand on transmasculine writers- many were afraid to leave their sphere of influence after becoming attached to Freydis, in spite of the bad behavior. Many more were harrassed off of various platforms- like Discord and Twitter- cutting them off from a small but tight knit community.

I am one of those people who was harassed off of Twitter, and have not made any inroads into the digital writing community b/c I feared backlash from Freydis. I've spent the last two years trying to figure out what I was going to do once I released Sword of the Voivode. While not erotica, I still felt fear to publish on Amazon due to Freydis's past harassment. It is a miracle the book has come this far in the process and I will be publishing it later this year.

Many, many more people were manipulated into believing Freydis with an unwavering, cult-like fervor, making it impossible to even have a conversation about years of abuse and manipulation going on behind the scenes.

The Takeaway-

We need to be better to one another, both by being more supportive of those within our own communities and by questioning our loyalty to any one person. We talk about believing victims, but never in the context of bullying and I think that has to change here and now.

We also need to boost each other like there's no tomorrow. Many ownvoices works have been left languishing in obscurity because Freydis took up so much space in multiple minority communties. Boost those books you felt unsafe to do so before. Boost your own. We need to lift each other up and engage with one another more readily to really undo the hurt done to us.

Be safe, and be kind to one another,

-Your Uncle Vlad.

[fuck-customers]

This one lady i absolutely loathe was in here today and I have to laugh. She tends to ignore me when I say hi or excuse me but I catch her glaring at me hard-core when she thinks I'm not looking. When she needs help she'll wander the store until she finds someone else besides me. She will not ask for my help. She will not come near me. She won't ask other visibly queer people either and she also ignores black people. Unsure about latinex peeps.

And she takes FOR EVER to do anything cuz shes like 150 years old. She also only pays with cash and mostly coins.

We all want to kick her out and ban her bc she's so obviously homophobic and racist but she's never SAID anything. So we can't. But we're waiting for her to fuck up.

Theres not many white AND straight people here. Very few. She's sometimes out of options for help lol

Posted by admin Rodney.

[yannaryartside]

Carmy's name.

If there is any Italian in this fandom, feel free to correct me. This may be my most pointless post, I just think is funny. Carmen is not a masculine Italian name, is a feminine Spanish/Latinex name. He should be "Carmine" (if you have heard of the mob boss Carmine Falcone in Batman comics, you know how this is pronounced). Carmen in Spanish is unisex, and Carmine in Italian is masculine. What I think happened here is that his parents went for something that sounded like Carmine and went for Carmen, or they didn't know how it was spelled. In the same way, Latinx people may write the name "Maikel" or "Mikel" when they mean Michael because that's the way it sounds to us. I used to be a preschool teacher with lots of first-generation kids, I have seen some things.

Considering the speculation of Cicero being involved in criminal activity, I just think is funny that this is the first Italian protagonist I have seen in a while and it happens to be a tattooed, traumatized guy who should be called Carmine Berzatto, running a restaurant business, possibly laundering money for his uncle.

By the way. Maybe because English is my second language, did I just realize that the family is called "bear" because it sounds like Berzatto? I am such an idiot. Thank you for your time.

[hype-blue-fixation]

I don't wanna contribute to it, but I always thought shipping discourse in fandoms was so funny. Like the way that people try to police others is insane, especially when they create their own AUs and everyone judges it like its cannon.

I saw a post describing characters as dolls, but the way they took the argument kinda made the analogy fall apart. But I'm gonna use that idea: imagine every character as a Barbie.

There are thousands of Barbies. Vet, firefighter, race car, trans, black, latinex, etc. and from a consumer standpoint, that's an amazing range of diversity and inclusion. The company goes out of their way to make sure they can represent as many people in their dolls as possible. But do the girls/boys playing with those dolls care? Not really. Vet barbie can become skydiver barbie if she wants to. Fashionista barbie can play in the mud if she wants to. Whatever makes the kid happy, and we don't loom over them and tell them how they "should" play with their toy.

Now apply that to fictional characters in a show. There's an asexual, a gay, a straight, an egotistic crap bag, a shy and quiet bean. From a consumer standpoint, that's a great diversity. The show is going out of its way to represent these different kinds of people. But the fans don't have to care. They can create their own AUs and self-indulgent stories. They're enjoying themselves and we don't have the right to tell them how to play with their toy. If we find it problematic, then we can just leave them be. Use our energy to build up our own worlds instead of tearing theirs down. The fans are not the company. And we're pretty much just big kids.

