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[idk-but-i-exist]

Arctic Fanclan : Tiu'vi masterlist

Tiu'vi is the collective name of the na'vi that call Tor'iftey (the arctic region of Pandora) their home.

This is still in development so all resources are living documents subject to updates

Basics (Kenrri, Rites of passage, and Clan structure)

Physiology of Tiu'vi (outdated new post in the works)

Philosophy

History

Dialect, Vocab, and Alphabet

Important Historical figures/characters

The different arctic clans and hierarchy

Creatures

Death Practices and Clan Songcord

Characters relevant to the "story"

*these are all living documents and will be updated as the Tiuni develops in my head*

Music that matches the Tiu'vi vibe:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jKVI2JSoegOPIewWYEPfF?si=m1vkuRCxRnqpBIX0ZHASFg&pi=lEJqzpQBSSGBD

Pinterest board I made for the clan:

https://pin.it/10wHLIrPR

Art by me:

Most common skin and eye colors + example of Tìrel (coming of age face tattoos)

Not up-to-date, needs updates

[aislinceivun]

Rocky fix

[experiment-11]

i rlly like aroace grace but i ALSO like the thought of grace identifying as aroace up until he meets rocky, in which he realizes that he does in fact feel romantic attraction... just not towards humans LMAO

[hare-brained-schemes]

me lowkey

[thesm1l3yface]

Me highkey

[astrugglingacademic]

Ryland thinking Rocky is happy with being back on Erid vs Rocky putting on a brave face because he has to give 20+ eulogies and he's desperately trying to prevent one more by keeping Grace alive.

[flamestormed]

Thinking more about the unsuitability of the exact term 'putting on a brave face' since faces are overrated for Rocky's species.

Thinking more about how the Eridians go about hiding their emotions from other Eridians, or if they even can.

Because do they pick up on even the slightest shifts in body language? In tone? How then, is Rocky going to deliver the 20+ eulogies in the human equivalent of 'putting on a brave face'? How much effort will it take for him to stand in front of the crowd of strangers and old friends and families of the crew and not be tipped off that he's obviously, actively, falling apart by the one-million-and-one cues of the Eridian body that are near-impossible to control? Does he forgo it? Do the Eridians let him forgo it? Or does he practice in front of Adrian until he can sing the tunes without the slightest crack in his tone, because he knows the people are attuned (sensitive) to these things and the last thing he wants is to send ♪♫♪𝄞♪♫♬, who's always been the sweetest soul in his neighbourhood, the mate of Blip-A's medic (who spent a great part of his last days crashing out before the illness took him too, because 'he's been trying EVERYTHING but why couldn't he ♯♪♯♬ save his friends when that's supposed to be his one ♯♪♯♬ darn job'), into a spiral in public??? He surely doesn't want their pebble—and good grief, Rocky still can't fully fathom how ♫♬♪𝄞♪♫𝄞 is no longer a pebble and hasn't been for a while—to have to deal with something like that.

Also, what can he even SING that will fully and respectfully encapsulate the sacrifice of those 20+ lives in exchange for his unlikely survival? (Think: it is with all of their deaths that he has sufficient food to even 'wait' for Grace to arrive and make it back to Erid, and what would they all think about all that time he wasted in the Blip-A, orbiting Tau Ceti, being so paralysed and so useless???) Everything is unfair and painful and wrong and as fresh as the day he started to lose them one by one and Rocky does not want to step up there to deliver those 20+ eulogies, especially not when his co-dependent space blob is still next in line, still actively dying from something so stupid as malnutrition (something so stupid as turning back for him), but he knows he'll have to figure out a way to keep it together and do it anyway.

And he doesn't want to have to do something like this for Grace either, not ever, but humans live such short lives even at their fullest health. To Rocky the Eridian who's lived for almost 300 Earth years, even when well-fed and healthy, Grace's death will always be just around the bend,

unpreventable.

