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NOOOOO

im at chapter 20/27 of dracula rn and i love renfield so much omg

i would look him up but im so deathly afraid of being spoilered in any way

i like how he eats spiders and flies and vomited feathers once indicating he also ate his birds but he hasnt been doing that lately :(

id love for him to either turn out to be a vampire (it would lowkey make sense) or for him to become rational enough (or so it would seem) to join the vampire hunting gang

Weird lil comic I made based off a real experience I had while my eldest sister drove me somewhere (Quetzalcoatl’s name replaces my other older sister)

PFFF TYANK YOU

Do you want us to stab dictators like what

Do you want us to stab dictators like what

YAAAA I LOVE THAT FILM

Bet no one expected me to draw THESE guys again, anyways I rewatched The Five Suns and can’t stop thinkin’ about the tezcatlipocas playing their ballgame — also I codex borgia’d your 0zzy

YOOOOO

My modern Tez! For some reason I really like drawing him in modern clothes

The fluffy hair was cute but I decided to give him braids cause it'd be more accurate

Happy new year apparently because I forgot today was the day lmao

Warning for nonsexual top nudity!

So I was originally gonna draw big naturals Tecciztecatl as a joke but I just ended drawing fem Metztli minus her rabbit scar because I was lazy

Plus all the refs I used because my canvas is always cluttered

I saw someone say this image of Tecciztecatl looked like he had a tit out which I can’t unsee

I know it’s his stomach but I can see it-

Off topic but why did this remind me to go work on my crow project

me unfortunately

Tezcatlipoca that one time he turned himself into a woman with a fat ass to fuck with Huemac (yes that happened)

its my gender and i get to pick the appropriate times to misgender myself for comedic purposes

I am NOT answering that

Wow now I’m scared of my upcoming Alaska trip

One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it's the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.

For context here is a picture

Big stimboard but still

Sometimes the things I say while explaining mythology sound weird out of context. I was talking about the creation of bats and i genuinely said “well it started when Quetzalcoatl was straight jorkin it”

Why did he dress like my rich sister 😭

I don't think Montezuma wore those last 2

Thank you Toastedclownery for reminding me that the sun was dark i somehow forgot about that detail 😭

I’ve had enough —Quetzalcoatl for some reason

Do you think they asked him to pose like this or he just did that /ref

Accurate to his character honestly

yeah, sorry… your boyfriend was was made to peep the horror by Tezcatipoltca … yeah he's neurodivergent now… sorry

(creator added: for context, this is Tezcatipoltca:)

Oh the pain

I’ve had enough —Quetzalcoatl for some reason

Garbage bracelet because why not

Also the room I’m in smells like piss and cinnamon applesauce

Us as Chalchiuhtlicue

Chalchiuhtlicue, "Jade Skirt", is the goddess of lakes, rivers, and the sea. She's known for being the second wife of the rain god Tlaloc, and she's most commonly the Fourth Sun in the five sun legend.

Chalchiutlicue will often be depicted sitting on a throne with a stream of water flowing from her skirt.

Now, water looks like this in some Aztec codices. These are taken from Codex Mendoza, I was able to find these and the glyphs further down this post in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs online!

So water is parted like this, and it has these circle and tear-drop shaped shells on each end.

Here are some representations of Chalchiuhtlicue with water illustrated in the same way. Note that she also tends to have people swimming in there, and other objects.

I thought the strands of water looked similar to Us' tentacles from their bioship. They also use these tentacles to hold the others' ships in ep3, much like Chalchiuhtlicue has people inside her streams of water.

The way their limbs look in their physical form resembles the way the goddess' water flows, too

Another reference to water could be the design of Beebs' guitar. It has an ocean wave on it.

Beebs' god is Xipe Totec, and as far as I know he has no relation to the sea or water, but Us' does! The guitar belongs to Beebs, yes, but it's the fact that he uses it to communicate with Us, and the instrument becomes associated with Us, that it makes me think it's a reference to Chalchiuhtlicue, since she is the goddess of bodies of water.

Speaking of, in Beebs' post I said his guitar could be a reference to Xipe's rattlestaff, the chicahuaztli. This is an object that both Xipe and Chalchiuhtlicue can be seen carrying, along with a couple other gods.

Us makes a certain sound in Scratch's flashback, like that of a rattle (21:00) But it might be me going crazy.

I also considered Them to be designed to resemble a chicahuaztli, but that is a stretch, too.

