Man, I Don't Care About Learning NatLangs Any More (Mandarin, Spanish), If Given The Choice, I Want The

Dear Tumblr,

Today I finished my novel. I don't mean that I got the first draft done. I mean that I, recently sixteen, finished the novel that I've been working on for as long as I can remember. I did it.

I am very happy and I just wanted to share it with all the weird little freaks that inspired me to put my blorbos down on paper. I don't care if nobody sees this. I did it. I am a writer. I finished my book.

Love,

Avi

do you guys ever just have the most BRILLIANT of ideas randomly come to you and make you suddenly SUPER happy? >:D

Clickbait WIP Titles

A tag game from @ominous-feychild (but I'd seen this tag game go around for a little while now, so it was about time anyways.)

I'll do a couple titles a piece.

Meiste

🔥🔥🔥🔥 RICE FARMER BECOMES EMPEROR ❗❗❗❗AND GETS MAGICAL POWERS 🗣🗣🗣🗣 (⛔⛔NOT CLICKBAIT⛔⛔) (REAL)

😂😂😂STUPID ANTI-HERO SIDES WITH VILLAIN 📢📢📢 (GENUINELY THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA) 😂😂😂 (GETS HER SHIT WRECKED ON PAGE 112 😳😳😳) (COPS CALLED)

It Will Hurt: and There Will Be No Fire

😱😱😱VEGAN VAMPIRE ABUDUCTED ✋✋✋ (GONE WRONG) (ENDING WILL SHOCK YOU) 😳😳😳

🚀🚀🚀 SPIDER-VAMPIRE RESCUES ABDUCTED SISTER 😵😵😵 (REAL❗❗❗❗) (⛔⛔NOT CLICKBAIT⛔⛔)

These were surprisingly fun to make. Brings me back.

The Usual Suspects: @oldfashionedidiot @quillswriting

Paging: @foxgloves-garden

Day 43 (1:16) of rewriting my novel

Today, Part 3 cracked 20,000 words!

Part 3 is finishing up nicely as I bridge the gap between the New Heroes leaving Tolftorrijv behind and the scene where Lozerief comes to them in Obizoe.

I'm not convinced that the ending to Part 3 is my best work, but for now, it just needs to exist until the novel is done.

Plus, there's a lot of Part 5 planning that I need to do before this whole thing is complete. And even then, I don't know how far into post-novel canon I'm willing to go before I deem the story complete. This is just a thought that's been on my mind as Part Three (hopefully) comes to a close, soon.

every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

Day 19 (25 in base 7) of rewriting my novel.

I wrote another 1,000 words ish. I've been adding roughly 1,000 words per day, and as a result, I'm somewhere along the order of 24,000 or so words total.

Today, I also completed a grambank table for Ipol! A while ago, @dedalvs created a grambank spreadsheet for conlangs that has been very helpful for documenting my conlangs' grammars (so I don't forget them,) and today I finished a "draft" of a finalized one for Ipol.

I will link it here:

Google Docs

Ipol Grambank

Language Features Grambank Feature,Basic Category,Subcategory,Y/N,Conlang Description and Example(s) <a href="https://grambank.clld.org/par

Submit any questions about it that you might have, or submit translations! I'm always looking to expand the lexicon.

That's all for now.

EDIT: I mistakenly credited David J. Peterson with creating this spreadsheet, but he's just who I heard it from! It is actually by Jessie Peterson.

Edit 2: I knew David Peterson and Jesse Peterson were married, but I didn’t piece together that it was Jesse Peterson who created the grambank spreadsheet.

I keep doubting I can find nicher fandoms but here we are. does anybody want to talk about ZeWei and Laghari Portals

I am half tempted to make a Ćol'kotusan (conlang) master post and try to actually publically post all the grammar rules and stuff for it

Would anybody be interested?

Find the Words Tag Game

Thanks to @authorcoledipalo for the tag!

My words: ache, slash, bounce, wink

Your words:

Ache

Tears blurred my vision. My head raged with a headache like no other while I choked on my sobs. Mucus stained my tongue with salt while I struggled to keep my head up. He loved me. He loved me unconditionally, up until his dying breath. No, he still loved me. Even in death, his immortal love remained deep inside of me. My head finally fell.

Slash

"No," I decided. "It's-" A foul stench slashed at my nose, popping my eyes open. "What the hell?"

Bounce

I laughed, flying along the ceiling so that I could see the inside of the crystal chandelier. The crystals bounced light from electric bulbs around the center of the chandelier. I stuck my hand through it, seeing if my hand would glisten.

Wink

"The Emperor's request," chef Siz added, sending me a grin with a wink.

Paging @foxgloves-garden, @ominous-feychild, and @oldfashionedidiot, +open tag. Feel free to ignore as wanted.

Side note: Does anyone else use "bounce" as a transitive verb? I.e. "I bounce the ball" where "bounce" takes an object. (An intransitive verb is a verb which doesn't take an object: "I bounce." Is perfectly grammatical.) I feel like the transitive form feels... old? Archaic?

In the context of Meiste, absolutely. It's only now that I realize I've never described the names of the characters, nor how they relate.

Iziser - A borrowing from Classical Zispoel "Izilseor," which is a name found in the Epic of the Hero of Life. It was once used to mean 'one who eats,' and metaphorically extended to 'one who is in love,' then 'one who loves.'

Hotautebz - Hotau is to literally ascend. It's an Old Ytos word for to ascend, plus "tebz" which is another old word for person.

Lozerief - Classical Zispoel for 'life,' definitely supposed to be a pun since she's the Hero of Earth, not life.

Are you the writer who carefully chooses OC names for their meanings, or are you the writer who picks whatever sounds good?