#opalas

[opaleiro]

Livin’ the dream ! #comodoro #comodoro81 #caravan #caravan75 #garagem #opalas #opaleirosdopiaui https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVClJ1uDgF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unspokenmantra]

Phantom Contraluz Opal Welo, Ethiopia

[saopauloantiga]

Viaduto do Chá sentido praça do Patriarca em 1973

[mcwsmith73]

Chevrolet Opala

[jubileegeode]

Finally got somewhere im happy with w this lil bugger >:3

Opala Arsithe, the culling star, a scavanging elder dragon whos secretions melt most living things into a nutrient slush for Opala to sip up!

They appear rarely, only in enviroments where springtime has run rampant, and plantlife chokes the land.

Their gravity sac allows them to easily float over mountains in search of suitable prey, and their long tail and whiskers aid in balancing and precise movements in midair.

Prolly gonna be the next creature I write a wikia for :)

gonna see if i can start compiling these monsties into a whole fangame article!!!

older Opala Arsithe concepts ^^

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

recently discovered the beautiful vehicle that is the Chevrolet Opala, do you have any good facts on that car?

Yet again I'm introduced to new cars through this inbox!

Perhaps the most interesting thing to discuss about the Opala is why I didn't know of it: while based on the Rekord, a car built and sold in Europe by Opel (like Chevrolet part of General Motors), the Opala was only made in and for Brazil.

It's common for brands with a global presence to have market-exclusive cars: Ford's American, European and Australian lineups have almost no cars in common, and Fiat has a long and illustrious tradition of powering other countries -including Brazil- with whatever it's tired of producing at home.

And then, looking it up, I saw the SS version, and thought "Hwow were they ever going for the Chevelle SS's styling there!"

You know, the Chevelle SS. A car of the same vintage, whose sales were just as confined to a single country in the same continent I've never even seen, that looked like that for about one year. Which I absolutely knew of.

And indeed, I could confidently tell you twenty US/Canada-only cars for every Brazil-only car I know, and then keep going. Which made me think about the reason for that.

Look at Italian music.

No, really - back in the days many of the biggest hits were translated English songs, people sang with fake English accents, hell, it was damn near custom for your stage name to be an English first name and Italian last name (Fred Buscaglione, Jimmy Fontana, Bobby Solo, Patty Bravo, on for days). Who was out there brazilianifying their name?

Sure, Italy may have been an outlier, but trust me, the cultural foothold America has in much of the Earth is virtually unmatched. And with that cultural hegemony comes a rose-tinted spotlight shone to its history (especially the one we were there to learn about live), such that to the rest of the world even US-exclusive models like 60s muscle cars are not just known, but iconic - even simply through other things like movies, shows, or music.

On the other hand, Brazilian cars (how many again?) are at most a curiosity that is sometimes tangentially mentioned to fill space - mostly because that's our treatment of Brazilian culture.

Rather than an awkward attempt to detail the sociopoliticoeconomical reasons for that, though, what I want to end on is a more positive note: there's always outliers.

Whatever population you look at, whatever culture you're thinking of, there will always be someone obsessed with it. And that's one thing I love about cars - each model, somewhere, somehow, has someone loving it. Each topic is a topic of interest to someone. And you can always be that outlier if you want - being interested in one thing never excludes being interested in another.

As shown by the Italian duo that was out there Brazilianifying their stage name: 'Michael' and 'Johnson' 'Righeira', seen here proving that 21st century "80s style" stuff can never be more exaggerated a caricature than some of the real thing.

Yes, that song is in Spanish, but don't worry, they also sang in Italian. And English. And German. It was a weird fucking duo for weird fucking times.

Actually, to that end, here's a performance that will latch onto your Fichtl's Lied receptors.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[andremelophoto]

70’s #opala #opalaterapia #chevrolet #6cilindros #6cc #opalass (em Osasco - SP) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqlBw4PZw5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dudatrovaoazul]

💙⚡️

[clumpsydumpty]

Opal

[melquesedeque]

Opala 1980 do meu pai.

Janeiro de 2023

[opaleiro]

Embalos de sábado! #opalas #opalaterapia #opaleiro #opaleirosdopiaui https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOuKeoMHL_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[beamer7thepoko]

Rosy Oceanda Opala

I was making this for a friend to use this as a server image during the month of October since October is a month of alot of things.

I also believe I've been blessed on this day because God actually helped me make this and he told me to make art from the heart instead of all from the head. I think he may had bee right and more about this story is in the image description on DeviantArt itself.

I have posted many screenshots in my friends server so I'm gonna send them all with and in this post to show you all the stages of how I created this artwork

there's also things I had said and in the server i claim that i wasn't actually the one who made this because what the tricks did to me...

hurts me greatly... and I don't wanna them to expect me to create any more art soon. idk. they had just hurt me again and again in the past. :( I still ache a lot internally from the past torment I've been thru. but after today, maybe I'll be more of the true me again.

so pls don't get upset at me for what i said in there. I'm hurting internally. so I'm

very conflicted deep deep down and am scared of the tricks doing more to me. but here are more of these screenshots, showing my growth from the past and stuff as I was making this artwork.

And like that I've hit the 10 image limit for this app

Oof

Gonna have to make a part 2

Sorry yall.

[saopauloantiga]

Avenida São Luís em meados da década de 1970

[flannerybom2]

[turtle4flowers]

Opals