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🌿Na'vi cradles🌿

From left to right:

° lesutx aytanhi clan - compact, made from belly part of skin from passed ikran (because it's very soft type of leather) and sticks of the local "oak"

° atan'taw clan - multifunctional, the holders (?) of the cradle also are using to hold the cooking pots during the cooking

After the meal the coals that was left are gently heating the baby's bed

° metkayina clan - made from the giant snail shell and placed on the (unfortunately) dead coral

It's used by na'vi till the baby can walk after that they change it to mat (for baby's safety)

° tum'nan clan - making process of this cradle is very complicated and takes a lot of time

It's made of living tree which is modeled by na'vi to grow in certain direction (like a bonsai for example) but the tree isn't that big (more like a stunted plants) and stops its grow after a few years (2-3 years usually)

#avatar 2009 #avatar lore

eywaite

random question … how would you say, “watch your mouth” in Na’vi … :,)

Hi Anon!

So, this is a very interesting question because: The Na'vi language (like a lot of non-English languages) don't have the same sayings and meanings to their words like ours.

It's actually quite common practice for language learners to mix up or confuse native speakers of different languages when trying to directly translate a regional phrase that other countries might not use.

As an example, my Mom speaks Spanish and my Dad does not, often times when my Mom translates what my Dad says to native Spanish speakers, she has to paraphrase and change a lot of common English (American) phrases he says because they just don't translate the same in Spanish.

I make this very long winded explanation to tell you that a lot of our human phrases like 'Watch your mouth' wouldn't be able to be directly translated from let's so English to Na'vi.

In Na'vi there isn't a term for 'Watch' that would mean the same in English, so we would switch that out with 'Keep'. And to spice things up I switched 'Mouth' to 'Tongue', creating:

Sweyn ftxì ngeyä: Keep your tongue

Now if you wanna keep the 'Watch your mouth' theme a little better, you can say this:

Sweyn kxa ngeyä: Keep your mouth

And as a bonus, this isn't really a word but a action that mirrors what you're desiring. It's a hiss we actually hear Tsu'tey use in the first movie to his students when they were cheering too loudly for Jake after he got his ikran/Banshee:

Oìsss: Angry snarl, 'watch it!'

I hoped this helped! 💞🤗🌹🥰

bluealienobsesser

Matching with mom

nattikay

was scrubbing through some scenes for reference material and caught this cute lil background interaction between Neytiri and Tuk :'D

#neytiri #tuktirey

tsukikonikushimi

Omatikaya Food

(As always from the Visual Dictionary)

#avatar lore #Omatikaya

tsukikonikushimi

Metkayina Village model

"The Avatar team made a real life model of a house from the Metkayina village Awa'atlu, during the production of Avatar 2" by @PandoranVault on Twitter

#avatar lore #metkayina

tuberculosis-chic

i was just stuck in an airport for 17 hours (for honestly unclear reasons), so here’s how the sullys act on a plane headcanons

Jake

keeps loosing his bag

packs everything you’re not allowed to have on a plane in said bag

bought all the tickets but got them for the wrong destination

oops now they’re going to india instead of indiana

Neytiri

that one mom who keeps trying to sleep but her kids keep bugging her

actually is able to convince the customer service to give her new tickets

Neteyam

he got there 5 hours early

a change of clothes for each of his siblings bc he knows someone is spilling their drink on themselves

somehow finds the only good airport restaurant and has a 5 star meal

Kiri

says nothing and does nothing

no fr she is just sitting there the whole flight like 👁️👁️

multiple people are afraid of her

Tuk

DEMANDS the window seat and then cried bc there isn’t a good view

drinks apple juice and eats pretzels

“are we there yet?”

watches that one documentary about dogs and then asks for a dog for 2 hours straight

Loak and Spider

they steal one of those blue cars that drives you around the airport and cause delays

try and play their movie at the same time with that “1,2,3” and then hitting the play button technique that never works

loak tries to order whiskey

#sully family #headcanon #this is hilarious

hes-a-tough-kid

dirtytransmasc

I think people forget that spider fully understood he was a captive and at the mercy of his captoors. he knew showing weakness, could be exploited, that showing too much of a reaction or act of defiance could get him punished, or even sent back to the lab to be tortured into giving up the sullys. he spent the entire movie holding up the strongest front he could attempt, distancing himself from his emotions to survive.

so yeah, he wasn't the most emotive, but in his little reactions, if you look at them, he was fighting back so much. you could tell he wanted to do so much more than just yell at quaritch, but he didn't, he kept his cool, and tried to reason with him, to deescalate. when he sees the sully's aboard the ship, he tries to stay calm, once again, as to not rise the tensions and delicate balance currently keeping the kids alive, explicitly creating a calm connection with lo'ak, because if anyone was gonna snap, it would be him. even after neytiri cut him and potentially almost killed him, he kept his cool and focused on getting kiri and tuk off the ship, even after they go back to escape the fire, he's always taking the lead, focused only on the sully's, namely kiri.

his focus is never on himself and his own feelings, but about those around him. he only reacts when no one else is watching, and even then, its limited, cause he's so used to shoving it all down to survive, for the safety of others (not to mention how he was abused/neglected his whole life and had to pretend like it didn't effect him).

but despite how limited his reactions are, they're heartbreaking; barely contained tears, deep breaths he takes in an attempt to calm down, the way he swallows down his own fear and pain to beg for kiris well being, that glare he sent quaritch before he ditched him, the pain and guilt on his face after neteyam died, the distant "what am I even doing here?" look at neteyams funeral (cause that poor kid is trying to process so much, he blames himself for neteyams death, he knows neytiri hates him and was willing to kill him, he has all those feelings about his dad to unpack, he's gotta process being left behind and not looked for for even a second despite being willing to give his life for the sullys, etc. there was not a single part of his mind not being ripped apart during the funeral, where all the while, he's actively mourning his dead brother... to say he was not doing so hot, would be the underestimation of the god damn eon).

hyperfixatedfandomer

I needed to reblog this with your tags because they’re SO VALID!! like bro the way people never look beneath the surface 😭 like I didn’t need to reflect for hours or meditate in a cave for decades to realise that Spider was numb from the trauma he endured, why the hell is it so hard for y’all to do?? He was a pretty solid actor in this movie and I don’t get people who don’t get the character and are trying to nitpick at him. You’re not slick.

#spider socorro

dusky-doe

All the Sully family ikrans, all in one place! Top to bottom: Bob (Jake's Ikran), Seze (Neytiri's ikran), Neteyam's ikran, Loak's ikran, and Kirin's ikran.

I had fun drawing them, the three kid's ikrans were definitely a challenge, and I'd love to draw them agin when I have access to the movie!

I hope you guys enjoyed this series! Which ikran is your favorite?

#ikran #avatar lore

jaketiri

Lo’ak & Neytiri

I often see posts from people claiming Lo’ak is exactly like Jake and he’s Jake’s mini-me and it’s not that I disagree with this, exactly, but I disagree with the evidence people use on why they’re similar.

I would argue that Lo’ak’s “hot” anger and impulsiveness is exactly like Neytiri, not Jake.

Jake is shown throughout both films to be calm and even-tempered, with him not taking the bait even when Grace insults him to his face. It’s implied that his training as a marine has taught him to see even the most high-stress situations as problems to be solved rationally. It’s through this line of thinking that he’s able to humble himself enough to appeal to Tonowari, or see taming Toruk as just another challenge to undertake rather than a glory/honor to chase. He pushes away his emotions until after a fight and knows when to retreat.

Neytiri, on the other hand, is as quick to take up Ronal’s challenge as Lo’ak is quick to take up Aonung’s. Remember the scene in Avatar 1 where Neytiri is so incensed over Seze’s death that she’s willing to rush into certain death just to kill even one more sky person? Jake is frantically trying to get her to make a tactical retreat but she wants to push forward.

Across all of The Way of Water, Jake is holding Neytiri back from taking her revenge or taking out her anger in each fight. She gets just as impulsive and reckless as Lo’ak - we can see this in several sequences during the fighting, from when Jake has to cover her because she becomes exposed and Quaritch chases her tail, to the final battle sequence where she kills Z-Dog, where she stops her with an arrow to the hip while she kills someone else, knowing Z-Dog could still shoot her. She becomes completely taken over by the rush of the battle. She loses control of her anger to the extent that she breaks her father’s bow.

In the same vein, it’s Lo’ak’s and Payakan’s joint anger that leads to the rush on the boat in which Neteyam is killed (in my opinion, had Payakan intervened with Jake already on the ship, the fight would have gone much differently and much more quickly.) When all of the children are untied and have the opportunity to escape, it’s Lo’ak’s desire to re-enter the fight that leads to Neteyam’s death (remember, the ship is sinking and once the non-recon humans escorting Spider are in the water, they’re easy pickings).

#Very true!#lo'ak #atwow #neytiri #jake sully #sully family

tsukikonikushimi

Pandora Flora Plants from The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration

#avatar lore #flora #pandora

be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie

K listen I saw Avatar for the forth time last night and I noticed another few things. The big one for me is their use of bro and how different it is for each character. Neteyam only calls Lo’ak bro, his baby bro. That is his little brother and he loves him and that is his nickname for him. You cannot convince me that this doesn’t come somehow from Jake and Tommy and that those motherfuckers didn’t call each other bro. You also can’t convince me Lo’ak didn’t take his constant use of bro from his oh so secret love of Neteyam calling him bro. He calls only three people in the movie bro. He calls Neteyam bro, he calls Spider bro, and he calls Payakan bro. These are his brothers, guys, get the fuck on board with me.

Neteyam, his big brother, the one who has called him baby bro probably as long as he could remember. Spider, his best friend, one of the only people who fully understands him and always supports him. And Payakan, his spirit brother, a fellow outcast who he connects with on such a deep level. He only calls him bro after their third meeting, when they have developed more of a bond.

And Spider only calls Lo’ak bro, cause that is his brother. One of the only three people he considers family, and he knows to Lo’ak that is like his lil love language. I’m telling you there are real tears in my eyes.

kunoichi77b

#loak #brotherhood #Neteyam #spider #payakan

pandoraslxna

So I was doing some research for a fic, looking for Na‘vi insults and thought I should share these absolute gems with you all 😂😂

Ngal si Tsahayluti nantangyä tximru - Go bond yourself with a viperwolf's ass

Sla muntxa nga - Go f*ck yourself, lit.: 'become self mated'

Kalweyaveng - Son of a bitch, lit.: 'child of a poisonous spider'

Nì'ul kame tskxe - A stone sees more

Txanfwingtu - Bastard, loser

Teylupil - Teylu face

Kurkung, vonvä - Asshole

#na'vi language

nattikay

Jake is a Good Dad and I will Die On That Hill

Howdy Avatar fandom. Over the past six months or so I’ve seen a lot of criticism directed toward Jake Sully as a father, ranging from him simply being a little too strict at best, to outright neglectful and even abusive at worst. This, my friends, is some grade-A nonsense, and today we’re gonna talk about why. Strap in, lads, this is gonna be a long one. Let’s roll.

So before we get into breaking down the events of the main storyline, let’s address the idea that Jake was always the super-strict “military dad” throughout the kids’ lives: put simply, bullcrap.

Out of the film’s over-three-hour runtime, we get to see very little of the Sullies’ lives before the RDA’s return—only about six minutes’ worth. If Jake was meant to be this strict militaristic dictator during this time period, especially in a way that would significantly impact the kids’ character development and their relationships with him, this would be the time to show it, or at least hint at it. But instead of any of that, we really get quite the opposite. Jake laughs and plays with the kids:

Jokes around and cuddles:

Teaches Neteyam to fish:

He even says in his narration:

“Happiness is simple…whoever thought that a jarhead like me could’ve cracked the code?”

Guys, this is quite literally the best time of his life. This man absolutely adores his family with every fiber of his being, they are his whole world. Like, look at him! He has stars in his eyes!!

We have zero reason to suspect that Jake was overly harsh or strict in a way that would impede his relationship with his kids during this time. The Sullies appear to be a normal, healthy, close-knit family.

It’s only when the RDA returns and reignites war that things change.

I’ve seen some people claim that Jake’s personality changed it the second movie. I disagree—it was not his personality that changed, but rather his priorities.

A1 Jake was a disabled marine vet who was offered his brother’s contract after said brother was unexpectedly murdered by some thug on the street…and part of the reason he agreed to take that contract was that there really wasn’t much else left for him back on Earth, so why not go? A1 Jake had just about nothing left to lose, and therefore could afford to be more reckless.

A2 Jake, however, is another story altogether. A2 Jake can’t just run around poking and prodding and taking risks like A1 Jake did because now he has a wife and four children who rely on him and who he loves more than anything else in the world. It’s not just himself he has to look out for anymore, it’s them. He now has everything to lose. He says as much himself:

Not to mention that he’s older now. Did you really expect the 37-year-old father of four who’s been leading the clan for 15 years and is suddenly thrust back into a brutal war to behave exactly the same as the 22-year-old fish-out-of-water ex-marine sent to fill in for his scientist brother out of the sheer convenience of sharing a genome? A2 Jake’s behavior is not a sudden 180 from his personality in A1, it’s a natural progression and reaction for his character given the changed circumstances.

“A father protects. It’s what gives him meaning.”

This is essentially Jake’s thesis for the movie. This is his #1 priority, his purpose, the lens through which all his actions must be viewed in order to understand them, and it’s important to establish it upfront because it sets up everything else.

Afficher davantage

#Great analysis #Thank you for this #jake sully