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nomaishuttle · 2 years ago

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worked on my conlang a lot today :] lost track of time a little bit .. i got around to drawing the base of sll the glyphs so now i just need 2 make all the variants for them

#i already finished 1... so 17 more to go lol #and by 17 i mean. 17*18. since there are 9 vowels + the up and down variations #if snybody is curious its a syllabary. rather than an alphabet.. it does sort of work similarly to an alphabet tho so idk if it counts as a #like. True syllabary #but basically there are CV syllables and VC syllables #its written on a line and CV syllables go above the linr and VC syllables go below the line #and each consonant has like a base glyph and then there are 9 vowels. which are umm #the way im representing the vowels is with 1-3 lines either perfectly horizontal tilted up or tilted down #grouped together on the base consonant.#that doesnt rly make sense i cn upload image 2 explain if anybody wants...#i havent actually decided which glyph represents which sounds yet LMAO. im juet working on getting them done so i cn decide based on how #they look ...and once i actually have them done then ill need t umm. go through and just write them a bunch #to simplify them. since famously writing tends to get simplified over time ...#ill have t rly work out the language first. ITS ALSO COMPLICATED BC. so rhe way language is in my pretend world #is the like. well they srent rly human. but the people in the world couldnt talk before they were taught by the gods #so all languages have a shared like..root language. obv it changes and brandhes out over time which gives me an exciting opportunity to do #lots and lots of languages without having to come up with new roots ... this is rly fun TO ME.#the thang with it tho is that idt they learned how to write immedistely after they learned speech.. i rhjnk that mightve come later #so the syllabary im working on rn is rly just the likee. semi modern WRITTEN form of the original language .. not rly modern its still #likee. ancient #AAAA this reminds me i wanna make a calendar system....#ill have t work on that as well. i wish i had that one expensive ass game that lrts u likee. fuck around with le solar system #2 see the effect it has on yr planet... bc mine has 2 moons #that r on opposite sides of the earth at all times #they arent fr moons theyre the creation gods you see. but they appear as moons #i also need to flesh out more of the gods.. bc it won't judt be the freation gods there will be a pantheon #but im thinking abt it a lot bc likee. so the creation gods Are the moons you know. so for the other ones i cant decide if theyre moons of #other planets or if they just Are the planets... OR if theyre just floating about out there yk. i suppose rly they could be whatever they #want. yk.. and obviously they all have nultiple forms likeee. yk...#also maybe the creation gods arent themselves the moons maybe they just live there Much 2 think about.

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cryptocism · 6 months ago

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It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

#my art #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #armand iwtv #armand #daniel molloy #devils minion #armandaniel #ancient and powerful 500 year old vampire stalks Random Journalist for 4 years and accidentally falls obsessively in love with him #delectable feed it to me slowly like grapes #genuinely before i read this chapter i thought the armand/daniel dynamic was a nandor/guillermo type of renfield situation #i was not expecting it to be so weirdly wholesome #these two have canonically watched hit 1981 british comedy Time Bandits together like 800 times #deeply unserious i love them so much

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beebfreeb · 8 months ago

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#funny talking tag #My favorite thing to do is HC characters as trans but also that they've never heard that term before and act accordingly.#My other favorite thing to do is make characters repressed.#My other other favorite thing to do is make a character go ''I feel like a(n) object/animal/thing pretending to be a man/woman''#''but I don't really care about that right now I have a job''#Anyway while this post can be about whichever characters you feel fit I made this with a certain character in mind.#(Dimentio of SPM fame) (He has something really specific going on that makes me cackle) (You can ask me about it)#(Also Morceau Oleander is a trans woman to me because she would be happier)#(and she deserves to live a life not defined by other's expectations of her)#Someone put a forbidden and ancient curse on this post so no more.

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thoodleoo · 3 months ago

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>looking for a new retelling of ancient myth

>ask the reviewers if the book is classical reception or modern tropification

>they don't understand

>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between what engages with ancient sources and depictions of the story and what relies on reduction of the story to its most marketable aspects

>they laugh and say "it's a good retelling"

>read the book

>its tropification

#tagamemnon #pleaaaaase i just need these books to not act like the ancient sources are Doing It Wrong #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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almondcroissantsandink · 3 months ago

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i've been BELTING out the Epic concept album in the car to and from work the past couple of weeks, esp. the bit where Odysseus cries out for Athena at the end of Love in Paradise, and I thought it would be funny if the goddess herself was like WHY is this person in rural NY state calling for me every day at 8:40am and after 5pm

#epic the wisdom saga #love in paradise #epic the musical #epic musical #epic musical fanart #fanart #athena #diary comic #comic #art #illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #csp #musical #i also think it's funny that every decade or so we revive the ancient greek myths and like #if the gods were out there they'd have to be like WHAT is happening WHY are people calling for us again lmao

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songfulgravedigger · 10 months ago

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et tu?

#ides of march #julius caesar #caesar #rome #ancient rome #beware the ides of march #et tu brute #shakespeare #i love making these #my fav meme format i think #it's more likely than you think

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zaahvi · 6 months ago

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GLORY TO THE RISEN GODS

#everyone is obsessing over the new companions meanwhile me:#and yeah i drew these based off 3 dimly lit screenshots so they're probably inaccurate. do i care? no!<3 #my art #dragon age #dragon age 4 #dragon age the veilguard #da:tv #what is the correct tag. idk #evanuris #ghilan'nain #elgar'nan #<- i hope :)#alongside the egg on this game's roster of antagonists we have: eldritch horror lesbian and evil divorced father #absolutely obsessed with them #man they scene where they come out of the fade from behind solas has been replaying in my head nonstop since i saw it #also just wanted to point out that they said on the q&a that all ancient elves eventually go bald. but elgar'nan actually has hair in the #closeup. therefore i honestly think it's a skill issue on solas' part #also no one pay attention to the fact that i haven't posted art in like 5 months lol <3

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bizarrelittlemew · 9 months ago

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i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

#and still be mad at shithead executives for unfairly cancelling my pirate show #also imagine what my ao3 word count will be like. gonna be writing my little fics in the nursing home #sometimes when i get frustrated over my writing i have to remember that i've only been doing it for a little over a year #and not in my native language #there is still so much time and so much to learn and try and discover and explore and i am EXCITED #there is something so ancient and beautiful about humans being brought together by stories #storytelling is what humans have always done and will always do and what will always connect us #to our past to the future to each other #sorry for the 1 am ramblings #fandom #🐭📓

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verflares · 7 months ago

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