Assuming the link works, this should embed the first video in a playlist of three tracks I created for my fanime, Blazoner Narazen. I’ll also be adding links as I write a bit about each track here. I originally wrote a lot more about each track, but I’m going to try to keep myself from going too overboard with detail:

Track 1: “diEl@tion and cuTTeR@ge ~yaŇasurav yaNafiliya~” (Nephilim’s Theme)

How I made it:

• Bongos
• Sample of myself humming “mmm… mmm…” filtered through a violin weight in RVC, then pitched down
• Sample of myself saying “oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh, ow-ow ow-ow ow-ow” filtered through an electric guitar weight in RVC with different settings and added effects

My inspirations:

• Hiroyuki Sawano - “Kiryu G@ Ki Ll” (militaristic “oh shit they’re here” vibe)
• Дом Моделей - “Домашняя зведза шамана Хоа-Хоа” (that band being a recurring motif in the fanime)
• The voice of the Nephilim (spoiler), in turn modeled on the voice of the Combine from Half-Life 2

Other notes:

• I wanted sort of an eerie, off-kilter vibe, not just to make the track more unnerving, but to sort of convey that there’s a deeper mystery to the Nephilim, their origins and goals and all
• At points, the electric guitar to me sounds evocative of a fetal heartbeat, a recurring motif in the fanime drawing from various sources of inspiration, such as Half-Life, Neon Genesis Evangelion, H.R. Giger, the EarthBound “Giygas is a fetus” fan theory, et cetera.

The title:

• A metathesis and respelling of the phrase “dilation and curettage”, turning the words into portmanteaus of “die-elation” and “cutter-rage”
  • I.e. the Nephilim would be overjoyed at protagonist Narazen’s death, as they are so enraged at xem as to try to “cut” xem.
  • The reference to medical abortion plays into the metaphor of episode 1’s title, which likens the meeting and synchronization of Narazen and Shield to the fusion of sperm and egg. This is part of the broader recurring motif of obgyn/reproductive/embryological symbolism.
• The unusual capitalization and at-signs allude to Hiroyuki Sawano’s music; the tildes allude to other anime soundtracks, e.g. 「遥かなる君の影～真っ赤な瞳の女の子～」 or 「On The Road～いつか君と来た店～」 from Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles.
• “yaŇasurav yaNafiliya” just means “the Theme Song of the Nephilim” in my conlang, since the fanime is canonically supposed to be “from” the fictional country it takes place in.

Track 2: “Ayǒv yaskǒ na ta:- šo nay va ayǒsindet́ǒy” (Underground’s Theme)

How I made it:

• Falling Shepard tone
• GSM interference sound sped up or slowed down with different pitches
• Sample of myself saying “yo yo yo yo” filtered through a violin weight in RVC, then reversed, slowed and pitched down

My inspirations:

• Jake Chudnow - “Yo”
• EarthBound OST - “The Place”
• EarthBound OST - “Giygas’ Intimidation”
  • I originally wanted to use the exact same sort of electronic sound as in this track, but when I wasn’t able to isolate that sound, I tried using a snippet of a dial-up Internet sound as a substitute. When I wasn’t satisfied with that, either, I decided to try using a GSM interference sound.

Other notes:

• I wanted to take the eerie, off-kilter vibe of the previous track and amplify it in this one. As part of that, I was immediately drawn to the idea of using a falling Shepard tone, the idea being that it’s an unnatural, anxiety-inducing sound for an unnatural, anxiety-inducing world.
• The Shepard tone also points to a world that seems to extend downward forever.

The title:

• The title translates as “You and I together somewhere we weren’t supposed to discover”
  • The “you and I” refers to Narazen and Shield; this is reflected in the grammatical gender of the pronouns.
  • The Underground is supposed to be a secret known only to the Nephilim, so for Narazen to discover it is kind of a big deal.
  • The title was loosely inspired by Half-Life 2 OST - “You’re Not Supposed to Be Here”

Track 3: “Deňa so Fénsővise!” (Next Episode Preview)

How I made it:

• 1968 Yamaha Electone B-2 (my fingers forcefully pushing down on the keys ends up doubling as percussion)
• CC0 shattering glass sample, reversed

My inspirations:

• PlayStation 1 startup sound (reversed shattering glass)
• Just generally my being fond of synthy music in a way that’s hard to pick out specific titles as inspiration

Other notes:

• This music is also used for the previous episode recaps.
• My failure to keep a rhythm adds to the amateur quality so desirable in fanime.

