if you aren’t mexican/chicanx DON’T wear sugar skull makeup. you’re making a mockery and a costume of a holiday that’s beautiful and celebrated for those living and dead and it’s a very serious thing. it’s not like halloween, there’s no creepiness or scariness or commercial gain. so please don’t twist dia de los muertos into that. the makeup isn’t just for the fun of it, and it isn’t without meaning. it doesn’t matter how well versed you are in the history of it, or if you just want to use it as a “fashion statement”- it’s disrespectful and not yours to take.
your annual reminder that Día de los Muertos is not “Mexican Halloween”
I guess the American equivalent to that disrespect is someone showing up to your grandma’s grave dressed as a zombie version of her and taking a shit on the headstone. I can’t believe people still think dressing as a sugar skull is in any way okay
*boy looking at coin* ees.. nanarro..
[drops coin] HOh
[coin rolls into gutter]
AAAAAAAHHGH
So. Story time. I work at a camp over the summer shadowing one of the kiddos. And one of the kids in the group was a grade-a meme lover and he had never seen this video before. So I showed it to him and he laughed hysterically, nonstop, for about 30 minutes, going so far as to keel over to catch his breath.
I thought that was the end of that, but no. This kid comes back the next day, holding a coin and recites the entire commercial that this god forsaken video was from.
He drops the coin and yells in the most dramatic fashion and so the rest of his friend group comes over and he teaches them the skit and pretty soon all of them are doing it at the same time, saying ‘ees nanarro HOH’ and then yelling.
And that’s how I got an entire group of campers to recite a foreign meme.
Rivergate Tower, Tampa, Harry Wolf, 1986-8, as a Halloween costume, by Patrick Thorpe. Via Archdaily
so the other night i was with friend cop, and i went to give him a hug goodbye, and he turned off his radio (???) and i asked what was up and he said “last time we hugged your shoulder hit my radio and called dispatch” and i thought he meant like, the 911 dispatcher but NO i accidentally radioed every single other officer on shift and they all heard him say “i love you- oh shit my radio’s on”
just gonna add on that there’s a 0% chance the other officers on shift didn’t radio back “omg love you too!!!” or try to figure out who he was talking to and i fell down laughing at this and he sat there with a look on his face that said for the last two days he’d been dealing with a constant “[10 code]” “what’s up” “i love you”
Speak with Tenderness 