ATLAS OF ARDA ↣ MIRKWOOD

“There lies the fastness of Southern Mirkwood,” said Haldir. “It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling. We fear that now it is inhabited again, and with power sevenfold. A black cloud lies often over it of late.”

I saw a theory that elain is being manipulated by koschei under the guise of helping her become human again and it's soooooo sexy >.>

Masking hardmode where i say to myself 'i really need to tell my advisor i feel like phd is going poorly' but as soon as i get into a conversation with him my natural urge to Not Be A Bother kicks in and i frickin. forget that the phd is going poorly

He's touch starved Claire you're gonna give him a heart attack

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With the new texture words in clanmew added I have to wonder. Do any of the cats ever give themself a funny little haircuts? (Furcuts?) like an apprentice shaves their chest fluff or cheek fluff to be rebellious or stylish!! I realize while typing this this would probably be bad for battles and such (fur plays such a big role in protecting from scratches and bites) but it’s fun to imagine these silly kitties having funny haircuts to be unique and trendy (I can imagine the shadowclan apps doing it in avos. Imagine needletail with a mohawk… the swag…)

Most cats have fur that's waaaay too short to stylize, but I'm actually planning to work in that Needletail and Sleekwhisker had matching ear piercings! They were just rebel girls at one point, and it was an edgy thing to do together.

At Needletail's last stand, she manages to land a hit in, slashing Sleek's piercing so that her whole ear is torn and she can no longer wear the earring.

Here's some more Clanmew fur features though:

Mane = Raofa (Lion-tuft)

Mullet/Ridge/Spine-mane = Saofa (Leopard-tuft)

Cravat/chest-mane = Gaofa (Tiger-tuft)

Ruff/irregular tufts of fur around the neck = Wraofa (Boar-tuft)

Tuft/clump = Aofa

Feathering/Long fur around the paws = Pwyfao

Cowlick/swirl = Lirroo

Tip (of fur) = Efe

A single strand of hair = Ulfaf

They are sharing so much misinformation instead of letting their followers accept that it'll be Elain. Refusing to accept they are wrong, even hinting BB is sharing wrong information. That's just? No doubt that when the announcement comes, most of them will accuse and blame SJM. It's already happening.

Yeah I find it so so strange people are trying to say SJM/Bloomsbury are like trying to mislead or outright lie. The author herself literally said the next book should be obvious. Feyre had her story, then Nesta, so what’s the most “obvious” choice for the next book? The third and final sister! Plus, SJM has been talking about an Elain book since like AOFAS…

The next book is obviously going to be Elain’s with either Azriel or Lucien as the second POV 🤷‍♀️

Happy egg day! Easter egg hunts in my nan's overgrown garden are one of my fondest childhood memories!

Lea and Aofa are reliving it for me.

Yeah it would be sm easier to edit my spreadsheets on da desktop but hnggg aofa comfeh

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ATLAS OF ARDA ⇢ RIVENDELL

↳ for @lotr20 Day 2: Beauty

That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, 'a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all'. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness. (x)

Forças Armadas perderam 738 efetivos este ano

As Forças Armadas perderam 134 efetivos no segundo trimestre deste ano, elevando para 738 a redução de militares durante 2023, alertou a associação de oficiais (AOFA).

"As Forças Armadas Portuguesas registaram, uma vez mais, uma redução de efetivos que só no segundo trimestre de 2023 se cifra em 134. Só este ano de 2023, as Forças Armadas já perderam 738 militares", adianta a AOFA, numa análise aos dados da Direção-Geral da Administração e Emprego Público.

Segundo a associação, entre 2011 e o segundo trimestre deste ano, o número de efetivos nas Forças Armadas passou dos 34.514 para 23.558, ou seja, menos 10.956 militares.

"A limpeza de efetivos nos últimos anos é de 10.956 militares, a que corresponde percentualmente uma colossal redução percentual de 31,74%", refere ainda a análise da AOFA aos dados estatísticos da direção-geral.

