mayo

(about time i properly made one--)

self intro:

hello!! my name is mayo (or anon, both aliases are okay) and i draw multifandom stuff & OC content depending on whatever my current brainrot is :)

pronouns: she/her

fandoms: (these are listed from most recent to oldest ive joined btw)

greatest showman

hamilton

project hail mary

house of dancing water

the book of life

artemis fowl (occasionally)

countryhumans

tags:

finding stuff from any particular fandoms is pretty straightforward. i dont usually put tags in my reblogs, so just search the tag of the fandom you're looking for and you'll find my art under there :)

if you're looking for my Artemis Fowl X PHM AU, they'll be tagged under #the hunter & the fox (not the best name for the AU, but it's a work in progress :,D)

ty for the ask! :D i have quite a few, actually! sorry if this post is rlly long since its a bit of a ramble ngl 🙏

1. untitled aroace maria AU (ft. joanolo bc yes)

tbh this started out as a headcanon as i was watching the movie the first time around (i mean, "I belong to no one"? if that doesnt scream aroace i dont know what does XD) but obviously the story didn't go that way. i love canon maria and im a sucker for tres leches/musical hearts, still, but it got me thinking of an AU where maria IS aroace and how that'd change the story

she comes back from spain and the first half of the movie is relatively the same. both joaquin and manolo try to win her over, but ofc, in this AU she has no intention of saying yes to either of them. yeah, she loves them dearly as friends, but romantic relationships are a whole different thing and she just has never been interested in that. can't even imagine being married to anyone (would rather not, really) and especially not her 2 best friends. she wants to remain friends, as it always was between the 3 of them. there isn't a need for "something more" between them, just their friendship is enough. (so yeah, neither la muerte nor xibalba wouldve won the bet lmao)

the story kinda diverges where manolo asks maria to meet him at the bridge at dawn. maria decides to go, but she's also going with the intent to tell him she has no plans on marrying him or joaquin. he sings to her and confesses, and she tells him no, and is about to explain why when xibalba's snake appears (bc ofc, the gods and especially xibalba didn't account for her choosing neither of them).

and then stuff similar to canon plays out again. maria protects manolo and gets bitten by the snake, and joaquin and general posada confront manolo at the bridge. manolo, thinking that his childhood best friend and love is dead and that his other best friend wants him dead, chooses to accept xibalba's offer and goes to the land of the remembered.

short detour to talk about joaquin's POV!

joaquin finds manolo at the tree (very much not canon-compliant, i know.) and what he wished for comes true because maria wakes up. but then he realizes something? maria's here now and of course he's relieved that his best friend is back, but that's kind of it. she was away for 10 years and he missed her, but having been away for so long, he's realized that he's never really gotten the opportunity to grow to love her. as a best friend, sure. that's always been there. but romantically? not quite.

the person who did grow up with him in the same town? the person who he was able to sneak away from training with, who could relate to having to constantly stand under his parent's legacy, who was always there waiting when he returned from his travels and supporting him even if their paths diverged? the person who's so stupidly genuine and passionate that he wouldn't give up being a musician even if the ENTIRE TOWN is telling him otherwise? well, he's six feet under and joaquin will never be able to hear that voice sing again because in the end it was him who told manolo that "yes, it should have" been him who died at the tree, right? and now it's too late to even tell manolo that he loves him.

when general posada immediately suggests the marriage between him and maria after she wakes up and finds out about manolo's death, she shuts down the idea and she's a little surprised when joaquin not only supports her, but outright declares that he's against marrying her. even more so, when despite that fact, he lets her know that he's choosing to stay in san angel.

anyway, this is my main AU that i just kinda build in the back of my head. if u have any name ideas for this au, please be my guest and let me know lol havent quite finished the ending, but this is how it is so far :>

2. manolo has (a lot of) issues

TW for mild discussion of mental health issues & depression

you can probably guess from my animatics & drawings but i dont think manolo's family trauma & problems pre-first-death ever go away post-revival? the ending scene of the movie makes it seem like all is well (fair enough, it's a kids movie) but like, his whole life his family didn't want him to pursue his own passions and wanted him to stay away from people who DID support them (mariachi brothers), the town basically humiliated him for not killing the bull in the bullfight, his family disowned him, and his best friend told him he should've died instead of maria.

now he's back from the dead, he's able to be with the 2 people he loves the most in his life. he should be happy, but he's not. bc aside from joaquin and maria, he's kind of... alone now? maria would have married the much more successful/renowned and (presumably) wealthier joaquin (because of course she would, that's what maria deserves) if he hadn't returned. and he's always wanted to be free to pursue his own dreams, but now his father and grandmother are gone. was that really the price to be paid for that to happen? does he really deserve to be here in their place? with nothing to say for the legacy that his family spent generations building? when maria deserves so much better than what he can give?

and so on bad days, he kind of wishes that he were back in the land of the remembered. it wasn't that bad, right?

