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here’s a preview while I work on chapter six of primus. The final result will not be blurry! They still need a lot of post-process work to not be uncanny valley but they’re getting there!

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This is my contribution to NoaMae week! 🫣 Whether you want them to be together or not, I really want these two to be special people to one another.

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NoMae Week 2024 // Day 4: Starcrossed

Throughout the history of Earth, another world existed in a parallel universe where evolution took a different turn and sentient primates evolved into the dominant species instead of humans. When these two worlds mysteriously collided, they merged into a new world, a strange conglomerate of Earth as we know it and the more archaic so-called Planet of the Apes.

When the convergence happened, a fierce battle erupted as humans and apes distrusted another and fought for control over their new rivals. In the midst of the conflict, a young girl named Mae befriended the young ape Noa and they forged a deep bond in their brief time together until they were separated.

Years later, a small group of ape teens is allowed to enroll in a human high school in this new "post-apocalyptic" world with the goal of testing the feasibility of human/ape integration and if peaceful coexistence between the two species is possible, an endeavor fraught with suspicion and fear on both sides. Unforseen Mae and Noa meet again when Noa joins the same astronomy class as Mae.

After initial animosity, the pair slowly rekindles their childhood bond and even fall in love against the odds, while hostilities continue to grow between humans and apes, and their relationship gets put to the test by the small-mindedness of their respective species and the political agendas of people and apes in power alike.

Mae and Noa's bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous, but while the world around them rages with anger, fear and prejudice on the brim of another war, their love may be the only hope for peace...

(Idea based on the tv show Star-crossed and the virtual tv show Convergence)

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Oh! Um. Hello!

The Ao3 curse is real.

Rest assured I’m dedicated as ever to this little community, and though I’ve had to take a break from actively posting, I HAVE been learn on how to do some pretty cool things. Like 3D renders! Because three years is a lot of time to wait for a sequel.

I do plan on doing the prompts from @nomae-week-2024 . Just probably not all in the week…

No promises on timelines because I think that’s tempting fate, but things are leveling out in my life enough that I’m sure I can get back on track with everything.

Thank you Nomae Nation!

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NoMae Week 2024 // Day 2: Reunion

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Love makes no sense, love has no name

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Oh no I vanished again! No excuses, and no promises either, that seems to jinx things. But I am working on some special things for Nomae week in Nomaevember. Photoshopping isn’t enough anymore….(yes I’m working on making a 3D Noa too to make them kiss on the mouth)

made using face builder in blender to mesh to meta human in unreal engine

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Will I now experiment with kissing and cozy moments ? Yes, sir.

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Close enough welcome back everlark

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I wish I could say that I’m still recovering or that I got swamped at work or even that I haven’t been feeling up to it, but the truth is

I got a BADASS new laptop (rog zephyrus) and I’ve been playing with it.

Im ready to get back to work Nomae Nation!

Here’s some updates and the shit I got in my creative queque:

Chapter Five of TPG: I’ve written two chapters in Noa’s perspective so I’m really taking my time editing this chapter to make sure I follow the rules I’ve established for ape English.

I am going to commit to bi-weekly updates for TPG. My goal is still weekly, but I only want to formally commit to something I KNOW I can stick to.

The first installation of We Name Them All Nova: AFAIK this is the first Novelius (I tried Cornova but it just makes me think of corn on the cob) fic ever so I want it to be brilliant. The jury is split on if we want it to be tragic or lighthearted. The first can go either way. This will be a short series with a definitive conclusion, but each arc will mostly be able to stand on its own.

This one will be third person semi-omniscient!

Social Media AU: Like most of Nomae Nation, I was entranced by the trailer of ‘Better Man’ that features a man-chimp and even has a short clip of said man-chimp dancing with a lady. It has inspired a new world in my head: one where humans and (non-human) apes do live side by side and even star in films together…

I don’t know when I’ll get around to this tbh just putting it on my radar

More Composites: I have a few more that need cleaning up. And yes, the bridge pic I posted was a completely different pose than the one I had been teasing. It was just a case of I have been looking at this so long that it no longer looks like a Real Thing.

now have a system capable of rendering 3D. I may experiment with that…

Preparation for Nomae week in Noavember! DO NOT FORGET

As always, I love you all and hope you have a WONDERFUL DAY!

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Freya you could post a screen grab and a 👀 🩷 and it would set the nomae fandom on fire. We are still coasting of the momentum of the bts pic, but we are getting h u n g r y.

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Doodles

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Nomae if Mae didn’t flood the vault:

not really they would’ve all been target practice by the end of the day

gif by @hannah-louise-97 🩷

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this isn’t a fully articulated thought but if Soona really is going to be Noa’s final definitive love interest I feel like she’s also being set up to be fridged.

wesley you better not-

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APE ENGLISH RAMBLE PART I

The first rule of ape english is that the rules are fluid. This is partially for realism and partially because I cannot be expected to keep up with all of these rules even though I created them. My mind is not big enough.

