#tsin

[cuprohastes]

Space Law!

There was a sign on the wall in three of the Universal languages used in the sector:

[Do not tell the Humans something is Impossible]

Ipsquib read it in two of the Universal languages he knew how to read and then said to Atrix Attomyar Denoue, “What the heck?”

Atto, in Passable Tsin, said: “You know the Humans. You tell them they can't do something, and it just encourages them.”

Ipsquib, pondered this. “Like... doing things that aren't physically possible, like that one EVA guy who forgot his suit who ran outside a space station nude to talk to their friend?”

Atto thought about it. “Pretty sure that's just made up,” she said, “But yeah I guess, or more worsely, they're rules lawyers.”

“Eh?”

“Remember that legal case on Epsilon Eridani - The one with the jewellery?”

“The Glitter Band?”

“Yeah. They caught someone stealing it, but it belonged to their family before the Intercine, and it was stolen, but because the other side won they upheld it as owned by the thieves, but then the regime fell and... anyway, everyone had a claim to it.”

“Right. I still don't follow it. How did it work out?”

“One of the human lawyers,” said Atto, “Managed to prove the entire species didn't exist and thus by the wording of the law, it could never have been owned by any party, and therefore it must be an artifact of a non-native species, and as the only representative of a non-native species in the courtroom, he awarded it to the family of the original owners. Nobody could figure out how to legally prove them wrong.”

Ipsquib paused and thought about that for a moment. “OK, that's… Ugh. Humans.”

“Yeah. The uh, Diogenese defence they call it. The Galactic Federated worlds would ban it, but they're terrified the Humans will come up with something worse.”

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tsin Nam Nicole Chan's free program costume at the 2018 Junior Grand Prix Amber Cup (in Kaunas).

(Source: yanablumka)

[rhanylssitagpa]

#FoodPornByShar: Pao Tsin

Pao Tsin is a Chinese restaurant that is a go-to place of mine whenever I crave Chinese food. It’s not actually a restaurant. I haven’t seen one yet. But there are kiosks of Pao Tsin in almost every mall and other places with high foot traffic. They’re kinda like Master Siomai or Siomai House. One of my favorite thing to order in Pao Tsin is their siomai rice meal. I love their siomai,…

[coffeenewstom]

Kretisches Kaffeetagebuch: die verlassene venezianische Siedlung Voila

Kaffeegestärkt machen wir uns weiter auf unsere Fahrt durch das östliche Lassithi-Gebirge, einem der weniger bewohnten Landstriche Kretas. Dass das nicht immer so war beweist das verlassene Mittelalterdorf Voila. Die ehemalige Festung Voila liegt einen Kilometer vom Dorf Chandras entfernt, auf dem wunderschönen Armenochantrades-Plateau von Ziros im Schatten der modernen Windrädern. Man erreicht…

[red1990hondavfr750]

Сбил тебя наш летчик ЛиСиЦын

"You were brought down by our pilot Lee Si Tsin"

[rbtura]

Definite vote on typewriter keys. I think putting a lock pick in my mouth would remind me of the dentist

ROUND ONE: Typewriter keys vs. Lock pick

Propaganda:

Typewriter keys:

I have a typewriter and the keys are TEMPTING

They are round. They are shiny. They have letters like alphabet soup stuff. Some have fractions on them! Or punctuation! And when they’re on a typewriter and you hit them, they make a VERY nice clicking sound.

Lock pick:

Six of crows

Kaz did it. You can too. Escape the inescapable prison.

