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I love all the designs for the Katanga clan! I notice they seem to incorporate a lot of gold. Do they disregard the law of Eywa that says that Na’vi must not use the metals in the ground, or does that law not apply to this fan work? Or maybe there is a way they get around it? I truly love this concept and irayo for sharing!

Aww thank you so much for your nice words! We are so happy you like our fanclan concepts and looks 💜

On our website -> https://toyhou.se/~world/204541.keyanga-clan/page/146042.clan-overview (I sended you the overview page) You can find all overview informations about our clan <3 If you want to know more about their belive in eywa, you can also find the information there 🥰 But to copy what we wrote there about the Metal:

Metals: Unlike the Na'vi clans who believe in the three laws of Eywa (not setting stone upon stone, not using the turning wheel, nor use the metals of the ground) the Keyanga have a different perspective. They do not perceive Eywa’s will as something restrictive but rather as a lesson meant to make them strong. They believe the world is filled with challenges, be them harsh seasons, dangerous predators or natural disasters, all of them meant to push them to evolve, adapt, and improve. If metal exists within Pandora’s soil, then it is there for a purpose, if Eywa truly did not wish for them to use metal, then she would make it impossible to obtain, but since it is within their grasp, it is meant to be used. The Keyanga see its use as an extension of Eywa’s challenge to them, to wield the gifts of the land wisely. Furthermore the Keyanga do not view metal as something unnatural or outside of Eywa’s domain. To them, it is no different than the stones they carve or the wood they shape. Metal is still a resource from the great Mother.

I hope this helps ^^ and thank you for being interested 💜

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a silly thought, but i don’t know why people keep comparing the Omatikaya to lions when they are clearly jaguars. lions are savannah animals they would more suited for plain clans like the Zeswa. Zeswa definitely give lion vibes. but the forest Na'vi are undoubtedly jaguars. they live in the jungle and everything. also Jake is a black jaguar since he’s an Avatar, so it parallels a panther’s mutation.

Neytiri and Jake

Neytiri and Lo'ak

Jake and Kiri

Neytiri with Kiri and Lo'ak

Neytiri and Tuk

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The Aranahe clan. Located in the Kinglor Forest. Pictures taken at The Hometree. 🫶🏻🩵🦕

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Tuk’s best friend Popiti is Norm’s child with his Olangi wife this is so cute please

And now I NEED to know their children’s full names!!! It seems the Omatikaya inherit the family’s names from the father, but Norm’s wife is Olangi, so we don’t know if it’s the same for them. If it is, they would need to “Na'vi-fy” Norm’s name like they did with Jake. And I need to know his wife’s name as well, and more info about Popiti and her sibling, if they’re friends with the Suli kids and they bond over the fact that they have an avatar/human father as well. I already love this little family so much

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One day I should sit and rewrite the Avatar films to where everything is the same but Jake is an indigenous and/or otherwise BIPOC man. Imagine the same film but Jake brings his own cultural practices to the table. Jake slowly decolonizing his heart, mind and soul as he begins to understand the context of his own history through Neytiri's experiences.

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I still have so many disorganized thoughts and frustration with the direction that James Cameron decided to go for with the rest of the Avatar movies. I know a lot of people were happy to see the recoms - and to be honest if you're rich and you can make stories doing whatever you want then sure whatever it's a free world - but I guess when Avatar came out when I was a kid it meant so much to me as someone from a literal US colony to see this beautiful world, and culture and to me it didn't feel the same as Pocahontas (I'm sure others would disagree) or other media I had seen at the time with indigenous characters. To have an outsider main character forfeit everything to abandon the old system and defend a better way of life was eye opening to me.

In the second movie, with the reintroduction of Recom Quaritch, I felt that we lost a really great opportunity to explore an oppositional character to Jake who has no personal interest in Jake and who could have represented a character foil that could have represented us as human beings when we ARE colonized and retain those colonized mindsets.

Growing up, I very quickly understood that 1. My people were NOT the people in true power. 2. We as a people experienced a rapid and intense cultural loss with the encounter with colonialism that repeated itself over and over and that we are STILL to this DAY struggling to reconcile. We are losing our nature, our land, our cultural identity and any kind of political goodwill we could have possibly fostered in the last decade.

So as a colonized people, every person's mindset will be different, some will buy into it and think that the people who push the status quo are dangerous and should stop. My family was very much drenched in US patriotism. I was waiting to see human characters like this who had not and could not see the harm of taking over Pandora because it "happened to us, and now we have things like medicine and libraries". If not a character that specific, then characters who are there because they need the work. What else can they do but go where the work takes them? People who work on oil rigs or for Amazon don't sign up to kill the planet; they need work. They contribute anyway.

