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Pipe duking in a nutshell:

Hey look I did a funny

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just reached act 5 of isat and i haven't even gotten out of dormont but whenever siffrin does anything im looking at my computer like this

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If your psychic powers get too strong extradimensional kobolds will start showing up to yip at you once before disappearing again.

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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2024 Sketch Page Commissions~!! • My Kofi☕️

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so strange to me that some people aren't bisexual

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i think dragons deserve fur. just. big and fluffy!!

only if they want to though, scales are cool

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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a year of writing!!

wowzas. this, the 7th of january, marks the one-year anniversary of when i decided to write a short (~3,000 words) oneshot (it was an nsfw oneshot too. how did i get here?), and then spent the next year turning it into...a small story. nothing much, just-

oh.

(thanks to my friend for doing the word count, because counting that number myself scares me. that's so many words. holy cow. how did i do that?)

i think the first thing i should give is my attempt at a summary, but i am terrible at summaries. ill still try.

Sent on what is supposed to be a simple reconnaissance mission, Syla and Toast accidentally stumble into a situation that they don't have a single ounce of control over: a meeting with an exiled prince, on the run from his kingdom for killing a god, and a growing attachment to a child, who appears from nowhere and can't remember their past. The two of them struggle to survive as their control over their lives spirals out of control, and learn that their only option is to walk the path that others have decided for them-- or die attempting to escape.

(not a huge fan of that summary, but summaries are so so difficult and i think i did my best. the last line is pretty good, i like that.)

so. i've been writing a little bit. And its been a bit more than the last time I tried to write a story, where I got probably about ~20,000 words in two years or so.

i haven't talked about syla and toast online because I’m FAR too lazy to talk about my projects, but I figured it would make sense, because ive been working on this mess for an entire year now (AHHH, this is the most that i've ever written of anything, and it shocks me to my core when i realize i haven't stopped yet).

so now im going to talk about it!! because its the anniversary!! so im just gonna say whatever comes to mind!

Syla and toast (the name is literally just the names of the two Main Gay People, because when I wrote the oneshot I wasn't planning on giving it any specific title, and now the name has stuck) is what happens when you take every single one of my interests and mash them together.

Dragons? Yeah!

Queer people? Awwh yeah!

Furries? Cute kobolds? Strange mysterious children and slightly threatening silly guys? Hell yeah!

Characters who get flustered far too much because I like writing that? (seriously, this happens a lot.) An overly complicated magic system that is both far too powerful and very weak, and is simultaneously explained too much and not at all? Also yeah!!

One of the characters is named Toast!! I swear this is cool and not insanely silly, which is what it probably looks like, but I've gotten to the point that when I hear "Toast" I think about Toast -> dragon, and not Toast -> real toast. It happens. Please help. I swear there's actually some cool meaning and worldbuilding behind that name.

It constantly flops between fluff and angst! Everybody's being silly and then the next chapter they're getting traumatized! Everybody deserves therapy but nobody's getting it, instead they're kissing dragons (okay, clarification, only one person's kissing only one dragon, and the two of them are just cool like that) (behold: me, a person with a complicated relationship to both romance and sex attempts to write a novel that includes both romance and sex. it goes...interestingly!)

Not only does it just flop between fluff and angst, but it only constantly flops between plot and large sections of me just writing whatever I want with absolutely zero plot relevance! 5000 word bathhouse scene? Hell yeah, later in that chapter somebody gets stabbed! The pacing is super messed up, but i like my characters being cute with each other, and so that's what i write about.

also including my attempts at conlanging! there are like THREE languages (so far) in here that aren't English (some of the characters do canonically speak English, even though they are Not on Earth-- i swear there's a reason), but I only actually write down one of those, because I can only handle trying to create one language. plus, it's the language for the kobolds, and i like the kobolds, so they get my full dedication. the language, Sekesa, is pretty limited, but im proud of what ive done so far. i might talk about it a little bit, sometime, who knows!

