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WARDI WRITTEN LANGUAGE (BASICS).
Couya's full name (properly 'Haidamane Couya') written formally and with common handwriting conventions.
The Wardi written language derives from earlier proto-language systems consisting exclusively of logograms without direct phonetic meaning or grammatical structure. These symbols gradually became simplified and abstracted to the point of many having little intrinsic clarity, and combined to communicate abstract concepts.
The development of a full written language did not occur independently (as very few written languages do), and its phonetic elements (namely its use of syllabograms) were largely derived the 'ancient' Burri writing system, gradually synthesized with native writing conventions, and in the contemporary forms a wholly distinct system. The language's Relatively universalized form is a very recent phenomena, developing within the past two centuries with the region's conquering/unification into a single entity.
The contemporary written language is a mixture of logograms and syllabograms. It is read from right to left and arranged in horizontal columns. The most formal variant of this system contains each character within a square outline, usually separated by a small space. This outline confers little phonetic or symbolic information beyond making distinction between syllables exceptionally clear, and can be (and often is) omitted in handwriting. The separation of words is conveyed through a narrow rectangle or line in formal contexts, and again often omitted in handwriting (instead indicated instead by a wider blank space).
The pure logograms that have been retained in this writing system tend to be those of very common words or specific concepts (most logogram characters for types of livestock, key crops, water, major body parts, etc are widely recognized and in common use). There has not yet been any attempts to fully 'formalize' the language and omit potentially unnecessary logograms, and they remain frequently used as shorthand while conveying the same semantic information.
Many of the syllabogram characters are directly derived from logograms that depicted monosyllabic words. For example, the spoken word 'gan' means 'cow', and the character for the syllable 'gan' is identical to the common logogram for 'cow'.
The name Gantoche (literally "cow-eye") could be written either fully with syllabograms as:
or through logograms as:
Both ultimately communicate the same meaning, but the former clarifies pronunciation (the words gan and atoche are contracted, it's gantoche and not gan-atoche).
It is a relatively easy written language to learn, as the pure syllabogram characters indicate their own pronunciation with little ambiguity and often have consistency to their construction (ie the character for the syllable 'man' contains most of the same elements as that for the syllable 'wan'- the dot placement in particular has indication of the vowel sounds).
The inclusion of logograms in general and many of the syllabic characters being directly imported From logograms complicates matters. These characters lack visual consistency, and can be confusing to the large swath of the public who know common logograms but not the full written language itself. Ie: the word 'ungande' meaning 'liver' will be composed of logogram-derived syllable characters for 'un' (which alone means 'hand') and 'gan' (which alone means 'cow'). Someone who is only semi-literate in common logograms may be confused at the meaning, especially since these same exact same characters may be used elsewhere on their own to indicate 'hand' or 'cow'.
One major exception to this tendency is that current religious doctrine requires established logogram characters describing God to be used in place of syllabic characters. The word for god is 'Od', and has its own unique character (as do each of the Faces, the capital F 'Face', and Its deified pronoun). The syllable 'od' [oʊd] is very common in the Wardi language, and a wholly separate character is used for the phonetic sound when it is not a reference to the deity (ie 'lion' (odo [oʊdoʊ]) does not contain the same character for God in spite of its first syllable having the exact same pronunciation). Names are a bit of a gray area (ie: the name 'Odabi' is very common and carries the meaning of 'gift/blessing from God'). Religious leadership is currently experiencing a mild schism on whether the written character for God is separated due to being wholly sacrosanct (and thus inappropriate to include in the written form of a personal name) or as more of a functional delineation of the sacred and mundane.
#Not 100% sure I'm using the ipa phonetic alphabet correctly but. I tried. Also typoed 'left to right' for direction for a hot minute there#Definitely chose a bit of a pain in the ass language system since there's going to be like a couple hundred possible characters (not#counting logograms) but could be worse. Also it has less total consonant sounds than english does like no V or Z and I don't#Think I've had anything with θ ð ʃ or ʒ. It does have the 'ts' sound as in 'tsetse' which I don;t think exists in english and#there's also some dental clicks. But the latter is mostly used as a filler sound or to emphasize certain words and doesn't convey#any linguistic information beyond that#I don't really intend to make this fully fleshed out I just want to be able to depict writing and have it actually mean something#Also mostly unrelated but I just found out I've been fucking up when I've referred to 'rolled Rs' in the Highlands/North Wardi dialects#The sound is a alveolar tap in most words rather than an alveolar trill (which is what 'rolled Rs' generally implies I think???)#Like I had been PRONOUNCING it all correctly at least but referring to it wrong. Brakul's name has an alveolar tap on the R#As do most of the R sounds with some exceptions#The only alveolar trill sounds in these languages typically occur with adjacent syllables that end and start with an R. Like the#name 'Korrigh' would have an alveolar trill
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On a whim, I decided to hunt down the first appearance of the Cluemaster, just for historical context and to see where the character actually started pre-Dixon, pre-Crisis, and especially pre-Steph. It actually turned out to be... pretty interesting, in terms of the grand sweep of Bat-continuity. At least I think so.
So Arthur Brown, alias the Cluemaster, made his first appearance in Detective Comics #351, published in May 1966:
That timing is interesting, because it means this issue would've been coming out right around the time the '66 TV series was wrapping up its first season. Which means that this is the period of continuity when, following Detective Comics #328 from two years prior, Alfred had been killed off via giant falling rock (seriously) and replaced with Dick's Aunt Harriet in a slightly desperate attempt to make the living arrangement in Wayne Manor seem less gay.
This is significant because, following the era-specific splash page introducing "The Cluemaster's Topsy-Turvy Crimes!" the story proper actually begins with Harriet:
For some reason, despite being the "den mother," Aunt Harriet was always left out of the loop when it came to the Batman and Robin schitck, so this opening sequence after her two years on the job was a whole deal.
I can see how Arthur got a reputation for being a D-lister villain -slash- kinda pathetic when he's getting upstaged as a threat in his first appearance by, "Quick, we need to gaslight not-Mom." The way he gets actually introduced into the story almost feels like an afterthought -- like, "Oh yeah, this was supposed to be about the villain guy."


