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rewatched my old childhood favorite Lion King 2 on the treadmill yesterday, listen Jake is sweating bullets over the Kovu/Simba conflict

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(just binged Beastars season 3) .......excuse me???? THAT was the ending??? of the "final season"???!?!? like.......is there supposed to be a part 2 to the season?? a special that wraps up the story??

like, I wasn't particularly wild about the ending of the manga anyways, but to just LEAVE EVERYTHING ON THAT SORT OF CLIFFHANGER???

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Y’ALLLLL so my mom got me this little AirPods case cover, it was supposed to be for Christmas but then as she was getting ready to wrap it she realized that I have AirPods Pro not the regular ones so my case won’t actually fit in it (as you can see) but she couldn’t send it back so she decided to just give it to me early lol.

…but I’m kinda flabbergasted by how much it looks like my sona??? Like, obviously it’s not exactly the same, but it’s still similar enough to be like yo what the crap lol. I’m definitely gonna have to figure out some other way to use it even if it can’t hold my case hrh

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“50%” I did the math, it’s actually 0.04% 🙃

50% #lahiffe family, 49% #accurate, 1% dumbass.

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y’all know that tumbeasts “memories” blog from April Fool’s a few years ago? The one that inserts random tags from your blog and such into posts mad-libs style? If you visit it periodically the tags it uses changes

…….and I would really like to know how in the heck doodle it calculates which tags to grab because like. Listen. I haven’t been active in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom since like, 2019. It was my shortest-lived main fandom, living rent free in my brain for a mere less-than-two years. And even for the brief(ish) time that I was active there, most of my posts centered around Adrienette/the love square.

……….so why in the heck diggety does the memories blog, no matter what other tags they choose, always without fail seem to reach for “#lahiffe family” and/or “#nino lahiffe”

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@eywaschild891 Kaltxì! Yes, I draw each stripe individually every time and believe me, it’s very tedious and by far one of my least favorite parts of the Na'vi drawing process 😅

Though I’ll let you in on a little secret, I’m not that consistent with them haha. Take Neytiri for instance, sometimes I’ll draw her “eyebrow” stripes and sometimes I won’t, and the number of stripes I put on either side of her central forehead stripe varies too.

You might notice that I also sometimes turn all the limb and tail stripes into plain bars/bands; I don’t always draw the pretty complex patterns that the realistic designs have. It depends on how much time and energy I’m willing to put into them 😅

I do try to be a little more consistent with my OCs, since their patterns were designed to work in my style (as opposed to the canon characters, whose exact realistic-style markings don’t always translate well to my cartoony style so I have to simplify them to varying degrees regardless), but even with my OCs it’s really only the face and (to a slightly lesser extent) torso patterns that I try to keep consistent; limb and tail patterns are pretty much always random every time I draw them.

If you still want I can definitely do a tutorial later on how I do the stripes on a technical level! But alas, I don’t think it’ll help much with making the patterns consistent hrh

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yooooo these are so cool!! Had to do a bit of fanart for you 😸

Gods, it's been a while so have a grumpy elder, a dark prince and a tyrant king

A TrollHunters Werewolf/Dogman AU inspired by @nattikay's work.

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Ayhapxì tokxä! Parts of the body!

Small note on kuru vs. tswin: Both terms are listed as "neural queue" in the dictionary. However, the definition for tswin also includes the word "braid" while the definition for kuru does not. This has led some to speculate that kuru refers to the actual flesh-and-nerves organ while tswin refers to the braid of hair that encompasses it—so all Pandoran fauna, including Na'vi, have kuru, but only Na'vi have tswin. I like this theory and chose to reflect it on this chart; however, keep in mind that (as of the time of this post) this distinction is merely speculation/headcanon; it's very possible that the words are actually completely synonymous and interchangeable.

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A few terms that didn't make it onto the chart for various reasons:

ta'leng - skin (wasn't sure how to label something that encompasses the entire body) snatxärem - skeleton (same reason as above) seyri - lip (wasn't enough space left on the face image) reypay - blood (wasn't sure how to represent it in the illustration)

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Versions with English translations available under the cut

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Keräteng hu Ri'nela sì Teylan! Hanging out with Ri'nela and Teylan!

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Krrnolekx nìtxan fwa fwew rawngit fìslärä! Fpolìl oel futa nì'i'a rolun...slä tserängi futa nìfkeytongay lu ketenga slär nìwotx! I spent forever searching for the entrance to this cave! I thought I'd finally found it...only to realize that it was actually a completely different cave!

