#argentinian mythology

[weaselbeaselpants]

Related to my last reblog from decolonize the left but....why is it native American mythologies' get to have all the creepy deer monsterthings? I'm not saying North America doesn't have cool deer that are scary as shit it's just deer are kind of all over the world and terrifying and why is it when we only talk about deer-monsters it has to be in the context of the w*nd*go?? ((which, again, aren't even deer things in their og descriptions they're horrifying but they aren't deer))

Perytons from Argentinian mythology are pretty winged deer that also shapeshift and eat people. No really.

I'm sure the Norse have all sorts of disturbing mythos based on their red deer like the one that guards Yggdrasil (norse experts feel free to roast me for not remembering the name of the stag).

Honest thought but are people maybe confusing w*nd*gos with deer-women? That's seriously the only Indigenous American thing I can think of that makes and big mention of deer at all, horror or not. And even then I think it's best to just stay clear and away from Native cultures when you aren't native yourself.

[byfulcrums]

Greek gods can give themselves whatever accent they want, when Artemis speaks Spanish she gives herself an Argentinian accent no I am not taking criticism

[lilicmoonlight]

[new-dinosaurs]

Titanomachya gimenezi Pérez-Moreno et al., 2024 (new genus and species)

(Humerus [upper arm bone] of Titanomachya gimenezi [scale bar = 10 cm], from Pérez-Moreno et al., 2024)

Meaning of name: Titanomachya = for the Titanomachy [war between Olympians and Titans in Greek mythology]; gimenezi = for Olga Giménez [Argentinian paleontologist]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

Where found: La Colonia Formation, Chubut, Argentina

How much is known: Partial skeleton of one individual including several limb bones and an incomplete tail vertebra.

Notes: Titanomachya was a titanosaurian sauropod. Titanosaurs included the largest known land animals of all time, and many species are thought to have weighed well over 10 tons. Titanomachya was not so large by comparison, estimated as having weighed between 5.8–9.8 tons. However, it appears to have been more massive than some other relatively small South American titanosaurs like Saltasaurus and Neuquensaurus, which it appears to have been closely related to.

Titanomachya had a distinctive structure of its ankle compared to other titanosaurs. One of its ankle bones (the astragalus) was symmetrical, giving this bone a trapezoidal shape when viewed from the front.

(Schematic skeletal of Titanomachya gimenezi by Gabriel Lio, with preserved bones in blue, from Pérez-Moreno et al., 2024)

Reference: Pérez-Moreno, A., L. Salgado, J.L. Carballido, A. Oter, and D. Pol. 2024. A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina. Historical Biology advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997

[mythologyolympics]

Mythology Olympics tournament round 1

Propaganda!

Tláloc is the god of rain in Aztec religion. He was also a deity of earthly fertility and water, worshipped as a giver of life and sustenance. This came to be due to many rituals, and sacrifices that were held in his name. He was feared, but not maliciously, for his power over hail, thunder, lightning, and even rain. He is also associated with caves, springs, and mountains, most specifically the sacred mountain where he was believed to reside. Cerro Tláloc is very important in understanding how rituals surrounding this deity played out. His followers were one of the oldest and most universal in ancient Mexico.

The Luisón is one of the seven legendary beasts of Paraguay, and is the seventh and last son of Tau and Kerana. He appeared to be a giant dog, and was said to be extremely ugly, even horrendous looking. The myth says that in a family with seven male children, the last child will become Luisón.

Propaganda from the submitter:

If you heard about the argentinian law that the seventh son born in a family is to be protected/blessed by the president this is why. The belief that the seventh son born in a family transforms in a werebeast led to some families to be fearful of the child and only with the president as godfather could the curse begone.

[eirikrjs]

So there this analogue horror series called "valle verde" (one of the few good ones imo) in that series moloch appears (they don't actually said his name but it's obviously supposed to be him) in what interested me aside that the design has some silent hill vibes, it's the fact he has four arms, kinda like megaten's which im pretty sure it originates from megami tensei 2 and doesnt have mythological basis. If that the case, i think it's another design that cribs from kaneko like that one from this website https://izfact.net/devil/moloch.html

i don't know of four armes moloch is that popular in Japan but hey

This is interesting!

