the way the term “purity culture” has effectively been stolen from survivors of religious abuse by fandom weirdos who think theyre oppressed for shipping incest is truly abysmal
And natalie.mu has already uploaded about 70 photos from the exhibition + merch store :’) :’) :’) So many monochrome pages! So many rough sketches! So many unused rough sketches!! I’ve been browsing through the twitter tag too, and so many rare, small preview illustrations!!! And it looks like the merch store is well-stocked, look at those heaps and heaps of notebooks and tote bags and ARTBOOKS!!!!!! :’) :’) :’)
It’s an older meme I made, but it holds true. I could talk for hours if people let me. Especially if I had a screen to share images, show citations, etc.
But instead I will take this opportunity to address many of the tags in the reblogs asking why West Mexico has been ignored.
There’s no definitive answer as to why, but more just a collection of small reasons that has resulted in a different historiography. Other than the Kingdom of Tzintzuntzan, there were not large states for the Spanish to conquer. It was much more fragmented, politically, culturally, and linguistically, than other parts of Mesoamerica.
To add to that, after the Mixton War of 1540, many parts of West Mexico were depopulated as a result of the war, enslaved and sent east, killed as retribution for participating in the war, or fled to other areas of Mesoamerica (such as the mountainous areas to the north of the Chichimeca area of north-central Mexico).
There’s also the colonial and historic history of Mexico to consider. Mexico City was the center of New Spain and later the country of Mexico. So the focus was on Central Mexico, as a political center, trading center, and cultural center.
After the revolution about a century ago, Mexico began building its nationalism and part of that hinged on the history of Central Mexico (and also the Maya, who have a long and drawn out conquest history, history of rebellions in the colonial period, and general resistance to anyone that isn’t Maya) leaving many areas of Mexico’s cultural heritage to languish.
There was also a misconception about West Mexican archaeological potential beginning in the late 19th century. Because there were no large states other than the Kingdom of Tzintzuntzan, it was assumed there had never been states before the Postclassic. So one really tried to look for settlements and surface architecture. Instead, interest in the region stemmed from the ceramic figurines most often looted from shaft and chamber tombs located underground.
