#out of glyphs | out of character

[goldenxglyphs]

I’M NOT DEAD ITS JUST FINALS WEEK

AND I’M GRADUATING SO I’M ACTUALLY JUST BEEN HYPERFOCUSING ON GETTING THE HELL OUT OF COLLEGE. THIS FRIDAY IS MY LAST FINAL SO WE’RE DOING GREAT. ALMOST THERE. WISH ME LUCK!

[theprinceandthewitch]

Still unable to cope with the fact Huntlow exists specifically to keep Hunter out of the final fight with Belos even though he literally asked Luz at the end of TTT to help him avenge Flapjack.

[adaptive-dragonet]

[crisiskarda52]

Speak

Quiet the evil

[anistarrose]

After rewatching the Thanks For Watching trilogy, I actually have to double down on my controversial opinion: Hunter never having to directly face off against Belos again after Thanks to Them is actually super satisfying and cathartic in an understated, underrated way. He said everything he needed to say after the worst thing that Belos ever did to him, and from then on, he didn't know it yet but he was free. I'm so happy for him.

[shegs]

I followed you a while ago when your primary art was botw. I really want to know if you have played totk and if you did what are your thoughts? Your art is gorgeous and always will be <3

First of all thank you so much!! Drawing mostly BotW feels like so long ago now but it really means a lot that you enjoyed the stuff I made then!

I haven't played a huge amount of TotK yet but I've been enjoying it when I've had time :^) It hasn't captured my interest as intensely as BotW did but that's likey because I'm enjoying finding caves rather than experiencing the plotline...😅

Also interested in what you make of TotK as well since you also presumably liked BotW? A lot of my friends playing it stopped part way through🤔 I'm really curious about others' opinions on it and how it lines up with the hype of the original.

[rubberbandballqueen]

it's unlikely to happen due to globalization, but i think it would be really funny if countries that use the latin alphabet in their writing systems started developing their own slightly different standards of writing each glyph and got obsessively picky about it.

like yeah i know there's like british vs. american standard spelling nitpicks, and that's something, but i'm thinking something more along the lines of "you put a slash through your 7's? that's the british standard but all right i guess" kind of subtle. we need to replicate what taiwan/hong kong/japan (and to an extent mainland china) have going on.

[caravanlurker]

Hi I'm Lauren I'm new to this app, I'm just trying to make some friends. Can i be your friend?

Oh—sure! Cursory glance at your blog shows that we have a few interests in common. Who’re your top 3 Owl House characters?

[cherrymoonvol6]

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[queenangst]

as of now i have a number of wha wips and it grows every day;

eyefic (silver night procession divergent where coco loses her eye)

whumptober hallucination fic (magic is used on qifrey and his kids have to fight him to save him)

whumptober wingfic going wrong (post-silver night, the cuff isn't removed correctly; what if wingfic except it's forbidden)

brimhat coco au (multipart, brimhats get to coco first)

[olderthannetfic]

This is going to be an obvious question to anyone who's familiar with the language, but how does one type in Chinese? All the languages I've studied have had alphabetic writing systems, so to me foreign language typing is just assigning different letters on the keyboard and hitting them in order the same as English.

I imagine there's some way of entering the elements of each glyph with a command that tells it where to place it? I tried googling and just got a bunch of articles about how autocorrect can suggest Chinese characters when a user types the words in pinyin, but this sounds like a laborious and clunky system for someone who reads and writes Chinese fluently, and it wouldn't nessecarily exist on all devices.

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(same anon wondering about typing Chinese characters) I also figure that if converting from pinyin was the primary or only way to get digital Chinese characters, then a lot more online spaces would just use pinyin in the first place and save everyone the trouble. The people writing multichapter fanfics or chatting away on social media in Chinese definitely have a fluent way to type their language that probably doesn't involve converting the entire text from an unrelated writing system, but these articles just aren't telling me what it is.

Ahahaha. Anon... phonetic entry is so much easier than other methods.

No, nobody enters characters while typing by picking radicals and where to place them. There are ways to look up an unfamiliar character that use radicals. There are also apps that let you try to draw something by hand, then attempt to figure out what you drew. But, again, that's for unfamiliar things, not typing up a story.

Computers were developed by English speakers and others with alphabets. Phonetic entry would probably be easiest anyway, but with the early infrastructure geared towards it, it's definitely easier.

