#almost a palindrome

[camembertlythere]

Potato is a crazy word if you think about it

[featuringrandy]

What makes Clan of Xymox so dark and strange is that their name is almost a palindrome. Could that be intentional or just coincidence?

Xymox

[eighteenthofoctober]

I'd like to see you draw Lisa Basil from AA: T&T, case 3: Recipe for Turnabout.

She's my favorite one-off character I think she just doesn't get enough love. ✌️

This queen is so underrated she isn't even on Pinterest 😭

I looove how her name can be flipped and still be the same, and I just love characters with robotic mannerisms, she's iconic for that honestly

[guidonian-hand]

Anyone else think about the chiastic structure of Rogue Nation? How certain scenes mirror each other or how the whole plot is a palindrome (chiasm)?

[featuringrandy]

Other than playing a character with a name that is almost a palindrome while having a last name that is almost a palindrome too? Telly me more please.

[daily-keyboardsmasher]

Day 1696

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[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Magic in Ancient Greece: An Introduction

I have seen some people claim that magic or witchcraft did not exist in Ancient Greece. This is not the case. So, I thought I'd take the opportunity to introduce you all to the strange and wonderful world of Ancient Greek magic!

First, what do we mean by "magic"? Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the leading scholars on Ancient Greek magic, defines "magic" as "non-normative ritual behavior." In short, what makes something magic, and not just normal religion, is that people in a given culture think it's weird. The word "magic" itself refers to the magi, Zoroastrian priests — the Ancient Greeks thought they did magic because to them, Zoroastrianism was foreign and weird. They also thought that Ancient Egyptians could do magic for the same reason — what the Greeks thought was spooky magic was just normal religion in Egypt. Within their own culture, magic was basically heteropraxic religion. Magic was not considered hubristic, at least not inherently.

There are multiple Ancient Greek words that refer to magic. The word μάγος, magos, itself means "magician" or "charlatan." There's also γοητεία, goetia, usually translated as "sorcery." The word most often translated as "witchcraft" is φαρμακεία, pharmakeia, the use of drugs or herbs to transform or influence people. This is what Medea and Circe do.

One of our best sources on Ancient Greek magic is the Greek Magical Papyri, or PGM, a set of magical texts from Hellenistic Egypt. When I first learned about it, I thought it was too good to be true, but here it is: uncorrupted ancient pagan magic! Essentially, the PGM is one of the oldest known grimoires, and the ancestor of the entire Western magical tradition. The papyri contain spells and rituals for almost every purpose: curses, love spells, divination, dream oracles, summoning daimones, necromancy, even full mystical rites. Most of them include invocations to various gods, which are heavily syncretic. Helios/Apollo (treated interchangeably) is invoked the most often. Aphrodite appears pretty often, too. Hekate-Artemis-Selene-Persephone (conflated with a whole bunch of other chthonic goddesses, including Ereshkigal) has her own set of spells. You'll even find the names of Egyptian gods and Hebrew angels in there.

One of the most common features in PGM spells is voces magicae or barbarous names, nonsense words that are supposed to be the secret names of the gods, which give you the authority to call them up. They act almost like a written form of glossolalia. Most are supposed to be spoken or chanted aloud. Some sound like actual names, or are well-known magical epithets like ABRASAX. Some are just strings of Greek vowels. Some of them are palindromic; there's lots of spells that use the "abracadabra" disappearing-letter-triangle format. There's also charakteres, apparently-meaningless magical symbols, the distant ancestor of modern sigils.

Another major source for Ancient Greek magic are defixiones or katadesmoi, curse tablets. They're little lead leafs called lamellae, which are inscribed with curses and then deposited in wells, graves, and other chthonic places. Thousands of them have been found.

Here's the text of a curse tablet that invokes Hekate and Hermes Kthonios (copied from Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager):

Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia Let Pherenikos be bound before Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia. I bind Pherenikos’ [girl] Galene to Hermes Khthonios and to Hekate Khthonia I bind [her]. And just as this lead is worthless and cold, so let that man and his property be worthless and cold, and those who are with him who have spoken and counseled concerning me. Let Thersilochos, Oinophilos, Philotios, and any other supporter of Pherenikos be bound before Hermes Khthonios and Hekate Khthonia. Also Pherenikos’ soul and mind and tongue and plans and the things that he is doing and the things that he is planning concerning me. May everything be contrary for him and for those counseling and acting with…

Another curse tablet, which invokes Hekate to punish thieves, includes a drawing of her and charakteres. This is how she's depicted:

From Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Ancient World by John G. Gager

It's supposed to be a woman with three heads and six raised arms, but to me it looks like Cthulhu, which is honestly appropriate.

