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updatecrazy · 2 years ago

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The Long Dark update 2.17 is available on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. According to the Long Dark version 2.17 patch notes, the latest update adds Expansion Pass update TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY and Part Three: FRONTIER COMFORTS. Apart from this, The Long Dark patch 2.17 also includes various bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Previously, a big Long Dark update 1.99 added addresses a potential blocker in Episode Four. Unfortunately, some players are facing bugs and errors since the last patch. Today's The Long Dark patch 2.17 will fix a few of these issues. Check out more details below. The Long Dark Patch 2.17 Notes - June 22, 2023 GENERAL & CRASHES: Fixed an issue where players received errors reading "failed to load HinterlandOptionalContent.Steam" on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Fixed an issue where sleeping in a Helicopter without a Bedroll would result in a crash. Fixed an issue where audio would not play the first time Harvesting something (Rosehips, etc) after entering a scene. Fixed an issue that would cause the game to crash for some players when applying a bandage. Fixed an issue that would cause the Mountain Town Transmitter to report the incorrect GUID information, which could result in a crash. Fixed a potential crash in the Main Menu if a player entered into gameplay while the News menu was still waiting for a response from the server. Fixed an erroneous error message that could appear in the player’s log file, eventually leading to performance issues. Fixed a very rare crash that could occur if the player invoked a menu, such as the Inventory or death screen, while also pressing a button for another input, such as walking or interacting with something. GAMEPLAY: Fixed an issue where a Carcass could become non-interactable if left in the world for an extended period of time. The Bow will now switch to Fire-Hardened Arrows automatically if they are the only arrows left in the player's Inventory. Fixed an issue that caused the Energy Drink to give the incorrect duration for the associated Headache affliction. Fixed an issue where Bedrolls slept or rested in could be destroyed in a struggle, even when not in a player's inventory. Fixed an issue that prevented Bedrolls from showing their damage state when placed on the ground. Fixed an issue where renewable items (Sticks, Stones, Coal, etc.) were sometimes more plentiful than intended. Fixed an issue that could cause corrupted save data if the player quickly equipped the Shortwave Radio, put it away, then quickly exited the game. Fixed an issue that would cause fully cooked or partially cooked food items to revert to a raw state if dragged off the cooking surface and dropped onto a new one. Interloper - Spelunker's Lantern variant is now available in Interloper. USER INTERFACE: Map - Fixed an issue that caused Rock Cache Map markers to appear in the wrong location or not on the Map at all. Fixed an issue that caused the Headache Affliction meter to show a maximum of 1 hour, regardless of the actual Affliction length. Campcraft Radial Menu - Added the Fishing Hole to the Camp Radial Menu slot and temporarily removed the Bearskin Bedroll. Journal - Added the Challenge Objective tab that was missing from the Journal while playing a Challenge. ENVIRONMENT ART: Fixed various issues with specific locations and objects in the game world. AUDIO: Adjusted audio for the Lit Flare and Marine Flare so it emits properly from the Flare's location. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES: Xbox/PS4 - Fixed an issue that would cause the game to crash on Xbox One and PlayStation, when performing an action. PS4 - Fixed a potential crash that could occur if the player was sleeping during an active Aurora. PS4 - Fixed a crash that could occur while exiting back to the Main Menu. PS4 - Fixed a crash that could occur while scrolling through the Inventory. PS4 - Fixed an issue with the timing of the subtitles, if played on a PS5 or a framerate other than 30 FPS.

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hollowfaith · 20 days ago

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「✧」 It's not a sin to be born.

Of course it wasn't. Klaus had been birthed and labeled the same way. That's why he'd gotten rid of anyone who treated him as a scourge, Fiyero's existence included. Was he supposed to invite the imposter to tea and ask them nicely to step down? If a changing opinion was all it took to erase sin, then why didn't he talk to all the demons next time, too? Killing them was more effective, especially when they were privy to things they shouldn't know. Unfortunately, there wasn't a way to mute Fiyero into the next life.

Looking at the impressive display of Seofon's weapons now, the angel folds his arms, eyes narrowing as he stands his ground.

"You are incorrect."

"As God's messenger, I do indeed have my duty as His judge and executioner. You are the one with no right to judge me."

Around them the floating islands sit nestled in a clean blue sky. Before him stands the interloper's definition of peace, resting on the tips of seven angry blades.

"I bow to no one but my own God. Yours is a crueler one than mine, to let seven do the work of one." Was he planning to attack him with them all at the same time? How excessive.

"If it's about killing, I suspect you'd be the bigger monster."

Gods, It's going to feel great punching this guy in the face, comes his thought. His own- not Anosiete's, because Anosiete didn't care about most things- Anosiete saw the world as a whole as something beyond saving- to save it would be to destroy it, to make it anew. He had done that before. Anosiete held the means of creation in his body- which meant Seofon could contain the same power. But he didn't want to end the world to save it- he wanted to make sure power was in the right people's hands- and this guy was not on that list. So he follows Aurelius toward the Sky-Strewn Isles, a place that reminds him of home. In a familiar place, he really had some sort of upper hand- or at the very least wouldn't be at a huge disadvantage if he'd somehow misjudged this man's power.

Something told him that for as powerful as Aurelius could be, the Boundary would destroy him at least seven times over. If he had chosen the Seven-Star Sword for the battle, then maybe... Maybe he still could. Because the anger kept brewing, and Seofon felt the urge to kill this man once for every goddamn blade in his arsenal. 3000 deaths would be something impossible to forget. For either of them.

❝ No, I think I get it- I don't have to be from your world to know why that's wrong. You ripped out her heart? You gave her a new one, just to take it away? Do you actually listen to the words coming out of your mouth? ❞

❝ You don't get to determine what's a sin and what isn't, that's up for the gods to decide- it's not a sin to be born as something, or to be turned into something against your own will. ❞ The Gateway-Star Sword bursts with light, a crushing pressure radiates around Seofon's body- ❝ Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Megrez, Alioth, Mizar, Alkaid! From the sea of stars, call forth the deities of the blade… Arise, Seven-Star Gods! ❞ The seven sword gods loom behind Seofon, ready to strike on his orders. ❝ Here's the thing, Aurelius. Get off your high horse and I'll dismiss the Sword Gods and this won't have to get messy. Otherwise, I don't really see this ending without a fight. ❞

You offered the same thing to Ceodric. He didn't take you up on that offer. If Sabrina hadn't killed him, what would you have done? Leave it to Anosiete to bring up that whole incident- not that Seofon didn't remember it vividly- Yeah, Aurelius didn't seem the type to stand down, but maybe ... Probably not. At least they had reached a secluded area, right?

#swordsovereign #swordsovereign 𓆩⟡𓆪 01 #religion tw #murder tw #aury vc: no.

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sixstepsaway · 3 years ago

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Why do people keep calling Izzy a manipulator? He's not cunningly manipulating Ed; he just tells Ed what he thinks and feels bluntly, sometimes to the point of yelling.

Sending Calico Jack was pretty cunning, but otherwise? Tbh I wonder if it is kind of an attempt to absolve Ed of certain responsibilities? Like, apparently Izzy didn't tell Ed he should have let the English kill him because he was angry and disgusted and disappointed in Ed's behavior. All his words were cunningly and carefully chosen to get Ed to do what he wanted, ie go full Kraken. Grumblegrumblecomplaingrummble. (Also, congrats on the ADHD meds working out!)

This might get a little fandom discoursey so bear with me but if y'all haven't worked out I'm a little fandom discoursey by now idk where you've been.

