#conscripts

[evegwood]

The Language of the Lords reflects everything the ruling class holds dear: triumph, treasure, and the elite status of the demonic race. Poems and stories are shared through the oral tradition of performance and writing is usually reserved for "historical" documents, grandiose retellings of events that may or may not have gone down quite as recorded. For this reason, the demonic writing style does not lend itself well to quick note-taking or casual texts.

The demonic script is made up of glyphs featuring imagery important to demons; angel imagery is usually reserved for phonetic symbols or less important elements. The script contains several different types of glyphs: heads, slabs, flags, pillars, and banners. Each serves a different phonetic and grammatical purpose.

Heads are used to indicate important words like nouns and verb roots. A single head represents one syllable; words comprised of more than one syllable are made up of multiple heads in a row biting each other. The head is made up of four parts: the eye (initial consonant), nose (vowel), mouth (final consonant), and the ornamentation.

The Language of the Lords has a limited number of syllables and features many homonyms. To avoid confusion, context is given through a head's ornamentation, indicating to the reader which category that word belongs to. For example, fa could mean "rib", "spruce", or "nail"; by using the body, plant or tool ornamentation respectively, the intended meaning is clear. While the category of word is often omitted in spoken conversation, it is always included in writing. If a word is made up of multiple heads, the ornamentation is placed on the final head.

Left: madlas(shi), "snow Right: hebdod(be), "oil substance"

You can read more about the Language of the Lords here!

[coupleofdays]

I just realized something that might be an unintentional pun in the first Tron movie. At several points Sark refers to the Programs on the Game Grid as "conscripts". The word "script" apparently has a few different meanings when it comes to computers, but one definition I found says that it can mean "a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor (as a compiled program is)."

This could mean that Sark calling Programs "(con)scripts" indicates that he views them as soldiers or slaves, that they should be following his orders. They should be part of the Master Control Program rather than run independently.

[soviet-amateurs]

The army conscripts, a farewell party

[lamegtu-larsa]

The sun shone.

Obviously a visual realization this ornate would usually be used for something less prosaic lol

[stop-war-ukraine]

"You will come back [from the war] as men!" 🤡

Russian conscripts are sent to Russia's Belgorod region.

they are kids and they are all going to die within weeks of arriving at the front 🤌

[foandgeld]

Argent Conscripts Three out of four

[illustratus]

Les Marie-Louise by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

[korbi-the]

The life and death of Korba, aka Conscript GF, during her isekai time in the Half Life 2 Beta universe.

For a longer time I was obsessed with what I call "dabeta", and I knew of it for even longer too. My passion didn't not fade away either, but I am less inclined to talk about it, knowing full well how I tend to bomb people with ramblings and aesthetics and "it was so dark and gritty, man!!!"

So, for a time, I would draw and put my Korba in various situations within the world. The general premise was that she would meet my other original character named Hecktor, who was a very gay very burly HECU soldier with a very specific speech impediment (talking like a HL1 HECU, stringed sound files and everything).

The two would join the Conscripts on the basis of Hecktor being in the actual military, and actually beinh black in Back Mesa (he got isekai'd by a Vortigaunt), while Korba lied about being in a military of sorts :) proved herself with her skills anyways so thats good.

THE two had non-specific roles in the Conscripts, went on some courier missions, met interesting people, and Korba even got to participate in some good ole marketing!

They would perish while tagging along with Freeman and Alyx through the late game of da beta, holding down a gate for the protagonists to pass through :( and have found themselves a long time later in the irl :D

[shirtandties]

Hot Cops!

[nyxelestia]

wait wait get back here i want to know more about your IPA replacement

what does georgian script do with kerning and what does that have to do with your script???

OP GET BACK HERE

I have become a regular at the local cafe. I sit at the lunch counter with my laptop to write. The workers keep me updated on all the tea.

Barista: Oh god here he comes.

Me: who?

Barista: White Ferrari guy. Hes banned from the other cafe. All he ever does is tell the same stories about the pyramids. Or ghosts. Or his car. Don't make eye contact with him. If he talks to you he won't leave you alone- Hi hello welcome!

[joecunningham]

Conscripts (Mort's in Uptown, Minneapolis MN) / 2018

Devastating hardcore punk. This exact show, their debut, happens to stream from Bandcamp (Length: 11:32): Listen

[lamegtu-larsa]

Finally sat down and put in a good 8 hours of work on this (thanks MyNoise!) and built up a lot of glyphs including blank areas in the syllabary, as well as these adpositions

and the beginning of the necessary CV- prefix clusters.

[trendynewsnow]

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[seratlantisite]

Nice try Bioware, but I know the state of Southern Thedas better than you do.

First off, it matters if the Hero of Ferelden is alive or not. When the First Warden recalled all wardens, our hero knew that was a bad call and refused, finally splitting off from Weisshaupt after years of mismanagement and taking scores of wardens with them. Their presence and leadership makes all the difference, rallying southern Thedas once more against the blight. If you have only an Orlesian Warden Commander in Amaranthine they’re less inspiring, but as long as you’ve done Awakening they are a boon nonetheless. There is someone to lead the fight against the darkspawn while other focus on the Venatori.

If you 100% completed Awakenings and also Soldier’s Peak, the Ferelden wardens have never been so prepared. They’re organized, they’re outfitted and they’ve been ready for this for years. Also, if you allied with the Architect then you have scores of strange research to give you an edge.

If Merrill completed her Eluvian then she moves south once again and joins the effort. She’s managed to cleanse the blight before and she’s ready to try it again. And her knowledge of the crossroads gives the south an edge on their movement and supply lines. If Hawke’s sibling is a Warden they accompanied her.

If the Inquisitor let Briala have power in any way, the Dales become the leaders in the war against the Venatori, forming a formidable alliance with Ferelden, Orzammar and the Marches, the likes of which have never been seen. And if you completed Jaws of Hakkon then their alliances with the Avvar and Chasind are stronger than ever.

Of course, if the Inquisitor kept the Wardens around after Here Lies the Abyss then their numbers are bolstered. It may cost Wiesshaupt later, but that’s Rooks problem. And if you completed the Descent, then the Inquisitor and Warden had a much better idea of what was coming and spent ten years getting ready.

They will not be broken.

They will weather this storm.

[tenth-sentence]

When the civil wars ended in 30 BCE the victorious Augustus demobilized the conscripts and manned the frontier with career soldiers.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris