So uuuh…I just made a LIS2 art dump sideblog.I’ve been archiving the links on Google doc for a while and now I finally got around to start up a blog. A place to store all the LIS2 fanart I’ve found all over the internet (over 2000 and counting)!...

So uuuh…I just made a LIS2 art dump sideblog.

I’ve been archiving the links on Google doc for a while and now I finally got around to start up a blog. A place to store all the LIS2 fanart I’ve found all over the internet (over 2000 and counting)! Including those that are exclusive on other social media platforms, like VK (a European/Russian version of FB). The amount of artwork for LIS2 is not as massive as LIS so it’s not incredibly difficult to collect them.

The purpose of this blog is to preserve the artwork in case they got deleted or the artists changed URL / usernames. Note: I only save illustrations; 3D renders are not included (that’s a whole other beast and I already got enough on my plate). 

It does involve me having to repost artwork that is outside of Tumblr often without permissionhowever there is a way to make up for this. Because I want to respect the artists despite breaking this particular rule, I decided to make the blog private. No one can get in without a password and none of the posts can either be liked or reblogged, but for viewing purposes only (unless it’s a Tumblr post from the artist, then you can easily reblog it straight from them). I always leave credit and link in the captions, unless the source cannot be found. It will be tagged as “no source” so you can go through that tag to see if anything is familiar. (I found some of those fanart on other reposter accounts. Reverse image search on Google is a complete hit or miss or the source could be deleted entirely). If you know who the artist is and/or where they post the fanart, you can submit it to me.

If you like what you see, please show your support by going through the link provided in the captions (if it’s there) and give your attention on their original platform.

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Na'vi anatomy meta post

For almost as long as I was in it, fandom was under the impression that Avatar and Recombinant characters have their tswin, or neural queue, attached lower than Na'vi, right above the neck, when Na'vi have it from the top of the head.

I drunk that kool-aid and defended it myself. However, further inspection proves it’s wrong.

Firstly : Metkayina very clearly have their tswin starting at the back of their skull, on a low point. It’s most evident with kids :

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But we can also see it in these two, especially the bully, who has his tswin literally sticking out :

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Shots of the Ta'unui completely nail the coffin :

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The top of his head is braided but there is no sign of a bulge and the tswin siths under the bulk of the hair, and is gripped near the neck.

This of course takes the cake :

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So it seems the tswin comes from the back of the head for them. Could the Omatikaya be different? I don’t think so.

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Neytiri clearly doesn’t have the very low placement we see in other, but there is also no indication that her tswin comes from the top of her head. No bulge to accomodate this.

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This shot of her after dismouting her ikran is the best view of it poking out and the attachment point is clearly bellow the back of the cranium.

Looking at Omatikaya fashion in general…

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I feel like it’s pretty clear that they favour heavy braiding with shaved sides. The men in those shots have very thick braids at the base, from gathering hair all the way from the top of their heads. I think this provides extra protection for the weak base of the tswin that we know has brainy bits…

But my conclusion is that this is a fashion style!

Na'vi, recoms and avatars all have tswin origination from the back/lower back of their head and the differences aren’t great, and obfuscated by hairstyles.

The more you know.

Yeah, that has been my guess as well. Omatikaya seem to favour the hairstyle with many thin braids for the bulk of the head, or shaved sides. However they also seem to quite often have a dutch braid thing going on from the very top of their heads that gathers extra hair which is then added to the actual necessary tswin.

Bonus observation - while tiny babies have their kuru visible in some shots, toddlers not older than a year seem to be sporting a full tswin, even though the rest of their hair is much shorter - the actual length i would actually to be common at that age. My guess and my headcanon is that those braids are extensions, likely braids donated by parents or close friends and other family members as a gift and a form of blessing, added to kid’s own hair at the base of the kuru, then braided in the usual manner for protection.

That’s very lovely! I had not thought about that! What’s also interesting is that we’ve never seen hairstyle where the entire head of hair goes as low as the hair used to protect the tswin.

Now the baby omatikaya we see have thin whispy hair on which you couldn’t possibly make extensions.

