#Document Splitting

[shawnjordison]

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[fivie]

lmao due to my chronic inability to stfu it looks like I'll be splitting UMW chapter 25 so uhh may be updating much sooner than expected 😂

I'm a menace and if I had an editor they'd try to kill me with hammers. They'd probably say that the entirety of what is about to be chapter 25 isn't even necessary and could be brutally cut down or excised. Kill your darlings, they'd say. But I have no editor. I'm wild and free on AO3 and I'm making it everyone's problem.

[iislak-mewu]

Īslak Mèwu intro post

Shishīkwa prana!¹ Welcome, travellers! I'll try and keep this post friendly and readable to non-linguists, I just wanna infodump about my language lol. This post has gotten a little long though, so apologies! Hopefully it serves well to give you a feel of it <3

¹/ɕiˈɕiə̯kʋa pʁaˈna/ PL~foreigner.PAT welcome

Consider this a formal introduction post to the conlang (constructed language) i've been making for like, over a year now at this point? on and off, mostly off tho lmao. The vast majority of stuff i've made is the grammar (this is very much my favourite area of langs lol, closely followed by the phonetics side of things), and as a result i really don't have many words or actual forms for things lol

Īslak Mèwu² (lit. valley's language) (or just Īsla for short) is a language spoken by the fictional Rūsawlitwā³ people. While the majority of them are a vertical transhumance culture, living in valleys and farming cattle (herders move the flock up and down the mountains in line with the seasons, while the majority of people live permenantly in the village), some groups have moved further afoot and are living in a more settled way in towns and cities in neighbouring regions.

²/iɐ̯ˈsla-k mɛˈʋu/ valley-GEN language (lit. "valley's language") ³/ʀuɐ̯-ˌsaʋli-ˈtˠaː/ cow-herd-AGN (lit. "cow-herders")

I'll start with Īsla's sounds, then give a (not-so-brief) tour of the grammar.

Phonology / sounds

Īsla has the following consonants: (If you don't recognise these symbols, you can find and listen to them here. You won't find ˠ in there, but it makes things sound more "dark".)

Īsla has eight short vowels, /i e ɛ a y ø u o/, along with the long vowels /iɐ̯, uɐ̯, iː, yː, uː, eː, aː/ and the rather distinctive syllabic fricatives /ʝ̩, ɣ̩ʷ, ɣ̩~ɦ̩/. These syllabic fricatives are high pitch, and often realised instead as breathy voiced vowels depending on dialect.

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C). Stress is assigned to the last "heaviest" syllable.

I am currently in the middle of reworking the past maybe 100 years of sound shifts, so this is subject to change (especially the vowel system)

Grammar

For the linguistics nerds among us, Īslak Mèwu is a synthetic language that features noun incorperation, a pretty free word order, 3 grammatical genders, split-S alignment, converbs, a shitty verb agreement system that will likely fall out of use in a generation or two (role marking is mostly done by the case system and emphatic pronouns), and TAM is typically marked via auxiliary verbs (tbf these are a lot more irregular so you do get decent verb agreement thru this). I'll explain these features briefly and how they work in Īsla:

Noun incorperation is a process where nouns and verbs are put together (compounded) into one word. We kinda have this in English - think about mountain-climbing, berry picking, horse riding, dishwashing, etc. In Īsla, this is MUCH more common than in English - this is used for basically every conventional activity. Natives talk about dinner-eating, sheet-changing, cow-chasing, dust-sweeping, fish-chopping, etc. These aren't always obvious from the words they're made of though! "whisky-swimming" actually means "to have thrown, to have deliberately lost a game", named for drinking games where people deliberately lose for the aim of getting drunk.

Grammatical gender. Like in French, German, etc. Īsla has 3 of them, and verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and determiners (think English "some", "most", "the", etc) "agree" with nouns in gender. Case markers merge with the gender markers.

Auxiliary verbs are little "helping" verbs that convey grammatical info alongside a more meaningful verb. English has these - "I will do X", "I should do X", "i have done X". Īsla verbs operate in basically the same way, but they come after the main verb, not before:

/niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a ɫʋin/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.SG.IMP "He should cook dinner" /niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a tˠʋo/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.LOC.COP "He is cooking dinner (for a while)" (lit. "He is in cooking dinner")

Case marking: Like in languages like German or Finnish. Little suffixes added to words to show what their role is in the sentence. In Īsla, the cases are the agentive case (do-ers), patientive case (things that have things done to them), genitive case (possessors), dative case (recipients of things, destinations, also used for expressing opinions as in "to me, X is cool"), the locative case (locations), and ablative case (sources and instruments).

