#nomi kun

[hirumi25]

"Is that The Tengu?!"

Another gijinka (humanization) art ft. The Demon Bird : The Tengu

(Also hey, Nomi-kun is back (^o^)/✨️)

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i will say tho

(Re: tales of the jedi: the sith war)

Ulic Qel-Droma killing his brother (who is trying to save him) and then immediately regretting it, and Nomi severing his connection to the force afterwards in anger fucked severely*, though.

Exar Kun's spirit being trapped and him trying to communicate with a now force-less Ulic (who cannot hear him, on account of y'know, having no force powers) on Yavin also fucked severely.

Star Wars is good at tragic endings

*a good thing

[alphacomicsvol2]

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith #1 Cover Art by Hugh Fleming

[revanknightwoman]

Origins of Star Wars Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"IN THE DEPTHS OF GALACTIC SPACE, A FOOLISH AND ARROGANT YOUNG JEDI AWAKENS AN ANCIENT, DEADLY POWER."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a Dark Horse promotional house ad for "STAR WARS: Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith" trade paperback, collecting all six issues in the "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Dark Lords of the Sith" comic book series.

"In the depths of galactic space, a foolish and arrogant young Jedi awakens an ancient, deadly power. This seductive evil leads him down a path that will make him a Dark Lord of the Sith."

-- DARK HORSE COMICS, c. winter 1996

Sources: www.frugaldutchman.com/products/193-958, various, etc...

[azems-familiar]

okay okay okay. fine. my interpretation of Ulic, obviously, which i personally think is pretty accurate if you get rid of some of the ridiculous shit that makes no sense the comics pulled, and extrapolated based on little things. anyway.

they're both gifted kids, you know. Ulic is given over to Arca when he's 11, this absolute powerhouse and prodigy. his mother believed herself incapable of training him, instead sending him to a master who scolded him for not developing the innate power of battle meditation; he resented her for it, and resented Arca, but never believed Arca was wrong. Revan, thirty years later, just as powerful in the Force, with the same martial bent as him, feared by Vrook Lamar and certain other masters she would resent for the rest of her life. picked up at twelve by Arren Kae, who only chose her because one day you will save the Republic, i've Seen it.

arrogant, both of them, even as the brightest of Jedi. Ulic knew his strength and believed he could handle anything - boasted about it, even. what were the Krath against his Jedi strength and righteousness? Revan had succeeded at everything she turned her mind to, and was certain she could outsmart Cassus Fett and win the war. what were the Mandalorians against her righteous anger and the Jedi's compassion?

(how long did a Jedi's compassion and righteousness last when loss came, when anger came, when a way to win that wasn't the right path presented itself?)

how often did Nomi Sunrider look at Alek and Qatya, Revan's most loyal friends, and see Cay? (see Tott, see herself?) Qatya, standing numb before the Jedi Council, a fresh scar across her face and her connection to the Force ripped away. Cay, bleeding out and crumpled on the ground, Ulic's lightsaber having carved through his chest.

a mask. an amulet. power, not of the mystic kind but of blade and charisma and tactical genius and an army loyal to the death. Ulic would have taken Coruscant had Aleema not betrayed him. thirty years later, Revan was six months out from conquering the Republic, Coruscant included, until Malak turned and shot her in the back.

Ulic was a prodigy. he proved it a hundred times over before the end. Revan saved the Republic, and then turned around and nearly destroyed it. both of them left shadows over the galaxy that would linger for generations. oh, they'll tell you Exar Kun masterminded the Great Sith War, and maybe they're right - from his hand was the dream of a new golden age birthed. but it was Ulic who led their armies, unmatched by any Republic tactician.

the same eyes in different people, time after time after time.

so yeah. sometimes i think about Ulic and Revan.

[konjaku]

山茶花[Sazanka] Camellia sasanqua

This one was blooming in the precincts of a temple. It appears to be a garden variety, but I do not know the name. The serration on the leaf of Sazanka are notched deeper than those on Tsubaki(C. japonica). This indicates that it is a sasanqua.