"We've been waiting for them all week!"
Oh. Oh, I think they're trying to make him pathetic.

That would explain so much about Arthur's terrible costume. I always thought that thing looked like it was designed to be awful. And I think it was. I think we're supposed to take him as a wannabe the heroes aren't taking seriously. At all.
Side note, I'd forgotten how many creative monikers they gave the boys back in these days. Masked Manhunter I've heard before, but Teen-age Thunderbolt is new to me.
All that said, Arthur can't be totally incompetent or they wouldn't have a story, so he does manage to slip away and leave him with his supposedly signature clue...

But even that kinda feels... off? Because then Arthur gets this whole monologue to set up that his thing is that he thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and his real plan is to try to figure out Batman and Robin's identities...

...only to be foiled by the Aunt Harriet b-plot and have the Duo just kinda give up on his clue altogether.

Like seriously, they foil a completely unrelated robbery and then stumble on Arthur's big Arabian Nights heist on accident. Only to get dropped down a hole which, admittedly, doesn't make Batman and Robin look so great in comparison either.

There's an odd tone to this story because it really doesn't feel like we're suppose to take Arthur all that seriously as a threat? Like, even for the time, he's goofy. He feels like a parody of the Riddler, who was very popular at the time. And yet, based on the logic of the story, his plan of distracting them with terrible clues while he secretly followed them to their secret headquarters would've worked, if not for Aunt Hariet's efforts to also learn their secret identities accidentally screwing him over.
Also... sure, we'll call that a "sea serpent" and not a "very obvious upside-down duck." Whatever you say, comic.

The Arabian Nights one is a little more clever, but is it racist? I genuinely don't know. Maybe. Unrelated to all that, I like how Bruce and Dick are drawn in civilian mode by this artist (Carmine Infantino, designer of Barry's OG Flash costume -- a legend). He captures their ages well without over-exaggerating anything, Dick looks like a pretty, acrobatic teenager, Bruce looks like a handsome athlete in his 30s, they're wearing clothes that suit them and fit well. IDK, they just look nice.
Also, heh. Duck marina. Tim's new home, foreshadowed 60 years in advance.
Anyway what was I talking about? Right. Arthur. Harriet's camera gave him away because his painting was radioactive.

It was the 60s, everything in this franchise was radioactive. Not sure how this plan parses with the fact that the Batmobile of this era was supposed to be nuclear-powered too but whatever. From there foiling his dastardly plot is as simple as following his henchgoon home...Dick jumps on a grenade just to squeeze in some last-minute drama...

And then Bruce and Dick successfully gaslight both him and Aunt Harriet with the power of disguise and a little movie magic.

