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Yet Another Cat Webcomic

Run by @moth-to-a-moon

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Ask to join our Discord server! (YOU MUST BE 15+)

SERIES CWs UNDER CUT!

#the elemental trials #webcomic #cat webcomic #cat comic #xenofiction

Got asked about this on the Discord server so I decided to make a little tutorial

Also don't repost this on other sites please ty

#no id #tet behind the scenes #tet asks #<- technically #the elemental trials #tet tide

OH HEAD'S UP that chapter 8 won't drop all at once: rather, i'll post one page every day or two until the chapter is over (to give myself more time to get chapter 9 done lol)

ch8 is NEARLY done! now that my tablet is sorted i can get back to that... guh

#the elemental trials #tet update

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hmm

also here's an invite to the comic's server that's open for the next 7 days

you must be 15 years or older to join! !!! and read the rules i beg

Check out the The Elemental Trials community on Discord - hang out with 39 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

#the elemental trials #tet server #xenofiction

fun fact: the first thing i did upon getting a replacement art tablet today was do a tide/peak yuri doodle

#the elemental trials #nOT CANON NOT CANON SHH #it was a server request #from the discord serve #r

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heres art of Pyro and Pyro if u still wanted it

Sadly there was not some secret third Pyro💔

YO HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCK THAT'S AWESOME

@moth-to-a-moon MOTJ GET THE FUCK OVER HERE AND LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTELY SUPERB ART

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woaw!!

#i like the fire particles #tet fanart #tet pyro

so my art tablet cable is almost completely broken now.

#the elemental trials #oh god im so sorry lmao #chapter 8 is nearly done fdgsjkdfgsdfg

moth-to-a-moon

ARTFIGHT ARTFIGHT ARTFIGHT!!!

i made a special pfp for this game :)

here is the link

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List of the protagonists featured in artfight:

Tide

Peak

Pyro

Pitcher

Pillar

Heheh!

felt like drawing water today, have a tide

#the elemental trials #cat oc #tet tide #tide tet #oc art #cat oc art #oc artwork

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#the elemental trials #tet asks

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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":