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This is important!! Reblog this around ASAP

When the anti "LGBT propaganda" law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.

If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about "being illegal in several countries" you better fucking care about the countries you're apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.

Make sure to spread this around. This is important.

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I had to do it.... I'm not sure why, but it feels like I need to reblog this idk

reblog to increase the note count by one and make this post appear on the dash of people who are following you

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Ask away :) I swear I'll start posting again soon

questions I think would be fun to be asked

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

show us a picture of your handwriting?

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

what made you start your blog?

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

what scares you the most and why?

any reacquiring dreams?

tell a story about your childhood

would you say you’re an emotional person?

what do you consider to be romance?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what are you doing right now?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

name 3 things that make you happy

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

favourite thing about the day?

favourite things about the night?

are you a spiritual person?

say 3 things about someone you love

say 3 things about someone you hate

what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

fave season and why?

fave colour and why?

any nicknames?

do you collect anything?

what do you do when you’re sad?

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

are you messy or organised?

how many tabs do you have open right now?

any hobbies?

any pet peeves?

do you trust easily?

are you an open book or do you have walls up?

share a secret

fave song at the moment?

youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

any bad habits?

(this post was stolen from @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak, since it couldn't be reblogged anymore)

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Excuse the Abscence

Wowie! Can't believe it's been over a month since I posted, sorry about that. We're coming up on exams so I've been devoting myself to studying 24/7, I'll probably be able to start posting again in June. In the meantime, happy conlanging!

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omg a picrew where i can actually make it look like me :o i love this art style so much

:0 I LOVE picrews ty to @fixtationstation !

love how this turned out! I guess it's what I wish I looked like?

Do it here: (sorry, didn't quite know how to make it into a smol link TvT)

anyways tagging! No pressure: @cyanide-sodapop @sophiasrant @anomalocaris-and-shrimp :>

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Update

Sorry for being inactive, midterms are next week so I'm trying to focus on school at the moment. However, I do have a new conlang project in the works, which I'll try to post something about this weekend :)

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Old Project

So basically this was a project I worked on in the summer of last year, before I abandoned it to focus on school. I worked on it for a month or two, but unfortunately never got around to naming it. I think I partially quit the project because it had a ridiculously complicated tonal system and a bunch of weird consonants, which made IPA transcription super tedious. With that out of the way, here's a quick(ish) overview of it:

Fundamental Ideas (the concepts I wanted to explore in the project)

Semitic-style consonantal roots, but with vowels instead (I'll get to that later)

Four-vowel system: /a/, /i/, /u/, and /ə/

Tonality and length: á (short high), a (short mid), à (short low), â (rising), ǎ (falling), a̋ (long high), ȁ (long low), ā (long mid)

No rhotic sounds

VSO sentence structure (ex. "Baked the baker a cake")

CCVVCC syllable structure

Base eight

No articles

(I'm sure you can already see that I was trying waaaay too hard to make it unique)

Phonetic Inventory

Phonemes are romanized as follows (ipa / romanised): a / a i / i u / u ə / e p / b pʰ / p t̪ / d t̪ʰ / t c / gy cʰ / ky k / g kʰ / k m / m n̪ / n ɲ / ny ŋ / ng ɸ / f β / v θ / th ð / dh ʃ / s ʒ / z ç / h ʝ / j x / kh ɣ / gh

Tonality and length are romanised as follows:

a̋ (long high) á (short high) ā (long mid) a (short mid) ȁ (long low) à (short low) â (rising) ǎ (falling)

/ə/ cannot have altered tone or length There are long versions of fricatives and nasals for when two of them are written in a row. For instance, if a consonant template goes p_p_n, and is filled in with e_ǐn_u, making it pepǐnnu, it would be pronounced /pəpǐnːu/.

Grammar

Verb-Subject-Object sentences (eg. “Rode I my bike” or “Baked he a cake”)

Adjectives and adverbs after nouns and verbs (eg. “the cat black” or “the woman old and wise” and “running fast” or “slept peacefully”)

To ask someone to do something/suggest something, use negative verb forms

A Sample Translation

Format:

Original text Romanized translation [Linguistic gloss] /IPA transcription/ “More direct translation back into English”

For example:

Would you mind running to the market for me? 

fǔùn hatāj nyá, vúkyhekyâkyá būthāekh.

 [2SG.POSS will.N in, intention-NEG-go.FUT market.]

/fǔùn̪ çat̪ʰāʝ ɲá, βúcʰçəcʰâcʰá būθāəx/

“By your will, won’t you go to the market?”

Looking back on it, that was an absolute abomination. I'd to to see you all's abominable past creations as well!

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Welcome to the Conlang Hole!

This is my first time on Tumblr, so I decided to create a blog for my biggest hobby: constructing languages. This is kind of just a chill place to share your projects and look at others', and generally just nerd out with other losers :)

There's a little Ask Macy tab at the top of the page if you have any questions about rules or anything. I will not answer any personal questions, and I don't want any of your personal info either.

There's also a Submit button under the three dots at the top, so you can share your work if you want :P

This place is inclusive and queer-friendly (me being a trans girlie myself), so hate or discrimination of any kind will absolutely not be tolerated. Other than that, the only rules are to keep posts vaguely on-topic, be nice, and have fun!