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[osol3lua]

Introdução/Introduction

Apenas um mexicano neurodivergente de 20 anos com uma hiperfixação na cultura brasileira 🙌🏼

Just a 20 year old neurodivergent Mexican with a hyperfixation on Brazilian culture 🙌🏼

Vou usar este blog para praticar meu português e aprender mais sobre a cultura e a mídia brasileiras! Tenha um bom dia! ☀️🫶🏼

I’ll be using this blog to practice my Portuguese skills, and to learn more about Brazilian culture and media! Have a nice day! ☀️🫶🏼

[iluvdilfspapi]

Praia do Futuro | Futuro Beach 2014

dir. karim aïnouz

[osol3lua]

Este filme me deixou tão emocionado 😭

[osol3lua]

Brasil hyperfixation so bad, it’s making me want to watch/play soccer

A hiperfixação no Brasil é tão grande que me dá vontade de assistir/jogar futebol

[ryan-sometimes]

As a Brazilian, watching the club world cup is always so funny because this year a game got cancelled due to RAIN. In Brazil, the lights in the stadium need to go out, the pitch needs to flood, and a minimum of 3 players need to get struck by lightning, only for the game to be delayed by like 20 minutes. Once a football game gets scheduled in Brazil there is no weather that can stop it. Zeus himself needs to come down to smite the players one by one

[fionacle]

prev i saw you mention a photo can you find it 😳

[mvrphys-art]

there are so many

(that third one is my favourite)

and players getting the water off the grass to keep playing:

[ryan-sometimes]

POV you are a Brazilian football player:

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Zeus, visiting Brazil because he heard they know how to party:

[feyosha]

[osol3lua]

This might be cringe, but I love Brazilian accents so much. It’s my favorite 😭 I love when you can hear it when they speak English (When I try to speak Portuguese, it sounds so bad 😭 English accents are so ugly)

Pode ser constrangedor, mas eu amo muito o sotaque brasileiro. É o meu favorito 😭 Adoro quando dá para ouvir quando falam inglês (Quando tento falar português, fica horrível 😭 O sotaque inglês é tão feio)

[osol3lua]

Eles são casados

They are married

[polisena-art]

*indo estudar sobre a década de 30 pra escrever uma fanfic sobre um mexicano católico fervoroso com homofobia internalizada que se apaixona por um brasileiro putão drag queen e se envolve sem querer em uma disputa política de um país estrangeiro SEM QUE seja ofensivo pra qualquer nacionalidade*

... meu deus onde foi que eu parei

Respondendo logo duas em uma mas- você 🫵 guerreiro escritor de fanfics! FORÇA!!

[polisena-art]

FELIZ CUMPLE, PANCHITO!!! 🥳🎉 Also known as the only day Zé wakes up absurdly early ☕️ OG ver. under the cut

[mikyhugs]

✨️Perfume✨️

[kiiwiighost]

[osol3lua]

Hi! Sorry I haven’t been very active on this blog, I’m shy 😭

Olá! Desculpem-me por não ter estado muito ativo neste blog, sou tímido 😭

I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in seeing and hearing about my Brazilian ocs? Lol

Eu queria saber se alguém aqui estaria interessado em ver e ouvir sobre meus personagens brasileiros? Kkkkkk

[osol3lua]

This is so embarrassing

[encantosdobrasil]

Casa típica do interior nordestino

[glorioustragedykid]

IPÊ AMARELO APPRECIATION POST

I LOVE YOU GIRL

[peripecias-i]

I love my Ipês so mucch, yellow, pink, purple and white, you are all gorgeous

[fireheartwraith]

There are a lot of different traditions during Carnaval, but the allegoric cars players have been building are known to be part of the Parade of the Samba Schools, so I thought I'd explain how it works!

For starters, the Parade is a competition. Each team is called a samba school and they have their own flag and history. People can be really hard or die for their teams! Some are connected to soccer teams, like Gaviões da Fiel (the school) is connected to Corinthians. The two main parades (of this type of carnaval) happen in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Each school has one hour to completely walk across the sambódromo, and in that hour they have to tell a story or message. That is one of the things they are judged on! The criteria are the drums, the samba-enredo (enredo literally means plot, but this is a genre of samba), the evolution (how the story develops), the harmony (is everyone singing together? Do the people in the parade know the lyrics?), the plot itself, the allegoric cars and accessories, the costumes, the opening act, and the mestre-sala and porta-bandeira.

The parade is divided into sections called alas, and each one of them functions as a chapter in the story being told and have their own separate choreography. The first one is the Comissão de Frente (the opening act). They set the tone for the rest of the team and the public, so it’s common to see celebrities here to get the audience hyped.

Another crucial part is the drums. They are setting the beat that everyone is dancing to, so they shouldn’t make any mistakes. To both hype them and keep the pacing is the Rainha da Bateria (the Queen of the Drums). She’s a woman dancing samba in very minimal clothing but very heavy accessories. This is a very prestigious spot, the dream of any passista (this is what the samba dancers are called). Since they are the face of the parade, celebrities are sometimes given the position, and not all of them deserve it.

There are other passistas atop the allegoric cars, but they are not the only type of dancers. There’s the Ala das Baianas (ala of the baiana women): older (usually black but not necessarily) women dancing in traditional clothing. Honestly one of my favorite parts of the parades.

But my favorite part is the mestre-sala and porta-bandeira. There are several throughout the parade, but only the first one is graded. They are a couple: the man is the mestre-sala dancing around the porta-bandeira (literally 'flag carrier'), who dances with the school flag, and wears a big skirt, usually in the school colors. I wanted to be one when I was a kid, they dance doing twirls and it just looked like so much fun.

There are other unnamed alas, of course, and the allegoric cars.

The samba schools are very tied to black history and black communities, so their stories are usually very powerful. Like the year they represented a former president as a blood sucking vampire with the presidential sash, or this year, where they showed a statue of a known slaver graffited and on fire. Seriously, some of these cars are insane, and most of them have moving parts while also being light enough to be pushed or motored across the sambódromo, but sturdy enough to support all the dancers on top of it. A true feat of engineering! See the size of the woman near the statue's feet compared to the whole thing?

Most people celebrate carnaval by going to street parties called "bloco de carnaval" (basically a mini parade with live music), but these huge parade still get a big audience, despite streaming so late at night.

Here's this year's presentation from Vai-Vai if you're curious to see everything in motion! Originally, I had put a link to Estácio de Sá's presentation, but some politicians want to apply sanctions to Vai-Vai because it represented cops as demons. A few days later, a white man attempted to kill a black man, and the black man was arrested despite witnesses telling the cops what really happened. When news broke out, they kept him in prison on claims of "resisting arrest." So, why is it wrong to say cops are devils?

Anyways, the Vai-Vai presentation is about celebrating blackness and black creativity and resilience. Happy Carnaval! The winners this year were Mocidade Alegre in São Paulo and Unidos da Viradouro in Rio de Janeiro. You can look up their presentations if you want to.

[manessha545]

Rio Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio. Wikipedia

[yearningforunity]

Carnival. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil - 1941

Photo: Pierre Verger