I very much doubt MT2 Moloch is the origin of this weird, specific choice to give him 4 arms. If I had to guess, he was probably depicted that way in some random image that made its way into one of the Japanese book series of dubious veracity like the Jaguar/Dragon books or Truth in Fantasy, albeit misnamed. I have all the relevant Jaguar/Dragon books now, so I'll check.

Okay, so Moloch is in all the demon-themed volumes, all using this same illustration:

Not what I suspected/expected. However, I did find a great example of what I was talking about re: misnamed images in these books:

(from 悪魔全書) Here we have an obviously Indian deity (I don't know which one, perhaps Vishvarupa) given the name of ダンタリアン/Dantalian, the Goetic demon. And it's kind of easy to understand why they chose to do this, since Dantalian is one of the Goetia demons that does not have a corresponding Dictionnaire Infernal illustration and this deity has many heads, which Dantalian is also supposed to have. But still, an out of context image is an out of context image. This is why I figure Moloch's name was slapped onto an image of some four-armed figure, a feature more common in South and Eastern Asian religion and myth than West Asian. This idea then spreads into Megaten and then, presumably, to this Argentinian web series. It's always at least a little fascinating to trace the trajectory of (probable) misinformation minutiae such as this.

[spidersinmysoup]

Person who learned about Argentinian/ south american mythology via tik tok videos : this sounds a lot like basic south american mythology from tik tok videos

[tinydefector]

HUMAN AND CYBERTRONIANS

Biology, culture, and differences.

Parental bots

Cybertronian mythology

Domestic Cybertron AU

Impact Play - Smut talk

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

reading roundup: February 2024

I literally completely forgot I needed to do this oopsie poopsie

WHAT DID I READ IN FEBRUARY!!! LET'S TALK ABOUT IT!!!!

Rouge (Mona Awad, 2023) - listen. there are some very cool ideas in this book, and it's definitely big creepy in places. some of the childhood flashbacks, in particular, had me shrieking with pure dread. but ultimately my issue with this book is the same as my issue with Awad's most well-known novel, Bunny: I would just... kind of like to understand what's going on? like even a little bit? at literally any time? you don't need to explain everything, but man, give me something. vibes alone do not make a meal, and I left this book not really feeling fed.

Our Share of Night (Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell 2023) - god, this book makes you WORK FOR IT, but I'm glad I stuck it out. Enríquez has written a fucking doorstopper of intergenerational drama, about an Argentinian family deeply embroiled in a cult that worships something otherworldly and... hungry. perpetually sickly Juan is the Order's prized prophet, but after his wife's death is orchestrated by her own mother he becomes determined to get their young son, Gaspar, away from the Order's control by any means necessary. a wrenching read that swings through every kind of horror, swinging from the supernatural to Argentina's military dictatorship in the 70s to the AIDS epidemic in the 80s and 90s to an absolutely brutal ending.

Red String Theory (Lauren Kung Jessen, 2024) - some of you may recall that Lauren Kung Jessen wrote Lunar Love, one of my favorite romance novels of last year thanks to a zodiac-obsessed protagonist who's (unintentionally) giving major Rebecca Bunch pre-diagnosis in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend vibes. Red String Theory also has a female lead obsessed with mythological matchmaking, so I was really hoping for another unhinged queen, but please don't make my mistake: everyone in this book is devastatingly hinged, and the only real conflict is two characters who like each other from the jump repeatedly coming up with unsatisfying excuses for why they can't date each other. my least favorite was "we'll only in the same city for A YEAR," which is absolutely hogshit wild. "only a year." get out of here. I hate you guys.

Drinking from Graveyard Wells (Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, 2023) - a tiny short story debut by Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean sarungano. one of my very favorite genre of short story collections is "women having a bad time taken up to 11," and god does this deliver. Ndlovu writes about the many indignities heaped upon Zimbabwean women at home and abroad, weaving together tight stories about misogyny, war, poverty, and immigration with restless spirits, bored gods, ignored wise women, and unsatisfactory afterlives. there's a story about a near future in which diamond miners are purposefully set up and sacrificed to an angry underground god to create more diamonds that was so fucking clever, and the final story - the titular Drinking from Graveyard Wells - was just... an absolutely perfect short story. suspenseful and eerie and just enough of a hint of explanation to really chill you. chef's kiss.

