#relation between nations

[artsywinter13]

Relation between the Eco nations

The Eco nations, or Ecosystem nations, are the nations governed by the Triad of Nature, the Goddess of Nature, the God of Soil, and the God of Rocks. These are Kananya, Onisona, and the Nahda Kingdom. Their gods are deeply related, as they were the first gods ever created and the ones that help form the various biomes and ecosystems we know today.

A notable aspect that unites these nations are not only their gods but their affinity with marking their bodies. Tattoos, face paints, and makeup are the methods used for adding markings to their bodies. Notably, there are some patterns that are seen on all 3 nations. These are:

The heart

Waves

Stripes

Lines

Dots

Of course, they may have a different meaning in each of their culture, but the underlying message is still there. The markings are a representation of their beliefs, their backgrounds, their family, their social status, their profession, and other quirks of the person.

Each culture uses a different method for decorating their bodies. Kananyans mostly use tattoos, using a special fluid only found in the trees in the heart of the Blooming Plains and Blooming Forest. Onisonans prefer to use face paints made from the various pigmented crushed rocks found throughout their homeland. Nahdians prefer methods that aren’t permanent such as henna and makeup. The henna is a dye that comes from the henna tree, or the Nahdian flower. They also use this dye in order to stain their clothes. Nahdians are well known for their intricate eyeliner in their makeup.

[cosmosnout]

Fuck it we ball, golden route were they all team up and rule over Fódlan together. Canon won’t let them be happy and alive together so I have to do it (+ soldier,poet,king reference since it’s literally them)

[zivazivc]

guess who

I've seen a few artists I like making human art and I got inspired to make my own.

First version was based just on their character designs and personality, and what inspired their look in the first place. Second version happened when I took into account their backstory and what I imagine human versions of their parents' would look like. I don't consider either of these "canon", because to me they're just trolls but it was a fun experiment to try.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming of me drawing little colorful dolls

[rosesoma]

quebec miku but it's a full ref i made earlier this year that i never posted and this is the perfect time to do so

[lovesickeros]

now that natlan is out it's tsaritsa yearning hours again because i am one nation closer to either being horribly disappointed or foaming at the mouth!

creator!reader w a little side of conflicted tsaritsa is such good food I can't not yap about it. a woman who has dedicated so much of her life to severing herself from "love" of all kinds and succeeding and. just being so confident that when she meets you she's bitter and angry and mean. because she can't stand you. she isn't supposed to love yet you worm your way into her heart anyway and you don't even know it.

especially in smth like an imposter au. she tells herself your just a tool for her to use but your treated like the Divine you really are, pampered and spoiled every step. tells herself it means nothing when she indulges you – let's you hold her hand in private, eventually let's you move aside the veil, just a little.

and she hates it. hates how easy it is to let you break down the ice she's built up for years.

all you do is smile and she feels like she can't breathe. because despite how violently she rejects love in all aspects, it always bleeds through eventually. she despises it but the way you brush your thumbs over her cheeks makes her bitter and warm and it infuriates her to no end.

she hates you and she loves you and she can't stand you and if you were ever taken from her she'd destroy every inch of teyvat if she had to go get you back.

and ironically enough I think she'd also be the one to initiate any first kiss. maybe she's still trying to convince herself it's just a fluke and itll make her realize it meant nothing, it means nothing. desperate to fix whatever you've done to her and instead it just makes it worse.

a horrible mess of a woman who gave up on love just to be confronted with it when she finally accepted it's absence.

[ifindus]

what do you think about nedpan🇳🇱🇯🇵

I haven't really gotten deep into it, but from what I've seen going around I really like it! I think they are a good pairing with a lot of potential regarding the combination of their personalities, and it's no secret that I have a weakness from anything based on historical events 😅✨

[qeggyinjail]

happy new years and happy holidays from jyyyuuugooo

[the-alan-price-combo]

"There is no other pianist/organist in Europe today who has moved, and I think ever will move me as much as much as Alan does." - Eric Burdon, 1966

[tea-cat-arts]

What do you mean “if I have an AU I want to make comics for, I actually have to make the designs and draw the comics???” Why can’t I just magically manifest them into existence??? Anyways, here’s some KevinSu fam and MobiKlein fam designs and concepts for a “Flame Chasers + whoever else is convenient for me get reborn into Genshin and slowly regain their memories from Honkai” AU

Mobius and Klein were Tanit scholars/doctors

(OG Klein is the one on the far left btw. I know I changed a lot of her design elements and I’m not sure how clear that is, so I’m just specifying here. Also, it’s on the side of her belt so idk how well y’all can see it, but she has a hydro vision)