You will notice a slight discrepancy in the spoken dialogue of the apes and Noa’s inner monologue; there are some non-diegetic reasons for this that I’ll be covering, but in-universe it is still physically uncomfortable for the apes to speak for long periods of time, despite the fact they have an understanding of language just as complex as modern humans at this point. The workarounds are regional; Eagle Clan would supplement with sign language, but the Coastals will speak to the point of vocal injury I’m derailing nevermind

Limited physiology is the main thing that governs the conventions of ape english. So, this dialect prioritizes two things; brevity and precision, the latter being the more important, because having to repeat or explain yourself is worse than adding on a few additional words for clarity. With that in mind, let’s get into it.

Warning: this doesn’t actually make sense

Exclusions/Omissions

There are two unwavering, hard and fast rules to ape english; NO ADVERBS, NO CONTRACTIONS. Let me explain-

Why no adverbs? I should clarify that I mean adverbs of degree or manner, which typical[ly] end in -ly (with the exception of only. They say this a lot.).

The -ly ending involves both a liquid consonant and a vowel glide, a structure that requires vocal dexterity unique to humans. Just as it is depicted in the films, the apes have an intense pharyngeal intonation that is just not capable of pulling off those delicate, flowing sounds, at least not with ease.

Not to mention, I think most of the time they are unnecessary. In cases where it would be necessary to utilize one (such as the example below; where the distinction between how much fur an ‘echo’ would have opposed to an ape) you would just drop the -ly. I do this a few times, sparingly.

From a white sheet, a limp arm thick and dusted light [not lightly] with fur flops with each step between them.

Why no contractions? Saying ‘don’t’ is a hell of a lot quicker and easier than saying ‘do not’. No it isn’t is not! As I said, they value precision over all else. Contractions involve a complex mechanism of dropping syllables, compressing vowels, merging consonants…this all involves fine motor control and it’s way easier just to round out those harsh consonants with the ‘o’.

Alright, moving on to some omissions that are utilized in a looser sense.

95% of the time, I will substitute fragmented sentence structure for actual article omissions in internal monologue to maintain the archaic feel. I have no real justification for this other than constant article omission is pretty much unreadable. I wrote a draft like this and it might as well have been reading oo oo ah ah.

However, subject/pronoun omission is much more tolerable! Particularly when referring to one’s self using (or not using) ‘I’. For example, it is always acceptable to drop the ‘I’ when introducing oneself or describing oneself using ‘am’.

‘Am Noa,’ I say.

I should not be nervous. Am not nervous - for myself.

This is acceptable because the use of ‘am’ is sufficient for conveying that you’re referring to yourself. Who else would you be referring to? In the second case, we also have ‘I” in the preceding sentence, and it’s proximity to the next one is more than enough. Here’s another example of an acceptable pronoun omission;

‘Mother’s voice hums through the wood of our home. Cannot hear what she says. Must be beckoning him back to rest.’

In the second sentence, its implied well enough that he is the one who cannot hear what she says, BUT even if that was missed, it’s not particularly important in the context of the sentence to understand WHO cannot hear her, just that she cannot be heard. The third sentence can omit the pronoun "she" because it directly follows two sentences where the subject—the mother—has already been established.

      ‘It is’ can be streamlined to just ‘is’ in most cases. ‘It’ can be implied from context, especially when the sentence follows a clear reference to what "it" refers to.

Is alright. Raka says it makes me look tough.

Is no one’s fault. Is only the way things are.

Here’s an example of when it would not be acceptable:

The way is narrow so that only two can walk side by side. [I] fall behind, lost in the cavern of my mind.

‘I’ is critical in this sentence because this sentence transitions to a whole new action, and the preceding sentence has a different subject. And no, ‘my’ in the same sentence doesn’t count because it’s a possessive pronoun, it doesn’t indicate anything about who is performing the action.

Dropping expletives is also fine in most cases.

‘Then is the hilly meadow,’ vs ‘Then there is the hilly meadow.’ An expletive like ‘there’ adds nothing to the sentence other than some structure, and the apes are not particularly worried about that.

Keep in mind these do not have to be omitted; they’re often not! It all depends on the cadence and the contextual continuity.

Confused? Me too. In the next installment I’ll go over sentence structure and vocabulary. So much parataxis!!!!

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don’t be shy, tell us more about ape English

I’m actually working on a proper guide to this right now! Mostly for me because as I’m editing the most recent Primus chapter I’m catching myself breaking the rules. I’ll be happy to share!

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Alright I’m working on my Cornova / Novelius Nomae fic and I have the intro done but there’s a fork in the road now: