#sivake

[strelles-universe]

Asitatu - Names of the Kingdoms

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Sky Based

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Asha - Moon, beautiful or celestial

Ilaanuŕai - Sunrise

Ilaluka - Impulsive or reckless, bold

Ilanabu - Air, free or loose

Ilasifa - Sky, destined or fated, familial

Ilasoŕima - Dawn, starting anew, fresh

Iyeŕa - Star, spiritual

Onedu - Fog, one who is fog-like or mysterious

Uŕai - Sun, warm or gentle

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Color Based

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Buŕa - Dark pelted or blackened

Ikema - Gray furred

Hraye - Copper furred, valuable

Oeŕun - Brown furred, earthy or grounded

Oketa - Golden furred, pretty referring to a tom

Olami - Yellow furred, joyful or happy (Olamina, Olamino)

Onaŕa - White furred,

Oniŕa - Red furred, youthful or naive

Osifri - Blue furred, intelligent with a great future

Osiva - Silver furred, feminine or mature

Oviŕa - Green, usually referring to someone's eyes

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Physical Attributes

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Oleya - Elegant, beautiful

Ilasaya - Intimidating, the largest kit of a litter

Oseŕi - Powerful, strong, a fighter

Osheŕa - Soft, Gentle

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Behavioral Attributes

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Oleki - Honest or truthful, peaceful

Omeha - Trailblazer, independent

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Pattern Based

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Oesra - One who is spotted

Oefena - One who is freckled

Ogivra - One who is brindled

Osria - One who is striped

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Emotion Based

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Nashena - Happy or contented, a kit who laughs a lot

Kahri - Agitated or Annoyed, a noisy kit

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Water Based

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Ami - Creek, tranquil or gentle

Iladaza - Tide, consistent or soothing

Ilasahre - Drizzle, playful or bouncy

Iniva - Snow, white furred, gentle

Peŕsu - Frost, white furred, one who his dismissive or protective

Sumisiŕa - Born in spring, developing potential (from spring)

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Verb Related

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Eŕanes - Untethered, free (from to fly)

Ihilra - Helpful (from to assist)

Ihomehra - Whimsical, creative (from to dream)

Ilakiyai - Grateful, respectful (from to thank)

Ikaheŕ - Ambitious, determined (from to grasp)

Inante - Becoming great (from to ascend)

Oameŕ - Late Born (from to arrive)

Oavi - Loved, lover (from to love)

Okoto - Singer (from to sing)

Okovu - Excitable, thrilled (from to pounce)

Onata - Creator, Crafter (from to create)

Ovaya - Wishful, desired one (from to wish)

Neŕes - Fast paced, excitable (from to run)

Saŕones - Wander (to roam)

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Compound Names

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Amisifra - Freedom of the Creek

Kegasifra - Freedom of the Ocean

Mahusifra - Freedom of the Morning

Nivasifra - Freedom of the Snow

Oshenakida - Loyal, One who slays weasels

Shenikumi - Fearless, One who slays fear

Shenixibo - Relentless, Determined (boar slayer)

Yulaku - Gift of Light

Yulami - Gift of the Creek, a kit born near or even in a creek

Yulasha - Gift of the Moon, born on a full moon

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Name Notes

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Il(a) - A common name diminutive used to transform adjectives

Kke - A common name diminutive meaning, "little" or "Jr"

(M)evu - A common affix meaning, "next"

Na/No - Gender based modifiers with "-na" being feminine and "-no" being masculine.

O - An agentitive meaning, "one who is."

Sifra - A common affix meaning, "freedom of-"

Yun - A common affix meaning, "the second"

Yul - A common affix meaning, "gift of-"

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Historical Fiction with Black MCs

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron (17th c.) Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak (18th c.) The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. (19th c.) Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia (early 20th c.) My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (late 20th c.) Bonus: These are all Adult Realistic fiction, but for historical YA fantasy, check out This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings, out in…

[hoples]

Whumptober 2022

Day 2 - Nowhere to run

He was cornered, but he wont go down without a fight.

[summerglowinglight]

[transgenderer]

Milei is the owner of five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan, who died in 2017 after suffering from spinal cancer.[45][266][267] He considers Conan his son and has named four of Conan's six clones, including one named after the original and another named Angelito,[275] Milton (in honor of Milton Friedman), Murray (in honor of Murray Rothbard), Robert, and Lucas (both named after Robert Lucas).[276][277] Milei said that he cloned Conan because he understands cloning as "a way of approaching eternity".[267] To do this, he went to a clinic in the United States; the process cost him about $50,000.[267] He has described his dogs as four-legged children and thanked them after his 2023 primary win.[14]

Milei stated that he communicates with the dogs through a mystic.[10] For example, he commented that the new Conan provides ideas on general strategy, Robert is the one who makes him "see the future and learn from mistakes", Milton is in charge of political analysis, and Murray of the economy.[278] When asked about this by El País journalist Martín Sivak and Nicolás Lucca of Radio Rivadavia, Milei did not deny it, and said: "What I do with my spiritual life and in my house is my business. If Conan advises me on politics, it means that he is the best consultant of humanity."[266]

