- Sol De MesoAmerica
Did a slight retouch on Tonatiuh! I’ll try to do more content with him!
Background ☀️
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Here's my other piece for the @wildwestalia zine: an 8 page comic between Prussia and Mexico!
Mexico has had some Germanic influences over the years, especially during the "Wild West" era when an influx of German immigrants came over to the US, first during the 1840s, then again during the 1880s. To this day, you can still see some of the German influences in Mexico, especially in the ranchera music that started in Northern Mexico.
I also created this as a sort of homage to my own Germanic ancestry, specifically during the 1880s when my great-great grandparents met each other. I may have also some more German ancestry from the Prussian Deal of 1842, when some Prussian nobles tried to create Fredericksburg in Texas but fumbled it badly, but that's still debated in my family, and is a funny historical event for another time.
I hope you enjoyed the gay cowboys~ I'm definitely gonna draw them more, I love them dearly :)
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tbh, one headcanon i have about younger alfred is also how...while the old world nations from belgium to spain to russia to morocco were curious about him in the 'oho, arthur's upstart son punched him in the balls lmaoooo that's gotta be good' way—he was very much seen as more provincial, kind of a country bumpkin and definitely less impressive than maría (my headcanon name for mexico). whom i think was perceived as a cultured and urbane young woman who was far more important in the eyes of many of the old world empires from europe to asia. the silver trade welded the world economy together like never before, and in the 1700s, the massive amounts of silver mined in colonial mexico flowed all the way across the world from spain to the coffers of qing dynasty china. silver and gold is king, after all—and it is mexico, not america, who is at the centre of that. for all the grandiosity with which alfred will at times later frame his beginnings as providential or see it as some sort of destiny, with the whole underdog 'colony to world power narrative'—once upon a time, he really wasn't that important, and it was others who turned heads when they walked into a room, not him.
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Okayy I just came back from the dead (I was sick) to finish this cute commission for @dahliamorena <33
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MYTHTALIA MARCH
List of some mythological creatures/figures for inspiration:
-Selkie, Will o’ the Wisp, Wolfwalker
-Harpy, Nymph, Centaur
-Lamia, Siren, Sphinx
-Odysseus, Athena, Heracles
-Yuki-onna, Kitsune, Oni
-Circe, Calypso, Poseidon, Cassandra
-Valkyrie, Giant, Dwarf
-Loki, Thor, Odin
-Dullahan, Banshee, Changeling
-Huldra, Lorelei
-Frey, Freyja, Ymir
-Osiris, Nephthys, Amun
-Arachne, Medusa/Gorgon, Echidna
-Mars, Venus, Pluto
-Tsurara-onna, Kuchisake-onna
-Tengu, Kaguya, Ameterasu
-Adonis, Galatea, Hecate
-Chang'e, Hou Yi
-Rusalka, Baba Yaga, Alkonost
The HWS characters can be these creatures/figures (e.g. nyo Japan as Kaguya, France as Adonis, Russia as a centaur, nyo China as Chang'e, Egypt as Osiris)...
...or interact with them (e.g. Ireland following Wisps, England meeting Hecate, America running from the Dullahan/Headless Horseman).
Doing both is also an option (e.g. human Lithuania interacting with rusalka Belarus).
Link to Prompt Themes
@hetaliahappenings @nsfhetalia @heta-on-the-books @hetaliacalendar
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MXPH/PHMX my ride or die ship orz
both mexico belongs to @aphmexphil!!!
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It's super cold over where I live, so to cheer my spirits I decided to draw my Mexico oc with America and Canada having a wintery stroll to look at the lights on the trees. Mexico is exactly how I feel whenever I go outside in the snow lol
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imo, one thing that is quite interesting but often overlooked by anglophone commentary about meiji japan, is the history between mexico and japan. such as mexico's role in the repudiation of japan's unequal treaties that granted western powers privileges including extraterritoriality. because mexico was the very first country that agreed to sign an equal treaty with japan (and this came to fruition in 1888), when japan was seeking to test the diplomatic waters of revising all the unequal treaties.
on a more human level, i think maría (my personal headcanon name for mexico) understands certain aspects of the conundrum kiku was in quite well: having your hand forced, and your politics upended by alfred. after all, that's one person she knows very well for good and ill. and then there's the 1600s hasekura mission before that, where the japanese emissaries visited what was then new spain before isolationism. she and kiku might have some very interesting conversations, imo 🤔.
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i learned that the word for saudi in spanish was saudita and i ain't never stopped thinking about it since
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