Congrats you guys, you survived 2017, no small feat I assure you! May we all stick together and look out for one another this coming year.
Also congrats to @angelmihe , winner of the giveaway drawing! If you aren’t angelmihe (which regrettably is statistically likely) don’t despair, I’ll be doing another giveaway when I reach my next follower landmark.
If you’re too impatient for that, you can always either commission me or throw ideas/headcanon at me and hope they stick in my brain long enough to compel me to write them (which given my track record lately is also surprisingly likely, but hardly guaranteed).
Hope you all get some sleep and enjoy the rest of whatever holiday break you may or may not be having. Always remember in this coming year that you are valuable and worth it, and that the world needs YOU.
Hey everyone!
Have you already seen coco??? I love it. It’s such a beautiful film, I was amazed by the music, the animation, every single detail, the way they represented the mexican culture and the story, god, the story is marvelous. I am proudly mexican and this movie truthly shows how we celebrate Día de Muertos, the importance of our family, mariachi music, even food and clothes!!! Don’t stop seeing it!!!
🎶 Tú me traes un poco loco, un poquititito loco, estoy adivinando que quieres y pa’ cuando, y así estoy celebrando que me he vuelto ¡un poco loco!🎶
There’s so many of you!! Thank you all so much for tagging along to enjoy my art, writing and Coco obsession. To mark the occasion I’m doing the kind of obligatory give-away that we all look forward to.
You know the drill, like and reblog to enter and on January 1st (at midnight?? seems like a cool time) I’ll pick a winner.
What glorious prizes await the lucky follower? Glad you asked. You’ll get to pick your very own Coco one-shot fanfic (about the length of Old Habits Die Hard) or a smallish Coco related art piece for me to make for you.
So, want to hear about the time Hector tried to play the harp instead of guitar in his mariachi group as a teen? Want to know what you’d look like as a skeleton? Want to hang out with Imelda the afternoon that she first met Hector? Want your very own alebrije spirit guide drawn up for you?
Like I said, like and reblog. Anytime before 2018 will do. 🙂
Cheers,
– Wit
P.S. Obviously you need to be following me to win, and I really hope I don’t have to specify that I’m strictly NSFW free.
Recuérdame, hoy me tengo que ir mi amor Recuérdame, no llores por favor Te llevo en mi corazón y cerca me tendrás A solas yo te cantaré soñando en regresar
Recuerdame, aunque tenga que emigrar Recuérdame, si mi guitarra oyes llorar Ella con su triste canto te acompañará Hasta que en mis brazos estés Recuérdame
English lyrics:
Remember me Though I have to say goodbye Remember me Don’t let it make you cry For even if I’m far away I hold you in my heart I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me Though I have to travel far Remember me Each time you hear a sad guitar Know that I’m with you the only way that I can be Until you’re in my arms again Remember me
Don’t listen to this while imagining young Coco with her head resting on her folded arms, watching a small copper music box play on her bedside table, a tiny painted mariachi figurine with a white guitar just like her father’s slowly turning in place as the familiar song plays.
I was actually surprised by the years the characters were born, 1900, because they pretty much lived throught the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917/1920), even the actual movie stars were born during or after, Pedro Infante 1917, so really it was just their baby or child years while Coco characters were in their pre-teens and early adulthood.
What does this mean? You can read the wikipedia article, but pretty much there were many militant groups running around, many small towns didn’t know what was going on, no one from the higher ups cared if you knew anything so these revolutionary groups would just arrive and tell you, recruit you.
It wasn’t always that nice, when I went to my granny’s hometown they told me their grandfathers hid underground with a sack of corn whenever they heard horses (military groups) approach, they asked for you to give them stuff, (horses, food, a place to sleep) if you refused you were not supporting the rev movement or the president, thus you were the enemy so neither fraction was any good, (of course the revolutionaries often liberated the towns from the landlord but remember most were just farmers so getting so much power could get to their heads) All in all the people in the town didn’t knew the social movement that was happening. I remember saying, “great my family just hid during the revolution” and my mom turned to me and said, “they survived”.
We don’t now how Santa Cecilia fared during the Revolution but maybe cheking out the history of small towns may help, either way I’m not an expert on the Rev so take it easy with me if there’s anything wrong
AngelMihe 