(Disclaimer: I am not a proshipper. There are some things that are blatantly problematic. But if someone creates their own AU that isn't problematic or breaks cannon, then let them live. I'm just tired of seeing things like people arguing over sexuality, the "that wouldn't happen in cannon" police, or why some ships are "problematic" when they really aren't.)

[what-if-i-just-did]

Writing Multi-lingual Characters

Nobody asked for this but as a multi-lingual writer I just wanna make this.

firstly, stereotypes.

can we please have bilingual characters who speak other languages than english/spanish??? please???

can we have characters with english as a main?

in fact, can we have white bilingual characters? *gasps are heard*

Yes, poc representation is good and important. And I'm not saying 'make your bilingual poc character white'. I'm saying, I'm white, I speak three languages and all the multi-lingual representation ever is usually a latinex who speaks spanish as a main and english as a secondary, usually a girl. I don't think I've ever seen a bilingual white character in anything main-stream. Can we have white characters who speak Russian or French or heaven forbid, something less main-stream like Flemish or Swedish?

Types

There's three types of ways to be multi-lingual. I'm sure they have official names, but I usually call them Raised, Moved and Learnt.

Moved

Most of the bilingual representation we see is Moved. A Moved bilingual character will have a main language and a secondary language; usually Spanish and English. I speak Afrikaans pretty much like I'm Moved. The character will have an accent in their secondary language, probably won't know much slang but will know phrases or expressions. They'll mostly think in their main language, but they can read in their secondary and might even use a word in their secondary rather than a word in their main because it fits better. They'll frequently forget words in their secondary, maybe even specific words. If they forget a word in their main but remember it in their secondary, it's going to be MASSIVLY weird to them. They're going to accidentally use grammar and spelling and expressions from their main in their secondary. In fact, they might still be translating certain words in their head, rather than just speaking. This is the type of bilingual you get when a character moves to a different country, or when a child has been raised by parents in a different language than the one the society around them uses, or similair things. When I was six, I went on a three-week vacation to South-Africa, where everyone around me spoke Afrikaans, and it being quite close to Dutch, I picked up on it easily.

Learnt

Learnt is when you, like it sounds, learn a language. The character will have a terrible accent in their secondary. They'll know phrases, but not expressions, slang or swearwords. Maybe they learnt it to speak to a friend, and if this friend helped them they'll be a little closer to Moved than Learnt, but it'll still be Learnt. This is basically high school senior Spanish level. They're translating everything in their head. In fact, it's debatable wether this even counts as being bilingual. If it's being taught at school, they're probably not good enough for classmates to ask for help with the subject, as opposed to Moved's main and Raised.

Raised

When a character is raised as bilingual, I call it Raised. This happens when a character was raised by two authority figures who speak different languages. Usually it's the parents, but if they spend a lot of time with a babysitter or au-pair that teaches them their language, or a grandparent or teacher or older sibling or maybe even a very good friend (pretty much all my childhood friends improved their English just by being friends with me). They don't have a main and secondary, they don't differentiate; both languages are natural to them. If they're speaking to someone else that know the same languages, they're gonna swap mid-sentence and replace words and fuck with grammar/expressions. My dad once started a sentence saying we should speak Dutch in front of my friend who didn't speak English and ists the sentence ended back in English. Here's a few examples (in Dutch):

"Hey, heb je the table pushed to de kant?" "Table pushed to the kant?" (with sass) "Ja, je snapt what I mean, now doe de damn thing." "whatever."

"Hey weirdo." "Wat mot je?" "Mom wants you to dek the tafel." "Zeg tegen mam dat ze op kan fucken" "I don't feel like bein' yelled at, doe zelf!" "Nahhh you can." "Dat ga ik niet doen. Ga de fucking table dekken." "I'm bezigggg!"

"Yo malloot!" "I'm busy, ga weg." "Jeez, ik ga al... what's up with you, chagerijn?" *rolls eyes in reply*

This style of bilingual is pretty much never seen in media, and certainly not accuratly, because you basically need to be able to speak the languages in order to write it. Common points of turning languages include words that sounds similair with similair meanings (the vs de, hello vs hallo, cool vs koel etc), words that are the same in both languages (Tom, shirt, hey etc), at a break point in a sentence ("You're strong, pak jij de dozen", "You're crazy if you think dat ik je nu weg laat lopen", "Als jij me vasthoudt terwijl ik het pak, then she can fill the gap and we all work together!" etc), or after using a word in the other language because you couldn't find it in the right language in time ("Just go to the zolder, ik heb geen zin in een argument", "Waarom ga jij niet effe de.. uh, grab the butter?"

