Oceanic Beauty at Sunset 🌊
i literally started this piece in 2021, and realized that i hadn't posted it anywhere. iirc it was inspired by new pokemon snap <3
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there are so many posts like "quit characterizing this guy this way 😡😡🤬🤬" "why does EVERYONEE ship THIS"
brother we are all just a bunch of grade schoolers smashing barbies together on the playground. its really not that serious. if you want ur blorbo characterized a certain way go focus on making fanworks like that instead of trying to police the way others play with their barbies
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wip whenever
tagged by @captain-of-silvenar!
I have a ton of art wips rn I keep poking at, so here's a couple!
I showed a bit of this previously, but I am still working on this sheo!andy piece, I promise, it's just kicking my ass a bit LOL
2. a young shelreni and... who's that in the background? don't worry about it, I'm sure it's fine :)
also, here's a little piece from the next batch of chapters for THIKL i'm working on (ft. drals having a bad trip and empathising with inanimate objects, so TW for drugs)
He lowered his gaze. He watched the floorboards breath and deflate, hoping that they would just hurry up and swallow him. Would they, though? They seemed so gentle and friendly. He felt as if he knew their story.
“Do you miss the forest?” he whispered, reverent.
Of course they did. He didn’t need them to reply.
“I miss my forest, too,” he said, nodding. “Sometimes. Not all the time. It was a nice place. But the other trees were pricks, I don’t miss them.”
The floorboards sighed. He considered his hometown, the old shrine and old bones. Did trees have a religion? Did they have stuffy tree priests and tree temples? Tree ordinators? Living tree gods?
The mug tilted absently in his hands as his mind wandered, and hot liquid spilled out onto the floor. He gasped, righting the mug, his eyes wide with guilt. He slid off the chair to kneel on the floor, placing the mug beside him.
“I'm so sorry,” he muttered. “Did I burn you? Oh, no. Oh, dear.”
“Drals?” the floorboards said. “What's the matter?”
“I burnt you,” he sobbed, the guilt and sorrow becoming too much. “I made a mess. I always make a bloody mess, don't I?”
“Here, we can clean it up. It's alright,” they said. Hands joined him on the floor with a cloth, dabbing at the spilled tea. “Did you hurt yourself?”
“No,” he sniffled, raising his gaze.
Drals stared at him. Colours danced in his eyes, greens and blacks and browns and golds. The creases around them were like crystalline insect wings, glittering and iridescent. He was so beautiful that Drals thought he might drown. He wanted to reach out and touch him, but worried that if he did, he might forever tarnish his beauty with unclean hands and ink-stained fingers.
“Do you want to stay on the floor?” Azandar asked, a tired smile on his handsome lips.
“Yeah,” Drals said pitifully.
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hey so after hearing an utterly horrific pronunciation of the word "nahuatl" that scared me straight out of my native skin ("nah-wah-toll", he said) just as a pointer whenever you read a nahuatl word the ending "-tl" is pronounced sort of like a hiss with a tongue touching the roof of your mouth? its not nah-wah-toll, its not even nah-wah like a lot of mexicans believe, the "tl" sound comes from the way you push air through your mouth from the back of your throat
the way i figure how to make the "TL" sound is to put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. now, without removing your tongue from the roof, try making the sound of an "h" with a mouth halfway closed. you should feel the way the air blows through both of your cheeks and comes out sounding like a lisp-sound. thats the point! the hiss definitely sounds like a lisp. you may need to practice this a bunch to get the sound right
there isnt an phonetic equivalent to "tl" i can figure how to write out for you because "tl" is a sound of its own. you have to say na-hua-TL its already written the way its supposed to be read! the only problem is that people do not know how to pronounce the "tl" sound and will make approximations which i know its tough but it is wrong (though ill take nah-wah over NAH-WAH-TOLL)
this is a YT shorts of a man saying "nahuatl" and different nahuatl words and how theyre pronounced
this is a 7 minute video of a man who guides you on HOW to make the noise "tl"
some reminders while im at it:
-we are not aztecs, we do not speak aztec. we are native mexicans (most of us. im not speaking about immigrants to mexico obviously) and most of us who speak an indigenous language speak nahuatl, so we may call ourselves nahua or descendants from the mexica
-though not everyone speaks nahuatl, there are 68 different indigenous ethnic groups in mexico we have. variety.
-certain dialects of nahuatl spoken in michoacan or just southern mexico for example may choose to prefer the "T" in nahuatl words and pronounce say ahuacatl as "A-wah-cat" or maybe prefer the "L" sound and say "A-wah-cal". it really depends
-(pet peeve but) AXOLOTL is "ah-sho-lo-tl" and not "axe-ah-loddel"
-no u are not saying the word in english and therefore are going to pronounce it like a yank
-if you can say rendezvous like "ron-deh-vu" and not like "ren-des-voos" then you can say nuahuatl words the way theyre meant to be said!! our language has gotten so eroded and the only way we can keep it alive is by trying to say things as theyre meant to ok
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