The color of this flower is 紅. This kanji is read as beni in kun-yomi(the Japanese reading) and read as kō in on-yomi(the Chinese reading).

In the old expression or the refined diction, tears of blood, tears shed in grief, are called 紅涙[Kōrui]. It is used as 紅涙に沈む[- ni shizumu](To be sunk in -), for example. It is also called 紅の涙[Kurenai no namida].

紅の ふり出つつ泣く 涙には 袂のみこそ 色まさりけれ

[Kurenai no furide tsutsu naku namida niwa tamoto nomi koso iro masarikere] By the crimson tears I shed from hard feelings, only my sleeve that wipes them becomes deeper in color. By 紀 貫之[Ki-no Tsurayuki] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki_no_Tsurayuki

There is also the following idiom. 紅は園生に植えても隠れなし[Kurenai wa sonou ni uetemo kakure nashi](lit. crimson does not go unnoticed when planted in gardens), which means that the superior person or thing are always visible no matter where they are.

The only woman among many men is called 紅一点[Kō itten](A single crimson). Long ago, this situation once triggered an affair, and it was even made into a movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatahan_(film)

[torilaa]

The only Old Republic show I will accept is adaptation of the comics. I would love to see Exar Kun, Nomi Sunrider, Jolee in a show. Then eventually Zayne Carrick...but even then I don't have high hopes for Disney/Lucasfilm to even get their characters right after what they did to OT characters sooooo....

[nurknabo]

LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA - CAPITVLVM VNVM ET VICESIMVM

Post longa tempo de la lasta afiŝo, jen komentado pri la lernado. La ĉapitro nomiĝas "La Batalo de la Studentoj".

Ecce discipuli pugnaverunt: cum Sexto Marcus et Titus pugnaverunt. Tamen non est dictum qua de causa, at primum Sextus nasum Marci pulsavit. Eorum pugna in imbrem erat, et etiam humi iacuerunt. Propter Marcus revertitur domum inmundus et cum sanguine de naso fluente. Marcus atrium intrans vix cognoscitur a patre suo Iulius; ipse eum cognovit audens eius vocem. Non placet Iulio Marcus duo unum pulsavisse. Postremo Marcus parentibus suis ostendit tabellam et "me eas litteras scripsisse" dicit, sed tabella non Marci, sed Sexti est! Falsum est quod dicit Marcus. Mater eius statim filio suo credit, nec vero credit pater, quia scit filium suum bonus discipulus non esse.

Post ĉi historia priskribo kiun ŝatis mi skribi, jen ni iru al la komentoj.

La ŝajnsinonimaro

Mi eĉ nomis ĉi tian aferon pro ĝia ofteco. La ŝajn- komence estas pro tio ke, eĉ se diras la libro ke x = y, ne vere ke ambaŭ vortoj tute interŝanĝeblaj estas. Ĉar tute ne eblas ekscii la malsamecon per la libro nur, jen mi iris serĉi denove. Sed, ĉi-foje, ion alian mi decidis fari: anstataŭ per Guglo fari la serĉadon, mi decidis demandi al ChatGPT. Kaj, surprize, ĝi donis senchavan klarigon.

Jen la sinonimoj kun klarigo de malsameco:

mundus = purus - "mundus" al fizikaĵo rilatas, "purus", al abstraktaĵo

candidus = albus - "candidus" estas por mencii la brilecon kaj fortecon de io, dum "albus" estas nur pri la koloro mem, vere kiel diri "blanko" simple.

vestis = vestimenta - "vestis" estas individua vestaĵo, dum "vestimenta" estas kostumo, la aro da vestaĵo uzata

cruor = sanguis - "cruor" rilatas al sangverŝo, dum "sanguis", al sango fluanta en la vejnoj

Ĉiu priskribo perfekte kongruis kun la libra kunteksto.

Ankaŭ estas la verbo "aio", uzita kie mi pensus ke uzitus "dico". ChatGPT diras ke "aio" uzatas por mencii ekzaktajn vortojn ies, dum "dico" estas io pli ĝenerala, kiel verbo nia "diri", mi kredas. Kaj denove ĉi tio kongruis perfekte kun la libra situacio, kie la verbo "aio" uzitas kiam Emiliino demandas Julion kion li ĵus diris, kaj li respondas ripetante la ĵusdiraĵon.

