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@mikkoyo on instagram

Mikkoyo's art style is takes after Japanese style, Their art is very Kawaii, they use alot of simple shapes and light colors.

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@sanrio on all social medias

Growing up i was obsessed with sanrio and still am to this day. I really like the simple design of the characters. I enjoy how cute and colorful they are. I like how the edges of the characters are not sharp instead they are round

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@moriahelizabeth on youtube

Moriah Elizabeth's Art style is overall just adorable, It reminds me much of my style but more polished. She does more 3D type of art. Like she does mostly Squishies and cute items.

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How can i describe living with a Mexican Mom is like to someone who doesn’t live with one

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Whenever you are sick, even if you have the slightest of a cold a mexican mother will most likely lather you up in pounds od "VapoRu" than taking you to a doctor. This is essential in a Mexican Home

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Growing up with my Mexican mother everytime i crossed the line or miss behaved her chancla would fly across the room and hit me in the head. I grew up to have a phobia of chanclas....I think every mexican child has

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Growing up i was very active and loved playing, of course playing will cause me to get hurt here and there so instead of kissing my booboos my mom would rub my “wound” and say Sana Sana Colita de Rana....and then kiss my booboos. and for some reason her doing that made me feel so much better

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Jackie, I am super in love with topic! I love the whimsical characters and the overall style that you have decided to work in. I think your choice of materials really suits your topic since embroidery has such a huge role in your family. I love the overall exploration of what is is like to live in a household with a Mexican mom as some of the traditions you are describing are some that have been passed down from generation to generation. Mitu is a latinx ran media network and they always publish super relatable content. If you haven't heard of them, here is the link to one of their articles.

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There's no denying Jessica Marie Garcia's vibrant, go-getter personality. She makes it known to audiences and fans both on and off-screen in her role as Jasmine in Netflix's coming-of-age comedy, "On My Block."

You know when Garcia walks into a room. She's just as bold, daring and warm-hearted as she appears around Freeridge, the fictional Los Angeles neighborhood OMB is set in.

Before season 3 started streaming, mitú caught up with Garcia in between breaks while filming on location in Burbank, California. She discussed big hoop energy, how she connected on a personal level with some of Jasmine's most emotional scenes, and how she unearthed more of her Mexican roots after moving to Los Angeles.

What audiences can be excited to see in season 3 is more dialogue between Jasmine and the 'core four,' especially with Jason Genao's character Ruby Martinez in a will-they-or-won't-they? crush dance throughout the current season.

A character with as much wise advice and heart as Jasmine needed to be given more lines and fans appreciate it.

If I had to describe Jessica Marie Garcia's portrait of Jasmine I would use the word scene stealer, because that's what she does: hats off to this amazing lady who was able to give three-dimensionality to such a brilliant and bold character.#OnMyBlock #OnMyBlockS3 pic.twitter.com/DJa0wbsqpz
- alberta ♡ (@nicedhampir) March 17, 2020

Dare we say Jasmine's energy is big hoop energy?

Garcia talked about how Jasmine's personalized earrings helped her step into some added fierceness before the camera started rolling.

"I was the one that had their ears pierced at three months old, ok. That's just like a given. Especially for Jasmine, hoops hold a lot of power. And even as an actor, her 'Jasmine' earrings that say Jasmine in them, I put a lot of that in Jasmine," Garcia says. "I put a lot of love and power on those hoop earrings. I always had hoops growing up. You had to be able to put your fists in them or they're not realistic. That's a thing. I want different sizes, different shapes. They're important for anyone really."

One of Jasmine's most relatable qualities was her ability to always see the positive in the direst of situations.

Jasmines character growth is the absolute best! She grown so much over these past three seasons. I don't think anyone else could have done a better job at playing this character than Jessica Marie Garcia. @JessMarieGarcia I already look up to you but I look up to you 10x more!
- Princesa🥵💕 (@cheerleader5687) March 14, 2020

Garcia was an advocate for her character to showcase this multidimensionality. She didn't want to have a character like Jasmine relegated to being a tag-along character on the outer orbit.

Representation on TV is better for it, especially when it comes to showing love and curves.

"Being a love interest, being a thicker girl and not having to be like the 'thing' they always talk about means everything to me because I don't think that we see that a lot on TV," Garcia says. "You know I just don't talk about being a thicker girl 24 hours a day, it's such a strange idea that that's all we can talk about, so I appreciated it, and I also felt a responsibility for all those girls watching, like 'OK, you gotta do it for me.' I'm just honored that it's me."

Ruby starts catching feelings for her in the show for who Jasmine is as a person and who she makes him feel when she's around him. And isn't that just the kind of amor bonito you want to wish upon some of TV's best breakout characters?

Audiences can also tell throughout the course of the show's three seasons that Jasmine is there for Ruby in a deeper sense than some of his fellow friends. As much as Ruby's friends try to support him after his PTSD, Jasmine truly gets what he is going through because of her dad's disability coming back from war.

Garcia knows as Jasmine that Ruby's PTSD will always affect him.

"I don't think that that is something Ruby as a character is ever not going to think about. You see even in these beautiful moments when we won that dance competition, and he was put in that place," Garcia says. "[It's good] for kids to know that these situations don't get cleaned up in 30 minutes. This is a lifetime of pain that he has to deal with and that's going to affect him as an adult. That's going to affect the choices he makes. And again, that loss of innocence, it's a huge part of him. He's never going to be season 1 Ruby. It was a near-death experience that will affect him-and the core four."

