#afrolatinos

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

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{made with the Ancestors and Great Spirits of the African Diaspora in mind, here's what I associate with each day of the week and the children of the diaspora born therein:

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thursday's child has far to go

Friday's child is loving and giving

Saturday's child works hard for a living

And the child born on the Sabbath day

Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

Monday: masters of finding new roads and moving forwards, tearing down blockages, trailblazers and warriors. Artists of all kinds, writers, poets, singers.

Tuesday: embodiment of thunderstorms, winds, omens, they're powerful conjurers with hot hands, always busy, always moving. Often times scholars, historians.

Wednesday: defenders, protectors, of humanity and nature as a whole. Warrior spirits at their core, but also great diviners and mediums.

Thursday: eloquent muses of the arts of love and war alike, great beauties who lead armies with equal charm and force. Sweetening, love and luck workings come easy to them.

Friday: personification of abundance and status. A commanding presence. Building legacy, great manifestors and conjurers, specially for work and finances.

Saturday: guardians of waters and the beyond. Community leaders, gifted healers, divine messengers. Carrying all the wisdom of the Elders and Ancestors.

Sunday: priests and priestesses that defy status quo, very old Ancestors coming back to reshape and rebirth reality. They will enter your life and purge every aspect of it.}

[caribbeanart]

Santa Cruz understood the importance of being able to see oneself in their culture and the value of identity. Through her work, she was not only able to disavow the way that Blackness was seen, but she redefined Blackness. She refused to accept the position that Peru and the broader American society continuously forced Black individuals into and, by writing and producing plays, allowed others to reject those roles. [x]

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

Come Visit the Houston Family!

[ayquebella]

Vintage Puerto Rico Island Ornate Sterling Silver & Enamel Large Unisex Pendant Medallion – Me Encanta La Isla del Encanto

¡Guau! Ay, qué bella! Such a gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, ornate-shaped pendant medallion representing Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Island of Enchantment (La Isla del Encanto)! This incredibly beautiful, large pendant is etched and enameled with images of the island with a tropical palm tree and the Puerto Rican flag. The sterling silver on the pendant medallion shines brilliantly and the enamel is vivid and vibrant – not unlike the island herself! This spectacular pendant is designed to be worn with tremendous pride on your favorite necklace or chain!

[cyarsk52-20]

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Today in Black History, the story of Marcos Xiorro, a slave revolt leader who risked his life to try to free enslaved Africans in Puerto Rico. theGrio's Natasha S. Alford explains why his plan got thwarted.

[punkeropercyjackson]

If i was Robin,i'd tweet 'Who the fuck is Batman' and then turn off my phone

Edit:D/p x DC racists found this and i kept seeing Jason x Fenton siblings so now it's unrebloggable.Sorry to my actually read comics niggas,as Jason husband and wife i draw the line at that for my own mental health.Also since it's been a few weeks since i made the edit but they keep liking this,even the shippers,i have a word for them:Kys

[mrmillipede]

Uggghhhh I’ve had art block and my curse is that all I can draw is homestuck

[jasontoddssuper]

Idk how people read Pjo and thought Percy Jackson was a soft uwu ray of sunshine boy.He's mean and ruthless as fuck,he's always snarking at people and gets embarrased to show 'mushy' emotions and has anger issues out the ass and manipulated multiple of his enemies and some of the shit he's pulled on the battle field was like something out of a horror movie/novel and even his tastes reflect that since he's canonically a rock music fan.Yeah he's a massive mama's boy and respects women tons and is also a Team Dad but those don't contradict any of it-I mean,just look at Jason Todd

[mango-mya]

I'm the smartest person ever actually

Do we see the vision

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

I have something beautiful to share with you all: give this a listen. What do you think it is?

There's many different versions of this song, just type "Misibamba" on spotify or youtube, and enjoy. It's specifically an AfroArgentinean song, with most of the versions of this song recorded in Buenos Aires. According to african scholars, the song was originally in kikongo, possibly from the Benguela Nation, and it's traditionally sung to call on God (Nzambi Npungu). Some of the words have gone through slight (and not so slight) pronunciation or spelling changes but it's still recognizable for scholars in Angola!

What scholars say about it being originally used to call on God fits our own oral tradition and custom too, it's a religious song. Our elders sing it in times of need, when you need that extra ancestral and divine protection or guidance, and Elders say it was originally sung by our Ancestors in the slave ships as they were crossing the atlantic !!!

And it's not even the only song that remains! there's many other songs in african languages and derived dialects, remembered and sung by afroargentine Elders across the country. After so many years of denial and historical whitewashing, I'm so, so deeply grateful for all the afroargentine and african scholars, and afroargentine collectives and associations, working to preserve our music and dialects, and finally bring them back to the light, to remember and honor our Ancestors.

[caribbeanart]

In the 1960s and 1970s, Black activists in the United States, like Santa Cruz in Peru and Paris, redefined and recreated what it meant to be Black. Black with a capital 'B' is about self-naming, self-defining, and self-determining, which can be seen in the work of Santa Cruz. It is, at times, biographical, exhibiting the arduous process she has endured to form an identity that isn’t controlled or concerned with outdated stereotypes and instead honors a rich heritage inherited and a [sense of self] not founded in shame.

