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Xi'toh - bed
Ka'naii - tired
hi! if this isn't a silly question, i've noticed you've self-reblogged Ti'Vheh'nii more than the other pages! i'm curious what makes you particularly excited about that one! i'd love to hear your thoughts
Theres so much In my comic that I love to include, so many influences blending together in and out. Mixtec is so Important to me, so it's really deeply embedded into the themes and narrative
This is one of my favorite panels I've drawn recently, Im interested in machinery and pipes and tubes, I always focus on machinery And pipes and buttons
I try to make them look like faces, I specifically drawn them in ways that you can kinda wonder if they're some kinda creature, blending the line between organic and mechanical...
Giovanna speaking to the butterfly with her own psychic powers is also something I really wanna focus on, I want to make a theme with Giovanna with being heard and being listened to.... Her power is related to listening so it's something important I wanna highlight
Her background is specifically this image I got off of Wikipedia, I think this is so poetic
note the harmonics occurring at whole number multiples of the fundamental frequency
LIKE THAT'S SO COOL
Different things resonate at different frequencies and I wanna capture that in so many abstract ways in my comic!!!!
From my own language to the word being a literal expression of gratitude to the butterfly being believed to cross the line between life and the afterlife to Lali herself being an immigrant herself crossing a literal fault to the name cosmic fault to Giovanna being someone who can read these signals and interpret them to her own goal of being a radio station announcer
Oughhhhhhh there's so much I want to share and express with my work and I want everyone to see it!!!!!!
yo'kachoon - I have lots of work
Yo'er'tolo - I made a mistake
Ruinas de Monte Alban, Oaxaca, 1979.
¡Mañana es el cinco de mayo, un día festivo importante en México!
Ti'Vheh'nii - Thank You "May Your Home Be In Heaven"
I spoke this one time to another mixtec speaker, and i was shocked, apparently their phrase for thank you was incredibly similar, almost like "ti-ve'e-indivi" literally meaning "may your house be in the sky" I always took this to mean simply "thank you" I am grateful that this phrase is kind of spread far and wide.
in my mixtec my family keeps telling me purple is not a color, if you refer to something purple, refer to it as "ndii" or a deep blue
But things like tortillas can be "hita'ndaa" or purple maize could be referred to as "Nu'ni'nda"
Maize can come in so many colors and this strange paradox definitely tells me that there's a story behind purple maize in mixtec.... It's definitely a really cool color
My family consistently has stories of "Inga-nayivi" or duendes!!! Inga-nayivi literally means "other people" and that lead me to grow up thinking as aliens as basically "other people" and not like cosmic horror entities from beyond our comprehension, I would always be confused by alien horror media because I would emphasize with the greys a bit more lmao
This fits in with so many other stories of "The Others" that I've heard from all around the world. It's so cool to see the connections and similarities.
Also I empathize with the greys as well. Beam me back up!!