"Someday, we'll tell Aunt Harriet! But not now. For reasons. It'd be easier, but we're just not going to."
Also, it took me until writing up the page descriptions to realize that the two goons that Bruce and Dick pose as are the same two they take out for stealing televisions, so that would be why that random moment is in there. That did not track for me, probably because it's not so obvious from the framing of the fight scene that Dick is tackling a guy who's basically the same size as him.
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In conclusion: Arthur should use more bombs. That's clearly more this thing than the clues, which it turns out where never actually a compulsion at all, but shtick to try and show off how smart he is. Like the foundational difference between Riddler and Cluemaster appears to be that Riddler has a legitimate compulsion to leave riddles behind and Cluemaster's just a know-it-all tryhard who's challenging Batman purely to prove that he's the smartest guy in the whole wide world.
It's also funny and a little sad to me that, despite this issue prominently featuring Aunt Harriet, a character who got a lot of attention in the '66 TV series, when they needed a quick Riddler expy to fill in for an episode in the second season that they couldn't use Frank Gorshin for (because he was asking for more money than the studio wanted to pay), they didn't use Cluemaster, they used the Puzzler, a Superman villain from the Golden Age.
This also explains what those pellets on Steph's OG costume were supposed to be, which I'm not sure she ever actually used in canon. Gimmick grenades stolen from her dad's stash could've been a fun shitck for her, they should've leaned into that. Imagine her upgrading to glitter bombs. That would've been amazing.
#arthur brown#the cluemaster#batman#robin#batman and robin#detective comics#dc comics#batman 66#aunt harriet#bruce wayne#dick grayson#stephanie brown#(adjacent I'm counting it)#comics commentary#this was fun I like hunting down old comics#seriously though. steph with glitter bombs should've been a thing
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This has to be the start to APOLogies to all the blade fans who have to put up with blade stuck in eternal 3p. He can be ur devil or u angl (ghost nun vs magigirl) WITHIN MONTHS OF EACH OTHER. His bayonetta legs are killin it and yep it still feels like I'm hallucinating
#year of blade? is he our featured lad of the year? i don't keep count i do not know#wait he's only been in 2 counting this one right.. so... nothing out of the ordinary#look i am seriously discombubluytatwed#i shouldn't be awake#nothing in my thoughts are connecting#owsbpiuuuughowoghuohowooooooo.......#what I'm blazesis this event gonna be#blade dragging yet another one of his fave victims into shenanigans#blade making the others wear skirt-dress-adjacent clothing#(thank you blade)#trendsetter. absolute icon#the nontraditional tops banner?#aka the two most obvious switches in my line of sight COME ON LET THEM FLIPFLOP#what do u MEAN haunted doll that terrorises ur dreams#blade what kind of CASTLES are u visiting#if rei pops up as SR this is gonna be a cloaca crew reunion#do NOT drive me further into bonkrage insanitude nuca#my world is tumbling like the evasive manoeuvre right now#evernight castle
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"Chilchuck is a tumblr sexy man! Senshi is a tumblr sexyman!" Shut up. The only one qualified to be a tumblr sexyman is Chimera form Falin
#dungeon meshi#falin touden#senshi and chilchuck are both way too normal to count as tumblr sexymen#they have general appeal#I'm an anime only at the moment so if I'm leaving out some sexy monster-adjacent people from the manga feel free to add them in
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"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.
#jsyk sylkius or anything adjacent to it does not “Do Numbers” in any way and i observed this some time ago#i assume that's the “rival ships” element at work but who knows really#that sort of thing is like femslash in that everyone approves of it but nobody actually reads or writes it#but who would have thought sylvie beating loki with a stick would not bring in droves of readers???! shocking twist there!#& i don't consider sifki a rarepair but my rarepair standards are VERY strict like if there's >5 fics a pairing is basically mainstream#chasing popularity would annoy me though & i just don't have the mental spoons to try writing stuff i wouldn't personally read#yeah i *could* put my blorbos to work in a coffee shop but what cost to my own enjoyment levels? AT WHAT COST FANGELA???#you can't please everyone so you may as well just please yourself and if anyone else likes it you've found some fellow freaks so yay#i don't mean please yourself in a wanking sense. though feel free to do that too it probably counts as a cardio workout idk.#BUT ANYWAY#fic related#ps i am v glad there's the “warning: loki” tag because i think/hope it acts as a filter for 'he did nothing wrong in his life ever' types#who are Valid & etc obviously but i write my morally grey characters to be morally grey and the tag might help avoid conflict#though tbh i write almost every character to be morally grey in some way so i can't claim to have left my comfort zone here#(i'm not joking when i say the 1987-89 run of Dr Who shaped my entire future fannish life from a young and apparently v impressionable age)