There was an interesting phenomenon in Japanese (I'm not sure about Chinese) where The Youth™ were using fewer and fewer complex or less common kanji in... I want to say the 80s or 90s. The usual suspects moaned about the death of literacy...

Then cell phone/computer typing came along. If you knew the word, you didn't have to remember every single detail of how to write it. And people responded by using hella kanji all over the place, including lots of much rarer characters that a person would often recognize on sight but not remember perfectly enough to write by hand with confidence.

English spelling is tricky, but just learning 26 letters and then using them in a way that makes sense to a native speaker of [whatever] isn't. People are going to know pinyin. It's not a hardship to use it.

[goldenxglyphs]

Event Title: A Day In My Shoes Event Length: 2 weeks EXTENDED  Event Timeline: Anywhere between Season 1 and Season 2A Event Status: Alternate Universe Event End Date: March 28th 2023  April  7th 2023

About Event:

In another world, Hunter is the Human who had found his way to the Isles and Luz is the witch who was trying to find herself in the world. Things are now much different for them than in the original timeline. 

EXTRAS:

Hunter and Luz will be equally played unless requests for specific muses are requested. 

Luz and Camila will both be witches, with Luz being in the Beastkeeping track in Season 1 before transitioning to Multi-track. Her father is still deceased 

Hunter has no permanent family back in the human realm as he is an orphan and ran away to the Demon Realm with the plan to stay until he was 18. Lilith takes the place of Eda and vice versa for this au event. Belos stays in the same role.

Hunter is related to the Clawthornes and Wittebanes, albeit distantly. It will be implied that Evelyn and Caleb had 2 children, one of which was human that found their way back to the human realm. The resemblance between Caleb and Hunter is purely coincidental. 

The Golden Guards are still in this timeline, however either the previous Golden Guard (Darius’ mentor) is still active or any Golden Guard OCs can take the place of the empty role. 

Asks directed towards Hunter or Luz in regards to the event must have “[ Luz and Hunter Event ]” in the ask to keep it separate from normal asks for now.

This event may include fighting and this will be plotted in DMs. Permission for a fight to start will be asked as well.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE A STARTER FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE LIKE OR REPLY TO THIS POST.

[whoism0]

Side Order Typeface: Complete!

HEY. do you remember when Nintendo made a typeface for Splatoon 3's Side Order and never elaborated? It looks a little bit like this:

Well I went over to the lovely @splatoongamefiles and asked for the font file. They gave me the file, all nice and simple, BUT it was completely unfinished... I really liked it, so I finished it myself!!!

This is what it looked like when I started:

and this is what it looks like now!!!!!!!

It took me 6 months because I apparently started working on this in february, but it only took that long because of my laziness! I did, however, know nothing about this kind of thing before except for my vague interest in typography and fonts. I used a free font-making software called FontForge and I had to learn it from scratch and with no help. So I think all in all, it turned out pretty good!!

I also decided to name the typeface since when I downloaded it, it was called something silly and just for the files so I named it Spire after the Spire of Order which I think works very nicely!!

Now I'll talk about what's changed because I did upload beta version 0.2 of this recently!

added uppercases A, D, G, H, I, K, M, V, W, X

added symbols " # $ % & ' ( ) * + - / < = > [ ] ^ _ ` { | } ¡ £ ¿ × ÷

added all the accents you can see above, but not ALL of them because im lazy

fixed lowercase k so now it looks like a normal letter

B - adjusted sizes of the upper and lower sections as well as sharpened corners of the lower section

K - slightly lowered the crossbar

L - curves of the corners are now slightly smoother

z - raised the top right corner by 1 pixel so its no longer 1 pixel wonky...

@ - increased the gap on the left side

deleted all the original file's kerning and did it myself >:)

and lastly! here's the link to download the typeface!!!!!! if you do use it somewhere credit is always appreciated :))))

p.s. if there are any specific characters/glyphs that I haven't added but u really need please dont hesitate to let me know!!!!

[revelboo]

PLEASEE I NEED MORE IDW MEGATRON

Guessing you mean exhausted leader of a bunch of backstabbing, barely competent, chaos children Megatron not exhausted co-captain of the Lost Light Megatron?