It Happened One Summer (Tessa Bailey, 2021) - shout out to all of my patreon supporters who voted to make me read another Tessa Bailey book; you truly wish darkness and despair upon me. here's the insane thing about this book: if you just completely ignore the actual central romance, it's just a sweet book about an infinitely likeable young woman unplugging from her shallow socialite life and finding a new niche reviving her deceased father's bar in a tiny fishing town in Washington. it's like, you know, the plot of a pretty okay disney channel original movie? it's no Minute Men or High School Musical, but it's cute. it's a solid Dairy Girls or Princess Protection Program. but then there's the love interest, who's just a fucking tool all the way down. reader, I kept wishing he would get swept over the rigging of his own crab boat and die ingloriously at sea. this guy sucks so bad. also the sex scenes were identical to the ones in Unfortunately Yours and they did not taste any better reheated. fascinating treatise on cishetero gender norms, rancid romance. I wrote a whole thing about it on my patreon if you're into that kind of nastiness.

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tv shows/media: SUPERNATURAL, criminal minds, bridgerton, HOUSE M.D, stranger things, DAREDEVIL, the walking dead, HAIKYŪ!, GAME OF THRONES, DC, MARVEL, F1.

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movies: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (2012), Pretty Woman (1990), Dead Poets Society (1989), Conclave (2024), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Donnie Darko (2001).

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music: Taylor Swift, Hozier, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Ethel Cain, Stray Kids, Jeff Buckley, Sade, MCR, The 1975, Harry Styles, Gorillaz (well, basically everything. sorry).

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actors/celebrities: Anya Taylor Joy, Sturniolo Triplets, Logan Lerman, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Tom Holland, Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Meryl Streep, Matthew Gray Gubler, Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley.

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favorite fictional characters: Sam and Dean Winchester, Neil Perry, Derek Morgan, Jon Snow, Mabel and Dipper Pines, Garfield, Kenma Kozume (he's literally that one mashup of the lakes x i hate it here), Osamu Miya, Ushijima Wakatoshi, Robin Buckley, Jonathan Byers, Peter Parker, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Frank Castle, Matt Murdock.

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things i like: history, mythology, comics, perfumes, writing, trinkets, theatre, dramas.

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things i dislike: elon musk, donald trump, wincesties, sam winchester haters.

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[aprilthearcher]

#(out and) about!

april - argentinian - she/her - 21 - Tarot reader

#masterlist

↬ interests: greek mythology, harry potter saga, six of crows & crooked kingdom, percy jackson, criminal minds, game of thrones, latinoamerican literature, dune... 

[wordsandrobots]

IBO reference notes on . . . odds and ends

I have begun writing another big notes entry but it's a heavy one and requires visuals, so I suspect it'll be a while before it's done.

In the meantime, here are a few jottings on various random things in Iron-Blooded Orphans I thought worth commenting upon.

Naming conventions

The headline one, obviously, is the Gundams being named for the demons listed in the Ars Goetia. This we eventually discover is an in-universe response to the naming convention used for the mobile armours the Gundam frame mobile suits were developed to take down. Each mobile armour is named for a angelic figure: Hashmal is named for a class of angel while Harael, Mebahiah, Nemamiah and Ananel are all apparently derived from the Shem HaMephorash. It would be neat if all the names came from John Reuchlin's list of 72, which corresponds directly to the goetic demons but Hashmal nixes that idea.

It's also unclear if the names are for individual units or if they represent different lines or categories of armours. I tend towards the latter, simply based on the scale at which the Calamity War is presented as happening. This is somewhat tenuously is backed up by the Iron-Blooded Orphans G mobile game (RIP) presenting the player with a battle against 'Ananel Alpha' and the flashback in the Urdr Hunt campaign seeming to show Gundam Marchosias fighting a pair of Haraels. Though I must admit, I've watched that clip a few times and still cannot quite make up my mind it if represents two Haraels or just the multiple perspectives of Harael's claw eyes.

In any case, it seems that whoever named the Gundams had enough sense of drama to designate their 'angel hunters' as actual demons. And yet, the overall organisation that operated them -- Gjallarhorn -- embraced quite a different tradition.

