#the viking got asked

[thegothicviking]

🥦🌻 and 📺 for the ask game ☺️

Hellu! Tusen takk for the ask! :D

🥦Favorite Veggie: Hm... I think...maybe, Parsnip, carrot and broccoli? I like tomatoes aswell but they are technically not a vegetable but a fruit ;)

🌻Favorite flower: I'm a little old fashioned so I love deep red roses but I also like more or less any purple flowers like pansies (named "Stephmother flower/stemorsblomst" in Norwegian), purple petunias and even purple roses! BUT as I worked at a garden center/huge florist shop center last year.. I also got to know (and fall in love with) this funky MESS of a plant:

JUNCUS SPIRALUS! <3

It is so messy, so chatoic and the actual stems were so soft to the touch and had a special texture that I really liked to caress! I had to buy one of these chaotic babies from the shop I worked at but my dad accidentally killed while trying to give it some fluid plant nutrition...(without my permission...) It couldn't handle this liquid and so it died :( I actually miss it! I do want to have it again! <3

As for the last question I am just gonna sum up some of my

📺 Favorite TV Shows: (The ones I remember and in no particular order because I am unmedicated and a mess today so here we go)

"BABYLON BERLIN" my beloved <3 (But I have to admit that the latest season was kind of a mess and not that entertaining..)

"The Man In The High Castle" (except for the last season...we do NOT talk about the last season! - . -)

"What We Do In The Shadows" (although again...the latest season that I saw..season 4 I think? Wasn't as good as the rest, but I need to watch season 5!!)

"VIKINGS" (duh-uh...how could you tell? :P At least right up until season 4 and then I always forgot to watch the rest...It was so good and then it tried to be wannabe Game of Thrones and that's when I lost interest.. :/ I guess I'm gonna try to watch it again sometime..I just hope the rest of the season isn't going to be like Game of Thrones as what I liked about Vikings was that it was good WITHOUT any nudity and sex scenes..at least from what I know right up until season 4. )

"FRIENDS" (even though I only watch the re-runs on TV, it was the first series that I ever loved that wasn't a cartoon!)

"Murdoch Mysteries" (but they never air it in Norway anymore and I don't want to have subscriptions on more platforms just for ONE TV-show. Damn. I miss it though!)

Currently I am watching "From" at Netflix and it's really good so far! I have high hopes! :)

"100 Code" but they stopped after one season and then one of the main actors died...R.I.P Michael Nyqvist :( It was SO GOOD and I HATE how the last episode was THE BIGGEST CLIFFHANGER and then we never get to know how it would end.. :/

"Hazbin Hotel" (I guess..even though the actual series wasn't as good as the Pilot)

"Vampire High" even though it was cheesy and even though it was killed off after one season and again it left the audience with a cliffhanger...

Tusen takk again for this ask! <3

[xxplastic-cubexx]

bro the feminine wiles aren’t even a joke like. im with that anon who thought hellfire gala charles was a woman when they first saw him bc same, that design is insaaaane (/pos). how could u not think that when u see it lmfao. idk whose choice it was to give him a corset but the hourglass figure + female coded jawline combo do not lie. i saw it on pinterest and i was like ohhh don’t lie to me i know an anime girl when i see one- WAIT PROFESSOR X????

and that’s not even to mention movieverse charles ofc. we’ve all seen james mcavoy and his big sparkly kawaii anime eyes, i shouldn’t have to say it. charles xavier is never beating the allegations, i fear

gonna need this ask hung in the louvre i fear

[anawrites3]

Any thoughts on a Viking AU?

So sorry it took so long to answer, love! 5 fun facts about viking au if I were even to write one;

>> Slade is a chief of his tribe, obviously. Other people often mistake him for Odin and they're scared shitless just at the sight of him. He uses it toe his advantage, of course

>> Dick is a son of chief of rival tribe. He never fell for Slade's Odin-like look and while other people of his tribe froze or even threw themselves on the ground when they though they saw The Allfather, Dick called him out on his bullshit right away

>> That's how they met. Slade looked at Dick and he wanted, while Dick would like to punch Slade straight in the face for deceiving people like that

>> One way or another, they happen to be stuck on one ship for a longer period of time (maybe going on a raid together or smth) but the first few weeks Slade does his best to get into Dick's pants and Dick does his best to stop himself from murdering Slade because he didn't want to start a war between their tribes

>> The tension between them is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Grant tried to drown himself at least a dozen time because of it (and it was before they did fuck. After they finally did fuck, it got even fucking worse)

[amayikes]