[oh-he-grows]

Quick little garden tour:

the wildflowers are immaculate despite the heat and drought

peppers of all shapes and sizes- Txorixero, Jigsaw, Chinese 5-color, Tsin Tsin, Poblano, Jalapeno. in the background is my onion bed (overtaken by weeds that were impossible to deal with) and behind that is the pea/spinach/carrot bed which is dried up. I've plucked plenty of peas and pinach pods and i'm drying them elsewhere for seed saving.

herb bed, with blank spots filled in by zinnias and a bitter melon chives, parsley, thyme from left to right

cranberry beans, which have just started producing pods

the watermelon patch between the beans and tomatoes, with another zinnia that i'm too kind to tear up, and the wild tomato jungle strung up with a semi-florida weave

a 4x4 section entirely dedicated to lemongrass because I love thai curry, with a wall of zinnias and gifted tomato plants, then zucchini on the right side

the last-finished garden bed where I tried to plant bare-root strawberries but it's been so hot and dry only a couple survived. I replaced the bare space with some late-started exotic peppers. also in containers are some perennials, succulents, and crispy ass lavender

the sunflower bed is doing great with regular sprinkling

the left half of my garden which is still missing about 12 yards of compost, but we'll get to that before the next growing season. next to the wildflowers are two owari satsumas that i keep meaning to plant but really i'm too lazy so they've stayed in their pots next to the wildflowers. I have a meyer lemon and a calamondin orange in the same situation just off-camera.

[mindutme]

T’owal T’uesday #18

I finally made a new T’owal font! I’ve been meaning to for ages but font-making can be a bit of a pain and there were some minor details of the writing system I was still undecided about. But as I’ve been working on the font for Valya, I found a shortcut that made making glyphs so much faster, so I put that project on pause for a few days to make this font. It’s much simpler than the Valya one, since there are far fewer glyphs to make!

Here’s a bunch of random bits of text thrown together, typed in the new font! I’m calling the font Tsin Tsyon, which translates literally to “by hand,” since it’s a script-ish sort of font. I figure at some point I can make a few different fonts, so I can use different styles for T’owal text! There will probably be an equal-weight font kind of like Arial, and maybe a serifed one like Times New Roman.

The very top (underlined bit) is the name of the font. After that is the T’owal text from this post (“Conlang Conflict / Team Let’s Have a Bouba”), and then the text from T’owal T’uesdays 16, 15, 14, 10, and 9.

There are still some things to work out with this font—particularly, deciding some details with how the punctuation will work. I’ll keep you updated!

[a-dragons-journal]

Hapxì Na'viyä

Peu lu fwa lu hapxì na’viyä?

Lu sätare - hu na’vi, hu ayioang, hu ayewll, hu kifkey. Kìng azam, kehe, azazam, mìkam swirä azazam, Na sanhì a virä ka taw txonä, Ke’aw slä ‘awsiteng, ayhapxì fì’uä a’aw. Lu fwa omum futa nga man, Ketsran len, ketsran tsengne nga kä.

Lu temrey, mì lora kifkey atìzevakxnga’. Tìng Eywa’evengìl awngaru nìwotx ‘ut a kin awnga fte rey, Slä nìteng tìng fayut ayevengur. Krro nga lu stxeli swiräru alahe. Sa’nok Anawm tstunkem ke si ‘evengur a’aw nì’ul to ‘eveng alahe. Peyä ayeveng temrey fa tìtxur sì tìkanu feyä. Na rey Eywamì, na terkup Eywamì. Fwa ‘aku sre’ sì tsin peyä livu fwa po ska’a.

Lu fwa rey ‘awsiteng hu fraswirä. Fwa tsaheyl si ulte kame, Fwa tireapängkxo Eywahu sì kifkeyhu. Kawkrr ke kämunge ‘uti nì’ul to ‘u a ngal kin. Leioae si fraswiräru na smuk.

Lu loran sì tìtxur, tul ulte spä, Ta’leng aean, zekwä avol, Mikyun sì kxetse fte pivlltxe, Sanhì fte nivrr na kifkey, Kuru fte kivame tsawti.

Peu lu fwa lu hapxì na’viyä? Pefya slu fko hapxì na’viyä? Wo oel ngati, ma Sa’nok Anawm; Wìntxu ‘evengur ngey teyngta pefya tätxaw kelkune.

(English translation:)

What is it to be Na’vi?

It is connection - with Na’vi, with animals, with plants, with the world. A hundred threads, no, a thousand, between a thousand creatures, Like stars that spread across the night sky, Divided yet together, parts of one thing. It is to know that you belong, No matter what happens, no matter where you go.

