#kwet

[featheredsnek]

The crossover continues

Exploring your partners planet is fun for a date but make sure you dont commit crimes I mean what

Featuring Canary from the Fabled comic, @snuffablestuff on x dot com!

[eightfourone]

TIL Poinsettias are from mexico, and are called cuetlaxochitl

[haveyouatethisfruit]

Prune Plum

(prunus domestica)

Also known as blue plum, damask plum, kwets, quetsch or zwetsch

Not to be confused with damson plum (prunus domestica subsp. insititia)

🍓🍌🍐 Reblog to share a fun fruit and to increase sample size! 🍐🍌🍒

[rosieriotbunny]

What a funny snake guy! Part of an art trade with @featheredsnek of his lad Kwet!!!

[l0v3c0r3e]

eve--even milk? ...

CANCEL LEN 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@borispavlikovskymybeloved @butterflies-for-michael @byleriscannonparty

[spineblade]

Kwet Chill Times

Art trade with @featheredsnek! Really pleased with this one, I love how the lighting came out.

[neviayue]

cuetlaxochitl | By Nevi Ayu E.

It's finally the end of the year, but my Birth Flower series isn't done yet, still have two more to go... And have a very happy birthday December babies, hope next year will be the most bright and beautiful, just like this showy kwet-la-sho-she!

[mindutme]

T’owal T’uesday #8

A few weeks ago I posted the beginning of my T’owal translation from the LCC10 relay. Here’s the whole thing!

E sonden do fyonte le hú mínol. Bmétho minol hu Lok’a há hyán hontsu pasyo mo.

Wís sí fdu hu Epe tyót sgen sonden. Há mó p’áth yi le e hliyi sos mo, tu mó só il sin swa tsin slod yi yu. E pwa tuf sin le e tyot sondem mo sál swa tsim p’ith Épe fén fan kseg kwet do sk’etut le. Kséd sk’etut le p’ith ts’ún swa xi Epe sí tuf le, a lál swa mó bós í. “Hlég xmen hné. Fút li hné sk’étut le su, ix wás li hné kúth ex hne sú, a fút hox li hné.”

Wís sín hu T’idu sígu sonden. Kwét a wútsyup bmétho mó, tu p’éf mó thwí bmetho hu Thiye. P’éf mó ts’úm bos dne dus bos e sonden a thbáha bos. Ús í ót, sál mó fén t’es.

Mén tso we mó fén le Epe o si tuf le e sonden, a wól mó í. “Os ól sú tsés i, Thíye a Lók’a bwúd li Épe, túl k’a li dne Lok’a Épe Thíye. Ól li nul ot sú ts’óhef o Epe, a há li sú t’an Thíye. P’of ts’ún Lók’a sk’étut le mo (uli then sk’etut su), tu sk’étut su a sk’étup p’ith úli k’a then sk’etup mo!”

T’ídu mén fén t’es mo Épe, a últs’a mó ts’óhef o bos nul fen tul thwi bmetho. Gwíd Épe sk’étup p’ith le Thíye a Lók’a, a túl Épe Thíye, a wás Épe Thíye T’ídu.

Tu nás Lók’a dús mo, a sdóye mó sk’étut le mo. P’út Lók’a a sí yeftsu le mo T’ídu a sk’étut le bos, psíl ót í, ól li bós dné sonden. Kséd ubsul yu sk’etut le a sí thdat yu thdó de i, tsím bmétho hyán hontsu pasyo mo, a bwét fén thdo. Nás dne sonden T’ídu a sí yeftsu le mo, a xí lot Thíye dús mo.

Below is the English translation, and some more info.

In a large forest of birch trees there was a kingdom. The king, who was named Lok’a, had a knife hidden in his crown.

In another part of the forest there lived a creature named Epe. It had long hair on its entire body, but walked like a person on two long legs. When people would travel through its part of the forest, Epe would create a magical illusion of a large, evil army. The magical army would take the travelers to Epe, and it would say to them, “You must choose. Either my soldiers kill you, or you give me all of your things and are not killed.”