The title:

• The title translates as “Full of Fanservice!”, since each of the next episode previews says that the next episode will have “lots of fanservice”. This recurring gag is a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference; I first used this recurring gag in my 2025 Pony Night Preview videos.

You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.

The bear motif is apparently lifted from the city’s coat of arms from 1780 (back when it was called Ust-Sysolsk). A bear also appeared in the Soviet-era coat of arms^[1]. The bear is connected with Komi people’s arctolatry of Osh, the bear in Komi mythology. Osh appears in this flag symbolically guarding the traditions of the Komi people, represented by the spruce tree symbol from traditional Komi embroidery. The bear itself appears to be drawn in a style influenced by traditional arts and handicrafts, I found a cool-looking painting by a Komi artist depicting a bear in a similar style, but then I looked into it and found out that that painting was apparently connected to a lot of really rancid far-right crap, so… woof. I originally attached that painting to this post but I edited it out now.

I also found this Permyak amulet with a strikingly similar bear design, the Permyaks being closely related to the Komi people, both speaking respective versions of the Komi language.

Image from the Komi Permyak museum in Kudymkar, former capital of the now-abolished Komi Permyak Autonomous Okrug, now Perm Krai.

Going back to the Syktyvkar flag, there’s also a sun symbol from Komi embroidery above the bear. The sun symbol is called “Shondi” or “Shondiban”. Syktyvkar is a place where the sun can be visible for up to 19 hours at a time, so I guess that figures.

The blue, green, and white colors come from the flag of the Komi Republic itself, Syktyvkar being the republic’s capital, as said; and the colors are intended to evoke AURORA BOREALIS. Which TBH kinda feels like it’s overselling how northern the city is, like you don’t see cities at the same latitude in other countries making a big deal out of how they very occasionally see the northern lights… But hey, I guess seeing northern lights at all, if only infrequently, is a pretty special thing, right?

So yeah. Cool flag. Main.

You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.

As far as I’m aware, all maps on Navajo Wikipedia include the borders of the Navajo Nation filled in with pink. This includes maps of countries not just in Abya Yala but also in Afro-Eurasia (more zoomed out the further away from the Navajo Nation you get), and maps showing the locations of cities. Also as far as I’m aware, no other Indigenous-language edition of Wikipedia has this practice: they simply use the same maps as most other Wikipedia editions.

It sort of figures that of all the Indigenous-language Wikipedias, it would be Navajo Wikipedia that would show its country’s borders separately from those of Seppoland: the Navajo Nation has the greatest number of enrolled members of any federally-recognized Indigenous group in Canada and Seppoland; it has the most spoken Indigenous language in Canada and Seppoland; it has the largest Indigenous reservation in Seppoland by area; its reservation encompasses its traditional territory to a much greater extent than most Indigenous reservations in Canada and Seppoland; it has a single, largely contiguous polity and government to represent the entire nation, rather than multiple, fragmented reservations; and >99% of the inhabitants of that reservation are Indigenous, with the majority of the enrolled members living on-reservation. This points to a different state of Indigenous struggle and consciousness in the Navajo Nation compared to other Indigenous nations.

Put simply, it’s a lot easier for a Navajo mapmaker to say “here’s my country” than, say, an Ojibwe mapmaker. Ojibwewaki/Anishinaabewaki is a huge country, but do you represent it on a map as the hard borders of current reservations, as the hard borders of treaties signed by the Ojibwe, as the approximate extent with a blurry border, or as a mosaic of all of the above? How do you decide which Indigenous groups to count as Ojibwe subgroups versus as separate nations? The answers aren’t always easy.

Edit: Also, yes, wááshindoon, in reference to Washington, D.C., is Navajo for “government; administrative headquarters, capital; official”. Neat!

Edit 2: Main.

You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. CēterumFurthermore cēnseōI think iūs auctōriscopyright esse dēlendummust be destroyed.