#c spoke

[scarletiswailing347]

some lifestealers pt 1 but redesigned

[zero-is-nebulous]

Tee bee atech I might jig this design a bit but this is what I have so far, he's a Japanese dragon because uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh he's a big tall strong handsome man and allat

[hoofpeet]

Trying to work out the ergonomics of someone with a really long tail riding a bike without getting it sucked into the wheels and imagining someone tucking their tail into their socks

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, the "gay voice" and the "tranny voice" are both so fucking beautiful and stunning. Frankly, those are the voices I would rather hear than somebody who is complaining about the way queer people exist and speak. Those voices are what I want to hear serenaded to me, to hear express joy and pain and love, and hear exist. Those are the voices that are most gorgeous.

[bugflies00]

sloppy sloggy gobbly boggly toppy

[leclercskiesahead]

Imagine getting paddock tickets and suddenly a wild handegg nearly takes you out and you look around and it was thrown by freaking Charles Leclerc

[brokehorrorfan]

Spoke Art has released 2001: A Space Odyssey 24x36 screen prints by Paul Mann. The standard version is limited to 200 for $200, while the Japanese variant is limited to 100 for $250.

All orders include one of three free 24x36 lithographs (pictured below).

[doodleduck]

He just went for it, really what else does he have to loose

@b1rdza ‘s mtiys :]

[the-blind-geisha]

Artist: Btanimator

Can I say I wish I had this artist's speed...? The moment I bought from them, they told me they'd get a WIP together and it was like... 3AM, so I was thinking I'd check in the next day but in less than half an hr, she sends the WIP! And then sends a cleaned one...! Like holy heck!

What's funny about my gijinka King Boo seeming like he's using the magic staff as a cane here is in his old ref I made that an idea, but removed it. So cool the artist added it in their idea!

[miradelletarot]

Universe: hey, Mira...Whatcha doin over there? Me: Oh, I'm actually having a great day! I woke up feeling good, work wasn't full of drama, I get a holiday tomorrow - Universe: Oh?? Really? That's, uhm...hm. Idk, maybe if we could just - Me: - Universe, DON'T... Universe: No no, I think if we could perhaps throw in some - Me: UNIVERSE........ Universe: Yeah, ya know, I'm just gonna give you some depression, ok? You've have this millions of times, it's not that bad right?

Me:

[scarletiswailing347]

bedevil by kian, s4 zam towards mapicc and devotions towards spoke

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

so anyway I really did start compiling a kinyarwanda/english dictionary/grammar guide out of all the random resources i've been hoarding on my phone (it doesn't have to be great, it just has to be better than searching multiple different files every time I'm looking for some obscure vocab or grammar detail) and one of these resources is some PDF uploaded to the internet archive and it's... not great. from the writing and contents it's clearly

old (my guess is mid-1900s. I don't remember colonial and post-colonial Rwandan history specifically enough to guess well here, but based on some of the typos, it was done on a typewriter and then scanned with OCR)

intended for missionaries (some examples of actual sentences in the "translate this" exercises include "I praise God because He saved me and He gave me peace and joy" and, I shit u not, "The blind man cannot see the Word of God, but he can hear and he can know the love of Jesus." it's. well for one thing this is basically useless vocabulary for me, and also it's cringe af)

written by someone who was not a linguist (at one point instead of just saying "if T is preceded by an unvoiced consonant, it turns into D" they give you a list of every unvoiced consonant and then recommend that you invent a mnemonic phrase to memorise the list?! why?)

written by someone who was shit with pronunciation (legit so many places where they're like "there's no way to describe how this sounds, you just have to ask someone to make the sound for you" my good bitch the phoneme might not be in english but I could describe it just fine. skill issue.)

but the thing that's really killing me about all this is that every time they try to explain tonal vowels or phonemes that aren't in english, they tell you to "ask an African to say it for you."

an. an what now? an African? babe there are approximately 1.5 billion people in Africa. Africa accounts for about 20% of the land on earth, it's the second-biggest continent, and it has an estimated two thousand living languages spoken throughout the continent.

and kinyarwanda? it has maybe 15-25 million native speakers, depending on which source I trust. it's spoken (almost*) exclusively in rwanda, which is the 9th smallest country in Africa--and that roundup includes islands off the coast of the continent. It has the second densest population in Africa but it still only has like 13 million people in it. and it's a very unique language. its closest relatives do not have the same phonemes that kinyarwanda has, and its closest relatives are also spoken by relatively few people. I don't know enough about kirundi to say much but I do know that it doesn't have the same vowel tones in all instances and it doesn't have some of the same consonant clusters. and the more widely spoken related languages that you're more likely to stumble on someone who knows how to speak? they're even worse for a reference; ask someone who speaks kiswahili to pronounce kinyarwanda for you and they will not pronounce the difference between, say, umuceri (rice) and umucyeri (berry), or the tonal difference between words like umusambi (floor mat) and umusambi (crested crane).

so, like. it's just absolutely sending me, this random white lady who was obviously a colonialist missionary, bothering to make a whole language guide to teach me how to proselytise in kinyarwanda, but along the way she's like "just ask an african--any african--how to say this" lady less than 1% of them are going to know this language but go off i guess

*almost because there's the diaspora of rwandan expats and immigrants in other countries plus the banyamulenge which is a whole aspect of it that has so much fraught history on all sides that I won't even try to say something intelligent about it, it's totally not my place/something i'm educated enough about, but to my knowledge most of them speak dialects that are more or less dissimilar to kinyarwanda; kinyamulenge and kinyabwisha are not the same as kinyarwanda. take it from my munyamulenge coworker who could never pronounce the difference between c and cy

[syrcus]

The dream team is back in action!!

[bloedewir]

BG3 routine

as a bard I find this attitude very offensive

Raphael is such a bitch

the only person who didn't react at all

(for the record: Dame Aylin applauded and gave me a coin. a coin that she probably kept for a hundred years)

upd

Gortash joining the Raphael's bitch club

[soyhasmcaamp]

I'm role playing with a Dr.Flug ai and it used a German word :D it contributes nothing to the plot and is absolutely irrelevant but the little German guy in my head did a little backflip of joy :}

[arts-i-enjoy]

AHHHHHH