Skin and Bones Pt 5

IDW Megatron x Reader

• Scrolling through reports, he’s aware of you wandering around on his desk. Peering down at the Cybertronian glyphs on his keyboard. Almost absently, he nudges you away when you get too close to the edge of the desk then goes back to his report. Ignoring the bemused look you shoot him. Then you’re laying your little hands on the back of his hand to lean across and look at his datapad. Venting sharply, he freezes at that unexpectedly soft touch. “What are you doing, little one?”

• You glance up at the warlord, trying to decide if that slight frown means he’s annoyed or just exasperated and trying ignore the fact that when he calls you little it doesn’t sound condescending. It’s almost cute and better than some of the nicknames a few of the Decepticons have saddled you with. Like squishy or meat bag. “How hard is your language to learn?” You ask because you’re honestly curious and it sounds better than that you’re just bored out of your mind and want something to do.

• Shifting his hand, he rumbles in surprise as you go sprawling across the back of his hand on your belly. Before you can scramble away, he’s reaching over with the other hand, curling his servos around your little body to move you onto the desk between him and the datapad. Clearing the screen, he sketches a character and taps it. Makes a rasping noise that ends on a click. Another glyph, this one vocalized as a whirring sound and you stare up at him. There’s no learning this. You can’t even make those sounds.

• He’s already on the seventh glyph before he looks down and sees the look on your little face. It’s almost the same expression some of his younger soldiers had worn the first time they went into battle. Overwhelmed and terrified. Venting softly to stir your hair, he goes back to the first one. Enunciating carefully, he makes the sound. You look up at him and then make a noise. Mangling it far beyond recognition, but you’re trying. Again he makes the correct pronunciation and then waits. Face reddening, you try again. Still very wrong, but closer. “I can’t make those sounds.”

• “Not yet,” he replies, reaching out to gently use the tip of his servo to turn your face back to the datapad. “Can you draw the glyph?” Blowing out a breath, you lean over the datapad, laying a hand on the screen to copy his glyph. Well, that you’re good at. He runs a knuckle along your spine, feeling you lean into that stroke like you enjoy it. “Very good, little one,” he growls in Cybertronian, smiling indulgently as you peer up at him in confusion. Cautiously you offer him a smile that does strange things to his spark. Makes him uncertain how to feel, because he’s not sure he deserves anything soft or gentle after the things he’s done. Had to do. Certainly doesn’t deserve your trust. Shaking himself, he taps the second one and watches you sketch it out.

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[katyspersonal]

The best Bloodborne Wiki is a passion project of a single person, is about to get even better + how it can be sustained for years to come!

Hello guys! So like many of you've learned from the post with super good model view of Winter Lantern, recently, on Twitter, Meph announced ( x ) the plan to fill the wiki with very useful, very comprehensive screenshots of the models for bosses, enemies, NPCs and even cut content! The wiki has already been a huge help for lorediggers and artists, but THIS is what we will get:

This page is for Lady Maria and you can check it yourself here: ( x )! It is broken down in the categories of general close-ups of her model, then very high-quality screenshots of every attack during her boss battle and walking, and then raw model!

(I never was able to capture a good look at her using Arcane too like here, for example!)

Winter Lantern page ( x ) is using similar principle!

This is not a secret that very often in Fromsoft games, additional information can be obtained not through descriptions but through visual hints! For example, some people only learned that Winter Lantern's head is made of melted Messengers only now, after a proper look at her model! So, of course getting a proper look at every single character and creature from the game could always be helpful!

This, however, is just a recent highlight for this Bloodborne Wiki! Even prior that, it has been providing invaluable help for the fans! Examples off the top of my head: comprehensive data on what character has what items used or not, great and comprehensive hints and tutorials on upgrades and farming and builds for the players, making every bit of information on Chalice Dungeons and glyphs easily accessible, making datamined NPC sliders of all characters way more accessible and easy to grab and repeat, access to much more obscure models (like Gratia's model), full list of internal filenames and patches progress, making information from physical Bloodborne tutorial book accessible...

There are probably more things to cover that me and others found a great help in, and sometimes we might not even notice! I am sure many people could name at least one way where this wiki has been very helpful, offering raw facts and 100% valid information (and properly sourced whenever someone else helped!) without any speculating, in the most elaborate manner! We should not take it for granted because all this information, found or reshared, was compiled by just one guy out of raw passion for the game! And although this project is not profit-based and Meph is willing to commit to it and pay as much as needed to keep it living, I really still wanted to share the Ko-fi link that exists for anyone who is willing to help sponsoring it!