Milei said he had dialogues with the likes of Rothbard and Ayn Rand. In 2015, he cited Conan as a source of inspiration for his writing.[266] About Conan's death in 2017, Milei said that Conan had not really died (he described it as "his physical disappearance" and continued to refer to Conan in the present tense) but had gone to sit next to God to protect him, and that it was thanks to this that he had begun to have talks with God himself.[279] According to González, Milei wrote to a friend in a chat: "I saw the resurrection of Christ three times, but I can't talk about it. They would say I'm crazy."[45] According to various sources consulted by La Nación, Milei maintains that he and Conan have a mission that was assigned to them by God and has a mystical story with Conan. He said that he met Conan, who was a lion, as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum about 2,000 years earlier.[280]

new president of argentina

[soudasouda]

Dmitriy Sivak Follow Souda on Tumblr Source: https://research-lighting.tumblr.com/post/747761316726521856/dmitriy-sivak-follow-researchlighting-on-tumblr

[ceramiccity]

Modern Kitchen Island Design

Dmitriy Sivak - Modern kitchen interior with marble island, pendant lights, and bar stools. Follow Ceramic City on Tumblr Source: https://research-lighting.tumblr.com/post/747761316726521856/dmitriy-sivak-follow-researchlighting-on-tumblr

[illegal-heartbreaker]

My Mom in 1985

summary: reader is a relative of the famous Larissa Weems but they're 10 years too late.

relationship: larissa weems x reader & reader x nevermore

extra/warning: based off the song 1985 - Bo Burnham, Larissa has passed, Wednesday and her year has graduated and the new Principal will be portrayed by Scarlett Johansson. angst idk??

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the taxi pulled up the driveway of Nevermore, slowing down to allow you to climb out of it. Thanking the driver, as you turn around to face the school.

Taking a moment to examine the exterior of the school, you push the gates open to reveal a large quad. Being greeted by a women who seemed only a year older than you. "Good morning, May I ask what you are doing here?" She asks, with an unnerving smile.

"I'm here to see my mother." You say finally making eye contact with her. Looking her up and down and furrowing your eyebrows at the amount of colours she had on.

"Let me take you to Dr. Sivak." This place made you feel like a monkey at a zoo, it wasn't the students fault - you didn't blame them.

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Theres a door ahead, and it's obvious the Drs office with the way the women who is leading you straightens up slightly. Pausing at the door, you notice the small plaque on the door which confirms your guess. The door is pulled open as if they had been waiting for you. "Thank you Miss Sinclair." the women says stepping back to let you in before shutting the door again. "Now, do tell me. Who are you? You're too old to be a student." The older women asks staring down at you with a raised eyebrow. "Oh um, my name is Y/N Weems, I actually came here to see my mother." The doctor halted in her walk back to her desk, and spun around staring at you in shock. "Your mother is Larissa Weems, isn't she?" Sivak asked with horror prominent in her eyes, making your eyebrows furrow together. "Yes.. is everything okay with her?"

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"They never contacted you did they?" she looks at you before bending down to collect an envelope from her desk, "Larissa died 10 years ago." It was blunt, but it hit you sharper than ever.

"No! You've got to be joking!" You could just make out the woman walking closer to you, your body had gone ice cold at the revelation. "She isn't dead! She can't be..." Denial, the first stage of grief.

"Oh darling, I'm so sorry for your loss." The women says handing you the envelope, "here, I found it in the desk addressed to you when I first arrived. read it, maybe it'll help."

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You broke down, right in front of the woman you had just met. The last words you had said to your mother was, "I wish you were dead!"

....and it had come true.

[tattoo-idea]

Watching tattoo by Denys Sivak, an artist based in NYC. https://tattoo-ideas.com/watching/

[tattooideas123]

Watching tattoo by Denys Sivak, an artist based in NYC. https://tattoo-ideas.com/watching/

[usergreenpixel]

@suburbanbeatnik , remember how you sent me a book called “Mademoiselle Revolution” by Zoe Sivak?

Well, dear citizens, this will be the topic of my next Frev review! Stay tuned!

Editing me: Take a look at this synopsis! @maggiec70 , @frevandrest , @suburbanbeatnik , I don’t have high hopes…

[lgbtqreads]

Queer Histfic Set in Paris, Part II

For part I, click here. The Disenchantment by Celia Bell (1670s-80s) Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak (1790s) Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (1866) The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall (1886) An Island Princess Stars a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (1889)

[hoples]

Whumptober 2023

Day 8 - Outnumbered - If they think he would just bow down and let them beat him, they never fought somebody backed in a corner.

[summerglowinglight]

Draconians - commander Kang and subcommander Slith (The Doom Brigade, Dragonlance)

[tactilewhispering]

Taiu gelaterie in Odesa, Ukraine SIVAK+PARTNERS STUDIO, 2022

[strelles-universe]

Rogue Speech - the Sky/Skulk Pidgin

One of the most common trade-speaks used before the Great Connection and one of the few tongues that intriguingly remained un-touched by the Connection, Rogue-Speech is the pidgin created between the Sky Kingdoms and the Skulks near them. With the forest clans being even more isolationist in the past (often refusing business with non-cats before the connection) and the tribes living on parts of the mountains that are difficult to reach (and often had isolation tendencies themselves); the Skies were the near sole progenitors of feline-speech within the pidgin. 