Tamen, kio pri "inquit", kiun estas sintakse uzita kiel "aio"? Ĉi-foje donas ChatGPT ne tiel fidindan respondon, sed ankoraŭ kredeblan, ke ambaŭ signifas la samon, sed ke "inquit" estas pli formala kaj literatura.

Ni, la grundanoj

Legante la apudnotojn, mi vidas "humus", kaj tuj rimarkis similecon kun "humanus", sed samtempe pensante ke povas esti falsamiko, ĉar "humus" signifas "tero, grundo". Serĉante, mi vidas la mirindaĵon: "humanus" efektive havas la sufikson -anus, kunigita al la radiko hum-. "Humanus" do signifas "tiu kiu apartenas, devenas de la grundo". "Humanus" signifas "grundano, terano". Kiel bele!

Mi trovis tion tiel interesa, ĉar tuj mi faris ligon kun kion la Biblio diras pri kiel homo estis kreita. Ankaŭ venis enmensen ke en greka mitologia ankaŭ tiel kreiĝis homo. Kaj tiam mi pensis: kiom forta estis tiu penso, kredo, por ke oni eĉ aludis al si mem kiel "iu devenanta de la tero"? Ĉiam mirindas la fakto ke estas kelkaj ĉiamĉeestantaj trajtoj en ĉiu, au preskaŭ ĉiu, religio. Estas unu vero tie.

Krome, mi eksciis poste ke la nomo Adamo signifas la samon! Mirinde.

Nu, montriĝas ke mi post ĉi tiu afiŝo eksciis ke "humanus" devenas fakte de "homo + -anus"... kio estis vere seniluziiga. Mi nun scivolas de kie mi prenis tiun informon ke la vorto venis de "humus". Mi nun nur esperas ke la etimologiuloj misdiris kaj "humanus" vere venas de "humus", kiom ajn neverŝajne estas tio. Ĉiuokaze, mia miro pri la etimologio de "Adamo" restas.

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Ecce finis. Breve est commentarium, at bonum est capitulum. Scire veram interpretationem vocabuli "humanus" mihi placuit. Bela est lingua et id quod scire possumus per eam.

[hirumi25]

POV : you're the sorcerer

It's a redraw prompt from here, it's been a 1+ year since the Nomi-kun's last post T v T so here we go

[good-amv-mmv-fmv]

Title: Anime's got talent

Music: Here comes the hotstepper

Anime: Mai-Hime, Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo, Arakawa under the bridge, Me!Me!Me!, Hataraku Maou-sama, Durarara!, Free!, Gintama, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaku-kun, Shigatsu wa kimi no uso, Amagi brilliant park, Tiger & Bunny, Soredemo Machi wa Mawatte Iru, Kyokai no kanata, Angel beats, Avatar: the last airbender, Bakemonogatari, Code Geass, Clannad, Idolm@ster, Death note, Dragonball Z, Full metal panic, Golden time, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Naruto, Macross Frontier, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai, My little pony, Plastic Nee-san, Kami nomi zo shiru sekai, Log Horizon, Mikakunin de Shinkoukei, Danshi koukousei no nichijou, Yowamushi pedal, Kiki's delivery service, White album II, Fullmetal Alchemist, Nanatsu noTaizai, Tamako love story, Fairy tail, One piece, Bleach, Soul Eater, Tenjou tenge, Carnival Phantasm, Space dandy, SKET dance, Magic Kaito 1412, Death parade, Super Sonico the Animation, Kore wa zombie desu ka?, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, Nuraihyon no Mago, Princess lover, Magi - Labirynth of Magic, Noragami, Hunter x Hunter, Shingeki no Kyojin, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, Eden of the East, C3, Mekakucity Actors, Kamisana no Memo-chou, Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, Chaos;Head, Lupin III vs Detective Conan, Mirai Nikki, Cardcaptor Sakura, FLCL, Princess Tutu, Sailor Moon

Why do I recommend it?: There's an amazing image editing that really gives you the feeling you're watching as 'anime's got talent' show instead than as AMV, with funny bits and surprises and a spectacular ending. It can't be helped it's a must see.