I remember getting into an argument about countries with terrible warehouse and factory working conditions, and how you should shop responsibly to avoid giving money to sweatshops, and the pushback that I got from family was that if everyone did that, those sweatshops wouldn't change practices, their labor would either go somewhere else or the people in poverty would lose their jobs. Something that they had seen happen in their lifetime.

I really wish I could have seen some more complexity; where are the people with complex motivations?

I think Jake's character foil could have been General Ardmore if the writing had ignored the need for a metaphorical pissing contest between the boys. If Ardmore had been a parent, fighting for the right for the future generations to have SOMETHING to inherit after the generations before her ruined the Earth for the people living there now, she could have been a true foil to both Jake and Neytiri. To fight for ego and self preservation, and the preservation of your kin in equal fervor and energy as the main characters, I would have bought into the film more. If Amrita could save Earth but it was being taken primarily for billionaires to inject like botox, I'd understand the scientists at RDA.

Did you know, we use horseshoe crab blood for our medical industry? It's incredibly crucial for certain parts of production and to keep us safe, but in order to acquire it, we have to capture the crabs once a year and drain a small portion of their blood and then re-release them to the wild and just....pray that we're not killing off this population of truly ancient and magnificent creatures in the process. Some of them DO die.

I get that the tulkun are analogs to our whales (love love love the advocacy for protecting our oceans that came with this movie <3 I love the ocean so so much) and the whaling industry and how, frankly, kind of ridiculous the entire thing was/is. But when writing you have the chance to touch on multiple topics at a time and I'm just? Sad that human beings got reduced to just being the bad guys.

Though with the way some people talk about how they'd be RDA through and through... ........ . .... maybe James Cameron needs to make the RDA like. More evil. Cause? What's wrong with those people? It's just beyond my comprehension. It is one thing to be a grace augustine, a trudy or max patel, to be there because this is the work and the only way you could do this kind of work, and it is another to tout nationalism over another planet/country/people.

Idk this is all very disorganized. I'm just putting out thoughts to the wind and maybe someone else can help me make sense of what I'm feeling/getting at here.

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I love this trend (on tik tok) lmao

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not much of a quaritch fan myself (my spouse and I call him porridge on the daily) but if you guys ever wanted to see his actor playing a character more similar to fanon-redeemed recom!quaritch, check out Terra Nova. Dino show, Stephen Lang plays the lead general of a colony trying to protect it from essentially capitalist destruction. Could always pull clips of his lines for edits and stuff?

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I wanted to practice so I made this!!😼 I rushed it a little but oh well I HOPE YALL LIKE IT💙💙

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Jake and Neteyam (Avatar The Way Of Water 2022)

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Oh my gosh I love how fluid and pretty these aree

sketch

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New oc! The Traveler - she traverses the lands on a spiritual journey of knowledge about other clans! She is determinate to learn and travel and know new people!

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My 3 own Fanclans!!

The Alitawe, the Yekape, the Zeynuma!

This is only a preview! I am working on a website for my clans and there will be so much more informations about: culture, clothes, village and how they will interact with each other!

These 3 Clans living together in one Basin, with one Tree of souls. They are allies, helping each other and balancing each other out. Together they are a whole. Celebrate together, exchange things and learn from each other.

(I want to open my clans to the community later, so everyone can make a character for it 😊)

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ok so this was a beast to draw and research good GORD. this one requires a glossary so i'll be putting the entire text under a read more bar, meet me there?

I think most of us in the Avatar fandom have some range of obscure knowledge (or who knows maybe the knowledge is less obscure to everyone else and I'm the silly one) but here's a handful of words I had to learn for this: Chinampa: small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique was—and is still—most widely used. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Conuco: A portion of earth that the native Tainos of the Caribbean would grow their crops on. (More on that later)

Winnow: In the western world, to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air. I specifically based theirs off of a video that @aketchjoywinnie on tiktok posted of her culture's winnows. She is from Uganda and I love her videos whenever they come across my fyp. In this case it is more of a woven basket/plate that is used for food.

As for the drawing:

The Ro'atni have 2 forms of 'floating' gardens. The first and most productive are their chinampas; kind of important to the context is that the Ro'atni were originally a river people, but a portion of their river gave way to an oxbow lake. The young lake has turned into their gardens. The chinampas are made by their swimmers who usually chose their lifestyle very young, as their bodies adjust and grow to adapt underwater better; their strakes go from soft, unobtrusive cartilage to actual strakes, smaller than the reef people's. They dive under water and plant the reedy plants that they then weave together into a roughly rectangular box. Each chinampa is a labor of love that normally takes years to make (though if they feel the next season will not be fruitful they can and will build some quickly). The base layer of the chinampas is essentially a refuse pile. Their compost, their unusable bones, any trash (which is much less than most modern societies) is thrown into the woven reed "basket" to form the solid base along with base stones. The middle layer, still submerged in water, is a combination of compost, mulch, manure, night soil and gravel.

