#twiner

[bunnimew]

Leading Man

"Imagine!" Pitch cried, throwing his hands out wide as if to spread a panorama before them. "The world, blanketed in darkness. Fear in every corner, shadows—"

Twiner stopped listening. He muttered to Jack, "Can you believe this guy?"

Jack pressed his lips together and nodded. "A veritable one man show."

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s3]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[bunnimew]

AAAAAA I love him! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ That cincher is lovely and he's appropriately twig-like~~

Thank you so much @calmboyl ! 🥰

no.73, “oh dear Twinetender”

i genuinely was struggling for Twinetender design, its so open for interpretation

[crabbarts]

going insane over Lucky Meas' and Joron's relationship (part 1/?)

[caramel-mousse]

thinking of her. look at her.

[mikyapixie]

20 years ago today Barbie As The Princess & The Pauper released on DVD!!!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE BARBIE MOVIE!!! I STILL HAVE THE DVD 📀📀📀 TOO!!!!!

[freak-like-meemy]

A moodboard of Mr. Qwerty and Twiner (Wormwood)

For RotG Halloween 2023

Day Two: Wormwood

@rotg-halloween

[hauntedfarfalle]

Current read: Call of the Bone Ships by RJ Barker

Book 2 of the Tide Child trilogy

If you grew up reading Ranger’s Apprentice/Brotherband then I highly recommend this series— lots of nautical elements including ship lingo and long voyages. It’s a high fantasy series, so it has Pirates of the Caribbean-esque elements as well. The sea battles are incredibly well-written.

‼️‼️🗣️🗣️ SEA DRAGONS 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️

I’ve seen reviewers classify these books as grimdark, but I disagree with that mainly because of the main character Joron and his captain (shipwife), Lucky Meas. Though hardened by the circumstances of their lives and their tragic pasts, both of these characters, along with many of the side characters, have strong moral compasses and a conviction to do what’s right.

I’m enjoying this series a lot so far and I think it definitely deserves to more well-known. I would love to see the fandom grow too because I haven’t found anyone to talk about it with yet 🥲 (if you have read them pls interact bc I am desperate to scream about Joron with someone)

[chotachica]

Modern au nai/vash (+wolfwood/livio) siblingnism my beloved

[corrupted-starcharts]

-{{ Twin-Iterations Onfim and Raskol }}-

[amorphousbl0b]

It's like they're describing The Bone Ship's Wake word for word

i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

[nosenipped]

i  wanna  talk  a  little  about  jack's  staff﹕  twinetender  /  twiner.

in the books, he's molded out from the bark of the warrior willow, form the mohican tribe. the warrior willow housed the spirits of deceased warriors. twinetender is of pure and noble of heart, traits that pass onto it's wielder﹔ jack frost.

his staff was originally made by north, to which jack had remarked a very "northian" name for him to choose from. it could change into a variety of weapons to fit the situation afoot. personal tidbit ┄┄ most of these weapons will have etchings of the mohican tribe.

so twiner's a bit of a bitch. 💀💀 acting predominantly as a baby sitter to help guide and protect jack, formerly nightlight, through his journey.

he offered jack sovereignty over the trees, ( why, as if snow wasn't enough. ) and connected him to every piece of nature there is! he speaks the language of trees, commands the winds, so on and so forth.

he's also mentioned to have an army of leafmen at his disposal. ( brother in william joyce. @lcafman )

jack and twiner then made an oath﹔ to stay as humanely and as .. stickly as possible. :3

PS. from writer to writer, jack DESPISES being called 'lord of the trees,' it's awfully pompous ﹠ a MOUTHFUL. it's something very embarrassing to him, so to those that wanna tease him ..

[hyba]

The Black Hare - A little help?

Currently struggling a little with the Journal screen. Would love some input or thoughts from readers and Twiners alike <3 (I'm using Sugarcube v2)

A Little Background

I spoke in my last log about a new Journal feature. In it, you can collect notes, documents, clues, etc. To show that you've collected a document or a clipping, essentially what happens is when you find it in the game/story, you have the option to collect it, which sets its variable to true, which adds it to your journal. Super simple behind-the-scenes work, nothing fancy.

By the way, not everything is important, so what you choose to collect is up to you. (Giving you a little of that detective vibe. - But no worries, it's not like not collecting something will lock you out of anything later on, so if you don't even want to use this mechanic, you don't have to.)

The way that that's coded is just by using <<if>> macros. So:

<<if $something is true>>You have this thing.<<else>>You do not have this thing.<</if>>

The Problem

I'm not sure I like going into the Journal and seeing a long list of "You do not have this entry." or "You have not collected this article." You can see that in the image above.

But, if I remove the <<else>> portion of the code, what tends to happen is that if a variable is not true, I get an empty line instead, that I can't seem to get rid of. So, it'll look something like this:

On the one hand, I'm thinking having the "You do not have this entry" messages is okay because at least it lets you know that there are clues to be found. On the other hand, you don't know which clues, or if they're important, so it'll just confuse some players instead of helping them.

However, the problem with having no alternate message is just this huge space. Since the story will let you collect a lot of stuff (way more than what I'm using for the images above), it's going to be a bit clunky to go into your journal and just see some text, a huge space, and then some other text, and another huge space, and so on. It feels like really bad design.

I know there's a <<nobr>> or backslash solution I can use, but I did try it and that seems to put everything in the same line or completely remove the spacing, which doesn't help me much as I want to have at least one line of spacing between each item listed in the journal. (Unless I'm using it wrong? Please lmk.)