Tagged by: @mellophase my beautiful moot ❤️

coffee or tea | early bird or night owl | chocolate or vanilla | spring or fall | silver or gold | pop or alternative (I know, surprising!) | freckles or dimples (my bi ass likes each one on each gender*. An nb with both tho?? Knockout.) | snakes or sharks | mountains or fields | thunder or lightning | egyptian mythology or greek mythology norse mythology!| ivory or scarlet | flute or lyre | opal or diamond | butterflies or honeybees | macarons or eclairs | typewritten or handwritten | secret garden or secret library | rooftop or balcony | spicy or mild (hope you mean food because baby I am spice everywhere else!)| opera or ballet | london or paris | vincent van gogh or claude monet | denim or leather | potions or spells | ocean or desert (however please only coral reefs and beaches... I got really bad thalassophobia. T-T ) | mermaids or sirens (to be clear, not odyssey sirens which are pretty much harpies. Sea sirens.)| masquerade ball or cocktail party

Tagging: @flyin-shark and @nehiyaw-pwat ❤️

You guys can copy it from under the cut :>

coffee or tea | early bird or night owl | chocolate or vanilla | spring or fall | silver or gold | pop or alternative | freckles or dimples | snakes or sharks | mountains or fields | thunder or lightning | egyptian mythology or greek mythology | ivory or scarlet | flute or lyre | opal or diamond | butterflies or honeybees | macarons or eclairs | typewritten or handwritten | secret garden or secret library | rooftop or balcony | spicy or mild | opera or ballet | london or paris | vincent van gogh or claude monet | denim or leather | potions or spells | ocean or desert | mermaids or sirens | masquerade ball or cocktail party

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

a silly lil comic for a silly lil headcanon

tan is of course a goat but she hasn't always been a goat and what if whatever she was before couldn't grow horns? :C improvise, adapt, overcome. gaslight gatekeep girlboss

transcript under cut

Viking: Why are your horns always different?

Taneesha: VIKING. you asshole. What was that for? Viking: Fun. Your horns are different every time I see you.

Viking: Why? Taneesha: I don't know what you're talking about. Viking: TAN. Taneesha: These are literally just my horns, Viking.

Taneesha: They've always been like this. Taneesha: Bye!

*LATER*

Taneesha: A! Viking: I KNEW IT!

[whitehartlane]

as a fan of another pl team i think your problem is that your captain is son. he's too emotional and soft and instead of demanding better of your players he goes around comforting them and protecting them from the refs. idk i feel like he's probably let the band get to his head a bit and now he's pushing people like PEH (who have proper authority) away from the refs, it's a bit weird. strange appointment. he's trying too hard

know him do you?

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: an olive green canvas army bag, with a small embroidery hoop secured to a corner of the flap, with a faded black stamp with the details worn away by time in the hoop. Also in the hoop it has been penciled in big letters "history is nuanced" and in smaller letters, it says "(and queer!)". End I.D.]

Oh shit somebody stop them they're starting another patch!

[medievalandfantasymelee]

Has the list of contestants been updated at all with new submissions/will there be another list released closer to when submissions are closing?

It hasn't been updated since posting, no. I had a huge influx of submissions yesterday which took up most of my time.

I'd like to keep the complete list as close to my chest as possible, but I will continue to update on how the submissions are going until they close.

If you want to know if a particular character has been submitted, you may ask, but also just go ahead and submit them regardless.

I will say, I'm surprised that certain series/franchises haven't had more characters submitted. Game of Thrones, Vikings and The Last Kingdom are all surprisingly threadbare in the list.

Haven't had a single submission from The Tudors yet either, though I don't know how surprising that is.

[tyrannuspitch]

thanos could be such a good character if he was a good character...

[doueverwonder]

just saw one of your latest post and noticed how many children Norway have😭

Denmark and Sweden to Norway: ‘‘Um, whatca got there?’’

Norway, holding his 6th child, sweating: ‘‘A smoothie’’

dear anon I can tell you by kid #6 Denmark and Sweden were not asking questions anymore. They would just look at Norway and he'd be like "Her name is Sia, she's three months old, and she is Greenland :)"

Now with Fiona and Bodil (the eldest 2) it was absolutely;

Denmark and Sweden: Where did you get a child?

Norway, panicking: when two people love each other--

He calmed down introducing them to Ida and Ailsa, but yeah no, by the time he got to Ari, Sia, and Dagny it was just "I got another kid, bye"

[thegothicviking]

Ok @thetimecrystal Other artists that I love the voice of;

It's like Elvis but better! <3 (People love Peter Steele but I am more for this dandy man!)

And Lindemann's voice here...do...things...to me

[flysafepapi]

Vikings ask do you think if ivar was around when hvitserk started doing drugs that he would've abandoned him like ubbe or bjorn

Ooh, good question.

