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i have no fucking clue what I'm doing but here's some shebse batch/cc batch as posts

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The Archivist vs the Old Ass Man

(s02e20 / s02e08)

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Hazel McNab, Last Light, linocut.

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the kel dor conlang now has a word for 'to bluescreen' lmao

khapësevi - /kʰa.pə.se.vi/

it more literally means 'to die blue', and I can't decide if it's a borrowing of the Basic term or if it's a native Dorin word, because I just now decided that bright fuckin blue is THE danger color in kel dor culture, on account of it being very rare in nature on Dorin.

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In summer, cyclists in the countryside use lotus leaves as UV-protective face masks.

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I'm trying to watch the new Walking with Dinosaurs series and it is Not Going Well.

They keep trying to get you to sympathize with the various dinosaurs in the stories, which i totally get and don't mind. But then they make these dinosaurs be so phenomenally stupid that half the time I end up going "it's a good thing you died before you could reproduce and pass this on"

Such as

"oh no the forest is on fire we have to escape but oh hey there's some nearly adult armored dinosaurs that's we've just encountered so we pack of Utah raptors are going to hunt them RIGHT NOW even though there are trees ON FIRE less than 10 feet away from us!"

and

"I'm a baby ceratopsian in a mega herd and I've lost track of my mum so I'm going to stand in one spot and watch the entire herd leave and still be here like 8 hours later instead of remaining with the herd and bellowing for mama the whole time"

I'm sure there were things in the other episodes but I had them as more background noise and wasn't paying attention.

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i'm gonna try and redo a bunch of earlier keldeorinyaa info posts, cause over the last couple years my ideas about various language aspects have changed a bit. mainly i'm thinking of the movie crawl text translations, the jedi code post, and the big pronouns post.

also the spelling update is nearly complete! i'll be working on the particles next, and noun class after that.

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More critters!! Credit to @exosorcery for the bil'oni ponies, i love them lmao.

injarra — (n.) /in.dʒa.ra/ — a six-legged burrowing animal the size of a large rabbit, native to Dorin's desert interior, where they congregate in large groups and dig enormous underground warrens to reach subsurface water. Sometimes kept as pets, often eaten.

bil'oni — (n.) /bil.o.ni/ — a midsized scavenging omnivore native to Dorin's temperate grasslands, often called 'bil'oni ponies' by offworlders for their equine looks. Everything is food to a bil'oni pony; as ravenous as they are delicious. Often kept as livestock or pets.

ňebirra — (n.) /ŋe.bi.ra/ — a small armadillo-like quadruped often found in cellars and subterranean homes, kept as pets and pest control. Highly social, highly intelligent.

khapartaň — (n.) /kʰa.paɾ.taŋ/ — 'blueknife', a species of fist-sized snail with a sharp defensive edge to the shell, commonly used for blades after being eaten. Shells are mottled shades of blue and often used for decoration.

alakye — (n.) /a.la.kje/ — a lizardlike creature about 30-40cm long with a wide tubular body, very small legs, and a tongue up to 2m in length which shoots out to catch insects.

i'm officially on holiday. my project: drawing a bunch of critters for my kel dor worldbuilding. :D

here's the dictionary entries for the main critters:

haššantegar — (n.) // — lightning bat; a goose-sized flighted animal resembling a downy azhdarchid pterosaur that frequently swarms in huge numbers as storms approach

nawaleh — (n.) // — carrion bat; an enormous gliding flier with downy skin, a very large toothy head, and a wingspan that can reach 6m across

yanšigir — (n.) // — whaleseal; the largest predator in Dorin’s oceans, a cold-adapted diving predator with grasping claws on its front flippers, reaching up to 15m in length

kyevičoe — (n.) // — a very large (2m+) worm species found in Dorin’s extensive tidal mudflats, frequently hunted with only partial success, capable of regeneration

erem — (n.) // — a small (~40cm) snakelike predator frequently kept as household pets and for pest control

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KELDEORIN'YAA WORD OF THE DAY!

NYAITAN (N) - Domesticated or tame animal, animal species commonly kept as pets (not farm animals).

There are not a lot of animals native to Dor'in that Kel' Dor keep as pets. Bil'oni ponies are the largest (and sadly, always in danger from the Carrion Bats - huge flying predators that regularly take live prey too), various smaller birdlike species, several small lizard species, and a small Armadillo-like quadruped that kids love to roll like a ball along their hall floors (interestingly the little Armadillos love it 😶). Fish tanks too... The most common house pet though is the salty sweet YANNWA ("Water Wing").

