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FelisGlacialis In reply to PaintedDoe [2015-03-25 06:23:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions! I really appreciate that! I agree on Yves' response indeed- I will pick one of the examples. Although Yves was already distracted by what he heard and he was a bit speechless, but a simple yes was maybe a bit too short.
About the speech bubbles - here I don't agree; making them transparent gives in many cases a very unprofessional look and distracts the reader from text if the background shines through. In many  'professional' comics you hardly ever see transparent bubbles and in most cases they are simply white. Here the bubbles aren't white, but I always tend to give them the same colour and value as the background - although a bit brighter. And in this page I'm not disturbed by the brightness of the bubbles at all Oo the bg is
pretty bright too and the bubbles have a gradient from warm yellowish to blueish.
But anyway the fact that I don't agree, doesn't mean that I don't appreciate your opinion! It's good to hear what people think of the comic and your opinion is important too. I will at laest pay extra attention to it on the next page (which will come soon I hope).

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Toilet505 [2015-02-22 10:34:06 +0000 UTC]

yep - somewhere in time

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Gidgetech [2015-02-22 10:33:42 +0000 UTC]

Maybe this one gives a nice impression

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Gidgetech In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-23 03:32:27 +0000 UTC]

I am pretty sure the neighborhood dogs started howling because of the ecstatic squeal that just escaped my mouth.

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Bloodwolf-Xx [2015-02-22 10:31:45 +0000 UTC]

Really?? That's nice to hear! It may take a while before I'm able to make a new page again- it's a bit busy with my job and such ^^ But I will try to do my best

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Mudstar-Sibera [2015-02-22 10:30:53 +0000 UTC]

Ha that I have to figure out myself. I have a rough idea when Noiro is born and I think they will reach the metacluster before he's born. Sasha is probably not pregnant yet, but who knows what they have been doing there in the clouds...

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Mudstar-Sibera In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-22 16:00:58 +0000 UTC]

Ah ok I see very nice lol. 

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FelisGlacialis In reply to LadyAlluvia [2015-02-22 10:29:10 +0000 UTC]

Thankies!! I'm curious to see! even though I'm not active on DA at the moment - you can try to send me amessage

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FelisGlacialis In reply to sykaeh [2015-02-22 10:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Thankies

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FelisGlacialis In reply to sindos [2015-02-22 10:28:13 +0000 UTC]

Yep
Ha lol - yeah the thing is that all siderians have those dangerous teeth hehe. And yep they are just in the clouds at the moment

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FelisGlacialis In reply to The-Skykian-Archives [2015-02-22 10:09:55 +0000 UTC]

We will see ...

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Vannjaren [2015-02-22 10:23:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the compliments! Ha maybe I'm going to change that paw- it didn't bother me so much, but now you mentioned it, I see what you mean
About the name change; I thought it doesn't make sense if metacluster names are in foreign 'human' languages. To have names that are either english or some kind of specific biological/physical thing which is a translation from the names given in 'siderian language' (which I haven't thought out and probably never will)- makes more sense than fancy names from several human languages.

I'm just wondering why you find it sounding 'childish'- using the same letters sounds rather poetic to me Oo I can change it in to Zilval Summit - which would mean that there is a lot of those rare Zilval crystals. I don't see why Silver Summit is any different from names like: Mystery Mountain, Boiling Bay, Solar Wind, Tabby Town, Phase Plane, Raging Ravine, Fire Flux, Frost Fjord, Haze Hill, Iron Icicle, Lightning Peaks, Mist Fjord, Molten Core, Rough Rock, Storm Ridge. These are the non-scientific names though... But anyway let me know if more of those names sound ridiculous to native speakers

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Vannjaren In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-23 13:30:21 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome indeed! ^^ You deserve far more compliments than that, but I'm not eloquent enough to provide them, even if I try.
And it's only a tiny thing that my brain picked up on, no real reason for it to bother you and I don't think it's enough to make you need to change it.
Besides, I know NOTHING about anatomy, and I can draw it even less well than I know it, so there is no point listening to anything I say on that subject, since you know far more about it than I do - I probably see things which are "wrong" to me but are actually right, because if you have drawn them then they will be right, and it is only me being stupid when I notice things - the drawing is not wrong, I am.

And I suppose I can see why you changed that I guess, although I did prefer the original name of it in terms of the sound, but it is up to you.

And I don't think you need to change it - it is your story after all.

Ah, well, by "same letters" you mean the literary device of "alliteration" - which can be used in poems, but it is also veeery commonly used in childrens' nursery-rhymes and story books (far more so now than in poetry), it depends a bit on how it is used but in this instance it sort of reminded me of that...
It can sometimes sound poetic and I can see why perhaps you might have thought so, but on occasions it can be less helpful rather than more... especially if it is overused, like if you do it for so many places it gets to become like a "gimmick", or even sounds downright silly at times - maybe only a few places having alliterative names is a better idea, to stop it becoming "overdone".
I think as well though describing a summit as "silver" perhaps wasn't the most original choice, so the name "Silver Summit" just sounded a bit... ehhh.... for me.
I don't think it's BAD, I just far preferred the original name for the location to this one. 

I suppose what I meant by childish was perhaps it sounded a bit like what someone much younger than yourself would choose as the name for a location in their story, because they thought it "sounds cool"... I guess I just didn't feel it quite matched the thought-through intelligence of everything else in the rest of your story (which is extremely impressive to everyone, especially stupid people like myself, and which makes any of my own creations and stories sound like they were made by a baby which couldn't even understand speech yet), but yet again, I AM WRONG.

Do not listen to any of my advice because I'm the most useless of all of your readers/watchers - I can't draw, I can't write... I can't really do anything useful, so I cannot make any valid or useful observations for you.
There's no real point in listening or talking to me... and I often wonder why you still do, since I have nothing to offer - not in terms of interesting discussion because I'm far too stupid for that and my concepts are terrible compared even to your concepts when you were like 10 or something, I'm a total shithead and not a person who is worth even saying hello to let alone having a full conversation...
I'm really not worthy to talk to anyone here, let alone you, so... my "advice" is worth nothing, and knowing me is worth even less than that to someone like yourself. *crawls off to hide under a rock along with all the other cockroaches*
I really can't understand why you talk to me, and find it hard to believe that you'd ever want to speak to this pathetic lowlife (even though according to Mudstar you somehow speak to me willingly O_o... which I find hard to believe because I'm not good enough for you to consider as being tolerable, let alone to consider as a friend).
I really don't deserve to have a conversation with you - and when I do, all I ever seem to do is be a complete asshole(even if I'm only trying to help) and end up critiquing things I have no right to criticise or comment on, since I could never do anything even 1/1000 as well - and even in this instance, I could never name places as well as you could, so I shouldn't criticise it. I'm sorry...

But yes, don't change it, not because of anything that I have said (my opinions aren't worth a fraction of any of your other readers' opinions) - it has already been included in the comic, and I'm sure EVERYONE ELSE loves it, and I'm the only stupid idiot who prefers "L'Étendard" - but so far I see no one else has commented on it, so they've probably barely noticed the change maybe.

Though maybe in future, leave this name as it is, but perhaps tone down some of the alliteration elsewhere, otherwise it will become maybe a bit overdone - since especially if it is translated from the Siderian language, surely not that many things will alliterate since it was in their language first, not English - then it might look as though they deliberately named things in their language with the purpose so it would translate nicely into English! (this might look a bit less authentic)

Most of those names sound alright - though I would say there are a few that sound a bit silly - "Tabby Town" especially does sound a bit goofy and silly to native English speakers - sounds like a kitty-cat town in a story for five-year-old children - I'd really strongly advise against getting rid of that name!
Iron Icicle also sounds a bit... ehh, it's alright, but a lot of the other names are better. Rough Rock - not sure on that one either, to be honest.
The rest are perfectly fine though, although, honestly, and I know this will sound strange - I have never been fond of the name "Mystery Mountain" - to me it sounds cliché,  and a bit like something a twelve-year-old would use for a place name in their story (putting the word "mystery" in front of anything often gives off that vibe, in English at least), but I AM ALWAYS WRONG, and plus this name has been around for a long time now in your story, so there is no point in changing it and everyone knows about it and probably likes it a lot even if they've never said so. (I've never been fond of it but was too frightened to say anything before until you had asked)

But just because I do not particularly like it means NOTHING - it is probably the most fantastic name ever, but I am just too much of a worthless idiot to understand how truly great it actually is. The failing is mine, not yours - as is always the case.
As with anything, place names are very much open to interpretation, and it is a matter of personal opinion - what one person likes, another may not... and vice versa.
I think however I may much prefer the scientific-based names of the locations, I look forward to hearing some of those.

I am curious about the Siderian language however - is it just one language for all Siderians, or do they have dozens of separate Siderian languages in different Geographical locations?
(sorry, I should probably ask this question somewhere else, I have wasted far too much of your valuable time here already, feel free to ignore all of this , it's probably all useless anyway as usual)

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Vannjaren [2015-03-06 10:42:32 +0000 UTC]

Heia, a little bit of a late answer…I’ve been pretty busy last time. Correcting a lot of reports and traveling to Tromsø to meet my future supervisor.