As the compost decomposes, they churn the dirt and build it up over the years until they build above the water level; once the dirt remains relatively dry on a sunny day, and they can dig without immediately hitting mud, they begin to build the conucos on top of the chinampas.

The Conucos are logs stacked up and packed with earth, the shape keeps plants that need dryer soil out of the water, and retains water when the lake starts drying down during the dry season. As the logs decompose they leave behind air pockets for the roots to take up as well as the necessary microorganisms. Most of the weeds are allowed to grow to an extent - once they begin to choke out the plants they want, they will be cut down. The Ro'atni believe that even the most annoying creatures (weeds) have a place in the balance of life. If they're uprooted, they're tossed on shore where they continue to grow. To combat the growth of weeds, they plant a groundcover berry-producing vine that functions as a nitrogen fixer as well as food.

The second form of floating gardens tend to be used for children to learn, as they operate on the principles of aquaponics. The winnow pads are sometimes made specifically for the purpose, but often they're made from a winnow that has reached the end of its life. If it is no longer buoyant, it is tossed into the bottom of a new chinampa. If it is buoyant, then small anchors are tied to the bottom, and a fast growing plant is placed on the winnow to take advantage of the nutrition in the water. Often seedlings for the chinampas are grown this way and transplanted once they're big enough.

Now for the plants they grow; I only had the mental bandwidth to name ONE plant, and I welcome any professional Na'vi speakers to correct me on it lol. So, they grow: Furina'ngrr: Primarily this plant functions as a starchy tuber, but it also grows "beans" (in the way that a coffee bean is a bean but its actually a berry) with a soft outer fruit that the entire clan uses to produce a bright red stain/dye. Combined with red ochre and animal fat, it creates a thick, water resistant body paint that they use both to ward off bugs and to paint pretty patterns and symbols on their skin; certain ones are protective symbols. The fruit can be peeled off of the bean and the beans can be eaten; they're more often replanted to avoid genetic monocropping. They only ripen every 2 years more or less, so the elder gardeners know to stagger their crop growth to accommodate for it. The root however is the main crop from these plants. It is ground into a pulp, seasoned and wrapped in leaves, then either boiled or cooked in a firepit. It's dumpling-like in the firepit, and more like a mochi if its boiled. It can also be fried and baked depending on preparation. The roots can be replanted and this is the quickest way to propagate the plant. They also store for a long time in a root cellar like environment. This is their first source of starch.

Reed-maize: Many different kinds of reeds can be used to create chinampas, but reed-maize is the favored choice; even after their cultivation the reeds remain for a good while before decomposing, giving the gardeners time to grow their replacements, replant them around the chinampas and weave them in again. The reed-maize grow seed pods that can be harvested; they usually require a good strike to release their seeds, which is an adaptation to release their seeds during windy season when the fluffy seeds can fly far away. These were a gift from the Sa'anre side of the clan, and comes originally from the swamps and deltas they traverse; in the oxbow lake the wind is only strong enough during typhoon-like weather to open the seedpods. The seeds release from the pods wrapped in tightly coiled fibers that spring open as they fly out; the fibers carry them on the wind. So the gardeners beat the seed pods open only inside of the hometree or where large structures have been built to catch them. The fibers are hand-ginned off of the seeds, and the seeds are then winnowed free of chaff. The fiber can be processed into cloth, but its very time consuming so they often trade it out to other clans. Other uses are compost mulch, or bedding for their fishing companions. The seeds range in color from soft oranges to gray-blues; an act of love is to separate the specific color seed your child/mate/parent loves most and to make them ground cakes from the singular color. It's extremely time intensive to sort, then grind these seeds separate from all the rest. Normally however, they are stored as grain alongside the furina'ngrr. The grain can then either be processed into flour, "grits", or eaten with minimal preparation. Boiled, they taste both earthy and floral.

Oh my gosh almost done guys lets go. Together with dried and powdered meat, the clan makes a type of pemmican out of their crops; dried roots, dried meat, dried berries and fat are mixed with reed-maize flour, then dried down and stored in their root cellar caves. Their stores are for the long rainy season when hunting is difficult and flooding is common. They have also experienced famine before so they prepare for it again at all times.

Mothers sometimes make the little pemmican cakes into cute shapes for their young ones!

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The sea fairy (Tuktirey)