This was of course Norse mythology. Each family in the Seven Stars ruling council has heraldry based on a different beast from the sagas (Odin's Ravens, Fenrir, Sleipnir, Jörmungandr, Nidhogg, Veðrfölnir (probably), and Ratatoskr). They have bases named Vingólf and Gladsheimr. Their mobile suits are derived from a set of machines named after Wagnerian valkyries, and they designate various different types of 'suit using German words. And of course, 'Gjallarhorn' itself is the name of the horn that sounds the start of Ragnarök (fitting, for a group formed to prevent the apocalypse). Plus, you know, there's Vidar's whole deal.

Curiously, there is an additional use of a Norse name in the setting: the Garm Rodi, a seemingly unaffiliated type of mobile suit primarily seen in use by the Dawn Horizon pirates. Given this is an instance of mythological naming in a line that otherwise has prefixes like 'Spinner', 'Landman' and 'Monkey', I wonder if perhaps this indicates the type of machine used by Gjallarhorn prior to the development of the Valkyrja and Gundam frames (these both belong to the late Calamity War period, whereas Rodis were deployed during the middle period; no we have no idea how long each period lasted). I haven't any particular reason for thinking this beyond it being named for the dog that guards Hel, but given Norse names are otherwise entirely restricted to Gjallarhorn, it would almost be weirder if there wasn't a connection.

(The Garm is also noted for its versatility, which puts it in the same bracket as the general-purpose Graze frame that has become Gjallarhorn's mainstay.)

Speaking of mobile suit lines, the Hexa frame stands out for having different types designated using people's names: Hugo, Gilda and Enzo. A quick web search for the three names in conjunction returns the Argentinian film Una Cita con la vida, directed by Hugo del Carril, starring Gilda Lousek and Enzo Viena. I do not know if there is any connection there, out of fiction, but it struck me as an intriguing coincidence.

Then we have Teiwaz naming their mobile suits using romanised Japanese words: Hyakuren, Hyakuri, Rouei, Shiden, Hekija. Not much to say about that, since it fits exactly with their Japanese/Italian fusion mafia aesthetics. Although, I suppose we should shout out the Chief's bonkers suffixes. Lupus Rex? Rebake Full City? Jeepers.

Finally, I'd like to draw attention to how the Ariadne Network fits into all this, or rather how it doesn't. It's named for the myth of the Minotaur and how Ariadne gave Theseus a guiding thread to help map his way through the labyrinth. Fitting for a network of navigation beacons. However, as a piece of technology, it's an outlier, named for a Greek myth despite being under the control of Gjallarhorn.

The implication is that the Network predates both them and indeed the Calamity War, with the use of Ahab reactors in its construction being cited as a cause of said War, by virtue of preventing long-range communication and observation. Should we therefore take from this that pre-Calamity War devices follow a Greco-Roman naming convention ala the US space program? There are other Greek names used in the setting, specifically for the regions into which Mars is divided, following the actual real-world mapping of the Red Planet's geography, so I wouldn't want to rule out such a conclusion -- particularly with the way English is used in the setting. But on the other hand, it could simply be that the Network's function made this particular allusion irresistible.

Currency

There are two canonical currencies: the galar and the meria. As far as I can tell, the galar is exclusively mentioned in the context of Mars, and is therefore presumably related to Gjallarhorn's rule of the planet. Meanwhile the meria is used in the two spin-offs, Moon Steel and Urdr Hunt, both of which take place on or around space colonies. Whether this means the meria is primarily a space-based currency, or just a widely used currency in general is unclear.

Mostly I just think this is worth noting for the potential implications the galar has for Mars' situation: if the money in circulation there is directly controlled by Gjallarhorn, then that represents an added obstacle to independence. And given so much of Kudelia's efforts are focused on achieving greater economic freedom from Earth, it's an interesting detail to consider.

Oh, and apparently paper-like money is still in vogue in the Post-Disaster timeline. Which seems a bit odd, since paper itself is counted as a marker of wealth (explicitly stated in the translation of the CGS promo website linked from Gundam wiki; implied in the series by things like how we only ever see real books in the hands of the upper classes).