Being that this variant of trade-speech originated from the Rising Moon and the Old Kingdom of the Shining Sun, much of the canine influence came of the Silverfeathers skulk. The modern version has long since created a minor dialectal difference of Eastern vs. Western where the Western version of the tongue contains more vocabulary and quirks from the Grand Packs while the Eastern holds the Skulks’ influence.

The sounds and the written expressions of them adhere closest to Sivake as it was the skies who reached out first and held onto the information though it was the Skulks who introduced the concept of formal writing to them. Here are the consonants;

And the standard vowels;

As is standard for any pidgin, the hardest sound clusters from both languages were dropped. Because I’m still a bit new at this, I’m choosing to make that mean that the sounds that are either forbidden or are very different from the others are barred.

Phonetic Summary

Onset: m n p t k b d g h l ch sh f v s z x y ny

L Clusters: nl pl ml tl sl hl shl

K Clusters: nk mk lk pk sk

R Clusters: dr vr gr nr kr fr shr xr pr br lr

Nucleus: a e i o u

Coda: l n k sh s v g

A Cluster: aa ao

U Cluster: ue ua uo

I Cluster: ia

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Part 2: Noun Class

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Being that the pidgin is built from languages that all have noun classes, some are kept in this simplified version of it; the semi-animate is dropped from the skulks’ language, migrating everything important into the main two categories of animate and inanimate.

The markers from Sivake are used to confirm or deny animacy of a noun.

Animate - (i)he(m)

Inanimate - (i)hi(m)

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Part 3: Grammatical Number

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The paucal wasn’t necessary for understandings to be made and it was easier to merely convey “one of a thing” vs. “many of a thing” before fluid communication was developed and so; only a singular/plural distinction exists now.

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Part 4: Tense, Aspect and Mood

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As talks became more fluid and grammar straightened out, tense and aspect became to be addressed within the pidgin. For once, it is the kingdoms whose system is a tad simpler; having mostly only a past/non-past distinction with one additional tense commonly called the historical added to it. One the skulks’ side of things, not only do they have a recent and distal past tense but they also have one dedicated to the future.

When the tenses were straightened out; the language adopted three tenses - past, present and future with both languages dropping their distal tenses. 

As for the aspects, the kingdoms gracefully traded their iterative aspect (which they use more or less to mean “again” or “a lot”) for the skulks’ habitual while also retaining their momentane aspect. On the skulks’ end, they dropped their resumptive aspect.

It’s not a complex system - which is the goal - but the momentane is important to me. Anyway, let’s borrow sky-word for “to talk.”

And for my own entertainment, here’s the skulk’s word for “to talk, speak” in the chart.

Tacking onwards, the imperative mood is kept from Sivake -ro. 

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Part 5: Pronouns

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This is where the most simplification comes in. The Skies were made to relinquish their grasp on their dependent pronouns; sticking only to the independent forms to smooth out communication. In addition; the divine pronouns never made to this pidgin as there was never any reason to use it in casual conversation and would only serve to make future communication more confusion and difficult if they were forcefully inserted. On top of that; Sivake also gave up their paucal pronouns to match the fact that they dropped it as a grammatical number leaving a rather concise handful of pronouns as a base:

The only moderately complex thing about this wonderfully concise collection of pronouns is that the skulks’ inclusion of animacy on their own pronouns invaded these. When not speaking in first person, it’s common for the animacy agreement markers to be tagged to the ends of pronouns. While not exactly expected for second person, it’s considered mandatory on third-person pronouns.

Animate Second | Yahe, Hihe

Inanimate Second | Yahi, Hihi

Animate Third | Xihe, Elihe

Inanimate Third | Xihi, Elihi

The Skies weren’t the only ones making sacrifices regarding their referrals to others - the titles of the Skulks were imported but they were drastically condensed with some of their sounds changed to better fit the current sound-bank.

Haltun - leader, king/queen, crest

Fetun - deputy, prince/princess

Kel - hunter

Vera - healer

Tora - fighter, gladiator

Keshuma - matron, patron, nurse

Kiva - kit, youngling

Iten - elder

The speakers of the Skies are known to modify these terms with gender based attachments to add specification.

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Part 6: Articles and Demonstratives

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The articles and demonstratives are exempt from noun class agreement. The articles follow the Sky Kingdom’s association with only having a definite articles while leaving any indefinite articles unmarked.

Singular Definite - Ta

Plural Definite - Ba

The demonstratives on the other hand come from Kujhikoslan which has only a near/far distinction.

Near Demonstrative - Yel

Far Demonstrative - Sul

Final Note

Given that a vast majority of the talking was done by the Skies, the majority of the vocabulary for this pidgin turned creole is from Sivake albeit sometimes important words were replaced by the Kujhikoslan words when the Sky translation left them as unimportant. This is mostly apparent in words for birds and things related to them given their spiritual significance in the religion of the marrowed skulks.