#this land press

[laddertek]

desperation at the postal service

[joyishome]

Israel is Intentionally targeting press in Gaza beacuse they know they are committing mass war crimes and genocide and doesn't want the world to see it. But they take to twitter to provide fake evidence against Palestine, which has been proved as fake hundreds of times. The villainization of the Palestinian people is outrageous. The audacity is un real.

[mudshadow]

screenprint designs from last year i made for me and my girlfriends space animals

[wardingshout]

your alttp link and zelda art scratches my brain in such a way ill never get over

I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT !!!! that's the exact thing they're doing to me too so it's so exciting if it's not just me !! and like if I could put some of those little brain demons into art...

I like to think Zelda doesn't smile all that much like she's just kinda stiff and awkward but then when she does smile it's goofy big smile...

[mafaldaknows]

Instagram: armiehammer

HE’S BACK! 💙💪🔨💥

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some fantasy traveler inventory details (like what they would carry in their bags), based on two of the recent costumes I did.. love finding random little scraps and items and putting them together lol

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

Nebraska printmaker and book artist Karen Kunc (b. 1952) is a favorite here at UWM Special Collections. Here is a new acquisition of color, reduction woodcuts and letterpress printing, On this Land, with a text by Latina Nebraskan poet Lenora Castillo (b. 1950), printed in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Kunc's Blue Heron Press for the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1996 in an edition of 126 copies signed by the poet and artist.

The images were printed in five runs from Kunc's two basswood blocks on mouldmade Nideggen paper by artist Nancy Palmeri. On This Land reflects the austere beauty of the artist's environment - its farmland and open sky - and describes the gradual process of acceptance and attachment to a new place. Kunc's nature-inspired woodcuts echo the colors of rural harvesting, festivals and folk arts. The size of the book is intimate in scale, yet unfolds to a dramatic horizontal spread that evokes the land itself. Our copy is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other posts with works by Karen Kunc.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View other Decorative Sunday posts.

[ask-pakistan]

Ummm!! So i went on a little trip with my family to some mountains nearby, this June,,, and i took some pictures of the scenery i felt that were very aesthetic ! (Atleast to me, because i LOVE taking pictures of a beautiful sky) So, i felt it would be a waste to NOT share some of my favourites with you guys :D

Heres some of the scenery from Pakistan , brought to you by your very own Mun! :-

(This one is my ABSOLUTE favourite ajsnfikridhj because there was a sudden blackout when i snapped this, which makes it look like this came straight out of a horror movie! Haha)

(Mid-Drive smudge but atleast we captured the sunset!)

(and idk but i felt like having just the moon shining your path at night has a vibe of its own. I like that vibe, it's very nostalgic for me)

(Tumblr is making them look grainier ;_; oh)

[jesuis-snips]

LIES: Palestine is murdering civilians.

TRUTH: Palestine is expelling occupiers.

LIES: Palestine is attacking Israel.

TRUTH: Palestine is standing upon its rights in its own lands.

LIES: Hamas is giving Israel reasons to attack them.

TRUTH: Israel has already been attacking Palestinians without a reason for years. Every resistance counts and weakens Israel.

LIES: Israel is the victim.

TRUTH: Israel is suffering for its sins for the innocent children they have killed.

[navybrat817]

So, lovelies, my hubby turned on the Game Show Network and Press Your Luck was on. I explained to the kiddos that the whammies try to steal money from the players. My son left the room and came back with his piggy bank.

"Little man, why do you have that?"

"I don't want the whammies to steal my money!" 😭

[meraki-yao]

When M&G promo/interviews start someone better remind Nick (and honestly Casey too somehow) that HENRY TALKED ABOUT GEORGE VILLIERS' DASTARDLY QUEER DEEDS FOR A WHOLE SPREAD IN THE BOOK

[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.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

I get the vibe from Prince Yu that he would enjoy interior design, and combined with Jiggy the Party Planner they would make a formidable team ✨

ohhhh man, imagine if jin guangyao was prince yu's strategist instead of qin banruo.... 😬 i think he'd give mei changsu a run for his money in terms of who would actually succeed in putting their respective princes on the throne. i mean i still thing mei changsu would ultimately succeed in helping jingyan become the crown prince, just because he knows all of the pressure points to hit in this society and where all the bodies are buried. (sometimes literally.)

i don't like thinking about jin guangyao and mei changsu being in opposition to each other tho, so maybe in this hypothetical scenario, jin guangyao is actually one of mei changsu's disciples from the jianghu, and mei changsu embeds him in xiao jinghuan's household to ingratiate himself and slowly ice out qin banruo. sorry qin banruo, but you were never going to win anyway--and maybe jin guangyao finds out The Truth™️ through that process. gasp!!

this is kind of crunchy, i'm gonna chew on it a bit longer.

edit: this post originally had like one whole paragraph about modern AU hijinks in xiao jinghuan's interior design firm, with very exhausted student intern meng yao acting as his executive assistant, and then tumblr just ATE IT, i don't know what happened. pour one out for the modern AU that never was... rip.

[vampcubus]

i need to breed that old man or i’ll wither away into nothing

[yantao-enthusiast]

just wondering the general consensus rn

[sarahreesbrennan]

So hypothetically, if I wanted to get an In Other Lands tattoo, how would you feel about that? What do you think it should be? I'm open to both subtle and less subtle ideas! (It's literally my favorite book ever. I've listened to the audiobook at least 15 times, and that is not an exaggeration.)

The audiobook is good, isn’t it? :) A thousand thanks to Small Beer Press for letting me pick my reader. And a thousand thanks to you for the deep compliment of re-reading, deeper every time you do.

The thing is, oh delight of mine eyes, I wouldn’t feel right telling you to get a tattoo or what that tattoo should be, for your body is your temple and sanctuary and place of personal joy. But I can tell you I’m so flattered you would like to, and thank you for telling me so, and if you do please show it to me.

And maybe some of my otherlanders would like to say what line or idea jumps out the most to them, that they would like to see on a pillow or skin or stone. If you’re having trouble choosing I do not want to see you without aid.

Thank you again for the love.