Addicted to Fictional Worlds

This supposedly has to do with the fact that the original Celts were Iberian and their ancestors migrated across the strait of Gibraltar from Africa. The red-haired and pale look typically associated with Celtic identity likely comes from admixture from Germanic peoples. Remember that everyone’s ancestors came from Africa if you go far back enough.

Evidence of this phenotype can still be seen in some people today, particularly those from Wales and other western coastal regions. For example:

Welsh presenter Alex Jones

Welsh footballer Chris Coleman

Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who can notably pass for Hispanic.

English actor Ian McShane

It’s important to note that none of these people are immigrants or descended from immigrants. They all come from families native to the British Isles.

The take-home message here is A) don’t ever let anyone tell you British = pale and B) this

A Screenshot of a public Facebook-Textpost by “Sandy and Richard Riccardi”.

According to my guide, it was likely she had internal testes along with her external female genitalia, resulting in an increased testosterone level! It’s especially interesting just how dark her mane is, as black manes tend to only present in males with high testosterone. Fascinatingly, it presents not just as a mix of male and female physical traits, but also behaviors! 

Here’s a picture I took of Mmamoriri (left) with a male from her pride. As you can see, she’s got the full striking mane, but her face and body are much smaller than the male’s.

Apparently this mix of traits has made her EXTREMELY popular within the pride. She hunts and cares for the young with the lionesses, which helps greatly since her larger stature is a major asset in taking down the formidable buffalo they feed on, but also roars and has a mane, and is therefore able to chase off hyenas (which tend to be stronger than female lions and harass them/steal food/kill cubs) with the males. Mmamoriri has fully diversified her portfolio!

So she’s a kickass intersex lion who says fuck no to gender roles and in doing so has become a major asset to her pride!

Mini Gardens on the Move: Japanese Landscapers Transform Truck Beds Into Bucolic Worlds 

I hear some people claim that she should have just figured she wasn’t the first, but why would she do that? She doesn’t know about the Doctor’s history of traveling with friends, but you know what part of his history she does know? The Time War. The Doctor being the Last of the Time Lords. If I were Rose, I wouldn’t assume that the Doctor had spent his life traveling with human friends, especially if he’s never mentioned such a thing. I would assume that he spent his life with his own people (who, remember, he hasn’t told her anything about, so she wouldn’t know how badly he fit in with them), and then the Time War happened, and he lost everyone, and THAT’S when he needed a friend. That’s why he wanted someone to travel with him. That’s when he met her.

2. She soon learns that stopping alien threats is something he does with regularity. Not just on Earth, though. No, on many different planets. Planets where aliens live and shop, yet he doesn’t invite lifeforms when he travels with her. However, she does—and he reluctantly goes along with it.

3. He tells her he’s alone. “I’m a Time Lord. I’m the last of the Time Lords. They’re all gone. I’m the only survivor. I’m left travelling on my own ‘cos there’s no one else.“ It wouldn’t be strange of her to assume he’s been travelling with his people up until the Time War. Since that is basically what he says.

4. He repeatedly calls humans “stupid apes” and shows a certain contempt that would have most people assuming that maybe he’s not too fond of humans.

5. She’s really more concerned about learning that he just leaves people behind and picks up someone new. She’s scared of being replaceable, because he means the world to her and she thought it was mutual. And you know what? Most people don’t like feeling as though they’re replaceable. I’m sure you wouldn’t like it either—regardless of the nature of your relationship (platonic, romantic, sexual or familial).

August 6, 2020, 21 Days of Lucifer Countdown

Obviously, this is not a comprehensive list of all of Trixie Espinoza’s finest moments throughout LUCIFER, just my top favorites with a brief explanation of why I am endeared to Scarlett Estevez for life. While is pains me deeply to dethrone any other cast member in the ensemble that I adore, including Tom Ellis, Trixie is my favorite.

School smackdown / Introducing Beatrice: “There’s no smoking in here, my mommy could arrest you. - I kicked [the mean girl] in the no-no touch touch square - what’s a hooker? - bye Lucifer, it was nice meeting you.” The whole scene from start to finish is blessed, especially when she sticks her fingers in her ears when Chloe and Dan star fighting. We get such a clear picture of precisely who Trix is from page one that it is impossible not to fall hard for her.

Trixie runs in for a hug: “Lucifer!” / Lucifer: “ah, get back!” The repellent hug reactions and how he rebuffs her like a puppy never gets old.

Maze reveals her true face while trick-or-treating, Trixie says “cool!” and subsequently Maze extorts ever neighbor for candy and cash on Trixie’s behalf like a mob racket.

Amenadiel: “Lucifer asked me to watch over your mom” / Trixie: “Like a guardian angel? - I think you are good.” And I thought Lucifer’s introduction to Trixie was stellar, when she met Amenadiel, it melted my stone cold heart. And she hugged him. An he loved it, as opposed to Lucifer he always looks like he’s about to keel over from toxic levels of fluffy human emotion. Trixie is the celestial pep squad morale captain, and its joyous.

“I missed you dummy.” Maze and Trixie’s reunion is the best.

Trix answers the door for Ella with blades at the ready, and subsequently they bond over a sushi t-shirt. It would surprise me -5% of Trixie grew up to be a lab tech or mortician consultant for a local PD outfit. She’s such a mini-Ella, complete with a PhD in hugs.

“Good, I don’t like you [to Malcolm]” Trixie was just abducted by a corrupt cop and presumably threatened at gunpoint, and she sassed Malcolm straight back to hell. It was unbelievably satisfying.

“You shot someone…again? - If you shot Lucifer, that must mean you really like him.” #TeamTrixie steers the Deckerstar ship

“[To Eve] Are you the kind of friend Lucifer needs right now?” Her level of interrogative intensity - enroll her in a government agency shadow program ASAP

“Wusses don’t get Lollies” Dr. Espinoza says while bandaging Mazikeen and Lucifer and only giving Maze candy. This was so funny to me, she inherited all of Chloe’s deadpan tendencies including calling Lucifer a wuss.

Honorable mentions:

Trixie rampages Lucifer’s penthouse, pirouettes, and claims that Lucifer has stairs up to his bedroom “Like a princess.” Of all the times his eyes could have glowed red, and they missed this golden opportunity!

“Your whips and knives are moving.” Trixie tries to smuggle herself in Maze’s luggage, but settles for “watching her mom” while giving Mazikeen a stuffed alien for her bounty hunting trip to Canada, an exchange completed with secret knuckles handshake and throat slice. She returns the plush toy stained in / blood missing a bottom and Trixie is reverentially awestruck 

Her Morningstar driving lesson

Coloring crime scene photos

Mangling the doll and getting a new one from Lucifer

Trix high-fiving Lucifer when he least expects it after making off with her breakfast sandwich: Lucifer didn’t even know what was happening while he was shielding himself from a tackle hug (what’s a high five and why are there no drugs involved) like he’d just inadvertently taken part in some demonic ritual. (2x07)

Also 2x07 Lucifer takes Trixie’s sandwich claiming that he’s much larger and hungrier, and she is so forgiving when she replies, “That’s okay mommy, he must have really wanted it.”

Maze and Trix asleep on the couch while Chloe tucks them it.

2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. --> Let it suck. --> You can fix it in edits. 

3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. --> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. --> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. --> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.

4. No work is ever wasted. --> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way.  --> Failure means you tried, which is good. --> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. --> Keep going until you like what you’re making.