Water Wings in the wild are flightless Estuarial swimming birds that hunt via sonar, as they are low vision predators. These ones kept as pets have been specifically bred as companions, but don't let that fool you into thinking they are marshmallows with talons. Salty sweet, right? Water wings are territorial by nature and when one is acquired, they are acquired as an egg which hatches IN THE HOUSE, thereby ensuring whoever is present for the hatching of this little terror is imprinted upon by the hatchling. What if everyone is at work or at school -? Good question. Fortunately, a strange quirk of Yannwa is to only hatch after the sun has set (this has something to do with the lunar cycles of the planet) so this is what NORMALLY happens. Of course you always have the 'odd' event where some weirdo egg hatches at 2 A.M. equivalent (Dor'shan time) and imprints on the darn Armadillo but these are the exception and not the rule (Mother Dor'in doesn't do that to nice families very often). You really, REALLY need them to imprint on the family. Those beaks are capable of a 410 PSI bite that can take a hand off at the wrist, and then they aim unerringly for the hamstrings and Achilles tendon when chasing after perceived threats.

One of the best things about Yannwi as (guard creatures for a family) is that, once they have imprinted, whatever offspring or young are present in the dwelling will be recognized as young, identified by scent as THEIR OWN and will henceforth never be in danger of harm from them - no matter how much mauling they endure. Kel' Dor mums and dads are naturally extremely appreciative of this and little ones are taught very early on to respect the space of these loyal companions and never press them. Sights like this (above) are common, Yann'wa love a good snuggle.

On an unrelated note, you will notice the little one's eyes are blue... Kel' Dor young have blue eyes for the first twelve or so months of life, after which they darken to deep brown or green, and then darken further in adolescence down the road.

The Yannwa above is named RANTEVAAN, which means SAILOR. Other common names are KSANGERAK (STUBBORN), NYEKO (FIERCE, AGGRESSIVE) and šIBA (TALONS, CLAWS).

Many thanks to @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows for the Keldeorin'yaa Conlang Dictionary - the Gold Standard in Kel' Dor conlang translations. If you are unfamiliar with it, here is the link -

keldeorinyaa conlang dictionary - Google Sheets

Happy Summer, all! (Northern Hemisphere) or Happy Winter (Southern Hemisphere), depending on where you are. I appreciate all of you!

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Yk what here *throws paper at you* take my dumbass Star Wars AU

So, as you can probably tell, this is a Plo Koon Lives AU, and, get this, I actually have a planned story that isn’t just a bunch of mashed together ideas. The basic premise of this is that after Order 66, Plo manages to survive and escape. The How is up to you, all that matters is that he’s alive. In the years after Order 66, he tried his best to help rescue any other surviving Jedi, until he, a Padawan, and a group of surviving younglings were ambushed by a group of Inquisitors and Stormtroopers. Plo was the only survivor of the encounter, and he Fell in the process. Horrified and ashamed, he went on a quest of semi-revenge and semi-self isloation, retreating to the Outer Rim and Wild Space, focussed on just surviving but not holding back against any Imperials he found.

He’s mostly unaware of what’s happening in the broader galaxy, until, on complete accident, he stumbles upon Luke Skywalker, several months after the destruction of the Death Star. And from there, the story starts. I’m currently in the process of writing a fic about how Luke and Plo meet, so be on look out for that!

Also, as a treat, heres the photo above without the text along with two alternate outfits below the cut

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sjffhdkshdk i want one so much XDDD theyre so ugly-cute!! brb adding them to the spreadsheet pronto! 💕💕💕

KELDEORIN'YAA WORD OF THE DAY

What kind of a PET would Kel' Dor have on Dor'in?

Many thanks to @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows for the name ideas!

YAN'NWA - Water Wing

TSOKI TSOKI - Onomatopoeia for the sound their claws might make on hard floors.

I experimented with making these guys eyeless and endowed with KOLMI, but am still working on 'making that work.' I will post updates as I create them.

They will not be blind but nearsighted, and use a form of sonar to help them 'see.' their typical noise is bursts of chirpy clicks, although they coo and screech too. They are territorial with their people and young, and tend to adopt the young of their family as their own.

Speaking of, this Mum is in the latter stages of pregnancy, has begun to check the door locks compulsively, has security cameras up all over the house and has armed The Bird. Baby is in good hands with her Tsoki friend in the room (the bird) - in fact I sorely pity the fool who tries to mess with her.

Here is the link for the Keldeorin'yaa Conlang Dictionary, courtesy of @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows -

keldeorinyaa conlang dictionary - Google Sheets

Read it, if you haven't yet! It's great.

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I just had a random thought: As long as a force-sensitive person's body is still present in the galaxy, their "presence" will remain with it until it is fully decomposed. This is why jedi burn their dead, so that their friends can live on in the force instead of decaying alongside their physical bodies. The Empire preserved Luminara's corpse because they knew that other jedi would sense her presence clinging to her body, therefore come to rescue her because they would think she was still alive.