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this video has been stuck in my head for weeks and now I'm unleashing it upon you. Huzzah! Anyway. Stepdad-stepson bonding hours.
#j's posts#okay here's the tagging system I'm gonna use here#javatore#Kipper#this counts it's javatore adjacent
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just remembered "you were the only one who cupped the balls." why is eric bogosian Like That
#why is he so hot. gd#this has been: your weekly ebogo dick-related dispatch#i guess dick-adjacent here. it counts. i'm rounding up from the balls
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Books of 2024: What I'd Like To Read By The End Of The Year.
I was feeling ~Whelmed~ over the weekend about all the things I still want to read, and I thought to myself, "Gee Why Is That??", so I pulled everything off my shelf and stacked it up basically in the order I'd like to read it and then went "....ah I see, carry on."
Now this stack WOULD be fine, except everything from ALWAYS COMING HOME down through HOUSE OF LEAVES is stuff I'd like to read adjacent to writing projects, namely: 1. IN BETWEEN (which I'm working on now but need to wrap up by the end of August) and then 2. NANO (which, y'know. Starts on November 1). So the sixteen (16) books between ACH and HOL are for the next three (3) months, and then I'll come back for the side-leaners during/after NaNo, I think.
(Not pictured in this stack is STARLING HOUSE, which I don't have in hand yet but will also be a NaNo Prep book!)
Basically my plan is to read down through this stack in this order and see how long it takes me! I finally got set up with my coworking space today, so hopefully I'll be writing late a couple nights a week starting. tomorrow. Which. will eat into reading time pretty significantly, hopefully.
But there's so much cool stuff I want to read! And write! And knit!! You see why I'm having A Time, huh.
#books#books of 2024#book stack#book photo#book photography#my photography#also tagging as:#in btw#nano2024#fortunately the haunted bookstore and ambergris kind of blur/fuzz my two writing projects#that's why they're in the middle--transitional#ACH through UNEXPECTED PLACES are the driscoll ones on deck by the end of the month#everything under ambergris is flagged as nano prep#can you tell i'm going to try to write a haunted house book lmao#SELF-PORTRAIT WITH NOTHING and SPIDER AND HER DEMONS are also driscoll adjacent#but i think i'm gonna have to pause those til after nano#(which is fine because it'll be nice to have some driscoll to get back into circa december/january to get back into the vibes)#and then HOW TO BE EATEN and DAWN are leftovers from my 24 in 2024 list that aren't accounted for in the rest of this stack or already read#anyway fuck the dayjob i could do all the things i wanted if i didn't burn 50+ hours a week on capitalism adjacent bullshit#(i work 40hrs and ONLY 40hrs dont worry but. the admining around the job is bullshit and we count that in our time)#(commute plus prep plus packing plus food plus outfits....ugh)#ANYWAY SIXTEEN BOOKS BETWEEN NOW AND NANO ISN'T TOO BAD RIGHT#I'M GONNA GO SHOWER AND READ ACH BYEEE
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was thinking about how pretty much all the bad kids are legally related at this point and out of curiosity I made a family tree and I can absolutely connect every single one of the bad kids (except for gorgug poor guy) on it through their parents.
#dimension 20#brennan lee mulligan#fantasy high#zac oyama#lou wilson#brian murphy#ally beardsley#emily axford#siobhan thompson#will absolutely share it if people are interested#it's all through their parents#fig has three parents and three parent-adjacent figures which is hilarious#kristen's a little iffy bc i don't think sandra lynn and jawbone technically adopted her#but I'm counting her as a foster child#you're too loud al
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I'm having one of my iconic calming down and coming down from what felt like a trance to realize where I'm at. So sorry if I've been out of it here on Tumblr dot com I've been busy hallucinating and dissociating and being overall anxious. But I'm kind of coming out of it.
#luly talks#there is one. thing i cannot let go#a few days ago in my dad's bedroom in the morning looking at my foot how it looked like a paw#but its never like consistent enough to count as a hallucination yet it was too clear to write off as an idea or fantasy#and i know it's black fur adjacent but that's on the side issue is how real it was to my eyes#there was also a little something yesterday on the headspace that had me thinking#but yeah no I've been. paying attention to my followers my mutuals my friends its like man#hello everybody#thanks for sticking thru new and old both.#I'm gonna project my self worth issues onto you guys now so watch as i lean back dramatically and tell yall to find a better blogger than me#I'm just so out of it... my ears are ringing.
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I catch a glimpse of Lister grinning at me, a soft smile, one that reminds me of years ago, back when this was all new and exciting and fun, back when we really were children. Then he yanks the cape and skips away.
forever one of my favourite moments (thank you thursday)
i love how such a brief interaction manages to capture the running themes of distance/proximity, growing up, and magic so easily