Split-S alignment. ohhhhhh boy. this is FAR too complex of a topic to properly get into in an intro post like this, but the short of it that, Īsla just, can't make up its mind about what case to mark Ss with? For ease of writing, I'm gonna use "S" to refer to the only noun in an intransitive sentence (e.g. in "he walks", S is "he", but in "he hits him", there is no S, because this is a transitive sentence)

In Īsla, the main verb chooses what case the S should be in. There are two (main) categories of this:

"Unaccusative verbs" - S is marked with the "patientive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "i chase the person") /ˈtaːmu-∅ miɐ̯ˈlij/ person-PATIENTIVE lie "the person is lying down"

"Unergative verbs" - S is marked with the "agentive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "the person chases me") /ˈtaːmy jeˈiɐ̯s/ person:AGENTIVE walk "the person walks"

However, this case preference is overridden by most auxiliary verbs. For example /ʀom/, the inchoative auxiliary (="to begin Xing"), demands an agentive S: /ˈtaːmy ˈmiɐ̯lja ʀom/ person:AGENTIVE lie-NOMIN 3N.SG.INCH "the person starts lying down" /miɐ̯ˈlij/ "to be lying down" is typically unaccusative, but the presence of the inchoative auxiliary means that /taːmu/ is marked with the agentive case, rather than the patientive case as in the earlier example.

On the other end of that, /xe/, the past tense auxiliary, demands a patientive S: /ˈtaːmu jeˈiɐ̯s =xe/ person-PATIENTIVE walk =3N.SG.PAST "the person walked" This is the opposite thing - "walk" suggests an agentive S, but /xe/ overrides that.

The actual system is ofc more complicated than this, but this is enough for a quick overview.

I'm gonna stop talking here, before I make a post so long no one will want to read it, but there's absolutely more posts coming! …when i can fit them in between coursework and the adhd distractableness ofc. Hopefully this has given you a decent feel for the language, and please send asks about stuff if you're interested!! (i hope i've explained things ok) There's a lot I didn't touch on here, and a lotta detail I've left out, and I'd love an excuse to talk more about this stuff <3

[redcrosshair]

I saw your post 3 days ago that your plans to make merch bout Jahar, I really love that !! btw I just wanna know about Jahar's favorite game, I asked Google yesterday about his fav game but they just show me COD, poker game,FIFA,... with very few information (actually there is no information). Could you help me please? Thank you so much !!

if you’re talking about video games, there’s not much known about his preferences (as far as i know anyway) aside from that anecdote from his friend who lived above him at umass, which i’m sure you’ve already read, and a tweet that he made about fifa (below).

if you’re talking about games in general, however, it’s pretty well documented that he loved football (or soccer, whatever)! even his header on his old twitter profile was the badge of the russian football club anzhi makhachkala!

[kalied0skull]

★ SPORADIC SYS-POSTING !

have it be known that we are obviously very open about being a system, we feel at least a little obligated to let people know who's in our brain for when we feel like actually talking about it.

obviously, just because we all exist simultaneously doesn't mean you gotta stop using arcade. we all use the same body name, sometimes it's just easier to label each other separately too though with our own names.

FREQUENT FRONTERS:

Arcade (⭐) — host

Ezra (🦷) — co-host, socializer

Holden (🎸) — pain holder

Edwin (🗯️) — protector

Maxime (☕) — writer, academic (fronts at school)

Mika (🥁) — masculinity & adhd holder

Fox (🍵) — artist, another adhd holder

Ragdoll (🧁) — battery (fronts when we're mentally exhausted)

LESSER-LIKELY TO BE SEEN:

Cephalexin (💉) — gatekeeper

Ashton (🌂) — autism holder, fixation holder ← the outsiders

Nyan / Woof (🐾) — pet regressor

Apple (🍏) — anxiety holder (fronts when overstimulated)

Finnley (🧠) — stimmer, fixation holder ← ocs & my little pony / ponytown

this isn't everyone, but it is the people who feel COMFORTABLE sharing their prescence. this list is bound to change with time as our alters typically fluctuate in number and existence, so... we might update this post time to time.

other than that though, this post was written by holden :) very rushed, obviously LMFAO

[double-u-qed]

okay so like. for my frame of reference, what is the consensus on oneshots being 50k ish words.