[masao-micchi]

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ty for all the asks looking for the continuation to this series omg idk why yall are here for this mess HAHAHAH i more or less have a plot,, its just a matter of when i can draw ackk

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more of my PHM art here

[masao-micchi]

someone's in denial

PHM swap AU 1 - 2 - 3

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[yayculture]

let's all have fun because it's better than not having fun

[ispyspookymansion]

[joshuallyman]

i think one of the greatest gifts witch hat kitchen gives us is showing us that qifrey can absolutely outdrink olruggio 😭

"for heavens' sake" kills me. he's so unimpressed. he's so annoyed olly is tapping out early. qifrey was ready to finish that third bottle lmao.

and the next day olly is hungover on the couch while qifrey, who drank as much as olly, is up and about attending to the house and kids. levels.

like what do you mean the kids know how to identify hungover olly how often do they find him like that 😭

and no wonder qifrey gets so pissed when olly goes off drinking recklessly cause he knows the man is a total lightweight lmfao. like imagine the shit he's seen since they were teenagers. i'm sure teenage olly was even worse.

and of course he's annoyed cause qifrey knows he's gonna have to deal with this mess afterwards lmaooo

but at the same time, despite all that, i love that qifrey's usually game to join in 🙂‍↕️

[zirconiumpants]

Shirahama has drawn this about different characters tolerances and it's really entertaining that Qifrey's like "Olly what are you talking about?"

(also Lulucy, my girl)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I've noticed in recent years that, at least within mainstream usamerican culture, the sympathetic petty criminal archetype has largely fallen out of favor. you still have plenty of stories of noble nights, benevolent aristocrats, sympathetic mercenaries, but the idea of a thief with a heart of gold is increasingly rare. often petty criminals are just used as uncomplicated cannon fodder, so the protagonist has something human-shaped that they can kill or mutilate without remorse. you see this with dnd players often. the wicked king or the cruel dragon can be reasoned with, but a highway bandit robbing caravans to eat is perfectly fine to torture to death with sorcery

[contemptible-scoundrel]

this is no less common outside of fantasy, either. god knows how many books, films, games, about sympathetic soldiers, police, even mercenaries. sometimes they try to reckon with the inherent violence and cruelty of these careers, but they rarely have the fangs for a message sharper than "sometimes good people have to do bad things." but a thief? a mugger? god forbid, a drug dealer? uncomplicatedly evil vermin, all. again, just used as cannon fodder, purely to provide something human-shaped to hate and brutalize without conscience

[contemptible-scoundrel]

there is an obvious racial angle to this, as people grow more leery towards "those people are evil and inhuman because they look different," the message shifts to "those people are evil and inhuman because they are criminals," paired with heavily biased (and significantly more publicized) criminalization of racial minorities to achieve the same goal of publicly condoned repression and violence

[ninamodaffari]

everday i remember people conflate game devs - like, the guys who actually make the games, work on the games, do the stuff for the games, with the people in charge who decide to do microtransactions and lay a billion people off and it's so fucking tiring. devs aren't the bad guys here. we don't deserve to be doxxed and harrassed and sent death threats

[ninamodaffari]

worker solidarity until it's game devs I guess 🤷

[killowave]

[supremeshogunrj]

The longer it takes for this to come across your dash the funnier it is

[libraryogre]

Which will fade first? Memories of the Area 51 "raid", or memories of Internet Explorer?

[hyacinth-in-a-haze]

People have really forgotten that yandere is literally a horror trope. No I don't want a "green flag yandere" I want an endless pit of dread in my stomach and also a sense of arousal that shouldn't be there

You youths have forgotten the original tomes

[onthegreatsea]

the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games

but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.

[yume-fanfare]

i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

[paperjoshi]

what the fuck is a time knife

[bramblepatch]

[strawberrylovely]

[undeadentropy]

Time knife is a form of time knife

[shrugsinchinese]

Rocky was in space for 50 years of course the recuperation period is long and hard