There was a very fine line between love spells and curses in Ancient Greece. Some love spells in the PGM call upon the spirits of the dead and chthonic gods to torture a poor girl until she submits to the magician. Just as many defixiones attempt to forcefully bind a lover. But there's another, gentler kind of love spell described by Theocritus in Idylls, in which a witch named Simaetha invokes the Moon and Hekate and uses an iynx wheel to make a man love her.

If you want to know how to apply all of this in modern practice, I'm still working that one out. I've found the PGM very hard to adapt, because a lot of its requirements are dangerous or impractical. Many of its spells require gross ingredients worthy of the Scottish play, or plants that scholars can't identify, or procedures that I don't plan on attempting. And if you haven't noticed by now, most of them fly in the face of modern magical ethics. (Don't let anyone tell you that the gods will punish you for doing baneful magic, because that's clearly bullshit.) On the other hand, Crowley adapted his Bornless Ritual almost word-for-word from PGM V. 96—172. So far, the best resource I've found on modernizing Ancient Greek magic is The Hekataeon by Jack Grayle. Its material is clearly historically-inspired, but still doable, and spiritually relevant. I really recommend getting it if you have the means, especially if you have an interest in Hekate specifically. I'm happy to have it as a model for how to adapt ancient magic for myself in the future. To me, it strikes the perfect balance between historically-informed and witchy, which is right where I want to be.

If you can't access that one, here's some other books I recommend:

Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III: An introduction to Ancient Greek magic, both scholarly and accessible. It covers the definitions and contexts of magic, curses, love spells, divination, theurgy, philosophy, basically everything you need to know.

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Hans Dieter Betz: The definitive English edition of the PGM. A must if you plan to study ancient magic in-depth, especially as a practitioner.

Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Ancient World by John G. Gager: An English edition of the texts of many curse tablets.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden: a sourcebook of ancient literature concerning magic.

The Golden Ass by Apuleius: A Roman novel about a man who is turned into a donkey by a witch. A very entertaining story, also our source for "Cupid and Psyche" and one of the best sources on the Mysteries of Isis that we have.

Ancient Magic: A Practitioners Guide to the Supernatural in Ancient Greece and Rome by Philip Matyszak: A simple and straightforward introduction to Ancient Greek magic, less scholarly but very easy to follow and directed at practitioners.

[featuringrandy]

I would follow Commander Adama to any galaxy precisely because his name is almost a palindrome, and that intrigues me to no end.

Bill "I made the Cylons call me Daddy" Adama.

[garagepaperback]

only one thousand years late to play mid-story line game, ty for the tag @twnkwlf-writes <3 here is her gorgeous medley rules: drop a mid-story line from 10 of your fics (if you don’t have 10, no worries) and tag 10 people _ Sometimes it feels like Draco's hand is rippling brand new nerve endings into different junctures all along the map of him. Harry's tender in a way he didn’t think was true, before. It’s hot and caressing. It’s nothing. ☽ - coyote ugly “Could have fooled me for the last bloody five months, but I guess that’s just more pureblood shit. Who the fuck ever knows what you’re thinking?”

“Well, not you,” Draco snapped. “You wouldn't know the intentions of a brick while it caved in your skull.” ☽ - this heaven of mud “The dynamics of this are disgusting." Malfoy sighs, one big exhale. He's shirtless. His back is pressed against the passenger side window of Harry's car, a fog halo-fanning out from where his back is plumbed. Or, Harry doesn’t know. From the snogging. He has no clue how the science of air or body heat or snogging works. Really, he just recognizes a lot of stuff as Malfoy standing in for the gravitational center for the rest of the universe. ☽ - ready able Draco had eaten lobster before, but with magic the process was enormously less visceral. In the overwhelming tidal scent, surrounded by sun, he couldn’t look away from Potter’s hands, how particularly his fingers worked. Tender, almost. Sweet and brutal.