(and then ofc maria and joaquin both snap him out of it bc hell he's worth a lot more than just his family's legacy. and one day he'll be able to reunite with them but that day is not today because they might be gone but maria and joaquin are still here and manolo still means so much to them and he deserves to LIVE and keep living. and they'll keep repeating it until he believes it :) )

its like. half a years worth of TBOL doodles & small animations that i never posted here lol. ft. my annoying notes/commentary and some mat3 stuff as well. enjoy ^^

joaquin being cool and manolo being speechless lmao

a spectacular jump!!

...and a not so spectacular one

he needs a hug :(

xibalba from when i was trying to figure out how to draw him in my style and manolo again, because im biased. these 2 were drawn separately but when i put them next to each other it kinda fits lmao

somebody pls force me to stop drawing everyone with the dreamworks face

ryland grace is also here because i drew this at the peak of my project hail mary brainrot (not tagging phm here but still lol)

ofc, this post wouldnt be complete without miss maria posada ✨✨

anyway, a short detour from TBOL to MAT3 for this silly comic i doodled midway thru watching MAT3 lol

will be an uneasy alliance, she might decide to kill them later.

and to end things off on a super important message ^^ :

hamliza and phinity <<<33

gifs + individual versions below lol

tumblr wont let me upload more than 1 vid per post so the individual versions r just on youtube ;v;

i was originally just gonna post the one with them both in one vid but then i didnt like it as much so i separated it into 3 versions instead :P

cant believe i forgot to post this-- regardless, happy pride from the secretary general of GMUN, who is aroace ^^

your honor, theyre the same guy just in wildly different fonts

this actually turned out to be one of my fav drawings ive done of ham so far!! :D

(some tgs & hamilton doodle dump below the ramble, if u wanna skip it)

bc oh you lost both your parents and you're a kid who works their way up from nothing to greatness (in new york, nonetheless)? and though your actions bring you fame and fortune they also bring an equal amount of opposition and criticism? and oh you married a woman who came from a family of wealth but despite that still loves you unconditionally for who you are? and then you proceed to FUMBLE with your wife but despite that she still forgives you in the end?

or, for more direct comparison's sake:

and then there's the other side VS that one section in non stop too:

you could swap these two into each others' stories and im pretty sure theyd follow most of the same story beats. (given swapping them would probably doom the TGS ending bc hamilton cant say no to this and un-doom the hamilton ending to some extent bc barnum gives more f*cks about others' opinions of him)

BUT ANYWAY, I DIGRESS. heres a doodle dump for your troubles :)

some barnum & some burr :)

are you sure about that, crowley? (animatic stills + other doodles below the cut!)

3 versions of his eyes bc my god am i indecisive

i didnt actually put aziraphale in the animatic bc i struggle so hard to draw his hair :,,,D

anyway, have a long haired crowley + a random hamilton crossover-ish thing for funsies as well :D

"soldier boy" focuses on joaquin, but it's actually joaquin from the perspective of manolo :D (you can think about it as manolo singing about joaquin)

vice versa, "don't forget me" focuses on manolo, but it's manolo in joaquin's eyes (again, think of it as joaquin talking/singing about manolo)

"are you man enough" has both of their perspectives! in the first half the lyrics are manolo's guilt ("take the blame for this" refers to maria's 'death', and manolo deciding to follow her to the land of the remembered), while the second half is joaquin's guilt ("take the blame for this" refers to manolo's death, what joaquin believes is a result of what he said to him at the bridge)

hi tbol fandom im back :) (stills from the animatic below the cut ^^)

actually i procrastinated finishing this animatic for quite a few days. why well its because of this man's bandolier and his medals ily joaquin but your countless medals are so tedious yet boring to draw i literally had no motivation to finish this frame heugh

smol joaquin, big statue

grown joaquin but still tiny next to his dad :,D

speed walk manolo to your bf gogogo

aaaand my fav frame out of the whole animatic :) (totally not cuz im biased towards it bc manolo is my fav. totally not.)

✨jazz hands ✨

Grace & some Hamiltons :)))

Made these with some friends a while ago :D she was the one who made Rocky ^^

some process/un-shrunken stuff below: