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Can confirm, this is one of my many side gigs. I take AE/Shein jewelry that looks like something a MMO mage or Walter Mercado would wear and say its lucky or for love or something for like 15 bux. What gets me is you can literally grab any random thing in your house say you blessed it with
or whatever and off you go. Hard part is this stuff goes in boom busts, could be holding onto it for months then suddenly all your items sell at once.
I shouldn't have sold my lucky cat buckle belt, I could have used it for a 70s costume, oh well.
Walter Mercado! That's a guy I had forgotten about.
I always thought it was hilarious that a guy who was so clearly and unashamedly grifting had Market for a last name.
I have fond memories of him. I grew up with him and drag queens on our local TV. Obviously it's not that there wasn't a veil of homophobia and transphobia around them, but I definitely feel like over here it's usually the case that gender non conformance is so politicized that you can only exist in marginal alternative media if you don't live up to a specific image that the boomers who still watch TV expect.
I only know about him because he would show up in ads promoting his late-late night show (which I couldn't watch coz it aired at like 2 am). Growing up it would've been unthinkable to show anything non-gender conforming on regular hours on TV. The only time was when Betty la fea had Don Armando cross dress as a punchline.
No Druxila Divine over there? Dang.
The name rings a bell but I don't think she was ever a thing where I'm from.
Divine was a very big drag queen in the US, we got our own version who basically just stole her whole thing? I don't know honestly, I only have some vague memories myself.
Nothing like going into the living room talking to be greeted by shushes, everyone's around the TV listening intently to 'el mentiroso' for their horoscope like an absolutely major world-shattering announcement gonna drop, and my luck near everyone, even my grandma was a Sagittarius, so whatever I needed to say was gonna wait a good long min while you could hear a mouse fart. I had a bit of a crush on him when I was little tho, lol.