Em agosto, a ministra da Defesa reconheceu existirem dificuldades em Portugal e noutros países no recrutamento de militares, mas assegurou que o Governo está a trabalhar para atrair e reter efetivos.

As dificuldades de recrutamento e retenção "sobretudo têm vindo a ser reconhecidas em Portugal e noutros países que enfrentam essas dificuldades. Temos feito um conjunto de medidas para lidar com estas dificuldades", disse assegurou Helena Carreiras.

"Há um conjunto de medidas a que se somam medidas na área dos rendimentos. Tal como fizemos em 2022, em que foi possível aumentar os salários entre dois e oito por cento e para as categorias mais baixas da tabela remuneratório aumentar até 100 euros, valorizando um conjunto de oito mil militares", disse a governante.

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Bones, can you help me translate these names in clanmew?

Jayfire

Spikemane

Icefire

Poppyflare

Blizzardfang

Hmm... well, I can't do the direct translations for you (mostly because then I'd have to translate everyone's, and then it would defeat the point of encouraging people to take a swing at it on their own!) BUT I can go through a couple of the words here I know are missing

Poppyflare

Here is a preview from the moth post which is going to come later this month!

Flare/Confident/Perpendicular = Akeye An emotion and a shape, describes things that 'stick up,' like the wings of Plumes and Butters. Not like "raised hackles," more like fluffing one's fur out or puffing your chest.

Since they wouldn't have flares as in flashing fire signals, "flare" in Clanmew is a shape and an emotion. It's holding things up, standing out, having confidence. Like "to flair."

They actually have a few species of poppy in the area, but I'm gonna chance that this OC is the bright red poppy that produces painkillers as seen in the books. The word for Papaver somniferum is Liafi.

Poppyflare = Liafiakeye = Sleeping Poppy Confidence!

Spikemane

There's a few types of spikes, and a few types of manes.

So in spike types, the simplest word here would be Bach, 'bristle,' the 'spiky' texture of hair. On the same note of texture, Chych is 'coarse,' like the flared mane of a boar. There's also Kik, spike or spine, the things seen on hedgehogs.

There could also be a new word here, prickle, Beki, tiny stabs that come from stinging nettle or the uncomfortable bristles on some caterpillars.

And next, onto the manes.

They have a bunch of different 'shapes' that manes come in, with each of the big cats of the Great Clans displaying a different characteristic one that didn't translate into English.

There's the classic Raofa, the Lion Mane, which is a mane that encircles the entire neck. ThunderClan sees a lot of cats with these, but it's also the defining trait of a 'family' of moths, and sometimes seen on red stags.

Then there's the Gaofa, the Tiger Mane, which I like to translate as "cravat." This is a mane that ONLY grows off the neck. This is also seen in red stags. (i like this a lot because there could be a phoenix wright stag with a raofa and a miles edgeworth mane with a gaofa)

The last of the mythical mane types is the Saofa, the Leopard Mane, which is the type of mane I draw on Graystripe and his family! IT could be translated as 'ridge' or 'mullet.' It's a mane that runs down the back but nowhere else, the opposite of the Gaofa.

But if Spikemane doesn't have a 'mane' as much as he has several fancy tufts, the word for that is Wraofa, the Boar Mane, better known as its translation 'ruff.' It's what Doestar had, a very fluffy neck that didn't really fit any of the distinct mane types.

And if all that fails, the base word at play here was tuft, Aofa, which is just a fancy clump of fur!

Blizzardfang

First off, there's three words for teeth! Take your pick! There's Groq for the back teeth, Koss for the front, and Ki for canine fangs.

I will also be adding some for the cool factor; Agloss, saber. For any teeth that extend outside of the mouth, like snaggle teeth or those of muntjacs. There's also the tusks of boars, Goqeb.

And for blizzard, a ferocious snowstorm, the new word for this is; Os'hauoo

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