There's come a trend in fandom over the past decade or so where one ship is declared the "good" ship. It's the pure, good, soft ship, where the characters who make up that ship are good and pure and soft uwu babies who never have done anything wrong in their lives. And on the flip side there is a "bad" other character who is often shipped with one (or both) of those soft babie uwu characters and that Bad character is villainized and made out to be The Worst. It usually starts with a character being accused of being a meanie/rude/a dick, then it amps up into abusive, then from there when fandom doesn't disavow the ship, it becomes an incestuous or pedophilic ship.

But the core of it remains the same: the two in the ship are pure and good, the one on the outside is bad and evil, so why would you ship those characters when the uwu pure babies are right there?????

(I have a theory that a good chunk of this particular rhetoric comes from a combination of radfem and toxic leftist fields where one mistake once in your life (in radfem circles this can mean anything from being male (or seen as male) to having liked/supported a man once) means you are unforgivably and unendingly tainted, you can never recover nor improve from that mistake. I personally think this treatment of people is terrible, no matter how bad their sin might be (from "liked a bad character" up to "committed a real life crime") because if you declare someone a write off, they have no reason to ever try to be better, and that continues the perpetual cycle of pain and suffering endlessly. If you tell someone who hurts other people they can never change, even if they want to, and they thusly do not try, people continue getting hurt.

But; it trickled down into the fandom = activism circles, where what you ship shows what you believe in real life. You think that gay ship is not great? Homophobic. You prefer a ship with two white people over a ship that includes a black person because the former has Spice and the latter is more bland and healthy? Racist. Etc etc. Your fictional preferences show who you are in real life, according to these ideals.)

To come back around to Ed and Izzy though: Blackbonnet is the Designated Soft Uwu Ship, which makes Izzy the abusive interloper. The way some people talk about Ed and Stede, you'd think they were watching a totally different show lmao

I saw a conversation on Twitter that was like, "Let's not start romanticizing the real Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard! They were bad people, they were murderers and rapists and slave owners. They're completely different from these characters!" And while, yes, I can see that point (although I would argue that Blackbeard has been endlessly romanticized for decades, much like we all romanticize being a pirate in general. I honestly forgot he was a real person until recently), and do appreciate that our Stede and Ed are not rapists* and are not slave owners or traders, I feel like the argument of, "The real Stede and Ed were bad," has the underlying, incorrect, argument that our Stede and Ed are, in fact, not bad.

The thing is, Stede and Ed are not bad, no, but they're not good either, and honestly they are down the darker end of the morally grey spectrum (further, I would argue, than Izzy Hands himself). Stede sets fire to the party boat and is smug about it, Ed's list of crimes is very long and not just in an official Crimes Against The Crown capacity but in a real way: he's maiming people as recently as Stede says in episode six that he has seen Edward maim people.

But Stede and Ed are framed as protagonists. They're morally grey, deeply impure protagonists, but they are our protagonists. We root for them. When Stede and Ed sail away and leave a boat full of rich people to burn to death in the middle of the ocean, we root for them. When Stede runs away to become a (pillaging, looting, murdering, maiming) pirate, we root for him and even hope to see him achieve those things in the future.

The show aired and then fandom does what fandom (unfortunately) does best: while one half of it dissected all the canon and tried to interpret and make sense of the characters from what they say and what actions they take or don't take on screen, the other half distilled everything down to: Izzy Bad, Stede and Ed Good.

(In fact, I received these tags on one of my metas earlier and it's very true: #OP YOU GET IT#ofmd#it is always so confusing to see posts where its like omg other ppl actually watched this show and had like#thoughts based off of canonical moments that uses the characters actions and dialogue as a means of analysis#instead of just vibing off of 'i dont like this chara so everything he does is bad')

But the thing is, Stede and Ed do some shitty things, and to specifically talk of Ed in relation to this ask, Ed does some horrible shit in the finale. He's stated to have done a lot of bad things before the show starts, and then he shows those bad things in the finale: he leaves six people to die on a tiny spit of an island (and surely tells Izzy how to trap them there via fake talent show, though this is conjecture), yeets Lucius off into the ocean to die (so that's seven), and cuts off Izzy's toe in a brutal and horribly framed moment that would make him downright irredeemable in many shows and to most of the "pure uwu ships for me only" people out there, and now, in fandom, to a lot of people, you can only like ships or characters that align with your morality.

(I saw an anon earlier (I don't recall where, apologies) say they hate Izzy because they can only relate to characters whose actions they morally agree with, and honestly that made me do a double take because uh, anon that sent that particular message, are you going to be cutting off toes and burning people alive, bud? Can you let me know so I can keep out of your way, champ?)

So, what's a "my shipping preferences are pure uwu and healthy" person to do?

Blame it on the Bad Guy.

Which brings us, yet again, back to this ask: Izzy is manipulative because Izzy has always been in Ed's life, and thusly all of the bad things Ed has ever done can be written off as Izzy's influence.

The black and white thinking means that anyone who shouts or makes another character scared or flinch is Bad, and Izzy shouts and is rude a lot. There's no nuance, there is no value beneath the surface. When Izzy yells he's being abusive. When Izzy yells at Edward he's being racist. When Izzy gets angry and lashes out, he's being, again, abusive.

When Izzy goes, "Ohhh, daddy," he's mocking gay men, not getting lost in his own attempt to be annoyed by their softness with each other and accidentally revealing too much of himself.

(And, honestly, the more I muse on that scene and all of the scenes around it, the less I read Izzy as, in any way, homophobic. He was pissed they were fucking around. He was maybe jealous they were canoodling and he couldn't with the one he loves. He was angry that Lucius would cheat on Pete. All of those interactions were born more out of resentment and frustration than actual homophobia, and I stand by that. Not to mention that considering how Edward treats the guy who called him a donkey, and how he reacts to just about anyone who treats him or those around him with prejudice, and the fact Izzy knew Calico Jack well enough to send him after Edward, I find it very hard to believe that Edward would keep Izzy around if Izzy was homophobic or, for that matter, racist. People have commented that Jack calling Ed "Blackie" might be a racist nickname, but I wonder if, much like some people have called out shortening Oluwande to Olu as uncomfortable in the language the name comes from (something about Olu meaning God and it being not great to call Oluwande "God"? Something about it being disrespectful?), it was just one of those things that slipped through. Shortening Blackbeard to Blackie as a way of saying, "I'm still special. You get to call him Ed, but I get to nickname Blackbeard down to Blackie and he doesn't kill me, I'm important too," makes a lot of sense to me.)

By making everything Ed does Izzy's fault, they're absolving Ed of the responsibility he holds for every horrible thing he's done in his life. Ed is responsible for the murder of his father (whether that father deserved it or not). Ed is responsible for the people he's killed since then, whether "technically the [x] killed them" or not. Ed is fully responsible for marooning seven people on an island to die (and they would be dead if Stede didn't find them, is the thing!! They would be dead!!) and killing Lucius, whether he managed to kill those seven people or not.

Here are a few of the things nasty anons have said about Izzy:

He's not going to be around being a toxic abusive piece of shit forever. Quit trying to normalize & downplay the horrible way he treats other characters.

This one misses the point and makes me laugh because it downplays everything Ed does by implying Izzy is the only toxic and/or abusive person there (Ed! Cut! Off! His! Toe!)

He is unnecessarily violent in speech and behavior, particulary towards BIPOC. He is manipulative, he's a liar, and he has tried to kill or threatened to kill multiple people on the crew.

The first part is patently untrue, actually. He's loud and rude and angry but I don't find much of his speech to be violent? Just coarse. He's definitely not 'particularly towards BIPOC', it's just that his scenes are often framed with BIPOC around him because of how few white people are in the show (which is a definite good thing, but it means every time Izzy yells at someone he is, by virtue of the show being so diverse, yelling at someone who is a minority either in sexuality, disability, or color, unless he yells at Stede or Lucius, which uh. he does. a lot. he's shown yelling at and being rough with Lucius and Pete more than anyone else).

