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maybe not applicable to everyone, but these days it helps me a lot to remind myself i’ve never once gotten better at drawing on a night i’ve been mean towards myself

it’s almost always when i’ve been having fun or been relaxed

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okay so hi! I’m periphonics! i usually go by peri though!

i draw, obviously, as well as dabble in posting some fandom content. i do commissions of course and urge you to check out my carrd if any of the art you see on my profile impresses you enough to want some made!

some more about me;

-i’ve drawn since before i can remember, it’s less been a hobby of mine and more been an intrinsic need, like eating and sleeping. sometimes i don’t even enjoy drawing, it’s just something i have to do!!

- my style changes a little bit all the time as i constantly try to improve and become something im satisfied with so don’t be alarmed by that!!

- while i’m “in” a lot of fandoms i don’t rlly like fandom culture and try to avoid it, there’s a lot of toxicity and fetishizing in basically every fandom that i’m not a big fan of

- i’m an interior design student!! my background art has never been strong so i’m hoping that while i make my way through college i see improvement there naturally B)

- i am REALLY into the avatar movies and have been trying to learn na’vi! i’m not very good with it yet but i’m on a steady increase of understanding !

- i am BROKE!! without sounding like i’m begging for money, being a full time student has left me zero time for a job so my funds are kindaaaa dwindling (plz consider a commission) (food for the poor and needy?)

- i LOVE fantasy!! escapism is how i cope with the reality of life and i am a giant lover of all things fantasy. give me dragons, gimme knights and princesses, gimme monsters and dungeons !!

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i do need to make a na’vi oc it’s just gonna be wooork RAGHHGGGH i need to dedicate more time to drawing

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Metkayina OC

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quarjake au

very light sleeper

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someome teach me how to draw faster, i wanna make comics and do fanart and commissions but it all takes so much more time than i have

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wholesome autumn kageyama and hinata <3

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Every time I see another comment say that Odysseus and Circe had a son together in the odyssey I lose another year off my life

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i truly love art of na’vi seeing cats

tsireya fainted from tenderness

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Neteyam's first birthday!

Language notes under the cut:

so, the third panel there: Jake doesn't forget what day it is, he just has no idea how to express "May 28th" in Na'vi, so he switches to English.

The Na'vi of course don't traditionally use the 12-month calendar we have here on Earth. However, there is a way to express such dates in the language...mostly, I suspect, for the convenience of us nerdy fans who want to talk about our humany matters in Na'vi lol, but I believe the in-universe explanation is that they learned about it from Grace and only really use the terms if they need to talk in sky people timetables for whatever reason.

Because it's a borrowed concept, the terms are quite literal descriptions: "month" is vospxì, which is short for vosìpxì zìsìtä, literally meaning "one-twelfth of a year". To name specific months, you just add their number: May is therefore vospxìmrr, essentially "one-twelfth-of-the-year number five".

As for the day, that's actually a little trickier because Na'vi counts in base 8, not base 10. Instead of thinking of this number as two-tens-plus-eight like we do, they'd think of it as three-eights-plus-four: pxevosìng. Unless you're very good at math (which I am not lol), these decimal-to-octal conversions can be really hard to keep track of/calculate on the fly even before you try to start applying the Na'vi vocabulary!

All that to say, "May 28th" in Na'vi would be something along the lines of trr apxevosìve vospxìmrrä - 28th day of May, or most literally, "28th day of one-twelfth-of-the-year number 5".

...yeah, I don't blame Jake for just switching back to English for this 😅

on a much smaller note, I am not 100% certain that the adverb nìpxi can be used in this sense of "exactly/precisely", but I asked around among some other speakers and they generally agree that it's the best option available so I'm gonna roll with it. If it turns out to be wrong, well, I can always fall back on the "it's Jake" excuse lol

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wip of a commission woo

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hey!!! in 10 i’ll be drawing and YOU can watch and chill with me!!!

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i like to think that yachi dressed this kageyama up..

sorry for the kagehina-fication but it's cute :'(

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okay so i intended to draw hinata but for some reason he’s hard to me (he’s in one at least)

anime fanart is so hard for me idk why 😔😔😔

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na’vi & human bf

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so i bought frontiers of pandora since it’s on sale!! sadly my pc hasn’t been working 😭 but i’m really excited to play it as soon as i’m able

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okay i am TRYING to draw neytiri to practice my na’vi facial anatomy and i cannot for the life of me figure out why she looks…. wrong. can anyone pinpoint it??