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text → xander

ZOEY: where the fuck have you been for the last three days?

ZOEY: did you get lost in the woods chasing the light

ZOEY: again

XANDER: that's a great question

XANDER: and i wouldn't put it past myself to do something like that, you know me so well

XANDER: i have the worst case of inspo block in the history of inspo block.

XANDER: don't come near me it might be contagious.

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what’s something in your web browsing history that you’d be embarrassed if someone saw?

‘   i just looked and the worst one is probably, ‘which animals can you milk?’   ’

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YOU ARE MY DAD (YOU’RE MY DAD) BOOGIE WOOGIE WOOGIE

( brandon larracuente / cis!male / he & him ) the paparazzi have spotted XANDER QUINONES, the 23 year old CREW MEMBER who’s currently working as a CINEMATOGRAPHER on SUBURBIA. the tabloids have called them HUMBLE and METICULOUS, but also ERRATIC and PRESUMPTUOUS. during their time in the spotlight, they’ve been dubbed the BUSY BEE.

okay sooooo.......

THIS IS A STORY ALL ABOUT HOW MY LIFE GOT FLIPPED TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

jk jk jk okay okay so xander was born and raised in the bronx

he was living right in between van cortlandt and dyckman which, if you don’t know, is kind of like living between beverly hills and chicago

he went to high school at laguardia, which is basically like the hollywood arts of queens, and he would take the bus and the train every morning to go there because he loved loved loved the arts

he initially thought he was going to be an actor, but he realized that acting was like super stressful for him and you’ll see why

he was really into photography as a kid. his father gave him his old polaroid camera as a birthday present when he was about 8 and he was literally obsessed with it

he saved every single picture he took of his friends at school and his family and the events they went to his room looked like a crime scene map because of all the pictures hung up with string

between doing school work and taking photographs and memorizing monologues, xander also helped his mother and aunt with their family restaurant when he could. a lot of girls from the school in his district would go there just to see him and he was just like

clueless

his abuela called him lil machismo bc girls were straight up hung up on him and he just.... he didn’t realize???

he honestly gets so engulfed in what he’s doing. if he’s learning lines, he wont speak to anyone around him unless it’s to recite them. taking pictures has to be a controlled space because one fucking distraction can fuck him up

like at some points him mom would have to barge in his room and stuff food in his mouth bc he was just so absorbed in his work and what he was focusing on like he’s lucky he didn’t get SLAPPED for not eating his abuela’s food.

anyway he graduates laguardia and decides he wants to go to nyu, and he does it

he got a boat load of scholarships with his 4.0 gpa and literal glowing recommendation from the film teacher

he went to college for theater and the film professor at nyu was like ‘boi...............................................’

and like, deep down, xander was kind of ‘boi’-ing himself too bc he was obviously so in love with photos and shit but film was a whole other level of work and he knew he might have d i e d

he ended up taking a film integration class and showed his professor the polaroids he edited of his parents dancing at clubs (the ones he got when is father gave him the camera) and the professor was like ‘bitch’

xander ended up switching his major sophomore year and he was like ‘cool cool i love this’

but at the same time he was also like surviving on gallons of water and nature valley bars (if convenient for his schedule)

by the end of sophomore year, he was chosen for an internship at, you guessed it, zenith studios.

he initially worked on the set of lesliean and he was so so so BORED

like he wanted to take the cinematographer by the shoulders and ask him what the actual fuck he was doing but he knew that was rude.

by the end of the internship, xander vows that he was gonna go back to zenith one day and slap some sense into the camera men, but he needed more experience under his belt.

in 2016, xander graduates nyu with cum laude, vice president of fiji, and a bachelors in film production.

he immediately moves to la after he graduates because if there’s one thing xander does, he keeps a promise

he obviously did not slap every crew members on lesliean but he did send in a portfolio to suburbia, which was looking for a new cinematographer after their token member had retired

weirdly enough, a lot of the crew members from lesliean remembered him and gave the crew of suburbia a recommendation for him (which makes it better that he didn’t go and fight them)

literally every day after he got hired his mom would call and ask if he had gotten mugged yet and xander’s just like ??????????? do you know where we lived???????

and that’s really xander’s story tbh

he’s just very focused, like too focused, and he’s like half frat boy have albert einstein of film and he doesn’t know how to balance those two out on his own yet

but he should bc he is a grown man and shouldnt be living off of ramen at his salary????

now onto headcanons:

he has to schedule his family phone calls because he knows they’re going to take 45 minutes minimum and he wont hang up the phone

he’s still pretty ripped for someone that doesn’t eat because he lived on a formaula of gym, tan, laundry in nyu

he’s still very much clueless around girls because he just??? he has no social graces whatsoever

he sucked someone’s dick once but it was only to see if he liked it

he feels bad for women because they have to put that shit in their mouth, but all in all it was a 3 out of 5

when he was in fiji he would always walk girls back to their dorm at night because it was an excuse to take photos during the night without looking kind of creepy and girls always ate it up

sometimes he’ll switch off from spanish to english without knowing because he was taught spanish from the day he was born to like 6, and then the school system fucked up his mojo

anyway!!!!!!! LOVE mY KID