#archipithecus

[stormtide-leviathan]

tag game

Tagged by @pairofraggedclaws

Last song: I'm not sure tbh

Favourite colour: yellow!! always has been

Last book: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson, though I'm also in the middle of The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemesin

Last movie: Pacific Rim, I watched it last night

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Definitely a sweet girlie, in the end :3

Relationship status: been casually seeing a friend for a bit now

Last thing I googled: antacids (just the word, alone)

Looking forward to: Going to trivia with my friends in an hour!

Tagging: @thebansheeoflamordia @numbersareimaginary @fleshengine @taulupis @archipithecus and anyone else who wants to!

[letshaveabouba]

Brace yourselves because while you might be thinking ‘apple’ isn’t going to have too much going on, much like an onion, there are layers under the surface.

While we are thinking about Mediterranean climates for the N’asibómmó culture, apples come in our world from somewhere around Central Asia, and as such we thought apple was ripe for a loanword. Earlier this year LHAB ran a little proto-language game where inspired by Northwest Mekeo (or at least Juliette Blevins’ analysis of it) we didn’t include any alveolar sounds. Partly this is as an antidote to the alveolar heavy system we have developed.

Miles created the word jehû [dʒeɣû] in their daughter language in this project, which got loaned into N’asibómmó as je'û, maintaining the voicing of the intervocalic fricative. For those interested, in Kxêstǔ (Jake’s daughter language) it would be a kfǔ. Adding to this, Tethys (@archipithecus) made it nengýý [nʲẽŋỹ́ː] in her language Kóisio Líí. We clearly went in very different directions.

[arayaz]

what is it about certain things that have … such trans energy?

like as @archipithecus pointed out, there are a ton of trans girl swordfighters,

but I do capoeira. It’s a an Afro-Brazilian martial art. Out of like ten people who attend class with some regularity, there are two trans girls, four cis girls, and four cis men, but three of the cis men are really on thin ice (from my trans point of view). I’m confused why is this a thing

[arayaz]

@archipithecus

GLORIOUS AMERICAN BEVERAGE, RECARBONATED OVER TEN THOUSAND TIMES

[therealnickelii]

https://www.tumblr.com/schadenfreudich/785959824649256960/archipithecus-did-you-kno-mymodernmet

this could be you if you piss off the wrong object

luckily that won’t ever happen!

probably

[stormtide-leviathan]

tagged by @pairofraggedclaws

Favourite Colour: yellow!

Currently Reading: the fifth season by nk jemisin for the third time

Last Song: whatever was on the radio

Last Series: the librarians tv show (it's mid)

Last Film: the librarian: quest for the judas chalice (it's bad)

Sweet/Salty/Savory: sweet

Tea or Coffee?: neither really

Working On: a character sheet for an rpg im playing soon as well as a deck of custom magic cards based on a character from an rpg ive been in for a while

Tagging (no obligation):

@archipithecus @givekelsiercocaine @thebansheeoflamordia @yellowhoothoot @phyrexiandreadthot

[dedalvs]

welcome back! i’ve really been enjoying langtime studio. it’s been really inspirational for my own conlanging, both regarding the linguistics stuff you guys use as well as your general workflow

Thank you! That was the hope.

For those unfamiliar, LangTime Studio is a joint project by me and Jessie Sams (@quothalinguist). Jessie and I created the Méníshè language for Motherland: Fort Salem, and we loved working together so much that we wanted something else to do in the downtime between that first season and a potential season 2 (which was no guarantee, at the time). I couldn't wait for some other job to come along, so I decided to do something with a project I'd been neglecting.

For a long time, I've wanted to do something that was essentially a board game version of the Sega Genesis game Shining Force (for newer gamers, it's like proto-Fire Emblem, but better). I wanted to set it in a post-human Earth featuring anthropomorphic animals (mutated somewhat like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and I wanted them all to speak their own languages. They'd have absolutely no connection to previous human languages, just as they'd have no connection to previous human culture. In order to have any characters in this game, I'd have to create actual languages to draw names from, and I kept stalling.

Originally my plan was to "upgrade" my old languages. I was goingj to have five different anthropomorphic species, and I was going to take the following languages and redo them, bringing them up to my current standard:

Cats: Zhyler

Rabbits: Kamakawi

Opossums: Sidaan

Dogs: Gweydr

Mice: Njaama

I even started with Zhyler (I have a tiny little document called New Zhüler on my computer), but there was just too much to change... It ripped the heart and soul out of the original projects, and the new versions simply weren't as good as I wanted them to be.

Then I hit an idea that combined this idea with one I'd had earlier (to wit: Some famous author could set up a subscription service where essentially they write their new novel on, like, Google Docs, and they let people watch literally while they write). What if Jessie and I created these languages together, and did it on YouTube, and then started a Patreon to justify the work hours we were putting into it?

And this is where LangTime Studio was born. Jessie and I worked together to come up with the details, and ultimately we decided we'd stream every Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific. We've been doing it now since February of 2020, and we've worked our way through the languages for the rabbits, opossums, and mice, and we're nearing completion on our cat language. Only the dog language remains!