Glancing up, he found Potter was staring at him again, holding up the recently shattered-in-half torso. “You’d look like this, cooked up. Those bright red ears.” ☽ - isn't a kingdom Harry scrounged elbow-deep into his own gut and still came up short.  ☽ - a barely lit path What did they even have, besides wanting to drive something so deep into the other it would take this many years to get it out? If Draco Malfoy has a heart, if there’s a heart in there at all, it's made of petrified wood, sap squeezed out of its stomach only by the unrelenting grip of a fist. ☽ - javelin (to have and to hold) Pitch grass green. The sort of color that’s lying about summer underfoot, a vivid overgrowth that claims and takes and eats the sun carelessly. ☽ - palindrome “Have you ever seen a rodeo before?” ☽ - the lonesome crowded west The words—I didn’t know you were so sensitive—dented Harry’s tongue and he swallowed them down immediately. He did know. Of course he knew—Draco Malfoy was much more milk than porcelain: easy to ripple, to spill.  ☽ - honeypot Potter juts his lip out, wet and considering, then nods and whistles again—a sound descending, though he can’t, really. He never seems to mind what he can or can’t do. He does everything anyway, pleased and loud and offkey. ☽ - easier _ tagging @eleadore @yiiiiiiiikes25 @citrusses @kamaela @suilet @faiell @desertforestfic @yellowfork @smugrobotics @moonmanatee + anyone else who wants to play. and i'm changing the rules to say show me lines from your wip's too. picture me saying this w the hardest eye contact :,) i wanna SEE

[cowsuponcows]

Hello, They Might Be Giants and Inanimate Insanity fans! May I present:

ii characters as tmbg songs!

Under a read-more because this is LONGGGG I cover almost every character

Lightbulb - Wearing A Raincoat

Pepper - She Thinks She's Edith Head about Salt and Museum Of Idiots

Salt - Your Racist Friend but it's about her. She's the friend's racist friend. And Bills, Bills, Bills

Mephone4 - I Am Alone and Kiss Me Son Of God and Cage And Aquarium

Paintbrush - You're On Fire

Baseball - I Should Be Allowed To Think

Balloon - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head and Lazy

Nickel - Dead

Pickle - How Can I Sing Like A Girl? if you're not a coward. I Lost Thursday if you are

OJ - Let's Get This Over With

Paper - Ana Ng

Evil Paper - Operators Are Standing By, with 'go home' referring to fronting again and the lines about 'their portrayal on tv' being paper fronting instead of E.P.

Apple - Mr Hughes Says

Marshmallow - Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth

Bow - Super Cool

Mephone4s - She's Actual Size

Knife - An Insult To The Fact Checkers (warning for flashing in the video)

Bomb - Empty Bottle Collector it's a funky instrumental and I think it fits him

Synopsis For Latecomers is literally just people skipping season 1

Suitcase - Where Your Eyes Don't Go and Careful What You Pack and Snail Shell and Shape Shifter and Trouble Awful Devil Evil

Fan - Erase

Taco - Haunted Floating Eye for s1 because it's nonsense. Fits her facade. Canada Haunts Me mostly because of the beautiful sound to it and Taco being (metaphorically) haunted by her past. Also I Am A Ring to Pickle and This Microphone

Steve Cobs - Kiss Me Son Of God alternative version and Hate The Villinelle and Yeah, The Deranged Millionare

MePad - Mrs Bluebeard

Toilet - Now Is Strange

Mephone3gs - Push Back The Hands

Box - Am I Awake? and I Left My Body

Prime Shimmers - I'll Be Haunting You

Test Tube - Hall Of Heads or the entirety of Here Comes Science as a copout
Cherries - Violin

Microphone - All Time What

Tissues - I Like Fun

Cheesy - Boss Of Me

Yin - My Evil Twin

Yang - The Shadow Government

Trophy - Prevenge

Soap - Memo To Human Resources

Dough - The Biggest One

Bot - I Palindrome I and Re-PETE offender

Cabby - I Can't Remember The Dream

Goo - Aaa

Blueberry - I Broke My Own Rule

Tea Kettle - Feel Good Sublet

Clover - Experimental Film

Silver Spoon - Lucky Ball And Chain and ECNALUBMA

The Floor - Brain Problem Situation

Life Ring - Mrs Train about Tea Kettle

Candle - Say Something Nice About Detroit

Spoiled Lemon - The Mesopotanians

Walkie Talkie - Piece Of Dirt

Springy - Marty Beller Mask

Payjay - Pet Name

Thank you for reading this!! "Wow some of these are deep cuts!" Yep! I am autistic. I'd appreciate a reblog this took like a week