They left the tribe pretty early on (if you’ve played that quest™️, you know why. If you don’t, I’m not gonna spoil it here)

They also left so Mobi could investigate the withering and see if it might have any connections to the Honkai/ see if there was any chance of the Honkai leaking into Teyvat

Klein never got her Honkai memories back, but she still fell in love with Mobi anyways and they’re still lab partners. Mobi got her memories back fairly early on

Klein got Eleazar, so they decided to move from the desert to Sumeru city to seek better medical treatment

She’s fine now and made it through the end of the arcon quest, so she got cured 👍

Mobi is a professor at the academia

Her students are terrified of her

So usual Mobius shenanigans

Being a professor also put her in a position where she’s closer to Irminsul, so she’s content with the situation

The matra know damn well she’s continuing her artificial life experiments, but they can’t prove shit so she’s in the clear

Alhaitham was the first successful clone baby she made, Klein jr was the second

The thing Elysia did to Su’s arm stuck through the reincarnation, so Su got his memories back very early on

He grew up on the same block as Fu Hua over in Liyue harbor, but she didn’t get her memories back until her late teens

Su grew up hearing a lot of stories about the chasm, and he was worried that it might have something to do with the Honkai

But he didn’t actually have the clearance to investigate that, so had to go to Sumeru Academia to get the research clearance only to find out about Eleazar and the Withering and get significantly more anxious

Imagine his face after being told he has to go through med school again lmao (at least there’s legitimately different illnesses and treatments in Teyvat, so he does have something new to learn)

Anyways, he ran into Mobi and Kevin at the Academia

Kevin grew up in Mondstad and got his memories back in his early 20s. He moved to Sumeru city because he thought it’d be the place with highest chance of him running into someone he knows so that they can explain wtf is going on

Kevin and Su got married somewhere along the way I guess, but that’s not important right now

Anyways, Mobius basically stole their genes off their clothes or something so she wouldn’t have to use any of Klein’s in the prototypes for her experiments

Alhaitham was the first successful artificial life she made and she just sorta handed him off to Kevin and Su and they both sorta just “aight, guess we have a kid now”

Mobius still got to be his grandma though and watched him a lot while Kevin and Su (well, Su mostly. Kevin was there more as a bodyguard) were off doing research in the chasm (which is why Alhaitham is the way he is)

[paverics]

cheating on your partner is not funny and I’m not a fan, but the way they’ve actually caused ethical debate, got people discussing geopolitical ramifications and just generally inflicting minus 10 cultural relations….anyway my condolences to the victim. hope you find peace and love x

[bisnes-socks]

last post on this i promise.

as my post about how rude certain swedish people are being to finland over eurovision (honestly i still can't believe this is happening over a song contest) is gaining notes, i just wanted to take a minute to say:

i'm sorry about notes and comments in the post that seem to be anti-sweden in general. my intention was not to be hostile towards an entire nation - that would be quite hypocritical of me considering the post i made.

(though i will say, i've seen exactly three swedish people, in official media or on social media, being civil about this. the rest of the loud ones all accuse us of cheating, bc apparently it's possible for 5.5 million people to be in on a scam on sweden)

but for context:

from a finnish perspective, this is just another straw on the camels back, and the back is cracking dangerously. push has come to shove.

because in the bigger picture..

from a finnish perspective it seems that swedes either don't know anything about us or still believe in negative stereotypes about us - see a study made by having 1000 swedes participate in workshop conversations (link in finnish) about what they thought of finland, when finland was celebrating 100 years of independence in 2017.

from a finnish perspective it seems they don't even want us to be finnish - see this article about how finnish speakers in sweden are still told not to speak finnish (link in finnish) and how they've essentially abolished teaching finnish (link in finnish) even though it has an official minority language status.

and since Expressen wants to make it about history by calling us the "former eastern part of the kingdom" (🙃) we could really start getting into how Sweden treated Finns historically, and how, ironically enough, Finns were initally allowed to be more Finnish under Russian rule than Swedish rule. because again, from a finnish perspective, Sweden has never been nothing but rude and condescending towards us.

these are probably things a lot of Swedish people don't know or have forgotten about - i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't teach this in schools in Sweden. the reason i'm sharing these things is that to us, this is the country now trashing us over friendly competition.

throwing a tantrum over the one fucking time we do well in something they consider "their thing", is just another day of them being condescending, mean, stand-offish, superior and even cruel towards us. and this time we've kinda had it, bc they have no idea, no idea, what Käärijä and Cha Cha Cha meant for us culturally.

no. fucking. idea. how much he has meant to us this year.

and that's why we're so mad. we know they're trolling. we know they're being childish and insecure.

but we were so happy. we were so fucking happy for him and because of him. he made us so proud of our country, our culture and our language (none of which would exist if sweden had its way btw) and they just had to try and shit all over it. and make it as cruel as they could.

so yeah we're upset that swedish people keep trashing us but the truth is we're used to it. i guess we just didn't think they would honestly do it over a song contest.