Anyway, metacluster names were never meant to be really serious. I mean I do have used some stupid Dutch words like Flots and Klets, which are just sounds for splashing water. One metacluster is called Zarr, after the author of a biostatistics book. The name just sounded piratey.

For me it is very difficult to feel whether a name sounds childish or not – in Dutch those words with the same letters don’t sound childish to me and neither have the metacluster names. Some names I’m really reluctant to change, but I really thank you for the suggestions. It makes me think of alternatives. Mystery Mountain is one of the first metaclusters– so indeed may have been a young teenager. But the mental image I get when I hear the word, is just perfectly fitting – and I just love the name... Misty Mountain is an alternative, but further than that, I’m not going. As for Iron Icicle- I’m so fond of that name and I’m not going to change it. Rough Rock was a funny and literal translation of a Dutch surname, but this one I can change – I don’t have a special feeling with that cluster yet. As for Tabby Town, it’s a tiny canovine cluster in the canopy of the jungle. I can think of changing that one in to Asip (the abbreviation of Agouti Signalling Protein).

But here come (maybe some of the) scientific, and other names I have for metafeline metaclusters: Andromeda, Constellation, Cyano, Nemo, Silithus, Axon, Canopy, Desmosome, Meristem, Rubisco, Vena Cava, Thylakoid, Detritus, Sacrum, Sartorius, Vortex, Alpha Helix, Anova, Asteroid, Atlas, Atrium, Axis, Bioluminence, Cilia, Cirrostratus, Cornice, Eridani, Ferox, Manubrium, Mercury, Mimicry, Mitochondrion, Muon, Nebulosa, Notochord, Operon, Parsec, Stratenum, Syene, Tangens, Tefra, Xantophyl, Outlier. And some more names that I have in another list, that may be on the map, but that got out of the main list due to some crash in word: Carnassial, Deltoid, Polymerase, Ependym, Transposon, Sinusoid, Tryptophan, Chi-square, Acromion, Bamha, Diotoa, Synapes, Dendrite, Ganglion, Hesiaan, Mu, Cambrium and maybe also Cambium, Tapetum Ludicum, Allostratus, Sternum, Bascillus, Striatus, Lacuna, Mesenterium, Peritoneum, Tetrahedron, Stomata, Malate, Flipflop (that’s something crazy I know), Ubiquitin.

So, as you see,  I don’t think the double-letter names are really overdone…Not if you see it in proportion with the crazy scientific names. But it seems that you have a fairly strong opinion about these names and I don’t want you to experience siderian metacluster names as silly. But as I said, metacluster names were not always meant to be really serious. They should be straight to the point, nerdy, idiot/funny and can be the typical cliché cool/mystic.

But actually another question really keeps bugging me. Why are you thinking that you’re worth nothing? Are you serious or sarcastic? I really start to doubt. Where is your self-confidence? It’s something you really deserve to have with all your creativity, your scientific mind and artistic skills.  As behavioural biologist I just started wondering about these questions:  have you been bullied for having high marks or fantasy characters/species? Have your parents never acknowledged you? Are professors at the university saying that you are a bad student? Don’t you have real-life friends that admire you for your creativity (at least I do!)? Do you only see what you can’t do, and do you forget what you CAN do? Are you only focussing on what you want to reach instead of looking at what you already have achieved?  Do people always say that you are wrong and is your scientific knowledge being regarded as bullshit by your (closest) social environment? Do you generally think you are wrong/nothing compared to everybody on DA (also all the sparklewolf artists that draw like a 3-years old???? ) or am I talking to you like if I’m some kind of haughtily professor (I really don’t mean to!) and am I scaring you off? I’m just wondering if you have some answers that make sense, although I don’t want to make some kind of study animal of you, of course. To me you are a friend! And understanding each other is a part of friendship. Anyway your comments make much more sense than the one of madwolf0219 under the same post as you commented on. So why do you think you are the most useless of all my watchers?

Anyway an answer on your last question: I haven't thought so much about languages, as I'm not a language expert at all. But with their advanced communication techniques, I think they have at least on world wide common language. But I think that canovines, arctians and javines have a different language, although they can learn each others language of course. But it makes sense if they have at least many different dialects. Their language may sound a bit like a mix of feline sounds and complex sounds, similar to human language. But I think many are also able to speak more or less English, so that they can at least overhear humans...

