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Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.
The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.
Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.
A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"
@witchofanguish it is also used in poetry and plays, ghosts talk like that. Imagine being in a folk story, staying overnight in an abandoned cabin and in the middle of the night there's a knock on the door and a bellowing voice going
LET ME IN.
and from the "me" alone you know that whoever is out there is not one among the living.
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Hotel California on Guzheng by Moyun.
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we had a true lost in translation moment with flag signalling today
some background: the international code of signals is used as shorthand for communicating important information between vessels until this day. everyone carries a flag alphabet for this purpose and you can raise flags separately or together to indicate conditions and requests.
so when my crew mate informed me that the navy boat we were passing had two signal flags up i asked him to relay me the message because i was busy downstairs.
here is what he saw through the binoculars:
the flag on the left is Alpha (I have a diver down; keep well clear at slow speed) and the right one is Bravo (I am taking in or discharging or carrying dangerous goods.) the vessel most likely had clearance divers out to remove underwater explosives and wanted other's to steer clear.
however, my beloved crew mate only vaguely recalled that Alpha stands for divers and Bravo stands for dangerous. so imagine my surprise when they hesitantly relayed that
"the navy...wants us to know that their divers know how to fight?"
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My most recent piece, which I'm nearly certain came from a Tumblr post in the first place, someone called "omnybus"
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guild wars 2 map meta boss fights are a 'you are an ant and pheromones were generated signaling the whole colony to attack a much larger stronger insect' simulator. in the thick of it you may be thinking 'i have no idea what's going on and can't see through all the special effects.' thats not your job. your job is to keep swarming and biting with your mandibles no matter what
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A crocodile mom and her little ones
Porcelain figurine
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Buying an object from a pagan/witchy store on Etsy because I like the aesthetic:
The handwritten note that reeks of sage inside of the package: May this magik ritual bowl bless your altar and bring a higher vibration of frequency to your work 🙏🔮
Me, immediately throwing my desk clutter into it:
The thing is, they're not wrong. Organizing the clutter on my desk really did improve the vibes of my work desk. Just maybe not in the way they intended.
#i’m so sorry but this is discworld witches#this is nanny ogg using a gift magrat gave her#and then the narration noting that despite magrat’s frustration and disappointment it did do the job#what’s the one bit from witches abroad#the common kitchen breadknife was better than the most ornate of magical knives#it could do all that the magical knife could do#plus you could also use it to cut bread#this is that turned inside out#(again i’m SO sorry i am the way that i am)#discworld
Please don't apologize for Discworld posting on my posts.
Discworld witchcraft is almost exactly how I view my own practice. Either everything is magical and divine or nothing is. It's all about how you view it.