As for manipulative and a liar, potentially he lied about telling Stede who his boss was, but even if that's so, it just says a lot about how Izzy is The Bad Guy whereas Ed is Pure UwU. Ed is also manipulative, that's shown a lot when he's masking (see: party boat when he's saying whatever) and when he comes up with the plot to kill Stede to keep Izzy on board. Ed also lies a lot. Like, a lot a lot. I've talked about this before. Most of what Ed says is a lie lmao. You have to read between most of Ed's lies to find even a sliver of truth.

And then there's the pièces de résistance of this particular comment: He has tried to kill or threatened to kill multiple people on the crew.

lmaaaaaaaaaao. Ed stranded six people who trusted him on an island, had Jim knocked out and, technically, kidnapped, and yeeted Lucius into the ocean!!! And maimed Izzy!!!!!

Just because YOU have decided to bend over backwards to justify Izzy's abusive behavior doesn't mean he's not abusive. He is. And you are not only actively ignoring and denying that abuse (and BLAMING IT ON HIS VICTIMS) but you're justifying it! [...] He's possessive, controlling, manipulative, a gaslighter.

I like this one too because the more I muse on it the more I realize a lot of this is more reflective of Ed? I don't think Ed is abusive, don't get me wrong (there is FAR MORE to abuse than just 'this guy is mean' or 'they yell'), but the second Izzy stepped out of line, Ed maimed him. Izzy hurt him trying to protect him, Ed hit him. Ed let Izzy get cast off the boat after the dual.

When Izzy tried to leave of his own volition, Ed stopped him.

So, to boil this all down after I rambled for this long: Izzy is The Villain and a Bad Person because he is easy to hate. He's short, old, angry and mean. He isn't cute about anything (okay, I can't say this one with a straight face. The wave at the start of 1x09 is adorable). As long as Izzy is a puppeteer, Ed can be a soft uwu baby and he can be safe to love and stan and whatever else.

Ed gets his guts ripped out, replaced by a fluffy interior because without Izzy he's perfect, you see. Ed is a perfect soft baby who has never done anything wrong in his life, and thusly it's safe to love him. You're not a bad person for loving him! He's never actually done anything, he would never actually hurt someone he loves (and, yes, he canonically loves Izzy in some way, there's a long-standing depth of relationship and affection there that is very obvious in the way they are together and from the way (up until 1x10 when Ed is already broken and far too easy to snap) Ed puts up with Izzy's tizzies. I somehow doubt Ed would put up with someone else calling him a twat and flipping him off and just go, "I need you here," rather than telling them to fuck off) so he'd never hurt Stede and there's nothing dark in him or their potential relationship, so it's fine.

And Stede hasn't ever actually done anything wrong either! Sure, he's made some bad choices, but he was in shock so he's absolved of running off on Ed (I do agree he was in shock and I am in no way picking on the person who meta'd that Stede was in medical shock at the end of 1x09 - I fully agree! - but I've seen some other people act like that absolves him of the harm he did to Ed, and it really does not) and he didn't personally kill either Badminton, they both killed themselves, even Nigel who was unconscious when he fell on his sword due to Stede hitting him. That was all Nigel's fault.

And those on the party boat set the boat on fire themselves and Stede had no part in it. He didn't make them fight! That was all them, because they are Bad People, so they would, of course, do those things.

Bob's your uncle, Sally's your aunt: Stede and Ed are now a soft uwu ship who you can love without worrying about what it says about your moral fiber as a human being. They're both good people! They've never done anything.

It was all Izzy's fault all along.

Also, I want to make another point which I thought of while I was writing this: I don't think Izzy expected Ed to go full Kraken. I was thinking about how he flipped out at him in 1x03, after the clothing swap. He tells him he's an insane shell of a man and he's pissed off and he's leaving and he calls him a twat and storms off.

To which Ed responds with a sort of squinty-big-eye thing idk how Taika pulls that one off but he did, and lets Izzy fuck off and do his thing, because Izzy is just being Izzy and doesn't mean any of it, really, and then after that, Ed is like, "You're being silly. Blackbeard has had a plan all along re: Stede, here it is," and Izzy is like ":o Oh okay! That's nice. Okay, yes, good."

So when 1x10 comes around, and Ed is, once again, dressed in Stede's clothes and being him, Izzy once again lashes out and basically tells him, in his own way, to pull his shit together, because this isn't the person Izzy serves.

The big issue here is that Ed is no longer the person he was even an episode before. Ed is a broken shell of a man who is just trying to pull his pieces back together.

Izzy doesn't realize this. Izzy doesn't have any way to know how Ed feels about Stede. Unless Ed bawled into Izzy's lap in the pillow fort (which is a hilarious image I hope someone will draw now) about how they were going to run away to China (ouch for Izzy if so) and how romantic their kiss on the beach was, Izzy doesn't know any of that. All Izzy knows is Ed had a bad time and now he's sad and he's mopey over the fact his boyfriend left him and it really sucks and this isn't him (remember: David Jenkins says Ed has never been in love until Stede, so Izzy has never seen this happen to Ed before).

This isn't Edward or Blackbeard, and it isn't even Ed! And so Izzy lashes out expecting to jolt Edward back to some kind of reality, some kind of common ground they share where they can get stuff done and Izzy can serve someone he respects and have a captain that can, y'know, captain, instead of moping and putting on talent shows, like he did last time!

Instead, he accidentally shatters what's left of Ed's psyche because he jabs in just the wrong place (not knowing where the real weak spots are) and unleashes a monster not even Izzy has seen before.

And that's actually really scary.

Thanks for the ask nonnie, I love musing on this shit lmao. Also, thanks for the comment about the meds. I'm so happy I might cry tbh.

(*the asterisks exists because we here on my Izzy Hands Enjoyer[tm] Blog Hot Spot have already discussed the framing of the toe scene and although Ed is not a rapist, the toe scene is beyond mildly questionable because of the framing, so our boy gets a lil asterisks)

#izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands meta #fandom discourse #edward teach #ask #anonymous #edward teach meta

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shadow-coolness · 11 months ago

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Chara: Uh So wanna hang out?

Buddy: Hang out?! Are you nuts, Have you gone completely mental?! You wanna hang with me, the 2 of us, together?!

Chara: Uhh Maybe.

Buddy suddenly very calm: Ok sure.

#incorrect quotations #incorrect quotes #incorrect interlopers #interlopers #incorrect undertale quotes #undertale #incorrect lisa #lisa #source: The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour

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bogleech · 4 years ago

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Aw, it turns out we were all wrong about vulture bees. All my life I read that they process carrion into a “meat slurry” they they use like honey, and that’s still what many articles (and wikipedia) claim, but that seems to be a communication error from the first published articles about them in the 80′s.

https://stri-sites.si.edu/sites/publications/PDFs/Roubik_R82.pdf They make normal honey, it’s just that protein in honey is manufactured by a bee’s body and the protein in their diet usually comes from pollen. Vulture bees eat more carrion than pollen, so when someone said they “make their honey from carrion” it was in the same sense that a cow “makes milk from grass.” I probably helped boost the incorrect version for years >:( They are still awfully morbid bees, apparently they can reduce a small corpse to bone in just a couple days. The paper also discusses how the bees will chase off or kill flies and anything else at the corpse, except for ants, which also attack any interloper other than the vulture bees. It doesn’t posit why they’d have developed that mutual tolerance, but almost every type of bee suffers from parasitic mites and other pests too small for them to notice, so I’d guess the smaller ants take care of that.

