Hey David, I was wondering what the words for "those who must be leashed" and "the leashed ones" in High Valyrian would be?
(And yes, this is totally a question inspired by the Seanchan slave damane in Wheel of Time)?
Belmurti is "leashed ones". Belmurilaksi would be "ones that will be leashed". It's not "leashed" but "chained", but that's pretty much the same thing.
Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.
Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.
Just gonna reblog this again. For reasons.
OP's tags on this are worth posting too. Especially that last part. Read them again if you have to
Not a question, but it’s exciting to think that you’re probably already working on Chakobsa for Dune 3 (or starting soon)! Your work for 1 and 2 was awesome, especially Paul’s speech at the war council.
Jessie and I are very excited to be working on the next one! Can't say a thing about it, but it's been a fun experience.
Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
This shit never made more sense than now
My first youtube video is now live!
This is a video all about my musical conlang Sdefa! You’ll hear some music, learn the basics of how the language works, and go through a few examples in detail!
I couldn’t get into too much detail in a short(ish) video, so I didn’t cover Sdefa writing, but I plan to in a future video. The main example in the video is what I showed in last week’s post, but here it is again in both writing systems:
That means “You’re hearing Sdefa, a musical language that I made.” Now you get to actually hear it!
Pim ‘nose.’ Also ‘point of land; tip; cape’ (extended sense from ‘nose.’)
Variant graphic forms (alloglyphs): top - top-right enclosure - left-bottom enclosure
Examples of the variants can be seen in alternate spellings of may ‘breath,’ an ideogrammic compound glyph containing a puff of wind with a nose:
Curious how a name like Joffrey would be "Valyrainized" so to speak.
Like how Duolingo make Jon into Iōnos, Cersei into Sersi, and Jaime into Iēmi.
I noticed the lack of 'f' sounds in High Valyrian so I'm curious how that change would translate to Joffrey. Curious only because there is a canon Valyrian Joffrey. (Though he was named after a non-Valyrian knight).
Thanks!
If it's in Westeros, just Jofri. If it's earlier than that, before the Doom, my guess would be Iōvri. It could be Iōpri, I suppose, but Iōvri is much more likely.
I love you dead punctuation marks.
A 500-pound stained glass crab sculpture at BWI Marshall Airport, Maryland.
dead dove do not eat in practice
UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.
YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.
The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.
Weighing in to say:
The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info
Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.
And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.
But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity
So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.
Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat
The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!
I was looking at your Valyrian glyphs for animals (I especially love the ones for spider, squid, turtle and frog) and was wondering if you have made a lion glyph? I'm designing some royal seals for Tyrion and Cersei, and wanted to add a lion glyph. I've searched through your wikis and there is a glyph for cat, and one for gold, so perhaps I'll add those together if there's no lion glyph. Thanks, I love your work on this series so much!
A good question! The word for "lion" is built off the word for "cat", so there isn't a separate glyph. Kēli is "cat" and kēlio is "lion", so to spell the latter you use the "cat" glyph with a -io determinative. Generally that's the "gate" glyph, but given the nature of lions, you can also use the "tooth" glyph. Here are both spellings. First, the "gate" version:
Next, the "tooth" version:
But yeah, since it's derived, no individual "lion" glyph. ("Dragon" is also derived, but they're a bit more central to Valyrian culture, so it makes sense they'd have a separate glyph for it.)
i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.
grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.
there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.
Also stay away from people who say shit like "sexual attraction and romance addles the mind and makes you crazy and irrational and this is why being aro/ace makes you intellectually superior." I've seen that a couple times times on this hellsite. Stay away from anyone who tries to convince you that your racial identity/cultural identity/gender identity/sexual orientation/neurodivergence/any other intrinsic quality makes you a member of some master race that is inherently superior to the other humans.
You are not immune to exceptionalist propaganda.