[the-mighty-crabjoys]

this is primarily a silly hypothetical but do you think Akutagawa ever dropped off/handed over Kyouka’s important paperwork.

in all likelihood, it was probably Kōyō who did it, and probably alongside the files detailing Kyouka’s past, but the idea that Akutagawa just. like. mailed the ADA her paperwork is so funny to me

it’d be so silly if, in the middle of their first mission together, Atsushi’s just like. “hey by the way. about that package you sent the agency.”

“yes. Kyouka-chan’s important paperwork. i ensured that everything was included. her birth certificate, immunization records, et cetera. why, is anything missing?”

“no. it’s all there. thanks.”

and then they’re immediately back at each other’s throats

[unopenablebox]

saw agnes martin's "the tree" (my pfp) in person for the first time today and started crying lmao

[ceescedasticity]

Ultimately I think there is no 'canonical'/authorial intent answer to the question of whether refugees from Himlad were allowed through Doriath or forced to skirt its borders. (Either is possible mechanically: There is that 'great need' qualifier, and it's possible for Melian to allow in normally non-allowed categories of people at will; at the same time, Beren was not supposed to be able to get in. 'Great need' isn't an automatic free pass.) I think if there were, it would have been mentioned, because it is extremely relevant to the debacle with Celegorm, Curufin, and Lúthien.

If refugees were made temporarily welcome, then that's another reason for Lúthien to trust them and makes their treatment of her even more outrageous. (I'm sure it still would have happened, since they went ahead and disregarded Finrod's hospitality while still enjoying it.) It makes Celegorm and Curufin look a lot worse and it should have been mentioned.

If refugees were forced to skirt the borders, then that is going to heavily influence Celegorm and Curufin's feelings and it's weird that they wouldn't bring it up. If they have such a legitimate grievance with Thingol/Doriath, why would they not raise it in their arguments against the quest or in their letter to Thingol? (Ditto if they never tried to enter, whether or not they could have.)

If refugees were allowed far enough inside the Girdle for safety but closely watched to keep from coming any farther in, then that means multiple people would have been very aware that happened and it would be very strange for Lúthien not to know of them in that context — she should be able to identify them (Celegorm and Huan are quite distinctive even in the unlikely event Curufin isn't head-to-toe in Fëanorian symbols) and know they are not necessarily trustworthy. Even if she decides to trust them anyway, it should have been mentioned. (Ditto if they were invited in and didn't come.)

If refugees were able to pass the Girdle and make their way towards Nargothrond without being met with either some amount of hospitality or some amount of hostility, then what were Doriath's marchwardens doing? Staying out of sight and pretending not to have noticed them? Did Thingol give permission? I have trouble imagining Thingol being okay with even giving the impression someone got the better of his defenses. —With this one it's a bit more plausible no one would bring it up during Lay of Leithian events, but only a bit.

Any of these should have been mentioned. There is no option that actually makes sense.

So it comes down to headcanon.

[ohmeadows]

ೃ⁀➷ to our love send a dozen white lilies, chapter one of three [8.1k words, rated m]. clorinde/navia & what three years of silent pining does to your stubborn, foolish heart.

[moon-jellie]

I'm going crazy I could swear I wrote this whole piece the other day about one of my characters reacting to the other going to rehab and I can't find it for the life of me

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

at this point writing project E is 50% me going “on god, you guys are going to talk this out whether you want to or not” and 50% me going “Ephy please shut up or else we’re never going to finish this fic���

[copepods]

running into a small problem

[valencrime]

jst dropping by to say how obsesed i am with your stories

Just responding to say... Thank you so much for saying so!!!

[houndsrending]

Ok one more thing on my oc's. Julian I think might seem like a do nothing academic communist type but that really isnt what Im going for with him, he is more someone who's accepted that he's not going to see a successful communist revolution in his lifetime and genuinely believes that if the communauts try to launch one Soon it will only fail. He doesnt think its Impossible so much as just not possible to succeed in the next 20 years, and Waiting is better then everybody getting killed for nothing and the next generation having to start over building a successful movement from scratch.

Everybody in-universe does kind of tend to assume he is a academic type that Doesnt Believe In Violence however and he's always scaring the shit out of people showing up everywhere with a gun strapped to his shoulder