#biology

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variousqueerthings · 3 months ago

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the inherent degendering (not technically masculinisation atm, i feel like in this context that would be a sort of honour, but she's not Earned it yet) of being a girl who's doing non-girl things in boy/man spaces -- the oddity of her gender throwing up question-marks and disquiet amongst the cisgender men, who see her as an interloper/threat/Unknown (the fact that she calls herself this!)/Other

the fact that one of them makes a point of saying she's "not a tranny, she's A Woman" (paraphrased) (when they say that also i wonder do they mean trans man or trans woman or that mix of both, because cis people often just conflate trans into one big "incorrect gender Of Some Kind" box)

also I think the lead is maybe 16-18 so not a woman, but on the cusp of womanhood, and instead she's moving into manhood via the rodeo, she wants to be "one of the boys/men" clearly

and by this, so far, i'd say she's textually probably definitely a "girl" (sort of) who will be a woman, who is potentially -- but there's nothing to say one way or the other yet -- into men, but currently she's very asexual and she's non-gender...

interesting movie

I'm watching rodeo at last, because I knew it'd be A Watch

and it really really is.

#im watching movies #im watching rodeo #it's fast and furious but make it Filmé -- make it French -- make it Feminist -- make it... well we'll see #make it Bikes

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allmothered · 2 years ago

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@syl3ns ➸ ' it would seem that our time apart has left us with ... much that needs to be revealed. for starters: how you managed to escape single-handedly from the interlopers, whose technological prowess far exceeded your own. '

IT WOULD, in some foul sense, BE INCORRECT to say that Sylens lacked a sense of humor. She was almost positive that this had to be some roundabout, convoluted way of him making a joke. Irony was just as practiced an art, and if she didn’t know any better, she would’ve thought this was bait to lure her into that of the Socratic kind. Arms fold: a readied stance for the battle of wits at hand.

❝ Right . . . makes me wonder who had the time or the knowhow to teach them. ❞ Her gaze is unwavering and just as sharp as the arrows at her side. Giving him the satisfaction of taking the bait could never be helped, not with her obstinacy, but by all means she was going to make him work for his intellectual superiority. ❝ Seeing as they’re just so much more capable than I am. ❞

#syl3ns #°⋄ ➸ ––– ◜ answered ask . ◞#°⋄ ➸ ––– ◜ interactions . ◞#she just wants to fight him so bad gfdshjk #big words for someone in whacking distance

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desi-lgbt-fest · 4 years ago

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Day 5: Platonic

A story I wrote for today's prompt. It's a story about two middle aged men realising the happiness they want can come in many different forms.

1. 8 k words.

Cw: Mild homophobia. Incorrect language. It's indicative of character's understanding, not mine.

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When Vikram Kumar first transferred to their branch, Nath wasn't impressed. Theirs was a small transport company, still somehow holding on against the giants of the industry. They were doing well for themselves; they had branches in few neighbouring states where the business was concentrated. And yeah, the company policy does state that employees should get transferred around every 4 years or so. But that never really happened. Nath had been working at Gada transport ltd for more than 25 years now and the only way anybody new ever came in the office was if someone died or retired.

That was what had happened. Another clerk, Nisha Bhagwan, had a heart attack at the computer and in came Vikram Kumar, a transfer from Nagpur. The office people took to him like animals take to the new clown at the circus. Nobody was really sad about Mrs Bhagwan's passing. She was old and in an office full of other old people, they were just waiting for the hat to drop on someone. Better Mrs Bhagwan than us.

They inquired after him, after his family, his mother's family, his neighbour's family, his neighbour's dog's family. When they found out that he was divorced and currently living in a sketchy hotel, they immediately turned to Nath.

Nath, or Adinath, as his name was, owned two flats in his society. Two flats side by side, one in which he lived. He very famously refused to rent it out to families or students or single women. Which meant, he never really rented it out. It actually quite suited to his own solitary silent life. But he regretted boasting about it in the office because here came his perfect rent.

"I- uh. The apartment is very dirty and I'd have to clean it," he started making excuses.

Vikram Kumar shrugged. "I don't mind. Better than listening to the sex noises coming from the side wall." Raucous laughter emerged, unhampered by the fact that their only woman employee wasn't there anymore.

Nath couldn't say no.

Vikram Kumar did turn out to be an ideal renter. He was silent. No guests. Rent, which Nath had kept a little high to dissuade, always on time. Sometimes old hindi songs drifted from his flat but Nath didn't mind. As his novelty wore off and office people stopped fawning over him, Nath did find himself to be quite okay with Vikram Kumar's existence.

A distinct mark in his favour was that he didn't laugh when at their regular chai break (5 minute break that always turned into a 45 minute one) the others made him familiar with Nath's title as the resident Bramhachari.

"Never married, never looks at a woman," Bhosle, their manager remarked.

"Hey you remember that time when that bombshell came in complaining about some lost package? Nath did not even look away from her face."

"Pakka gentleman, I tell you. He's not the customer complaint manager for nothing."

Everybody guffawed. Nath gave his regular pained smile. Vikram Kumar smiled back. For a moment, Nath thought it was a smile of understanding.

Eventually, Nath started offering Vikram Kumar a ride home on his ancient scooter. He obliged. When the ride turned regular, Vikram Kumar started contributing for petrol. Another mark in his favour.

13 months later, Vivek Chand, accountant, retired. In came a new hire, Ashalata Waad.

Suddenly many colleagues started turning up in pressed shirts and oiled hair. Nath merely shook his head and laughed at their preening. It was their colleagues' turn to laugh when Ms. Ashalata, recently widowed, took to Nath. Furtive smiles. Sympathy over dealing with difficult clients. Nath of course did not notice. But the other colleagues did. And out of sympathy for Ms Ashalata's feelings, they gently took her to a side after a week or so and directed her towards someone more likely to respond; the new divorcee, Vikram Kumar.

That, Nath certainly noticed.

That evening, Nath left without offering a ride to him.

Next morning, everyone noticed the distinct coldness between Ms Ashalata and Vikram Kumar. It was a long day too. Some trouble with licensing of a large shipment, everybody had to stay behind. It was well over 8 when people started leaving. Vikram came over to Nath's desk and tapped on it.

"I don't think this late I will find a riksha like yesterday. Will you please give a ride home?"

Nath sighed. He wasn't petty after all. Well, not much.

The streets were near empty. Theirs was a small town. One that eats at 8 and sleeps at 10. Nath's scooter cut through the silence and the sickly orange lights of the streetlamps like an interloper. They were crossing the Hutatma Chauk when Vikram asked him to stop.

"What for?"

"It was a long and stressful day. I wanted us a relax a bit at the park bench before we go home."

"I'm not going-"

"Please yaar."

Nath sighed.

Stopping the scooter at side, they both walked to the circle where statue of some forgotten freedom fighter stood, benches around it. Surprisingly, there were some people ambling around. Old couples taking a rest from nightly walk. A group of youngsters.

After having the sound of scooter in the ears for past five minutes, the sudden silence was deafening.

"I don't think Ms Waad would be talking to me again," Vikram Kumar started without preamble, a laughter in his voice.

Nath sighed and ran a hand through in thin hair. "You didn't do any-"

"No no, oh god no! I just said I'm not interested. I think that was enough for her to be offended."

"She's not your type?" he probed gently, curious.

Vikram was silent for a moment and then burst out with sudden emotion, "Why does it matter? Why one single woman and one single man can not stay without having an affair? Ye saala bollywood-" Nath hushed him, noticing the people around.

"Sorry." Vikram said, taking a deep breath to calm himself down.

"I get it. Years ago, when I told my father I was gay-"

"You're what??"