This is not necessary, and Meph has stated the same, but this project is not only helpful but also really hefty to sustain. The monthly support is only $3 per month, but every little bit not only helps the sustenance, but also knowing how much fans care and simply feeling their support is very significant and sometimes you don't even know how much. Heck, when Meph learned how excited people on Tumblr were about Wiki improving with full compilation of models from every angle.. the reaction was "I am so glad that people still care"! I think everyone who does their best to be useful for the fellow fans needs confirmation that they ARE, for sure, helping!

I just really wanted to get the word out anyways because honestly, none of my super elaborate theories and detailed fanart would've been possible without Meph's Wiki. and also because I am trapped in a clown country where I can't send any international money transfer so the feeling of 'do what I can't' got to me too fsdhfdhs There is no pressure or necessity, but here is the link to anyone who can help and feels the wish to! You've noticed I didn't tag Meph.... since there is no Tumblr account to tag, but again, the Twitter link is also here: ( x )!

[somethingwittyandweird]

If I can add: I'm a second voice for Hexcasting being an absolute one of a kind mod that enables a certain kind of wizard experience uniquely well. And the way it does it is by making you the player *learn,* not simply having you go through the existing mechanics of Minecraft with a wizardy texture over the process.

The classic wizard is a wizard because they study: their arcane prowess comes from academic learning, research, etc. The measure of a wizard's power is how much they *know.* They can cast the magic circle because they've studied its mystic patterns a thousand times. They can inscribe the ancient scroll because they've learned every glyph on it. They make magic brews based on their experimental knowledge of the interactions between ingredients.

So it is with Hexcasting: knowledge and study are the path to improvement. Where most mods offer progression synced with Minecraft- i.e. the items you can have and their strength are based on the availability of resources gated behind different biomes/dimensions/etc.- Hexcasting's progression is about learning and about practice. It gives you the runes upfront and you have to teach yourself how to combine them: before you can make a spell that does x to target y, you have to learn the 5 rune sequence that it takes to 'target y' and then add on the rune that 'does x'. And because basically every useful spell has to be directed to a target in some way, you'll get a *lot* of practice drawing the 'target y' sequence. Then you'll also learn the similar but not quite identical sequences for arriving at y in different ways. As you continue, you'll become familiar with the runes, what they're able to accomplish, and how how each of them is used.

And as you design and cast more of these spells, you'll actually genuinely gain proficiency- you get better and faster at drawing familiar sequences without flipping back through the sigil notes, and you'll understand more about how the sigils interact, which lets you write and cast more complex spells. The ludonarrative harmony of practicing your spells until you're good at them- not that you've unlocked better items, but that *you* have improved in your ability to cast- is what I think makes this mod so good at delivering on the wizard fantasy.

thank you for immediately plugging hex casting, i was just about to ask if anything has fulfilled your inner wizard

time to fill my brain with it

no problem! i will always take every opportunity to plug hexcasting, it's genuinely a one of a kind experience imo

ultimately the main thing holding it back is minecraft itself, which i don't think has mechanically rich enough environments to use hexcasting's potential to the fullest. most everything you can do to a block or item in minecraft is pretty discrete and self contained with no real ripple effects or broader consequences. there are exceptions, of course, but those are generally pretty limited in scope. if you cast a spell to ignite a block, the fire will burn whatever it's on and spread until it can't anymore. that's it

in guilder, if you cast a spell of "instantly immolate that thing ten feet in front of me," all of that heat has to go somewhere. being too trigger happy with spells like that will very rapidly raise the temperature of the room you're in and you may very well start baking yourself if you're not careful. this is the kind of nonsense that i want from my wizard games

noita exists on the opposite end of the spectrum from hexcasting with incredibly detailed and interactive environments, but a spellcasting system that very much isn't what i want at all. i don't want cool premade effects, i want a wide variety of basic tools to affect the environment with and the capacity for the complex logic necessary to make my own cool effects using those

unfortunately, i have done a lot of searching and to my knowledge the game i want just does not exist. i've seen tiny frgaments of it in other games before, but nothing that gets anywhere close to the big picture