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An afternoon with Grandma! (photos taken seconds before disaster)

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The sound of her daughter's shuddering gasp in the nearby hammock startled Mo'at awake. A nightmare, no doubt. After all the recent tragedy, tormented dreams stalked the clan like a pack of relentless nantang; Neytiri was likely not the only one sleeping poorly tonight.

Hardly two weeks had passed since the battle in the floating mountains, and just one since the Sky People departed and JakeSuli passed through the Eye of Eywa. Though the war itself was over, the heavy wounds and destruction it had left in its wake still lingered. It would take time to heal and rebuild.

Jake had seen to it that the building of a new village began as soon as possible; after all, the clan could not stay at Vitrayä Ramunong forever. There was still much work to be done…with no more Hometree to shelter them, the Omatikaya found themselves learning to build marui like some of the other clans. The Olangi survivors in particular seemed keen to teach them what they knew. Their clan had suffered the some of the highest casualties, and it seemed that keeping busy with the marui construction helped them cope with their grief.

Not every family had their own marui ready yet, but at least there was enough structure now that everyone had sufficient shelter from wind and rain, even if the few finished marui (and even some half-finished ones) were rather crowded at night. As for Mo'at herself, she currently spent her nights in a half-finished dwelling with her daughter and son-in-law.

Mo'at remained still in her hammock, wide-open eyes staring blankly out into the darkness as she listened, facing away from her temporary roommates. Though her daughter was grown, her maternal instincts yearned to get up and comfort her...but she knew she wouldn't need to when she heard another voice stir from the other hammock, still slightly slurred with sleep.

"Nnnntiri? Whaswrong? Rrrryouok?"

"Wha...oh. Forgive me, ma Jake, did I wake you?"

"Ah, yeah," Mo'at heard her son-in-law’s voice slide into a yawn, then continue more clearly. "But don't worry about it. Did you have another nightmare?"

There was no verbal response, but Neytiri must have nodded, because Jake continued.

"I'm sorry. Do you want to talk about it?"

"Oh…it...it was silly, I…” Neytiri's voice suddenly tapered off as though something strange had just occurred to her. Mo'at barely caught her next murmured gasp. "Wait. I woke you."

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You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

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mariah carey is nearly defrosted and they're playing christmas music in shopping malls

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🤔 I don’t see any reason why there couldn’t or wouldn’t be some individuals with poor vision. As for what those individuals would do about it…

It’s true that the Omatikaya clan uses shimmyfly wings for their visors, but the Tawkami clan is known to make custom glass for theirs. So I suppose prescription-type glasses are not necessarily out of the question, though of course the availability of such would likely vary by clan.

A solution I personally find a bit more interesting—which could apply both to the visually impaired as well as the truly blind—is a literal seeing-eye companion. If tsaheylu allows the sharing of thoughts, feelings, memories, and phsyical sensations, is it possible to also share visual input? Imagine a blind/impaired Na'vi with a little animal companion perched on their shoulder being able to “see” through the eyes of said companion!

Welcome to grimm 2am thoughts, this edition; Avatar

I've always wondered so obviously we know of some blind Na'vi I'm sure as well as there would be deaf Na'vi. What I'm interested in is, as someone who wears glasses and eyesight is so bad without glasses, would Na'vi eyesight degenerate and if so to the point that it would affect daily life.

For example, I myself can only see a few inches infront of my clearly, I have gotten lost in the beach when I had no glasses on because I couldn't see ppl faces and didn't know where my friends were. If a Na'vi did have eyesight as degenerated to that point would they just be classed as blind? We don't see them make glass unless it naturally occurred so it isn't like they have glasses and I don't image any of the shimmerwing membrane used on their flight brow band is effective.

If that is the case that would suck so bad ;-; just be classified as blind because you can't hunt, go around safely or even really ride anything due to the fact of it being a blurred mess of colours, shapes and light.

I'd love to hear others thoughts on this

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actually, do ya know what common Avatar misconception is even more annoying than "they have sex with their hair"?

"they have sex with their tails"

because not only were you not paying attention when they explain what the "hair thing" is (basically a biological USB that lets them neurologically connect to the world around them), you weren't even paying enough attention to realize that the tail and the kuru are two separate body parts

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bonus round two: a few miscellaneous characters (Spider, Tsu'tey, Kiri, Lo'ak, Tuk, and Rotxo)

my weird hobby is collecting screenshots of youtube comments that can't spell Neytiri

bonus round: Neteyam

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my weird hobby is collecting screenshots of youtube comments that can't spell Neytiri

bonus round: Neteyam

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For my friend @da1sysun of her daughter's sona! (shaded+flatcolor versions)

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....speaking of the Mangkwan/Mangkuan clan being confirmed to the the ash clan, though, I wonder if we'll get an easter egg cameo of Ateyo and Artsut 🤔

I highly doubt the events of the comic would be directly mentioned, since I'm pretty sure Cameron or Izzo or someone has stated somewhere that while the comics are canon, they don't want anyone to need to read them to understand what's going on in the movies; they want the plot of the movies to be able to stand on its own for the general audience without requiring context from "extra" material like the comics and game. Which means that major, direct references to the comics/game/etc are very unlikely.

But a small detail like some familiar faces in a crowd for dedicated eagle-eyed fans to spot? That's certainly not out of the question...🤔

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So apparently it's now been officially confirmed that the "Mangkwan" clan briefly mentioned at the end of The Next Shadow comics IS indeed the "ash clan" that will be featured in Fire and Ash (a lot of people speculated this before but it wasn't confirmed until now).

...which is all fine and dandy, except that kw is still not a valid consonant cluster, Karyu Pawl plz explain, the language nerds are crying 😭 Was this perhaps a typo of Mangkuan or Mangkawn? Or a new dialect that allows for more clusters? Or something else?

Right now my theory is that it's gonna be Mangkuan and the Mangkuan vs Mangkwan spelling difference will essentially be the same as Omatikaya vs Omaticaya (the first one being the technically "correct" one per Na'vi phonetics but the second still showing up in some canon material).

Part of the problem here, I think, comes down to what I'm gonna call the Cameron Paradox. James Cameron didn't create the Na'vi language; he created a small list of words, as well as all the character names (from the movies at least, idk about the comics and games), then hired linguist Paul Frommer (Karyu Pawl) to do the rest. Cameron's grammatical/phonetic/etc understanding of the language Frommer built, from what I can tell, seems to be pretty limited; those details are Frommer's realm. So it's very possible that Cameron chose the name Mangkwan because it sounded cool and simply had no idea that it's technically invalid within the sound system Frommer set up.

However...while Cameron himself isn't the one who created the Na'vi language, he does technically own it. It's a commissioned work and therefore Cameron, as the commissioner, has the power to override Frommer if he wishes. If Cameron has his heart set on "Mangkwan", Frommer doesn't really have a choice but to work around that. He might end up doing that by hand-waving it as a special spelling variation of "Mangkuan" (again like the explanation of c vs k in Omatikaya), or he might end up doing it by incorporating some sort of special new dialect rules for the Ash People. Or maybe some other solution that I haven't thought of. We just don't know yet.

...and Karyu Pawl might not actually be legally allowed to address it until after the movie's release date, so we might be waiting for a quite a while to find out ;w;

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Lo’ak and Tsireya (Avatar The Way Of Water 2022)

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Feeling a little worn out this week so I'm mostly going to post older shots I didn't clean up (hopefully not double posting, oops!) Petrified forest thanator

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doodle

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Neteyam and Lo’ak (Avatar The Way Of Water 2022)

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Jake, Neytiri, Tuk, and Lo'ak (Avatar The Way Of Water 2022)