Slä frawzo, mawkrr kop rolun slärit a oel fwarmew. Tsal pxaya spxamit apxay nga', Nimun sayo'ha (spxam lu syuve a poru sunu frato) But it's ok, later I also found the cave I'd been looking for. It had a lot of mushrooms; Nimun will be thrilled (mushrooms are one of her favorite foods)

....kop rolun oel fìpxeseylut aslusele?? ...and I also found these three swimming teylu??

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sevina 'evengan - “pretty boy”

Adjectives will always take an a when attaching to the noun they describe. This is because word order in Na'vi is very flexible and the adjective can come on either side of the noun, so the a needs to be there to “point at” which noun it’s describing (so you could also say 'evengan asevin instead, it’s the exact same thing).

You will also never see G as a standalone letter in (forest) Na'vi! It ONLY shows up as part of the ng digraph (digraph=two letters used to represent one sound, like th or sh or ch in English), so you can’t separate the N and the G in 'evengan (it’s 'e-veng-an, not 'e-ven-gan).

If you want to combine the words to make a nickname, you could call him Sevingan (se-vi-ngan or se-ving-an), but you’d have to drop the tìftang (apostrophe thing). Even if G was allowed as a standalone consonant, tìftang can’t cluster with other consonants like that 🙂

LOOK AT HIM HES A CUTIE PATOOTIE

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If you want the full story: they explain what happened in the extended edition of the movie!

Neytiri's older sister and fellow student, Sylwanin, grew increasingly angry at the RDA for the damage they were doing to the forest, to the point that she eventually stopped attending the school. One day, she and a few other young hunters decided to retaliate against the RDA by setting a bulldozer on fire. RDA troopers fought back and Sylwanin and her friends fled to the schoolhouse, possibly hoping Grace could protect them. The RDA troopers pursued them to the school and shot and killed them all, including Sylwanin, right in front of Neytiri and Grace. Grace managed to get most of the other students out safely, but.....yeah.

That's why Grace isn't allowed in the village until Jake talks Mo'at into letting her back in; she was kicked out after the schoolhouse incident (which iirc happened approximately two years before Jake arrived on Pandora). It's also why Neytiri was so keen to shoot Jake on sight the first time she saw him wandering through the forest—the RDA murdered her sister right in front of her and she wanted nothing more to do with them.

WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE SCENE WITH THE SCHOOL

Where Jake first goes out into the forrest with Grace and Norm, and they go to the old school . It's COVERED in bullet holes, and she refuses to tell him what happened.

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🤔 I think the main distinguishing feature between Jake and Lo'ak is that Lo'ak's face is very distinctively triangular, more so than anyone else in the family. Jake's (and Neteyam's for that matter) is a lot more blocky/rectangular, and I think that overall shape is that main thing that prevents me from hopping on the "Lo'ak is a mini Jake" train. Which is not to say that there aren't similarities! Obviously there absolutely are! But admittedly I struggle to see older Lo'ak being an exact carbon copy of A1 Jake. Similar, certainly, but not exactly the same.

Anyways, a super cool comparison! I've said before and I'll gladly say again, they did a great job designing the boys; both of them clearly have various features from both their parents while still not looking exactly like either one of them. Yay well-implemented genetics!

Basically what Lo’ak will look like in a few years. Which is crazy. He does look Neytiri a bit with a few angles but I still see an insane amount of Jake sorry.

Then you have these two. Their features are so similar yet, I see a strong resemblance between Neteyam and Avatar 2009 Jake too.

Lo’ak and avatar 2009 Neytiri look most alike to me if we’re comparing those two

And then of course, the most obvious

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Plurality and exclusivity in Na'vi pronouns, aka why there are so darn many different words for "we" and "you" lol. Blue=speaker, red=listener, gray=others.

Some small notes:

-Yes, ayoeng and awnga are synonyms; they are completely interchangeable.

-As you may have picked up on, me+ refers to two people (dual) and pxe+ refers to three (trial). Meanwhile, ay+ is less specific; though represented by 5-6 individuals in these panels, it's used for any amount above three (so, four or more).

-Ayfo can be optionally shortened to just fo.

oe - I moe - we (exclusive dual) pxoe - we (exclusive trial) ayoe - we (exclusive plural)

nga - you (singular) menga - you (dual) pxenga - you (trial) aynga - you (plural)

oeng - we (inclusive dual) pxoeng - we (inclusive trial) ayoeng/awnga - we (inclusive plural)

po - he/she mefo - they (dual) pxefo - they (trial) ayfo - they (plural)

(inclusive = listener is part of the "we", exclusive = listener is not part of the "we")

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may or may not have taught myself the sarentu song during the downtime between performances...