Nath felt like he made a tremendous mistake in judgement. But he was a grown man dammit, he will hold his ground!

"I said I am gay." Nath held his gaze. Vikram Kumar stared back, unknown range of emotions passing. Eventually he broke the gaze, ran a hand through his own balding hair and sat back.

He shook his head. "I am not gay, if that's why you-"

"That wasn't-"

"I'm NOT. I like women. I- I mean men are good too. I. I don't-"

Nath couldn't help it. He broke into a loud laugh. Like Vikram had performed some excellent comedy sketch.

Vikram punched him lightly on his shoulder, a smile evident on his face.

"I just meant, men, women. All are same to me. Honestly, I didn't mind being married to Sheela. I provided for her, I cared for her wellbeing. Our.. bedroom relations were less ideal but I didn't shut her out. I did my duty."

"I'm guessing she wanted someone who didn't see her as a duty?"

Vikram shrugged. "She was nice about it. Told me plain and simple she found someone else. We didn't have kids. It was easy. Well. As easy as it could be. She told the court I was impotent for swift divorce. I agreed. It caused drama in families though, which is why I asked for a transfer."

"Mrs Bhagwan died at a really opportune moment then."

They both shared a laugh and things fell silent once again.

"So you are... one of those," Vikram tried to say casually.

The elderly couple had left. A newly wed looking one took their place. Nath suddenly felt he was thrown back in time.

"I don't have much family," he started. "Mother died when I was young. Theirs was a love marriage, quite unusual for the times. They had run away and so had lost their families. My father raised me well enough; started pestering me for marriage when I got the job at 22. I kept avoiding for few years. But eventually I had to tell him. I wasn't going to ruin some poor woman's life." Nath looked pointedly at Vikram. Vikram didn't take offence. Just laughed self-consciously. Mark in his favour etc etc.

"Father raged for days. Didn't raise his hand on me, didn't tell anyone else but we fought a lot. It wasn't that he denied my condition. He just wanted a family. On some level we understood each other. I realise it now. I knew he wanted me to marry because he didn't want his hard fought family to die with me. And I guess, he probably knew what it meant to love someone you weren't supposed to.

He died soon after."

"When you were thirty, I remember you telling me."

Nath nodded. "I was free. I had a place of my own. A job. No family to hide myself from. I felt guilty over feeling relieved. I felt angry at being guilty. Then came sadness over being angry. That sadness stayed for a decade."

Vikram asked, "So you never...?

Nath shook out of his trip to memory lane. "Hm?"

"Are you? A bramhachari? Did you ever find-"

"There were some men here and there. Obviously there wasn't going to be a relationship," Nath scoffed. "If you know where to look, you can find release. But after Father died, I don't know, I rarely ever went looking for anybody. I didn't have it in me."

Vikram laughed. "Look at us. Two old men, all on their own, no happy family for us."

"Speak for yourself, I'm barely a day over 40," said the man, almost 50.

Vikram laughed again, looking at him with such fondness in his eyes. Nath felt sharp fear for a moment. Then he decided to be an adult again.

"You look well for your age too."

"Nath..."

Nath shivered at hearing his name. It was an intimate name. People didn't say it much. But it fit in Vikram's mouth.

"I don't want to change anything," Vikram said. "I'm happy as things are. It's ideal. I can't offer anything more."

Nath got up, brushing dust from his pants. It had gotten late. They were alone at the circle. A vehicle passing by to remind them of the world that exists.

"I'll take whatever you can offer," he said, looking away from him.

"Friendship? For as long as I live?" Vikram held out his hand.

Nath looked at it. Big, warm. Hairy. Pale skin where the wedding ring used to sit. He extended his own and took it.

"As long as I live."

... Let me know if you like it enough to see some other prompts involving them... I have so many headcanons for them.

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junemel · 5 years ago

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Hogwarts AU: Sanji and Zoro, delinquent Hufflepuffs

(inspired by a convo with @dr-chalk )

Hogwarts AU where Sanji and Zoro are both in Hufflepuff and how they got there is the biggest mystery of Hogwarts except for those who really know them (Usopp is a Gryffindor, Luffy and Nami are Slytherins)

Zoro: Honest (you could say he’s pretty blunt), Loyal, Dedicated, Hard-working (training), not exactly Patient but he can meditate and focus, Kind (with Chopper, for example), Fair (sense of justice: he won’t hurt the weak/innocent, like Tashigi in canon) / Sanji: tbh, he could also be in Ravenclaw (quick-thinking, extremely creative with his recipes, curious and eager to learn - about cooking - + the All Blue = endless possibilites, allowing him to be as creative as he wants to be & learn about the culinary properties of every fish on Earth) ; but he’s a Hufflepuff here, because he’s also Patient (cooking requires a lot of patience), Dedicated (to his art), has a sense of justice of his own (chivalry) and will always stay Loyal to his values (he was so loyal to Zeff that it almost killed him in canon) + Hard-working and Kind

They destroy the common room three times a week and Head Boy & Girl Smoker and Tashigi are 100% done with them

They are the only reason why Hufflepuff’s points (for the House Cup) are now in the negative

Forget the Gryffindor/Slytherin rivalry, it’s the Hufflepuff civil war

Chopper also becomes a Hufflepuff and they end up bonding over protecting him from bullies. (or Chopper becomes a Ravenclaw, but rogue Hufflepuffs Zoro and Sanji don’t care about the rules and they invade the Ravenclaw dorms - the password is a riddle, so it’s easy)

Fun fact: to enter the Hufflepuff quarters, here is what you have to do: “the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, will open if tapped in the rythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff ; as a security device, tapping on the wrong barrel or tapping the incorrect number of times, results in one of the other lids bursting off and drenching the interloper in vinegar”

Zoro doesn’t know left from right so he always taps on the wrong barrel and gets drenched in vinegar

He begrudgingly lets Sanji do the tapping after getting drenched ten times in a row

The Hufflepuff quarters are right next to the kitchens, so Sanji sneaks out at night to try new recipes

QUIDDITCH TIME: I don’t know if they would like Quidditch - Zoro would probably get lost after three meters in the air and fly to the Forbidden Forest, and maybe Sanji wouldn’t really enjoy the competitive spirit

That being said, I can imagine a scenario where they lost so many points that the whole house forces them to compete so they can make it up to them and make Hufflepuff win the House Cup

First year Zoro wandering around and ending up in the Forbidden Forest, where he stays three whole hours before coming back completely unscattered (he was so lost that he ventured into places that even the magical creatures didn’t know about). Everyone starts thinking he’s secretly a demon or something

Zoro is... A Divination expert (at least according to the teacher, Hawkins)

He’s always making lucky guesses and the teacher thinks he has the third eye

Meanwhile, Usopp tries the same technique, making up extravagant lies, and gets the worst grades of his promotion

All of his lies come true, but he’s always the only one there to see it when it happens

He’s fed up with it and wants to be recognised for the true Prophet he is so he ends up casting spells to make his lies come true faster. His spells fail and make Zoro’s predictions come true instead.

The teacher thinks Zoro is a misunderstood genius

Usopp is so exhausted that he starts inventing completely improbable stuff like “Sanji and Zoro will make out under the sunset in three days and three nights��. Three days and three nights later, guess what he sees?

(Usopp, softly swearing: my godly powers are out of control. I can bend reality to my will.)

stay tuned for part II!

#roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #hogwarts au #monkey d. luffy #usopp #nami #tony tony chopper #op #one piece #zosan #sanzo #edit: I do not support jkr in any way and if you share her views on trans people do not interact with this blog

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theinterloper · 4 years ago

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moreeeee stuff about Hearthians’ reproduction, early evolution and... ghost matter! very much not solid theories and just idea to expand the world for Hearthains

gonna try and get into multiple parts of Hearthians in order to pull it all together that makes some more sense. obviously theres a lotta fiction ideas here, playing on existing things we know about biology! i try to take some of that to compare or use as examples to any new ideas i bring in here.

also dont be confused if these conflict with the previous post, consider it “over writing” my previous post in ways, bc that post was for stuff i wrote over a week ago! initially and ultimately the asexual reproduction i wanted to describe doesnt exist in our standards of science and additionally the terms we have dont make sense for my ideas, so some things have been added and adjusted to maybe sound better lol.

Early Evolution and genetics

Hearthians when living in the water, reproduced asexually like many small aquatic creatures. we are talking waaay far back, probably up to or before the Nomai discovered them. this isnt exactly common (by our standards) for a species that evolved into mammals, but i will get more into that here.

now, i cant describe what i want to say with terms like “vertical/horizontal gene transfer” because its a bit too strict and if anything its a whole new thing- but i imagine Hearthians, as asexual/sexual mammals, had a larger gene pool that allows them to put in and pull out genes from a previous generation that are left within their own dna. this isnt completely illogical (i think, but also its fiction so,) like, compare this in a sense to HGT where a bacteria could take in a gene from outside and pass it onto a clone of itself in order to have genetic variation..... this is just to a kind of different and larger scale.

Hearthians way back would mostly produce asexually in this way because it wouldnt require another creature and was faster. but they still had the option to mate with each other and would do so from time to time. hearthians produced a lot of offspring- but the present day Hearthians’ small numbers is due to the fact that many cross bred with other aquatic life or died off due to lack of food. sub species did not evolve into sapient life or they too went extinct over time.

Hearthians apparently took around 281,042 years to evolve as this is the length of time that the sun station has been offline- so lets just round that up to 300k years of evolution... to be a little more clear about the games’ somewhat lenient science fiction, it look humans around 6 million years to evolve (science summarizes it takes around 1 million years for an animal to evolve to where most are today). i say this to add onto more theories/headcanons, because thats a short span of time...

so, what if... hearthians mutated a lot more than normal? what if the ghost matter explosion caused mutations/its energy mutates the genes of Hearthians and additionally made them evolve faster? what if their genes are just fucked up a bit?? not to the extent of grotesque mutated monsters. minor things, like more gene variation or messing up their existing gene pool way more.

my ideas lean on Hearthians having been affected by the ghost matter in the middle of their evolution, when the comet exploded. this game has a lotta good timing/fate stuff with the Hearthians being left to discover the Nomai’s unfinished trail and this point gives another addition to the whole story. the Nomai were quite risky and almost too ambitious with their search and imo i feel they like wouldve failed if they truly attempted the ATP back then, so by fate they “had” to die by the Interloper/ghost matter or else You never wouldve been successful at finding the eye. in a sense and the ghost matter in some way had a hand in your species evolving in time for the end of the universe.

Effects of Ghost Matter

its hard for me to again give real science on how the ghost matter would affect the Hearthians, bc it not real real science. but basically while Ghost Matter kills anything not in water, i imagine it killed everything due to some sort ‘radiation’ kind of energy. not nuclear radiation but, radiation of some kind that is effected by water. probably not a “real” thing in terms of stuff that exists in our world.

the initial explosion was so intense that while it didnt kill the Hearthians under water, it still effected them regardless. it ‘tainted’ the land, plants, water and their molecular structure with its radiation. and with their large gene pool, lets just say it permanently fucked up their genes a bit and that huge leap in change continues to affect them. it also supported their ability to evolve quickly. the ‘radiation’ dies down over time though, but left an effect on them.

plants. this is just an idea i formed on a whim after hearing Porphy mention that Hearthians evolved by eating “lots of bad things”. i imagine personally that plants “reacted” to the ghost matter- they did not “die” like living mammals died from the matter due to whatever energy it was, but evolved to its explosion as a “threat”. the explosion and ghost matter was detected by the plants as a threat to them/their life and they evolved into being dangerous/poisonous. so hearthians grew in a planet that had very dangerous plants but they too evolved to a hardened stomach and could withstand the many minor protective measures the plants formed.

Sex/reproduction stuff. i dont consider this “NSFW” its just sciencey talks! talking about genitals though! please dont proceed if under 16, preferably. also slightly reformed ideas on the previous headcanon post, as i have added much more to my ideas!

As hearthians evolved, they grew into land mammals and with their size, asexual reproduction was not as convenient. it wasnt about the genetics, as those were fine mostly, but the energy it takes to do so. in terms of evolution it was a poor device as they evolved into land mammals, because it barely happened and it drained the parent of their nutrients- they were not producing a lot of offspring and thi danger meant they could go extinct. at the point where hearthians were evolving to land, it was impractical for them to lay an egg more than once/twice in their life.

asexual reproduction isnt completely gone, just that as they grew larger physically it was deemed less ideal by evolution standards to do it as much as they did when they were tiny little things in the water. mostly with their gene transferring abilities, their reproduction still has some level of variance that fluctuates in extremes depending on the gene pool the parent personally has or if other stored sperm exists.

they were always equipped with organs for reproduction, but that were not used much within their early evolution. internally, Hearthians have “eggs” that are fertilized by “sperm” to create an embryo. Said “sperm” also is attached to an internal organ that does physically move in order to reach the egg. this organ can be seen from the entrance of the vagina during the period of self-fertilization. eventually said organ was used externally as it became more clear that hearthians needed a more reliable/less exhausting method of reproduction.

self fertilization isnt always successful due to literal failures to fertilize physically (incorrect position, dead sperm, etc) which is why the two times in which an egg is created this way may not even create a live embryo, thus this method being ultimately unreliable for the Hearthians to thrive.

mentioned before- due to their old more common asexual ways, they experience a “cycle” for reproduction. it is typically once or twice in their life and occurs over the span of almost a year. within this period is the highest success rate for fertilization (usually mid way through).

adding onto the gene transferring nonsense, a Hearthian’s past abilities to store old genes from their days of constant asexuality becomes relevant in their partner sexual reproduction as well. when mating with another Hearthian, the one being inserted into will store the other’s sperm/genes regardless of whether or the creation of an egg is intended, which is what their hgt/vgt-like gene transferring did many times in the past as they evolved. this does in fact allow them to store sperm of multiple donors, to mix together genes when fertilizing an egg. it is not the sperm they store, but the genes within a sample of sperm.

#Hearthians #headcanons

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newmayhem · 5 years ago

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Ha'Shmla Dictionary

Disclaimer: None of this is mine, everything was collected from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes’ old websites, the wiki, and the old message boards. Anything written in the first person is a direct quote from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. For all the entries in the The Den of Shadows Reference series, check the tag or this page.

This dictionary in particular is courtesy of @sleepyspoonie.