[mayxthexforce]

@sithisms said:

"You break me! After all I've done for you! Saved you! You cast me out for your pathetic Welp of a brother!?"

The force had abandoned him. Nomi had made sure of that.

His whole life, he had felt as if he was floating in a peaceful body of water, sometimes at the top, sometimes sinking into the darkness. But always floating. Now, he knows better. There was no river, no deep nor shallow. He was merely suspended in the air this whole time, like a puppet on strings. Those strings had been cut and he had plummeted to the ground. Hit rock bottom.

Or so he had thought, before the dreams began.

Ulic hadn't even known what became of Kun. He believed him to be dead and yet, often, in his dreams, he would see the man: angry, betrayed, hurt. As if Ulic was to blame for the consequences of the atrocious actions they had both been so happy to commit. They had played a dangerous game, and they both played the highest price in different ways.

You break me.

It was ironic, really. Before his exile, when Nomi and other Jedi still believed that they could convince him to change his mind, to not leave everything he knew behind, they tried to tell him that he blamed himself too much, that he had been manipulated by Exar Kun. They didn't know anything. They couldn't have been more mistaken. He and Kun had been equals, feeding each other's delusions of grandeur– forever egging each other on in their pursuit for more power. Always more power.

You break me.

If anything, Ulic had done more harm to the galaxy than Kun. He had conquered the Mandalore system, led the Mandalorian on crusade after crusade, siege after siege, across the galaxy. Securing more and more territory for the Sith Empire he and Kun were trying to build.

Killing Cay had been the straw that broke the Bantha's back.

All those months of having his anger towards his brother justified and fueled by Kun, of being encouraged to end his brother's life, crumbled to dust when Ulic was faced with the gravity, the permanence, of his actions. Regardless of how pathetic Exar Kun might have believed Cay to be, he simply held too much power over Ulic. Even in death, he still did– as a brother always should, always would.

Yavin IV had yet to recover from the full extent of the damage they had caused.

Ulic shouldn't be here. He knew he shouldn't. He no longer had the force on his side, could not rely on enhanced senses to protect him anymore and even if he had had them– he had killed his brother, the guilt would have made the possibility of simply letting somebody kill him far too tempting. But he hadn't gone there to die. No. He was there to find out if the enraged man that plagued his dreams was just a figment of his imagination, or some leftover essence of the true Exar Kun.

He needed to get back into that temple, needed to see for himself what had become of his once ally.

[dapurinthos]

wait no the revan mythologies have to be the aenid DAMN IT

the qel-droma epics are the fucking iliad & the odyssey is when he's wandering and then training nomi sunrider.

excuse me i need to go figure out the hiding of the dark reaper in two point five different languages. the point five is because i decided that ossian tionese is to 5000-year-ago tion cluster tionese as mycenaean greek is to classical greek.

to rhen var he flew the hollowed ship (εἰς rhen var τὴν ναῦν γλᾰφῠρᾱ́ν πεπότηται???? --> he-i rya pa-wa te ne-hu qa-ra-pu-r-a-wo pe-po-ti-ta-i-ye / heis rhen var [ten] nehun glahpʰurhawon pehpohtitaiye???) & crooked-councilling exar kun (εξαρ κουν ἀγκῠλομήτε͜ω [or something]--> a-ku-ro-me-te-wo e-ka-sa ko-u / ahnkyulohmehteow eksar koun)

[revanknightwoman]

Early drafts of Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith

[roseaesynstylae]

The possibilities for Huyang to namedrop decidedly Legends characters fills me with joy. Nomi Sunrider, Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Malak, Bastila Shan, The Jedi Exile, Kreia, Fay (through her lack of lightsaber), various others who are definitely remembered by the fanbase but I cannot for the life of me bring to mind at the moment. All I’m saying is that Huyang is a goldmine for Legends references and I dearly hope that Filoni realizes that.

