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The forest has always been a place where you can develop your deductive skills...

The forest has always been a place where you can develop your deductive skills, especially if you are good at animal tracks. But, every year there are fewer animals

This version looks like nonsense...

In the vastness of my homeland Moldova, or more precisely, in the deposits of natural materials, there is a stone, a high-density limestone called "wild stone"

The most popular goods...

If you had to open a business, in particular a store selling a certain group of goods in a city new to you, it would be useful for you to first find out what goods,

Project Log #9 — The First Four Kin

From left to right: Sana a Tselo, LohummTi a Koggu, Varrumah a Shuvok, Myrrku a baby Shuvok, Guvru a Thummok I've expanded the Nivukti lexicon with four kin which

In this simplicity lies a complex system of relationships...

In the forest, everything is simple! - these words can briefly describe forest life, where the main principle is that the strong survive, and the weak have no place

Sometimes you can see debates about who can be considered the wisest people...

Sometimes you can see debates about who can be considered the wisest people and there are quite a lot of opinions on this matter. Some people remember the wisdom

Sometimes people think that the brighter they look, the more they stand out from the crowd...

Sometimes people think that the brighter they look, the more they stand out from the crowd, the more successful they will be... sometimes it works, to some extent,

Family Matters

I was feeling nostalgic the other day, and I began perusing through the hominid family album. The current scientific consensus is that humans evolved from earlier

Zun Kullen Society (World Building Notes)

This World-Building Prompt was written in the world-building community, and it caught my attention because this is something I was thinking about recently. Zun Kulla

Designing a new character: Guvru (WIP)

This is an almost done look of the new character that I intend to add to the Nivukti world Name: Guvru Species: Thummok Description: The tunnel hunter. Denser and

Paxillus involutus or brown roll-rim...

It is no secret that for mushrooms to appear in the forest, favorable conditions must come for them, for example, it must rain, the air temperature must rise and

Success is a very specific concept...

I've often met people who say that to achieve success you need to constantly move, run somewhere, do something... Success is a very specific concept, and achieving

An atmospheric lottery.

You probably have to be a very gambler to trust weather forecasts unconditionally, especially lately, when some meteorologists are saying summer heat is coming,

The new baby character: Myrrku

I am finally done designing the first draft of a new character that I added to the fold so LohummTi Varrumah and Sana would be happier here is.... Myrrku Pronunciation:

A special blessing.

A special blessing. It's perfectly normal for people to expect something special from the future, and if that future is blessed by God, then it will definitely be

Boredom during a long wait.

Boredom during a long wait. A long wait for something is what, de jure and de facto, breeds boredom... you know, the kind of prickly boredom, like the prickly skin

A life without problems.

A life without problems. A life without problems—some strive for it, others call it utopia—but both live to create problems for themselves and others. It's only

The essential eating implements : Huzka

Putting it all together, this is LohummTi carrying his huzka or eating kit huzka /ˈhuz.ka/ n. Definitions A personal eating kit which consists the vessels and implements

To trust logic, you need to be a very versatile specialist in various fields of science...

Sometimes, to trust logic, you need to be a very versatile specialist in various fields of science, otherwise, logic can fail, as in this case. When I saw a rather

You don't need any optical aids to see the forest's generosity; just get there.

You don't need any optical aids to see the forest's generosity; just get there. Speaking of generosity, I recall the days when my family and I would visit the city