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I know anon meant well but I do think saying that regarding the past and history is a bit dangerous - we need to think about it, we need to be informed, we need to know, we need to remember. It also misses a huge aspect of Judaism (and Jewish life in general), which is so much about that connection to the past and remembrance of all that happened. That history is not dead to us, it's present and with us. We cannot repair the world without understanding all the ways in which it has been broken.

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Hi!

You are referring to this post.

I agree with everything you said, and also said so it in the post. I don't have much to add because you said it perfectly - we need to know the past to understand how we got to the present, since the past built who we are now and dictates our actions every day.

That said, it is still important not to sink too far into the past that we forget the present, because the bottom line is we can only change one of those. Understanding the past is important but it doesn't fix the present, it merely explains it. And we all have to be very careful from weaponizing the past in order to justify present actions.

The post-modern age is (supposedly) hyper-aware of the importance of history in untangling deep rooted social issues, but it also has an unfortunate tenancy to weaponize (real) traumas that happened to YOUR people to obfuscate other traumas your people cause to OTHER people. You can see it in almost every nation in the world - the Japanese's focus of the atomic bombs to minimize the atrocities they've committed in East and South-East Asia as allies of the Nazis, white Latinex settlers' focus on rhetoric about the oppression they've experience from white English settlers to ignore the genocide they have and still are committing against Native Americans, Israel's cries of antisemitism every single time even the smallest (valid or not valid) criticism is leveled against iss actions to justified its treatment of Palestinians, Palestinians weaponizing anti-colonial terminology against Israel and Jews to minimize if not justify any and every terrorist attack against Israelis and denying the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land, and so on and so forth.

This does not negate the validity of said trauma, it's just how it is weaponized in the present to justify other horrors that is very dangerous. History is important and we must know it to know ourselves, but it is also a tool of war and thus must be treated with great care. This is also a part of the current weaponization of contextualization - people use history for as long as it suits their needs and narratives, ignoring, changing or denying other parts of it to de-legitimize the other side and boost up their own.

History is important and dangerous at the same time. We must understand it to understand our current actions, but knowing it won't change those actions on its own. That's our responsibility, and most of us are failing it spectacularly.

[reasoningdaily]

On a recent episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Dominican-Puerto Rican reality TV star Erica Mena screamed “You monkey, you blue monkey” to Jamaican dancehall singer, songwriter, and actor Spice. The animalized anti-Black slur never seems too far from the lips of racially ambiguous, mestiza, mixed-race, and other non-Black Latinas who find success ironically because of Black women. Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while harboring anti-Black values. 

This isn’t the first time we have seen non-Black Latinas, who may claim Afro-Latinidad at convenience, call dark-skinned unambiguously Black women an anti-Black slur in a public forum. It’s a signature and age-old move. In 2015, Mena herself reportedly called club promoters “Black monkeys” after not showing up to a scheduled nightclub appearance. Similarly, in 2019, self-professed Afro-Latina Evelyn Lozada did something similar to her Basketball Wives castmate, athlete Ogom “OG” Chijindu, using a monkey GIF to describe her on Instagram and repeatedly referring negatively to her looks.

In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman. These are common tactics that I and many other unambiguous Black women have experienced at the hands of non-Black Latinas, including mestizas and light-skinned, racially ambiguous, self-proclaimed Afro-Latinas. And many of these non-Black Latinas use the categorization of Afrolatinidad as a get-out-of-jail card when they co-opt Blackness.

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"Many people of alleged color use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while fostering anti-Black values. "

dash harris

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In 2019,Love and Hip Hop cast member Cyn Santana appeared on Angela Yee's Lip Service podcast controversially saying she prefers Black men and Black men prefer Latina women. “Y’all can keep the Puerto Rican men. I’m good,” she said, assuming she was referring to non-Black Puerto Rican men. She added: “I do Black guys all day. Black men cater to us Spanish [sic: Latina] girls especially.” When Yee suggested she would “get in trouble with the Black girls,” Santana, a mestiza of mixed Dominican and Salvadoran descent, said, “I didn’t mean it like that, but Black girls gonna take it personal and be like, uh-uh,” inserting just enough mockery to ensure the audience that her worldview is steeped in anti-Black tropes. 

Even more to that point of wide-spread misogynoir stereotyping, Santana later apologized on the talk show The Real, saying she “irresponsibly repeated something that I heard my entire life.” I believe her. I've long seen and heard this messaging in Latine communities. The truth Santana pointed to cannot be glossed over. These women date and procreate with Black men and, in turn, raise Black children, as Mena is doing, and I wonder how they treat those children through their lens of depreciating Blackness. One way is by treating them as a shield to claim they are not anti-Black.