So while I love the idea in general, I am also wondering if you couldn’t make a case for the hair around the base of the neck to be of a different type, always growing much longer and faster than the rest of the head, as a sort of mechanical protection?

That, or they have crazy fast hair growth all over but favour short styles for babies, especially in water I guess, where you don’t want hair getting in the way of a toddler?

Then if a baby can get to shoulder length hair very quickly, that can be used for extensions?

Would also be very interesting if they had woven kuru protectors for the time where baby is growing but there’s not enough hair to braid or to make extensions on. Are the tendrils resilient enough to stay exposed? Could have little kuru diapers lol

I have a relatively long hair and i can tell you, that, at least as far as humans are concerned, growing a length of hair that would be needed for the whole tswin sounds like 8-12 years long journey, depending on the individual. Totally achievable even with the full head of hair. However, during that time and also just to maintain it afterwards, you would need to take a real good care of it and wear it in some sort of a protective hairstyle.

What protective hairstyles are are basically any form of keeping your hair, that makes sure that it moves around as little as possible. This is, because with every movement, every gust of wind, and every toss and turn at night, your hair will get damaged. The longer the hair is, the older is the end and the more breakage it cumulates. Bad brushing technique, daily hair washing, and sun and salt bleaching can and will ruin your hair to the point that it may break at the same rate as it grows, making it seem as if your hair doesn’t grow at all.

These protective hairstyles could be anything - wearing a turban, net, or some sort of cap that keeps the hair covered, pinning hair into buns and upknots, or braiding and twisted locks (if the structure of the hair allows it).

Now why i think that this is important in the context of na'vi. Jake, Norm, and i suppose all other 1st gen avatars started with full head of hair braided, because it’s just easier to let it all grow in the tank and then braid it on the second to last checkup, just before the activation. Anything after that would however require awfully lot of care so it’s reasonable to assume that the majority of drivers ditch everything but the necessary tswin and keep the rest shorter for this reason.

EXCEPT as i said, the tswin. That hair is ALWAYS braided and never free and not doing that is not an option, so it makes sense that it is both the longest and the healthiest looking hair on literally everyone.

As for na'vi, fashion is one reason why they are seen keeping hair shorter. Age is probably another. Kids like Tuk and younger seem to stick with the shortest hair, probably because they are too impatient to sit still for a whole day on the braiding day, even though by that age they could totally sport at least mid-back long hair (point of refference - my 5y/o niece who has hers almost ass long already). Then we have Kiri for example, where this seems to be a personal prefference - whether she is kind of trying to emulate her mom’s free flowing shoulder short hair, or she simply doesn’t care, i don’t know, but she sure doesn’t make any effort to grow it long.

Neteyam at the other hand, had a decent mane already. You gotta take into account that braided hair is shorter than lose hair because of all those twists. He was 15, so if we assume that he started growing his hair out from something more Tuk-like around the age of 8-10, that would mean 5-7 years of progress. Been there, did that, it looks just like my hair did back when i was still in uni, and that was with yearly haircut removing about 5-8cm of split ends. If he was around for another 5-7 years, he could have easily grown it into full tswin length by the time he would be an actual adult.

Which matches those omatikaya braided tomahawk men perfectly. They look like young 20-40ish hunters/warriors that sport both shaved sides and chunky tswin. Now compare that to recoms who only grow the patch at the very back of their head (except for Zheng - RIP my 4 strand braid boi). Omatikaya warriors have braids easily twice if not even 3 times chunkier. Those na'vi definitely have a full length worth of hair starting all the way at the front at the fringe in that.

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So I want to highlight why this is a lot more impressive than it looks on the aurface.

gonna preface this with I am more Furry Adjacent than anything. I mostly went to the local con because a bunch of my friends did and the Chaotic Adorable energy of most suiters is my vibe. Still, I have several friends and acquaintances who suit.

For those unaware: Fursuits are best described as wearing an extra 15-20lbs of carpet sewn to wire mesh with zero ventilation beyond maybe a small fan in the “head”.

They’re genuinely the best dancer there, because they were locked on the beat and their movements were expressive and sharp under 15lbs of carpet sewn to wire mesh.