#idk if magic is a tenuous theme but it Is present throughout the book so i'm counting it#& the cape + the sense of time travel/flashback/nostalgia encapsulates that imo#basically i just love this line#not Just as a bicci moment as well . which is nice#bc there's relatively few jimmy/lister scenes that aren't either aching miscommunication or not knowing lister properly or bicci adjacent#and i like to see their Friendship as well as them being a background ship#iwbftreread2024
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The word you're looking for is "parenthetical"
A set of parentheses is called a parenthetical.
That makes sense I think. But I've also never heard it. As much as I would love to use this to be grammatically(?) correct, I think I will keep using the phrasing I have been, just to be the most clear.
Jeez, you'd think that they'd teach you the basics like this when you literally study the fine arts of it, but I guess not. Fun!
This post has 1 parenthetical.
#not sure if this counts as “grammar” exactly but it's grammar adjacent#using the correct term for a thing#if I'm using the term correctly you might call this entire blog quite parenthetical
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I don't think I'm a furry, but I'm getting the urge to design a seal fursona after seeing a sketch of a seal-trans-guy
#furry#fursona#I'm not here for the spicy kind of furry#(you do you)#but it might be fun to draw a Little Guy sometimes#I havent' drawn in ages#and all my “sona” adjacent art has been too human to count#(though I did really like vitzvitz)#(I should draw zem again)
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You ever look for a specific word/thing to describe a feeling you're having and think you've found it but as you look more into it it turns out it was a simular concept but very distinct from what you were looking for? And then when you try to be more specific everything that pulls up is still the same close but definitely not the same thing to describe it? I'm a stuck in a bit of a loop at the moment
#Been having this odd feeling of just. Nothing being real I guess. Or just me not being real or events not feeling real#I was trying to find a word for what I was experiencing and found 'Depersonalization' and 'Derealization'#(I think I spelled those correctly)#From a first glance the descriptions fit perfectly but as I read more in depth it. Didn't quite fit#It felt adjacent to the unreal feeling I've experienced but definitely not the same#It's like a different flavor#I don't feel detached to my surroundings and myself#I just. Don't feel very real. Or at least very human at least#I don't say that as in im something more than human or anything like that#More like something about me specifically just falls short of being one#And with the events thing it's more just like so much has happened and they've all been so bizarre that they just.#Don't feel real either!#Like yes I'm still experiencing them and being effected by them#But it feels more like the way dreams or over dramatic stories go if that makes since#I still haven't found the right words for these feelings. I hope I do eventually.#I feel like knowing what's causing it/what it is would help ground me more#Whatever it is those two words definitions/symptoms just don't feel right#Does this count as a vent?? I mean it not really a solely negative feeling#I do feel like it could be upsetting/unsettling to others and my come off as venty so I'll mark it as such just in case#tw vent
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microdosing on childhood nostalgia by staring dead-eyed at a windows 98 screensaver while sick enough to hallucinate*
#rosie babbles#*: i don't know if it really COUNTS as hallucination since none of my actual senses were involved#but hooboy. a few nights ago i'm pretty sure i was having something delusion-adjacent. complete with slowly coming out of it until i went#'whoa. how did i believe that was true again?' despite knowing the answer was 'brain shenanigans'#fortunately it was meh at worst good at best. like. i have been Regaled Many A Time to dad's#'once i was suffering from o2 deprivation while running cross-country + i Distinctly Remember Seeing A Rock Start Jumping Around + Yelling#''GET BACK ON THE TRACK IDIOT''' story#it was like that. but like. fully in my brain. the idea of#'there are ppl depending on me (whom i'll recognize as fictional later but not yet) + the only way to help them is to stay put + recover'#it was very strange to swim outta that later and go 'that was neat. but WHAT' lmao#idk. i'm very much not an expert here. much like sensory overloads and losing speech i have only ever experienced this once and uh.#that was It.#also unrelated to All That but i've been sitting on this post for Hours. post limit my beloathed#LITERAL. HOURS.#i've missed 3D flowerbox and 3D maze and bezier tho :) they're pretty
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More future spouse readings please you kill them 🫠😭
Thank you!! ♡
I'm currently working on a future spouse adjacent reading that someone suggested if that helps??
#asks#anon#pac reading#idk how else to describe it other than adjacent#because it's more so about the querent as the spouse??#does that count haha#once I'm done with this reading I'll work on the other one#but feel free to inbox suggestions
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