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"In many of these public displays of anti-Blackness, the conflict is centered on a Black man “picking” the unambiguously Black woman over the so-called “exotic” non-Black woman."

dash harris

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This is tied to the misogynoir phenomena of Black men who put non-Black women on pedestals, prizing, pursuing, and “preferring” non-Black Latinas and white women and even defending them when they do dehumanize Black women in public media forums. This “preference” cannot be divorced from its anti-Black power dynamics and its cishetero white-centering patriarchy that Black men, among people in general, have been indoctrinated under and in turn perpetuate and harm Black women with. Black women seem to be where their targets intersect and lock in as their punching bag. 

Mena’s chagrin, and subsequent table-flipping that caused the melee, was because Safaree, a rapper and Mena’s ex-husband and father to her children, “chose” to care more about a woman who indeed is not his wife nor his children’s mother. But what really got Mena to reveal herself was that it was a dark-skinned Black woman, someone who in her eyes was undeserving of the adoration and worship she, a non-Black woman, is entitled to, so she had been taught. This subverted social order infraction could not go by Mena without a slur to bring Black women back to the intended subalterned place. She wanted the guarantee of preference that she was promised.

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"Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her."

dash harris

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It is a privileged position where Mena is most comfortable because she believes in the zero-sum game of anti-Black hierarchy. This hierarchy keeps her lights on. Mena’s social currency rides in her non-Blackness and her proximity to whiteness relative to Black women. Non-Black women like her have been promised their whole lives that they deserve love and respect, withheld from Black women and over Black women in favor of women who look like her. She clamors for and is enabled by the male gaze and, furthermore, is emboldened and protected by Black men who seek refuge from their own internalized anti-Blackness in the arms of women “with less baggage and attitude” than “the Black girls.” But, as the routine racialized aggressions these women create show, even this is a myth. Together, the bond of Black men who “prefer” non-Black women and non-Black women who revel this preference replicates white pathology and notions that Black women should remain subjugated under them both. 

So many non-Black Latinas, including mestizas, mixed-race, and racially ambiguous women, have launched and sustained their careers from Black media and specifically because of Black women, like Mona Scott-Young, the creator of the Love and Hip-Hop franchise, and Shaunie O’Neal, creator of Basketball Wives. Black media gives them access into Black spaces by their “POC” proximity for them to inevitably expose their anti-Blackness, because you can only hide your ideologies for so long. Now many are calling for Mena to finally be fired from the TV series. 

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"Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do."

dash harris

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Recently, reality TV star Joseline Hernandez called out her College Hill classmate Amber Rose for building her career from Black media but “catering to white people.” Hernandez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, identifies as a Black woman and not Afro-Latina, a distinction that seems to be even more necessary with each passing day. Unambiguously Black women, whether Latina or not, are racialized as Black wherever we go and do not have the escape-hatch of racial ambiguity that other non-Black Afro-Latinas do. 

Hemispherically, Black women are the butts of “jokes” for non-Black, mixed-race, bi-racial, and racially ambiguous women. In 2016, Geisha Montes de Oca (who was 2008's Miss World Dominican Republic) mocked Black Dominican singer Amara La Negra on a popular variety show by wearing an Afro wig, butt pads, and blackface. In 2013, Black Brazilian actor Nayara Justino was dethroned from her title of Miss Globaleza carnival queen in favor of a light-skinned bi-racial woman after public outcry of Justino being “too Black.” She was also subjected to violent anti-Black attacks online that negatively impacted her health.

These viral reality TV moments unveil how anti-Blackness and misogyny are like a rite of passage for many non-Black Latinas. And these are only the recorded examples. As Santana noted on The Real, oftentimes, these are the messages non-Black Latinas were raised with and didn’t question or resist because they benefited from them. She noted that when she made her own viral anti-Black comments she was in her early 20s and that now, “27 with a son,” she knows better. But does age and motherhood disentangle anti-Blackness from someone’s core? It does not. Mena and Lozado are proof-positive it does not, because it takes a process of birthing yourself anew to address and eradicate this structural ill.

[invisibleraven]

WINTER PROMPTS! 5. Willie and Reggie go sledding

"Reggie!"

Reggie jolted from sleep, looking around through bleary eyes, finally landing on Willie who was almost vibrating from the end of his bed, his smile a million miles wide. "Hey Wils," he said, rubbing at his eyes. "'Sup?"

"It snowed Reggie!"

"Oh jeez, really?" Reggie jumped out of bed, running to the window and throwing open the shades. The world was almost painted white as far as the eye could see. Including the big hill that the Johnson's had at the edge of their property. "Sledding?" he asked.

