#sphinx of black quartz

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

I understand why Brennan chose the pangram he used - "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - but it would have been so much funnier if the guy had to quickly draw "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" or "the five boxing wizards jump quickly".

[hiljametsa]

“Sphinx of black quartz, I’ll trouble thee

And this now shalt thou suffer me,

For passing o’er thy riddle thou

Must judge my mettle and my vow.”

[sycamorality]

conlang is SO WEIRD

syulx a' qy-øh'l-nøy'ws qi-ybelw tra øfárøf

like SURE tthats a swentence

[allieinarden]

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is cooler than “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow” because it’s a short story encompassing a plotline, characterization, irony, drama, etc.

[nami-moittli]

Since I’ve kinda been hyperfixating on my digitwst AU, I decided to teach myself digimoji! Which if you don’t know, is digimon’s made up alphabet. There’s two versions, one for Japanese Kana and one for the Latin alphabet, I’ve been teaching myself the Latin one because I don’t know Japanese so there’s no real point for the most part

First off, here’s the Latin digimoji that I got from Wikimon:

And here’s me writing down a the alphabet and writing a bunch of random words and names and stuff: if you want, feel free to try to decipher some of what I’m saying in this!

I just hope I haven’t taught myself the wrong character for certain letters lol

[gunlicker-offical]

Throw your bestie into plinko

Through bales of hay she stumbled

Sphinx of black quarts has dulled your sword

Your poet ass got Tumbl'ed

My sister is a saber

My bestie is a horse

I'm riding in, be ready

For i know no remorse

[denniskdraws]

Today is 24 Hour Comic Day. And I thought I'd give it a go. But I only got three pages done before I had to admit to myself "this isn't gonna be finished before the weekend is over"

But if folks are intrigued, maybe I'll try another weekend to crank more pages out.

[secretwhumplair]

I had a dream that was not so much whumpy as. Whump aftermath/backstory-y? Idk how much sense this makes but I'll put it here.

Basically there's this council of mages who have been having trouble with an ImmortalTM - a distinct, highly dangerous class of being. They have a list of known immortals but they don't know which one it is so they have a meeting where they go down the list and try to figure out who's the most likely suspect.

One of them is known as the sphinx, and was imprisoned by one of the mages a while ago after a long and whumpy struggle - being such creatures of magic, what an immortal can do to a mage is far beyond anything a regular human could survive. However, this is more of a conceptual prison. The sphinx can cause no harm currently, but what it apparently can do is promptly show up when it is discussed to scare the younger mages and re-traumatize its "plaything".

It's only a matter of time until it escapes its prison - whether it's tomorrow or next century. Immortals can wait, and mages, too, live long lives, especially when fatefully intertwined with an immortal. And when the time comes, it'll come straight for the mage who defeated it.

He felt its presence before he could see it; it was as if the room suddenly darkened, just on a whole different plane than light.

He had long since gotten used to the sphinx; it haunted him far too often, whether it was memory or something more. It was harmless now, he reminded himself.

What surprised him more were the screams rippling through the rest of the court. Some stumbled towards the far wall or exit, or dove behind chairs; some raised their staffs or hands in defense.

"Oh. You're really here."

"Why did you doubt?" the sphinx purred, stepping out in front of him. Its frills nearly brushed the ceiling. "Have you been dreaming of me?"

"You have no access to my mind." His voice came out far too feeble; it sounded like he was trying to convince himself, and he wasn't surprised the sphinx latched on to it.

"How can you be so sure? We've been so intimate." It flopped down in the center of the room, rolled on its back while twisting to look into his face. The movement was the most cat-like thing about it, really. He wondered why they even called it the sphinx. Maybe now that they'd seen it, the others wondered too.

"After all, what could be more intimate than holding someone's beating heart in your hand?"

[softistheflesh-soarestars]

funfact:

[palmer]

Nerd shit is so pervasive on this site all the badass people who had cool sex left or died

[ouroboros-sys]

more cursive

[one-shitpost-a-day]

i fixed y'alls Y

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

[zajef37]

i think that we should all give just a little more slack to the sphinx of black quartz, first off i doubt that’s their job to judge vows all day, secondly we don’t need to be saying the full name every time and demanding. we can do a little better than this

[orpheusterminals]

Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge My Vow by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon

[dyst-blogs]

MASSIVE NEWS FOR LINGUISTS: the sphinx of black quartz has just befriended the quick brown fox and the lazy dog.

[thecrankiestofgremlins]

Is it made of black quartz and judging a vow you made? Or giving you riddles about ageing? If not it's just a sparkling chimaera.

The problem with tumblr

i am being pursued by a mysterious sphinx