#I'm am absolutely wasting my time

[psychopowerriflehypnotized2]

making the most devious conlang concept ever -- A Puppygirl Lang

ok so I had this insane fucking idea I'm about to relay to all yall ok, so like I'm in this discord and for a bit one of the mods turned off topic into dog topic and we all started barking cuz like half of us active users are like trans puppygirls right? so just now I had this insane fucking idea to make strings of barking make actual grammatical sense and I've completed step 1 and 2 (figuring out how the hell to use barks as phonemes, and how the fuck to write it down) so heres the gist I'm taking almost every possible proto-word I can think of and assigning them a three letter "consonant" clusters made out of the particles I call "dogemes", these consist of mostly barking onomatopoeia from several languages and variants those are: Bark Arf (A) Woof (W) Wuff (WU) Ruff (R) Aff (AF) Gaff (G) Wruff (WR) Bow Wow (BW) and Bork (BO) those get arranged into consonant clusters for example: to walk - (BW-G-B) (BowWow Gaff Bark) these then get other dogemes and emotes added to them to further specify them

walkies = BW (:3 :3) G (arf!) B (:3) walker = BW (Grrr) G (:3) B (ruff!!) walking = BW (:3) G (Grrr) B (Grrr) walked = BW (:3) G (:3) B (Grrr) it's still very rudimentary at the moment and lacks grammar, but the fun part is I have started working on a simple pictographic writing system for it! I don't really know if it's more like an abugida or a abjad? but essentially the lower letters are the "consonant" clusters so pawprint is BW, puppy mouth is G and bone is B and then the upper letters are the "dogemes" :33 is :3 :3, collar is arf!, :3 is :3

that's basically all I've got so far but it'll be cool when it's done I think all in all, I really want BOW WOW :3 :3 GAFF ARF BARK :3!!!

[wonder-worker]

I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

[gideonisms]

I want to write I want to make girls be weird about each other in MY word docs I want to have creative projects and goals againn :/

[binah-beloved]

nobody talk to me tonight i had to go to hard pity for captain Ishmael and i'm livid

[superfluouskeys]

i am literally a hopeless case LOL

[penroseparticle]

Once I'm done grinding Pinkan Berries it's over for these hoes

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Mad at my professor again lmao

[dracolizardlars]

bc I've watched a couple videos about weird time signatures in videogame music recently. youtube recommended me a video titled something like "Songs in 5/4 Time" and the thing is THE THING IS. 2-D GORILLAZ IS ON THE THUMBNAIL (alongside I think Taylor Swift and some other fucking pop musicians idk). So IMMEDIATLY I'm like oh shit there's a gorillaz song in-

oh my god.

oh my FUCKING GOD.

See.. I took it as personal challenge, I stuck the video in my Watch Later and have spent the day trying to figure out for myself which Gorillaz song is in 5/4, been listening to all their singles / well known tracks cus I figured it would be one of those to get mentioned in a video like that that was clearly about pop music, and every. single. song. is so clearly and aggressively in perfect, pure 4/4 time

but the thing is

I thought "I'm familiar with Gorillaz' entire catalogue, I should be able to guess! :)"

BUT I'M NOT.

I don't like their DEBUT ALBUM very much so I haven't listened to it in YEARS

I FORGOT THERE'S A FUCKING TRACK CALLED 5/4

edit: I just noticed today's date is 5/4 in my country's format. this is completely coincidental. swear to god those numbers are haunting me

[confetti-critter]

The night is young and I am free to do whatever my heart desires but unfortunately I have once again found myself trapped in the Time Prison and so I

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

need to shell out for a new laptop before the end of the year - for a lot of reasons but mainly bc support ending for win8.1 makes fixing the current beast rather pointless :/ (and. admittedly. there is a lot to fix. she's old and she has suffered.)

but my current beastie is from the last gen of laptops with a disc drive and the thought of using an external/usb disc drive is enough to make me cry tears of blood

[constellationcrowned]

((I want everyone to keep something in mind in regards to this blog and this is going to sound like a general, common sense post (and in a way it is) but it's also hi I'm in your house, whispering into your ear, telling you to call ga//amestop and ask them if they have bat//tleto//ads---, blah blah, basically it's personal too:

With me, regardless of blog or content, both communication and engagement go hand in hand. Communication and engagement needs to go both ways.

I love posting and reblogging memes and calls and will continue to do so but you folks---old mutual or new mutual doesn't matter---need to take the initiative yourself sometimes too. Be enthusiastic. Be spontaneous. Be proactive. I don't want to ask people to write with me all of the damn time nor do I want to chase after people all of the time because if I have to do that constantly over and over again it starts feeling incredibly one sided even when it isn't (because ofc people have lives, specific interests, anxiety, and whatever else which are all things that I deal with myself and I understand how that can stop someone from doing something, but that's how it feels especially over an extended period of time) and I don't need to explain how disheartening and draining that can be.