[azems-familiar]

...........i may or may not be writing kotor/totj fic again tonight,

“Must we exile even her?” Vash asks softly, as the silence stretches and the sun begins to dip towards the horizon. “If she’s penitent-”

“She is the worst offender of them all!” Vrook snaps back, gesturing with one hand. “Among the first to follow Revan to war, according to all reports one of the creators of this planet-destroyer and the one to give the order - what does penitence absolve her of?”

From the other side of the room, Kavar says, “She’s also the only one who came back.” There’s something exhausted and dust-dry in the words, and Nomi slants a look at the other master, younger than her by a little less than a decade, but old enough to recall Ossus.

There are dark circles under his eyes and an unhealthy pallor to his skin that speaks of little sleep and poor meditation, and his aura is locked down more tightly than Nomi can ever recall sensing it during a meeting - as if he’s preparing himself to take on a shadow’s mission once more. She…suspects she knows why, in truth. Not only is Knight- former Knight Petheir his padawan, but he had been the one to bring the infant Revan to the Temple all those years ago, and…there is a set of battered, blackened dog tags around his neck, resting over top his tabard. She hasn’t asked who he knew in the Republic military well enough to be known as their next of kin; the man has never been in contact with his blood family. But grief is a heavy companion, especially when fresh, and the Mandalorian Wars have brought it marching back to their sides once more.

Gaze lingering on the dog tags, Nomi finds herself thinking of Yavin IV, Ulic’s and Exar’s bodies lying across from each other on a temple’s stone floor, lightsabers between them. She thinks of Cay bleeding into the Ossan sand, the light of ten dying stars overhead, crying for his brother, and how it had been ground-shattering fury that drove her in that moment, a scream trapped in her chest and echoing into the Force instead of the air, binding Ulic within his own skin. Something in her had shattered, there on Ossus, something she has never been able to reclaim. Cay had been lost, and then dead; Ulic had cried, and then gone numb entirely, and it hadn’t been her fault but the guilt festers anyway. A deep, secret poison, one she has never let show.

Ulic Qel-Droma chose to redeem himself, even cut off from the Force, she’d told the High Council, as they’d gathered on Coruscant to try to rebuild their fragmented order. He engaged Exar Kun in combat, without support from the Order, and struck him down, though he was killed while doing so. Cay - her voice had hitched on his name - wanted nothing more than for his brother to return to us, and while Ulic’s actions are certainly far too reprehensible to be pardoned, even in death, I’d like to request his change of heart be noted in the Archives. Let him be known as dying seeking atonement, even if only to the Jedi with the clearance to look.

(She doesn’t know what Ulic would have wanted. She never has. He didn’t say a word to her after giving her Exar Kun, or to anyone else, as far as she knows. But when they burned his body, on the Yavin moon, she gave him and Exar a shared pyre. It had seemed…the least she could do for a man she had loved, who had never loved her.)

…to say she understands the weight on Kavar’s shoulders would be an understatement.

“Please,” she says tiredly. “The time to debate this was three days ago, when the votes were cast - and as I recall, we had a debate lengthy enough to rival the Senate. I agree the early vote was…distasteful-” not exactly the word she’d like to use, but as the High Council’s leader she has to be professional- “but we had no way of knowing Knight Petheir would even come back. Revan’s influence is as strong as Exar’s and Ulic’s was.”

Their youngest and newest Councilor, Atris, shifts in her chair. She had recused herself from the vote on young Qatya, stating that their past romantic relationship made her biased, but considering her response to the verdict Nomi wonders if that bias had inclined Atris towards exile, rather than away. Still, the echani woman has looked uncomfortable as the hour for Qatya’s trial draws near.

(The masters were right, Cay, she’d said, tugging him back towards the palace window. Cinnagar buzzes around them, an insect hive roused to furious action. If they don’t leave now, they never will. Ulic must make his own choices, and suffer his own consequences. We’re leaving him here.)

The same tragedies, again and again. How many more times must this repeat? How much more pain, writ galactically in blood, echoing the recent past?