rather than going for the traditional fantasy creatures of humans, elves, dwarves and whatnot, i went for all the creatures that interest me and me alone, because i WANTED to. and its fun. there are four fully-sapient species on this planet: humans (normal humans. yknow how it is), dragons (scaled, furred, both western and eastern style depending on where they are in the world), kobolds (they're small, fluffy, awesome, cute (i love my kobold characters, you can't take them away from me, we need more kobolds)) and The Fungus (we don't talk about The Fungus). The Saints are also there, but they're...different (sometimes, the gods that you write about are either furries or incomprehensible nightmares. these guys are both.)

despite the fact that it's absolutely bonkers, terribly written in some parts, with strange pacing and...everything else that comes with being a rough draft and my first serious writing project...ever, im really proud of it! it'll probably be a long time before i actually ever share it (there's so much that i want to change and fix before i release it to The General Population), but ill probably ramble about it on here a BUNCH (i hope so). i think it'll be fun. i've grown so much in writing over this past year, and im super proud of my growth and also what ive managed to accomplish!

anyways. happy syla&toast-versary, to me and mainly me! if you read this far and happen to want to ever talk about writing in general or want to ask questions about my strange story, or want to possibly maybe give it a read, my asks are open and so are my dms!

thank you for your time. o lape pona <3

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Magilinguistics and magiconlinguistics are so underrated. The idea that the specific language and syntax used to cast a spell can alter the efficiency and flow of a spell is amazing; it’s honestly infuriating how many people, including many mages, think Latin is the only valid conjuring language even though glossolalia is a WELL-DOCUMENTED PHENOMENON. I use many other languages in various spells and it’s really fun. Would recommend.

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YOU CAN DO THAT? YOU CAN TRANSLATE LATIN SPELLS INTO A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND THEY’LL WORK!?! EVEN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE?!

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Yeah, welcome to the club! Using your native language isn’t recommended for summoning forces from other realms, though. The portals tend to collapse if you do that.

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Wait wait wait, I just consulted my familiar about this, is magiconlinguistics modifying or inventing an entire language to optimize your magic? Because that sounds like something both extremely commendable and also batshit insane.

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Yeah, that’s basically exactly what it is. We’re surprisingly pretty chill. I mean, except for that one time where someone hyper-optimized Taikureiden Suomen Kieli V5 to create the first, and most dangerous, known instance of the Everything-Damage Fireball spell, but we usually don’t talk about that.

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Ah, Taikureiden Suomen Kieli, the most absolutely broken magilang to ever exist. Go Finland, give us more fucked-up spells!

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wait, the Everything-Damage Fireball is REAL? I thought you guys were joking.

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We WERE joking. ONCE.

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on one hand, this is really cool and all, but on the other hand, i'm scared of what this can do. However, on the secret third hand, i kinda wanna modify a language to make demonic creatures physically sick upon hearing it, cause i wanna do a little trolling.

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Grand Mage Amara Lightningchain coming up with the idea for the Volapük Silananazunik experiments be like:

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hold on let me look something up

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wh. what the fuck

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is everything going to be okay?

Of course, always

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Shinx needs oran berries.. :)

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Every problem can be solved by applying enough kobolds.

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font reviews based on how good :3 looks

Arial: Classic font, looks good for the most part, but a little bit bland also. 6/10

Berlin Sans FB: There's already a lot more character, but the mouth is simply too long and the lips don't curl enough which takes away from the experience. 4/10

Comic Sans MS: Now THAT'S a colon-three. There's so much silliness in that face it's hard to bear. My only real critique is that the eyes are just a smidge too narrow, but that's just a nitpick more than anything. 8/10

Courier New: Sleek. Professional. Big vertical eyes full of glee. Very solid choice for a colon-three font. 7/10

Jokerman: I feel bad for including this one. That font stood no chance against the others. This is the eldritch horror of colon-threes. These eyes are filled with nothing except murderous intent. The mouth is crooked with a sharp corner, but the most egregious part is probably the teeth-like protrustions from the bottom part of the mouth. 0/10

Goudy Stout: An interesting take on colon-three. I like the idea of having an incredibly thick mouth (even if it's a bit too thick for my liking), and the eyes being big and centered is a big positive. Much sillier than most fonts, but I think struggles to beat Comic Sans in terms of silliness. 6/10

Consolas: Worse version of Courier New. The lips just don't curl enough and it just ends up looking a little pathetic. 4/10

Fixedsys: Oh my god. Holy shit. What the fuck. 10/10

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'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do