[cornley-amateur-drama-society]

since posting this, i:

-fixed the d:n-d ratio

-implied that celia (and raymond) may have abused chris when he was a child

-imply that max is roughly 0.003423 seconds away from committing murder and all it'd take is one (1) wrong look from celia or raymond at chris, and

-underscored max is a rich kid because i allude to falconing that he and his family did when he was younger

i love writing one throwaway line that i have to research british family laws about

[tozettastone]

2024 Fic Review

Tagged by @voxofthevoid.

I didn't think I was gonna do this one because of how long it seemed, but day to day, I mostly just use my stats page to compare public bookmarks to total bookmarks, so this was an interesting exercise in making me actually look at any of these stats.

Stats stuff

1. How Many Words I Wrote in 2024:

134,246

2. My Top 5 Fics by Hits:

This was interesting — I don't think I've ever looked at my hit counters before.

Deadbeat. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/56638825)

Say Uncle (https://archiveofourown.org/works/57702268)

Thicker Than Water (https://archiveofourown.org/works/58122280)

Other Reasons To Hate Uchiha Itachi (https://archiveofourown.org/works/53127385)

In Progress (https://archiveofourown.org/works/60802894)q

With the exception of In Progress, these are ALL Naruto OC & Akatsuki fics, haha. That's my brand right now, I guess.

3. My Most Bookmarked Fic:

It was Deadbeat. It has 423 public bookmarks but 619 in total, which is almost triple the next most bookmarked fic of the year. Huh.

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Question Stuff

1. What was the most surprising thing about writing in 2024?

Well, now that I'm looking at the statistics page, it's gotta be how well-liked In Progress is? I don't know, I don't usually look at kudos or anything (except to admire it if it's a palindrome!) so I didn't really realise... It's a 5K word one-shot Bleach fic that's basically time travel trope puree, because I skimmed most of the time travel tag and wanted to write something short and fun. I'm glad people seem to have liked it but I'm a little surprised.

2. What was the most enjoyable to write?

Probably Sweat Equity. Sweat Equity happened because an anon sent me a prompt and it was a banger. I wrote it in one sitting while I was in Bologna, sitting in a park beneath a tree that was almost certainly older than my whole city. It was nice.

3. Which fic is the most underrated?

Nailed It. Listen, I am not complaining. I understand why other people didn't love it like I did: it's high context and a stupid pairing, and I reckon MANY of the people who got a notification —for a Deidara/Madara fic that was already a spin off of some other unfinished soulmate AU fic! — were like "Ummm, what the fuck, Tozette, I'll pass."

I see you, you are so right, and that is a valid choice.

But also, I raise you: every character in that fic is terrible and it made me laugh.

4. Which fic(s) had something "cut" or an idea that never happened?

This bleach fic, which I may yet manage to clean up and archive for a little one shot eventually.

It never got off the ground because of fundamental incompatibility issues. Irreconcilable differences are grounds for divorce, etc etc. Can't be helped.

5. Which fic(s) did you want to write but didn't get around to?

I would have liked to have finished Where The Heart Is before I started writing like 5 different Bleach fics all at once, actually.

6. Any WIPs that never got published?

Goodness me, yes. Three Hidan/Kakuzu (Naruto) fics, a long form Ishida/Szayel (Bleach) fic, a new fic in my Murakami Madeline series (Naruto — that's Where The Heart Is), an Urahara/Ichigo/Urahara (Bleach) fic, an Akatsuki Time Travel Ensemble (Naruto) fic...

There are probably more.

7. Share a snippet from a WIP fic?

Here's something from my draft of Where The Heart Is:

"Your friend won't look me in the face, senpai," complained Tobi. "Isn't that too suspicious?" Maddie managed not to twitch but it was a near thing. She had absolutely no desire to look Uchiha Obito right in his sharingan eye. "It would be suspicious if she wanted to look at you!" Deidara snapped. Dramatically, he turned away from Tobi. "Stop following me everywhere! Hm!" "We're partners, though," Tobi responded, totally unconcerned by the honestly staggering amount of disdain Deidara could cram into one sentence. "Senpai, don't you want to spend time with me?" Tobi teetered forward and around so he could angle his bright orange mask up at Deidara's face. A shard of ceramic scraped on the stone floor underfoot. "Eh?" He looked down and spotted the broken pieces of Maddie's ugly ex-teapot. "Ah! Senpai, is it yours?" "Is it—?" Deidara's face contorted. "What are you trying to say?" Worse, his volatile chakra also contorted into a flicker of intense killing intent. Maddie's hearts kicked into their highest gear.

