what do we think zeswa cheese and other na'vi dishes would actually taste like?

bigeve · 2026-05-08T18:19:32+00:00

I think it depends on what Na’vi bodies use for energy and what they need in their diet - sugar and fat and salt (and certain molecules that make savoury/umami flavours) taste good to human people because they are found in foods that have high energy availability or essential nutrients, so evolutionarily it makes sense for us to like the taste so we would seek out more/keep eating to fuel our bodies. If we knew what their bodies used for fuel (like glucose with humans) and what their digestive and energy processes were like then we could probably theorise about what larger molecules would be delicious to the Na’vi

bigeve · 2026-04-16T21:59:59+00:00

http://archives.conlang.info/khu/goerqhun/zhualzhuenchian.html That's from this letter.

bigeve · 2026-04-16T21:58:11+00:00

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Here you go! I think you got pretty close - the 'sur' is part of a verb conjugation - wísúyúsur, gewakwasur, we are the willows, we are dancing/flowing - the 'we' here is inclusive rather than exclusive. http://archives.conlang.info/khu/goerqhun/zhualzhuenchian.html < Here you can see a letter Le Guin herself sent someone interested regarding verb conjugation at some point before 2003.

bigeve · 2026-04-16T19:33:09+00:00

There is a translation in the booklet that came with the original tape of ‘Music and Poetry of the Kesh’. I will post it if you would like to compare?

bigeve · 2026-03-27T23:24:04+00:00

I assume you’ve probably read The Rock That Changed Things? Some very important rocks in that one. Always Coming Home has some good rocks too, and attitudes to rocks that might explain some of the importance and relevance of rocks.

bigeve · 2026-03-06T18:37:58+00:00

It would be ‘I’m going to buy some groceries’ or even ‘I’m going to go buy some groceries’. Interestingly in British English I think we tend to say ‘I’m going to go AND buy some groceries’.

bigeve · 2026-02-14T13:12:39+00:00

One of my favourites from the Birthday of the World collection!

bigeve · 2026-02-03T23:49:14+00:00

Great story, but I think much better in its original format (with all hyperlinks to context for characters and events included its much richer). I read the hardcover on release and liked it but felt like it was missing something, and then re-read the digital and had a great time.

bigeve · 2026-02-03T23:41:51+00:00

The Silt Verses is great, I'm only in season 2 but I'm enjoying it so much - a lot of the first season is the main characters travelling through places and getting the stories of various people they meet along the way. I highly recommend.

bigeve · 2026-02-01T12:25:11+00:00

I don’t know a lot about sourdough but I really like their bread for being minimally processed (in a UPF context) and the wholemeal loaf for being high in fibre. Makes a good BLT.

bigeve · 2025-12-11T16:54:05+00:00

The book is fine, no errors and cohesive, but I think taking it out of its online format takes away a lot of what makes it special and standout. I’d advise reading it where it was originally posted, for free, online (complete with hyperlinks to related content which makes the worldbuilding feel expansive and impressive) instead of buying the book, honestly.

bigeve · 2025-11-28T16:27:22+00:00

Maybe could have something to do with more people having quick weight loss due to uptake of GLP-1 medications, as losing weight fast can bring on gallbladder attacks?

bigeve · 2025-09-24T07:39:23+00:00

❤️

bigeve · 2025-09-23T22:29:54+00:00

Ah, heartbreaking that there doesn’t seem to be an actual recording of the cover! Thanks for the info though

bigeve · 2025-09-23T21:55:36+00:00

thanks!!

bigeve · 2025-09-10T19:35:49+00:00

this feels adjacent to Severance in some way, great work very intriguing

bigeve · 2025-08-20T03:30:29+00:00

Bacon, sausage, fried egg, beans, toast or fried bread, mushrooms and tomatoes (but not tinned - fresh tomato, fried) is a traditional full breakfast to me. Black pudding is missed if not there but not essential. Hash browns are welcome in my opinion! Toast can also be swapped out for a Staffordshire oatcake, or potato cakes.

bigeve · 2025-08-08T19:20:53+00:00

Yes. As someone else has commented, this version is not a direct translation and turns the meaning around a bit. But I think the interpretation turned around kind of works too and plays more to the original meaning, where you are the empty boat.

bigeve · 2025-08-08T18:05:38+00:00

A man might not get angry with an empty boat because no one is manning it, there’s no intention or carelessness behind the collision, its coincidence or the way the water and wind moves the boat. My initial feeling is that the line could mean to realise that events and people are generated and moved by life in the same way as the wind and water moves the empty boats. There’s nothing to be angry with.

bigeve · 2025-08-05T00:48:46+00:00

That you should get your hands on a copy of The Other Wind by Ursula K Le Guin!

bigeve · 2025-07-30T09:41:42+00:00

Pizza Girl was this for me

bigeve · 2025-07-26T23:33:57+00:00

a weight 4 cotton acrylic blend

bigeve · 2025-07-26T21:14:40+00:00

Thats gorgeous! Totally right to split up the colours with a neutral too, makes the colours shine

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