#the forest of ash

[seabeck]

Red

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Autumn fire on the Allegheny Front. The heath's ablaze on the plains of Dolly Sods, signaling a change of season as Summer's greens burn away in Autumn's fire. Photos from the Allegheny Front at Flatrock Plains, Dolly Sods, and the Bear Rocks Preserve.

[dreampearls]

hope this helps

[uxbridge]

Frozen pond

[dariodosdias]

[radrado]

CROSSOVER EPISOOODDDE part 2!! I do these crossover episodes with protagonists of games I've beaten! Really, just ones on the xbox

Guess who played and beat hyper light drifter

[nattikay]

So apparently it's now been officially confirmed that the "Mangkwan" clan briefly mentioned at the end of The Next Shadow comics IS indeed the "ash clan" that will be featured in Fire and Ash (a lot of people speculated this before but it wasn't confirmed until now).

...which is all fine and dandy, except that kw is still not a valid consonant cluster, Karyu Pawl plz explain, the language nerds are crying 😭 Was this perhaps a typo of Mangkuan or Mangkawn? Or a new dialect that allows for more clusters? Or something else?

Right now my theory is that it's gonna be Mangkuan and the Mangkuan vs Mangkwan spelling difference will essentially be the same as Omatikaya vs Omaticaya (the first one being the technically "correct" one per Na'vi phonetics but the second still showing up in some canon material).

Part of the problem here, I think, comes down to what I'm gonna call the Cameron Paradox. James Cameron didn't create the Na'vi language; he created a small list of words, as well as all the character names (from the movies at least, idk about the comics and games), then hired linguist Paul Frommer (Karyu Pawl) to do the rest. Cameron's grammatical/phonetic/etc understanding of the language Frommer built, from what I can tell, seems to be pretty limited; those details are Frommer's realm. So it's very possible that Cameron chose the name Mangkwan because it sounded cool and simply had no idea that it's technically invalid within the sound system Frommer set up.

However...while Cameron himself isn't the one who created the Na'vi language, he does technically own it. It's a commissioned work and therefore Cameron, as the commissioner, has the power to override Frommer if he wishes. If Cameron has his heart set on "Mangkwan", Frommer doesn't really have a choice but to work around that. He might end up doing that by hand-waving it as a special spelling variation of "Mangkuan" (again like the explanation of c vs k in Omatikaya), or he might end up doing it by incorporating some sort of special new dialect rules for the Ash People. Or maybe some other solution that I haven't thought of. We just don't know yet.

...and Karyu Pawl might not actually be legally allowed to address it until after the movie's release date, so we might be waiting for a quite a while to find out ;w;

[pickleweed2]

Mountain Ash from a cold wet window

Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon

[aisling-saoirse]

Forest Clearing, Hedden Park, NJ - September-November 2024

[sleepyspots-wc-designs]

Ashfur pwease? :3

It took me way too long to color this guy-

ASHFUR

“Warriors are like rats! No matter how many I kill, there's always another waiting to steal from me.”

[Gray spotted tabby with pale blue eyes.]

Stinky.

Design notes!

Has the same white in his “hair” as Brindleface.

Sharper markings on forelegs.

Tons of subtle heart markings.

Mottled nose.

Emo scene bangs. Because it’s a staple.

Forepaws have the same white markings as his mother’s.

Very vivid, cold blue eyes.

Scarring includes: Torn right ear from the battle with the badgers.

[artharakka]

“Suru on eläin, jota ei voi koskaan kesyttää kokonaan.” ... “Ilves nostaa päätään ja tuijottaa minua. Se räpyttää silmiään kerran, toisen. Niissä hehkuu Maan auringon kadotettu valo, joka siilautuu vihreiden lehtien läpi. Sen sisuksista nousee matala, vaimea kehräys. Se näykkäisee sylissäni lepäävän käteni syrjää kevyesti, lempeästi, nuolaisee sitten peukaloani.” — Emmi Itäranta. Kuunpäivän kirjeet

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“Grief is an animal that can never be wholly tamed.” ... “The lynx raises its head and stares at me. It blinks once, twice. In its eyes glows the lost light of Earth’s sun, filtered through green foliage. From its depths rises a low, faint purr. With its teeth it nips the back of my hand resting on my lap, lightly, gently, and then licks my thumb.” — Emmi Itäranta. The Moonday Letters. Quote tranlated by me (unofficial)

[tys-kitty]

„People were made up of all sorts of different bits, Dru thought. Funny bits and romantic bits and selfish bits and brave bits. Sometimes you saw only a few of them. Maybe it was when you saw them all that you realised you knew someone really well.“

I may present to you Drusilla Blackthorn

[ashintheairlikesnow]

If I ever won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but I would suddenly start having a lot more time to write and I think you'd all figure it out pretty fast

[axololtls]

kofi

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Stripped bare

[randomoceanfacts]

Today’s random ocean fact: kelp forests produce the most oxygen out of an environment on Earth!

Kelp forests are found in cool, costal waters. They support a wide range of marine life and play a major role in maintaining Earth’s atmosphere. Bonus fun fact: kelp may look like a plant, but it’s actually an algae!

[Image ID: A photo of a kelp forest in the ocean, made up of many yellow-green stalks of giant kelp. The kelp is illuminated by the sun, which causes rays of light to cut through the water.]