It is survival, in a world beautiful and cruel. Pandora gives us all we need to live, But also gives these things to all her children. Sometimes you are the gift to another creature. The Great Mother does not do favors for one child more than another. Her children survive by their own strength and intelligence. As we live in Eywa, so we die in Eywa. To remove her teeth and claws would be to destroy her.

It is to live together with all creatures. To bond and to See, To commune with Eywa and with the world. Never take more than you need. Respect all creatures as your siblings.

It is grace and strength, running and leaping, Blue skin, eight fingers, Ears and tail in order to speak, Bioluminescence to glow like the world, Kuru to See it.

What is it to be Na’vi? How does one become Na’vi? I reach for you, O Great Mother, Show your child how to return home.

[theater-kid-throwdown]

EDIT AUG 1: SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

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(I’ve quadruple checked at this point but am still a little anxious, so please let me know if I made any mistakes in the form! thank you)

Submissions are, in fact, finally open! Please read the rules below! But first, taglist :]

@pixopolis @terrific-tiger-throwdown @spectacleweirdo @lower-ones-eyes @mayrine @thatonefan02 @bestbeforedateunknown @blorb0 @marvinsweep @chickennuggetenjoyer @strawbybanana @stelterna @eden-sherbet @idkareallyreallygoodname @scriptrix-eclectica @tsin-datura @ant-ifascottlang

Thank you very much to all who have expressed interest thus far! Now, onto the rules.

Submission rules

-For the sole purpose of avoiding unnecessary conflict, I will not be accepting submissions from controversial media including: Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss, Harry Potter, Dream SMP and South Park. I will not state my own opinions on these, I am simply doing this because I want this tournament to be free from drama. Well, that kind of drama, at least (ha-ha. I’ll see myself offstage.)

-only fictional characters please! No real people. Characters who are live action/played by real people are fine as long as the character themself is a fictional concept, of course!

-I’ve decided that OCs will not be allowed either. I’m sorry, but this is mostly to avoid feelings getting hurt and because it would be unfair to pair smaller creators’ characters against ones from widely viewed media.

-Please don’t spam. It will not do any good for anyone.

Submissions will close at the end of July. Go ahead and Submit your blorbos, folks!

[cuprohastes]

OK, New Plan.

Space piracy isn't a thing. It's not economical, practical or something anyone can pursue for any length of time.

Anyway, the ship had been captured by space pirates, and they'd dropped the temperature in the passenger modules down to a few ticks under the freezing point of water: The Atrix passengers were all huddled up, torpid, protecting their little guys, and the Thotari Pirates were planning on pillaging the cargo and personal possessions while things were quiet.

They'd checked the manifest: 12 Atrix passengers, and four crew, also Atrix. Easy pickings.

So it was a little bit of a surprise when they cracked the door to the passenger module and one of the Atrix turned out to be somewhat genetically human.

It was holding a hot beverage in one hand and used the other to grip the first Thotari Contract Pirate around their scrawny neck, dragging them off their feet.

Then it used that individual to beat the others until they snapped their contract markers and sat their asses down.

Everyone knows the Thotari take contracts very seriously. Snapping the marker was as good as surrender: No Thotari with any self respect would work unpaid.

The Pirate Executive Officer, employed for her bulk and experience took personal umbrage regarding this whole mess and thundered onto the ship, with several large sharp weapons, and some very cool looking armour, determined to perpetrate terminal events to the Human's biology.

The Human took one look and threw it's drink in her face. Then gave her a vicious kicking while the bitter alkaloids in the toxic concoction caused the PEO to collapse with uncontrollable spasms.

According to the logs, the Human took time out and poured another cup of coffee, turned the heat up, glared at the rest of the Thotari until they snapped their contract markers rather than deal with any of that and walked onto the Pirate's ship.

At which point they called the Pirate's backer up, and spent a half hour explaining in horrifying detail what they would personally do to that individual, and how much worse it was going to be if they didn't stop this inane crap.

The Thotari picked up their PEO and hooked her up to their ship's medical bay, said 'no hard feelings it's just business' and left.

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"How was your trip?" asked Dave The Human.

