#24% land

[ometochtli2rabbit]

[yellowbugifs]

257/365 days of regina mills

[royalarchivist]

Foolish: You know, this is nice. Nothing like some good old– just hard-workin' grinding, you know?

Bad: Yeah! Just grinding together. Grinding, me and Foolish and Dapper, we're just... grinding all the armor up.

Foolish: [Laughs in disbelief] There's just no way, there's just no way...

Bad: Grinding up, grinding away... There's nothing I like more than grinding with Foolish.

Foolish: [Loses it] Oh– COME ON! [Laughs]

Bad: What? ...What?!

Foolish: Sur– yeah, Dapper– please like, you gotta write something after that. [Laughs]

Dapper: there is a big diff between grinding with and against

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Foolish: You know, this is nice. Nothing like some good old– just hard-workin' grinding, you know?

Bad: Yeah! Just grinding together.

Foolish: Yessir, yessir...

Bad: Grinding, me and Foolish and Dapper, we're just... grinding all the armor up.

Foolish: [Hesitantly] Yeah, alright.

Bad: Yeah.

Foolish: [Laughs in disbelief] There's just no way, there's just no way...

Bad: Grinding up, grinding away... There's nothing I like more than grinding with Foolish.

Foolish: [Loses it] Oh– COME ON! [Laughs]

Bad: What? ...What?!

Foolish: Come on!

Bad: What!!!

Foolish: Sur– yeah, Dapper– please like, you gotta write something after that. [Laughs]

Bad: What?!

Dapper: there is a big diff between grinding with and against

Bad: What did he write?

[brucespringsteencomments]

[queenlakiefer]

I’d love to meet Kiefer Sutherland one day but…

I know for a fact I’ll be a nervous wreck, shy, not knowing what to say and worried I’d breakdown and embarrass myself in front of him…curse my shy, overthinking and self conscious nature 😭

[usaac-official]

Aces Over of the 459th Bomb Group after a crash landing, 7 March 1944

[xx-psych0-rabbit-xx]

elfilin (two color schemes)/fecto forgo (out and in capsule)/elfilis (times three) pixel sprites in the style of the gba games+squaky squad, in honor i cant stop joking these three came straight out of the 2000s (kirb is there for scale)

if tumblr doesnt screw this up these should be up to the scale of actual sprites lol

[veinsfullofstars]

⚙️ Kirbtober 2024 Day 24: Another Dimension ⚙️

(ID: Kirby series fanart of two Sphere Doomers - one regular form, one EX form, both magenta with two tail feathers - fighting over an Energy Sphere sparkling brightly between them, their wings spread in intimidation and shedding feathers around them. END ID.)

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Started on 10/05/24, finished on 10/06/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

[hanafubukki]

I wonder when the Savanaclaw Manga will update 👀🤔 I’m excited for the next installment.

By my calculations, we should be getting the next twst jp update for main story on nov 22 👀🤔

It will be interesting to see the manga update before the main story update 🧐

[lonestarflight]

"The night landing of Space Shuttle Columbia at Edwards Air Force Base and end of the STS-61-C mission. The view is of the shuttle's main landing gear touching down, with streams of light trailing behind the orbiter."

Date: January 18, 1986

NASA ID: STS61C-S-050

[emerxshiu]

FORGOTTEN LAND'S SECOND ANNIVERSARY :3

I AM SOOOO BACK

I started this drawing yesterday around afternoon and finished it just a few minutes earlier.

I went with a messier type of drawing instead of more clean like the elfilin one from yesterday, i find it fun doing it like this, mostly cause i dont have to worry about making it perfectly so i dont get as frustrated as normal. Id place this one as my second best digital drawing. im pretty sure i havent posted what i consider my best digital drawing here, tho i do have it in instagram, i might post it here one day, tho these two are way too tied up, i love how this came out, its not exactly like how i imagined it but its really close to it, and also itd say that since i dont tend to play around lighting that much, this was such a joy to draw and i cant help but stare at it a lot, at least until i start hating it because i made quite a lot of errors. i also changed my elfilis gijinka just a tad bit from last time, but its not that big of a difference, mostly.

ofc i had to draw elfilis for forgotten land's anniversary, i tend to deny it in my head but yeah they're my fave of the kirby characters even tho i hate them a bit. I wanted to draw some more doodles, like, elfilis eating cake, kirby car, a bunch of other stuff (not elfilin cuz i already drew him yesterday) but when i tried i couldnt draw anything more, guess this drawing burned me out a lot, huh?