I don’t think so, but I definitely think Ivar would’ve done the whole “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed” thing.

Largely, I think he would’ve been supportive with helping Hvitserk in dropping the habit, but it wouldn’t be sort or comforting support at all, more like taking away any that Hvitserk might’ve stashed away and threatening everyone with death if they even think about saying yes if/when Hvitserk tries to find more.

I can also see him forcing Hvitserk into training the younger kids super early in the morning, or some other routine activity that he can focus on instead of the urge to take drugs again, but also something that’s not pleasant at all so it’s like a punishment for even falling into it in the first place at the same time.

Honestly I don’t think there’s much Hvitserk could do that would make Ivar abandon him, especially because that goes both ways, sure they might not always like eachother sometimes and don’t exactly always agree on everything, so Ivar wouldn’t like it at all but he’d still stick around. He’d make his dislike about it extremely vocal though.

But on the flipside, if anyone’s going to understand why Hvitserk fell into it, it’s going to be Ivar, you can’t tell me he didn’t consider it more than a few times on the days when his legs were really bad. He just didn’t also fall into that same spiral because he’s fueled by anger and spite instead.

But on the other hand, I feel like he’d been harsher than the others, on the basis that he himself never fell into that spiral, kinda like “Bro, I never did that shit and out of all of us I actually had a reason to, you need to get your shit together.”

[cementcornfield]

Ja’Marr said he haven’t been talking to Justin lately 😐 Because they grew apart

that part definitely bummed me out 😔 i mean i guess it's natural when you’re both busy adults, god knows i don’t keep up with my college friends as much as i used to and it sucks. (but also justin and ja’marr were talking so much at the beginning of the off season with justin’s gta server, so like i think this is a friendship that can easily be rekindled).

[fullmoonfireball]

okay i don’t know how unpopular or “hot” this take is but:

the original version The Twelfth Fish is by FAR the worst Club Penguin stage play. the only other play that comes close to being as bad as it is The Vikings That Time Forgot, which spits on the story and actually-fun-comedy of both Haunting of the Viking Opera AND The Penguins That Time Forgot at the same time.

[liangdraws]

Láadan, I get why she thought it'd be easy - picking the easiest consonants and vowels to say for the base form - but she fully expected the speakers to just do that without thinking about it. Admirable goal, creating a language you can't gaslight someone in - but that onus is on the speaker. (I'd say the billion ablauts of every verb saying how happy you are about it, that was more intimidating to its users than a particle would have been.)

This is why conlangers shouldn't study Navajo. It is by far an outlier in terms of how much complexity is in the grammar alone, and studying it will make it sound like the native speakers use all this grammar. Which they don't, when it's implicit, which the textbook can't tell you (since nominalized verbs usually need more structural support than unambiguous nouns, it varies highly).

The biggest conlang I had inspired by Navajo, Hlūf, I had to make a billion features optional, because of the story:

"Apisawekumumehaeskelelewihē" is how the textbook will tell you to write "Alright (concessive), let's suppose she causes you to be hurt over and over again." This is how you'll speak if you're giving a speech in parliament.

"Api, asa kumumehaᴉhwē aoe 'kelel?" is how a native speaker would assemble the sentence using a local system of mutations, and thinking through the sentence as it's being said.

"Appi assa wıᴉ kūhru *gestures of repeated punching* moha, meha meha owë?" is how my protagonists will say it.

That's supposed to be a native English speaker in a foreign land, making a clumsy pidgin out of the dictionary terms - isolating lemmas, using extra pronouns, and second-language-errors like mixing up "kumu" with "kūhru," meaning "to make" like crafting an object, not like causing an emotion.

So there was a justified artlangy excuse to make the language "complicated" - the story requires non-linguist readers to tell the fluent from the clumsy speakers at a glance. Over the course of the story, the reader should hopefully remember a couple words, and the isolating pidgin will make it so eventually they can recognize a suspicious keyword. Even spoken aloud, this wouldn't work. But you can pick up the pattern when reading comic speech balloons "fluent speakers use long words and choppy speakers use short ones." They may not know what verb conjunct slots or oligosynthesis are, and neither did I when I was a kid, that's okay!

Making a language "complicated" can have many reasons!

Valyrian is impressively complicated and difficult to learn, is it so complicated on purpose or did it surprise you with how complicated it turned out?

When it comes to complexity and language, any complexity you add to the morphology is complexity you take away from the syntax, and vice-versa. For example, when you learn all the noun cases of Finnish, it buys you having to remember fewer constructions with adpositions—or fewer verb augmentations, if the language went that way.