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Vannjaren In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-03-06 15:25:19 +0000 UTC]

* second part now... ^^' *

Ah... sorry if that is bugging or annoying you in any way, I didn't mean for that to happen...
And I am definitely serious and not being sarcastic - I don't see what sarcasm would achieve for someone to do that, other than perhaps being rude or confusing to the person on the other side, so no... there is no sarcasm involved, and I apologise if that was ever the impression.

Self-confidence is something I have never really had - and to be honest I don't think I will have any, or if I did, it would not be justified. I wouldn't know what self esteem felt like if it came up and smacked me in the face with a wet cabbage... but then I'm used to being this way so I don't really miss what I have never had.

And as for my "creativity, scientific mind and artistic skills"... I don't know where you're looking to see any of that, but it doesn't sound like you're looking at me.
I admire you greatly for these things, as well as these being things I admire a lot in other people, but I don't think I have any of it for myself...
Especially hearing someone such as yourself who is fantastically talented in all three aspects say that I might even have the most infinitesimal hint of any of these traits is like hearing Leonardo daVinci praising the fingerpaintings of a baboon. :'D

I am very attached to my species and characters, but just because I am fond of them does not by any stretch of the imagination make them good, nor will I pretend otherwise either to myself or to other people - and as for being able to draw, well... (speaking of drawing, was nearly finished a detailed background but my computer crashed and deleted everything but the sky *I had saved it before but the file was corrupted so it was lost*, so have to start all over again - which is annoying due to my lack of art time because of clinical placements.)

I can't say I blame you for wondering some things - it is in your nature due to your studies after all. So I don't mind the questions and don't find it rude, it's ok.
And well, no one knows about my species outside of the internet but one person, I have not shared them in real life with anyone else. As for high marks, I wasn't so much bullied but ignored - it was kinda odd, because I remember often in class, if someone got a high mark, sometimes lots of other people would congratulate them and tell them how well they did, how smart they were and how amazing their result was - meanwhile I may have had over twenty marks more than this person, but no one came near me or asked what I had, instead congratulating the others.
It was a bit odd, but it didn't bother me actually, I just found it a bit strange and actually kind of amusing in a weird way. Plus I had the self-esteem lacking for a long time before this, so it was not the cause at all.

I had been bullied for other reasons, but again, it didn't really bother me, because I had come to expect it and was kind of numb to it really - I'm actually a very hard person to insult or upset with words. Probably because anything someone says to me isn't nearly as bad as the things I've said/thought about myself.
I had been withdrawn before that anyway, always have been - so again, that was not the cause, and bullying didn't have the effect on me that it usually has on others - maybe at times it made existing issues worse a little bit, but not much, and was not the root cause of anything - it seems the cause for everything comes from my own head.

As for parents - I don't share my art with them. I know my mother does not like it when I do fantasy art, or it seemed to be the case when I was younger, and I know she'd hate my species, so I don't share them with her. I might show some of my stuff to my dad though, the dragons and things maybe since I know he likes dragons, but that's about it. However, that's just the way things are so that doesn't really frustrate me, I tend to prefer keeping art private and anonymous anyway just naturally. But outside of art, I don't have issues with my parents, and my self esteem was low before I even started drawing, so that is not it either.
People in my social environment don't disregard my scientific "knowledge" - most of my friends are outside of my course, so have limited understanding of biology, so when I go on bio- mode it just goes over their heads. :'D
As for other students, most are more interested in the clinical side, and not so much in the side of medicine I'm interested in, so a lot of them just get a glazed look when I talk about cellular organelles and pathological features... so no one says my knowledge is poor, but then they aren't in the same line of interest so that doesn't mean my knowledge is good either.
We do not get personal contact with our professors (there are too many students in each year), so they don't even know me at all let alone talk about my performance or lack of. :'D

Regarding friends, I do have that one friend who admires my species and my art, but in a way I sort of feel similar about that IRL to here, since she doesn't have a species or anything but is a fantastic writer, so her creativity is amazing and her writing skills are great, so if anything I should be admiring her, and she doesn't need to admire anything of mine. (though we do still like to share stuff)
I don't share my characters or stories in much detail with her though, just a little bit, since I'm paranoid about people overhearing, and also even if she is a great friend, I still feel a bit nervous to share too much in real life - but still, she is the only one who knows anything of them in real life.