you can definitly tell i spent all the efforts on him cuz if you look a bit closer to the bottom part you'll see its almost barely detailed, but i mean, they're the focus so make sense i guess for me not add that much detail there. um also, maybe because i dunno i had OVER 130 LAYERS jeez no wonder firealpaca was slowing down so much, i need to manage my layers better next time, tho i did do something i keep forgetting, wich is naming them (most of them at least) that was a real life saver

Also, antares (fecto elfilis' spear/cadaceus), as always, was a pain to draw, but this time its probably been draw the most accurate out of every other drawing ive made with it in it, i didnt notice it was like, a little curved when it reached the blade

some close ups since his face is a bit hard to see

silly :3

fun fact! actually, this is technically a redraw, somewhere around between february and march i started a fecto elfilis drawing for the first anniversary, but i couldnt finish it in time, and i never finished it

thats...quite the improvement! (i remember being so proud of it)

also his wings are like that cuz i did not want to draw the pattern, its way too hard, i literally copy pasted it, wait, i was talking about the 2024 version but i looked at the 2023 one and i just noticed it also has the pattern copy pasted, i guess some stuff never changes since i still abuse the ctrl+c ctrl+v to this day

Also i ended up making a huge error there, i was planing to add the phantom spears from orbital pulsar (the attack he does first when you battle them at lab discovera) but theres an innacuracy, when they do the attack, they always close their eyes, i had actually sketched him (well i mean both these drawings are basically the first sketch (2023) or second sketch(2024) with some color, shadows and lighting. i didnt do lineart in the 2024 one cuz i wanted to be a bit like the og i made (too bad i sketched that one with black since the og was sketched with white due to me drawing the bg first)) with his eyes closed but them decided to make them open for a reason i cant remember, maybe i thought itd look nicer? idk

ive had the idea of redrawing this for quite some month now so it was kinda already planned

background cuz i think it came out really pretty

doesnt have the little stars since without elfilis and the structures it looks fucked up. the actual sky in game is more blue, but the clouds have some orange, in the 2023 ver. i made the sky orange, and in the 2024 ver i wanted it more accurate, but i didnt wanna loose the orange sky, so i did a gradient. pretty...

also here's a screenshot i took when i was like halfway trough it, its barely noticeable but i changed his mouth in the final drawing

I really love katfl, like a buncha whole lot, its basically almost my first mainline kirby game. 100% the demo, finished the game in almost one day, i literally play it monthly, like, every month i put the card in my switch, start it up, get morpho sword, and go shred elfilis in lab discovera. i would probably not even be here on tumblr and the kirby fandom if it werent for it. and i love it so much i genuinly cannot express how much i like it and treasure it with words or anything

Thank you for reading my unnecesarily long rambles lol

I hope i'll post tomorrow and dont forget like usual

Jambuhbye!

[serpentface]

FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES

(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)

In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.

Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).

The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).

Brakul’s full title is:

“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”

Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.

"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"

The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.

“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.

All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.

"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"

The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.

‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.

The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.

‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).

"AN BICT-URBINNAS"

‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.

The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).

’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.

The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.

‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.

[royalarchivist]

Half the fandom trying to keep up with the QSMP lore rn like

[snowyfrostshadows]

He needs a moment. (Or several)

[domysterio]

[irradiatedsnakes]

literally he is so trans. literally he is so transgender (all quoted from katyatalks' name translation thread on twitter)

Reigen Arataka: 霊幻新隆 Full name is a pun on the word ‘reigenarataka’ 霊験灼か which is a super obscure word. Means “very advantageous(1)”, “effectively channel Buddha & gods(2)”, “strikingly blessed by the gods(3)”, “The blessings of the gods will make themselves known(4)”

It’s used in the context of things like 霊験灼かなお守り (an amulet that is very effective) or 霊験灼かな神社 (a shrine that has strong spiritual power + you’ll likely get what you pray for) Both components of reigenarataka mean a variant of miracle.

As for our Reigen; Surname: 霊幻 (reigen) = 霊 (soul, spirit), 幻 (phantom, illusion) Forename: 新隆 (arataka) = 新 (new), 隆 (grand, prosperous) His surname is basically “spirit phantom”, first name “new prosperity”. Tldr; his name is a massive pun and a big joke