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[ijosijen]

neat high gavellian noun: vrasonehi

as far as nouns go, vrasonehi "sentence" is pretty generic. no cool mass or abstract or compound noun things going on here. high gavellian nouns in general have less going on than verbs, tbh.

the neat thing is the word's phonological and phonetic realization. first off, this thing is always going to appear with an article: either definite do or indefinite ko.

the articles prefix sandhi onto their root noun in unique ways, which give us the phonemic representations of /dvaːsə.nε.hi/ and /gvaːsə.nε.hi/, respectively.

the /n/ being in a syllable onset prevents it from nasalizing the schwa, and /h/ is like. never actually pronounced, really, it's just there for voicing reasons, so after putting those through & running weak vowel reductions we end up with:

[dvaːz.n.i] / [gvaːz.n.i]

four syllables. the [z] and [n] are both syllabic. realistically, this would collapse into proper clustering in any descendants, but at the very least for HG this word is going to average 1.5 phones / syllable. and i think that that's really neat.

[quelanalalesbiana]

a wild lesbian appeared???

and after Zelda says she met her:

I just feel like this NPC would really like tumblr

(screenshots from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, 2024)

[wispythreads]

Different ways NPC's address the Knight

Elderbug - traveller, little traveller, (after gifting the delicate flower) my friend Quirrel - my friend, my short friend, friend Cornifer - my short friend (only said once, usually just directly addresses the Knight) Old Stag - little one Confessor Jiji - small intruder, little one Snail Shaman - little shadow, my friend The Hunter - tiny squib, little squib, Zote the Mighty - cur, soggy vagabond, clumsy little oaf, lowly worm Hornet - ghost, little ghost, Ghost of Hallownest Tiso - pale thing, little squib, pale one Salubri - sweetling, stylish litte gadfly, my dear, sweetums, my dapper gadfly Cloth - my adventurous friend, tiny warrior, tiny creature, my friend, tiny saviour, tiny one Bretta - White Saviour, White Wanderer Millibelle - dearie; creepy, little thing (thought to herself, not out loud) Seer - Wielder Grey Mourner - Le'mer (she does also address the Knight as 'you,' so Le'mer must mean something else) Nailsmith - traveller (only after not killing him) Relic Seeker Lemm - grubby little wanderer, short one, Little Fool - warrior Nailmaster Mato - my pupil Eternal Emilitia - bug, little grub Dung Defendor - mighty warrior of Hallownest Midwife - my dear, my good friend Bardoon - tiny thing Troupe Leader Grimm - my friend Divine - funny little thing, little lovely

no nicknames, always addresses the Knight directly with "you:" Myla, Sly, Iselda, Leg Eater, Willoh, Tuk, Nailmaster Sheo, Nailmaster Oro (both nailmasters will say the Knight is their pupil, but not address the Knight as 'my pupil'), Brumm, White Lady

Maskmaker is an outlier in that he is so cryptic he never addresses the Knight directly

[alsiken]

Is this the dynamic, did i do it right?

[smallsinger5901]

the thing about Light is that he thinks the average person’s reaction to just about anything is to be completely unfazed. He genuinely thinks that having any sort of reaction (shock, joy, sadness, anger) to crazy news is suspicious and that a normal person would never have a reason to be surprised by anything

which is EXACTLY what makes L 10000x more suspicious of him

[turtletoria]

one downside to digital mediums of art is that you cant see the tear stains (they just slide down the screen)

[mathysphere]

just played a cool game jam game on Itch.io-- Cross Stitched, where you play Baba Yaga as you try and fight your way out of a tapestry, and collect and enhance powerups in your own tapestry as you do.

It's real simple-- game jam game and all-- but lots of fun, and insanely beautiful!

[zan0tix]

YURI BLAST

[darqx]

Bought the most expensive Pencil™ of my life to test out drawing on an iPad whilst I was on hols

[icys-junkyard]

Unova Battle Subway maps

My personal preferred map of the railways (one with blue markers, one with color coded markers)

An alternate map, taking the in-game subway map slightly more literally. (Bonus map with a few non-canon markers I added purely to help myself make sense of the seemingly pointless shapes of some of the routes)

Bonus extra map of the routes taken by Ingo, Emmet, or both of them, for those who want a more specific visual of those routes on their own. (Of course Emmet's line goes through the Pokémon World Tournament lmao)

Misc notes/thoughts under the cut

I'm not a train person, take all these musings with a grain of salt lol

Canon map note: I imagine this map only shows the large, intercity railways. Cities like Nimbasa, Castelia, etc likely have smaller, more complex subway lines all over the city like we tend to see IRL.