It is true that I see what I can't do rather than what I can do, but then that's because I can't FIND anything that I can do, or at least do alright/well, I don't see anything that I'm good at, so it's hard to focus on a positive if you can't find one. I'm not as terrible as I used to be, at least where art is concerned, but being better than I used to be does not make me good - I still fail, just not as much as before, but still a lot.
As for goals and such, I focus on things I'd like to reach, but I know it's only misplaced effort since I will never be able to achieve any of my goals, they might as well be pointless. I don't focus on what I have achieved since I don't really consider myself to have achieved anything.

And as for dA, I have a lot of great people I know here, but many times I've considered leaving because I feel like nothing compared to everyone else here, like I don't belong or deserve to be here. (like I feel about University too a lot of the time.)
And yes, that even includes the sparklewolf people - because although their designs are horrible and ugly, and their characters flat and unrealistic and act nothing like wolves, their art is still better than mine. :'D Even if their anatomy is wonky, mine isn't much better, and my shading is worse - though I will admit that the art in Ginga (which I don't watch because it's too ugly I couldn't stand it, I just know it from photos and stuff) is on a par with being as bad as my art. (the bgs seem nice, but the characters - OH HOLY F***.)

You don't talk like a haughty or arrogant professor at all, trust me, it's not you, the problem is with me. I've always had a thing for self-loathing/self-deprecation/lack of confidence for as long as I or anyone else who knows me can remember - it seems as soon as I had some concept of self-awareness and grasp of language, it's always been there - no clear cause, just there.
I know it's a fault and a flaw in itself, but when I try to see anything positive, all I see is faults and flaws, so I can't find any reason to justify or motivate thinking otherwise.

And hearing that still feels bizarre to me, since I remember seeing your art before I joined dA and never thought I'd even say one word to you, let alone that you wouldn't hate me and find me like an irritating worthless mosquito that needs smacking. :'D I never dreamed you'd even tolerate me let alone LIKE me, never mind considering me a friend of sorts - I guess I feel that I've never contributed anything for you, and never done anything that would cause you to like me... plus I'm not a fan of my own personality so I don't think I come across as likeable at all. As much as I found you amazing, I didn't think there was anything for you to see in me.
Honestly, I don't know what any of my friends see in me. :'D
But I do have to thank you for even thinking I might be some kind of friend, it was not something I ever expected.

Apologies on how ridiculously long that was, but you were asking questions so I thought it would be rude if I ignored them or didn't answer, and ha, I don't mind, even if you DID want to make me into some kind of experimental animal it wouldn't bother me much, at least you're not pretending to be a psychiatrist. *don't get me started on those guys... >8( *

And that is interesting to hear - I suppose it makes sense for each species to have its own language, but because they're all within the metafelidae genus they're similar enough that they can produce the same/similar range of sounds that enables them to be able to learn and speak the languages of the other related species. That sounds like a cool language, and indeed it would be useful for them to be able to understand human languages to overhear them, even if some of them maybe don't speak English as well as they hear it, it is at least useful for them to understand when listening. ^^
With Krovendraekk there are some explanations, but I'll leave that out now since this is already WAY too long... whoops...

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Vannjaren In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-03-06 15:23:03 +0000 UTC]

Hi, don't worry about it (I don't mind how late replies are, trust me, it is not something that bothers me at all) - and yes, I read about that in your journal, and good luck with that! <3

And if that's what you're going for then that is ok, explains things a bit now - and hehe, I like "Zarr" indeed, nice choice! ^^

I can understand how if English was not originally your first language, little things like that might indeed be difficult to tell, since they might not sound like that in Dutch - I think it depends a lot on the words chosen as to whether it sounds strange/silly or not.
And that's ok too - I would say that "Misty Mountain" sounds a bit too much like "The Misty Mountains" from Middle Earth, so perhaps some people might think it sounds too similar or that it was borrowed/inspired by it, which was not the case - perhaps best to stick to Mystery Mountain after all.
And I wouldn't expect you to change the names - least of all because of something I said, I'm only one person, and not exactly a good person at giving advice or suggestions to start with, the important thing is that you like the names. And Iron Icicle wasn't bad - I just wasn't sure about it, but it definitely wasn't one that screamed "This needs changed!" or anything like that.
Yeah, I think Rough Rock maybe a lot more so than Iron Icicle definitely feels a little bit off or odd... even Ragged Rock maybe? (sorry, I'm useless with alliterative names and never use them myself, that one probably sucks epicly.) I'm sure though in time you'll get the right feeling for that Metacluster and know what it will be called.

Ah, yes, Tabby Town - that suggestion of Asip could work too! Though to be honest, nearly ANYTHING would work better than "Tabby Town"...
(most of the names were good, only a few were a bit off - but Tabby Town was the one which just sounded like it needed changed quite urgently.)