Garcia was able to tap into that emotion for such a pivotal scene like bringing Ruby around her family because she experienced that moment.

"I've lived with my grandparents my whole life and my grandmother had dementia when I was, I want to say 13 years old, she got a stroke and got dementia," Garcia says. "She moved out here and I was taking care of her out here with my mom. And it was something strange to have friends over, because I had to tell them she might scream or she might try to leave. It's never something that as a teenager, you want to feel more different, so having to explain that is always something that was scary to me. Because I was always like, are my friends going to be able to understand that?"

"So when I played that with Jasmine and I was introducing Ruby to her father, that was nerve-wracking because I wanted it to be something that I could be able to accept but a lot of people don't understand what that's like," Garcia recalls. "It was definitely a scene that I cared about a lot and I freaked out so much filming it. Just because as an actor we're neurotic and I always want another take, and I never think something is good enough," she continued.

It turned out to be one of the most-loved scenes by audiences of the show.

Only on e2 but i love the evolution of Ruby and Jasmine's friendship. Also love how they're addressing his PTSD/survivor's guilt #OnMyBlock
- Pippi Loansgotme (@mutual_feelings) March 31, 2019

Fans connected to it as they saw Ruby and Jasmine's friendship blossomed.

Garcia enjoys going through her fans' messages and is known to reply back personally and even screenshot them.

"I'm lucky enough to say I get them a lot [fan messages], and it's really just the message of being able to see that they see themselves in me. That is something that I will never get over because growing up, I didn't," Garcia admits. "I had to look onto other people in order to see any kind of representation. I say this all the time-Khadijah in Living Single is the reason why I'm here today. Seeing a thick, beautiful woman not be apologetic for any of that is what I wanted to see-but thinking like oh, I'll be that token person, you know? And I think if it's a White show, you have a Black friend or a Brown friend, but you never have both. And that's just not life. So the fact that we have a cast of people of color and not having to completely talk about that the whole time, just being real, is amazing. Those kinds of messages mean everything to me. I save all of them, I screenshot them. I love responding to fans. I love responding to beautiful people, yes!"

She loves to encourage her fans to learn more about filmmaking and writing in order to be the next generation of content creators.

"You can't decide that we're going to write for a certain demographic and then not have that demographic writing, it just doesn't make sense. That's why we have the same stories. It's exhausting," Garcia says. "I think we also have to encourage our youth to go into screenwriting and take film school and just write. That's the biggest thing is write down everything, because you'll learn that acting may be something you saw and saw yourself in and you'll find this love of this other craft because there are so many departments that make this a real thing."

Garcia has been able to explore more of her roots now that she is living in Los Angeles thanks to the show.

"When I was in Florida, it's a pretty mixed bag. But as far as Latinos, you're in Orlando, you're Puerto Rican. If you're in Miami, you're Cuban. And like that's it," Garcia recalls of Florida. "They used to call me 'Mexico' all the time in Orlando because it was so weird that I was Mexican (I don't know how it is now). Coming here, I was surrounded by people that looked like me, but I didn't know their traditions or anything, and then I just felt like I was missing out this whole time. So it's been a beautiful discovery actually. I don't speak Spanish, which is probably the bane of my existence, but I also think I speak for a lot of first-generation Latinos who understand it all, but when I speak it it's a little sad. I say a little prayer and a wish, but you know I'm learning, and that's part of it too."

Perhaps in season 4 Jasmine will get to practice her Spanish on the show in some phrases.

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15 #MexicanMomQuotes That We Can't Wait To Use On Our Own Kids

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If you've got a Mexican mom, you know they've always got a sly reply whenever you complain about being bored, lazy or hungry. You know, stuff like: When you get home late at night... Or take a late shower. And walk around barefoot. READ: #GrowingUpHispanic Means VapoRub, Walter Mercado, Chanclas,

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This one hits close to home, just like your other two saying lol
I cant wait to see this series come to life! Your artistic style is evident through every piece, you definitely have a style similar to your artist reference!

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Jackie, I wanted to share this articles here that talks a little more about the history of Embroidery in Mexico. Super informative resource!

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The History of Mexican Embroidery Mexican embroidery was originally created by the indigenous people. Nearly 80% of Mexico's indigenous live in eight of the 31 states: Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla, Yucatan, Guerrero, Hidalgo and México. The five predominant languages ​​spoken by indigenous peoples are Nahuatl (Aztec), followed by Mayan, Zapotec, Mixtec and Otomi.

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Growing up i knew my mother wasn't born here but i didn't know what the word immigrant. when i think of immigrant i think of beautiful butterflies who migrate for warm weather. i see my mother as a beautiful butterfly

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the is a common saying i head in my childhood. my mother and sometimes even my father would say this to me when i would be naughty. now i say it back to them

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i have always been a procrastinator , i get easily distracted by anything. my mom noticed it when i was younger so something she would tell me a lot would be "ponte las pilas" trying to get me to focus on the task i would be working on

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the smell of fabuloso brings me peace, (but only the purple one) my mothers favorite scent is lavender so of course shell get the lavender scented floor cleaner. When i smell this i think of my mom, i also think about the one time i slipped on the floor because of it

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dia de los muertos has always been my favorite holiday, my family takes it pretty seriously, When i think of day of the dead not only do i think about my cuklture but i think about my loved one looking after me in heaven