#and north in general

[steviewonderwhereyouare]

POV you said something embarrassing at last night’s soirée

Here are Markus and North also in the Leyendecker style. This one was more difficult for me as I wanted to mimic the pencil strokes of the original on a digital drawing. I ended up using an acrylic paint brush that gave the streaky effect I wanted and layering up the colours. It came together rather quickly once I got in the groove 😁 my sister @core-world gave very good advice about the faces (which I struggle with) so thank you dearest for that ❤️

Reference under the cut

[blackkatdraws2]

The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Pontiac G6 Concept, 2003. A prototype for the production G6 that was presented at the North American International Auto Show. It used GM's Epsilon Platform, the concept car had a 285hp 3.5 litre supercharged V6 driving all 4 wheels. The G6 replaced the 5th generation Grand Am and went on to be the last car produced by Pontiac in 2010

[jonnywaistcoat]

Same question I asked the other guy:

Do you marmite?

Yup, love the stuff. I think it's like a lot of things - you generally develop a taste for it as a kid, and if you try it for the first time as an adult it's not particularly pleasant. That said, the whole "love it or hate it" thing is entirely marketing - the majority of people I know are broadly neutral to positive on it, but certainly don't love it.

[pollie-pockets]

G1 pink pont transparents

[caredscared]

someone on twitter suggested i draw Johnny and Angelica like dudes proudly holding crocodiles

[kimberly40]

This now abandoned old store is located on Buckeye Road in the Beech Creek community in Avery County, North Carolina

[nepenthean-sleep]

the fact that in the masquerade series tain hu is symbolized by a catamount, a big cat that was hunted to extinction by colonial settlers across the majority of north america, is just soooooo. like it makes me want to eat glass

[cid5]

Rommel with Italian commander-in-chief General Gariboldi soon after his arrival in North Africa - 1941 - 1943.

[serpentface]

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.

[himeeeo]

Imagine this:

Sanji and Law… born in a softer world. No war, no loss, no pirate life. They both grow up in the North Blue and never have to leave.

Sanji is still a prince, but this time, he’s loved. His mom is alive. His family isn’t perfect, but they’re kind. He learns to cook because he loves it — always sneaking into the royal kitchen and making little treats for the staff.

Law is a young doctor from a respected family. He’s quiet, smart, and always has a book in his hand. When he was younger, he used to read the Germa comic books under the covers at night — especially the ones about Stealth Black. He had a secret crush on him. He never thought he’d actually meet him one day.

Then one winter, Law is chosen to be the prince’s personal doctor. He’s nervous… until he sees Sanji for the first time. Blonde hair, sharp smile, blue eyes. Law stares for a second too long and then quickly looks away.

Sanji teases him a lot. Calls him “Doc” and smiles that same smile from the comics. Law realizes… he’s been falling for the real Stealth Black all along.

They spend time together in warm rooms while it snows outside. Sanji brings Law pastries. Law patches up Sanji after training. They sit in the library for hours — sometimes reading, sometimes just enjoying the quiet.

In this world, there’s no pain. Just soft snow, soft hearts, and the quiet kind of love that grows slowly but surely.

[kwillow]

Hello there! I discovered your blog not too long ago and just want to say I am enamored with your character designs and world building! Call me basic, but I'm quite fond of Theo; which begs the question: since Theo's mom is an ermine and his dad is a rat, is he technically a hybrid? Or is he genetically speaking a "pure" rat? If not, are there any physical traits that might separate from a typical rat? Pardon the numerous questions; love your work!

Interesting question! Putting Theo and his his father side-by-side can help elucidate this. Leonard is what you'd call a "normal" rat, but Theo isn't a normal anything.

Comparing the two, Theo has some ermine-like traits: his ears are slightly fuzzy instead of bald, and he has sharp, carnivorous teeth in addition to his more ratlike incisors. Of course, he a variety of other odd attributes, which make it harder to discern if these anomalous features are due to hybridization precisely or myriad other genetic quirks.

Theo has many peculiarities that aren't hybrid traits, but a mix of congenital health conditions (his supernumerary teeth and dwarfism, for example) and what I'd call "basal traits," sort of animalistic throwback features that people usually lack (his more backwards-shifted foramen magnum, which gives him a slightly hunched posture when upright, or his lack of hair). He's also just kind of ugly. These things separate him not just from your "typical" rat-people, but most people in general.

To circle back and answer your question: Theo wasn't identified as a hybrid when he was born, even though you could make the argument that he qualifies. Though hybrids don't face the same degree of stigma in the modern era as they did in the time of the Old Kingdoms, they do still face some scrutiny. Leonard and Jo could get away with identifying Theo as "just" a rat since his other more blatant issues obfuscate any hybridization, which frees him of at least one potentially embarrassing label when he already has plenty stacked on him.

That said, even if he goes along with the non-hybrid label, Theo secretly prefers thinking of himself as having hybridized ermine traits. Probably more of them than he actually has. It's a mommy issue/daddy issue thing.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[grumpyghostdoodles]

(Also Clover with ring on their ring finger Clover with ring on their ring finger Clover with ring on their ring finger Clover with ring on their ring finger Clover with ring on their ring finger AND OH MY GODDDDDD CLOVER WITH A RING ON THEIR RING FINGERRRRRRR mini story about em if that's okay too :'D 🙏)

Have their reactions to the engagement announcement! They reacted very well! ... For the most part.

They do not like Asgore. At all. Poor man couldn't get a single sentence in.

And as how they got together, ill go doodling bits and pieces of their developing relationship from time to time, but it was a Lot of pining. Years of it, actually, since they had a crush on eachoter when they were 13/14, and got together when they were in their 30s

[faaun]

what draws you back to your country what draws you back to your land when i was a kid i told myself if i ever left iran i'd never go back 2 years into living in the UK i started looking at news on iran again 10 years in and i visited it for the first time again and today i heard an iranian mother talk in farsi to her child on the train to london the way my mother used to and i wanted to cry i wanted to ask her whether they're still cutting the mountaintops whether the lakes are still drying today i showed the person i was with pictures of waterfalls and palaces and forests and snow-white north something odd pulls me back with increasing force i can't ignore it ever again

[sunshineartmon]

I got my pokemon video from @what-is-my-aesthetic heehee! I had a lot of fun with it, so I just had to make a pokemon style render of Professor Christmastree! Would she match the other professors’ freak? I dunno, what do we think?

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