Outside of the forest lived a man named T’idu. He hated and was disgusted by the king, but he desired the king’s sister, Thiye. He wanted to take her from her home in the forest and marry her. To accomplish this, he made a plan.

He had been told of the actions of Epe with the travelers in the forest, and he thought, “If I can make Thiye and Lok’a encounter Epe, Epe will take Thiye away from Lok’a. Then I’ll be able to trade with Epe, and have Thiye for myself. Lok’a might might bring his army (which is bigger than mine), but my army and the magical army combined will be bigger than his!”

T’idu told Epe his plan, and promised to trade with it after the capture of the king’s sister. Epe sent the magical army after Thiye and Lok’a, took Thiye, and gave her to T’idu.

But Lok’a ran home and gathered his soldiers. He and his followers surprised T’idu and his soldiers before they could leave the forest. The two real armies and their leaders fought until Lok’a used his crown’s hidden knife, and the battle ended. T’idu and his followers fled the forest, and Thiye returned to her home.

As I’ve previously mentioned I’ve changed the T’owal alphabet several times since writing this text. For whatever reason the first sentence of it has really stuck in my head so whenever I make a change to the alphabet I write that sentence out to see how it looks. However, I usually change one thing which has bugged me about the text since about two days after it was too late to fix it for the relay: there’s a superfluous plural marker (le). T’owal doesn’t typically redundantly mark the plural: if you say something about some birch trees, you would say fyonte le, but if you mentioned them again you would just say fyonte, since we already know it’s multiple trees. If you need to switch to referring to just one, you’d say fyonte wi, literally “one birch tree.” In writing this opening sentence I was thinking a little too literally of the English wording, “a forest of birch trees.” Even though fyonte le has not previously been said, it’s obvious that there’s going to be more than one tree in the forest.

Tense is similarly not marked on every verb. I tend to use one tense marker in a T’owal text for a given section, applying it to the first verb and then letting that tense be implied for the rest (until another tense marker potentially changes it). This text is meant to have a slightly out-of-time feeling, so it doesn’t even start with a tense marker at all—the first one doesn’t appear until the fourth paragraph. When they are used, it’s either in reference to the reference time frame of the story (using the past tense marker we for “He had been told”), or within the dialogue of the characters.

The last thing I want to talk about is the character names. In the text I received there were five names, including one for the kingdom. Since that one was used only once, I decided to omit it. In earlier stages of the relay most people borrowed the proper nouns from the previous language, fitting them to the sounds of their own conlang. Since the language that preceded mine was UNLWS, which has no spoken component, the names that had been passed along were removed and replace with UNLWS-style names, which take the form of equilateral triangles with something inside that represents the person in some way (usually one or more UNLWS glyphs that relate to them). Here are the four characters’ names as they appeared in UNLWS:

These are related to the UNLWS glyphs for (from left to right) movement along a surface, a tool, shiny, and a combination of shiny and snake. Since there isn’t (yet?) a way to form “native” T’owal names, I didn’t really have a way to make names from the equivalent T’owal words. So instead I went based on the resemblance of parts of the glyphs to certain T’owal letters. In the third name, for example, one part is very reminiscent of the T’owal letter t’, and the whole thing is very angular so I used mostly angular letters, and ended up with the name T’idu. The curve in the second name was somewhat like the letter e, and a little like p as well, so that became Epe. Continuing along those lines, I ended up with these four names:

Of course, the changes in the T’owal alphabet have completley erased most of those letter resemblances since then! Oh well. Here’s how the four names look in the current alphabet:

[tigersharkartist]

Forgot to post it, but here's my submission for the Snake Surplus contest on the Comic Gang Discord server :3 Featuring the snake with the fluffiest mane, @featheredsnek 's Kwet! I had a lot of fun drawing this :3

[dykescooby]

Today, a new form of corporate colonization is taking place through surveillance and digitalization of knowledge and control. Just as in past European colonial undertakings, when private corporations helped dispossess, murder, and enslave Indigenous populations in the “pathological pursuit of profit and power,” sociologist Michael Kwet argues that now, instead of the conquest of land, Big Tech corporations are colonizing digital technology. A handful of US multinational corporations control everything from smartphones to search engines to business and social networking platforms to online advertising, and so much more. As Big Tech products are integrated into societies around the world, the companies—and the United States—“obtain enormous power over their economy and create technological dependencies that will lead to perpetual resource extraction.”

Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages, Ray Acheson

[beneathascorpionsky]

48, 39, 31, 24, 4, 6

4:A character you rarely talk about? Pretty sure we had this question in the server recently and I struggled to answer it then. Ehhhh lets go with Wesley, he's a musician cursed by an illness that was meant for his brother to suffer through but his father got it shuffled onto him instead. He falls into the same catagory of power as Shyshie and Coe later on into the story. But like. Much much later so I never talk abt it

6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related?

uhhhhhh probably like. Half my otter characters. Cause in general they're all various shades of brown and. otter shaped.

24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why? Hmmmmm Kwet because I just want to actually get a sense of his scale cause even tho I love making my alien characters just rediculously large I still struggle actually envisioning their scale

Also he my sad boy and i wants to see him

31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like djfsnm uh ok. Shyshie would have two blogs. One where she exclusivly posts stuff like aesthetic ocean pictures and quotes from poetry and books about the sea and it'd be all pretty and nicely set up. And then another one where she just gets into the most awful discourse and posts the worst takes known to humanity because she is a mysterious sea creature but she is also irrevocably a gremlin goblin cat child

39. Introduce any character you want

Remus. He is my shameless genshin oc. He eats glass and is cooler than you. He also has sad pathetic dad energy. He's a dead star and also tainted by the Abyss. He's in a roleplay that I still need to write a response to.

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure I feel like none of my characters are this anymore. Sometimes they start that way but they always evolve past it. Shyshie and Kwet were supposed to be like this but uh.... maybe Aurin? He's just a lil transporter operator. He's only ever had to use his gun a few times.

[featheredsnek]

He's got the right energy

[merelygifted]

Poinsettia: the Christmas flower and the racist history behind La Cuetlaxochitl | by Three Sonorans | TSON News by Three Sonorans | Medium

...  What many people may not know is that this American symbol of Christmas is firmly rooted in Aztec (Mexica) history, the same history that is trying to be banned in Tucson today.

The plant is known as Cuetlaxochitl (kwet-la-sho-shel) and was another stolen item from Mexican history and [whose] history [was] white-washed in a gross way, which is evident in who the plant was renamed after in America, the horrendous Indian-hater Joel Roberts Poinsett, the former US ambassador to Mexico who was kicked out, but not before he stole La Cuetlaxochitl and made it his own.  ...

Got hip here: La Cuetlaxochitl became the most famously misnamed holiday flower | Boing Boing

[geertjerrr]

Can you understand at least 1 or 2/1000 reasons?

Waarom ik een drugsprobleem heb/gehad al die jaren? Nu heb je eens een inkijkje gehad hé in die wereld "buitengewoon". En ik ben nog maar een softie hoor vgl met velen ginds, echt hoor, ik werd bijna uitgelachen met mijn gebruik. Zal dat nooit vergeten. Ze wilden zeggen maar kregen hun zin niet uitgesproken van wat zit gij hier te doen? Maakt niet zo veel uit 1gram of 1 kg per week. Als je zo ver gevorderd zit zijn dat allemaal de verhalen die erachter schuilen die hun doen blijven gebruiken, tot schrijnende toestanden toe hoor. Ik heb armoede gezien, dakloosheid, ziektes, justitie, schulden onoverkomelijk. Snappie? Ik heb een moordenaar weten arresteren. Te gek hoor. Ne moord ook via via zus en zo en of en wel en niet ma nie echt, ma toch hé > prijs!!