And ha, I like pretty much ALL of those - I knew I would prefer the scientific names for some reason, just a feeling I had.
Hmm, is "Syene" a reference to Eratosthenes, or am I wrong there?
I like seeing those names which are scientific things that I know of, appreciation there indeed.
(also, hehe, random info for the sake of KD trivia - "ferox" is part of the trinomial subspecies nomenclature for Kårstatt Krovendraekk - Procerovenator loricatus ferox. * a reference to their more devolved society, physical appearance and at times more feral behaviour in contrast with other clans*.)
That other group is good too - hmm, mesenterium is synonymous with mesentery, and mesentery is more commonly used, but mesenterium does have a nice ring to it and perhaps sounds like a better location name, so I'd suggest maybe keeping it the way it is.
And heh, Flip Flop does sound a bit odd but only if you don't know what it is in science - I might be wrong (I'm quite likely wrong and have probably confused myself or something stupid), but I think from reading it was a genetic phenomenon resulting in reciprocal gene expression. *it was not covered in my course, but I would sometimes read random books on genetics, physiology, pathology etc.*
Hmm, I think it is a good name for people with a scientific background, but I'm not sure how non-scientific readers would interpret it - they might maybe think of the shoe instead if they don't know of the genetic phenomenon. :'D

And at least the scientific names as you say do outnumber the alliterative names - and it was only a few of the alliterative names in particular that stood out as being odd or something, most of those were fine too, and at least there is a balance between them and the scientific names. ^^
And it's ok, don't worry about my opinion since as I said I'm only one person, and things like location names are very subjective - besides, there were only a couple that I wasn't so fond of, but there are enough very good names to make up for the few which don't personally appeal to me - and it's likely that in lots of things, if there is a large number of something, there will always be a few that some people don't like, such as with location names - it doesn't mean the names are bad, and also, different people will like different ones anyway.
The only name which did sound downright silly and ridiculous to the point where it might spoil things was "Tabby Town" - because I think if it was mentioned in the comic, I'd be reading and nearly pause because the silliness of it distracted from the story and spoiled the tone/feel a bit.
Some of the others I'm not just as fond of (like Silver Summit, Rough Rock and Mystery Mountain), but even if they're not massively appealing to me, they're at least nowhere near that level and wouldn't be enough to spoil the comic in the slightest - only Tabby Town was bad enough for that kind of effect. :'D

*splitting comment in two parts to make it easier to read and reply to*

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Vannjaren [2015-03-22 09:36:54 +0000 UTC]

Ha, finally a reply on this one. I haven’t been active on DA lately. So back to the names- I will try to keep it short XD. I think I will stick to Mystery Mountain – also because it’s the first of all metaclusters I came with. Rough Rock I may change because this one is actually based on something funny from Dutch that doesn’t make any sense anyway. Tabby Town will be Asip now I think J. Syene has a double meaning as it also seems to mean ‘old’.

Lol, interesting to see the word ferox in the Kroven’s scientific name! I thought that it means fierce and saw that it’s the species name of the fossa. About Mesenterium, I’ve always learnt the words mesenterium and peritoneum at my studies, so that was the only one familiar to me (and it sounds nice XD). For flipflop, I know it refers to slippers, but I actually refer to the ‘flip-flopping’ of phospholipids in the cell membrane. But since this is a double meaning and actually a ridiculous one I kinda like keeping it. Some metacluster names are meant to be idiot – so then the non-biologists have something to laugh about as well. And the last one, Silver Summit ; I consider changing it into Zilval Summit, thereby referring to the crystals.

Now the other part of the comment, which was even longer; I think I see what you mean, but I still don’t understand it entirely. I don’t think people are ‘born’ with a lack of self-confidence, so I don’t think it has a strong genetic background. So therefore I started wondering which environmental factors could cause low self-confidence. It sounds like if you got ‘punished’/get negative experiences as soon as you expressed some ego. And it seems that I can’t help you building a bigger ego either. Even though I try hard, because you really deserve it. I sometimes have the contrary; that I have to be careful not to become too arrogant- especially on internet.

Interesting how you reacted on bullying – I think I did a bit the same. I wasn’t bothered at all; words didn’t hurt me. But once I WAS insulted, people got a taste of my fury, and usually that made an end to the bullying. Many people that actually got bullied became my friends because I usually fought off the bullies. Really, if I did karate at that time (which I do now), I would have been really dangerous. Here came the arrogance in as well – people should not mess with me, and if they do- I hurt them. Hard. So I could do basically whatever I wanted at the primary school.