"Pretty quiet," said Phalanges Mitten, AKA Dave. "Glad to be back, though. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to take a decent nap on those haulers - And don't get me started on the Coffee!"

[ayten-ali]

🍁🌺 ESSELAMÜ 🌺 ALEYKÜM 🌺🌟🍁

Aᥣᥣᥲh'ın Sᥱᥣᥲmı Rᥲhmᥱti vᥱ

ßᥱrᥱkᥱti Üzᥱrinizdᥱn ᥱksik oᥣmᥲsın

Yᥱmყᥱşiᥣ Cᥱnnᥱt vᥲdiᥣᥱri bizlerin oᥣsᥙn,

Kᥲᥣbimizde Nᥙr Rᥙhᥙmᥙz ALLAHA yᥲkın

Oᥣsᥙn..🤲😥Mᥱᥣᥱkᥣᥱr dostᥙmᥙz

Rᥱsûᥣüᥣᥣᥲh ᥱfᥱndimiz Hz Mᥙhᥲmmᥱd

Şᥱfᥲᥲtçimiz oᥣsᥙn CENNET'TE Komşᥙᥣᥙğᥙnᥙ, LİVÂÜL HAMD sᥲnᥴᥲğı ᥲᥣtındᥲ Cᥱm oᥣmᥲყı Yüᥴᥱ RABBİMİZ Nᥲsibᥱtsin İNŞÂALLAH ÂMÎN ECMÂÎN🤲😥

Dᥙᥲᥣᥲrımız'dᥲ ᥙnᥙtᥙᥣmᥲmᥲk

Diᥣᥱğiყᥣᥱ Hᥱrşᥱყ gönᥣünüzᥴᥱ oᥣsᥙn.

ALLÂHÜMME ЅALLİ ALA SEУУİDİNΑ MUHAMMEDİN νe ΑLA ΑLİ ЅEУУİDİNA MUHAMMED ÂMÎN ECMÂÎN🤲😥😥

[gacougnol]

Pierre Verger

Young Woman in Traditional Dress

Tsin Ho, Indochine, 1938

[zhuhongs]

蓮花空行身染愛（Liân-hue Khong-hīng sin jiám ài）

Lotus Dakini Dyed in Love by Collage

又閣是彼个 無代無誌想著的形影 iū-koh sī hit ê, bô-tài-bô-tsì siūnn tio̍h ê hîng-iánn There it is again, that figure I remembered out of the blue 親像一陣風 吹落來 是春風少年 tshin-tshiūnn tsi̍t tsūn-hong, tshue loh lâi, sī tshun hong siáu-liân It came over me like a passing breeze - that unfettered youth 坐嘛是思念 坐袂牢 真無聊的思念 tsē mà-sī su-liām, tsē bē tiâu, tsin bô-liâu ê su-liām I sit here and reminisce, but it doesn’t linger - such a restless thought 倒咧眠床頂 予月娘 笑規个暗暝 tó leh bîn-tshn̂g tíng, hōo gue̍h-niû tshiò kui-ê àm-mî Laying on the bed, making the moon laugh until late into the night

我行過你的世界 guá kiânn-kuè lí ê sè-kài I’ve moved past your world 啥物我攏無愛 siánn-mih guá lóng bô ài And I don’t want anything 只想欲佇你心內（寫一條歌） tsí siūnn beh tī lí sim-lāi（siá tsi̍t tiâu kua） only your heart (to write a song)

車行過 *𪜶的期待 tshia kiânn-kuè in ê kî-thāi Cars passed by your expectations 這站閣無落來 tsit tsām koh bô loh-lâi And didn’t stop at this station 無想欲對誰交代（心內驚驚） bô siūnn beh tuì siáng kau-tài（sim-lāi kiann-kiann） Without offering an explanation (hearts unsteady)

想起我彼暗小可仔歹勢 siūnn-khí guá hit-àm sió-khuá-á pháinn-sè I realize I feel sorry about that night 予你揣著我 hōo lí tshuē-tio̍h guá I made you realize that I 規身軀藏無好勢的委屈 kui-sing-khu tshàng bô hó-sè ê uí-khut Can’t properly hide my misgivings