"Sledding," Willie replied with a nod. "Come on, Mrs. Nash made oatmeal."

Reggie beamed, sliding on his slippers in difference to the cold floors, following after Willie. They had both come to this group home last year and made fast friends. It was Willie's third, and Reggie's fifth, the both of them used to being bounced around the country while hoping to be adopted. Mrs. Nash was nice enough, and turned a blind eyed to most of their shenanigans. She smiled as they came down, ruffling their hair, and gesturing to the table where breakfast was waiting. They devoured the gruel, thankful that Mrs. Nash had drowned the mixture in nutmeg and brown sugar, and soon enough were dressed and out the door.

The Johnson's were away, but had already given blanket permission for the neighbourhood kids to sled on their hill. There was already a group of kids from around the block trudging their way there in bulky suits and not yet broken in boots. Reggie and Willie were stuck in hand me downs from Mrs. Nash's son, but they didn't complain. Better than being underdressed like in previous homes, or forced to shovel in naught but layers of their own stuff.

They dragged their ancient toboggan to the top of the hill, with Willie taking the back, then they zoomed down the hill, screaming their lungs out as the wind whipped them down, smiles wide as they reached the bottom. "Again!" they cried, rushing back up the hill.

It was dark by the time they returned back to the house, faces wind burnt, limbs exhausted, and ecstatic from their day out in the snow. There was a snowman in the yard, the remnants of a snowball fight littering the lawn, and the start of a fort started by the garage.

Only Mrs. Nash was waiting for them, a soft smile on her face. "Boys, there's a couple here to meet you."

"The both of us?" Reggie asked. She nodded, tidying them up quickly before showing them to the living room. There was a Latinex couple there, smiling wide.

"Hello boys," the woman said, her face kind, and Reggie immediately felt at ease. "My name is Rose, and this is my husband Ray. Mrs. Nash has told us a lot about you both. We'd like to get to know you. See if we can offer you a home with us?"

"The both of us?" Reggie repeated.

Ray nodded. "We were told how inseparable you are, and we have lots of room-both in our hearts and our home. We already have two kids, but we always wanted a big family. We hope we can be that for you."

Willie and Reggie exchanged glances, and they nodded before sitting. They found they both really liked the Molinas, and before the holidays that season, they said goodbye to Mrs. Nash, and finally went home.

Sure, LA didn't snow like it did at the group home, but they both were willing to give up a lifetime of sledding for a real family.

[celestialvexation-arch]

As a Latino what they did to Gabriel was racist in of it self like you can't convince me if Gabe was white they would have thought his profile was super cool and funny it just angers me they people think its ok to treat Latinex Hispanics and Mexicans like shit as long as they don't seem racist to another race like I hate Spidey and Fruit so much

i rlly didn't want to go there, but yeah, it rlly didn't look good for them to boot out the only non-white person in their crew. at least, one that's the face for vol 2 :/

what's even more is that him and ty actually had fun with jonadam; to the point where they even teased each other about doing a fanfic reading as adam and jonah. me thinks spidey hated that so she'd want to get rid of gabe as soon as possible; hell, fruit herself displayed some weird jealous anger towards gabe just cause?? he got along well with ty???

[thena0315]

Muncy to Velasco:

Calls Churlish, “IAB Princess”

Teddy to Churlish:

Calls Velasco, “Latinex Travolta”

Calls his sister, “She-Hulk Barbie”

[pascals-doll]

the amount of love GATÚBELA has been getting these past few weeks really has me OVER THE MOON. 🥹

i hold this little series dear to me as i, myself am latina and seeing how much of the tlou community is hispanic/latinex—like just being able to make others feel represented and seen in something that they also love along with myself. the fact that you all allowed me to do that brings me to tears.

i wanted to come on here to say i love and appreciate you all. you are all such beautiful people and are so loved !!

never enough thank you’s for your love, support, and especially your time. 💘

[xenotwink]

I can promise you that nobody has seen the "latinex" people in Star Wars. Because there is no such thing as "latinex". There's Latinos (Latin American men), Latinas (Latin American women), or if you want to be more general, "Latines". "Latinex" is not a thing. It's not even a word. It's a shallow attempt to be "inclusive" that is at cross purposes with the Spanish language (which is inherently gendered) and has been acknowledged as racist by numerous Latines.

Well it would actually be Lantinx so you’re wrong. And it’s been around since the ‘70s. And it’s mostly used by lgbtq people so I’m sure it could make you uncomfortable. And it’s in the dictionary so… it’s literally a word.

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