That makes... a horrible amount of sense ghghghkgdhs.

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Happy Easter. You should have killed me when you had the chance, I promise you will not get another. 

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30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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I'm going to climb up on a new hill to die on: I THINK PALPATINE'S PLAGUEIS STORY IS 100% MADE UP BULLSHIT. If you discount supplementary material created by other authors, the only thing we know about Plagueis is that speech Palpatine gives at the bubble opera, one we already know is designed to manipulate Anakin, but watching Revenge of the Sith in the theater again, thinking about how Anakin will later parrot Palpatine's words exactly--I realized, oh, it's not just a story being used to manipulate Anakin, I think it's a story created to manipulate Anakin, right where Palpatine wants him. It's a story about a Sith lord who learns how to make people stop dying. A Sith Lord who wants to stop his loved ones from dying. We know Palpatine doesn't actually know how to do this--the movie seems to imply that Palpatine was Plagueis' apprentice, but I'm not so sure. Palpatine says that Plagueis taught his apprentice everything--which would include the saving people bit--but Palpatine doesn't know how to save people, he says that he and Vader will discover it together and Anakin doesn't go, "Hey, wait, I thought you were supposed to know this!", which throws unreliability onto Palpatine's story already. There's a lot Palpatine is doing in this movie to manipulate Anakin very specifically--he puts Anakin on the Council, knowing they will ask him to spy on the Chancellor and even "guesses" it before Anakin can say anything at the opera, that he suggests Anakin should be the one to go to Utapau knowing that the Council will vote for a more experienced Master, he reveals himself to Anakin knowing that Anakin will tell them and be forced to choose, he tells Anakin the Plagueis story knowing that Anakin fears Padme's death (he is likely aware of Anakin's emotions about this, being an evil psychic space wizard himself) and sets it up so that it's the perfect bait. The conversation in ROTS goes:

Palpatine: "Remember back to your early teachings. All who gain power are afraid to lose it. Even the Jedi." Anakin: "The Jedi use their power for good." Palpatine: "Good is a point of view, Anakin. The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way... including their quest for greater power." Anakin: "The Sith rely on their passion for their strength. They think inwards- only about themselves." Palpatine: "And the Jedi don't?" Anakin: "The Jedi are selfless. They only care about others." Palpatine: "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a dark lord of the Sith... so powerful and so wise... he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians... to create... life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side... he could even keep the ones he cared about... from dying." Anakin: "He could actually... save people from death?" Palpatine: The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities... some consider to be unnatural." Anakin: "What happened to him?" Palpatine: "He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was... Iosing his power. Which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. It's ironic. He could save others from death... but not himself." Anakin: "Is it possible to learn this power?" Palpatine: "Not from a Jedi."

This entire conversation is a set-up to make Anakin think that it's not selfish to change his views, because it's just exactly as Anakin says the Jedi are selfless and only care about others that he starts the Plagueis story about this legendary Sith who just cared so much about his loved ones that he learned how to stop them from dying. But, oh, he couldn't stop himself from dying, he was only thinking of others! Not himself! Throughout the movie Palpatine is manipulating Anakin's thoughts so that Anakin will think in exactly the lines of thought that Sidious wants him to. ("Good is a point of view, Anakin." --> "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!", "You know I'm not able to rely on the Jedi Council. If they haven't included you in their plot, they soon will." --> "I should have known the Jedi were plotting to take over!" Etc.) So when he wants Anakin to really consider using the dark side, he tells him a story about this mysterious Sith Lord who just wanted to save his loved ones, not himself, just those he cared about. It's the perfect way to give Anakin an excuse to take that first step that doesn't seem so bad, so against everything he knows is right, and think that it's okay if it's for someone else. It's not because he's so scared to lose someone he loves that he'll make a deal with the devil, no, he's just thinking of others, the ones he loves. The story is so perfectly designed to appeal to Anakin at this moment in time and so incongruent with everything else we know about Sith Lords and how the dark side works (the dark side is not a path to anything good), that I think it's 100% made up bullshit, just like everything Palpatine says to Anakin in this movie is a set-up to direct Anakin's thoughts where he wants them.

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i'm just saying that the since jedi wear their robes left-over-right, the sith should reverse that (irl, kimono are worn left-over-right because right-over-left is for the dead at funerals) when they wear asymmetrical clothes, as a little sartorial 'kriff u' hubris like death is another one of those chains from their code to break. like maul's robes should cross right over left. if he, u know, wore them closed.

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Mace Windu can do whatever he likes with whatever attitude he wants actually cause he's in charge of wrangling a group of superpowered, psychic adreneline junkies who like to have heated academic debates using laser swords in their spare time. and then. AND THEN!! he has to regularly talk with politicians too??? disgusting. awful. my man is so tired.