Karla Méndez, “Me Gritaron Negra”: Reflecting on the Cultural Work of Victoria Santa Cruz

[tibli]

strilonde hcs or w/e anyway im pushing my 'dave looks more like roxy and rose looks more like dirk' agenda in everyone's faces. do you see my vision.

[ayquebella]

Vintage Puerto Rico Coquí 3-D Sterling Silver Open Disk Charm Pendant by M&M

This adorable, petite sterling silver charm pendant that captures the essence of Puerto Rico’s national symbol, El Coquí! Native to La Isla Del Encanto, the delightfully timid coqui frog makes a distinct, rhythmic sound from which it gets its name. From sunset to sunrise, the melodic mating song of coquí puertorriqueño, “ko-kee, ko-kee,” enlivens the evening and lulls the listener to sweet sleep. This wonderful, small circular-shaped open disk charm pendant has a raised, 3-dimensional coqui and will be a very fashionable statement of pride on your favorite charm bracelet or chain!

Popular Puerto Rican expression: “Soy de aquí como el coquí.” (“I’m as Puerto Rican as the coqui.”)

[qhoaaaa]

Milo def puts gems in his hair when he styles it

Like

Sweetheart helps him style it

Takes a few hours but they finally place the gems where he wants and his outfit just,, chefs kiss omg

Milo would definitely use eye shadow, golden glitter eyeshadow, black eyeliner - he looks absolutely magnificent and Sweetheart endlessly compliments him, he also puts on lipgloss (you hear that... thats me screaming and being send to the backrooms, my gods he is fine)

Sweetheart matches with either green or purple, minimal makeup, maybe just matching eyeshadow and a few earrings to attract

They both naturally take everyone's breath away but then he decorates his hair, literally time stops to look at Sweetheart and their eye candy (they are each other's eye candy COME ON YALL)

Outfits matching, Sweetheart with a few braids hidden in their hair maybe, matching necklaces as well

HOTTEST POWER COUPLE YALL WOOO

[punkeropercyjackson]

Genuine advice for people who joined the Batfam fandom because of fan content and are too scared to get into actual comics or not sure where to start:Please don't buy a single word 'Fuck canon!' people tell you about ANY Batfam member and i do mean ANY.They're lying to you to get you to sanatize them and deprive you of deserving to know what they're actually like because their peabrains can't process multilayered characters and relathionships in favor of bigoted stereotypes and writing that's insanely insulting to them and if you're a minor especially,they're lying to you about whatever they say about shipping the male members with eachother not being in*cest or ped0 too-Bruce has been Dick's adoptive dad since Dick's debut issue,he legally adopted Jason and Duke too,Damian's his bio kid and with Tim it's a bit more complicated but it's very much canon that they see eachother as father and son and Tim has lived at Wayne Manor at several points in canon and would be brothers regardless of anything else due to this but they also use that exact word to describe their dynamic and so does everybody else

This applies to Cass being their sister too because Bruce adopted her after they formed a dad-daughter bond a while into her being Batgirl but as Stephanie has a mom she lives with and has never seen Bruce as a parental figure nor he her as one of his kids,you're freegame to ship her with Tim or Cass and in fact i highly encourage doing both.Batfanon stans are once again doing mass lying(damn they should get a different hobby)by saying the four male Robins are the 'core' ones.Stephanie has been included in Robin stuff for a long time now and Duke dosen't get the same treatment due to antiblackness so THAT'S an actual 'Fuck canon!' moment so you should make it six Robins and know that the intention with only four is always misogyny and whitewashing(also just saying but those fanarts are always ugly anyway,they make them look like shitty anime boys instead of themselves)

Dick is an almost perfect eldest sibling and the other Batkids deeply appreciate him for it,he was Tim's Robin and him and Cass are his favorite siblings,Duke is Jason's favorite brother and vice versa but he's also extremely close to Cass,none of them make Damian go through 'normal youngest sibling treatment' because none of them are normal so they grew a sense of basic decency and Damian's closest to Dick and Stephanie and Stephanie's a canon csa victim so kindly keep your paws off her with your 'date all of your s/os siblings' jokes because she has self-worth and class,thanks

Ignore the original Red Hood and The Outlaws run and anything to do with Jason and Roy friendship in fandom and read the original Teen Titans run,New Teen Titans,Arsenal 1998,The Titans 1999,Green Arrow 2001 and Outsiders 2003 if you want to understand Roy too or at least ask around blogs centered on him for context.Ignore Tom Taylor's Nightwing run and Teen Titans 2003 and Batgirl of Burnside and anything by Devin Grayson(she's quite literally done irreperable damage to Batman lore and i wish i was kidding).Read Robin 1993,90s Young Justice,Batgirl 2000,Batgirl 2009,Red Robin,Son of Batman and literally everything Duke's in which i can provide a reading list for instead and i'm working on a megapost of all the Jason media that's actually good so new fans don't waste their time.I'm genuinely saying this to be helpful because 'fandom isn't activism' is a puratical priviliged phrase that should've never existed just like Batfanon shouldn't either

[hedonismprinc]