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Acting is very much a profession that is you’re hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that’s what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
And I tried to buy your pretty heart, but the price too high
Baby you got me like oh, mm
You love when I fall apart (fall apart)
So you can put me together
And throw me against the wall
Name: Morales, Aida
Aliases: Delirium
Record ID: #M3495A41476
Nationality: American | Citizen: Yes
Gender: Female | Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic
Origin: Miami, FL; Los Angeles CA
Height: 67” | Weight: 131
Eye color: Brown | Hair color: Brown
DOB: 10 09 86 | Age: 30
Characteristics: Essokinesis; agile and flexible
Remarks: Ability to warp reality through skin-to-skin contact; persuasive and deceptive
Arrest and sentencing info
Date 09/21/15
Offence code 8-701
Institution Belle Reve Prison
Charge & description Accessory to murder, theft, aiding illegal immigrants, drug dealing
Term 32 Y 3 M 15 D
Notes: Born in Miami to a Cuban-Puerto Rican family and relocated to LA at a young age, Aida Morales developed her reality-warping ability early in her childhood. Having been orphaned in her teens, she became gradually involved in gang activity and criminal acts such as arm smuggling and drug dealing. After a deal gone wrong which resulted in the death of many of her gang members, Morales seemingly disappeared from the criminal scene of East Los Angeles, only to reappear several years later, once again getting involved with drug dealing. Her romantic relationship with Los Azules gang leader and coyote Ernesto “Mecha” Quinones also led her to aid illegal immigrants, often using her powers to confuse and trick border patrol officers. However, the main use of her powers was as an alternative to drugs, known as “Delirium”, where she would create artificial realities for Quinones’ highest-paying customers in a section of the night club he managed. After repeatedly using her meta human ability to avoid arrest, Morales was finally arrested during a raid in mid-September 2015, the police being made aware of her powers by an anonymous informant. She was convicted on several charges of theft, smuggling and dealing of arms and illegal substances, aiding of illegal immigrants and accessory to murder.
Other info: Due to the nature of her meta human power, it is unknown whether she was involved in the suicides and murders of various gang leaders around late fall 2013, and it is therefore not reflected on her charges. Unclear whether she had any sort of relationship with fellow LA gang member Chato “El Diablo” Santana, as reports vary on if and when they were seen together before imprisonment.
* Required to wear full arm gloves when out of her cell. *
** Officers to come into contact with her must wear full body suits at all times without exception. **
You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome? Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.
FEAR NOT.
Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!
GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.
Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.
Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks. Also multidisciplinary.
Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more. Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.
Europeana- Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.
Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.
Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too. Free! And legal! They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.
College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies. Because that’s what I do.
Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.
LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.
Elsevier Open Access- Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this. Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.