All my respect to suiters man. They’re a different type.

i just wanna add that most suits are not built off wire mesh. most are actually stuffed with poly fill or built on foam. which is much heavier. the fur itself is heavy, and the foam and polyfil make it even heavier

bc it’s so heavy, fursuit dancers have to GREATLY exaggerate every movement. so this person is moving more and faster than it looks on the surface

Also, weight aside, look at the shape of those legs! Not only would they have had to exaggerate every movement (so nice to see someone else catch that), but all of the foot work would have been significantly more difficult due to the added thickness of the legs, not to mention the feet. Like, this is a person who has done a fuckton of practice dancing in a fursuit not just to be able to handle the weight and to be able to properly exaggerate their movements to look right, but to also not trip and fall flat on their face

Do the eyes move with the head?

they’re inset a bit , like a really short tube, with the sides of the tube forming the whites of the eyes so it gives an optical illusion that the gaze follows the viewer. a bit more lifelike than the usual 2d mascot stare

(via nattikay)

the more you know

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“um…..hi :)”

u know that corny fanfic trope where characters meet their past/future selves ha ha yeah

still can’t believe how FAST they CANONICALLY speedran Neteyam Lo'ak and Kiri lol, like that actually happened wow

Grace gets a special moment with Kiri after learning her true identity

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aaaaaaaaaand @barking-in-the-dark wanted to see Trudy holding one of the babies so of course I had to oblige ;)

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bonus shenanigan

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jake stahp ur embarrassing ur wife

I love how this artist portrays make as the type to be like,

*holds up his kids lion king style*

“I made this! :D”

I meeeeean……

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he did that ;D

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Am I the only one who thought that kiri and Lo’ak was the same age and not Kiri and Neteyam.


I see people putting Kiri and Neteyam as the same age in fics etc and I’m like that’s not right …. Is it?

Kiri and Neteyam are the same age (Neteyam was born first but Kiri’s probably no more than a month or so behind at most, all things considered). We see them together as babies and they appear to be about the same size (and yes, based on stripe patterns and finger count I am 1000% confident that the baby on the right is Neteyam, not Lo’ak):

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And again when we see them as toddlers Neteyam and Kiri appear to be roughly the same with Lo’ak slightly smaller (though to be fair it’s hard to tell exactly since we never see them all standing together on a level surface), and older Neteyam and Kiri can play more boisterously together while younger Lo’ak kinda hangs back and does his own thing:

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…..so yes, Neteyam and Kiri are about the same age, and Lo’ak is a year younger than both of them.

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If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty convinced that Kiri wasn’t conceived the normal way. Obligatory disclaimer that this is still just a theory, but: based on what we currently know I don’t think Kiri has a biological father. I think she’s genetically a clone of Grace’s avatar somehow spurred into existence by Eywa. This theory would explain her existence despite Grace having no known love interest, her unique connection to Eywa, and her eerie resemblance to Grace right down to her striping patterns (if you compare Jake and Neytiri’s patterns to those of their biological children, they are all very distinct from each other, yet Grace’s and Kiri’s are extremely similar).

So that said, if Kiri really is a genetic clone spurred into existence by Eywa, then her conception occurring after Grace’s death wouldn’t necessarily imply…ahem…yeah. 

It would, however, be very random for Eywa to suddenly do this months after Grace’s death, so while it’s possible, I don’t find it super likely…rather, I’m still convinced that Kiri’s conception happened during Grace’s attempted consciousness transfer. It’s by far the most logical option we’ve got right now.

Given that Jake and Neytiri only became mates a few days before this attempted transfer (and Neteyam was presumably conceived at that time), this would track with Kiri and Neteyam being very close in age, and is another reason I don’t think their births could possibly be much more than a month or so apart.

100% agree. I’ve been going with the idea that Eywa transfer -> Kiri’s “conception”. And like you said, why would Eywa “give” Grace a baby months afterwards. Plus, presumably her avatar has been in her chamber since then so she hasn’t been as connected to Eywa since (in the literal, “wired in” sense).

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