[nicejewishgirl]

going to local ER instead since I’m losing too much blood, way too fast! last week was bad but this is scary and I need to be monitored ASAP!

[zincbot]

sometimes i see takes on firebenders that are. not very well thought out.

[the-light-of-stars]

So what's the deal with Wagner?

well, so firstly: I also hate Wagner for other reasons, this one is just the personal reason, there's a lot more objective ones to dislike Wagner and his music that I can't get into here bc this post is already really long, which is why I didn't feel like putting this all in the tags of that post because this is still quite a lot vdbbd but basically:

I had a classmate in high school who was really into opera. and I mean really into opera. the 'this guy would randomly start singing opera during breaks' kind of into opera.

so the operas he was singing randomly were multiple different ones but mostly Wagner, because Wagner was his favorite composer (red flag) and out of those mainly Lohengrin. and the thing is that this guy , who btw was quite the personality since he was constantly trying to be the funny guy, had absolutely 0 regard for people's personal space or boundaries and was also the kind of preppy kashmere-sweater-over-collared-shirt wearing 'kid from a well-off household' type that's...well..if you have seen Knives Out: pretty much whatever the teenage boy in that had going on except that my classmate wasn't the twitter-user type of alt-right but conservative classic™️, this guy, this classmate, had a really weird rivalry going on with another boy from our year that was in a different class than me.

now that other guy...that other guy was like if you took the first guy and changed all the settings to max. he was from a richer family, was wearing more expensive clothes, was way more vain and arrogant (he would constantly check, comb and gel his hair even during class), had way better grades, was taller, better at sports, more conventionally attractive, more popular and had multiple girlfriends that he would cheat on and make out with in the hallways (much to the chagrin of other classmate, who tried real hard to get into peoples' pants but kept getting rejected for being a grody little creep). and he was a straight up fascist. and I don't mean the alt-right 4chan user kind, I mean that this guy was like if a fascist boy scout from 1930s germany had been sent to our times via time machine. and he was just saying whatever opinions he had as if it was the most logical and most natural thing in the world, it was genuinelly unsettling. he got commended by our principals at our graduation ceremony. hell world.

anyways so first guy , basically being treated as a cheap and worse version of second guy to the point that first guy's own father congratulated the other guy at graduation and not his own son, had this rivalry with second guy which basically was a mix of him hating the second guy because of the 'just a cheap version' thing, while also trying real hard to emulate and impress him, it was quite the thing. and one way he would try to one-up the other guy was - exactly- via his opera singing. he was quite a good tenor, actually, the issue was just that, you guessed it, the other guy was a better opera singer too.

and, well, because they were both into Wagner (second guy once called Wagner's music 'masters' music', that is in the sense of 'music for masters' , and since he was a gross little fasc i think it's pretty clear what he meant with that) , second guy would come over to our classroom during breaks and they would start doing the opera version of rap-battles, singing parts of Lohengrin and other Wagner music at each other in some kind of weird battle for dominance and the other's acknowledgement. they would do this - very loudly btw - at least once a week.

and this is why I have a very personal hatred for Wagner.

[orcelito]

Ok I kind of am glad to have given this Isobu arc a chance. I'm not entirely sold on the Guren and Yuukimaru stuff, but I'm getting to see a lot more of the minor characters I don't usually see. INCLUDING so many female characters!!!!! Started off with Hinata, then Sakura, and now Ino, Shizune, AND Tenten are all here!!! Five female characters active in one arc!!! Practically unheard of for Naruto!!!! Plus Guren makes 6 I guess, though I don't really like how they're like "here's a Ruthless Woman who thinks of nothing except becoming one with Orochimaru!!!! ...except now here's a child, and after just a few days her Motherly Instincts are thawing her heart!!!!!! She's not so ruthless after all!!!!" Like I mean it's sweet, but also it sucks that they're doing this with one of the few female villains. Like why are most of the women reduced to mothers and girlfriends??? In the end, basically all of them get this fate. Or they die. Come on can't we have a woman that just sucks??? Smh.

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.