8. Which fic was the one you were most excited to write?

Hmm. Interesting to have this as a question distinct from which was most enjoyable to write. Excitement...

Maybe Deadbeat?

Deadbeat was one of those fics that kind of happened to me while I was reading a lot of OC romance fics I didn't like very much and thinking about how I could write a Kakuzu one that I liked instead. Since it's not a romance you can only imagine how well that went! But I ended up liking it a lot better and writing all of it over a weekend in a scrambling little frenzy.

9. Fic hopes for the New Year?

I've got some WIPs to work on. I'd like to get Where The Heart Is (Naruto, Murakami Madeline (OC) fic), Plan C (Bleach, time travel, IchiIshi) and Open Season (Bleach, Grimmichi) posted.

Ideally, I would also like to hopefully get the other two Bleach fics drafted at least — the Urahara/Ichigo/Urahara one with the time travel and the romantic parasitism and the Ishida/Szayel one.

I hope my tolerance for the fandom lasts long enough to see me through, lol. We'll see!

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I'm cursing @mixelation and @redflagshipwriter with this tag meme because they might enjoy it. But if anyone wants to do this one and hasn't been tagged, tell everyone I tagged you. :P

[garblegarden]

Next are the tundra palindromes! These guys live way up north on volcanic steppes whose foliage is filled with ph-responsive dye. It's very cold, even for palindrome standards, but these guys are a very populous ecotype.

Tundra palindromes are the largest of the palindromes. They're a light blue with colorpoints and light spots most of the time, and their insides are significantly lighter than other palindromes. The type shown here is the central tundra type, while the other three are included on the side: Western, which is lighter, Eastern, which is more vibrant, and Island, which is darker and spotless.

They use dyes from the red/blue groundcover that surrounds them, and it almost always ends up red after a while. Though... maybe if you poured something acidic on their clothes the red parts would turn blue? However, with ash falling around from the volcanoes all the time, their red clothes tend to stay red. They use a lot of layers in their clothing.

Their settlements are usually a handful of X-shaped walls made of plaster and clay, and no matter which way the wind is blowing there will always be a quiet corner that isn't hit by it. They're fond of wall art.

As for their language, they have a similar color system to grassland palindromes which has a word for darkness, light, people (light blue), two states of foliage (red and blue), soil (greyish brown) and an additional unique word. Here this color represents the fluorescent pinks of the auroras that they see.

For name tones, they use a low note for red patches, a midtone note for no patches, and a high note for green patches. Or, they wouldn't call it green, they'd probably call it "light".

[quasarkwell]

I started thinking about the Myriad Celestia video more today. These characters have serial numbers, but these are kept out of sight in the video description. Most of the video is Glamoth's soldiers seeking to be more than soldiers. So I thought, maybe I should give them names?

(Also, being voiced by VAs who have other characters is a bad sign for their long-term health, but I'm sure I didn't need to tell you that)

AR-26710 has taken a name. Hers is just the name of her suit, Firefly. Obviously, this is not the most creative, but what can a girl do with limited exposure to almost any kind of art or culture? I want to have the names of these characters be somewhat similar, so I will keep with a theme that's already here for the other character's names. Anyway, on to those other characters.

Second, we have who is presumably AR-214. I think, with her glasses and camera, lenses and beauty are a theme here. It's more an appreciation of outward beauty, but let's name her after a beautiful insect: Butterfly.

Her mech design is kind of simple, with only the one back accessory, and doesn't really reflect what I've chosen to call her, but this video is all about who they are on the inside.

Moving on, we have AR-53935, a numerical palindrome (assuming I'm using this list correctly). Male, but just as pretty as the girls, his mech is much bulkier:

The wings of our Firefly's mech has always reminded me more of a Luna Moth than a firefly, and with moths having the feathery antennae that give them a bulkier appearance, I dub him "Moth".