Syntactically, Valyrian is usually (MODIFIER) NOMINATIVE-NOUN (MODIFIER) OTHER-CASE-NOUN* (ADVERB) VERB. It's quite simple. There's not a lot you have to remember, and things can move around a little bit, if it feels right. You don't have to remember a ton of auxiliaries with different applications and slightly different usages. For the most part the heavy hitters (the nouns and verbs themselves) take care of things rather nicely. This is what complexity within the words themselves buys you: simplicity elsewhere.

The reason you get this is because all languages are doing the same thing: describing human experience. And humans are the same language to language. The other small tidbit is that when creating a naturalistic language—and it doesn't matter what method you use—you are, unconsciously or not, aiming for the lowest common denominator in terms of grammatical complexity. You don't have to do that, but generally if you're trying to create a language for humans with no other goals, you do. With a language like Ithkuil, John was intentionally pushing away from what is standard in human languages, and so there are needless levels of complexity that push beyond the boundaries of ordinary human language.

Now, when I say "needless", this is what I mean.

In Turkish, if you want to say "The girl is reading a book", you say:

Kız kitap okuyor.

Turkish is a language with noun cases, but you only see the nominative here. Why? Because the girl is reading A book. When the object is indefinite in Turksih you don't need to use the accusative case—in fact, you shouldn't. If you wanted to say "The girl is reading the book", that's when the accusative case pops up:

Kız kitabı okuyor.

Okay, with this in mind, you've introduced—just in the nouns—four possibilities:

Nominative + indefinite

Nominative + definite

Accusative + indefinite

Accusative + definite

In a maximally complex language, all of this would be marked. In Turkish, only one of these is marked. (Well, maybe two, if you were to say Bir kız for nominative + indefinite. Turkish has an indefinite article that pops up sometimes.) Certainly there are languages where all of these have some sort of marking, but then those very same languages will have other situations where maximal marking is possible but not present.

Human languages all have this in common. There are areas in the language where more categories could be marked but are not. It doesn't matter what the language is. This is because humans have limits for how much junk they'll tolerate in the language they're using. It isn't long before something that could be inferred from context is inferred from context. It collapses every so often (i.e. too little is marked and so marking pops up), but the unconscious goal is for the language to have a balance between morphological and syntactic complexity and also explicitness and implicitness.

A language doesn't have to do this, though, and so conlangs can be more or less explicit/implicit. Can they work? Certainly, but they may be more than humans will comfortably tolerate, and so humans may not want to use them.

Take Láadan, for example. Had Láadan been created later it might have had a better shot at being used, but this was 1982 before conlangers had started getting together. Láadan primary flaw is that it's trying to be a deep philosophical experiment while also trying to be a language a lot of people speak. That was never going to work. Suzette Haden Elgin lamented that maybe women didn't want a language of their own to use, and so the experiment was doomed from the start. A simpler explanation is she saw an ocean and built a train to cross it.

In Láadan, every sentence begins with one of six speech act particles (copied from Wikipedia):

Bíi: Indicates a declarative sentence (usually optional)

Báa: ndicates a question

Bó: Indicates a command; very rare, except to small children

Bóo: Indicates a request; this is the usual imperative/"command" form

Bé: Indicates a promise

Bée: Indicates a warning

And then in addition to that, every sentence ends with one of the following (also copied from Wikipedia):

wa: Known to speaker because perceived by speaker, externally or internally

wi: Known to speaker because self-evident

we: Perceived by speaker in a dream

wáa: Assumed true by speaker because speaker trusts source

waá: Assumed false by speaker because speaker distrusts source; if evil intent by the source is also assumed, the form is waálh

wo: Imagined or invented by speaker, hypothetical

wóo: Used to indicate that the speaker states a total lack of knowledge as to the validity of the matter

This is too much! Evidential systems in language exist, but they are so much smaller than this, and usually the markers pull double duty—and there's often a null marker.

Again, though, it's about the goals! This is fine for a philosophical language. And if it was simply a philosophical language, then how many people "speak" it is irrelevant. For example, John Quijada doesn't lament that after twenty years there isn't a community of Ithkuil speakers—indeed, he's baffled whenever he hears of someone who wants to try to "speak" Ithkuil. It's not designed for that, and so the metric isn't a fair one. Based on the structure of Láadan, I'd argue the same: the number of speakers/users isn't a fair metric, and shouldn't have been a design goal. Because while a language like High Valyrian looks more complex, with its declension classes and conjugations, Láadan is more complex in that it exceeds the expectations of explicitness a human user expects from a language.

Long answer to the question, but no, High Valyrian ended up as complex as I intended, and I don't think it's more complex than one would expect from either a natural or naturalistic language.

[justthatspiffy]

i can't stop writing essays about my friend's shitty plays!!