WORDS

a – from, of, after

acita – nice, pleasant, nicely, pleasantly, to be nice, to be pleasant

adad – less, to have less, lessening

adir – more, to have more, increasing

Ahnleh – Fate, Eternity, Illusion, Destiny, the eight deity/concepts in the pantheon combined with the concept of Choice and the ability of Choice to change EVERYTHING

Ahnmik – Power, Power of Will, eternity, illusion, bondage, peace, strong and emotionless thought

ahoke – remain, to remain, what remains

a’le – a form of informal improvisatory dance, putting a twist on an old form (example: sakkri’a’le , harja’a’le), literally “according to your will”

ale – will, intent, that which is intended to happen

aleya – wish, to desire, to want

Anhamirak – Freedom, Free Will, eternity, illusion, passion, war, strong and thoughtless emotion

aona – heir to empress / emperor, lord / lady, ruler of second highest status, literally “future ruler” or “after the current ruler” (a = from /after, ona = current ruler)

ase – good, well, to be good

ashe – informal generic good-bye or farewell, to say good-bye, a separation

asta – because, caused by ___

awebre – song, to sing, melodic, musical, music

ayan – end, to close, closed, closing

azne – fear, to fear, frightening, afraid

ban – ability, to be able (to), able

banzi – great, greatly, one who is great

battou – enough, to have enough, sufficient

bitte – taste, flavour, to taste

brokan – eternal, timeless, forever, eternally, always

Brysh – Death (both the concept and the entity responsible for it, so always capitalized

btaleh – naïve, naively, one who is naive

carnan – gift, to receive, given

cia’Brysh – end, the end, to end, an ending, ending place, final

ciacin – hello (generic formal)

cin – hello (generic informal), to say hello, a greeting or a meeting

cia’Namid – beginning, to begin, a beginning place

cinca – day, the day, a day, daily

cincanon – night, the night, a night, nightly

cincara – Good morning! , a morning hello, morning, young, new, foolish

cincarre – Good afternoon / evening! , an afternoon or evening hello, afternoon, evening, old, wise

cjarsa – silver (the substance AND the colour)

cocoon – to fade, faded

dasandi - discovery, to find, found, finder

devan – to stand, resolved, adamant

Diente – King or Queen of a diverse group, less powerful but less isolated than Ona and Aona

dinga – to follow, to pursue, follower, pursuer, one who follows, a following, a hunter, one who hunts, hunting

divi – stars, star, starry, like a star

Ecl – Uncreation, Nonexistence, Void, all that does not/cannot exist, illusion, eternity, the future, insanity, delusion, delirium

efelna - green

einir – to change, in the sense of becoming something else, not in the sense of replacing

elar – a dash or hyphen used to separate lines of writing or individual thoughts (-)

elavie – a shapeshifter

enae – death, dead, to die

epule – to rely on, trusted, reliable

fal – hand, reach, reaching, the ability or power to reach, all that is within your scope/power

falianam –bereft, to bereave, to take away, literally “empty handed” or “unable to reach / obtain / have”

falmay – to help, to assist, assistance, literally “to give a hand” or “to lend a hand” or “to give what-is-within-your-power”

falnas – hand, to touch, to reach out for something, literally “reach-feel” or “ability to feel/touch”

fant – anger, to become angry, angry

fente - wing

ferat – skin, to feel (something)

fide – faith, faithful, to have faith (in)

frel – to make, to build, maker, builder

gah – sight, to see, visible, gift

gah’Ahnmik – darkness, dark

gah’Anhamirak – beauty, beautiful, light, bright, glory (as of brightness)

gase – beauty, to be beautiful, beautiful

gen – you (informal), your

geniam – liar, to pretend, false, actor, to act, lying, deceit

girian – gold, golden, gilt

ha – speech, language, to speak, speaker

habre – rose (the flower), rosy

haile – savior, hero, to rescue, saved

halaur – disturbance, to be out of place, interloper

hanlah – easy, effortless, without difficulty, not hard to do

hanlah’melos – the first dance a dancer learns, one dancer with one scarf, literally “easy scarf-dance”

hara – echo, to echo, echoing, literally “speech-child”

harja – attraction, to attract, seduction, to seduce, a form of dance with 6 variations, all using either a drum or no accompaniment at all in the background

hatia – lose, to lose, lost, loser, losing

he – sound, to hear, audible, audibly

heah – thought, to think/know/believe, believed, thoughtful, thinker

heah’ne – crazy, literally “little thought”

he’Anhamirak – noise, noisy

heasha – memory, to remember, remembered

hehj – do, did, does, will, am, are? The Generic Question Word (what? when used in conjunction with another question-word)

hehja / ke – if/then

hehj’ban - can ___? may ___ ? literally “what way” or “what ability”

hehj’heah – how ___? literally “what thought”

hehj’hena – what ___? literally “what is”

hehj’sheni – when ___? literally “what time”

hehj’lo – where ____? literally “what place”

hehj’rsh – who / whom ___? literally “what people”

hemet – to realize, realization

hena – to be, having existence, is, am, are

heur – brilliance, to shine, bright

ihelo – to become, becoming

ikku – belief, to believe, reasonable/plausible/believable

im – creation, to become, new

intre – silence, silent, silently

irmalo – brother, fraternal

itil – dancer, to dance, dancing

jacon – need, to need, necessary

jas - love, understanding, compassion, charity

jaes – jewel, art, magic, that-which-is-valuable-or-useful, skill, talent, purpose, use, value, treasure, that-which-is-precious

jaes’falnas – a dance that uses props, either fire, blades, or crystals (the “jaes” or jewel), literally means “jeweled hand”

jaud – moonlight, to shine, to glow, the colour of moonlight

jeira – blue, royal blue

jkair – flight, to fly, able to fly, ability to fly

jol – war, to war, of war, warlike

ka – no, negative, the opposite of ___

kaen – correction, to fix, incorrect

Kain – Thunder, music, air and water, living in the now

Kain’he – air (thunder-sound, literally)

Kain’he’nese – breath, to breathe (literally “air-life”)

kajaes – without magic, without skill, useless, without a purpose, worthless, having no value

kala – worship, to worship, a worshipper

ka’rre – pain, to harm, painful, torture, to torment, literally “no relief” or “opposite of healing / rest”

Kaya – Lightning, dance, fire and earth, living in the now

Kaya’gah – light, bright, literally “lightning-sight”

Kaya’he – fire, to burn with flame, literally “lightning-sound”

Kaya’he’tasa – heat, to burn with heat, hot, literally “fire’s greed”

ke – yes, affirmative

ke’ke – and, also

keiel – hatred, loathing, to hate

keyi – hope, hopeful, to hope

kin – effect, result, what happens because of a person’s actions

kisu – to kill, killing, killer

kontiel – avalanche, tumbling, to tumble

ksmarjan – fantasy, imagined reality

kyrai – informal ‘she’

kyrait – informal ‘he’

kyrsh – informal they, them, their

la – I, me, mine, my, to be called, named

lakin – fault, responsibility, to be at fault, to be responsible, credit

lalina – humanity, human

lalintoth – friend, friendly

la’pt – us, we, our, ours

lar – to strive, to struggle, the superlative form: ____est

larmaen – center, crucial

las – every, everything, all

le – will, to want, desire or will, chosen, to choose, to make a choice, ability to choose

le’Namid – birth, literally “will of Namid”

Leona – kingdom, literally “will to command”

Leonisa – divine realm, literally “kingdom of gods”

Leon’Namid – beginning realm, before creation or birth

leoser – sleep, to sleep, sleepy, sleeper

live – wake, to wake, wakeful

litae – blaze, large fire, blazing, ardent, zealous

lo – place, location, placement, habitation, state-of-being (both physical and spiritual place); sometimes used as ‘of’, but not in the usual way

locina - yesterday

lockli – forest, to grow, sheltered

mael – elite, the colour silver (but NOT the substance)

maen – within, inside, contained by ___

maenka – beyond, not within, outside

mak – true, correct, accurate, precise, pure, right, real, reality

mana – lord or lady, keeper, person of power, person of responsibility, Master or Mistress

mareksa – foreboding, to forebode

marl - white

may – to give, to lend, loan, aide, gift-of-the-temporary-sort, gift-of-the-moment, an act of kindness or charity

