#wrench and numbers

[the-heron]

Fargo, s1 ep6 // Fragile - Sting // Fargo, s3 ep10

[cannibal-nightmares]

drew my boyfriend and i as my two favourite hitmen to a powerdisco song because my god i can

[subsequentibis]

thinking about wrench and numbers as kids bc they will not leave my mind. in my headcanon their parents were friends who shared one of those split houses so they pretty much Had to hang out all the time, also in part because they were both just kind of annoying smart ass kids who the other children would barely give the time of day and if anyone did try to play with them, one or the other or both would find something to complain about and it would devolve into furious signing while the other kids stood there with the ball wishing they'd asked anyone else in the whole world to play foursquare. so they grow up pretty inseparable while also claiming they can't STAND each other - wrench thinks numbers is a pushy oblivious jerk who throws a fit when he doesnt get his way and numbers thinks wrench is a spaced out smartass who gets too caught up in little details and misses the big picture of whatever latest venture he's got them on plus he stares like he's trying to burn a hole through your head with his eyes and it's creepy - but really they're best friends. plus they get bullied a fair amount so there's some Us Against The World bonding going on. oh and numbers is a year older than wrench but is shorter than him except for Once in his teens when a growth spurt kicked in and he was So smug about being the same height til like a month later when wrench shot up a couple inches and ruined it.

[stained-glass-cicada]

I desperately need to hear Dust Pepe at the Mental Hospital

[celestial-raposa]

farGO to the polls

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

I love how PJO was written to be a silly little children’s book and then the fandom decided to be sad all the damn time

[toastedclownery]

Jawbone as Mictlantecuhtli

Mictlantecuhtli, “Lord of Mictlan”, is the lord of the land of the dead in Aztec mythology. 

Jawbone is Mictlantecuhtli because of his very relevant character design, and because his most important myth is recreated in his introductory episode.

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First off, Mictlantecuhtli is easy to identify because he will almost always be represented as a skeleton. Jawbone is an Osteon, a species of skeleton aliens (? as far as we know) His jacket has a window showing his ribcage, just like Mictlantecuhtli also has his ribcage exposed most of the time.

Original post from beigetiger

He might also be replicating the pose of the Mictlantecuhtli statue in Museo Templo Mayor in a couple of instances during ep4

Mictlantecuhtli is a skeleton because he’s a god representative of death. If being bones isn’t enough, Jawbone wears all black and carries a scythe with him, just like the grim reaper, a famous Western depiction of death. Yes, the scythe and his pirate group name “Scythelord” are references to his voice actor, but they also add onto the list of Jawbone’s connection with the theme of death. He is called a “Plague Walker” because he goes to the Quarantine Zone, associated in this universe with infection and death.

The Quarantine Zone might as well be Monkey Wrench’s version of Mictlan, the Aztec underworld!

One last bit of iconography I wanna talk about before the bone myth is his tongue. There are several illustrations of Mictlantecuhtli sticking his tongue out in codices, as well as the disk of Mictlantecuhtli in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City

And like some of the fandom has joked about already, Jawbone has a habit of sticking his tongue out. Even his plushie is doing it!!

Original post from copper-pins

Speaking of! It was a common ritual for the Mexica to pierce their ears and their tongues to offer their blood to the gods, including Mictlantecuhtli. JB is only licking this dart here but I felt that putting a pointy object to his tongue looked too suspicious not to add it.

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Monkey Wrench has been subtly recreating some of the Aztec myths, but the thing is that in some cases, the characters change their roles to fit somebody else’s myth. Let me explain.

Before the start of the fifth era, Quetzalcoatl went down to Mictlan to retrieve the bones of the previous generation of humans. There he met Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl, Lord and Lady of the land of the dead. 

When Quetzalcoatl asked for the bones, Mictlantecuhtli agreed to give them to him, if he could go around his realm four times blowing on a conch shell trumpet (tecciztli). This was a trick, the shell didn’t have any holes to blow into. Quetzalcoatl noticed this, he called worms to make holes into the shell, and he called bees to get inside the shell and buzz to make noise.

Seeing he completed his request, Mictlantecuhtli had no other choice but to let him go with the bones. But as he was leaving, Mictlantecuhtli ordered his servants to dig a pit for the Feathered Serpent to fall into. In the fall, Quetzalcoatl dropped the sacred bones and they broke.

This myth is reenacted in Tyneen and Jawbone’s side plot. In this case, Tyneen takes the role of Quetzalcoatl. 

Tyneen meets Jawbone in the casino to get back the video game he borrowed from her. He is reluctant to give it back, until she forces him to

Then, when she and Ricket are leaving, Beebs pushes Tyneen making her drop the game, and Ajax storms in and Ricket falls apart. Ricket’s bones fall to the ground, and the game that Jawbone gave to her breaks.

The part where the bones fall is replicated with Ricket's own bones, and the part where they break is represented by the (BONE THEMED) video game.

Also, before Tyneen goes to the bar she goes to the weevils to get her shackles off. The weevils’ workshop is fully decorated with hexagons on the walls, doors and furniture, making it look like a beehive.

This could be a nod to the bees that helped Quetzalcoatl in the same story.

Ricket himself might be a reference to this very myth? Rickety, from “rickety bones”, means something that is unstable and likely to break, mirroring the fate of the bones in the legend. But I’m still not sure about him. 

Original post from monkey-wrench-series

Fun fact, these bones are supposed to be ours, the bones of the current generation. Since they come from the previous era, you could say we inherited them. And the game is called “Marrow Inheritance”!

References to this legend can also be found in JB’s playlist. Uh, boner jokes aside

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Hello!! Thank you for waiting. I have updated the character list a little bit :o)

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[anadapta]

A series of unfortunate events Bonus:

[hungry-hobbits-art]

i can't imagine this setup could've made lesters life any worse

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ref under the cut

[the-heron]

his cheer squad

[subsequentibis]

my dearest husband said fargo muppets but wrench and numbers are still human and who am i to argue with my beloved

[jdmara]

i’m always saying this

[onehundredgar]

I think before trying to publicise and defend your headcanons about Stanley Pines you should maybe do some research about what being broke and homeless is really like. And also keep in mind that he was poor, not stupid.

[ceaselessims]

personally i don't think we talk enough about how jon brutally stabbed jonah/elias multiple times ?? the sound design and the voice acting that went into that scene ??? because i think that was the first time i was very truly, genuinely terrified of jon

[anadapta]

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