My seeming to interact with only one person---and for both of my blogs it's @magioffire and we all know that---it's not because we're being stuck up, elitist or whatever inane and incorrect term people want to throw at our feet it's because we engage and communicate. The give and take between us (both from an ic and ooc standpoint) never feels imbalanced or even transactional (I really hate using that word but, again I gotta stress this, that's how this makes me feel) and I have never felt like I needed to chase them down for an interaction or had to fight for a scrap of their time---which feels like a feat bc Blair has a lot of people scrambling at their door---and I cannot tell you how huge that is. That sounds like a huge sweeping thing to say, I know, but I mean it in all of the little ways too. I could post some stupid bullshit on here; not a starter or a meme just a little random muse thought or observation, and 100% of the time here comes Blair telling me what they think or adding on to it or just...whatever. They're here for both me and my muses for the big and small things, whenever I've asked and, more often than not, when I haven't (or couldn't) and that's incredibly important. It's that kind of stuff that makes what we have special and that's putting it super lightly. And yes, our relationship both as friends and as writers has developed over a long time, and we did click immediately that's true, but there's never been any doubt to cast upon the work and effort both of us have put forth.

And this post isn't to say that I'm demanding constant or immediate attention from you all---because, again, we all have lives, health issues, etc, etc, and all of that takes precedence over a hobby as I've said before and will say again and again---but....put some effort into it when you have the capability. Yes, like the calls that I post or send a meme in, absolutely, but also message me on your own and ask a question or shoot a muse a random prompt or just @ me in a post. Show me some enthusiasm and engagement on your end because right now it feels like I'm doing all the work all of the time and that's tiring. I'm tired of handing stuff to people all of the time---I'll keep doing it, obviously, because I need and want to engage on my end and love throwing stuff at people and providing opportunities---all I'm asking for is understanding and reciprocation.

If you can't reciprocate for whatever reason? Tell me.

If you're unsure about something, no matter what that something is? Tell me.

If you need help or even a specific kind of accommodation in order for us to start interacting or continue interacting? Tell me.

Don't just assume that I don't want to write with you or that you can't ask me for things. Don't assume that I'm being a snob or whatever else just because I seem to be paying attention to a certain mun full time because do you know what that actually is? That's friendship. That's effort. That's me giving back what I've been given. That's me reciprocating the enthusiasm, love and creativity that I've been handed, nothing more. There's nothing unobtainable or gatekeep-y about that either, you just need to be earnest and forthcoming with me and I can assure you that I'll return the favor in kind.))

[mildmayfoxe]

so at my job we have wholesale & in-store hand-bound journals & spiral-bound notebooks & sketchbooks, right, and we make those. more specifically, i, PERSONALLY, MYSELF, ONLY ME, make all the hand-bound journals. and i am not paid enough to make them but i shant get into that on this post. suffice to say i make them all myself. ME. and they're available for wholesale purchasing. and i was not consulted before that decision was made. but i shant be getting into that on this post either. but let it be known that last week my boss asked me to go through some 6x8 paper she'd cut & was going to punch for spiral notebooks. asked me two days in a row if i'd taken paper yet. so i finally did; i went through the paper she'd cut and i put my selection aside with other 6x8 paper that i MYSELF had cut, in a place where i had clearly been putting paper for MY use, for the hand-bound journals, many times in the past. imagine my surprise when, today, i went to go retrieve MY PAPER, the paper that i had put aside after being ASKED to do so, and the paper that i personally had cut for this express purpose, that i was going to bring home tonight to start assembling journals, because my boss wants 6 6x8 journals by next week, and i take them home and work on them in my own time on top of my regular work hours, and wow! what's this?? all the 6x8 paper that had been put aside??? it's GONE???? say it's not so!!! because apparently MY BOSS, LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER MAKING SURE I HAD EXTRA PAPER, FOUND SOME PAPER IN A PLACE WHERE I PUT PAPER, AND WAS LIKE "WOW! WHATS THIS! UNPUNCHED PAPER! BETTER PUNCH IT!! I HAVEN'T ASKED ANYONE RECENTLY TO PUT PAPER ASIDE FOR ANY REASON THAT I CAN RECALL!! THERE'S NO REASON THAT ALL THIS PAPER WOULD HAVE BEEN PUT IN THIS LOCATION, UNPUNCHED, THAT I CAN THINK OF!!! NOTHING IS COMING TO MIND!!"

[die-tenebris]

Confronted by the fact that though the way allosexuals navigate the world infuriates and affects me personally, I should not, in fact, extend my frustrations to the wider population of them just because I have been slighted ;p

But also I should get the special treat of being able to curse them bc I think they're annoying + how they conceptualize human interaction wastes my time and demands way more of me than I'm comfortable with. Then, because they're the majority, I'm the weirdo who needs to bend to their ridiculous uncomfortable ways that ruin my life. Like, no, confound you forever and leave me tf alone.

[darkdragon768]

Once again proofed that I suck at group work, especially when I'm in a group with people who take it very seriously, give it their all and actually understand what they are doing and what's wanted. I always try to escape responsibilities and research by saying I'll create the handout but this time this really backfired, together with my procrastinating and sending stuff in too late.

I want this day to be over.

[aroyalpaininthecass]

Yeah I am really going to ask my doctor effectively about tranquilizers tomorrow, simply because I do not trust myself not to scream while having to spend time with my asshole of a boss for a few times a week from now on

I can't get out of here fast enough

[kyurilin]

"plan ahead for a healthy and happy holiday" YES THANK YOU CVS I TRIED TO PLAN AHEAD BUT YOU DROPPED THE BALL ON REFILLING MY ADHD MEDS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 2023 and frankly if they fuck me over again on today the 29th when they've told me since the 18th that it will be ready i will be punching a pharmacist for flat out lying :)