風 中的飛龍咧吼 hong-tiong ê pue-liông leh háu The dragon amidst the clouds is roaring 聲 聲予天搖地動 siann-siann hōo thinn-iô tē-tāng Causing the earth to shake 愛你的傳說寫佇頂懸 ài lí ê thuân-suat siá tī tíng-kuân The legend of our love is written in the sky 感情紲來愈飛愈懸 kám-tsîng sua-lâi lú-pue lú-kuân Feelings also grow the higher it flies

花 開佇你蹛的樓 hue khui-tī lí tuà ê lâu Flowers bloom at your doorstep 想 當時欲綴你走 siūnn tong-sî beh tuè lí tsáu Almost as if they intend to go with you 多情的雨崁著目睭 to-tsîng ê hōo kham tio̍h ba̍k-tsiu The passionate rain conceals your eyes 你的代誌講袂清楚 lí ê tài tsì kóng bē tshing-tshó Your affairs are can’t be told clearly*

看你行過千山萬水 khuànn lí kiânn-kuè tshian-san-bān-suí Watching you traverse a thousand mountains and ten thousand waters 手內薔薇微微仔芳 tshiú-lāi tshiông-bî bî-bî-á phang The rose at hand lightly fragrant 行踏輕鬆跤步的我 (恬恬佇遮攏無出聲) kiânn ta̍h khin-sang kha-pōo ê guá (tiām tiām tī tsia lóng bô tshut-siann) And I light on my feet (am here quietly, without a sound)

日子過一工閣一工 ji̍t-tsí kuè tsi̍t-kang koh tsi̍t-kang Days pass, one after another 你的一切攏猶未放 lí ê it tshè lóng iá-buē pàng And you still have not let it go 越頭欲揣過去的我 ua̍t thâu beh tshuē kuè-khì ê guá A turn of the head, and you want to find the departed me 煞來袂記家己的名 suah-lâi bē kì ka-kī ê miâ How could you have forgotten your own name

是我欲陪你流浪 sī guá beh puê lí liû-lōng It is I who wants to lead you astray 長路終點滿天花雨 tn̂g-lōo tsiong-tiám muá-thinn hue-ú At the end of the long road are clear skies, flowers, and rain 雺霧內底戇神 bông-bū lāi-té gōng-sîn Dazed in the middle of the fog 千年流轉你的世界 tshian-nî liû-tsuán lí ê sè-kài Your world is a cycle of death and rebirth* 自作多情的人 tsū-tsok-to-tsîng ê lâng Before a self indulgent person 眼前地獄家己揀的 gán-tsiân tē-ga̍k ka-kī kíng ê Is a hell of their own choosing 天上 地下 ��間 thian-siōng, tē-hā, jîn-kan Above heaven, below hell -- the mortal world 四方妖孽請恁退下 sù-hong iau-gia̍t tshiánn lín thè-hā Quartet of demons*, please back down

這繁華世間 tse huân-hua sè-kan This prosperous world 眾生有情人 tsiòng-sing ū-tsîng-lâng Where everyone has loved ones 有情生煩惱（甘願受罪） ū-tsîng senn huân-ló（kam-guān siū-tsuē） As such are troubled (yet willing to suffer)

心狂閣火著 sim-kông koh hué-to̍h They set their hearts ablaze 明知會艱苦 bîng tsai ē kan-khóo Knowing it will one day bring unhappiness 千錯萬錯 （攏佮你無關） tshian-tshò-bān-tshò（lóng ka̍h lí bô-kuan） Tens of millions of faults  (all have nothing to do with you)

* - the original phrasing is in reference to concepts/phrasing that exist in reference to religion that I have only found information on in very formal Chinese, however I am not skilled enough to translate properly, as such the translation is lacking.

[praesidiummilitum]

The "Old School..."

Royal Italian Navy "San Marco" Marine Infantrymen pictured during a ceremony in Tien Tsin,China. Mid 1930s

Maro' del Reggimento "San Marco" della Regia Marina ritratti presso la Legazione di Tien Tsin durante una Cerimonia. Fine anni '30.