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Let me explain where the name "Iwenu" and it's name glyph came from in @utala-pi-ijo-nasa chapter 7.

In the English translation, the mountain is called "Jagged Tooth", so you'd expect the name to be something like "nena Take Tu" or something, but since "Jagged Tooth" is just an English phrase, they wouldn't have come up with that name in a toki pona only environment. So I had to think of something else.

I asked @moth-to-a-moon why it was called "Jagged Tooth", to which he told me that it was someone else's - @red-leaves-of-autumn's - idea, and that it was because mountains, especially ones with multiple peaks, tend to look like teeth. Because of this, I translated the name as "nena pi kiwen uta" (mountain of teeth). Can you see it? kiwen uta?

That's not the end though. I decided that it was most likely so long ago that this name was created that the modern spoken form of toki pona hadn't evolved yet; so kiwen uta became *xiven *wuča. I don't have a reason exactly for why the sounds became the sounds they did, but that's just how I did it (this was 3 months ago that I did this, so I might just not remember). I then took *xiven *wuča and pretended as if it went through multiple sound changes (no idea which ones lol) to become Iwenu (we will ignore the fact that /x/ became /k/ in modern toki pona but not in this name for some reason).

Now for the name glyph.

Since the name is ancient, I thought to make the name glyph derived from sitelen sitelen, since - in my toki pona head canon - sitelen sitelen is the ancient script that eventually evolved into the sitelen pona we know today. Because of this, I took the sitelen sitelen for pi kiwen uta and simplified it in a somewhat cursive style to get the first itteration of the name glyph:

sitelen sitelen generated via this website.

So this was the original name glyph, but that's not the version seen in the final, is it? The modern name glyph is taken directly from this glyph, but modified to make it seem more "sitelen pona-y":

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i know this is the english blog but guys please look this is so cool

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Chapter 7!

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ahh! just realised i never put the refs here!

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OKAY OKAY OKAY so chapter 7 will be the day after tomorrow i think okay??

okay. sorry for such a long wait oh my god

#it's releasing the day after tomorrow because that's the birthday of someone in the elemental trials discord server heh #tet update

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i know the chapter is really late. i got obsessed with a different thing please bare with me it's gonna get a bit slow for a while

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yes.

Pyro

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Chapter 6.9

NOT CANON!!!

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If I kin either Lysti or Pyro from TET by the end of this year I'm going to jump up a wall and draw fanart of them no matter how awful my skills are

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6 chapters in and this is already a possibility woah

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Chapter 6

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Do you have any favourite artists on here

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I could theoretically tag the small army of mutuals I have but I don't think that's going to achieve what I want it to

So instead! I'll just mention a few artists here or there

First is @moth-to-a-moon (get tagged IDIOT (/silly)) whom I enjoy greatly, especially his webcomic series The Elemental Trials (which has its own blog and comicfury under the same name)

Another is @paroket who just has all around amazing art in general and can draw Rivulets that make me wanna be girl

Lastly is @ofslugsancats; they're the first person who ever drew fanart for me and her style of iterator, while a bit simplistic, is very nice. They're spindly and funny to look at. Also every outfit they draw is immaculate and she's heard me say "I wanna steal [that robe]" on numerous occasions

Again, these aren't favourites, I don't think I have any favorites, these are just some examples I brought up cuz I wanna

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do you want me to reblog on this blog for easier access for the anon? If they’re interested. In my dumb little magical cats (dumb in an affectionate way)