Mehay – Creation, Existence, all that exists, all that is created, soul, past, the universe, illusion, Reality, eternity

mehn – creation, to create

melos – scarf or sash, a form of dance involving the use of scarves, having 13 variations, including hanlah’melos, pan’melos, and melos’girian

melos’efelna – a dance involving two dancers (lovers, in this case) with three scarves, literally “green scarf-dance”

melos’girian – a dance that serves as wedding vows for the dancers involved, literally “golden scarves”

mijrasi – edge, outside, external

mir - maybe

mirshna – to sense (non-tactile), intuition

nanon – to avoid, unpleasant

naral – blade, sharp, to cut

nas – touch, to touch, to feel, tactile, gift

nasa - command, order, imperative verb tense

nelar – breath, to breathe, literally “to strive for life”

nepon – flower, to blossom

nese – life, alive, to live

Nesera – dance, dancer, to dance as a religion, literally “life-child” or “little dream”

nesma – distress, upset, to upset

nie – an apostrophe used to separate concepts and phrases in writing (‘)

nikir – pair, to wed, twinned

nira – loneliness, single, one, alone

noreil – secret, a secret

norvio - black

o – to, unto, for

o’hena – you’re welcome, of course, literally “because it is (so)”

ona – empress / emperor, lord / lady, ruler of highest status, Current Ruler

ontiel – to radiate outward

o’saerre – a hawk shapeshifter, literally “unto the serpent(s)”

oun – balance, balanced, balancing, to balance

pala – earth, dirt, soil, to plant, to bury pan’melos – the most complex of the 13 melos forms of dance, a single dancer working with 10 scarves, but never touching more than one at a time

pata – change, to change, changing, as to trade something for another thing or replace it, not as to become

pallion – to deepen, deep, true

peraine – older (thing, person), to age, old

plena – dumb, stupid, idiot, ignorant, fool, foolish

ptenal – surround, enclose

quean – fire, to burn, hot, to die in a fire

quemak – mongrel, impure, false, half-breed, mixed-blood, untrue

ra – child, offspring, creation or idea

rael – rage, to anger, enraged

rahvis – (no known definition yet)

rai – formal ‘she’

rait – formal ‘he’

rakuvra - cobra

rashtanis

ravi – to give or to make something, or to make something happen

raviban – permission, literally “give/make (a) way”

raviheah – teacher, to teach, literally “give/make knowledge/thought”

regre – to show, reveal, visible, displayed

rrasatoth – beloved, lover, to love romantically

rre – rest, relief, healing, restoring, to rest or be healed or sleep, restful, relieving, a healer

rrobhi – to bathe, clean, pure, purified, cleansed

rsh – formal they, them, their, one (hypothetical person, not number), one’s, people, a person, a person’s

rspar – ash, to crumble, crumbling, ashen, like unto ash

saerre – a serpent shapeshifter

sakkri – spirit, essence, spirits-as-in-ghosts-or-faeries-or-angels, a form of dance unaccompanied by music and which uses no props (scarves, knives, fire, etc.)

san’Anhamirak – pliancy, to bend, pliant, freedom, abandon, literally “essence of Freedom”

san’asi – a sakkri involving 3 dancers, literally “raising the gods” or “invoking the essence(s) of ___”

sanice – consent, blessing, to bless, to give consent

savirnak – sacrifice, to sacrifice, to give up for another

seatratil – year, yearly, this year

sendra – wet, water, fluid

ser- to approach or come, to linger, to stay; to observe, to watch for the purpose of knowing something; to be like a shadow, shadow, shadowing

sera – dream, literally “future-shadow” or “future-watching”

serdinga – lurker, to lurk, spy, to spy, literally “shadow-following” or “watch-following”

sheeva – cold, to shiver, to be cold

she – now, this moment

she’da – story-dances, the only form of dances accompanied by vocalization, and it is spoken instead of sung

Sheni – time, timely, a time or era, Time (as an entity)

Shre – choice, to choose, chosen, Choice (as an entity)

sine – to leave, gone, to be dismissed

sneska – to shed, to discard, discarded

solilei – fall, to fall, fallen

sotre – to flap (wings)

stankhu – reason, to have a reason

suni – malevolence, evil

tacarre – evening, night, good-night, a night-time Good-bye

tara – heat, hot, to be hot

tasa – greed, too much

tasashe – always, formal generic Good-bye, in a ‘see you later’, non-permanent sense, literally “too much time (until we meet again)”

teska – thanks, to ask/request, please, thank-you

thayd – caution, to be cautious

thu’queh – to question, to ask questioningly

ti – to move, mobile

tih – stop, to stop

tipa – to shift, to move

tirna – butterfly, like a butterfly

tisa – too little, not enough, deprivation

toth – love, lovely, loving, loved, beloved

tshin – piece, to shatter, broken

tu - two

tuon – together, to move toward ___

valnis – mountain, high place

varl – to give, gift

varl’Nesera – blessing, literally “give dance”

vehl – teardrop, sad, to cry

vehlar – heart, living, alive

vem – blood, to bleed, alive

vem’Ahnleh – a very nasty curse, literally “bleeding Fate”

vemka – bloodless, cowardly, coward, ignoble (not of noble blood), mongrel, half-breed, polluted, impure, weak, weakling

veritas – eye, seeing, to view

vesake – sorry, apology, to apologize, to be sorry, to be or feel guilty

vesara – presence, to have presence, to be present

vino – ocean, sea

vis – taste, possessing flavour, tasty, to taste

warum – part, piece, individual, drop, unit

wihfar – birth, to be born

wim – ownership, to own, owner, to control

wimashe – to exist, to go about one’s life, generic formal PERMANENT good-bye, literally “may the future be yours”

wimvi – food, to eat, literally “to own the taste”

yao – lucidity, clarity, clear, to be clear

yarroh – spark, to spark

yelok – to reduce, to lessen

yenna – tower, towers, high place(s), perch, mews (a place where you keep trained falcons for falconry), nest, aerie / eyrie (the nest of a wild bird-of-prey), a noble’s home, fortress, guarded place

zil – fear, to flee, one who flees

zinan – destruction, to destroy

GRAMMAR

There are four standard sentence forms. Remember these abbreviations, okey?

P – prepositional phrase

I – inflective phrase

S – subject phrase

V – verb phrase

O – object phrase

a- plural (“pt”) if necessary [you won’t always be USING a plural, after all]

A – adjective or adverb

N – noun in the prepositional phrase

“nasa” – imperative

Q – question, interrogative

v – truth value (ke, ka, or mir = yes, no, or maybe)

T – tense of the whole sentence

Got all that? Here we go.

P-I-S-V-O Example:

a’S’A-V’A-A’O

Example: pt’heah’heah-heah’heah-heah’heah

“Thoughtful thoughts think thoughtfully thoughtful thoughts.”

P’N’A-a’S’A-V’A-a’A’O Example:

I = nasa’v OR I = T’Q’v Example:

PHRASES

Hehj’hena? - What happened?

She’hehj-la-ha? - Am I speaking?

She’hehj’ban-la-ha? – Can I speak?

She’hehj’heah-la-ha? – How do I speak?

She’hehj’hena-la-ha? - What do I say?

She’hehj’lo-la-ha? – Where do I speak?

She’hehj’rsh-la-ha? – Who is speaking?

She’hehj’mak-la-ha? – Why do I speak?

Shen’hehj-a’la-gen-ha? – Are you speaking to me?

She’hehj’ban-maen’teska-gen-ha’intre? – Could you speak quietly, please?

She’hihj’heah-gen-heah-la’ha? – How do you know I’m speaking?

A’she’hehj’sheni-gen’heah-rai’ha? – When do you think she will speak?

O’she’hehj’lo-gen’he-la’ha? - Where did you hear me speak?

A’rai-a’she-hehj’rsh-ha? – Who will speak to her?

A’rsh’pt-she’hehj’mak-la-le’ha? – Why do I want to speak to these people?

WRITING SYSTEM

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