I'd always hoped that anyone could pop in at any time and not have to be there from the beginning of the season. I mean, if you're watching Bob Ross, it's fascinating to see him start from a totally blank canvas, but if he's already got a sky, ground, and a mountain on there, it's not like you turn it off. It's still fun to see a happy little tree come into being!

Most of the time it looks like this:

That is, Jessie and I spend a lot of time to thinking and trying to figure out what to do next, and people watch and chat and give us ideas, answer questions, etc.

It's been a fun Thursday tradition for us for what's coming on three years now, and we're looking to keep going!

So that's partly what we've been up to. We didn't know how well we'd be able to keep it up with my travel schedule, but you'll notice this started in February of 2020. February 27th, in fact. I actually did have a talk in between then and the total lockdown which put our second episode on a Wednesday. The next talk I had was canceled. And the next one. And the next one. And the next one...

Of course, catching a live stream isn't something everyone can do or wants to do, but hey, if you want to know what it's like for a conlanger to work on a language from absolute zero to fairly functional, this is it. I'd always hoped especially that beginning conlangers would find it inspiring and encouraging to see how utterly and completely lost we get—and how often it happens. Like anything else, you just gotta keep plugging away. :)

[arayaz]

@archipithecus

shes just like me! (jk i dont eat rocks.... maybe)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

hi, could i please get "Mistborn Fortnite Friday"?

thank you

also, have you ever spilled your ink before? i did that once and fucked up my computer

oh.

CONSTAntly. My desk is real fuckt up lmao, i just tend to not have my ink stuff near to my keyboard

Askbox is currently closed as I work my way through these older asks

[wild-west-wind]

what kind of paleo stuff did you do?

I worked for a collection jointly run by the California State University system and a California county government. Basically the county had legal ownership over all fossils found  inside it, and requires that construction projects halt to excavate potentially valuable fossils. A remediation company would come it, remove the fossils quickly, and give construction a thumbs up to start again.

I worked for the facility that took those fossils in, identifying them (generally not to a species level), cataloguing them, and storing them for future scientists to use. There was a big chunk of time that the law existed that there was nowhere to send the fossils, so our facility had a big warehouse out back of everything collected from like 1970 to 2000, so a lot of my work was curating that, and storing those specimens in archival materials (prior to that they were all in dissolving sandwich bags, cigarette boxes, or just loosely piled in cardboard boxes.) It was very lab-focused work, and it wasn’t work that I really adored (I prefer to be outside), but it was very interesting every day!

[arayaz]

my gender is not a binary gender but a binary gender is a binary gender and I am not a binary person and I am a binary person so I am not a binary person but I am a binary person I am a trans person and I am a binary person and I am not a binary person and I am not a binary person

@archipithecus @woah-its-sketch @alation

Type "my gender is" on your phone and let your phone finish the sentence, then tag your moots to keep the chain going, I'll go first.

My gender is a little bit more intense than I thought I could have done

@mirukosbitchywife @get-junpeid

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Here you Go I’m not sure if this is accurate

[pan-troglodytes]

Happy Birthday! 🐒

Thank you my good friend! I really appreciate it!! 🐵🐵

[hurricane-euler]

song url

rules: spell out your url with song titles and tag ten people. I was tagged by @smallblueandloud - I was cursing you for the Us and Es but thanks!! 

Hey Little Songbird - Hadestown

Under Pressure - Queen, David Bowie (copying sb&l because are there any other songs that start with U??)

Rey’s Theme - John Williams/Force Awakens Soundtrack

(Le) Retour de Borsalino - Claude Bolling

I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany

Can’t Cheat Death - The Ballroom Thieves

A Night Like This - Caro Emerald

Northwest Passage - The Real McKenzies, or Stan Rogers

Everybody’s Jumpin’ - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Eva and Magaldi - Evita

Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars (apparently there’s at least 1)

Light Up the Night - Jamie Berry

Emergency - Paramore

(The) Road - The 442s

Tagging: @archipithecus @insert-math-username @sevenfactorial @counter-example @secondaristh @aceascake @kubleeka @vacuously-true @the-real-numbers @ Y O U, I know people say that a lot but please, I’m stuck inside and so bored, I will listen to all of your songs,

[arayaz]

Last song: Pull Me Under by Dream Theater

Fav color: anything starting with “gr”

Sweet, Spicy, savory: hmmm probably spicy but maybe savory

Relationship status: single

Currently watching: hermitcraft ig

Current obsession: Viossa

@woah-its-sketch @tower-of-hana @archipithecus @possiblyatransgirl @bismuth-gieko @niniralin @levuna/@alation @quothalinguist @lingthusiasm

Nine people i'd like to get to know better:

Tagged by: @bell-of-indecision, thank you so much for tagging me <3

Last Song: Gmfu by Odetari,6arelyhuman

Favourite colour: Dark red, violet, pink

Currently watching: Death note, ep6

Spicy/Savoury/Sweet: Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Current Obsession: Mbti types and cognitive functions.

Tagging: @somin-yin @a-cloud-for-dreams @axepen @hinsaa-paramo-dharma @basic-bitch-alkali @rhysaka @blackknight-100 @squishywizardd @reykalot

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req’d by @archipithecus

uh. rails?