In Moon Steel, Tanto Tempo's members use paper files and documents, presumably because being part of an Earth-adjacent company, they can afford it. This makes me wonder about the source of the material. Do space colonies grow and recycle their own paper? Is that another layer to money's value in this setting? Or is the case made from some other material?

Food for thought, at least.

This excavator

Because first of all, it's an adorable piece of design work. And second, it's a rare example of non-mobile suit robotics in the setting.

Most Gundam shows have some sort of 'sub-mobile suit' category of mecha, be that a cruder precursor to the humanoid robot suits that are the mainstay of the franchise or a more utilitarian, often civilian variety of machine used for maintenance and construction work. Iron-Blooded Orphan's mobile workers are, however, mostly seen in military configurations, operating as small, extremely manoeuvrable tanks. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to classify them as mecha in their own right -- they have moveable 'legs' and on the type Tekkadan uses at least, the cannons operate in an arm-like fashion. But overall, they are generally more tank-like than anything else. The only civilian use we see from them is as a flat-bed truck. Indeed, when construction work in the space colonies comes up, it is specifically mobile suits that are cited as being used.

This excavator, which shows up in the background of the main series and has very slightly more presence during the Urdr Hunt game, makes it clear there are in fact mobile worker-like machines with entirely non-military uses. The arms appear to articulate in ways that set it apart from a real-world excavator, suggesting it operates in a more human-like fashion than your average JCB, and the armatures holding it up resemble mobile workers, only in a more stable four-point layout than the otherwise ubiquitous tripod arrangement.

It's a nice touch, extending the sci fi conceits throughout the world-building. It also stands out because so many of the vehicles shown beyond the obligatory humanoid mecha are simply . . . mundane. The cars, trains and even the fighter jets are little different than those we'd see around us today. Having something like this show up helps avoid the sense of the mobile suits being fantastical devices with no connection to the rest of the technological landscape, and gestures at mobile workers having uses that would earn them that name.

Gjallarhorn's plastic macs

I just love how utterly dorky the official rain-wear is.

McGillis very much doing the 'dignity, always dignity' bit, there.

Other reference posts include:

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (Part 1)

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (Part 2)

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (corrigendum) [mainly covering my inability to recognise mythical wolves]

IBO reference notes on … three key Yamagi scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Shino scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Eugene scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Ride scenes

IBO reference notes on … the tone of the setting

IBO reference notes on … character parallels and counterpoints

IBO reference notes on … a perfect villain

IBO reference notes on … Iron-Blooded Orphans: Gekko

IBO reference notes on … an act of unspeakable cruelty

IBO reference notes on … original(ish) characters [this one is mainly fanfic]

IBO reference notes on … Kudelia’s decisions

IBO reference notes on … assorted head-canons

IBO reference notes on … actual, proper original characters [explicit fanfic – as in, actually fanfic. None of them have turned up in the smut yet]

IBO reference notes on … the aesthetics of the mobile frame

IBO reference notes on … mobile suit designations

IBO reference notes on … the Gundams (part 1)

IBO reference notes on … the Gundams (part 2)

IBO reference notes on … the Gundams (part 3)

IBO reference notes on … the Turbines, or ‘Tekkadan done right’

IBO reference notes on … the Gundams (Addendum 1)

IBO reference notes on … deals with the devil

[sarahs-malewives]

get to know my self insert + selfship !

note that this will likely be updated/changed ! ok to rb, though !

proper credits at the bottom of the info !

Ship: capering polycule - crackleglass - redglass - carulia

caper noun - informal an activity or escapade, typically one that is illicit or ridiculous - in reference to the team’s heists.

