Heyo I Just Wanted To Ask If You’ve Been Doing Ok Recently? Just Haven’t Seen You Post Much Lately

The fact that you do research for your writing is just WOW! 👏🏽👏🏽

You’re very talented!

Do you write stories as a hobby?

If you ever come out with a book, I’ll fully support you by purchasing one

That means so much to me, thank you so much! You're so kind! 🥺💙😭 my heart!

Writing used to be my passion and I have, unfortunately, not written anything in so many years because life got in the way. Your comment means so much!

It's been so amazing to come back and write for such a complex character 💙 I want to do justice by him and make sure that what I write is accurate and respectful to the Mayan culture and to who he is! I'm happy you've been enjoying it in the story!

Your support through reading and reaching out is more than enough. Thank you so much for your kind words, they've truly made my day.

▪︎L'iik'ik Talokan

Just found out K'uk'ulkan's throne was not CGI but a real build. 12 ft Megalodon Jaw with jade teeth and an inscription on the side that reads: "This Jade Tooth Bites."

That's INSANE omg writing that all down as research notes! Gonna pop up in a story somewhere!

I just want to thank wakanda forever for reigniting my violent hatred for the spanish empire.

and while we're on the subject of colonization: everyone's always talking about the british but let's not forget the spanish, french, portuguese, dutch, and belgians also fucked up multiple continents, wiped out multiple cultures and languages, and enslaved natives all over the world.

The set build. Over 300 hand carved, stalagmites and stalactites. The entire set was carved. The Feathered Serpent.

Art Director: Jason Clark

This set inspired by the Ceiba tree, sacred tree of life and the three realms, which Namor occupied all, like Chaac guardian of the underworld. The story of Chaac is intricate, a beneficent entity related to agriculture production and to life.

As much love and thought to Talokan as to Wakanda, this...is just the beginning of this new world.

Namor's throne seat. A Magalodon jaw with Jade Teeth. The Hieroglyph carved in the bone reads, "This Jade Tooth Bites." I thought it was charming and dangerous like Namor. The piece was 12 feet tall by 10 feet wide. It was BIG!

The feathered serpent. From El templo, the Temple of Kukulcán. aka El Castillo, Chichen Itza. The temple has 91 steps on each side and including the platform is 365. Master Engineers, it would be pre-columbian Maya.

We wanted to have the Feathered serpents presence in Namor's place of peace and remembrance. You would not have seen it in the film but it was important for me that its presence was felt.

My motto, as little CGI as possible. I fought and pushed to build build build! Wherever possible, it's a set.

- Hannah Beachler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Production Designer, Academy Award Winner

Posting some old TASM doodles since it’s Andrew Garfield’s birthday :) he’ll always be my favorite Peter

I hope Barbie is so good and successful it makes every executive that’s turned everything bright and fun made for young girls into edgy boring teen dramas for the last ten years spontaneously combust into flames

okay marvel stop playing and give this man his own movie

Josué Maychi on teaching Maya to the Wakanda Forever cast and a word play in one of Namor's lines.

The actor told us about a word play that only Maya speakers can understand. ---spoiler ahead--- “There is a phrase that Namor says that I had to translate that goes: 'Máansa'ab u nej miis tin wich' which in Spanish literally means 'They passed the cat's tail in front of my face with the hope of an alliance'. If you see cats, jaguars or panthers wag their tails when they go hunting because it is a way of hypnotizing their prey, so that image is what happened to Namor, that someone did that to him with their tail. I proposed it to the director and he loved it, because it refers to the panther that warned Namor, ” he said. Josué Maychi told us that in English the phrase was translated as: "I was blinded with the hope of an alliance", which in Maya metaphorically means that someone was deceived, since in Spanish or English it is not literal.

Compillation of Namor's lines in Yucatec Mayan In the interview for Cultura Colectiva, Josué Maychi, who plays the shaman in Black Panther : Wakanda Forever, spoke about his experience in the film in which at the same time, he collaborated as the Yucatec Maya coach for Mabel Cadena and Tenoch Huerta, every day for a period of seven months. “No one knew anything about Maya and my first approach with the actors was to ask them if they could pronounce the consonants and sounds that do not exist in Spanish, English or other languages, and I was very happy to discover that they could pronounce them” he commented.

How was the process of teaching Maya? “We had sessions by Zoom and then in Atlantla we had scheduled meetings because I needed to listen to them. The first thing I taught them was the sound of the words, because in Maya there are five types of vowels that have to do with time, and if if they prolongued (a vowel) it can mean one thing or another. I asked them to imagine their lines as a melody and also gave them recorded audios to listen to, read and even write. For example, Mabel created her own way of writing, she created her own writing to have a personal approach to the language, ” he said.

Do you remember any funny anecdote? “There is a phrase that we say in the film that is Líik’ik Talokan, (there's Wakanda Forever) which is said by the people of Wakanda. Once, Álex Livinalli wrote to me and asked what we could say for the world we were creating, about the new universe and in Maya. I thought about it and thought it might be that phrase, which means something like 'Long live Talokan' or 'Rise Talokan'. I proposed it to them, they proposed it to the production, they loved it and it was integrated into the script, ” he said. Finally, the actor pointed out that the representation of indigenous languages ​​IS very important to him and mentioned that there are Mayan people who have proudly written him messages of gratitude, since they understood what they saw on the big screen.

I just want to say that I'm obsessed with you namor fic , "el dios de la brisa", like I love it to much!! Keep the good work!! You are brilliant and so talented!!!

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to respond to your message! I am back and ready to continue writing for Namor <3 Hopefully you enjoy what's to come!

Secondly, thank you so much!! You are so kind! I have so many ideas that have been floating around my mind for so long, it's time to get to writing it! Hope you are doing well! Thank you so much again!