So, my question, if you're a Twiner: How do you avoid the spacing without having everything appear on the same line/squished with no lines in between?

If you're a reader: If I can't find a solution, would it be alright for you to drop into your journal and see the alternate placeholder text ("You do not have this entry.")?

Would you prefer that it was specific to the missing item to avoid confusion (ex: "You do have have any clippings collected from the Antiques Catalogue.")

Keep in mind that there will be clues that aren't helpful to you - part of the whole investigative experience - and I'm working it so that you should be able to delete any entries that you deem unhelpful or find out are red herrings. When you delete them, you're just turning the variable back to false, so if there is alternate text, like You do not have this entry, that's what will show again.

If it's up to me and I don't find a solution, I may just leave the alternate text as-is, as shown in the first image.

[9haharharley1]

♦ - jack frost!

Quirks/hobbies - Well, we all know that his hobbies include anything winter related! He builds armies of snowmen for kids overnight, and he'll start a snowball fight with little provocation, and he loves spending time with kids, even if they can't all see him. After becoming a Guardian, he spends his free time with the others, helping Tooth collect teeth, painting (really badly) eggs with Bunny, and helping North come up with fun new toys. He can't really help Sandy do his thing, so whenever he visits, he sits and keeps Sandy company, chatting his ear off or just sitting in companionable silence. Sometimes he'll bring a book.

Jack likes to read. It took him many years after becoming a spirit to learn how, and the words blur together sometimes. He can't read for very long because of this, but he enjoys it nonetheless, and he's taken advantage of North's vast library on more than one occasion. The silence is comforting to him. It's warm and cozy, and easily the quietest room in the workshop.

He also likes to paint his nails, and he collects random ribbons he finds and ties them to Twiner, with little cute keychains dangling off the ends.

Going to shows is a favorite thing for him to do as well. He'll sit in on movies, go to concerts and theaters, ballets and the like. Anything that keeps him occupied, and there's never a shortage of venues to visit. And of course, He always has the best seat in the house.

[rockfact]

making a rotg oc is insane i have to google pics of jack frost and Remember

trying not to feel cringe enjoying a movie rn

[outofgloom]

Do you think Treespeak may be based on any real life dialects? In particular English varieties and English-based creoles ?

Short answer: not really. I would be surprised if that much intentional thought was put into it, especially basing it on specific varieties of English. Part of the reason for this is that Treespeak, as presented in Bionicle source materials, isn't all that complex or different from "typical" English. There are a couple of main properties:

(1) Special elaborated vocabulary. Sometimes expressions in Treespeak/Chutespeak are just elaborated forms of a single English word. So, for example, "bad-worse" and "bad-wrong" are really just used to mean "worse" and "wrong", but in a more elaborated way. We could, of course, interpret these as "intensified" forms, which is what I have done in the Matoric model of Treespeak/Chutespeak. Same for expressions with "ever-", "all-", and "quick-".

In other cases, elaborated forms just provide a bit more color to an expression, like "crash-wreck" which basically means "crash" and "wreck" together or "crave-need", "rapid-quick", "terrible-bad", "seek-find". Similarly, a lot of Treespeak expressions are just simple combinations of adjective+noun that have been "fused" together into a single word: "bald-land", "clash-time", "dark-plant", "loud-talk", etc.

There are a couple of cases where individual words are derived as something similar to a "kenning" (a poetic term referring to a compound of words which refers to another word metaphorically, such as using the expression "whale-road" for "ocean" in Old English poetry). These include "bog-foot" which means "slow (person)", maybe "old-bone" ("dead") and also maybe "cling-twiner" to refer to a vine.

Other times, expressions utilize options in English syntax that are a bit less common. The term "air-breathe" is one of these--it would generally be classified as a compound verb or an "incorporated object" expression. It's equivalent to "breathe air", as in the sentence "I breathe air", but the object "air" has been prefixed to the verb "breathe": "I air-breathe". You can also make nouns this way by adding a suffix like -ing: "[ Air-breathing ] is great!" which means basically the same as "[ Breathing air ] is great!" Other cases like this are "order-giving" and "order-taking" and maybe "vine-swing" ("swing on a vine") and "ground-walk" ("walk on the ground"). A similar construction incorporates an adverbial element instead of an object, yielding "quick-soar" from "soar quickly", "quick-walk" from "walk quickly", etc.

(2) "Clipped" syntax. Probably the most notable aspect of early Treespeak lines in, say, MNOG is that they are "missing" specific words. Look at the following line by Kongu:

"Traveler beware – darktime come. Matau stolen, Lewa gone! Le-Koronans prepare for battleflight!"

Part of what makes this particularly "Treespeaky" is that Kongu is eliding all the auxiliary verbs and maybe an article or two.

"Traveler beware – (a/the?) darktime has come. Matau is/has been stolen, Lewa is gone! (?The) Le-Koronans prepare for battleflight!"

You can see this in a bunch of his other lines, as well as elision of some other things like subject pronouns and some other elements, as well as a heavy use of apposition:

"Kongu (is the) fastest Leaf-Runner!"

"In lifedawn years past, (he) was known (as) Matau Kewa Champion!"

"Lewa, (?is the) great Toa of Air! (?The) Hero of Le-Koro! (He has) Gone away in quest for the Great Kanohi."

"Uptree, (there is) battle, downtree (there is) peace!"

This elided form of syntax also plays into the development of some of the individual Treespeak words/expressions. The terms "uptree" and "downtree", for example, are clippings of "up (a/the) tree" and "down (a/the) tree" which have then been fused into individual words; also "over-rock".