“This thing we have… I’m glad it’s not just a fleeting moment.”

s/i

Sarah Bouchard Human 23 He/they/she. Genderfaunet, bi/poly. 5’8” / 173 cm Taiwanese 🇹🇼 🏺 / n/a

- Player (named Finn)’s older brother. - dating both Carmen and Gray, in a qpr with Jules. - an archaeologist and travels for work. called a “professional associate” of team red, but he’s really just a part of the team a good amount of the time. - worked at the same university as Julia for a short time, which is how he was contacted for their work. - meets the group post canon, but pre time skip.

voice claim: hayden ezzy / fern adventure time

Ref / toyhouse

“You’re quite the charmer, arent’cha?”

romantic f/o

Graham “Gray” Calloway (Crackle) Human 22 He/him. Bi. 5’9” / 175 cm Australian 🇦🇺 🪫 / #graham calloway

- gray is only dating Sarah.

voice: michael goldsmith

He uses his canon design! wiki

“Thanks for the help today. We’ll keep in touch. Only if you want to keep working together, of course.”

romantic f/o

Carmen Sandiego Human 20 She/her. Bi/poly. 5’7” / 170 cm Argentinian 🇦🇷 / Mexican 🇲🇽 💄 / #carmen sandiego

- carmen is dating both Sarah and Jules.

voice: gina rodriguez

She uses her canon design! wiki

“We’re more than colleagues now, aren’t we? ….Friends?”

queerplatonic f/o

Julia “Jules” Argent Human 23 She/they. Lesbian. 5’2” / 157 cm Chinese 🇨🇳 / British 🇬🇧 👓 / #julia argent

- Jules is dating Carmen and in a qpr with Sarah.

voice: charlet chung

They use their canon design! wiki

first meetings (chrono order)

gray & carmen vile academy.

jules & carmen train scene.

sarah & jules co-workers at the university jules worked at for a while. kept in minimal contact once she leaves.

gray & sarah stumbled into each other soon after gray was discharged from the hospital. quickly became friends.

carmen & sarah sarah is contacted by jules for his work, which involves him in a caper. the day sarah and gray meet/go to a cafe together is the same day sarah’s contacted by them. this is how gray gets reinvolved with the team.

jules & gray from both working on team red.

general favorites

Sarah color: teal animal: triceratops food: fettuccine alfredo drink: milk season: winter hobby: reading, researching

music: pop movie: atlantis disney book: anything on mythology game: legend of zelda, specifically tears of the kingdom

Gray color: blue animal: kiwi food: (australian) barbecue drink: coffee season: summer hobby: reading

music: anything upbeat movie: star wars book: adventure, romance game: hades

Carmen color: red animal: cat, dog, hedgehog food: sushi drink: bubble tea season: autumn hobby: writing, traveling

music: 80s movie: musicals book: adventure game: uno

Jules color: red animal: cat food: napoleon (dessert) drink: tea season: spring hobby: reading

music: classical movie: documentaries book: anything on history or mythology game: checkers

tropes

- poly team

📹 / 🪫 / 🧮 🏺 / 📜 / 👓 🏜️ / 💄 / ⛺️

dividers: x / x

[richincolor]

New Releases

We've got four new YA books on our radar this week! Check out what's on deck for launch this Tuesday:

The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn and Love Dunn

It looks like paradise…only it’s not. This was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to Thailand. One last wish for my dying mama. Instead, we’re stranded on a lush, stunning island with ten strangers—held captive as Thai mythology unfolds around us…and within us.

Now we’re being tested. We’re expected to face our greatest fears—and possible deaths—in hopes of awakening some kind of dormant gift…or curse. One by one, we’re transforming, echoing the strange and sometimes wondrous abilities found in Thai folktales. But my mama has only days to live, my papa is missing, and I’m forced to trust a group of strangers…including our evasive, dark-eyed tour guide, who resembles a minor god. Toss me in the ocean and feed me to the naga now.

Only I’m no hero. My days are managed by numbers and the compulsions that used to keep me safe. I have to prove how far I can go. To survive. To protect my family. And to find a way off this perilous island where everything is a lie…including reality.

Carry My Secret to Your Grave (Murder, She Wrote #2) by Stephanie Kuehn

Small town murders. Big time thrills. The second installment in the suspenseful, modern update of the classic mystery TV series. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, and Gossip Girl.

“Someone knows where you live. And whoever they are, they want you to know… you’re next.” Bea Fletcher never met a cold case she didn’t want to solve. So when she finds herself staying with family near Lake Paloma, she’s torn. Sure, she’s not thrilled to be bunking with her moody, taciturn uncle and his wife while her father’s out of town. Being away from Cabot Cove means less time for Bea to work on her true crime blog, visit her great-aunt Jessica, and spend time with new friends Leisl, Leif, and Carlos and the mysterious underground treasure hunting game they’ve been playing.