About sharing with parents, I don’t do that so much either. Just because they don’t understand fantasy so well. Although they are interested in my artistic works, they are kinda ‘used’ to it. So it’s not surprising when I produce something new. But doesn’t it give you a feeling of ‘being better’ when you talk science and nobody can follow you, except maybe the teachers? I would have gotten even a bigger ego. Lol, funny how you react on psychiatrists- I think they would regard me crazy – instantly. Especially when I start talking about ‘therianthropy’ (I’m very sceptical towards it, but still I can’t help but concluding that I’ve exactly all the ‘symptoms’ as the community describes- already for as long as I live).

But now back to fantasy and the language- I remember you have written already quite a bit on Krovendrakk language. I’m also thinking about the exchange concept, but it will not be much more than siderians observing and studying humans from a distance. But studying other species is kinda ‘natural’ for siderians, so then learning some elements of human language and human-culture (and maybe being inspired by it) doesn’t sound so illogical. But I think it’s a bit challenging for Adler, since he has to deal with so many different species. He may be able to communicate with them to some degree- but he leaves most of the work to ‘specialists’.

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Vannjaren In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-03-23 19:26:39 +0000 UTC]

Ah, that's ok, I haven't had much time lately and of course stupid computer crash lost months of artwork which hasn't helped either.
I'll try to stop this reply getting too long as well - though I have a modus operandi for long comments as you unfortunately already know, whoops...

And that's ok, since after you sent me all those other names I guess there are enough names to balance it out, and hehe, yes, perhaps Rough Rock could be changed a bit but it's not too bad even if you don't change it - glad Tabby Town is being changed though, it was the only one I think that almost had to be changed!

Haha, yes, it's the subspecies name for the Kårstatt clan, which fits since they're the least "civilised" of all clans and rather more feral and harsh in their nature, they're still no less intelligent (unlike some other clans might mistakenly think judging from their apparent lack of societal structure) but are rather different in their behaviour and thinking.
And yep, I remember seeing the word ferox randomly somewhere before I saw it for the fossa - which is Cryptoprocta ferox if I'm not mistaken - heh, I don't know that many scientific names but some do stick in my empty brain, I guess particularly if they're animals I especially like - well, I like animals in general but some stand out more to me, I think everyone has their preferences of course. ^^

And yep, it can mean fierce, but depending on context can also mean wild, feral, untamed, spirited etc., all of which seemed rather fitting for my oddball extremophile Krovens. (a.k.a. Kårstatt. :'D) 

And yep, that's fine - mesentery and mesenterium are interchangeable anyway so I think best go with the one that sounds nice.
And oh, yes, the movement of phospholipids in the fluid mosaic bilayer of cell and organelle membranes, I guess since I had been thinking of genetics lately the genetic phenomenon came to mind first, but I remember that now too that you mention it again.
And the double-meaning approach does give a bit of humour to non-biologists, so I can see why you've decided to keep it, not a bad idea then!
And that's up to you, Zilval Summit does sound like a nice reference to the crystals I think - you'd probably have to mention something about that in the comments to explain it to people, but I think it's a nice idea. ^^ Of course, the original isn't bad either even if it wasn't my personal "cup of tea", since my opinion isn't exactly one worth listening to and even then it wasn't a very strong opinion anyway - go ahead with the change but only if it's a change YOU want to do.

And the second part...
I honestly do not know the explanation - if I did then it would not take me so long to answer your question! :'D I just don't make sense!
I do not know if genetics have anything at all to do with it, so there is likely another explanation that I can't see.
And the thing is, I never really DID express any ego, anyone who knew me even as a very young child would never say they saw me behaving in a boastful manner or even just seeming pleased with myself - I wasn't punished for behaving like that, since I never really had the inclination to behave like that to any of my knowledge or the knowledge of others.
I might have been punished for some things, but not any different to other kids that do something wrong, like breaking something by mistake etc. like all kids do, I wasn't punished for being arrogant or anything.
The only thing anything like it is that I punished myself for making mistakes, but again that was me doing it, not others... and it's something I'll leave there since I don't want to go into it in detail if that's ok.

And really, I feel sorry that you try hard for this since I know I'm only wasting your effort, and if anything I now feel a bit guilty for this... I'm sorry for being the way I am.
I'm also sorry if you think that I deserve it, because I have to disagree with that... I know your words are kind but I can't see what they are aimed at, what anyone could see in me including you... a lot of people, a LOT, have tried to help me to develop self-esteem, in real-life and online, but I'm really just a waste of all your time, I appreciate the kindness but it just doesn't work. Whatever is responsible, it isn't the fault of others, it's my own fault, so encouragement won't really change that...