Another important element of Chalchiuhtlicue's iconography is that she has a pair of tassels on the sides of her head, and her dress is also adorned with small tassels. This can be seen in codices as well as in statues of her.

Us has these drops of a black liquid beneath their cap, hanging by on the sides of their head. This is because they're based on an actual mushroom, the inky cap mushroom!

These drops could be a reference to the tassels perhaps?

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Next I wanna talk about this symbol on the cap of Us' bioship

This is an example of a quincunx, it's a geometric pattern consisting of five elements: four of them form a square, and the fifth one is placed in the middle.

Symbols like this one appear in monkey wrench, from subtle places like the dice in the casino

To the decorations in the bar and the restaurant, as well as the inside of Beebs' arm!

Why am I bringing this up? The Mexica used the quincunx a lot, in a variety of ways, but also with circles like we see in the show, so we're gonna focus on those here

They also used very similar circles for a couple of glyphs, such as these

I wanna bring attention to that fourth one. Chalchiuhtlicue's name consists of two words: chalchihuitl, "jade", and cueitl, "skirt". The symbol for jade looks the most similar to Us' eyes, with the texture of a jade in the middle.

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Lastly there is one more thing that Us and Chalchiuhtlicue have in common, thematically.

In the Legend Of The Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue is the Fourth Sun (although other versions exist). The way that her era ended was that Tezcatlipoca accused her of faking her love for humans to get praise. She cried for hundreds of years, flooding the whole world, and the humans that lived there turned into fish.

Us is the first and so far the only character to cry in the series, in a non-comical way. It's in this scene that the show takes a more serious tone.

Us is, arguably, a somber and sad character, especially after the loss of Them. Both Us and the goddess also seem to have strong reactions to their circumstances, seeing how Us was willing to join Them when they accepted that there was no help for their friend.

It is also worth mentioning that their bioship and their phantom form move like a jellyfish, like a sea creature.

List

I looked it up because I couldn’t remember if I knew off the top of my head

W-

Why is safe search on

- Us being based on an "inky cap" mushroom

- Shrike being a squid, an animal known for producing ink

- "Ink Stations"

- Agent K being pure black, possibly named after the K in CMYK

So many references to ink! But surely this is a worldbuilding element not related to the five sun theory whatsoever! It's not like there's an Aztec god of ink or something

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YIPPE E you are braver than I

i tried animating (kinda??) nana and tecciz in capcut and it got SO. LAGGY. I COULD COUNT THE FRAMES I FELT LIKE MY PHONE WAS ABOUT TO STOP WORKING ALTOGETHER and its too laggy to make anything better than this i fear but i had fun... (i think)

oh well. practice makes perfect, and i wanted to practice. im only posting this bc i havent rly posted much abt aztec gods in a while and its not too embarrassing (i think)

i had so much issues with getting tecciztecatls hair right in capcut oh my god. the boing was fun to make tho (i think)

We add another petroglyph drawing, this one is from La Guaira 👀

I'm still not sure about the thing on his head... Should it be more human? More a deity and floating? Of all the ideas I had, the fourth one liked me most but honestly I accept suggestions

I would like to add more elements of the place where it was found (Closer to the sea) so we will see what I can do. I hope you like! 🤗

So I found out the lobster was one of Tezcatlipoca’s animals

Thank you randomly generated posts machine.

Diversity win! Tezcatipoltca is obvious plant

Tezcatlipoca: Hey Tlaloc, Xochiquetzal is my comfort character so I need you to divorce her so I can marry her.

Tlaloc: What, no.

Xochiquetzal: I'm his comfort character, you have to. Also we're unleashing a social media mob on you.

*Tlaloc wakes up in a cold sweat in Tlalocan*

Tlaloc: Right, it was just a dream. I'm going to go cause a drought to cope.

Aztec mythology headcanons two!

Nanahuatzin uses mobility aids

Tecciztecatl plays with the children in Tlalocan (this is actually based off of something I found in mexicolore)

(So cute)

Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl used to drag Xipe Totec into their fights when they were little to ask who was in the right (I was Xipe Totec to my niece and nephew. So much chaos)

Quetzalcoatl doesn’t pick up the cues that he’s being an asshole

Tezcatlipoca has had a chair thrown at him before

Tecciztecatl has a plushie snail somewhere. He denies it when you ask. But it’s there.

Chalchiuhtlicue gives great hugs

Last list here!