But Lake Paloma has mysteries of its own, including the unsolved drowning of teenaged Eden Vicente the year before. And when Bea starts to ask questions about Eden’s death, the answers lead her closer to home than she ever imagined. If Bea isn’t careful, she could be the next girl to end up at the bottom of the lake.

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and an ancient golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.

With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent’s disappearance—or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.

The Space Between Here and Now by Sarah Suk

Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life.

When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom–a moment Aimee has never remembered before–she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn’t match up with the story of how her mom left–at least, not the version she’s always heard from her dad.

Desperate for answers, Aimee travels to Korea, where she unravels the mystery of her memories, the truth about her mother, and the reason she keeps returning to certain moments in her life. Along the way, she realizes she’ll need to reconcile her past in order to save her present.

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Every time Vivzie's dogshit designs for the sins is criticised, some bootliker comes in repeating over and over that those designs are "her versions" of the sins and therefore, they are good and cant be criticised. This always confuse me, because how is that supposed to be a defense?

Like, yeah, we know those are "her version", its just happens that "her versions" sucks ass, and we should be allowed to say it.

The reason most of us criticise the fact that they are not acurate to the description of the original demons its not because we "care" about them being potrayed acurately, its because we know they would look way more interesting if they did, instead of them being "Vivzie's version" wich is aparentely extremely generic and boring looking humanoid things with random animal features.

The description of Beelzebub, for example, has a lot of potential for being a cool bug monster, so of course people would hate a Beelzebub thats a fucking generic furry with some little bug features slapped in.

Its like if i made "my own version" of Zeus, the Greek god of Thunder, and instead of making something that resembles Zeus, i made him some generic skiny white guy wearing a generic suit with absolutely no elements of Greek mythology or culture, and instead of having thunder powers he has the power of growing roses from his arms or something and he is not even greek, he is Argentinian.

That would be a shit representation of Zeus, and a boring character in general, so of course most people would hate him.

Yes, everyone is allowed to "make their own version" of know figures, but if you post them on the internet, people also has the freedom of telling you your design sucks.

If you are going to make designs that arent acurate, at least do something interesting with them, for god's sake.

For example, none of the demon designs in Helltaker are acurrate, but they still had features of them while making some interesting design choices. For example, i love how Cereberus is 3 girls that have the same mind.

Vivziepop's design are neighter acurate, interesting, unique, or good character designs in general. So yeah, i will shit on them no matter how much you cry that these are "her version".

This. It's not just that they aren't lore accurate, it's that they're not lore accurate while also not being interesting enough to stand in their own rights.

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Kasogonagá, a weather goddess of the indigenous Toba people of Argentina. She takes the form of either an ant eater or elephant, being able to transform into whatever form suits her fancy at the moment, but is always clad in a rainbow of colors. She lives in the clouds above, shooting thunderbolts out of her mouth. Many stories of her benevolence have been told. One of which starts with a young man who found Kasogonagá on the ground, she explained that she had accidentally fallen from her cloud and needed help getting back up. The young man helped her make a bonfire, using the smoke given off to rise back into the sky. She thanked the young man, promising him and his family protection and fertile land, with the man becoming her shaman. Her most interesting myths come from her presence in relatively modern events. In the first story six Toba women were captured and sent to a concentration camp, but with the help of Kasogonagá they were able to escape. Another legend tells of how Argentinian police were sent to evict a group of indigenous Toba in a school. However when the Police went inside, Kasogonagá created a powerful lightning storm that trapped them indoors, the storm lasted long enough for the group to block the roads around the school trapping the police. With Kasogonagá’s help the Toba were able to escape the police.

Most people tend to divorce mythology from reality, like the events in fiction. But Mythology is intrinsically tied to reality, often times shifting the religious beliefs along with the flow of time. Kasogonagá greatly illustrates this as during the colonization era of Argentina, the Toba’s religious practices were demonized by the government. The violent tensions between the Toba and the Argentinian government led the Toba to greatly resist the government’s usurpation. These times were reflected into Kasogonagá, with her providing support to the discriminated Toba.