Lastly, she is almost certainly AR-1368. She seems a bit prickly, and that's not just her personality.

Her mech's design is very sharp but also sleek. Her helmet is also screaming hymenoptera (bees and wasps, but also ants), so I think her name is pretty decidedly Wasp (and not in an unkind way).

So, did I do them justice? Is there a better naming theme than insects here? Does anyone else headcanon names for them?

[utilitycaster]

Can you share your name examples? Please!

under a cut in case people feel like guessing or something

putting syllables together and they sound nice: literally almost any fantasy book that doesn't use modern names but like, off the top of my head: Essun from The Broken Earth Trilogy. Sabriel and Lirael from The Old Kingdom Trilogy. Shallan from the Stormlight Archives. The vast majority of women's names in ASOIAF that aren't too close to irl names. No shortage of names in Wheel of Time.

putting syllables together and they sound like arthuriana: Egwene (Wheel of Time) is the big one for me.

Slightly altered irl name: Bunch of names in ASOIAF notably Eddard and Alicent. Really common in actual play (Revvetha is sort of a joke but sort of not; Belizabeth).

Extremely apt character descriptor you know who you are: Kaladin of the Stormlight Archives. As a paladin stan I must stan and the character genuinely is great but like. c'mon man.

Mashup of irl names: Brennan Lee Mulligan does this EXTREMELY often most notably with Raphaniel.

Something meaningful in an irl language: SILAHA is a great example. Idk Dune probably did this.

Something meaningful in an elaborate self-created conlang: welcome to Lord of the Rings, an opportunity for Tolkien to take his conlangs for a test drive.

Something meaningful in a foreign language siri set alarm etc: self-explanatory. look to your left look to your right if no one at the D&D table used an Elvish Translator then it's bc they used the fantasy name generator for a different fantasy race.

IRL names not in common usage: I suppose it's not exclusively but The Locked Tomb does have Palamedes and this is also a Classic D&D Naming Strat.

This is Linda and she fights dragons: Robert Baratheon, whatever the fuck is going on in Dune, when D&D characters are named things like Kristen or Beauregard or Imogen or Ashton. Also obviously true in almost any Earth-set fantasy; I have a taste for like, regency/Napoleonic Wars-set fantasy novels and so people are just named things like Thomas and Catherine and they are worried about Their Place In Society but also they are wizards.

Series of complex and mysterious titles: The Man with the Thistledown Hair from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (speaking of normal-ass names in fantasy); The Emissary; The Man in Black. Often some kind of eldritch/otherworldly being but like, you could just decide that's your name in a D&D game. no one is stopping you.

Rigid Naming Conventions: offhand my problematic fave The Belgariad has some weird naming conventions (dryads all have names starting with X or, when softened into Tolnedran, Ce' as a prefix; acolytes of Aldur all have Bel- or Pol- prefixes to their names based on gender but the names themselves vary); the weird palindrome names in Stormlight Archives; The Vorkosigan Saga is sci fi and set in a future of our universe so many names are existing ones but the naming convention is often passing down the two grandfather's first names to the eldest son and other such things.

Pun or meme: again, D&D classic; Percival Friedrickstein Von Musel Klossowski De Rolo III, every Crown of Candy PC.

Fantasy name generator already covered. who knows how many people are using it. who knows what data set it uses.

Acronym: I believe this is what Tav is in BG3; This is also I believe where Thedas comes from.

Literally just a noun: Fjord, Keg; The Belgariad has characters who technically are going by codenames bc they are from The Spy Country but practically speaking I cannot actually recall what Silk's actual name is off the top of my head and I've read those books like 5 times and he's a major character. Shadowheart is i guess two nouns but it's the same principle.

[blackheart-6]

dess-ember day 13/31

hi yall

happy palindrome day of dess-ember 🥳

but anyways, ive been working on my coding final all day, my brain finally realized i cant just put it off forever and i actually have to do it 😵‍💫

so far im not doing bad, and i dont have work tomorrow, so i think ive got it!

i had almost forgot to do a drawing for today though, so i had to speedrun one lol

i drew dess how i feel, ready to take a nap 😅😴

i feel like this one didnt turn out too bad, especially considering it only took like an hour

also, this is the start of finals week (starting with this coding project), so most of my drawings may be a bit simple this week. but once they are over ill try to do more complex ones!!

but thats it for now, bye yall!