#tagging cuz he’s actually relevant hehe

[girlfailurefelix]

i am, once again, posting a fic at midnight. anyways, glitchtrapped!Tony cuz this idea was floating around in my head for about a week now

[ciciciron]

When the when the autism kicks in and suddenly it's 1 am and I have a completed Lear design despite the fact he doesn't show up in my au until the sequel fic

Naturally the best course of action to take with Hoopa!Lear was to make him more emo, and also pink, and also tan because I felt like it. Severe infodump under the cut cuz I am so. about him

Brief overview of the au- it just involves a lot of multiverse bullshit, as well as pokemon-human hybrids known as either gods (for mythical or legendary pokemon, created by being blessed either by an Arceus or fusing with the pre existing legendary) or demons (people who sell their soul when they die and tangentially become part Pokemon because fun character design). The story follows this guy named Akagi as he works to defeat his father once and for all...to put it simply.

Lear, or actually Lyer because he's from the first universe in context of all of this and therefore I have to use the Japanese name, was originally human just like most of the gods. This relates to the bigger picture but like 10,000 years before the story takes place there was this big event that left half the world destroyed and time all fucked up, bro almost died lmao loser but Hoopa fused with him to save his life

He then spent the next 10k years doing fuck all but being silly and visiting random universes until it was decided he was to be plot relevant where all he did was make travel easier which some how proved him more useful than any other traveling companion the mc had before

He only agrees to it because he's searching for the prison bottle so he can actually unlock his full power instead of just being 5'2" and able to teleport. And it's convenient enough that their destinations line up pretty well and he's more protected this way

Also not to get too angsty because it'll be at least a year before I can write any part of this story because I physically cannot work so out of order but given the fact he never had his character development in masters and has also genuinely lost everyone he's ever cared about because that long ass stretch of time (where bro didn't age, I'll add, he's still 17 here smh couldn't even drown the pain with alcohol or smth) he's even more difficult and it takes a lot more for him to accept that he doesn't have to suffer alone

(Also lowkey oc x canon but you cannot come into my house and insult my gay furniture when I have good lore reasons)

Also unrelated but when I was autistically scrolling the tags for him on Tumblr I learned that other people have made Hoopa!Lear design's and I was so like...that was so fun to see hehe it inspired me to finally draw mine. I've been obsessed with him recently which came out of no where- he wasn't in the story at all until a month ago

[cosmik-homo]

OK so i just woke up from a nap but. @myriadism asked in the tags if i have any thoughts about the usefulness of swear words

so. what got me into linguistics in e first place was that when i was about, 11? my mom bought me a pop linguistics book by a writer called Guy Deutscher. Now the different versions of the book r quite different so idk if i can recommend the english one, cuz i never rea it. and before i dive in its important to me that this is POP lnguistics- I.e., somewhat simplified and made to be exciting compared to academical models- and its only one, specific view on this subject and the tip of the iceberg in an endless world of different theories and ideas and stuff

But in the book, he makes a case that the forces of "Destruction" in a language- all the "Wearing down of old, proper, beautiful language by today's youth who speak like slobs"- is the same as forces of creation, that language is ever changing and things are created and recreated as much as they are destroys, and he talks about three main forces that moivate humans to change language:

1) EXPRESSIVENESS. we wanna show how very very much we feel. we want to be able to /amplify/ our speech. so, for a very crude example we add things like "super" before our adjactives. but the thing is, by doing this we always wear itself out and sart anew- after a while, we've all been saying "Super" about everything, and it becomes Part of it, and it no longer "amplifies" what we want to say enough, we want to be MORE expressive. so we start saying "super duper!" until it wears out too.

This is a very crude example but you'll be amazed how many linguisti processes and words and phrases Deutscher proves are created by this cycle. and swear words are very important for this sort of expressiveness- boh for amplifying other words, like how "Fucking" is one of the only infixes in english, the only things that can come in the middle of a word ("Abso-fucking-loutely!"), and by themselves- they express some of our strongest emotions but lose their novelty very quickly, and we're always looking for new and creative scathing terms to fling at our rivals and our problems.

the other two forces are Economy- we wanna make things easier for ourselves, being naturally sorta, lazy, so we sandpaper and trim down all aspects of language from the complexity of grammatical structures to the amounts and ways we pronounce vowels themselves- and Analogy- we look for and find order where there is none, and try to make it if we can, leading to phenomenon like Rebracketing and other back-formation. But these two are less relevant to your question- although, i would say Economy has role in shaping swears too, like how so many of our exclamations are weird shortenings of christian replacment-swears and exclamations that got shortened (crickey for christ killer, and what not)

anyways yeah i read this book about 7,000 times as a kid and now i actually sudy a bit of linguistics here and there but im too tired to remember any fancy more academical stuff hehe

But I don't WANT to get a job I don't WANT to sign for taxes I want to sit here and do griddlers and think about language and words :(