And hmm, you've said that before, but I really don't notice you as arrogant at all - maybe it only comes out when you're angry with someone which is why I haven't seen it, but I don't get arrogance off you - you DO seem confident, but not to the point of arrogance, at least not from my point of view - and confidence is no bad thing!

Eh, yes, when others heard what was said to me and stuff, they couldn't understand why I didn't cry or freak out - honestly I just didn't care. Since as I said, whatever the bullies told me was amateurish in terms of insult compared to some nasty things I thought about myself, so whatever they said didn't seem bad by comparison. Plus whenever they said something unpleasant, part of me thought "Well, they ARE right", so I just kinda accepted it.

And yes, I remember you saying that you did Karate - haha, I'm too useless and pathetic and uncoordinated for that, I'd probably fall over or end up hurting myself or something stupid. The only self-defence type of thing I can do at all is archery, and my dad has an air gun too that I know how to shoot... but that's not the same. Physically I'm pretty useless since I'm a short-ass (like 5ft 6, maybe 5ft 7 perhaps?) and uncoordinated-as-heck. :'D
I never hurt any of the bullies who picked on me - I just let them do it. The only difference though was if someone picked on me, I did nothing, but if they picked on a friend of mine I went kinda crazy, especially when younger I was a bit of a psycho at primary school...

When I was four, there was one kid who was just an ass to everyone, not just me... so I picked up a chair and beat him over the head with it until the preschool teacher separated me from him.
A few years later, one guy did something unpleasant to a friend of mine, so I jumped at him wildcat-style and scratched his face until he was bleeding everywhere and smacked him against the ground, kicked him in the ribs etc.... he ran away crying like a toddler, haha. Didn't bother my friend again though after that, oddly enough...
The teacher wasn't pleased though. :'D (but they did see him being an ass earlier so they knew what started it at least)
I don't react like that now BUT I still get kinda defensive if someone picks on a friend of mine... though that doesn't happen often. Partly because people don't tend to do it at this age, and partly because I don't have a huge number of friends. :'D (but I have a few I guess, which is more than I used to have. )

Ah, I can kinda see the reasons for that, since parents aren't always into the same things as us. But I don't share with my parents because I think my mother would hate my art, especially my species, and maybe even shame me into stopping completely, which I don't want to do, so I keep it secret instead.
And actually, it doesn't make me feel better when I talk science and people can't follow me - it just makes me think I can't explain things well enough and am bad at that, or just that I'm strange and annoying for bothering non-scientists with science-speak. :'D So no, it doesn't actually help my lack of ego...

I know very little of therianthropy, but would be curious to learn more... I think with a lot of things like that, there are probably some who put out the wrong impression of it, but there might be something in it afterall...

Ah, yes, psychiatrists... lets just say my family has experience of them and leave it at that.
I'd like to say I had more respect for them, but I honestly can't.
They'd probably just say I was crazy too, I don't think you'd be alone there. :'D

Ah, yes, I maybe did spam you a bit with that at some point! Kroven-spam happens quite easily... ^^'
And I suppose it makes sense for some elements to have emerged out of observation of humans from a distance, and over time to become incorporated into their own language and culture, and for them to be able to learn human languages. And yes, it makes sense for Adler to work with communication specialists since if he was dealing with a wide range of species it would be difficult to communicate with all of them - he'd need an interpreter at times!

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FelisGlacialis In reply to madwolf0219 [2015-02-08 14:30:10 +0000 UTC]

Wtf????

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madwolf0219 In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-08 15:52:28 +0000 UTC]

So dose that mean my production is alittle off then

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FelisGlacialis In reply to madwolf0219 [2015-02-13 10:27:04 +0000 UTC]

pretty much yes.

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madwolf0219 In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-13 16:01:17 +0000 UTC]

Well I tryed gauss now I'm just gonna have to wait for you to tell the story how it's ment to be.

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FelisGlacialis In reply to ApalrieusCentauri [2015-02-08 14:31:15 +0000 UTC]

It's indeed a kinda settlement - the metacluster that previously had the name L'Étendard.

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FelisGlacialis In reply to HunterBeingHunted [2015-02-22 10:09:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Ha yeah we will see

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FelisGlacialis In reply to Alassea92 [2015-02-22 10:09:25 +0000 UTC]

Probably

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Alassea92 In reply to FelisGlacialis [2015-02-25 10:51:24 +0000 UTC]

yay!

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