Canon map note 2: In an IRL setting, these rail lines are likely far less straight and angular than on these maps and could probably make a lot more sense if drawn with a freer hand and consideration for the landscape, but I tried sticking somewhat close to how it's presented in the game.

International (wi-fi) line: In the game it's the wi-fi line. In a non-game context I imagine this line is one that actually leaves Unova and goes to a neighboring region.

Subwayness: While not all of these lines are 100% underground like they might be in the cities, I like to think quite a few of them are partially or primarily in tunnels. Many lines go across water without a major bridge* on the map, or straight through harsh environments like mountains or deserts, some of which may be more convenient long term to go under rather than through. With the technology of the Pokémon universe, I imagine large stretches of underground train tunnels are entirely possible. (*Maybe there's smaller unshown bridges for the trains, but at least the line that goes right through Castelia's port to an island I'd like to believe could be underground under water)

Battle Subway: The Battle Subway itself likely only runs on these intercity lines.Assuming IRL distances rather than in game walking distances, depending on the length of the line, a lap or two could be a full days work for the bosses. Non-battle trains likely use these same tracks.

Anville Town: The branching path on the Anville line is strange, as it doesn't seem to point toward any known location. It could be pointing toward some unlabelled town or landmark, though I've seen some people posit that it stops at the Celestial or Dragonspiral towers (though they seem too far away for me to agree). My personal headcanon is that rather than the large branch shown on the original map, it's actually two branches going to Anville Town; a large alternate rail to help with rotating/moving trains going in and out of the rail yard there.

Pokémon World Tournament: Located in or very near Driftveil City, it was added in BW2 by Driftveil gym leader Clay. Considering Driftveil is a city, it could have multiple subway stations, one of which just happens to be close to the PWT. Alternatively, it could be a bit of a distance away and thus have it's own station.

PokéStar Studios: Located in or very near Virbank City. As the major intercity lines don't quite hit Virbank itself, I imagine Virbank only has one intercity station near the studio if it's within Virbank itself. That, or it has no intercity stations and one must travel the distance between Virbank and the studio to travel further.

Unity Tower: Literally this train goes through a port and right into the ocean to reach an island. This island is only accessible by boat. I'm convinced this train goes under the seafloor. That or it has a super cool Marine Tube situation where it's a subway tunnel, but the tunnel is transparent and the ocean and water pokémon can be seen out the train windows.

[yesokayiknow]

this was definitely horrifying for ruby on a ridiculous number of levels but i can't stop thinking about kate's remark about the timeline being centered on her. bc like. did kate know? that this was an offshoot timeline that would eventually die? did she know that she wasn't the right version of herself? that one day her reality would collapse to make way for the proper timeline? that even meeting with ruby could be one step towards bringing the proper timeline back in play and erasing her own existence?

[ijosijen]

neat high gavellian verb: qa pisa, "to notice"

The verb is strictly transitive, demanding two and no more than two arguments. Makes its future tense with the language's go auxiliary, the standard one. All around a pretty generic verb.

But let's take a look at the language's other future tense aux. The copula. Mainly paraded out when dealing with weird inherited unaccusative nonsense (the distant ancestor lang was fairly ergative).

Now, normally, weird verbs that take the copula future have both transitive and intransitive forms, with the intransitive subject tending towards being the transitive object.

But again, qa pisa doesn't have an intransitive form. its future is the same, and doesn't take copula. Or does it? Unlike 99% of verbs, it can use the copular future as a strictly intransitive "to be noticed" anyway! It's sort of a passive voice, except I already have a different regular passive voice too :P

definitely an artifact that speakers preferred this one here for this specific verb. a mix of the older stage's unaccusativity with a newer stage's judgement that this verb was a bit too agentlike for the simple intransitive to be a patient. but with the double-marked copular aux... there it can remain. lots of irregular fun.

[koreandragon]

THE JUDGE FROM HELL (2024) Ep.06

[decarabias]

underrated part of mementos mission is ren being so effortlessly pretty that the casting director at ann’s photoshoot thinks he’s one of the models

i know he demurs in response but i do still like it as an unconventional postcanon career for him because first of all his face card never declines

but also it is deeply fun to think of akechi with a password protected folder on his phone with all of ren’s horniest photoshoots

[wolfythewitch]

What eye color does your Cassandra of troy have? It looks hazel but I could be wrong.

Also how did you decide what eye color to give your Odyssey!odysseus and does it have anything to do with your eye color choice for Athena?

I thiiink it was either hazel or gold?

And for Odysseus, I like giving heroes favored by Athena grey eyes haha. For her epithet, which some translate to grey (or blue) (could also translate to clear/shining/gleaming eyes, like an owl's. I guess maybe it was an offshoot of silvery? Who knows). So He and Diomedes got them light grey eyes

[sf3uuf]

I've been thinking about JJBA again...