#Mendoza

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Army of the Andes Monument, Mendoza, Argentina: Monument to the Army of the Andes sits at the top of the Cerro de la Gloria in General San Martín Park. It was created by the Uruguayan sculptor Juan Manuel Ferrari, who had developed two models and picked the most important aspects from both of them. It is a bronze monument of fourteen tons that pays tribute to the Army of the Andes for its successful campaign of liberation...Mendoza is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina. Wikipedia

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June 26th, 1889

𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻,

I write this letter to you not knowing if you will even read the words. Today, much to your displeasure, I was married to Walter Mendoza. The ceremony was small, held in Brindleton Bay's single church, with only Walter's family in attendance. My side of the pews were much too empty and all I had were the ghosts of my memory to imagine you and Irving sitting there.

I know you must feel upset with me for having taken Mother’s wedding dress. However, this is all I have left of her, especially after running away with Walter. I needed her there with me on my wedding day, if not in the spirit of you then with the feeling of myself wrapped up in her arms. I like to think she would've cried upon seeing me all draped in white. I suppose you would've too.

I now go on to live my life as a wife. Walter has bought a plot of land with an old farmhouse, along with the chickens that came along with the property. He plans to support us as a commercial fisherman, given that Brindleton Bay is a fishing town. I trade a life in the city of New Crest for a much humbler one here. And I must admit Father that I am rather excited for it all. I yearn to work my flimsy hands into strong, defined hands that can nature her children with pride. Though I will forever be grateful for the lavish life you had given me, I suspect I will enjoy this next journey much more.

Please, if you are not too angry with me, I beg you to write back. To give me news of yourself and my brother, to give me your blessing in my new marriage. I do not ask for money or anything of the sort. I just wish for your support, as always.

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓,

𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒛𝒂

🕰️ / 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒: 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑙 / 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 / 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡

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Round 2, Match 55: Mendoza vs. Soundwave

Submitted kids:

Mendoza: Esteban, Zia and Tao

Soundwave: Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage, Ratbat, Garboil, Enemy, Wingthing, Beastbox, Squalktalk, Glit, Howlback, Slugfest, Overkill, Sundor, and Autoscout but there's bound to be more I'm forgetting.

Propaganda under the cut!

Mendoza:

1. “Mendoza did not exactly *begin* as father material, what with him being a character with a very grey morality at first and both a help to the children and someone they couldn't trust fully, but his entire arc in the first season is him becoming a better person. None of the kids are biologically his but he just went and unofficially adopted all three of them. Their story is inextricably bound up with the show's story.

He first met Esteban when Esteban was a baby and was handed to him in the middle of a storm at sea (then Esteban's father seemingly died in said storm), but because Mendoza was young and interested in gold he let a local (?) church raise the child. He then met Esteban again twelve years later, on the same day he would be kidnapping Zia (for money, because Zia knows how to read quipus that the Spanish hope will tell the way to the Inca's gold) (the show takes place in the early 16th century). So he begins by kidnapping a child and manipulating another to hide in a ship and cross an ocean. They all meet Tao later, and this one is wary of him too at first, but he ends up winning their trust while bettering himself.

He's the only parental figure these kids have: Esteban's father was lost at sea after his mother was killed, Zia spends most of the first season looking for her father only for him to get killed an episode or two after their reunion, and Tao lost both his parents years ago. In the beginning of the show he's completely using them to find a legendary city of gold, and even admits it, but as the story goes he's caring more and more for them and puts himself in mortal danger just to help them, when just running away would have been much more beneficial to him. In later seasons this pattern keeps up and he's not even a grey character anymore, he's just their dad who's scheming and plotting sometimes. With the cities of gold having been revealed to be monetarily worthless he wouldn't have any reason to still accompany them, but he loves them so he stays with them. He's much more of a dad than Esteban's birth father (who miraculously reappears but keeps getting pushed out of the way by the plot), he's teaching them stuff and protecting them and cheering them on and worrying about them and helping them every step of the way. He makes dad jokes. When random people ask if Zia is his daughter he says yes, and he would say the same for Tao (and for Esteban too but he's hung up about Esteban's "real" father being alive and a nice guy).”

2. “He took Esteban on his journey because he needed his medallion, Zia because his commander requested it, and Tao because he was useful. But then he fought so much at their side that he pretty much betrayed the Spanish army and everything else to protect those kids. They didn't like him much at first, but eventually grew to love him in return, especially in later seasons.”

3. “Sly Spaniard looking for some gold in the New World accidentally adopts the three children he more or less uses to find the Mysterious Cities of Gold, but he also cares about them and accidentally starts caring about them so much that by the end of the first season he realises how much he would miss them if they weren't there.”

Soundwave:

1. “This is a dude who stores smaller dudes in his boob and he usually launches them out at high speeds to commit crimes. Fandom loves to headcanon them as a dad and his horde of kids and pets.”

2. “Forgot buzzsaw (yellow bird) lol

Bro really do be adopting”

3. “#he literally is a single mother of like 18 and they all live inside of his chest #and the only time he gets close to showing emotion is when something happens to one of them”

[eopederson]

Los Andes cerca de Mendoza, 2008

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S01E25

He flourished his cape, there's no going back

[lulu2992]

I played this mission (and subsequently finished HITMAN 3 even though it was very late because I simply couldn’t go to bed after the “Necessary Evil” cutscene) three years ago today.

On Valentine’s Day.

It was a coincidence, but because I’ve been obsessed with whatever is going on between these two (i.e. an ineffable and seemingly unbreakable bond that is neither really romance nor friendship but is so strong and special it feels to me like it transcends the concept of love itself) for years, I thought it was a funny one.

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sleazy immortal imprints on angry toddler imprisoned in the dungeons of the inquisition more at 10

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Pretty happy with the cape

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The Third Worlds of Assassination

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Mendoza vs. Garmadon

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September, 1892

With the rapid growth of America’s economy, and the promise of living ‘The Dream,’ many families from other countries were beginning to emigrate to the bustling young nation. Walter was first hand evidence of this fact, but he also saw it beginning to pour more and more into Brindleton Bay as the years struck on.

Vast waves of immigrants came, and that meant more workers were coming to the workplace. Walter saw a new man nearly everyday down at the docks, hoping a fishing company would take them on. It was on one day in September that Walter was introduced to a new coworker, starting as a deckhand on his crew.

Hector Garcia, a man who looked in earnest at this opportunity, had migrated from Selvadorada, the same place Walter’s family was from. Though his Spanish was not nearly as perfect as a native’s would be, he could still keep himself in steady conversation, thanks to his parents. Walter was also the only other Spanish speaker on his crew, so naturally Hector was drawn to him.

The two men soon became quick friends, with Walter trying to help out Hector and his family (a wife and a daughter) as much as possible. They would spend some Friday afternoons drinking with one another at the local bar, lamenting about all of their big hopes and dreams of landing a good job and becoming rich. Soon enough, their families would also join and Walter would find himself a fellow hard worker to lean on.

🕰️ / 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 / 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡

[cartoonishly]

Sip some wine, watch out for chandeliers, but most importantly…watch your back. New #HITMAN3 cartoon! 🍷🪻☀️

[condor-solaris]

I'm still unhappy, but hey, this is at least some kinda progress 😑

Esteban, Zia, Tao and Pichu, Mendoza in clothes of people's of the world ATLA

[eopederson]

Deportes femeninos, bajorrelieve, Mendoza, 2008.

In honor of Women's History Month, a street sculpture in Mendoza.