Ik ben elke dag onder invloed van een enorme rijkdom in mijn kopke en veelal belanden zulke mensen in een psychiatrie omdat ze gewoonweg het leven niet aankunnen. Omdat hun rugzakje ne bergrugzak is vol met stenen. Daarom schrijf ik steeds in beeldspraak dat mijn creativiteit en seksualiteit mij pijn doet. Da's een innerlijk gevecht en steeds.

Ik ga hier geen klaagzang schrijven. Let me be who i wonna be.. Ik heb het recht kwaad te zijn op jullie maar ben dat heeel zelden eens omdat ik teveel begrijp. Omdat ik mij kan verplaatsen van individu zelfs groep, een enorme empathie draag soms tegen mijn zin.

Wat ik allemaal zie op "X" zit Geertje veel zijn hoofd "neen" te schudden ze. Als ge vecht tegen iemand hé doe dat dan 1 op 1 en niet 20 tegen 1.

Geertje Blij zal nooit vechten. Ik zal babbelen. Ik ben soms zeer kwaad op moeder of vader en ik weet van mezelf dat ik NOOIT hun of iemand een haar zal krenken. NOOIT. Fysiek dat staat nergens te vinden in mijn rijkdom.

Lachen wel mannekes. Ook met jullie. Je mag lachen met mij, dat deert me niet veel. Je lacht omdat je maar 1 reden weet, heel luid zelfs. Ik begrijp die lach omdat ik alle 1000 redenen van mezelf al 28 jaar onderzoek.

Jullie trappen in mijn verbale vallen keer op keer zelfs op sollicitatie gesprek. Deert me niks, ze zouden een SUPER werknemer gehad hebben. BIG RESET!

Geniet nog verder van je glaasje wijn, je vrouw of man/partner, je kids vroeg in bed - morgen school, indien de vroegen erbij - de laten. Geniet zo veel je kan.

En kwets niemand. Ook jij wordt niet graag gekwetst. Heb je je dat al eens afgevraagd vraag ik mij soms het naar jezelf betrekken?

(hug) omdat ik van een mensenwezen hou. Voor redenen die jij niet begrijpt, wel kan begrijpen hoor maar die interesse niet hebt. En terecht, elkeen zijn plezier en zingeving in het leven.

Ik sta ENORM voor leven, recht op leven, recht op plezier al zijt ge ne IQ45 of ne IQ145. Ik "voel" nooit het "gevoel" ik ben beter. Er kwam een manneke bij mij in de Kringloop en hij deed zijn best mij een compliment te geven. Moest ge weten hoeveel liefde ik in dat moment zie, da's onvoorstelbaar. Het zijn die miljarden kleine dingen die onze wereld staande houden. Er is meer liefde in de wereld dan haat.

Naakt sta ik achter een mensenleven met een GIGANTISCHE en naïeve Belgische Vlag. Ik woon hier heeel graag. Ik vindt ook poltieker TOP mensen, dikke vette blageurs want ik zie ze soms en TERECHT, vindt ik.

Ik zou ook met ne toupé lopen in diens functie.

[thefree-online]

How US Big Tech supports and profits from Israel’s AI-powered genocide and apartheid

As an extension of US imperial power, US tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities. from thefreeonline on 12 May ’24 by Michael Kwet at Al Jazeera war violates international laws. Nine employees were arrested on April 16 for staging a sit-in at the Google office Shortly after the October 7 attacks on Israel, Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a statement on social media,…

[sjadootr]

Bij het afscheid zoenen mijn vriend en ik elkaar op de mond en komt er een tong bij; dat is mijn vermoeden, maar ik weet het niet zeker. Er gebeurt iets bij het afscheid nemen. Het kan ook dat ik iets lelijks zeg en mijn vriend kwets. Maar ik denk dat het andere waar is: dat we intiem zoenen, op initiatief van de leeftijdloze man, en dat ik het toelaat en me dan omdraai en wegloop. En het weer vergeet, maar mijn vriend vergeet het niet.

Hallo Muur - Erik Jan Harmens (p.162)